Tabor Baptist Church

Please ask in church for the recording of this sermon

• The Bible is honest and true
• God had determined to destroy Sodom
• Why this city?
• It was a voilent place
• Lots of things happened after dark
• Jude 7 - the filthiness of the people
• Was this the real reason?
• Yes it was a wicked city
• It was a city with no fear of God - they felt they could live as they wanted to
• Certain cultures fear and worship God
• Our society has gone a long way from God
• How long had God been patient with this city - decades, centuries?
• God is more inclined to mercy than wrath (cf chapter 18)
• God is a God of love
• God is a God of justice
• Sodom is a picture of the final judgement
• God sent two angels on a rescue mission
• It speaks of God's hatred of sin but love for the sinner and how He delivers them
• God does not destroy the innocent with the guilty
• Why is Lot classed as righteous?
• See how he treats these two visitors
• He was a different man to the others
• God shows grace to Lot and it changed his life
• Lot chose to live near Sodom
• Perhaps lot was a judge (v1 - sitting in the gate, v9 - judging the people)
• His daughters had intermarried
• It was a sign of mercy to the city for them to see a righteous man - but even his own son-in-laws laughed at him
• Should God have intervened?
• Think of what would have happened if God had not intervened?
• How their behaviour would affect others
• God sent two angels
• They were going to stay outside but Lot pressed them to stay with him
• He cooked them a feast
• Heb 13 - entertaining angels unaware
• A large gang of men came to Lot's house
• Both young and old
• Gang rape
• Lot shockingly offers his two virgin daughters to the men - utterly unjustifiable
• The men press against Lot
• There comes a change in the situation
• We must pray that God intervenes
• Wicked things happen in our society
• God intervenes
• The angels pull Lot in
• Consider the time of Syrians in Dothan and Elisha - they were stuck with blindness
• The people when struck with blindness do not seek mercy but continue to try and find the door
• Lot as a preacher
• Do we listen to people speaking the word of God to us?
• The sons-in-law laughed at him
• It happened to Noah, it happened to Lot, it happens to us today
• Often people do not repent
• It is not always like this - think of Jonah - the city repented
• Lot lingered
• Why was he not going - what was holding him back?
• Was it his wealth?
• Was it because of his status/position?
• Was it because of his sons-in-law?
• In mercy the Angels pull Lot and is family out of the city
• The angels also pulled Lot back into the house
• "Escape for your life!"
• An awesome message
• "Escape for your life!" - do not look back or stay anywhere near
• Salvation is through grace alone
• God spoke to the samaritan woman of grace
• God deals with people where they are
• This is a reminder of Jesus who left the glory of heaven to meet us where we are
• Abraham had been interceding for Lot
• Consider v29 - God remembered Abraham
• God uses your prayers
• Paul prayed for Israel that they would be saved
• We are to pray that people will be saved
• The Lord Jesus loved and saved people
• The demoniac
• The Samaritan woman
• Zaccheus
• God loves people
• Do we know that God loves us?
• Think of how gracious God had been to Lot
• Jude 7
• All who repent and turn from sin have total forgiveness
• The danger of lingering
• Today is the day of salvation
• We must cry out to God
• We must flee to Christ
• He who loves, warns