Genesis 19 - The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

The two angels who met ABRAHAM WITH JESUS…come to Sodom.

Verses 1-3 tells Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him.

“Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.” But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.”

Lot was sitting IN the gate of Sodom: There has been a steady progression of COMPROMISE in Lot’s life. He went from LOOKING TOWARD Sodom in Genesis 13:10, to PITCHING HIS TENT toward Sodom in Genesis 13:12, then to LIVING IN Sodom in Genesis 14:12 and losing everything. Now Lot sits in the gate of Sodom, indicating he IS a civic leader…a FAMED MAN in Sodom…but NOT a religious leader…NOT A PROPHET…NOT A MAN OF GOD.

2 Peter 2:7-8 tells us that Lot himself was a righteous man who was grieved by the sin he saw around him in, but because of his COMPROMISE NONE OF HIS SONS IN LAWS OR EXTENDED FAMILY, BUT ONLY HE, HIMSELF, HIS WIFE, AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS SAVED. NO OTHER FAMILY AND NO OTHER FRIENDS WERE SAVED. HIS COMPROMISE, WANTING TO BE LIKED AND LOVED AND REVERED BY THE WORLD MORE THAN HE WANTED TO SHINE AND SHOW JESUS CHRIST…HIS CHOICES destroyed his testimony. HE CHANGED NO ONE IN 20+ YEARS…NOT ONE PERSON WAS CHANGED, CONVICTED, OR SAVED…THROUGH LOT’S WALK, TALK, OR HIS LIFE.

He insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house: The hospitality offered to the visitors was not unusual, but the urgency with which Lot offered it was.

THIS TELLS US THAT SOMETHING WORSE, LOT KNEW FULL WELL WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE TOWN, AND OF THE DEPRAVITY ALL THROUGH THE TOWN, BUT HE WAS CONTENT IN IT, HE DID NOT CONSIDER NOR EVEN THINK ABOUT LEAVING SUCH DEPRAVITY NOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST IT…

Verses 4-9 to the wickedness and depravity of the men of Sodom.

“Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.” So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.” And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.”

Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us: These citizens of Sodom clearly came to homosexually abuse and rape these two visitors. That is a shocking demonstration of depravity, but we are just as shocked at the willingness of Lot to give up his INNOCENT VIRGIN daughters to the mob as we are at the sinful desire of the mob itself.

I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish: The offer is horrible and cannot be justified. We understand it a little more when we consider the low place of women in the pre-Christian world and the very high place of any guest in your home. It was understood a guest was to be protected more than your own family.

THIS ALSO SHOWS US THAT LOT HAD NO REAL RELATIONSHIP NOR UNDERSTANDING OF ALMIGHTY GOD. HE SHOULD HAVE WARNED THOSE MOBS WHO HIS GOD WAS AND HOW DANGEROUS THEIR BEHAVIOR WAS. AND HE SHOULD HAVE STOOD AGAINST THEM, CALLED ON JESUS, AND STOOD TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY FROM ALL EVIL…BUT LOT WANTED TO STAY IN THEIR GOOD GRACES…

That we may know them carnally: The sin of the men of Sodom is plainly connected to their homosexuality. There is no doubt the Bible declares homosexual conduct is sin IN Romans 1:26-28.

The Bible condemns homosexuality in the same context as it condemns incest and bestiality IN Leviticus 18:22; 20:13. If we ignore the word of God at the point of homosexual conduct, then we have no standing to say any of the other three sins are sin.

Homosexual advocates have an interest in saying homosexuals are exactly like everyone else, except they love people of their own sex. But when the conduct of homosexuals is observed, this is not the case.

We can bring out statistics on the number of partners homosexuals have: 43% of homosexuals say they have had 500 or more sexual partners in their lifetime. Only 1% of homosexuals say they have had four or less sexual partners in their lifetime. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 77% of homosexuals say they have met sexual partners in a city park, 62% in a homosexual bar, 61% in a theater, 31% in a public restroom. Only 28% of homosexuals said they had known their partners for at least a week before participating in homosexual sex.

Undoubtedly, one of the reasons why males pursue and give in to homosexual desires is because they want to immerse themselves in a lifestyle of dangerous sex with no inhibitions or obstacles, and sense that sex with other men is an easier path to this. No wonder Paul connects “burning lust” and a debased mind with male homosexuality in Romans 1:27-28.

Homosexuals also have an interest in saying that up to 10% of the population is homosexual. But the most reliable statistics show only 2.3% of men in their 20’s and 30’s report ever having had a homosexual experience. Only 1.1% reported being exclusively homosexual. These low figures agree with several other recent surveys and surveys done in Britain and France.

Homosexuals also have an interest in saying they were “born that way.” All attempts thus far to prove this have been based more on wishful thinking than solid biological research, but if it is found to be POSSIBLE IN EVEN ONE CASE, so what? The Bible teaches we are ALL BORN with a predisposition to sin. It shouldn’t surprise us that some 2% of the population finds this predisposition expressed in homosexual desire.

Homosexuals also have an interest in defining themselves as “gay,” a word that used to mean “happy” or “carefree,” but it is a poor description of a lifestyle that has THE HIGHEST GLOBAL RATE of death, disease, murder, and suicide.

This one came in to sojourn, and he keeps acting like a judge: This shows Lot’s FEEBLE efforts at providing moral and spiritual leadership were rejected and mocked by the men of Sodom.

Perhaps Lot THOUGHT….HOPED…that through compromise he might REACH these men, but GENESIS 19 CLEARLY AND PLAINLY PROVES THAT THE OPPOSITE happened. They have NO respect for him whatsoever, LOT IS A YES MAN, LOT IS WISHY WASHY. HE SAYS WHAT THAT PERSON OR PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR…INSTEAD OF WHAT THEY NEED TO HEAR. SO LOT’S ‘live and let live’, ‘buddy-buddy’ approach leads him to call such wicked men my brethren.

Verses 10-11 Angelic protection at the door.

“But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.”

The men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door: It must have taken great, perhaps supernatural, strength to do what the angels did at the door. Obviously, the work of striking the men blind was supernatural. Now this mob had a physical blindness appropriate to their moral blindness.

Verses 12-14 to The angels’ deliverance of Lot & The angels warn Lot & Lot warns his family.

“Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city; take them out of this place! For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.”

To his sons-in-law: Lot’s daughters were unmarried and had not known a man told to us in Genesis 19:8. These men were sons-in-law by the ancient practice of binding betrothal, not by marriage yet.

He seemed to be joking: The effect of Lot’s life of compromise is clearly seen. When he spoke with UTMOST, DIRE SERIOUSNESS to his sons-in-law about the judgment of God, they did NOT believe him…THEY DO NOT CARE. LOT IS A JOKE TO EVEN HIS FAMILY. THIS TELLS US SADLY THAT LOT DID NOTHING TO SHINE AND SHOW JESUS even in the privacy of his OWN HOME. SO NOT even they will be saved from the judgment to come.

The life of Lot shows us that it is POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SAVED SOUL IN JESUS…BECAUSE OF WHO AND WHAT JESUS IS AND WHAT JESUS PROMISES & HAVE a saved soul AND A WASTED LIFE.

THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT Lot will be saved, but his life will accomplish nothing, as in 1 Corinthians 3:15: “If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”

Verses 15-16 tells us The angels try to hurry Lot and his family.

“When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.”

While he lingered…THIS SHOWS YOU HIS TALK DID NOT MATCH HIS WALK. I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT, TWO ANGELS COME TO GET YOU…TELL YOU ALMIGHTY GOD IS GOING TO DESTROY THE CITY….AND INSTEAD OF RUNNING OUT THE DOOR THEN AND THERE….LOT AND HIS FAMILY DELAYED…LINGERED…WHICH SHOWS US TOO MUCH of Lot’s heart was in Sodom, so he was not anxious to leave the city. This lack of urgency to do the things of God is a common sign of compromise and a backslidden condition.

They brought him out and set him outside the city….In Genesis 18 Abraham asked God to SPARE the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah if there were TEN righteous found there. Because there were not ten righteous people, God will NOT spare the city. But He will STILL answer THE HEART of Abraham’s prayer by BRINGING THE BACK-SLIDDEN Lot and his family out of Sodom, even if it is practically AGAINST Lot’s will.

Lot was in the worst of all possible places. He had too much of the world to be happy in the Lord, and too much of the Lord to be happy in the world.

Verses 17-22 tells of the escape from Sodom.

“So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” Then Lot said to them, “Please, no, my lords! Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.” And he said to him, “See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”

Please, no, my lords! Lot seems PATHETIC & WHIMPERING WHINING in his prayer. Notice the sad contrast from LOT’S WHINING AGAINST THE BOLD intercession of Abraham.

I cannot do anything until you arrive there…This answers the question, Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? As ABRAHAM ASKS GOD IN Genesis 18:25. God, bound by His own righteousness and honor, could NOT bring this judgment on Sodom until the righteous people were delivered.


Verses 23-26 tells us God’s judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah & the cities ARE destroyed, & Lot’s wife turned to a pillar of salt.

“The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”

Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah…TODAY, many think these cities are buried under the Dead Sea, and their complete destruction is a testament to God’s judgment and grace in delivering His righteous people.

Before this destruction the area of Sodom was unbelievably beautiful and productive, like the garden of the Lord told to us in Genesis 13:10. Yet, this great privilege and blessing did not turn their hearts toward God.

As well, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah saw more of the power, grace, and mercy of God than any of the other people of the region. They had been delivered from ruin by God’s work through Abraham. They heard the testimony from Melchizedek and saw the example of Melchizedek and Abraham.

But they learned…nothing. It changed…nothing. They basically said HEY THANKS FOR SAVING US, THANKS FOR RETURNING US TO OUR BELOVED SODOM AND GOMORRAH…BYE BYE NOW.

But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt…Lot’s wife was turned to a pillar of salt because she looked back behind, after the angels had specifically said Do not look behind you in Genesis 19:17. Some think she lingered behind and was caught up in the cataclysm somehow, but it was probably a unique judgment of God on her for the state of her heart (a love for Sodom and regret for its destruction) shown by her action of looking back.

In referring to the end times, Jesus uttered some almost cryptic words in Luke 17:32: “Remember Lot’s wife.” In other words, NO CHRISTIAN should have a heart like Lot’s wife as we see the end of the age, a heart that LOVES THE WORLD MORE THAN HIM, and will in some sense, REGRET the judgment God will bring on it.

JESUS WANTS US TO LOOK FORWARD TO our deliverance, NOT LOOK BACK…MOAN, WHIMPER, LOOK BACK AND REGRET THAT THIS WORLD, THIS LOST WORLD AND MANKIND AS WE KNOW IT IS passing away and ripe for judgment.

Verses 27-29 tells us Abraham learns of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction.

“And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.”

When Abraham SAW the smoke of the these cities and their destruction burning as hotly, brightly and billowing smoke cloud like a furnace, he KNEW that his request was answered. God HAD delivered Lot before the destruction came.

Verses 30-32 tells us Lot and his daughters live in a wilderness cave.

“Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.”

FIRST SIGN THAT LOT MAY HAVE A CLUE AND CARE AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT ALMIGHTY GOD EXPECTS AND DEMANDS…IS THAT HE GOES TO ZOAR…LOOKS AROUND…SEES THAT IT IS NOT MUCH BETTER THAN SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND FLEES TO THE MOUNTAINS AS THE ANGELS HAD TOLD HIM TO DO FROM THE FIRST. BUT NOT BEFORE LOADING UP WITH THE WORLDLY THINGS HE AND HIS DAUGHTERS ARE ACCUSTOMED TO AND WANT…

Let us make our father drink wine: Lot and his family lost everything in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Even so, they quickly EITHER MADE SURE TO PACK AND TAKE THEIR ALCOHOL OR PURCHASED IT….SO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER ELSE THEY NEEDED OF THIS WORLD…NAMELY ALCOHOL….THEY HAD IT ON HAND.

This shows the priorities of a compromising heart. THIS ALSO SHOWS US THAT REGARDLESS SEEING FIRE RAIN DOWN FROM HEAVEN, TURNING TWO TOWNS INTO DUST, THEY DID NOT HAVE THANKFUL AND REPENTANT HEARTS…THEY SIMPLY MOVED TO A SAFER LOCATION AND CONTINUED WITH THEIR SELFISH, SELF-CENTERED WORLDLY PREFERENCES… ALMIGHTY GOD SPARED THEM AND GOT THEM OUT OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH…BUT IT DID NOT GET THE FILTH AND FOUL OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH OUT OF THEM…THERE WAS NOT REPENTANCE IN THEM.

I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT…ANGELS HAD TO COME GET YOU, DRAG YOU OUT OF TOWN, TELL YOU NOT TO LOOK BACK….AND YOU SEE YOUR MAMA OR YOUR SPOUSE TURNED TO A PILLAR OF SALT….I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I WOULD BE SAYING THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU JESUS…AND I WOULD BE DOING SOME MAJOR OVERVIEW OF MY LIFE AND MY LIFESTYLE AND WHERE I HAD GONE WRONG…RIGHT? BUT THESE THREE SURVIVORS DID NOT…ALL THEY THOUGHT ABOUT WAS WHAT DO I NEED AND WANT…EVEN THEN.

We will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father: This is a remarkable - and seemingly desperate sin from Lot’s daughters.

Some PEOPLE…WHO HAVE NOT READ THE ENTIRE STORY WRONGLY SUGGEST….WELL POOR LOT’S DAUGHTERS THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE IN THE WORLD…WITH ONLY THERE OLD FATHER…SO THEY WERE TRYING TO SAVE THEMSELVES AND KEEP MANKIND THRIVING, BY HAVING SEX WITH THE ONLY MAN LEFT ON EARTH!

BUT RIGHT HERE…WE SEE AND ARE TOLD THE TRUTH…THE ENTIRE WORLD had NOT perished with Sodom and Gomorrah, and it was NOT LEFT TO THESE TWO WOMEN to “repopulate” the earth.

WHY?

BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THEY WENT TO ZOAR, AND THEY KNEW THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE LEFT ON THE EARTH….THEY KNEW THAT ONLY SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAS BEEN DESTROYED.

HERE ALSO SHOWS US LOT’S DAUGHTERS HEART…IT HAD NOT CHANGED…AT ALL. Evidently they decided it was the only thing to do under the circumstances, SINCE THEY REFUSED OR WORSE DID NOT EVEN CONSIDER IN TRUSTING IN THE GOD WHO HAD SAVED THEM AND SPARED THEM…

THIS SHOWS US WHAT A LOUSY JOB AND A LOUSY CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE LOT WAS AS THE CHRISTIAN HEAD OF HIS FAMILY. NONE WAS AFFECTED BY LOT OR HIS EXAMPLE, BUT ALL OF THEM WERE WILLINGLY AND HAPPILY CONSUMED WITH CONTINUING THEIR SODOM AND GOMORRAH LIFESTYLE.

Verses 33-38 tells us Moab and Ammon are born from this incestuous relationship.

“So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father.” Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.”

The firstborn went in and lay with her father: We may be uncomfortable with the idea that the Bible includes the record of such disgraceful sins. Yet, ALMIGHTY GOD DOES NOT SHY AWAY FROM SHINING A LIGHT ON SIN…AND WANTING HIS CHILDREN TO KNOW AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SIN AND WRONG IS FROM HIS OWN MOUTH…HIS OWN WORDS…HIS OWN TEACHINGS…WHY?

BECAUSE HE IS A GOOD FATHER… HE DOES NOT WANT HIS CHILDREN TO ACCEPT THE TRUTHS/DECEPTIONS OR EVER-CHANGING FICKLED MINDSETS THE WORLD GIVES…BECAUSE THEY ARE SINFUL AND WRONG…HE WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO HEAR IT, SEE IT, AND UNDERSTAND IT FROM SOMEONE WHO LOVES THEM AND ONLY WANTS THE VERY BEST FOR THEM…

JESUS KNOWS No one can escape knowledge of sin . . . BUT SIN AND WRONGS AND BAD CHOICES ARE NEVER SHOWN IN THE BIBLE NOR TOLD THE ENTIRE STORY IN THE BIBLE WITHOUT ALMIGHTY GOD GIVING US FAIR AND PATIENT WARNINGS that God hates sin and punishes it.

JUST AS WE AS PARENTS, DO NOT WALK UP TO OUR CHILD, WHO IS DOING WRONG, AND SMACK THEIR REAR END, WITHOUT FIRST PATIENTLY TELLING THEM NO! DO NOT DO THIS! NO THIS IS NOT NICE! THAT IS WRONG! PATIENTLY…CONSISTENTLY…UNCHANGINGLY STATING AND RESTATING THE TRUTH…BEFORE THE SMACK ON THE REAR END WHEN THE CHILD CONTINUES TO DO WRONG.

ALMIGHTY GOD IS THE SAME WAY.
JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME WAY.

SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Moab; he is THE FATHER of the Moabites . . . Ben-Ammi; he is THE FATHER of the people of Ammon: Their descendants will be enemies and obstacles for Israel, just like the descendants of Ishmael. Lot’s life ended in ruin (past, present, and future), all because of his love for the world.

SO WHAT DOES ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WANT US TO LEARN FROM GENESIS 19?

TWO MOST IMPORTANT LIFE ALTERING AND CHRISTIAN WALK TRUTHS.

AND THAT IS THAT THERE WILL BE CHRISTIANS LIKE LOT WHO WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN HEAVEN…EVEN THOUGH THEIR ONLY RIGHTFULLY CLAIM TO IT…IS THERE ONE MOMENT OF CHOOSING JESUS CHRIST. THEY WILL HAVE HAD AS FAR AS JESUS IS CONCERNED…AND ALMIGHTY GOD IS CONCERNED….A WASTED…WORTHLESS LIFE…BECAUSE THEY DID NOT SHINE AND SHOW JESUS AT ALL. BUT THEIR SALVATION, JUST AS LOT’S, DEPENDS ON WHO OUR JESUS CHRIST IS, WHAT JESUS CHRIST DID FOR US, AND THAT JESUS CHRIST KEEPS HIS PROMISES…EVEN WHEN WE DO NOT….EVEN WHEN WE ARE NOT FAITHFUL…EVEN WHEN WE HAVE NOTHING BUT A WASTED, FRUITLESS, WORTHLESS LIFE THAT HAS NOT SHINED AND SHOWED AND DRAWN ANYONE TO JESUS CHRIST.

IN OTHER WORDS JESUS CHRIST PROMISES TO AND CAN & WILL SAVE US FROM THE LOST DEAD WORLD AND THE LAKE OF FIRE ETERNITY IF WE CALL UPON HIS NAME, IF WE REPENT AND INVITE JESUS TO BE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, BUT WE MUST EACH CHOOSE TO WALK AWAY FROM THE PAST…THE WORLD AND LIFESTYLE AS WE KNOW IT…AND CHOSE TO SHINE AND SHOW JESUS AND WALK WITH JESUS.

BECAUSE ONE SWEET DAY, WE WILL SEE, FACE TO FACE OUR JESUS, AND WILL THEN EITHER HAVE THE CHANGED LIFE, THE STRIVING TO SHINE AND SHOW TO GIVE TO OUR JESUS….OR WE WILL STAND BEFORE HIM WITH NOTHING TO SHOW AND NOTHING TO GIVE HIM AND NOTHING TO PROVE THAT WE WERE A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS OF THE LOST WORLD…AND WHAT A BITTER, MOURNFUL DAY THAT WOULD BE…

AND JESUS WANTS US TO KNOW…ALL THOSE YOU PRAY UP…LIFT TO JESUS…ASK JESUS TO SAVE…EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT WORTHY…ARE WASTED LIVES…OUR JESUS IS FAITHFUL…AND HE WILL SAVE THOSE WE ASK HIM TO SAVE….JUST AS ALMIGHTY GOD SAVED LOT AND HIS FAMILY….NOT BECAUSE OF LOT’S RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT BECAUSE OF ABRAHAM’S LOVE, RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ASKING IT OF HIS ABBA FATHER.

JESUS WANTS US TO LEARN AND TO KNOW…THIS WORLD…THIS LOST DEAD AND BLIND WORLD IS PASSING AWAY….MORE AND MORE…QUICKER AND QUICKER DAY BY DAY…IN ALL AREAS OF THIS LIFE…AND WE ARE NOT TO WAIL, MOAN, REGRET, OR LOOK BACK…OR WISH IT OTHERWISE…WE ARE TO KEEP OUR EYES, HEARTS, AND MINDS FOCUSED ON OUR DESTINATION….OUR JESUS AND NOT REGRET…BUT REJOICE…THAT EACH DAY…MINUTE BY MINUTE WE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TIME OF OUR JESUS COMING…BECAUSE OUR JESUS IS COMING SOON…

SO LET’S GET BUSY…SHINING AND SHOWING AND THROUGH OUR WALK, OUR TALK, OUR LIVES THE LOST AND THE BLIND IN THIS WORLD WILL SEEK US OUT….WILL WANT TO KNOW WHY WE HAVE HOPE IN A HOPELESS WORLD….WANT TO HAVE JOY IN A JOYLESS, DESTRUCTIVE SELFISH WORLD…

WE NEED TO GIVE THEM JESUS…SO SHINE ON FOR OUR JESUS…

BE BLESSED AND STAY BLESSED IN OUR JESUS CHRIST!