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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Lot's Wife-Lessons From


Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor I read Jesus said “remember lots wife”, but what is there to remember of her. She disobeyed, is that it?”
Brent/ New York, New York

Bible Answer:

Bible Text:
Luke 17:26-33 KJV
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Lot and his family's escape from Sodom.

Genesis 19:16,17,23-29 NLT (Be sure to read the whole story in Genesis chapter 19.)
16 When Lot still hesitated, the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for the Lord was merciful. 
17 When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! 
And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
23 Lot reached the village (Zoar) just as the sun was rising over the horizon. 
24 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 
25 He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 

26 But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.


27 Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the Lord’s presence. 
28 He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.
29 But God had listened to Abraham’s request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.

Lot's Wife:

She knew of the living God. Lot was Abraham's nephew.
No doubt, Lot had told her of his Uncles “call from God,” (Genesis 12:1-9).
Again, surely he related to her all the altars Abraham had erected to the living God.

Lot's wife with Lot and his daughters had been warned by the angels.

Genesis 19:15 NLT
At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”

We may also remember that her love for the city, was greater than her obedience to the God, who had sent His angels to give them warning.

She looked back.
Disobedience, quickly brought it's reward, “she turned into a pillar of salt. (Verse 26)
She alone, had set her eternal course for the future.

Lessons:

We must take very carefully the Warnings of God's Word, and “not,” treat them lightly!
To do so, will be at our own peril, and there will be “no,” opportunity for turning back.

Jeremiah 6:10 NLT
To whom can I give warning? Who will listen when I speak? Their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. They scorn the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:3-5 NLT
3 When the watchman sees the enemy coming, he sounds the alarm to warn the people. 
4 Then if those who hear the alarm refuse to take action, it is their own fault if they die. 
5 They heard the alarm but ignored it, so the responsibility is theirs. If they had listened to the warning, they could have saved their lives. 

I John 2:15-17 KJV
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Our God is not blind, He sees every sin, and imagination of the heart.

Job 10:14 KJV
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Job 14:16 KJV
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Job 34:21,22 KJV
21 For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He seeth all his goings.
22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Psalm 147:5 KJV
Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite.

Jeremiah 2:22 NLT
No amount of soap or lye can make you clean. I still see the stain of your guilt. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

Jeremiah 16:17 KJV
For Mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from My face, neither is their iniquity hid from Mine eyes.

Ezekiel 11:5 NLT
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and He told me to say, “This is what the Lord says to the people of Israel: I know what you are saying, for I know every thought that comes into your minds. 

Hosea 7:2 KJV
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before My face.

Amos 5:12 KJV
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins..."

Hebrews 4:12,13 KJV
12 For The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

I John 3:19-21 KJV
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Judgment is sure:


Jeremiah 17:10 KJV
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins (Motives), even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.


Ezekiel 3:20 NLT
"... they will die in their sins. None of their righteous acts will be remembered..."


John 3:18,19 NLT
18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. 
19 And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s Light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the Light, for their actions were evil.

Hebrews 9:27 KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

I Peter 1:17 KJV
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

Revelation 22:12 KJV
And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Truth, learned from Lot's wife:

Hebrews 3:15 KJV
While it is said, To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts..."

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