Life in Sodom (Gen 19:16) Introduction Is it possible for a believer to be revolted by the world and yet to be clinging to the world? Consider the paradox of Lot. And don't try to resolve the paradox too easily.
1. Lot was a righteous man Gen 18:23-25, 'Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?' Gen 19:9, the men of Sodom say, 'He keeps acting as a judge.' 2Pe 2:6-9, Peter says God 'delivered righteous Lot.' But...
2. Lot was a man profoundly influenced by Sodom. In the face of such a warning of immanent doom, 'He lingered' (Gen 19:16).
Application: The problem of being compromised by the world -- unchurching the churched. 'The contemporary evangelical church is not lacking for moral and spiritual instruction. It is lacking in its ability to remain uncontaminated by the unchristian thinking and morality of contemporary culture' (Hughes, Set Apart, 10).
3. Lot and all those like him are 'saved, yet so as through fire.' 'If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire' (1Cor 3:14-15).
(a) Lot had absolutely no fruit among the people of Sodom.
(b) Lot had absolutely no fruit even among his own family.
(c) The only fruit that is produced from Lot's life is Moab and Ammon.
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