Sermon by Bro Jason McNeese, pastor of Rural Retreat Baptist Church in Rural Retreat, VA:
The Life of Lot
A Character Study
Sermon #5
The Bitter End of His Life
Introduction:
Ran the mile with no training – took off and left everyone in her dust – I was proud, yelling, hollering and generally annoying then she passed out on the 3rd lap of the Ľ mile track!
“It is not how you start, but how you finish that really matters!”
So let us look at the Final Episode in the Narrative of Lot’s Life:
Genesis 19
Proposition: Every Christian Must protect himself from the spiritually dangerous attractions of the World!
The Corrupt Morality of Sodom– 19:1-11
A Prevalent Corruption – 13:13, 18:20, Vs4
– Not just 1 or 2 sneaking around in the night behind closed doors!
A Polluted Corruption – Vs4-5
A Persistent Corruption – Vs6-9a
A Pugnacious Corruption – Vs9b – Not criminal but Constitutional - Philips
A Punishable Corruption – Not by Sodom’s Law but by God’s Law!
The Contagious Mentality of Sodom
Lot’s Goals are Twisted – contrast Vs9 “sojourn” (to turn aside from the road for a lodging)
with Vs2 “house” 1st mention!!! Also “lingered” – Vs16
Lot’s Good Friends are Twisted – Vs7
Lot’s Gifts are Twisted – Vs8
Lot’s Girls are Twisted –
Bad Marriages – Vs14
Bad Minds – Vs36
Lot’s Greatest Friend is Twisted – Vs26
The Complete Mortality of Sodom -
The wages of Sin is death always has been always will be!!
A Judgment without Reserve – “those cities, and ALL the plain, and ALL the inhabitants of the cities…”
A Judgment without Recovery – “and that which grew upon the ground”
