Is there a Sodom and Gomorrah in your Life?

 

Is there a Sodom and Gomorrah in your Life?

If you have lost your Godly influence

 it is time to move and not look back!

Two of the three men who meet Abraham went to Sodom;

we are told they were angels and Lot calls them lords.

While Lot is preparing a meal for them, we discover how wicked Sodom is.

The men of the town force on Lot’s house,

requiring Lot to give up the Angels, so they might have sex with them.

Lot tries to barter with them and offers his virgin daughters.

After the men refuse Lot’s daughters,

they forcefully try to break in until the Angels strike them with blindness.

The Angels reveal that Sodom is going to be destroyed

and they must flee immediately.

The Angels see that Lot and his family are hesitating,

so they grab their hands and lead them out.

They are told not to look back, but Lot’s wife looks back and parishes.

In Genesis 13:13, when Lot moved to Sodom,

we see the men were sinning and it was a evil place.

God knows how to deliver you and I from the ungodly.

2 Peter 2:6-10 NIV

6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,

and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials

and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.   10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature

and despise authority.

But we must be careful that we do not become corrupted by the ungodly.

1 Corinthians 15:33-34 NIV

33 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."

34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning;

 for there are some who are ignorant of God — I say this to your shame.

If God is warning you to flee something

and grabbing your hand to lead you out, don’t resist and don’t look back.

Like Lot, you can choose to live anywhere you want,

just make sure that place is not keeping you from your blessing.

If you have lost or hid your Godly influence, it is time to move!

Live your life in a place where God is!

Scripture Reading

Genesis 19:1-29 NIV

19:1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening,

and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.

When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house.

You can wash your feet and spend the night

and then go on your way early in the morning."

"No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house.

He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom

— both young and old — surrounded the house.

5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight?

Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said,

"No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man.

Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them.

But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

9 "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them."

They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old,

with blindness so that they could not find the door.

12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here — sons-in-law,

sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?

Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place.

The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law,

who were pledged to marry his daughters.

He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."

16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city,

for the LORD was merciful to them.

17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said,

"Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain!

Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"

18 But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please!

19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes,

and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life.

But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small.

Let me flee to it — it is very small, isn't it? Then my life will be spared."

21 He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too;

I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it."

(That is why the town was called Zoar.)

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah

— from the LORD out of the heavens.

25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain,

including all those living in the cities — and also the vegetation in the land.

 26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up

and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain,

and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham,

and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.