DAYS OF LOT

Sunday Morning - October 20, 1996

Text: Hebrews 12:1-2 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

WITNESS ENOCH

Hebrews 11:5-7 "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

WITNESS NOAH

7. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith."

WITNESS - NOAH'S DAY

Luke 17:26-33 "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 Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

EVIL CONTINUALLY

Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE

Genesis 6:11 "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence."

DAYS OF NOAH

Genesis 6:8-9 "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."

PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

2 Peter 2:5 "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;"

WITNESS - LOT'S DAY

Luke 17:28-29 "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."

DAYS OF LOT

2 Peter 2:10 "But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities."

2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

LAWLESSNESS SHALL ABOUND

Matthew 24:11-12 "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."

JUST LOT

2 Peter 2:7 "And delivered just [dikaios] Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:"

CORNELIUS

Acts 10:22 "And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, ...."

Acts 10:2 "A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway."

ZACHARIAS AND ELISABETH

Luke 1:6 "And they were both righteous [dikaios] before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless."

UNPROFITABLE SERVANT

Luke 17:10 "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."

VEXED LOT

2 Peter 2:7 "And delivered just [dikaios] Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:"

VEXED: This word is translated Oppressed.

To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority

To weigh heavily on

VERY PRACTICAL

Genesis 13:10 "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered...."

2 Corinthians 5:7 "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"

SAT IN THE GATE

Genesis 19:1 "And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;"

Mark 4:19 "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."

WITNESS - LOT'S WIFE

Luke 17:32-33 "Remember Lot's wife. 33. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it."

Genesis 19:26 "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."

Colossians 3:1-2 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."