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DWDP-Gen 19: 4-11 A Corrupt Community · More Than Medicine

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hosted by author and physician, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Robert Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_02: Papa, can you tell me a story?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you really want me to tell you a story?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Devotions with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Papa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Gather round, grab your Bibles, and let us look into the written word which reveals to us the living word who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today we're in Genesis chapter 19 and we're looking at verses four through eleven.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this is the passage where Lot is entertaining angels in his home, and the wicked and corrupt men of the city have surrounded his home.
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  SPEAKER_02: Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter, and they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight?
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  SPEAKER_02: Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him, and said, Please my brothers, do not act wickedly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now behold I have two daughters who have not had relations with man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Please let me bring them out to you and do to them whatever you like.
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  SPEAKER_02: Only do nothing to these men inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they said Stand aside.
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  SPEAKER_02: Furthermore, they said, This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now we will treat you worse than them.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door, but the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
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  SPEAKER_02: They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
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  SPEAKER_02: There are certain scenes in the Bible that leave me disgusted and speechless, as when Cain murdered his own brother, or when pagan cultures sacrificed their children to Molech in the sacrificial fires.
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  SPEAKER_02: Another such scenario is here in Genesis nineteen when the men of Sodom surrounded Lot's house and demanded that he turn over his angelic guest to them for sexual sport.
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  SPEAKER_02: One would anticipate that only the degenerate lower class low lives of the city would participate, but oh no.
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  SPEAKER_02: The scripture makes it plain that all the men of the city, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then verse eleven informs informs us that both small and great were involved.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that any different from our day?
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  SPEAKER_02: Where prominent athletes and politicians and Hollywood elites and musicians are all proudly announcing their identity as sodomites, where sometimes hundreds or even thousands march in the streets as on a pride day to announce their identification as sodomites.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't use the term lesbian or gay because these are modern day euphemisms that take the sting out of the proper terminology.
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  SPEAKER_02: The medical community refers to quote men who have sex with men, trying to be non judgmental, even though every physician knows that HIV, what we used to call AIDS, is predominantly a condition of homosexual men.
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  SPEAKER_02: Syphilis was mostly exterminated in the United States until the resurgence of men having sex with men, and it also is predominantly a condition of homosexual men and bisexual men.
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  SPEAKER_02: The same is true of rectal genital warts and rectal cancer.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nevertheless, in my medical practice, I rarely address the issue of the sexual practices of homosexual and bisexual men.
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  SPEAKER_02: I merely treat them with respect.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love them in the name of Jesus, and I give them the gospel when the time is right.
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  SPEAKER_02: I then allow Holy Spirit to do the rest.
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  SPEAKER_02: I treat alcoholics, drug addicts, adulterers, and sodomites all the same.
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  SPEAKER_02: They all need Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Holy Spirit's job to convict them of sin and to transform their heart.
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  SPEAKER_02: I can't do that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look, I can't even change my wife's mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: What makes me think I can change a drug addict or alcoholic's or sodomite's mind or life?
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  SPEAKER_02: I can't, and neither can you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Our responsibility is to speak the truth in love and give them Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is the gospel that changes lives.
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  SPEAKER_02: In Romans chapter one and verse sixteen, Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile, to the alcoholic, to the drug addict, and also to the sodomite.
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  SPEAKER_02: Never ever underestimate the power of the gospel to transform a person's heart and mind and life.
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  SPEAKER_02: So in verse five, these perverted men surrounded Lot's house and demanded that he turn over his visitors so they could have sexual relations with them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now if there was any doubt that that was what they intended, when Lot went out to them he said to the men, do not act wickedly.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was no doubt in Lot's mind what these perverted men intended.
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  SPEAKER_02: If these had been ordinary men, no doubt the ensuing orgy would have culminated in the murder of Lot's guest.
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  SPEAKER_02: None of this was done in secret.
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  SPEAKER_02: They shouted their evil intentions, their evil desires out loud in the streets outside of Lot's house.
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  SPEAKER_02: Both young men and old shouted their intentions.
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  SPEAKER_02: No wonder God had told Abraham previously the cry, the outcry of Sodom and Gomorra is great, and their sin is very grievous.
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  SPEAKER_02: What must God think of the current revival of homosexuality with gay liberation parades and gay religious societies, even though there is there's been nearly two thousand years of Christian teaching regarding the evils of sodomy and the power of Holy Spirit to change lives in that two thousand years.
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  SPEAKER_02: In verses six and seven, Lot makes an heroic effort to save his guest, pleading with his corrupt neighbors to cease and desist.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then in verse nine, he even offers his two daughters in exchange for the safety of the two men.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is no proper explanation for this offer, except that the emergency had him in such a confused state of mind, or he had begun to suspect the true identity of his angelic guest and felt he must go to any length, any extreme to protect them even to the point of sacrificing of his own children.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then in verse nine, this standing in the way by Lot only infuriated the corrupt crowd even more.
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  SPEAKER_02: They accused him of trying to be a judge over them when he was really an alien.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lot thought he was at home with them and had become one of them, but he quickly realized that they had never really accepted him and he had no real influence over them.
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  SPEAKER_02: To be truthful, this is the reaction when compromising carnal Christians try to speak truth to the lost world.
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  SPEAKER_02: The response of the lost world is always ungodly, and they will say, Who do you think you are?
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  SPEAKER_02: And what makes you a judge over us?
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  SPEAKER_02: You're just a hypocrite anyway.
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  SPEAKER_02: And in truth, a carnal compromising Christian is somewhat hypocritical.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now in verse ten and eleven, the angels intervened, and they reached out and pulled Lot into the house, and they struck the men of the city with blindness, in much the same way as God struck the Syrian army with blindness in order to save Elisha in Second Kings chapter six and verse eighteen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Evidently it was a blindness of confusion.
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  SPEAKER_02: The men of the city could not they could still see, but they couldn't identify the door to break it in just like the Syrian army could see but couldn't find their way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Weren't we all like that at one time?
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  SPEAKER_02: Possessing eyes that could perceive physical sight but missed entirely spiritual truth?
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  SPEAKER_02: We were like the Roman Jews of whom Paul said in Acts twenty eight and verse twenty five, and after having discussed the truth of the gospel with them in the synagogue, Paul said to them when they did not agree with one another, and they began leaving after Paul had spoken, he said The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your father, saying, Go to this people and say, You will keep on hearing but will not understand, and you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive.
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  SPEAKER_02: For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts and return, and I would heal them.
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  SPEAKER_02: You see, that was you and me at one time, but thanks be to God that He gave us ears to hear, and eyes that could see spiritual truth, and hearts to understand that same spiritual truth, or we would be just as confused and blind as the men of Sodom and Gomorra outside the door of Lot's house.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thanks be to God.
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  SPEAKER_02: Blessed, blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_02: We'll be back again next week and we'll continue this story of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah and its outcome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Till next week, I pray that the Lord will bless you real good.
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