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Genesis chapter 19 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 19 Let us pray Our God is higher than any
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  other. Our God is so much greater than
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  anything that we could ever set our minds upon.
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  Lord, you are high and lifted up above our circumstances.
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  You're high and lifted up above finances.
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  You're high and lifted up above all government and
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  principalities. You are high and lifted up
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  above. Health scares.
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  God, You are high and lifted up above merceration, God, You are
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  high and lifted up above persecution, God and martyrdom
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  God. You are high and lifted up above
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  the galaxies, God. You are high and lifted up above
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  scientific reasonings, God, You're high and lifted up above
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  every single entity, God, Anything that could come against
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  us, Lord, you are the highest. You are the loftiest, You are
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  the greatest. You are our everything.
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  Elohim, I deny El Shaddai, you are our breath.
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  You're the very heartbeat within our chest.
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  You are the cognition within our minds.
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  God, you're the senses all around us.
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  Father, You are encapsulating us with your glory.
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  We thank you, Father, for life and a life worth living.
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  We thank you for the Holy Scriptures.
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  We thank you, Father, that you chose us and predestined us.
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  God, and you elected us before the foundations of the world.
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  Lord, I pray that you will help us to understand these truths.
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  Lord, I pray that you will help us to walk in our bridal
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  identity. Help us to be obedient unto the
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  Scriptures. Help us to be obedient unto the
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  revealed will. God of what Your Word tells us,
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  help us not to shrink back in cowardice.
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  Help us not to be those that choose this world over you.
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  Help us not to be in love with Mammon or spiritual pride.
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  Father, I pray that we will not be those who are trying to play
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  both sides. The lukewarm Christianity of
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  vomit within your mouth. Father, I pray that you will
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  make us more like Jesus Christ today.
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  Consecrate this temple. Father, we get rid of all idols.
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  We get rid of all of the dross and the impurities.
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  We get rid of all the toxic sludge.
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  Father, we just want you. We want you to fill us, but we
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  want a greater measure of your presence in our lives.
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  God, reveal to us your glory. Reveal to us the mind of Christ.
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  Reveal to us your eternal truth. God, we acknowledge you.
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  We ask that you'll direct our steps, or we know that many are
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  the plans of a man's heart. But you, Father, are the one who
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  is leading us along paths of righteousness.
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  Lord, shower us with Your grace as we are but filthy rags and
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  all of our righteousness. Father, I pray that it'll be you
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  that we press towards. Not vanity, not our own self
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  seeking God, but only you and you alone.
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  Lord, make us into the earthen vessels that you choose to use.
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  Father, let your light shine through all the cracks.
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  Father, I pray that you will help us, Lord, to be filled with
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  the Holy Spirit, to have zeal for your house that has consumed
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  us. Lord, help us to walk, Lord, in
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  all of your accordance with all of your authority.
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  God, everywhere that we place our feet is holy ground because
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  of who we are. We are children of the Most
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  High. God, Our inheritance is you.
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  Jesus, we don't care about the crowns, we don't care about the
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  rewards, we don't care about the heavenly abode.
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  We don't care about the things of eternity.
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  We only want Christ and Christ alone, and we only want to know
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  Christ and Christ crucified. Show us your glory, God.
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  Come and wreck us with your presence, Father.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about King Jesus.
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  He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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  And I get out of the way and give you center stage.
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  Teach us your paths. Teach us your ways.
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  Give a sound doctrine and theology.
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  Help us to understand every syllable, every jot and every
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  title. Father, it's all about you.
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  It's always been about you. It'll always be about you, for
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  you are omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent.
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  You are the most high God. We love you, Father.
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  It's in your holy and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And there came two angels to Sodom that evening, and Lot sat
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  in the gate of Sodom. And Lot, seeing them, rose up to
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  meet them. And he bowed himself with his
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  face toward the ground. So here you can see this imagery
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  of the last chapter, where Abraham was sitting in the tent
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  looking out. And here we see Lot sitting at
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  the gate and you see this tension between these two men, a
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  spiritual believer and a worldly believer.
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  And that is what you're going to need to understand as we get
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  into this chapter and we start reviewing Lot in his life.
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  And it's in comparison with Abraham in his life.
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  And you can see from the last chapter how Abraham showed the
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  hospitality because he was eager to.
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  And here we're going to see Lot showing it because he is
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  operating in the spirit of fear of what could happen to these
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  men. And we see that Lot has made it
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  to a high position within the city of Sodom.
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  He's sitting in the gate, which would have been for an official
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  two. And he said, behold, now, my
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  Lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house and tarry
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  all night and wash your feet. You shall rise up early and go
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  your way. And they said, no, we'll abide
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  in the street all night. So they're going down to see if
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  everything that has been spoken of, the things that are crying
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  out to God were true. And here Lot is trying to
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  persuade them to come in underneath his roof, so that
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  they would not see the wickedness of that city.
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  Three. And he pressed them greatly, and
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  they turned into him and entered into his house.
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  And he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread, and they
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  did eat. Look at how angels are eating.
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  What an amazing thought, friends.
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  And look at how Lot is operating out of a spirit of fear.
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  He knows that there's wickedness within the city.
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  And here we saw that his face was towards Sodom and Gomorrah
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  when he was living with Abraham. And he would get up in the
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  morning and he would peek his head out of his tent, and he had
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  pitched his tent towards the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  And here we see that he's living there.
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  And even after Abraham had rescued him from the Confederate
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  army, and here, what did he do? He went right back to his vomit.
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  And we could imagine that Lot's wife was still in love with
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  Sodom and Gomorrah. She wasn't ready to let go of it
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  yet, for but before they laid down, the men of the city, even
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  the men of Sodom, compass the house round, both old and young,
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  and all the people from every quarter.
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  So these men have come out of all the city and let's see what
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  they're after. Five.
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  And they called to Lot and said, where are the men which came
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  into you this night? Bring them out to us that we may
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  know them. This is homosexuality on
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  display, friends. This is strange flesh that is
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  happening here in Sodom. You can see that the depravity
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  of humanity has culminated within this debased mind.
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  This is the reprobate mind that is mentioned in Romans chapter
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  one. Friends.
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  This is a delusional mind, friends, where they think that
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  they are going to bring these angels out so that they so that
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  they can have relations with them.
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  And this is this carnal animalistic impulse that is
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  noxious in the nostrils of a holy God. 6 And Lot went out at
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  the door to them, and he shut the door after him. 7 And he
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  said, I pray you, brothers, do not so wickedly.
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  He already knew that they were wicked men.
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  He'd been studying them, but he didn't have enough spiritual
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  aptitude to understand that he must get out of there. 8 Behold,
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  now I have two daughters which have not known a man.
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  Let me, I pray you bring them out and you do to them as is
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  good in your eyes, only to these men do nothing, for they came
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  under the shadow of my roof. So here Lot has the spiritual
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  inclination to know that this isn't just men that are coming
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  through. He knows that this is messengers
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  of the Lord God Almighty. There must have been something
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  gave them away in the same way that he bowed down to them, in
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  the same way that Abraham bowed down to them.
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  He knew that they were not just mortals passing through, that
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  this was something way more grand and scale.
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  And this is the disgusting depravity of humanity that he
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  would even OfferUp his two virgin daughters so that they
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  would not try and have sex with these two angels friends. 9 And
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  they said, stand back. They said again, this fellow
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  came in to journey here and he will needs to be a judge now
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  that we will deal worse with him than with them.
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  And they press soar upon the man even locked and came near to
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  break the door. So they were pressing in on lot
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  as if they were going to riot. They were going to pull him limb
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  from limb. They were going to absolutely
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  kicked down and Stampede Lot's residence. 10 but the men put
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  forth their hand and they pulled Lot into the house and shut the
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  door. So supernaturally reached their
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  hand out, grabbed a hold of Lot, pulled them in and shut the
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  door. 11 In the and they struck the men that were at the door of
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  the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they
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  wearied themselves to find the door.
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  Here they are struck with blindness, and they're still
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  trying to grope after the door. This is a clear picture of what
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  sin looks like when it's unbridled, and this is the
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  reason that God must destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  It is unhinged, friends. This is whenever sin has its
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  day. This is what it looks like to
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  steal, kill, and destroy. There is nothing but death and
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  putrid carnage within those that are not checked with justice.
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  This is what happens when there is lawlessness, friends, And
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  this is what happens whenever we give ourselves over to sin.
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  It culminates in this scene. And it'll never be different,
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  friends. Human nature will always end at
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  this place, without the intersection of grace, without
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  the intersection of God's love and mercy and A and a
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  regenerated mind and a regenerated man, Friends. 12 And
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  the men said to Lot, have you hear any besides son-in-law,
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  Your sons, your daughters, whatsoever you have in the city,
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  bring them out of this place. They're saying, Go and get all
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  your loved ones, and you must get out of here. 13 For we will
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  destroy this place, because the cry of them has grown great
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  before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy
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  it. So here you see this purging of
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  evil from the land. 14 And Lot went out, and he spoke to his
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  sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Get you out
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  of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.
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  But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
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  So here you can see that Lot has these sons in law who make a
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  mockery of his invitation. So perhaps they were betrothed
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  but not yet married. Perhaps these were from other
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  daughters not mentioned as the two virgins.
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  But we know that the sons in law thought it was all a joke. 15
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  And when the morning arose, the angels hastened Lot, saying,
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  Arise, take your wife, your two daughters, which are here,
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  unless they be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
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  So they saw that this was the only hope, was just this, for
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  this was all that Lot had in the city that were halfway following
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  after Yahweh. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon
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  his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of
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  his two daughters. And the Lord, being merciful
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  unto him, brought him forth and set him outside the city.
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  We learned from the book of Hebrews that Lot was a righteous
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  man, and that he hated all the things that he saw in that city.
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  But we know that Jesus said, Remember Lot's wife, how she had
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  turned and was turned into a pillar of salt?
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  And you can see here that it was God's mercy upon Lot that he
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  grabbed him by his hand because he was tearing too long.
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  It was as if he still wanted to stay there. 17 And it came to
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  pass when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said,
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  escape for your life. Look not behind you, neither
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  stay you in all the plane. Escape to the mountain unless
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  you be consumed. There's that little piece in
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  there that you might miss, but you need to highlight it and
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  hyper fixate upon it. It says, look not behind you.
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  This was a a picture of them yearning and wanting to go back
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  into the iniquity. There was an addiction that they
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  had found of living there that they were not yet ready to give
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  up. Friends.
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  And it's no different in our lives, friends.
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  We can be addicted to sin. You think that it's going to get
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  you somewhere, but in the end it's going to sting like a
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  Viper. 18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord. 19 Behold,
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  now your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have
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  magnified your mercy, which you have showed to me in saving my
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  life. And I cannot escape to the
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  mountain unless some evil take me and I die.
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  So Lot was a city man. He enjoyed the city life.
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  He did not think that he had what it took to live out in the
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  wilderness. 20 Behold, now this city is near to flee to, and it
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  is a little. 10 Let me escape there.
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  Is it not a little one that my soul shall live?
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  So he thought that he needed the constructs of the city in order
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  to survive. He was a great indoorsman, 21
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  And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this
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  thing also, that I will not overthrow the city, for the
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  which that you have spoken. So the Angel says, go with your
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  plan, sure, and I'll wait till you're there until I destroy the
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  city. 22 haste you escape there, for I cannot do anything until
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  you have come to that place. Therefore the name of the city
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  was called Zoar. So here you could see that this
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  is the little city, this Zoar. 23 The sun was risen upon the
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  earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
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  So you see that it had been a long night, and he'd been up all
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  the way through the night, and it is as if he escaped out of a
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  fire. This is a clear picture of
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  someone who makes it into heaven, but they bring nothing
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  with them. It's like the thief on the
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  cross. They're there in paradise, but
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  it is as if they had escaped out of a fire. 24 And the Lord
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  rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord
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  out of heaven. And this is how it will be at
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  the end of the millennial reign, friends, that God will rain down
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  fire and brimstone upon all the enemies that Satan who has re
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  released amasses, and God will destroy it in the same manner.
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  And you can't even find where Sodom and Gomorrah was.
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  And it's not because this is a hoax or this is some kind of
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  misprint in the Bible. This is accurate and true and
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  trustworthy. But it was a complete and total
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  devastating act from God that buried all traces. 25 And he
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  overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
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  inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground,
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  So all life is completely annihilated. 26 But his wife
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  looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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  Takes faith to believe these things.
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  Friends, here's Lot's wife. And she turns around and looks
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  back, and she lusts after and pants after the life that she
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  once had in Sodom and Gomorrah. 27 And Abraham got up early in
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  the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord. 28 And
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  he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
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  land of the plain, and beheld, lo, the smoke of the country
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  went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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  This validated that his plea to God to not destroy it for the
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  sake of 10 people. It validated the fact that there
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  was not even 10 righteous people within that city. 29 And it came
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  to pass when God destroyed the cities at the plain, that God
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  remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the
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  overthrow. When he overthrew the cities and
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  the witch Lot dwell. So here, because of Abrahams
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  intercessory prayer, God spared Lot.
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  What an amazing thought that our prayers actually matter.
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  And we take our prayers into the throne room of God, and we wave
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  the promises of God, and we say, God, we stand upon these
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  promises. And you said that you would do
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  these things, and God, we are holding you to your word, and
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  you cannot lie. 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the
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  mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell
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  in Zoar, and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
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  Perhaps this is Lot's final step in backsliding.
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  He was a fearful man in Zoar, this little city.
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  Perhaps he thought that he was going to be overtaken by the
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  evil there because of his two daughters.
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  We can only surmise. 31 In the first born said to the younger,
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  Our father is old. There's not a man in the earth
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  come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.
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  So here we're going to see this incest creep up.
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  We see the sins of the father visited upon the children. 32
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  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we'll lie with
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  him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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  So here they conjure up this disgusting plan in order to have
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  relations with their father. 33 And they made their father drink
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  wine that night. And the first born went in and
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  lay with her father, and he did not perceive when she laid down
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  or whenever she arose. He was drunk off the wine and he
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  was incapacitated with his functions, and he was not even
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  aware. He was so incredibly drunk that
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  he was not even aware when she laid down or when she got up. 34
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  And it came to pass on the Morrow that the first born said
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  unto the younger, Behold, I laid last night with my father.
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  Let us make him drink wine this night also, and then you'll go
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  in and lie with him that we may preserve seed of our Father.
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  This was a deplorable approach. They were living in fear.
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  They were moving within their own mind.
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  And this is what happens when we stop trusting God and we start
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  trying to manufacture our own destiny.
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  It always results in sin. It always results in
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  disobedience. We must operate in faith.
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  Faith is the currency that God operates in. 35 And they made
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  their father drink wine that night also.
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  And the younger arose and laid with him, and he did not
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  perceive when she laid down, nor when she arose.
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  So here we see his two daughters that were virgins and they are
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  now having relations, this incestual disgusting relations
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  with their father, because they were moving in a spirit of fear
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  that they would be cut off from the land and that they would not
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  have any ancestors. 36 Thus were both the daughters of lot with
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  child by the father. 37 And the first born bore a son, and he
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  and called his name Moab. This is the same father of the
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  Moabites to this day. So we see that God made good on
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  a very terrible situation. We know from Ruth, we know that
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  the genealogy of Christ has a Moabite in it.
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  And you see that God can take your misery and turn it into a
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  ministry. He can take all of the terrible
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  things, and he can turn them around and use them for good.
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  With the enemy meant for evil, God can use for his glory.
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  We'll end on 38. And the younger, she also bore a
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  son and called his name Binami, the same as the father of the
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  children of Almond. To this day we know that the
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  Moabites and the Ammonites, we know that they were hostile
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  towards their relative O Israel. As the scriptures go on, we can
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  see that Lot should have been left behind all the way back in
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  ur, the Chaldees when God had called Abraham.
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  But he's going to use it, and he has a plan for it.
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  What an amazing God we serve. This is a book that man couldn't
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  write if he wanted to, and he wouldn't write it if he could
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  think about it. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.