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DWDP-Gen:19 1-3 Entertaining Angels · More Than Medicine

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  SPEAKER_00: 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_00: Hosted by author and physician, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robert Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Papa, can you tell me a story?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you really want me to tell you a story?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Devotions with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Papa.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gather round, grab your Bibles, and let's look into the written word which reveals to us the living word, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we're at Genesis chapter nineteen, verses one through three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Lot saw them he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said, Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet, that you may rise early and go on your way.
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  SPEAKER_01: They said, however, no, but we shall spend the night in the square.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yet he urged them strongly.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they turned aside to him and entered his house, and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now let's talk about these first few verses in chapter nineteen, which describes the ultimate doom of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The storyline now shifts to Sodom, the chief city of the five cities of the plain.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember the progression that brought Lot to this spot in the city gate of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Genesis chapter thirteen and verse twelve, the Bible tells us that Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: In other words, he and his family lived in a tent on the outskirts of that wicked city.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then in Genesis 14 and verse twelve, we see that Lot dwelt in Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he was no longer living on the outskirts, but he was now a resident of the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then in chapter 19, verse 1, it tells us that Lot sat in the gate of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: So do you see the progression from living on the outskirts to living in the city?
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  SPEAKER_01: And now he's actually sitting in the seat of possibly a magistrate or a leader in the city, or at least a major commercial operator in the city, because he has a seat in the gate of Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: The gate of the city is the primary marketplace where business and commercial activity occurs.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is also where judicial councils were seated.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is logical to assume that Lot had become a magistrate in the city, which is inferred from the meaning of the term sitting in the gate.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is also possible that he just liked to sit where he could observe his own commercial interests at work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Serving as a magistrate and businessman in a corrupt and perverted city like Sodom was a real moral slide downhill on the slippery slope for Lot, a man who had been a first person witness to all of God's initial interaction with Abram, when Abram was called out from Ur of the Chaldees and called into what is now the promised land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when God had made all these promises to Abram, Lot was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when God supernaturally used Abram to deliver Lot and the city of cities of the plain from the five northeastern kings, Lot saw all of that with his own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet now he is comfortable as a leader in Sodom, a wicked and perverse city.
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  SPEAKER_01: Was Lot entirely comfortable with living in Sodom?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: Second Peter chapter two and verse eight tells us that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's apparent from the scripture that although Lot lived there, operated there, conducted business there, and perhaps was even a magistrate there, that his righteous soul was vexed when he saw the unrighteous deeds of that city from day to day.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is apparent that Lot had compromised his testimony for God, and was now ensconced in the commerce and the judicial proceedings of the city, yet still disturbed by their evil practices.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lot is a perfect picture of today's carnal or flesh driven Christians, who try to enjoy the benefit of both worlds, the eternal benefit of knowing Christ as Savior and the temporary benefits of worldly influence, worldly possessions, and worldly acceptance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lot congratulates himself for being in the world, but not of the world, even though too much of the world has gotten into him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember years ago hearing Billy Graham say that ninety percent of the Christians that he met were carnal or flesh driven people.
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  SPEAKER_01: When asked why he would say that, he responded Spirit controlled Christians talk about Jesus and help people come to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, carnal Christians like Lot are too full of themselves and too full of the world to be led by Holy Spirit and to be used by God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sadly, there will be a day of reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_01: As Jesus told us in the parable of the vine and the vine dresser, that his father, the vine dresser, would gather all the unfruitful branches and throw them into the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: There will be a day of accountability, brothers and sisters, when the pretend Christians will be separated, the sheep from the goats, and the unfruitful Christians, the unfruitful branches will be collected by the vine dresser, the heavenly Father, and it says they will be thrown into the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's serious talk from our Lord Jesus Christ, predicting a future day of reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's Lot, a righteous man who knew God's power, sitting in the city gate of Sodom, vexed in his spirit by the wickedness of the city, but unwilling to take his family away from such corruption and perversion.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was compromised.
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  SPEAKER_01: The two angels in verse one that had left Abraham approached the city at dust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Knowing the wicked tendencies of the men of the city, Lot immediately invites them to stay at his house.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knows that the city square is a dangerous place for unwary travelers.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is to Lot's credit, that knowing the vile tendencies of the men of the city, he sought to protect these two visitors.
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  SPEAKER_01: In verse three, after Lot's after Lot strenuously urged the two men, the two angels, to stay with him, they consented, and he prepared them a meal.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Bible describes it as a feast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of interest, dear listener, is that the only item of the feast mentioned is unleavened bread.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the very first mention of leaven in the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: In general, um not always, but in general, whenever leaven is mentioned, it is symbolic of evil doctrine and corrupt practices.
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  SPEAKER_01: Practices that corrupt God's people.
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  SPEAKER_01: The next time leaven is mentioned in Scripture is in a connection with the Passover, where God's chosen people are instructed to do what?
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  SPEAKER_01: To obey the feast, and the they had to do so with unleavened bread, and in fact they were told to put all leaven out of the house in gen in Exodus twelve and verse fifteen.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is good advice for you and me today, that we should put out of our hearts and out of our own homes any sin or corrupting influence.
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  SPEAKER_01: This requires diligence and a ruthless surgical approach to anything in our hearts or our homes that is not holy or that is not pleasing to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not hard to discern the leaven in our hearts.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not hard to discern the leaven in our homes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just ask one question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Would I keep this in my house or in my heart if I invited Jesus to eat supper with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like these two angels were eating with Lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Viewed from that perspective, there are probably a lot of things we would not read or listen to or watch if I were cleaning the leaven, cleaning the corruption out of my heart and out of my home, before inviting Jesus over for a meal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you remember the song we used to sing to our children?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh be careful little eyes what you see.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh be careful little eyes what you see.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the father up above is looking down in love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh be careful little eyes what you see.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well the song goes on to teach us to be careful little ears what you hear, and be careful little tongue what you say.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, we sing this to our children, but do we practice this personally as adults?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do we remove all the leaven which reparts represents sin and corruption?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do we remove all the leaven from our hearts in our homes?
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  SPEAKER_01: This first mention of leaven in Scripture is associated with the fellowship between two holy angels and a righteous remnant in the midst of a totally corrupt society in Sodom.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would do well to ask ourselves daily, have I removed all the leaven, all the sin from my heart and from my home?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we never know when Jesus, like he told Zacchaeus, will say to you and me, I'm coming to your house today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's enough for one week, but next week we will discuss a battle between men and angels, between light and darkness, between good and evil, which is an age-old battle that still rages today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Till next week, I pray that the Lord will bless you real good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And remember, Jesus loves you and your doctor loves you.
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