SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
04/06/2004
My Worship Time Focus: True
Believers Delivered PT-1 (Lot)
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
2:6-9a
Message of the
verses: “6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example
to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; 7 and if He rescued righteous
Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous
man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day
by their lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord
knows how to rescue the godly from temptation,”
I have probably stated before in other Spiritual Diaries
that if Peter had not written about Lot being a righteous man then probably few
of us would have known this fact that he was a true believer. With that said perhaps the same would be true
of me too as it seems to me that many believers who have been saved from sin,
especially sinful practices have a tendency to have a difficult time coming out
from those sinful practices, and yet they truly know in their hearts that the
Lord has delivered them from sin because of what Christ has done for them on
the cross. Lot looked forward to what
Christ would do, we as believers today in the church age look backwards to what
Christ has done for us.
The story of Lot is found in the book of Genesis. Lot was a nephew of Abraham who when Abraham
and Sarah left Ur they took Lot with them.
Abraham in a lapse of faith went to Egypt he took Lot with him and he
got a taste of the world as seen in Genesis 12:10-13:1). That lapse of faith way back there in Genesis
is still causing problems for many peoples and nations even today as Abraham
also ended up with a maid-servant for his wife Sarah. This maid-servant Hagar conceived a child
from Abraham because at the time Sarah could not have children and Ishmael was
born who is the father of the modern day Arabs, you know the ones who own much
of the oil in the Middle East, which cause a great deal of problems for many in
the West and also for Israel too.
In Genesis chapter thirteen we find that there became a
problem between Abraham and Lot as their flocks and herds became together too
much for the land they were living in and so Abraham said to Lot “chose which
land you want and I will go the other way.”
Now because Lot got a taste of the world system in Egypt he chose to
pitch his tent toward Sodom. Dr. Wiersbe
points out that “Abraham took Lot out of Egypt, but he could not take Egypt out
of Lot. Lot ‘pitched his tent toward
Sodom’ (Gen 13:12), and then finally moved into Sodom (Gen. 14:12. God even used a local war to try to get Lot
out of Sodom, but he went right back. That
is where he heart was.”
Dr. Wiersbe continues:
“It is difficult for us to understand Lot. Peter made it clear that Lot was saved (‘just
Lot…that righteous man’), and yet we wonder what he was doing in such a wicked
place as Sodom. If we understand Genesis
19 correctly, Lot had at least four daughters, two of had married men of
Sodom. All the while Lot lived in Sodom;
his soul was ‘tortured’ and ‘greatly troubled’ by the filthy conduct of the
people. Perhaps he thought he could
change them. If so, he failed miserably.”
9/2/2017 9:42 AM
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