FBT Daily Devotional: Genesis 19

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Well, this evening, folks, we have a big subject to talk about today, and it's about Solomon Gomorrah. This and it's like it's uh it can be a very trying to trying to put it all into perspective and to put it all into different different um into a condensed form because there's so many things that we can actually get from this particular this particular area, and it can be very sensitive because sometimes you don't want to talk about these two, well, at least I know for me, you don't want to talk about these two things, about these two cities, or about the destruction of the city, because the subject matter can be very, very sensitive. Um, as we as going back into you know, chapter 17, we know that um Lot was visited by three people, three men. And now what actually happened was that they visited him because you know apparently the I had to ask that question why they heard the um the cry of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they were very grievous to God's to God's voice to God's ear. So the three people that actually have come were God and three angels, and they visited a lot. And then at that particular time, at the beginning of that, and I think it was in the late 17, late chapter 18, going into 19, I mean they're kind of they'll kind of flow, they kind of biggy back and flow into what even Philip was even talking about this morning. Whereas, you know, he was visited by the three, he was visited by the Lord and two angels, and then he actually was because they wanted to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the uh then he then Lot actually was trying to was talking with God and trying to intercede, as Philip was even talking about saying, intercede on their behalf of seeing if they could if could could they be saved if he had five he found so many different righteous people in that particular city. And you know, Lot continued to go on and on until I got down from 50 down to 10 in increments of five that he was kept tasking the Lord about. And you know, then afterwards, after the Lord actually um after that last one, he said, if you can find that many, then he could he would save the city. But that's apparently that did not happen because he left he left after that, but then the two men stayed, and these are the angels that were that were sent to actually destroy the city of Sodom, the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Now, the thing I say that can be sensitive because you know when you think about Sodom, you think you always the first thing you think about is uh sodomy, and that can be a very sensitive subject that we can talk that we talk about. And the fact is that you know that there was a lot of, and most people actually equate the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with homosexuality. However, that was not the that was not the only sin of the city, because then some of the other things that actually were grievous to the Lord and that the city actually, the cities actually um committed were such things as the as extreme arrogance, intense pride, insolence, which is a boldly being boldly rude and disrespectful, sexual perversion, wicked behavior, hostility, the refusal to be, to show hospitality, and acting, acting uh notoriously to harm strangers. And all that can actually, and a lot of the all of that can actually be seen in this particular in this particular chapter, because when the when the angels came and they were wanting to tell Lot that they were going to destroy it, destroy the city, and they forewarned Lot to get his to get his um daughters, the sons, sons-in-law, sons, all this people out of the city because they were about to destroy the city. But then as the as the people, I mean, as the then the townsmen came and they banged on Lot's door saying that they wanted to have sex with the with the two with the two angels, not knowing that who they were actually talking to or talking about, but that was part of the wickedness that was part of that particular, that was part of that particular city. And you know, if you look at it a different way, you know, you can actually think about how, especially from the from a why would they want to have sex with these guys? Because, you know, this particular city was very, I said, there it was very wicked, and very a lot of other things were happening within that particular city. And I'm I think the thing that I really wanted to get out of it is that you know, we always equate Sodom and Gomorrah with sodomy and with the homosexuality, but there was actually other things that were uh that were involved that they that were that they were doing and sinning, you know. I and I think and I equate this to almost like how you know how Pastorick usually was talking about how Corinthians in the Corinthians Corinthian the Corinth the city of Corinth was is a place you go to wild out. And I believe that Sodom was just as bad, if not worse, it was the old testament version of the Corinth. So um that really is it's like you know, these are things that we don't. I mean, this can get very, very touchy, and I don't know really how to how to go about bringing this subject, bringing those subjects up of the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, because you know, as I said, we don't some people don't like it, it's not talked about a lot, and it's talked. I mean, this actually could be the first the first um introduction to dealing with homosexuality in the in the Bible, because you know, in Leviticus, he actually does tell us that two men should not sleep together, two women should not sleep together. God didn't create Adam and Eve. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve or Ada and Eva and Eve. So it is one of those things that, you know, it is something that is there in the Bible, and that it has actually it's there, and it's something that we should actually discuss and we need to have a conversation about, but it actually can still be a very sensitive subject to talk about. And even on this call right now, it's kind of difficult for me. This is like it's so wide of a subject to be trying to talk about and trying to narrow it down to a few minutes, is kind of uh difficult. So I don't know how I can't say I don't know how else to say it, but I'm trying to still be, I just say politically correct, but I just gotta be real and honest about it. That God, this is something that God didn't like, and it was very grievous to him. And so he didn't like before he destroyed the he destroyed um he destroyed the world when he created when it was from before with the flood. And he said he would he had gave a coming that saying he was not going to do that again. But because these, because of the way that his people were actually acting, he decided that he wanted to he destroy he wanted to destroy another city. And now these cities, now because of the way these sins were in this in these particular cities, and he destroyed it through by raining sulfur down on on these cities. Today, if you were to go to the to Jerusalem and to into that area where Sodom and Gomorrah was, it is now actually a wide, I mean, there's a way it is a wasteland, so there's nothing that can be said that that would be there. There's nothing that was rebuilt upon it, it was just is now is now currently a big wasteland. But with that being said, I was like, we just have to be very mindful of the things that we actually say and do, and I don't really have much else for you. It's just like I just thank you, and we can get ready to go to our breakout rooms.