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As it Was in Sodom, So Shall it be Worse in America

 Sunday, November 27, 2011
Led by Eric Gintert

  • Genesis 19: 1-8  -  Lot was a righteous man. 2 Peter 2:7 calls him "just Lot". How did he know that the men he saw were from God? See Romans 8:16.
    • Are not many men, even church men, condemning homosexuality and in return sending forth their daughters to other perversion such as television, youth groups and being a companion of fools, just as Lot wanted his daughters to do?
  • Genesis 6:1-5  -  The sons of God are those who are born again; the daughters of men are unbelieving daughters. There were unequally yoked relationships happening in Noah's day. And it becomes worse when the daughters fathers willingly give her over to an unequally yoked man with approval. See 2 Corinthians 6:14-15. Just as with Sodom, the sins in Noah's time were also sexual... the ungodly dwelling with the godly in relationships.
    • This same thing happens in marriages and congregations today where the godly and ungodly are treated as the same in the church buildings. The church is supposed to be a place where God's sheep are fed, not where the ungodly come to feel better about themselves.
We see both Sodom and Noah's time and what happened in each situation. There was a righteous man involved each time. How come today, with all our Christian bookstores, Christian television, and Christian radio we are not in better spiritual condition than the people that Lot and Noah were around? With all of our resources, why aren't we closer to God than they were?
  • Isaiah 52:1-3, 11  -  We are called to depart from, come out of, sin and ungodliness and be clean
  • Jeremiah 51:45  -  God's warning to us is this, to go out from sin and ungodliness and deliver men from the fierce anger of God
    • With the health, wealth, and "God Loves You" gospel being preached today, we forget that God does get angry
  • Revelation 18:4-5  -  This is a warning to us to not take part in the world's wickedness but to depart
    • See 2 Corinthians 6:7
  • Genesis 18:16-33  -  This is how much the Lord loves us and shows us that He isn't always just angry with us. God thought it was righteous to tell Abraham what He was planning to do. Abraham, being righteous, knowing God was angry, pleaded for the righteous in Sodom (knowing that his nephew, Lot, was there). Even Abraham knew that he could anger God, but he persisted anyway for the sake that the righteous would not be destroyed with the wicked.
  • Genesis 19:12  -  Lot was the only righteous in the whole city. God didn't send Abraham to get Lot but two angels to preach to Lot and call him out.
  • Genesis 6:12-13  -  God only found Noah and his family in all the world and told them to "come in" to the ark. This meant that God was already in the ark by asking them to "come in". The world was forsaken by God and His people were kept safe in His hand.
  • Ezekiel 16:48-50  -  The iniquity of Sodom was not just homosexuality and sexual perversion. They were prideful, gluttonous, idle, not helping the poor and needy, and abominable. Spiritually, our nation is the same today.
  • Matthew 10:14-15  -  It shall be more tolerable for Sodom than for those who will not hear or receive the Word of the Lord... dust off your feet from them.
  • Matthew 11:23-24  -  The exalted shall be brought down and it shall be more tolerable for Sodom than for thee.
  • Luke 17:25-30  -  Jesus will be rejected in the generation of the last days.... just as in the days of Lot and Noah. This is when we know that Jesus will return soon.
Children's Lesson: "Jesus Teaches About Communion"
Read Matthew 27:1

Questions to Answer:
1.   What man did the disciples see in the city?
2.   In which room did the disciples prepare the Passover supper?
3.   What did Jesus do before He broke bread into pieces?
4.   Who all drank some grape juice from the cup?

Bible Verse:
"If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15

Prayer Requests:
Ed G.  -  salvation
Paetec lay-offs
Ray & Penny W.  -  health ailments
Larry S.  -  biopsy on Dec. 6
Lois S.  -  gallbladder surgery on Nov. 30
Coffee Business  -  moving forward?
Fields Family  -  housing, business, child due May 2012

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