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Tell the Story
Learning from the Story
1) We see the purpose of God’s judgement and wrath.
It is common to think of God in human terms when reading stories like this
God hears Sodom and Gomorrah have been doing really bad stuff.
He has already told them multiple time and given the warnings.
His fuse is at the end so He blows up.
In an uncontrollable rage, God sends down fire and destroys the wretched people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
This is why stories like this make us squirm and why many have refused to believe in a God that would do such a thing.
The Truth: God’s judgement and wrath are a expression of His love.
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Gen 18:
the word “outcry” means a cry for help.
The oppressed and abused of Sodom and Gomorrah were crying out to God for help.
Their sins were sexual immorality in many forms:
but not limited to sexual immorality:
Eze 16 49
They were proud, overfed, and lazy
They neglected the poor.
They were wealthy and yet neglected the poor.
They were wickedly arrogant
Prideful idolaters
God’s intervention in Sodom and Gomorrah a display of His just wrath on sin.
God’s just wrath was poured out in response to His mercy on the oppressed and the poor.
We struggle with God’s justice and wrath when we don’t understand the devastation sin causes.
God was dealing with a people who had no restraint on their pursuit of their sinful flesh
The fulfillment of justice is an expression of love and mercy.
That God would see fit to destroy entire cities in order that justice be served and mercy be multiplied is an amazing expression of His love.
rom 1 24-
We should find comfort in the belief that God is a righteous God who, though unimaginably patient, will not let evil persist indefinitely.
God will deal with evil not because He is an angry and cruel God, but precisely because He is a good and loving God.
This story is not meant to It is to comfort you and to express our belief that God is a righteous God who, though unimaginably patient, will not let evil persist indefinitely.
God will deal with evil not because He is an angry and vindictive God, but precisely because He is a good and loving God.
We should find comfort in the belief that God is a righteous God who, though unimaginably patient, will not let evil persist indefinitely.
God will deal with evil not because He is an angry and cruel God, but precisely because He is a good and loving God.
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Gen 19
Gen 19:2
Lot was not spared because he was righteous, but because God was merciful and kind.
God remembered Abraham prayer for Lot
2) We see a glimpse of God’s mercy and grace.
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Abraham petitions God on behalf of the people.
He is asking God if the righteousness of a few people would be applied to the sins of the crowd.
We often see the sins of a few leading to the punishment of the many.
Abraham is testing the other approach.
This is not God showing mercy at the expense of justice, but showing restraint in view of the righteous.
The Truth: God is merciful and slow to anger.
We see Lot’s hesitation to leave his home even as God begins to destroy it
Lot is fearful and torn between his desire to stay and the necessity to leave.
Lot was not
Lot was not spared because he was righteous, but because God was merciful and kind.
God remembered Abraham and had favor for Lot
Lot deserved the same judgement as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Maybe he wasn’t gay or an adulterer or a thief, or a drunkard, but he was not righteous.
Lot was not spared because of his deeds, he was spared because of God’s grace and mercy.
3) We see the difference between God’s judgement and discipline.
There is a temptation to believe this story is a testament of how God deals with us when we sin.
Strike us with a lightning bolt.
It is a reason people have used to keep them from believing in God.
And it is a reason some of us feel so distant from God today.
But there is great comfort to be found in God’s judgement and in His discipline.
Distinguishing between Justice and Discipline
This distinction must be made or we will misunderstand God’s character.
God’s judgement is
This story leads us to fear God, and it should.
Judgement is the ultimate and final justice of God being served.
What this story is not showing us about God
In Sodom and Gomorrah we see God serving justice to well deserving people.
That He is a
Discipline on the other hand is God’s tool for leading His people back to Himself.
Just like a parent’s correction when their child is in the wrong
God discipline is meant to restore His people into a right relationship with Him.
The Truth: God’s discipline seeks restoration; His judgement carries out retribution
There is a great comfort in God’s discipline
We see a Father who loves us enough to lead us back to himself.
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God’s discipline has a hope-filled promise
Heb 12
There is a great comfort in God’s judgement for all of us.
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Every one of us has been wronged in our lives: lied to, stepped on, beaten up, cheated...
Every one of us has been wronged in our lives: lied to, stepped on, beaten up, cheated...
There is the unmistakable and often arresting desire for justice/vindication.
Abraham petitions God on behalf of the people.
He is asking God if the righteousness of a few people would be applied to the sins of the crowd.
We often see the sins of a few leading to the punishment of the many.
Abraham is testing the other approach.
This is not God showing mercy at the expense of justice, but showing restraint in view of the righteous.
That they would pay for the offense they committed or at least
But when we do not feel justice has been accomplished we harbor bitterness or lash out in anger.
What Sodom and Gomorrah promises us is justice will be served and vindication will be had.
Lot was not spared because he was righteous, but because God was merciful and kind.
But the even greater comfort for those who trust in Christ is that Jesus is vindicator
God remembered Abraham prayer for Lot
Not for the wrongs committed against us, but for our sin that has earned God’s just wrath.
Response
My job is to overturn some faulty and damaging views some of you have about God.
My job is to introduce, or reintroduce, to you our True and Amazing God.
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