>What would you do if you knew
your entire city was gonna be
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destroyed,
tomorrow? Would you leave?
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Would you try to warn the people
of the coming destruction?
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The story of Sodom and
Gomorrah is a powerful example
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of the last days.
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Soon this earth will
be destroyed by fire.
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Are we doing all that
we can do to warn people?
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Are we part of the crowd who
won't leave because we're not
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able to let go of
the things in this World.
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Stay tuned.
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Hello and I welcome you to
another edition of Bible alive.
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We've got some exciting programs
going on especially right now.
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We're gonna be talking
about Sodom and Gomorrah.
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A lot of lessons but before we
do, I wanna introduce you to a
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good friend of
mine, Pastor Mark Howard.
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Pastor, you Pastor Church
and you also have a program.
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Share a little bit about that.
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>>Well, we have- run a program
called the Emmanuel Institute
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of Evangelism >OK >>
where we train people
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to witness for Christ
and really proclaim the soon
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coming of Jesus.
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>>Is this just for
young people or for all ages?
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>>For people, for
all ages, honestly.
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Really just to help
them to be better equipped to
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be soul winners.
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>OK, if you want a bit more
information on that make sure
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you get a whole of this because
it's a tremendous program
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and then we have Dane Griffin.
Dane, we were talking before the
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set 25 >>>Yes >years we've known
each other. We're still friends.
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That means something >>>
Amazing, isn't it? >amazing and
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so you travel around the World
and you have a Ministry and
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and share a little.
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>>>Our Ministry is
called Lifestyle Matters.
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My Wife and I do it together
in conjunction with some
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other folks. We
basically are showing people
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how to use biblical principles
> Yes >>>that are validated by
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Medical Science to have a
longer, happier, healthier life.
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>In other words Bible Alive.
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>>>Bible Alive, Is right,
because this is the Owner's
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Manual >Absolutely >>>It's the
Owner's Manual and God tells us
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how to live a healthy life
and Science is just now catching
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with the Bible >That's amazing>>
and that is what we show
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people every day.
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>Well Dane, It's
great to have you here
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and before we get started
on Chapter 19 of Genesis,
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let's have a Word of
Prayer. Father in Heaven.
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what a blessing and a privilege
it is to be with my friends here
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and I know that I have friends,
we have friends that are viewing
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this program and
I thank You for that
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and I pray that you
push the evil angels away.
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I pray that You'll send
Your Spirit upon each and every
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Viewer that's watching.
That we might be honest to the
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in most depths of our
hearts of and what is truth,
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of what is right.
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And Father, I pray that this
story will come alive as never
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before and I thank You for
answering this prayer because I
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pray in the Precious
Name of Jesus and in Faith.
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Amen >>>Amen >OK
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Hope that you have your
Bibles. Open them to Genesis 19.
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While you're doing
that, I'm gonna get it on the
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screen here.
Genesis 19 and you know,
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as you- as you are
getting there Mark, would you,
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since you are a Pastor give us
some little synopsis about this
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Sodom and Gomorrah,
before we get started.
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>>Well, in Genesis 19
verse 1, the Bible says,
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Now, we're- we're
coming kind of in the middle
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of the story here.
There's a lot of references to
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Sodom and Gomorrah
throughout the Scripture.
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Jesus points to it as an example
of what it's going to be at the
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end of time, the
whole experience of Lot.
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In Lot Chapter 9,
Genesis 19, rather,
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what happens is, we're coming
into, picking up on something
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that we saw in Genesis 18 >OK
>>where 2 Angels and the Lord
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Himself come to Abraham.
Now Abraham doesn't even know
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they're Angels at first.
He- he just sees these strangers
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coming in and figures he
had to show kindness to them
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and what happens is, as
the Lord spent that time with
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Abraham, he's come to
investigate what's going on in
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the area of Sodom and He
says to the Angels in, actually
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Chapter 18 verse 17, it says,
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Uhh hmm >>and as He goes on
He decides to explain to Abraham
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He's going to destroy the
City of Sodom because of its
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wickedness. The Cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah, the Cities
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of the Plain and,
so God then explains to
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Abraham what He's going to
do and Abraham because Lot, his
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Nephew, lives in Sodom, begins
to plea bargain with the Lord
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Isn't that's
something >>thinking
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>and I'm assuming that the one
reason He went to Abraham was
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not just because it was Abraham
but because of Lot, his Nephew?
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>>That's right and- and
so as- as Abraham begins to
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plea bargain with the Lord,
he says, "Lord, would- would you
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destroy this if there were
50 righteous people in the City?
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He's thinking to himself that
if Lot lives in the City and
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being a good Be- Christian
man that certainly Lot will have
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affected enough people that
there are gonna be 50 righteous
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people and He begins this-
this conversation but as He's
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talking, I guess Abraham starts
to think, what if maybe he
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hasn't influenced 50
people. Lord, what about 45
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people? Well what about 40
people? And then he goes by
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tens? What about
30? What about 20?
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What about 10? Will
you destroy the Cities of
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Sodom and Gomorrah if
there are 10 righteous people?
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And the Lord
says, No. I won't do it
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for 15, no I wouldn't. If
there's 45, if there's 40.
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All the way down to
10." He stops at 10.
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>Well, I'm assuming and I- and
we can find this in the Bible.
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Why not, I mean, 10?
He- he had to be assured
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that, I noticed at least 10
because >>>Lot's got that many
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in his Family >he's got
that many in his Family >>That's
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right >>>But you know that the
interesting thing about this,
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Pastor, is that, this shows what
a friendship with God can do.
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Imagine bargaining with God
> Yeah >>Yeah >>>You've got to
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have a real relationship and
imagine the mercy of God >Yeah
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>>>to say, "Well, you are my
friend Abraham. I'll do it for
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you and for the people.
Because God understands that
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righteous people
should influence the area
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where they are.
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>What's- what's the Bible say?
>>Right >the fervent prayer of a
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righteous man
>>>availeth much >availeth much.
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>>>But you know, if we could
back just a few Chapters, to
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Genesis Chapters 13 >OK
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>>>We see how Lot got
there in the first place.
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Because in Genesis Chapter 13,
what happened was, there was a
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little controversy between
Lot's xxx- Lot's herdsmen and
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Abraham's herdsmen and
Abraham came to Lot and said,
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"Look, we're brothers.
We shouldn't be fighting"
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and that's a lesson for us today
>Yeah >>>Should we be fighting
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with fellow Christians? >>Oh
yeah >Absolutely. Not at all
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>>>No. So Abraham says, "You
look upon the land and choose
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what you want. " Now,
Lot should have said, "No.
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You're the older one >Right
>>>I'll give preference to you"
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but Lot had
selfishness in his heart
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and the Bible says that, "He
looked upon the land that was
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watered like the
Garden of Eden xxx.
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>It had to be something
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and he said- and then the Bible
says, in Genesis 13:12, that Lot
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pitched his tent towards Sodom
>Yes >>>He didn't moved there
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at first >Right >>>but you know,
it reminds me of Psalm Chapter
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1. Psalm Chapter 1 verse 1 says,
"Blessed is the man that walked
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not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor stranded in the
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seat of in the way of sinners
nor sitteth in the seat of
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the scornful" >Right >>>
There is a progression >Right
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>>>First, you are
walking then you're standing,
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Now you're sitting >Yes
>>>That's what sin does.
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It mesmerizes us >Absolutely.
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>>>and we'll get to the story
but you see in the story that
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everything Lot thought he would
gain, wealth for his Family,
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better education for his
Family, whatever might be,
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he lost but Abraham got.
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>and by beholding
he becomes changed.
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>>>Sin is deceptive.
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>That's right. It
starts as a little thing, like
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you said but
something else I just wanna
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bring out real quick. I know
that- I know that I have been
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over to Israel. Have you
been ever over to Israel?
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Pastor Mark? You ever
been? >>No, I haven't.
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>But I've been there.
I've been on the Sada.
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I've looked over the- the Dead
Sea, but Dane you've- you've
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been. I know that there are
people today that you would say
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that Sodom and Gomorrah never
even existed. That's just >>>
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Yeah >That's just a
fairytale >>Yeah >>We- we
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Dane is an eye witness.
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>>>I'm a- I hide my age well
> Right >>>No, actually, Jude-
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Jude verse 7, cause Jude's only
got 1 Chapter >Yeah >>> Jude
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verse 7 says that, "God
uses the Cities of Sodom as an >
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example >>>example. " >Yes >>>
So it can't be a fairytale. >
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That's right >>>and I've got
here, what >This is pretty good
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visual >>> I've been to Sodom.
I've been there. This is a
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sulfur ball >But a sign in
the City where you can see it
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visually? >>>What- what hap-
there's 5 Cities of the Plain
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>OK >>> OK. There's- and all of
them were destroyed except Zoar
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that day and so you have the
City at the top of the Dead Sea.
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You come down the road, Zo-
there was another City and then
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Gomorrah came next and as you-
if you drive on the road up to
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Masada, the Dead Sea's down
here. You drive at the Masada.
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You go right to the
middle of Gomorrah >Wow!
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This is where we got
this sul- this sulfur ball.
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>Now, hold on. What's
significant, you know,
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some people haven't
read this story but what's
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significant about
these sulfur balls?
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>>>The significance about this
is, this would be, what it would
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look like. This is a-
this is the only place
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in the World where you have-
you have sulfur- let me- let me
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look at it this way, you
have sulfur balls like this,
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encapsulated in a burn ring >OK
>>>embedded in ash >>Uhh hmm >>>
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The only- these 5 Cities are the
only place you'll find this and
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there's is not a volcano
for thousands of miles >Wow! >>>
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The only way it could have
happened, was God. The only way.
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And like this is a
sulfur ball right here.
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You can see the burn ring >Yeah
>>>If we will pop that open,
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ithere will be a sulfur
ball inside. Now the interesting
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thing is if you look at this.
All these sulfur balls in here.
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You- this is the color of
the sand outside the Cities,
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right here >OK >>> But
this right here is the color
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of the City. Now you can see the
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comparison there >Yes >>>
That's dark brown where the sand
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in that desert.
Well, this is an ash >Yes
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>>>This is one of the walls.
You can actually stick your hand
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into the wall and to
this day, to this day
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Dwight, you can see the-
the- the mortar lines where the
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mortar was but Lam- Lamentations
Chapter 4 verse says that, "God
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destroyed Sodom in a moment"
> Yeah >>>and the- the - the
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mortar lines all have thermal
ionization, which means they
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had intense heat and then
cooled into ash. Notice this.
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We then take this and we can
just break this, like ash. >God
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>>>God said that He turned
the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
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into ash to be an example of all
that what after we live ungodly.
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It's there for us. It's
there >So, it's not only xxx.
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>>>It's there > It's a
tremendous story >>>Absolutely.
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>Well let's get into it.
So let's come up with some
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points here >>Well, it's
interesting that- that- that
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Dane brings up the point
that he does. Of course we know
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Jesus Himself didn't refer
to it as a fairytale. He says,
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"Remember Lot's Wife," >Yeah >>
which He draws out of the story
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so God left a very visible
example >>>Yeah >>for us here
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in this story and in essence
what happens in- in the story,
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now we- we have the Angels
now come investigating, Genesis
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Chapter 19 and we read verse
1, where- where they came in and
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Lot saw them and he bowed
his face to the ground. Verse 2
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says, of Chapter 19,
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Well >Which must
have been a normal thing?
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>>>It was on those days.
It was- it was Tropic. It was
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Tropic. >>They were xxx,
Yeah >>>It was Tropic They could
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live. But you know what really
impressed me about that Pastor?
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>>What's that?
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>>>God is omnipotent. He knew
this was a wicked City >Oh yeah,
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absolutely >>>but to show His
mercy >That's right >>>so there
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could be no doubt in anybody's
mind that God was arbitrary
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>>Sure, God didn't need to come
down and investigate the >>>No
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>>situation for
his own benefit >Right
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>>>He said, "I'm gonna
show you how merciful I am.
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I'm gonna show you that I
check it out before I act. "
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That's the mercy of God
>Amen >>>That gives us hope.
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That gives us hope.
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>>And it helps to
remind us that- that God never-
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God isn't a destroyer >>>No
>>and God never destroys, unless
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it's the last thing
>>>Sure that- that can be
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>>>That's where the Bible in
Isaiah calls destruction, God's
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strange act >Yeah
>>>He doesn't like it >Yeah
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Well, and- and something else
too, and I know we got- just
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think we're only on verse 2
and- and we're just get started.
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So exciting!
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But on verse 2 where it
says that, "They said they would
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spend the night square.
They knew it was wicked but just
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like when we pray to God it
isn't because God forgets and he
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knows. He already
knows what we need. It's that
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when they said that, it
really came home to Lot.
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These guys are going to spend
the night in the square and
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they- they might not be alive
tomorrow morning >>>Yeah >>Yeah
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So I mean they're letting Lot
himself figure for himself of
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how terrible he was.
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>>>He was not afraid
of them not being alive.
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He was afraid of them being
perverted >>>I mean >Perverted
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xxx xxx >>>Perverted being-
being- >Right >>>being abandoned
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>abused >>> being abused
during the night >Yeah >>>
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sexually > Yes >> and that's
exactly what we find happening
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is, is that the men come out and
they say we wanna know these-
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these two strangers carnally
and- and Lot perceived all this
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happening so Lot wanted
to protect them. Actually he
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offered the men of Sodom
his Daughters, >Hmm >>his virgin
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Daughters >Which was >> in
place, which really gives us >
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How can you >> a little bit of
insight >Right >>as to the- the
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>>>depravity >>the depravity
and- and the deceptiveness of
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sin >>>Amen >>which >>>Yes
>> we'll come back to and so in
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essence, the Angels finally-
Lot comes out to intercede and
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then the men say they're going
to do the same thing with Lot as
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they were with these strangers
and so then the Angels pulled
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Lot inside the house and striked
these men with blindness >>>You
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know one thing that it shows me
Pastor? Is God was preparing Lot
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by trying to show him how
wicked >Yeah >>> the City had
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become >That's right >>>God
is saying, Lot do you see how
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wicked this City is? Are you
ready to leave? >>Yeah, yeah,
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that's right >>>That's God's
mercy again >absolutely >>>God
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says I always show mercy before
judgment >>Uhh hmm >>> God gives
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men time to repent. He gives
them reason to repent. Strong
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reasons to repent >>Right >>>
So nobody can say that God's not
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fair >That's right, absolutely
>>>Nobody >That's right >>And-
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and so, the story goes on, the
Angels tell him, Lot, to go and
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warn any of his friends,
Family members which he does and
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the Bible says he went to
talk to his Sons-in-Law, verse
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14.
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Or seemed as one who mocked.
> Yes >>I believe it says in the
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King James >>>and I like what
you said earlier when we were
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talking about this. I can
imagine. We don't have any
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written words of this but I
can imagine the Sons saying,
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"Well Pop if it's so wicked,
why are you still here?" >That's
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right. I think that's why they
thought he was joking because he
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had not been and we'll get
in to that so, we'll save that.
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So we'll keep going >>So- so
anyway >>>That's something huge
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>>there is, So in essence,
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you know just jumping ahead to-
to what happened in the story.
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Finally, Angels take Lot and if
you don't remember Lot bargained
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or Abraham rather bargain
down to the 10 individuals.
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>Yeah >>and if there were 10
will you just spare the City.
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Well there weren't 10 righteous
people to spare the City with.
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There was Lot, his
Wife and 2 Daughters and
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the Angels went and pulled
them out by the hands >>>Hmm
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>>and as they were
leading them from the City,
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they were given the
warning, not to look back.
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And as they're fleeing
the City, Lot lingered.
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He- he still didn't want to
go. Maybe it was because of his
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loved ones that
were still in the City.
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The Daughters would marry
the Sons-in-Law cause it was 2
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unmarried Daughters >Right
>>that he was leaving with
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>Yeah >>but whatever
it was, as he lingered
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he began to bargain.
Try to bargain with the Lord
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about whether he
should go or not.
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Maybe he could go to the small
City, in Zoar, and what happened
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in that moment is
his Wife looked back.
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Became a pillar of
salt. God rained down fire and
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brimstone from Heaven and
devour the Cities of Sodom
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and Gomorrah and the associated
Cities of the Plain >>>Yes
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>>>And you know what amazes
me is, we took a little of these
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sulfur balls. I took
the size of a pea and put
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her on a spoon in a
lecture I was giving.
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and lit it, we started coughing
and choking within about
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10 seconds >>Uhh hmm >>>The
thing is, the people probably
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suffocated before they ever
burned to death >>Uhh hmm >>>
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Again, even with their
wickedness, yes God gave
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judgment, but there was still
mercy mixed with judgment >Yes
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>>>but the thing we need to
think about today is, God says,
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"that during the last plagues
there will be no mercy. " >No
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>>>It's God's judgment,
unmixed with mercy and this
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deceptiveness of sin, the
deceptiveness of sin. Why didn't
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Lot want to leave?
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>So let's- so let's go
back. Now, that you've kind of
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went through this and
there's- there's more of it.
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Let's go back. Chapter 19.
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And let's start unpacking this a
little bit which we've done this
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a little bit already.
But let's get some principles
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in here that make
it practical for you
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the Viewer, right now, that's
watching. That's why you need to
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get in your Bibles because,
these stories >>>Yeah >they're
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not for the people back then.
There more for us today >>>Amen
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>That's why Jesus said
remember Lot's Wife and-
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and it- it talks about Lot and
Judah talks about Lot and 1st.
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John it talks about Lot. In
Lamentations or I mean, not Lot
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but Sodom and Gomorrah.
It's all through the Bible.
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It talks about it.
Why? Not to forget it.
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We need to know why. So-
so let's start unpacking this.
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Let's go to the beginning
there, where the Angels come in
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and they didn't know that
at first. They were men. They
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wanted to sleep in the Square
>>Uhh hmm >and Lot said, "No,
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you- you don't want to do
that. " So he pleaded with him
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and finally got him to
go to the house and then
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what happened? Again? >>>
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Well the men come and they start
pounding on the door saying,
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"Give us the men! We saw you
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take those strangers in there.
We want to know them" and that
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word "know" is important.
Because that's the same thing
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>>Right >>>says Adam
knew Eve and she conceived.
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>So it was carnally. They want
to know >>>It was carnal > in a
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fleshly manner >>>Yes >OK >>
That's right >So they wanna know
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these men which is a wicked
thing, in this manner, and Lot
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goes out which just amazes me.
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Here Lot goes out and says and
he closes the door behind him.
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He's afraid they
were going to get in.
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Said, "Take my Daughters.
They've never lay with any
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men. " They were virgins. Now,
I think of- I've got 2 Daughters
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>>>Uhh hmm >>Now they are
married and they have Children
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but I can't even imagine
as a Father >>>No >Saying,
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"Take my 2 Daughters. " But-
but something that I think is
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important here is this.
I believe that Lot had been
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talking with these men,
obviously, and it says that,
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when- when Lot
said- went out there,
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In verse 7 and then it says,
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Now I love this
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What is the reason?
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Why- why did they come
under the shadow of this roof?
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Because they weren't- they
weren't protected in the Square
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and I believe that these men
had already been talking to Lot
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and saying this City is going
to be destroyed >>Uhh hmm >and
00:18:10.93\00:18:15.25
about the time they were
talking about this and Lot was
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probably arguing because he
knows he's got his Family and
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probably saying, "It's not
that bad. " All of a sudden,
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these men come and- and
they want these 2 men >>>Yeah
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>And- and another thing
that I think is something here.
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Was it just the
poor people? >>>No
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>Was it just the
wealthy >>>No > people?
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>It says right here again,
if you look- if you at it, in
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verse 4. It says,
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"From every quarter" and then-
and then if we jump over to
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verse 11, it says,
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>>>But notice that even
when they were blind it says,
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They >They do >>>were so intent
>to sin >>>on lust >Yes >>>that
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they said, "Even this blindness
isn't gonna stop us. " Now,
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here's one of them take home
sto- things that I see in the
00:19:05.10\00:19:07.34
story >Right >>>Don't play with
sin >Amen >>That's right >>>It's
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deceptive. You see this- this,
the Bible says, "It was watered
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like the Plain of-
like the Garden of God.
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It was a fertile, plush place.
00:19:16.50\00:19:19.27
I was there >Yeah
>>> It's nothing today.
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>That's right >>>It's
barren. It's bleak. In fact
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There's nothing- there's nothing
I'd wanna go there for >Right
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>>>Sin looks
wonderful at the beginning.
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Sin looks inviting at
the da- What danger is there?
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I'll- I'll pitch my tent toward
that. I'll just start watching a
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little bit of that program.
I'll start doing a little bit
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of pornography. I'll start
smoking, you know, drinking.
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Before you know it,
you're sucked in and you can't
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It's deceptive >Yeah
>>>You can't get out >Amen
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>>Yeah and it's not hurting
anybody but me >>>Yeah >Yeah
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You know, this is the
mindset that I- I think it's
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interesting. We can overlook
the fact that, Sodom and
00:19:50.17\00:19:52.78
Gomorrah, the story talks about
the depravity of homosexuality
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in the lifestyle
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and God's displeasure with
this >>>Yeah >>and I think it's
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important that people
understand that God is not
00:19:58.70\00:20:00.64
anymore displeased with the
homosexual than he is for the
00:20:00.67\00:20:03.99
or a thief or anything else
but- but the first challenge
00:20:07.17\00:20:10.65
comes in with the
deceptiveness of sin,
00:20:10.68\00:20:12.82
when we won't call
sin, sin >>>That's right
00:20:12.85\00:20:14.98
and- and we say, "Well
it's not hurting anybody else.
00:20:15.01\00:20:17.69
It's just- it's what I've chosen
00:20:17.73\00:20:19.02
as a lifestyle. If
it's something contrary to
00:20:19.05\00:20:21.20
the will of God, God
does not make His rules just
00:20:21.23\00:20:23.47
because He's God and He can.
>>>Yeah >>He makes them because
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He knows what's best for us >>>
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And to show the deceptiveness
of this whole thing,
00:20:27.93\00:20:29.70
we have Christian denominations
>>Uhh Hmm who claim to go by
00:20:29.73\00:20:32.81
this Word >>That's right
>>> who say, "It's OK to be
00:20:32.84\00:20:35.61
homosexual >Yes >>> if you're
only monogamous. " Well, God
00:20:35.64\00:20:38.75
doesn't say that in the Book
of Leviticus >Right >>>You go
00:20:38.78\00:20:41.46
through the Bible, in the
Romans Chapter 1 and then in- in
00:20:42.09\00:20:44.18
Titus, God says, in fact, it
says that- in the Book of- of
00:20:44.21\00:20:47.77
Jude, "They went after
strange flesh and fornication. "
00:20:47.80\00:20:51.97
God says, "This is against the
natural- Romans 1, it's against
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the use of man. So, any
denomination today, that's even
00:20:54.84\00:21:00.06
flirting with the-
>>Yeah >>> "pitching their tent"
00:21:00.09\00:21:02.51
toward homosexuality >
Toward Sodom >>Right >>>
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God's gonna, God's
gonna deal with it.
00:21:05.05\00:21:07.16
>>And- and Dane, real
quick. You- you- you had-
00:21:07.19\00:21:09.05
We were talking about this
and, you know, some people say,
00:21:09.08\00:21:11.97
"Well, I was born this way >>>
Yes >>and how can God hold that
00:21:12.00\00:21:14.77
against me?" and you agree?
00:21:14.80\00:21:15.92
>>>There's some interesting
studies that pups, that rat pups
00:21:15.95\00:21:19.05
that are born to the- to the
Mothers that they fed alcohol
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to, have homosexual tendencies.
So, can you be born with
00:21:21.69\00:21:26.00
homosexual
tendencies? Absolutely.
00:21:26.03\00:21:27.98
But, Neuro Science, Dr. John
Rady, one of the leading Neuro
00:21:28.01\00:21:31.66
Researchers in the Country
today from Harvard University,
00:21:31.69\00:21:33.83
has clearly said that,
"Genes do not make a man gay,
00:21:33.86\00:21:37.72
happy or fat.
Genes make proteins. "
00:21:37.75\00:21:39.81
Now, what he
also says is, "We are,
00:21:39.84\00:21:42.19
we can change our brains
by what we choose to do. "
00:21:42.22\00:21:46.25
So, if you have tendencies
towards homosexuality,
00:21:46.28\00:21:49.87
if you choose by God's power, to
give up that lifestyle, God will
00:21:49.90\00:21:55.53
give you the power to do
it> Well, God >>>God will give
00:21:55.56\00:21:57.33
you the
forgiveness and>>That's right
00:21:57.36\00:21:58.96
by beholding, it become changes
>>>That's right >that is what
00:21:58.99\00:22:00.41
you're saying >>>That's right.
If you're- if you're in to
00:22:00.44\00:22:02.24
something, I mean, I- I grew up
without drugs or drinking or any
00:22:02.27\00:22:05.71
of that thing, but when I was
around my friends, guess what?
00:22:05.74\00:22:07.93
I did those >>>That's what
happened to Lot >Yeah >>>By
00:22:07.96\00:22:10.32
beholding Sodom he started
living there >He liked Sodom
00:22:10.35\00:22:13.28
>>>and even when God showed him
00:22:13.31\00:22:14.45
how wicked the City was, he
still had a hard time leaving.
00:22:14.48\00:22:17.69
>>Well, when he offered up
his own Daughters, people look
00:22:17.72\00:22:20.62
at that and say, "How
can he do such a thing. "
00:22:20.65\00:22:22.34
It's- his mind
became so depraved.
00:22:22.43\00:22:25.31
>>>We do it every
day >>I mean, how,
00:22:25.34\00:22:26.46
you know, you think to
yourself how can you offer up
00:22:26.49\00:22:28.49
your Daughters >Right >>and
"You all take my Daughters. "
00:22:28.52\00:22:30.50
>>>I had a person told
me once in a Bible Study,
00:22:30.53\00:22:32.43
"Don't tell me about that
because if I- if I kno- I can't
00:22:32.46\00:22:35.63
watch Desperate
Housewives anymore. "
00:22:35.66\00:22:37.59
I mean, you know >But-
but- but, you are >>>Have
00:22:37.62\00:22:41.56
mercy >>Right >Something-
something else that I think
00:22:41.59\00:22:43.45
that- that the Viewers need
to understand and some of you
00:22:43.48\00:22:45.76
probably already do. But the
test that God give us, gives us,
00:22:45.79\00:22:50.51
they're not too much for us >>>
No >He said that He would never
00:22:50.54\00:22:54.54
tempt us more than we are able.
I mean, the- the test He gave
00:22:54.57\00:22:57.63
Adam and Eve is such a small
test. I mean, it was just over a
00:22:57.66\00:23:01.69
piece of fruit.
There was nothing wrong
00:23:01.72\00:23:03.13
with fruit. It
was just that He said
00:23:03.16\00:23:05.09
don't do it.
Because it's- it's really-
00:23:05.12\00:23:06.71
even Sodom and Gomorrah, the
test for- for Lot was are you
00:23:06.74\00:23:11.25
going to stay in the country.
He'd already talked about
00:23:11.28\00:23:12.94
country living. You
get in those Cities,
00:23:12.97\00:23:14.90
and you begin- you know,
It says that, "The Sephites,
00:23:14.93\00:23:17.22
if- when they started mingling
with the Canaanites, they
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started becoming more wicked
>>> Yes >and when- when you ride
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in the country, I mean, you
think about these things and
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that's- and that's another
story but the tests are not that
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huge that we can't overcome if
we keep Christ centered in our
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hearts. It's just that we choose
to do the things that we wanna
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do and then we make
excuses like, I can't-
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I can't do anything about it >>>
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Yes >I heard somebody, one
time, say that someone that says
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that, "They have bad temper
and they can't get over it. "
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If you got
stopped by the Policeman,
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you just got done
smacking your Wife or Husband or
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or screaming and how you
have such a bad temper and the
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police stopped you.
You're not gonna jump out
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and smack the Cop.
You're probably gonna be nice.
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>>>If you're smart >Yeah.
You're gonna say, "Oh, I'm
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It makes a huge difference.
Well, we gotta take a short
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break and is this
not exciting or what?
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.91
Very practical
for you and I today.
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Don't go away. We're
gonna take this quick
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break and we'll be right back.
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>>>When I was over in Sodom and
and Gomorrah several years ago,
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we we're able to find actual
sulfur balls in both of the
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Cities of the Plain.
We've been praying that God
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would open the way because they
get very little rain there and
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without rain you can't
find these sulfur balls.
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The day before we went,
they got a half an inch of rain
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Cleared the ground. We
found the sulfur balls.
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God works. He answers prayer
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and God says that He'd- He'd put
these there as an example, as
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we've said before, to all
who would have to afterward live
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ungodly. Sodom and Gomorrah
were real places. They weren't
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fairytales and they show how
God feels about that heinous sin
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of homosexuality. So,
the good thing about this is
00:24:52.82\00:24:57.00
we realize one day we took one
of these little ba- these little
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pea- size sulfur balls and we
set it on fire and what happens
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is, long before- when this
started to burn, within about 20
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seconds, we were coughing and
sputtering. We couldn't even,
00:25:08.39\00:25:11.24
you know, the smell of the
sulfur was just- and actually
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burned a hole in the bottom
and made the spoon indented
00:25:13.14\00:25:15.95
right there. So we're gonna
light the sulfur up to let you
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.62
see exactly what this fire from
Heaven did, when it came down.
00:25:18.65\00:25:24.31
So I'm gonna set
this right down here
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and we're gonna light
this match and let this sulfur
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catch on fire. Now
when this sulfur catches
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on fire, it is the foulest
smell that you've ever smelled
00:25:34.23\00:25:39.57
in your life. It's starting-
It's starting to ignite.
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You should see it
doesn't put on a lot of fire
00:25:42.44\00:25:44.37
but that spoon is
burning really hot
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and the smell that is coming
off of that, is pretty intense.
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Even out here. Now it is.
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Even out here on the outside.
There you see that- that-
00:25:52.62\00:25:55.42
that sulfur is burning.
It's turning the spoon all
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kinds of different colors.
It doesn't burn with the big
00:25:58.06\00:25:59.97
flame but the smell is very
intense and that spoon I can't
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even touch. It's burning so hot.
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That's what came, down from
God, out of Heaven and destroyed
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the Cities of Sodom, Gomorrah,
Adma, Zoar and the other 2
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Cities of the
Plain. Fire from Heaven.
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It did its job and God
set it as an example for all
00:26:18.97\00:26:23.11
those who would
afterward, live ungodly.
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I'm glad that
you're back with us
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Wasn't that
something that sulfur?
00:26:29.61\00:26:31.99
You know, you
couldn't smell the sulfur.
00:26:32.02\00:26:33.77
I didn't realize sulfur smelled
something quite like that
00:26:33.80\00:26:35.84
so bad. But how hot it burns
00:26:35.87\00:26:38.53
and it reminds me
of The Judgment Day.
00:26:38.56\00:26:40.54
But I'm not afraid
of The Judgment Day.
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I hope that you are neither
because we have an Advocate,
00:26:43.54\00:26:45.38
that's Jesus Christ and
it doesn't mean God is bad,
00:26:45.41\00:26:48.36
it just means that we have
a Judge and we have a Lawyer
00:26:48.39\00:26:51.87
and together they cannot fail
but we have to be surrendered
00:26:51.90\00:26:54.90
moment by moment
that we might be saved.
00:26:54.93\00:26:57.54
And if we center our
hearts and our eyes on Jesus,
00:26:57.57\00:27:00.33
there's no
question about it by faith.
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Like Paul said, "I've fought the
fight and I've won that fight. "
00:27:02.10\00:27:05.57
And so you can too.
00:27:05.60\00:27:06.57
So don't be afraid but we
need to be open and surrendered.
00:27:06.58\00:27:09.63
You know, if Lot would have
just realized that by beholding
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we'd become changed.
If he wouldn't have been
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selfish and if he wouldn't have
looked at that City and on the
00:27:15.60\00:27:20.51
outside it looked so
nice and luscious, all
00:27:20.54\00:27:22.85
Like the Garden of God but
what happened he started at the
00:27:22.88\00:27:26.12
beginning of the
City, at the edge of it
00:27:26.15\00:27:28.05
and before long,
he was in the City.
00:27:28.08\00:27:30.92
And, the sad part about it is,
he lost his whole entire Family
00:27:30.95\00:27:34.99
but his 2 Daughters
and who knows where they
00:27:35.02\00:27:37.69
went at the- at the end. It
was a terrible, terrible ending
00:27:37.72\00:27:39.96
of a- of a potential great
story. Bottom line for you and
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I, are we willing to flee from
sin? Are we willing to- to run
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away? I have tendencies for
alcohol because of how much I
00:27:49.58\00:27:53.31
use to drink. But I
don't have to drink it.
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God gives me that power
and you can have the power
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through Jesus Christ. I
wanna make sure that each one
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of you can into these stories.
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I pray that you will. I
pray that you will make a
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practical in your everyday life.
These stories are for you and I.
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Take a look at Lot and how
he, through his influence as a
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Father, lost it all.
That doesn't have to be your
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fate in this World. But
until next time, you too
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can have a better way of
life. So don't put it off.
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