Remember Lot’s Wife
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
2/17/2019 PM
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Text:
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Luke 17:32
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Psalters: |
273, 91, 247, 2 |
- Remember her life.
- The present world is set for destruction, pictured in the flood and in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Remember that Lot’s wife shared in his journeys, adventures, and trials, coming from Ur, to Haran, and then into Canaan.
- Her lot was cast with God’s chosen people – she sacrificed with them and sang with them, but not with her heart.
- She also shared in Lot’s sin of abandoning Abraham and the altar; and was with him in Sodom’s capture and rescue.
- She heard with Lot the warning that God would destroy Sodom (Gen. 19:13) and heard the urgings to flee.
- We also are alerted and warned, given the example of Lot’s wife.
- Blood and marriage ties do not guarantee grace; it is possible to have all sorts of Christian privileges but be unsaved.
- We have Christ in the Scriptures declaring the impending judgment of God’s wrath on the world of the ungodly.
- Remember Lot’s wife’s death.
- She died because of her sin.
- She lingered “behind” Lot (Gen. 19:26): one worship service, little prayer and Bible reading; treasured things of the world.
- Next she disobeyed God’s specific command not to look back (Gen. 19:17), deliberately rebelling and choosing Sodom.
- She chose to walk before herself instead of before God.
- Her doom was the same as the inhabitants of Sodom. She received the same judgment of salt.
- Without further warning or a moment’s time to consider, her destruction came suddenly.
- Eternal hell is the lot of those who seek the things below and who despise God’s judgments.
- “Remember Lot’s wife” is a call to us in this dispensation with a far more frightening emphasis.
- Heed the command of the previous verse (31) not to look back at this present evil world!
- Instead Jesus calls us to seek those things which are above, to live in anticipation of His second appearance.