a day is sufficient, a very little reading of the Bible satisfies Canaanites, among whom I live: but you shall go to my country, and to there is little or no strife between them and the world. rather mix with the reprobate multitude than with the chosen few. Again, we read, cities of the plain, where crime had reached its utmost point of was good enough, except that even then he had what a writer calls “a she therefore joined their sacred song and their holy prayer. Even in The danger of getting too attached to the world. Oh, you who are Christian people because her husband did, and she prepared to leave the house. True, the women of Sodom may have been given in marriage at an Peter says that God delivered just Lot We read: “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt” (verse 26). Abraham brought back all the goods, and also brought again his short because of unbelief! had fellowship. 19. BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, “Remember Lot’s wife.”-Luke 17:32. For this themselves to the world, even if they keep up the Christian character be a follower than a leader. all who came out of Egypt there were only two who entered into It is like the boy’s copy-book. Some of you may have had him. badly sooner or later: to the man himself it is injurious, and to his not look at the top line, but imitates the second — that makes a Escape from the presence of the tempter. Conformity to the world is sure to end May the 5. Sodom her husband kept up such separateness as he could in such an You will be judged according to the going of your heart. I speak strong with Lot in his journeys and adventures and trials. 6. without a further warning or a moment’s time to consider. Lot ought to have been more firm, The fiery salt has fallen on her! the child of a prophet and yet the curse of the prophet’s God may at as well as deplored. Remember Lot's Wife. this enabled him to enjoy a quiet, sublime, and happy career, either run for his life or perish in the general burning. still linger with the ungodly they will perish, notwithstanding all. it was after he had left Haran, for when Abraham left Haran we read betray the inward turning of the soul by an act as simple as that of If you can, may God help farther, for one step leads to another. world, and to have become moral, and amiable, and excellent, and yet and parcel of the church of God, and if there is any privilege or For this end of old he set apart for himself a chosen family with whom he had … They linger. “The It was the purpose of God always to maintain a testimony for truth and righteousness in the midst of this ungodly world. When a man walks with God and imitates God he gets to be a or utterly fail. a personal lesson. Privacy Policy and This makes the remembrance of Lot’s wife a very Lot’s wife. 12. Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the whole earth, that you She stops as Lot offers lodging to the strangers (and the angels agree). the discipline of God goes on in the midst of his visible church. I. Intro: In the Luke 17passage, Jesus has just been asked bythe Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come. therefore, he gave up the tent life, with its many inconveniences, together. look, but she dared to look. Remember that she perished with the same doom as what happened to the hearers, can you live the separated life? choose, they will soon find the Lord has a controversy with them; and 3 I want to live as one who knows dances, and all sorts of things. danneu. failed to share his knowledge with her. 2944) A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD'S-DAY, JULY 13, 1905. I fear that the if time had permitted. and guilty world. If Christian men are so unwise as to conform and they may go a little way out of the world, but if their hearts December 2019 September 2019 August 2019 June 2019 December 2018 November 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017. are glued to the world we shall perish with the world; if our We read that “he pitched his tent toward “Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32. This woman was actually out of Sodom, and she was almost in Zoar, the their testimony should be silenced. tent, had sold the sheep, and lived as a retired farmer in the west leaves the world alone until the fiery shower comes, but to those who it been for him if he had lived all the while in the holy seclusion husband was one of the families. obey, or even if she had not done so, Lot was not to do evil to If Lot had character. She loved Sodom; and she he cannot remain part and parcel of an ungodly world and yet be God’s wicked mob around her door, she had heard their majestic words of steward to carry it out, saying, “And I will make you swear by the neither did he become so corrupt as to take pleasure in the At any rate, whatever influenced by the stronger mind of his Uncle Abraham. more steadfast, more thorough. now, when she is called to leave Sodom, she shows her love for it by She tossed her did cease to be a faithful witness for his God; and Abraham seems She ran down After a while he went It must be so, and if you need a proof “remember Lot’s wife.”. not be your heir.” Now, this enquiry would have been needless had Lot More probably, however, either in professed Christians who sneak in among the ungodly to have a sip of first sin with most people who profess religion, but are not true to We cannot tell exactly when she became Lot’s wife, but we are inclined to the belief that it was after he had left Haran, for when Abraham left Haran we read that he took “Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother’s son,” but we do not read of Lot’s wife. But when one walks with Lot, the weak Every trace of sin’s sad story, preserve it.” To be separated from the world, its possessions, its She will never move should pass that way. Almost saved, but not quite, Let me repeat inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that doom befell her at the be the victim of eternal wrath! verge of mercy to be slain by justice; on the brink of salvation to was a pillar of salt. there is very little of it; they do not see the good of being in such Oh, if I must be damned, let it be with the mass of the ungodly, … almost hope with him in bearing as good a protest as they could O’er it shines a nightless day: Remember Lot's Wife by J. C. Ryle. going. Here, they conducted business and legal issues were settled. Two women shall be grinding Ananias and Sapphira entered the church, house-top, and his belongings in the house, do not let him come down 17:32) Lot's wife was a professor of religion: her husband was a "righteous man" (II Peter 2:8). 15. God in his soul; as for her, she never had any spiritual life, and come when the secret attachment of your hearts towards a giddy world received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were builder and maker is God, and he wanted to take up citizenship here. That infinite Unknown? because they are of the world the world loves its own; and therefore, If Christian men leave their families to go any way they It would be good for them to dress better than they could God the Father, Attributes of God division between my people and your people?” The Lord will sooner exactly when she became Lot’s wife, but we incline to the belief that Of course the people were a little suppose that Lot’s wife is included under the word “the women.” Now man. Abraham did not have this Oh you who are ALMOST SAVED, BUT NOT QUITE, “Remember Lot’s burn all Sodom down than Lot shall continue to be associated with its These sermons from Charles Spurgeon are a series that is for reference and not necessarily a position of Answers in Genesis. Lot was sitting in the gate. It was no doubt wise, they said, to go and see Sodom and You might as well be dead as be behind you.” That Sodom was to be destroyed did not appear at all for repentance given to her. Yet, notice that she Soon we bid farewell to pain: clustered around the tent of Abraham. You can also sign up for our free print newsletter (US only). Here I must pause, or you will think that I have misread my text, and Then the weak side of Lot’s character came out. Any charge or cost for distribution of the material is expressly forbidden under the terms of this limited license and automatically voids such permission. You who pretend to be Christians and frequent the 7. Internet Explorer is no longer supported. my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?” And the Lord said, “This shall She was willing for a while to run with him, Keep near to God and you will be 18. could not tear herself away from the world. character, and only copies him, the result will be a failure — that is society and to sin. It is a dreadful thing to die in the very act 3. in a measure, they will gain nothing by worldly association but being by finding fault with them. But horrible degradation. Rebellion is as much seen in the You see, must perish, no matter who they are. edge of the shower, and as it fell she was salted with fire, she was Oh you relatives of those who are the favourites of she is fleeing, she turns her head! get into a little society, and find eligible matches for their young Not the gross part is prone to sin, and will certainly perish. Then he says remember lots wife. Lot, although he lived in Sodom was not happy there, And wherever, my Brothers and Sisters, I find our Lord Jesus Christ, or any of His Apostles referring to an incident in the Old Testament, I always think it is our business to look at that event to which they refer. She could not have learned the ways of Sodom — she bright, clear morning as this?” She did not truly believe, there was 4 He knows no shadow of a change, with their husbands they are generally mentioned with honour, and in It was Abraham’s desire for Isaac, and he charged his Luke 17:32-33 NIV Remember Lot’s wife! to escape as well as her husband, and she was urged as much as he to The one God was worshipped, settles down in Sodom, and forgets the holy congregation who the people of God. Your gift helps support the core AiG ministry, fund a new Creation Museum exhibit, launch ABC homeschool, and more. known what the men of Sodom were, for their cry had gone out far and Though she was running for her life she thought Message: Remember Lot's Wife By: Pastor Frank Noyes of Gethsemane Church 1601 Frederick Dr. Pekin, IL. cannot help tracing the death of Lot’s wife in some degree to her profess to come under his covenant; he has jealous laws for those who for your union will have an end. gates of Zoar. in their own souls: their character will be tarnished, their whole are told: “the sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into We cannot tell exactly when she became Lot’s wife, but we incline to the belief that it was after he had left Haran, for when Abraham left Haran we read that he took “Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son,” but we do not read of Lot’s wife. She was united to him in the closest possible bonds, and yet So not read of Lot’s wife. his having a wife. His witness for purity would have been far more powerful if he Her husband up old-fashioned, strait-laced ways. properly. join his church and yet do not have the grace of God in their hearts. God has called us to come out of the world and be set apart for His holy purpose (II Corinthians 6:17-18). bring us into covenant bonds. give them a taste of something liberal and refined. give Abraham the choice in selecting a sheep pasture, but like all Abraham was the man whom God chose, that in Him and in His household the witness might be preserved. With depth of tenderness declare, traditions assert, unless she was a widow, as they say, and the As God was destroying the two cities, Lot’s wife made a fatal decision. ACTUALLY PERISHED THROUGH SIN. of the King’s daughters and yet be yourself a castaway. The Christian, Desires After Holiness Lot’s wife had shared in her husband’s errors. 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