Remembering Lot's Wife
Dan Schmidt, July 25, 2010Part of the Women of the Bible series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Luke 17:26-33
Remembering Lot’s Wife serves as a reminder that we all have a chance to live a righteous life that is pleasing to God, but we also have the option to love and live for the world, as did Lot and his wife. If we choose to live unto the world rather than unto God we will, without doubt, end up like Lot and his family; broken and destitute.
Abraham was called a friend of God and Lot was his nephew. Rather than living among Abraham and his family, Lot chose to separate himself. Lot set his face towards Sodom, and in doing so, he gives evidence to the obvious fact that whatever direction we face, is the direction we ultimately go. Lot compromised his entire family by choosing to integrate them into secular society rather than separating them for God. Ultimately, his daughters gave birth to the Moabites and the Ammonites; both peoples, known enemies of God.
Lot and his wife show us that if we look to the world, instead of looking towards God, we will find ourselves in the most miserable of circumstances… if not in this world, certainly in the next.
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Luke 17:26-33
26And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32Remember Lot's wife. 33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. (KJV)