One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die as a man.
Daniel Webster

Remember Lots Wife

Remember Lots Wife REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE B5-12-5P-10 Lu. 17:26-32 & Gen. 19

THEME: The prophesy of Christ’s return is of a feeling of “ordinariness” of everyday, mundane things vs. extraordinary events.

INTRODUCTION:

  1. VV 28-29, “in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”
  2. V. 30, “Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed”
  3. V. 32, “Remember Lot’s wife.”
  4. WHEN THE WAY IS NOT CLEAR, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE
  5. When trials come that you do not understand…
  6. When the world is vainly searching for a door…

II. WHEN FAMILIES ARE BREAKING UP, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE

  1. When parents do not respect their children (offered daughters)
  2. When children do not respect parents (seemed as one that mocked to his sons-in-law)

III. WHEN TEMPTED TO SIN, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE

  1. When evil prosperity beckons…
  2. When men linger in evil places (while Lot lingered)…
  3. When men find alternatives to what thus sayeth the Lord… (Angel said, mountain–Lot said, Zoar)
  4. When your possessions are lost…
  5. When the Devil says “go back”…

IV. WHEN SIN IS COMMON, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE

  1. When sin is practically universal…
  2. When godly men call sinners “brethren”…
  3. When there is no shame for sin…
  4. WHEN VENGENCE IS PROPHESIED, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE
  5. Lu. 21:28, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
  6. Lu. 12:40, “Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye thing not.”
  7. 1 Thes. 5:2, “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night”
  8. Rev. 16:15, “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”
  9. l Jn., 2:28, “And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”