Temple Baptist Church - 7-12-2026
Genesis 19:1-16
Introduction: The message for this morning applies to both the pastor and the pew. So, do not take this personally, just take it personally. Not personally because it is a shotgun message that hits us all. Take it personally because both you and I need it.
A. Our need for revival is constant as we live in these last perilous days. Our time was prophesied thousands of years ago as the Bible speaks of the days of Noe and Lot as an analogy to our days.
1. The days of Noah where they were eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage is certainly a reality today.
Matthew 24:36-38 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (37) But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
“But” emphasizes our knowledge of the times and seasons of our Lord’s coming.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. (2) For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. (3) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (6) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
2. The days of Lot are also prevalent today.
Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; (29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (30) Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
“But” carries the same implication here also. While the world relishes their sinfulness by thinking that they can parade it in front of the eyes of God, the Bible’s message to them is “ Be not deceived; God is not mocked!”
- When we think of the city of Sodom, we automatically think of the sin of sodomy. BUT sodomy was the end result to rejection of God.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:25-27 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (27) And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- In Ezekiel, we find the things that ultimately caused Sodom to give themselves over to their sinfulness and sodomy.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (50) And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
B. My message for this morning is not the condition of the world as we approach the Rapture of God’s Church. As I was reading the my Bible one morning, I saw a phrase that I had read many times.
Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
C. The danger of our times is not the wickedness, it is the “getting used to the dark,
and “sojourning” among them!” This “one fellow” was Lot. I want to look closely at these verses today as they are relevant to the end-time church, but especially to each of us in general.
1. Lot was a saved man! This message is to the saved, God’s people! A saved man must be a separated man. Demas saw something in Thessalonica that he could never get out of his mind and heart.
2 Peter 2:7-8 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (8) (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2. Lot placed the temporal things above the spiritual which are eternal things. Lot knew the condition and character of Sodom, but chose the watered plains of Jordan and moved his family to live in Sodom.
Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. (11) Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. (12) Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. (13) But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Lot knew what Sodom was! You and I know what this world is like and the philosophy that they try to force upon us! Satan and most of the world hate God and therefore are not friends with the saved.
3. Lot came to sojourn (“pitched his tent”) among them and ended up dwelling (“turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house”) with them. Though these two words are somewhat similar, they have different meanings.
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
a. Sojourn implies a temporary stay with the expectation of moving on. Often associated with being a foreigner, pilgrim, or exile.
b. Dwell means to settle into a place and live or remain. A long-term residence associated with security and belonging.
c. Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer that you want to stay, and keep you longer than you want to stay!
d. Lot was different when he came, but tried to assimilate: adapt or conform.
e. You and I must live here because we are in the world, but must, at the same time, maintain a marked difference because we are not to be of them. Our Lord’s Prayer clarifies this statement.
John 17:14-17 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (17) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
In these verses that our Lord prayed 2,000 years ago, He prayed for believers in our day.
John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. |
f. In the beginning, Lot “pitched his tent” but later lived in a house, a more permanent dwelling place.
Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelled (to settle in and keep house) in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
4. Lot thought that he fit in with the Sodomites, as he sat in the gate (I wonder what Lot was thinking that evening while sitting in the gate of the city, not suspecting that the morning would break with Sodom and the cities of the plain destroyed and most of his family lost!) where all the city business took place, but he did not fit in! Now to the verse, Genesis 19:9, that stuck out to me.
Genesis 19:6-7 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, (7) And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.”
a. “Stand back!” There will be a time when the world separates from you! You get out of our way. You are not going to change the world by trying to assimilate into it. “This one fellow came into to sojourn!” You will not change their hearts, minds, or actions! “Evil communications still corrupt good manners!” The world knows who you are!
b. “ And he will needs be a judge.” Lot was not going to judge their actions because, though saved, tried to ignore their exceeding sinfulness! We cannot live with the world, try to live like the world, and quote Scripture to the world!
c. “Now will we deal worse with thee, than with them!” The Sodomites turned upon Lot as their main enemy! Today, though so much of the churches dwell and sojourn in the world, more and more the church has become their enemy! “There is an old saying, “You can run but you can’t hide!”
d. “Up, get you out of this place … But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.” Lot’s testimony to his family was “Get you out of this place” that I chose to dwell and sojourn in! “Don’t do as I do, do as I say do?” That won’t work!
e. “While he lingered.” Though warned of God, Lot still lingered where he was. Interesting note, Demas never returned from Thessalonica! Once the child of God gets wrapped up in the world, they normally die as they lived. I have often said that our lives will preach our funerals.
f. God was merciful, but the cost was great!
Genesis 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Conclusion: Pray for God to “ revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee!” The cost of not being revived is horrendous!
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