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The Battle to Go Forward
Scripture Passage:
Genesis 19:1-16 Attached audio files:
- Reasons For Looking Back
- Lot’s Childhood
- Loss of Family
- Father first- Haran (Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
See All...) - Grandfather next- Terah (Genesis 11:32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
See All...) - Land Traveled
- Ur to Haran (Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
See All...) - Haran to Canaan (Genesis 12:5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
See All...) - Canaan to Egypt and back (Genesis 12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
See All...; 13:1
See All...) - Leaving Family
- Sons (Genesis 19:12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
See All...) - Daughters in his house (Genesis 19:8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
See All...) - Daughters that were married (Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
See All...) - Sons In Law (Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
See All...) - Leaving Stability (A position of authority and judgment)
- Position (Genesis 19:1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
See All...) - Economy (Luke 17:28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
See All...; Ezekiel 16:49Behold, 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.
See All...) - Leaving Comfort
- Home - It seems that Lot was no longer living out of the tent, but that he had a house
- Garden - More than likely Lot and his family had some sort of garden to aid in their food supply
- Friends and Neighbors - When Lot came out of the door to address the men, he called them brethren
- Leaving Attraction - Apparently the place where they lived was a beautiful place. (Genesis 13:10And 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.
See All...) - Reasons For Not Looking Back
- God’s word (Genesis 19:17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
See All...) - God’s plan (Genesis 19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
See All...) - God’s judgment (Genesis 19:12-13 [12] And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
[13] For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
See All...) - Results of Looking Back
- Judgment (Genesis 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
See All...) - More Sin (Genesis 19:31-36 [31] And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
[32] Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
[33] And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
[34] And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
[35] And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
[36] Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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