Andy Sochor September 22, 2009

Remember Lot’s Wife

Text: Luke 17:32

The Value of OT Examples – Romans 15:4

The Story of Lot’s Wife – Genesis 13:12; 18:20-21; 19:15-17, 24-26)

Why Was She Punished? Disobedience (Genesis 19:17)

Possible Motives that We Must Guard Ourselves From:

Being too close to the people of the world (James 4:4)
Being too attached to the riches of this world (1 Timothy 6:10)
Being too comfortable in one’s circumstances (Luke 9:23)
Not understanding God’s instructions (Hosea 4:6)
Curiosity of that which is prohibited (1 Peter 4:3)
Having a rebellious spirit (1 Samuel 15:23)

Application for Us Today

Follow God and don’t turn back (Luke 9:62)
Be willing to give up family & friends (Matthew 10:34-37)
Be willing to sacrifice material possessions (Matthew 19:21)
Be willing to suffer hardship (1 Peter 4:12-16)

Filed Under: Old Testament, people of the Bible Tagged With: disobedience, judgment, materialism, punishment, rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, understanding, worldliness

Jesus Christ came to set us free from the bondage of sin (Romans 6:3-6; John 8:34-36). Yet many Christians are content to remain enslaved to it. They have been convinced that we can never defeat sin; therefore, they have resigned themselves to the belief that they will always struggle with it.

Yet the Bible does not present the removal of sin from one’s life as an unattainable ideal but as a realistic goal. Paul said there is a way of escape for every temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13). Peter spoke of what one needs to do so that he will never stumble (2 Peter 1:10). John wrote so that we may not sin (1 John 2:1). Jesus told the woman allegedly caught in adultery, “Go. From now on sin no more” (John 8:11).

But how can we successfully remove sin from our lives? We first need to understand the reasons why we sin so we can learn how to find the way of escape. This material has been written to help each one of us overcome sin, rather than struggling with it perpetually.

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