1. in Sodom her husband kept up such separateness as he could in such an evil place, and she saw the goodness of the man with all his mistakes. Ananias and Sapphira entered the church, but they could not live there; a glance of Peter’s eye and they fell dead before him. You might as well be dead as be shut out from life.” When her husband had an opportunity of getting out of that rigid style by leaving his uncle she said she would like to go down Sodom way, because it would be nice for the girls, and give them a taste of something liberal and refined. It was Jesus who exhorted us to remember Lot's wife. Later on, his daughters became engaged to men from Sodom. What a picture! That statement being, "Remember Lot's Wife" - Luke 17:32. To emphasis his point he asks them to remember Lot’s wife - … 4) We must be prepared every day for either our own death or the Lord’s return. 3) He uses the example of Sodom and Gomorrah. We primarily read about her in Genesis 19:12-29. 2. “For this cause,” saith the apostle, “Some are sickly among you, and many sleep,” because the discipline of God goes on in the midst of his visible church. 6) They were not going to interfere any more. Oh, if I must be damned, let it be with the mass of the ungodly, having always been one of them; but to get up to the very gates of heaven, and to perish there, will be a most awful thing! She already lingered, she would soon have turned. 3) God will make every effort to safeguard the faithful (Romans 8:31 “If God be for us, who can be against us…?). If Christian men are so unwise as to conform themselves to the world, even if they keep up the Christian character in a measure, they will gain nothing by worldly association but being vexed with the conversation of the ungodly, and they will be great losers in their own souls: their character will be tarnished, their whole tone of feeling will be lowered, and they themselves will be wretchedly weak and unhappy. INTRODUCTION: 1. Thus he began to leave the separated path. God called us out of Haran, and away from the gods of our fathers, that we might live a separated life, and here I am going to stop, and you must stop with me,” she would have had to obey, or even if she had not done so, Lot was not to do evil to please his wife. Lot ought to have been more firm, more steadfast, more thorough. 2. You professed Christians who sneak in among the ungodly to have a suck at their pleasures, suppose you should be struck down in the theatre one of these days! The fire-salt has fallen on her! 4) We must, however, obey God in order to receive His protection (Matthew 6:33). Remember Lot's wife. This makes the remembrance of Lot’s wife a very solemn thing to those who are allied by ties of kindred to the people of God. 5) Jesus told us to remember her so that we don’t follow after her same example. 2) These angels told Lot that the city was to be destroyed. 6) We all know how she turned to a pillar of salt after she looked back to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. 4) The story is found in Genesis 19. I fear that the number of true Christians in the world is very much less than we suppose. It's extrapolated from a text that deals with eschatology. Can you maintain the life of God and walk with Christ, and be separate from the world?      When Job resumes his address in this chapter, he appeals to God in a very solemn matter as to the truth of all that he had spoken. Remember Lot’s Wife Sermon — Sermon outline and sermon by Kevin Cauley on worldliness using Lot’s wife as illustration. Topics: Faith, Forgiveness. One service a day is sufficient, a very little reading of the Bible contents them; they do not quite give up the appearance of prayer, but still there is very little of it; they do not see the good of being in such a fury over religion; they do not see why they should exercise any sacred violence to take the kingdom by force. I think I am not mistaken in the conjecture that Mistress Lot’s influence brought her husband there, and when there introduced him to the best families, and found suitors for the daughters, who had been fully imbued with the liberal ideas of the place. Having got so far as lingering and doubting, her next movement was a direct act of rebellion,— she turned her head: she was bidden not to look, but she dared to look. Sodom’s walls without God are far less safe than a frail tent when God is a wall of fire around it.” His vexation with the conversation of the lewd townsmen ought to have made him long for the sweet air of the wild country; but not so, he again settles down in Sodom, and forgets the holy congregation which clustered around the tent of Abraham. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” It matters not how close the association, the unbeliever must be divided from the living child of God. Volume 25 2 2 will again become a sojourner with God. You will be judged according to the going of your heart. 2) We cannot serve both God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). II. You are hail fellow, well met! It is because after all the world is master of their hearts; they would if they dare be as worldly and as ungodly as others, and they prove their true character by slackening their pace. THIS is a question which Job asked of his friends, who turned out to be so unfriendly. It would be well for them to dress better than they could learn to do if they always kept roaming about like gipsies. She was willing for awhile to run with him, following his example; she did so for a considerable distance, till she began to think over what she was doing, and to consider what she was leaving, and then she slackened her pace and lingered behind. Circumstances. What saith the Saviour? A Study in Ecclesiastes, Sermon on Living Righteously | Christian Righteousness, God's Unforgettable Call of Abraham - God's Call and Promise, Sermon on Wisdom | The Wisdom of God or the Wisdom of Man, Sermon on Victory - More Than Conquerors, Parable of the Ten Virgins Sermon | The Ugly Truth on Being Ready, Sermon on God's Invitation | The Invitation of Jesus. She must have been a person of very small consideration, for even when it is certain that Lot was married, when he was taken captive and afterwards rescued by Abraham, all we find is this: “And Abraham brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.” We suppose that Lot’s wife is included under the word “the women.” Now the Holy Spirit never puts a slight upon good women: in connection with their husbands they are generally mentioned with honour, and in this book of Genesis it is specially so. “Remember Lot’s wife”: and our first call shall be — REMEMBER THAT SHE WAS LOT’S WIFE. That is probably the most dramatic, potent illustration the Master ever used in a sermon. Abraham, being called, obeyed, and went forth, not knowing whither he went. To have lived with God’s people, to have been numbered with them, to have been joined to them by ties of blood, and then after all to perish, will be horrible indeed! Then came out the weak side of Lot’s character. It was the Lord’s intent that the people should dwell alone and not be numbered among the nations. 4) They had manhandled her to get her out of the city after they lingered. Find out and be astounded! No less vehemently does he assert his innocence of any signal crime, or his consciousness of …, The Great Arbitration Case 2) They were homosexuals. Her doom came on a sudden, without a further warning or a moment’s time to consider. Abraham was the man whom God chose, that in him and in his household the witness might be preserved. I suppose he thought he could live above the world spiritually, and yet mingle with its votaries, even as some now do who enter into worldly company and yet hope to walk with God in spirit. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE (Luke 17:32) Introduction: 1. She was the wife of a man who, with all his faults, was a righteous man. 3) 1 Thessalonians 5:2 “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”. 2) As this was happening, Lot’s wife turned and looked back. Not too far away from now there is a time coming when God's people will have to leave the cities and make for the safety of the country. When we are called to it we are to be ready to go forth without a particle in our hands. 3. Some of you may have had spiritual touches upon the conscience and heart, which you will never be able quite to forget, and the responsibility of this will cling to you, though you have drawn back from godliness and your heart crieth after vanity, and lusteth after its idols. She was the wife of Lot who, with all his faults, was a righteous man. She knew of the gracious covenant which God had made with his separated people, and she knew that her husband was one of the family. Yet at last she was separated from him for ever; for his errors, notwithstanding their grievous mischief to him, did not utterly destroy the life of God in his soul; as for her, she never had any spiritual life, and now, when she is called to leave Sodom, she shows her love to it by a distinct disobedience of God, and an open turning to the doomed city, and so she perishes. She could not have learned the ways of Sodom— she might have given her heart still to the world, but she could not have been so clearly mixed up with it, and her daughters could not have been so ill-moralled as they were if he had resolved to live apart from the town’s people. Sermons; Remember Lot's Wife; View on one page; Download (PDF) Copy sermon Print ; Save View all Sermons. Faith is a look at Christ, but faith is a not looking at the things which are behind. If they got to Sodom there would be nice parties, and dances, and all sorts of things. They were not to go into the cities and mingle with other races, but to dwell in tents as a separate tribe, lest their character should become polluted and their testimony should be silenced. She saw the daily provision which God made for his people, and the joy which Abraham had in abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. “In 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.” Life itself they were not to hold dear, but to be ready to lay it down for his sake; for he said, “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.” To be divided from the world, its possessions, its maxims, its motives, is the mark of a disciple of Christ, and, in order to keep up the feeling of separateness among his followers, our Lord bade them “Remember Lot’s wife.” She is to be a caution to us all, for God will deal with us as with her if we sin as she did. “Remember Lot’s wife.” Remember that she perished with the same doom as that which happened to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that doom befell her at the gates of Zoar. III. Then by the intervention of Abraham he was delivered from the captivity which threatened him, and brought back again. On the verge of mercy to be slain by justice; on the brink of salvation to be the victim of eternal wrath! Now, dear friends, let us remember Lot’s wife each one of us by learning a personal lesson. It was partly Lot’s own doing that his wife became what she was. “Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both." That is the subject of our discourse. Here comes our remembrance of Lot’s wife in the fourth and most solemn place, and that is— remember that HER DOOM WAS TERRIBLE. There is life in a look, and here is a case in which there was death in a look. PROPOSITION: When we remember Lot’s wife, we remember her 1) Circumstances, 2) Conflict, 3) Conclusion. We cannot tell exactly when she became Lot’s wife, but we incline to the belief that it was after he had left Haran, for when Abraham left Haran we read that he took “Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son,” but we do not read of Lot’s wife. God is about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone and fire. In particular, he warns them not to look back when the time approaches - Luke 17:31 B. And so it came to pass that Lot was forced out; he was placed in such a strait that he must either run for his life or perish in the general burning. “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst if her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.”. At any rate, whatever were his faults she was a partaker in them: she was with him in the choosing the plain of Jordan, with him in the pitching of the tent towards Sodom, with him in actually settling in Sodom, and I could almost hope with him in bearing as good a protest as they could against the vilest of Sodom’s sins, but certainly with him in giving up the strictness and severity of the separated life. This is one of the shortest verses in the Bible. In this matter remember Lot’s wife. After a while he went further, for one step leads to another. She became a pillar of salt, and remained in that state for many ages. Then will it happen to you according to the word of the apostle, “It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”.   5) 2 Peter 3:9 “God is not willing that any should perish…”, 6) Ezekiel 18:26 “When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.”, 3. By that glance she perished. Conformity to the world is sure to end badly sooner or later: to the man himself it is injurious, and to his family ruinous. Lot’s wife reveals the amount of influence the opulent lifestyle had made on her soul, she can’t stand the thought of leaving behind all those worldly benefits, the pull of the world has a greater hold on her than the thought of escaping from God’s judgment, and the sad lesson here is that this will be true unfortunately on too many people in the end of time! When they said, “Up, get you gone,” and Lot lingered,— the men laid hold upon his hand, and the hand of his wife. Sermon on Remember Lot's Wife. A. 5) They had given her every opportunity to escape and live. Listen and watch this message as Rev. They did not mean actually to go into the worst society of Sodom, but they intended to make a careful selection, and go only a little way. 1) The men of the city were filled with lust and violence. Here I must pause, or you will think that I have misread my text, and that I am preaching from the words— “Remember Lot”; and indeed, I might profitably do so, for there is much of warning in the history of Lot himself. She will never move again! Tremble, you whose love is not in Christ, for your union will have an end. Remember Lot's wife. Site by Mere. When a man walks with a holy man and imitates him he may rise to be a good character, but he will be a weak one— that is Lot But when one walks with Lot, the weak character, and only copies him, the result will be a failure— that is Lot’s wife. “The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the If God would save a man he must fetch him out from the world; he cannot remain part and parcel of an ungodly world and yet be God’s elect one, for this is the Lord’s own word to the enemy at the gates of Eden— “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed.” Did he not also say to Pharaoh, “I will put a division between my people and thy people”? He also sojourned in tents, and led the separated life, until it became necessary for him to become an independent chieftain, because the flocks and herds of the two families had so greatly multiplied that they could not well be kept together. This was a solemn warning, and you would have thought that Lot would have said, “I will go back to Abraham’s way of living, I will again become a sojourner with God. It is like the boy’s copy book. And now, secondly, “Remember Lot’s wife,” and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED. 10. If he will copy the top line the boy makes an Abraham line; but if the next time he does not look at the top line, but imitates the second— that makes a Lot line, very far short of the first. Dr. Linton Thomas teaches on this topic. Lot's wife. Kansas City, Missouri 64118, © 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Just before bed time, there is a commotion outside. Keep near to God and you will be blessed and become a blessing to others. 7) The choice was now hers to do with as she desired. “Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? 17:28-33). Alas, I fear the church is not true to itself, and therefore the world begins to love it. Being Lot’s wife, remember that she had since her marriage shared with Lot in his journeys and adventures and trials. 1. 4) The next morning, Lot and his family tarried. The old style was all very well for such an antiquated couple as Abraham and Sarah, but Lot and herself belonged to a younger generation, and were bound to get into a little society, and find eligible matches for their young people. 5) So the angels literally laid their hands on them and forcibly removed them from the city. The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity She scarcely looks! With him was his nephew Lot, who also left Haran at the divine call, and shared with the patriarch his wanderings in Canaan and in Egypt. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE. O ye children of godly parents, I beseech you look to yourselves that ye be not driven down to hell from your mother’s side. Whether it be so or no, it is certain that she had shared with Lot in the capture of the City of Sodom; she had seen the ruthless sword slay the inhabitants, and she herself with her husband had been among the captives, and she had been delivered by the good sword of Abraham. You that pretend to be Christians and frequent the dancing saloon, suppose you should fall dead there! 1) We need not be attached to the things of this life (Luke 12:15 “Beware of covetousness…”). or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”— Job vi. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. The one God was worshipped, and Lot’s wife was present. Listen; Downloads Sermon Audio; The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. Get encouraging stories and messages from Billy Graham delivered to your inbox every weekend. Having slackened her pace, the next thing she did was she disbelieved what had been told her. 4) Then he uses the example of Lot’s wife. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 3) She couldn’t serve both God and the things of this world. Jesus said in the new testament, remember Lot's Wife. The love of the world is death. The free and easy ways of Sodom came to be enjoyable. When he was married it is probable that his wife assumed the ruling place, and guided the way of his life. My hearers, can you five the separated life? If he next copies No. (Genesis 18:1 - 19:29). 3) Lot had to gather up his family and leave the city immediately. 2) But there is a point where God’s patience ends. She could hardly have been an inhabitant of Sodom, as the Jewish traditions assert, unless she was a widow, as they say, and the daughters mentioned were hers by a previous marriage, for at the destruction of Sodom Lot had marriageable daughters, and it would not seem that Lot had then been separated from Abraham for many years. A clear, Divine call to duty cannot be trifled with without incurring fearful risk, if not of the loss of life physical, at least life spiritual. You come to the Lord’s table, and eat and drink of the memorials of his body and blood, and yet you remain unsaved. "—Job 27:10 Therefore, in keeping with the Lord's command, I want to preach for a while this morning on the thought, Remembering Lot's Wife. To have heard the gospel, to have felt the gospel, too, in a measure, to have amended one’s life because of it, to have escaped from the filthiest corruption of the world, and to have become moral, and amiable, and excellent, and yet still not to have been weaned from the world, not to have been clean divorced from sin, and so to perish,— the thought is intolerable. Lot offers lodging to the strangers (and the angels agree). 6) To the man who only had one talent, Jesus said, “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 25:30). This led to his dwelling near the cities of the plain, where crime had reached its utmost point of horrible degradation. In the instant she turned her head she was a pillar of salt. Video: 7 Characteristics of the Coming King, Part 4 (Luke 17:31-37) – John MacArthur. You may be the child of a prophet and yet the curse of the prophet’s God may light upon you; or you may be the father of a most gracious family and yet still be an alien to the commonwealth of Israel. Why? Sarah and Rebekah and Rachel have each an honourable memorial, and as no mention is made of Lot’s wife we may infer that she was not worthy to be mentioned. *Disclaimer: Do note that as this is a classic sermon (before 2006), the quality of this sermon’s audio may not be as refined as compared to our later sermons, as this was recorded in a location with limited audio capabilities. 5) The story of Lot’s wife is one we’re impressed with as children. She was united to him in the closest possible bonds, and yet she perished. Tweet. I. This was her sin. If Lot had never gone to Sodom his wife would not have perished near it. Lot was the nephew of Abraham and when the two of their clans chose to part ways because of the arguments that were rising up between their herdsmen, Abraham chose to go to Canaan. Yet such a thing may happen, and let those who profess to be Christians and yet parley with sin “remember Lot’s wife,”, and how swift God is to deal out his judgment against professors who betray his holy name and cause. I suppose it was this: her heart was that way. She was the wife of a man who, with all his faults, was a righteous man. There is one very solemn thought, and that is that the angels’ hand had pressed her wrist. Surely they could be trusted to know where to stop. Remember Lot’s Wife Intro: One of the shortest, yet a very significant statement is recorded for us in Luke 17:32 “Remember Lot’s wife.” To fully appreciate this statement, we must necessarily know what the Bible teaches about Lot’s wife. 8) Lot plead with them to let his family escape to Zoar instead of retreating into the mountains. She received the merciful warning to escape as well as her husband, and she was urged as much as he to flee from the wrath so near at hand. It is a dreadful thing to die in the very act of sin, to be caught away by the justice of God while the transgression is being perpetrated. When a man walks with God and imitates God he gets to be a great character— that is Abraham. Do not omit to notice the connection of the text, for therein our Lord bids us hold the world with a loose hand, and be ever ready to leave it all. First, remember that she was Lot’s wife. Her husband had not forgotten his association with Abraham, and he could not have failed to communicate his knowledge to her. You will have to say at last, “Lord, Lord, we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets,” and, oh, how wretched it will be to hear him say, “I never knew you; depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.” It must be so if your souls are clinging to sin, and you are casting a wistful eye to the ungodly world. I believe that fathers and husbands ought to take the lead in the management of their families, and parents are bound to arrange their households after a godly fashion. Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century, is reported to have said, "I have seen it, and it remains at this day." Mistress Lot so far believed the message that came to her about the destruction of the city that she was aroused. She had dwelt in tents with holy Abraham, and seemed to be a sharer in all the privileges of the separated people, and yet she perished. CONCLUSION: [End of this Remember Lot’s Wife Sermon], The True Meaning to Life #11. Not the gross part of Sodom life, that Lot could not bear, and it made Mistress I o uncomfortable at times, but the liberal spirit, the fine free bearing of the people, their gaiety and artistic culture, were quite to her mind; and so she was right glad when her husband put away the old tent, had a sale of the sheep, and lived as a retired grazier in the west end of the city. They linger. This woman had no excuse for hesitation or reluctance. Many of you cannot; you may pretend to do so, but you cannot, it is beyond you. ... Sermons, and Audio Books 5,655 views. But suppose you get to imitate some good man, and he is your standard, you will make a second-rate Christian, it will be a weak affair, like Lot. Being still a man of God, he could not be allowed to die in such society: it was not to be endured that “just Lot” should lay his bones in the graveyard of filthy Sodom. She had plenty of opportunity to obey. [Beginning of this Remember Lot’s Wife Sermon] I. As a relative of Abraham, who had saved Sodom from the Elamite invasion during the Battle of Siddim, Lot was a highly respected member of the community and even became Sodom’s mayor. This came upon her of a sudden, too. Remember, then, that she did go part of the way towards safety, and yet she perished: and so many may go part of the way towards Christ, and they may go a little way out of the world, but if their hearts still linger with the ungodly they will perish, notwithstanding all. He did not give Abraham the choice in selecting a sheep walk, but like all weak natures he selfishly consulted his own advantage, and determined to go in the direction of the cities of the plain of Jordan, where well watered pastures abounded. The Story of Mrs. O you who are ALMOST SAVED, BUT NOT QUITE, “Remember Lot’s wife.”. He was sincere, no doubt, and is justly called righteous Lot, but he was fitter to be a follower than a leader. 1) In the context, Jesus is speaking about the unexpectedness of judgment. Lot chose to live in the well watered low lands of Jordan. She had not time to start or turn, and, with her neck just as it was, she stands as a statue of salt, a warning to all who should pass that way. He was a man of weak mind, and while his uncle had him under his wing he was right enough, except that even then he had what a Writer calls “a lean-to religion”; he did not stand alone, but leaned upon Abraham. Yet, mark you, she had received the angels in her house, she had seen them blind the wicked mob around her door, she had heard their majestic words of persuasion, and felt their kind compulsion: she had plenty of evidence that God was speaking, but she doubted the truth of his word, and here was the very essence of her sin. Amen. Remember Lot's Wife by. True, the women of Sodom may have been given in marriage at an earlier age than was usual with the Abrahamic stock, and, if so, Lot’s wife may have been a native of Sodom, for it is possible that he dwelt there for twenty years.   Sermons Remember Lot’s Wife. 1) On the one hand, her husband and family were fleeing the city. “The thing which has been is the thing which shall be:” if our hearts are glued to the world we shall perish with the world; if our desires and delights look that way, and if we find our comfort in it, we shall have to see our all consumed, and shall be ourselves consumed with it in the day of the Lord’s anger. Remember Lot's wife, when any question of duty is pressed upon you. IV. 7. So it is expressly said. Date written: November 4th, 2006Scripture ref: Luke 17:28-32. Remember Lot’s wife! 5) Was she looking back to her sons-in-law? For this end of old he set apart for himself a chosen family with whom he had fellowship. J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than this. Job 9:33. 2. Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it” (Lk. She bad led her husband and her children away from the peculiar people of God, for she felt that she would rather mix with the reprobate multitude than with the chosen few. Lot, although he dwelt in Sodom was not happy there, neither did he become so corrupt as to take pleasure in the wickedness of the people. The name of Abraham’s wife is given, but of Lot’s wife there is no mention whatever. 3, the Lot line, the result will be a poor affair— that is Lot’s wife. Sodom’s walls without God are far less safe than a frail tent when God is a wall of fire around it.” His vexation with the conversation of the lewd townsmen ought to 2) He uses the example of Noah and the destruction of the ancient world. It was Abraham’s desire for Isaac, and he charged his steward to carry it out, saying, “And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the whole earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.” This also was Isaac’s desire for Jacob, for we read, “And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. In Luke 17, verses 22-37, Jesus discusses the destruction of Jerusalem. 42:22. or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”. 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