WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM AND GOMORAH?

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WHY DID GOD DESTROY SODOM AND GOMORAH?

• GENESIS 18-19

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Lot's situation

• Greed
• Pitched his tent toward Sodom
• Dwelt in Sodom
• None of these were wrong in themselves

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Sat in the gates of Sodom

• 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
  to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making
  them an example of what is going to happen to the
  ungodly 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot,
  greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the
  wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among
  them day after day, he was tormenting his
  righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he
  saw and heard) 9 then the Lord knows how to
  rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the
  unrighteous under punishment until the day of
  judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge in
  the lust of defiling passion and despise
  authority. 2 Peter 26-10
  ESV

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Lot tried to have the best of both worlds

• He lost both worlds
• Peace with Man
• Peace with God

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I. Lot's terrible condition

• Living in Sodom
• Sodom had become openly homosexual

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What does God say about Sodomy

• Then the Lord said, Because the outcry against
  Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very
  grave, Genesis 1820 ESV

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Romans 121-27

• Progression
• Rejected God
• Began to worship idols
• God gave them up to their unnatural lusts
• Receiving the end result of judgment

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Romans 127 (NIV)

• In the same way the men also abandoned natural
  relations with women and were inflamed with lust
  for one another. Men committed indecent acts with
  other men, and received in themselves the due
  penalty for their perversion.

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Leviticus 1822-24 ESV

• 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a
  woman it is an abomination. 23 And you shall not
  lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean
  with it, neither shall any woman give herself to
  an animal to lie with it it is perversion. 24
  Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these
  things, for by all these the nations I am driving
  out before you have become unclean,

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Leviticus 2013 ESV

• If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both
  of them have committed an abomination they shall
  surely be put to death their blood is upon them.

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Is there a cure?
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1 Corinthians 69-11 NLT

• 9 Dont you realize that those who do wrong will
  not inherit the Kingdom of God? Dont fool
  yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or
  who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are
  male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10
  or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards,
  or are abusive, or cheat peoplenone of these
  will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you
  were once like that. But you were cleansed you
  were made holy you were made right with God by
  calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and
  by the Spirit of our God.

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God wants to save all

• Will you set yourself up as better? Only in
  Christ are you pure.
• Why Did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah
• Sin had reached a high INTENSITY
• There were not 10 righteous

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When a person gets entrenched in sin, it will
destroy them.

• Except in Jesus Christ, people self destruct
• Sin is like an auto immune disease
• Hard to turn from our sin

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• In times like these you need a Savior,In times
  like these you need an anchorBe very sure, be
  very sureYour anchor holds and grips the Solid
  Rock!

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• This Rock is Jesus, Yes, He's the OneThis Rock
  is Jesus, The only One!Be very sure, be very
  sure, Your anchor holds and
  grips the Solid Rock.

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• In times like these you need the Bible,In times
  like these O be not idleBe very sure, be very
  sureYour anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• This Rock is Jesus, Yes, He's the OneThis Rock
  is Jesus, The only One!Be very sure, be very
  sure, Your anchor holds and
  grips the Solid Rock.

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• In times like these I have a Savior,In times
  like these I have an anchorI'm very sure, I'm
  very sureMy anchor holds and grips the Solid
  Rock!

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IN TIMES LIKE THSE, YOU NEED A SAVIOR

• This Rock is Jesus, Yes, He's the OneThis Rock
  is Jesus, The only One!I'm very sure, I'm very
  sure, My anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock.

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