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CHRIST CONDESCENDS
HE CAME SUDDENLY
GENESIS 18:
ABRAHAM’S STATE
ABRAHAM’S SALUTATION
CHRIST CONVERSES ABOUT . . .
GRACE
GRACE IS SEEN IN . . .
CHRIST PARTAKING OF MEAL
The meal with Abraham was an exercise of spiritual intimacy.
To dine with Yahweh at the table was and is the ultimate honor any mortal could have in this world.
the covenantal function of this meal was to restate the promise of a son through Sarah.
What better way could there be than the familial intimacy of a meal to communicate the close relationship on which the promise was based.
Later the same day, when the two angels departed for Sodom, the Lord stayed behind with Abraham, and they talked face to face as the Lord explained what was to follow (cf.
vv.
16–33).
Such intimacy!
Significantly, Abraham received the title “friend of God” (; cf. ; ).
A friend is someone to whom you open your heart.
A friend is someone you understand and who understands you.
Abraham and God were friends.
We should note that four hundred years later the Lord held a covenantal meal with the family of Abraham on the eve of the fulfillment of the covenant of the Law (cf. ).
We should note even more that the new covenant was celebrated with a covenantal meal when Jesus took the cup and said, “This cup … is the new covenant in my blood” ().
Hughes, R. K. (2004).
Genesis: beginning and blessing (p.
254).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
Hughes, R. K. (2004).
Genesis: beginning and blessing (p.
255).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
Hughes, R. K. (2004).
Genesis: beginning and blessing (p.
255).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
CHRIST COVENANT PROMISE
The Lord reassures Abraham of his covenant.
If you still don’t believe this is Jesus notice that Sarah is behind the Lord when she laughs to herself and the Lord asks Abraham why did Sarah laugh to herself.
Why does the Lord wait to fulfill his promise?
He waits in order to shape our faith us to do His will.
There is one more portrait of grace.
Notice that the Lord doesn’t set Sarah on the sideline for her sin of unbelief.
Instead, he purposes to work in-spite of her sin.
God’s sovereign purposes will be accomplished whether willingly such as Mary’s virgin birth or in-spite of in the case of Sarah.
GUILT
THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH HAS COME TO CONDEMN
THE CAUSE OF CONDEMNATION
EZEKIEL 16:49-50
THE LORD IS NOT CAPRICIOUS IN HIS CONDEMNING
ABRAHAM PLEADS FOR THE GUILTY WITH GRACE
Those who have experienced grace meditate grace not justice for the guilty.
This story teaches us that the Lord is not in a hurry to destroy cities and people because even just a few righteous people can make a difference in a city.
SODOM: A PLACE OF RECOMPENSE AND RESCUE
Sodom receives it recompense because their are no righteous people are found except for Lot.
Wickedness had permeated this city from the oldest to the youngest according to .
In the midst of their wickedness there was still an opportunity of grace.
However, those blinded by sin see deliverance from God’s wrath as a silly bed time story or a religious joke not worthy of consideration.
Lot receives the rescue he needs.
Listen to Peter’s commentary on Lot and his Sodom experience.
Notice that Peter called Lot “righteous” three times so that his readers could not miss it.
He also described Lot as “distressed”—literally, “worn down” by the filthy lives of the Sodomites—and tormented or continually tortured (imperfect tense) in his “righteous soul.”
Notice that Peter called Lot “righteous” three times so that his readers could not miss it.
He also described Lot as “distressed”—literally, “worn down” by the filthy lives of the Sodomites—and tormented or continually tortured (imperfect tense) in his “righteous soul.”
Obviously righteous does not mean perfect!
We must understand that Lot was righteous in a way comparable to that of Noah and Abraham.
Scripture affirms that Noah’s righteousness had come by faith: “By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith” ().
And the Scripture says of Abraham, “And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness” ().
Yet both these men were flawed, as Noah’s drunkenness and Abraham’s expediency with Hagar and later with Abimelech demonstrate.
Therefore we must understand that Lot was a believer, though a man of far less character and commitment than Noah and Abraham.
Lot had chosen for himself the well-watered plain of the Jordan.
He was attracted to the glitz and materialism of Sodom.
Even after Abraham delivered him and his fellow Sodomites from the kings of the east, Lot returned to Sodom to ultimately sit in its gates.
Clearly Sodom had gotten inside of him.
It is probable (though not provable) that he married a Sodomite woman.
His daughters were betrothed to pagan Sodomites .
Later, while in a drunken stupor in a mountain cave, Lot would fall to Sodom-like sin.
In a word, Lot was a conflicted soul, at the same time both offended and allured by Sodom.
He liked the prosperity, the comforts, the “culture,” and the prestige.
But he was worn down by the filthy lives of lawless men and perpetually tortured in his righteous soul by the deeds he saw and heard.
As such, he is the prototype and paradigm of so many believers today.
He is not a caricature, a joke written on the pages of antiquity.
Lot is for real and he needs to be rescued.
Lot is tortured by Sodom in s spiritual sense and yet Sodom’s tentacles have to some degree dug themselves into his soul.
We see times, in this short story, were he acts godly and godless.
He warns others to get out and yet in he lingers and has to be seized and removed by the two angels.
How grateful we should be as we consider those times when our gracious Lord has delivered by force from Sodom’s satisfactions.
Notice how Scripture describes this action, “the Lord being merciful to him”.
The Lord rescues Lot because he never gives up on his own.
The Lord rescues Lot because He never deviates from His plan.
This Salty Story ends in a salty way.
Lot’s story concludes in unusual and unflattering way.
Righteous Lot last Scriptural appearance seems to conflict his title.
This is a dark picture.
Why would Scripture leave us with such a picture of a man who was called righteous?
Hughes, R. K. (2004).
Genesis: beginning and blessing (pp.
271–272).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.
and one that shows that Lot did not finish well as far as the Biblical record tell us.
However, Lot will be among the many in Heaven not because of works he had done but his faith in work of the one that was to come.
Lot is not an example of righteous living but how we are saved by an alien righteousness.
Lot life serves to remind us that there is a way out of every Sodom like temptation.
Lot’s life serves to remind us that the Great Shepherd will rescue his wandering sheep from nastiest pig pen.
There are several reasons of which I will address in a moment.
First let me part the clouds of this dark picture to show you God’s providence.
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