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When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, \u201cArise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Genesis 19:15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
God sent two angels to Sodom to inspect the city and to remove Abraham\u2019s nephew Lot and his family before the Lord\u2019s judgment came.<\/p>\n
One significant reason the judgment of God was coming against Sodom and Gomorrah was because of their depraved sexual immorality, which included homosexuality (Genesis 19:4-5). In Ezekiel 16, God later condemned and rebuked the great sin of Judah in the latter days of the divided monarchy. God compared Jerusalem to the ancient city of Sodom, saying they were like sisters.<\/p>\n
Ezekiel 16:48-50 describes some of those shared sins: pride, idleness, and injustice to the poor. Yet, those were not the\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0sins of Sodom that made them targets of judgment. Instead, those were the sins of Sodom also shared by her later \u201csister\u201d Jerusalem. The Genesis text makes it plain that God was also grieved by their sexual violence and immorality, which is included Ezekiel\u2019s list of sins under the words\u00a0committed abomination<\/em>(Ezekiel 16:50). In addition, Jude 1:7 clearly states that sexual immorality was one of the sins God noted at Sodom and Gomorrah, connected to going \u201cafter strange flesh.\u201d The open and approved practice of homosexuality was one of the many sins of Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbor cities.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0morning dawned<\/strong>\u00a0on the day judgment would come, and the angels had to beg Lot and his family to leave the soon to be destroyed city. The only ones to escape would be Lot, his\u00a0wife<\/strong>, and his\u00a0two daughters<\/strong>. Lot\u2019s sons-in-law would be left behind as\u00a0the angels urged Lot<\/strong>\u00a0to escape the coming destruction and judgment<\/p>\n
In how they urged Lot, these angels may serve as a pattern of evangelism.<\/p>\n
The angels went after Lot, going to him and his house<\/em>. Believers might wish that sinners would come to them, and some will. But Jesus didn\u2019t say, \u201cSit back in church and let sinners come to you.\u201d Jesus told His disciples to go out to all nations, preaching the gospel and making disciples (Matthew 28:18-20).<\/p>\n
The angels warned Lot of what was going to happen, and in plain words<\/em>. Today, it\u2019s common to mock the \u201chellfire and damnation preacher,\u201d but there is an appropriate place to warn others of God\u2019s coming wrath (Colossians 3:6). Evangelism can and should include warning.<\/p>\n
The angels\u00a0urged Lot<\/strong>, urging him to flee destruction<\/em>. The angels didn\u2019t make a lifeless appeal, saying \u201cCome or don\u2019t come, we really don\u2019t care.\u201d With great passion and urgency, they did all they could to persuade Lot and his family. Our evangelism should have a note of urgency and passion, working hard to persuade others for Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:11).<\/p>\n
Dear believer, let these three things mark your sharing of the gospel. When you find evangelists who do these things, support and encourage them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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