Matt Norton – Class 5: The Life of Lot – Honesty

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Well, good morning everyone.
How are you?

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Anybody heard the saying get
real?

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Yeah.
What’s it mean?

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What’s mean, get real?
Big fun.

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Exactly.
A snap out of it.

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Like, come on.
Let’s have a look at John

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chapter 8, on show you
something. you know, some people

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that always in a daze, you say
to them, when they say

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something, That’s unusually
uncharacteristically.

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Correct.
They are thanks for visiting

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reality.
Please come again.

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See the Lord’s talking to the
Pharisees here, and he’s having

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a bit of a conversation with
them, and they’re getting pretty

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upset, because whose seed were,
they, whose descendants were

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they?
The scribes and the Pharisees

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who were they related to, which
they were so proud of Abraham.

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But we’ve been looking at what
it means to be a true child of

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Abraham if you’re really related
to Abraham, if you’re really

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related to him, what type of
person will you be The faithful

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yo starts with H.
Yeah, honestly.

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Yeah.
It’s go out and buy a Hebrew.

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Yeah, honest.
Good one trick question.

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You’ll be a Hebrew was a Hebrew
do.

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You know, one New Zealand joke
is here, the New Zealand joke,

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you know how new zealanders talk
like this.

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They don’t have any, they don’t
have any vows.

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What did new zealanders say?
What did one Jew say to the

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other Jew Hebrew?
I’ve heard that one before.

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You have her that Okay, I’ll
explain to you later for those

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laughing out of politeness.
So what Hebrews do?

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Real Hebrews.
They sojourn.

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And what else did I do, they
resist something.

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What do they resist and
withstand?

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Yeah, but particularly you guys
been asleep or something?

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What are they really stand
against?

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Yeah, lover of silver.
But there was something that

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Abraham had to withstand, we
looked at when K Dalai Lama from

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Babylon came down.
Remember they had to withstand

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the city building.
Yeah, they remember me saying

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that?
I mean I might have been asleep.

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May have dreamt.
I said it to you, but I can

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remember.
I think saying that this member

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of Shem, the name and the sons
of Heba and Abraham was a

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descendant, and because he was a
Hebrew, he withstood the

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building of the city brothers
sisters.

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Sorry, I’m still in Do you guys
live in the city?

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And I’m speaking metaphorically.
Or a deer live in tents.

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Are you a pilgrim, is your
status, a dweller in the land

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who’s looking for a city that’s
to come the kingdom, whose

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Builder and maker is God or you
helping to build the city, its

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sins City?
It’s the city of Babylon.

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It is serving the flesh serving
sin doing whatever you want.

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That’s what it means to live in
the city so where do you guys

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live?
You have to ask yourself this

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question, where do you live?
You live in the city or you live

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in a tent.
So Christ says, here in this

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verse, look at this.
Jesus says to them in verse 31

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says, if you abide in my word
you are truly my disciples. and

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then he says, in verse 32, you
will know the truth.

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And the truth will set you free
young people.

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If I said to you if you tell the
truth will set you free You

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might think, like, the Pharisees
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What is he talking to me about
the truth?

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I setting me free.
I am free.

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I’ve never been in bondage to
any man.

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But, you know, they were in
bondage.

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They were captives, what were
the Pharisees?

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And the scribes captive too.
To sin to their own egos to

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their own reputations to what
their little neighbors.

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Thought, look what he’s doing
over there and I know I’m not

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doing this.
Trying to keep up appearances,

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they were captive to all these
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And Christ was telling them, but
if you tell the truth will set

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you free.
That might they might mean guys

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if you tell the truth you might
have to find yourself.

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Another set of friends at
school.

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That might be if you’re out
working, if you tell the truth,

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you may not be accepted at your
workplace and you might have to

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find another occupation.
You know, I used to go to this

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to school with this guy in
primary school is quite a good

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lad, we’re good mates.
And as I said this is not a

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story about me in some secret
self revelatory way.

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Okay?
This is just not an anecdote is

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actually what happened to our
guys to go to school with.

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Hit High School.
You 78 started hanging out with

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the dragos.
Going to parties and smoking

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stuff that he shouldn’t smoke.
And all these grades started

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falling, he’s a smart guy, he’s
intelligent and up until this

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time he was doing great.
But then he started to slide,

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man, it was cascading out of
control and his parents took him

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aside.
And told him, man, you’re going

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nowhere fast, son.
You’ve got a, you’ve got to pull

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your socks up.
You’ve got to change.

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You got to get out of this crowd
and he said, but Mom, Dad my

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friends.
I can’t get out of there.

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I love them.
They accept me.

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And they said, you’ve got to do
something about it.

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So you know what he decided to
do?

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Said, true, mum and dad were
right?

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He didn’t like to admit it,
because it was fun, you know?

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So he stopped smoking do.
So I’m not going to smoke it

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anymore and okay, I guess I’ll
just go.

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I’ll go the parties but I’ll be
the designated driver.

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I’ll drink lemonade.
I’m not going to just get wasted

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all the time.
That’s what he said.

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And he’s my started noticing and
I started feeling every time.

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I what’s wrong with you and he
said, man, like, you guys are

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going nowhere.
You got to stop smoking.

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For you and look, I’m not going
to drink anymore, but I still

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want to hang around you.
They said not hang around us.

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You’re not hanging around us.
Go find someone else to hang on.

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Go hang around the nerdy guys
over there.

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We don’t want you hanging around
ass and they rejected him from

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the group.
The truth will set you free,

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young people.
And what we want to look at this

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morning in brevity is while I
believe Abraham.

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Lots biggest problem is now what
was the second biggest problem?

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Just so we get a bit of context.
You remember what lot second,

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biggest problem was anyone,
somebody yes, and the word we

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had for it for greediness Carver
to – covetousness.

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Yeah, lover of silver.
Exactly, I’ll pay that one.

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That’s a good one.
If I had a lot of you have the

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lawyer, but I don’t.
So he’s covered.

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Its that’s the second.
Biggest problem is right up

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there, he’ll of the money, but
his biggest problem, I believe

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is in connection with his name.
Have a look at this.

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Lots, biggest problem.
His name means a veil to cover.

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Has anybody seen the veil before
who’s ever worn Avail?

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What do you wear a veil for?
Can I get married?

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Yep.
Anything else?

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If I’ve got a piece of
furniture, I don’t want the kids

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to I’m sit on and I put a sheet
over and I Vale it.

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What’s that do?
Hides it.

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Have you ever seen look, but
whatever.

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The thing was that veil was over
her.

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She was hiding from view, she
didn’t want me to see her.

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Or anybody else for that matter?
Now what was a lot Heidi and I’m

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suggesting that Lots name is
Veil actually becomes a

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representation.
Illustration of what is real

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problem.
Was He’s hiding something.

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What do you reckon?
He’s hiding guys.

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I’ll take a wild stab at it.
No, no.

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Yes.
I reckon he was hiding these

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things.
I reckon he was hiding the fact

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that he was a Hebrew related to
Abraham in Covenant relationship

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with Abraham that he come out of
Earth with a group of people

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that saw an angel or that the
whose head saw an angel and said

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come out and they’re going to
give us a land which was

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revealed to us to be this
particular land here and that I

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love God and that I want to
stand up for righteousness and

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that I really want the kingdom
to come.

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And the biggest thing that he
did was that he thought all the

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men of Sodom and the inhabitants
of Sodom were Wicked.

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And I believe, he had that he
never told anybody who you might

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think you’re being a bit hard
on.

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Poor old lat.
Can you substantiate this?

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Can is this a supposition that
we can actually maintain or

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validate about Lots life?
Now is it?

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Let’s have a look.
I want you first to come with me

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to our second Peter chapter.
After two, we’re going to go

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through a few quotes today,
probably, and I can guarantee it

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right now.
We’re not going to turn them all

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up because it’s so second, Peter
chapter 2.

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Look at this.
I’ll put it up here so you can

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see it too.
Look at this verse five, it

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speaks about Noah.
It says he did not spare the

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ancient world but preserved.
Noah a Herald of righteousness

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and verse 8.
So verse 5 verse 8 lot for as

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that righteous man lived among
them day.

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After day, he was tormenting his
righteous Soul over their

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Lawless Deeds that he saw and
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So in lot and Noah in the Bible
are more than one occasion

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paired together now.
Think about it.

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Is there a difference between
these two men?

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Both are living at the end of a
time?

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Period end of an age.
What’s the difference in those

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verses there which you may have
never picked up and have read

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all your life is a big contrast.
What is it?

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Can you see that from those
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There’s anything about
conformity.

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And I’m not saying you’re wrong
but what are those verses teach

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us?
Yeah, right on the money right

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there.
High-five, long distance for

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that one.
Thank you.

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This is good.
Because what’s happening is

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this, everybody knew what Noah
thought, everyone, you guys are

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all Noah’s Ark Leisure rather no
is going to exhort to us today.

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Every time he went to his filing
cabinet.

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What manila folder?
Would he go to the one that?

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With f8, pull out the file, the
excitation on flood and he’d

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stand up in brothers and sisters
God’s going to judge this evil

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World by great catastrophe.
By a flood is going to come on

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Old.
Sweep it all away wash it away.

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I was like yeah yeah yeah.
We’ve heard it all before.

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Not one person was ignorant
about what Noah thought they all

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knew that he’s talking about
this great flood and that the

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world around is the terrible
plays he bangs on about it all

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the time.
He was a Harold but a lot was

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different.
Seems that lot was discreet and

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I believe he was veiled and kept
it.

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All in word, he was suffering,
deep mental affliction, in fact,

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as Noah was out there,
tormenting all these righteous

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Souls everybody at listen to him
was tormented by his words, The

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only soul in the whole city of
Sodom and Gomorrah and all the

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cities of the plain that was
tormented was lat.

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He tormented his own soul.
It was low key and low profile

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ever heard those terms before.
Don’t want to create too much of

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a ripple.
You ever have you ever have you

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ever hit hands up anybody?
When they’re with a bunch of

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friends?
Non-Christian friends, have they

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ever bumped into another crystal
dolphin?

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Has ever happened to you?
Happened to me at work, right?

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It’s Chris delphian walk through
the door and I was surrounded by

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a couple of colleagues few years
ago and straight away with eye

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contact, you know, each other
and they all know, you know,

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each other’s like High game at
how you going and the

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secretary’s like are you guys
know each other?

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Do you and he fobs it off, I go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know each

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other tries to get around it
real quick.

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So she asked how do you know
each other and you’re about to

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say we’re christadelphians and
we go To the same Ecclesia.

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Well that’s what I hope I’m
about to say.

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And he interrupts and says,
don’t worry about it.

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You wouldn’t want to know.
Anyway, it’s a long story and

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the veil.
And you know what I like about

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that.
We think watch dramatic, Lots

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doing a lot to hide everything,
it’s so trivial.

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It’s also common place in our
life, isn’t it?

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Just to hide what we really
think and hide the truth and not

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say what it is.
We believe that I’m going to

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church or going to our Ecclesia
or I’m a The delphian.

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And this was lots problem, this
is his biggest problem.

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This is why his whole life was
like it was he was captive

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captivated by sin and captured
in Sodom and he couldn’t get out

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and all he had to do to get out
with start telling the truth.

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I hate the place actually.
You guys are a bunch of wicked

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good-for-nothing.
People, filthy no-good dirty

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lowdown hobos out.
He would have went the truth

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would have set him free.
It’s true.

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Not that I’m suggesting you
should say that to your mates at

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school, but I’m just saying if
you come clean and you say, I

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don’t want to involve myself at
an art, you know, they tell

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dirty jokes.
What do you do?

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Laugh, your head off or just
sort of calmly walk away.

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What’s wrong with you?
How come you’re not listening.

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Hey, give me that one.
Here this go on.

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You always want to laugh at
this.

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I want to laugh at it.
And people said it to me before

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you don’t want to hear the jokes
because you can laugh.

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And I’ll say this, exactly
right.

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And I would laugh, if I heard
the joke, and I don’t want to

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hear it because I don’t want to
laugh, and I don’t want to

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engage in that sort of behavior,
and it takes takes a lot

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because, you know, it’s like be
funny, wouldn’t it to hear it?

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But lat he did all of that.
Hey Lots, he said a business

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function, he’s out of business
function there and he’s whole

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family’s there and the the
president might say yeah a lot I

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was trying to get you here today
on Sunday but you seemed a

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little bit reluctant how come
you didn’t want to come out

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today and he might have been a
shaking about to say it’s

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because I wanted to go to the
wife, kicked him under the

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table.
She looks at him like daggers

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mention that we’re
christadelphians and they’ve

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already had this discussion.
Don’t talk about the Bible and

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Rouse.
It’s embarrassing.

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And lots veiled and hidden.
Yeah, that’s pretty sad in them.

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So we’ll go through this.
Look at these.

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So, Abraham and lot, I’ll tell
you the story and I’ll put them

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up here so, you know, in Genesis
chapter 19.

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Okay.
In Genesis chapter 19, When the

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Angels come to lot.
And there in his house and the

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men of the city besieged, the
city, and they saying, open the

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door light, bring them out.
We want them lot opens.

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The door comes out, and he says,
and this is the first recorded

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words of lat.
What does he say, guys?

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Can anybody tell me what he
says?

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That you guys over here.
What’s a lot say?

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You know what?
He says, he says, don’t do so

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wickedly, you’re Wicked.
What you thinking of is wicked?

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What you’re going to do?
Is wicked your wicked and they

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like all these body blows,
they’re shocked, they look

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around.
Did I just hear what did he say?

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What I think is right and I
start to March for and Converge

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on him and we’ll see you
tomorrow that they actually

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grabbed hold of him is to add a
beaten into him.

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They’d never heard lot talk like
this before.

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Wicked, you think you’re what
you come in here like in your

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little tiny little, flimsy
little tent.

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We give you a room to stay in a
house and you’re making all this

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money and now you’re sitting in
the gate.

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You think you’re going to judge
us?

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I suggest to you that Lots never
spoken like this before.

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I suggest to you, that they’ve
never heard what lot really

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thinks.
This is what he’s in his heart.

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He, he was sitting there in the
gate flicked it Italy, with all

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the things he saw and did, as he
walked down towards the gate

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from home every single day.
He’d see these.

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These filthy people walking past
him everywhere and it was

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discussing.
Maybe you want to vomit.

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Don’t touch me.
And people know what’s wrong

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with you lied.
Like you got some problems and

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finally comes out and says
you’re Wicked and they go.

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I’ve never heard him talk like
this before.

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And in fact, how do we know in
the record before this account?

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That the men of the city of
Sodom were Wicked.

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Where’s the record that says
what God thinks that they’re

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Wicked.
Does anybody remember that

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little chapter and verse?
This is telling this is really

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telling.
I’ll give it to you.

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It’s in Chapter 13 after after
Abraham and lot separate and lot

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goes down to the plain of Sodom,
right?

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He goes down there and it says
but the men of Sodom were Wicked

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Sinners before God.
So God’s estimation is your

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wicked and lot through chapter.
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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sixteen Seventeen, eighteen
hasn’t said a word, And finally,

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he comes out and says, yeah, I
agree with God.

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I’m a servant of his and I think
are all Wicked and finally

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gotten a lot.
It on the same page.

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Again, it’s as if Abraham and
lot an hour speaking.

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The same language once more.
Can you understand that God is

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you see what’s going on?
And they grabbed him to do and

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they start to go for him.
Do you think they would have

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ever let him into the city?
If you had marched in there?

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Proclaiming your wicked all
alone.

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Business with any of you filthy
perverted disgusting, what do

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you think would have happened?
A lot of he had to come into

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Sodom saying stuff like that.
Do you think it would have been

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out here?
Have this house?

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You can settle here next to us.
Come on.

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They would have went straight
out the door with him, his wife

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and his family.
You guys feel like that’s us

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sometimes like I’m here doing
this talk and I’m thinking

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they’re do these kids all think
that.

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I always stand up for the truth,
all the time and that everybody

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I’ve ever come into contact
knows that I’m a

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christadelphians.
So I know brothers and sisters

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like that practically everybody
in their life, knows their a

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christadelphians.
I’ve got some space to make up.

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In my life and when I read the
life of lot of things, how much

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is that like me?
Do you guys feel like that?

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Sometimes, this is where we got
to change. 2010, Shippensburg,

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you guys have got to change.
I’ve got to change.

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We’ve got to change the way we
think with unveil ourselves, and

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come clean and say, this is what
I think.

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I really think that I don’t
agree.

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I’m not going there.
I’m going to do this.

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I’m going to make new friends.
You might have to make new

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friends.
And there’s poor old.

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Lot Sodom was shocked.
What about this one?

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Genesis 18.
You know what God says?

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About Abraham God says about
Abraham.

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I know that he will teach his
children.

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The truth.
I know that he’ll take his kids

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to Sunday school and you’ll say,
the prayers with his kids at

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night time, can anybody show me
a chapter and verse where it

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says that about lot, that he’s
going to teach his family, the

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truth.
It’s sad, isn’t it?

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He didn’t teach his wife, the
truth, and he’s short in teach

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his children, the truth.
And if he did, we wouldn’t know

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by their own actions, and we
certainly don’t know through

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scripture.
So, we’re led to read and led to

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believe that lot could not be
afforded that saying, praise

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that God gives to Abraham.
Now that’s frightening if an

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angel stood here would be he be
able to look at you and say,

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listen, I can tell that you tell
your friends about the truth.

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And I know that you everyone
knows you’re a christadelphians

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and you stand up for what’s
right?

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At least your friends know what
you really feel about God.

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We’re names will be able to say
that about me and what about

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Abraham?
A sorry lot in this Cajun.

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So the man of the men, the
angels are with lot in his

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living room and they say now
lot, we’ve got to go stop

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lingering.
Hey, is there anybody else in

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the city Sola traces out into
the darkness and he knocks on

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the door of his sons-in-law
house and he gets them out of

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bed and they go Who’s that Dad?
What are you doing here?

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And he stressed and he said we
got to get out of here.

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We got to go because God’s going
to blow the place up.

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Hold on.
What God’s gonna blow the place

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up.
Everyone in this city is wicked

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and times come and he’s going to
sweep it away.

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They go.
Hold on.

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Hold on.
They’re looking for the camera.

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You gotta catch me out here and
they start laughing.

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That’d kill.
Why, what are you talking about?

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And lots getting really worked
up, but they’ve never seen him

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worked up like this in their
life.

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And I think he’s actually
mocking, he’s having a great.

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Big joke was a gag dad.
I mean sighs, it’s 3:00 in the

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morning but straw is pretty
funny one.

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I gotta go back to bed and then
he starts getting really worked

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up nothing.
Maybe he’s having a heart

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attack, go home and take your
pills.

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Will you just settle down God’s
going to wipe this place?

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Come on dad.
Every decision you have ever

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made.
And any indication you’ve ever

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given us is that you only agree
with their life here in Sodom

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our business.
Is he talking about?

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Come on and they think he’s
mocking Can you imagine how

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serious lot would be?
And yet they think he’s making a

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great big J.
In fact, you ever asked yourself

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how come lot didn’t tell them?
Listen, you guys, I got a pair

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of Angel standing in my living
room and they’ve already

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performed a miracle.
Right now.

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Come back and check.
Well, they he would have said

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that for, that would have only
made the situation worse that

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they would have laughed, their
heads of teaching here.

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That dad says, he’s got a couple
of angels sitting on the lounge,

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having tea and coffee back at
his place and they’ve smitten

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everybody with blindness.
I’ll look just go to bed.

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Shut the door on him and they go
back to bed.

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Lots.
Got to go home empty-handed.

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If you told any of your friends
that Russia is going to come

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down, Christ is going to return.
There’s going to be a kingdom on

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Earth.
Would they laugh you to scorn

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but would they say, look, you
keep saying this?

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But would you just shut up
because I don’t want to hear it

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anymore?
What would they say?

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Would I be shocked and just
laugh at your think?

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You’re joking?
Or would they really think?

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Yeah, I know that’s what you
think.

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But see, they don’t appear to
have a clue that lot feels this

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way.
Yeah, that’s frightening thing.

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And lot.
Also, unlike Abraham in chapter

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17 was not circumcised Abraham,
received circumcision.

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If you are amongst the tents of
Abraham, tell me guys, what

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would happen if you weren’t
circumcised.

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You had to leave, you are cut
off from the tents of Abraham.

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You weren’t allowed to live with
Abraham and his family hands up.

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If anybody knows how many people
in Sodom were circumcised, there

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weren’t any lot missed out on
the Covenant, the sign of the

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Covenant, at least it’s pretty
sad.

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00:26:11,500 –> 00:26:16,200
These two here, I like this.
See, in Genesis 14 verse 14.

434
00:26:16,500 –> 00:26:20,200
We’re told we’ve looked at this
how Abraham had trained

435
00:26:20,200 –> 00:26:23,400
servants, who are born in his
house and evidently.

436
00:26:23,400 –> 00:26:25,600
That must mean that he taught
them the truth.

437
00:26:27,500 –> 00:26:30,900
Tell me anywhere where it says
that a that lot rather taught

438
00:26:30,900 –> 00:26:32,200
his Ecclesia.
The truth.

439
00:26:33,400 –> 00:26:35,700
Show me anywhere where it says
lot converted.

440
00:26:35,700 –> 00:26:39,700
Anybody we know Abraham
converted Aina.

441
00:26:39,900 –> 00:26:42,900
Eshkol.
And memory people who were made

442
00:26:42,900 –> 00:26:45,300
who had made a covenant with
Abraham who lived with him on

443
00:26:45,300 –> 00:26:47,700
the basis of fellowship and
worshipping the same.

444
00:26:47,700 –> 00:26:51,800
God life hadn’t done any of
those things, what hadn’t

445
00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:55,500
converted a soul.
Lot hadn’t, preach the truth, to

446
00:26:55,500 –> 00:27:00,300
his Shepherds and to his
herdsmen, or to his wife, and

447
00:27:00,300 –> 00:27:04,400
his children.
At least, as far as the

448
00:27:04,400 –> 00:27:09,600
scriptural record goes Abraham
did this and lot didn’t.

449
00:27:10,700 –> 00:27:12,800
And we find that light built
altars are sorry.

450
00:27:12,800 –> 00:27:16,800
Abraham Abraham built altars all
the way through the land and so

451
00:27:16,800 –> 00:27:18,400
peers are the come and see an
older and go.

452
00:27:18,400 –> 00:27:22,000
Wow, look at that.
We worship the same got, no, we

453
00:27:22,000 –> 00:27:25,600
don’t, Abraham would say.
That’s your God, this is our

454
00:27:25,600 –> 00:27:27,500
God.
Can anybody show me where lot

455
00:27:27,500 –> 00:27:31,600
built an older just one.
It doesn’t build any Alters.

456
00:27:32,000 –> 00:27:34,400
It’s like a big preaching
campaign, people walk past and

457
00:27:34,408 –> 00:27:37,600
go look at Matt look at the pile
of Rock.

458
00:27:38,700 –> 00:27:41,900
Who put that there and Abraham
and step out and go.

459
00:27:42,100 –> 00:27:43,800
I’m, I want to tell you about
the truth.

460
00:27:44,900 –> 00:27:49,300
And find an opportunity to
preach like was never standing

461
00:27:49,300 –> 00:27:51,600
beside adulterer, worshiping
God.

462
00:27:52,500 –> 00:27:57,500
That’s a sad thing.
What wasn’t known for the truth,

463
00:27:57,900 –> 00:28:04,000
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were
all known for living the truth.

464
00:28:04,300 –> 00:28:09,300
They were all known to have had
the god of the Hebrews with

465
00:28:09,300 –> 00:28:12,400
them.
Not one person ever says, a lot

466
00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:14,100
lot.
I know.

467
00:28:14,100 –> 00:28:15,800
God is with you.
I know.

468
00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:18,200
God is with you.
Not one.

469
00:28:19,800 –> 00:28:24,300
In fact, I think so in Sodom
everyday, be rather king would

470
00:28:24,300 –> 00:28:26,900
have come up to lot.
And said, Don’t You Worry Lottie

471
00:28:26,900 –> 00:28:29,900
baby?
I’m with you in all that.

472
00:28:29,900 –> 00:28:32,300
You do all the time.
I’m with you.

473
00:28:33,400 –> 00:28:36,800
You know, there was a brother
who actually are, you died in

474
00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:38,700
Australia?
This is a true story.

475
00:28:39,100 –> 00:28:42,000
The funeral was on and a few of
his work colleagues came and

476
00:28:42,000 –> 00:28:45,000
they sat lately at the back of
the hall and the brother at the

477
00:28:45,000 –> 00:28:47,800
front was eulogizing him saying
he’s a wonderful husband or

478
00:28:48,100 –> 00:28:51,500
brother in the truth.
A brother who always stood up

479
00:28:51,500 –> 00:28:54,500
for what was right many years of
service to God.

480
00:28:56,000 –> 00:28:57,700
And these guys have down the
back laughing.

481
00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:03,300
People tell them to shut up.
And after the service, people

482
00:29:03,300 –> 00:29:05,200
went up and said, well, who are
you guys?

483
00:29:05,200 –> 00:29:08,900
And I said, we work with him, we
worked with him, we worked with

484
00:29:08,900 –> 00:29:12,200
him for 10 years.
We didn’t know he was religious.

485
00:29:12,800 –> 00:29:17,600
He used to laugh at jokes that
were inappropriate dirty jokes.

486
00:29:18,300 –> 00:29:21,200
Who’s the laugh at jokes?
About the missus and look at

487
00:29:21,200 –> 00:29:23,800
girls and drink with us at the
pub.

488
00:29:23,900 –> 00:29:25,400
We didn’t even know.
He was religious, man.

489
00:29:25,400 –> 00:29:28,600
What are you talking about?
Nothing.

490
00:29:28,600 –> 00:29:30,900
Where’s that guy wears?
That brother going to be in 50

491
00:29:30,900 –> 00:29:33,500
years and I’m not going to judge
him, but I’m just saying, is

492
00:29:33,500 –> 00:29:35,500
that what your friends would say
about you?

493
00:29:35,800 –> 00:29:40,600
I didn’t even know that you were
religious Do you preach the

494
00:29:40,600 –> 00:29:42,500
truth?
How many times have you had an

495
00:29:42,500 –> 00:29:44,700
opportunity to preach the truth?
I remember, once I was

496
00:29:44,700 –> 00:29:49,100
delivering to a news agency and
I remember this with shame years

497
00:29:49,100 –> 00:29:51,300
ago, I thought I was never going
to happen again and I’ve been

498
00:29:51,300 –> 00:29:54,300
praying because the Ecclesia was
really excited about preaching.

499
00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:58,000
So I’m just, I delivered, I was
just about to get the check off

500
00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:00,000
the lady, who owned the news
agency.

501
00:30:00,000 –> 00:30:02,300
And she said, look at the
today’s headlines.

502
00:30:02,600 –> 00:30:04,800
Look at all the things that are
happening in the Middle East.

503
00:30:04,800 –> 00:30:07,300
And she said, what’s the world
coming to?

504
00:30:07,700 –> 00:30:12,400
What do you reckon?
and I just went, I took the

505
00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:17,300
check put in my pocket and said,
then, I and walked out.

506
00:30:19,100 –> 00:30:21,700
And I never said a word and I
had the opportunity like on a

507
00:30:21,700 –> 00:30:28,700
silver platter there, Matt.
And I believe that Christ is

508
00:30:28,700 –> 00:30:30,700
going to return.
He’s going to fix up this mess.

509
00:30:30,700 –> 00:30:33,400
A rush is going to come down.
There’s going to be a big wall.

510
00:30:34,200 –> 00:30:37,100
It’s all I had to say that she
would have said I’ll whatever,

511
00:30:37,200 –> 00:30:44,400
or that’s interesting, but I was
too gutless to say that and I

512
00:30:44,408 –> 00:30:48,000
think a lot is so much like us.
Do you guys feel like that

513
00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:53,100
sometimes in life?
See, this is poor old lat, see

514
00:30:53,100 –> 00:30:56,200
each one of those singularly
standing by itself, doesn’t

515
00:30:56,200 –> 00:30:58,900
prove anything, but on the
balance, there’s broad sweep of

516
00:30:58,900 –> 00:31:01,000
lots life.
You start to get a picture of

517
00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:02,800
what’s going on.
He gave up the tent.

518
00:31:04,600 –> 00:31:06,300
He didn’t want to go tenting
again.

519
00:31:06,600 –> 00:31:16,000
Neither did his family.
He gave up his sonship and do

520
00:31:16,000 –> 00:31:19,700
you know when Abraham was taking
those angels on their way?

521
00:31:19,900 –> 00:31:23,900
And it says they said to him
we’re going down to see if the

522
00:31:23,900 –> 00:31:27,800
Cry of Sodom is altogether
according to the cry because

523
00:31:27,800 –> 00:31:29,800
it’s very great.
We’re going to see if the

524
00:31:29,800 –> 00:31:32,900
wickedness is great.
I used to think to myself maybe

525
00:31:32,900 –> 00:31:37,100
this is lat, maybe this is
finally lot crying out.

526
00:31:37,100 –> 00:31:39,200
But you know what?
It’s not.

527
00:31:39,900 –> 00:31:44,100
Go back to Genesis chapter 19,
if you don’t mind, we got any

528
00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:46,500
time left.
We got 10.

529
00:31:47,600 –> 00:31:51,000
Wow!
That is generous.

530
00:31:52,100 –> 00:31:54,800
So we go down to Genesis chapter
19.

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00:31:55,100 –> 00:32:00,900
Now, just think for a moment, if
lot was the one crying out if he

532
00:32:00,900 –> 00:32:04,500
was the one who was crying at
every day saying save me, God

533
00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:10,300
audibly, help me, get me out of
this wicked place. when the

534
00:32:10,300 –> 00:32:17,300
Angels say to lot in verse 13,
we are about to destroy this

535
00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:20,700
place because the outcry of its
people has become great before

536
00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:23,600
the Lord.
What would be more natural than

537
00:32:23,600 –> 00:32:27,300
to say?
Say Dan’s lot lot your cry has

538
00:32:27,300 –> 00:32:30,200
been heard.
Your cry has come up to all of

539
00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,300
us with heard it.
You’re going to be free.

540
00:32:33,800 –> 00:32:35,500
What would be more natural than
to say that?

541
00:32:36,500 –> 00:32:40,000
Except he doesn’t say it to Dan,
because Dan is quiet.

542
00:32:40,700 –> 00:32:43,300
And the angels, don’t say it’s a
lot because he hasn’t been

543
00:32:43,300 –> 00:32:46,600
saying a word not audibly.
And I didn’t say he wasn’t

544
00:32:46,600 –> 00:32:49,100
praying because there’s Bible
doesn’t say whether he was or he

545
00:32:49,100 –> 00:32:51,700
wasn’t.
Perhaps he was praying to God.

546
00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:56,800
I mean second Peter says he’s in
deep mental Affliction, he’s

547
00:32:56,800 –> 00:32:59,500
stressed out of his brain.
Maybe he was sitting there at

548
00:32:59,500 –> 00:33:03,200
the front gate praying to God.
God come and save me from this

549
00:33:03,200 –> 00:33:05,700
place.
Get my family out of here but

550
00:33:05,700 –> 00:33:08,000
none of the Other people of the
city, knew what he was praying

551
00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:11,500
for, none of the others, people
of the city, knew what he

552
00:33:11,500 –> 00:33:14,300
actually really felt about the
wickedness.

553
00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:18,500
In fact they all thought good
old buddy lat, he’s the one who

554
00:33:18,500 –> 00:33:22,000
we do business dealings with
because of him we’re rich and

555
00:33:22,000 –> 00:33:25,600
because of Abraham, his uncle we
were saved.

556
00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:30,900
Maybe that may have curried
favor and possibly given be

557
00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:34,700
rather King encouragement, to
give light a prominent position

558
00:33:34,700 –> 00:33:38,500
at the front gate of the city.
You can sit down there now and

559
00:33:38,500 –> 00:33:43,300
help us to judge in civil
matters, a wonderful because if

560
00:33:43,300 –> 00:33:47,300
we ever get into trouble again,
lot will look after us.

561
00:33:47,500 –> 00:33:50,500
He’s Uncle come and save us.
We better look after a lot like

562
00:33:50,500 –> 00:33:54,800
lots, the goose that laid the
golden egg, we got to look after

563
00:33:54,800 –> 00:33:57,500
him.
But don’t mention anything about

564
00:33:57,500 –> 00:34:02,600
religious matters.
Okay, lat He hadn’t said a word,

565
00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:08,100
young people not a word, the
picture of lot, breaks my heart.

566
00:34:08,300 –> 00:34:12,900
And yet I can see in that long
list there, many, many

567
00:34:14,000 –> 00:34:18,199
relationships to my own life.
Many things that Smite my own

568
00:34:18,199 –> 00:34:22,699
conscience, maybe it’s my, it’s
yours, I don’t know, but I’m

569
00:34:22,699 –> 00:34:26,900
just saying, but I look at lat,
it gives me motivation to not be

570
00:34:26,900 –> 00:34:28,699
like that.
I want to be like, Abraham.

571
00:34:29,000 –> 00:34:30,900
I want to be known For preaching
the truth.

572
00:34:30,900 –> 00:34:33,800
I don’t be known for standing up
for the truth, to be known for

573
00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:37,000
building, altars, and living in
a tent and being a pilgrim, and

574
00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:40,600
being different from society,
and worshiping God and calling

575
00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:42,199
on the name.
That’s what I want to be known

576
00:34:42,199 –> 00:34:44,400
for.
What do you guys want to be

577
00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:48,000
known for at school?
What do you want to be known for

578
00:34:48,000 –> 00:34:49,199
at work?
You make the choice.

579
00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:51,000
Now, this is where you make the
choice.

580
00:34:51,400 –> 00:34:55,900
So we asked the question, We
asked this big question.

581
00:34:57,700 –> 00:35:02,100
Why did lot hide everything?
And just in passing, I forgot to

582
00:35:02,100 –> 00:35:04,200
show the adults.
This quote, I want to show you

583
00:35:04,200 –> 00:35:06,300
one quote, because we got about
three minutes.

584
00:35:07,000 –> 00:35:08,800
Oh, heaps of time, don’t worry
about it.

585
00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:12,400
That stop stressing.
I want to show you this quote

586
00:35:12,400 –> 00:35:14,800
guys, it’s in Ezekiel chapter
14.

587
00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:19,600
Look at this quote.
This is a very very very telling

588
00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:26,800
quote zekiel 14 verse 14 says
this talking about a really bad

589
00:35:26,800 –> 00:35:31,900
time in a in a civilizations
life when it gets to a certain

590
00:35:31,900 –> 00:35:35,100
point.
So rough and so bad.

591
00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:37,900
Like to the time of Sodom when
they’re only thinking about

592
00:35:37,900 –> 00:35:43,600
themselves verse 14 says, even
if this if these three men Noah,

593
00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:49,000
Daniel and Jobe, we’re in it.
They would deliver, but their

594
00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:50,700
own lives by their
righteousness.

595
00:35:50,700 –> 00:35:54,100
They wouldn’t be able to save
anybody else, and it says it in

596
00:35:54,100 –> 00:35:57,400
verse 16.
Even if these three men were in

597
00:35:57,400 –> 00:36:02,500
it, and in verse 17, 18, rather,
even if these three men were in

598
00:36:02,500 –> 00:36:06,500
it, and it says it in verse 20,
even if Noah, and Daniel and

599
00:36:06,500 –> 00:36:10,600
jobber in it, as I live declares
the Lord God, they would deliver

600
00:36:10,600 –> 00:36:14,500
neither son, nor daughter, they
would deliver but their own

601
00:36:14,500 –> 00:36:17,300
lives by their righteousness
who’s missing.

602
00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:25,400
Out of that list of three lot is
missing was Noah known for what

603
00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:29,300
he believed.
And yet for all these preaching

604
00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:32,400
he couldn’t save.
Anyone was Daniel known for what

605
00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:36,800
he believed in Babylon?
Absolutely, and God says, if it

606
00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:39,700
got this bad, even Daniel
couldn’t save anybody.

607
00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:44,600
And job was job known as a
righteous man to write eyz

608
00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:47,100
visited the fatherless and the
widows you’ve ever saw somebody

609
00:36:47,100 –> 00:36:50,100
in the street without food.
He’d invite them to his table.

610
00:36:50,600 –> 00:36:53,600
Jobe was known.
But even if he was there, he

611
00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:57,400
couldn’t save anybody.
Now, this is the point with

612
00:36:57,400 –> 00:37:04,400
light Sodom was so bad.
Why isn’t lot in that list, Noah

613
00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:08,300
Daniel, Jobe and even, if lot
was there you wouldn’t save

614
00:37:08,300 –> 00:37:10,900
anybody brothers and sisters
because I’m young people because

615
00:37:10,900 –> 00:37:14,700
I believe he wasn’t there.
Preaching trying to save people.

616
00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,100
I really believe that wasn’t
lat.

617
00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:23,900
He wasn’t like Daniel.
He wasn’t like Noah wasn’t like

618
00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:29,700
Jobe. he wanted to be like him,
he wanted to preach, he wanted

619
00:37:29,700 –> 00:37:34,700
to change, he wanted to say, if
he wanted to convert But he is a

620
00:37:34,700 –> 00:37:38,200
weak, man.
And we’re going to see tomorrow

621
00:37:38,500 –> 00:37:41,400
when he finally comes into his
own and finally becomes a

622
00:37:41,400 –> 00:37:44,200
righteous man, but we’re going
to finish with this.

623
00:37:44,700 –> 00:37:49,700
Why did he hide everything?
And the answer guys is in

624
00:37:49,700 –> 00:37:57,600
Matthew chapter 5, Still got
five minutes.

625
00:37:58,500 –> 00:38:01,400
Okay, I got a couple means.
We just finish off with Matthew

626
00:38:01,400 –> 00:38:03,200
Chapter 5.
I apologize for going over time

627
00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:04,900
guys.
My own fault for getting here

628
00:38:04,900 –> 00:38:09,800
late and I even got to ride on
the buggy to I’m still late

629
00:38:10,700 –> 00:38:12,900
Matthew Chapter 5.
Are you ready for this?

630
00:38:12,900 –> 00:38:20,500
Look at this verse. 14.
You are the light of the world.

631
00:38:21,800 –> 00:38:24,600
Young people.
You guys at Shippensburg, I’m

632
00:38:24,600 –> 00:38:27,200
talking to you.
God is speaking to you are the

633
00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:31,600
light of the world and if you
become a city set on a hill as a

634
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:38,800
lamp, it can’t be hid.
Don’t put your lights as a lamp

635
00:38:39,500 –> 00:38:41,300
under a basket or under a
bushel.

636
00:38:42,600 –> 00:38:44,700
You put it on a stand, a
lampstand.

637
00:38:44,700 –> 00:38:48,000
So it gives light to all that
are in the house in the same

638
00:38:48,000 –> 00:38:50,500
way.
Let your light shine before

639
00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:54,200
others so that they may see your
good works and give glory to

640
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:59,100
your father who is in heaven.
So what do you do with your

641
00:38:59,100 –> 00:39:01,600
light?
You got to let it shine.

642
00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:04,300
You gotta let people see what
you’re doing.

643
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:08,000
Where are the good works of lot
before chapter 19?

644
00:39:09,300 –> 00:39:12,200
Does anybody knows Tommy, when
lot did something good?

645
00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:13,900
Where’s the records?
They did anything.

646
00:39:13,900 –> 00:39:19,500
Good before chapter 19?
Guys, have you reached chapter

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00:39:19,500 –> 00:39:22,800
19 yet in your life is your life
up to chapter 19.

648
00:39:22,800 –> 00:39:24,300
Have you done anything good for
God?

649
00:39:24,300 –> 00:39:26,100
Has anybody seen any of your
good works?

650
00:39:26,100 –> 00:39:31,100
Or are you veiled like lat?
Do people know what you think.

651
00:39:31,900 –> 00:39:34,600
The people understand what you
really believe, guys.

652
00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:39,400
People know what I feel.
What’s a bushel or look at a

653
00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:41,000
bushel.
Is, why did he hide it?

654
00:39:41,900 –> 00:39:43,900
It’s an earthenware grain
measure.

655
00:39:43,900 –> 00:39:46,400
Do you guys still have bushels
of apples here and in the

656
00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,200
states?
Yeah, we don’t in Australia.

657
00:39:49,200 –> 00:39:51,000
Okay, I didn’t know what a
bushel was.

658
00:39:51,000 –> 00:39:55,300
I had to look this up a bushels
or measure but think about it.

659
00:39:55,300 –> 00:39:59,300
It’s used in Commerce and
Industry.

660
00:39:59,700 –> 00:40:05,500
Making this stuff the money.
I believe lot in his pursuit of

661
00:40:05,500 –> 00:40:10,600
industry in his pursuit, of
silver, and gained striving

662
00:40:10,600 –> 00:40:14,800
after Commerce, had covered up
his life.

663
00:40:16,400 –> 00:40:21,400
With that bushel.
He covered it up that he was a

664
00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:24,000
worshiper of God.
He loves the truth, and he was a

665
00:40:24,000 –> 00:40:27,600
Hebrew because of where he
wanted to go in life.

666
00:40:27,700 –> 00:40:32,000
He couldn’t say, this is what I
believe his wife and kick him

667
00:40:32,000 –> 00:40:34,600
under the table, he’s Zippy’s
mouth closed.

668
00:40:34,600 –> 00:40:37,100
I don’t want to say what I
really believe because he

669
00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:39,500
wouldn’t have business dealings.
People would have boycotted his

670
00:40:39,500 –> 00:40:41,300
shop.
They would have thought, there’s

671
00:40:41,300 –> 00:40:44,900
lots shoe shop and there’s
sodom’s Shoe Shop.

672
00:40:45,000 –> 00:40:46,900
Well good.
A lots, you shot because he’s a

673
00:40:46,900 –> 00:40:50,000
great guy.
But if lot had leaflets and

674
00:40:50,000 –> 00:40:52,600
Harold’s in the front window and
said, you’re all Wicked, first

675
00:40:52,600 –> 00:40:55,000
person that comes through your
wicked person, you want a pair

676
00:40:55,000 –> 00:40:59,000
of shoes, And you are to all
your kids are going to grow up,

677
00:40:59,000 –> 00:41:02,200
Wicked the way you teach them.
Do you guys want shoes as well?

678
00:41:02,800 –> 00:41:05,700
I come on, what wouldn’t have
made any money?

679
00:41:05,700 –> 00:41:07,700
He had of really said what he
believed.

680
00:41:09,000 –> 00:41:10,500
It’s going to be hard in life
guys.

681
00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:13,500
I’m not promising.
You a, you know, a Rosy path to

682
00:41:13,500 –> 00:41:18,200
the kingdom.
By what I am promising, you is

683
00:41:18,200 –> 00:41:22,400
that the truth will set you
free, and if you tell the truth,

684
00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:26,300
you’ll stand with Abraham.
And this was lots biggest

685
00:41:26,300 –> 00:41:29,700
problem.
He hid the fact that he really

686
00:41:29,700 –> 00:41:30,400
loved God.