Take an area that church we have different, On 2 things, we. With the men and our Friday's, the whole congregation we're sending to you of the first Samuel.
So with the men, it's been a great opportunity to and encourage them and to bring them card to study gaps more and how to share with their families or also with others.
So we pray for our obligations, and for the men that they will step up and respond to the call without asking them to know one another.
Friends are there's a town called It's a great opportunity for us to go and Fishman from crisis around 40 min away from the drama and we have 2 main activities that we do throughout the week.
First, we have an OT. Freeze G club on Mondays and also we have a basketball team practice on Wednesdays.
We go and twice a week and we help them practice these sports and at the end we share something about the gospel.
Some of these young people are very interested in knowing more and studying God's force. Please pray for spaces where they don't provide opportunities for us to, disciples this young man in all these 3 areas we can see a common leader the fossil pole writes it typically has 1 3 to 4 and she says blessing be
the God and Father over Lord Jesus Christ. If other or versus in kind of all comfort, open forces and all our predictions so that we may be able to go for those who are in affliction.
When they conform with which we ourselves I can't afford to by God. So please pray that that we will be able to go for those in meeting.
In these 3 areas. Sure, it's, Thank you for your prayers. It's important.
And may the name of price be known. In Colombia and the rest of the world.
Good morning. Why did you share that video? I think like it's Very helpful to know a little bit of what the law has been doing in in Colombia in the last couple of months.
It's been very intense time going back and even though it's my home country and my family and my people.
Still takes time to adapt a game to life there. So thank you for your prayers. And supporting all that.
I really feel those prayers every week. And I've done for you guys and have a body of believers that are praying for us down there.
Also visiting us, it's really cool to in the last 6 months I thought. 12 people from the States and that's something like wow that many missionaries are like wow I've been here on the field, that many missionaries are like, wow, I've been here on the field 20 years and I haven't
had anybody come down and visit so I hope that you guys also came come some more of you guys. The young people maybe have mission tree down there.
It'll be really fun and so thank you for your prayers and support and really just taking care of myself and in your prayers and I am very thankful to be back.
It has been very intense. For those who don't know, I just got back from Malaysia.
I went to Malaysia for the IBCM conference at BCM stands for International Brother and Conference of Missions.
And so it's like a network where you connect with other missionaries all around the world. So there was 1,100 people from 104 different countries.
It was very, encouraging to hear the stories of what the law is doing everywhere, not just, you know, in our own context in column in the US but in the rest of the world how the the gospel is spreading out and the challenges of really continue to to serve the Lord.
So very excited, very thankful for the opportunity to share also what the law is doing in Columbia there.
I was part of the youth panel also and sharing a little bit of kind of how to encourage young people to be part of God's mission.
During this age and this time. So very thankful for this week at time of rest for me. It's been very intense going back, moving non-stop.
And so I'm thankful that this week I was able to take a break, rest see some of you guys and and be encouraged by you all today.
I was longing for this time to see your phrases and share with you what the Lord is doing.
And so I just wanna share right away what the Ross put in my heart. Really, I had a different topic as for yesterday, but definitely the law continue to show me that I should share these message with you guys.
It was a message that I share in Columbia, my last Sunday there. And I think it's such a key.
Subject in in today's age. The fact that you know there is like so many broken families and I don't know all of you guys' backgrounds.
I know some of you I saw I know some of the stories and and I know it's not very encouraging right it's the the way our grandparents in great-grandparents do things it's like very dark and very sad division in my own family you know as you some of you guys know it's there
is Divorce, gets on the way and, and all these brokenness and I didn't know all the background from my parents but when I hear you know from my mom's side and the way she grew up in all the darkness that that she had to experience and the same on my dad and all these things that are so
like real in our lives not just in Columbia but I'm pretty sure he in the States as well everywhere.
It's just everywhere. This brokenness in our world of families destroyed and not like a very good panorama of and hope, hope that we can find in in the midst of this broken world.
And so being aware of these reality as as you saw, like we've seen a town called Base, and this town is, 4 min away from Ditama, like very small town.
Kids don't have nothing, I mean no resources at all but they have their phones and social media right now is always a thing everywhere and even though it's different in context you see the same needs.
Kids being depressed not knowing what what to do with their lives not knowing what's the purpose of what they're alive and really finding a way to belong to something, right?
That this whole thing of identity, I need to belong to a group and I appreciate our young people here as well.
Like it's something that we experienced growing up. And so, but they're so broken. People there, like young guys and girls like trying to take their own lives and and it's very sad to to hear that not just there II hear the same here in the States.
It's not different here in Malaysia and everywhere you go you hear all these realities of a broken world.
And so what you do, right? Like it's a it's a question I keep asking myself like so if the this is a reality brokenness in the families in Colombia anywhere I go like this background of sadness and sad stories.
How we as the church of Christ should respond to that reality? How can we not be part of that change of what is the Lord doing in our world today.
First of all, I don't think we we don't read the the word of God like you, right?
Like it is a living word when we come to it. When we really, like it is a living word when we come to it when we really, I don't really have a problem with when we read I don't really have a problem with the power that's in it we know how powerful it is but mainly with our perspective on
it. Because we assume that we can come right and listen to God's work here today and somehow stay the same, right?
Like nothing changes on our ceremony and that's it. But, I don't know who you intended to meet with, when you came through that door.
This morning. But, was really my desire and our desire must be to encounter and to meet God, to be encouraged that once we leave that door is not going to be the same.
So I hope that as we share God's wording this morning, the first person that is listening is myself.
I need this and I pray that it would be also an encouragement for you. So let's pray that the the Holy Spirit he will speak but Let's pray that we will listen because if you have an encounter with God you You will not be the same when you leave, right?
And anything less than that, I don't think is the reason why we are here. And so I would like to pray and.
Thank you that that you are so worthy of praises and in our lives Lord. Thank you that now we have a I hope in the midst of a broken world nor we can know you we can have a relationship with you and and the fact that that's possible or now our relationships with others within our families with other families.
Laura, there is hope in the midst of all these broken world law. So I pray that you will encourage our hearts to speak to myself first.
I ask you but also encourage my brothers and sisters here in this morning I don't know where they are at in their lives in their walk with you Lord but please speak to us through the Holy Spirit that it might not be me, the one that it can impact their lives but your word Lord and that you that Christ would be glorified at the
end of today and every day Lord that Christ would be glorified at the end of today and every day Lord that none of us would take the glory it'd be glorified at the end of today and every day, that none of us would take the glory.
It's you, it' made the Holy Spirit Lord speak through me and speak to our hearts. I pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen. So in the Word of God I find very interesting that Jesus Christ during his entire time on earth right he only asked us to remember 2 people.
Imagine the Son of God, right? God becomes men, right? And he walks in earth.
He speaks a lot. He's doing this all crazy stuff for 3 years and, during his entire time on there.
She says to remember This person and this person and I need your help to figure out who this 2 people were that Jesus was very explicit to ask us to remember.
Right. So the first one is not too hard. I want to give you a hint, right?
Like every wink, we remember one of them, of course. Due Edinburgh is of me as it is in our table.
So the first person is Jesus Christ, right? But I want to just make sure that we understand this. But I want to just make sure that we understand this.
If the Son of God As just to remember these 2 people, right, then we should probably remember those 2 people.
It's not a hard. It's very simple. If we have to remember these 2 people, we should do it.
And of course we need to remember more other people and stuff and like. Different heroes of the fate, but they are always asking us to remember 2 people.
Very, very, easy to understand. So the first one is Jesus himself. The second one is the one that I tend to forget and I think We usually forget about some of you and I've shared this with some people here already, but some of you know who I'm talking about but some of you don't.
You're trying to guess, OK, who is this? Is it? David, he said Abraham.
I said Joshua, is it Joseph? Who is it? Well, isn't that a man?
It's not even a man that Jesus asked us to remember I, we don't even know the name of this person.
But we know it's a specific character. So term if you still don't get it go to look 1732 it's just one verse.
Very simple verse and that's what kind of like the whole message today is gonna be about. Look, 1732 Jesus shares with us this, specifically who we should remember.
17, yeah, look 1732. Okay, so look 1732 says Remember Laud's wife.
Remember, Lot's wife, that simple. Remember Lot's wife. Isn't it a very interesting choice?
The fight that Jesus choose one person for us to remember is because there has to be something for us to learn.
Right? But but I don't think it's just learning. I think like the reason why Jesus is asking us to remember this person is more like a warning.
Careful, watch out! Watch out! Warning, warning, warning. And if we want to know about Lot's wife, we should know about law, right?
We don't even know this woman's name right so say we wanted to know about her we need to know a little bit about a lot and so that's what we're gonna do right now.
I'm gonna ask you to like you know remember loss why so let's go to that into the story and and see who who lot was what's up with his wife why is Jesus asking us so let's turn to Genesis chapter 19 And today's message I wanna just split in 4 different points for, moments,
of the message first, lot, right? The second part that I want to touch on is his wife, Lot's wife.
The third area that I want to speak about is it's. Bad to worse. It gets worse, right?
It gets worse. But at the end I want to close with hope. A hopeful ending. All right.
So I'm gonna ask you to just bear with me and read, Genesis chapter 19.
I'm gonna read the whole chapter and I hope once again that even if I don't say any word that the Lord will speak to you.
It's not me who who speaks to you, right? To speak to us. Is the Lord through His Word.
So let's ask, we're going to read it in whatever the Lord it shows you. I pray that he would touch your hearts already.
So I'm gonna read Genesis 19 the whole chapter and then we'll go through these 4 different points.
Janice is 19. The 2 angels came to Sodom in the evening. And not was sitting in the gate of Sodom.
When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And said, my lords, please turn aside to your servants house and spend the night and wash your feet that you may rise up early and go on your way.
They said no, we will spend the night in the town square, but he prayed them strongly. So they turn aside to him and enter his house and he made them a feast and baked and living bread.
And they ate. But before they lay down, The men of the city, the men of Saddam, both young and all, all the people to the lasmine surrounded the house and they called to lot.
Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that mean that we may know them and know them here.
Doesn't mean too nice to meet you. It means a sexual relationship here. Lot went out and verse 6, Lotte went out to the man at the entrance.
Shot the door after him and said, I beg you my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
Behold, I have 2 daughters who have not known any men. Let me bring them out to you and do to them as you please.
Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof. But they said, stand back!
They said this fellow came to sojourn and he has become the judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them.
Then they press or against the men lot and drew near to break the door down. But the men reach out their hands and roll lot into the house with them and shut the door.
And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house both the small and great so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.
Then the man said to Lord, have you anyone else here? So in law, sons, daughters or anyone you have in the city bring them out of the place for we are about to destroy this place because they are cry against these people has become great before the law and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
So Lord went out and said to his sons in law who were to marry his daughters up, get out of this place for the Lord is about to destroy the city but he seemed to his sons in law to be jesting or joking.
I was morning down the angels whoch lots saying, oh take your wife and your 2 daughters who are here.
Less you've been swept away in the punishment of the city.
But he lingered. So the man sees him and he's white and he's 2 daughters by the hand the Lord being merciful to him and they brought him out and set him outside of the city.
And as they brought them out out One said, escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley.
Escape to the heels, as you be swept away. And law said to them, oh no my lords.
Behold, your 7 has found favor in your site and you have shown me great kindness is saving my life but I cannot escape to the heels.
Less the disaster overtake me and I die. Behold, this city is near enough to flee to and it is a little one.
Let me skate there. Is it not a little one and my life will be saved? He said to him, behold, I drain you this favor also that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Escape there quickly for I can do nothing to you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zwar.
They saw her reason on the earth when a lot came to soar. Then the Lord reign on Sodom and Gomorrah Sulphur and fire from the from the Lord out of heaven and she overthrew those cities and all the valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the
ground. But Lord's wife, it is. Behind him, looked back and she became a pile of salt.
And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord and he looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah.
And toward all the land of the valley and he looked. And behold this smoke of the land when I have like the smoke of a So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley, can remember Abraham and sent Lord out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lord had had lived.
Now low enough of Zor and lived in the heels with his 2 daughters. Guys, it gets worse.
Okay, for he was afraid to live in Zar. So he lived in a cave with his 2 daughters.
And the firstborn said to the younger, our father is old and there is not a man on earth to come into us after the manner of all the earth.
Come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve offspring from our father.
So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father.
He did not know when she laid down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, behold, I lay less now with my father.
Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go and lie with them. That we may preserve offspring from our father.
They made their father drink wine at night also. And the younger arose and lay with him and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
Thus both the daughters of lot became pregnant by their father. The first born, border son in Cole, he's named Moab.
He's the father of Moabites to this day. The younger, also Boris and called his name Benami.
He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Wow, that's tough. Remember, Lot's wife. So I wanna start with Lot a little bit because the the beginning of the story doesn't really start in verse 19 like we we started we started reading Genesis 19 and we see that love was sitting in the gate of Sodom, right?
But the story didn't quite start there. So just like for us to know a little bit of background, right?
Like remember, Abraham goes down to Egypt and they had to split up because they had a ton of like properties and their servants were fighting with each other so one of the things that you know the one of the things that attracted a lot was seen like when Abraham gives him the chance to choose, right?
He sees the wealth and the beauty of the place. That's what we find in Genesis 13.
Just as a just background for us to see what's up with lot? Like how did he end up living in Sodom, right?
Genesis, 13, verse 10. It says right when they are split up and a lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was watered everywhere like the garden of the lure like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoe.
This was before the law, destroy Saddam and Gomorrah, so okay. So before this destruction, Lot has a chance to choose a place, right?
And he sees the wealth and the beauty of the place. What looks attractive and so he's gonna move there.
So they split up. Abraham gives lot the first choice and and that's what we find, right?
If we, if we do a little bit more of, if we keep reading, just versus 11 to 13 back in Genesis 13, he says, so no chose for himself.
Of the Jordan Valley and L to John. Journeyed east as they separated from each other. I mean Genesis 13, verse 12 now.
Abram settled in the land of Cannon while Lot settle among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as sodom.
Now the men of Sodom were weakened. Grace seniors against the Lord. Okay, so he's got a chance right he chooses what looks like a wealthy and beautiful And he said, he says that he said he's, tense or pitching his 10 as far as Adam.
If we do a little bit more of research, you'll find that another word for as far as Adam could be towards.
So he's pitching his 10 towards looking towards Sodom. So, and I, think like when you are out camping, right?
Like when we went with the boys and the guys and some of their parents in the boys like you want to choose a nice area to camp, right?
So I'm like, you want a nice view at least, right? Like something that is you're paying attention to where you're gonna pitch your tents.
You're not like randomly picture 10 whatever it is, you're not going to picture 10 right next to a river or right next to a tree right like a river could be dangerous so like you're very careful you want to choose a nice location that you want to see like a nice view.
I did that once in Columbia with one of my friends and it was it was a nice view but it would range so much that night and it was it was a nice view but it would rain so much that night and it was super windy I was so much that night and it was super windy I was so scared because we went on top of one mountain so you gotta
be careful where you pitch your tents, right? So basically in other words, we choose where to look at.
We are the ones that choose, have the opportunity to decide where you're gonna picture tense towards.
Right? So I want to highlight here, first of all, in Lots life. This progression of seen in our lives that is so clear that and for us to learn from this mistake and run away don't follow the same steps.
His the story one end where he pitched his standard in this moment. Right? Like he was pitching extent looking towards sort of.
He wasn't in Sodom yet. So what happened in between that when we read Genesis 19, he is living in Sodom.
So if I look at your life, right? I like it's just We see these progress right he wasn't leaving in seen yet, but he opened his door towards sin So he gave opportunity to his family, which is crazy.
He gave opportunity to his family to see the pleasures of the world. Watch out! Watch out!
Warning, warning, warning. Remember, Lot's wife. Remember the whole story with their family.
Lauren chose this place, decided to go and expose his family to look towards a place. Where it was full of wicked people, great seniors against the Lord.
What if I looked at your life and and myself II would assume from the outside right here like we dress up nice for Sundays and the outside right here like we dress up nice for Sundays and that we're leaving the outside right here like we dress up nice for Sundays and and that we're leaving decent lives right But.
but God doesn't call us to leave decent lives. And, and I speak to myself first of all.
He's got, that's in one us just to avoid seeing to like run away from seeing, but he calls us to like run away from sin but he calls us to pursue righteousness.
He's not like, oh yeah, I can do this to pursue righteousness. It's not like Christian life is not just like, oh yeah, I can do this.
Oh, like I know like I walk with a lot of young people. It's like, oh yeah, Christian is so boring because I can do this and this and this and this is not about that if life was about like doing or not doing this and that we would miss the point of what life is about.
It's about the glory of Christ. What can I do? Is this what I'm gonna say?
Is this what I'm gonna watch, think, give glory to Christ. It's all about the glory of Christ.
So as believers, we're not just called to leave decent lives but like to pursue righteousness together as a church in one mindset unified go towards that goal of pursuing Jesus.
Here we see a lot opening the temptation of his life towards something that could destroy him. So I wanna ask each one of you right now, first of all, Now, no, what scene are you living in?
We'll get there in a minute. But right now, where your life. Are you just opening your door?
Towards Where in your life are you just opening your door to where sin? There is an example that I hear from one of my friends.
She grew up, in Africa, right? And I met him at the conference too and he was sharing this story that one of his friends He had a Python as a pet.
Imagine. Having a python as a snake, at this huge snake, a Python.
And so, he, that this friend of his, had his pet, right? Like, with the snake all around the house like Strey has one in his room and he's kind of scary but it's fake right but this one was a real Python like that was his pets and so this this person would feed
it and feed his pet and the python would grow and and the python would continue to grow and continue to feed the path.
And he got to our point as as the Python was getting older. He got to a point where the Python is stopped eating.
Let me stop eating out of the starting end and so this person was like what's happening to my Python like I She is not eating like what's wrong with it.
And so like he didn't need for a while and it was one week and the python wouldn't eat.
And so and so like what's going on? And so this person is so worried that takes his pet, he's titan to the vegetarian right and he's like I don't know what's going on but my Python hasn't been eating for for weeks and I'm worried I don't
know I don't want it to die And, veteran and comes is like I know what's going on.
I know what's going on. The Python wasn't eating because she was like the Python was laying next to this person right next to it.
Without eating because the Python is waiting in the moment. When he can eat you.
And. Basically, he said, you have to kill the Python before the Python kills you.
Or like don't kill it but like let it go away very far away from where you are And it sounds kind of like, oh wow, but we don't look at seen as a Python very often.
See, we'll destroy lives. I don't know how many marriages have been destroyed by pornography and a bunch of cheating and stuff.
They started looking at a billboard and then deciding to like someone else's husband or wife and then going and and seen that led to the scene that led to the scene that led to the destruction of marriages and entire lives.
And we could give more examples. Of not killing that Python when we could. It's crazy.
And it's a reality in our world, right? Like wearing your life again, are you opening the door towards sin?
It's something serious. We don't take it as serious like It's how like as as I was sharing the breaking of bread that the enemy is so clever that that wants to deceive us from and let us stray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
It's not too bad. You go do it. Like, all seen before seeing kills you is something that we call as children of God.
So There is a progression of scene right now. Now let's go back to Genesis 19.
Go some pages forward and you'll see that in Genesis, 19, you know, so God will destroy Saddam in Gomorrah.
The chapter before is a great conversation of Abraham with the Lord. He is like a friend with with their bodies with Abraham right like the Lord is gonna tell him he's planning to tell him he's planning and the Louise is like am I going to hide anything from my brand.
And the Louise is like, am I gonna hide anything from May Brown? No, I wanna share with him what I'm about to do.
I want to share with him what I'm about to do. And so, you know, if you read that verses before, the, I'm not gonna read it for the sake of time, but chapter 18 is this conversation and the Lord tells Abraham, I'm gonna destroy you soda in Gomorrah, Iran and everyone was
like, Oh wow, Lauren, but What if you find like 50 righteous people? Will you?
Will you like destroy it? Will you save it? The Laura's like, well, yes, I don't know how many people there were in soda, but there was like if I find 50 people I will save it for sure.
And then everyone was like, well, and what about 45? And there was like, yeah, I wouldn't still, I wouldn't destroy it still.
Lord, I know it might be too much, but what about 40? What about 30? Okay.
What about 30? What if you find 30 righteous people in Sodom? Will you still destroy it?
The law is like, no Abraham, I wouldn't destroy. I was like, well, I know that this is too much.
It's getting too much. We're great friends. We're great friends. We have a great relationship.
But what about 20 people? There is like, yeah, I wouldn't see destroy it.
Maybe I'm pushing it too much though, but what about 10 people? Will you still destroy it?
And the Lord says, no, I still want destroy. What mercy of God. Imagine. In, I mean it's of thousands of people, wicked people, full of seniors and If he was to find 10 people, he wouldn't destroy it.
What mercy of God, but Guys, the problem is that Abraham didn't ask enough.
Cause, he won't find 10. He won't find 10. And that makes me think of like our prayer life.
I have some of the best examples of pray life here in this congregation, which I'm very thankful for.
But our prior life has to be very specific. That makes me think of Abraham asking like, well, maybe 10, it has to be very specific one by one.
And so chapter 19, we we go to chapter 19 and it starts with the angels of God, coming to Sodom.
And again, I'm running this story, but we won't find 10 people, right? Like the Lord is gonna end up destroying it.
And so we seen the verse one to 3 again in Genesis 19 one to 3. The 2 angels came to Sodom in the evening and a lot was sitting in the gate of sort of Sodom.
I want you to pay attention to 2 words that are repeated. And then yeah, we'll figure something out here in this progression of seen when not saw them here he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth.
They said, my lords, please turn aside to your servants house and spend the night and wash your feet.
Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, no, we will spend the night in the town square but he pressed them strongly so they turn us out to him and enter his house and he made them a feast and baked a living bread and they ate.
So what is it, word that is repeated twice? And there is a word that doesn't come up different to Genesis 13.
House. Houses is repeated twice. And then you see that is tenth is not there. What happened?
You see, talking about this progression of seen. First, lots is not only not looking towards, at Sodom.
Now we see here that L is living in Sodom. That is not only leaving in sodom, right, based on these viruses, but Lord has residency in Sodom with a house.
But not just that, like if you pay attention, Lotus. Just not have residency in sodom that is sitting in the gates of the city, which means that he has authority in Sodom.
He went farther. You see that progression of seeing like just looking attractive moving forward moving forward. You get to live in in the city, you have outdoor, you have your own house.
And again, it's not that he didn't know, but the people of sudden where wicked.
Maybe it will help us and we all of us here we are so aware that we're in a wicked world But do we are we different?
Are we are we going taking steps towards the same start that the world is going? Do not be deceived, says in Galician 6 7 2 8.
God is not moat for whatever one source that he will also reap for the one who souls to his own flesh were from the flesh reap corruption but the one who souls to the Spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life.
So I wanna I wanna tell you something about, I don't understand all the details. But the New Testament later, I think it's Peter somewhere, tells us that Lot was a righteous man at the end.
But I want to tell you something or highlight something about Lot's behavior here because we can fully blame lots but somehow because of his decisions his wife and many family members.
Are eternally damn to hell.
I wonder if some of us in this room have been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. And yet because of the lives we've chosen to live, Weaker so little about the lost around us.
That there will be people eternally lost. We don't. I feel like guys I just think of right now my friends in Malaysia.
ESSER is there in a group going and be part of 2 missions and You know what you see is like demons like really crying out in the middle of like the people.
People are like, oh yeah, I've seen demons. It's so easy, right?
It's so, so like. Visible in the conference right in one of the sessions, Nab Ramsey was speaking about sexual morality.
And he just started like, hey guys. I know the enemy doesn't want us to talk about this, but we have the playbook of the enemy and the enemy doesn't like that.
He continued that message for 10 min and after 10 min this woman she was from Indonesia. Just passed out.
And nobody knew what happened. He continued to speak. He continued to speak. And all of a sudden, these Girl on the floor is started screaming.
Been like oppressed or possessed by a demon. And like imagine in one of the neighborhood such as they're not all everyone was that it was a small station but everyone and stars like praying in the name of Jesus there is music around and after like 40 min of them praying finally this demon like leaves this woman so it's like everyone is crazy at
the conference But at the end, like, not just freaking out, but like really trusting and believing that there is power in the name of Jesus.
And this, but the glory of God, this young lady. Ended up receiving and professing faith in Jesus Christ after this whole situation and she's now one of the youth ambassadors in Indonesia.
It's crazy what but like my point is like we don't here in the States you don't really hear about like people like hearing like demons or like maybe if you hear here and there and it's so weird.
Right, but I think like the enemy is working the same way just in a different areas. I feel like sharing the and I'm I speak as an outsider in Colombia we see it in a different way but here's like everything is okay.
Don't bother like you're fine. Your life is comfortable. You go for your dream. You're good.
Nothing is happening. Yeah, continue. Continue. That that that whole purpose of like having this stuff and like yeah that your dreams of like being comfortable in your comfort zone.
That's also a way that the enemy can work if we are not caring for the lossles.
Like we see here that that example of like a man, a family apart not caring and not being careful with his family, not not making sure that their kids are really following the law.
What a warning we have rather than sisters and II am afraid again as as Paul says that the serpent by their cunning would let us stray from distance here and pure devotion to Christ.
So this is story in human terms is disgusting, definitely. When you read the story, right, the whole story.
Men's wanted to live with the angels, right? I'm not gonna read again a lot.
What does law does? He offers his virgin daughters. And he says like, yeah, guys, don't don't do anything to, I hear.
Take my daughters. What? What are you doing? Like are you crazy?
Are you exposing your children in that way? Watch out! Watch out! P, I'm not a partner yet and I know it's so hard.
I don't know and I constantly pray for you guys because II pray for you guys because II see how hard it is to protect our children because II see how hard it is to protect our children in the midst of a.
But please just stay hard. Like I as a family, as a church family. Like be together unifying this goal of not just like not that our kids are not in the world that's not what Jesus pray for in John, 17, but that they would be protected from the evil one.
That we would be intentional in this. Because we see a lot offering these children just like that. And let me tell you, as we as we read the whole chapter, we find that at the end, Lot was willing to give up.
What what he was willing to give up is what he ended up keeping in the story. You know, like he ended up like, yeah, do with my daughters whatever you want and then How did the Sorrient him and his 2 daughters?
So then it gets worse, right? And Jesus drives them with blindness, right? After I'm in versus 4 to 2 8 and and the angels is stressed them with blindness and then they say get out of the city, God will destroy it, get out.
But I don't think it's like a movie like I don't think we have like a soundtrack playing in the background with excited music and stuff and everything like in clouds and everything is dark.
And lightning and No, probably the day was sunny. Probably was like summer. And people were hanging out by the swimming pools.
And just like, you know, eating in restaurants. But listen to these words carefully from our Lord Jesus Christ.
When he says as in the days of lots saw the coming of the Lord shall be. Brothers when when God tells us to get out, get out, get out.
I'm sure many, that many say like, well, what if I Drink another beer or like what if II just like have another meal before that.
But let's look at adverse 14 here. I wanna reverse 14. Right when, the Lord tells him that to get out.
Genesis, 1,914. He says, so Laud went out and said to his sons-in-law who were to marry his daughters up get out of this place for the lorries about to destroy the city.
But he seemed to his sons in law to be jesting or joking. So when not saw his family.
Look at what happened to their son in law. I find this like such a sad and Sovereigns versus in the scripture, but these guys started mocking him like, yeah, sure.
You? You're like one of us not. What's different about you? I mean, you're the major of Sodom.
You're leaving the gates of Sodom. What's different about you? Yeah, sure.
The Lord is now like speaking to you. Wow, I fear that many of us when when we open our mouths and they share the gospel.
Many will look at you and and say like really you What's different? Noah about your life to the rest of your friends.
What is different? Jack of to the rest of it and I'm talking to the young people because I love them so much.
Was different right in the midst of these broken world Serena what is it different about you Ellie what was different about you and the in the university in that college? You know what's different about us in the midst of these broken worlds?
Are we sitting at the Sodom? What's the difference? Let me ask you a simple question.
So we can edit. Based off, I don't know, it doesn't depend on us.
It's all by the work of Jesus Christ, right? But based off your life. Would people have reason to believe the message?
Based of our lives would people have reason to believe the message? So we saw here the progression of seen.
And now we see the contradiction of a life. Not. Let's move on in verse 15.
The Lord says go. Go take your people to your wives and daughters and leave. But what happened?
He lingered. What? Like, okay. The law is gonna destroy.
Are you aware of what's going on lot like the law is really going to destroy this place. There are so merciful and he's taking you outside of the city.
And you linger like are you doubting really? I can be the same in our lives. Maybe, you know, in Timothy, first thing with the second Timothy the Lord tells us like flee from youthful passions not not just walk away from that but flee from them.
He doesn't say like you just yeah chill like just don't avoid this no run away from it.
It's gonna destroy you. Of course there is seen in our lives today. So let's confess it and run from it.
Where are you? Linger. Where am I lingering when God has said very clearly, leave.
Will not finally left, right? God says, escape to the mountains. He gets worse. I'm like, oh my goodness, a lot, but that's me.
That's you sometimes when the law is so clear with us and we continue going our way. But but the Lord says like go escape to the mountains if you know and if we know I don't know much of geography but I know I did some research and From this area, the geography here is so so key because from the mountains if you go
to the mountains you cannot look back to the city. You cannot see the valley. And that happens a lot in Bjaka, like the awesome mountains and stuff.
You don't get to see the valley very often. But what the law say? She's like, well, Lord.
Okay, can we go to Zar instead? Like, you know, small city, not a big deal.
We're still getting out. Like, can we just go there? God gave him permission. He's like, okay, you go.
But because he compromised. He's wife was able to look back. Watch out, man. Watch out.
Protect your families in the fear of the Lord. Watch out those steps that this this guy gave. I wonder you know is is there a situation in your life when God has clearly said what to do and you say, whoa, I know God I will obey you but why don't we find like a middle ground?
Let's find a meal ground. You've been you've been a little extreme, God, like, but I will, but let's just find something in the middle.
Well, gas commandments are always meant for our best. So don't hesitate. The l is clear and something just do it.
Trust him. Really trust the one that you say you love and that you believe. And verse 24 we say now 5 comes down over Sodom and Gomorrah, God judges seen.
Doesn't it sound familiar? Like We know that this will happen again, right? He's gonna judge seen again.
But what we'll see is that in between this time and when God will judge the whole world again, Right in between, he also judge in in a different way and it's it's in that moment in between.
Where we're gonna find our hope and I know you guys know what I'm saying. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he received that wrath and we are going to go there later but that's that's the progression of seniors want to highlight from lot, right?
Then the second point is Lot's wife and it's very short here. Like what what what does he say about Lot's wife?
Verse 26, but Lot's wife. Behind him looked back. And she became a pilots of salt and like Such a solid, isn't it?
Like I remember knowing the story when I grew up, but I wasn't really like Thank you, but why did she look back?
Like I asked a question that I was like, why did she look back? What was it that she made her not content to be saved, wanted to look back?
I think a simple suggestion of answer would be is that Her body left sodom. By her heart never left sodom.
Why? Well, I think the Lord Jesus shares very specifically here in Matthew 6, very common versus I'm just gonna read here very quick.
Matthew Sigs, 19 to 21. Do not lay out your for yourself treasures on earth where Moth and Ross Destroy were thieves breaking in steel.
Palaya for yourselves, treasure's in heaven where neither moth nor roast destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is There your heart will be also.
So where are we investing? What is her heart? Maybe like we saw attractive to the world that like is so yeah wicked but so enjoyable.
Seems enjoyable, but it will destroy you. So how are you spending? How are we investing then?
How are like our lives? How are we spending our time in the things of these worlds or in the world of God and the souls of mankind?
That are gonna be destroyed women share the gospel they don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ but how they're gonna believe it we don't preach right Where is our money going, right, investing in that every soul of this world would hear the gospel?
Are we? Praise the Lord for you guys. I'm so thankful that I, yeah, he's gonna be a year in July tenth receive this commendation to go and continue to spread the gas in Colombia.
But the guy, the reality is that the challenge is bigger than this, right? There's still 3.2 billion people without hearing the name of Jesus.
And we all can be part of that, right? Like are we investing? Are we like, what's the vision of our church?
Where are we going? Just like planning to survive here for another 100 years or like are we gonna continue to spread this gospel maybe?
To start a new church in Wisconsin. Who knows? Where are we going, right? Where are we investing? What are we looking at?
What is our treasure? Cause where you're investing is where your heart will be found and that's what we see in that's why I remember Lose Wife.
The third point is that it gets worse. I'm not gonna read it again. First 30 to 38.
I think like we all were like, wow, this cannot be happening again. Just highlighting this.
A sad background stories and like realities of broken families. Yeah, we hear here and there, but you see like you have an example in scripture in what God is gonna do with it.
How does this story end? Well, That's why we sell, that's about Indian, right?
But he gets worse. 2 girls. They realize there is no man. Let's get our father drunk and his sleep with him.
How crazy is that, huh? Isn't that crazy? I don't know. I cannot file them like Imagine these girls like They do and they do it.
They get their Father drunk and they both in different nights lay with their die How crazy is that? Isn't that like so messed up and broken?
They do and they get pregnant. And then we see. In verse 37 the firstborn bore a son and call his name mom.
So we see this reality of a broken world, but we see the reality also. The law being merciful to us in the midst of all the steps we take.
Yeah, there's 16 right the lower being merciful to him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city.
That's why you and I have experienced. By the work of Jesus Christ, but. The reality is this, right?
We have a broken world, broken families. And this is something that visionaries are doing out there. Some part of the reason why I'm back in my country is to start with my own family for them to know the hope that is found in Christ after all this darkness and sad story of our families.
This is a hopeful ending, guys. I want to now close up here with a hopeful ending.
This is how the story ends, right? But we see, okay, the first born, right, the first baby to be born is a little boy and his name is Mo from these dark situation right And I don't know how broken your life is today.
I don't know how deep into seeing you have gone. But I do want to tell you what Jesus does with a deep scene.
And the way we're gonna see it is that this little boy more, right? Grew up and he had kids.
He had kids and his kids had more kids. And after a few generations later, there was a couple that give birth to a little baby girl.
And this And years later, down the road, right? Ruth married an MA man named Bus and And boss and Ruth gave birth to Obed.
Right? And Jessie to David. And I'll turn with me to Matthew 1 1.
Matthew chapter one. Very one.
Says The book of the genealogy. Of Jesus Christ. The son of Tabian.
The son of Abraham.
Hmm. Wow. I want you I want you to know that the Lord Jesus Christ chose to come to these worlds.
In the family of these broken situation. We sing about the Redeemer. We're seeing that our Lord doesn't just change our path but redeem it.
I don't know how broken your life is, but I do wanna share these hopeful message guys that that We know how beautiful our Savior is in that he came and restored all the messiness in the sness of our lives.
See, Jesus was judging with the grass of God. He took the fire of God on that cross so that we could be eternally forgiven and redeemed.
And now, even though my parents are divorced in my background of like Sad story. Look at you guys.
A beautiful family that I'm part of now. Isn't that awesome that the Lord provides salvation, provides family, redeem it all?
And if you have received this this gift that I'm pretty sure most of you guys have. Maybe if you haven't, I encourage you to receive it.
But if you haven't, Romans 6 one If you have received this gift, what shall we say then?
Are we to continue in seen so that Grace May abound? Like, should we keep pitching or 10 towards sodom?
Should we keep living in What does the Lord say? By no means. No way. No.
Let's peace our chance to words, Christ. As the family of God in unity, every single family of Wotosa by Bao Chapel going towards the same direction, helping one another, fighting together not against one another no we're going towards the same direction right So that cries would be known in
Walatosa in Colombia and even to reach the 3.2 billion people that haven't heard about this glorious savior and they hope that we have experienced and that we can find in Christ.
That's just as Jesus prayed in June, 1721 that they may all be one just as you father are in being allowing you that they also may be in us so that the world May believe that you have sent me is because of the unity of us as a body fighting being in this in this broken world but remember the truth that
Jesus said that the gates of hell the haters won't prevail against it we are not in difference what is that door for is it like for attack not really it's like for attack not really it's for protection And we are the ones that we attack.
So stop like believing the lives of the enemy that, oh yeah, all this and you know that Jesus Christ that on the cross then believe it in go with the power that we have in Him.
My family. May we be a holy church and may we be a church that Pursues our Bry room, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who took our brokenness and gave us the beauty of the salvation. The spring.
Larry, thank you so much for your opportunity. You gave me to Speak from your warlord.
I'm not worthy of such a Lessing, but thank you that nor you've redeemed our lives.
Is because of your grace, that crazed the amazing grace, that has saved a wretch like me or Thank you that that in the midst of this broken world, we have hope.
We have our Savior beautiful Savior in the beautiful work. That he carried out in that cross, through his death and resurrection that we have this hope.
Of redemption. Or I just pray for the ones that here, Lauren, these plays that are broken.
No, I just pray for our families. Don't let the enemy Lord please do. He is working as Lord.
I pray that we all would be united together fighting Lord to together. The midst of this broken world or thank you for for this beautiful family that you have given me.
I prefer my younger brothers and sisters, Lord. Please, I know they're in such a hard spot right now.
What the world wants to distract them and give them all these for that seems attractive but at the end we'll destroy them.
I pray for or the parents here, that would be faithful or in being intentional in pouring in their kids lower.
Protecting them from the evil one door and not just pray that Tries would be glorified among us or continue to work in our lives.
We need you, Laura. There is nothing we can do without you. I pray Lord that if there is any scene kind of seen here in our lives today that we need to walk away from just run away from a lord that we would See a look at Jesus and and remember that we would rather have Jesus than anything in this world.
Lord. Thank you. Thank you so much. We love you and I pray all of these in your name.
Amen. Maybe we can close with I rather have Jesus. Is number you can 3 41