Escape!

We are looking at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah this week at MLCC. We are picking up the story this Sunday with Lot family—how they responded to the impending judgment and doom falling on the city. 

As the angels are urging Lot and his family to escape the city, we read—

Genesis 19:16 • But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.

Some of us were dragged kicking and screaming out of this dark world and into the light of salvation in God’s kingdom. We know that we had nothing to do with it—that our salvation was all about God having compassion on us and overcoming our resistance. That we were lost but now we are found, we were blind, but now we see.

How does God seize us by the hand? How does He drag us into new life? Scripture says this is by the GOSPEL and GOD’S WORD—the life–giving message of God’s Love demonstrated in Jesus’ death on the Cross and His resurrection. This message is the “power of God for salvation” (Romans 1:16) and it is the “imperishable seed” that makes us born again (1 Peter 1:23).

As we share God’s word and the message of Jesus with our not–yet–saved friends, family, and neighbors, we are like these Angels in Sodom, sharing a message with “hand–seizing, compassionate dragging” power behind it! Let’s never be ashamed of the Gospel!