Genesis 19:23-38

As we look at the story of Sodom, there are two things we can’t miss: we will see the judgment of God for our sin and the hope of God for our future.

Outline

  • First, The Judgment of God for our Sin (19:23-29)
    • The judgment of God is consistent – consistent with his character
    • The judgment of God is comprehensive – comprehensive in its scope
    • The judgment of God is certain 
    • How should we respond to the judgment of God?
      • We can react to God’s judgment with contempt
      • We can react to God’s judgment with compassion
  • Second, The Hope of God for our future (19:29-38)
    • First, we see the hope of God’s promise
    • Second, we see the hope of God’s messiah

Christ Connections

  • Judgment of God is not an attribute of God. God is loving, God is holy, God is righteous, but God is not wrath. Instead, the judgment of God is the just demonstration of the holy love of a righteous God in response to sin. Hebrews 12 speaks of God like a loving father who disciplines his children.
  • In 2 Peter 2:7-9, Peter points to Lot’s deliverance from Sodom as a foretaste for those of us who are found in Christ. The Lord will sustain the godly through their trials. The beauty of God’s rescue is that he doesn’t just command us to escape judgment on our own, as with Lot, he takes reluctant refugees by the hand and guides us out of the place of judgment because he is merciful to us.
  • Genesis points to Jesus in some unexpected ways. Lot’s son Moab becomes a people who will include a women named Ruth. This Moabite woman named Ruth faithfully follows the Lord’s will into a relationship with Boaz and ultimately becomes the great-grandmother of King David and from her comes Jesus. God uses this broken moment to prepare the way for the one who would rescue us from our brokenness

Applications

  • Lot and his daughters were driven by fear, not faith. They try to grasp for safety through sin. If we don’t trust God’s work we may seek our own protection through sinful ways.