Genesis 25
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO WERE
SEPARATED FROM GOD
( Gen.19:1-14 )
People think that if they study hard and work hard, they will be happier. They think they will be happy if they get wealth and fame. So, for happiness, they run without brakes and live fiercely and hard. Are people happy if they make many money and have a good spouse? Not like that. Money is not a condition for happiness. God has given us a heart that longs for eternity. That is why people feel empty without being filled with something. Pascal said, “Everyone has a space that only God can fill.” If those who fill this space with darkness become the world's elite, the world becomes even more turbid because of them.
The success without God become arrogant. If material civilization and culture develop without God, we will walk down the path of pleasure. As a result of that suffering, failure and sickness come to man’s life. The countries such as Rome, Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Tyre, and Sidon who left God all of them were destroyed. Hero who left God also faild at last. However If any one meet God their all problem will be solved and if they continually seek God miracle takes place in them.
1. Angels visited Sodom.
1) Angels visited Abraham (18:2)
2) Angels visited Lot (19:1) The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them,
he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
3) The work and purpose of angels
(1) 2King19:14-15
(2) Heb.1:14
(3) Rev.8:3-5
(4) Ps.103:20-22
(5) Dan.3:8-24, 6:22
(6) Mt.18:10
(7) Ac. 12:1-10, 23
4) The purpose of angels who visited Sodom.
2. Portrait of Strong and great country and civilization without God.
1) Gen.19:4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
2) Gen.19:5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
3) Gen.19:8-9 "v.9. Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge!
We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
3. God’s power has revealed.
1) Gen.19:10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
2) Gen.19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
3) Gen.19:12-13 v.13 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here--sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city
who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
v.14 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."
4. The age that thought Word of God is joking. (Gen.19:14)
1) The age of word of God.
2) The age that left word of God.
3) The age that word of God become confused.
5. The Age of Salvation and Christ Disappearing
In these last days, we must be aware of the mission given to us who live by holding on to the Gospel, fix our attention on the Lord,
and live a life of loving our neighbors.