As God’s chosen, Christians must carefully choose how to live where they live. You are not to be anything like those living around you. Especially if it is a place like Sodom.
During this month, as the LGBTQ+ community annually parades its banner colors they blasphemously hijack from God’s noahic covenant,[1] Christians will benefit revisiting Genesis 19:1-25[2] (as Carl Trueman has recently called for such posts in this World Magazine article). Here, God visited Sodom and destroyed the sexually wicked majority while mercifully rescuing the righteous remnant within it.
Look to Lot as your example of righteous living amidst wickedness.
Lot responded to the angels’ presence exactly like his uncle Abraham, with reverence, deference, supplication, faith, and obedience. While in the midst of a diseased orchard of wickedness, yet Lot grew and produced different fruit while righteously grieving over the filthy debauchery of his neighbors (2 Peter 2:7-8).
As God’s chosen, Christians must carefully choose how to live where they live. You are not to be anything like those living around you. Especially if it is a place like Sodom.
See how Sodom is a warning for you to be in the world but not of it.
As Genesis 13:13 forecasted, …the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly, so in Genesis 18:20-21, God revealed to Abraham that there were not even 10 righteous left to justify sparing the city.
The angels sent by God found the Sodomites to be inflamed with unnatural sexual relations warned about as a final judgment upon a people gone wild in Romans 1:24-28.[3] All the men, young and old, tried to force themselves inside Lot’s house to sodomize his visitors! They despised his appeals, pushed in further, and threatened worse evil upon him! The angels pulled Lot in, barricaded the door, and blinded the aggressors.
