The Seven Steps Down in Lots Life

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The Seven Steps Down in Lots Life

• A lesson comparing the seven steps in Lots to
  those of the 21 Century Christian

February 3, 2008
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Luke 17 28

• Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot they
  did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
  planted, they builded

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Genesis 19 23- 26

• 23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot
  entered into Zoar.
• 24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon
  Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of
  heaven
• 25. And he overthrew those cities, and all the
  plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
  that which grew upon the ground.
• 26. But his wife looked back from behind him, and
  she became a pillar of salt.

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Todays Lesson Objectives

• To do a comparative analysis with the seven steps
  down in the life of Lot with the current choices
  of the Christians in the 21st Century.
• To study the choices in the days of Lot to those
  of the 21st Century

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Luke 17 28

• Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot they
  did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
  planted, they builded

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The 7 Steps Down in Lots Life

• Genesis 137 Striving
• Genesis 1310 Looked toward Sodom
• Genesis 1312 Pitched his tent
• Genesis 1412 Dwelt in Sodom
• Genesis 191 Sat at the gate (judge)
• Genesis 1916 He lingered
• Genesis 19 32-38 Drank with his daughters

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Step 1 - Striving

• Genesis 137
• And there was a strife between the herdmen of
  Abrams cattle and the herdmen of Lots cattle
  and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
  in the land.
• Striving to toss, that is, grapple to wrangle,
  that is, hold a controversy to
  defendadversary, chide, complain, contend,
  debate, ever, lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive,
  thoroughly.
• Lot lost respect for Abrahams wisdom, love,
  instructions and headship

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Step 2 - Looked

• Genesis 1310 Looked toward Sodom
• And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the
  plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every
  where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and
  Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like
  the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• Lifted up accept, advance, arise, armour,
  suffer to bear up, bring forth, burn, carry away,
  cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt self,
  extol, fetch, further, give, go on, help, high,
  hold up, lay, lift self up, lofty, marry,
  magnify, needs, obtain, receive, regard, respect,
  set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up),
  utterly, wear, yield.

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Step 3 - Pitched

• Genesis 1312 Pitched his tent
• Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
  dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched
  his tent toward Sodom.
• Pitched a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a
  distance)covering, (dwelling) (place), home,
  tabernacle, tent.

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Step 4 - Dwelt

• Genesis 1412 Dwelt in Sodom
• And they took Lot, Abrams brothers son, who
  dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
• Dwelt to settle, to marry (make to) abide,
  continue, cause to dwell, ease self, endure,
  establish, fail, habitation, haunt, inhabitant,
  make to keep house

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Step 5 - Sat

• Genesis 191 Sat at the gate
• And there came two angels to Sodom at even and
  Lot sat in the gate of Sodom and Lot seeing them
  rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with
  his face toward the ground
• He became a judge in Sodom

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Step 6 - Lingered

• Genesis 1916 He lingered
• And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his
  hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the
  hand of his two daughters the LORD being
  merciful unto him and they brought him forth,
  and set him without the city.
• Lingered to question or hesitate, that is, to
  be reluctantdelay, linger, stay selves, tarry.

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Step 7 - Drunken

• Genesis 19 32 Drank with his daughters
• Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we
  will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
  our father.
• Drink to become tipsy to satiate with a
  stimulating drink or influence.

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Lot Sowed Much in Sodom

• When we put our trust in the worlds system, and
  turn our attention away from the Creator, we lose
  everything in the sowing.
• Lot came into Sodom a wealthy man (Genesis
  135,6), but left with only his daughters.