lot saved

Genesis Fourteen….(v.1-16) Lot Saved.

Verses 1-16….

We have just seen how Lot separated from Abram and chose the easy land of the plains, BUT there were dangers there, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...

This reminds us that the easy ways of life are not always the best ways. It is easy to sleep in, in the mornings rather than to get up and spend time in God's Word; it is easy to work church life around what we want to do rather than make church central and work other things around it!

Lot thought he could handle the temptations of these places, but we see in this chapter that now he was living right IN Sodom. So the world sucks the unwary believer right into its midst until they are totally captivated and captured by the evil one, just as Lot was taken captive by the pagan kings. It took righteous Abram with his trained servants to rescue him and bring him back restoring his goods to him.

Notice that Abram was on the alert, with his servants trained and ready to fight. This is how we should be as believers (2 Timothy 2:3-6). We should be on the alert to not get tangled up in the world's pleasures, but to strive to please our Master at all times. We are told in Ephesians 6:10-18 how to be armed and ready for this fight, and this doesn't happen by just drifting along!

Lot's way was easy on the plain, But soon he moved in ways so vain,

All his goods were taken away, Till Abram got them back one day.

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