DeliveranceDeliverance

SStudy - 6tudy - 6

IIn that day…n that day…

v1 – ‘even’

v5 – ‘night’

v15 – ‘morning’

v23 – ‘sun risen’

DDays of ays of

AAbraham braham

• They were settled & contented. All their kids were involved in the truth, parents, whole ecclesia, lectures…preaching & conversions. All their friends in the truth, busy with God.

DDays of ays of

LLotot They were hurried, rushed, stressed out

depressed people. Kids had left the truth because the parents had. Ecc hardly ever met, All friends were outside, No preaching. Busy with other things, eg… occupation, overtime, education + they ate & drank & wined & dined, played sport, R & R & holidays just to keep up.

C.S. LewisC.S. Lewis

• “we try when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes

our day, God’s share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay from our own pocket, a deduction from the

time which ought, we feel to be our own”.

Lot’sLot’s Family Family

• Only 2 daughters mentioned …(no sons).• Sons-in-law to be, ie betrothed. - only spoke to them & not to daughters - daughters referred to as firstborn &

younger (19:31,34).• Reinforces (Lke 17)…Lot mercifully saved form

intermarriage, unlike days of Noah (Gen 6:4).• Family & descendants saved (Jer 48:47; 49:6)

THETHE RIGHTEOUS LOTRIGHTEOUS LOT• Sitting in the gate (Isa 25)• Humble (v1)…not bow to Melchizedec (ch 14).• Love to others seen in his concern (v2).• Hospitable (v 2-3).• Fellowship meal ?? (v3).• Brotherly love seen in bravery (v6).• Rebukes sinners (v7-8).• Faith (v7)…stands for the truth.• Suffered for the truth (v9).• Attempts to teach truth (v14).• Lot did not look back (v26).