Saturday, August 25, 2012

destroying sodom


I'm not sure I align with the whole of R.C. Spoul Jr's post on Why Did God Destroy the City of Sodom? but there are some nuggets:

  • ... we live in a world where those committing sexual perversion have become a protected class [and] certain circles of the church have rushed to accommodate them. 
  • ... the wrath of God is revealed against all unrighteousness.
  • ... sexual perversity is both a result of God’s wrath and a provocation of God’s wrath.
  • ... Sodom was destroyed ... because of a lack of a remnant. God destroyed Sodom because of the failure of the church, of the believers.
  • Remember Abraham’s careful conversation with God, his virtual negotiation for the city of Sodom. Would God spare the city if there were fifty righteous there? Forty-five? Forty? Finally God agrees that He will spare the city for ten. But Abraham could not find even ten. Don’t miss though what might have been. This dark and evil city would have been spared had there been but ten righteous people. Despite the perversion, despite the scope of the evil, the city would have been spared for just ten righteous.
  • ... we, by His grace, have a righteousness that is not rightly our own. We have a perfect righteousness. And by that, we can be the very reason God might spare our nation, our culture. We plot and we worry about how to take back this institution and that. We strategize and we compromise, that we might earn a place at the world’s table, for the sake of the world. When what we are called to do is to seek first His righteousness and His kingdom. What we are called to do is the right thing.
  • Remnants save cities.
So - are we being salt and light? Are we seeking first His Kingdom and His Righteousness?

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