![]() ![]() Yet what good effect had all these privileges on the heart of Lot’s wife? None at all. Once more, I say, these were no small privileges. When the angels came to Sodom and warned her husband to flee, she saw them when they took them by the hand and led them out of the city, she was one of those whom they helped to escape. When Melchizedek, king of Salem, came forth to meet Abraham with bread and wine, she was there. When her husband was taken captive by Chedorlaomer, and delivered by God’s interference, she was there. When he built his altar by his tent between Hai and Bethel, it is probable she was there. When Abram first received the promises, it is probable Lot’s wife was there. All this Lot’s wife must have seen and known. Religion with them was no mere formal business it was the ruling principle of their lives and the mainspring of all their actions. It is impossible that she could have dwelt in tents with them for any length of time, without knowing whose they were and whom they served. The faith, the knowledge and the prayers of these two righteous men could have been no secret to her. ![]() She had a godly man for her husband she had Abraham, the father of the faithful, for her uncle by marriage. Compared with millions of her fellow creatures in her time, Lot’s wife was a favoured woman. Not one in a hundred perhaps had such good example, such spiritual society, such clear knowledge, such plain warnings as Lot’s wife. The knowledge of God was confined to a few favoured families the greater part of the inhabitants of the world were living in darkness, ignorance, superstition and sin. In the days of Abraham and Lot, true saving religion was scarce upon earth: there were no Bibles, no ministers, no churches, no tracts, no missionaries. I will first speak of the religious privileges which Lot’s wife enjoyed. The religious privileges which Lot’s wife enjoyed: I will speak of the judgement which God inflicted upon her.ġ. I will speak of the sin which Lot’s wife committed.ģ. I will speak of the religious privileges which Lot’s wife enjoyed.Ģ. There are three things which I shall do in order to bring the subject before our minds in order.ġ. Let us be provided with safeguards and antidotes against the disease that is around us and, not least, let us become familiar with the story of Lot’s wife. The last days are upon us the second coming of the Lord Jesus draws nigh the danger of worldliness is yearly increasing in the church. I am sure that her history is full of useful instruction to the church. I propose to examine the lessons which Lot’s wife is meant to teach us. He does not merely say, ‘Beware of following, take heed of imitating, do not be like Lot’s wife.’ He uses a different word: He says, ‘Remember.’ He speaks as if we were all in danger of forgetting the subject He stirs up our lazy memories He bids us keep the case before our minds. It is a solemn warning, when we consider the manner in which it was given. Even to them He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’ The Lord Jesus was speaking to HIS disciples He was not addressing the scribes and Pharisees, who hated Him, but Peter, James and John, and many others who loved Him yet even to them He thinks it good to address a caution. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the persons to whom it was first given. He could weep over unbelieving Jerusalem, and pray for the men that crucified Him yet even He thinks it good to remind us of lost souls. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy and compassion He is one who not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person who gives it. The last days are on His mind, when He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’ He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world He is describing the awful state of unreadiness in which many will be found. It is a solemn warning, when we consider the subject Jesus is upon. No, He singles out one whose soul was lost for ever. He does not bid us remember Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or Sarah or Hannah or Ruth. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. And the Lord Jesus Christ holds her up as a beacon to His church He says, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’ ![]() She left Sodom with him on the day when Sodom was destroyed she looked back towards the city from behind her husband, against God’s express command she was struck dead at once, and turned into a pillar of salt. Lot’s wife was a professor of religion her husband was a ‘righteous man’ (2 Peter 2:8). The Lord Jesus Christ says to us, ‘Remember Lot’s wife.’ There are few warnings in Scripture more solemn than that which heads this page. The chapter is titled: “A Woman to be Remembered.” The following is taken from Chapter 10 of J.C. ![]() Upper lip stiffened, I’m locked in a cellįor earth hath no sorrow that heaven can’t heal. Holding her in tears, the silence feels prolonged Blue eyes? Brown hair? Crushing thoughts swirl. ![]()
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