Session 13
the interaction between the angels and Lot.
12 Then the angels said to Lot,
“Do you have anyone else here:
a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?
Get them out of this place,
13 for we are about to destroy this place
because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord,
that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters.
“Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!”
But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 At daybreak the angels urged Lot on:
“Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
16 But he hesitated.
Because of the Lord’s compassion for him, the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters.
They brought him out and left him outside the city.
17 As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said,
“Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain!
Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Highlight how the cities have become synonymous with evil.
point to the southwest end of the Dead Sea.
Share that this is where the cities may have been before the sea expanded and covered the area with water.
Write these headings on the board:
1. First Instruction: Get them out of this place...
2. Lot’s Conversation:
Get up,? he said. ?Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city!?
But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
3. Second Instruction.
Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away
4. Lot?s Response.
But he hesitated.
5. Final Instruction.
the Lord?s compassion for him,
the men grabbed his hand, his wife?s hand, and the hands of his two daughters.
They brought him out and left him outside the city.
one of them said,
?Run for your lives!
Don?t look back and don?t stop anywhere on the plain!
Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!?
Note that the angels’ very presence in Sodom is a testimony to God’s love and commitment.
the situation of Lot and his family (vv. 16-17).
He hesitated
Lot had moved so far away from God that the pull of his adopted lifestyle was strong.
As a result, he hesitated (v. 16),
argued (vv. 18-19),
and begged to go his own way (v. 20).
Lot also expressed no gratitude to God for his rescue.
Likely, he had become too comfortable or too fearful.
Whatever the case, his hesitation stands in contrast to Abraham’s consistent obedience and warns us about the dangers of playing with sin.