The apostle tells us (2 Peter 2:20, 211.4. They live like the men of Sodom, and the men of Noah's day: they eat, and drink, and plant, and build, and marry, and are given in marriage, and behave as if Christ was never going to return. No doubt this had much to do with his accumulation of riches. The stupid world is not awakened by ordinary judgments, but looks upon them as some chance or common occurrence; and therefore God is forced to go out of the common road, and diversify His judgments, that by some eminent circumstance in them He may alarm the drowsy world to take notice of His hand.3. Her husband was made a widower, her daughters orphans.3. The last days are on His mind, when He says, "Remember Lot's wife."3. 11. We are then made to feel that we are brought face to face with God; we are confronted with the broad, plain letter of His written law. - C. I. THE SIN WHICH LOT'S WIFE COMMITTED. REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE, AND LEARN THE PERILS OF WORLDLINESS. H. "Remember Lot's wife," and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED.III. But God’s patience must not be wearied. This particular judgment is monumental, and so intended for a pattern and spectacle to after ages; and it is also here recommended by the Lord Himself — "Remember Lot's wife." Had she not hesitated, she had not been destroyed. If you are such an one, I say to you this day, Take care: "Remember Lot's wife. II. Being Lot's wife, remember that she had since her marriage shared with Lot in his journeys and adventures and trials. In this particular connection, the warning of her example seems to be proposed in the text. "Up! Lot's wife had also shared her husband's privileges. O ye children of godly parents, I beseech you look to yourselves that ye be not driven down to hell from your mother's side.2. "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62).From the whole —1. )Lot's wifeJ. 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. and shall I never enter, never see thee again? It was nearing midnight and the shuttle bus had more people than seats. out looking back. If you cling to the world and cast your eye back upon it you must perish in your sin, notwithstanding that you have eaten and drank with the people of God, and have been as near to them in relationship as wife to husband, or child to parent.3. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/luke-17.html. Procrastination is most perilous.5. I feel no readiness nor disposition to enter upon the work of my salvation. She died in the very act of disobedience. "(Bishop Ryle. THE PUNISHMENT WHICH GOD INFLICTED ON LOT'S WIFE. It was dreadful spiritually. There was disobedience in it, because it was against the express command of God, given by an angel, "Look not behind thee" (Genesis 19:17).2. Remember Lot's wife in the hour of fiery temptation. She seemed to doubt whether God was really going to destroy Sodom: she appeared not to believe there was any danger, or any need for such a hasty flight. "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found."(T. It your heart goes towards the mountain to escape, and if you hasten to be away with Christ to be His separated follower, you shall be saved: but if your heart still goes after evil and sin, His servants ye are whom ye obey, and from your evil master you shall get your black reward.IV. She looked back with regret at the valuable possessions that were being abandoned. They are willing to see all their idols broken, but this one. But that I may at once vindicate God's dispensation, and enforce the caution, I shall prove —(a) That sin is not to be measured by the external action, but by the circumstances. Remember Lot's wife, amid the assaults of unbelief. By natural agents or by a miracle, however, it is certain that Lot's wife has been made to stand in the midst of that awful plain, a petrified monument of God's displeasure against backsliders, for upwards of two thousand years; for, "I have seen it," said Josephus, "and it remains at this day." And this was the crowning point of her sin.III. 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." It has been thought — and there is considerable reason for the thought — that she was a native of Sodom. That it concerneth such not only to consider the mercies of God, but also now and then the examples of His justice, that “we may serve Him with fear, and rejoice with trembling” (Psalms 2:11). She lost her life. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND BEHOLD THE FOLLY AND SIN OF DELAY. "Just let me finish this sketch," replied the other, an English young lady. Remember Lot's wife, amid the assaults of unbelief.5. It was shameful; for she is made a public and lasting monument of shame to herself, but of instruction to us.I must show how profitable it is for us to meditate on this instance, even for all those who are called from wrath to a state of rest and glory.1. What could be more awful?1. Decision is essential to success in all departments of life. A. We are then made to feel that we are brought face to face with God; we are confronted with the broad, plain letter of His written law. It is good to remember her frequently; but we are in a special manner to remember Lot’s wife in the time of declining; in declining times remember her that you do not decline. Being Lot's wife, remember that she had since her marriage shared with Lot in his journeys and adventures and trials. Remember that in getting out of Sodom we must make haste. She died in the very act of disobedience. An artist once requested that he might be allowed to take the Queen's likeness. Her Majesty was there to the moment. Up its sides men and women were climbing to reach the top; but every one who looked back was turned into stone. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND BEHOLD THE FOLLY AND SIN OF DELAY. "Come away," said the elder, "don't run any risk." Decision is essential to success in all departments of life. Now she would look back, to see whether the prediction and warning were true. But He has appointed the period and the locality in which we are to obtain this Divine likeness — the present world and the present time. This woman had no excuse for hesitation or reluctance. Remember Lot's wife, in the hour of conviction of sin. Remember her warning. If you remember, Jesus said if you’re looking for it to begin in the future, you’re already mistaken because… Her husband was made a widower, her daughters orphans.3. The danger of damnation is seen and felt as never before. are we stronger than He?" III. So Lot's wife looked back because she had left her heart behind her. The last days are on His mind, when He says, "Remember Lot's wife. Nothing so wears down the sharpness of conscience, and dulls its perception of our actual state, as self-excusing. I. The evil of worldly attachments.III. Introduction – Luke 5:15; Mark 1:45; 10:45; 1 Timothy 1:15; Luke 19:10 A. Jesus came into the world to _____ B. She died in the very act of disobedience. His power is the same, so is His justice and holiness.3. H. Spurgeon.Separation is the only way of escape. They live like the men of Sodom, and the men of Noah's day: they eat, and drink, and plant, and build, and marry, and are given in marriage, and behave as if Christ was never going to return. If this story of Lot’s wife be true, and do live in our memory, then here we may learn by way of instruction, and see how far a man or woman may go in religion, and yet come short at the last. He was not. A clear, Divine call to duty cannot be trifled with without incurring fearful risk, if not of the loss of life physical, at least life spiritual.4. That look was a little thing, but it told of proud unbelief in Lot's wife. If this story of Lot’s wife be true, and live in our memory; here we may learn by way of instruction, that former deliverance will not secure us from future destruction: she was delivered with a great deliverance, and yet destroyed with a great destruction. It is a proof that we have loved with a criminal affection that which we leave with grief and anxiety, though commanded by the Lord to abandon it. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND BEHOLD THE FOLLY AND SIN OF DELAY. In this particular connection, the warning of her example seems to be proposed in the text. This world is a Sodom, and against it has been declared the condemnation of God's law. )The doom of the lingererD. An artist once requested that he might be allowed to take the Queen's likeness. III. He who sinks in the sea without the hope or opportunity of rescue may be sooner drowned than he who for a moment enjoys both; but to the heart of an observer how much more sickening and appalling is the end of him who disappears with the rope or plank of safety within reach, or in his very hand, or of him who slips into the bubbling waters from the surface of the rock which, with his failing strength, he had just reached, and on which for a moment of delicious delusion he had wept to imagine himself safe at last! Because her example is recorded for that purpose. There were her kindred, and friends, and country, and that pleasant place which was as the garden of God (Genesis 13:10). 3. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. Remember her delay. (1)She was warned once; we have been warned a thousand times. 1. Thus, we cannot fail to see in it a low and debased degree of earthly-mindedness, a heart fixed and bent on getting its worldly stuff--ready to incur difficulty for it, danger for it--ay, and the anger of God for it. Alas, many are! Remember Lot's wife in the hour of fiery temptation. "Up! So, if we grow remiss and careless, and keep not a constant watch, temptations will increase upon us.(T. Sometimes God is quick and severe upon sinners, surprising them in the very act of their sin; as Lot's wife was presently turned into a pillar of salt. "Commentary on Luke 17:32". She left word that she had been, gone, and should not return. "Remember Lot's wife" as an example of the possibility of falling from the most hopeful spiritual condition. Strange sins bring on strange punishment. Atherton. Beware of the alluring power of evil associations.2. They are weary of the wilderness and the manna, and would fain return to Egypt, if they could. Note what Christ says in Luke 9:62, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back," etc. A. There were her kindred, and friends, and country, and that pleasant place which was as the garden of God (Genesis 13:10). She was made a monument of God’s holy indignation, and a warning to all future ages, that men must not trifle with sin, or be inattentive to the Divine commands. If you are such an one, I say to you this day, "Take care: 'Remember Lot's wife. Copyright StatementThe Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament. A. )Remember Lot's wifeAnon.1. "Remember Lot's wife," and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED.III. When he came he found, instead of the royal lady, her message. We are then made to feel that we are brought face to face with God; we are confronted with the broad, plain letter of His written law. With gratitude for our own preservation though we have acted a similar, nay, a more guilty part. Remember Lot's wife - her "look back" and her doom. Rising in some secluded and rocky upland, they increase in volume and beauty as they flow along. Even He says, "Remember Lot's wife."4. The mere possession of religious privileges will save no one's soul. That it concerneth such not only to consider the mercies of God, but also now and then the examples of His justice, that "we may serve Him with fear, and rejoice with trembling" (Psalm 2:11). But without faith it is impossible to please God.4. (c) Because we think we may preserve the smaller sins for breed, and that God is more severe in remembering these than we are faulty in committing them. New York. Remember that she perished with the same doom as that which happened to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that doom befell her at the gates of Zoar.2. But instead of rolling on till they reach the ocean and help to swell its waters, they gradually sink and are lost in the sand of the desert. The danger of damnation is seen and felt as never before. She looked back with regret at the valuable possessions that were being abandoned. If the story of Lot’s wife be true, and do live in our memory: oh, what an evil thing is it to look back, and to decline in declining times. How terrible her fate! Elliott. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person who gives it. No: He singles out one whose soul was lost for ever. It is the almost universal sin. Remember that though she went some way towards escape SHE DID ACTUALLY PERISH THROUGH SIN.1. For here a woman is turned into a pillar of salt. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. Remember that in getting out of Sodom we must make haste. All little sins, all slight tamperings with conscience, all partial returns to once forsaken evil, all compromises with a renounced and repented habit, are as first steps to a hopeless and disastrous fall. They live like the men of Sodom, and the men of Noah's day: they eat, and drink, and plant, and build, and marry, and are given in marriage, and behave as if Christ was never going to return. Strange sins bring on strange punishment. They try to serve two masters: they labour to keep friends both with God and mammon. "(4) Are you secretly cherishing some besetting sin? )A woman to be rememberedBishop Ryle.I. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the persons to whom it was first given. 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. Decision is essential to success in all departments of life. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND LEARN THE PERILS OF WORLDLINESS. OF HER JUDGMENT — she was turned into a pillar of salt.1. Stones with the Jews, we know, were a kind of standing revelation. 5. 4. In 1875, two ladies were at some ruins on the sands. This world is a Sodom, and against it has been declared the condemnation of God's law.3. they go far in a profession of religion; they do many things that are right, and are very like the people of God. Again, there was in this sin of Lot's wife the crime of disobedience, with all its actual accompaniments of defiant rebellion and contemptuous unbelief. "Remember Lot's wife" as a warning to us that there must be no delays, no haltings, no slackened diligence, in running the race that is set before us. There was an abuse of the grace offered for her escape and deliverance (Romans 2:4). There was ingratitude for her deliverance from that dreadful and terrible burning which God was bringing upon the place of her abode. It was strange. All these four things are in every deliberate sin, seem it never so small. Disobedience develops into the deadly fruit of death.(G. Sin is often seemingly beautiful and attractive. Being Lot's wife, remember that she had since her marriage shared with Lot in his journeys and adventures and trials. (1)He is not intent on the work in hand. That not only modern and present, but ancient and old judgments are of great use to us, especially when like sins abound in the age we live in, or we are in danger of them as to our own practice. In fact, of the leading features of the phenomenon, traces remain in the physical geography of the neighbourhood to this day. 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." This seemeth to be no great fault; but it teaches us that little faults in appearance many times meet with a great judgment. It is no matter for delay. If you are such an one, I say:(3) Are you halting between two opinions, and disposed to go back to the world? Her end was marked by all those circumstances of anger and terror which seem to foreclose all hope. Remember that she perished with the same doom as that which happened to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that doom befell her at the gates of Zoar.2. Consider, in the first place, THE HOPEFUL OPPORTUNITY; or, Lot's wife fleeing from Sodom. God said, Look not back; but she would look back.(ii.) That it concerneth such not only to consider the mercies of God, but also now and then the examples of His justice, that "we may serve Him with fear, and rejoice with trembling" (Psalm 2:11). Whatever “looking back” may have denoted in the type, we know full well what may answer to it in the antitype. 2. All these four things are in every deliberate sin, seem it never so small. The Lord Jesus is full of love, mercy, and comparison: He is one who will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax. The danger of damnation is seen and felt as never before. I answer —1. Prosperity is perilous. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND LEARN THE PERILS OF WORLDLINESS. Alas, many are! So soon and so sudden is her disappearance from the stage of history. As little sticks set the great ones on fire, and a wisp of straw often enkindleth a great block of wood, so we are drawn on by the lesser evils to greater, and by the just judgment of God suffered to fall into them, because we made no conscience of lesser. I feel no readiness nor disposition to enter upon the work of my salvation. I would fain moor a buoy in the channel of all spiritual voyagers, and paint upon it, "Remember Lot's wife. (Ezra 9:13, 14). In remembering therefore her sin, we should remember, that God looks not merely on our outward conduct, but at the inward principles and dispositions of the heart. Her heart was in Sodom, though her body was outside. It was dreadful spiritually. On the AWFUL PUNISHMENT with which the wife of Lot was visited I will only insist as showing how peculiarly aggravated in God's sight must have been the nature of her sin. Thus, we cannot fail to see in it a low and debased degree of earthly-mindedness, a heart fixed and bent on getting its worldly stuff — ready to incur difficulty for it, danger for it — ay, and the anger of God for it. "Remember Lot's wife," and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED.III. With gratitude for our own preservation though we have acted a similar, nay, a more guilty part. When he came he found, instead of the royal lady, her message. I suppose he thought he could live above the world spiritually, and yet mingle with its votaries. "Commentary on Luke 17:32". But God's patience must not be wearied.2. Atherton. Remember her danger. "Remember Lot's wife," and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED.III. The stupid world is not awakened by ordinary judgments, but looks upon them as some chance or common occurrence; and therefore God is forced to go out of the common road, and diversify His judgments, that by some eminent circumstance in them He may alarm the drowsy world to take notice of His hand. There was ingratitude for her deliverance from that dreadful and terrible burning which God was bringing upon the place of her abode. )A danger-signalG. There may be much crookedness in a small line; and the matter is not so much to be regarded as the majesty and authority of God that commandeth — as in garments the dye is more than the stuff. Little things will often show the state of a man's mind even better than great ones, and little symptoms are often the signs of deadly and incurable diseases. "Remember Lot's wife" as an example of the folly, the danger, the wickedness of trifling with what you know to be wrong, of committing little sins, breaking little precepts, and going on to Satan's ground only a very little way. That look was a little thing, but it told of disobedience in Lot's wife. Faith is a look at Christ, but faith is a not looking at the things which are behind. She was united in the closest possible bonds to one who, with all his faults, was a righteous man; and yet she perished. "Up! How confidently should we have argued of her state; how confidently might she have argued of her own, when, of four persons to be saved out of those vast populations, she was chosen as one.3. Remember her surroundings. Gain and godliness are frequently divorced. The least delay or stop in the course of our flight may be pernicious to us.2. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND SEE HOW POSSIBLE IT IS TO BEGIN WELL AND END ILL. (2) This was a sin committed by stealth. THE REMARKABLE PUNISHMENT.(J. He wishes us to resemble Him. 2. See how many things meet here — the authority of God is spurned, the word of the angel is disbelieved, the wisdom or necessity of the command is questioned, and the impious prerogative laid claim to "Our eyes are our own; we may look on what we will: who is Lord over us?" Here is also a contempt of the rewards of obedience, as in all sin (Hebrews 12:15, 16).(iv.) 8. Call us at 888-634-2038. They keep clear of all gross profligacy, or open breach of God's law; but they are painfully careless about little inconsistencies, and painfully ready to make excuses for them. 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. She was united in the closest possible bonds to one who, with all his faults, was a righteous man; and yet she perished. "(2) Are you lukewarm, and cold in your Christianity? 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