When Darkness Stares - (Genesis 19:1-29)

This sermon was preached at The Forest Church by Pastor Seth Earnest on 8/18/24.

When Darkness Stares - (Genesis 19:1-29)

Do you agree with everything that happens to you?

Well you don't always get that opportunity to wait things out and try and be right.

Often when life comes, it comes swiftly, and without warning.

Choice is nowhere to be found, because all of the choices of the past have already written your future.

For the people of Sodom in the Bible, they had run their course.
They had decided deeply that they were unwilling to turn to God, and unwilling to stop their barbaric sins of aggression and rape born of lust.
The fruit of the lives of the people had turned to a perpetual virus of depravity, and Lot, Abraham's nephew, had lost his way.
He was too weak to make right decisions in the moment that mattered.
Too weak to admit his failures.
Too weak to lead his family.
Too weak to value his daughters over his guests.
Too weak to lead.

In this episode of faith, we examine what happens, when we as people of faith, fail to stare into the darkness of the worst of life when it stares at us.
When we fail to call out lies, call out evil and call out wrong, we inevitably make friends with it, become seduced by it, and ultimately fail to be useful in the Kingdom of God.

The truth's displayed in Sodom are many, but what we see in the end, is a clear reminder for Abraham, that he was wrong about the city, and God is always just in his plan and purpose.