Over the years, we have heard much about what the secularists call victimless crimes. Unfortunately, Sodom was not much different than what we have going on in this country and world-wide right now, namely the legitimization of all sorts of sin. E. Today we are going to look at what happens when a believer, Lot, refuses to separate himself from wickedness. Sin removes our ability to reason 2. The Sin leading to judgment in Sodom and Gomorrah was homosexual perversion.
Sin ruins our testimony.
As we noted in the introduction, he gradually moved right into the most wicked place there was. Back in Chapter 13, we looked at Lot and his slide, and saw that he was selfish, which is a sin, and desired only what he perceived to be best for him. Abram gave Lot the choice to take any part of the land he desired, and he selfishly chose the all of what he considered the best part for himself. So, Abraham was far from this sin capital of Sodom. In fact, Lot already had a warning that where he was wasn t the best, as in Genesis 14 the four king confederacy had taken him captive, and Abram had to rescue him.