Abraham & Lot - Leonard Ravenhill — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

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This week we have Leonard Ravenhill with his message, Abraham and Lot.

Remember Lot’s Wife in the Context of Judgment

Look at the Gospel of Luke, sorry, the 17th chapter, Luke chapter 17, and verse 32. Not many words, just three. Remember Lot's wife. The preachers will tell you that a text without its context is a pretext, at least that's what I was always taught.

And if we deal with a text, we should deal with what surrounds it. That's except you get in the book of Proverbs, you can't do that very well. And you can't do that in the Old Testament when you get to the begats.

It's a bit difficult to do it there, but you can do it here. Verse 32, remember Lot's wife. Go back to verse 28. Here's the framework. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot. They did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded.

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. If you go a bit further back there into verse 26, it says as it was in the days of Noah. So shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

They did eat, they drank, they married wives, and they were given in marriage. I guess the Hebrew there says, if you go back to the Old Testament, they married wives and then they exchanged wives, which is a habit these days.

Until the day that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. To identify with this, we need to go back to Genesis chapter 6. As it was in the days of Noah, it says here. What was it like in the days of Noah?

Verse 5, in Genesis 6 verse 5 says, God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Now look at that, break it down here.

Every imagination, that's evil without exception. And it says they were evil continually. Well then that's evil without intermission. It was only evil, it's evil without mixture. And Jesus says as it was in the days of Noah.

There was a recklessness, there was a defiance of God. Well then as it was in the days of Lot. What did they do? Verse 28 again says, As it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded.

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Come down into Genesis a little bit further. In chapter 17. Maybe a bit further. No, verse 18.

Chapter 18, I'm sorry. I guess you know the background of this, almost everybody does. Verse 16, the men rose up from the fence and looked towards Sodom. And Abraham went to bring them to the way. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do?

I think that's a fantastic statement. Remember Abraham is the only man in scripture that's called the friend of God. Moses wasn't, David wasn't, Solomon wasn't. Abraham was. In the New Testament we're called the friends of God of course.

He are my friends, but not in the Old Testament. Here's a man who stands supreme, he's isolated. And yet God says there's something about this one man, Shall I hide from him? Not shall I hide from the king of Sodom.

Not shall I hide from Lot who's now a multimillionaire, a businessman. Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do? Can I violate the laws of friendship? If you have a true friend, well somewhere along the line you'll exchange secrets.

We don't shout secrets from the housetop. You whisper in somebody's ear or you make a covenant together. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. And Abraham feared God exceedingly and God says, Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do?

Now look at verse 19, it's important for you young folk with families. For I know that he will command his children after him. They shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment. That the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken.

Lot’s Compromise and the Influence of Sodom

The story of Lot is one of the saddest I think in the whole of the word of God. What do you think of when you think of Lot? The scripture that we read there in the 17th of Luke and 18, remember Lot's wife.

What do you think of? Usually we think about she escaped by the skin of her teeth. But you know there are three words, remember Lot's wife. To deal with them would take at least three hours. In fact it could take three days if you took the whole background, the historic background.

Yet Jesus is saying to these people upon whom judgment is going to come very soon. Remember Lot's wife. Remember her because she ran away? No, remember her for all her privileges. If you go back into the, where are we, let me see here.

Chapter 13 and verse 12. Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent towards Sodom. In the next chapter he gets into Sodom. In the next chapter Sodom's got into him.

You know we talk about this amazing man Abraham as though he was the most immaculate man. Faultless, nothing of the kind. God says I called Abraham alone. Did he go alone? No he didn't. He took Lot with him.

Took another man with him. God called him alone. What happened? He blundered all the way he went. He had trouble with the old man. He wouldn't go and move over Jordan. He had trouble with the young man.

He got in bad company. He went down into Egypt where God never took him. And when he got down into Egypt he had young Lot with him. And young Lot's eyes were open bulging wide. Look at the women. Do you know there's a record they were topless in those days?

Sin was a sport. Sex was a sport. Drinking was a sport. Violence was a sport. And young Lot goes and he feasts on it. So what happens when he gets a choice? He pitches his tent towards Sodom because he says, I come to Egypt.

I can get in here and it's like that wicked country I was in. So be careful what you children see on your TV. Don't say we're buying the youngster a TV for Christmas on his own and send you to hell as quick as you can.

He pitches his tent towards Sodom. Now come down to chapter 19 and verse 1. They came to angels to Sodom at the end of the evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. What's he doing in the gate? I used to wonder why in the world the scripture says the gates of hell won't prevail against the church.

I thought what, does the devil carry gates around pushing people away? The gate was a place of government. All the elders of government sat in the gate. People had their passports checked as they went in.

They had their credentials. They had to prove many things. All the authority was in those people at the gate. And now this man is a man of authority. One of the most puzzling things about this man in 2 Peter is it says that Lot vexed his righteous soul every day.

I don't see much righteous about him. I think he was righteous until he got involved in all the commercial life and the social life of Sodom. He sat in the gate. He was accepted. I think again here he lost his righteousness.

You see we have identical situations in history. I guess you've heard me say this before and I hope I'll live to say it again. I think the one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.

I think at this point America is in the lowest point of degeneracy she's ever been in. It's true that she was pretty low when Jonathan Edwards and those Puritans came along. There's no way we're going to legislate righteousness.

You stick notices up the road 55 miles an hour. Some of you guys broke it coming to church tonight maybe. You can repent right there but anyhow. We'll leave that to you for a bit later. Do people keep 55?

I go down 55 and a thing goes roaring past me. I say to my sweetheart, to my wife, that mack truck. Is it a mack or what in the world is it? It's going 75 miles an hour. I don't know much about motors.

But I know that that big thing that's roaring down the road at 75 has not got a Volkswagen motor in it. Isn't that wisdom? So you've got guys running big churches on a Volkswagen prayer meeting. I go to churches sometimes with 150, 200 people in the choir.

If only 10 of them came to the choir practice, the choir master would resign the first week. But if the preacher got 10 of his congregation, I was in a church a while ago with 12 ,000 members. They had 53 deacons.

I asked the pastor, I said, tell me. Oh, I nearly said his name. I won't tell his name. I won't let you guess even. You're 53 deacons. How many can you see? Eight? Nine? Isn't that marvelous? What do you do with the other 50?

Fire them. They're supposed to be full of faith in the Holy Ghost. They got elected because they own two Texaco stations and a hot dog stand. Apparently no deacons here tonight. I'd be buried in hymn books if you...

Oh, there's so many things in this story we could take. I'm not going to take them. Chapter 19, verse 1. I'll read it again. They came to angels to Sodom at evening, and Lot sat in the gate. And seeing them, he rose up and bowed himself with his face to the earth, and said, Behold now, turn in with me, so forth and so on.

Verse 3 says, He pressed upon them greatly, and they turned into his house. Verse 4,. But before they laid down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, come past the house round about, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, and they called them to Lot.

Where are the men which came into your house? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. They were Sodomites. Lot went out of the door and said unto them, and he shut the door after him, and he said, Now, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man. Why hadn't they known man? They were married. Read in the chapter. They were married. But the marriage was never consummated. This righteous man had married his sons off to some wealthy homosexuals, wherein God's name was his righteousness.

Judgment, Romans 1, and Moral Rebellion

Let me say the point of identification here I wanted to read to you from. I don't usually use translations, as you know, but Philip's translation. Jesus says, As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be when he comes.

Come on now, tell me, you theologians. Has God set a clock, and when that clock goes off, he's going to put judgment on us? Is it a case of time or temperature? Does it not automatically kick over, like when you have your air conditioner on?

And you set it at a certain thing and it's cold outside. You open the door and immediately that thing kicks on. It fights back against the cold. Does God wait until a country, a nation gets so rotten that the only thing he can do is mercy?

His judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah was not a judgment of madness. It was a judgment of love. He did in a few hours what it would have taken them to do, rot in their sin for a number of years. Here's Romans 1 in a modern translation.

The holy anger of God is disclosed from heaven against all godlessness and evil of men who render truth dumb and inoperative by their wickedness. It is not that they do not know the truth about God. Indeed, he has made it quite plain to them, for since the beginning of the world, the invisible attributes of God, his eternal power and divinity, have been plainly discernible through the things which he has made and which are commonly seen and known, thus leaving these men without a rag of excuse to cover them.

They knew all the time that there is a God, yet they refused to acknowledge this God, or to thank him for what he does. They became fatuous in their argumentations and plunged their silly little minds further into the dark.

Behind a facade of wisdom they became such fools, fools who could exchange the glory of the immortal God for an imitation God, like mortal men, or things that fly and crawl. Therefore God gave them up to be playthings of their own foul desires and dishonored their bodies.

Moreover, since they considered themselves too high and mighty to acknowledge God, he allowed them to become the slaves of their degenerate minds to perform unmentionable deeds. They became filled with wickedness, rottenness, greed, malice.

Their minds were steeped in envy, murder, quarrelsomeness, deceitfulness and spite. They became whispers behind doors, stabbers in the back, god-haters. They overflowed with insolent pride and faithfulness.

Their minds teemed with diabolical invention. They scoffed at duty to parents. They mocked at learning. They recognized no obligations of honor. They lost all their natural affection, had no use for mercy.

Lost their natural affection? I had a man in my office a while ago. Boy, was he one thousand percent stronger than Calvin. Every baby in the mother's womb is already predestined. God knows its destiny.

Tell me that a million babies were destined in eternity to go down the john last year? What kind of a God have you got? I believe God asked for knowledge. I don't believe He predestined them to that. But these people who become so corrupt, they're so lawless, they obey nobody.

Laws of God or laws of men. They're in a state of total rebellion. Being well aware of God's pronouncement that all that do these things deserve to die, they not only continued in their own practices, but did not hesitate to give their thorough approval to others who did the same.

As far as I see, we parallel today, in our moral or immoral condition, the conditions of Noah and the conditions in the days of Lot. But who worries about it? These people warned of judgment. The word of God says, remember Lot's wife, because she has stacks and stacks and stacks of advice before this inevitable thing came upon her.

She didn't remember her father Abraham and his righteousness, the greatest man who had walked the earth. She didn't remember her father and his righteousness. After all, you only go six chapters back and God's flooded the world, destroyed the world.

And he's hung a sign over it, my spirit will not always strive with mine. Wake up America, we're going to hell as quickly as we can. He'll cut us off before long. We don't break his laws every day. We don't transgress his commandments and get away with it.

There's a payday. I call it the final checkout counter. When everybody's bills will be due. When every sin that isn't covered with the blood will be exposed before billions of people. It goes further down there into Timothy.

2 Timothy chapter 3 says this. Do you realize that in the last days the times will be full of danger? Men will become utterly self-centered, greedy of money, full of big words. They will be proud and contemptuous without any regard for what their parents taught them.

They will be utterly lacking in gratitude, in purity and in normal human affection. They will be men of unscrupulous speech and have no control over themselves. They will be passionate and unprincipled, treacherous, self-willed, conceited, loving all the time what gives them pleasure instead of loving God.

They will maintain a facade of religion but their conduct denies its validity. You must keep clear of people like this. The time is coming when men will not tolerate wholesome teaching. Again, God's problem in the Old Testament was not the Amalekites or Hittites or Jebusites or Hivites or any otherites.

God's problem in the Old Testament was Israel. God's problem tonight is not humanism in the school. That's an excuse to lazy pastors. We need to get the Bible back in the home. We need to get prayer back in the house, in the school.

We need to get prayer back in the home. Ask your congregation tomorrow, how many of you fathers are not really fathers in the home? You're not the king in the home, not the bully, you're not the king.

You're not the priest in the home. You don't gather the children around your lap and every day read the word of God and instruct them. I had the privilege of praying many mornings between five and six o 'clock with that precious man that God used in the Hebrides revival in 1950, Duncan Campbell.

I remember one day talking, it was before six and as Bunyan would say, the water stood in his eyes, all the tears were there. I said, how is it in the outer Hebrides? Amongst those so-called stuffy Presbyterians, you saw more of the Spirit of God.

Well, he said, I'll tell you one reason, I think. The little boys and girls there from five years of age see daddy bring the Bible out every morning. And if there's pressure on the farmer somewhere, he leaves it till supper time and all the dishes are put in the sink and then he takes the word of God and he reads it.

And all those children have to learn the Shorter Catechism, which is really an epitome of theology. There's your answer. Those children have had the word of God in their hearts since they were five or six, Paul, plants of Polish waters, God gives an increase.

The revival there was due again to two old ladies, 184 and 182. They joined hands and made a covenant. Oh dear. I get tired of people making promises. The highway of most of our lives is filled with broken vows, unfulfilled covenants.

Lord, if you get me out of hospital, I'll pray an extra hour every day the rest of my life and you'll forget God the week after. That woman dying in labor pains, the doctor said the odds are against you.

And she said, well, if you get me through this, I'll be a different woman. But she wasn't. Except she had another baby. But apart from that, there was no miracle wrought in her. Let me look here a minute.

Abraham’s Faithfulness and the Call to Prayer

And this is really the important thing I want to say. In the midst of all this devastation, in the midst of all the corruption, there was one man stood alone. He was unchanged with the system, with the customs.

Young lot pitched his pen towards Sodom. Then he went in Sodom. I remember an old man said to me, but son, look, you know what? The devil will help you in your Christian life. I said, he will? Yes. He'll help you get to the top of the ladder.

And when he gets to the top, he'll push you over. Very often success is the worst thing that can come to us. We need adversity. We need to fight the world, the flesh, the devil. It says concerning this man Abraham, he stood before the Lord.

Does that ring a bell? Does it say in 1 Kings 17 verse 1 that Elijah stood before the Lord? He didn't kneel, he stood. He's waiting for two things. He's waiting for a commandment and he's waiting for authority to carry it out.

And Abraham has every conceivable evil against him. The city is swarming with filth. People delight in it. They buy it. They sell it like we do. Friday night. Some taverns will be open till 2 and 3 in the morning.

So will dance halls and discos and all these hell holes. And the churches will be locked up. Maybe there's only one fault with modern Christianity. We don't take God seriously. Why should the man in the street believe God if we don't believe him?

Why should they obey what you say, preacher, when you don't obey what God says to you? Sure, I'd like to write another book on revival. I've got something boiling inside me. I don't think I'm going to do it.

Because, you see, I don't have to do it. The secret of revival isn't a secret at all. It's splashed right across the Word of God for over a thousand years. And it's the priest that's to lie between the altar and the doorpost and let him weep and let him travel.

I went to a certain famous college. I went in a Bible college. It's a great big display thing, you know, with a guy with a tennis racket. All plastic, of course. Plastic gold. Somebody kicking a football.

Somebody else with a baseball. Somebody else with a volleyball. Somebody else with a basketball. I mean, in miniature. I got on my knees and I was looking. A fine young fellow said, Sir, could I help you?

I said, I'd be very happy if you could. What are you looking for? I was looking to see who got the trophy for praying. He said, what? I said, don't you have a model of somebody praying in these famous Bibles?

Are you serious? I said, yes, are you? Do you think you're going to get a reward in heaven because you knock more home runs in the Wesleyan, what do you call it, Bible school? Or if you go to, where does the Pentecostals go when they die?

Springfield. Yeah. Do you think you're going to get a reward because you hit more home runs? Come on, preacher. I had a young man come to see me this week. He thinks God has called him out of the business career to become a preacher.

Give me some tips. I said, read Acts 26 on your knees every day for the next month. Tells you what your job is. Acts 26, to open the eyes of the blind, to turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified.

When you've done that, read all the minor prophets and soak yourself in them. Get out of the way of pygmies and walk with giants. Get away from the modern trash that they sell at CBA next week. And read what God says and measure up to some of the standards God has.

We don't need any advice and God doesn't. We try and give it to him. You say, I wonder what would happen if we really knew that judgment was coming say next week, Wednesday night. I'll tell you what would happen.

Every church would be packed out. I told you the other week of a friend of ours who came back from Korea. Of course, wide-eyed. Oh, there's Dr. Cho. Cho, is it? Dr. Cho, Paul Cho. That's a church of 300 ,000, 400 ,000 now.

But the thing was, she went up the mountain and there was a cave there and there were nearly 2 ,000 women in there praying as though they were all delivering a baby in agony. Hour after hour, after hour, after hour.

Do you know why? Because you can walk to the borders and on the border of North and Korea there's a million Russians lined up ready to come over and plunge the whole nation into blood. So every time they go to church the pastor says, you memorize this chapter next week.

You memorize that hymn next week. It's an open secret. There'll be no Bibles around in a few years. There'll be no hymn books around in a few years. We'll be huddled in concentration camps. We'll be hiding in caves.

The streets will be running with blood. We're going to be martyred. Oh, if we knew that. Come on now. Come on. Don't suggest we don't know. Yeah, you say, if we were going to be murdered or if we were going to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Well, don't you listen to what Mr. Reagan says? That Russia's deciding what temperature to roast us at. And if you don't think there's going to be a bloody thing like that come happen, what do you think about the Word of God that talks about the Battle of Armageddon?

What do you think about the Scriptures that nobody quotes these days that Jesus is coming in flaming vengeance? Forget all about your rapture. Come on preachers. How many of us will it be clear from the blood of the people in our streets?

If I were a Protestant Pope, I'd close every church in the nation for a month. There wouldn't be another word of preaching. Your people can't handle the light they have now at the judgment seat. And all you'll do on Sunday is add condemnation to them.

They can't handle it. Every one of us know to live better than we're living and that's our condemnation. We know to be praying better than we're praying. We know how to fast better than we're fasting.

We know we should be weeping more than we're weeping. We know we should have gone to the place where God Almighty can give us groanings that cannot be uttered and that's a hundred million miles past praying in tongues.

It's an inner grief. It's something that has no language. God says so. I don't say so. I'm convinced with all my heart we're in the most the most severe decade if we last I don't think we'll last a decade five years that America's ever had.

And she's not going to be changed by legislation she's going to be changed by revival. And revival only comes by birth by travel. I get too many visitors I wish I didn't get some of them but the other day a very refreshing young man came to me in the course of talking he said this.

Do you know anything about the lady what's her name now? Oh she was in England when we were there Agnes Sanford some of you read Agnes Sanford's books I suppose. Six years ago somebody told her that San Andrea Fault is that what you call it is going to split wide open and that section is going to slip into the Pacific Ocean that section of California.

She went and bought a house on the San Andrea Fault defied the devil defied her friends and she's living there and has been holding on to God for six years without tremendous catastrophe will not come.

Isn't it amazing that this righteous man so called I'm angry with Lot wait till I see him I'll tell him off I'll tell you that. Why did he go pray pray with Abraham he didn't pray with Abraham. We were in a prayer meeting the other night where somebody prayed and said well this coming Saturday my family and they're a very well known family world famous they'll be at a ball game all the grandkids we're going to have a ball game but they won't come to the prayer meeting tonight.

No church is stronger than its prayer meeting. The church that isn't praying is playing the pastor that isn't praying is straying. The devil fights your prayer life. I think of that woman I get up now two or three in the morning I think there's that precious little woman on the San Andrea Fault there and she's got the destiny almost the millions in her hands.

She says they're not going to pay it while I live. I'm going to pray. I'm going to put out my life. She won't get a Congress medal for it. She won't be asked to go to the White House in most cases she won't be asked to go to God's house because they think she's a fanatic.

But there's that one precious woman that's become my heroine. Oh yes, yes I love the stars and stripes. I keep saying I'm going to get a flag it hasn't come yet but anyhow I'm going to get one. But when I see people singing is this what you do with your hand on your heart and half of them cheat the income tax anyhow.

They don't love the country. They break every blessed law they can break. They're hypocrites and stand my consciousness of thee. Oh America, America how beautiful except the IRS go to hell. You know I think one of these days most of them are going to wake up and take God seriously.

Lot’s Wife, Backsliding, and the Need for Holiness

I spoke about two weeks ago about the barren women in the Bible where Rachel got fed up of the jewels and all the glory and everything. I noticed this woman Lot's wife. Oh brother was she something I'll tell you what a note I made here about her when the judgment came.

What said verse 14 of chapter wait a minute 19 says this Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law which had married his daughters. There you are. His sons-in-law had married his daughters. The marriage was never consummated so they had their sex between themselves.

The dogs that they were which had married his daughters and said up get you out of this place for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed unto them as one of Mark. Now this woman had seen the most righteous man in the world Abraham.

She'd seen her father when he was on stretch for God. And she forgot about the holiness of Abraham. She forgot about the holiness of Lot. She forgot that God had already poured his judgment out in water and flooded the earth.

And now he's going to burn the thing up. Let me stick this in your mind again. Like it or not there's one reason we don't have revival. Do you know what it is. We're content to live without it. When it becomes number one priority we'll do something about it.

There's only one reason the world tonight is going to hell fire. And that's because the church has got holy ghost fire. I don't care whether you've got holy insomnia church or Pentecostal or what it is.

It's a pillar of fire over it. After tonight we're going to start our meetings every Friday night. We're going to start with 10 to 15 minutes of total silence. The scripture says be filled with the spirit.

It also says be still and know that I'm God. We come out of the fever of the world. And you've been racing up the road and you come in here and expect somebody to become sanctified. We need 10 minutes 15 minutes to clear our minds of all the draughts and all the thinking and all the material things.

The church is earthbound. We're as materialistic as the man up the road. The Lord's going to utterly destroy this place. He seemed unto them as one that mocked. I had a man and his wife came from Pittsburgh.

Where is it Pennsylvania to see me yesterday. Very delightful man. I tell you why. I tell you why I liked him. Because he agreed with all my idiosyncrasies. And he said notice what he said brother Ray I've read your books.

My heart beats like yours. But you know what. People won't accept my message. Did they ever accept the message of a prophet. If you see a man saying he's a prophet and he's well dressed and has no scars.

Forget it. Maybe he's a prophet. P-R-O P-R-O-F-I-T. Like most of the big radio boys he seemed as one that mocked to his sons. And when the morning arose the angels hastened to lot saying arise take thy wife thy two daughters which he had noticed.

The sons in law left out lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered even lot was lingering. You talk about mercy while he lingered. Then these angels laid hold of his hand and on the hand of his wife on the hand of his two daughters but not his sons in law.

They brought them forth and set them without the city. It came to pass when they brought forth. Then forth abroad he said escape for thy life. Look not behind thee. Verse 26 says. But his wife looked behind from behind and became a pillar of salt.

Isn't it amazing with hell raining from the sky. She defied God. It's equally amazing to me tonight that with judgment coming down on us very soon that most of the churches are locked up at this very hour.

We're never going to win the world by organizing it's only by agonizing but then notice stepping back backwards and forwards a little bit but anyhow. Verse 29 the 18th chapter. Verse 22 says. The men turned their faces from thence and went towards Sodom.

But Abraham stood before the Lord. He wasn't going to be moved by anybody. Abraham drew near and said will thou also destroy the righteous. He never prayed for Sodom. He never prayed for Gomorrah. He prayed for the preservation of the saints.

People say oh bless America. There's a fellow in Dallas preached not the 4th of July this year. 4th of July last year we were in the Bahamas having a rest. And somebody turned the thing on and said here's a young fellow preaching from.

I never said his name but I won't. His first name is Bob. Anyhow. But he was preaching from Dallas at the end before he preached. The other man come in Yankee Doodle trousers stripes white and black and a blue vest with stars on and a tall hat and a stick.

And a guy danced on the platform singing Yankee Doodle. Dandy you know just like Isaiah did you know what Isaiah did in the first chapter. Then he tries to get serious. Oh how come you need. Oh my dear wife and I.

We have decided to give America to God good Lord. That's like giving a bride a bag of manure. Give America to God. Rotting with venereal disease. Rotting with AIDS. With more illegitimate babies than we've ever had in our history.

With more drunkards we've had in our history. With more people on drugs than we've ever had in our history. It doesn't alarm the world. It doesn't alarm us. He did not pray for Sodom. He did not pray for Gomorrah.

What did he say. He said in verse 22 the men turned their faces from thence and went. But Abraham stood. And the next verse says Abraham drew near and said will thou also for the destroy the righteous with the wicked put a banshee.

That are faithfully righteous within the city. And notice he mentions that all the way down in verse 23 the righteous in verse 24 the righteous in verse 25 the righteous in verse 26 the righteous. He gets down to the end where it says if they lack 50 of the righteous.