tomwebster
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We are lights wherever we go. I got pumped alot over the fact that I joined a rugby league team. Look at them, they're a swearing, drinking mob. I was accused of trying to evangelise by joining them. Actually, I was just living life! I'm not playing rugby league for the express purpose of being a witness. I'm playing because that is my passion. For those who say it's worldly, I beg to differ, there was a time when all the league players WERE Christian. They aren't anymore. Could it be that something is wrong with Christianity?!
Lot was just a man, trying to live the way God wanted him to in a region of total depravity. I admire him. The Bible says nothing about him being strong or doing any great exploits, but yet, he remained righteous and stood tall for God in a city that was totally corrupt.
Let's flip the coin. Was Abraham really any better off? Not really. Listen to what the Scripture said about the inhabitants of Canaan just four hundred years later: Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Abraham was perhaps not in so bad a region, but it was bad all the same! I get sick of hearing people tell me that rugby league is so vile. I firmly believe that the GREATEST danger to a Christian is from those who profess Christianity.
I've been a little round-about in my explanation. Let me answer this directly now. "Something to consider is that Lot lived among the Sodomites and I don't think he was sent there by God to evangelize." Guess what? If NO ONE will dare to stand up in these areas of darkness, how will those people be saved? Except one dare to walk up to the gates of Hell and command them to open, nothing is going to happen! How will they hear without a preacher? I'm not about to condemn Lot because he lived in Sodom, anymore then I condemn those who work with homosexuals, which is absolutely nil.
gz, you are talking as if you think Lot lived in the time of grace. He didn't, he lived in a time even before the Law was given. God didn't want Abraham to live with the other people of the land, that is why God called Abram (Abraham) out of Ur.
Grace has only been on the table for the last two thousand years, before that there was not grace. And grace will end in the near future and we will enter judgment.