Genesis:19

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* Verse 1-29 - Lot was good , but there was not one more of the same character in the city . All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile . Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family . Lot lingered ; he trifled . Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state , and the necessity of a change , defer that needful work . The salvation of the most righteous men is of God 's mercy , not by their own merit . We are saved by grace . God 's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us , our lingering had been our ruin . Lot must flee for his life . He must not hanker after Sodom . Such commands as these are given to those who , through grace , are delivered out of a sinful state and condition . Return not to sin and Satan . Rest not in self and the world . Reach toward Christ and heaven , for that is escaping to the mountain , short of which we must not stop . Concerning this destruction , observe that it is a revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners of all ages . Let us learn from hence the evil of sin , and its hurtful nature ; it leads to ruin . * Verse 30-38 - See the peril of security . Lot , who kept chaste in Sodom , and was a mourner for the wickedness of the place , and a witness against it , when in the mountain , alone , and , as he thought , out of the way of temptation , is shamefully overtaken . Let him that thinks he stands high , and stands firm , take heed lest he fall . See the peril of drunkenness ; it is not only a great sin itself , but lets in many sins , which bring a lasting wound and dishonour . Many a man does that , when he is drunk , which , when he is sober , he could not think of without horror . See also the peril of temptation , even from relations and friends , whom we love and esteem , and expect kindness from . We must dread a snare , wherever we are , and be always upon our guard . No excuse can be made for the daughters , nor for Lot . Scarcely any account can be given of the affair but this , The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked : who can know it ? From the silence of the Scripture concerning Lot henceforward , learn that drunkenness , as it makes men forgetful , so it makes them to be forgotten . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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