Escape for Your Life | Genesis 19:17

If you want to escape God’s judgment, escape your sexual immorality. Lot escaped the sexually immoral city of Sodom while he had the chance. You should, too.

“Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”
Genesis 19:17

God’s advice for the Christian man who watches pornography can be summed up in one word—escape! God will have mercy on you just as He had mercy on Lot, but only if you obey God, escape the wicked city, don’t look back, and go to live somewhere safe.

Lot was a righteous man who lived with his wife and family in Sodom, a city so wicked that the Bible uses the name of the city as a symbol of wickedness. Its destruction at the hands of the Lord is held up as a warning to sinners of coming judgment (Jude 7). God had mercy on Lot and his family by giving them a chance to leave the city before it was consumed from heaven with fire and brimstone.

Today, if your life is consumed with pornography or sexual immorality, you must understand that God is going to judge sexual sin one day. He will judge the sin by punishing the sinners, just as he punished all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. The destruction was both sudden and complete. It caught the inhabitants by surprise, and it consumed every one of them except Lot, his wife, and his two daughters.

God’s warning to Lot is God’s warning to you today: “Escape for your life!” God’s longsuffering with sexual sin is going to one day run out. His patience with pornographers, porn actors, porn distributers, and those who consume pornography, is going to end. The window of opportunity to escape will close, just as it did for Lot. One day, the Son of Man will return, taking vengeance on the sexually immoral and the wicked, and do so suddenly, just as God suddenly punished Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:28-30).

If you want to escape God’s judgment, escape your sexual immorality. Lot escaped the sexually immoral city of Sodom while he had the chance. But that chance wasn’t extended for long. God destroyed Sodom the same day the two angels warned Lot to flee the city. You can escape your sexual immorality today, while you still have time. Repent of your sin, ask God to forgive you based on the redemptive work of Christ on the cross, and receive the forgiveness and cleansing that God offers. Escape for your life. Don’t delay.


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