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Abraham, by faithful obedience, was an heir of rewards in glory for his obedient choices.
Lot made it “so as by fire” (I Cor. 3:15), and watched as his life’s treasures were mostly consumed by the fire and brimstone that fell from God out of Heaven. Lot got to see literally and in his lifetime, the results everyone else will someday see at the Judgment Seat of Christ: anything tainted by the world gets burned up.
Lot lost everything that mattered in life because of a series of horrible choices he made to compromise his life with the world. That is what God wanted Abraham to teach and instruct and command his family after him to avoid .
A Summary of Lot’s Bad Choices
In four short verses we see the pathway of tragic consequence that all started with Lot’s encounter with what God’s Word calls the “lust of the eyes” (I Jn. 2:15-17), the strong, unbridled desires for what we see.
Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
1. Unlike Abraham: Lot seemed to walk by sight and not by faith (Genesis 13:10).
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.
First, we see that Lot lifted up ‘his eyes’, not his heart in prayer, not his soul to the Lord his Maker, just his eyes. He relied upon his flesh’s instinctive desires, which would end up paying him back bitterly in the end. Lot could only see what looked best.
2. Unlike Abraham: Lot chose what was best for himself, not the best for God (Genesis 13:11).
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