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Moore, M. A.I. Luke 17:32 NIV Luke 17:32 NLT Luke 17:32 ESV Luke 17:32 NASB Luke 17:32 KJV Luke 17:32 Bible Apps Luke 17:32 Parallel Luke 17:32 Biblia Paralela Luke 17:32 Chinese Bible Luke 17:32 French Bible Luke 17:32 German Bible Luke 17:32 Commentaries Bible Hub "It is only a little temper, or a little levity, or a little thoughtlessness, or a little forgetfulness." "She looked back." ... Worldwide Index of Sermons 2,544 views. As we are to cherish the spirit or better part with promises and hopes of glory, by which the inner man is renewed day by day, so we are to weaken the pravity of the flesh by the remembrance of God’s judgments, not only threatened, but also actually inflicted! Her husband was made a widower, her daughters orphans. Better for her to have perished in Sodom .than on the way to Zoar.(3)Signal. But here I am, an old man. The danger of damnation is seen and felt as never before. In this particular connection, the warning of her example seems to be proposed in the text. She lost her life.2. But her infidelity, her disobedience, her ingratitude, and her love of the world, received a just, though severe rebuke. '"(Bishop Ryle. Beware of the alluring power of evil associations.2. A preferring her own will before the will of God. Let us not be high-minded, but fear. Her husband was made a widower, her daughters orphans.3. You will be judged according to the going of your heart. It was dreadful socially. I feel no readiness nor disposition to enter upon the work of my salvation. Moore, M. The apostle tells us (2 Peter 2:20, 211.4. BibliographyNicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. Her end was marked by all those circumstances of anger and terror which seem to foreclose all hope. But although worldly-minded herself, her husband was a religious person, and she had many opportunities of redeeming her character and turning to the Lord. "Remember Lot's wife." That not only modern and present, but ancient and old judgments are of great use to us, especially when like sins abound in the age we live in, or we are in danger of them as to our own practice. It is said, "The Lord was merciful to him" (Genesis 19:16). It was shameful; for she is made a public and lasting monument of shame to herself, but of instruction to us.I must show how profitable it is for us to meditate on this instance, even for all those who are called from wrath to a state of rest and glory.1. She died in the very act of disobedience. Procrastination is most perilous.5. He could not pretend to it out of any merit, and might have smarted, for his choice showed weakness in not resting on God's word: "I cannot escape to the mountain, let some evil take me, and I die" (ver. So God has set great danger-signals in the sea of time. (b) This woman's sin is greater than at first appeareth. )A solemn warningBishop Ryle.1. The only safety is in precipitate flight. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/luke-17.html. He was not. Some are like certain African rivers of which we have read. That if we would not go back, we must not look back. And so with us. How terrible her fate! (1)She was warned once; we have been warned a thousand times. "Remember Lot's wife" as a warning to us that there must be no delays, no haltings, no slackened diligence, in running the race that is set before us. He could not pretend to it out of any merit, and might have smarted, for his choice showed weakness in not resting on God's word: "I cannot escape to the mountain, let some evil take me, and I die" (ver. Men have always known this, and they have always acted as if they were ignorant of it. Elliott. Linger not in the plains of a professed morality.4. Moreover, it was a wishful look. A third reason is, that Lot's "easily besetting" sin, which was covetousness and love of the world, would probably have tempted him to form such a connection with one of the daughters of Sodom, on account of some supposed worldly advantage. 1. "Escape for thy life" — life spiritual, life temporal, life eternal — lose one and you lose all; and you may lose all by becoming weary and faint in the running.(D. They are weary of the wilderness and the manna, and would fain return to Egypt, if they could. Hist. Stevenson. THE SERIOUS OFFENCE; or Lot's wife looking back. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. It was a great mistake on his part to abandon the outwardly separated life. There was worldliness in it, or an hankering of mind after what she had left in Sodom; and so this looking back was a look of covetousness, a kind of repentance that she had come out of Sodom; for people are wont to look back who are moved with a desire and remembrance of their former dwelling. He is speaking of His own second coming to judge the world: He is describing the awful state of unreadiness in which many will be found. WITH REGARD TO HER SIN, the state of mind discovered, and the aggravations with which it was attended. "Escape for thy life" — life spiritual, life temporal, life eternal — lose one and you lose all; and you may lose all by becoming weary and faint in the running.(D. She had left her affections behind when she fled from her home. Here is also a contempt of the rewards of obedience, as in all sin (Hebrews 12:15, 16).(iv.) But that I may at once vindicate God's dispensation, and enforce the caution, I shall prove —(a) That sin is not to be measured by the external action, but by the circumstances. The Lord Jesus was speaking to His disciples: He was not addressing the scribes and Pharisees, who hated Him, but Peter, James, and John, and many others who loved Him; yet even to them He thinks it good to address a caution. salt. In that day, when the signs of an advent Saviour are upon you, be not anxious about your worldly possessions. Rising in some secluded and rocky upland, they increase in volume and beauty as they flow along. When God speaks plainly by His Word, or by His messengers, man's duty is clear.3. Moore, M. He cries, "Remember Lot's wife.". Remember Lot's wife in the hour of fiery temptation. REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE, AND BEHOLD THE FOLLY AND SIN OF DELAY. It has been thought — and there is considerable reason for the thought — that she was a native of Sodom. It is like being borne away to perdition on the wings of God's mercy.II. Rebellion is as much seen in the breach of what appears to be a little command as in the violation of a great precept. Elliott.Over sand-bars and hidden rocks in the sea are sometimes placed buoy-bells, which are rung by the action of the waves. *12/5/2012. When he came he found, instead of the royal lady, her message. flee for your life!" If you are such an one, I say to you this day, Take care: "Remember Lot's wife. The King of kings offers to give us His image. The mere possession of religious privileges will save no one’s soul. Genesis 19:26; Wisdom of Solomon 10:7, “and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.” The warning is the same as in Luke 9:62. How confidently should we have argued of her state; how confidently might she have argued of her own, when, of four persons to be saved out of those vast populations, she was chosen as one. November 1, 2020. Luke 17:32-37 King James Version (KJV) 32 Remember Lot's wife. Up its sides men and women were climbing to reach the top; but every one who looked back was turned into stone. A wealthy man was once asked the secret of his prosperity. )A danger-signalG. "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found."(T. but she had kept to him in it, and perhaps was the cause of his so doing. (1)She was warned once; we have been warned a thousand times. She had left her affections behind when she fled from her home. One can also find the second and third soils of Luke 8 taken to represent people not actually saved (148–49). "It is only a little temper, or a little levity, or a little thoughtlessness, or a little forgetfulness." Decision is essential to success in all departments of life. Beware of the alluring power of evil associations.2. Faith is a look at Christ, but faith is a not looking at the things which are behind. O ye children of godly parents, I beseech you look to yourselves that ye be not driven down to hell from your mother's side.2. Evil is best stopped at first; the first breakings off from God, and remitting our zeal and watchfulness. The apostle tells us (2 Peter 2:20, 211.4. Let us watch and be sober.III. The first sin that she committed was that she lingered behind.2. THE REMARKABLE PUNISHMENT.(J. "No hurry " is Satan's masterpiece. It was strange. It was nearing midnight and the shuttle bus had more people than seats. Only this God required at his hands, that he and his family should make haste and begone. It your heart goes towards the mountain to escape, and if you hasten to be away with Christ to be His separated follower, you shall be saved: but if your heart still goes after evil and sin, His servants ye are whom ye obey, and from your evil master you shall get your black reward. Lege historiam (saith one), ne fias historia; lege iudicia, ne fias exemplum iudicii. While she sketched, the tide rushed in, and she was drowned.LinksLuke 17:32 NIVLuke 17:32 NLTLuke 17:32 ESVLuke 17:32 NASBLuke 17:32 KJVLuke 17:32 Bible AppsLuke 17:32 ParallelLuke 17:32 Biblia ParalelaLuke 17:32 Chinese BibleLuke 17:32 French BibleLuke 17:32 German BibleLuke 17:32 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)Signal. Past and present mercies are no security for future safety, unless suitably improved. Faith is a look at Christ, but faith is a not looking at the things which are behind. THE REMARKABLE PUNISHMENT.(J. You will be judged according to the going of your heart. So, if we grow remiss and careless, and keep not a constant watch, temptations will increase upon us.(T. She left word that she had been, gone, and should not return. What fault was there in that? (2)She looked back; but have not we turned back? Remember her surroundings. Evil is best stopped at first; the first breakings off from God, and remitting our zeal and watchfulness. Therefore we should not tempt and presume upon His patience. 2. She did not truly believe, there was no real faith in her heart, and therefore she disobeyed the law of her safety and turned her face towards Sodom.3. )Remember Lot's wifeAnon.1. Time and place were fixed. "(5) Are you trifling with little sins? 19). A clear, Divine call to duty cannot be trifled with without incurring fearful risk, if not of the loss of life physical, at least life spiritual.4. His power is the same, so is His justice and holiness.3. Remember Lot’s wife] Who either out of curiosity or covetousness turned her back, and she was turned. In the present instance, it does not seem an impossible thing that judgment upon Lot's wife should have been brought about by natural causes; in other words, that in consequence of her standing still too long, she might get covered with the sulphureous matter which was being rained from heaven, and this, congealing and encrusting upon her person, would make her appear as a pillar of salt. )Lot's wifeT. Oh I think what it is to despise the mercy of Christ, who came from heaven to deliver us; and shall it be slighted?II. It is no matter for delay. His answer was significant: "I always recollect what my father said to me when I was a boy — If you have a thing to do, go and do it." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tfg/luke-17.html. In the case of offences against the principle or spirit of a law, a treacherous and facile conscience will raise a cavil, and even make for itself excuse to the conscience, as not able to do this, when command takes the form of "Do this" or "Refrain from that." )Punishment of Lot's wifeD. A fearful end.2. Its course is like that of the black and silent train, to which the match is at last applied, and it ends in a flash and an explosion. First, it was that which we pray against in our Litany as sudden death; that is, not sudden in the sense of being wholly unlooked-for — that may be a great blessing — but sudden as unprepared-for — sudden, as finding us with nothing ready for our meeting with God, with our hearts yet in the world, and our faces turned that way.III. While she sketched, the tide rushed in, and she was drowned.LinksLuke 17:32 NIVLuke 17:32 NLTLuke 17:32 ESVLuke 17:32 NASBLuke 17:32 KJVLuke 17:32 Bible AppsLuke 17:32 ParallelLuke 17:32 Biblia ParalelaLuke 17:32 Chinese BibleLuke 17:32 French BibleLuke 17:32 German BibleLuke 17:32 CommentariesBible Hub. 1. Neither her name, nor anything she ever said or did is recorded in Scripture, and yet the Lord wants us to remember her. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. Remember that HER DOOM WAS TERRIBLE.1. If others have smarted for disobeying God, why not we, since God is impartially and immutably just, always consonant and agreeable unto Himself? Again, there was in this sin of Lot's wife the crime of disobedience, with all its actual accompaniments of defiant rebellion and contemptuous unbelief. That not only modern and present, but ancient and old judgments are of great use to us, especially when like sins abound in the age we live in, or we are in danger of them as to our own practice. If this story of Lot's wife be true, and do live in our memory; then here we may learn by way of instruction, that it is possible that a religious family may have a black mark of God's indignation. As we are to cherish the spirit or better part with promises and hopes of glory, by which the inner man is renewed day by day, so we are to weaken the pravity of the flesh by the remembrance of God's judgments, not only threatened, but also actually inflicted! I would fain moor a buoy in the channel of all spiritual voyagers, and paint upon it, "Remember Lot's wife. Hambleton, M. A.I. Some are like certain African rivers of which we have read. Better for her to have perished in Sodom .than on the way to Zoar.(3)Signal. 3. The testimony of later Christian travellers as to the identity of the scene we should have to receive with more caution. In this particular connection, the warning of her example seems to be proposed in the text. Remember Lot's wife, in the hour of conviction of sin. Strange sins bring on strange punishment. She did not truly believe, there was no real faith in her heart, and therefore she disobeyed the law of her safety and turned her face towards Sodom.3. Remember her doom. "(Bishop Ryle. It is a solemn warning, when we think of the persons to whom it was first given. THE PUNISHMENT WHICH GOD INFLICTED ON LOT'S WIFE.1. Like Lot's wife, we may only intend to look and look, and then turn back again. A third reason is, that Lot's "easily besetting" sin, which was covetousness and love of the world, would probably have tempted him to form such a connection with one of the daughters of Sodom, on account of some supposed worldly advantage. Remember her delay. Thus many times judgment overtaketh the wicked in the very instant of their sin; and God will give the sinner no time. Remember her delay. A solemn caution is here added, binding the warning to the example before,— μὴ ἐπιστρεψάτω—remember her who did. Her life had been one of marked and distinguishing mercies. H. )A woman to be rememberedBishop Ryle.I. Whose name by the Jews, is said to be Adith, as someF19Pirke Eliezer, c. 25. ; or Irith, as othersF20Baal Hatturim in Gen. xix. 1685. Rising in some secluded and rocky upland, they increase in volume and beauty as they flow along. I would fain moor a buoy in the channel of all spiritual voyagers, and paint upon it, "Remember Lot's wife. Little things will often show the state of a man's mind even better than great ones, and little symptoms are often the signs of deadly and incurable diseases. They hold the great essential doctrines of the gospel. "Remember Lot's wife," and recollect THAT SHE WENT SOME WAY TOWARDS BEING SAVED.III. ; for instances do much enliven things. In this particular connection, the warning of her example seems to be proposed in the text. Remember that she perished with the same doom as that which happened to the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that doom befell her at the gates of Zoar.2. The sins of none are so grievous to God as of those that have received much mercy from Him: “After such a deliverance as this, should we again break Thy commandments?” (Ezra 9:13-14). OF HER JUDGMENT — she was turned into a pillar of salt.1. Remember that though she went some way towards escape SHE DID ACTUALLY PERISH THROUGH SIN.1. This world is a Sodom, and against it has been declared the condemnation of God's law.3. Remember Lot's wife, when any question of duty is pressed upon you. But that I may at once vindicate God's dispensation, and enforce the caution, I shall prove —(a) That sin is not to be measured by the external action, but by the circumstances. They who will not consent to glorify Him willingly must be content to glorify Him by compulsion. 3. If others have smarted for disobeying God, why not we, since God is impartially and immutably just, always consonant and agreeable unto Himself? Remember Lot's wife - her "look back" and her doom. The least delay or stop in the course of our flight may be pernicious to us.2. (2) This was a sin committed by stealth. 3. Manton.I. Baxendale.There is a story of a high mountain on whose top was a palace filled with all treasures, gold, gems, singing birds — a paradise of pleasures. )Remember Lot's wifeAnon.1. The worst point, perhaps, about the perishing of Lot's wife lay in this, that she perished in the very act of sin, and had no space for repentance given her. THE PUNISHMENT WHICH GOD INFLICTED ON LOT'S WIFE.1. Even to them He says, "Remember Lot's wife."5. (W. Rut we find we cannot turn back; the witchcraft of an evil nature is at work within us; we have seven wicked spirits to contend with now, where, before, we had but one, and so by little and little we are led within the charmed circle of evil till there is no going back and no escaping.2. )A solemn warningBishop Ryle.1. The Lord Jesus was speaking to His disciples: He was not addressing the scribes and Pharisees, who hated Him, but Peter, James, and John, and many others who loved Him; yet even to them He thinks it good to address a caution. By Category Come away, '' replied the other, an English young lady judgment she. Redeemer Edinburgh Sermons • by Redeemer Church Edinburgh • Feb 24 been wasted and that the time of Noah living! “ Seek ye the Lord is Gracious signs of an Advent Saviour are upon you, not. Delivered on Sunday Morning, August 24, 1879, by C. H. Spurgeon, at the town! 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