Saturday, September 22, 2007

No going back

Genesis 19:14-26; Luke 17:28-33

1. Why should we not look back?

When the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah to punish them for their homosexual sins, he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. Remember Lot's wife! Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Numbers 11:4-6

2. What mistake did the rabble make when remembering the past?

The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!"

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