Episode Transcript
Alright, y'all ready to get in God's word?
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Joey, it's good to see everybody.
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Alright, we're gonna pick right back up in the Book of Jude.
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Y'all find the Book of Jude right before revelation.
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So we left off last week in the Book of Jude at verse 7, which says, "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank You so much, Lord, for Your Word, Father.
Thank You for Your Word, Lord.
We're so thankful for the people who come faithfully, Lord, to hear Your Word, Father.
And I pray, Lord, that You'll just use me to just teach them, Father.
Just teach the people that come, Lord.
Teach them in truth, Father.
I know if I just stay with Your Word, Lord, it's gonna be the truth, Father.
Just use me as the vessel, Lord, to share Your Word here with the ones that will hear Your Father.
And we pray, Lord, that the saints of Edified Lord and the lost appointed to You, Lord.
For sure, thank You so much, Lord.
Thank You so much for Jesus.
And in His name, Lord, we pray, amen.
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So we said the meaning of the word "Sodom" gives us the idea of "scorch" or "burning."
And the meaning of the word "gamora" gives us the idea of a ruined heap.
And that is exactly what became of those two cities, and the cities surrounding them in like manner.
A scorched, ruined heap.
Now, last week we talked a little bit about their demise, so let's venture a little further into our verse today, and let's look at why.
Our verse says, "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh."
The word "fornication" means to be utterly unchaste.
Ma'am, I mean, this is our... is that in the model?
Yes, ma'am.
Now, the word "utterly" is a word that we don't see every day.
So just for clarification, I looked it up, and it means fully or completely or to the fullest extent.
You can't get more complete than "utterly."
"Fornication" is utterly unchaste.
"To be chaste" means to be pure from all unlawful sexual intercourse.
When the prefix "u-n" is placed in front of it, it signifies "back" or "reversal of."
So "to be unchaste" means to be impure or not pure from all unlawful sexual intercourse.
When you have sexual intercourse outside of marriage, you're not only defiling yourself, but the ones in which you have sex with, and you will be judged by God.
Hebrews 13.4 says, "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled."
Ma'am, if you can wait for questions after we finish, I appreciate it very much.
"But hormoners and adulterers God will judge."
These people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities were hormoners and adulterers, but they didn't have to be.
Our verse says, "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, they chose to act that way, and they were judged according to their choice."
Hebrews 9.27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."
I believe that there was not a person in those cities that God would not have forgiven if they would have sought His forgiveness.
Our God is a merciful God, full of compassion and slow to anger.
Psalm 103.8 says, "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy."
But Psalm 103.9 says, "He will not always chide."
That word means wait.
He will not always wait.
"Neither will He keep His anger forever."
There's coming a day that God's anger will be released.
The people of Sodom and Gomorrah, that day came from them.
To continue verse 7, in Jude it says, "Giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh."
The word strange used here gives us the idea of different, different.
So you could say giving themselves over to fornication and going after different flesh.
Paul told the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, we've got them marked, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 1 through 5.
1 Thessalonians, did you find it John?
1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 through 5.
There we go.
1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 through 5.
Furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.
Verse 4, "That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor."
You should know how to act.
And you don't act, he says in verse 5, "not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God."
Now that word concupiscence, it means a longing, a desire, a lust.
Lust of the flesh is something you must control.
Must control.
1 Corinthians 6, 13 through 20.
Now why should we control this?
We're going to read this here.
1 Corinthians 6, verses 13 through 20.
This is Paul talking, he says, "Meets for the belly and the belly for meats."
That belly, your belly is designed for a purpose.
It is made for a purpose.
Your belly is to hold the food that you consume.
Your body is made for a purpose as well.
I need another thank you.
"But God shall destroy both it and them.
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ.
Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot?
God forbid.
What know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body.
For two saith he shall be one flesh."
And he's quoting Genesis, chapter 2, verse 24.
It's what he is quoting from.
And I believe that says that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and be one flesh.
He turned his off on me.
A lot of noise is that from here.
"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."
"Flee fornication."
Once you put your faith in Christ, God sends his spirit to live within your spirit.
"Flee fornication."
"Every sin that a man doeth is without the body.
But he that commiteth fornication, sintheth against his own body."
What?
He's asking a question.
"What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's."
Your body has been paid for.
Your body was created by God for you to live in.
Your spirit lives in this body that God bless you with.
We need to take care of our bodies and fornication breaks it down.
Abstain from fornication.
Now why are we being reminded of this?
Because Jude says in the continuation of verse 7, "Are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Now remember all this started off as when Jude started telling us about the ungodly.
He says, "If certain encrypt in verse 4 of Jude," he says, "I will therefore put you in remembrance though ye once knew this, how the Lord," and he goes on to show us different examples of what has taken place in previous Testaments.
So we're being reminded of this and he is using the example of Solomon Gamora to show us the ungodly.
Now he said, "These are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Now I've heard it said that those who do not learn from their past are bound to repeat it and that is a very true statement as far as I'm concerned.
It took me several times of repeating some of my mistakes in my life before I finally learned that fire is hot and if I keep touching it, I'm going to continue to burn myself.
The burns are very painful folks and some burns are fatal.
But thank God if you haven't been burned up like Sodom and Gamora and their surrounding cities, then you still have time to be healed by the Lord.
You still have time to be saved like Lot.
When Lot went and told his son-in-laws to get out of Sodom, they thought he was just fooling around with them and they didn't believe him and they perished, eternally separated from the Lord.
I believe that's in Genesis 19.
I want to find that and we'll read it right quick.
19.
Let's see.
Give me just a second here.
I should have marked it.
It says, verse 14 of chapter 19 in Genesis, "And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters and said, 'Up, get you out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.'
But he seemed as one that mocked unto his son-in-law."
They didn't believe him.
They did not believe him.
Proverbs 14 now says, "Fools make a mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor."
Don't be a fool and mock the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but learn from it, please.
Our nation has fallen into a cesspool of fornication and wickedness.
And it only seems to be getting worse day by day.
So when the bottom finally falls out and God starts judging this nation, I hope that people remember why.
Proverbs 14, 34 says, "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach."
That means wicked thing to any people.
Folks, I hope that you don't mock Sodom and Gomorrah.
I hope you don't mock none of God's Word.
I believe that it's all true, and I believe it's all given to us to learn from.
If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you need to get that taken care of.
It's just a matter of time before one or two things happens.
Either it's time for you to go and be with the Lord and be judged, or before the good Lord Jesus comes back and claims His place and gets rid of all this mess.
It is appointed unto man who wants to die, and then the judgment.
When you're standing there being judged or kneeling there, because the Bible says, "Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess."
When you're there before the Lord, are you going to confess Jesus Christ?
Is He going to say, "Well done, now good and faithful servant"?
Or is He going to say, "Depart from me, for I never knew you, you worker of iniquity"?
Forgiveness is your choice.
Be like Lot.
Choose to leave the city.
Or you can be like the sons-in-laws and all those other people that stay in Sodom and Gomorrah and perish alone with all those people.
That choice is yours.
I pray you'll choose Jesus.
Heavenly Father, thank You God so much for Your precious Word, Lord.
We thank You, Lord, for those who come to hear it, Lord.
Father, we pray, Lord, if there's one here that don't know Jesus as their Savior, Father, we pray, Lord, that they would just draw Him to the cross and open their eyes to Christ.
Thank You, God, so much for Jesus, Lord.
We pray, Lord, that You are glorified here today, Lord, that the people were pointed to You, Father.
We pray that Your sheep were fed, Lord, and that the lost were pointed to You.
Thank You, God, for all that You do, Lord, for all You do is good, Lord, even Your righteous judgments are good, Lord.
And as I said before, I believe that any one of those people there in Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, that they would have just come to You, Father, and asked for forgiveness and sought Your face, Father.
I believe that You would have forgiven any of them that would have come to You, Lord.
And we know, Lord, it's just a matter of time, Lord.
And we pray, Lord, that we use this time the way You want us to, Lord.
We pray, Lord, that we fulfill the purpose that we were put here for, Lord.
We pray Your perfect will be done in our lives, Lord.
I want to just thank You so much, Lord, for the cross and for Christ, Lord.
Thank You for Your Word.
In Jesus' name, Lord, we pray, Amen.
Amen.
Alright, thank y'all for coming.
