Everything Looked Normal Until the Fire Fell 🔥 Lot Series Part 5 | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcasts. We're looking at various lessons that we can take away from the Life of Lot, predominantly around Genesis chapter nineteen. See. I really challenge you to go back and listen to their previous segments because there were powerful revelations that were shared, things that you need to pay attention so that you will be able to live the kind of life that God wants you to live. But today I want to talk about one important aspect and I really challenge you to look at this, because the angels are giving him a warning, saying leave because there's destruction coming.

1:19 Speaker 2: And when he goes and rushes to tell his daughter's fiancees, they don't take it seriously. They think it's just joking. In verse fourteen and verse fifteen says, at dawn the next morning, the angels became insistent. Hurry, they said, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and get out now, or you'll be swept away in the destruction. Look at this, the words that were saying dawn, like early in the morning, by dawn, I want you to hurry up. Get up, guys, get up, keep going, keep going.

1:52 Speaker 2: There's destruction happening. Look at verse sixteen when Lord still hesitated. Look at this. I was just talking to you about about law that even in the midst of being in the place of wickedness, he still had an element of spiritual discernment that you know what I know, this is something serious. That's why he rushed when the word was spoken. He acted with urgency. He had that discernment, but still he wavered a bit. He hesitated. See, sometimes I wanted to understand. We think that, oh, if you hesitate, if you waver.

2:26 Speaker 2: That means you're not walking by faith. No, that is human. Sometimes we can hesitate. We can't be like, oh, shoot, I shouldn't have done this, I shouldn't have done done like. Sometimes we can be like that. But can I tell you something that's part of human thing? And that is where we have to be grateful for God's Christ, because the Bible says when he hesitated, the angels didn't leave him and say, hey, after all we did, after all we said, and you are playing the fool over a year. They could have just walked away, but that's not what they did.

2:55 Speaker 2: Look at the verse sixteen I'm reading from the Nalty version right. It says the angels see this hand and answer of his wife and his two daughters, and rushed him to safety outside the city. For the Lord was merciful. See, even when you hesitate, even when you waiver, even when you are not up getting ready to jump into the deep end of the pool, when God is calling you, the Lord will be merciful enough to say, I know this place is going to destroy you. I'm taking you out, even when you esedate. I've been talking quite a bit about my layoff that happened last year, because this is exactly a week, exactly the same week last year when this happened.

3:39 Speaker 2: So it was something I was thinking about, how the emotions, the feelings and everything where I'm going to talk about these things because I believe it will really help you relate with what I'm sharing, because I don't want to share something from a pulpit that you may not be able to connect. So what happened was when God had clearly shown me through a vision two and a half weeks before that, you know what I'm going to say, be asked to leave the company, and I didn't pay attention or I didn't pray, I didn't take it seriously.

4:05 Speaker 2: I was more like lots fiances, I mean, sorry, lots daughters fiances than being like a lot who took this word seriously. And I wanted to understand. In the midst of that, I hesitated. But when God knew that that place would become a very bad place, it wouldn't be good enough for me, he seized me out or he threw me. He allowed me to go through that layoff, you know what I mean, because later on I came to know how the toxicity and you know, the the entire culture of the organization became very bad after I left.

4:45 Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. I'm not making this. It's not just saying this to make myself feel good, but it was real. So many times. The people who were left behind, you know, left behind, they said, John, I know it's hard for you out because you were out of the organization waiting for another org. But trust me, you are in a better place than what it is right now on the inside. You know, God knew what God protected me from by taking me out even when I hesitated, you know, he seized me out like you know, he's in a sense, like how the angel sees his hand and took him out, took his daughters out, took his wife out.

5:26 Speaker 2: And because the Lord was merciful, I'm sure it would have been painful. They would have felt like, what is this. You know, it looks so foolish. I'm leaving behind everything. I'm living behind, my house, my utensils, my everything, you know, my possessions. But I want you to understand something there right, long story made shot. They are actually going to the next village. And then when you look at verse twenty three, it says Lord reached a village just as the sun was rising over the horizon, and then you know, the fire and burning sulfur from the sky fell on Sodom and Gomora and were destroyed.

6:11 Speaker 2: Okay, now I wanted to pay attention to this, right this this drama began by dawn, but only as the sun was rising over the horizon, the Sodom and Gomara were destroyed, Which means that for a period of roughly let's say one enough to do ours, everything look normal. For one enough to do us, it looked like they were crazy for just running leaving behind everything. Imagine the story or the drama that was happening in Sodom with the daughter's fiancees all wondering why did this crazy man take his wife and just run away, take my future spouses and run away, like you know.

6:55 Speaker 2: Can you imagine the drama that would have happen in Sodom where everyone's like, what happened? Who are those two guests who came? Why did they convince them to run away? Imagine the two the fiancees are telling, you know, yesterday they told that this place is going to be destroyed, and then they could have made a mockery like yeah, yeah, destroyed. What is happening? Everything looks the same? You know, life would have been just normal for those one and a half to us, everything looked normal. It would have looked like Lord was a fool.

7:26 Speaker 2: It would have looked like this family was a fool. They could have even made mockery. You don't worry. Very soon they'll come back. They'll know that it was all just some you know, like it's a delusion or whatever, and they're going to come back. They would have mocked, Say can I tell you something? For that one and a half to do us, everything looked normal, But suddenly the word of the Lord came exactly as he had spoken, It happened, and the place was destroyed. What is my word to you? When God gives you word and when you're acting on it, it will look like you're being foolish.

8:05 Speaker 2: It will look like you're being crazy. It will look like it doesn't make sense. Why would you do this? There's no reason for you to do this. Look, everything looks normal. What are you saying? Everything looks fine? What are you saying? It's similar to how Noah was building an arc in the middle of dryingness. Where is there something called rainier. But can I tell you something? Everything will look normal till the moment it suddenly changes. That's why you need to act on what God is asking you to do.

8:39 Speaker 2: Don't worry about what people say. People can tell you a hundred things. People can be against you. People can mock you for your fake People can speak against you, people can ridicule you and mock you. Can I tell you something? How many times I have experienced this in my life, you know, for stepping into my colleague, stepping into saying, you know what, this is what the Lord is saying, how God is leading. This is the vision the Lord showed. People laugh, people mocked. But you know what. I'm not saying this to post, but every single time God showed and I acted in the accordance to what God showed.

9:12 Speaker 2: When I walked in obedience to his word, what happened was exactly how God showed. It happened exactly when God showed this is how it's going to be. So act in accordance to it. People were laughing and mocking, or are you saying it's not going to happen? But exactly so, this is the word I want to share with you guys, even though everything looked normal for Lot and the family for the first one and after two hours when they were running, it looked like they were the fools. But then the word of the Lord still prevailed.

9:47 Speaker 2: So that's why I'm telling you, even if you look like a fool, even if you look like crazy in the sight of the world, it's okay. Keep going. God will show himself up and God will prove his word all your life. Really challenge you to leave a comment and shat this with someone godlessure.

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