Stop Being Casual: The Urgency of GOD’s Word (Lot Series Part 4) John Giftah | Bible Study

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

0:13 Speaker 1: This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're

0:17 Speaker 1: a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living,

0:23 Speaker 1: in Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live

0:27 Speaker 1: the life that you were created for. Your host is

0:30 Speaker 1: a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder,

0:35 Speaker 1: aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcasts. All through this week

0:51 Speaker 2: we are looking at various lessons that we can take

0:53 Speaker 2: away from the Life of Lot, especially revolving around Genesis

0:57 Speaker 2: chapter nineteen. To just pay attention to this because especially

1:02 Speaker 2: yesterday's episode was something that I talked about where you

1:06 Speaker 2: look at Lord when he receives the word from the

1:09 Speaker 2: angels saying that this place is going to be destroyed

1:12 Speaker 2: and he needs to take action. The worse Number fourteen

1:16 Speaker 2: says Lord rushed out to tell his daughter's fiancees. Look

1:21 Speaker 2: at the response that Lord gives. He rushes to tell

1:25 Speaker 2: the fiancees quick get out of the city. This place

1:29 Speaker 2: is going to be destroyed. But look at the next

1:32 Speaker 2: part of this verse, because this is something I intentionally

1:34 Speaker 2: left out yesterday. I'm going to talk about this. It says,

1:37 Speaker 2: but the young man thought he was only joking, an

1:42 Speaker 2: important message of warning given from the Lord through these angels, saying, listen,

1:49 Speaker 2: listen to this carefully. This is a word for you

1:54 Speaker 2: that this place is going to be destroyed. Now take

1:56 Speaker 2: a run from this place. Well, I wanted to understand.

2:01 Speaker 2: I've read this passage so many times, but I didn't

2:03 Speaker 2: pay attention to this part. But just prior to this,

2:06 Speaker 2: just the previous passage, if you just see what happens

2:11 Speaker 2: is that when all these wicked men try to attack

2:15 Speaker 2: these guests, the angels because they don't know that they're angels.

2:19 Speaker 2: They think their guests because they want to, you know,

2:22 Speaker 2: harm them, and they want to do some detestable things

2:25 Speaker 2: with them. There's a powerful thing that actually happens. Right,

2:31 Speaker 2: The angels blinded all the men young and old. If

2:35 Speaker 2: you look at verse eleven, so there was a supernatural

2:38 Speaker 2: element that had happened. Probably this information could have spread out,

2:42 Speaker 2: This information could have reached other people saying there was

2:46 Speaker 2: something supernatural that happened. All of these men lost their eyes,

2:50 Speaker 2: there was something these people are serious. But in the

2:54 Speaker 2: midst of that, despite hearing about it, because this was

2:58 Speaker 2: a famous thing happening in this town, despite all of that,

3:03 Speaker 2: these two men thought it was just a joke. These

3:05 Speaker 2: two men thought it was just some fun. They didn't

3:10 Speaker 2: take it seriously. My question to you is the Lord

3:13 Speaker 2: is speaking to you. The Lord wants to speak to us.

3:17 Speaker 2: The Bible says that my sheep will hear my voice,

3:20 Speaker 2: we will hear the voice of God. We will hear

3:22 Speaker 2: God's guidance, God's protective voice telling us to do this,

3:28 Speaker 2: do that, don't do this, don't go here, don't talk

3:30 Speaker 2: to this person. God is speaking constantly. But there can

3:35 Speaker 2: only be two responses. One when you hear the word,

3:39 Speaker 2: like how when Lord hear the word, he didn't just

3:42 Speaker 2: take it casually and walked. The Bible says he ran.

3:46 Speaker 2: He rushed. He took it seriously. Like if you hear

3:50 Speaker 2: somebody says that, oh there is danger, run and want

3:53 Speaker 2: that person. You will run and want it. There is

3:55 Speaker 2: danger because you take that word seriously. So you can

4:00 Speaker 2: either rush because you believe in the world, you really

4:06 Speaker 2: allow that word to sink in and act on the word,

4:10 Speaker 2: or you can just take it casually, like the two

4:12 Speaker 2: fiancees who just thought, hah, this is just the joke,

4:17 Speaker 2: this is just fun. Because you see, when the two

4:20 Speaker 2: guests came to Lost's house, the news spreads so much

4:25 Speaker 2: that you know that the wicked men in the towns

4:29 Speaker 2: came and attacked so many. So do you think for

4:33 Speaker 2: a minute the news about them turning blind would not

4:36 Speaker 2: have reached the two fiancees. Do you think it wouldn't

4:40 Speaker 2: have reached you? See, guys, sometimes God is speaking, God

4:46 Speaker 2: is showing signs. They would have heard the voice, they

4:50 Speaker 2: would have got the news, They would have heard that

4:53 Speaker 2: something has happened. They would have known that this guy

4:56 Speaker 2: is not talking something crazy, there is something significant. But

5:01 Speaker 2: still probably they were so in the word to say.

5:07 Speaker 2: You know, sometimes we can be so caught up in

5:10 Speaker 2: wanting something to be true that we are not willing

5:15 Speaker 2: to listen to the truth. You know what I mean,

5:18 Speaker 2: something like oh, I'm in my comfort zone, I have

5:21 Speaker 2: everything fine. I didn't want to pay attention to this.

5:25 Speaker 2: Sometimes we can be so caught up in wanting it

5:28 Speaker 2: to be true then to know what is the truth.

5:32 Speaker 2: And I think that's the most scariest place to be

5:36 Speaker 2: because these men missed a very important aspect of their

5:41 Speaker 2: life or they lost their life actually because they didn't

5:45 Speaker 2: pay attention. So my question is when you hear the

5:48 Speaker 2: word from the Lord, when you hear a divine counsel,

5:52 Speaker 2: are you taking it seriously or are you taking it

5:54 Speaker 2: like a joke? Are you taking it in a sense of,

5:59 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I need to rush, I need to

6:03 Speaker 2: have a sense of urgency, or am I just thinking

6:07 Speaker 2: it's you know what, I'll just be casual about it.

6:11 Speaker 2: Don't be casual. When God is giving you a word

6:14 Speaker 2: that you need to take very urgently, you can't be

6:20 Speaker 2: light about it. And yes, the thing right, Yes, the

6:24 Speaker 2: thing you need to understand. When I was telling you

6:26 Speaker 2: about how sometimes we want the word like for example,

6:32 Speaker 2: one of the reasons why we may not want to

6:34 Speaker 2: listen is because we don't want that. Let me give

6:38 Speaker 2: an example because I had this particular job that I

6:42 Speaker 2: really loved and this was just before my major layoff.

6:46 Speaker 2: I shared about this in my previous episode as well,

6:49 Speaker 2: But I'm going to talk about one aspect where two

6:51 Speaker 2: weeks before the layoff happened, there was no sign of it.

6:57 Speaker 2: Everything was so perfect. I was doing my job really well.

7:01 Speaker 2: I was managing eight projects, I was my manager's pet.

7:03 Speaker 2: I was doing exceedingly and everything was so good that

7:07 Speaker 2: the organization was doing so well. There was no reason

7:10 Speaker 2: for a layoff. There was no reason for anything to

7:12 Speaker 2: go wrong. And the Lord gave me a vision saying

7:16 Speaker 2: you're gonna lose your job suddenly. You're gonna be asked

7:18 Speaker 2: to leave suddenly. It didn't make sense, and at that

7:21 Speaker 2: point I reacted like the Fiances. I laughed about I

7:26 Speaker 2: remember telling someone I got this kind of a vision.

7:28 Speaker 2: I'm sure this is just just the enemy trying to

7:31 Speaker 2: scam me or something. I didn't pay attention to it.

7:34 Speaker 2: I didn't even pray about it. I was like, come on, man,

7:37 Speaker 2: like I was like the Fiances. See I as much

7:41 Speaker 2: as I'd want to talk to you guys, saying you

7:43 Speaker 2: know what I heard God, and I answered, I obeyed

7:47 Speaker 2: all of those good sides. I also want to be

7:49 Speaker 2: vulnerable and sharing moments I missed so that you will

7:53 Speaker 2: relate and understand that the one who's preaching to you

7:56 Speaker 2: is not preaching from a place where he's figured everything

7:59 Speaker 2: out and he's doing everything right, and he's you know,

8:02 Speaker 2: like seeing the best stuff. But there's also someone who

8:05 Speaker 2: has made mistakes. And that's why I'm wanting you guys,

8:08 Speaker 2: don't make that mistake I made. So just like Lot,

8:13 Speaker 2: I was like, you know, instead of being like Lot,

8:17 Speaker 2: I was like the fiances probably. I was like, God,

8:20 Speaker 2: I don't want this to happen. Like you know, I

8:22 Speaker 2: didn't even pray about it. I didn't pray against it.

8:24 Speaker 2: He was not asking God for what he was showing me.

8:28 Speaker 2: I was like the fiancees. Ah, you know, I laughed

8:31 Speaker 2: about it, joked about it. I was like them, hoping

8:35 Speaker 2: this will not become truth. Instead of wanting to know

8:40 Speaker 2: what is the truth from God, I was hoping this

8:42 Speaker 2: was not the truth, and that couldn't stop what happened.

8:48 Speaker 2: And just like, just because these men did not take

8:51 Speaker 2: the word seriously, it did not stop the destruction from coming,

8:56 Speaker 2: which destroyed them. Sadly, the same way, because I didn't

9:01 Speaker 2: take it seriously does not mean that I could ewaite

9:04 Speaker 2: that layoff.

9:05 Speaker 1: It happened anyway.

9:07 Speaker 2: But only after it happened, I realized, like in this case,

9:11 Speaker 2: God has shown me. God had conveyed this to me,

9:15 Speaker 2: but I didn't pay attention. Instead of being like a

9:18 Speaker 2: Lot acting on that word with their urgency, I ended

9:22 Speaker 2: up being like the fiances who thought it was just

9:26 Speaker 2: a joke and missed what God was saying. I challenge

9:29 Speaker 2: you not to be like that. I challenge you to

9:31 Speaker 2: be sensitive, to be in a place where you heal

9:36 Speaker 2: to the Holy Spirit and say, God, if you're saying something,

9:39 Speaker 2: I'm going to pay attention. I'm going to take it

9:41 Speaker 2: seriously and I'm going to act with urgency so that

9:45 Speaker 2: just like you saved Lot, just like you know, for me,

9:50 Speaker 2: God allowed me to go through it. But God had

9:53 Speaker 2: his ways. God had his plans. But just like he

9:57 Speaker 2: has the best plans for us, he will enable us

10:00 Speaker 2: to step into the fullness of the destiny that God

10:03 Speaker 2: has since to offer us. I really challenge you to leave

10:06 Speaker 2: a comment and share this with someone that will see

10:08 Speaker 2: you back very soon. God bless you.

10:11 Speaker 1: You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

10:15 Speaker 1: We hope you were blessed and inspired to live the

10:18 Speaker 1: life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe

10:21 Speaker 1: to the John Gifta YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews,

10:26 Speaker 1: and more. Follow John Gifta on Instagram for regular inspirational posts,

10:31 Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out the best selling books

10:33 Speaker 1: written by John Gifta, Who Am I which will help

10:37 Speaker 1: you understand your identity and the latest number one best

10:40 Speaker 1: seller Unveil your Purpose, helping you discover your purpose and

10:44 Speaker 1: to start walking in it. Make sure to leave our

10:47 Speaker 1: rating and review and be sure to share it with

10:49 Speaker 1: your friends and loved ones. If you'd like to donate,

10:52 Speaker 1: you can find the PayPal link in the description. And

10:54 Speaker 1: if you'd like to invite John Gifta to speak at

10:56 Speaker 1: your event or to get more details, go to the

10:59 Speaker 1: website at www dot John gifted dot com. See you

11:04 Speaker 1: on the next episode of The Fuel for the Soul

11:07 Speaker 1: with John Gifta. God bless you