Why Lot Entertained Angels WITHOUT Knowing It 😱🔥 Power of Hospitality | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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0:47 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:49 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. We are looking at

0:52 Speaker 2: various lessons this week from the life of Lots, predominantly

0:55 Speaker 2: around Genesis chapter nineteen. One of the things I want

0:59 Speaker 2: to talk about is that that evening when the two

1:02 Speaker 2: angels came and Lot is sitting by the entrance of

1:06 Speaker 2: this city of Sodom, and he sees the two angels

1:11 Speaker 2: and he gets up to meet them. Understand something. He

1:14 Speaker 2: doesn't know that they are angels. He doesn't know that

1:18 Speaker 2: they are sent by God. He doesn't know anything. Okay.

1:22 Speaker 2: He then welcomed them about with his face to the ground,

1:27 Speaker 2: and he said, come to my house to wash your

1:29 Speaker 2: feet and be my guests for the night. Then you

1:32 Speaker 2: can get up in the morning and be on your

1:34 Speaker 2: way again. Okay. So look at one of the qualities

1:40 Speaker 2: of Lot that we can understand here is that he

1:42 Speaker 2: doesn't even know who these two men are. He doesn't

1:45 Speaker 2: know who they are because the angels didn't come with

1:48 Speaker 2: some wings and all of that, like the angels came

1:51 Speaker 2: like ordinary men. So they didn't realize or Lot didn't

1:55 Speaker 2: realize or his family didn't realize that these men were

1:59 Speaker 2: actually angels. He just thought it was just some random men.

2:03 Speaker 2: And he says, hey, guys, come, come, come, come to

2:06 Speaker 2: my home be my guest. And the two men actually say, well,

2:11 Speaker 2: we'll just spend the night out here in the city

2:13 Speaker 2: square okay. But Lot insisted, saying, hey, no, you have

2:18 Speaker 2: to come, and then they went with him. Now I

2:20 Speaker 2: want you to understand it, goes on to say, Lot

2:22 Speaker 2: prepared a feast for them. Okay. He prepares a feast

2:26 Speaker 2: for them, complete with fresh bread made without east, and

2:31 Speaker 2: they ate. Okay. Now I wanted to think about something

2:34 Speaker 2: very important. Here he went to prepare a feast for

2:38 Speaker 2: people he did not even know. Now, I want you

2:41 Speaker 2: to think about this, right, we live in a culture

2:44 Speaker 2: where everybody's living for themselves. What's in it for me?

2:47 Speaker 2: It's all about me. What am I going to get

2:50 Speaker 2: in this? I want this, I want that. I want

2:52 Speaker 2: to see growth, I want to see my money, I

2:54 Speaker 2: want to see this. It's always been like all about

2:57 Speaker 2: the SELFI culture image of myself. It's all about what

3:02 Speaker 2: I can get, what can I benefit out of this?

3:05 Speaker 2: So we are living in a culture where everything is

3:08 Speaker 2: about us, revolves around us. But you see here we

3:12 Speaker 2: look at Lot, who's going out of the way to

3:15 Speaker 2: prepare a fees, out of the way to insist. So

3:20 Speaker 2: even when the men say no, we'll stay here, Lot

3:22 Speaker 2: could have just said, okay, fine, I did my part

3:24 Speaker 2: of asking. He could have said that, but he insisted, saying,

3:27 Speaker 2: ain't guys know you come home? Come home. Look look

3:31 Speaker 2: at Lord's gift of hospitality, right, Like, think about this

3:35 Speaker 2: like he was a very hospitable person even though he

3:38 Speaker 2: was staying in a very wicked place. My question to

3:41 Speaker 2: you today is this, how hospitable are you? Like? Are

3:45 Speaker 2: you going the extra mile for people who do you

3:48 Speaker 2: don't even know who they are. Like Lot did not

3:50 Speaker 2: know these were angels who are sent by God to

3:53 Speaker 2: actually protect or save him. He had no idea.

3:56 Speaker 1: You know.

3:56 Speaker 2: The scripture talks about how people have actually encountered angels

4:01 Speaker 2: without even knowing that they were angels. So imagine in

4:04 Speaker 2: your life, like I always say this, Like God, what

4:07 Speaker 2: if I actually encountered angels. I didn't even know I

4:10 Speaker 2: was encountering angels in the sense that sometimes you know,

4:14 Speaker 2: like we are so caught up with like oh, I

4:16 Speaker 2: have to do this, I have to do that, I

4:17 Speaker 2: have to go here, I have to finish this, I

4:19 Speaker 2: have to see this growth. I have to see my work,

4:22 Speaker 2: my ministry, the podcast, the various aspects of my life.

4:26 Speaker 2: But I always go back to God. In the all

4:31 Speaker 2: of the hustle and hustle of life. Am I paying

4:34 Speaker 2: attention to a guest who's coming? Or maybe in little sense,

4:39 Speaker 2: it could may not be a guest like how Lot

4:42 Speaker 2: entertained these angels. It could be maybe somebody in need,

4:46 Speaker 2: or it could be somebody for whom you need to

4:47 Speaker 2: just send an encouraging word. It could be somebody for

4:51 Speaker 2: whom you need to just maybe send out some money

4:54 Speaker 2: because you know that it's struggling. Maybe it could be

4:56 Speaker 2: somebody who just needs a smile and encouragement. See think

5:02 Speaker 2: about this. We live in a time where it's all

5:04 Speaker 2: about lust, what can I get, what can I benefit?

5:08 Speaker 2: But when we look at Lot, one of the things

5:11 Speaker 2: we see from Lord's story is that even though he

5:15 Speaker 2: doesn't know that he's going to get any benefit out

5:18 Speaker 2: of this, he went out of the way to prepare

5:21 Speaker 2: a meal. He went out of the way to persevere

5:25 Speaker 2: and say, hey, guys, come home. He insisted, He persisted

5:30 Speaker 2: and said come home, because one more thing, he knew

5:34 Speaker 2: about the place. He knew how wicked the place was,

5:38 Speaker 2: and how if these men stayed in the city square,

5:42 Speaker 2: the wicked men would come and attack them, and you

5:45 Speaker 2: know all the negative things that can happen. So he

5:48 Speaker 2: knew about the place, so he didn't want them to

5:51 Speaker 2: go through that. He had a good heart. He didn't

5:54 Speaker 2: live with this attitude of indifference, like why should I

5:59 Speaker 2: be bothered? Man if something happens to them, if it

6:02 Speaker 2: happens to them, is I'm no and I'm not responsible.

6:05 Speaker 2: Lot could have lived like that, A lot of people

6:07 Speaker 2: live like that today. Why should I bother about this

6:10 Speaker 2: person they're suffering. Let them suffer if they came in,

6:13 Speaker 2: who asked them to come here? It's my life. I

6:15 Speaker 2: don't have to take unnecessary trouble. Maybe some family members

6:19 Speaker 2: of Lot could have said, hey, why are you bringing

6:21 Speaker 2: these men and men? You know those men will come

6:24 Speaker 2: and attack and all of that you will get into

6:26 Speaker 2: more trouble. Why do you want unnecessary trouble? Lot could

6:29 Speaker 2: have faced all these things. See, we read these stories

6:32 Speaker 2: like a story book, thinking like a lot in invited

6:35 Speaker 2: and the guests came. But think about the possibilities, like

6:39 Speaker 2: all the conversations that could have happened, all the thought

6:42 Speaker 2: processes he had to deal with, like why should I

6:46 Speaker 2: get into unnecessary trouble because later the wicked men in

6:50 Speaker 2: the city come and attack him. All of these things

6:52 Speaker 2: happen because he's entertaining these angels, so he goes through

6:56 Speaker 2: all of this for people he doesn't even know. Think

7:01 Speaker 2: about this. My question is when we can learn from

7:04 Speaker 2: a Lot that if he was going the extra mile

7:08 Speaker 2: for two people he doesn't even know, how much more

7:11 Speaker 2: you and I can go the extra mile for the

7:13 Speaker 2: people got placed in our life that we know need

7:18 Speaker 2: our encouragement, that we know need our support, that we

7:21 Speaker 2: know or need our maybe sometimes financial support or maybe

7:27 Speaker 2: just a smile, whatever it is, be there for people,

7:31 Speaker 2: show that hospitality. I pray that God will fill you

7:33 Speaker 2: with that gift of being there for people and standing

7:37 Speaker 2: by and being a person who's showing that hospitality. I

7:42 Speaker 2: really challenge you to leave a comment and share this

7:45 Speaker 2: with someone and never see you back next time. God

7:47 Speaker 2: bless you.

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