Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“DWELLING WITH DEPRAVITY”

There is no sin that affects a culture like sexual sin. We can see in our own nation the moral decline of our nation since the sexual revolution of the sixties. What was promoted as free love with free spirited engagement was nothing more than a gateway to a complete moral free-fall into depravity.

Lot chose to live, as a child of God, in the land of two cities, Sodom and Gomorrah. These cities were known for their sexual deviancy. Noone knew better than Lot and yet he chose to remain there. Now he entertains two angelic messengers, and he has an issue on his hand. The Sodomite men are beating at his door, wanting the angelic messengers to come out so they can have sex with them. They are not looking for consent, they are demanding the messengers for their own sexual gratification.

This scene is sadistic and demented in every way possible, but should we be surprised. When a person sins sexually, he/she is choosing to sin against their own body. Lot tries to address the Sodomites civilly, but they are not having it. They are depraved men acting worse than animals. He even calls their behavior wicked and pleads with them.

When a child of God submerses themselves in places that they have no business being at, and with people they have no business being with, there will come a day when they are forced to choose between right and wrong. In that time, it is not as easy as it seems. Lot is in this season in the text below. He should have never chosen Sodom and Gomorrah to live, and once he did, he should have left long quickly after discovering the wicked depravity of the citizens.

Child of God do not fall for the same tricks of the enemy. Do not dwell among the depraved. Loving people that are living in sexual immorality does not equate submersing yourself into their depraved lifestyle. They are lost and blinded in their depravity. Be the child of God that you are and get out and away from such sin. Do not dwell among depravity.

Genesis 19:4—7 “⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ⁵ And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. ⁶ And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, ⁷ And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.”