Its executives are actively and aggressively looking for ways to “add queerness” to children’s programming. Disney, once a champion of families, has descended to standing in opposition to a common-sense law that protects kindergarteners through third-graders from sexual indoctrination (gay or straight) in schools. If we do, often it will be at the expense and to the detriment of our children.
We can make a stand or we can compromise. We stand at the homes’ thresholds as society pounds on our doors, demanding we give into immorality. You and I are in a position much like Lot’s in today’s culture. It must have assailed him daily.Ĭompromise is a slippery slope, and it doesn’t take long to slide backward into moral apathy. You can be sure it didn’t happen just that once. Instead he compromised a little here and a little there, wanting to be liked by his neighbors, turning a blind eye to their wickedness. He should have been a shining light of righteousness in a dark place. Turning a Blind Eye to WickednessĪs a follower of the Lord, Lot should’ve been far removed from the cesspool of sin in Sodom and Gomorrah - if not far from physical proximity, at least distant from spiritual conformity. It’s so messed up, and it all comes down to compromise. We see the consequences of those lessons later when Lot’s daughters get him drunk, have incestual sex with him to get themselves pregnant, and he doesn’t even realize it’s happening. Think of the messed-up lessons Lot’s daughters learned from him about their own value, the sanctity of sex, and the premium that culture placed on instant gratification. Take your perversion and get away from here!” I am the protector of this household and all who enter this home.
Lot had been living for so long in a culture of immorality and perversion, he was willing to offer his daughters to a sex-thirsty mob that was lusting to homosexually rape two complete strangers. Please Support The Stream: Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic, and Moral Issues of Our Day. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish.” But he tried to appease these wicked men with a terrible compromise: “Look, I have two virgin daughters.
Lot responded to their demands, “Please, my brothers, don’t do such a wicked thing.” So far, so good. They’d come was from every quarter of the city, and included both young and old. Their sinful perversion is so extreme, they pound on Lot’s door and openly demand he hand them over to them so that they could have their way with them sexually. Appearing as men, these two angels enter Lot’s house, and are seen there by the men of Sodom. The wickedness was so widespread that God promised Abraham he would spare Sodom and Gomorrah if, even among the thousands of inhabitants, just ten righteous people could be found within the borders of these cities.īut God, in His mercy, sends two angels on an extraction mission to rescue Lot, Abraham’s nephew, and his family before annihilation descends upon Sodom in the form of fire and brimstone. God had made it known to his servant Abraham that he plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, twin cities of sin and perversion. I’m talking about the account Lot and the city of Sodom where he lived. I remember the first time I read it, I thought, “It’s hard to fathom a society that is so wicked and depraved that this could take place.”īut let me tell you, as the days and years have passed since that time, it’s no longer as difficult to imagine as it once was. Genesis 19 is one of the most shocking chapters of the Bible.