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What these scriptures tell us about God
What these scriptures tell us to do
What these scriptures tell us not to do
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As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, "On your way!
Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here,
or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom."
When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD's mercy,
seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters
and led them to safety outside the city.
As soon as they had been brought outside, he was told:
"Flee for your life!Don't look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.
Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away."
"Oh, no, my lord!" Lot replied,
"You have already thought enough of your servant
to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life.
But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me,
and so I shall die.
Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to.
It's only a small place.
Let me flee there–it's a small place, is it not?–
that my life may be saved."
"Well, then," he replied,
"I will also grant you the favor you now ask.
I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Hurry, escape there!
I cannot do anything until you arrive there."
That is why the town is called Zoar.
The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar;
at the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire
upon Sodom and Gomorrah
from the LORD out of heaven.
He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain,
together with the inhabitants of the cities
and the produce of the soil.
But Lot's wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham went to the place
where he had stood in the LORD's presence.
As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah
and the whole region of the Plain,
he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace.
Thus it came to pass: when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain,
he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval
by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here,
or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom."
When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD's mercy,
seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters
and led them to safety outside the city.
As soon as they had been brought outside, he was told:
"Flee for your life!Don't look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.
Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away."
"Oh, no, my lord!" Lot replied,
"You have already thought enough of your servant
to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life.
But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me,
and so I shall die.
Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to.
It's only a small place.
Let me flee there–it's a small place, is it not?–
that my life may be saved."
"Well, then," he replied,
"I will also grant you the favor you now ask.
I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Hurry, escape there!
I cannot do anything until you arrive there."
That is why the town is called Zoar.
The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoar;
at the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fire
upon Sodom and Gomorrah
from the LORD out of heaven.
He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain,
together with the inhabitants of the cities
and the produce of the soil.
But Lot's wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham went to the place
where he had stood in the LORD's presence.
As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah
and the whole region of the Plain,
he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace.
Thus it came to pass: when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain,
he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval
by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
R.(3a) O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Search me, O LORD, and try me; test my soul and my heart.
For your mercy is before my eyes, and I walk in your truth.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Gather not my soul with those of sinners, nor with men of blood my life.
On their hands are crimes,and their right hands are full of bribes.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
But I walk in integrity; redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot stands on level ground; in the assemblies I will bless the LORD.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Search me, O LORD, and try me; test my soul and my heart.
For your mercy is before my eyes, and I walk in your truth.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Gather not my soul with those of sinners, nor with men of blood my life.
On their hands are crimes,and their right hands are full of bribes.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
But I walk in integrity; redeem me, and have mercy on me.
My foot stands on level ground; in the assemblies I will bless the LORD.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I trust in the LORD; my soultrusts in his word.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I trust in the LORD; my soultrusts in his word.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Matthew 8:23-27
As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!"
He said to them, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.
The men were amazed and said, "What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?"
We can encounter storms/scary things, even though we are right where God wants us to be.
Jesus is with in the midst of those storms; we should call to Him for help/comfort.
It’s not clear that Jesus’ comment was addressed the disciples’ cry for help (He tells us to pray for help, see Luke 18:1-11, Philippians 4:6-7, James 1:5), but instead was likely addressing their thought that they were not going to make it. In other words, He wants us to trust Him and His plan, even/especially when it involves difficulty
What these scriptures tell us about God
he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheaval
by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
by which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living.
Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
your mercy is before my eyes
your mercy is before my eyes
your truth.Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.
What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?
What these scriptures tell us to do
walk in your truth
walk in integrity
walk in integrity
trust in the LORD
trusts in his word
They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us!
What these scriptures tell us not to do
he hesitated
Don't look back or stop anywhere
Lot's wife looked back
crimes
bribes
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