Sunday Morning Worship
A Disgrace to Grace
Dr. Travis Farris
September 17, 2023

“A Disgrace to Grace”

Luke 17:26-30 (NASB) “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 “It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

1) Their similarities

    • Both tell of the destruction of the wicked
    • Both tell of the how the righteous prevail
    • Both tell of the judgment of God

2) Their Differences

    •Noah is a preacher of righteousness but Lot is a politician of wickedness
    •Noah labors and Lot is lazy
    •Noah is obedient and Lot is disobedient
    •God tells Noah to enter in but he tells Lot to get out!

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How a Believer Can Be a Disgrace to Grace
I. A Believer can is disgrace to grace when he

what is while choosing to what is .

    Genesis 19:1-3 (NASB) Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.” 3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
    Genesis 19:4-5 (NASB) Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; 5 and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.”
II. A Believer is a disgrace to grace when they Fail the __Test__ of __Testimony__.
    Genesis 19:14 (NASB) Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
    Matthew 5:13 (NASB) “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.
    2 Peter 2:6-8 (NASB) and *if* He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing *them* to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly *lives* thereafter; 7 and if He rescued *righteous Lot*, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by *their* lawless deeds),

III. A Believer is a disgrace to grace when they are

with a .

    Genesis 19:15-16 (NASB) When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16 But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.
    Genesis 19:23-25 (NASB)The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, 25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
    Luke 17:32 (NASB) “Remember Lot’s wife.
    1 Corinthians 3:11-15 (NASB) For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. 14 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.