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It's Time To Get Out And Stay Out!
Contributed by Bishop William Bryant Wilmore, Jr. on Jul 7, 2003 (message contributor)
Summary: When God has delivered you from certain things, you need to move forward and not look back, lest what happened to Lot’s wife happens to you.
Church... I’ve learned that:
– Only God can give me peace which passeth all understanding…
– Only God can teach me to say, in whatever state I find myself, I’ve learned to be content…
– Only God will stand me you, through thick and thin…
– Good and bad…
– Right and wrong…
– Only God is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother…
– Only God will be there when all others turn their back and walk away…
– Only God will go with me through the fire and flood, The storm and the rain…
Yes... God has a plan of salvation, Hope and deliverance for your life! But I’ve learned that God has only one plan of salvation! God does not have two plans or three plans. God does not have one plan for rich people and another plan for poor people…
God does not have one plan for black people and another plan for white people. But God has one plan – and it is not a customizable plan where you pick some from column A and some from column B… but God has only ONE PLAN! And that plan, is salvation by grace, through faith in His Son Jesus Christ!
– He is the only weay to get out and stay out…
– He is the only way to get out, and not look back…
– He is the only way to life….Love… Joy…. Peace and Rest…There is no other plan!
Well... as I get ready to close. I want you to know that in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, God used angels to rescue Lot and his family from the iniquity of the city!
God always has something, or somebody He can use to bring His children out of sin and bondage.
– In the days of Flood… God used an ark as a shelter for Noah and his family…
– In the days of drought in Canaan, God used Joseph… and corn in Egypt…
– And when there arose another Pharaoh, who knew not Joseph and Israel was in affliction down in Egypt…
God used the blood of the lamb on the posts of the door…
. . . And when the death angel saw the blood... it passed over that house…
. . . And if you look at verse 15 of the text, it says that “when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
In other words, they were trying to rush Lot and his family out of the city, telling him, “Arise, get up now, and get out of here! Take your wife, take your daughters and flee from this place, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city!”
But look at the text… see it there in the 16th verse? It says, “he lingered... “ He didn’t move... “he lingered…” In other words, he didn’t get in a hurry… but “he hung around!” He lingered right there in Sodom! In that strange, but familiar place, “he lingered!“ In Sodom, in that corruptible, detestable place… “he lingered” And somebody today is “lingering” when they ought to fleeing!
What are you saying Pastor?
– What has God told you leave behind…
– What has God told you to get away from…
“You Need To Get Out And Stay Out!” Don’t get lost in lingering... but take advantaged of “Magnified Mercy” That’s what it says in the “C” clause verse 19: “and thou hast magnified thy mercy...”
