Watch “Remember Lot’s Great-Granddaughter” with Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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this morning I want to preach on not
just remembering Lot’s wife because
remember that was Jesus who gave us that
commandment to never ever forget Lot’s
wife a woman in Scripture that Jesus
himself said you should never forget
about this woman and what happened to
her and her family because she looked
back but I want to talk about another
thought don’t just remember Lot’s wife
but I want to add to that this morning
remember Lot’s great-granddaughter
that’s the name of this message remember
Long’s great-granddaughter to understand
what Jesus was referring to when he said
remember Lot’s wife you have to go back
in time and remember that Abraham was
called out and his nephew lot journeyed
with him and God began to bless Abraham
and he had so many flocks that he gave
some to his nephew and his flocks
increased and then there were so many
animals and so many shepherds on both
sides of the family that arguments begin
to break out they begin to fight over
grass and fight over grazing rights and
fight over water holes and finally
Abraham a peacemaker in the family
because every family has fights every
family has squabbles and there have to
be peacemakers in every home there has
to be somebody who stands up and say
wait says wait a minute we’re we’re
family this is crazy
to let this come grass and material
things come between family and loving
one another so he said here’s what I
propose
lot this is the older speaking to the
younger his nephew he said you take your
flocks and your shepherds and you choose
and if you go north I’ll go south if you
go to the well beautiful green pastures
because one of the territories was
beautiful and well watered had
everything you can’t imagine it was in
the direct
of five major cities two of them being
Sodom and Gomorrah and he said if you go
in that direction it’ll be the easy path
it looks green and beautiful looks nice
and you won’t have to work much there
will be plenty of grass for your animals
to graze and drink water and that is
exactly what Lotte did he chose that
path and it left Abraham with rocks and
desert and mountains and yet God
prospered and blessed him because he
said blessed are the peacemakers
especially in family issues blessed is
the person who brings peace back to a
troubled family so Lotte became and
began to move in a direction that was to
eventually become the worst decision
that he would ever make in his life even
though on the surface it looked good it
brought short-term quick rewards but it
was the worst decision that he could
have ever made for his own life and
particularly for his family and I’m
going to show you real quick why I want
to say this if I’ve got a first point
this is it wisdom dictates life choices
need to be made with eternity in mind
when you’re making major life choices
concerning you and your family you
better do them not with what’s best
concerning financial rewards only you
don’t make those decisions based upon
what you can see in the natural only you
don’t make those decisions on what will
give you the fast payback rewards
instantly necessarily but you have to
always filter major decisions concerning
your family through this question is
this the will of God and how will this
affect me and my family for eternity and
that was the question that lot failed to
ask
it looked good it felt good it was
financially rewarding it would cause him
to have more than he had ever had and
just because it was there and it felt
good look good he didn’t pray about it
he just moved and he moved into the
direction of Sodom and Gomorrah the
Bible said every night that he pitched
his tent he faced the cities of
wickedness and anytime your eyes begin
to focus in a direction anywhere your
eyes will wonder your body will follow
it’s a matter of time and he began to
move his family little by little by
little from the fields and the outskirts
into the wickedness of sodom and
gomorrah and now they’re living and
they’re married and they have taken on
the lifestyles of a wicked wicked place
but God is faithful and God heard the
prayers of Abraham for his family and
God sends two angels and the angels come
with a message to lot in his house and
they say God is going to destroy this
city because of the vile wickedness that
is taking place the Bible said that the
people were so wicked the inhabitants of
that city this men of that city that
they wanted to take the angels when they
saw them go into the house and they
wanted to abuse them I want to say
something that I think is important I
want to say that we are not to hate
anyone we’re not to rail and attack and
act like there’s big sin and there’s
little sin because we all need the grace
of God but I also want to say that
standing for truth is not hate speech
and also want to say today that what
God’s Word teaches us is that we’re to
speak the truth in love did you know you
can speak the truth but if you don’t
speak it in love then you’re out of
order and out of line with the Word of
God
and did you know on the other hand that
you can love but if you’re not speaking
the truth you’re out of line too the
Bible commands us to speak the truth in
love and they were in vile wickedness in
the city and the angel
took a lot and his family by the hand
the scripture said and led them out they
said in Genesis 19 and verse 17 the
angel said to lot and his family escape
for your life neither look behind you
escape to the mountains lest you be
consumed get out of this place and don’t
look back and it’s in that moment that
as they’re on the outskirts of the city
almost out that Lot’s wife
turns around and when she turns around
and she looks back and what a stern
warning this is that when God brings you
out when God sets you free when God
delivers you when God changes your life
and when he sets you in a new direction
don’t look back don’t go back don’t turn
back don’t dare ever even even allow a
fleeting glance of looking back and
warning and going turning back you never
go back and that’s why Jesus himself
would bring this woman out in the New
Testament centuries later in Luke
chapter 17 when he said the simple words
remember Lot’s wife don’t ever forget
the danger of looking back don’t ever
forget the danger of of turning around
when God brings you out you would think
if an angel delivered you that you would
never look back especially if he told
you not to but she did and she was
turned into a pillow of salt and the
story doesn’t end there now it gets even
more complex and you know you need to
know the Bible so just listen and let me
teach you a little bit because I’m going
to get where I’m going real quick but
when that happened when that mother was
turned into a pillar of salt
the two daughters of lot had a fear that
their family lineage would be over after
all every inhabitant of the city was
destroyed there were no more people they
thought on the earth and so in
desperation they got their father drunk
the Bible records one of the most
horrible sins in Scripture that night
there was sexual immorality between the
daughters and the father and the
daughters became pregnant and from that
according to Genesis 19 in 36 nine
months later the first daughter bore a
son and named him Moab and the second
daughter bore a son and named him Ammon
and so what you have are two tribes
the Moabite and Ammon tribes and if you
know anything about Scripture you will
see over and over and over the Moabites
and the ammonites were the number 1 and
2 enemies of the Israeli people they
were continually fighting and attacking
and they were the grandchildren of lot
so bad was this Moabite people that they
offered their children to idol gods one
of the kings of Moab stood ona on a wall
of a city and threw his baby off in
sacrifice to a demon God this was the
history this was the Moabite people so
so bad was the curse that Isaiah spoke a
curse over the know of Moabites and
jeremiah spoke a curse for different Old
Testament prophets Ezekiel and Micah all
of them cursed the Moabites they were a
cursed family when I say the Moabites
Lots family Lots lineage was cursed by
God God even gave a commandment he said
never is a Moabite to be allowed into
the tabernacle or on the grounds where
the tabernacle is though the people of
the Moabites are forbidden and they’re
under a curse and yet when you turn to
matthew chapter 1 and actually i think
i’d like for you to do it would you turn
to matthew chapter 1 are you ready for
this matthew chapter 1 verse 1 the book
of the genealogy of jesus christ the son
of god the son of abraham
Abraham begat Isaac Isaac begat Jacob
Jacob begat Judah and his brothers Judah
begat pay raise and zerah by Tamar and
pay raise begat hezron and hezron begat
RAM and RAM begat a minute AB and a
minute ab begat Naresh n and Anna heshin
begat solomon and solomon begat Boaz by
Rahab and Boaz begat obed by Ruth o and
Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begot David
the king of Israel wait a minute
Ruth you don’t understand when we’re
first introduced to Ruth she has a book
in the Bible named after her but do you
know when we’re introduced to her she’s
called ruth the moabite
she’s ruth the moabite and her story
goes back to the Book of Ruth go there
with me real quick let me sum it up this
is so powerful because if you look in
her past if you look back at what her
past was you say sexual immorality
you see drunkenness you see bad choices
you see wrong direction you see curses
you see sin and pain and hurt and
failure you see it all but if you turn
and you jump into the book of Matthew
chapter 1 which is the genealogy of
Jesus and a Moabite woman is right in
the middle of it and she’s the
great-granddaughter of lot how did she
get in the middle of the genealogy of
Jesus Christ there was a famine and she
was living in a place called Moab
because she was among she was of the
tribe of Moab and Naomi and her husband
and her two sons were in a famine in
Bethlehem and they left Bethlehem and
they went to Moab trying to get food and
when they got there the son fell in love
with a Moabite girl named
and married her and buffet man killed
the husbands killed all the men and now
Ruth and Naomi her mother-in-law are
widows and Naomi turns to her young
daughter-in-law and she says I’m going
back to Bethlehem where I came from and
I guess I’ll just die there you stay
here but she grabs her and then comes
that beautiful scripture in Ruth chapter
1 verse 16
Ruth looks at her and she says entreat
me not to leave you nor from following
after you for where you go I will go and
where you Lodge I will Lodge and your
people will be my people and look this
is big and your God will be my god at
that moment a supernatural conversion
takes place of a little girl who’s in an
awful family tree who’s in a tribe that
has been cursed
she comes from immorality she comes from
incest
she comes from drunkenness she comes
from hurt and pain and abuse and
everything you can’t imagine but she
says your God will be my god I’m going
back with you to Bethlehem and in that
moment there was a conversion and when
Ruth goes back and she’s in the field in
Bethlehem maybe the same field where
angels were singing peace on earth
goodwill toward men she’s reaping the
welfare that’s left behind for poor
people and Boaz rides up the owner of
the field and he says hi gorgeous would
you marry me and now he’s a Hebrew and
she is a Moabite us but they marry and
they have a son named open and obut has
a son named Jesse and Jesse has a son
named David and David becomes king of
Israel and has a great-great grandson
by the name of Jesus and now suddenly if
you look back
if you look back this is what I want you
to get if you look backward in Ruth’s
life you see lot you see sin you see
sexual immorality you see a history
rooted in idolatry
you see drunkenness you see hurt and you
see pain but if you turn and look
forward to Matthew chapter one she’s in
the genealogy and you see angels singing
over the birth of a savior that she had
a major part in you see a savior on a
cross dying for all mankind and I’ve
just can’t just come to tell you what
Ruth would say to you today is she would
say no matter how bad your past is your
future is brighter than your past if you
put Jesus in it oh come on we’re going
to take a praise break right there I’m
saying to you it does not matter how bad
your yesterday was what kind of family
you came from what kind of history has
gone on in your family if you will quit
looking backwards and turn forwards
there is a savior name Jesus ahead of
you that can take it all and turn it
into his calling in his plan and his
purpose and his ministry in your family
everybody give God a praise for just a
moment I don’t know what you have behind
you I don’t know what bad choices you
made yesterday I don’t know what regrets
you have that you wish you could change
but your future can be better than your
yesterday so when you look back there’s
my lab but when you look forward there’s
Jesus and Ruth you’ve got to decide you
can look back where you came from
and you will hear voices telling you why
God can’t use
you can’t bless you can’t love you and
he certainly couldn’t care about
somebody like you that has sexual abuse
and drunkenness and sensual immorality
and idolatry and child sacrifice my God
if you to ask any honest Hebrew do you
think the Messiah is going to come
through that family there’s not one that
would have said yeah I can see the
Messiah coming through that messed up
family but Ruth is preaching to you
today Ruth is saying your future is
brighter than your past your tomorrows
will be better than your yesterday’s and
I want us just to praise God if you know
that you’ve been freed from your
yesterday’s by a savior that is in your
present right now I’m enjoying my own
preaching right now because the enemy
wants you to give up on your family the
enemy wants you to think that where you
came from is the tract that your own and
it can never change but look at Ruth
remember Lot’s great-granddaughter yes
we should remember Lot’s wife as a
warning but we should remember Lot’s
great-granddaughter as an encouragement
no matter how messed up your family has
been God can turn it and put his Grace
on it and bless you and you can be a
major part of his purpose in the earth
today I’m saying to you today and say
that was the whole introduction and now
this is the sermon and I’m done
but I’m saying to you today remember
Lot’s great-granddaughter looking back
there was sin but looking forward in her
life there was redemption looking back
there were curses but looking forward
there were blessings looking back there
was judgment
but looking forward that was mercy
looking back there were regrets but
looking forward there was purpose
looking back there was lot but looking
forward there was Jesus and many of you
may have enemy always wanting you to
live life looking in the rearview mirror
at the corruption and the wickedness of
your past but God has sent me to tell
you that your yesterday’s do not make
you unworthy of being a part of the plan
of God today and tomorrow because that’s
why Jesus came and I don’t care what’s
behind you
Ruth there’s a savior in front of you
I know yesterday’s can be ugly but Jesus
is ahead of you
and I’m talking to people right now that
if you look back there’s divorce
there’s generational curses there’s
alcoholics for generations drug addicts
for generations divorce for generations
and if you look back the enemy would say
God can’t do anything great in your life
but if you look forward there’s a savior
head of you and he can turn the curse
into a blessing and he can stop all of
the stuff that’s happened in the past
and he can change a whole family in this
room today you may have family issues of
which you’re not very proud you may have
things in your past that haunt you you
may have some yesterday’s that you
regret and you wish you could have done
over the word of the Lord to you today
is Jesus is not in your rear view mirror
if you get your eyes off that rear view
mirror
you’d see and you’d see an ornament on
the hood of your car and it’s Jesus and
he’s saying I’m before you come on
come on I haven’t changed my mind about
using lot maybe behind you Ruth but
Jesus is in front of you the purpose in
front of you is there in spite of what’s
behind you do you understand what I’m
saying
Ruth had so much mess behind her but the
purpose of God was that she would bring
a savior to the world the calling in
front of you is greater than the mess
behind you the ministry in front of you
is there in spite of what is behind you
the hope in front of you is there in
spite of what is behind you you Ruth can
share Jesus you Ruth
who came from such a terrible background
you can share Jesus with a lost world
and when I think about people in this
room and I think about families and I
think about how the enemy would love to
say because of things that have happened
back there that God can’t use your
family some of you mothers have prayed
and prayed and prayed and prayed and you
brought some of those loved ones with
you today and the Lord told me to tell
you he told me that there would be
Ruth’s here and there would be men here
and there would be sons and daughters
here and the enemy wants you to leave
looking back and all of the curses in
the pain and the heard and the sin and
the immorality but Jesus is ahead of you
he has a great plan for you and for your
family and for your life Ruth tells you
that God can still use you in spite of
your past God can still use you remember
Lot’s great-grandma
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