VENGEANCE AND MERCY IN SODOM TEXT: GEN 19:1-16 I. A MAKE-BELIEVE FAMILY GEN 19:7 II. THE MENACE OF THE POWERLESS GEN 19:9 III. MERCY’S MANDATE GEN 19:16

1. Vengeance and Mercy in
Sodom
Text: Gen 19:1-16
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and
Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner,
…are set forth for an
example,
suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.
Jude 1:7
7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the
cities about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to fornication,
and going after strange flesh,
are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

2. I. A Make-believe Family
Gen 19:7
…I pray you,
Brethren…
Gen 19:7
7) And said,
I pray you,
brethren,

3. do not so wickedly.
Gen 19:7
…I pray you,
Brethren…
Gen 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
Prov 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way
of understanding.
Matt 13:38
The field is the world; the good seed are the
children of the kingdom; but the tares are the
children of the wicked one;
John 8:41

4. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they
to him, We be not born of fornication; we have
one Father, even God.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love
his own: but because ye are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath
hated them, because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.
2Cor 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness?and what
communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor 6:17

5. Wherefore come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Rev 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues.
II. The Menace of the Powerless
Gen 19:9
…he will needsbe a judge…
Gen 19:9
9) And they said, Stand back. And they said
again, This one fellow came in to sojourn,

6. and he will needs be a judge:
now will we deal worse with thee, than with
them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even
Lot, and came near to break the door.
Gen 19:9
…he will needs be a judge…
Exod 2:13
And when he went out the second day, behold,
two men of the Hebrews strove together: and
he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore
smitest thou thy fellow?
Exod 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a
judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as
thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared,
and said, Surely this thing is known.
Isa 21:6

7. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a
watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
Isa 21:11-12
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out
of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night? 12 The
watchman said, The morning cometh, and also
the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return,
come.
Gen 19:7
7) And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so
wickedly.
1Kgs 22:4
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go
with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as

8. thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as
thy horses.
2Chr 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out
to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat,
Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them
that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon
thee from before the LORD.
Prov 4:14-15
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go
not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not
by it, turn from it, and pass away. KJV
Eph 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2John 1:10-11
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into your house,

9. neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that
biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil
deeds.
III. Mercy’s Mandate
Gen 19:16
…the LORD being
merciful unto him…
Gen 19:16
16) And while he lingered,
the men laid hold upon his hand,
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the
hand of his two daughters;
the LORD being merciful unto him:
and they brought him forth, and set him without
the city.

10. Gen 19:16
…the LORD being merciful unto him…
Not, “Them”
Num 14:18
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no
means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation.
Ps 86:5
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive;
and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call
upon thee.
Prov 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward
mouth, do I hate.

11. Prov 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by
the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
2Cor 5:11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men; but we are made manifest unto
God; and I trust also are made manifest in your
consciences.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.
2Cor 5:11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men; but we are made manifest unto
God; and I trust also are made manifest in your
consciences.

12. VENGEANCE AND MERCY IN SODOM
TEXT: GEN 19:1-16
I. A MAKE-BELIEVE FAMILY
GEN 19:7
II. THE MENACE OF THE POWERLESS
GEN 19:9
III. MERCY’S MANDATE
GEN 19:16