<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 But Mrs. Lot, she became very worldly and taken up with the things of the world. And what a lesson that is to us today, that we can become too worldly minded. And I'm quite sure today that the church in whole, is becoming too worldly minded.
Now, maybe Mrs. Lot didn't mean to do that when she went down there. She thought, "I'll just be sociable." It's all right to be sociable, but don't take up the habits of the world. When you go, go like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and Daniel. They purposed in their heart that they would not defile themselves, no matter what come or went. No matter whether the rest of the church backslid, what happened, they purposed in their heart. And they are a memorial today.

L-26 And Mrs. Lot stands for a memorial. And when God give her her last message of grace, when He sent those angels down there and told them that within a few hours that Sodom and Gomorrah was going to be burned, yet she could not stand the thought of giving up her social life to come out into a desert and to live like Sarah had lived, and out there in the desert and have to wear common plain clothes of the woman of the plains. She wanted to be in luxury. Her husband had become a great man in the city. He set in the gate as a judge or as the mayor of the city. And she wanted these luxuries. And she couldn't stand the thought of having to give those things up.

L-27 And as she went with her husband out of the city, she kept looking back, weeping and grieving because she had to give it up, to separate herself from that type of death. Jesus said, "He that puts his hand to the plow and even turns to look back, is not worthy of the plowing." What type of people should we be? I... He that puts his hand to the plow and even, don't--don't turn back, but just turn to look back, is not even worthy of the plowing. Oh, we should keep our eyes and hearts single. No matter what the other people do, what the church does, what the neighbor does, what anyone else does, keep your heart centered on Calvary. Don't even stop to look back. We've got no time to look back.
And this woman, because she did, God gave a memorial to all the peoples who turned to look back after they've once accepted Christ as their personal Saviour; she turned to a pillar of salt. And she stands there to this day. It can be seen in the fields, that the woman's standing there with her head turned, looking back. And she's looking back over her left shoulder, to look back into the fields, her heart was back there. Yet she was forced, as it was, to do this. And many people take Christ that way today, because they come out from the world, feel like they're forced to do it. And they keep longing and lusting, and it isn't long till they're back. And they're--they're horrible memorials of God's grace, of God's love as showed to them.

L-28 Now, memorials... Now, in the days of Jesus on earth, the Jews had built a temple as a memorial. And they had showed Jesus how goodly that temple was built. And he said... It taken forty years to build the temple, about eighty years altogether. For forty years they were cutting out the stones in different parts of the world. Forty years in its construction, not a buzz of a saw or sound of a hammer...
But you know, even Jesus said, "There take no looking at this, for I say unto you that there will come a time when there won't be one stone left upon the other," one stone upon the other. Just before He said these great memorial words, "Heavens and earth will pass away," temples will pass away; memorials will pass away, "but My word is the everlasting memorial."


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