Genesis 19:30-39 Day 1
Joy’s Notes
REVIEW last wk FIRST:
Gen 19:17-22 When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
⁃ Our God is always a God with a rescue mission AND a transfer expedition!
COL 1:13 “For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son,
⁃ God will never rescue and then just leave you.
⁃ He is a rescue-transfer God!!
The ‘MOUNTAIN” was God’s TRANSFER!
*B45= HIGH-Land
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Gen 19:18
Iot refuses to accept Gods invite to His mountain:(
Lot chooses an alternative way of
⁃ staying safe
⁃ Staying un-alone
⁃ finding love
⁃ having needs met:(
Lot goes to a “little village” called zoar, instead.
Because…
• The Mountain (the “transfer”) EXPOSES our secret pain!
But…
• The Mountain HEALS our secret pain!
If you’re used to depending on IDOLS— being called to a secluded mountain seems TERRIFYING!
• The Mountain is a CALLING to become EMOTIONALLY, MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY & WHOLE PEOPLE!
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Gen 19:30
“Afterward Lot left Zoar because he was afraid of the people there, and he went to 👉 live in a cave👈 in the mountains with his two daughters.”
⁃ Pharisees=“afraid of the people.”
⁃ Religion (orphan root) cloakes us in fear of people!
⁃ Relationship (son ship) covers us in security!
Gal 1:10 “Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people (fear of man) were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.
1 thes 2:4 “ we are not trying to please people— but ONLY God, who tests our heart!”
• Lot lived with spirit of fear— & this spirit dictated his life! (our life is headed in the direction of our most dominant thoughts.” - Craig groeshell )
🔥prov 29:25
“ Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the LORD means safety.”
• “The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.” – Oswald Chambers
• My fear dream (go through it anyway!)
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• God never told LOT to live “in a cave.”
• God never told Elijah to “go into a cave”- only to “go to Horeb, the Mountain of God.”
• = the SAME mountain Moses met with God in Exodus!
• 1 kings 19:11 “The Lord called ELIJAH to come out of CAVE & out onto His Holy Mountian!
• Elija was in cave-of-depression & isolation — running from FEAR of man (Jezebel)
• Lot was in Cave-of-depression & isolation — running from FEAR of man (people from little village)
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Gen 19:31
“One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can’t get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.”
• Oldest daughter driven NOT by LUST but by DESPERATION!
• we’re most likely to sin when we’re DESPERATE
• But with Jesus, desperation is just an ILLUSION from Satan!
• Desperation is a noun which is formed from the word DESPAIR.
• desperation= “is a state of despair, typically one which results in rash or extreme behavior. It’s the feeling when you have lost almost all HOPE!”
• The root word of “hope” means to breathe.
• desperation symbolizes a lack of breathing
• YHWH= BREATHING!!
• DESPERATION= A lack of God :(
There is NO desperation when we have God (yhwh) !!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌
• Symptoms of desperation in your life:
1. Constant availability TO ALL THINGS/ALL PEOPLE (Or a specific person) lacking healthy boundaries for self.) “Boundaries arent just a good idea, they’re a God idea.”
- “the long term stress from saying yes is often greater than the momentary stress from saying no.”
(https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=the+long+term+stress+from+saying+yes+is+often+greater+than+the+momentary+stress+from+saying+no.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdanreiland.com%2Fthe-danger-of-desperate-leadership%2F&hashtags=&related=&via=danreiland) 2. disease to please— willing to deny my own needs and feelings to meet yours.
3. Compromising personal integrity & principles
4. Neediness for validation (clap for me/ connect with me (affirmation)
——>all of this may seem selfless- but it’s root is selfishness.
——> trying to get MY NEEDS satisfied, to feel worthy
“A needy person is just a greedy person in disguise.”
⁃ A greedy person is an idol worshipper (Colossians)
Helpful tips: (DanReiland.com)
1) ChOOSE dependent to break desperate.
⁃ exodus 14:14 “ the lord will fight for you, you need only to be still.”
⁃ John 15:5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain (ABIDE) in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
⁃ ABIDE= allowing His Word to (1) fill our minds, (2) heal our hearts (3) direct our wills, (4) and transform our affections.
2) Discover healthy pressure relief valves.
⁃ desperation leads us to unhealthy ways to relieve pressure!
⁃ New ways to no longer “NUMB OUT”
⁃ JOURNALING & scripture- “mountain time”
⁃ COUNSELING (Digging deeper into the “why” i had unhealthy ways to “relieve pressure.”
⁃ Daily B45 studies
3) Understand the difference between satisfied and content.
⁃ Phil 4:11-12 “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,
content= Internal
satisfied= External
• Dependence and contentment are married
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-“There are no men left anywhere in this entire area” v.19:31
• Elijah in his cave thought he was the only one left too…
• The Lord answered by letting Elijah know how far from reality he was.
• God said, “Hey, you’re not the only one left. There are still 7,000 who have not bowed the knee to Baal! (1 Kings 19)
• Both Elijah and Lot’s family were dwelling in the cave of depression where reality becomes distorted.
• In Lot’s daughter’s case, Lot wasn’t the only man left.
• In Elijah’s case, Elijah wasn’t the only one left- there were 7000 others!
• when you’re in the cave of depression, isolation & depression everything seems 7,000 times worse than it really is.
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Gen 19:32
“Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
• Even though the family had just lost everything, they had plenty of wine!
• People enslaved to idols-of-the-heart may not have enough for mortgage, but they manage to buy counterfeit coping mechanisms:(
• when our hearts are desperate, we become desperate to fill it. 👉Satan always has fraudulent ingredient to fill your desperate soul
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Gen. 19:33
“So that night they got him drunk with wine, and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
• If Lot had refused the wine, he would have refused the enemy
• if lot had refused the counterfeit coping mechanism, he would of REFUSED the devils opportunity.
• “give the devil NO opportunity” Eph 4:27
• ANY false-security allows satan a foothold in my life!!
• the OLDEST daughter first 👇
• We are the “older sibling” to our younger sisters/brothers of Christ.
• The younger follow!
• John 8:9 “When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.”
• leadership trickles down. Younger sibling, younger children, younger sisters in Christ (& not always by age) are following your steps, your character, you posture, your authenticity, your Love, your passion, your vulnerability, your kindness, your compassion….
• We as ‘First siblings’ become an AGENCY OF God’s HEALING to others through our DEPENDENCE & NOT our DESPERATION!
“You can hide desperation for a while, but in time it leaks out of the marrow of your leadership”
• Lot is not only intoxicated physically— but has an intoxicated mind (opposite of “SOBER MIND.”)
⁃ 1 Peter 5:8-9 “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.’’
• God continues to reveal in chapter 19 physical examples of what’s happening at a heart level (blinded men) (intoxicated lot)
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Gen 19:34-35
“The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.” (All instigated by the OLDER sister)
35 So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
⁃ 2nd night of being given alcohol
• lot “FELL ASLEEP” (AGAIN )Because of his intoxicated mind and body in the cave of depression, isolation & desperation.
• Cave of depression, isolation & desperation= puts us on Cruise control Christianity & we’re no longer “AWAKE” at the wheel.
• Cave of depression & isolation & desperation= Passionless & drifting
• Cave of depression & isolation & desperation= Luke warm (war room example ☕️) Rev 3:16- church of laodicea
• Rev 3:1 “ I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead! Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead! Go back to what you heard, and believed, at first, hold to it firmly! Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly as unexpected as a thief.” ~Jesus
• Eph 5:14 “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead (of the cave of depression/desperation) and Christ will SHINE on you… DO NOT get drunk on wine , which will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Gen 19:36
“As a result, both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their own father. “
• It was not impossible for both girls to get pregnant as same time— a women’s monthly cycles often align with one another when living in close proximity.
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Gen 19:37-38
When the older daughter
gave birth to a son, she named him
Moab
. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.
When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi. He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the
Ammonites.”