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In the grip of a mothers gaze...
"One Life to Live"
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God revealed to Abraham that He was about to destroy the whole region of Sodom and Gomorrah, because of its sinfulness. Abraham bargained, with God, for the sparing of the city and his relatives, on the basis of the number of righteous people in the city. Abraham started with fifty and worked his way down to ten. There weren’t ten righteous people in the bustling metropolis of Sodom and Gomorrah. We don’t get the rest of the conversation, but evidently Abraham persuaded God to at least save Lot and his family.
I want to talk about how Lot’s two daughters were caught in the grip of their mother’s gaze. Their mother gazed back upon Sodom, and that gaze had a profound impact upon her two daughters. Lot’s wife escaped destruction, but her life ended up in desolation and barrenness. Lot’s wife had but “One Life To Life,” it would have been better had she lived it for God!
Lot’s two daughters conspired and committed incest with their father that they might preserve their family line. “Family Mess!”
These two daughters were trapped in the grip of the gaze of their mother!
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That look had an impact upon her daughters. |
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That look probably confirmed something in her daughters. |
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That look continued the enculturation of her daughters, in the culture and values of Sodom. |
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That look taught her daughters something about which values were important. |
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That look taught her daughters something about what they should love. |
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That look taught her daughters something about the past. |
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That look taught her daughters something about the future. |
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That look taught her daughters something about sin. |
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That look became a trap to her daughters. |
Mothers, beware of your gazes! Be careful what you gaze upon, because your daughters will undoubtedly be trapped in the grip of your gaze. And that grip may manifest itself in the following ways...
We have followed the “Family Mess” of Lot’s family, through Abraham, his uncle, through his own father, Haran, back to His grandfather Terah. But we don’t know the “Family Mess” of Lot’s wife. Nevertheless, She leaves a legacy of “Family Mess” to her daughters, when she looks back at Sodom and turns into a pillar of salt...!
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In keeping with understanding the phrase “visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations,” we have looked at the impact of “Family Mess” on two generations away from Abraham. Lot was Abraham’s nephew, that is one generation away, and Lot’s daughters are two generations away.
So, we can begin to see the impact of a father’s sin upon the children in the second generation.