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Are You Ready? [Sermon]
SODOM AND GOMORRAH!
SIN AND DEPRAVITY!
But what kinds of sin and depravity?
One popular idea is that the men of Sodom were all homosexual – including the fiancés of Lot’s daughters.
But is that truly what was going on?
Let’s go to God in prayer.
God of wisdom, may the words that I speak, and the ways they are received by each of our hearts and minds, to help us to continue to grow into the people, and the church, that you have dreamed us to be.
Amen.
Our reading from the Hebrew scriptures says
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.
– Isaiah 1:16-17, NRSVue
Seek justice
Rescue the oppressed
Defend the orphan
Plead for the widow
Huh. Nothing about gay people.
Let’s try another prophet. How about Ezekiel?
49 This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
– Ezekiel 16:49-50
If you remember the story of the fall of Sodom, two angels visited the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city, and invited them to stay with him.
The angels said they would spend the night in the town square. Lot strongly urged them not to do that and spend the night in his home instead.
Then
…the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house, 5 and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”
– Genesis 19:4-5, NRSVue
So I ask:
Is there a place where the people do not seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; and plead for the widow.?
Is there a place that has pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but does not aid the poor and needy?
Is there a place where someone giving shelter to visitors is met with with men demanding the visitors be brought outside?
We are a nation that is ending or reducing funding for many things people need: food, medical care, housing, heating oil.
We are a nation that is taking people off the streets, out of cars, out of courts and businesses, some who have been here decades, some even who are here legally, and sending them to detention centers or deporting them to lands where they haven’t lived for many years, if ever,
And instead of addressing these sins against our neighbors, we are demonizing gay and trans people.
Are we in the sort of danger that Sodom and Gomorrah were in? The sort of danger that the kingdom of Israel was in? The sort of danger that the kingdom of Judah was in?
I’d like to read an earlier passage in Genesis, one that you may not have heard:
20 Then the Lord said,
“How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!
21 I must go down and see whether they have done altogether
according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”
22 So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom,
while Abraham remained standing before the Lord.
23 Then Abraham came near and said,
“Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city;
will you then sweep away the place and not forgive it for the fifty righteous who are in it?
25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked,
so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you!
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
26 And the Lord said,
“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”
27 Abraham answered,
“Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking?
Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”
And he said,
“I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
29 Again he spoke to him,
“Suppose forty are found there.”
He answered,
“For the sake of forty I will not do it.”
30 Then he said,
“Oh, do not let my lord be angry if I speak. Suppose thirty are found there.”
He answered,
“I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”
31 He said,
“Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord. Suppose twenty are found there.”
He answered,
“For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said,
“Oh, do not let my lord be angry if I speak just once more. Suppose ten are found there.”
He answered,
“For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”
33 And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham,
and Abraham returned to his place.
– Genesis 18: 20-33, NRSVue
Suppose ten righteous remain in this nation. Would God preserve us for the sake of ten?
It’s estimated that the region of Sodom and Gomorrah was between 40,000 and 65,000 people. USA population is around 340 million people. If we extrapolate from the differences in population, we might need 52,000 righteous.
Our Gospel reading from Luke says we need to be ready at any time. We don’t know when judgment will come to us.
There was a band named Pacific Gas and Electric.
After the utility demanded they change their name so there was no confusion between a musical group and a utility company, the bend changed their name to PG&E.
I’m not making this up.
They had a popular song called “Are you ready?”
The refrain was
“Are you ready… to sit by his throne? Are you ready… not to be alone?”
And one of the verses said
“Love is a song that’s better than any. It’s powerful music and it’s easy to sing.”
We follow a teacher who preached love for our neighbors, no matter who they are.
And so my challenge to all of us this week is to ask “How am I living in righteous love for my neighbors?”
Let us be among the righteous that save our nation.
Amen.
Let’s sing CH 464 God of Grace and God of Glory
* Scripture quotations marked NRSVue are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue
* Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James version of the Bible.
The NRSV Updated Edition (NRSVue) is informed by the results of discovery and study of hundreds of ancient manuscripts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, in the more than thirty years since the first publication of the NRSV. The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) partnered with the Society of Bibli
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