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Genesis chapter 19 verse 26

but Lott's wife behind him looked back

and she became a pillar of salt.

So this is the story of Lott and his family fleeing Sodom,

as God's righteous judgment is raining down upon Sodom for the evil and wickedness

in that place, and God had said to Lott and his family flee from here and do not look

back stop anywhere Do not stop anywhere. Just keep going. And yet we get down to

verse 26 and as they're fleeing Lott's wife behind him looked back and she became a pillar of salt.

She was gone in an instant. Now we read this story and I don't know about you but that feels like

really severe punishment for a glance.

Like all she did was look back and she dies on the spot.

There's so much we could talk about in this passage, but the thing I want to point out and lead

us to pray according to right now is the seriousness of one sin before God.

Like one sin that we might even think is kind of small.

Like not that big a deal.

There are worse things right that Lott's wife could have done all she did was turn her head and look back and in an instant she was gone.

And in this picture, I'm reminded, I want to remind you

of the seriousness of a one sin, no matter how small we might think it is,

before the infinitely holy God of the universe.

And we shouldn't be surprised by this.

When Genesis chapter 3, all they did, all that Adam and Eve did was eat a piece of fruit and

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