True followers of Jesus Christ should lead their communities as good citizens.

This is our moment to represent God in our nation.

Today, we join Scott Pauli in studying what the Bible says about the Christian and his country.

For the next couple of days, I would like to talk to you about the Christian and his country.

You know, I believe that if you're the right kind of Christian, you'll be the right kind of citizen.

But the question remains, what is the greatest thing you can do for your nation?

What is the eternal impact that a believer can make in the country in which he lives?

And so I want to take you to one Old Testament story and then one New Testament scripture.

Today we begin with the Old Testament story.

And before you find the story itself in the book of Genesis,

let me just read a summary to you from 2 Peter

2.2. 2. 2.5 that God spared not the old world, but save Noah, the eighth person, a preacher

of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities

of Sodom and Gomara into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow,

making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly, and delivered just lot,

vexed with a filthy conversation of the wicked, for that righteous man dwelling among them in

seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful

deeds the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the

unjust under the day of judgment to be punished now isn't it unique that God

connects Noah and Lot two Bible characters characters, one famous, one infamous.

They're separated by 400 years, so they are not in the same time period.

They're divided by geography, and yet God connects them.

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