This series consist of 12 individual sermons about: How every saved person is just a decision away from exchanging eternal riches for temporal pursuits.

It’s obvious by my title that this sermon series is not about Abraham, my intentions for this series is to highlight the seemingly insignificant life of “Lot.” In this personal study of “Lot” you’ll learn that even though he wasn’t a person of much significance—he was a person of prominence. And when we put his life under the biblical microscope of this series although we may not desire to emulate him—we certainly will learn some very valuable lessons from him.

One primary truth that I communicate in this series is that: “Righteousness without faithfulness won’t get it.”
In other words; without faith it is impossible to please God.

Righteousness without faithfulness is like:

• Having a perfectly good set of tires on your perfectly working car, but the tires are not aired up.
• Is like having a flashlight in a blackout, but there’s no batteries inside to light it up.
• Being in a desert and being very thirsty—and finding a very deep cold-water well, with nothing to draw the water out with.

If all you have to offer is your righteousness you’ll soon discover just how worthless it is without faith.

Lot had been given several signals and indicators that he was in the wrong place and had made the wrong choice—and yet he stayed there… Does this sound familiar to you?

Now let me be clear on this, just because something feels/looks good to you—that doesn’t mean that, that something is good for you. Worldly wrongs don’t come wrapped in a packaged labeled as wrong, it looks and feels right initially—even though all the while it’s wrong…

In every life time there will come times when choices must be made…
There are many things that a person can go through life on this earth and not have to do, but not making choices is not one. Everyone and anyone with the ability to choose will make choices. What causes the choice in this sermon series stand out is that Lot was a good person who constantly made bad choices. And the consequences of those carnal and worldly choices are what we will examine.

I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t have choices [that would make us robots]. In this series I defend that it is unwise to make the choices we have, as if they are sovereign choices. In other words, we must submit all our choices to the commands of God. We all have preferences, but we have to remember, as believers, that God’s Word overrides our wants and our desires no matter how logical they may appear…

What we will discover in this study of Lot is that he did nothing without a good reason—but; “What’s reasonable isn’t always right.”

“It’s reasonable to think that if you are a morally good person who does good, that when you die you should go to heaven—but that’s not right.” –If you never trust Jesus as your personal Savior while on earth—you won’t spend eternity in His presence in heaven, you’ll spend eternity in hell trying to come up with other reasons why you should be in heaven…

“It’s reasonable to think that if you get by with something—that you’ve gotten away with the something—but that’s not right.” Just because it looks like you gotten by, don’t think that you’ve gotten away… Because there is nothing that we can do that will thwart or threaten, or change God’s plan for us or others. God will let a person; a small church, a mega-church, and even a country/nation make wrong decisions, and still use their wrong and cause it to work together for God’s good…

So, the more a person persists at coveting material things, the more he/she is likely to think or reason themselves excusable and logical. They will tell themselves that they need certain things and cannot do without those certain things. So when to themselves the things become necessary, rather they are good or bad, right or wrong, the person reasons within themselves, it is no sin to desire them. And as we see in this case with Lot, even a righteous person can come up with a reason, which allows them to live in a way which is obviously displeasing to God. They find good names for all of their evils.

THESE ARE JUST A FEW POINTS AND PRINCIPLES YOU’LL BE EXPOSED TO IN THIS SERMON SERIES