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They Wore Themselves Out Reaching For The door, Genesis 19:11, The Implications
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Feb 20, 2025
And they ( angels sent by the Lord) struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door. What are the implications of genesis 19:11 ? When I first read this scripture, I wondered what kind of blindness the men of Sodom were struck with ? Was it physical blindness ? This passage has deeper implications than we think and to be able to correctly understand what is being taught here , we ought to look at other passages that mention this type of blindness visit https://tayibs.com/ for more lectures
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hello good morning guys Odyssey star IVA
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is calm and today we will not be looking
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at an account in Genesis 19 that's when
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the angels are sent by God into Sodom to
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ultimately destroy the entire city
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because the city has been given over to
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just madness and people are acting out
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of character
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they just acting crazy you know main
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Lane with other main and basically um
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it's just all kind of perversions that
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are taking place in our city and God is
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coming to bring judgement and as I was
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reading the account of the salvation and
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the redemption of lot couple of things
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caught my attention and it's basically
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our verse 11 when the man of Sodom
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literally wore themselves out wore
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themselves out and groping for the door
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to the house and we were looking at the
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implications and what does it really
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mean because we need to understand that
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God has a purpose when he gives us the
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scriptures and he was us to really ask
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him to give us understanding and and I
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don't believe that I have understood
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everything but you know I do believe
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that there are a couple of things that I
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want to tell you and I hope that this
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makes sense to you as I read this so I'm
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asking God to give me also clarity of
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mind to be able to explain these things
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to you guys so this is the introduction
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and I said and the angel sent by the
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Lord struck blind as the men we're at
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the entrance of the house of lot wolf
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are small and great so that they wore
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themselves out groping for the door and
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the question is what are the
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implications of Genesis 19 verse 11 so
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when I first read in Scripture my
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question was what kind of blindness the
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man of Sodom were struck with I didn't
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understand was he physical blindness
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where he just blind and the thing is
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this like the passage has deeper
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implications than we think and to be
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able to correctly understand what is
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being taught here we have to look at
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other passages that mention the same
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type of blindness and that's what we're
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going to do
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now so the first passage that talks
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about is kind of blindness is second
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Kings 6 verse 18 Syrians are sent down
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to catch and capture Elijah and this is
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the account I'm gonna read that he saw
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2nd King 6 verse 18 to 20 and when the
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Syrians came down against him Elijah
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prayed to the Lord and said please
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strike these people with blindness so he
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struck them with blindness and are in
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accordance with the prayer of Elijah and
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Elisha said to them this is not the way
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and this is not the city follow me and I
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will bring you to the man who music and
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he led them to Samaria after the end of
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the city Elisha said Lord opened the
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eyes of this man so they can see then
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the Lord opened their eyes and it looked
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and they were inside Samaria now this
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man were obviously not blind because
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they talked to Elisha and they were
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having conversation with him so this is
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not physical blindness so let's keep on
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reading on Deuteronomy 28 verse 17 to 29
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this is God he says if the people of
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Israel do not listen this is the kind of
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stuff that he would be struck with and
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he talks about the consequences of
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disobeying I mean disobeying not obeying
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the Lord says the Lord will strike you
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with the boils of Egypt and with tumors
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and scars on you and each of which you
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cannot be healed don't always strike you
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with madness and blindness and confusion
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of mind and we shall grow at noonday as
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the brand group in darkness we shall not
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prosper in your ways so again this is
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some kind of a metaphor the blindness
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again is not physical blindness he's
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talking about madness confusion of mind
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and in Isaiah 6 verse 8 to 9 we are told
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and I heard the voice of the Lord saying
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whom shall I send and who will go for us
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that I said this is Isaiah talking here
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I am sent me and he said go and say to
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these people keep on hearing but do not
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understand keep on saying but do not
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perceive like the heart of these people
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done and their eyes the
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years heavy and blind their eyes lest
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they see with their eyes and hear with
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their ears and understand with their
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heart and turn and be healed so now that
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we've read these three accounts we have
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any picture God is painting a picture of
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what a blindness it's all about and the
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next slide is gonna attempt to answer
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that question so what is the proper
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meaning of this blindness now the
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blindness the Lord is referring to is a
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state of complete oblivion where the
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person subjected to it to the state of
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mind
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does not and cannot comprehend the
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simplest things those people in Syria
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they saw Elijah they just just couldn't
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understand they were confused the door
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of the house of Lord was the most
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obvious thing a crowd could see a God
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caused a darkness and a confusion in
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their mind that they were endlessly
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grouping for the door I couldn't find it
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it was a narrow door and the only person
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that was allowed that could allowed
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those men to see the door was God
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himself right in the same way Jesus told
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us to enter through the narrow door for
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wide is the door that leads to
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destruction
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a few Adam and I can find the narrow
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door as a matter of fact no one can find
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our door it's only one man can find it
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and that is Jesus he is the way the
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truth and the life and without him no
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one can enter through the narrow door
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many people in the world have heard the
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gospel where he doesn't make sense to
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them unless God enables them to
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understand it I'm sure when luck was in
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his house he thought to himself I'm
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going to die because the door of the
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house was the most obvious thing the
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natural man could see so he was probably
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expecting the crowd to just break the
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door and get a hold of it in the same
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way to those that have been called by
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God and are saved the gospel makes sense
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and we see the door we see Jesus but to
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those who are perishing
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they keep groping for the door well they
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want you to get in on their own terms
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and they can't get in unless the veil is
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lifted of their eyes
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so that passage is really referring to
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the narrow door being Jesus you see that
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door was the most obvious thing any man
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could see there was a crowd there so how
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could they miss it
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that's the question how could he miss
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door they missed it because unless God's
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God himself open your eyes you will
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never see the door so salvation is a
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work of God from beginning to end no one
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can enter unless God Himself opens your
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heart and open your eyes to understand
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so it's not physical blindness is a
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confusion of mind where people are
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worried about the gospel to have heard
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about Jesus they've heard but they just
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can't comprehend it because those things
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are spiritually discerned
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you can't enter you will hear the same
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story over and over you can go to church
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for 25 years and still not be saved
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because unless God Himself open your
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eyes to see the sweetness and the love
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of God to Jesus Christ you will never
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see you just think it's just another
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door just like any other one know all
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roads do not lead to God you know unlike
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what popular opinion things that's not
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the case in this case Jesus is the way
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the truth and the life is the narrow
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door and without God himself enabling
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you to see that you would not see it so
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how do we pray for people we pray that
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God opens their eyes so they can see the
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door and our passage in Genesis 19 11 is
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giving us a small picture of time
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everybody else outside that door was
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beamed and died because the Lord brought
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his judgment but people died behind the
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door didn't because they were saved
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Lot's wife was the exception she turned
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into salt because she wanted to hang on
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to her old lifestyle so basically we are
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saved by grace through faith living Lord
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did not want to leave that city God had
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to drag him out of there by holding him
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by his hand so the physical blindness is
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not blindness is not physical blindness
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is a state of mind where you don't
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understand it things of God and you
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can't understand the things of God
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unless God Himself
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allows your mind
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and to see God in Jesus to see what
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Jesus really is the resurrected son of
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God and this is what this is all about I
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hope this makes sense to you and I hope
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you take some time to read a scripture
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again because this is important okay
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thank you and have a wonderful day and
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see you next
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