How to Not be Mastered by Your Desires - I'm Not Going Back Pt. 2

Luke 17:26-37

“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 

27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 

29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 

31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 

32 Remember Lot’s wife! 

33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 

34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 

35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.” 

36 Two men will be in the field; the one will be taken, and the other left.

37 “Where, Lord?” they asked.

He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

Genesis 19:24-26

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 

25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 

26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

In order to not go back, we must not be mastered by our desires.

Ezekiel 16:49-50

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 

50 They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

5 Ingredients for not being mastered by desires:

- Humility 

- Fasting

- Prayer

- Generosity

- Repentance 

Hebrews 11:10 

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Revelation 21:1-3

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 

2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.