TITLE: 5 Sins of Sodom

TEXT: Ezekiel 16:48-50 ⁴⁸“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

PROPOSITION: Sodom was condemned for its attitude as well as its immorality.

QUESTION: Why?

KEY WORD: Attitudes

SCRIPTURE READING: Same

INTRODUCTION:

1. Sodom = Homosexuality – “sodomy” is a legal term for this sin

2. Behind this immorality were some attitudes.

3. What were the sins in Sodom that led to their downfall?

Pride – Arrogance (49)

1. Deuteronomy 17:12-13 ¹²Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. ¹³And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

2. Philippians 2:3-5 ³Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. ⁴Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ⁵Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

3. Know it all – arrogant – not heed advice or teaching

Boasting – haughty (50)

1. Pride is the internal mind-set

2. Haughty is the external sign

3. Good pride – job well done, children, grandchildren

4. Bad pride = taking all the credit, puffed up

Fleshly Indulgence – Fullness of food (49)

1. I got everything I need – satisfied
   I do not need God – See Philippians 4:19 – God shall supply my needs

2. NOT: lack of hunger, not sin to be full

3. Sin is – focus on the material things we have – NOT on spiritual needs

4. Rich Man – Luke 16 – fared sumptuously every day
   Problem not that he had plenty – not wiling to share with beggar

Wanton well-being – Abundance of idleness (49)

1. NOT: having some, enough – BUT too much

2. Many are “bored” with life – Get out!
   Volunteer, serve, help others, work, soup kitchen, hospital

Neglect of needy (50)

1. Poor – those without source of income

2. Needy – some income, need a little help

3. Do you care? 1 John 3:17 ¹⁷But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

   1. Has this world’s goods

   2. Sees a brother in need

   3. Shuts up his heart

   4. The love of God is not there

Conclusion:

1. Jude 7 – an example of eternal punishment that awaits ⁷as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

2. 2 Peter 2:6 – example to all who live ungodly – destruction ⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;