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I believe I can prove with my Bible

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that Sodom was too far gone for revival.

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That's a serious issue, friends.

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When a nation is too far gone for

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revival, I believe Sodom had become so wicked

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it was too far gone for revival, and

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all that remained was for God to destroy

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it.

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The question before us today, is our country

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too far gone for revival?

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What do you think, friends?

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Is there any hope for America?

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Or is she, like Sodom, too far gone

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for revival?

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I'm going to give you the marks of

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a nation that is too far gone for

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revival.

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This can apply to England, or America, or

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anywhere else for that matter.

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I will list these marks one by one.

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First, the Sodomites were a very wicked people,

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bent on fulfilling their lusts above all else.

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It was a country full of rape.

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In Genesis 18.20 we read, And the

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Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and

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Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is

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very grievous.

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The grievous sin was the sin of sodomy,

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and the cry that went up to God

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from Sodom was the cry of rape, men

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raping men.

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The men of Sodom gathered around the house

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a lot, with one purpose only, and that

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was to rape two visitors inside.

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And they called unto Lot and said unto

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him, Where are the men which came in

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to thee this night?

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Bring them out unto us, so we may

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know them.

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I repeat, Sodom was full of sexual perversion

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and wickedness to such a degree.

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Their perverse behavior was accepted as normal.

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Is this not the agenda of the homosexual

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movement today?

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To bring normalcy to it, the nations have

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fallen like dominoes with the gay and lesbian

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agenda to have it embraced and accepted in

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every level of society, from the courts to

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the corporations to the classroom to the local

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governments.

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I believe America is a forerunner on legalizing

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and promoting homosexual behavior.

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Secondly, there was no church in Sodom.

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Lot had failed miserably to affect any witness

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there for God and His righteousness.

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Lot had been such a failure as a

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witness for God that when he tried to

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warn his sons-in-law to flee the

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city before it was destroyed, they looked at

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him as one who mocked and grabbed their

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bellies and just laughed and laughed.

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There was no church in Sodom.

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I'll leave it to you to decide if

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there is a church still in America, or

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a church in your country, that preaches the

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full counsel of God, warning men of their

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duty of repentance and preaching the terribleness of

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damnation and hell for punishment of sin.

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I'll let you decide on that one.

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Thirdly, the men of Sodom were incorrigible.

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That means they were so bad they were

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beyond correction or reform.

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I can prove this by Genesis 19.11,

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where they were struck with blindness by the

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angels inside the house of Lot.

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We read, And they smote the men that

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were at the door of the house with

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blindness, both small and great, so that they

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wearied themselves to find the door.

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Did it reform these wicked Sodomites and bring

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them to repentance?

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No.

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They continued to grope for the door as

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they burned in their lusts, even in their

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blindness.

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Is there any hope for a wicked, hell

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-bent society today, or are they too far

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gone for correction, reformation, and repentance?

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The wicked Ninevites repented at the preaching of

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Jonah.

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But if there was a Jonah in the

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midst of your nation, would they heed the

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warnings and repent in sackcloth and ashes, or

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are they too far gone, like Sodom was?

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I'll leave it up to you to decide.