Aron Osborne
Genesis 19:1-22 - Lessons From The Life of Lingering Lot

Nothing quenches the power and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives like lingering in sin.

“The Holy Scriptures, which were written for our learning, contain beacons as well as patterns. They show us examples of what we should avoid, as well as what we should follow. The man whose name heads this page of Scripture is set for a beacon to the whole church of Christ. His character is put before us in one little word: He lingered. Let us sit down and look at this beacon for a few minutes. Let us consider Lot.” J.C. Ryle

“Remember this in choosing a husband or a wife, if you are unmarried. It is not enough that your eye is pleased, that your tastes are met, that your mind finds likeability and friendliness, that there is affection. There needs to be something more than this. There is a life yet to come. Think of your immortal soul. Will it be helped upwards or dragged downwards by the union you are planning? Will it be made more heavenly, or more earthly, drawn nearer to Christ, or to the world? Will your faith grow or will it decay? I pray you, as Baxter said, ‘Think and think and think again before you commit yourself.” J.C. Ryle

“There are those who cannot find it in their hearts to quarrel with their besetting sin, whether it be sloth, indolence, ill-temper, pride, selfishness, impatience or what it may. They allow it to remain a tolerably quiet and undisturbed tenant of their hearts. They say it is their health, or their constitutions, or their temperaments, or their trials, or their way. Their father, or mother, or grandmother, was so before themselves, and they are sure they cannot help it. But all may be summed up in one sentence. They linger.” J.C. Ryle

“Make a wrong choice in life, an unbiblical choice, and settle yourself down in the midst of worldly people, and I know no surer way to damage your own spirituality, and to go backward about your eternal concerns. This is the way to make the pulse of your soul beat feebly. This is the way to make the edge of your feeling about sin become blunt and dull. This is the way to dim the eyes of your spiritual discernment. This is the way to bring a moral palsy on your feet and limbs, and make you go tottering and trembling. This is the way to tie your arms in fighting, to fetter your legs in running, to dry up the sources of your strength and become a slave.” Paul Tripp

“The motto of your life must be, ‘Watch, watch, watch.’ For, mark you, you are sure to leave some leaven, and if you leave a little it will work and spread…you will tell me I am holding up a high standard. I am; but then you have a great Helper.” Charles Spurgeon

“I charge you, and exhort you, by all your hopes of heaven and desires of glory, if you would be happy, if you would be useful, do not be a lingering soul.” Charles Spurgeon

“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” John Owen

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