Bro Caleb Roadcap - Preserve Your Life In 2025

That you learn house. Thankful for the presidence of the Lord.

Loved that song on sang soon very will so we

shall see the King looking forward to that great day.

Thankful again for.

The president of the Lord to be in his house,

for the opportunity we have this morning. So thankful for

our pastor for this opportunity to speak, and thankful for

our Lord, who's been truly a good job.

So think of the way he's.

Drawn already today. If we looking at Luke chapter seventeen, Hey.

It's I'm looking at three verses here, and then we'll

turn to Genesis.

Nineteen later on. Hey, Luke seventeen, starting uh, verse thirty.

One says, in that day, he which shall be upon

the housetop and his stuff in the house, let him

not come down and take it away.

And he that is in the field, let it likewise

not return back.

Remember Lot's wife, who's so shall safest, who show sh

shall to save his life, shall lose it, And whoso

shall lose his life shall preserve it.

We could this monday, Lord, have that fault your name.

Oh you're in the mintion, you walking around here, spear

the old you gotta leak out and touch a Lord,

thank you for you make it.

For your present.

Years. I received heartness, you get the prase the blo.

Again.

Verse thirty two. I said, remember Locke's life going on.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it.

Whoso shall lose his life shall preserve it. And this here,

it's in Renzo. It's Jesus speaking. And this account that

he's referring to is found in Genesis chapter nineteen.

Like I said, we'll go over there.

In Genesis leading up to Genesis chapter nineteen, there's quite

a lot that's happening and transpired here.

In chapter thirteen, Abraham and Lot.

Abraham is one of the patriarchs we know, the father

of the Israelites, if you would, and Lot is his nephew.

They were living together, they were cohabitating, if you would.

They both had their own tribe, but they were living together,

and it just became the land was.

Too small for them. They weren't getting along.

And Abraham comes a Lot, and he says, you know what,

take your pick of the fields, take your pick of

the lands.

And we all go forth. I don't want no contention.

And so in chapter thirteen, you know, they split their ways,

and in verse twelve of chapter thirteen it says that

Lot was facing Sodom.

That country that is notorious.

Then we get in a chapter fourteen and already just

a few verses in.

Lot is found in Sodom, right, And in chapter fourteen

we have the war of the Kings.

The kings went to battle and they took captain those

that were in sought them.

And in part of that was the family of Lot.

And we know that one of the servants, one of

Lot's people, escaped, and he came and told Abraham and

Uncle Abraham the band of God that he was and

the kind of person that he was. They run us up,

and he.

Went forth and he rescued Lot in his family.

Moving on in.

This timeframe, we don't hear Vlat anymore for a little while,

and in that time we hear promises given Abraham, like

was argument this one of how many promises have been given.

To us this year?

Promises were given to Abraham. And then in chapter seventeen

his name was changed. Abraham had this experience with God

and his name was changed, And we.

Get to.

Chapter eighteen, which is very familiar, and Abraham's going back

and forth God appears to Abraham and he gives.

Him and Sarah they're well past age. He gives him

the promise of their son and their.

Seed that and then he begins to tell him what

he's gonna do to Slum.

And because of the wickedness that was in thee and

in Abraham.

Because again the man that he was, the man of

God that he was, he began to plead because he

had a lot in that city. And he begins to plead,

and we know he goes back and forth, and they

go down, and eventually, I believe it comes down to ten.

If you find ten righteous people, which you spare the lamp.

And God said that he would. The angels depart, and

we get to where we are in chapter nineteen. The

angels show up, they arrive, and here at the beginning

when they arrive to lots even he bids them come in,

come in and spend the night here, and they say,

well not, We'll stay in the city.

And around this.

Time, the wicked min of Saulum they come, and they

desire to do wickedly. They want to they want to

do wickedness, and there's the altercation that goes on, and

the angels warm Lot. After every all that that's done,

I want to get here the Angel's warm life.

That they're gonna.

Destroy the city of Sodomygamor before I get too far.

That's what as we were praying it tell Someboddy, we

need to preserve our lives in twenty twenty five.

I'm all, brother, man, brother, come on.

When those in this new year.

There's so many things that's happened in twenties before, so

many doors have been opened for reaching everyone, so many

promises I've been made, like for Abraham, and there's such

a there's a possibility that Lot could have been a

part of all of that. Against so many doors open

in twenty twenty four, so many things that.

God has done for eaching every one of us.

Be it a move that we've made, be a spiritual

ground that we've made in twenty two before. Whatever God

has been gonna do in your life in twenty twenty four.

We've walked through a door. We've walked through some kind

of spiritual or something course.

In twenty twenty four. But here we are in twenty

twenty five, and we've got to keep it. Whatever we've got,

it's for our life, pre fur our life in twenty

twenty five, as we read on here in chapter nineteen,

I'm gonna look at verse twelve. The men said, the

Lot has to tell any here besides son in laws,

and thy sons and thy daughters, and whosoever thou hast

in this city, bring them out of this place, for

we would destroy this place, because the city of them

is waxing great before the face of the Lord, and

the Lord had sent us to destroy it. Lot went

out and spake to his son in laws, which married

his daughters, and said, get you up out of this place,

for the Lord will destroy the city.

But he seemed as one that mocked unto his son

in laws.

And I be gonna think how many of us end

this year when we've obeyed God, and when somethingbody has

happened that there had been, Perhaps there are been those

that begin to mock.

They didn't understand.

The urgency of what was gonna happen, what.

Was gonna transpire, And how many not just issue, but

in times past, the others.

That have obeyed God.

It could have been so beautiful for them as well,

But they chose to state behinds.

Because the truth was the comfortable where they at. They

enjoyed where they atestly they did not believe the urgency.

They do not believe the message. There was one soul. Lords, guys,

you read on.

It appears that the angels did spend the night, and

then in the morning they warned.

Lot to flee. Of this verse, in particular verse sixteen.

While he lingered, the men laid hold on his hand,

and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the

hand of his two daughters. And the Lord being merciful

to them, and they brought them forth and said them

without the city. And it came to pass when they

had brought them forth abroad, he said, escape for thy life.

Look not behind the scape.

Thou in the plane escaped out to the mountain, less

they will be consumed. It was with such mercy and

such grace the angels did not have to pull them out.

They did their duties. They warned them, They told them

up in the past. Because have God's mercy, he pulled

them out.

How many of us that in this last year, in

this twenty time, four our pastor or.

A preacher somebody has he's already he warned us, or

he preached with them too, astructed us.

But then instead of just moving on. He teared, and

he pulled for us and pulled us out. I want

to be thankful for that.

And it said, don't look behind you right walk through

the door this year. You know what you want to

secure and maintain what you want. You lock that door,

they put, it's time to lock the door on twenty

twenty four. Lock up those promises that God's give in me,

and preserve it, and march on and maintain what you've

got this year, because it's for your life, the spiritual

life that you've gained this year.

It's time to maintain it and hold on to that.

And now let go of that am.

That God.

Begins to bargain with the angels. They tell him the

fleets in the mountains, but he begins to bargain. He's

like that, that's too far from me, it's too high

for me. Can I stop on the way up? Can

I stop in zoar? And they consent, They allow him,

but they say keep going, because we can't start this

until you're gone. So again they're showing low in his

family mercy.

So he makes his way.

He gets up the zoor, He makes the travel, he

makes it this safety, he makes the safety he said,

hasty escape thither, for I cannot do this thing, so

they'll come thither. Therefore the name of the city was

called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when

Lot entered into Zoar. So he finds safety. He's away

from the destruction.

He's in this place.

Again, a place of safety. And always when we were,

when I personally, when I would.

Hear this story, hear the account of the salt.

Filler of Law and his wife, I always pictured it

as I never, I guess, paid attention to it, but

I always pictured it. As they were traveling, she looked

back as they were progressing, she looked back, and she

turned away.

But as you read here, they make it to safety.

And his wife made it to safety.

Last wife had two daughters with her, and they make

it to a place of safety. And yet after all

of that, when the destruction starts to come and there's

nothing left to turn back to, Lot's wife is in

safety and there's nothing to turn back to, but she

turns around and makes a critical.

Mistake, right right.

Right.

We know later on the tragedy that happens with Lot's daughters,

But what could have happened if Lot's wife would have

been there to try her daughters into dead example to

her daughters, because she had other family that stayed and

sought them. But the promises that God had and what

God wanted to do was so much more and so

much better.

And I couldn't shake that.

The fact that we made it to safety, what you

gave in twenty twenty four and what we've got throughout

this year, the safety, the security, the peace that you found.

We can't lose that.

God can't press from where God has brought us to.

That's right right in Luke nine and sixty four. It's

very food the verse Jesus said.

To them, no man, having put his hand on the

plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Matthew Henry comment on this verse. He said, no one

can do any business in a proper manner if he's

attended to other things.

Looking back leads to drawing back.

It might have just been a look for a lock's wife,

But what she eventually even though there was nothing there,

but she would have taken steps. She would have taken

steps there. We had no need to rebuild Sadom. Sodom

did not need to be rebuilt.

There's no use in going.

Back and trying to recover anything inside. Locke's wife turned

to the pillar assault. Did you read about that? And

Joe are And then as we move on, a Lot decides,

you know what, I'm not safe here. I'm not saying

here where my wife is here as a monumental pillar assault,

a monument to what happened. And he decides to listen

to the angels fully in the finish going up to

the mountain.

And then that's all we hear of Lot in the

Old Testament. His story is over.

It's all we hit it later in the New Testament

that his righteous soul was vexed because of happened. But

that's all we hear, and that's it for a Lot.

I'm so thankful Loot made it to that higher ground.

Eventually, he did make it to the higher ground. He

pushed on and made it to the mountain. And I'm

so thankful for Bethel.

And it can't be expressive if I'm so thankful for Bethel,

for the higher ground spiritually that we that we find

here at Bethel. And I'm so thankful for all of

the higher ground that we that I personally that others

have witnessed. We've achieved throughout this year, and we need

to maintain that and keep kine higher. I afraid that

those that those that are coming and those that are growing,

and those that are part of.

The stirt that we don't stop and so are just

not short. And we need to keep pursuing and keep

coming because it's for our life. Ultimately, we're preserving our life.

I recalled that I believe someone.

Had testified that God had spokes him that they would

be walking through some doors this year.

And surely many of us can say that we've we've

grown with something that's happened this year.

Every every year, God expects us to move on and

grow spritually, physically, whatever the case. We're all Megan, it's

Kanya Vincis. There's different things that are going on. Preserve

because that word just kept going over and over in

my heart, and then I found it later and on.

One of these verses.

But to reserve means to maintain, to protect, and to

keep first Peter five and as very familiar as it

tells us to be sober and be vigilant, because your

adversary of the devil is a roaring lion longing about

seeking move we make about if we keep, if we

stay stiff, we stay in the low planes. If we stay,

and God's warning us about the destruction. The enemy of

the adversary is gonna come, and he's going to do.

What he does.

He stills kills any destroys.

Yes.

In the context of Luke chapter seventeen, Jesus was describing

how the last days we're liking to those.

Of Noah and Lot.

But even before this, the Pharisees are asking him about

the Kingdom of God and when it would come, because

they perceived.

It as a physical kingdom, which is to come.

But they were looking for the physical kingdom here and

now they were asking about that physical kingdom.

And but truly there's a and that Jesus tells them, Yeah.

Says the King of the Kingdom of God cometh not

with observation.

Neither shall they say, lo here or low it is there,

For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you. They're

looking for this, this physical kingdom, this, this thing to

happen now, this thing to come now.

But there's something so much more, so much greater, right,

And there's something that come.

In Hebrews chapter eleven, verses six through sixteen is that famous,

the famous chapter of Faith.

The famous it says here, but without faith it is

impossible to please him. For he that heard that God

must believed that he is, that He's a reward of

them that diligently sees him.

For by faith, no of being warned of God of

those things not seen, yet moved with fear, prepared an

art to the saving of his house by the which

he condemned the world and became an heir of righteousness,

which is by faith and by faith.

Abraham, when he is caught out to go into a place.

Which he should, and went out, not knowing whether he

went by faith, He's sojourned in the lands of promise,

as in a strange country, willing in the tabernacles with

Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with them for the same promise.

For he looked for a city which I foundations, who's

donner and acre as God through faith Stareah herself receives

strength and conceive seed, and was delivered of a child

when she was past.

Age, because she.

Judged him faithful, who had promised Therefore spring there even

of one, and him as good as dead. So many

as the stars in the sky a multitude, and as

a sandwich is by this these sure innumerable, these all

God in faith.

Not having received the promises, but having seen.

Them afar off, or we persuading of them that embraced

them and confessed that they were strangers of pilgrims on

the earth.

For they that say such things declared plainly that they

seek a country.

And surely if they have been mindful of that country,

for once they came out of they boughted that opportunity

to have return. But now they are a better country,

that is in heavenly, where God is not ashamed to

because they're God. We had prepared them a city. All

these people know, Abraham Sarah. These were people that Jesus

was later speaking of here in chapter seventeen. They weren't

looking just for the earthly. They weren't looking just for

a little bit better now, And it said, truly they've

been looking for opportunity to look back.

They would have been defounded. They would have indeed found

a way to go back.

But we're pushing forward to something greater and something better

and something higher.

Chapter seventeen of Luke.

In those those three verses in that day he would

shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house.

Let him not come down to take it away. There's

no time to go back down and collect the weight

of the sins. Whether they don't talk so wonderfully on

the sins this morning, there's no time. Those that are

on the house top, don't go in and collect your things.

We're moving on. There's no time to go back Copect.

We don't have to go back aside him and collect anything. See,

even if that's left, there's no time for that.

Let and then he that's in the field, let him

likewise not turn back. We already read Jesus. Those that

turn back, there's no room for them.

They're not fit.

They're not fit for the Kingdom of God.

Another man that was attempted to preserve life was no.

Yeah, for many years, no, but work.

With that ord, calling out to whosoever would just pray

that they would take Keith and the preachers all throughout

this this year they've.

Been at they've been proclaiming the work of God, praying

that we would take heed, that we would growth.

Advance, and just like no, it's for our life.

Just look for life is near.

It's for life and it's time. Then we take what

we've got this year.

Then we pushed forward in this year, you're continuing to

advance and holding them what it had because it's for

our spiritual life, which is eternal life.

For And that's what they put my heart a long

time ago, and I'll never shaken.

Is when we realized that the reality of eternity, and

we take into account the reality of eternity and how

long eternity is and how real ev and how hard

where we're gonna end up.

It is for our life, and it is urgent. It

must take everyone would stay this first thirty three.

Said who's lover shall seek his life? Shall lea said

he's we shall lose its life.

Shot preserve it. There's no moving it onto.

The thanks in the past. There's no looking back.

It's not worth it.

It's not amazing. No, don't stop it, zoar churches come

under these altars, those knockers are don't make that critical

to stay.

Go looking back.

He stop to amans, and it's stop to protect what

God's giving us a treasure in the church.

It with all that we have had. Oh go back,

go back.

Way used to be before your presence came and changed.

Don't go back, go back to used to be befo

your presence came and change.

Oh my shame. See the book em no more change.

My fast.

My fast is over.

I now this small three dayDay.

I've been changed. I've been check and I won't do that.

I can't do that.

To wait any to me before your presence thame change.

If I won't go back, can go back.

To waiting ears to.

Me before your presence came to be?

Change between.

Won't go back? Can go back to the way used

to me before your presence

Came a change