Genesis 19:30–38
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
There is a peculiar kind of modern Christian who believes that he can dance with the world, get close to the fire, and not get burned. He believes he can pitch his tent toward Sodom, then move into the city, then take a seat on the city council, and somehow maintain his spiritual integrity. He is a master of negotiation and compromise, always looking for that respectable middle ground between faithfulness and worldliness. And this passage is the inspired record of where that kind of thinking inevitably ends. It ends in a dark, damp cave, with righteousness in a drunken stupor and the next generation perpetuating the family line through a desperate, pagan act of incest. We must not read this story as though it were some bizarre, disconnected episode that dropped out of the sky. He chose what looked good to the world, and he got the world, good and hard.