Abraham, Sodom, and the God Who Both Judges and Saves
Genesis 18-19
In this episode…. Three visitors arrive at Abraham’s tent in the heat of the day, and one of them speaks with a voice no created being could carry. Sarah laughs bitterly behind the tent wall, and God asks the question that hangs over the whole of Genesis: is anything too hard for the LORD? Then the LORD turns toward Sodom – and does something astonishing. He takes Abraham into His confidence, and Abraham draws near and begins to plead. Fifty righteous, forty, thirty, twenty, ten…. And here is what should stop us in our tracks: God never once refuses. It is Abraham who stops asking. In Genesis 19 we walk into a city where every restraint has collapsed, and we watch a man so corroded by the place he chose that he can no longer tell right from wrong. Yet Lot is saved – not because he is righteous, but because he is seized by the hand, “the LORD being merciful to him.” And in the end, the ten cannot be found. So God sends One. Not ten righteous to spare a city – but one righteous Man, dragged outside the gate, to save a world.
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