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could find any of you fellows who could answer a question
for me.” “And what is the question?” asked the evangelist.
“If you could just tell me where Cain got his wife, I
might give more serious though to joining church.’’ The
evangelist thought for a moment and then replied: “Old
man, until you quit thinking about other men’s wives, you
won’t be fit to join church. Besides, there is nothing in
Scripture about ‘joining’ church. You don’t ‘join’ church;
you believe, repent, and obey Christ, and He adds you to
His church. But you’re not ready for that until you
repent.” The Lord Himself has warned us about the
futility of casting pearls before swine (Matt. 7:6). (The
key to the problem of Cain’s wife is made very clear in
Gen. $:$).
The only woman in the entire Bible whom we are
admonished to remember is Lot’s wife, and the admonition
is from the Lord Himself. From her inglorious end we
derive the following truths:
1. The manner in which an entire family can be
corrupted by an evil environment. 2. The difficulty of
saving a good person from an evil end (1 Pet. 4: 18).
What manner of woman Lot’s wife was we do not know.
But this truth surely applies in some measure to Lot and
his two daughters. 3. The danger of looking back, when
as a matter of fact God can use only those who look to
the future (Luke 9:62; Heb. $:l2, 6:l). 4. The possi-
bility of being nearly saved, yet wholly lost (Mark 12:34).
Y. The inevitability of divine judgment on the disobedient
(Heb. 5:9, 10:26-27; Rom. 2:5-11, Gal. 6:7, etc.).
Our text is directly related by our Lord to the account
of His Second Coming. When that occurs, He tells us,
it will be the concern of His saints to escape for their lives,
as Lot and his told to do. They are not to
look back lest t pted to go back. They are not
to be reluctant to leave an environment marked for de-
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