Deliverance from Sodom

David Wilkerson (1931-2011)

January 8, 2025

Most of us think of Sodom as a type of modern-day wicked city such as San Francisco, New York or New Orleans. The truth is that we need only to look at our own hearts to find Sodom.

We are all born with a Sodomite nature, a heart that is exceedingly wicked and full of every evil thing. “No, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth” (Psalm 58:2, NKJV).

I believe the following passage reveals how God delivers us out of Sodom: “As his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:3-4).

God comes to us in our deluded, bound condition with powerful promises of full and complete deliverance. He says, “I pledge to deliver and keep you from iniquity. I will give you a heart to obey me, so now let my promises lay hold of you.”

What a wonderful, freeing truth. We are led out of our sin as we lay hold of God’s promises. Think about it for a moment. Peter says the believers he was addressing in this epistle had “escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” How did these Christians escape sin? They were given divine power, life and godliness through their faith in God’s promises.

Beloved, your Father wants you to know the fullness of joy in Christ. That joy will break out only as you are freed from the power of sin. So allow the Holy Spirit to go into the womb of your lusts and remove everything that is unlike Christ.

Pray to the Lord right now: “Oh, Father, I agree with you about my sin. The stench of my compromise has reached heaven, and I know it has to go immediately. Lord, I receive your loving, divine ultimatum and lay everything down before you. Set fire to everything wicked in me, and let your promises take hold of my heart. Lead me to the mountain of your holiness.”

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