" REMEMBER 
  LOT'S WIFE " 
 
                               by J W Luman 
 
 
Very rarely has so much been said in so few words. This statement of 
divine warning came just after Jesus said "The days will come, when ye 
shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not 
see it." (Luke 17:22-37) 
 
The warning to believers is that at the great revelation of Christ, 
(verse 30) each believer will be judged as to where he stands at that 
time. Do not be caught looking back! 
 
THE THREEFOLD STAND 
 
The stand of the believer is threefold, and is found in Ephesians 6:10-
17. "Stand against the wiles of the devil." In verse 11, the word "wiles" 
means methods, disguises, strategies, cunning devices. Satan will come at 
you in many forms, even as an angel of light. He will say that this is 
Christ, or that is Christ. He will never point to the Cross, where dwells 
the power and wisdom of God. He will always point to some part of your 
own life and call that Christ. It looks good, feels good, smells good, so 
it must be Christ! Most people have the idea that the devil is all that 
which is bad on earth; and therefore, Jesus must be all that which is 
good on earth.  
 
To the contrary, the scriptures declare that the first man was after the 
earth, earthy, but that the second man is the Lord from heaven. He is not 
earthy at all, whether it be good or bad. "If ye then be risen with 
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the 
right hand of God. Set your affections on the things above, not on things 
on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." 
(Colossians 3:1-3) Notice we are not to set our hearts, thoughts and 
desires on the things on the earth, whether they be good or bad. There is 
nothing in Christ with which Satan can reduce you, but one look back to 
the earth, and you are reduced already! You will either hate the earth, 
or you will have it; there is no in between. You are either pressing 
toward, or you are looking back! Paul said that he was crucified unto the 
world, and that the world was crucified unto him. (Galatians 6:14) The 
world had buried him and he had buried the world. He was of another Life 
and Kingdom.  
 
The second stand is, "to withstand". Many voices will call out to you, 
many snares and traps will be laid in your path. Except you walk in the 
light as He is in the light, you will surely fall. Except you have "ears 
to hear" only what the Spirit says you will surely be deceived. You will 
take just one 'last look', or say just one last good bye, or perform just 
one last obligation, or do just one last favor. Look back for one moment, 
and you will miss Him! 'But Lord, I only looked away for a second.' But 
He comes in the twinkling of an eye! 'Lord, I was only distracted for a 
moment.' But he that is mindful of the flesh is an enemy of God! 'Lord, I 
just glanced over my shoulder.' But he who looks back is not fit! 'But 
Lord, I only did it so that I could minister to a person.' If the blind 
lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit! DO NOT LOOK BACK! 
 
The third and complete stand is "to stand". Having done all to stand, 
then stand being clothed upon with Christ! Stand and others will stand, 
also go back and somebody will go with you. "Nevertheless when the Son of 
Man cometh shall he find faith on the earth?"(Luke 18:8) If we stand, we 
stand in the fulness of the faith of the Son of God. Shall He find 
believers so standing? I believe that we are fast approaching the time 
(day of the Lord) that only those who are found "standing" will stand 
indeed. There is no indecision to this position of faith. We are not 
still fighting the desire to go back, and we are not still contending 
with the voices that would cause us to look back. Having put these things 
behind us and having our faces turned toward the Lord, we stand in the 
knowledge of the Lord! The building is as sure as the rock upon which it 
is built - both are one. We standing in Him, and He standing in us, and 
we shall know Him because we shall see Him as He is! 
 
THE TWOFOLD SIGN 
 
In Luke, Jesus gives us a complete witness of the time of the day of the 
Lord. (Luke 17:26) "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also 
in the days of the Son of Man." And verses 28-30, "Likewise also as it 
was in the days of Lot...Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of 
man is revealed." In Noah and Lot we see the complete witness of the 
Church - those who hear and receive, and those who will not hear and 
cannot receive the Lord God by the Christ which shall come. In Noah we 
see the one hundred and twenty years of preaching and preparing his 
family (church) for the flood. One hundred and twenty is the number for 
the "end of all flesh." Through the preaching of Noah and the life of 
Noah, the ark was built by His family (church). They were ready. They 
were prepared for the flood. There was an "end of all flesh" in his 
family, and there came an end "to all" flesh upon the earth. 
 
Noah and his family inherited a new earth, and God made covenant with 
them. Noah (The Leadership) prepared his family (the church), and the 
very flood which destroyed all the earth, was their salvation from all 
the earth. They being warned of God, and "hearing" the word, entered into 
the ark, which they, by the "revealed" word, built. Only God knew the 
pattern of the ark, but he revealed it to Noah and he declared it to his 
family, and they together as one built the ark. "For we are laborers 
together (as one) with God; ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's 
building...For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which 
is Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 3:9-11) "For we are his workmanship... 
In whom ye also are builded together (as one) for an habitation of God 
through the Spirit." (Ephesians 1:10,22) Dear friends, this is the New 
Man of Ephesians 2:14-18. He shall rise up above the earth, and with Him 
is the covenant of God established forever and forever! WE IN HIM AND HE 
IN US, HEAD AND BODY, EVEN ONE NEW MAN! Not one member of Noah's 
family was lost, but not so with Lot.  
 
Lot was saved not by his faith, but by the faith of Abraham. Lot lived in 
the world, compromised with the world, and lost his power of right 
discernment. His family paid the price! Such are many leaders in the 
church today. They have desired the best that the earth has to offer, but 
have rejected the things of the Kingdom of God. They judge by the senses 
the will of God, but are void of the revelation of Jesus Christ. They 
have not the mind of Christ. Many of them even are vexed, and preach 
against the things of the world to a degree, but they know not the things 
of the Kingdom. They are not able to discern between flesh and Spirit 
(Adam and Christ; the world and the true Kingdom of God); going to 
church, instead of living as the Church in all things. They allow the 
Body of Christ to mix with the world. They preach the "rapture" as an 
escape from the world. 
 
But Paul preached the Cross as their escape from the world! I AM 
CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, and we have been raised up together and been made 
to sit together in Christ; so much so, that we are not in the earth, but 
rather we are now in Christ! The church at large does not understand this 
most glorious truth, because the leadership has the mind of the flesh, 
and the spirit of the world. While the statement "Remember Lot's wife" is 
a warning to the church, it is nothing less than a stern rebuke to the 
leadership! Lot did not prepare his family in the midst of Sodom. Their 
desire was not in heavenly places, but in the lusts of the flesh and the 
affairs of Sodom. Lot had made Sodom his home! He involved his family in 
the life of Sodom, and his daughters married men of Sodom. 
 
Lot may have built on a right foundation, (the faith of Abraham) but his 
building did not stand the test. (1 Corinthians 3:11-15) With no 
discernment left, helpless and at the mercy of the men of Sodom, Lot had 
to be "pushed" out of the city. He was not a leader, little wonder that 
no one wanted to follow! He made no impact on Sodom, and he lost his 
family to boot! Many church leaders become involved in the world through 
the excuse of ministering. The fact of the matter is, that where there is 
no contrast there is no ministry. 
 
We will never "light up" the kingdom of darkness. We are translated out 
of it, and into the Kingdom of the Son! His Kingdom is light. It is true 
that we are to shine, but we shine as the Kingdom of God in contrast to 
the kingdom of darkness. Light does not, and will not mix with darkness. 
Darkness is the absence of light; there is no light in darkness. We are 
light in the Lord, and those who will see are separated unto that light, 
drawn out of darkness, and joined to the Lord. The Church must be told 
that she is not of this world, but that she is the own Body of Jesus 
Christ! And He has but One Body, and that Body has but One Life and 
Light! 
 
We have no life in Sodom. There is nothing to look back to. (Luke 17:33) 
Our life is Christ! "And when he who is our life shall appear, then shall 
ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:1-4) We are no longer of 
Sodom. "For if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, old things are 
passed away; behold, all things are become new... There is neither Jew 
nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor 
female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (2 Corinthians 5:17; 
Galatians 3:28) We do not even have kin folks living there any more. "So 
then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." 
(Galatians 4:31) "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, 
but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God." 
(Ephesians 2:19) "God is our father, we are His Sons." (Galatians 
3:26,29; 1 John 3:1-4; Galatians 4:1-6) We have nothing left in Sodom; 
for all things are become new, and old things are passed away! There is 
no reason to look back! We are debtors not to the flesh to live after the 
flesh, and if we do, we shall surely die! (Romans 8:12-13) 
 
What caused Lot's wife to look back? First we have seen that she had a 
'faithless' husband. He did not have enough faith to save himself, let 
alone his wife. A compromising husband - he chose to pitch his tent in 
Sodom, rather than suffer the tests of Canaan. A lustful husband - he 
desired the riches of the cities and what they could offer him. A weak 
husband - he sought the safety (seemingly) of the walled cities. (Genesis 
13:1-13) Lot became a man of substance in Sodom, but he lost out in the 
Kingdom of God. As the head goes, so goes the body. Notice Lot's wife is 
not named. The Church bears the name of her Head, as does the wife her 
husband. The church has taken unto her a head, or husband, likened unto 
Lot; and she will pay the price. Oh! for the Word of God to cleanse and 
purge the head, and establish in it the mind of Christ, that Christ 
indeed be Head! Then the Body will be filled with, and motivated by the 
Spirit of Christ in all things, doing all things in the name of her Head, 
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
She looked back because she had the "mind of Sodom". "And truly if they 
had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might 
have had opportunity to return." (Hebrews 11:15) "For they that are after 
the flesh do mind the things of the flesh...For to be carnally minded is 
death...Because the carnal mind is enmity against God." (Romans 8:5-8) 
She was mindful of an old life, its people, places and things. She lived 
in the past, not knowing that old things are passed away. Therefore, she 
was enticed to look back by the very things that God called cursed, the 
things that He destroyed, and she became like them. She looked back 
because she did not have the mind of Christ! She had no faith. There was 
no faith in her head, and there was no faith in her. Notice in Hebrews 
11, "But without faith it is impossible to please God... By faith Noah... 
By faith Abraham..." (Hebrews 11:6-8) But Lot is not herein mentioned! 
 
Dear friend, who's mind have you? Who is your Head? Who's Body are you? 
Who's servant are you? Have you faith? When the Son of Man returns, will 
He find faith in you? The Head is faithful to His own Body, and the 
Husband to His own wife. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the 
Word." (Romans 10:17) Only by the revelation of the living Word of God 
Himself, in you, can you hear what God hath said in His Son. We as His 
Body, live His Life by His Faith. (Galatians 2:20) 
 
Body of Christ, do not be as Lot's wife. Join yourself to that Head which 
is Christ, wherein dwells the faith of Christ! She looked back because 
she had no vision of purpose! Where there is no vision the people perish. 
"Seeing we have this ministry we faint not..." (2 Corinthians 4:1) "But 
we have this treasure in earthen vessels..." (2 Corinthians 4:7) This 
vision of purpose has been taken away from the Church. She has no purpose 
in herself, so she looks to the world for purpose. She is void of wisdom, 
understanding and knowledge. These are the three "cards" of faith by 
which God's House is built. The head is to minister faith, "full faith" 
to the Body. (Ephesians 4:11-16) We seem to have a lot of "husband 
rallies", but the wife (Body, Church) remains ignorant and void of 
vision. We have a lot of 'personal' ministries, but the Church is void of 
ministry and purpose.  
 
The scripture says, "Remember Lot's wife." I would like to say, "Lot, 
remember your wife; where is she?" Where is she in the knowledge of the 
Lord? Is she teaching her children the faith of Christ? Does she have the 
mind of Christ? Is she filled with the vision, or is she void of the 
knowledge and revelation of Christ? If she is void, she can do nothing 
more than look back! 
 
"In the day of the Son of man it shall be as in the days of Noah, and as 
in the days of Lot." Who's wife are you? "Remember Lot's wife!" (Luke 
17:32)