“The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Genesis 18:26 (NIV)
This verse contains the best and clearest example of how the presence of the righteous preserves the lives of the wicked around them.
For the sake of the righteous, God is willing to spare Sodom.
Abraham ‘negotiates’ the number from 50 to 10 - but to no avail, for there is only one righteous person in the city, and the city and all its inhabitants are destroyed by God.
Our Lord declared that the righteous are the salt of the earth, and just as salt preserves meat, so also the righteous preserve the lives of the righteous around them.
There is no law above God that compels this behaviour from Him, rather it is His character as the Righteous Judge of all the earth that compels Him.
It is His character that Abraham appeals to, as Abraham intercedes for Lot, and please notice Abraham’s prayer was answered, just not in the way Abraham envisioned.
Truly the Judge of all the earth is right in all He does!
Truly the Judge of all the earth answers the intercessory prayers of His righteous people.
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