2. The Forgotten Sins of Sodom
Ezekiel 16:48-49

3. Sodom Destroyed Genesis 19 God could not find 10 righteous.
Synonymous with homosexuality.
Was NOT The root cause of their destruction.

4. Reasons Sodom Destroyed
Ezekiel 16:48-50
"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. "And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

5. The Sin of Arrogance Pride In One’s Self & Accomplishments
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

6. The Sin of Arrogance Pride In One’s Self & Accomplishments Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

7. The Sin of Arrogance Pride In One’s Self & Accomplishments
1 Corinthians 10:11-12
Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

8. The Sin of Selfishness Rich towns. Rich people.
But poor in helping the needy.

9. The Sin of Selfishness 1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

10. The Sin of Selfishness
James 2: What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

11. The Sin of Idleness They had “careless ease”. But God wants workers.
Matthew 9: Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. "Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."

12. The Sin of Idleness But God wants workers
1 Corinthians 15: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

13. Conclusion Sodom is remembered For Homosexuality
Root Cause was the sins of..
Arrogance.
Selfishness.
Idleness.