CHARACTER NEEDED – BIBLE SKETCHES
Character Needed,
by Robert Allen, published by Regular Baptist Press, includes 33 skits
illustrating the truths of each of the verses in Proverbs 15. These Character
Needed – Bible Sketches are designed to accompany those contemporary plays,
illustrating the same character traits by use of a Bible story.
CHARACTER NEEDED
LOT’S
FAILURE
Proverbs 15:27
Genesis 13:12-13;
19:12-17
Character Trait: Caring
Cast of Characters
Hannah
Elah
Lot
Narrator
Angel
HANNAH: Daddy,
are we going to move?
LOT: Move?
Whatever gave you that idea?
HANNAH: Well, I heard you and Mom
talking about Sodom
the other night. It would be so exciting
to live in the big city. There’s nothing
to do out here in the country.
LOT: Well,
we have considered it. There would be
some advantages as far as my work in concerned.
Some of the men of the city have even suggested that they would be
willing to have me on the city council if we would move. But I’m not sure I want you girls to marry those
city fellows. They’re mighty wild.
ELAH: Oh, Daddy. You don’t need to worry about that. But if we stay out here in the country, we
might never get married at all.
NARRATOR: Lot stepped to the door of his tent
and gazed out across the plains toward the lights of the city of Sodom. He had thought about moving there ever since
he left the Jordan
Valley where he and
Abraham had lived as neighbors for many years.
But he hadn’t realized his children wanted to move there too.
LOT: I really don’t like
the way the people in Sodom
live, girls. They don’t know anything
about Jehovah. They don’t fear Him at
all.
HANNAH: Maybe we can teach them about
God. Please, Daddy. There are so many wonderful stores in Sodom, we could go
shopping every day.
LOT: And
spend all my money before I can even make it.
I don’t know. I’ll have to think
about it some more.
NARRATOR: It didn’t take too much thinking
after that, even though Lot knew the people of Sodom didn’t believe in God. The advantages of living in a big city,
serving on the city council, and having beautiful things for his family
overcame all the possible disadvantages spiritually.
ELAH: Really Daddy? We’re going to move to Sodom?
LOT: Yes. I’ve decided to make the move. But you have to promise me something.
HANNAH: Anything Daddy. What do you want?
LOT: I
want you to promise that you will never forget Jehovah God.
ELAH: O, Daddy. We would never forget God. We promise.
NARRATOR: So Lot and his family moved to Sodom. For several months things went well. Lot was
elected to the city council and sat with them in the gate. The girls got to know the other young people
and were invited to all the big parties.
Eventually they met young men who wanted to marry them.
ELAH: He’s such a wonderful
person, Daddy. You will let me marry
him, won’t you?
LOT: But if he’s one of the
young men from here in Sodom
he doesn’t believe in Jehovah. Are you
going to marry a man who doesn’t believe in God?
HANNAH: She loves him, Daddy. Besides, none of our friends here in Sodom believe in
God. Your friends don’t either.
NARRATOR: Lot
didn’t know what to say. He really
didn’t want his daughters to marry men from Sodom, but he hated to say “no” to them. So he agreed and soon both Hannah and Elah
were married. A few years went by until
the sins of Sodom
became so great that God decided to destroy the city. First he sent two messengers to warn Lot and his family to get out.
ANGEL: Do you have any relatives
in the city besides your sons and daughters and their husbands? You need to warn them to get out. God is going to destroy this place.
LOT: Please
give me time to go tell my daughters and their husbands. I’ll tell them what you have said and surely
they will listen to me. Please don’t
destroy the city before I tell them to escape.
NARRATOR: Lot
hurried over to the house where his oldest daughter and her husband lived.
LOT: Hannah! You and your husband need to pack up and get
out of Sodom
immediately. God is going to destroy the
city.
HANNAH: Oh, Daddy. Don’t be silly.
HUSBAND: God? Who are you talking about?
LOT: Jehovah
God. The God of our fathers. The One we worship.
HUSBAND: You’ve never told me about him
before. Why should I believe you now?
LOT: But
you have to get out?
HUSBAND: That’s ridiculous. Go on home old man.
NARRATOR: Sadly Lot
left the house and went to where Elah lived with her family. But her husband laughed at him too. Lot had to
leave the city with only his two youngest daughters and his wife. And when God destroyed the city, all the rest
of his family died with the people of Sodom. Lot had gained
many things, but he had lost his family.