In today's Gospel reading from Genesis 18, Abraham intercedes for Sodom. He asked the LORD, "Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?" The LORD replied, "If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake." Then Abraham asked again and again, reducing the number of innocent people to forty-five, forty, thirty, twenty, and at least ten, and the LORD each time yielded. This shows that we can influence the LORD if we are persistent. So, feel free to access his power to overcome evil, to save souls, to remain free ... anything that glorifies him.
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