Alright, we're here in Genesis chapter 6, and this is going to be a three-part series on the flood.
And when you look at the Bible, it's kind of interesting because the first 25% of human history is only like the first, like, nine chapters of the Bible.
You know, once the flood comes, this is the sixth chapter of the Bible here, and it lasts for a few chapters, they talk about the flood.
That's about 25% of human history, because the earth is around, you know, a little bit more than 6,000 years old.
And that's a long time period that goes by, and the Bible does not say a whole lot about it.
And when you stop and think about what would cause God to flood the entire world, okay, because you look at the world we live in today, is it a righteous world that we live in?
I mean, is the Philippines a righteous place? Are countries around the world righteous? They're not righteous.
But obviously what happened in Genesis chapter 6 was so bad that God decided he would destroy the world.
And, you know, sometimes we can just kind of quickly read over this and not really stop to think about what exactly was taking place, and we might try to guess about it.
But honestly, you don't have to guess, because the Bible is actually very specific with what was taking place.
The reason why people don't realize that is because God is always discrete, okay?
God is not graphic in his descriptions of what is taking place.
You know, sometimes you see people on Facebook, you know, they're kind of a little bit overzealous, and they'll post, like, two pictures of, you know, guys kissing and say,
Isn't this gross? And it's like, Yeah, that is gross. That's why I don't really appreciate you putting it on your Facebook for everybody to see.
Because in the Bible, God is discrete. He doesn't go into detail about things like this that take place.
But actually, in the Bible, you're going to see that God's very specific with what was taking place if you stop and closely look at what he says.
But let's see what the start of this was. Look at Genesis chapter 6. Let's look at verse number 1, and we'll see the start of what ended up causing the destruction.
It says in verse number 1,
Now, a lot of people have different ideas on what are the sons of God.
But if you just read through the Bible, it's kind of obvious who the sons of God are.
I'm a son of God. You're a son of God if you believe on Jesus Christ. You're a child of God.
Behold what manner of love you have bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.
Now, people have a weird idea this is talking about fallen angels, but that is not what the Bible talks about.
The Bible always says believers are sons of God, and here's what you have to understand.
Why is God mad at the world? Is he mad at angels or man?
He's mad at man in Genesis chapter 6. He floods the world because he's mad at men.
He wasn't mad at angels. If this was the fault of the angels, he'd be blaming them.
Judgment will come upon them, but he judges men because men chose to be wicked.
So what does it mean when it says the sons of God saw the daughters of men?
It means believers married unbelievers. That's all it's saying.
The sons of God, they didn't marry daughters of God, they married daughters of men.
Why did they do that? That they were fair. They found them attractive.
That is a foolish reason to get married, simply because you find them attractive.
Now, I do believe that the person you marry you ought to be attracted to.
I think it's ridiculous if you don't find the person you're married attractive.
I have a friend of mine who graduated from Hyles Anderson College,
and there was this guy who was teaching on marriage.
And he was in front of the class, and he brought up his wife.
And this is no lie. This is exactly what he said, at least according to what my friend said.
He said that, you know, I do not find my wife attractive.
That's what he said in front of everyone. But she's the godliest person I know.
It's like, what an idiot you are. I don't care how long you've been married.
You need to take some marriage counseling from, you know, whomever.
It's like, why would you say that? And that's foolish, though.
I mean, to not be attracted to the person you're married to.
Obviously, the number one reason should not be due to looks.
But it's kind of foolish to just say, well, you know, that doesn't matter at all.
Obviously, you're going to be attracted to the person that you marry.
But that shouldn't be the main reason why you marry them.
And that is the main reason here in Genesis, chapter 6, why they get married to them.
Turn to 2 Corinthians 6.
And so when it comes to marrying someone, this is not really one of the points.
This is kind of an introduction of what caused the destruction.
Obviously, you should marry someone who's saved, first of all.
Notice what it says in 2 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 14.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
And what communion hath light with darkness?
So the Bible says you're not to be yoked with unbelievers.
But even more so, at our church, we believe some unique doctrines and some unique things.
And we believe in soul winning and hard preaching.
That is not something that most people believe in.
Look, you would be wise to those that are not married in this room.
Find someone who likes this kind of preaching.
Because the truth is that most people would not like the words that come out of my mouth.
They wouldn't like this sort of preaching.
They wouldn't like this sort of church.
Marry someone who actually likes the preaching of the word of God.
Marry someone who also loves soul winning, like you love soul winning.
Look, if they don't love soul winning now, they're not going to love soul winning once you get married.
And it's going to get worse once you raise your kids and you're always fighting about everything.
So not just marrying someone who's saved, but marry someone who actually loves the Lord.
And has the same beliefs and has the same goals as you have.
Now obviously, you might marry someone who's not as far on that path of living for God.
It takes time to grow. We understand that.
Be patient. You know, they don't have to be at the same level you are.
But marry someone who wants to climb upwards.
And says, you know what, I want to make the changes in my life.
Maybe I'm not there right now, but I want to make those changes.
Don't be foolish and marry someone who doesn't want to do that.
And just thinking from a practical level, if you would compromise on who you marry right now,
you're going to compromise on everything once you actually get married.
If you're willing to compromise on whether or not your spouse is saved,
whether or not they want to live for the Lord,
whether or not you're going to have them baptized in the Catholic Church,
whether or not you're going to grow them as a Baptist,
you're going to compromise on everything.
You're going to compromise on all those things if you compromise on who you get married.
There's some things you have to take a stand for.
Now, another thing to keep in mind is this,
that if you don't have the guts to bring up salvation before you're married,
you're probably not going to have the guts to bring it up afterwards.
I know people that I used to go to church with that married unbelievers
and their spouse is still unmarried.
And they're still waiting for the right time to preach the gospel to them.
It's like, man, that time was before you started dating them,
and certainly before you got married.
But see, that is the start of the downward spiral of man in Genesis chapter 6.
It starts because believers chose to marry unbelievers.
And if believers are going to marry unbelievers, what's going to end up happening?
None of those families are going to live for God.
That's just the way it is.
Now turn back to Genesis 6.
Now let me say this, that obviously if you're married,
and we're going to talk about this later,
but whoever you're married to is the person that...
We're actually going to talk about that in the next sermon.
It's a different sermon series.
But whoever you're married to is who God wants you to be married to.
If you're married, that's a bond you've made.
For better or worse, till death do us part.
In sickness and health, till death do us part.
You've made a vow before God that you will stay married to them.
So whether or not you fight, you stay married.
That's why it's foolish even to make comments like,
oh, let's get a divorce, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
That's foolish.
Now obviously here in the Philippines, it's illegal to get a divorce,
but a lot of people get married and they choose to separate.
Even if they're not legally divorced, they're still acting as a divorced couple.
And so obviously, once you're married, you stay married.
But that's the start of the downward spiral of man.
But look at Genesis 6, verse 5.
And it said,
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
So notice how it says every imagination.
The first point we have is this.
God destroyed the world due to wicked imaginations.
Basically, a wicked mind and a wicked heart.
And look at Genesis 11.
Turn there.
And it's a strong statement when it says every imagination.
Not just some imaginations.
We all think foolish thoughts from time to time,
but the Bible is very clear in Genesis 6.
Every imagination.
Notice Genesis 11, verse 6.
We're going to see this word imagine again.
It says,
And they have all one language.
And this they begin to do.
And now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Now this is after the flood.
And once again, they're becoming wicked again.
They're building up a tower to reach up to God.
And God, at this point, destroys the languages.
He makes it so people speak different languages,
so they can't communicate with one another.
Because he says this, they've imagined to do this.
And he says nothing is going to be restrained from them.
So he said the only way to stop them
is to prevent them from being able to communicate with one another.
So basically, you know, one day they're able to talk to one another,
and then all of a sudden the next day they have no clue what each other are saying.
That's where the different languages came from.
And they've imagined to do this.
But what I want you to keep in mind here is,
it says nothing will be restrained from them.
You see, if people imagine wickedness in their minds and heart,
it means they actually want to do it.
Okay?
And God says they're actually going to be able to do that.
Nothing's going to be restrained from them.
Now turn to Romans 1.
Romans 1.
This kind of reminds me of when I lived in Sacramento, California,
and I think most people are probably aware of this,
maybe not everyone,
but our church was on the news
because our pastor preached against the LGBT.
And our owners of the building,
they were on the side of the LGBT.
They donated to the LGBT every year.
So they basically let them protest right outside our building.
And there was that one big Sunday,
there was like 500, 500 baklats tomboy
that were just like right outside of our building.
And there was a lot fewer of us.
We had a lot of people come in for the event and everything like that,
but there was a ton of them.
And you know what?
Here's what I realized,
and I should have known this,
and I guess I kind of did, but I didn't think about it.
And you can see this when you read Genesis 19,
which we're not going to go there,
but basically I was like,
you know what?
What these people would actually like to do to us,
they would do it if they could get away with it.
See, if they imagine it, nothing's going to be restrained from them.
And we know what's in their minds and in their heart.
They actually wanted to harm us.
You see stories in the Bible,
if they could actually have gotten away with it,
they would have done it.
I actually went up to a policeman during that
because they had like 40 policemen all in the front of the building
where nothing was happening.
They didn't try to help us at all.
And a lot of them had like rainbow colored bracelets,
you know, armed bracelets and things like that.
But I asked a policeman, I said,
look, there's hundreds of them here.
And our people are coming in from here.
And we have people visiting and stuff like that.
I was like, couldn't you have like one policeman out there?
I was like, you know, they could do whatever to us.
And then the policeman told me, he's like,
wow, you need to start telling your people to come through this entrance.
It's like I don't even know the phone numbers of these people that are visiting.
It was ridiculous.
You know, just making an excuse.
But it's like, you know what,
they would have done whatever they could
if they could have gotten away with it.
Why?
Nothing's going to be restrained from them if they imagine it.
If they imagine it, it means they actually want to do it.
That's the truth.
And in Romans 1, we'll look at this.
Let me be honest with you, if you're visiting for the first time,
this is going to be the hardest sermon I've ever preached.
Because we're talking about why God destroyed the world, okay?
It's kind of hard to preach a sermon of why God chose to destroy the world
without preaching hard against sin, isn't it?
I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of Baptist churches
that would preach a sermon on Noah's flood
and, you know, it would be, you know, all nice and cuddly or whatever.
But if you're going to actually preach on why God destroyed the world,
obviously, you know what, the sin was pretty grievous.
Even though he's being discreet, the sin was obviously really wicked, okay?
And so Romans 1, remember the wording we looked at?
Imagine, imagine.
Notice what it says in Romans 1.21.
Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Now, this is really the start of the downward spiral
because this is the chapter that's talking about
Maghavacla tomboy, right?
And this is the start of it.
And he says vain imaginations, okay?
Now, remember in Romans 6, it said every imagination.
Do you see a difference there?
In Romans 6, it says every imagination, okay?
Here it starts with vain imaginations.
See, it starts small and it gets worse and worse.
Then you get down to verse number 28.
And it says,
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient.
Verse 29,
Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers,
backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding,
covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful.
Now, I'm not going to do this for sake of time in this sermon.
But if you were to really just stop in your free time
and look at every statement that's being made,
you think of unmerciful,
you know, I don't even want to think what that means
when it's talking about, you know, the Sodomites
and we know the things that they do and what they imagine.
It's really wicked, okay?
But see, this is every imagination.
Their minds are defiled.
See, that's what is said in Romans 6.
Now, I do believe that due to the influence
of Miramim Bakla in the world,
it probably influenced, you know, everybody else.
Look at the world today.
We're influenced by the LGBT.
Is that not true?
The vast majority of people in this country
would say that they support them getting married.
That's the truth.
And they see nothing wrong with it.
They become desensitized.
They think it's normal to see a guy wearing a dress.
Look, that's not normal.
It's never going to be normal.
It doesn't matter if it's common.
It's not normal.
You understand the difference?
Just because a lot of people are doing it,
that doesn't make it normal, okay?
And so I do believe that due to the influence,
other people were affected,
but there was definitely a lot of people
whose minds were defiled, as the Bible says.
Why?
Because it talks about every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart, okay?
So when you really stop to think about what is he saying,
he's saying they're reprobating.
He doesn't go into detail because obviously
we don't really need to know the graphic description
of why he destroyed the world.
We know enough, okay?
Now turn to Titus 1.
Now, if you stop to think about it,
why would God destroy the world?
Obviously that would be common sense.
That would be one of the big reasons why.
Because, you know, you look at the world today,
20 years ago this wasn't really that big of an issue in our country.
But it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
Same thing in the United States.
It's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
And it's going to be like the days of Noah,
when Jesus ends up pouring out his wrath.
You know, when he raptures, everyone pours out his wrath,
you know, after the tribulation.
It's going to be like the days of Noah.
It's going to be very similar.
So it makes sense that during that time period,
there's a lot of people that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, okay?
Notice what it says in Titus 1, verses 15 and 16.
It says,
But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure,
but even their mind and conscious is defiled.
You say, what does that mean when it says,
unto the pure all things are pure?
It means to you that are saved and living godly,
when you see a child, like a baby,
you think innocent thoughts like, you know, how cute that baby is.
Right?
That's what a normal person would think.
That's what you think.
That's what I think.
That's not what everybody thinks, though.
Because the Bible says there's people
who their mind and conscience is defiled.
See, the normal thing would be looking at that child
and think how cute, how innocent.
You just want to hold the baby.
You know, the baby's smiling.
That's what a normal person would think.
Completely pure thoughts.
It's hard for us to imagine someone thinking something differently.
You say, why?
Because our minds are not defiled.
It's really hard for me to imagine.
It's like, how in the world could you think such impure thoughts?
But here's what you have to understand.
If people are willing to be pedophiles,
obviously it came into their mind first.
When we're talking about wicked imaginations,
it's not like they just became a pedophile one day.
It started in the mind,
and then it actually took place.
Okay? Everything starts in the mind.
Before a guy commits adultery on his spouse, guess what?
He thought about committing adultery first.
That's why us as believers,
if our mind starts thinking wrong thoughts,
you need to cut that off there.
Because before you know it,
you might actually be committing adultery on your spouse.
See, I would never do that.
Look, if you'd be willing to think about it,
then maybe you would be willing to do it under certain circumstances.
Don't even allow these thoughts to enter your mind.
Now obviously we're talking about people that every imagination is wicked and evil.
That's not people that are saved.
But look, the Bible does talk really against having impure thoughts.
Okay? The thought of foolishness is sin.
And you know, we allow our minds to think really stupid things.
And I'll tell you what, that's the reason why things take place.
Because we allow it to enter into our mind.
It enters into our heart.
And all of a sudden, we end up changing who we are.
We're willing to do things that we wouldn't normally be willing to do.
And so what ended up taking place in Genesis 6?
Well there's a lot of people that every imagination is defiled.
And then everybody else allowed their mind to wander.
They got affected by these people.
And then they became worse people as well.
It says in verse number 16,
They profess that they know God,
but in works they deny Him,
being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate.
Now some people would take this verse
and try to apply work salvation to this.
They say, well if you're really saved, you're going to have a change.
And because of the fact their works are wrong,
that's why God says they're unsaved.
No, there's just certain works and certain things that no normal person would do.
Whether they're saved or just an unbeliever,
no normal person would do that.
We're talking about, you know, defiling a child.
A normal person's not going to do that.
Okay?
There's certain actions that if somebody were to do that,
you'd say, wow, you know, they're a reprobate.
Look at the Catholic priests.
That's not normal, what they do.
What 100% of them do.
You know, I appreciate President Duterte saying around 90%,
but it's like, you know, you underestimated a tad bit.
Right?
But it's just like what they're willing to do.
That's not normal.
That's perverted.
That is sick.
And that's not something a normal person is going to do.
So there's certain works where if you look to that,
you say, wow, that guy is a child of the devil.
Because no normal person would even have that come into their mind.
Now turn back to Genesis chapter 6.
And so the first reason why he flooded the world,
the first thing mentioned in Genesis 6,
was it says wicked imaginations.
But I want you to notice what it says in Genesis 6 verses 11 and 12
where the Bible reads, or verse 11.
The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt.
For all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Notice how three times in those verses he mentions corrupt.
Okay?
Obviously, whatever he's talking about is pretty bad.
Now we can look at these terms and just kind of have a vague understanding.
We know what the word corrupt means.
But it's important when you see words like this pop up
that you cross reference throughout the Bible
to very specifically understand what he's talking about.
Okay?
Now corrupt basically means filthiness.
Okay?
And this filthiness could be spiritual or physical filthiness.
And we're going to see how these are kind of merged together.
But basically corrupt, and we're going to look at a verse later on
that shows that's what it means.
But corrupt is basically referring to filthiness.
Okay?
Now let's look at a few verses here.
Look at Exodus 8.
Exodus 8.
And we're going to see how this refers to filthiness.
And in Exodus chapter 8, notice what it says in verse 24.
This is during the plagues being poured out.
And in verse 24 the Bible reads,
Now what does it mean by the land was corrupted?
The land was basically filthy.
Look, if you had a thousand flies running around in your house,
that's filthy.
That's not healthy.
That's not sanitary.
They carry a lot of diseases.
And having all those flies, it's corruption.
It's filthiness.
It's physical filthiness.
People get diseases from them.
It's not sanitary at all.
Turn to Leviticus chapter 22.
Leviticus 22.
You know, in some countries that are less civilized,
or they're not really applying what the Bible says in the book of Leviticus,
there's a lot of countries in Africa.
And one reason why they die at such a young age
is because there's a lot of flies that will carry diseases.
Because basically they don't have the proper system to discard of waste.
And those flies will go on the waste,
and then they'll go on their food,
and then they're eating food.
I mean, that's corruption.
That's filthiness.
It's going to cause diseases.
See, the book of Leviticus is not the most exciting book in the Bible.
But you know, every country really ought to study that book
and start applying.
Our country needs to apply that.
So they can be more sanitary and less filthy
because it's not healthy on your body.
In Leviticus 22, verse 25, it says,
Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these,
because their corruption is in them,
and blemishes be in them.
They shall not be accepted for you.
Blemishes or wounds,
these things, they're not healthy.
Okay?
Like, if you have a pimple on your face,
look, that's not the most cleanest sanitary thing.
Okay?
It's not.
And when you have blemishes or you have wounds,
this stuff is not healthy to beat around.
Now, obviously all of us get hurt and various things happen,
but look, if somebody has a wound on their arm,
it's not smart to just go and touch that wound
and just get blood on yourself.
It's not healthy.
And so what it's saying in Leviticus 22 is
a blemish that's not sanitary.
It's filthy.
That's what it means by corruption.
It's filthy.
Turn to Psalms 38.
Psalms 38.
And in Psalms 38,
Psalms is just in the middle of your Bible.
Psalms 38 verse 5, the Bible reads,
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
The wounds stink.
That shows that there's something wrong.
And it says they're corrupt.
Look, they're basically filthy.
That's what he's saying.
It's not sanitary.
It's not clean.
Turn to Malachi 2,
the last book of the Old Testament,
the last book of the Old Testament.
We'll make applications here in a second.
But in Malachi chapter 2 verse 3,
it says,
Behold, I will corrupt your seed
and spread dung upon your faces,
even the dung of your solemn feast,
and one shall take you away with it.
So when it talks about corrupting your seed,
it says I'm going to spread dung upon your faces.
Okay?
That's referring to Ty.
Okay?
That's not clean.
That's filthy.
There's no word I can use that,
I mean, that's what it says, right?
That's what the Bible is saying.
And so, look, when God says
that he destroyed the world due to corruption,
there's two aspects to this.
One of them is spiritual corruption.
We're going to look at that.
But it was also physical corruption.
It was a dirty, disgusting place.
That's the truth.
You look up this word corrupt,
and you say, why would it be a dirty place?
Look, if people are spiritually corrupt,
they're going to become physically corrupt as well.
And we're going to look at sins here in a second.
Sin is physically corruption.
It's filthiness.
Sin is.
It's not healthy.
It's not clean.
It's not sanitary.
So when it talks about corruption,
there's kind of two aspects to it.
Yes, they were spiritually corrupt.
They're also physically corrupt as well.
I mean, look, we're going to go soloing in Rizal Park.
Is Rizal Park the cleanest place to be?
No.
No, you've got to watch where you're stepping.
Look, that's not normal.
That's not a good thing.
I say this description like Manila is the San Francisco of the Philippines.
That's not a compliment.
I know a lot of people love San Francisco.
It's a really expensive place to live,
just like Manila is compared to other parts of the Philippines.
But it's not the cleanest place.
It's the same sort of thing.
And if you go out there, you have to watch where you step.
Look, when you breathe that stuff in, it's not good.
I often go for walks in the morning.
I do bio memorization and prayer and stuff.
And where I walk,
there are certain parts where the smell is just putrid.
It's disgusting.
That is not healthy on your body.
It's not physically healthy.
And if you're around that all the time,
you can get sick as a result of those things.
When I first moved here, I was getting sick every single week.
Why?
Because this area of the Philippines,
this is the last week we're here.
Praise the Lord.
God bless this little building.
But Manila is not a sanitary or clean place.
It is a filthy place.
That's just the truth.
Now, praise the Lord we've won so many people to the Lord,
but that is not the cleanest place to be.
It's not.
It's not the nicest area to live in the Philippines,
at least in my opinion.
I know there's a lot of activities to do.
It's like, okay, I'll come in and go to those activities,
you know, the Mall of Asia, Ocean Park.
But I don't want to live here.
Because when we first moved here,
we didn't know where we were going to live.
We don't live here.
We live in Quezon City,
which is where we live.
It's a lot cleaner than here.
Why?
That stuff's not good for your body.
When it talks about corruption,
it's both literal and figurative there.
It is talking about the world was physically just corrupt.
Because look at the most disgusting, sinful places on the planet.
San Francisco.
That is the least clean place pretty much in the United States of America.
You literally have to watch that you don't step on drug needles in certain areas.
Because there's a ton of homeless people.
And being homeless in America is different than homeless in the Philippines.
If you are homeless in America,
you are a lazy drug addict.
There is no exception to that.
There's a lot of people that live here that are poor.
In America, if you are homeless,
you are a lazy drug addict.
Why?
Because you don't have to work
and the government will give you money to do nothing.
That's the truth.
And so you're choosing to live that filthy and wicked lifestyle.
And look,
Verity Baptist Church is right near where a lot of homeless people are.
And look, we've tried giving the gospel to them.
And the odds of them getting saved are like
one in a thousand.
Their minds are gone due to drugs and things like that.
It's different.
Here you can get people saved that are homeless.
In America, it's pretty much impossible.
Just about impossible.
And most of them, honestly, I believe are reprimands.
The lifestyle they live,
they turned against God a long time ago.
They choose to live a filthy lifestyle.
Turn to Acts 2.
But you look at places like that.
San Francisco.
And Pastor Anderson, if you heard his sermon,
he preached on San Francisco.
And just physically, it's not clean.
He just talked about the amount of Thai
that was all over San Francisco.
I can't really use any other word.
It just is what it is.
He talked about it in the sermon.
It was just disgusting.
And you've got to watch where you step
so you don't step on drug needles.
Is that really where you want to raise your kids?
And obviously, it's the biggest place,
I think, in the world percentage-wise.
Poor Baklai Tamboy.
The biggest place in the world percentage-wise.
You think that's a clean place?
No.
No, it's not.
So you look at areas that are really sinful,
they're also really physically unclean.
Because if people choose to be spiritually unclean,
it's not unusual to them to be physically unclean.
You see the link there?
When people are just spiritually unclean,
they're usually physically unclean.
Knock on the doors of people that are drunks
and their house is a mess.
And it smells like basura.
That's the truth.
You knock on those doors,
and look, these young kids that go soul-winning,
they don't need to be taught about how bad smoking and alcohol is
because when they go door to door,
they're going to figure it out for themselves.
Because those houses are a mess.
There's really no exception to that.
The people that are drunks,
their house is just garbage.
They don't even take care of it.
Why?
Because if you're spiritually unclean,
you're going to be physically unclean as well.
In Acts 2, verse 31,
we'll look at one of the verses that shows
what corruption is talking about.
Verse 31,
he's seeing this before stake of the resurrection.
He's seeing this before stake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell,
neither his flesh did see corruption.
The reason why he says his flesh didn't see corruption
is he physically rose again
before his body really started to decompose.
Lazarus was dead for four days,
and behold, he stinketh.
The body of Jesus did not stink.
Why?
He rose again before four days.
He rose again at three days.
That's why Jesus waited to resurrect Lazarus
because he was trying to make it a point to everyone,
and he's dead.
So no one could doubt the miracle.
But Jesus rose again before his flesh could actually see corruption.
Okay?
Now, turn to Revelation 17.
Revelation 17.
And we're going to look at the spiritual aspect of this as well,
and we're going to look at a couple of verses here
that prove corruption is talking about filthiness.
But it says in Revelation 17, verse 4,
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color,
and decked with golden precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abomination
and filthiness of her fornication.
Okay?
Now, turn to Revelation 19.
And in Revelation 17, it says,
filthiness of her fornication,
but notice Revelation 19, verse 2.
For true and righteous are his judgments,
for he hath judged the great ore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication,
and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
So in Revelation 17, it says the filthiness of her fornication.
In Revelation 19, it talks about the corruption as a result of her fornication.
So when the Bible's saying that it was corrupt,
it's saying it was filthy.
Okay?
Now, fornication is obviously spiritually sinful.
It's obviously spiritually unclean.
It's also physically unclean as well.
Okay?
God designed you to marry one person
and to be with one person.
It is not healthy to just be a whore or a whoremonger.
God uses those words.
He uses words like whore, whoremonger, harlot.
When you're talking about something that's really wicked,
you need to use really strong words to describe it.
Why?
Because we don't want the kids in this room to grow up and be whores
and harlots and whoremongers.
That's the truth.
And this is for both men and women.
Fornication is not physically clean.
It's not healthy on your body.
How many people are running around there with STDs?
Why?
Because they're going around as whores and whoremongers.
And that's what the result is.
Because sin is not clean.
It's physically.
There's built-in consequences to sin.
That's the truth of it.
Fornication and adultery and these things,
it's not even healthy on your body,
much less the judgment that comes from God for your sin.
It's not even healthy on your body.
You can get STDs.
You can die at young ages.
I mean, the Bible talks about the wicked living out half their days.
Look at the average lifespan of a baklava.
It's not very long.
You say, why?
Because they live a physically filthy lifestyle
that has built-in consequences for their actions.
In America, there's the big thing where everyone was dying from AIDS.
Hey, that's their choice that they made to live that lifestyle.
And you know what?
There's built-in consequences.
It's physically unclean.
And look, in our room, hey, don't go around and be a whore or mongrel.
Find one person you want to marry,
someone who's saved and loves the Lord,
get married to them,
and don't be with anyone else your whole life.
That is what God's plan is.
And look, you know what?
It's worth the wait.
I got married when I was 30 years old.
I wasn't young.
I waited for the right person.
I didn't jump into it
because obviously marriage is a big decision you make.
It's a permanent thing.
I know some people maybe,
some people maybe they jump in more so,
but obviously people can make their decisions.
But for me, I was like,
I want to wait and make sure I have the right person.
And I got married when I was 30 years old.
But I kept myself pure before I got married as well.
I didn't go around as a whore
or a whore monger, I should say,
just with all kinds of different women.
And look, one problem in our country,
the truth is that trafficking
and people being with young girls
is a big problem in our country.
Is that not true?
I mean, it's true.
My wife is from Analay City.
I've been to Analay City.
I love that area.
But you know what?
If you ever type that in,
don't type it in on YouTube
because you know what?
You're just going to see a bunch of perversion
that pops up.
Don't type that into Google Images
because you're going to see perversion that pops up.
Why?
Because that's kind of a hub for a lot of this place.
There's that area there
that's really wicked that nobody ought to go to.
That's the truth.
And in Manila, look, it's the same case.
I mean, you can walk around
and just see so many people here
that you know are here
just for perversion and wickedness.
And many of them are reprobates.
That's the truth.
People come here from the U.S.,
the U.K., Australia.
They come from these places
to fulfill their lustful, sick desires.
They come here.
They come to Thailand
and some of these places.
And look, we don't want it in our country.
That's why we've got to preach against it
because it's embarrassing
that that takes place in this country.
But that is the truth of fornication and adultery.
It runs rampant here
and people come here for that.
That's the truth.
It's sick.
It's perverted.
And you know what?
We should have nothing to do with it whatsoever.
Turn to Isaiah 28.
Isaiah 28.
And so you look at a place like Manila
that is spiritually wicked
due to all the trafficking
and things like that
and guess what?
It's also physically, you know,
unclean as well.
It's spiritually unclean
and guess what?
It gets passed on to being physically unclean.
That's why it's physically unclean.
You know, if there are churches
that were in Manila
that were preaching hard against sin
and, you know, you didn't have to drive,
you know, two hours to come to this church,
look, this place would be different.
It would clean up the problems here
if there was other churches
doing the same thing we are.
You know, there are a few churches
here and there
that are within a decent distance of us.
You know, pastors that I know
and I'm glad for the work they're doing.
They're going so many.
But you know what?
It's few.
It's not that many.
There's 13 people here,
a million people here in Metro Manila.
That's a lot of people to reach.
And you don't hear the Baptist churches
crying against sin
like they ought to be
like the Bible commands them to do.
Fornication is physical corruption.
It's physically unclean.
Look at Isaiah 28.
Let's look at drinking.
Isaiah 28 verses 7 and 8.
But they also have erred through wine
and through strong drink
and are out of the way.
The priest and the prophet
have erred through strong drink.
They are swallowed up of wine.
They are out of the way through strong drink.
They err in vision.
They stumble in judgment.
Boy, that really makes you want to drink alcohol,
doesn't it?
They err in vision.
They can't see.
They stumble in judgment.
Is that really what you want to be like?
Look, I'm literally physically blind
without confidence.
I can't see anything.
I don't think you want my eyesight.
But that's them just drunk
and just stumbling around.
That's the way the Bible describes them.
They can't really see.
They stumble around.
That's the way drunk people are.
But notice what it says in verse 8.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness
so that there is no place clean.
Corruption.
Filthiness.
Is vomit the cleanest thing that you know?
No.
It's disgusting, isn't it?
It's not fun to preach on.
I don't like preaching against this stuff.
If you're going to preach the whole Bible,
you have to preach against this stuff.
Like I said, this is really the biggest sermon
I preach against sin.
This is talking about the destruction of the world
so you have to be that way.
It's not fun to talk about vomit.
It's disgusting.
But people get drunk
and they wake up in their own vomit
and they see it again and again.
It's like, what in the world is wrong with them?
That is spiritually unclean
because it's wrong to drink alcohol.
But is that physically unclean?
No, it's not.
It's physical corruption.
And so the world was in a place
of not only spiritual wickedness,
it was also physically unclean.
That's why he uses the word corruption
because corrupt can mean multiple things in the Bible.
The Bible talks about let no corruption
proceed out of your mouth.
No corrupt words proceed out of your mouth.
It's talking about filthy communication.
Filthy words.
We ought to obviously speak differently than the world.
So when it says corrupt,
it uses that word because it's a broad term
that can both mean physical and spiritual.
He's highlighting the fact
it wasn't just spiritually wicked,
it was physically a disgusting place to be.
It was like Manila.
It was like San Francisco.
It was physical corruption everywhere.
I'm sure there was vomit all over the place.
Is that really where you want to go?
You know, I went to college,
and I know people have different opinions than college.
I got saved in college.
So obviously I'm in a different situation
than a lot of people that maybe got saved before college.
I got saved in college,
and look, WVU where I went,
West Virginia University every year
is voted the number one drinking school in the nation.
They have an award with Playboy magazine,
and a lot of people in West Virginia are real proud of it.
It's like, wow, how exciting.
You went to the biggest drinking school in the nation.
Congratulations, that's just great.
And so look, when you walk around for class,
guess what?
There's dried puke on the ground.
You want to live that sort of lifestyle?
You walk out of your house,
you got to watch where you step,
your son or your daughter goes out to play,
and then you got to clean them all the time
because they stepped in vomit.
That's the way the world was before the flood.
Say, how do you know that?
Because it says it was corrupt,
and when you look up,
and it highlights corrupt three times.
Obviously we know it's spiritually corrupt,
but I want to highlight this
because I don't think, even myself,
I didn't really think about
what the world was like before the flood,
but when you look at what the Bible's saying,
it was also physically a filthy place.
It was not a clean place.
It was corrupt,
but it was not a clean place.
It was corrupt both spiritually and physically.
It was disgusting.
It's not even fun to think about.
This sort of lifestyle of drinking alcohol,
doing drugs, smoking cigarettes,
it's not only spiritually a sin,
it's also physically a filthy lifestyle.
That's why people smoke a cigarette for the first time.
I've never smoked a cigarette,
but people smoke a cigarette for the first time,
they always cough.
Cough, don't they?
They always sound like they're about to die.
Do you really think that's what God wants you to ingest
inside your body?
I mean, obviously there's consequences to doing that.
There's building consequences.
It's just physically, though, unclean.
And I don't like being around where people are smoking.
I remember we were in a jiffy one time.
It's illegal to smoke in jiffies, right?
For the rider, driver?
And I remember we were in one,
and the driver was smoking a cigarette.
And I was ticked,
because my son is like 10 months old
or 11 months old or however when we were in there.
And he was doing it,
and I'm glad my wife stepped up and told him,
hey, you need to put that out.
Because I don't want my son ingesting smoke
when he's 10 months old.
That's not healthy on his body.
And you know what?
People don't see anything wrong with it, though.
Why?
Because they're spiritually sinful.
It ends up becoming them physically being unclean as well.
And they see nothing wrong with it.
Look, we want to be around places that are clean.
I hate filth.
It's disgusting.
And you know what?
If you're godly,
you're not going to want to be around filth all the time either.
And so turn back to Genesis 6.
I'll tell you one problem with guys in our movement,
and I hope it's not with our church.
I don't really necessarily know,
but it is in America.
Guys that are single and unmarried,
they just don't have good hygiene.
That's the truth.
It's like you can smell them from a distance.
And it's like, what are you doing?
Because before I was married,
there's this invention called a shower.
And I like that invention.
And there's this thing called a toothbrush,
where you brush your teeth.
And it's like, honestly,
we as God's people,
I do believe we ought to take care of ourselves physically.
You shouldn't just have a bunch of dirty laundry around
all over the floor.
No, you should keep your house clean
and keep your bodies clean.
It's not good to be around that.
It's not healthy on your body.
That will cut off your lifespan, honestly,
when you're around that stuff.
That's why people that live spiritually sinful lives,
they die at young ages oftentimes
because of the choices that they make.
And so another thing that's mentioned
in Genesis chapter six, verse 11,
it says the earth also was corrupt before God
and the earth was filled with violence.
So the first thing we saw was wicked imaginations
and we talked about what exactly that meant.
Then we talked about just corruption,
which is both filthy spiritually and physically.
Then it says the earth was filled with violence.
Okay, what is violence?
It's talking about physical harm,
which often includes murder, okay.
It says the earth was filled with violence, with murder.
Okay, it was common that people were being murdered.
Turn to Matthew two, Matthew two.
Now this isn't really the point of my sermon,
but let me just say this,
that I think we proved that God doesn't like you
to be something around things that are unclean.
That's not good for you, right?
Yeah.
And let me just mention this
because obviously this is a big issue.
We're gonna talk about this in Matthew two here,
but let me tell you something that's not clean.
Vaccinations are not clean.
Amen.
They're not clean.
My son wasn't vaccinated.
I made it a point to make sure that he wasn't vaccinated.
That's not clean.
God is against corruption and uncleanness.
It's not healthy on your body.
Look, when I was young,
and I was vaccinated when I was a kid, right?
Obviously when you're a kid,
you know, people make choices and everything,
but look, it was a lot different back then though.
Back then you got vaccinated for a few things.
Now they just multiply that by like 20.
You get vaccinated for every,
vaccination for chicken pox.
It's like, are you kidding me?
I mean, every kid just, you know,
I got chicken pox when I was a kid.
You get it, you get over it.
No big deal.
And you get vaccinated for everything in today's world
and they want to scare you into thinking
that you have to get vaccinated for everything.
Well, here's my problem with it.
It's not clean.
Yeah, right.
And God's against things that are filthy.
Look, it's not clean by their own definition.
And if you listen to the people that are the big rich people,
they don't vaccinate their kids.
Yeah, right.
Say why?
Because they know it's not safe.
They know it's not clean.
I mean, they'll tell you, you got to vaccinate your kid.
They don't vaccinate their kids.
I mean, those guys like Bill Gates and those rich people,
I wonder why that is.
That they won't vaccinate their kid,
but they really want you to vaccinate your kid.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Look at Matthew 2.
We're talking about violence.
And it says in Matthew 2, verse 16,
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked with the wise men,
and was exceeding wrath, and sent forth and slew
all the children that were in Bethlehem,
and in all the coasts there are from two years old and under,
according to the time which he had diligently
inquired of the wise men.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, In Ramah was there a voice heard,
lamentation and weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not.
Can you imagine the mind of someone
that would be willing to kill every single baby
under the age of two?
That's a wicked person.
That's someone whose mind is defiled.
That's someone who's a child of the devil.
That's not a normal person.
That's a pretty wicked and perverted person
that would be willing to do that.
In our country, abortion is illegal.
But you know what?
I promise you there's doctors that will do things
under the table.
Now, look, I don't think that every mom
that chooses to abort her child is a reprobate.
It's a really wicked sin they're going to have to live with.
They're going to regret that.
Let me tell you something.
The doctors that will go against the law of the country
just because they think it's so important for you to abort,
being able to abort your child,
that's a wicked person.
That's a bad person.
You know, in America, obviously,
there's certain rules when you get visas and things like that
where vaccinations are required,
and it takes effort to get out of them if you're against them.
And here's the thing.
I'm telling you what my opinion is.
I believe that's what the Bible teaches.
Everyone here is welcome to make their own choice with their kids.
God gave you those kids.
They're not my kids.
I make choices with my kids.
You make choices with your kids.
That's fine.
But an example of what I'm talking about, though, is
if you try to get out of vaccinations,
you can find doctors who will sign off
and say that so-and-so got a vaccination, okay?
And that's something I know a lot of people do,
where they find someone, you pay them money,
and the reason why that doctor does that,
it could be because they want money,
but a big reason is probably because there's a lot of doctors
that don't think it's safe, so they're willing to do that.
They're willing to go against the law because they want to protect you.
They don't want you to be harmed through a vaccination or your child, okay?
But think about a doctor that would go against the law
just because he thinks it's important that you can get an abortion.
That's a little bit different, isn't it?
That's pretty wicked that you would think it's so important
that women have the right to murder their baby
that you're going to go against the law and just illegally do it.
That's wicked.
But look, when the Bible says that violence was throughout the earth,
I promise you abortion was a big part of it.
You say, wait, weren't they like monkey men back then?
No, they were civilized.
They were smart.
They're probably a lot smarter than we are today, okay?
I promise you they developed ways to do abortions and things like that.
You know, it's known in ancient Egypt,
they had ways of doing birth control and abortion and all these things.
Those things they figured out a long time ago.
You know, wicked people will figure out what they want to do.
I mean, they figure it out because they really want to be able to do it.
I promise you abortion was a big part of that.
The earth was filled with violence.
Now turn to Nahum 3.
In America, there was something big recently that happened where,
I think it's in New York, where they passed a law
that you can abort your baby slightly after it's born.
I didn't really study this from the 7th and 7th side.
It's possible I couldn't misspeak,
but that's what I heard certain people preaching about.
I didn't really look into it myself.
But it's like, here's the thing.
What I told people is this,
that if you open the door with allowing abortion in some cases,
that's going to be the end result.
All of a sudden you'll say, wow, you know, this kid's six years old
and he's got a deformity.
Let's just kill him.
And the world's going to think that's normal.
You say, that would never happen.
Yeah, it will.
There's a lot of things we never thought were going to happen
that have happened, okay?
If you're willing to start aborting babies,
what's funny about it is,
you'll go to jail if you refuse to vaccinate your kid,
but you're welcome to murder your baby,
you know, after they're born, if they're young enough.
I mean, isn't the world just so stupid?
Like, their logic of what they think makes sense?
Talk about foolishness.
You're, as a parent, able to abort your child,
even after they're born now.
But, you know, they're passing laws
where it's illegal not to vaccinate your child.
It's like, if you have the right to kill your baby,
I mean, wouldn't you have the right
to not have your child vaccinated?
I mean, that's ridiculous.
That's the way the world is.
I promise you, abortion was a big part of it.
Notice Nahum, chapter three, verse one.
Nahum, chapter three, verse one.
It says, woe to the bloody city.
It is all full of lies and robbery.
The prey departed not.
Now, if you remember,
Nahum is a follow-up book to the book of Jonah.
The book of Jonah was about the Assyrian empire.
Now, throughout it,
when it talks about the Assyrian empire,
it highlights Nineveh.
Nineveh, Nineveh.
Why?
That was the main city in Assyria.
So when he talked about Assyria,
it was kind of known by Nineveh.
That's the big city.
So when it says, woe to the bloody city,
it's not really just referring to the city itself,
but the whole country,
because Assyria was the most dominant country
in the world at that time.
They were the world power.
They were one of the most powerful countries
that ever lived at their peak.
And the Bible says in verse one, Nahum, chapter three, verse one,
woe to the bloody city.
It is all full of lies and robbery.
The prey departeth not.
And it says the bloody city.
And so you see lies, you see robbery,
and you go on,
you can tell that they're guilty of murdering a lot of people.
They took over empires and would kill their leaders.
They would torture them and things like that.
It was a wicked empire.
It was violence.
And I promise you that in Genesis chapter six,
when it says the earth was filled with violence,
murder was a large part of that.
Obviously not just murdering babies,
but obviously if the earth is filled with violence,
robbery and all these things were all taking place.
The earth was a very violent place.
Turn to Psalms 59, Psalms 59.
Now our country isn't really a country
that goes around and starts war with all these countries.
But I'll tell you what,
the United States, the world power today,
they go around and start wars with everybody.
You say, well, how does God think about it?
Woe to the bloody city.
That's what he thinks about.
That's what he thinks about,
that you go around and start wars with all these countries.
For what purpose?
For oil?
Is that your purpose?
I mean, you don't want to admit that,
but that's obviously your purpose a lot of times.
Woe to the bloody city.
That's what God thinks about it.
When you go around and you just kill innocent people,
look, a child, I don't care where they are,
a young child that's one or two years old,
what would give you the right to just kill that child
because he's born in a certain country?
I mean, that's wicked.
And I know people that were in the military in the US
and they admitted that this stuff took place,
where there were guys that thought it was just a big joke,
where they would just almost play a game with these people
that they were killing and just kind of shoot at them,
just like a cat would play with its prey.
Right?
The cat would just play around with the mouse
before it kills it.
That's the way that some people were,
and then they would just gun down innocent women and children.
I know people that have seen it happen.
It's not just you see it on YouTube.
It's like, that's wicked.
And you know what?
To God, that's wicked.
God, that's wicked.
He says, woe to the bloody city.
That's way past saying, well, that was in war.
So it's okay.
That's wicked to do something like that.
Psalms 59, verses one and three.
Deliver me from mine enemies, oh my God.
Defend me from them that rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity
and save me from bloody men.
The workers of iniquity are people that are false prophets,
really wicked people, reprobates.
And what a shock.
They're also bloody men, according to the Bible.
They're also willing to commit murder.
Why?
Because their mind and consciousness is defiled.
They're filled with all this wickedness.
Verse three, for lo, they lie in wait for my soul.
The mighty are gathered against me,
not for my transgression, nor for my sin, oh Lord.
You know, there are people that want to destroy us.
They want to kill us.
Obviously, David was a righteous person.
He was a good man who led many people to the Lord.
There are people that are just bad people and they hate us.
That's the truth.
We're going to battle.
You say, well, how do you battle against these people?
As Pastor Jimenez said just a couple weeks ago,
you don't battle on social media.
That's not the way you battle.
Why?
You'll lose that battle.
You'll end up getting sued and you'll lose the case
because they'll pay off the judge.
That's what will happen in the Philippines.
And look, I learned that very early on.
When I first came here, I preached just like I would preach in America.
And if you remember,
not everyone maybe was here to hear that sermon.
I preached a sermon called hardcore versus wise and harmless.
I learned something new from the Bible
because I saw the situation we were in.
I was like, whoa, I preach like this.
I'm going to be six feet under in no time.
I realized, you know what?
The way we're going to fight against these false prophets
is get many people saved, get churches started,
build people up, help them grow.
It's not going to be by naming out and calling out every false prophet
because those false prophets are more powerful than us.
And you know what?
They will pay off the judges.
They will sue you.
And you know what?
It's not a big deal.
$4,000 to them, $10,000, whatever it would cost,
not a big deal to them.
They just want to destroy you.
Look, if they're willing to kill you in Psalms 59,
don't you think they'd be willing to get you thrown in jail
and destroy your lives?
And look, you know, we need to apply that
because honestly, that's something we're going to fight in the Philippines.
And you know what?
It's sad that this stuff happens,
but you call these false prophets,
you can get yourself in some real trouble.
And honestly, I'm speaking from my heart right now.
I thought about talking to my church.
You know, just maybe afterwards,
but we need to make sure we're careful, okay?
Because unfortunately, I know some stuff that probably nobody in here knows
and everyone's going to know in a few days and it's sad.
And I don't want what's going to happen at their church to happen to ours,
which means you need to be careful with what you say.
Because look, you have to understand,
when you say something, guess who also gets in trouble?
I get in trouble, right?
I mean, if you blast a false prophet online and get sued,
I could easily get sued as well,
as a result of just I'm the one who's running the show here.
And I am responsible.
That's why I have to nip it in the bud if it's a problem.
And honestly, with what's happened in the last week,
look, you know, we need to be very careful with what we say
and not say anything,
because we can get ourselves in real trouble.
Anyway, I'm responsible for our church.
And obviously, churches do things differently,
but you know what?
We need to be careful with what we say and be smart and mature.
Zeal is a great thing,
but zeal can also get you into a lot of trouble as well.
When I was a young Christian and newly saved and excited,
and I started listening to Pastor Anderson, man, I was zealous.
I got a lot of people saved.
I also got myself into a lot of trouble, right?
So I was zealous.
I was just like a lot of people in this room.
And that just takes time.
Unfortunately, the way it goes is,
zeal comes before maybe more maturity and charity
and knowledge and some of these other things.
But honestly, it's like, you know,
we're going to get ourselves in trouble.
And look, in a few days,
you all are going to know what I'm talking about.
And that's sad.
I don't want it to happen at this church,
which means we need to be careful with what we do and what we say.
And I'm going to be careful with what I say.
I'm preaching a hard sermon now.
But honestly, there's some things I intentionally am not going to say.
There are sermons that I will preach
where we will not have it on live stream
because if I put it on live stream,
I will get sued.
I will get in trouble
because there are certain false prophets
that I feel I need to preach against
because they're big in the Philippines.
But you know what?
It's not smart to just broadcast it to everyone.
You got to be smart.
Yes, it's good to be bold and preach the truth.
We got to be careful with how we do it though
because you have to understand your battlefield.
In this battlefield, you will get sued very quickly.
In America, you never really get sued.
And they're never going to win that case.
And here, you'll get sued quickly if you're lucky.
If you're not lucky, they'll pay someone to kill you.
That's the truth.
And look, that's something I've learned.
And look, we need to pass it on to all of us.
We need to be zealous for what's good.
We need to be careful.
And look, you guys will know what I'm saying in a few days.
And it's sad, but it is what it is.
And we need to learn from situations like that.
So in Genesis 6, you don't have to turn back there.
We're pretty much done.
But the three points we saw were that, you know what?
The earth was filled with wicked imaginations,
which includes having a ton of people that were bakla, tomboy.
And it was also a very violent place.
And it was also a corrupt place, a filthy place,
both physically and spiritually.
Both those things.
It was a wicked place.
God chose to destroy the world, okay?
Our world is on a downward spiral.
There is no way it's going to end up coming back up.
Say, well, how do you know that?
The reason why I know that is because in today's world,
because remember in Genesis 11,
it talked about that they're all able to communicate with one another
and now nothing's going to be restrained from them.
We live in a day where communication's pretty easy, right?
You can communicate with people all over the world.
And look, even if you don't speak their language,
Google Translate does not do a bad job of helping you out with what they're saying.
It's not perfect, but the technology's getting better and better.
So they're able to communicate very easily with one another.
With the rise of the internet and the television and the smartphones,
there's no way this world's coming back.
It is a downward spiral until it's destroyed.
So what can we do about it?
We need to just get as many people saved as we can while we have time.
That is all we can do about it.
We're not going to change this world.
But what I would like to see happen in the Philippines over these next several years
is that we work hard at getting churches started.
Obviously we get lots of people saved here.
We do what we can to bring people to this church.
We get churches started.
And we can at least spare God's judgment on this country for a while.
We need to do what we can to fix this place,
because look, there's a lot of problems.
I preach against the U.S. a lot,
because the U.S. is a good example of wickedness.
They're the biggest, most powerful country in the world.
We've got a lot of problems in our country.
We've got a lot of things that need to be fixed.
And quite honestly, over the last several years,
things are getting worse in this country in terms of sin and what's allowed.
It's getting worse.
The only way to fix it is if we preach hard behind the pulpit and fix this situation.
That's all we can do.
A long time ago when there was the battle of Maktan with Ferdinand Magellan and Lapu-Lapu,
I've always been interested in this when I first started studying stuff in the Philippines.
When you think about it, with Ferdinand Magellan and the Catholic Church coming over here
and basically forcing people to become Catholic,
look, he was a bad guy.
That's wrong to do that.
Just come in and say, we're going to take over.
And he got killed.
They teach you in America, maybe they do here, that he traveled around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan did not travel around the world.
He was killed in the Philippines.
But his men came back and took over.
I think what he did is wicked and evil, but honestly, God used it for good.
You know why?
Because it's a Catholic country.
That's really good for us.
Because if it was not a Catholic country, this would not be a place where soul winning would be great.
I mean, honestly, it's great what happened.
God used it for good.
Look, we live in perhaps the most receptive country in the world.
That's what we should focus on.
We should be thankful for that.
A lot of people want to live other places and they say, well, I wish I lived here.
Lots of people here would just love to move to America.
But look, you ought to realize how big of a blessing it is
that you can go out soul winning for a couple hours and you're guaranteed you're going to get something to save.
It's not like that in most parts of the world.
It's amazing.
I've had times where I went soul winning like 14 or 15 straight hours with zero saved in California.
Do you know how frustrating it is to go soul winning for that many hours and nobody gets saved?
I remember one time I went through a spell where nobody even wanted to really listen.
And then I'd get people to listen, but they'd never end up getting saved at the end.
And I was like, oh, this is so frustrating.
I got to the end and they're like, yeah, I'm not sure if I believe that or not.
I'm like, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
But look, you're never going to go 14 hours without somebody saved here unless you just don't know what you're doing.
Which obviously we start. We're new.
But at our church, you can come out soul winning with us on Sunday afternoon.
You can come out soul winning on Saturday.
We can show you how it's done.
We can get people saved.
And look, we can do what we can to spare God's judgment on this country.
Let's close in a word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here today.
And I just ask you to help us apply this sermon to our lives, God.
Help us.