Romans chapter 1, and as we started last week, we're going verse by verse through the book of Romans
And we kind of got through the first half of the book of Romans last week
And we're going through the second half here today
And I feel like it's been coming up a lot of scripture recently preaching against the LGBT and it's not really intentional
But we don't want to avoid anything in the Bible
And so that's what the Bible says, we go through it, and that's actually what the second half of Romans is about
So I think next week, we probably won't be on that topic so much
But that's what's coming up here in the Bible in Romans chapter 1, the second half
And the name of the sermon is, The Bile Filth of This World
The Bile Filth of This World
Now, last week what we talked about is basically how salvation is to everybody the same way all over the world
And if you're an atheist or you're a rejected God, you're without excuse, the Bible says
But notice what it says here in verse number 18 in your Bible
It says, For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
And we talked about last week how that's kind of mainly referring to when natural disasters take place
That's God's wrath, God's judgment on the earth
But notice the last half of this where it says, Who hold the truth in unrighteousness
Who hold the truth in unrighteousness
What the Bible is saying is this
That there are people in this world that when they hear the truth of God's word
Or they hear the truth of Jesus, they consider it unrighteous
They hate that message
For example, if you say that Jesus is the only way to heaven
Because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life
You know, some people get offended by that message
They're like, How dare you say that Jesus is the only way to heaven
And they get mad at it and they can end up turning against God
And they consider the truth of God's word as being unrighteousness
Or they hear sermons against certain sins
Sermons against doing drugs or drinking or whatever
And they consider it unrighteous
They don't agree with what the Bible says
And they hold the truth in unrighteousness
And what can develop is someone who ends up turning against God
And they hate God's word
And they end up becoming a wicked and vile person
And the Bible says they hold the truth in unrighteousness
We know people in this world that you talk to them about what the Bible says
And they hate the message of the Bible
They can't stand the message of the Bible
Those are people that are holding the truth in unrighteousness
Notice what it says in verse 19
Because that which may be known to God is manifest in them
For God has showed it unto them
So everybody in this world
It's been manifest unto them that God is real
He is deeply born inside of you
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
Being understood by the things that are made
Even his eternal power in God has so that they are without excuse
So if somebody rejects Jesus Christ
They are without excuse
They will die, they will go to hell
Verse 21
It says because that when they knew God
So this is giving more information about these people
It says because that when they knew God
Now these are not people that are saved
These are not people that are believed on Jesus Christ
But they've heard about God
It says they know God
They've heard the truth of God's word
And they hold it in unrighteousness
It says they knew God
They had heard about God
They had heard things about God
When they knew God
They glorified him not as God
They knew about God
They rejected what the Bible said
They rejected God's word
Okay
What you must understand in life is that God is not going to change for you
God is who he is
And you can be mad at what the Bible says
That's not going to change God's opinion or who God is
And look all of us have seen things in the Bible before
And our natural reaction was
I don't agree with that
It does not seem right
But that doesn't change reality
See people can be mad at what God says
That's not going to change who God is though
And people hear the truth of God's word
And they say well you know what
I don't like what the Bible says
I don't like the God of the Bible
That doesn't change the fact that he is the God of this world
Whether you like him or not
They knew God
They glorified him not as God
Neither were thankful
Look you know we ought to be thankful
For just the mercies God provides us every day
He put us in this world
He gave us an innate belief that God is real
And he's blessed us in so many ways
But you know people instead of being thankful what God did
They just got mad at what the Bible says
It says neither were thankful
But became vain in their imaginations
And their foolish heart was darkened
And so people that go down this road
Because in Romans 1
What you're seeing is a downward spiral
It's slowly going down and down
They're getting worse
They reject God's word
And they become vain in their imaginations
And their foolish heart was darkened
And then if you try to give this person the gospel
You know 10 years down the road
They're just rejected
They've rejected God's word completely
Their heart is darkened
They don't want to hear what God says
It says their foolish heart was darkened
Notice verse 22
Professing themselves to be wise
They became fools
And so what the Bible is saying is
These are people that think they're wise
They think they're intelligent
They think they know what they're talking about
I mean isn't it true when you listen to these
Really intelligent evolutionists out there
The Richard Dawkins of the world
I mean we talked about this last week
They think they're really smart don't they
I mean if you would tell them
Hey I believe the earth is 6,000 years old
I don't believe in evolution
They're going to think you're Bobo
They think you're stupid
They think it's ridiculous
They think it's foolish
They think that what we believe is dumb
And that's fine I think what they believe is dumb
I mean it is dumb
It's stupid the things that they believe
Okay
They think they're really smart
And they profess themselves to be wise
And you know what
It doesn't matter how smart they are
By the world's standards
The Bible says they're fools
Okay
Turn to Psalm 14 in your Bible
Psalm 14
Now I do want you to understand
And we're going to see this here in Romans 1
I think it's a mistake though
To think that Romans 1 is only referring to atheists
Before it starts talking about the LGBT
Because that's not actually what the Bible teaches
Okay
Because you can actually be somebody
A part of some other religion
Who hears the truth of God's word
And hold that as unrighteousness and reject it
Now a great application is certainly atheists
I mean there's a great documentary online
You know I recommend type it in
Professing themselves to be wise
I think is the name
Is that the name of it?
Professing themselves to be wise
Great documentary
That is a great application of this verse
It certainly applies to atheists
That's not the only group it applies to though
And we're going to see that during the sermon
But certainly atheists are a great example
Of people that think they're really wise
And they think they're really smart
And in reality according to the Bible
They are fools
Psalm 14 verse 1
See the Bible says that if you do not believe in God
You are a fool
That is what the Bible teaches
And look you know it makes sense to us
Because all of us believe in God
It's like how in the world could you not believe in God?
It doesn't make any sense to me
You know I was raised in a Christian home
I heard about you know Jesus
I heard the name of Jesus when I was a baby
And it's just like to me not believing in God
I don't get it
But then you look at a lot of countries in Asia
And aren't a lot of countries in Asia like half atheists
They don't believe in God
I mean go to China
And I don't know what the percentages are
But probably half of people don't believe in God
I mean go over to Europe
And like half of people just don't believe in God
And it blows my mind
Because I've never even doubted whether God was real
I mean I know God's real
I mean it's just obvious there's a God
And look but people can go down this road
And they can become a fool
Is what the Bible says okay
Turn back to Romans 1
Romans 1
Romans chapter 1
Now what we talked about last week
Is we gave 10 reasons why people can become atheists
We gave a lot of reasons
And some of those are very sincere reasons
For example you know we talked about when people are molested
Of course that could cause somebody to want to reject God
And be angry
Or people go through travesties in life
They go through a lot of turmoil and problems
And they can end up being mad at God or whatever
And they can go down this road
And they can become an atheist
But remember the number one thing we talked about
And it was not my list
It was just a secular list they had came up with
Is that you know a lot of people are atheists
Because they just don't want any rules
They don't want anyone telling them yes
And no okay
They're just like a little baby
That it's like no I want to do what I want to do
It's like you should have learned that
When you're two or three years old from your parents
It's like you know but they don't want to have any rules
To answer to
And remember what the Bible said
They hold the truth in unrighteousness
So they hear what God says
And God says you know what
It's wrong for you to drink
And they just get mad at God
Instead of just believing what the Bible says
And so they just don't like the truth of God's word
And basically they're becoming an atheist
Because of the fact they don't like the God of the Bible
Not because it's
I mean is it more logical to believe
That nothing was here
And then nothing exploded
And then four and a half billion years later
You know here we are today
I mean is that is that logical
It's and I understand the earth was four and a half billion years ago
Whenever what 20 billion years ago
Whatever they say
And then the earth's four and a half billion years old
I mean is that more logical
It doesn't really seem very logical to me
I mean there's there's a million just common sense ways
That evolution makes no sense
Okay there's there's there's thousands
If not tens of thousands of symbiotic relationships in nature
Where two things need each other to survive
This will die without this
And yet this will die without this
And yet which one of all firsts then
If they both need each other to survive
Okay is it logical that that whale in the ocean
Will one day be walking on land like as a cow
I mean that's ridiculous
It's absurd
They think it's intelligent
It's intelligent I hear it and I'm like man that sounds foolish to me
It's like you know I didn't think I was dumb
I mean I got a I went to college I got a math degree
But it's just like that sounds foolish
And everyone's like oh this is just you know science
This is a fact even though they have no proof
They have no evidence
It's ridiculous
But they think it's intelligent
And you know what the reality is
There's people in this world
They would use any excuse to not believe in God
They would use any excuse not to believe in the God of the Bible
There could be some new theory
I mean one of the big theories
I think it's called punctuated equilibrium
Who knows punctuated equilibrium
Has anybody heard that term
Punctuated equilibrium is this
Basically you know because of the fact
They're not seeing you know evolution take place
Because when you have a child
You know you're a husband and a wife
What's born to you is a human being
Right
And they're not seeing these intermediate steps
Like they thought they would
150 years ago
And so the new theory that's out there
I think it's like 15 years old
Punctuated equilibrium
Is that evolution happens by leaps and bounds
So you'll go like a thousand years
And nothing happens
And then just boom
All kinds of evolution is taking place
You're having a child
It's turning into this
And this and this
And in like a hundred years
A frog turns into a human or whatever
Like that's what they're teaching
And the reason why they're doing that
Is they just are not the fossils
So they start teaching
Punctuated equilibrium
I think I'm pretty sure is the term
Okay
I could be getting the term wrong
I think it's punctuated equilibrium
Where basically evolution
Instead of being this slow process
It's like nothing nothing
And then boom
Nothing nothing
Then boom
Why
Because they don't have any proof
For their theories
They talk about
I want to find this missing link
You're not missing one link
You're missing the entire chain
You're missing every single link
It's not like
Oh this one link between man and ape
And we can find it
You're missing everything
There's nothing out there
And it's just like
Even when they find a fossil
Then it turns out
They're like
Oh the person like lied about it
Because it's some scientist
Who's gonna lose his grant money
He's gonna lose all of his money
So he's like
Hey this is the missing link
And then 20 years later
They find out
Oh that was like
You know a pig or whatever
And it's just like
And this is reality
If you've ever looked up
Anything on evolution
Everything I'm telling you
Is the truth
They don't have the missing links
And the world is brainwashing you
Into thinking
Hey it's all there
None of it's there
It's a joke
It's laughable
But they think it makes more sense
Than just believing there's a God
Why is it?
Because they do not want to believe in God
See there's people that get deceived
And brainwashed
And they're not bad people
But there's other people
That just don't want to believe in God
And they are bad people
And they'll use any excuse
Not to believe in God
It's not because it's more logical to them
They just do not want to believe
In the God of the Bible
And that's what your famous evolutionists
That's who they are
Now a lot of people believe in evolution in this world
Probably 50% or whatever
But look the ones that are really famous
Like the Richard Dawkins
They're like the false preachers
There's no hope for those people
They're not going to ever change
Their mind about what they believe
And so notice what it says in verse 23
And look these same people
If you listen to these famous evolutionists
You can see clips of Richard Dawkins online
Talking about how pedophilia is not a bad thing
And it's just like this person
Who's acting like he's a moral authority
He thinks Christianity is so evil
And then he's up there saying
You know pedophilia
Not a big deal
It's like what a joke
I mean it shows what's in the heart
Of that wicked person
Verse 23
And change the glory of the uncorruptible God
Into an image made like to corruptible man
And to birds and four-footed beasts
And creeping things
So in verse 23
You could certainly apply this
To atheists that basically worship evolution
And the slow process
Of what they believe not just micro
But macroevolution
Where basically you know
Nothing explodes
They had amoebas
And it slowly became humans over time
And everything like that
But could you not look at verse 23
And apply that to all these religions
That worship animals
And have these half God
Half humans that they worship
I mean the very obvious one
The very obvious one
Is obviously Hinduism
Because they worship a lot
Of half human half animals
Like they worship
Ganesh is one of their big ones
Which is like an elephant head
And it's got the body of a human
And it's just like you know
Hinduism worships all kinds of animals
They worship rats
They worship cows
And it's funny you know
They'll say
Well we don't worship them
You know we just you know
And yet you see these same people
They'll bow down
Like there's this video online
I showed some of you guys
Where there's this older lady
She's like in front of a cow
And just praying in front of that cow
And she's getting all emotional
And she's like
I don't know if she's burning incense
Or something
She's giving like an offering to the cow
But she's not worshipping the cow
She's just bowing down
And praying
Right before the cow
But she's not worshipping it
Would this verse not apply
To Hinduism
Where they worship animals
But it's not just Hinduism
I would say most of the religions
Of the world
They worship animal type gods
Most religions in the world
Now the reason why we don't really think of that
Is because Christianity does not do that
Islam does not do that either
As far as I'm aware
And those are pretty big populations
Those are kind of the famous religions
But it's not just Hinduism that does this
It's like in Taoism
Which supposedly they don't even really believe in god
Over in China
They worship like the monkey god
It's like
What in the world are you worshipping a monkey for
It's just like
And then all these religions
Or you could look at
Zoroastrianism
Or the Baha'i faith
These religions that worship nature
And everything like that
And they're worshipping the creature
Rather than the creator
They're worshipping what's been created
Instead of the one that actually created this
And look all these religions
That are worshipping Mother Earth
And things like that
This would certainly apply to them as well
Okay
This does not mean
That people that are in those religions
Are automatically these wicked evil people
But if you choose to reject what God says
No matter what religion you come from
You're going to go down that road
Of hating the true God
Now a lot of these people are very spiritual
But they still hate the God of the Bible
It doesn't matter how many gods they believe in
Or how spiritual they are
If they reject the God of the Bible
They're going to go down that road
That it's talking about in Romans chapter 1
So look verse 23
Could certainly apply to not just atheists
It could apply to these religions
That are worshipping these animals
Even in the Bible
You've got like Dagon's like a fish god
Right
I mean Dagon's like the body of a fish
I believe in the body of a human
I think
The body of a fish in the head of a human
And it's like they're worshipping like the Philistines
That was their god that you know
Basically was fallen over
The head gone
And it's just like
It's like a fish god
So look
Throughout history
These heathen cultures
Have worshipped animals as gods
And worshipped nature
Okay
And in most countries
When you look at the people
That are natives of the country
And in the Philippines as well
They worship just mother nature
There's religions out there
That are still just worshipping mother nature
Here in the Philippines
It's just been the religion for thousands of years
And it's like look
They're worshipping the creation
They're not worshipping the one
Who actually created this world though
Notice what it says in verse 24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
Through the lusts of their own hearts
So what verse 24 is talking about
Is that the people that he's specifically referring to
These are people that in their own heart have lusts
Unclean lusts
Things that are wrong
And they're using that reason
To choose to reject the God of the Bible
And eventually God can reach a point where he says
You know what
Go ahead and do whatever you want
I'm done with you
I don't care anymore
Then it says
He gave them up to uncleanness
Through the lusts of their own hearts
To dishonor their own bodies
Between themselves
And so there's people that are basically
Worshipping their own body
Between themselves
And he's gonna give more information on that
Verse 25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie
And worshipped and served the creature
More than the creator
Who is blessed forever
Amen
And so the Bible says
There are people that are worshipping
And serving the creature
More than the creator
There's religions out there
That believe that we're gonna become a God one day
Okay
And it's
I mean Mormonism believes that
So called Christianity right there
That we can become Gods one day
And it's like they're worshipping what's created
As opposed to the person who actually created it
Now isn't that foolish to be obsessed with worshipping the mountain
When someone created that mountain?
But it's like people reject the God of the Bible
And they worship what's been created
Instead of God
And these people go down this road
Where they become bad people
Okay
Notice what it says here in verse number 26
Look throughout history you have
Where you have the Egyptian Gods
And when you look at the ten plagues that were on Egypt
They were really all just God rebuking
One of the false Gods of Egypt
Their frog God
And I don't know the names
But all these different false Gods they had
And I mean Egypt
They basically had all these animal Gods
And they worshipped the Nile River
And everything like that
And yeah you know what
The Nile River made Egypt rich
It made it powerful
But it's like you know God put you beside that river
That river didn't create itself
Okay
You can think of God's people in the Old Testament
They worship a golden calf
Now where do you think they learned that practice from?
Probably from Egypt
Probably from the heathen cultures
I mean where in the Bible do you see
Hey you need to worship a golden calf
And so look this idea of worshipping these animals
Instead of the Creator
As Gods
Look this has been throughout history
And nothing's new
It's just here in the Philippines
It's not really like that
It's not like that in the US either
But around the world cultures are worshipping animals
And mother nature
And they're rejecting the God of the Bible
Verse number 26
For this cause or for this reason
For this cause because of this
God gave them up unto vile affections
What the Bible says is you know what
God saw this that they were rejecting him
And God said you know what
I'm gonna give you up to your vile or wicked
Or what?
Nacacadeary
Disgusting habits and affections
And things that you want
That's what the Bible is saying here
I'm gonna give you up unto those vile affections
These are people that are not good people
They have wrong desires
And they hate the rules of the Bible
So they choose to become bad people
And as a result they reject the God of the Bible
Now some of these people would claim to be Christians though
They would say they're Christians
But if you show them anything in the Bible
They don't agree with this or this or this or this
So they're just kind of pretending to be Christians
But they don't believe anything the Bible says
They hate the actual God of the Bible
For even their women did change the natural use
Into that which is against nature
You say what is that referring to in verse 26?
The Bible says the natural use
Into that which is against nature
What the Bible is saying is
I gave you natural desires
Not wicked desires
Not unnormal and weird desires
I gave you natural desires
But it says these women are doing things
That are against nature
Against what God naturally gave you a desire to do
You say what is that referring to?
Verse 27
And likewise also the men
Leaving the natural use of the woman
Burned in their lust one toward another
Men with men working that which is unseemly
What the Bible says here in verse 26 and verse 27
It talks about these men who are lusting after other men
And the Bible says that is against nature
It's not normal
You know what the Bible is trying to teach you?
Every single person in this world
Every single man is born with natural desires
This is how you're born through nature
This is what he gave you innately
And no guy naturally is attracted to another guy
You know you have these people that say I was born gay
No you weren't
Not according to the Bible
Because according to the Bible you have natural desires
And they're doing things that are against nature
There's not a single homo on the planet
That was born that way
Not a single one
See according to the Bible that is against nature
It's not normal
And look it doesn't matter if they tell you
I've always been this way
They're lying to you
These are people that are bad people
They have no problem lying to you
I remember there's this guy from the hometown
I grew up in Bridgeport, West Virginia
And this guy in elementary school was just a normal kid
Didn't think anything of it
And then just about like you know one year
Just the way he talked
The way he walked
Just everything was different
You know he just talked differently
He talked with this massive you know lisp and everything
He walked like a woman and everything
Just everything changed about him
And he claims
He was born that way
Now how is it that everybody knew you
For like a dozen years
And you were completely normal
Nobody would have suspected that you were a homo
And then all of a sudden boom you just act bizarre
And different and weird
Why? Because he wasn't born that way
He became that way
He chose to go that direction
But see according to God's word
This is against nature
It talks about the natural use
A single homo was actually born that way
Not a single one of them
They're not born that way
Why? Because God did not create you that way
God created men
Boys at a young age before they have that desire
But when they reach that age
They're going to start to desire and find women attractive
Not other boys
The same with women
They're created with a natural desire
And then they're going to reach an age where they're going to start finding guys attractive
They're not going to find women attractive
That is against nature
It's not the natural use
God did not create them that way
Not a single person was born that way
God created people
Normal, straight, okay
Notice what it says in verse
At the end of that verse of 27
And receiving in themselves
That recompense of their error
Which was meat
And what the Bible is saying is that look
These people they receive the wrath of God
And you can look at all the STDs that are out there
Look when people live lifestyles
When people live lifestyles like that
They don't live very long lives
When they live unclean and filthy lives
They get filled with a bunch of STDs
Whether it's AIDS or the other STDs that are out there
And generally these people
They will die in their 40s
They'll die at the age of 50
It says the wicked man should not live out half his days
According to the Bible
And these people generally live a very
Very short life
They don't live a long life
Because when you go against what God's word is
It's an unhealthy life
It's not just spiritually wicked
And spiritually filthy
It's physically filthy and it will kill you
Okay
Now turn in your Bible to Jeremiah chapter 6
Jeremiah chapter 6
I mean even if you look at
A sin like fornication
I remember a long time ago in a sermon I talked about
A basketball player by the name of Wilt
Chamberlain
He was the greatest athlete
In my opinion the last 100 years
Greatest athlete to ever live, Wilt Chamberlain
Just an amazing athlete, I mean he retires from basketball
He's the greatest volleyball player in the world
And he was like an expert at high jump and track and field
And all this stuff
And he wanted to fight Muhammad Ali
You know it's like man the thriller in Manila could have had
Muhammad Ali versus Wilt Chamberlain
And they were wondering could he actually win
Because he's fast, he's strong, he's tall and everything
Greatest athlete perhaps
The last 100 years
Or of all time once sports really became big
And this guy one thing he was very
Famous for was the fact
That he slept with you know he bragged
About sleeping with tens of thousands of women
I can't remember the exact number just some ridiculous
Amount that he bragged
With sleeping with all these women and everybody knew
That about Wilt Chamberlain he always bragged about that
How he just slept with like I don't know 20 women every
Single week a thousand women a year
Or whatever and he bragged and bragged
And bragged about it and what I talked about
In that article it was an article written by a doctor
If you remember this and it wasn't
My words but the doctor was going through all
The symptoms he had because he had heart attacks
At a young age he was having heart attacks
When he was in his late 20s and he was like the greatest
Athlete in the entire world it's like
How do you have a heart attack when you're the
Greatest athlete in the world at that age
And what the doctor said is
The only thing with the 20 different possibilities
Was it was probably an infection
Caused because he was fornicating
With a bunch of women and the doctor
Said it wasn't even a Christian doctor
At the end of the article he said the bottom line
Is this it proves that you know
Fornication has
A punishment or something like that he basically
Said the reason why and Wilt
Chamberlain died a long time ago
Died at a pretty young age for a really great athlete
Why did he die? Well according to that doctor
Because he slept with a lot of women
Why? That's filthy
It's not healthy when you live a
Sinful life there's going to be a
Punishment to that but how much more
If you're not just sleeping with women
As a guy but you're sleeping with guys
It's even more filthy and more
Disgusting I don't have the statistics in front of me
But you know the average
Homosexual sleeps with like
At least hundreds of people in their lifetime
It's like many of them like 25%
They sleep with multiple people
Every single week
I mean to them it's like no big deal they just
Go to bars pick up people it's very
Common in their lifestyle
Okay I've said this story
Before but I remember one time that
I was going running in West Virginia
And whenever I go running when I get to the last
Hundred yards I sprint the final bit
You know and I'm exhausted and I remember
I sprinted by this guy and like he
Said something to me just hello or something
I don't know and I would always have a habit
Of inviting people to church you know when I
Meet him in public I said hey you know
You should come to our church one time it's
Located here and everything and then
The guy's like oh yeah that's cool and then he said you know
Yeah and you know if you ever want to come by some night
Me and my roommate
This guy's like in his 40s
And it's very obvious like what he was saying
It's like I don't even know this guy
It's like I invited this guy to church
And he's pretty much asking you know
Hey if you want to hook up with me in my room
What is wrong with those people like what kind
Of a person would actually do that look there's
Plenty of people that have very similar
Stories I don't know if they act the same aggressively here
In the Philippines but in the US pretty much everyone
I know has stories like that and it's
Just like what in the world I
Mean a guy I mean and look if you're a guy
That does that to a girl that's disgusting
That's filthy a girl you don't even know
And you're asking her to come over to your bedroom
It's like you met her five seconds ago it's like what's wrong
With you it's like guys that do that
That's disgusting but you know what that is
Their lifestyle that's normal
To them and they receiving themselves that recompense
Of their error which was me so what does the Bible say
About these people we're gonna see a word here
In Jeremiah 6 and we'll go back to Romans 1
When it talks about this there's a word
That's not very common in today's world
In Jeremiah chapter
6 verse 30
Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 30
One thing we need to
Understand about the Bible
Is that the Bible defines
Itself it teaches
You what it's saying God does not want
To confuse you he wants you
To know what his words are he wants you
To understand all of it okay and what
It says in Jeremiah 6 verse 30 is this
Reprobate silver
Shall men call them
Because the Lord hath rejected
Them so reprobate
Silver and then it says the Lord
Hath rejected them so
The word reprobate means rejected
You can look it up in a dictionary it's gonna tell you the same thing
Reprobate means
Rejected what does reprobate silver
Mean well look when people mine
For silver and they find silver
It's not in the form
That it is later on they basically
They get silver but they also get a lot of
Bad materials in there that are useless
That have no value so
Basically if you mine and you get silver
90% of what you get
Is just like garbage like most of it's not even
Very good so they have a very long
Complicated process to basically
Burn off the dross burn off
The part that's useless that has no value
Because silver has a lot of value
Look if I gave you like this big bucket
Of silver it's gonna be worth some money
But look it's not gonna be worth a lot of money if there's only
A little bit of silver inside there's a bunch of rocks
And gravel and things like that so
There's a complicated process they go through
They basically burn off the part that's not
Good and what you would call that is basically
Reprobate silver because that's
The silver that has no value it's the part
That had absolutely no value that they got
Rid of okay it's rejected
Because you're not gonna try to sell a rock
And expect to make money off of it
Now you'll sell silver and make
Money so they have to burn off the part
That's bad and see what the Bible is saying
Is these people they were
Normal people at first but basically
God rejected them he said
You were normal you were part of this
But now you're rejected and I'm done with you
It says the Lord
Hath rejected them
Go back to Romans 1
The Lord hath rejected them
And so I want you to understand when we're talking about
These people in Romans 1 it talks
About these people when they're reprobate
That basically they're rejected by
God okay what you need to
Understand though when you're reading Romans 1
Is that these people already
Rejected God
They rejected God before
God rejected them we saw
That in Romans chapter 1 that they chose
To hate God's word they
Rejected God over and over
And over and over again and it can come
To the point where basically God says you know what
I'm done with you I'm gonna give you over to your lusts
Your vile affections it's like you
Everything that's said to them they hate God's
Word they blaspheme God's word and
God says you know what I'm done with you it's at the
Point where now I have rejected you
Now realize these
People Jesus died for them
And paid for all of their sins
And God loved
Them but it reached a point
Where they rejected God over and over
And over again and see the Bible speaks
About people where he says I will love you no more
That's what the Bible teaches because these people
Have rejected God so much
And now they hate the God of the
Bible and God says you know what it's reached a point
Where I've given you lots of chances see here's what
You need to understand God is the God
Of the second chance and the third chance
And the fourth chance it does not
Mean God is the God of the five
Thousandth chance okay
It's like you know and look when we give
The gospel to people that are unsaved they
Can hear the gospel over and over again and they can
Reject it but they can eventually get saved
But look that doesn't mean that they have a free pass their whole
Life that they can hear the gospel every single day and
Say I don't care I think that's ridiculous
That's foolish but then they'll always to the end
Of their life have that opportunity some people
Can reach a point where they no longer have
That opportunity now you might say brother
Stuckey I've never heard this before but
Let me explain something to you do you
Believe that God created somebody as a pedophile
Ask yourself that question
Do you believe God created somebody with the desire
To murder a bunch of people and be a serial killer
Who knows Jeffrey Dahmer he's the most famous
Serial killer in American history this is
A guy who murdered I don't know like
20 people or whatever and he became famous
Not just for killing them but because of
How he killed them and what he did now this guy
Was an open open homosexual
Most famous serial killer in American
History was an open homosexual and he
Was murdering other homosexuals
And you know he murdered these people and he
Kept their body parts okay that's
Why he became famous he had a lamp
Of their skin
Okay it's disgusting I'm not gonna say any more about that but that's
That's who Jeffrey Dahmer was that's why he became
Famous when he got caught all
Around his apartment it's just the most disgusting
Thing you could possibly imagine
He was a freak he was a weirdo
But do you believe God created him that way?
I don't
I believe God created that person with
Normal natural desires and look when you go down
That road of just sleeping with a bunch of guys
You're just gonna get more weird and more disgusting
And more filthy that's not normal
And God did not create Jeffrey Dahmer like that
God created him as a normal person
Who Jesus died for and he loved them
And he paid for their sins and we could have reached
That kid on the street when he was 10 years old
Given him the gospel he could have gotten
Saved but he never got saved
And he ended up hating the truth of God's
Word due to things that happened in his life
And then all of a sudden he eventually
Hated God and he became a serial
Killer and a wicked disgusting person
But I don't believe God created
Him that way now if you believe
God created people as pedophiles
And serial killers then hey
Go join Calvinism because that's what they teach
Okay that's not what we believe I
Believe God created people as normal people
And he died for all of their sins
And he loved them and he paid for their
Sins but people can choose to
Become bad people and God can eventually
Reject them okay
Let me explain to you a difference here
And we'll go through these verses here in a second
But look all of us we have you know
Various wrong desires and things
That we do that are wrong
Look lying is something that everybody's done
Is that not true every single person in this
World let God be true but every
Man a liar and
Every woman okay
Every man every woman
We've all lied and you know what
It's a natural thing that people do
It's wrong but kids at a young age
Will be dishonest to try to get out of trouble
Anyone who has kids knows that at a very young age
You don't have to teach kids to lie
They've learned that on their own
Just from birth okay they know that
You don't have to teach them to lie
There's certain wrong desires that kids will have
I mean a guy who's 20 years old
Or he's going to have natural desires
And he can think wrong thoughts or lust
After women that's a normal desire
It's wrong to do that but it's something that's
Normal but look having a desire
To kill people
That's not normal
That's weird and see the Bible says these people
Their minds are warped
They're gone it says their conscience is seared
With a hot iron so we have a conscience
Where there's certain things that
You would never do just for the
Fact that they're you know not just
Disgusting but you would feel guilty and
Wrong about it but it says they don't have
A conscience and they do things that no
Person would ever do
You look at the Catholic priests
And the things they do to these little kids
It's just like nobody would even have that normal
Desire that's not born into you
But they chose to reject God and hate
God's word and they became those
People okay and look
When we run into a lot of kids in the street
You know our church we give them the gospel
Obviously you know we don't just bring random kids
In here for safety purposes and
Many reasons but we give them the gospel
When we run into them on the streets
I love talking to 12 year olds on the street because
They're very receptive to the gospel
They often get saved and we love them we care about them
We would love to have them bring their parents
So they could come here for their services and be with us
But we try to give these kids
The gospel on the street but the reality is
If you see 20 kids here so
On Sunday 20 kids out and about
I promise you of those 20 people
Many of them have been molested before
You say why because
A large percentage of people have been molested
It's happening at churches it's happening at
Governmental institutions where there's too much
Trust and people are just throwing off
Their kids to people they don't know it happens
A lot and I'll tell you what when they're young
You can still reach them but in their
Heart especially if it happens
A lot they can choose to end up hating
God and rejecting God and whenever
You hear these stories about these people they say
Yeah you know what I remember I was
Molested when I was 8 years old and what happens
Is the person who's been molested ends up
Becoming a molester and I feel bad
For them when it happens at a young age but look
I don't feel sorry for someone who's currently
A pedophile I feel bad when
It happens at a young age and we need to reach them then
But when they become the pedophile
They become wicked evil people
That's the choice they made and look
They're rejected by God it's not normal to have
Those desires it says in
Romans 1 verse 28
And even
As they did not like to retain God in their
Knowledge so these people don't want to know the truth
They think about God's word and it says this
God gave them over to a
Reprobate mind remember
A rejected mind to do
Those things which are not convenient
So God says you know what basically with some
People you've reached the point
I'm done with you I don't want to have anything
To do with you anymore you're done
And yes he died for them he loved them
But you know what look realize this
People that are in hell
They're in hell because God does not love them
Anymore
Look you don't throw people
In hell that you love
And God loved all of
Those people one time but look when
He throws them in hell forever the Bible says
The wrath of God not the love of
God the wrath of
God abideth on them why
Because the reality is he doesn't love them anymore
He died for them he cared for
Them he paid for their sins but when they reach
That point God says you know what I
Don't love you anymore okay
Realize that can happen
It can happen before they die though
Now it's not common to happen but it does happen sometimes
Verse 29 notice the characteristics
Of these people
Being filled with all
Now notice this word filled okay
When it says they're filled
That means they're completely filled with these
Desires we're going to go over a lot of these things
Real quickly and most of these
Things are things that you and I
Could be guilty of it doesn't mean
That you're filled with these things
Okay it says being filled
With all unrighteousness
Fornication wickedness
Covetousness maliciousness
Now malicious means
Intending to do evil okay
Now is it true that sometimes
We do things that are wrong and evil and we
Harm people in some ways yeah
But you know we're not filled with it we're basically we desire
To harm people I mean there's
Something wrong with you if you desire to just harm
People and you enjoy it when people
Break their legs or people are crying out for
Cement there's something wrong with you
Okay look we're not filled with those
Desires but the Bible says you know what there's people that
Are filled with this okay being
Filled with these things it mentions covetousness
Now is it true
That all of us can be covetous from time
To time absolutely
But when you're filled with
Covetousness you know what that means if you
Could kill someone and get away with it
For a million dollars that you would do it
Now would you murder someone
For money if you could get away
With it you wouldn't do it I wouldn't
Do it these people would do it
Okay there's people that have no
Conscience because they're filled with covetousness
They'll do whatever they can to get all
This money they would be willing to kill for
Money if they wouldn't get
Caught see that's what you have to understand
Like in Sodom and Gomorrah or in
Judges 19 where every man does that
Which is right in his own eyes there's
Basically no law no authority
People can get away with whatever
And guess what the result is they
Do whatever they want and the
Weirdest chapters of the bible are from
Judges 17 to 21
The weirdest most disgusting
Things why because everyone did that which
Was right in his own eyes there was no king
There was no judgment there was no law and
Look if there was no law
It would be absolute chaos
Now look you need to realize this our government
Is not perfect no government
Is righteous or perfect but I want you to
Realize something our government's
Not righteous and perfect but you know it's
Better to have a government that's not
Perfect than basically no
Government at all look if you just
Had anarchy and no rules
And no government whatsoever
It would be it would be like judges
Chapter 17 through 21
That is what the world would be like and I
Understand we get mad at things the
Government says sometimes if there was
No government it would be
Judges 17 through 21 that's what
We see if it was anarchy because some
People say anarchy is a good thing
No government whatsoever if there's
No government and no rules
There's gonna be rapes
There's gonna be murders there's gonna be all these
Wicked things how do you know that that's what it
Says in judges everyone did that
Which is right in his own eyes it's better
To have rules that you don't always
Like like oh I gotta wear a mask
In public you know what it's better to have that rule
Than no government at all
It would be chaos in this world if there were
No rules whatsoever and look
Our governments are never gonna be perfect but if you
Have no rules if you have the anarchist
System you got the last five chapters
In the book of Judges and tell me that's
The world you want to live in the weirdest
Chapters in the Bible
Notice what it says being filled with all
And righteousness fornication wickedness
Covetous maliciousness so being
Filled with all and righteousness being filled
With all fornication being filled
With all wickedness being filled with all
Covetousness is it true that some
People fornicate which means
Sleep together before they're married
Yes that does take place
But the Bible says these people are filled with it
The Bible is saying these people
It's like you know several times a week
No big deal okay
It's not something where they just did something that was wrong
It's something that's just their lifestyle
They're just filled with those desires
Okay then it says
Full of envy is it
True we can be envious from time to time
Yeah it's true we can be envious
From time to time but look
When you're full of envy you're gonna be a bad person
Okay that's what these people are
Then it says murder
Full of murder
Now look I don't know about you
I've never killed anybody before
Okay I hope that you've never killed anybody
Now the Bible does say if you have hate
Without a cause you know toward your brother
You're guilty of murder in your heart
That's still in the heart though okay
It's like that's wrong but that's better than actually
Doing it these people are full of murder
The only reason
Why they don't kill a bunch of people
Is they're gonna get in trouble for it
That's the only reason why
I came to this realization three years ago
When I and I already knew this
I think it was four years ago
But it just kind of really drove home this point
I remember we were in Sacramento and there's the big Orlando protest
You know if you don't know about that
I'll tell you after the service I'll tell you all about it
But it's like you know we were protested
You know our church by like 500 sodomites
And I remember just
You know and there and there's about
25 policemen
It's interesting because all the 25 policemen
Were just kind of hanging out by the wall doing nothing
And they weren't even watching anything
That was taking place because they didn't want to take part in it
And a lot of the policemen had rainbow bracelets on
It's like this really makes me feel safe right
But I remember I just came to this realization
That the only reason why
These people don't do what they did in Genesis 19
Is because they might get caught
And be thrown in jail
That's the only reason why they didn't just murder all of us
That's what the Bible teaches
They're full of murder
That's what these people
Look at Genesis 19
We'll see that in the second sermon a little bit
They have those desires
It's disgusting, it's filthy
That is how they are
You say brother Stuckey, this doesn't logically make sense to me
It does not logically make sense to you
Because your conscience is not seared
It does not logically make sense to me either
This does not make sense to me
Because I have a conscience
I see a little child that gets hurt
And you know you're horrified
You know if your son falls
When you're a parent and your son falls
And hits his head
You're really scared
That's my normal desire but these people
They don't have that in their minds
Because their conscience is seared according to the Bible
They're full of envy, they're full of murder
They're full of debate
You say brother Stuckey, are you ever going to debate
All these false prophets?
No, okay
And if they're full of debate it makes me wonder about them
It's like maybe they're not just unsaved
Maybe they're just twice dead
Full of debate, full of deceit
Basically full of lies
Full of malignity
Whispers
Then it says backbiters
These are people that are basically a little bit of cheese me's
A little bit of gossip
Backbiters
And so you say brother Stuckey
I thought these people were nice people
All the homos I know, they act so friendly
And nice
They're fake
They're lying to you
They're not nice
On the inside they're bad people
I know people in the US that have worked with homos
And they act very friendly to people
When they're doing customer service and everything
And then right when they're gone
They're like the most evil wicked people
They say just really terrible things
And it's just like, they're just being fake
They're being phony
A lot of people are just lying to you
And they're full of deceit
Full of lies according to the Bible
Okay, then it says this
Haters of God
They hate God
You say but brother Stuckey
There's homosexual pastors out there
Okay
But they hate the God of the Bible though
I didn't say they don't believe there's a God
I said they hate the God of the Bible
Okay
They're haters of the God of the Bible
Even if they claim to be Christian
They don't like God's rules
They hate the God of the Bible
They're proud, think of gay pride
They're boasters
They're inventors of evil things
Whenever I think of inventors of evil things
I think during the dark ages
When the Roman Catholic Church killed
50 million people
And they didn't just stone them to death
Like the Bible says
They invented
Evil, disgusting, sick things
For how they murdered people
And look, I've mentioned it in other sermons
And look, you know what, you're welcome
If you want to check on Google
The methods they use, but it will horrify you
It pains you even to read about it
You're just thinking about the methods
They came up with, and here's the thing
I remember this thing
Inventors of evil things
I remember seeing this list of the 10
Biggest, most evil methods they used
To murder people
And there were only two of them I had ever heard of before
One was burning to death
Because that's something that
Obviously people have been burned to death
There's one other one
I can't remember what it was that I had heard of before
The other eight that I heard of
Not only had I never heard of it
I thought to myself, I wouldn't have even been able to invent that
It's like
Why would they even come up with these
Disgusting, wicked, perverted
Sick things, why? Because they're bad people
Okay, inventors of evil things
Disobedient to parents
Without understanding
Covenant breakers
Covenant breakers means they make promises
They keep them, they're covenant breakers
Without natural affection
So they don't have the natural affection
That we would have towards like
You see a baby that falls and hits their head
You're going to be scared for that child
They don't have natural affection
If somebody runs out and gets hit by a car out here
Our natural reaction is to be horrified
And we're scared for them
Right? They can go through
The motions and be like
But the reason why they're doing that
Is because they're trying to do what is socially acceptable
Not because they actually have affection
They're faking it
They're without natural affection
Implacable
Implacable basically means
They cannot be soothed
You cannot meet them halfway
If you say you give in to one thing
They're going to want more and more
And more and more and more
They're implacable
Unmerciful
You think of a child being molested
You think of the person who would do that
The child's crying out for help
They're unmerciful though
Unmerciful
Who knowing the judgments
Of God
So these are people that know what God says about this
They know the truth of God's word
Remember they hold it in unrighteousness
They consider God's word to be evil
They consider it wrong
They know the judgment of God
They know the Bible teaches hell
They know that what they're doing is wrong according to the Bible
But they consider that unrighteous
They know the judgment of God
That they which commit such things
Are worthy of death
Now, correct me if I'm wrong
But I thought everyone always said that it was just an Old Testament thing
Where the Bible says the penalty
For these people is a death penalty
Now look, this is not the law of our country
And we're not going to put this into place
Because that is the government's job
To do whatever they want
To whatever crimes
They make the choices to what you do to a drug dealer
Or a murderer
Those choices
We don't fight a physical battle
We fight a spiritual battle
We're not trying to bring in the kingdom
That's Jesus' job
He's going to bring it in once the world becomes so wicked
But I want you to realize this
It doesn't change what they're worthy of according to the Bible
God did not change his opinion of it
Just because the world changed their opinion
It says they're worthy of death
But notice this
Not only do the same
Not only do they do these things
That do them
Not only do they take an enjoyment of
Killing someone
They take pleasure when somebody else kills someone
I mean you'd be horrified if you picked up the paper
And saw that a thousand people got murdered yesterday
Here in passing, wouldn't you?
They would like that though
Why? They not only do the same
But they have pleasure in them that do them
They want people to do the same things that they do
Why? Because they want people to justify their actions
If they're doing something wicked
You want somebody else to be doing it as well
If they're doing something wicked lifestyles
They want other people to do the same thing
An example I know this was when I worked in the US
I worked as a math teacher in the US
And I remember I was at an event
And it was like a school function
They were reaching out to the community
And our school was very very
LGBT friendly
They had programs at the school and everything
That's a large reason why I really didn't like the job because of that
But I remember seeing this
This woman in the crowd
Okay, I'm using that term very loosely
This woman, this lady in the crowd
Okay
I remember seeing this woman in the crowd
And she had a shirt on
And the shirt had
A rainbow on it
Six colored rainbow as opposed to the
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Ask my son, he'll tell you the rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
A lot of people haven't figured that out
It's not blue purple, it's blue, indigo, violet
But this shirt had six colors, right?
The symbol of the sodomites
One word on it
Recruiter
Now what do you think that's saying?
It's saying she wants to
Recruit people to be sodomites
Now here's the thing about this
According to the Bible in verse 32
And look, when I saw that shirt
Because I can't do anything, I work, you know, for the school
It's like, I can't say anything or whatever
But on the inside, I was so angry
But you know, she was just
Actually being honest with what the Bible says
In Romans 1 verse 32
Because what the Bible says is they have pleasure
In them that do them
These people, they want the whole world
To become a bunch of sodomites
They don't want it to be just 2%
They want it to be 20%, 30, 40, 50
They want everybody to hate God
They want everybody to go down that road
That's the only time I've ever seen that shirt
But one word, recruiter
I was so angry because what she was saying is
I have a goal to recruit you to being a sodomite
And it's just like, you know, at least
She was being honest
With what she actually said and what she actually believed
But let me say this in closing
Because look, we're just going verse by verse through Romans
This wasn't really a planned sermon
Because I know I've talked about this recently
But here's what I want you to understand
God did not create people that way though
God created those people
With normal desires
Look, you know, we have many people that are married in this room
You know, many guys, many husbands in this room
And guess what? You have always
From a young age just found women attractive
You didn't find guys attractive
You didn't find animals attractive
You didn't find little kids attractive
Okay? And it's like, you know what?
These people though
They aren't like that
It's like they were born
Just like you were and yet
They changed
And you know, this is how they're trying to justify
Pedophilia now because I personally
Think that pedophilia
Is the worst possible sin you can think of
Far worse than murder
In my opinion, I think it's the worst thing
To even think of
But you know, what they're trying to justify that now
Is they say that well, a pedophile is not much different than you
I mean, when you were 12 years old as a guy
You found 12 year old girls attractive
The only difference is
As you got older, you started to find older women attractive
And they just
Kept finding 12 year olds attractive
So when they're 20, 30, 40, 50
60, 70
So they're not much different than you
I mean, you found 12 year olds attractive 20 years ago
Look, that's weird
That's disgusting, but you know
Our world is trying to
Justify pedophilia
And you know, you might say there's no way that would ever happen
Look, you know, that's what you could have used to say about
Homosexuality
Because the world thought this was disgusting
And weird and perverted
The world had rejected that lifestyle
For most of history
And yet in the last
20 years
I mean, obviously I was in the US 20 years ago
But you guys have told me
It wasn't like this at all
Now just 20 years later
Man, the world's changing
It's really hard to see what the world's going to be like in 20 years
And let me tell you something
The only way to break your cycle from being brainwashed by the world
Is to renew your mind with God's word
Which means you put off the TV
And distractions that the world has to offer
You read this book
You hear good preaching
You memorize God's word
Because otherwise, even as a saved person
You will end up getting brainwashed
By the world
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here today
And just getting to see your word
And we love all of your word
Every single verse, every single word is great
And there are things in the Bible that are not the most pleasant
To talk about
They're not the most pleasant to preach about
Or to think about
But unfortunately, due to the world we live in
We must preach on these things
We must talk about these things
This is the world we live in
And help all of us at our church
Not to be brainwashed by the world, God
But to be renewed by your word
And we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen