So we're starting a new Bible study, the book of Romans, and the gospel or the book
of Romans here is a really famous epistle by the apostle Paul.
In fact, it's the first one that we find in the Bible as far as epistles of Paul.
You could argue it's the greatest epistle that Paul has written because of where
it's at, its usage.
In fact, a lot of times in different countries, people will only print a John and Romans, and
that's the only two books of the Bible that a lot of people have in their particular language.
We even have some Spanish John and Romans that we've handed out and that we've published.
The book of Romans is definitely a very iconic book.
It's a very popular book.
It's very famous.
A lot of things that are really important about the book of Romans is just how it defines
salvation in such specific terms and kind of gives a really doctrinal view of salvation
and makes a lot of plain and clear statements.
That's where we get the famous Romans Road, and Romans Road is just kind of a colloquialism
that we use to describe going through different portions of the book of Romans to give the
gospel and how it's very systematic, it's very clear, it kind of seems to stair step.
One thing about the book of Romans is it kind of seems to lay a foundation upon which
it continually builds and it continually grows.
I think the book of Romans is one that many people are very familiar with, a lot
of people have memorized.
In fact, this is a book of the Bible where I've memorized a lot of the chapters
of the Bible just because it's really famous and it's really great to learn a lot of
doctrine.
It teaches a lot of different things from the Bible.
I love the book of Romans, it's probably one of my favorite books in the Bible, I really
appreciate it.
And chapter one is a really famous chapter as well, and there's a lot of different
views that kind of get confused with chapter one, and so I think it's important that
as we go through the book of Romans and as we go through chapter one, that I kind
of more try to identify the high level or the big picture of this particular chapter,
rather than necessarily getting really nitty gritty on every single verse, but rather
kind of what is the essence of chapter one as a whole.
Do you mind just turning me down just a hair, it just seems a little bit internally
loud.
But here in verse number one the Bible says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called
to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised aforeby
his prophets in the holy scriptures.
The Bible says that, you know, about itself, it says that God had promised afore, meaning
before, he had promised what?
The gospel by his prophets in the holy scriptures.
So the gospel is not limited to the New Testament, but rather it was preached before.
It was preached afore in the holy scriptures, and of course we understand that the gospel
is an eternal gospel.
It's always been promised.
You can think of passages like Titus chapter one, verse two, and hope of eternal life,
which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.
So in fact the gospel, the hope of eternal life, the promises of eternal life, existed
before creation, before anything ever existed, because it's the everlasting gospel.
And of course throughout the Old Testament the gospel was preached, and of course in
the New Testament the gospel is preached, and everything is about the gospel.
Everything is about the Lord Jesus Christ, his death, his burial, his resurrection.
Everything centers around the gospel.
Everything in creation pictures the gospel.
Everything in this world is about the gospel.
And so we don't want to get this weird dispensational view that tries to change
the gospel and every other, quote, dispensation.
I mean there are people out there, preachers out there, fundamental Baptists, so-called,
that are hyper-dispensationalists, and they'll claim that in the Old Testament
to be saved you had to follow the commandments.
In the New Testament you have grace, but coming in the future with the Antichrist system,
again it's like a workspace salvation, you return to some kind of a pseudo-gospel.
Look people that believe this just must not be saved, because it's the everlasting gospel,
it's the eternal gospel, and to deny that is really just to deny the Bible itself.
We understand that the Apostle Paul is separated from the gospel of God, and he's saying
he already promised this, he already told us everything we need to know about this
in his prophets, okay?
Now it says in verse 3, concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the son of God with power
according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
Now it's really interesting how Paul words things here, and of course we understand this
is ultimately God's word, the Holy Ghost is speaking through him, but notice he puts
in a lot of caveats, and I think he has to put a lot of caveats in just because
of the gainsayer, and because of the atheists, and the scorner, and the mockers, but
notice it says that he was made of the seed of David, and then it puts this caveat,
or it puts this specificity according to the flesh, because we understand that while
Jesus Christ is of the direct lineage of David physically speaking, he's not really
his son in the sense that he's the son of God, and we understand that the person
inside is really God manifested in the flesh, albeit his flesh itself is that of David.
It is truly of man, and so we understand that when he's talking about being made here,
he's not talking about the origin of Jesus Christ. He's not talking about the beginning
of Jesus Christ. No, Jesus Christ was already in existence before Mary even existed,
before David even existed, before David and Abraham, I am. So we understand that
Jesus Christ, he was made flesh, he was manifest in the flesh, he became flesh, but
he already existed. So we understand this sentence is really clarifying, yeah, he was
made of the seed of David according to the flesh, but he was also declared to be the
son of God with power by two things, as it says, the spirit of holiness, number
one, and number two, from the resurrection from the dead. This is an important point
because without the resurrection from the dead, he would have not been the son of
God. For him to be the son of God, for him to be the holy one, for him to be the chosen
one, he would have had to risen from the dead. Hey, many people have died and gone
to hell, but only one's risen from the dead, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay,
so that's a huge important point of the gospel itself. To deny the resurrection
is to deny the gospel, is to deny Jesus Christ, and of course, the Bible is saying
it declared him. It made it abundantly clear who the son of God is because he rose
from the dead. That's why the resurrection is so important. Verse 5, by whom, talking
of Jesus, we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations
for his name, among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ. To all that
be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I do have it written in my notes correctly
this time, but verses 1 through 7 are actually the first sentence. This is the salutation
of Paul, and notice he writes some big sentences, doesn't he? But he noticed a couple
things about the fact that he, he says he talks about he received grace. Of course, everyone
received grace. Everyone needs grace because we're all sinners, but he's also been given
a gift, apostleship. Apostleship was given to the apostle Paul. Why is apostleship
given to Paul? Well, notice, for obedience to the faith among all nations. There's
a reason why the men were chosen to be apostles. It was because God knew that they were
going to be obedient under the Great Commission, and they were going to go out and to
teach all nations, and that they were going to baptize, and that they were going to teach
all things whatsoever Christ had commanded them. And so that's the reason why God chose
these men to be apostles is because of the obedience that they were going to have
among all nations for His name. Notice, again, for His name. We never have a
story of the apostles stealing the glory for themselves, do we? And yet that would
have been a temptation for many men. Many men would have probably failed that whenever
they were able to do special miracles, when they're going into islands and people
are worshipping them as gods. People are bestowing all kinds of gifts unto them,
yet these men never wanted to take such glory and honor for themselves, but rather
were willing to always give it to the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's another reason
why I believe that God chose these men is because they were humble men willing to always
give God the glory. Judas is not one that is like such, and so Judas trying to get some
kind of payment for himself ended up failing and hanging himself and being the disgrace
that he is. But the men that were the true apostles and survived Judas, they are
not self-seeking. They're not glorifying themselves. You know, one thing about every
single apostle, every single disciple, is none of them signed up. God always called
them. God always hand-picked them. And in fact, in many cases, they didn't even want
to do it. They were resistant to even doing it. And, you know, that's just to show
the humility and the humbleness of these men and the calling. Notice what it said
in verse 1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle. What is it
to be called? Well, if you think about it this way, if your wife says, honey, I called
you, what does that mean? She's the one that picked up the phone and dialed you
first, isn't she? If you say, I called you, what does that mean? I picked up the
phone and I dialed you first. To be called is not to call them, right? Or in the
sense that, you know, if Jesus Christ is calling you, you didn't call him first,
he called you first, okay? And that's what the Bible is really painting a picture
for, is the offices and the positions of God are often through the calling of
God first. What is the calling of God? It's when God is asking you to do
something, when God is wanting you to do something. Of course, for apostles, they
were all called by Jesus himself. It was not through another mediator. But other
offices in the Bible are done through the mediator of another man of God. We
see the Apostle Paul calling Timothy in the office. We see Titus being called in
office. We see Timothy and Titus calling other men into the office of God. But
don't be confused about the calling. What is the calling? It's when men of
God ask you to fit a certain role, that is the calling of God. And that's
when you have the opportunity to step forward. But we have so many ministers
today that say, oh yeah, God called me and I was supposed to be such and such.
And it's like, oh yeah, when did your phone ring? How did he call you?
Or young men in an audience today are 18 years old and they'll be in a
fundamental Baptist church and say, I've been called to be a pastor. It's like, are you the
husband of one wife? Do you have faithful children? Who's calling you?
And again, I'm not against young men or young women deciding they want to
serve God for the rest of their life, but that was called baptism. Did you
realize that's called baptism? That you want to walk in newness of life and serve God with
your life? But you know the specific calling you have, that's different than
just volunteering and signing up what to do. You don't get to decide that. The true
calling of God. Now, he says later in this, this is a little bit different
context, but it's the same word, verse 7, called to be saints. What does that mean?
Well, Jesus Christ died on the cross and since he was lifted up, he's
calling all men unto him to what? Get saved. So here's the thing, everybody has at least
that calling. Everyone's called to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and to
be saved, but a lot of people don't answer that call, do they? They let it go
to voicemail or they disconnect the phone or whatever, but you know what?
God wants us all to be called to be saints and to be baptized and to be
Baptist, right? And to go out and to preach the gospel. We're all called to
be evangelists. We're all called to preach the gospel, which ultimately is
the highest calling, is to be a soul winner and to preach the gospel.
That's the most important thing that you could ever be called to and you
know every single person, man, boy, woman, child, all of us are called to do such
things. All of us. And notice that he said, to all that be in Rome. How many
people is Paul saying that this calling applies to? To all that be in
Rome. Beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you. Hey, everyone's
called to be a saint. And peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now he says in verse 8, first I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Of course the
Apostle Paul is primarily still addressing the Christians and those who
are saved and in this church which is in Rome, but we understand that this
this group, these Christians, are actually pretty famous. They're actually
worldwide famous. Now it kind of makes sense a little bit if you think about
this because what is Rome? Rome is the kind of the capital, it's the seat of
power. And what is the Rome Roman system in the Bible? Well it's one of
the Antichrist systems. It's one of the beast systems. It's one of those
foreshadowings in the book of Daniel, the Empire of Rome. And what's the
epicenter? What's the the seat of power? It's Rome itself. So you could
almost liken this into the spiritual Babylon of their day. They're living in
the city-state. They're living in the main epicenter of Babylon itself. And we
know through history that especially Rome and Roman Caesars were some of the
worst to persecute Christians. Some of the worst tribulations, some of the
worst affliction, the most evil ever done. It's clearly a seat of power for
the devil and for his Antichrist system. And so of course a church in
Rome is probably not going to be the most peaceful church. It's probably going
to be one that has a lot of trials, a lot of temptations. And because of
that, notice it says in verse 8 that your faith is spoken of throughout the
whole world. Notice because of the trials, temptations, the difficulties,
whatever they've gone through, and them having to persevere
through faith, it's caused their faith to be heard about throughout the whole
world. And you know what? There's churches like that today where their
faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. And where other do you think they
would be found than Babylon itself? And in the biggest places of power, the
biggest battles, the areas where there's spiritual wickedness in high places, of
course those churches are going to experience the greatest battles, the
greatest trials, the greatest tribulations. But you know what happens as a result of
that? Their faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. And you know what they
can do is they can motivate the entire world no matter where they're at. You
could be in some small area or some big area, it doesn't matter, but everyone
could hear about your faith when you're willing to serve God. Just like
the Bible itself. The Bible is a bunch of stories of people who had great
faith and facing great opposition. We don't really read a lot of stories
about the people living in peaceful Baptist church. No, usually it's like, and
then they had peace for 40 years. All right, next sentence. I mean, it was just like, it was over like
that. What do we read about? We read about people being thrown in the lion's den. We read about people
thrown in the fiery furnace. We read about people swallowed by a whale. We read about people being
encompassed with armies about, I mean, we read about Goliath defying the armies of Israel.
I mean, that's what we read about. That's what we hear about. That's the
faith that we hear about, isn't it, in the Bible? It's no different than today that the
people that are going through the greatest trials and tribulations for the Lord
Jesus Christ are going to be the ones whose faith is spoken of throughout the world. Don't be discouraged when you have
trials and tribulations, but rather rejoice that you've been counted worthy to suffer for His
namesake and to be counted worthy to see what your faith is really like. To have an
opportunity to change the world for Jesus Christ. In fact, I know people that
go to other churches of ours and they told me, hey, I got saved because I
heard of a pastor being thrown out of or deported or blocked from entering foreign
countries. And they was like, why is this? And it was because he was against
homosexuality and because of his preaching on homosexuality, it caused him to get
banned from certain countries, which caused people to end up hearing the gospel and getting
saved and getting plugged in and becoming a fundamental Baptist. Why? Because the
faith was spoken of throughout the whole world. And you know what? We should not be
discouraged when evil or bad things happen because it's an opportunity for
people to hear about the gospel. You could almost argue there's no such thing as bad press.
Now it says in verse 9, For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit and the gospel of His Son, that
without ceasing I may mention of you always in my prayers, making your quest,
if by any means now length, I might have a prosperous journey, by the will of God,
to come unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some
spiritual gift, to the end you may be established, that is, that I may be
comforted together with you by the mutual faith, both of you and me. So the
Apostle Paul really wants to see them, and of course what does he want to do?
He wants to give them a spiritual gift. What's the goal? The end, meaning the goal, is
that they could be established. So of course this church, while they're doing
good, they have faith, their faith is strong, it's good to be established in
something. And established is basically being even more tied to the
foundation, more concrete, more steadfast. When something
becomes established, you can think of King Solomon. King Solomon comes into the
power. And he's the king. It's not that he's not the king, it's definitely
legitimate, but at the very beginning it's a little bit uncertain, just
because right before this, Adonijah had already done like a coup, and tried to
kind of draw the kingdom after him. And so there could be a little bit of
uncertainty there, people are uneasy, not everybody's bought in, not everybody's
on board fully. But after Solomon ends up showing great wisdom by dividing who
is the right mother between two harlots, and then after he ends up
destroying some of David's past enemies, the Bible says then the
kingdom was established in his hand. So what does that mean? Now there's
nothing stopping him from being the rightful king and leading and
everybody's bought in, everybody's on board. So you could look at this as
like a church. Sometimes churches are there and they're thriving, or they're
doing good, but they're not quite established yet. Maybe they
just don't have the right leadership yet, or maybe their
leadership isn't necessarily as strong yet. Maybe the people there, they're kind
of half in, half out. They're showing up, but they're not
really dedicated yet. And so to be established is saying, hey, the
leadership's good, people are bought in, everything, you're not lacking anything,
that's what he's wanting to do for this church. And so it's important that
churches become established, that churches aren't just here one minute and gone the
next, that they're not weak, that they're not about to just fail, but
rather they become established. And you know what, that takes great church
members too. It's not just a pastor, it's not just one leader. It takes the whole
group, it takes the whole congregation to buy in, to get plugged in, to be
dedicated, to say, hey, this is my church, I'm plugged in, I'm going to
show up, I'm part of the team, as opposed to just like, well, I'll give it
one more chance, you know. Let's see what the next Bible series is like, let's see
if it's nicer. Oh, Romans, that sounds nice. Romans 1, okay. Yeah, as opposed to
someone's like, I can't wait to hear Romans 16. I'm here for all 16
chapters. I don't care how mad Pastor Shelley gets in any of the other
chapters. I don't care how ugly it gets. I don't care, you know, I just, I'm
already bought in. In fact, I'm looking forward to the next book of the Bible
that we go to, because you know what, I'm already, I'm just here. And so that's
what he wants for this church, to have this spiritual gift, and that they'd
be established, and then he'd be comforted together with them, and
vice-versa. Like, meaning him coming, they're really comforted, and them
showing up the church, he's really comforted. You know, I could show up the
church, and none of y'all are here, that wouldn't really comfort me. You know,
wouldn't really make me feel any better. It makes us both feel better when we
both show up, when we're both wanting to serve God together, and that's what
he's trying to say here. Verse 13, Now I would not have you ignorant,
brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, but was let hitherto,
that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I
am dead of both of the Greeks and of the barbarians, both of the wise and of
the unwise. So as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you
that are Rome also. A couple notes. Verse 13, He had tried to come to them many
times before, and notice what the Bible says, but was led hitherto, meaning
he wasn't able, there was something that happened, something that stopped him.
And you know what I like about this verse, is it tells us that sometimes God
is not going to allow our path to always be super easy. But that doesn't,
that shouldn't discourage you from still trying to go down that path. I think
there's this over-the-top view that if it's God's will, everything's just
going to be perfect. And you know, to some degree that's true, right? We
pray that God will open doors, and we pray that God will close the right
doors, and open the right doors, and that God will lead us, and that things
will go smoothly. But let's just be real about life, and let's be real
about the Bible. Not everything's a smooth journey, and not every time does
God allow it to happen the first time. I mean, think about how many battles
God put people in, and they didn't even win the first time. Or they show up at
Jericho, it wasn't like the first time they showed up the walls fell down. They
have to march around this thing seven days, and then on the seventh day
they don't even get, they have to march on seven more times. I mean,
that's, that's a lot of work. You could think about certain battles when
they have to fight the Benjamites, who loved the sons of Belial. They lose
the first two battles. I mean, that would have been pretty frustrating to have
lost the first two battles. And let me tell you something. Sometimes in serving God, you're
going to lose a couple battles. The thing that God wants you to accomplish,
you may not get the right the first time. You know, if you say, hey, I'm going to go
out and give the gospel, I'm ready. Well, the first door you knock on, you're
probably not gonna get someone saved, okay? The second one, probably not
either. Even the first person you talk to, they may not even be that
interested. But you know what? You go through all the, the trash, and you go
through all the dead doors, and you go through all the people that aren't
interested, just to get to that one that is. You say, hey, I was trying to get
you, but you know, I had to go through all these bad doors first. I had to go
through all these obstacles first to get here, to give you the gospel, and to
get you saved. You know, how about getting married? The first person you try to
date might not be your spouse. You might have to try another one. And then, but
you know what? You only have to get married once, alright? You know,
there's a lot of things in your life that you might not just get
immediately. You might have to put a little bit of effort into, but you know
what? That's what, that's what Christians should be, is steadfast. Why do
you think, why would it be steadfast if everything was perfect and easy every
time, and there was no problems? You wouldn't need to be steadfast. It's just
an easy slide downhill. But you know what? Oftentimes, it's climbing uphill, is the
real Christian life. And you know, you have to be steadfast to get all the
way to the top. He says in verse 14, I'm deader both of the Greeks and the
barbarians. Interesting point for me, and I want to look at a couple verses
here, and I am gonna get to the end of this chapter, but go to Acts chapter 14,
go to Acts chapter 14 for a moment. There's this stupid idea that I heard,
and I don't know how widespread this is, I hope it's only the idiot
that I heard say this, but there's this stupid idea out there that the
book of Romans was possibly written in Latin. And it's just so bizarre to
me, but you know, verses like this wouldn't really stick out, but I hear
this stupid idea of a preacher, and I just want to at least expose that, how
kind of stupid that is. You know, if you know anything about history, you
would laugh after me saying that statement. But most of us don't know a
lot of history, so we wouldn't realize that. But let me tell you this, the
Bible actually already gives you that kind of history anyway. Now, notice what
it said in Romans chapter 1 to the Greeks. Now, do you think Greeks are Latin,
or do you think that they're Greek? Which one do you think that they are?
Well, let me tell you a little secret about the Bible. You know, almost every
time in the New Testament it mentions Gentile, it actually just means Greek, and
it's just saying Gentile, because they're pretty much synonymous. At this
time in history, virtually a Gentile and a Greek means the exact same thing.
Why? Because the Greek Empire had conquered the whole world, and you
know what it did? It made everyone Greek. Now, just because the Romans had taken
over, it didn't change the culture like that. Imagine if China just walked up
through Mexico and took over all of Texas tomorrow, okay? Are you now all
Chinese? No, you'd be Texan, and you would still speak English, wouldn't
you? Okay, and that's no different than when the Roman Empire takes over
the whole world. Well, here's a fact. Everyone's still Greek, though, and they
weren't going to just change like that. They weren't going to just change on a
dime, because guess what? All of their signs, all of their business, all of their
literature, all of their books, all of their family, all of the people that
aren't even educated, they all speak Greek. So to change that overnight is
impossible. Even if you started taking people aside and said, stop speaking
Greek, they wouldn't do it. Everyone's just going to still speak Greek, okay? So
it's really, really hard to change culture overnight. You know, it takes a
very long time, and you have to typically have a really specific plant
in the commerce or the literature or the school. I mean, without that, you're
not going to change the language. You're not going to change the culture whatsoever.
Culture is going to go on without you. It's going to keep marching and beating its drum.
But look what it says in Acts, chapter 14, verse 1.
And it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of the
Jews and also of the Greeks believed. Now, I'll give you this. Obviously, when they
first, we talk about the churches and where Paul's going, he's going into Asia,
which is primarily a Greek area. But notice that when it contrasts the two
groups of people that exist, there's just Jews and then there's just what?
Greeks. Let's go really fast. Go to chapter 17, look at verse 4.
And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas, and of the
devout Greeks, a great multitude, and of the chief women, not a few. So notice
who's the primary majority here? Greeks. Look at verse 12.
Therefore, many of them believed also of honorable women, which were Greeks, and
of men, not a few. So notice it's talking about lots of Greeks. Go to
chapter 18, look at verse 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every
Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. Notice that it's contrasting the
two groups of people that exist, the Greeks. Look at verse 17. The Bible
says, then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat, and Galileo cared for
none of those things. So notice when it's talking about all the people, who are they
called? Greeks. Look at chapter 19 verse 10. Chapter 19 verse 10. And this
continued by the space of two years, so that all they which dwelled in Asia
heard the word of the Lord Jesus. So now the Bible's just going to tell us,
everybody that lives in Asia, we're not talking about one city here. We're
talking about a whole continent of people, okay? All the people in Asia
heard the word of the Lord Jesus. Both Jews and who? Greeks. Okay, now let's
go, if you would, to chapter 20 for a moment. Go to chapter 20 and look at
verse 21. Chapter 20, look at verse 21. Testifying both to the Jews and
also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ. So notice, when we're talking about the two groups, we're talking
about Jews and Greeks. Look at chapter 21, look at verse 37. And I'm not even
showing you every place here. I'm going to a handful. Acts chapter 21,
look at verse 37. And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said to the
chief captain, may I speak unto thee, who said, canst thou speak Greek? Notice he was
really interested that Paul can speak a specific language. What is that language?
Greek. Now let me, you say, why were the epistles written in Greek? Hmm, I
wonder. I wonder since every single person that's getting saved speaks
Greek, why the epistles were written in Greek? Maybe it's because God wanted
to get those people saved. Maybe it's because they were starting churches
and he's trying to teach a bunch of Greeks how to have church. So it makes
sense that the New Testament would be written in what? Greek. Okay, that's why
it's just constantly hammering. Greek, Greek, Greek. Go to 1st Corinthians
chapter 1. Let's go all the way over there for a moment. Of course, Corinth is in
this area, so it makes sense that we're talking about Greeks again. But
I just want to make it abundantly clear what the Bible says about
itself. Look at 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 22. For the Jews require a
sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified under the
Jews a stumbling block and under the Greeks foolishness. But unto them which
are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
God. Now why would the Apostle Paul be limiting the gospel to Jews and Greeks
when the vast majority of the population is Latin and speaking Latin?
Explain that to me again. Or is it because the vast majority of human
population is Greek and speaks Greek? Of course, you study history. Aramaic was
another important language at this time, which is really just a kind of a
shift from Hebrew, okay? I've heard it said, I don't speak either of those
languages, but I've heard it said it's almost more closely related than
Spanish and Portuguese, which anybody that knows Spanish and Portuguese, often
those people could even communicate to some degree without even trying. And if
you gave them a couple weeks, they could probably figure out most of their
differences if needed, because it's basically just a divergence of the same
base root language. It's just Portuguese has terrible pronunciation, okay? That's
that's the big difference between the two. And again, the same is with Aramaic and
Hebrew in the sense that they're basically kind of the same root, and
they're just a little bit divergent, but they're basically, you know, for the most
part, the same. And many people are probably going to be able to speak both
of those if they speak one of them. So you kind of have the Jews, where you
have Aramaic and Hebrew, and then you have the Greeks, which speak Greek, okay?
They say, what about Latin? Yeah, of course Latin was used for the
government, was used for the military, was probably used in some business
contracts and things like that, but for the most part, the culture in the
world is speaking Greek, because that is what the vast majority of the
population is, is it's Greek, okay? Go back to Romans, chapter number one. Now think
about this. If there was a place, though, that was pretty much predominantly
Latin speaking, it probably would have been the capital. It probably would have
been Rome, but think about how the Apostle Paul is addressing those at Rome.
He says in verse number 14, I am deader both to the Greeks and to the
barbarians, both to the wise and the unwise. Doesn't that sound like the
exact same state we read in 1st Corinthians? It sounds like he doesn't
look at the Corinth church as being really any different than the Roman
church, does he? As being basically the same. Why? Because Greek is pretty much
synonymous with Gentile, okay? Look what it says in verse number 15. So as
much as in me as I am ready to preach the gospel to you that at Rome also,
for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the
Greek. Explain to me why he would even say that if this is a bunch of Latin
people only speaking Latin. The gospel is for those in Mexico and Canada. I
want you guys in Texas to know that. That's who the gospel's for. You're like,
what about us? Right? I mean, wouldn't you wonder? Like, the gospel is only for
Mexicans and it's only for Canadians. You're like, you know, there's some of us
that would actually that apply to. But for the rest of us, we're kind of like,
well, I feel left out now, right? I mean, that wouldn't even make any sense. But
if he's saying, hey, the gospel is for everyone, the gospel for the
Gentile, which is what Greek means, then of course we understand that these
people were still probably speaking Greek and are of Greek culture. What? That's
what the Bible says. So, you know, it wouldn't even matter to me what some
secular textbook or what some Jew wrote, Josephus or something, because guess
what? I believe the Bible over that anyways and this is pretty much
telling me that the culture at this time was Greek. For someone to get up
and say the epistle of Romans was written in Latin, it's like they don't
even believe the Bible or they're just so stupid they didn't read or study
any of it, which I don't know which one you want to pick, but neither is
good, okay? So let's let's understand. That's learning a little bit of
history without even having to go to a history book, isn't it? The Bible is
just our history book and it's telling us, hey, these people are Greek, folks, okay?
It makes us understand why the Bible was given in Greek in the New Testament.
Also notice that the Apostle Paul's not ashamed of the gospel. He's gonna
preach it to anyone, to a Jew first, and then he's also preaching to the
Greeks. And of course that was his method, wasn't it? Pretty much every
time he walked into a city, didn't he go to the synagogue first? Pretty much
preaching to the Jews, reasoning with them out of
the Hebrew Scriptures, but after they blasphemed and didn't want to get saved
and he was beating his head against the wall, he was just like, all right, fine,
I'll just preach to the Greek population around here. And they
would always get saved, wouldn't they? He was seeing there was a disparity
between these two groups and the Greeks were really interested in getting saved, but
the Jews really weren't that interested in getting saved. Very few
Jews even got saved. Very few of them were interested in hearing the gospel.
Most of the people getting saved were Greek or were the Gentiles. And the
Apostle Paul is saying in verse 17, for therein, meaning what? What he just said,
is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written,
the just shall live by faith. So according to the Bible, how does someone
get saved? How is the righteousness of God revealed? How is it revealed? From
faith to faith. So notice there's something required for the
righteousness of God to be revealed. It's faith. Now, again, I'm not against
handing unsaved people Bibles, tracts, film, video, anything, but something has to
explain it to them. It's called faith. That's why we believe in soul winning. That's
why we believe it's necessary for a gospel preacher to explain to an unsaved person
how to get saved. Because the gospel goes from faith to faith. And we need someone
that's saved that already has faith to explain it to someone that does not already have
that faith. That is not already saved. Because the natural man doesn't understand
the things of God. They're foolishness unto him. And we see it even mentioned
in the Bible, the Ethiopian eunuch. He's like, understand is what thou readest. How can I?
How can I? That's a great question. How can I? Except some man should
guide me. How can I? Except some faith should explain it to me and give me faith.
Why? By preaching the Bible and by me hearing and by hearing I get faith. That's what Romans
chapter 10 very clearly tells us, isn't it? So we see the model. We see the picture.
Look at, go to Romans chapter 10 for a moment. Go to Romans 10, and I'm not going
to spoil that chapter yet, but I just want to point out a few verses. Look what it
says in verse 3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness. So Romans 10 is
about something specifically. It's about God's righteousness. What was Romans 1 talking
about? The righteousness of God being revealed. Okay? How is it revealed? How is it exposed?
How is it made obvious? What does revealed mean? To make obvious, to make clear. Who's
going to make the gospel more clear than a soul winner? I mean, there's no better
method. There's no method that will make it clearer. And in fact, how many of you
that have been soul winning after explaining the gospel, someone said this is the clearest
I've ever heard it. Oh yeah, hands all over the book. I mean, they say, man, you just made
it so clear. Wow, you just made it so obvious now. Wow, I've never heard it explained like
this. It's the righteousness of God being revealed. That's what reveals it, is faith.
Is someone having faith and explaining it? Verse 8. But what sayeth it? The word
is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. That is the word of faith, notice
this, which we preach. So what is the Apostle Paul doing? That's his faith being
preached. And you know, you often see the Apostle Paul say this, my gospel. Why?
Because it is his gospel. It's been applied to him. Again, it's not the
gospel of Paul, it's the gospel of Jesus Christ, but he's taken it as his, and
it's his faith, and it's the gospel that he has, and it's the gospel that he believes, and it's the gospel
that he shares, it's the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we preach that. And of
course, what does it tell us in verse 9? That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. So the Bible clearly makes salvation a free
gift by simply putting your faith in Jesus Christ. And you know what? The
Apostle Paul is not ashamed of that. Look at verse 12. For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon him. Notice again that word Greek there. Why?
Because it's saying, hey, it doesn't matter if you're Greek or Jew, you have
the same God. There is one God, there is one Lord, and we all call on him for
salvation. We all call on him with our faith and our heart in Jesus Christ's
death, death, and resurrection, and that is what saves us. So if you go back to Romans
chapter 1. So what is he saying when he's talking about this, this, the
salvation? Well, it's to the Jew first, but it's also to the Greek, because it's the same Lord, and you know
it's revealing it. Is someone going out and preaching? Now that's an important
point. You might even, if you really want to understand this chapter,
highlight two words. In verse 17, highlight the word revealed, and then
this is what you're going to do in verse number 18. For the wrath of God
is revealed. You're going to highlight, you're going to highlight another word,
revealed. Because you know what the Bible is doing here? It's contrasting two
things that are being revealed. One thing has been revealed, the gospel of
Jesus Christ by faith, but there's another thing that's been revealed. What
is it? For the wrath of God is revealed. Now notice this is a big distinction,
from heaven. So what reveals the gospel? Faith, someone preaching the gospel.
Who's doing the revealing of the wrath? Is it me? No, it's God. God is revealing his
wrath from heaven. Now what did revealed mean again? To make something clear, to make
something obvious, to make it really evident. It's very apparent. You know
exactly. So there's somewhere on this earth where the wrath of God has been
revealed. That's what the Bible is saying. Just like the gospel has been revealed by
soul orders going out and preaching the gospel, the wrath of God has also been
revealed. Now when I think of the wrath of God, you know what I think of? Hell. But wait a minute.
Who's seen hell on earth? Anybody? Anybody digged up and you're like, oh there's hell. I
don't think that hell's been revealed. I don't think that I've ever, I've never
seen hell. It's not obvious. It's not apparent. I haven't seen that. You know what?
The wrath of God is not limited to hell. There is other things that are the
wrath of God. Let's let the Bible tell us what the wrath of God is, okay? The
wrath of God, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and righteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Notice that these individuals, they hold truth, meaning they have the truth. What
is the truth? Isn't it the gospel of Jesus Christ? Isn't it just, really, I
mean, it's just Jesus. If you really want to get to what truth is, it's just
Jesus, okay? So the gospel's part of that, but it extends beyond the gospel,
because Jesus Christ said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. So, okay, we
understand the gospel's true, sure, but the Bible also says that Jesus is the
truth, and what does the Bible say Jesus is? The Bible. The Bible, okay? So
they hold truth inside. The Bible even tells us the law of God's written on
our heart, so everybody even has that level of truth written in the side of
them. So these people, though they are doing all these wicked things, they're
still holding the truth. They know what they're doing is wrong, okay? It says in
verse 19, because that which may be known of God is manifest in
them, for God has showed it unto them. So these individuals, they have
truth. It's inside of them. God's made it clear to them. So this is someone
that's heard the clear truths of the Bible. They have them, and they hold
them, but they're still doing unrighteousness. What could be
something like that? Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not kill.
Honor thy father, thy mother. That's truth being made evident to you, and you
could hold that inside and then decide, you know what? I reject. I don't
care. I'm just going to do unrighteousness anyway. I'm still going to disobey my
parents even though I heard that. Verse 19, because that which may be known of God is manifest in
them, for God has showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made even as eternal power in Godhead. So they're without excuse. You know something that's
invisible that's clearly seen? Gravity. You know something that's invisible that's
clearly seen? Wind. You know something that's invisible that's clearly seen?
Oxygen. Try breathing underwater. You'll learn real fast what oxygen is. You know something
that's really evident that you can't see? Two plus two equals four. Math. Logic.
Reasoning. The laws of thermodynamics. I mean, just there's so much of our
universe that exists that isn't even visible that we can, that we experience
in our lives. And these things, according to the Bible, they explain, according to
the scripture, God's eternal power in Godhead so that people that reject
God are without excuse. Everything is screaming of God's existence. Everything.
You know, when we talk about the creation of the world, what is this
eternal power? This is talking about the fact that when we look at
creation itself and we look at the objects that exist, you know, science will
try to tell you today that things are about 17 billion years old or something.
You know, they change the numbers all the time, so don't quote me, but, you know, it's something
between 14 and 17 billion years, I believe, is the current estimate of when
there might have been a Big Bang. But, you know, when you understand the laws of
thermodynamics, that matter cannot be created or destroyed, that does not
give you an origin point. Because even if all of that matter, you know,
exploded and it is what it is today, all that matter had to exist prior to that
point. And then what's the origin of that? Well, unfortunately, if you actually
understand the laws of thermodynamics and you understand how everything works,
that would mean that everything would have to be eternal. But we understand
that that doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense that all of the
things in the universe would just always exist and are always there. There
has to be, you know, there has to be an arbiter. There has to be a source of
all of this. There has to be something outside of that that brought it to be,
which is what we would call God. So there's no way, you can't date something.
You can't date inanimate objects. You can't date molecules. Well,
this hydrogen molecule is this old. Look, it doesn't, there's no date
associated. You know, they're always trying to date rocks and they're trying
to date stars and whatever. But what about the molecules of that star?
How old are they? You know, it's stupid because you can't put a date
on any of these things. And even if you could, it doesn't prove anything.
What if I had an ice cube and I said, you know what?
It seems like that ice formed about 10 minutes ago.
Is that when all of those molecules came into existence?
No, it could have been water before that. How long was it water before that?
I don't know. It could have been gas before that.
It could have been ice before that. And then it could have been water with that.
I mean, how many times you can go back to that cycle?
It could have been a completely different element before that.
So to try and put these dates and these origins and all this stuff,
it's just a way to excuse the fact that they don't believe in God
and they want to deny the clear reality of God's eternal power.
Because guess what? If no matter existed,
two plus two still equals four. You're like, where did that concept come from?
God's mind. It came from God. He is the source of everything.
And everything that we see today is just screaming there's a creator.
It's just screaming there's a God. It's just screaming there was a creation.
And so those who want to deny creation and want to deny God and want to deny the Bible,
they're denying things that are so evident and they're without excuse.
Because everything's clearly seen. We can see God. And what does Godhead mean?
It's just simply talking about His deity. When we look at the stars, we look at the sky,
we look at the universe and the laws, we realize how
whoever created this is so much more powerful than we are.
So much more intelligent than we are. And we see God's
deity. We see God's Godhood. Godhood.
You know, what He's like. His essence. Just like we see a dog and we see its essence
and we know it's not the creator of the universe.
And we look at a cat and we know it's not the creator of the universe.
And we look at a bug and we're like, you know, we just crush it.
But then we look at the creation, we're like, wow.
Whoever created all this, this is a completely different level.
This is a completely different thing that we're talking about here.
And the more you know, the more you realize how magnificent God truly is.
How amazing everything He is that He created. DNA.
Just childbirth. I mean, just to name a few things.
Just how the sun and the earth and the galaxies and everything.
I mean, just how life exists. Just planting a little flower and it growing.
I mean, just everything is just so amazing.
We don't know how the bones do grow in the womb.
We don't understand any of it.
How about the fact that you and I have self-healing properties.
Isn't that amazing?
That you can literally get cut and your body will just heal itself.
We're like mini superheroes.
Now, of course, there's limits to that, isn't there?
You can't necessarily cut your arm off.
But, you know, with AI, now people are just, you know,
putting in legs and arms and all kinds of stuff.
Pretty soon, you know, Elon Musk will have you being a robot.
So, with his Neuralink.
But, I'm telling you what, even just the advances,
the rockets that are created in the planes.
How did God create us to be able to create this stuff?
It's incredible.
It's insane to deny the existence of God.
Verse 21.
Because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God,
neither were thankful, became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Refesting themselves to be wise, they became fools.
This makes me think of Psalms 14 and Psalm 53
where it says, the fool has said in his heart,
there is no God.
Only a fool could say such something so stupid.
But you know what?
They know He's real.
It says in verse 21, they knew God.
Verse 23, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corrupt a man to birds
and forfeit a beast and creepy things.
This just explains all the false religion
that exists in the world today.
All false religion is worshiping some kind of an idol statue,
picture, I don't care if it's Catholic.
Catholics have the stupid little crucifix.
Catholics have their stupid little Mary statues
and they have all these different abominations
that exist.
All kinds of Hindus are worshiping monkeys
and elephants and whatever, dragons and serpents
and snakes and what, and it's like they're taking
the uncorruptible God and making it into an image
like a bird, a snake, a dog, whatever,
and worshiping it and saying this is God,
saying this is the Creator.
How disgusting.
Verse 24, wherefore God also gave them up
the uncleanness of the lusts of their own hearts
to the sorrow of their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie and worship
and serve the creature more than the Creator
is blessed forever, amen.
So we see a group of people who just don't care
what the Bible says, they do what they want.
They're just unrighteous and ungodly
even though they have the truth.
They already know that it's wrong.
Not only that, they deny God's existence.
They just deny the evidence of the eternal God
and not only this, they won't glorify him,
but rather they're fools.
They've changed the glory of God into an uncorruptible God
or into an uncorruptible God or a corruptible thing.
Not only that, they just, according to the Bible,
they're changing the truth of God into a lie.
You know, oh, God put me in this body
and I'm really a woman.
How disgusting is that?
Changing the truth of God into a lie.
Or saying, you know what?
We're a process of monkeys evolving over time
and we have all these vestigial structures
and you need to get some of your organs taken out
because they're put there on accident.
They're vestigial.
You know, that's bizarro.
They're changing the truth of God into a lie.
Even just the gospel specifically.
How many people are changing the gospel into a lie?
Turning it into work salvation.
Turning it into lordship salvation.
Turning it into Calvinism.
Turning it into all kinds of false doctrines out there.
And he's saying because of this,
you know, verse 26,
for this cause, meaning because they did all these things,
what were the things that they did again?
Well, number one, they hold the truth in righteousness.
They glorified him not as God.
They became fools.
They changed the glory of the uncorruptible God.
They changed the truth of God.
Because they did all of that for this cause,
God gave them up.
So does God just,
he's just always willing to accept you.
No, you can get to a point where God will give you up,
and notice what he gives you up unto,
vile affections.
For even their women to change the natural use
into that which is against nature.
Now, I like that God didn't just leave us hanging
and just say, hey, you're gonna have vile affections.
No, he's like, I'm gonna tell you exactly what I mean by that.
And what is vile?
Women with women.
Going against nature.
Notice that it's also against nature.
It's not how it was designed.
It's not how it was created.
It's not what is normal.
It's not normal.
Homosexuality is not normal.
It is against nature.
It's gross.
What does vile mean?
Gross, disgusting, makes you want to vomit.
That's vile.
Gag.
Gag reflex.
I mean, there's nothing worse.
That's what it's saying.
It's horrid.
For even their women to change.
Notice, change.
Notice what the Bible says, change.
For even their women to change, change, change.
Were they born this way?
No, they changed.
Did they start this way?
No, they changed.
Well, I was always born this way.
No, you weren't.
You changed.
You changed the truth of God into a lie.
No, you changed and you went against nature.
They changed the natural use into that which is against nature.
And likewise, also the men, leaving, leaving.
Hey, were you born a faggot?
No, you left being a man and you became a faggot.
You left.
They left.
They're leaving, leaving the natural use of the woman.
And notice, they left women.
What a faggot.
For you as a man to leave women, you're a faggot.
Look, God created women because they're great.
They're wonderful.
It's the greatest relationship I have on this planet is my wife.
All of you guys are nothing in comparison to her.
It was like, hey, pass or so, you can press a button.
Kill all men and have your wife or kill your wife and keep all men.
Bye.
See you later.
It's like, it's not even close.
I'm never ever going to leave the woman for the man.
What a disgusting, gross thing.
But notice what the Bible says.
It doesn't say they were born that way.
It doesn't say they want to be that way.
It says they left by leaving the natural use of the woman.
Burned in their lust, one toward another.
Men with men working that which is unseemly.
What is unseemly?
Inappropriate.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't make sense.
And receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which is meat.
What does that mean?
Disease, HIV, AIDS, anything you want to name.
Grid, gay-related immune deficiency.
That was what age used to be called.
Because they realized it was a disease for fags.
Because they're the only ones getting it.
You know, when you start realizing only one group of people is getting this disease,
it's like, usually they name it that way.
Okay?
And that's why it was named that.
Then they had to change the name because they were being discriminated against.
Well, you know what?
They shouldn't even exist.
Now, it says here that they got what was meat.
Meat is what's appropriate.
They deserve disease, what the Bible is saying.
And it says in verse 28, and even, meaning specifically,
as they did not like to retain God or their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
Now, this is what's so mind-boggling to me.
We've gone pretty slow through this passage tonight.
But let me tell you something.
You know what Calvinists will say?
They'll say, well, what we're reading about is what everybody's like.
They'll say everybody's like this until they get saved.
Well, you know what?
I wasn't like this before I got saved.
In fact, any of you that were like this before you got saved, you can leave.
Okay?
This is ridiculous to try and say this is what people are like until they get saved.
What kind of past do you have?
Were you hanging out with Obama in the Chicago area or something?
Because you know what?
This is not normal.
It just told you it wasn't normal.
It just told you it was against nature.
It just told you that these people already rejected God.
It already told you that God rejected them.
Why would I even?
If God already rejected you, right?
Let's just go from a Calvinist perspective.
God doesn't make any mistakes according to their Calvinist doctrine, right?
God's just always picking everything.
If God already rejected you, then why would he pick you again later?
Your stupid little Calvinist narrative doesn't make sense.
Because why is he having to reject you first and then accept you again?
If he rejected you, you were done.
According to their stupid Calvinists.
But look, Calvinism is a lie.
Why is it that these people are like this?
It's because they rejected God and then God responded to their rejection by rejecting them.
Why?
Because God gives us free will and God responds to our choices.
God gives us a choice.
Choose life.
Choose death.
These people chose death.
So therefore, as a result of their hatred and the fact that they despise everything
about God, God ends up punishing them.
Now, why would God punish them?
Remember what it said in verse 18?
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven.
What was the whole point of everything we've been reading?
It was God saying, hey, I just want to let you know how much I can punish someone.
And you know what's the worst punishment in the world being a fag?
That is the worst punishment.
There is nothing worse.
That's why every normal person laughs and ridicules them and thinks they're disgusting
and gross and just the end of a joke because they are a joke.
There's nothing good about them.
John Chrysostom said that he would rather die 10,000 times than be a fag.
And I was like, I was like meditating on that that quote this week because I was
watching this cool movie called the sodomite deception.
You should watch it.
OK, sodomite deception dot com.
And I was thinking about this quote and I was thinking, you know, death is painful, right?
I mean, imagine like drowning or something.
That would be terrible.
How about being shot or killed or stabbed or knifed 10,000 times?
Isn't that horrible?
Wouldn't that be gruesome?
For being a fag is worse.
That's what it's saying.
Like when you say, hey, the wrath of God, you're going to die 10,000 times.
You'd be like, whoa, I don't want to mess with God because that's a horrible.
That's a horrible thing, right?
But he's saying, you know, what's worse than that?
Being a fag, because God can always think of the worst things,
because you know what the worst thing about being a fag is?
And I know for men, you'll get this point.
OK, it's not only that you're doing these things, you like it.
That's the worst part.
You like it.
That's the worst part.
Isn't that so?
I mean, there's nothing worse.
He's made it to where you're experiencing it.
I mean, it's one thing to be forced to do something horrible against your will,
but it's another thing to want it.
That's how gross he's made these people.
And you don't like women anymore.
It's like, what in the world?
The worst punishment ever.
The worst thing imaginable.
And you say, well, why does he do this?
To show how wrathful he is.
Hey, you want to not be in the body that I created you in?
Fine, then I'll give you over to something really gross,
something so unclean, something so unnatural,
something so evil that you'll hate yourself about it.
And, you know, honestly, I've heard from a lot of these people.
They hate themselves.
OK, now it says in verse number 28,
even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
Do those things which are not convenient.
What does convenient mean?
Easy, comfortable.
What they're doing is not easy.
They have to hurt themselves to do what they're doing.
They have to.
They're literally.
I mean, there weren't.
It wasn't designed that way.
OK, so it just doesn't work well.
Just like driving your car on railroad tracks.
It wouldn't work very well.
Why?
Because it's not it's not convenient.
It's not easy.
It's not how it was designed to work.
OK, so by doing it, you're going.
You know, it's like this isn't a fun drive and it's like,
yeah, what they're doing isn't fun either.
They're hurting themselves and doing all kinds of things
that just make it difficult.
But you know what?
They were given over.
I noticed it says they're given a reprobate mind.
Now, I do want to take a few more minutes here.
You showed up, so you get to hear the sermon.
All right, go to Jeremiah Chapter six for a moment.
Keep your finger here.
Go to Jeremiah Chapter six.
What if we let the Bible tell us what reprobate means?
And what if we looked up the word reprobate in the Bible
every time it was used and then it had the exact same
definition if we applied that then to this chapter?
Well, what does the Bible say in Jeremiah Chapter six?
Because the word reprobate is mentioned seven times.
OK, the Book of Jeremiah in Chapter six, it has it in
verse number 30, which is the last verse of the chapter.
It says reprobate silver.
Shall men call them because the Lord has rejected them.
So here's one idea of what a reprobate is.
Someone has been rejected.
And what is reprobate silver?
That's the dross that's coming off when you're purifying
silver that's worthless, meaningless, has no value,
and you throw it away because there's no purpose.
That's that's what a reprobate is.
OK, go to 2 Corinthians Chapter number 13.
Let's look at the next mention.
We get three of them right in a row here in 2 Corinthians
Chapter number 13, last chapter of 2 Corinthians.
And really, I think that if you were just going to look
at the dictionary, a lot of times rejected is a viable
interpretation or definition.
But, you know, honestly, if you look at a lot of modern
dictionaries, what reprobate means in the dictionary,
you know, to say someone that's beyond the hope of
salvation, been rejected by God.
That's what the dictionary says.
OK, you know, it says in 2 Corinthians Chapter 13,
I want to look at verse number 5 to start.
So what is someone that's a reprobate?
Someone where Jesus Christ is not in them.
So it's someone that's not saved.
Look at what it says in verse 6.
But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
Why?
The apostle Paul has Christ in him.
So he's not a reprobate.
Now, I pray to God that you should do no evil, not that we
should appear approved, but that you should do that which
is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Now, again, that's the other mention, because I just want
to show it there.
He's saying here in verse number 7, hey, do good, no
matter what.
Even if you thought that we were unsaved, because it doesn't
matter if we are or not, you should still do good.
But what did he make the definition very clear in verse 5?
Is that a reprobate is someone that's not saved and
doesn't have Christ, even though they've heard the
gospel.
Look at 2 Timothy, chapter number 3.
2 Timothy, chapter number 3.
So we see in Jeremiah, it's someone that's rejected.
We see in 2 Corinthians, it's someone that's not saved and
does not have Christ.
What about 2 Timothy, chapter number 3?
Look at verse number 7.
Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth.
Now, let me explain to you what never able means.
It means you're not able.
It means it's never going to happen.
It means that it's not humanly possible.
It's not going to happen.
It's fiction.
Not going to happen.
Okay.
What does it say in 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 7?
Ever learning, so they keep, it doesn't matter how much
they learn, they're never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
Now, as Janus and Jambres wish with Moses, so do these
also.
Resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
So how does the word reprobate use in this context?
Never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
They resist the truth.
That reminds me of a chapter in the Bible.
Oh, yeah, Romans 1 that we've been reading, isn't
it? Someone that keeps resisting the truth, hating
the truth, changing the truth, doesn't like the
truth.
Does it sound like this person's ever going to get
saved? Never.
Never.
They're not, it's not possible, is what the Bible
saying.
Go to Titus, chapter number 1.
We have one last mention.
Let's see if there's any hope for these reprobates.
See if Titus has any hope for them.
Verse 16, they profess that they know God.
Well, that sounds good.
Hey, they say they know God, but in works, they
deny him, being abominable and disobedient and
unto every good work reprobate.
Oops.
You know, it sounds like the Bible is painting a
pretty clear picture on this reprobate word, isn't
it?
They're rejected.
How many good works do they do?
Let's see.
Every good work rep, no good works, nothing
good.
They deny God and they're abominable.
That sounds like another group again.
Oh yeah, those in Romans chapter 1.
Go back to Romans chapter 1.
So, so if we just let the Bible tell us what
Romans chapter 1 means, we'll come to the
right conclusion.
But you know what?
If you let seminary tell you, if you let a
fag tell you, they won't come to the same
conclusion.
Why?
Because they have an interest in lying to you,
changing the truth of God into a lie.
But let me tell you something about a reprobate.
According to the Bible, they will never, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever get saved.
Now, let me use another word.
Fags will never, ever, ever get saved.
Lesbians will not get saved.
Those who are sodomite are not going to get
saved.
Why?
Because they're the evidence of the wrath of
God being revealed.
What would be the point of God showing the
wrath of God if then all these people are
getting saved too?
That would totally discount the whole point of
it being the wrath.
Just like hell.
What about hell?
Isn't the point of hell that you can't get out
in this eternal damnation?
What if it wasn't like that?
Then it wouldn't really be hell.
It'd be purgatory.
But you know what?
Hell is hell.
And reprobates really reprobate.
And being a sodomite is the evidence and is
the proof and is the manifestation.
It's the clearly obvious picture of someone
that's rejected God and hates God and has
been punished by God, and that's why they're
so gross and disgusting and reprobate.
Every single sodomite in this world has
already been given up by God.
Yet, Christians today tell, why don't you
go minister to them?
You first.
Is it any coincidence these people hate God
and hate the Bible and hate church and they're
bringing in the most satanic evil in our
country ever?
Why is it that Satanism is exploding at the
same time that this disgusting LGBTQ propaganda
is exploding?
It's because it's the same devil.
It's the same Lord over them.
It's the same antichrist spirit.
Let me tell you something.
Wherever there's two faggots, there's devils
in the midst.
Because why?
Because it's the same group.
It's the same team.
It's the same players.
Look, the LGBT team, their mascot is the devil.
Okay?
That's what they should, instead of waving
the flag around that's got a rainbow on it,
they should be waving the devil on it.
Because that's who they are.
Now, what are these people like?
Verse 29, being filled with all unrighteousness.
Here's something you have to understand.
Just because someone's a homosexual doesn't mean
that they're at the epitome of evil yet.
The Bible says they're in a process of being filled.
Meaning that they're just slowly getting worse
and worse over time.
So someone that's newly become a reprobate is probably
not necessarily that evil yet.
It's going to take more and more time.
And this is why a lot of people get confused.
Because they're teenage, son, daughter, cousin,
uncle, aunt, whatever, or this young college kid
that just became a reprobate, well, they don't seem that bad.
Well, they're just starting to be filled.
But you know what?
The Elton Johns and the Barack Obamas and these people
that have been being filled for decades,
let me tell you something.
They are the most evil scum on the planet.
And you know, a lot of these people are Jews, too.
Why?
Well, think about it.
What's making these people reprobate?
All of God's been manifested in them.
This is why false religion turns out so many reprobates constantly.
The Catholic Church and the Jews and all these.
Because they're being exposed to the Bible
and they're just rejecting it and they're hating it
and they're not liking it.
And it's just driving them into becoming a reprobate like that.
That's what's happening to them.
And they're being filled, notice, with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, deceit, malignity, whispers,
back fighters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, there's your gay pride,
boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents without understanding,
covenant breakers without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful.
Now again, how does a Calvinist read this list
and say that's what we all like?
No natural affection?
What is natural affection?
Loving your mom, loving your dad, loving your children.
These people don't love children.
They don't love their parents.
They don't love their family.
They don't love anything.
They have no natural affection.
They're implacable, meaning they'll never be satisfied
and oh, we just want to get married, liar.
Oh, we just want to adopt children, liar.
Oh, we just want to read books to children, liar.
Oh, we just want to teach them how to dance, liar.
I mean, where do you think they're going next?
Oh, we just want to be in a relationship with a child.
Oh, we just want to be in relation with an animal.
Oh, we just want to be in relationship with everything.
Oh, we don't want to just be in relationships
that are consenting.
We want you to bring out the men that came under you.
Bring the two angels.
Bring the two men in the door.
Hey, bring them out and let us sodomize them.
That's where it's headed.
That's where it's going.
And you know what?
We have weak Christianity today that won't preach the Bible
and won't preach Romans chapter number one.
And that's why our country's going to hell in a handbasket.
Because it's a spiritual issue.
They say, oh, why is this happening?
Or what people are doing in private, it's their business.
They're not doing it in private, idiot.
Have you ever been in America for five seconds?
Who thinks they're doing it in private
when every business this month
is going to be waving their flag for them
and putting their clothes out?
And it's on almost every commercial.
Every business is now promoting this junk.
And we're talking about 2% or 3% of the population.
It's not like the vast majority of people are sodomites.
But if you just went to a business,
you would think they are.
If you watched a TV show, you would think everyone is.
It's like, what is happening?
It's just Satanism is going unchecked in our country.
People will not preach against this junk.
And you know what?
The Bible says they're worthy of death.
The Bible says in verse number 32,
who knowing the judgment of God,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
So according to the Bible, they know.
They know that they're worthy of death.
That's why anytime someone goes against any of their agenda,
they'll say, oh, you're advocating for the genocide of us.
Because they know that they deserve death.
We're fighting for our lives.
Why? Because they know they're worthy of death.
They're always saying that.
People, you know, people would be like,
I just don't want them to play sports with my daughter.
You're advocating for a genocide.
And they're like, no, I'm not.
It's like, that's just because they're so on a hair trigger.
They know that they're fighting for their lives
because they don't even deserve to live.
According to the Bible.
Leviticus 20, 13 makes it abundantly clear
they should be stoned with stones.
And you know what?
I don't care if that stone is slung out of a gun
to make it efficient and to make it easier.
You know what?
They should be stoned.
You know what?
They should be executed by a righteous government.
And I don't even care if the government's righteous.
Just execute them.
Hey, I don't care how corrupt their government is.
Just implement Leviticus 20, 13 again.
Amen.
Now you sound like Hitler.
Well, you know what?
I don't like Hitler.
I think Hitler was wicked and evil,
but you know what?
He was better than faggots.
He might have been a faggot.
So then that would be null and void.
But you love Hitler.
I don't like Hitler.
He's burning in hell.
He was a reprobate too.
Okay.
All reprobates.
You know who I really don't like is Ted Cruz.
Amen.
This disgusting, fake, conservative,
fake Republican, fake Southern Baptist.
Did you know that?
Ted Cruz pretends like he's a Southern Baptist.
And he recently put on Twitter a few days ago.
He put some tweet.
I have it.
So you can like, how long is the sermon?
I don't know.
Ted Cruz has made me mad.
All right.
Ted Cruz on Twitter.
This is what he says.
He says, this Uganda law is horrific and wrong.
Any law criminalizing homosexuality
or imposing the death penalty for quote,
aggravated homosexuality is grotesque and abomination.
Says all civilized nations should join together
in condemning this human rights abuse.
You know what?
All nations should condemn Ted Cruz.
And you know what he put at the bottom
of his little tweet here?
Hashtag LGBTQ.
What are you, a faggot now?
I mean, look, one of these is tea for tranny.
Who is, Ted Cruz is advocating for trannies now?
What, you know, how, how fake is our government?
Because it's, it's, it's mind blowing how fake it really is.
I mean, I, I've always known it's bad,
but I'll be honest, in the last few years,
we've seen it get way worse than I even thought
of like how almost every politician
is like a faggot apparently.
And every politician is just like an anti-Christ devil,
sold out, bought and paid for, criminal,
traitor, terrorist, anti-constitutionalist.
I mean, almost every politician is so evil
in our country right now.
And Ted Cruz is the tip of the spear in my mind.
You know, it makes sense why you would condemn this
because I heard there's a rumor
that his daughter already came out as bi on TikTok.
And she even tried to hurt herself.
She had like self-inflicted stab wounds
at some point in a few, a few, like years ago
or a year ago or something like that,
where they had to come and try
and rescue her or something.
But, you know, think about what he said for a second.
Okay.
And I know it's, we don't know yet what the law,
because I was trying to look this up.
Like I was trying to find the law
and all I can find is all the Jew articles about it.
There's everything in the media.
And I found one that says, what does the bill say?
You know, I'm like, because that's what I care about.
And it says, the final version
is yet to be officially published,
but elements discussed in parliament include.
So I guess, I don't know if this is legitimate or not.
I couldn't find the exact laws yet.
This is saying they technically haven't been published.
So I'm just going to go with their narrative.
But this is what everybody's kind of agreed upon
what the law is.
So I'll just read for you.
This is what Uganda passed.
A person who is convicted of grooming or trafficking
in children for the purposes of engaging them
in homosexual activities faces life in prison.
You know what I was thinking?
It should be worse.
This is weak.
Individuals or institutions which support or fund
LGBT rights, activities, organizations,
or publish, broadcast, or distribute pro-gay media,
material, and literature also face prosecution and imprisonment.
That sounds good.
Media groups, journalists, and publishers
face prosecution and imprisonment for publishing,
broadcasting, distributing of any content
that advocates for gay rights or, quote,
promotes homosexuality.
I know why the Jews are mad about this,
because that's all they do.
The death penalty is for what is described as,
quote, aggravated homosexuality.
That is sexual abuse of a child
or a person with disability or vulnerable
or in cases where the victim of the assault
is infected with a lifelong illness.
So you know what?
The death penalty is only reserved for hurting children
or someone that's incapable of defending themselves
because they're mentally handicapped or too elderly
or you just give them HIV.
That is the only reason why someone would ever
get the death penalty in Uganda.
I'm of the opinion that it's just period.
You're a faggot, death penalty, period.
That's where I'm at.
They're drawing the line at child abuse and pedophilia.
And this is what Ted Cruz said.
Any law criminalizing the homosexual
that imposes the death penalty for aggravated
homosexuality is grotesque and abomination.
So Ted Cruz is saying pedophilia being punished
with a death penalty is an abomination.
No, Ted Cruz is an abomination.
Ted Cruz is a pedophile, apparently.
Why in the world would you ever want to advocate for pedophiles?
That's the Republican Party, folks.
Well, I'm going to vote Republican
because they love pedophiles.
I mean, what do you...
You really think the Republicans are going to fix America?
Good night.
That's why you show up to church on Wednesday night
because the Republicans don't care about you.
Because no politician cares about you.
The only one that cares about you is Jesus Christ who gave his life.
Not these politicians who go into a career making $100,000 a year
and turn out multimillionaires.
In fact, there's plenty of people that come to our church
to make way more money than all the politicians do on their salary,
yet they have nowhere close to the net worth of these individuals.
Why?
Because they're all on the take.
Because they're not public servants.
They're liars and scumbags and frauds,
and they've been bought out by foreign interests.
They've been bought out by the synagogue of Satan,
by Jews to do their bidding.
And you know what?
Jews want to bring as much filth in this country as possible.
Why?
Because they're reprobates, too.
Look, you just look up anything.
There's all these Jewish organizations right now,
and they're saying,
we're fighting for LGBT rights.
They're all saying it.
I don't...
Don't believe me?
Believe them!
And don't believe them, you know?
But believe them when they're being honest about themselves.
Good night!
This other, it says,
property owners may also face risk of being jailed
if their premises are used for a brothel for homosexual acts
or any other sexual minority rights activity.
This is great!
I mean, I'm not saying it's perfect,
because I would make it a little bit stronger,
but you know what?
God bless Uganda.
And all the Western nations,
every nation's condemning them and attacking them
and wanting to sanction them
and do all kinds of horrible things to them.
I'm sure the CIA is probably planning right now
how to assassinate their president.
But you know what?
I pray that God would keep them safe,
and God would continue to protect Uganda,
and God would bless Uganda,
and you know what?
Blessed are the poor anyways.
Who needs your filthy sodomite money?
I'd rather have the gospel anyways
of Jesus Christ.
You know what?
Maybe we should do a missions trip to Uganda.
Oh, it's so scary!
No!
What's scary is America.
What's scary is the Christian churches today
welcoming these people into their church.
Almost every church today thinks these people are great.
Let's love them.
Let's minister to them.
You're a pedophile enabler.
You're like Ted Cruz.
Of course, the fake churches vote for the fake Republicans,
Ted Cruz, and they're all on the same take, aren't they?
All of the fake preachers
who have changed the truth of God into a lie anyways.
You know what?
This country needs to get back to Romans 1.
You know, it started out really hot,
and it started out really good.
I'm really liking Romans so far.
And you know what?
I don't care what this world has to say,
or they think,
because you know what?
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And I'm not ashamed of any part of Romans 1.
I'm not ashamed of anything in the Bible.
And you know who should be ashamed today
is the pedophiles and the pedophile enablers.
That should be ashamed today.
That's so, it's so evil.
There's nothing really much more evil than that.
And I just can't even believe that we're turning,
our country's turning into this.
But you know, you should praise God
that you go to a church
where they're not going to let the pedophiles in.
And you know what?
Don't get mad at a sermon like this
or something I said.
Watch the Sodomite deception twice if you need to, okay?
Read Romans 1 a couple times.
Memorize it.
Read what the Bible says about reprobates.
You know what?
But let's believe the Bible.
And you know what?
Let's not be ashamed to also tell people
what the Bible says.
I know there's so much pressure out there in this world.
You know when I hand people a ticket,
and I just say,
hey, this tells you about the lies about homosexuality.
They hate God.
They want nothing to do with them.
They're like, oh yeah, I want to read,
I want to watch that.
Yeah, how do I do it?
Like scan the code.
You know, in honor of faggot month,
I'm going to hand out only these tickets, all right?
For the month of June,
I'm only handing out these as my first invite.
I'll hand out other stuff.
So every door is getting one of these from me.
I'm not saying you have to,
but I'm saying I am, all right?
And you know what?
Everyone that gets saved
is getting a Sodomite deception DVD.
And you know what?
We're going to change this culture with the Bible.
And you know what?
God put it in the Bible for a reason,
and I'm going to believe it.
And the wrath of God is really evident today,
really clear.
Let us embrace both parts of this,
the gospel being revealed and the wrath being revealed,
and let us not be ashamed of either.
Let's go with her.
Thank you Heavenly Father for the Bible.
Thank you for giving us this important chapter
to explain to us the world that we see.
If we didn't have the Bible,
none of this would make sense.
The world's so confusing and it's so gross
and it's so defiled.
And only through the lens of scripture
can we understand what's actually really happening.
I pray that people would not be offended by the truth,
but rather they would embrace the truth,
they would love the truth.
I pray that you could use our church
to be a bright and shining light,
to expose people to the gospel of Jesus Christ
so that they could get saved,
so that they could escape the fires of hell.
And I pray that you would motivate our church
to warn people about the predators
and the pedophiles
and all the disgusting people that are out there,
so as we can protect as many youth as possible.
And in Jesus' name we pray, amen.