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On the next page, we have our service times listed. First service is at 10 a.m. Usually the second service starts around 1115, just a 10-minute break. This first sermon is going to be one of the longest sermons I've ever preached, though. And I will shorten the second sermon, but the first sermon is specifically kind of like the missions trip sermon. And so we will still get done at a normal time, but the first sermon is going to be like three times as long as the second one. Our Wednesday evening Bible study is listed there in the bulletin. Our official soul winning times are listed there as well. And of course, we do have soul winning this afternoon starting around 145. The soul winning anthem and tip starts around 130 and then soul winning at 145. Our salvation and baptisms are listed there. And this will really help us out to get our totals. We've got all the totals from the school ministry. What we do not have are the totals from the parks and the extra soul winning. We have a sheet over there on the round table. So if in between the services, if you could just write down your total number of salvations, not counting yesterday in our Saturday marathon soul winning, we got that total. And not counting the school ministry, but any other unreported salvations. It'll just make it a lot easier to get the final results for us. So it's right there on the table. Just write your name and just write down the total amount. Our salvations and baptisms are listed there for the year as well as the month for all of our churches and our monthly church services. Next page, our Bible memorization challenge. And this year is the book of Ecclesiastes. If you are able to memorize all of the chapters in Ecclesiastes, then you will get a very nice prize. One chapter per month will get you through the entire book. Once again, you don't have to quote it from one one to the very end. Just every individual chapter must be quoted correctly at some point during the year. Upcoming activities. Of course, today is the last day of our Manila mission strip. And of course, tomorrow is the start of the vehicle missions trip. After the soul winning time today, we're going to have a brief meeting for those that are going to the vehicle trip. And it's nothing formal. Just I want to make sure everybody's on the same page. Some people are staying in Tobacco City. Some are staying in Legaspi. And I just want to make sure everyone's kind of organized. I do know of one person that is going to be joining from the U.S. and they're just going to be joining in vehicle. We have a Facebook group and we have a WhatsApp group. And, you know, getting to one of those groups is just the easiest way to pass information. So if you have a Facebook and you're not in the group, let me know. Let one of the other people know. They'll add you to the group. If you have a WhatsApp account, then we can add you to that group just so it's very easy to pass information. And of course, next Sunday, Pastor Menes will be preaching here. And so on Friday night in Beagle, we're going to have a church service. And some people have asked me about this. A lot of people are coming back on Saturday. So they're going to be a church service before everybody leaves. Obviously, if you're staying in Legaspi, tobacco's a little ways away. So it's up to you whether you want to go or not. But we're going to have a Friday service. Instead of the Sunday service, it's going to be changed to Friday. So we do have a church service there on Friday night. And of course, a lot of people at our church have decided to come back early to be here when Pastor Menes is preaching. And of course, we'd love to have you here if you're able to do that. If not, though, Pastor Menes will also be preaching on Tuesday in Pampanga. That would be another opportunity to see him and to meet him. It's going to be at CDC Park at 3 p.m. So it's going to be kind of informal because we're going to be playing games and stuff. So you can just dress in shorts and a T-shirt, just kind of casual. It's going to be a much shorter sermon. It's just kind of, you know, a short sermon and then fellowship and food. But if you are planning to come down for that on Tuesday, I believe March 4th, please give me a heads up because, you know, if there's 30 people we don't expect, we need more food. Right. So I can't just, you know, create food out of nothing. So let me know if you're planning to come down. We'd love to have you, though. But if you're not able to come to see him on Sunday, that is another option on Tuesday on March 4th. And I am by faith assuming it is not going to rain. It's going to be outdoors. And by faith, it will not rain. Right. Current upcoming series, we are in the Book of Matthew. We'll have one sermon on that here today. Birthdays and anniversaries are listed down there below for the month of February. On the back, we have the basic rules of conduct and organization for a church. And you should have an answer in your bulletin to take notes for both of the sermons here today. So I believe that's it for announcements. While Brother Marlon lead us in another song. All right. For our next song, let's hear our hymns to hymn number 70. Let's sing a song. Will Jesus find us watching? Hymn number 70. Everybody on the first. When Jesus comes to reward his servants, whether it be noon or night, Faithful to him will he find us watching, With our dead souls dream and bright. O can we say we are ready, brother, Ready for the souls bright home, Saying we'll define you and me still watching, Waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come. If at the dawn of the early morning, He shall call us one by one, When to the Lord we restore our talents to the earth. O can we say we are ready, brother, Ready for the souls bright home, Saying we'll define you and me still watching, Waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come. Have we been true to the trust he left us, If we obey all the Lord commands us, We shall then be truly blessed. O can we say we are ready, brother, Ready for the souls bright home, Saying we'll define you and me still watching, Waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come. On the last, I want everyone's voice. So here, so for the stanza, we're gonna sing it without the instruments, and on the chorus, the instruments will come and join us. So on the last, everybody sing. Blessed are those whom the Lord find watching, In his glory they shall share. If he shall come at the dawn or midnight, Will he find us watching there? O can we say we are ready, brother, Ready for the souls bright home, Saying we'll define you and me still watching, Waiting, waiting when the Lord shall come. Are we singing? This time, let's take our dyes on offering. Amen. For scripture reading, please open your Bibles to the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter one. And as our custom, we will be reading the entire chapter, Genesis chapter one. Please say amen if you're there. Amen. Genesis chapter one, verse one. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made a firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven under the heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear and it was so and God called the dry land earth and they gathering together the waters called these seas and God saw that it was good and God said let the earth bring forth grass and her building seed and the fruits re-yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass and her building seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruits whose seed was in itself after his kind and God saw it was good and evening at the morning with a third day and God said let there be lights in the ferments of the heavens to divide a day from the night and let them be for science and for seasons and for days and years I let them be for lights and the ferments of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so and God made two great lights the greater lights rule the day and the lesser lights rule the night he made his stars also and God saw and God set them in the ferments of heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and God sought it was good and evening in the morning with a fourth day and God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that life and thought it may fly above the earth and the open permanence of heaven and God created great whales and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every wing fell after its kind and God thought it was good and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let foul multiply in the earth and evening in the morning with a fifth day and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beasts of the earth after his kind and was so and God made a beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and everything that creeped upon the earth after his kind and God thought it was good and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the foul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth so God created man in his own image and the image of God created he him male and female created he them and God blessed them and Scott said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the foul of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth and God said behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree and of which is the fruit of a tree tree yielding seed to you it shall be for meat and to every beast of the earth and to every foul of the air and to everything that creepeth upon here were in there's life I've given every green herb for meats and it was so and God's everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening in the morning with a sixth day bless bless the reading of God's religious pray we're God in heaven thank you Lord for this stage given to us I pray please bless love mistake it was good weather for our soul any how fellowship later on and I feel it should also please pleasure pastor and the preaching of your word look for this day we love you in decent we pray amen all right we are in Genesis chapter 1 as I mentioned in the introduction now there's gonna be a longer spirit in the in the announcements I mentioned it's gonna be a longer sermon and we're gonna have a long introduction because they have the impact on the scripture we're looking at I want to kind of just give a background on this and I'll give you the name of the sermon here in a little bit but first thing I want you to understand is if you look up the word creep in the Bible it appears in 39 different verses of either the form creep creeping or creepeth and the first reference to the word creep in the Bible is actually found in Genesis chapter 1 notice what the Bible says here in Genesis 1 verse 24 Genesis 1 verse 24 and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so and God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and God saw that it was good verse 26 and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth now in Genesis chapter 1 we have very broad categories of animals and as you go in the Bible the Bible gets a little bit more specific here in Genesis 1 that gives you very broad categories and it mentions the creeping thing in verse 26 it tells you why it calls it the creeping thing the creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth so it's describing what it actually does and why it calls it the creeping thing now of course the first thing that pops in your head is probably an insect right and certainly an insect fits underneath this of a creeping thing but that's not the only animal that fits under this idea of a creeping thing verse 30 it says into every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air into everything that creepeth upon the earth where in there is life I've given every herb for meat and it was so and God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening in the morning were the sixth day and according to the Bible even the creeping thing was a good thing that God made now of course we look at the creeping thing and the spiders and you know various insects and they're just kind of gross it's like why did God make them or whatever but God said that when he made everything it was very good okay go to Leviticus chapter 11 Leviticus chapter 11 in your Bible Leviticus chapter 11 now the Bible mentioned the beasts of the earth and there's a difference in the size of the creeping thing and the beast of the earth so for example a lion would not be a creeping thing right a Jaguar would not be a creeping thing a zebra would not be a creeping thing and of course the word lion is in the Bible but you know some words and some modern-day animals that we have the Bible doesn't specifically mention them mention them they could have derived from another animal that is mentioned in the Bible or the Bible just does not mention them but a creeping thing is referring to a much smaller animal insects are the most obvious thing the thing that we think of they creep upon the earth that's what it's saying but that's not actually the only animal that's being referred to Leviticus chapter 11 verse 29 Leviticus chapter 11 verse 29 these also shall be unclean on you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth so once again it is called a creeping thing why it describes the action that it does it creeps upon the earth and then it mentions the weasel and the mouse and the tortoise after his kind and the ferret and the chameleon and the lizard and the snail and the mole these are unclean you among all that creep whosoever doth touch them when they be dead shall be unclean and so the even so the Bible mentions various animals and one of the ones it mentions is the mouse right and when you're looking at these creatures that are being mentioned aren't the creeping things a bit gross aren't the insects and the mice and the rats I mean aren't they a bit gross right obviously I would be afraid of a large beast because it could possibly kill you but there's just something gross about the way the bugs look and the way they move and the way they creep it's just kind of weird it's kind of gross and the Bible mentions specifically the creeping thing and it says they're unclean now it should be obvious to you but hey don't eat the insects it's gross it's not good for you right they're creeping they're unclean they're disgusting this is what the Bible is trying to put inside your head go to verse 41 verse 41 and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination it shall not be eaten now of course in our modern day we can eat whatever food that we want but at the same time the animals that are on the restricted list they're actually very unclean and unhealthy for you and so obviously you know we eat pig and pig tastes good it's not the healthiest meat though and of course you look at some of these other creatures that are on the restriction list they would not be healthy for you they would not be good for you now yeah there are a lot of cultures that eat these sorts of things but you know I'm not saying it's a sin but if you're wise this is not your normal meat that you're eating you say why it's gonna be bad for you it's unclean it's it's not healthy it says here in verse 42 whatsoever goeth upon the belly and whatsoever goeth upon all four or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth then he shall not eat for they are an abomination you shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them that you should be defiled thereby for I am the Lord your God you shall therefore sanctify yourselves and you shall be holy for I am holy neither shall you defy yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth for I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God you shall therefore be holy for I am holy this is the law of the beast and of the fowl and of every living creature that moveth in the waters and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the beasts that may be eaten and the beasts that may not be eaten now go to 2 Timothy chapter 3 2 Timothy chapter 3 the Bible is not painting insects in a positive light or the mole or the mouse it's not it's saying it's unclean it's it's abominable it's saying it's gross what's interesting is I said there's 39 verses that use the word either creep creep it or creeping some of those verses use it more than once but 39 different verses and the first 38 are referring to insects mice and these gross little creatures let me show you the last reference to this word because the Bible is trying to teach you something 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 6 for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse lusts the last reference to the word creep or creeping or creepeth in our King James Bible is referring to false prophets false religious leaders you say what is the Bible trying to say the Bible is trying to say the false prophets are like cockroaches false prophets are like mice now there's a lot of different creeping animals for the purpose of this sermon I think the two most common at least in this part of the world the word a piece which is cockroach in English and the mouse and so I want to put inside your head the cockroach and the mouse here today because probably most of us in this room have probably had both of those creatures inside of our houses at some point and look if you're a normal person you don't want cockroaches in your house if you're a normal person you don't want mice inside your house look we're not over in India where we worship and bow down to these animals they're gross they're unclean they're disgusting and a normal person would not want these inside of their house and the first 38 references the Bible saying the false prophet is like a cockroach a mouse a spider a gross little creature the last reference to creep is referring to a false prophet that is the analogy that the Bible is trying to put inside your head say pastor why would God make these gross little creatures maybe because God is trying to explain to you how disgusting and weak and sick and abominable the false prophet actually is because you read it it's hard to understand it's hard to fathom how people can be that bad and that evil and then you think of a cockroach it's like I get it God that's pretty nasty that's pretty disgusting now I understand you know I read the Bible but when I actually saw the cockroach in action I get it now false prophets are gross they're disgusting they're abominable turning Bible Leviticus chapter 11 Leviticus 11 now I mentioned on Wednesday to not waste your time on various things like paying attention to news so maybe you haven't heard at all but you know the biggest spiritual rat in this world the biggest spiritual cockroach could very likely die today referring to obviously Pope Francis he's pretty much on his deathbed he's in critical condition just a day or two ago the Vatican said no no he's perfectly fine now they're like critical condition they're worried that he's gonna die you say pastor how many tears are you gonna shed if Pope Francis kicks the bucket and dies and goes to hell well you know I love math let's start adding some math to the missions trip okay out of this I zero tears out of this I zero tears zero plus zero equals zero tears coming from me if Pope Francis dies you say why he is the biggest spiritual rat on the planet he's the biggest spiritual cockroach in the world today why would I be upset if a false prophet dies look if I see a dead mouse I don't shed any tears if I see a dead cockroach I don't shed any tears in fact if I see them in my house I do my best to kill them because they're disgusting they're gross and Pope Francis is the biggest spiritual cockroach in the world and I will shed zero tears if that creeping little spiritual false prophet dies today zero tears are gonna come for me when it comes to the false prophets being like a mouse or cockroach I was trying to get God's number of perfection seven different points and then I realized cuz I was stuck at six actually six is probably more fitting for the spiritual false prophet isn't it so we got six points here today now I do want to mention this that I don't believe when the Bible is comparing the false prophet to a creeping you know cockroach or spider or mouse I don't think that God is trying to bring every creature inside of your head that creeps although most would be fitting and the reason why I say not everyone is you think of the ants and the end is mentioned very positively in the Bible but what's interesting about the ants is when we go through these points these points don't really fit with ants that much there's actually a big difference between a cockroach and an ant look I don't like to have a bunch of ants in my house but they don't gross me out I mean the ants in okay animal it doesn't really bug me but there's something about a cockroach when you look at it where it's just like this is gross you say well pastor I don't feel that way well no offense I think that's strange because cockroaches are disgusting cockroaches are gross mice are disgusting mice are gross and those are the two creatures I want to drive inside of your head here today as I talk about the creeping six characteristics of creeping false prophets point number one they are dirty a mouse is a dirty animal a cockroach is a dirty animal what's amazing to me is you can look up any animal online and they will say well it's not really dirty it's just misunderstood right like I preach this sermon on pigs it's like well a false understanding I preach that like a year ago a false understanding about pigs is they're dirty just because they wallow in the mire it's like that means they're dirty you idiots and you go online or my sturdy mice dirty creatures and there are a lot of people defending mice they're not really dirty and you have the common sense inside your head is like no I'm pretty sure mice are right you see them climbing out of a sewer they're pretty dirty creatures here's what says in Leviticus 11 verse 29 these also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon creep upon the earth the weasel and the mouse and the tortoise after his kind what's another word for unclean dirty and I said point number one they are dirty creatures they are unclean they are not clean the cockroach and the mouse according to the Bible is dirty it's unclean verse 30 and the ferret and the chameleon and the lizard and the snail and the mole these are unclean to you among all that creep whosoever doth touch them when they be dead shall be unclean until they even why would you be unclean if you touched a cockroach or a mouse because it's dirty and you touch it and you're gonna be dirty now look you know we have cockroaches sometimes at our house usually the small ones and I prefer to either smash it with my shoe or get like a tissue or napkin to just pinch it you know sometimes because those little critters are very fast sometimes you see it and you don't want to let it get away and it's like BAM if you're like me and then what do I do right after that I wash my hands you say why cuz they're dirty they're gross I don't want to do that but it's like I don't want that dirty creature inside my house I'm gonna kill it and I can't risk letting it get away you say why don't you want them in the house they're dirty they're unclean and if you have them in the house and you're around an environment that is very unclean then you're gonna be unclean you're gonna be dirty turn your Bible to Jude 1 Jude 1 and in fact this is what it says from AI overview which is kind of like the Google default kind of like chat GBT I guess it says no mice are not dirty animals and in fact they groom themselves often now look I do appreciate chat GPT and AI overview because they're very good at giving you some information right there is proof that you can't necessarily trust everything that they say number one the Bible said they're dirty but common sense tells you they're dirty they're not clean you know over in India they've got that famous rat temple which is like the greatest spiritual experience ever where people just are in there and there's like thousands upon thousands of rats and you know there's no restrictions the rats are just using the bathroom just eating whatever people have the rats you know crawling over them and I remember just like reading online you know like what is it trip advisor the reviews and people and a lot of people said it was like the greatest experience ever they're like my feet were in the milk while the the rats were drinking the milk out of the same dish of milk and I'm like there are some strange people in this world but one of the things I read it made me start to laugh where the person said like I really expected a great experience but it was a lot dirtier than I expected I'm just thinking what did you expect at a rat temple it's not just images of rats it's called the rat temple because they're rats and if you accidentally step in one and kill it you got to buy like a golden or silver rat outside the temple as an offering because you accidentally killed one of their gods right but rats and mice and cockroaches they're dirty creatures they're disgusting creatures they're very dirty in fact one proof of this is that both mice and cockroaches are on the list of animals that practice copra fagae and I might be mispronouncing that but that means that you eat dung you eat poop both mice and cockroaches eat poop you say pastor I mean this is not the most pleasant sermon yeah I'm preaching about mice and cockroaches it's not going to be the most pleasant sermon because I'm trying to drive in your head how wicked and disgusting and dirty the false prophets are and I can't think of something more dirty than just that it's gross you say why did why do mice gross you out why do cockroaches gross you out maybe because they do that it's pretty disgusting and of course you know what is one of the secrets to getting rid of mice and cockroaches in your house clean the house why is that because they like dirty environments right you say what does this have to do with the false prophets look there's a wrong assumption that people have most people in this world will look at someone of another religion that's a spiritual leader and they will think I don't really agree with what they teach but they're a nice person I mean yeah it's kind of weird these Buddhist monks that shave their head and put on like this orange giant scarf or whatever it's kind of weird I wouldn't do that but you know I think they're very spiritual in a nice person and sincere or they'll look at you know a Hindu Swami yeah it's kind of weird that they got the red dot or the three white lines in their head he's kind of strange what they believe is a bit weird they got all these gods and stuff but they're a nice person or they might even look at the Catholic priest and say hey because look aren't don't most kids growing up here the Philippines think that the Catholic priest first thing you to Catholic Church and they do what mono to the Catholic priest to give reverence to get respect why because they think the Catholic priest is a nice person even if they don't believe in Catholicism they would still say the Catholic priest is nice Pope Francis is nice all these other I mean I don't believe in Joel Osteen but he's a nice person that is what people think if I was saying no they're like cockroaches they're like mice it's not just saying well they've got false beliefs no no no they are dirty because look the Bible mentioned clean and unclean and holy and unholy and it's giving the physical example to understand the spiritual and these creatures are unclean and when you compare that to the false prophet they are dirty unclean sinful creatures and they act just like animals you say what are some examples getting drunk all the time Catholic Church that the Catholic priest is pretty much you know wasted at the end of the service just drinking all the wine how about doing drugs that's pretty unclean how about just going out and fornicating with a bunch of people you say no no no the spiritual leaders don't do that have you not seen all the scandals with the Catholic priest have you not seen the scandals with other religious leaders it happens all the time how's that possible because they're false prophets they're unclean they're dirty they're like a spiritual mouse they're like a spiritual cockroach they're very sinful they're very dirty they're very disgusting creatures to chapter 1 Jude chapter 1 Jude 1 verse 3 beloved and so you know I told you that the word creep appears in 39 verses creep creeping or creep it and that's true but there's actually the past tense of creep because the 39th reference is in 2nd Timothy 3 which we looked at the last reference the 40th and final is also referring to false prophets I think God's trying to teach you something when the first 38 are referring to the mouse and then the last two the false prophets verse 3 beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered on to the Saints for there are certain men notice this crept in unawares the past tense of creep referring to who well you know it's not as specific here in Jude but this is parallel to 2nd Peter 2 2nd Peter 2 is very clear we're talking about false prophets right and the Bible is saying the false prophet is like a spiritual cockroach there are certain men crept in a wet unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation notice this on godly men are these spiritual leaders godly that are false prophets is Pope Francis a godly person was Pope Benedict a godly person is that whoever becomes the next Pope which I I sure hope it's it's not the Filipino possibility is he a godly person nope is the Hindu leader godly person nope is the Muslim leader godly person nope and neither is the so-called Christian that's actually unsaved in a phony you say well what are some names of these false prophets you're referring to well how about Paul Washer mr. repent of your says mister there's no such thing as a carnal Christian if you're really safe you would never walk in the flesh it's like what I mean Bible commands us to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh meaning we have free will how about John MacArthur I mean John MacArthur because here's the thing about this and we're gonna see later on they often have a form of godliness and you say why are you calling out names that a lot of people really like because of the fact they can more easily deceive people that are saved in good people when I first got saved I'm sure I could have learned a lot of false things from people that were similar but actually very different because look it's not like it was I mean even when I was a kid before I was saved I thought that Pope Francis was a weirdo I know I thought the Catholic Church was bizarre when I was a kid I thought it was a cult I've always believed that that's what I was taught I wasn't saved but I was like why is this guy wearing a dress and then they're bowing down and kissing his foot and all these weird things but here's the thing about that I wouldn't have thought that about you know the minister of my church in the United Methodist Church even after I got saved I was like well I hope he's saved and I actually talked to him found out he wasn't saved and imagine that but the thing is I would have known it about the Catholic Pope I would have known it about the Hindu Swami I would have known it about the Buddhist monk but just various generic Christian leaders that have the wrong gospel I would have just assumed that they're sincere and nice and just deceived and then of course as you learn and you get older and you read the Bible and you get experience what do you realize these people are spiritual cockroaches they are spiritual mice they are wicked disgusting they're prayed and the Bible says ungodly men they are not good people say what does that mean look you can go online and listen to John MacArthur and they're the person asked this question in this Calvinist forum what's the difference between smoking weed and drinking wine this is literally what John MacArthur said he said you know the purpose of smoking weed is to get a high and he said when you drink wine it does not inhibit your judgment at all I'm just like and then people clap I'm like what kind of an idiot are you I mean drinking wine doesn't inhibit your judgment regardless of what you think on the top of everything's a sin or not of course it inhibits your judgment you got to be kidding me you say what is he showing he's showing that although he has a form of godliness oh no he's not living a holy and separated life I mean maybe you've seen on the news with TD Jakes I mean how many guys have come out and said that they were sexually assaulted by TD Jakes a lot he said man I'm shocked I'm not shocked you learn as you go that these false prophets are spiritual cockroaches they're just like the creeping thing from Genesis 1 as the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3 and Jude 1 then it says down here in verse number 7 in the context of this chapter is about false prophets but in verse 7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like man are giving themselves over to fornication once again unclean just going around sleeping around and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire likewise also these filthy dreamers what's another word for filthy dirty and in fact filthy is a stronger word than dirty so is it dirty it's like I mean our mice dirty no they're filthy I agree with the AI overview our mice dirty creatures no they're filthy is the cockroach a dirty creature no it's filthy and Bible says these false prophets are filthy they're sinful they are wicked people go on your Bible to John chapter 3 John 3 you know sometimes you you know read things in the Bible and it's hard to comprehend unless you see it in action you know I'll give an example I've given before with with my life because you know here in the Philippines one of the major problems is there is this huge LGBT culture and it really shocks and we have a lot of Americans here today and it's like the biggest shock to Americans when they first get here like whoa I've never seen so many cross-dressers in my life it is a major problem here in the Philippines and I remember you know when my wife and I first started talking I was explaining to her about how there's bad people children of the devil and you know I was kind of lightly explaining it everything and of course you know my wife has been Baptist for longer than me and of course that kind of flies in the face of what most Baptists teach right and so when I first told it to my wife it's kind of hard to comprehend that there's literally people out there that are just bad like specifically referring to the LGBT that they are just a bunch of predators and wicked and disgusting people and I remember my wife kind of had trouble fully comprehending it she saw it in the Bible and she said that's what it says but I remember she called me one time and she was on a gypney and there was these two homos and this little kid went in and then right after they got out they just kind of openly said this kid's gonna be easy all we have to do is buy him something we can do whatever we want with him and my wife was like so disgusted so horrified and I remember you know she called me she was talking about it and I was like I think she thought I would be surprised I'm like yeah you know doesn't surprise me because here's the thing about this you kind of have to experience it to fully get it and then you realize whoa that's what they're actually like and see with false prophets I think it's very hard for us to understand how these people that have a form of godliness are actually really disgusting and perverted and wicked people in their personal life and I believe that's why God's trying to drive home think of the cockroach think of the mouse or the rat it's like yeah they're pretty disgusting creatures aren't they and God's trying to say hey that's what the false prophet is actually like point number one the comparison between the false prophet and the mouse or the cockroach is they're dirty or they're filthy we know another thing that shows the similarity between the false prophet and the cockroach and the mouse is they hate the light isn't that true with cockroaches I mean you go home tonight you turn on the light there's a good chance all the sudden you're just gonna see a bunch of just creatures just right I mean like at our new house like we have not had a mouse there the we've lived there over a year and we have a lot of neighborhood cats you know I don't have a pet cat I'm not really into animals but I don't really like cats at all I was oh even when I was a kid like I'm not a dog person now but as a kid I love dogs I hated cats I've always been I don't like cats at all but and you know sometimes the cats really annoy me because they get in the trash they tear it up a little bit or they use the bathroom you know right in you know your your front little area and you got to clean it up it's kind of gross but then I remind myself what would I rather have the cat or the rat not that hard of a question for me what would I rather deal with the cat doing that you know once every two weeks or having mice in my house it's like I'll live with the cat doing that every few weeks because they will keep away the mouse now for those of you that are Americans a little bit different here because the rats are bigger than the cats there are some huge huge rats here I mean I'm amazed how they can really so I remember seeing this rat crawl into the sewer when I was out walking one time I'm amazed how could be so big and find a way to just fit inside a small little space I mean it's kind of scary right but in all seriousness having having cats around the area it's like you just don't see mice and rats in our area because there's just a lot of stray cats that are running around and you know what that's far better than dealing with the mouse but when you think of mice and you think of cockroaches they hate light you turn on the light they'll run easy well why is that well they're they're both nocturnal animals they prefer to be awake at nighttime and asleep in the light what's interesting about this is the vast majority of creeping animals are nocturnal but the vast majority of larger animals are like us they're awake during the day and they sleep at night isn't it interesting the disgusting little creeping things they hate the light they're awake when it's dark and of course as a human that's kind of weird obviously you know you might work a job where you know you work through the night or whatever and I get that but doesn't it just kind of even like in our body itself it's like when it starts to get dark you start to get tired I've driven for 18 straight hours before in the US like when my family moved from my wife and I moved from you know Pennsylvania area to Sacramento California one day I drove for 18 hours with like two very short bathroom breaks along the way because we were trying to make it out in just a couple days like a 45-hour drive or something like that and you know my strategy was basically start about an hour and a half before it gets light because I can kind of will myself to stay awake while it's dark and then when it's light you're not gonna fall asleep because it's light outside and I remember I was trying to go as far as I could get and then basically all of a sudden it started to get a bit dark and all of a sudden it's like you know I had to fight to stay awake you say why because the darkness has that effect it actually is a physiological effect it's not just psychological it has a physiological effect where you're actually gonna get tired as a result of it being dark and I remember you know this was a second day on our travel and you know I'm trying to make it one more town one more town right just 40 more miles to the next stop and I remember I was like I was really tired and the next stop was a long ways away and we stayed in Salt Lake City Utah it's like the home of some of the biggest spiritual rats in America you know the head of the Mormon Church right there in Salt Lake City and I was like are we really gonna stay in Salt Lake City it's like and that's where we stayed our second night on our travel but what I'm saying is that you know as humans you know we're awake during the day we sleep at night but the creeping things are usually nocturnal including both the cockroach and the mouse so you won't you won't really see mice awake as much during the day but if you've ever woken up early in the morning and if you have a mouse in your house sometimes you hear them inside the kitchen they're just running around scurrying around and they're doing it when it's dark and then of course you turn on the light and then all of a sudden sometimes it gets scared it might jump right over you it's just like right well how does that relate to false prophets well here's thing about this you know with animals they hate the light right what is the light because we're using the physical to explain the spiritual in this sermon so what is the light spiritually speaking well I could think of the light of God's Word I could see the light of the world is Jesus you think of the Bible you think of God's Word that's right you say well wait a minute but wait a minute spiritual false prophets they do like God's Word no they don't they hate God's actual word and they hate the actual preaching of God's Word I mean didn't the Pharisees try to kill Jesus over and over and over you say why well the Bible tells us in John chapter 3 verse 19 and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light why because their deeds were evil now our church is is not a small church but we're not a mega church and we're never going to be a mega church you say why because at our church I just preach the truth and although you're here because you want to hear God's Word isn't it true that most people don't want to hear God's Word isn't sure that most people want to live a sinful life and never have somebody tell them no you're wrong you need to make a change why because their deeds are evil according to the Bible verse 20 for everyone that doeth evil hated the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved but he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are rotten God and what I would like to ask the Pharisee if you are such a good and spiritual person why are you acting like a spiritual rat why do you hate the light and the preaching of God's Word so much why are you like a cockroach that is hiding in the darkness and then you just scurry once the light comes on now what's interesting in this chapter is that Jesus is addressing a man by the name of Nicodemus and Nicodemus was a Pharisee but in John 3 Nicodemus is not actually a bad guy but he's a Pharisee and he's hanging out with a bunch of Pharisees and what's interesting is that if you go to verse 1 of the chapter it says in John 3 verse 1 there's a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews the same came to Jesus by night you say well why is he coming by night well because he's afraid of getting caught coming during the day and the thing is if you are hanging out with a bunch of spiritual cockroaches you're gonna start acting like a spiritual cockroach too and I think that's kind of one thing Jesus trying to say like why why are you acting like a spiritual cockroach I mean if you're not like them why are you hanging out with them and you know one thing I would love to ask a lot of Baptist preachers if you really believe salvation is graced by grace through faith why are you hanging out with a bunch of false prophets that are preaching a false gospel look here in the Philippines at almost every single Baptist Church Manny Pacquiao would be welcome to get up and preach a sermon not at this church now look don't misunderstand me if I met Manny Pacquiao I would try to give him the gospel I'm not saying that he's a child of the devil but he doesn't have the same gospel that I have and I'll try to give him the gospel I'm not gonna let him give us the gospel well I mean if you get a driver's license I mean there's conditions right if you want to get your driver's license it's like that guy's like yep and if you don't believe me just look it up we had a video on Manny Pacquiao we put up several years ago that just shows a full-blown work salvation and the thing you say well why are you that strict because why would I hang out with spiritual cockroaches when we're not that if we're clean why would we hang out with the unclean I mean if we have the right gospel why would we invite somebody coming in here that has the wrong gospel other Baptist churches Jewish rabbis get up and speak it's like a Jewish rabbi I mean what do I have in common he that believeth on the Sun hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Sun shall not see life so why would I have a Jewish rabbi get up and explain the Old Testament to me when he doesn't believe in the Sun and doesn't understand anything that he's saying the same reason why we're not going to have high-level politicians come in here and speak you say why because of the fact we believe salvation is by grace through faith and we're going to have nothing to do with spiritual cockroaches turn to Leviticus chapter 11 Leviticus 11 see the first thing that you can think of with mice and cockroaches is they're dirty it's probably one of the first things that comes to your mind and you say well the false prophets they're not dirty they're not sinful oh yes they are because the Bible is saying they're like a mouse or a cockroach another thing you think of the mouse and the cockroach is they hate the light they're nocturnal they are awake at night and sleep during the day most of the time they hate the light you turn on the light they just run away and guess what the false prophets they hate the actual light of God's Word point number three when it comes to the mouse and the cockroach they spread disease that's one of the problems with them being dirty creatures is they are disease spreaders says here in Leviticus chapter 11 verse 41 and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination it shall not be eaten whatsoever goeth upon the belly and whatsoever goeth upon all four whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth then he shall not eat for they are an abomination you shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them that you should be defiled thereby see the Bible says that if you are around that atmosphere and you touch them since they are unclean you become unclean you become abominable they can spread it on to you now look Jesus is giving you an actual physical example but he's trying to drive home a spiritual point to you look if you kill a mouse in your house are you going to pick that up with your hands I mean I killed mice at my old house and guess what I didn't pick it up with my hand I mean yes sometimes I don't want to let the cockroach get away so I resort to smashing it but you know then it's like I wash my hand and I get a tissue and I throw it away you say why because it's dirty and it could spread disease I didn't even know this but somebody told me at our church in Pampanga yesterday that cockroach cockroaches can spread polio by biting it's like these creatures they spread diseases and you think of a lot of the biggest disease spreaders out there I mean what are they they're the insects they're the little bugs they are the creeping things those are the ones that actually spread these diseases and the Bible is saying hey you know what that's what the false prophet is like as well verse 44 prime the Lord your God you shall therefore sanctify yourselves and you shall be holy for I am holy neither shall you defy yourself with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth for I'm the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God you shall therefore be holy for I am holy this is the law of the beast and of the fowl of every living creature that moveth in the waters and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the beasts that may be eaten and the beasts that may not be eaten what is the Bible speaking about in terms of spiritual false prophets how do we apply this not getting their disease spread to us how about never listening to Ellie Soriano how about never watching a debate with brother Ellie you learn bad things from both sides some of the dumbest things I've ever heard from anybody's mouth are out of the lips of Ellie Soriano well I mean God is not really omnipresent it's just the eyes of the Lord are everywhere yeah I mean that might sound wise to someone that doesn't know anything about the Bible but it sounds pretty dumb to me why would you listen to a false prophet what what are you expecting to learn what do you hope to learn I'll tell you what you're gonna learn you're gonna get this disease spread to you you'll start getting foolish doctrine look if you know somebody's false don't listen to them just read the Bible find a good source if you want to hear good preaching find a good source of information and listen to that don't listen to bad sources of information turn your Bible to John 10 John 10 John chapter 10 see the Bible compares the false prophet to the creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth first 38 references are referring to cockroaches referring to mice and in the last two references referring to false prophets what is the Bible trying to tell you well the Bible is trying to say that just as the cockroach and the mouse is dirty so are the false prophets very sinful and wicked people the Bible is trying to say that you know what just as the cockroach and the mouse they hate the light the false prophets hate the actual preaching of God's Word think about the Pharisees that wanted to kill Jesus for the words that he had to say just as the cockroach and the mouse spread disease false prophets spread false doctrine and deceive and confuse people by the way as I said I don't think that we're thinking of every creature that's out there because with the points we looked at does that really describe the ants no I mean ants don't seem to be afraid of light I mean yeah they'll eat like leftover food but it's not like they're just hanging out in dirty places or whatever I mean they're not really like the cockroach I don't have a problem with ants I have a problem with cockroaches I don't problem with all animals I've got a problem with mice and that's what the Bible is trying to say that this is what the false prophets are like this is what Pope Francis is like this is what the false religious teachers are actually like that are preaching a false gospel they are like a spiritual cockroach they're like a spiritual mouse whatever for they're scavengers they're scavengers why does a mouse go inside your house to steal the food that you've left over why does a cockroach go inside of your house to steal the food and the crumbs that you have left out is that not true they're not producing their own food they're just stealing the food that is out there they're scavengers and by definition of scavengers an animal that feeds on carrion dead plant material or refuse refuse just what's left over and that's what you have with mice I mean one of the secrets as I said clean your house it's gonna help get rid of the mice it's gonna help get rid of the cockroach is why they don't have anything to eat John 10 verse 7 John 10 7 then said Jesus on to them again barely barely I say in you I am the door of the sheep all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not hear them now there have been a lot of people that have stepped up at one time or another and claim to be the Messiah claim to be the Savior this spiritual guru God manifests whatever and it's it's not just all the ones before Jesus that also includes a certain man in Davao that claims to be the Son of God today all that came before and all that came after and look at America yet Jim Jones in America you had Charles Manson go back and look at the lives of those people Charles Manson you can go and read on Wikipedia for those that are not aware who he is Charles Manson became famous because he claimed to be the Son of God and then he convinced his little cult to murder a bunch of people including some celebrities back in I think the late 60s and so it became like an internationally famous thing you know he's in prison until he died a few years ago and he claimed to be the Son of God but if you go back to when he was a teenager he was arrested as a teenager for forcing a young little boy sexually assaulting him at knifepoint what is the biblical punishment for that according to the Word of God yeah and guess what they could have prevented all those murders and they just put them to death I mean when God's commandments are in the earth the people of the world learn righteousness but that's not what's going on in countries today they don't apply what God says they don't follow the rules of the Bible they don't follow the commandments of the Bible all that ever came before Jesus were a bunch of thieves and robbers and isn't that what a mouse is doing when it runs in and eats the bread on your kitchen table it's stealing I am the door by me if any man enter and he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy I am come that they might have life and they that they might have it more abundantly see what Jesus is saying is there's a lot of bad people out there and they're coming to steal and kill and to destroy you say what is the Bible trying to say they are trying to destroy your life look a spiritual cockroach wants everybody else to be a miracle spiritual cockroach too they don't want to benefit your life they don't want to help you yeah they have a form of godliness they'll say they're there to help they're not trying to help your life they're not trying to help you fix your marriage they're not trying to help you fix your parenting they're not trying to help you become successful and be a godly person no because they are dirty on an unclean they want everybody else to be look isn't it true just in a sense not even looking at children of the devil but just normal people if someone is a drunkard they want everybody else to drink if they are gonna just do some disgusting sin they want everybody to do the exact same thing and these false prophets they want everybody to be just like them disgusting filthy wicked creatures I've said this story before I know we have a lot of visitors here so so you might not have heard me say this but I remember that you know a long time ago I worked a job and you know there's this person we were doing like a community activity there's this woman that was clearly you know and let me help you out with the biggest miscommunication between Americans and Filipinos with words is the word tomboy okay because here in the Philippines tomboy means lesbian and in America that's not what it means it just means a girl that's good at sports at least where I came from it doesn't really mean a lesbian at all right but there's this woman in the crowd that was clearly a lesbian okay so there's no confusion on what I'm saying okay and she had a rainbow on her shirt with one word recruiter it's like just saying I want everybody to be just like me and look the LGBT might not admit that but vice Pong ate just a disgusting little cockroach he wants everybody to be just like him these homos want everybody to live the same wicked and disgusting and filled because here's the thing they don't enjoy their life don't be confused on this they don't enjoy their life they hate their life and they want everybody else to hate their life too and look these spiritual cockroaches that are out there these disgusting creatures these disgusting rodents they want everybody to be just like them they want to destroy your life and they're scavengers they steal so they might stand up and pretend to be something why because they want to get a following they want to get people on their side but in reality it's like no you're just a disgusting little rodent point number one the mouse and the cockroach they're dirty just like the false prophet is very sinful and dirty whatever to the mouse and the cockroach they hate the light and the false prophet hates the preaching of God's Word and the actual Word of God point number three the mouse and the cockroach they spread disease and the false prophet they spread their false doctrine on to other people but number four the mouse and the cockroach they're scavengers they take what you have they don't produce their own they're just taken from you hey what that is the same thing that the false prophets do as well point number five they creep in I mean isn't that the exact wording to describe them because the Bible spoke about the creeping thing and why did it call them the creeping thing in Genesis 1 because they creep upon the earth that's what about refers to the mouse and the insect and you know the cockroach as a creeping thing because they creep upon the earth and here's the thing about this the false prophet is just like the mouse and guess what they creep see notice what it says in John 10 verse 1 because you think you have to understand this about mice and cockroaches that they're not wanted you don't want them in your house I have never look we've had mice at our old house we've had cockroaches I have never seen a mouse or cockroach walk through the front door have you they don't do that you say what do they do they creep in I mean sometimes you hear the mouse it's like where is it trying to get in at the house where do I have a hole but they don't use the front door and here's the thing about this it's the same with the false prophet John 10 verse 1 barely barely I say to you he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up some other way the same as a thief and a robber but he that enter within by the door is the shepherd of the sheep look you know when I go home you know what I do I take my keys I unlock the door and I walk through the front door I don't go through a window I don't dig a hole in the side of the house to get in I don't have to like sneak in you know to some spot that's small I just walk through the front door you know I've never seen a mouse just walk through my front door I've never seen a cockroach just walk through the front door and yet we have cockroaches in our house we don't have a lot but we have some it's like well I didn't see them come in you say what they crept in they crept in unawares didn't they see this is what the false prophet is like you say what are you saying I'm saying the false prophet does not announce his present the false prophet doesn't knock on the door taupo and just walk in no you know what they do they they will go through the front door but they'll pretend to be something that they're not they're not making it real what they actually are no false prophet says I just want to let people know I hate my life because I'm a wicked and disgusting person and I want you to hate yours too you ever hear anybody say that but make no mistake about it that is the truth about Pope Francis he hates his life he's a disgusting spiritual cockroach and he wants everybody else to be just like him but he's not gonna tell you that he's gonna seem nice say oh he's such a nice person though I mean he's promoting you know love and peace and kindness he seems so nice Joe Osteen your best life now he seems so nice they're liars they're phonies they're creeping in they are pretending to be something that they are not they are pretending to be good people when in reality you're not fooling me you're just a spiritual cockroach you are a spiritual mouse you are a rat that is what the Bible is actually saying go to June 1 June 1 see false prophets are coming in to destroy you so they cannot be obvious about it just like the mouse I mean it secretly tries to steal your food doesn't it it comes at night and then if they're you know awake during the day they're gonna do it very quietly and if you come near them they're gonna run away right you get anywhere near a cockroach and man those things fly they just start running sometimes they literally fly here too that's a little bit different in the u.s. versus here as well they literally fly sometimes but it's like they will go very very fast it's like you get near them it's like you don't even know there's a cockroach and look I I don't consider myself an incredibly like scared person but when you see that thing crawling right by you it's like the natural reaction is often to just jump back right you say why they're gross they're disgusting they're filthy no look when I see an ant I don't move at all I don't mind ants I mean if I saw if an ant was crawling on me you know I usually will just like kind of look at it I don't I don't even try to kill ants most of the time I don't I don't dislike ants but if all of a sudden I had a cockroach crawling on me it's gonna be like it's gross and imagine if you got like a mouse that comes inside your shirt or something I mean that that would be nasty but there's a difference between that and a cockroach in the mouse they're gross they're disgusting and what they creep in they do not make it manifest why they are trying to steal secretly you know what the false prophet they will pretend to be good but it's all a facade it's all fake it's not real because they're coming to destroy your life Jude 1 verse 12 these are spots in your feast of charity notice this when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear clouds they are without water carried about of winds trees is for withers without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots see you know there is one difference between the mouse and the spiritual house with a mouse we know it's a mouse but with the spiritual mouse it's like they could be right in front of you and you have no idea that they're a spiritual cockroach a spiritual mouse because they're pretending to be something that they are not turn your Bible to verse look at verse 16 verse 16 notice this it says these are murmurs complainers walking after their own loss and notices and their mouth speaketh great swelling words flattery why having men's persons in admiration because of advantage they are trying to make you feel good they're trying to get on your good side why they want to use you they want to take advantage of you now the lot of false prophets the big thing they're after is like Balaam they're after the money but then you look a lot of a lot of the spiritual false prophets especially in these these calls and often it's like the young kids are sexually assaulted and they use their position of power to basically just take advantage of young little kids but they use flattery so people think they're so nice they think they're so good I mean remember how shocked all the Apostles are with Judas Iscariot where they're just like Jesus basically literally says he's the one it's like I wonder why he said that it's like it went straight over their head and I'm not saying that the Apostles were dumb I don't believe that it's just it was really hard for them to fathom because Judas seemed like a spiritual giant it's like now he's a spiritual cockroach it's completely fake verse 17 but beloved remember you the words which are spoken before the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ how they told you there should be mockers in the last time you should walk out for their own ungodly lust these be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit see the Bible says these people they separate themselves what does that mean they do things very quietly they do things very privately they don't make it obvious they don't just announce it to the entire congregation they do it very subtly that's how they get away with it now look me personally you can ask me whatever I believe about whatever topic I'll tell you what I believe I'm not ashamed of what I believe I'm not trying to hide what I believe you ask what I think about salvation I'll give you a very clear answer it's not gonna be one where you walk away saying I wonder what Pastor Stuckey does believe about that does he believe in eternal security or not I couldn't tell in case there's confusion I give it to them eternal life and they shall never perish once saved always say look I'm not ashamed or afraid you say why I'm not a spiritual rat I'm not trying to hide who I am to take advantage of people but you know what around this world there are a lot of spiritual cockroaches and spiritual rats that will pretend to be something they're not you say why having men's persons and admiration because of advantage turn to Jeremiah 13 Jeremiah 13 I mean if somebody asks you hey you know I missed the sermon what was the sermon about you can sum it up like this you know you know pastor told us why God created the cockroach just try to show us that's what Pope Francis is like that's kind of the summation of the sermon that Pope Francis is a cockroach a spiritual cockroach as I said he's pretty much on his deathbed I don't know if he's alive or dead but I'm not going to shed a tear either way whatever one cockroaches and mice they're very dirty I guess not according to like AI overview and some of these other experts that are out there but to the common person it's like no I'm pretty sure a mouse is dirty a cockroach is dirty whatever to they hate the light and isn't that true with false prophets they hate the preaching of God's Word whatever three they spread disease I mean mice and cockroaches spread a lot of diseases a lot of the big plagues have come as a result of mice or rats when they trace it back anyway the false prophets they spread their false doctrine onto people but number four they're scavengers the mouse and the cockroach they are stealing from us they come into your house and take the food they didn't go to the grocery store and buy it but then they come and take it off your kitchen table and the false prophet they're scavengers they're just trying to steal what other people have done and they want to destroy the life and take advantage of those that they steal but number five they creep in I mean you know you kind of have to creep in when you're not wanted because look if a mouse wanted to get in my house I'm going to shut the door and say no so what do they have to do they got to find a way in they creep in and guess what the false prophet they do not let people know how bad of a person they are they're creeping in but lastly they're unchanging you see a mouse will always be a mouse a cockroach will always be a cockroach and a false prophet is a bad person they are a child of the devil they are a reprobate and they will always be a reprobate now there are times when false prophets just change religion and they become a false prophet in another religion but there's still a reprobate a mouse will always be a mouse a cockroach will always be a cockroach and a false prophet will always be a bad person Jeremiah 13 verse 23 Jeremiah 13 verse 23 can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard is spots then may he also do good that are accustomed to do evil I mean can a leopard change his spots the Bible saying now now here's thing about false prophets they can pretend to change but they didn't change you know another animal the Bible mentions that talks that is used to reference really bad people as a snake in fact that's probably the first one you think if we are in the year of the snake with Chinese New Year and the first you know the devil in Genesis 3 manifests himself as a serpent right and you know there's a lot of characteristics I preached a sermon a couple months ago and the characteristics of snakes that you can look between you know the devil and snakes and bad people as well but one of the things with snakes is snakes have a tendency to shed their skin right you know and depending on where you live like I don't see snakes as much here but you know growing up in kind of the country sort of atmosphere in the woods it's like you would see snake skin in your backyard sometimes and you know well snakes shed skin they do it about four to twelve times a year now the thing is that when it sheds its skin it almost seems like it's different but the only reason to shed his skin is because it got bigger and its skin can no longer fit so it falls off but then guess what it's still a snake and it's gonna do the same thing and what bad people it's like oh they changed I mean don't you see that with people that get thrown in prison that are like murderers and serial killers and everything it's like oh you know I got right with God I got saved I changed and yet they haven't changed at all they are still the exact same right and you know what the false prophet they can shed their skin a million times they're still a reprobate they're still a bad person go to second Timothy chapter 3 we'll close up second Timothy chapter 3 you say wow this is not the most pleasant sermon look some topics are pleasant and some are not how do you preach a sermon on false prophets and make it a pleasant one no actually we see a physical example where the Bible is trying to say and show you how disgusting they are look God made the cockroach for a reason and one of the big reasons is to just show you and teach you how disgusting the false prophet is the next time you see a car and look you'll certainly see it here in the Philippines you'll see cockroaches running around the ground either inside of a house or outside it's like the next time you see a cockroach or a mouse or rat I want you to put inside your head this is what the false prophet is like this is what God is trying to teach me just this disgusting creature I mean I think a lot of the creatures that God has created are amazing and wonderful you look at them I mean I love the zoo I love the aquarium I find it fascinating and you know there's a lot of big creatures that you know obviously I would be afraid of a bear or lion if I was like face-to-face but it's a it's an amazing creature that God has created and then you got the cockroach and then you got the mouse it's not like when I stop and I look at a cockroach I'm like man what an amazing creation that God made what I think when I see the cockroach is that's what I think second Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 this know also then the last days perilous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traders heady high-minded low lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God these people sound like good people to you they sound pretty bad they proud sound pretty disgusting they sound pretty sinful and wicked having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away I mean they have a form of godliness and look false prophets they have a form of godliness and look sometimes false prophets certain things they say are true certain things are correct and it's very easy for them to deceive people in fact I would say every single person when you first got saved if you got saved as an adult all of us could have fallen victim to false prophets that were pretending to be like-minded but weren't really all of us could in fact our church is filled full of people that would say that at their old churches like for a while they thought they were saved and then at some point they realized they weren't really saved and you say well how is that possible because a lot of people have you know that their pastors are spiritual cockroaches and they think it's the same thing but but it's not but don't those pastors have a form of godliness I'm not saying every pastor's a bad person but most are I mean sometimes I talk to people out soul-winning that are kind of non-religious they listen but they're not and you know one thing that I will sometimes mention to people like that is you know well you know who do you think Jesus preached against the most religious people are non-religious they always say non-religious is like no preaching against religious people and guess what if Jesus was around the day guess who he preached against the most religious leaders he would not be preaching as much against the non-religious now of course there's the preaching like that as well but a lot of the preaching would be centered against the Pharisees the Sadducees the scribes verse 6 for of this sort are they these false prophets which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse loss look the next time you see two white guys with a name tag that says elder with white shirts on a bicycle that are an elder that's like 19 years old with you know blondish brown hair and blue eyes and they smile at you realize they're a spiritual cockroach they're not a good person I mean we've seen Jehovah's Witnesses in this subdivision haven't we spiritual rats but notice what it says here in verse 7 ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth I mean Jesus is the truth if I was saying that these false prophets they are not able to get saved Bob says they could not believe and see here's the about this no matter how much a rat dreams about I just want to be another animal I want to be a lion I want to be a rhino nope you're gonna stay a rat no matter how much a cockroach wants to be another creature nope you're gonna be a cockroach and you know what a false prophet is always gonna be a bad person they're ever learning they learn all of this spiritual information and yet they are not able to actually get safe you say why because a spiritual cockroach will always be a cockroach let's close in word of prayer your Heavenly Father thank you for allowing us to be here today and ask you to help us to apply this to our lives God help us just to understand the analogy that you're giving help us to understand how disgusting and wicked and evil these false prophets are God help us to understand and learn and know our doctrine so we can defend what we believe and help us just to rescue normal people that are at these churches and give them the gospel and and help them see the salvation and get saved God so they don't go down that road as well God we pray these things in Jesus name Amen all right for our last song let's turn our hymns to him number 45 in number 45 let's sing the song when I can read my title here on a bird when I can read my title here I'll be here and why my weeping eyes and why my weeping why my weeping eyes and why my weeping I should against my That Satan's rage and face a frowning world And face a frowning world And face a frowning world That Satan's rage and face a frowning world That cares like our deluged scum and swords of sorrow May I but simply reach my hope, my God, my hand, my own May I but simply reach my hope, my God, my hand, my own There shall I bake my weary soul in seas of heavenly rest And not a wave of trouble roll across my peaceful rest Across my peaceful rest Across my peaceful rest And not a wave of trouble roll across my peaceful rest Amen. 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