Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Faith 4 of Baptist Church this morning.
So good to see you all here for a Sunday morning service.
This time, if you all please find your seats now,
take a hymn on, go to hymn number 210.
We'll get started this morning.
Hymn number 210, wonderful grace of Jesus.
Hymn number 210.
This one begins, wonderful grace of Jesus,
greater than all my sin.
Hymn number 210.
When we get to that chorus, if you know how to sing those parts, if you would just do
that and we'll sing it out together now, hymn number 210, sing it out now.
to our singing this morning. We want to go before Lauren as a blessing on this service so I've asked
for the Jason Furbey if you'd please some prayer please. The opportunity to hear your holy, your
hallowed, and your sacred word. I think the faith work Baptist church in King James Bible as you
feel pastor Anderson with your holy spirit open our hearts on our ears to receive your perfect
word. I pray this in Jesus' holy name. Amen. Amen. Hymn number 208, number 208. Grace greater than
This one begins, 208 marvelous grace of our loving Lord,
hymn number 208, let's lift our voice together now
on that first hymn number 208.
there if you don't have a bullet.
Slip up your hand, nice and high.
I'm gonna need a bulletin myself, please.
On the inside, we've got our service time.
Sunday mornings at 10.30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six.
Wednesday nights at seven is our Bible study.
This week will be in Hosea chapter three.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below
as well as salvations and baptisms.
Across the page is the detailed schedule
for our missions conference.
A big, exciting event that we have coming up here
in just a little over a month.
So check that out and try to work in whatever you can into your schedule.
Obviously those that are local may just kind of a la carte pick whichever events you want to be a part of
but you're definitely invited to everything. We got some great speakers coming into preach,
all kinds of fun activities so take a look at that. On the back we want to make sure that we
try to park in the area that is designated here as we get used to being in the new building.
So we're supposed to leave this area as clear as possible that way the other businesses can still function while we're here
I'm sure you guys are smashing that taco place pretty hard anyway, so they they should love us anyway
but just try to park in that green area and
That will help us out with that and then on the back also the annual chili cookoff is coming up
This is Friday night October 31st
from 4.30 to 7.30 right here.
All chilies must be made from scratch.
Chilies must be entered by the 5 p.m. cutoff
in order to be considered for the prizes.
And then we will provide side dishes and spice cider.
So we hope you'll come for that.
We're going to start taking the yearbook photos
starting on October 5th.
And so keep that in mind.
We'll have other dates to sign up for as well.
so that you can get your fancy portraits taken for the year.
And then we've got a Spanish language cruise
mission strip coming up October 20th or 26th.
Who's going on that Spanish language cruise mission strip?
All right, bunch of people, very good.
So be praying for them.
I know it's kind of a select few in our church
that speak the language that are going on that,
but let's pray that they have good success on that trip.
and that is about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, you should find the answer
in front of your hymn with the hymn entitled,
Be Thou My Vision.
If you don't have an answer, please raise your hand.
You'll receive one and we'll sing it together
on that first verse, Be Thou My Vision,
O Lord of my heart.
Go on your hymnals now to hymn number 441, number 441.
Great is thy faithfulness.
Hymn number 441.
Let's sing this out.
On to the Lord this morning, giving him all our praise.
Hymn number 441.
Great is thy faithfulness.
Oh God, my Father.
let's turn our Bibles to Romans chapter number 3. Romans chapter number 3, as we
always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse number 1. Follow
along silently with Brother Dan as he reads Romans 3 beginning in verse number
1. Romans chapter 3, the Bible reads, one advantage then hath the Jew, and what
prophet is there of circumcision? Much every way, chiefly, because that unto
them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Shall
God forbid you let God be true
But every man a liar as it is written that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?
I speak as a man
God forbid for then how shall God judge the world for if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie under his glory
Why am why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
And not rather, as we be slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say,
let us do evil that good may come, whose damnation is just.
What then? Are we better than they?
No, and no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin.
As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one.
There is none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way.
They are together become unprofitable.
There is none that doeth good, no not one.
Their throat is an open sepulcher.
With their tongues they have used deceit.
The poison of asps is under their lips.
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
And the way of peace have they not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped
and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore, by the deeds of the law,
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight,
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the laws manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.
Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe,
for there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed
through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say at this time, his righteousness
that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law?
Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.
Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Is he the God of the Jews only?
Is he not also the God of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also.
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision
through faith.
Do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid.
Yea, we establish the law.
Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for bringing us here safely
Thank you for your word Lord, and I pray that you feel pastor Anderson with the Holy Ghost as he preaches it to us this morning
And I pray that you give us wisdom through it. We love you and pray in Jesus's name. Amen
Man, the title of my sermon this morning is the wickedness of human nature.
The wickedness of human nature, our world tells us that human beings are basically good
and that we don't need the Bible or God to tell us anything about morality because if
we just kind of look inside of our own hearts, we're going to find all this goodness and
righteousness within.
We have two very famous verses here in Romans chapter three
that we use in our salvation gospel plan
like Romans road type soul winning
where you got Romans chapter three verse 10
as it is written, there's none right, just know not one.
And then we've got Romans 323 for all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God.
Of course, these are extremely famous verses
talking about just the universal sinfulness of mankind.
But what's interesting is if we look at what's between those verses,
Paul actually ends up just kind of giving us this tour de force
of just the wickedness of humanity.
And when you go back in the Old Testament, you can actually look up these quotations
because what he's doing is just rapid-fire quoting scriptures
from the book of Psalms and Isaiah listing off all of these bad attributes.
And the idea here is that without God,
without the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, without the Holy Spirit's indwelling,
we would be really rotten people. And that is why the world is in the condition that it is,
because human nature is wicked at its core. Now, starting in verse number nine, the Bible says,
No and no wise for we have before proved both Jews and gentiles
That they are all under sin as it is written. There is none righteous. No, not one. There is none that understand it
There is none that seek it after God. They're all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable
There's none that do with good. No
Not one so we're gonna go back and we're gonna look up these scriptures in the Old Testament see where they come from
The first part there that we just read comes from Psalm 14.
So go back to Psalm 14.
We could also turn to Psalm 53
because Psalm 14 and Psalm 53 are almost exactly the same.
They're extremely similar.
So Paul is quoting one or both of those two
because they both say pretty much the same thing.
But it's funny, you know, how many times
I've knocked on somebody's door out soul winning
and asked them if they knew for sure
they're going to heaven.
And a lot of times they'll say,
well, I'm going to heaven because I'm a good person.
Or I think I'm a pretty good person.
Or what do you have to do to go to heaven?
Oh, be a good person.
I mean, we've all heard this hundreds,
yay, thousands of times.
And I remember one time I knocked on the door
of this Mormon lady, and you know,
there are thousands of others that gave the same answer,
but I knocked on the door of this Mormon lady,
and you know, I asked her what we have to do to go to heaven
and she says be good and talks about being good.
and then I proceed to take her to Romans 3
and show her this scripture that we just read, Romans 3, 10 through 12.
And she just frowned it at the whole time and when I finished reading it she said,
well that's stupid.
I'm like, what do you think, the Bible is stupid?
You know, well, that's stupid to just say
that there's nobody good, that just nobody does good.
I'm like, well, it is the Bible.
It is what God has said.
And let me tell you something.
The goodness that exists in this world,
it exists because of Christianity,
the Holy Spirit, the Word of God.
Without that, we would be way worse than what we are.
And any goodness
that we have in our lives is due to the fact that it's because we're saved and because the
influence on the word of God in our lives. What did the apostle Paul say? He said,
I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
You know the Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it
It's only through the Holy Spirit that we are what we are why we are good people or why whatever goodness
We do have it comes from the Holy Spirit's influence in our lives and
To the degree that we've submitted ourselves to the word of God
That's where the goodness comes from.
But look at Psalm 14 verse one.
This is what the Apostle Paul is quoting.
And it's interesting because it starts out by saying,
the fool has said in his heart,
there is no God.
So, right away, we're not talking about a saved person, we're not talking about someone
who's regenerate, we're talking about the unsaved man, the atheistic man, and it says,
the fool has said in his heart, there is no God, they are corrupt, they have done abominable
works, there's none that do it good.
So you see, without Jesus Christ, without believing in God, without the Holy Spirit,
without the Word of God, no one is good.
That's what the Bible says.
It says there's none that's good, they're corrupt.
And by the way, the Bible says the fool is said in this heart, there is no God.
In our society, somehow it's considered smart or intellectual to believe that there's no
God and that somehow you're of a lower IQ if you actually believe in a Creator.
But let me tell you something, it is foolish and absurd to think that this world could
create itself.
It's absurd to not be able to see the gigantic difference between even the dumbest human and the smartest animal.
Humans are way beyond animals.
Why is there no animal that's kind of almost smart
like a human?
And you know, you got all these scientists
always trying to prove that.
And they got some chimpanzee that pushes a button
and the light bulb comes on or something.
But let's face it, human beings are infinitely smarter
than animals, right?
And obviously, even the simplest life form on this planet,
even the single-celled organism is extremely complicated.
even a little single-celled paramecium
can have like 2.9 billion, or sorry,
290 billion base pairs in its DNA.
You know, so it's just extremely complicated.
And when Charles Darwin even dreamed up
his theory of evolution, DNA was totally unknown.
Not only that, the science of genetics was totally unknown.
Okay, because the father of modern genetics, his name is Gregor Mendel.
He's an Austrian monk.
He lived at the same time as Charles Darwin, but Charles Darwin was totally unfamiliar
with his work because he didn't become famous until long after he was dead.
It was only in the 20th century when people started to think about genetics that they
dug up these old writings from Gregor Mendel, and they're like, wow, this guy was really
things like genetics, and it wasn't till the middle of the 20th century that we really
knew much about DNA, and obviously we've come further and further and since then.
You know what?
The more complexity that we find in biology just shows the stupidity and the absurdity
of thinking that life can originate by itself on its own.
It's unscientific, it doesn't make any sense, impossible.
But yet today, you're considered, you know, anti-science if you actually believe that
God is the Creator, that the Word of God is true.
No, it's actually the idiot that said in his heart that there is no God.
That's what the Bible says.
The fool has said in his heart there is no God.
These are probably the same people that are guzzling Tylenol on TikTok right now because
science.
You know there's a lot of science falsely so called out there my friend
And don't be deceived by anything that just has a label of science tagged on to it,
that somehow that just makes it true or right or logical.
There's a lot of scientists that are bought and paid for by pharmaceutical companies,
bought and paid for by government entities, you know.
And so at the end of the day, anything that's against the Bible and against the Lord is garbage.
I'll put my faith in this book, this is my final authority, and the Bible warned us thousands of years ago
of oppositions to the word of God,
of, quote, science falsely so-called.
And so, no, it's the fool that has said in his heart,
there is no God.
I'm not embarrassed to believe in creation.
I'm not embarrassed to believe that God,
in the beginning, created the heaven and the earth.
What's embarrassing is to think
that everything came from nothing,
because it doesn't make any sense.
And it's false.
The foolish in this art there is no God, they are corrupt, they've done abominable works,
there's none that do it good.
The Lord looked down from heaven, verse 2 there in Psalm 14, upon the children of men.
To see if there were any that did understand and see God, they're all gone aside. They're all together become filthy.
There's none that do it good. No, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity, no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread and call not upon the Lord.
And so notice the picture that the Bible paints is that people who don't believe in God, people who don't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
people who are not saved, they're not good people.
The Bible says they're corrupt, they've done abominable works.
There's none.
God looks down and he's looking at every single person and he says, I cannot find one that
is good, not even one.
And look, we would be the same way if we weren't saved.
If we weren't Christians, but for the grace of God, there go we all.
Now, if you would flip over to Psalm 5, Psalm 5, and we're going to, if you want, you could
keep a finger in Romans 3 and then go back and look at these scriptures and Psalms because
we're going to work down through the list of Romans 3 here.
He said, there's none that do it good, no, not one.
And then in Romans 3, 13, he said, their throat is an open sepulcher.
With their tongues they've used deceit the poison of asps is under their lips
Now if you think about an open sepulcher
What could be more disgusting than the stench of a dead corpse, right?
Rotting dead corpse, putrefaction coming from that open sepulchre.
And the Bible is saying that emanating from the throat of the unregenerate man
is that same kind of just toxic garbage of an open sepulchre.
The throat is like an open sepulchre.
With their tongues, they've used deceit.
The poison of asps is under their lips.
Now let's go back to Old Testament
and see where that quote's coming from.
Psalm 5 verse 8 says this,
Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness,
because of my enemies.
Make thy way straight before my face,
for there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
Their inward part is very wickedness.
And then here's the quote.
Their throat is an open sepulchre.
They flatter with their tongue.
Destroy thou them, O God.
Let them fall by their own counsels,
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against thee,
but let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice,
let them ever shout for joy,
because thou defendest them.
Let them also that love thy name be joyful.
And so again, we're talking about the rottenness of
the unregenerate man, human nature, our human sin nature as people
you know without Christ, without being saved, without the Holy Spirit
just absolute garbage coming out the mouth
right? Just throats and open sepulcher, just all kinds of filth
and wickedness and garbage and of course we see a lot of this
you know in the entertainment industry you know just all kinds of
comedians and all kinds of people out there
just saying all kinds of just really horrible,
disgusting, just filthy communication
proceeding out of their mouth.
Blasphemy against God, things that are perverse,
things that are gross that they talk about.
And then it also says that they flatter with their tongue.
So even when they're saying nice things,
it's for the wrong reason.
You know, even if they're complimenting, being kind, it's a show.
It's not real because it's deceitful what they're doing with their tongue.
With their tongues, they've used deceit.
And then it says, in verse 10,
destroy thou them, O God,
let them fall by their own counsels,
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against thee,
but let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice.
And it's a common theme in the book of Psalms,
just saying, man, these really rotten,
hateful, horrible people,
just destroy them, God, but protect your people.
Bless your people, bless those that are righteous.
Now, if you would flip over to Psalm 140,
And we're gonna look at the next quote from Romans chapter three because what we're doing is we're going through Romans three
And we're looking up the source where Paul is getting these quotes because Paul goes through this big long
list of
What people are like both Jews and Gentiles without Jesus Christ without the Holy Spirit
He's like this is what people are like
And he goes through this list, but he's not making it up.
What he's doing is he's kind of quoting and paraphrasing
a whole bunch of verses from a bunch of different Psalms
and the book of Isaiah, and he's stringing them together.
So the next place he quotes from is Psalm 140 verse one,
or verse three, but we're gonna start in verse one.
It says, deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man,
preserve me from the violent man,
which imagine mischiefs in their heart.
Continually are they gathered together for war and isn't that the world that we live in right just constant warfare
constant violence
Constant mischief in this world, and he says in verse three. They've sharpened their tongues like a serpent
Adder's poison
is under their lips.
And what did Paul say in Romans 3.13?
The poison of asps is under their lips, right?
Asp, adder, these are synonymous,
talking about a venomous serpent, a poisonous snake.
Adder is poisonous under the lips, Sila.
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked.
Preserve me from the violent man
who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
And so what we see here,
when we're thinking about the wickedness of human nature,
is that we see that lying is just kind of par for the course in this world.
Unfortunately, this world is filled with liars.
You know, in Romans chapter 3 Paul also says let God be true but every man a liar.
And unfortunately this world is filled with lies and we as Christians
we need to be smart. We need to be wise as serpents
and harmless as doves and so we can't just go through life just believing
everything that we hear.
You know, the Bible says the simple believeeth every word.
Right another way of saying that is the goal of bull believes every word
Human nature is to lie people are constantly lying to us
And we need to understand that truth comes from the word of God and a lot of what we hear out there in this world
We can't trust only the word of God is what we can trust
Okay, because there's a lot of deceit a lot of lying
And so, you know, people will maybe even speak kindly to your face,
and then they're lying about you behind your back.
It's depressing, but it's true.
You know, it's what the Bible says.
This is part of human nature, unfortunately.
Adder's poison is under their lips.
And then it says in verse five there in Psalm 140,
the proud have hid a snare for me and cords.
They've spread a net by the wayside.
They've set jins for me, Selah.
So he's just talking about, you know,
people out there trying to trap the wicked,
trying to nail him and so forth.
Go if you were to Psalm 10,
is the next place we're gonna turn, Psalm 10.
And in Romans chapter three,
Paul's going down the list here. He said their throats and open sepulcher with their tongues
They've used deceit the poison of asps is under their lips
And then he says in verse 14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness
whose mouth is full of
Cursing and bitterness now. What does this mean cursing and bitterness? Well, well cursing
is when you wish ill upon someone else,
the opposite of this would be blessing, right?
If I bless someone, I'd be saying something like,
have a great day, God bless you.
Hey, I hope you do well on your test tomorrow or something.
You know, hey, have a great evening.
Those are all blessings where you're wishing
good upon someone.
And then cursing is the exact opposite of that.
You know, may you slip on a banana peel
or, you know, may your house cave in upon you or something.
You know, all those kind of things, you know,
eat whatever and die.
These are all curses, okay?
And the Bible says here that their mouth is full
of cursing and bitterness.
And what this represents is just a general ill will
toward humanity, ill will toward their fellow man.
They're mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, meaning that they don't love their neighbor
as themselves, but rather they wish ill upon the people around them.
They want other people to suffer.
They don't want people to do well.
Whereas we as Christians, we should in general have goodwill toward men.
Peace on earth and goodwill toward men is what the Bible says.
You got it in the Christmas card last year, you should know that.
have good will toward men and our default should always be to wish people well and
to bless people and to want to help people and to want to do good under
people and the Bible of course says that the most important commandment in the
Bible is to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and that the
second commandment is to love our neighbor as ourself. The opposite of that
would be to just be full of cursing and bitterness. Just hateful and destructive
and wanting to hurt everybody.
instead of wanting to be a blessing to people.
Now let's go back and find the source of this quote
in the Old Testament.
Psalm 10 verse three,
for the wicked boastseth of his heart's desire
and blesses the covetous whom the Lord abhoreth.
The wicked through the pride of his countenance
will not seek after God.
God is not in all his thoughts.
And so what I wanna point out to you is that
When the Apostle Paul is quoting these scriptures, I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the scriptures that he's polling from are
about people who don't believe in God.
They you know, what did the first one say the fool has said in this art
There is no God here
He's saying God is not in all these people's thoughts these people aren't thinking about God kind of reminds you of Romans chapter 1
People who don't want to retain God in their knowledge, you know, they pushed God out of their mind don't even want to think about God
whatsoever and so the apostle Paul is pulling from all these verses in the Old Testament talking about just how rotten people can become
without the Lord
when God is not in their thoughts, when they've said in their heart that there is no God, right?
This is the wickedness of the atheistic, unregenerate, unsaved man.
That's what the Bible is talking about here.
And so it says he will not seek after God through the pride of his countenance.
He's too prideful or arrogant to seek after God.
He just wants to brag about his heart's desire, brag about the love of money,
brag about his supposed achievements, and God's not in all his thoughts.
It says in verse 5, his ways are always grievous.
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight.
As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He had said in his heart, I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity.
And then here's the quote that Paul uses in Romans 3.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud.
under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages.
In the secret places, death he murder the innocent.
His eyes are privily set against the poor.
He lieth and waits secretly as a lion in his den.
He lieth and waits to catch the poor.
He doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net.
And notice here, again, just total malevolence
toward his fellow man. The idea here is just destruction of other people hurt. He doesn't
care who he hurts. And here's the thing, the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all
evil, which while some coveted after, they've erred from the faith and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows. And what the Bible is describing here is covetous, unscrupulous people who love
They're willing to hurt people and you know what sometimes this could be
Overt violence like an actual drug cartel or a gang or something where they're just stacking up bills and
Just killing and hurting people in the process with no regard for the lives that they're destroying
But you know this could also be other things like how about the pornography industry?
or just even a pharmaceutical drug industry
when you have these unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies,
they know that there are problems with the drugs,
they know it's not safe, they know it's not effective,
but you know what, they're making billions of dollars,
they don't care who they hurt,
they don't care who they harm.
All of the booze manufacturers,
all of the drug manufacturers, the gangs,
they just don't care if what they do hurts people.
They'll build a casino and just watch that casino just destroy life after life after life but they don't care because they're making money.
They brag and boast about their heart's desire but they have malevolence toward their fellow man.
You know, we should go through life wanting to make the world a better place, wanting to help people and improve people's lives and not work in an industry that destroys people's lives.
and that hurts people.
You know, wouldn't you hate to have a job
where your job is to produce a product
that you know is hurting people,
that you know is destroying their lives?
I don't care how much they pay you,
they could never pay you enough to produce pornography,
they could never pay you enough to produce drugs,
they could never pay you enough to produce alcohol,
they could never pay you enough to run a casino
or a gambling institution, you know,
take it on to the reservation.
Oh, this is gonna help the Indian reservation.
No, it's gonna destroy people's lives.
it's not helpful. Sin hurts people. But here we have this human nature on display without
Christ, without God. We have this malevolence toward man. No love of neighbor, just whatever
it takes for me to get ahead and willingness to hurt anyone else in the process.
It says in verse number 10, he crouched up and humbled himself that the poor may fall
by his strong ones.
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten.
He hideeth his face.
He'll never see it.
Arise, O Lord, O God.
Lift up thine hand.
Forget not the humble.
And so notice, because wicked people get away with things in this world, they just think,
oh well, pshh, God must not care because I'm getting away with it.
Does everybody see that?
So then this is why the psalmist is praying and saying arise, O Lord, O God, lift up on hand, forget not the humble,
and then it says in verse 13,
wherefore, why does the wicked contempt God? He said, why does the wicked have contempt for God?
He had said in his heart, thou wilt not require it.
Thou hast seen it, for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand.
The poor committed themselves unto thee, thou art the helper of the fathers.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man.
Seek out his wickedness till thou find none."
And so what he's saying here is, look, God, don't let these people get away with it.
Because if you let these people get away with it, God, you're just emboldening them.
And then they just have even more contempt for you.
as they're emboldened to do more wickedness.
Hey, remember the humble, remember the victims.
And here's what's interesting about this.
I want to kind of park it here for a minute.
Because when we read in Romans 3.14,
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, right?
And we talked about that's ill-will, cursing,
wishing ill on others, ill-will, cursing, bitterness, right?
But some people could maybe be a little confused when they come to say verse 15 in Psalm 10
Are you there when he says break thou the arm of the wicked?
You know, it's like well, isn't that kind of cursing the wicked?
But here's what here's what you have to understand is that rotten evil wicked violent people
Cursing them is blessing everybody else
Everybody understand what I'm saying?
You see, we live in a society today
that wants to dumb down morality
and dumb down the word of God and dumb down Christianity
and they want to just have this kind of hippie-dippy
kind of Christianity of just, hey, love and peace
and harmony and hands across the water
and kumbaya and all this stuff.
But at the end of the day, you know,
the Bible is sometimes a little more complex than that.
And what we see is that if, for example, let's say you just have some horrible serial killer
and you're just not punishing the guy and you say, look how loving we are.
We're just going to release this guy from prison.
How is that loving to all the victims?
You can't love the flowers without hating the weeds, folks.
You know, and it's like, you know, obviously this was a famous thing in the news recently this Ukrainian woman who was killed on that
Train car who knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, everybody knows what I'm talking about
It's a big thing in the news, right? But the perpetrator had been released from custody
14 times and so they showed just this violent evil criminal
14 mug shots
And the Liptar justice system just keeps releasing the guy.
Just keep releasing the guy.
Like, I don't know, some kind of a catch and release fisherman.
I guess they're just policing for fun or something, right?
And just keep releasing the guy, releasing the guy, releasing.
Oh, they're so compassionate.
Oh, the liberals are so compassionate,
not like those mean conservatives
that want to punish criminals are so bad.
Here's the thing, how is it compassionate to release violent thugs into our population to rape and kill us?
How is that compassionate? It's not compassionate at all, okay?
The compassionate thing to do is to follow the Word of God and
to punish criminals and to punish crime the way that God says to punish crime and he says that
crimes should be punished, they should be punished speedily and certain crimes are worthy of death.
And those people need to be put to death.
Whatever the Bible says, that's what we need to be doing.
And so these rapists and molesters and murderers,
they need to be killed, that's what the Bible says.
Should be executed.
He said, no, no, no, we're too loving for that, Pastor Anderson, we're too compassionate.
Your mouth is just so full of cursing and bitterness, Pastor Anderson.
No, your mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
You have malevolence toward mankind.
If you want to just release these people and just let them go rampant in our society, that's
not loving your neighbor.
That's not loving mankind.
That's not peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Goodwill toward men is going to say,
hey, this violent criminal,
we need to take him off the streets
because we love his victims, you know?
We love the victim, and that's why we say to God,
break that sucker's arm, break the arm of the way,
break his teeth and his mouth.
And here's the thing, you never will hear these Bible verses
preached in 99% of churches in America.
You're never going to hear a Sunday morning sermon
called, break his teeth and his mouth, oh God.
Break the Arm of the Wicked.
I mean, Break the Arm of the Wicked is a great sermon title.
I've never used that title, but hopefully somebody will grab onto that and pre-sat
sermon.
Break the Arm of the Wicked.
Oh, that's terrible.
Again, don't get an overly simplistic view of the Word of God.
Study to show yourself approved unto God.
Look a little deeper.
You know, you can read Romans 3 and see, oh, they're mouths full of cursing and bitterness.
Go back and look up where that even comes from.
Where does it come from?
Psalm 10, verse 7, his mouth's full of cursing and deceit and fraud.
And then what does it say?
A couple of verses there.
Break his arm!
You see, here's the thing.
There are people in this world that are hateful people.
That's bad.
We shouldn't be hateful people.
I don't want to be a hateful person.
I don't want to go through life being hateful.
You know what else I don't want to go through life being as angry.
I don't want to go through life as this angry guy.
I don't want to be an angry guy.
I don't want to be a hateful guy.
But guess what?
Guess what?
There are times when it's righteous to get angry.
And there's a difference between being just an angry person
and getting angry about a righteous cause
when it's appropriate.
Even Jesus got angry, made a whip, went into the temple
and chased out the money changers and flipped over their tables
and dumped out their money.
Okay, there's a time and a place for these things.
And you know what the Bible says in Ecclesiastes?
There's a time for love and a time for hate.
So, here's the thing, just because you're a loving person, you know what?
I strive to be a loving person, I consider myself a loving person.
You should strive to be a loving person, not a hateful person.
A joyful person, not an angry person, right?
We want to have joy, peace, long suffering, we want to be happy, we want to be a blessing,
we want to have goodwill and benevolence toward our fellow man, but you know what?
That doesn't mean that some child molester, you're not like, I hate that sucker, kill
him, put him to death.
That just proves that you're even more loving than we thought that doesn't mean you're hateful. That doesn't make any sense
The Bible says let love be without
Dissimulation you know what dissimulation is just get rid of the diss it might help you
Simulation our simulations real
The Bible says that love be without dissimulation
Abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good
So we're the Bible says ye that love the Lord hate evil
It doesn't make you a hateful person to hate evil.
And it doesn't make your mouth full of cursing and bitterness when you're like, you know
what, I hope that this rapist, murderer, molester, I hope he gets what he deserves.
I hope he gets punished.
You know, that's actually balancing what the Bible says.
And again, all you got to do is go back to Psalm 10 and read the whole chapter.
Right?
And the point that Paul's making is just, you know,
unregenerate man, his mouth's just full of cursing
and bitterness.
But lest you get the idea that, oh, it's nothing
or anyone should ever be cursed for any reason,
it's just everything's good, good devil, good sin,
cold hell, we go back to Psalm 10 and what do we find out?
We find out, hey, there is a time and a place
to say, hey, break that guy's arm.
I mean, I don't know, did I write this in the Bible?
Because I don't think so.
Somebody told me the other day that the reprobate doctrine
was never taught before 2005 AD,
which is kind of weird,
because I grew up hearing it constantly
and I rented it to people who believed it all the time.
But I don't mind taking credit
for such an awesome doctrine anyway.
But it would be dishonest if I did.
I wish I could take credit for it.
Such a cool doctrine.
Let's flip over to Isaiah 59 now.
Isaiah 59, I got to hurry for sake of time.
And I'm going to read for you the next portion of Romans chapter 3.
Because remember, we're going through this passage and we're looking up the
sources of all Paul's quotes here in Romans 3.
Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way
of peace have they not known.
Where does this come from?
Well, Isaiah 59 verse 7 is where it comes from.
Their feet run to evil, they make haste to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
That part, Paul does not quote,
but then this next party does quote,
wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of peace, they know not.
There's no judgment in their goings.
They've made them crooked paths.
Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
And then one last quote from Romans chapter three
is found in Psalm 36 one.
Go if you would to Psalm 36 one.
Because Romans 3 18 says this there is no fear of God before their eyes
there's no fear of God before their eyes and
Psalm 36 one is a verse that I actually think about a lot
Because it kind of blows my mind to see people in our world that that actually don't have any fear of God
Because to me like I'm I'm always fearing God
You know, I'm constantly
Checking myself, and I'm kind of examining myself and here's the thing
I know I'm going to heaven because I have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior.
I have eternal life.
But I also realized that on this earth, though...
There are some consequences that can happen to us on this earth even if we're saved even if we're going to heaven
There's chastisement on this earth. And so, you know, whenever I'm
Doing something or planning something or thinking about something, you know, I'm constantly worried like hey
Is this gonna displease God? Is this what God wants me to be doing?
And so I'm kind of racking my brain for Bible verses to either say yay or nay to whatever it is that I'm
doing
and ask myself, is this right?
And then I'm praying to God, like,
God is what I'm doing right, you know, God?
Please show me what is the right path.
Guide my steps, Lord, lead me in the right way.
I wanna do what's right.
Help me to do what's right.
Show me what's right.
And then I'm meditating on the word of God,
trying to figure out what's right.
Cause I'm just afraid of getting on God's bad side.
And obviously, I love God and it's not like a dread or terror that I have of God, but
it's just kind of a healthy fear and respect of realizing, you know what, God is the one
who holds my breath in his hand, God holds my fate in his hand, so you know, I better
please God, I better walk around.
And of course, God is our heavenly Father, he loves us.
His mother and his father as well even on this earth. We should fear our our mother and father, you know
And again, it's just a realization of hey, I don't want to make my parents mad and get disciplined
I want to make my parents happy so that they'll bless me
It's the same thing with God, you know
We want God to be pleased with us and so the Bible says blesses the man that feareth always
You know, we're supposed to walk in the fear of the Lord all the day long
We should always have it in the back of our mind. Hey God
is the one who controls my destiny, I'd better mind my peas and queues
because I don't want to upset God.
And this is why we're constantly confessing our sins to God in prayer,
constantly trying to purify ourselves, clean up our lives, try to figure out ways
to live our lives better
because we fear God. By the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.
So don't ever let anybody tell you that the fear of God is a bad thing.
Fear of God is consistently a good thing throughout Scripture.
Fearing man is not necessarily a good thing,
but fearing God is a good thing.
Look what the Bible says in Psalm 36.1,
the transgression of the wicked
sayeth within my heart that there is no fear of God
before his eyes.
He's saying, man, I look at the stuff people do,
I look at the sins that they do,
and I'm just thinking like,
this guy does not fear God at all.
Because look at how he's acting.
Right? So some people's actions just scream the fact that they don't fear God at all.
That there's no fear of God before their eyes.
Why do they have no fear of God in their eyes?
Because they flatter themselves in their own eyes, it says in verse 2.
He flattered himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Now, again, the word hateful, you've got to be careful with this word.
It has two meanings in the English language.
One of them hateful means that you are actually hating others and then another word hateful
Means that you are the object of hate
Okay, so it's sort of like
And a lot of people aren't familiar with that definition.
And so that's why I'm saying this is not,
it's not talking about how, oh, your sins are hateful.
It's saying your sins are hateful,
meaning that they are the object of disgust.
They're abominable.
They're hateful is synonymous
with the word abominable in the Bible.
And so here it is talking about the fact
that people have no fear of God
because they feel like they're getting away with things.
and they flatter themselves that they're fine
and that everything's gonna be great
until their iniquity is found out
and exposed as the abomination
and it found to be hateful.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He had left off to be wise and to do good.
He devised a mischief upon his bed.
He said it himself in a way that is not good.
He abhoreth not evil, which we're supposed to abhor evil.
This guy doesn't abhor evil.
This guy indulges in it.
Now again, what's another common denominator
that we've seen in these scriptures that we look up
is that the idea here is people,
even when they do something right,
it's for the wrong reason.
And if they feel like they can get away with it,
then they'll just keep going
and just keep sinning more,
rebelling more, doing more wickedness
as long as they think they can get away with it,
as long as they think God's not gonna punish them.
And that's kind of what we saw in Psalm 10 where the psalmist is saying,
man, don't let these people get away with it, God,
because then they're just going to be emboldened to do even worse.
And we see that in our society as well.
And again, back to kind of the issue of punishing crime in our country,
is that if there's no punishment of crime,
and people feel like they can just get away with things,
then that emboldens criminals.
If God doesn't punish, sinners are emboldened.
Because, unfortunately, the rottenness of human nature is sometimes to only do right when we're being forced to.
You know, that's what the unregenerate man is like now that we've seen all that let's go back to Romans chapter 3
We're gonna put this all together now, so we're done looking at the Old Testament
I hope that was interesting to you to kind of see the source of some of these quotes that Paul is quoting because I think it sheds
Light on what these different statements mean when you look at them in their original context and and understand
What kind of people we're talking about here in Romans chapter 3?
So now let's go back and kind of put this all together
In Romans chapter 3 we're going to go back all the way to verse 9 and we're going to read through that with all that in mind and put this all together.
It says in Romans chapter 3 verse 9,
What then are we better than they? No and no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they're all under sin.
So it doesn't matter if you're a Jew or a Gentile, we've all sinned.
There's none righteous, no-not-one the Bible says, there's none that understandeth, there's
none that seeketh after God, they're all gone out of the way, they're together become
unprofitable, there's none that doeth good, no, not, want, I mean how could you be any
more redundant about the fact that there are no exceptions to this?
Every single person who is without God, without Christ, doesn't matter if they're Jew, Gentile,
is a wicked person.
And that the only way that we can have righteousness in our lives is through Jesus Christ.
Okay?
It's the only way.
We're all doomed without Jesus.
Look what the Bible says in verse number 10.
13. Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they've used to seat. The poison
of Ast is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet
are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways. And the way of peace, if
they're not known, there is no fear of God before their eyes.
This is the state of mankind, according to the Bible, without God intervening, without
the Bible existing on this planet, without the Holy Spirit working in the hearts of believers,
without the influence of Christianity in this world.
This is what human beings are like and there's no exception.
Don't come at me with the noble savage theory.
Let me tell you something, okay?
Places in this earth where Christianity does not exist or has not existed are dark, evil, cruel, wicked places and
Romans chapter 3 describes them.
So I don't know about that. Well, the Bible couldn't be any clearer in this passage that we just read.
It's God's word that brings light, it's Christianity that shines the light.
It's the Holy Spirit in dwelling the believer that allows him to be a good person.
Okay.
But what's interesting is verse number 19.
Don't miss verse 19.
This is a really interesting verse.
It says, now we know that what things so ever the law sayeth,
it sayeth to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.
Now here's what Paul is saying because you have to connect verse 19
with verse 9. The idea here is,
both Jews and Gentiles are sinners.
They're both going to be like the people on this list without Christ.
And he says, we know that what's over the things the law say to them that are under the law.
He's saying, these verses were originally spoken to Jews.
So, how can it not apply to Jews?
It's sort of like the point that I've often made, where in John chapter 3, John the Baptist
says that whoever does not believe on the Son of God should not see life, but the wrath
of God is abiding on him.
If John the Baptist says that the wrath of God is abiding on unbelievers, how could that
not apply to Jews when in context he's literally talking to Jews?
Like, who are we talking to in John chapter 3? Jews!
John the Baptist, who comes to him and talks to him?
You know, it's Jews. He's talking to Jews. You know, Jesus is constantly preaching to Jews
and saying these things and then people will act like Jews are an exception to these things.
And that's the exact point that Paul's making here. He's saying, you know,
if all these verses about the corruptness and sinfulness of man
You know, we know that whatsoever things the law say it it say it to them that are under the law
He say the Bible was originally committed unto
The children of Israel
So how can it not be talking to them?
How can it not apply to them? Did you see the point that he's making?
Because in verse number 2 of the same chapter, Romans 3-2, he says, or in verse 1 he says,
What advantage then hath the Jew, or what profit is there of circumcision?
Much every way, chiefly, their biggest advantage, he says, is that unto them were committed the
oracles of God.
So God gave them the word of God.
And so he's saying in verse 19, we know that whatsoever things the law sayeth, it sayeth
to them that are unto the law.
So when the word of God is saying there's none righteous, no one's good.
Well, you know the Jews they're special. Well, no actually he's talking to them
The things that the law says
About people being sinful it says to them that are under the law
It's talking to the Jews
Especially and so that's why he says in verse 20
therefore by the deeds of the law
There shall no flesh be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
He's saying, look, Jews and Gentiles, nobody can be justified based on the law, because
all the law does is just show us that we're sinners, right?
Because how are you going to be justified by, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal,
thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not covet, when all of us have been guilty
of some of those things?
Now, you say, well, I've never killed anybody, but what does the Bible say?
The Bible says, you know, he that said do not commit adultery, said also do not kill.
Now, if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
So it doesn't matter. You're like, well, I didn't do this one. I didn't kill anybody. Yeah, but did you steal though?
I didn't steal anything. Did you covet? Did you bear false witness?
Did you dishonor your father and mother?
You know, we could go down the list of those things and the Bible says in James 2 10 that whosoever shall keep the whole law and
Yet offended one point. He's guilty of all
And so the Bible says nobody's gonna be justified by the law
Verse 21, but now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed
by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ,
unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference for all of sin and
comes short of the glory of God.
We are all sinners and if it were not for the fact that we are saved Christians
We would be these open sepulcher throat
cursing bitter
You know evil people that would just be out there just malevolent and we'd be out there just for the love of money
and we wouldn't care who we hurt and we'd just be out there for ourselves and if we did anything good it'd be for the
Wrong reasons we'd be out there doing all that same rotten stuff that the Bible described
And, you know, people today are kind of waking up to the fact that Judaism is not of God,
and that Israel is a fraud, and everything like that.
But here's what's interesting, though, is that they think that all the evil in the
world comes from the Jews, but guess what?
All are sinners, because the Bible said we've concluded both Jews and Gentiles understand.
So this thing is just like, oh, if we could just get rid of the Jews, it would get rid
of all the evil in the world.
because there would just be some other group of evil people
because Jews and Gentiles are both sinners.
They're both wicked, you know?
You say, oh, you know, it's all them.
It's all the, folks, there is no one group in this world
that you can blame everything on.
And there are people out there
that want to blame everything on the Muslims.
There are people out there that want to blame everything
on the Jews.
There are people out there that want to blame everything
on fill in the blank.
Right cat. It's all the Roman Catholic Church, you know, you know that you can blame whatever group
But we could eliminate any group and it will not fix this world
Okay, God in fact wiped out the entire planet one time with the flood
And always save one family just Noah on the Ark
Did that fix this world?
Nope
because at the end of the day, it's all human beings
that have this sinful nature.
And you know what, if we do not walk in the spirit,
if we do not read our Bibles,
if we don't follow the word of God,
we're gonna start acting like the people on this list.
because this is the wickedness of human nature.
It's not the wickedness of Jew nature,
Jew man nature.
It's not Gentile nature.
It's not Muslim nature.
It's not Catholic nature.
It's not Hindu nature.
It is human nature.
All of us are sinful.
And the only reason that we're good
is whatever degree that we're walking in the spirit,
following the word of God, living a Christian life.
But in our fleshed well is no good thing.
And so we need to understand that the righteousness of God, verse 22, is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference.
So anyone can be saved.
There's no difference between the Jew and the Greek, whoever believes on the Lord Jesus
Christ will be saved.
And there's only one way, and it's the same way for the Jew as the Greek, it's through Jesus.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes unto the Father but by me.
So, I love this famous verse, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,
but then I even love to finish the sentence.
because it says, for all of sin
and comes to the glory of God,
being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
What does it mean to be justified?
You know, there's a mnemonic that people have used,
just as if I'd never sinned.
Justified is just as if I'd never sinned, right?
Because our sins are forgiven and forgotten.
We're justified free, freely.
How much does it cost to be saved?
How much work do you have to do?
How much money do you have to pay to be saved?
How much effort do you have to put into doing good deeds?
It's free!
And free means you don't work for it
and you don't pay for it.
Things that you work for or barter for
or pay for are not free.
Now we're justified freely by His grace.
Grace is getting something that you don't deserve.
Grace is talking about receiving a gift.
Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation
Through faith in his blood
Right. How do we get it? How do we get the redemption? How do we get salvation?
How do we get propitiation through faith in the blood of Jesus?
through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness,
not our own righteousness, not our adherence to the law,
not the fact that we didn't do nothing,
not the fact that we didn't kill anybody
or commit adultery or anything.
No, it's through his righteousness.
For the remission of sins that are passed
through the forbearance of God,
to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
So he is just, he is righteous.
God doesn't ever do anything wrong.
Jesus was totally without sin.
He was tempted at all points like as we are,
yet without sin.
And the Bible is saying that he is just
and he is the justifier of Jesus.
People who live a good life. Is that what the Bible says? Is he the justifier of those who get baptized?
Is he the justifier of those who confess their sins to a priest?
Is he the justifier of those who turn over a new leaf and stop drinking and stop part?
No, he's the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Right?
That's how you get saved by believing in Jesus. Where is boasting then?
You know, what do we have to brag about if we're just saved through Jesus?
It's like I'm going to heaven because I am such a good person now. We're boasting it's excluded
I get say how can you boast about the fact? Well, I'm a sinner and I would be this horrible rotten person
If it weren't for the grace of God and that I've been redeemed by Jesus Christ and I've
been saved, not by works of righteousness which I've done but by His mercy, He did everything.
He paid for everything that He might be just.
He is the justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus and I believe in Jesus.
You know the only boasting is just boasting in the Lord.
Him the glory, let Him glory in the Lord.
Where is boasting then?
It's excluded.
It's impossible.
It's out of the question.
boasting, because the Bible says we're saved by grace through faith, not of works, lest
any man should, lest any man should boast.
By what law?
By what law are we saved?
Is it by the law of works?
No, but by the law of faith.
And then here's the big one, verse 28, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
without the deeds of the law.
I'm justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Because here's the thing, the law can't save you
because if you keep the whole law
and you had offended one point, you're guilty of all.
How can you be saved by following those commandments?
You can't.
You're saved by faith without the deeds of the law.
And so the point of the sermon this morning is
to just
Kind of show you the wickedness of human nature because honestly when we read this list in Romans chapter 3
It's kind of it's pretty startling. I think like I think it paints a pretty negative picture of humanity
Hey, this is what and here's the thing a lot of people would just get up and say hey
This is what Jews are like and then just read that list
Yeah, that's what Jews are like
And here's the thing that is what Jews are like
It's true, but here's the thing, unsaved Gentiles are the same way.
Does everybody see that?
But then other people will turn around and say, yeah, this is what unsaved people are
like.
Oh man, these wicked heathen hordes, but then they'll say, oh, Jews are an exception to
this.
And you say, wait a minute, don't Jews reject Jesus?
Well, yeah, technically they reject Jesus.
They're kind of an exception to this, you know, they're so godly and so righteous.
Folks, it's a lie.
And so you could basically err on both sides here.
By saying this is only the Jews, or by saying that the Jews get a pass.
No, my friend, it's human nature.
It's all of humanity that has these sinful proclivities, and let me tell you something.
If it were not for the Lord Jesus Christ, we would be rotten people.
We would be horrible, rotten, malevolent, malicious people without the Holy Spirit, without the
Lord, without Christ, without the Bible.
We would.
Now, we can transcend that through the Spirit.
We can transcend that by walking with God and putting on the new man, putting on the
Lord Jesus Christ.
But you know what?
If you decide that you're just going to stop going to church and just go out there and
just start just living the worldly life and just, oh, I'm just going to have fun and party
and do whatever.
You know what you're gonna find yourself turning into this rotten person that we saw described. I don't know about you
But I don't I don't like this list at all. I mean this this list
Is repulsive to me and then when I look back in the Psalms and get the source of these it just worse
it's even worse and it paints this horrible picture of
Human nature, but it kind of explains a lot of the sin and filth and degradation and garbage in our world
But thank God for salvation through Christ
Thank God that we're saved, that we can never lose our salvation, that salvation is a free
gift, that it's by believing in Jesus, not based on how good we are, because we'd never
be good enough.
We would have blown it a long time ago.
Thank God for that free gift of salvation, and you know what?
The best thing that you could do to make this world a better place, because I mean, look,
I don't know about you, but I have good will toward man.
I don't just want my life to be better.
I want to make the world a better place.
Like I would want to make the whole world a better place.
I would want to make Arizona a better place.
I would want to make Phoenix a better place.
I would want America to be a better place.
Like I want to be a positive influence in this world.
And I think you do too.
And so the best thing that you can do to help this world
is by promoting the word of God, getting people saved.
The best thing you can do to make the world a better place is to make someone a better person
by getting that person saved so that the Holy Spirit can move into their heart
and start to change them and transform them from the inside.
How about preaching the Word of God even to saved Christians?
Because the more we get people saved the more saved Christians are walking in the Spirit and walking with God
That's what's going to
neutralize
This evil that we just read about in Romans 3 this this horrible
open sepulcher poisonous
toxic
Malicious garbage that we just read about in saw in Romans 3 the way to solve that is through Christ
There's not a political solution
eliminating some certain insidious group.
And look, there's some evil groups, commies, right?
If we could just get rid of these stinking commies.
I mean, look, but there'd just be some other group
that would pop up, some other evil group.
You know what I mean?
You can go down the list and this evil group,
that evil group, at the end of the day,
the evil is just, it's just unregenerate man.
It's just unsaved people.
And so, you know, it doesn't matter what form that evil takes, right?
And the devil is depicted in Revelation as a dragon with seven heads.
So you can't necessarily pin the tail on just a single donkey.
You know because Islam is a donkey and Judaism and Hinduism and
Communism and you know
Fascism or whatever, you know, whatever isms you want to pin it on, you know, it's it's the answer is all of the above
Anything that's against Christ anything that's against the word of God is is is wicked, you know, and so we need to understand that Jesus is the answer
What was the question, you know, let's bow our heads never order prayer father. We thank you so much for your word Lord
Thank you for this passage in Romans 3
Lord, I pray that you would help us all to strive to be better people Lord help us to speak truth
Help us to love others and and have benevolence and goodwill toward men and help us to want to help people and protect people
Help us to make the world a better place
And help us to realize that that's gonna come through
an acknowledgement of you and your word
and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Help us to preach the gospel to every creature,
the freeness of salvation.
Thank you for saving us.
Thank you for making salvation so easy, Lord.
Help us to share that wonderful gift with others
and help us to walk in the spirit
so that we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen the right ladies and gentlemen take your hymnals please go to hymn 471 hymn number 471
471 cleanse me hymn number 471
Begin search me. Oh God and know my heart today hymn number 471
Let's lift our voices together on that first now hymn number 471
search me
Try me, oh, say
Man, that's what I'm thinking this morning.
We are dismissed.