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Romans chapter 1, Romans chapter 1, and let me say this if you're coming here and a visitor, because we've been going through the sermon series the last few weeks, and you know, I oftentimes preach on sermons about how to be a good husband, how to be a good wife, you know, how to be good at raising kids and stuff like that, but you're kind of in the middle of a sermon series and it's pretty heavy, because we're talking about the dark history of the Roman Catholic Church, and so I don't always preach sermons like this, but let me also say this, that we have a lot of information to cover on the history of the pedophilia and the sexual scandals within the Catholic Church, and so I'm not going to go in super detail explaining the reprobate doctrine, because there simply isn't time. I'm just showing you the history of the disgusting nature of a religion that is not, it's not a new thing. That's what we're understanding in the sermon series. It's not just something that in today's world there's all these scandals they're trying to cover up. This has been happening for 1700 years. Say why 1700? Because they started 1700 years ago and go to the Roman Empire, and before the Catholic Church in the Roman Empire the same sorts of scandals went on. So in Romans chapter one, notice what it says in verse number 24 where the Bible reads, Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. Now Romans 1 is really famous for being the passage that talks about sodomy and homosexuality. It's the place in the New Testament that really covers this. You say why is it that they don't talk about it more in the New Testament? Well because quite honestly it wasn't as prevalent back then. Right. See when it's something that's around you everywhere you go, all the time you go out to the mall and you see guys dressed as women, what's something you have to cover? Because it's around you all the time. Right. And look we see it all the time we think it's normal. It's not normal. Oh yeah. It's never been normal. And look I grew up in West Virginia and in West Virginia look it's a really old country area. You know it's not something you see that's common but when I go back and visit the times I've been back to the U.S. you know when I was in the U.S. I was living in California. I visited the east coast and now it's everywhere. It's not just isolated in California in the U.S. No it's everywhere now. And so since it's something that's around you must have an opinion on it if you're a person who's preaching the word of God or if you're a church. And see Romans 1 is talking about this and before it really talks about you know the homosexuality aspect it talks about basically rejecting the creator. See people that have decided to be sodomized and the LGBT agenda they are rejecting the creator. They're rejecting the God of the Bible. Now some of those people will claim to believe in God but it's not the God of the Bible. Yeah. And so they might claim to believe in God but it's still not the same God as the Bible. Our God is a holy God. We sing the song holy holy holy that doesn't fit with the LGBT agenda. Verse number 26 for this cause God gave them up on the vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And so the Bible speaks about people that are filled with lust of their own hearts. They reject creator God and then God gives them over to vile affections. What does that teach you? It teaches you they're not born that way. God creates people with having a normal mind. Yeah. Those normal desires that when you get married to someone of the opposite gender those are things once you're married okay. He didn't create people as homosexuals. He didn't create people as sodomized. He said how did they become that way? Because they rejected the creator God they got filled with their lusts and eventually God says I'm rejecting you. But look Jesus died for everybody. The Bible says whosoever believeth in him so it's not that Jesus didn't die for these people he died for everybody. But unfortunately some people reject God and eventually God says you know what I've been merciful I've been merciful I've been merciful. Eventually he gives them over to vile affections. That's what the Bible teaches. Verse number 27 and likewise also the men leading the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another. So it says with men the natural use is the woman. God designed men to be attracted to women and women to be attracted to men. Right. That's normal. Yeah. But when you're growing up as a guy you're going to be attracted to women and in women you're attracted to men. That's the natural use. Look it's not normal. Now one thing people like to say is well in nature you know it's really common that you'll have male dogs with male dogs. Yeah that's an animal. Yeah. I don't believe in evolution. Yeah. It's like yeah you know that's what the animals do. It's like you're kind of proving my point. The Bible uses the term brood beasts. Okay that's something that animals do. Okay. That's not something that normal people do. Because guys are created to desire women and women are created to desire men. That's the natural use the Bible speaks about. It says men with men working out which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And because people reject the God of the Bible they get filled with those lusts. Quite honestly they reap consequences for those things. Oh yeah. When you look at the LGBT agenda honestly most of them die at a pretty young age. Yes. Why? Because that lifestyle is not very healthy. And when you reject the rules of the Bible haven't you proven from the Bible that it's unhealthy to live a sinful life? Right. It's literally unhealthy to live a sinful life and be a drunkard and a drug addict and a sodomite. Those things are not healthy for you and quite often they get diseases and die at a young age. Now let's go back to 1051 AD. This is a thousand years ago. Okay. And this is going to be the most famous example. The first point we have in the sermon is we're going to look at the most famous example that really illustrated the problems with the pedophilia and the sexual scandals within the Catholic church. Okay. There is a Benedictine monk named Saint Peter Dami and he wrote a book called the Liber Gamorreanes. Okay. Liber is like libre book and Gamorreanes is Gomorrah. So the literal translation is the book of Gomorrah. So basically this Benedictine monk wrote this book of Gomorrah and he illustrated all the problems within his own religion. Okay. If you look throughout the history of the Catholic church it is not just Martin Luther that tried to reform the Catholic church. There have been many people throughout the ages that tried to separate from the Catholic church or proclaim you know all of the sin within the Catholic church but they still claim to be Catholic. Okay. And so here's someone who's a Catholic but he realizes you know we got a real problem in our religion. We have a real problem with pedophilia and homosexuality and he wrote this book called the book of Gomorrah and it discussed it. It talked about the vices of the clergy including sodomy and the consequent need for reform. Now let me just say that I'm just quoting this where it says the vices of the clergy. Look a vice is like a bad habit. Yeah. Smoking is a vice. It's a bad habit that people hold to as approach. Look you know being a sodomite or being a pedophile that's not a vice. That's a wicked abomination. Yeah. So I'm just quoting from this but it's not a vice. It's a wicked sin in the eyes of God. Okay. And so here's a quote from the book. A recap of the book which I read. Alas it is shameful to speak of it. It is shameful to relate such a disgusting scandal to sacred ears. I agree with that. A disgusting scandal. It's not nice to the ears. Yeah. That's why I said you know after we get through this series you know there's going to be a lot of you know more pleasant sermons because it's not something we want to always think about. We have to preach on it because this is the religion of our country and this is the truth on the history of the catholic church but look it's not pleasant to always think about this. You know we're not designed to always be thinking about these disgusting scandals. It's better to just kind of be the bible says be simple concerning you. So it's not something you want to always talk about. So I agree with this. It's a disgusting scandal to sacred ears. But if the doctor fears the virus of the plague who will apply the cauterization. If he is nauseated by those whom he is to cure who will lead six souls back to the state of health. So what he's saying in this book is if we don't discuss what the problem is we cannot help our pedophile priest be reformed. Now like I said I don't agree 100% with everything that's being said because we're going to see in this sermon that the catholic church for a long time has tried to cure the pedophiles within their own religion and they've had no success and they've admitted to them they have no success. But I will say this that if we don't preach about it how are we going to realize the problem in our country the problem with this religion. How are we going to be motivated to get them saved before they end up becoming pedophiles and they're becoming sodomized. And so this is something we need to talk about. So I don't 100% endorse this book because you know my goal is not to try to help cure a pedophile of being a normal person because the bible gives a death penalty on the pedophiles. But I will say this it is something that I believe that we need to preach though because it is the truth of the religion of this country. And so in verse 28 Bob reads in Romans 1 and even as they did not like to retain God and their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. Okay a normal person has a normal mind. Now look you have to understand there are a lot of sins that are kind of normal to the human. Most sins are common to man as the bible says. You know it's normal for a guy to lust after someone. I mean it's not right but it is something that both a guy and a girl will sin with where they think of someone in the wrong way of the opposite gender. All of us lie from time to time. You know all of us have done things that are wrong. The bible says the thought of foolishness is sin. We all think foolish thoughts. Okay those are normal sins but look there are some sins that are not normal. It's not normal to desire another guy if you're a guy. It's not normal to desire another woman if you're a woman. The bible says it's against the natural use. It's not normal for a grown man or a grown woman to desire a child. What in the world? And it's like look if that's your desire then this is the wrong church for you because we want to keep children safe in here as our quote said the bullets in. Look I have a young son. I want to keep him safe and this is not a place where we just fill this place full of pedophiles. You know we don't want you here. That's the truth and look you know Jesus died for the sins of the world but people are just really bad people. We want to keep the children safe. How can you say that you love children and you love pedophiles at the same time? I love children. I love my son. I want my son to be safe and it's like at our church you don't see a separate nursery where somebody is watching kids and you don't have access to your son. You have no clue what's going to happen. Look at most churches they will have a separate nursery and you'll have people watching your kids. I remember my parents had a story one time and my parents you know this was you know before actually it was after my sister was born. My sister was older than me. I'm not sure if I was born or not but they visited a church for the first time. It was actually a baptist church and they visited the church and then they showed up and then they didn't have anybody to work in the nursery and my mom was the one who ran the nursery for that day as the first time visitor. It's like my parents just showed up and they're like oh we don't have anyone to watch these kids. Can you just watch the kids? It's like you don't even know who my mom is. Look obviously my mom is you know a godly lady. She's a very nice person but they're letting some random person they do not know watch kids. Look I'm not letting random people watch my son. That's not safe. You said once a church. Look have you opened the newspapers before? How many times do these scandals happen in churches? And yes we're preaching about the catholic church. The scandals happen in all kinds of churches. You can look at the baptist churches, the lutheran churches, the whatever churches and scandals happen. You say why? Because they don't keep kids in a safe environment and because you make it a breeding ground for pedophiles because they know that's a place where they can get access to kids. And so look we're not going to do that at our church. We keep the kids with their parents in the services and there's a reason why we do that. We want to keep them safe. And so let me just quote you from this book again. With these words Saint Peter Damian introduces the book of Umora. Undoubtedly the most sternly eloquent and impassioned denunciation of sexual perversion ever penned by a catholic saint. This is a catholic okay. It's a catholic well not saint because you have to be saved to be a saint. He's a catholic okay and he is talking about the filthy nature of his own church okay. Here's what you have to understand. Look if you're not a pedophile you don't want to be associated with pedophiles. Yeah. Let me give you an example of this. In America in prisons most people in prison hate pedophiles. You say why? Because there's a lot of pedophiles in prison and because if you're a pet if you're in prison people might think you're a pedophile. And so if you're not a pedophile you hate them because that's considered the worst sin there is. Yeah. And look I agree. I can't think of a worse sin than being a pedophile. That's disgusting. I think that's worse than murder in my opinion. I can't think of anything that's worse and if you're a normal person you don't want to be associated with it. So what are you talking about? Well who knows who Jeffrey Dahmer is? Jeffrey Dahmer he's the famous American serial killer. Most famous serial killer probably him or Ted Bundy in the history of the U.S. maybe in the world. Now do you know how Jeffrey Dahmer died? In prison he was bragging to another prison mate about all of the kids he had molested. You know what happened? One of the other prison inmates murdered both of them in prison. Why? Because of the fact he's bragging about molesting a child. And the person who killed him is like that's disgusting. It's like man how can you be bragging about it? You say I thought Jeffrey Dahmer I thought he felt so sorry. And at the end of his life he's like oh you know I was taught evolution growing up and that's why I rejected God and I realize now that who the true God is. No he died because he was bragging about being a pedophile and then one of the other inmates go look it up for yourself. That is how Jeffrey Dahmer died. Look they can't be reformed. Yeah. He never changed. And so look if you're a normal person like I'm assuming this Peter Damian is a normal person. I'm assuming he's not a pedophile. And obviously when your religion is full of pedophiles it's kind of being disgusting being associated. Yeah. Imagine if you're just a Catholic priest but you're not a Sodomite. You're not a pedophile. You're not going to want to be associated with that. You say why? Because so many Catholic priests obviously are Sodomites and pedophiles. Yeah. You can open up the newspaper and every single week you see it it's a fact everybody knows it. And so the book of Gomorrah this book by this man also written here it says although it was written almost a thousand years ago the book of Gomorrah in many ways seems addressed to our own times associating the phenomena of clerical homosexual behavior and pederasty. Now pederasty means being a pedophile. Yeah. Except when they say pederasty what they're saying is that it's normal basically that you have just like a young child like that it's a normal thing. And he's saying in this there's a connection between homosexuality and being a pedophile. Those are not my words. That's the words from this book of Gomorrah and he said there's a connection between being a homosexual and being a pedophile except when he says pederasty he's saying it's normal. It's known that in the Greek culture and in the Roman culture it was normal to have a young child as your sex slave. It's disgusting but they considered it normal and they invented a word for it because it was so common. And within the Catholic church it has always been very common. And then it says here the book of Gomorrah offers escaping analysis of the evil of sodomy while also expressing compassion for those who have fallen into such vice and the possibility of their redemption by the aid of divine grace. So according to this book this Peter Damian he has a lot of friends that are pedophiles and he feels real bad for them. I want you to understand something. I feel bad for the children that have been harmed. Right. But unfortunately a lot of these children that are being harmed in churches they grow up and they become the pedophile themselves. That is very common. Now I feel bad for all of them that when they were a child this happened but when they become the evil person I don't feel bad for them anymore. I feel bad for the one who's been victimized but I don't feel bad for the one who becomes a full-grown adult and is doing that to other people. Okay. I don't feel bad for them. So look I'm not trying to help restore them to being a normal person. I don't have compassion for the pedophile. Say I thought you were supposed to be all loved. Look I don't have compassion for pedophiles and you look in the bible and the bible talks about people that you hate. That's a good thing. Not the book of Psalms. Now this is not the normal person out there though. Look I love the vast majority of people and because I really love children I don't want anything to happen to any of these children. Not just my son but any of the children. I want them to be safe. Okay. And look our society is just like so obsessed with helping the pedophile out. It's like good night. I mean why don't you just read the bible and see what the bible says about it. I'm not trying to restore them back to being a normal person. Okay. And it says it also urges the permanent defrocking of clerics who are habituated to homosexual behavior and endorses the permanent confinement those guilty of child sex abuse. So in this book his solution is that if someone we find out is committing homosexuality with a lot of other guys it's a breeze that we should punish them. Now here's here's a big problem with this because when it comes to them being homosexuals it's with young children. Yeah. And so don't say that's homosexuality no that's pedophilia. And it's like no they shouldn't just get a punishment for being a pedophile. Right. Here is a punishment the bible lists. Right. Yeah. But not just like oh here's a little punishment you know man that you know just say 20 male marries and all will be fine. Just you know confess your sins to another priest and all will be fine. That's not the punishment the bible says. Yeah. And he says well if people are pedophiles we should just confine them. Basically like a prison for the pedophiles. It's like do you know how much money that countries spend on protecting pedophiles from being killed. And just like we'll just put them in a safe place because we can't have them around normal people. But you know we don't want to like you know do the old-fashioned death penalty that's throughout the bible and throughout our history. We just want to protect them. Well you know you should just do what the bible says. Yeah. This is the most famous example and like I said those are not my words. That is the book of Gomorrah written by a catholic priest okay. But I want you to understand when we look at the dark history of the Roman catholic church you can go all the way back to ancient Rome okay. This existed before the catholic church existed. It was the fourth century AD when Constantine supposedly saw the vision in the sky okay. And all of a sudden the Roman catholic church was born. They went from hating christians to supposedly becoming christian. In reality they basically morphed the Roman religion and all their false gods with this new christian religion okay. And so in ancient Rome this existed. In ancient Rome it was actually socially normal for older men to prefer younger boys over young men. That's weird. They're saying this is normal that it was common in Rome that they preferred young boys being married to a wife okay. However sodomy was so frowned upon. So basically people thought sodomy was weird during that time period. So the only young men available to become sexual partners were slaves whose rights were unprotected. So basically it was illegal as a Roman to have another Roman as your 10 year old slave okay. Which they call heterosky. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Heterosky okay. So basically what they did is as Rome conquered the world they were allowed to buy someone from another country as a sex slave. You see these aren't pleasant words. Hey I warned you this wasn't the most pleasant sermon. This is the truth though. That's what they did in ancient Rome. But I feel sorry for the person that was bought as a slave and couldn't do anything about it. Can you imagine that if you were a young child somebody buys you takes you out of your home from your parents and you get abused. You know what often ends up happening? Oftentimes those kids grow up and they hate God. They blame God because of what happened. That's why you need to preach against it. And they blame God due to what happened. Look I knew somebody in college and this girl you know when she was growing up she grew up in a home full of molesters. Her whole family. Brothers, cousins, you know parents. It was a really weird environment okay. And she was molested quite a bit growing up. She got invited to a Baptist church and she heard the gospel during a revival. And this is what she told me okay. In her own words that when she heard the gospel that she kept hearing it day after day and for one week she did not get saved. And the reason why was because part of her hated God. She was really angry about what had happened to her because she had been abused growing up and naturally she ended up you know blaming God. Even though it's not gospel we're not doing what the bible says and this is why this problem exists but she kind of blamed God. And then after a week she ended up getting saved. But it took you know a week for her to end up getting saved. You know one amazing thing that happened after that is that after she got saved she was never abused ever again. And just a short time later she was actually taken out of her home and there was teachers in her community that actually raised her as parents because her whole family were a bunch of reprobates and weirdos. And God actually protected her after she got saved. But she told me that it was hard for her to accept the gospel because of the fact she had been molested so many times. I wonder how many catholic children in our country hear the gospel and they reject it because of the fact they were molested in the catholic church. I wonder how many. That's just one story I know of a personal story. I'm sure that story's happened so many times. I'm sure there are a lot of kids in our country that we preach the gospel to these teens and we don't know their situation and you're wondering why is this 13 year old boy not getting saved? Because usually they accept the gospel. They embrace it. It makes sense the gift of God's eternal life but how many people reject the gospel because of what was done to them actually. And that is why we want to make sure this church knows that we don't accept that sort of behavior. We're not going to have a safe haven for the pedophiles and have a separate room of a nursery and things like that. We don't want to create this atmosphere where that happens. I want to keep the children safe in this place and this was very common in ancient Rome. Now let me say this that this isn't really part of the sermon but supposedly the reason why it was common in the Roman culture if you look at the historian Herodotus which is known as the father of history because he's really the first one to pin down history he basically bragged about that the Greeks introduced the Romans to having little children as slaves. Actually he bragged about introducing it to the Persian empire as well. It's like what a weird thing to brag about and he said they thought it was normal unnormal and weird but we introduced it made it normal in their society. Well I feel bad that they adopted the Greek culture then in their society but that's what was happening in the Roman society. Now turn to Leviticus 18. Leviticus 18. And you say why did it become so common? Well according to an article I read which doesn't really look at it as being a bad thing it says it was seen as an act of power and most emperors had young boys for this purpose. So basically you were seen as basically being more powerful if you had a lot of young children for that purpose. Isn't that weird? I mean talk about discussing that the more children you have the more powerful you look and that's what it says here. It came out of Greek influence and was passed on in Roman culture. Christianity put a stop to the practice of sodomy and pedophilia by condemning homosexuality. According to this article what stopped it from being so common is that people actually preached against it. See I can't believe you're talking about well maybe I want to prevent it from existing in our country and according to this article which is not a Christian article when they preached against it it put a stop to it when people actually preached against it but go to a Baptist church here in the Philippines look up a random one and see if they'll ever preach against it. They will never preach against it and according to this article it was stopped because there was actually men of God who stood behind a pulpit and preached with authority what the Bible says and went to God in our country some people would be raised up and do the same thing. I hope one day that as a result of our church we have churches all throughout Luzon that are doing the same thing we're doing so many preaching hard against sin and help get rid of this problem and here's the thing if we don't do it as a Baptist church that proclaims to believe the Bible who is going to do it? You have to realize the Catholic church is not going to die anytime soon. This problem is not going to die anytime soon. I don't know if you've noticed but you just walk outside and it's a real problem in our country. It's not going to change and if nobody preaches against it it's going to be common. It's becoming common because nobody is preaching against it. Now in Leviticus 18 verse 22 it says thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind it is abomination. Now look according to the Bible in this verse for a guy to lie with another guy it's an abomination. Now abomination is a really really strong word for something God really hates but there's a lot of sins not all of them are abominations but according to the Bible in Leviticus 18 it is an abomination for a guy to be with another guy. It's not normal. Turn to Leviticus 20. And you say well it doesn't mention you know being a pedophile though. Well I would disagree with that because if you go to Genesis chapter 19 you will see that there are also young children in the society of Sodom and Gomorrah that were already in the Sodomites which means the way they were recruited is through pedophilia. But I will say this that you say well why is it that the Bible doesn't really talk about being a pedophile? Look it's implied when you talk about sexual scandals because that's far worse. It's far worse than being a Sodomite. It's far worse. And so it's implied. Leviticus 20 verse 13. If a man also lie with mankind as he lies with a woman both of them have been committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. So he said what is Leviticus 20 verse 13 saying? Well I'll actually not interpret it for you. What I'm going to do is actually use a Catholic from history that interpreted this verse. And so we're going to look at the words of John Chrysostom. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right but this is his opinion of that verse and you're welcome to think whatever you want on Leviticus 20 verse 13. I'm just showing you the dark history of the Roman Catholic church and here's what one of their early people had an opinion about. This is what he said. Now let me say this that this was in the fourth century AD and as John Chrysostom preached this obviously was a real problem in the start of the Roman Catholic church. Right when the church started in the fourth century AD they're having to preach against it. You said why? Well as I mentioned earlier if you're someone who's in prison and you're not a pedophile you don't want to be associated with it. And so if you're someone who's not a pedophile and you're not a homosexual you're not going to be associated with it. And so here are his words. He said these people talking about homosexuality talking about sodomy are deserving both of men and women to be driven out in stone. According to him you should stone to death the person who's a homosexual. Those are not my words. That's the words of the Catholic priest. He says homosexuals should be stoned. He also says in his sermon he said made thyself a dog out of man and he said more shameless than dogs. Basically he compares them to animals. This is a Catholic priest. It's not my opinion. It's the same thing you heard Manny Pacquiao say what like five years ago. Same sort of thing. That's his opinion. Now turn to Ecclesiastes chapter one. Ecclesiastes chapter one. Now realize that we are at no point are trying to take over the government and install the law supply where I'm just showing you what a Catholic priest said about their own religion and he said basically we need to put to death the priests that are committing homosexuality. Those are the words of the Catholic priest. That is not my interpretation. That's his words in the 4th century AD. Why? Because society used to think it was a really disgusting sin. You say why don't we think it's disgusting anymore because you see it all the time. You become desensitized. When you see things happening all the time it seems normal. When you don't see it happening it doesn't seem normal. Let me give you an example because in the Philippines it's illegal to get a divorce. We're the only country where it's illegal but you know in America half of people get a divorce. Now look my parents did not get divorced and nobody in my family really got divorced and so for me growing up it was really weird to hear about people being divorced even though it's very common and so I started to hear about friends of mine whose parents were getting a divorce and I'm like the parents are getting divorce. I'm like are you kidding because I thought it was like really really obscure. I didn't think it was very common then realized years later it actually is very common but to me it was very strange because in my family tree nobody gets divorced so it was very strange to me. See you have to understand that in our country we can very easily become desensitized because we see it everywhere. It's still not normal. Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verse 9 and so let's talk about the early days. So we talked about the most famous example within the Catholic church and their history. We talked about the Roman Empire before the Catholic church started and now we're transitioning to the early days of the Catholic church with John Chrysostom in the fourth century AD right after they started. Ecclesiastes 1 verse 9. The thing that hath been is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there's no new thing under the sun. Is there anything where of the baby said see this is new. It hath been already a old time which was before us. What the Bible is saying in Ecclesiastes chapter 1 is the things that are existing now have always been like that and always will be like that. Look in today's world open up a paper here in the Philippines and there's some Catholic priests involved some scandal. What you have to understand is it's not a new problem. See there's no new thing under the sun. It's a problem today. It's been a problem for 1700 years since it started. Since before that when the Roman Empire took over. Go back to before the time of Jesus Christ. Julius Caesar was before the time of Jesus Christ. It was a problem all the way back then. It's always been. It always will be because there is no new thing under the sun. Look at verse number 15 and let me just quote you something else as you're looking at verse 15. In the fourth century A.D. there was also something called the council Elvira or the c-node of Elvira. This was in the very early days of the Roman Catholic Church. They had a big problem in the early days of the Roman Catholic Church though. I'll let you guess what that is. They had a big problem with sodomy and pedophilia and they said this is out of control. We need to have a council to figure out how to deal with this. Like you know the pope a few months ago had this big council in February. Like we have this big problem it's a scandal and they had this big like four-day conference or something like that to try to figure out how to deal with it. Look that's what's going on in the very beginning. You've been around for 1700 years you haven't figured it out. It's like good night. I mean I don't like our government. I don't trust the government. They have all these programs that never happened but 1700 years and yet people today still think man I think you're going to get it fixed. You're never going to get fixed. It's a good night in the fourth century when they first started the council of Elvira and what was it about? They said well we got to figure out how to curb the sexual misdeeds of the clergy. Basically that all of these priests have these sex slaves, lots of fornication, lots of kids out of wedlock and all this homosexuality going on within the priests. Look these are supposed to be men of God. Yeah. These are supposed to be the people you look at as godly people. Right. As an example. Yeah. But the problem was priests made a very good salary. They had a lot of money. With a lot of money they were able to buy all these slaves and they're wicked people. Now look in today's world you could look at statistics and they're going to tell you that priests have low salaries. It's a lie. Say why? Because they get paid money every time they do an infant baptism. That's not part of their salary. It's just okay here's this 2500 peso donation and they do a bunch of baptism. They get all this money and they also raise all this money for all these programs and because they're the ones that did the work to raise the money they get to take a portion of it. Yeah. I don't know if you realize that but they have very low salaries and yet somehow they all have cars and very nice houses. I wonder how that works. They get paid money all the time they do all these things. Every time they give a holy communion they get paid money. Right. And so yes they technically have low salaries but it sure seems to work out quite a bit of money. I'm sure Joel Wilson has a little salary too. And yet somehow he's got like an eight million dollar house in the U.S. It's like we'll go big. And so there was also something called the penitential of BD of B between the 8th century around the 8th century in England. It was basically from the mid 6th century to the mid 12th century. So we go forward in time a few hundred years they haven't figured out the problem and they said well we really need to have some real set laws to figure out the plan of action of what to do since this is out of control. Some of the things that are listed in this in this penitential of B several of these refer to sexual crimes committed by clerics against young boys and girls. So basically we need to come up with some sort of system because there's all these priests that have these young boys and girls. We need to figure out a way to get rid of it and so they they put this in there. Advises clerics to commit sodomy with young boys be given increasingly severe penances. So if there is a priest that commits sodomy with a young boy he needs a big punishment. Once again a grown man with a child is not the same thing as homosexuality that's far worse. Yeah. That's being a pedophile. That's implying that the child has something to do about it. Now that's called being a pedophile. And so look this has changed in a few hundred years now they're saying let's just have penalties. They've already softened their stance here in the 6th century mid 6th century. The regularity with which mention is made of clergy sex crime shows the problem was not isolated and was known by the community. So basically it was known in society that man all of these priests and supposedly holy men of God all of them are pedophiles. It's really the same in today's world right because people are aware of it. Yeah. It's a scandal that's known within our country. Ask the average person out there they know about it. Right. It's an embarrassment to their religion. Yeah. And people are aware about it. Nothing has changed okay. Go forward in history to the second Lateran council in 1139. And let me just quickly read a few highlights from this. It says the repeated violations of clerical celibacy were amply documented in mechanical collections of the medical hearing. The most authoritative sources of degree of gration already mentioned. Though mandatory celibacy had been decreed by the second Lateran council in 1139 this law was received with neither universal acceptance nor obedience. And so basically they were trying to come up with a plan to stop this and within the Catholic church they changed laws so basically it had to be celibacy. Okay. And that was kind of a mixed reaction. A lot of priests didn't like that. Say why? Because they're illegal people. But here's the thing about this. If you're going to be a leader of a church you need to be married. Yeah. Need to be married. Mission must be blameless as the steward of God. The husband of one wife. Right. So why in the world they'd say that well you need to be celibate. I have no idea. That's nowhere in the Bible. But they basically this was spinning out of control they said let's just make it where you know it's required to be a priest. Because when they started you were allowed to have the children as your slaves. Look I'm not the one who's making my opinion. I'm just reading you from articles and from these things. This existed in the Catholic church. It's not an opinion of mine. It's a fact as I'm reading their own information. And then once again went to the fourth Lateran council 76 years later and they talked about the same sort of things because they could not fix the problem. So basically it's been like 900 years. Man we're still trying to get this figured out. And they can't seem to figure it out at all. You go to the late 15th century. Actually I'll skip that for a second time. But in Ecclesiastes 1 verse 15 it says that which is crooked cannot be made straight. And that which is wanting cannot be numbered. See that which is made crooked you're not going to be able to straighten it out. Yeah. And when it comes to people both literal and figurative. Okay when it comes to praise that our our pedophiles look they're not going to straighten out. Yeah. We're not going to develop some ministry to try to help inform them. Let's just give them counseling sessions. And it's going to fix the problem. Say why are you saying counseling session? Because the Catholic church has done that throughout history. Yeah. They developed all this like 20 week counseling course to try to help you become normal. Look they never became normal. Yeah. They were still crooked. So that's the early days but as we go forward to the Protestant Reformation there's more information. Now look everything I'm saying in the sermon you can go back and listen. You can check it out for yourself. I'm quoting sources. I'm giving you all the information. But see you have to understand that one thing the devil does is he will teach you about events and leave out information. Yeah. To confuse you. Okay. Let me go to the Protestant Reformation. See we know the Protestant Reformation as Martin Luther rejected the Catholic church because of indulgences. Well basically you had to pay money to get your child out of purgatory. Pay money to get your friend out of hell and stuff like this. The priests would pray and supposedly they go to heaven. They introduced that to raise funding for building. We talked about that last week. But you know one other thing that I did not know until I researched the sermon. One of the things that Martin Luther was really angry about is that priests were allowed to have a lot of children as slaves. And he wanted to put a limit on how many. And they said no. There should be no limit. Look I can't say this in a nice way. This is the truth of the Roman Catholic Church. Right. I mean it's disgusting. Right. It's like I mean are you kidding me. This was 500 years ago. Yeah. 1531 and Pope Leo the 10th vetoed a measure and said no there will be no limit. He's taking that as many as they want. Well I guess when you rule the world you can do whatever you want. Right. Because they weren't just a religion. They also ruled the world. This is the truth about the religion of our country. And look you say well that's throughout the world. That has nothing to do with the Philippines. Look next week's sermon is all about the Philippines. And we have a very dark history with this church in our country. That is the truth. It is not just in Europe. No it's all over the world. Yeah. Why? Because it's a wicked religion and the fruit that comes out of a wicked religion is all of this garbage. Right. It's disgusting. And you know that was in 1531. And in 1566 they recognized the need to publicly attack clerical sodomy. So in 1566 a long time later they said man everybody knows about this. We got to find a way to basically preach against sodomy because it's a real issue within our priests. Why would that be an issue from the person that's leading your church? It's like are you kidding me. Now look I'm not perfect. I have bad thoughts sometimes. Sometimes I'm lazy to read the Bible. But it's like your religious leaders are sodomites according to their own words. This is what they did in 1566. It's like what in the world. And yet what happens is people grow up as Catholic and they're just kind of and look the truth is whatever religion you grow up in you just kind of line them up. Right. Isn't that the truth? Yeah. You grow up and we're basically like zombies like I'm a Catholic. You know why are you a Catholic? My parents were Catholic. Lolo was Catholic. Lolo was Catholic. My great-great parents were Catholic. It's like yeah but do you believe that when you take you know that communion that turns into the body of Jesus. No but I'm a Catholic. And it doesn't matter if they believe it they just follow it. That's their family religion. Yeah. Look if you don't believe in your family religion you need to stand without the candle rejected. Right. And the sad thing is we have people say all the time that we're going to stay in our Catholic churches because they're worried what their mom thinks. They're worried what their dad thinks. They're worried what their brothers and sisters and friends think. Look if you don't believe that you should reject it. First Peter 2. First Peter 2. The Bible reads in First Peter chapter 2 verse 13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the king as supreme or on the governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well. And see our government is supposed to punish evildoers okay. Sadly that is not really what takes place. Our government's supposed to help us and they basically are supposed to punish the serial killers, the murderers, the rapists and all these wicked crimes. They are supposed to do that. That's not our job. Look we have more important things to do like solar and we're never going to destroy that battle or fight that battle. We're not going to try to fight that battle okay. And our government's probably never going to fight that battle either. That is the point of the government. That's what they're supposed to do. You say well what's your point? Here's my point. With the Catholic church because if somebody commits some wicked crime they're supposed to be tried by a legal government for their actions. That's the point of the government. In the Catholic church they have a code of basically quietness. Basically if something happens we do not turn it over to the authorities. First we deal with it in house. So basically if you find out somebody in your church is a pedophile you can't tell anybody about. That's what the Catholic church does. They say we have to deal with it in our church and make our judgment. Don't worry we promise we'll turn them over to the authorities. Does that ever happen? No it doesn't. They deal with things in their own church before. In ecclesiastical court is what they call them. So basically it's a joke. So basically these priests all the time end up with these crazy scandals and they basically just pass a blind eye and say well we dealt with it. He's under a reform program. He's in an eight-week course and then we're going to transfer him to some other church. You say you're just making that up. I'm making that up. It's like do you know anything about the Catholic church? I mean do you ever open a newspaper? Do you ever see anything on Facebook online? This is what the Catholic church does. When someone ends up being a pedophile they transfer him to another location. I mean what in the world to unsuspecting parents that think that's a man of God because you just naturally believe stuff. You don't want to think everything's evil or I don't want to think everything's evil. So they just assume that the priest is a good person. I read some of these articles this week and you can go there anytime here. In July there was a scandal and I can't remember where it was located. I'll talk about it next week. But basically all the people are commenting and saying we're so shocked. Our priest seemed like he was so nice and we respected him. We thought he was a man of God. We couldn't believe what happened. We're shocked by it. Look people are shocked by it. They don't realize that they have a predator behind their pockets or whatever they call it. They think it's a man of God. They think their children are safe and in reality it's like the most dangerous place for a child. Turn to 1st Timothy 1. For sake of time, like I said, this is a long term. I'm going to pass all this information. There's a lot more history. I mean you can go to any time period, any year, any decade. You'll find information on the scandals they've been involved in. In 1st Timothy 1 verses 8 through 10, Bob reads, but we know that the laws go to the man you used to walk with. Knowing this, the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murders and potters, and murders and murders for man slaves, for whore mongers, for them that devile themselves of mankind, for men stealers, for liars, for Persian persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine. See the law was created not for a normal person who wakes up and reads the Bible and goes to church, just goes out to eat, just having a normal life. No, the law was made for wicked people. And see look, we should not be in fear if we're doing what's right. Unfortunately, a lot of people live in areas and they have to be in fear of, oh no, I did something wrong. It's like when you're driving a car. I don't know about here, but in America you'd be driving a car, you're doing nothing wrong, and then when you see a cop inside you pulling up in another car, you're kind of worried because they can pull you over for nothing. And it happens all the time. And you know, I mean, how ridiculous is it that you accidentally go like six miles an hour over the speed limit and it's like, here's a $200 car. And it's like, you're not supposed to be in fear if you're just trying to do what's right. Because look, you don't accidentally murder people. It's a deliberate act. If you accidentally drive over the speed limit, I'm not talking about you're going 100 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone. I'm saying the speed limit is 70 on the highway and you're going downhill so you pick up some speed, you hit 76. Because you know, throughout America there's a lot of places where there's a lot of mountains. And you're going like 65 miles per hour. You don't even touch the acceleration and all of a sudden you skyrocket to 75. And a cop can pull you over and say, well, here's a $300 fine. Look, that's not what the government's meant for. They're meant to catch the criminals, the bad wicked people. You're not supposed to live in fear, but unfortunately our government protects those criminals. It's like they know about these scandals and they do nothing about it. They never do anything about it. It's such a joke. And it's like this in every country where they basically protect these people. You say why? Because the Catholic church has a lot of power in this country. They have a lot of money and so they're protected by the government. Now turn to Romans 13. Romans 13. Look, I know our president's not a big fan of the Catholic church, but unfortunately we've got this system where the Catholic church has a lot of power. And you know, quite honestly, they get away with these crimes and they just deal with stuff in house and nothing ever happens in those days. Okay. But let's talk about something else. And like I said, there's going to be a long sermon and two more pages of notes, but there's also a big history of not just with the priest, but with the nuns. Okay. You say, I thought these nuns were so holy. Well, not according to the history. So in Romans 13 verse three, it says for rulers are not a terror to the worst, but to the evil, wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same. So rulers are not meant to be a terror to good works. So you come in and visit a church like this. Look, you shouldn't be afraid. Like, Oh no, I wonder what brother stuff he's going to do. I'm going to be in trouble. I'll get kicked out of the church. It's like, no, you don't have to live in fear. You're just going about your way. Okay. Unfortunately though, in the Catholic churches, literally their members have to be in fear, especially those children of the priests, but not just with the priest, but also with the nuns as well. Now there's kind of two aspects to this because when you look at the history of nuns quite often, and actually I'll leave that in a second. Let me show you a few things. In 1986, a history scholar from Stanford University recovered archival information about investigations from 1690 to 1623 involving nuns in Vallejo, Italy, secretly exploiting in a physical way, illiterate nuns for several years. So basically they would have new nuns join to become nuns. And during their training, a lot of them in 1619 to 1623 were being molested as is the same with priests. A lot of the nuns. That's very common. And look, I remember we were taking our son out somewhere and I remember there's like this big group of nuns and they had all these children with them as well. You know, go figure. But I remember our son, they're like, oh, he's so cute. And I just grabbed my son and walked away. It's like, I don't trust you. It's like, I don't know what you've been doing. It's like, I don't want you anywhere near my, especially as you're researching and it's like, man, it's like, no, you're not coming within, you know, a hundred feet of my son. In 1998, a religious research national survey revealed a very high number of nuns reporting childhood victimizations of sex sexual abuse by other nuns. So basically a large percentage of the nuns admitted we were molested by the other nuns when we joined. See, we just think of it with the priests. It's not just the priests though. It's their whole evil religion. It's throughout history. It was further noted that the majority of nun abuse victims are of the same sex. So basically it's not just men with men. It's also women with women in their religion. Most of the cases were nuns abusing other young girls that were trained to be nuns. In 2002, Mark him examine the sexual histories of nuns to find several cases of non-sexually abusing children. So it's throughout their history. Now go back to Romans 1. And we'll get a verse and you know, it makes sense that if it involves the men of the religion, it's going to involve the women as well. It's the same wicked religion. It shouldn't be shocking to us. Romans 1 verse 26, for this cause, God gave them on the vile affections for even their women did change the natural use and adapt which is against nature. And so even the women did the same thing. Men with men, women with women. It's not just men that reject God, become haters of God. Nope. There's women that do the same thing. They hate the creator God. They hate the God of the Bible. The big LGBT agenda. People that hate God. That's the truth about both with men and women and throughout the Catholic church. It's been very common and it's still very common. You say, how do you know that? And look, you can open up a newspaper and you know what happens today. But look, it's happened all throughout history. I mean, literally I could have made the sermon 10 times as long. Every single year, there's always something going on throughout their history. I'm giving you the dates and the information and within the Catholic church themselves. I haven't even really given my opinion on it. I think everyone's aware of my opinion. But I haven't really given my opinion. I'm just telling you the opinion of their own religion. Man, what do we need to do about this? Because this is out of control. This is all throughout our religion. Now, let me give you a quote to you from Pope Francis. And I mentioned this in another sermon. The Vatican on Wednesday clarified comments by Pope Francis about a case of what he called sexual slavery. This is Pope Francis. Not my words, but he mentioned sexual slavery. He said, within a French congregation of nuns saying he was referring to an abuse of power that was reflected in instances of sexual abuse. So what the Pope Francis was talking about was all of these nuns being molested by priests in France. That's what he said. He said sexual abuse. That's not confusing. Oh, what he meant was an abuse of power. No, he said sexual abuse. Look, I don't think he's a dumb person. I think he knew what he meant. And the Vatican had to clarify. I saw this funny video a few years ago of Pope Francis. Basically, it's like a cartoon type thing. And he's saying all these things. And then all of a sudden, the Vatican right afterwards is like, well, this is what he actually meant. He said, why? Because the Pope Francis has said so many things against what the Catholic Church believes. And he says things, and they're like, no, no, no, that's not what he meant. That's not what he meant. Because he does that all the time. I mean, how could you be Catholic and like Pope Francis? If you really believe in Catholicism, Pope Francis isn't Catholic. Everything he believes is different than what they believe for so long. I mean, they used to teach, if you're not Catholic, you go to hell. Now he says there is no hell. It's like hell is at the same religion. But it doesn't matter because I was born a Catholic. I'm still Catholic. All the time Catholic. And people just start blindly being Catholic. It's like a completely different religion. Now, I want you to understand something, though. When it comes to the abuse that's happening, I talk about men with men, women with women. It's very common. But here's a dirty little secret the Catholic Church does not want you to know. This is something I learned in the sermon series. And I found lots of evidence. And right when I heard it, I was like, that makes sense. How did I never realize this? Because it's not just priests defiling young boys. They also have a lot of children out of wedlock. Didn't we learn about that last week with the folks, all the children they had? There's no new thing under the sun. The same thing happens today. But here's the problem with this. When you're having children, you've got to cover up a scandal. How do you cover up a scandal when they're having all these kids? Because here's the truth about the Catholic Church. And I'll mention it next week. But there's been quotes where they're like, man, we should have these laws to get rid of these priests that do these things. But they literally would not have enough to be priests. They can't do that. They don't have enough people. If they got rid of all them, it's like, well, we don't have anyone in front of churches because they're all guilty of this. So how do you cover up scandals with all these kids that they're having? You know what you do? You open up a bunch of orphanages. And these nuns are protecting all these children. You say, what are those children opposed to? A lot of those children are children of the priests. You can look that up for yourself. It's a fact. And whenever they try to discover this, they try to go to orphanages, they refuse to answer any questions. But that's where a lot of those children are coming from. It's children of the priests. And that's the easiest way to cover up a scandal. If there's some scandal with the nuns or the priests, just have the children there and nobody really knows what's going on. And what does society think? Oh, they're so godly taking care of these young children. In reality, it's wicked priests that are having children out of wedlock and they're rejected by their parents. And their parents don't love them at all because they're guilty wicked people. That's the truth of the Roman capital. When I heard that, I was like, that makes sense to me. It doesn't really shock me to turn to Ecclesiastes 7. Because you have to understand that, look, like I said, you're created as a man to desire other women. That is normal for people. And so you become more wicked with sexual perversion if you reject God. But it's normal for God to be attracted to a woman. And so very often these priests, they do have children out of wedlock. And that's how they cover it up. Basically, they just have them raised in an orphanage where they don't know who their mom and dad is. Well, the truth is, a lot of those children, their parents are priests. That's the truth about them. And let me read you a few other things as you're in Ecclesiastes 7. And I'll just read this. And it says, the most complete records have been found in the Spanish and Mexican tribunals to reveal a shockingly high volume of complaints from women and men, accusing priests of solicitation and sexual abuse in a variety of forms. And so basically, throughout history in the Mexican and Spanish tribunals, they'll mention this. The most complete study of cases from the Spanish tribunals revealed that between 1723 and 1820, 3,775 cases were completed and sentences handed down. So basically, that's like 40 cases a year in one country. 40 cases a year, that's basically like one case per week a sentence was handed down. Those are the ones where a sentence was handed down. It doesn't include all the other ones for the regular sentence. One per week. Now, that makes sense to me because isn't it like every week you open up a newspaper and there's some scandal in the Philippines? It happens all the time. It makes sense that it's happening every single week. That's the truth. And what do they do? Well, they move that priest to a new location and nobody's aware of it. They forgot. That's what they do. The author concluded that this number represents a small portion of the actual cases and that it reflects only those completed and not the total number started and later abandoned. So basically, some of these priests end up being the fall cop. Okay, when there's crime that's committed, you have to have a fall cop. What that basically means is if you're found out as guilty, you have to put one priest up every once in a while. You have to make it look like you're trying to get rid of the problem. Otherwise, it's going to be very obvious to people. So basically, they say, well, look, we're dealing with the problem. No, no, you're dealing with a very small percentage of those problems. Every once in a while you're like, well, we got to deal with this with somebody so we'll take this guy who's kind of new and he's the one who's found out he's guilty. But there are a lot of other cases they never do because they're not trying to get rid of the problem. What's the modern thought on this? And so William Donohue of the Catholic League, this is a famous Catholic, he argued that the church's pedophile problem was really a homosexual crisis. According to William Donohue, no, no, it's not that we have a pedophilia problem. He says it's just the byproduct of us having a homosexual problem. But those are not my words. That's William Donohue of the Catholic League. He says the reason why we have all these pedophiles is because we're allowed to have homosexual priests. In his opinion, there's a link between Sodomy and pedophilia of the Catholic League. In July 2014, Pope Francis was quoted as having said in an interview that about 8,000 Catholic clergy, 2% of the total, including bishops and cardinals, were pedophiles. According to Pope Francis, it's 2%. Now, first off, we all know it's higher than 2%. It's like, who are you trying to fool? Okay, we all know it's higher than 2%. But he's willing to admit, it's like, look, 2%, that's embarrassing. Yeah. Look, it's one out of 50 people. Look, we have more than, we have about 50 people here today. It's like one out of 50, that's actually pretty disgusting for men of God. That's not something to be proud of, Pope Francis. And so on February 21st through 24th of this year, okay, we went all the way back to the fourth century AD. Let's go to the present time in this year, and they had a four-day conference hosted by the pope on clerical abuse. Francis opened the summit on Thursday with a stirring talk declaring that the people of God were expecting concrete, effective measures to combat clerical abuse. Not the repetition of simple and predictable combinations, that language provoked a sense of resolve and purpose that was broadly welcome. So basically, he opens up and says, let's just admit it, we need to get rid of this problem. We got a real problem. They said, man, people are hopeful. They're excited, like, man, it sounds like he's going to come up with a plan. It's like your favorite politician. They're like, man, these politicians, they're going to fix the problem. They're going to fix the poverty problem. They're going to fix this and this and this. Like, man, he's got a plan. He's going to do something. You spend four hours watching that debate. A couple years later, oh, he didn't do anything. That's what happens in every country. Right. But with all the politicians, they don't do anything. As you're excited, there's going to be the problems going to be fixed, and the pope says, we're going to come up with a solution. What does he say throughout the rest of the conference? He said, well, I want you to understand, this is not a Catholic problem. This exists with all churches. We're just the ones that are trying to deal with this situation. Just paraphrasing. So basically, he said, we're not going to do anything. He basically said, yeah, we got a problem. Every church has a problem. It's not something with the Catholic church. No, every church has a problem. He didn't want to deal with it. What's the point of that? He does that to make it look like he's trying to fix the problem. He's not trying to fix it. And look, if you really think that for the last 1,700 years, they've been trying to fix this problem and been unsuccessful, you're crazy. They're not trying to fix it. 1,700 years, it's like, man, that's like 30% of human history. And you want to go back to the Roman culture, before the time of Christ, like one third of human history, this Roman Empire, this Catholic church coming out of the Roman Empire, had this massive problem. Going back to the fourth century AD and before, they haven't fixed it. You are crazy if you really think that Pope Francis is going to just fix the problem, especially when he endorses the LGBT. He's not going to fix the problem. They're not trying to fix the problem. It's all a lie. It's all a massive cover-up. But you have to understand that this has always existed. It's nothing new. Let me reiterate that sexual perverts and deviants are not going to this church. They're not going to try to reform them. We're going to keep our children safe in this room. They can accept them at other churches and they can deal with the results. I want these kids to be safe. A church that actually loves their children will keep them in a safe environment. A lot of this information was new to me when I studied this sermon. I named this sermon series The Dark History of the Roman Catholic Church. As I was studying, I was like, wow. Man, it's like a million times worse than I thought. It's like I knew these were issues, but man, there's so much information on the problems of this church. It's not just that they preach a false gospel. I mean, they're just such a wicked religion. In Ecclesiastes 7 verse 13, the Bible says, consider the work of God for who can make that straight, which he hath made broken. According to this verse, God has made some people broken. They rejected God so much and eventually God says, you know what? I'm done with you. You're not going to straighten them out. Literally and figuratively. It's not going to happen. They're done. We're not going to try to reform them. He said, why don't you try to reform them? Look at how much so many we do at this church. Look at how much we're doing. We got a so many men coming up in Bulla Khan. Even if I believed you could reform them, which I don't, look, we have too much important stuff to do. There's so much stuff to do as a church. Why is every church obsessed with trying to help these pedophiles? It's bizarre. It's so weird and they always protect them. The truth is it is not just the Catholic church. Pope Francis is right. It definitely happens in the Catholic church more than anywhere else, but it happens in all kinds of churches. We will never be a church that sets up our church in a way where kids can be defined. We want these kids to be saved. Look, the truth is this is not the most pleasant sermon here. That's the truth of the religion of our country. It is a wicked religion and it needs to be preached against. Let's close in a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here in your house this morning and getting to see what you have to say about this wicked religion and seeing the history of God. It's not the most pleasant.