I'll Be Honest: What is the Worst Pandemic in History?

Many doctors and scientists are currently

laboring to try to figure out

how to stop the spread of COVID-19

also known as the coronavirus.

They rightly want to stop this
pandemic in its tracks

and save people's lives.

This is affecting all of our lives.

I know someone whose father

is presently on a ventilator

and could die from this virus.

Now, imagine the day that someone

discovers an effective
treatment for COVID-19.

That day will no doubt be remembered

in our history books.

People will remember those
who labored tirelessly

to save people's lives.

People do not want to die.

And most live with a
constant fear of death

and of how they might die.

What is a pandemic?

It is a disease that is prevalent

throughout an entire country,

or continent, or the whole world.

It is an epidemic over a large area.

Now let me ask you this:

What was the greatest pandemic

in the history of humanity?

How did it spread?

How was it stopped?

What was the treatment?

Was there a treatment for it?

What comes to your mind
when I ask those questions?

How deep do you think
about those questions?

Let me give you some hints

before I give you some history

on what I'm referring to.

First hint:

One married couple's actions

brought this pandemic about.

It could have been entirely avoided.

Second hint: Once it spread,

there was no amount of quarantine

that you could do to protect yourself

from the disease.

A third hint:

Many want to say that
they've tested negative

to having this virus,

but this is because
they've gone to clinics

that use incorrect testing methods

because they use the wrong manual.

They have the wrong standard.

Fourth hint:

The death rate of those

who got this disease in the past

and still presently get it -

it's 100%.

And oh yes, 100% of humanity

has had this disease.

And still to this day

as I make this video,

on average 150,000 people die from it

every single day.

What disease is this?

It's not a physical disease.

But I'm talking about a spiritual one.

Yes, I'm talking about sin.

That is, you doing anything in thought,

or of the motive of the heart,

or an action that you do

that misses the perfect mark

of following God's Son, Jesus Christ.

Why am I likening sin to a disease?

The Bible speaks of those

who are living for sin and self

as those who are sick

and in need of a physician.

So let me give you some history

from around 5,000 years ago.

In the Bible, Romans 5 describes

the outbreak of this pandemic.

It says sin came into the world

through one man's sin,

and then death spread through sin,

and so death spread to all men

because all sinned.

So Adam and Eve,
they disobeyed God's command

to not eat of the tree in the Garden.

Satan deceived them

and they ate of the fruit.

And bam!

One man's actions

brought this pandemic about -

a spiritual virus that
has spread to all men

on the face of the entire earth.

Now think of the coronavirus.

Some presently conclude that one man

eating a bat that was sick

and had contaminated meat

has brought about this global pandemic.

Now whether indeed
that proves to be the case

of what has happened,

we do have proof that sin has spread

through one man's sin.

This actually did happen.

You see, death: It was not natural.

But man sinned and death entered the world

and we still have this problem today.

We get sick,

our bodies struggle to keep going,

and we die.

And for most of us, we die in a day

when we least expect it.

Sin is destructive.

As one pastor said,

"Coronavirus can only
cause the first death,

which is a physical death.

But sin produces the second death,

which is the eternal death.

Fear what is far greater."

The media? They will rarely
talk about this pandemic -

this widespread sickness of sin,

and the evil of a lost person's heart,

and the eternal death
in hell that it leads to.

Much less will they talk about the cure.

Most deny that this is even a problem!

They declare themselves to be good enough.

Psalm 14:1 says,

"The fool says in his heart,

'There is no God.'"

So, what about the cure for sin?

Just as one man brought about this virus,

this pandemic,

so one Man came and made a cure.

There is a Great Physician

Who made a cure that always works.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

did what Adam failed to do.

He lived a perfectly righteous life

and He never sinned.

He never fell short in
word, deed, or thought,

and He perfectly loved
humanity by His deeds.

And then He did an act of love

by which most of humanity is totally blind

to seeing and comprehending.

They view this act as utter foolishness.

They mock what Christ did on the cross.

You see, on the cross,

Christ took our sins upon His own account.

And what happens to a person

who has your crimes on their books?

They must now suffer the punishment

that you deserve.

That's what Christ did.

On the cross, the wrath of God

that I deserve in hell
for all of an eternity,

that wrath fell down upon Jesus Christ.

And God the Father crushed His only Son

in my place...

for me, one of His enemies.

No greater love has man known than this.

Jesus became a curse in
order for sinful humanity

to not be cursed in
hell for all of eternity.

Some would no doubt say,

this video, it's not
historically accurate.

There's no such spiritual
virus in existence.

This guy doesn't know
what he's talking about.

No, friend, please heed the warning.

The Bible warns us that men

suppress the truth.

They refuse to give thanks
to God their Creator.

When a treatment for
the coronavirus is found,

will it be 100% accessible

to the whole world at one time?

No, it's not going to be.

When treatment is discovered,

will it 100% work on everyone?

No, there's not going to be a cure

that's instant and accessible to all.

Yet, in contrast, can anyone obtain

this cure from sin? Yes.

It's accessible to everyone
at this very moment.

No matter what strand of
illness of sin you have,

this cure will work,

whether you're extremely,

outwardly a wicked person,

a murderer, an adulterer,

or whether you're the opposite.

You're extremely self-righteous and proud,

and you're a religious person

who's trusting in your own works

or your baptism to save you,

and you go to church.

No matter which person you are,

if you agree with God

about your wickedness and your sin

and your inability to save yourself,

and you turn from sin to Christ

and you trust Him to
save you from your sin,

He will not only forgive you of your debt,

but the Bible says God causes people

to be born again.

He gives them a new
heart with new desires.

Now they actually want to live for Him.

It's no longer a burden
to live for Christ.

It's now their actual desire.

They're a new creation.

Does this cure work 100% of the time?

Yes, it does.

There's never been a case

of someone truly believing in Jesus Christ

who has not been healed.

Now, some are saying, wait.
Wait a minute.

Well, you see, there are many

who claim they took the cure.

They later fall ill and sick

and they go back in their sin

and they live in their sin.

The Bible teaches this only proves

they never partook of it to begin.

So friend, the coronavirus is a pandemic

that pales in comparison
to this disease of sin.

And in our world, so often, sin -

it's not even called sin.

Because the world hates
God's standard of holiness.

Jesus says that if you
even look at a woman

with lustful intent in your heart,

that's the equivalent of
adultery in God's courtroom.

You see, sin is not a physical illness.

But men love their sin

and darkness rather than light.

So today, I remember Jesus Christ

Who came to die for His enemies

and save them from the greatest virus

that has ever been known to man -

that of their sins.

And you need to be cured.

And the fear of death
that you presently feel

due to the coronavirus pandemic -

that should only point you to Christ.

Even when this pandemic calms down

and things seem to be back to normal,

the matter of your sins
will not have died down.

And that will still be an issue

no matter how much you suppress it.

Many say, "I'm a good person."

But friend, the Bible says none is good.

No, not one.

You want to take the correct test

and go to God's Word

and see what God says about you.

And God says that you're dead

in your trespasses and sins,

and only Jesus Christ can make you alive.

Don't ignore the
warning signs of this virus.

Your very conscience - it accuses you

of guilt and of sin.

Yet, in John 19:30,
Jesus said from the cross,

"It is finished."

What a relief!

He completed the cure!

He's finished it on our behalf -

what is required to pay our sin debt

through sacrificing Himself in our place

and rising from the
dead with mighty power,

and He's seated in Heaven right now.

And He says all who come to Me,

if you're sick, if you're heavy laden,

He says He will heal you.

He really will.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

and you will be saved.

Acts 4:12, it says,

"There is salvation in no one else,

for there is no other name under heaven

given among men by which

we must be saved."

Christ - He has the only cure.

In 1 Timothy 1:15, it says,

"This saying is trustworthy

and deserving of full acceptance,

that Christ Jesus came into the world

to save sinners,

of whom I am foremost."

And oh, that the world would have

full acceptance of the truth

that there is a virus.

Their sin is a real deal.

And Christ is a real Savior.

Accept that reality.

Bow the knee to Jesus Christ.

And have life and be saved

from the greatest pandemic

that the world has known.

And it's still going on right now in 2020.