WEBVTT 00:00:00.471 --> 00:00:03.238 Many doctors and scientists are currently 00:00:03.238 --> 00:00:05.188 laboring to try to figure out 00:00:05.188 --> 00:00:08.770 how to stop the spread of COVID-19 00:00:08.770 --> 00:00:11.388 also known as the coronavirus. 00:00:11.388 --> 00:00:15.224 They rightly want to stop this pandemic in its tracks 00:00:15.224 --> 00:00:17.344 and save people's lives. 00:00:17.344 --> 00:00:19.586 This is affecting all of our lives. 00:00:19.586 --> 00:00:21.258 I know someone whose father 00:00:21.258 --> 00:00:22.826 is presently on a ventilator 00:00:22.826 --> 00:00:25.175 and could die from this virus. 00:00:25.175 --> 00:00:27.990 Now, imagine the day that someone 00:00:27.990 --> 00:00:31.176 discovers an effective treatment for COVID-19. 00:00:31.176 --> 00:00:33.705 That day will no doubt be remembered 00:00:33.705 --> 00:00:35.260 in our history books. 00:00:35.260 --> 00:00:38.925 People will remember those who labored tirelessly 00:00:38.925 --> 00:00:40.975 to save people's lives. 00:00:40.975 --> 00:00:43.093 People do not want to die. 00:00:43.093 --> 00:00:46.408 And most live with a constant fear of death 00:00:46.408 --> 00:00:48.775 and of how they might die. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:48.775 --> 00:00:50.407 What is a pandemic? 00:00:50.407 --> 00:00:52.259 It is a disease that is prevalent 00:00:52.259 --> 00:00:54.076 throughout an entire country, 00:00:54.076 --> 00:00:56.409 or continent, or the whole world. 00:00:56.409 --> 00:00:59.790 It is an epidemic over a large area. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:59.790 --> 00:01:01.123 Now let me ask you this: 00:01:01.123 --> 00:01:02.904 What was the greatest pandemic 00:01:02.904 --> 00:01:05.959 in the history of humanity? 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:08.347 How did it spread? 00:01:08.347 --> 00:01:11.180 How was it stopped? 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:12.780 What was the treatment? 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:15.831 Was there a treatment for it? 00:01:15.831 --> 00:01:18.347 What comes to your mind when I ask those questions? 00:01:18.347 --> 00:01:20.798 How deep do you think about those questions? 00:01:20.798 --> 00:01:22.276 Let me give you some hints 00:01:22.276 --> 00:01:24.213 before I give you some history 00:01:24.213 --> 00:01:26.413 on what I'm referring to. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:26.413 --> 00:01:27.547 First hint: 00:01:27.547 --> 00:01:29.797 One married couple's actions 00:01:29.797 --> 00:01:31.697 brought this pandemic about. 00:01:31.697 --> 00:01:34.861 It could have been entirely avoided. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:34.861 --> 00:01:36.879 Second hint: Once it spread, 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.181 there was no amount of quarantine 00:01:39.181 --> 00:01:41.564 that you could do to protect yourself 00:01:41.564 --> 00:01:43.744 from the disease. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:43.744 --> 00:01:45.212 A third hint: 00:01:45.212 --> 00:01:47.780 Many want to say that they've tested negative 00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:49.264 to having this virus, 00:01:49.264 --> 00:01:51.678 but this is because they've gone to clinics 00:01:51.678 --> 00:01:54.178 that use incorrect testing methods 00:01:54.178 --> 00:01:56.698 because they use the wrong manual. 00:01:56.698 --> 00:01:58.864 They have the wrong standard. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:58.864 --> 00:02:00.144 Fourth hint: 00:02:00.144 --> 00:02:01.446 The death rate of those 00:02:01.446 --> 00:02:03.747 who got this disease in the past 00:02:03.747 --> 00:02:06.460 and still presently get it - 00:02:06.460 --> 00:02:08.197 it's 100%. 00:02:08.197 --> 00:02:10.446 And oh yes, 100% of humanity 00:02:10.446 --> 00:02:13.064 has had this disease. 00:02:13.064 --> 00:02:14.630 And still to this day 00:02:14.630 --> 00:02:15.927 as I make this video, 00:02:15.927 --> 00:02:20.095 on average 150,000 people die from it 00:02:20.095 --> 00:02:22.564 every single day. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:22.564 --> 00:02:24.061 What disease is this? 00:02:24.061 --> 00:02:26.213 It's not a physical disease. 00:02:26.213 --> 00:02:28.578 But I'm talking about a spiritual one. 00:02:28.578 --> 00:02:31.695 Yes, I'm talking about sin. 00:02:31.695 --> 00:02:35.013 That is, you doing anything in thought, 00:02:35.013 --> 00:02:37.143 or of the motive of the heart, 00:02:37.143 --> 00:02:38.962 or an action that you do 00:02:38.962 --> 00:02:41.012 that misses the perfect mark 00:02:41.012 --> 00:02:44.004 of following God's Son, Jesus Christ. 00:02:44.004 --> 00:02:46.395 Why am I likening sin to a disease? 00:02:46.395 --> 00:02:48.278 The Bible speaks of those 00:02:48.278 --> 00:02:50.593 who are living for sin and self 00:02:50.593 --> 00:02:52.362 as those who are sick 00:02:52.362 --> 00:02:54.512 and in need of a physician. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:54.512 --> 00:02:56.430 So let me give you some history 00:02:56.430 --> 00:02:59.530 from around 5,000 years ago. 00:02:59.530 --> 00:03:02.578 In the Bible, Romans 5 describes 00:03:02.578 --> 00:03:04.729 the outbreak of this pandemic. 00:03:04.729 --> 00:03:06.814 It says sin came into the world 00:03:06.814 --> 00:03:09.029 through one man's sin, 00:03:09.029 --> 00:03:11.580 and then death spread through sin, 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:14.082 and so death spread to all men 00:03:14.082 --> 00:03:16.163 because all sinned. 00:03:16.163 --> 00:03:18.630 So Adam and Eve, they disobeyed God's command 00:03:18.630 --> 00:03:20.781 to not eat of the tree in the Garden. 00:03:20.781 --> 00:03:22.128 Satan deceived them 00:03:22.128 --> 00:03:23.880 and they ate of the fruit. 00:03:23.880 --> 00:03:24.891 And bam! 00:03:24.891 --> 00:03:26.131 One man's actions 00:03:26.131 --> 00:03:28.211 brought this pandemic about - 00:03:28.211 --> 00:03:31.212 a spiritual virus that has spread to all men 00:03:31.212 --> 00:03:34.164 on the face of the entire earth. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:34.164 --> 00:03:35.778 Now think of the coronavirus. 00:03:35.778 --> 00:03:38.066 Some presently conclude that one man 00:03:38.066 --> 00:03:40.647 eating a bat that was sick 00:03:40.647 --> 00:03:42.310 and had contaminated meat 00:03:42.310 --> 00:03:44.780 has brought about this global pandemic. 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.444 Now whether indeed that proves to be the case 00:03:47.444 --> 00:03:48.849 of what has happened, 00:03:48.849 --> 00:03:51.794 we do have proof that sin has spread 00:03:51.794 --> 00:03:53.396 through one man's sin. 00:03:53.396 --> 00:03:55.445 This actually did happen. 00:03:55.445 --> 00:03:57.662 You see, death: It was not natural. 00:03:57.662 --> 00:04:00.130 But man sinned and death entered the world 00:04:00.130 --> 00:04:03.082 and we still have this problem today. 00:04:03.082 --> 00:04:04.397 We get sick, 00:04:04.397 --> 00:04:06.510 our bodies struggle to keep going, 00:04:06.510 --> 00:04:07.782 and we die. 00:04:07.782 --> 00:04:10.082 And for most of us, we die in a day 00:04:10.082 --> 00:04:12.029 when we least expect it. 00:04:12.029 --> 00:04:13.501 Sin is destructive. 00:04:13.501 --> 00:04:15.164 As one pastor said, 00:04:15.164 --> 00:04:18.864 "Coronavirus can only cause the first death, 00:04:18.864 --> 00:04:20.466 which is a physical death. 00:04:20.466 --> 00:04:23.326 But sin produces the second death, 00:04:23.326 --> 00:04:25.279 which is the eternal death. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.280 Fear what is far greater." 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:31.377 The media? They will rarely talk about this pandemic - 00:04:31.377 --> 00:04:33.694 this widespread sickness of sin, 00:04:33.694 --> 00:04:35.745 and the evil of a lost person's heart, 00:04:35.745 --> 00:04:38.864 and the eternal death in hell that it leads to. 00:04:38.864 --> 00:04:41.844 Much less will they talk about the cure. 00:04:41.844 --> 00:04:44.497 Most deny that this is even a problem! 00:04:44.497 --> 00:04:47.063 They declare themselves to be good enough. 00:04:47.063 --> 00:04:48.745 Psalm 14:1 says, 00:04:48.745 --> 00:04:50.428 "The fool says in his heart, 00:04:50.428 --> 00:04:52.998 'There is no God.'" NOTE Paragraph 00:04:52.998 --> 00:04:55.914 So, what about the cure for sin? 00:04:55.914 --> 00:04:58.765 Just as one man brought about this virus, 00:04:58.765 --> 00:05:00.198 this pandemic, 00:05:00.198 --> 00:05:02.961 so one Man came and made a cure. 00:05:02.961 --> 00:05:04.781 There is a Great Physician 00:05:04.781 --> 00:05:07.746 Who made a cure that always works. 00:05:07.746 --> 00:05:09.910 Jesus Christ, the Son of God, 00:05:09.910 --> 00:05:11.830 did what Adam failed to do. 00:05:11.830 --> 00:05:14.495 He lived a perfectly righteous life 00:05:14.495 --> 00:05:16.211 and He never sinned. 00:05:16.211 --> 00:05:18.997 He never fell short in word, deed, or thought, 00:05:18.997 --> 00:05:22.764 and He perfectly loved humanity by His deeds. 00:05:22.764 --> 00:05:24.614 And then He did an act of love 00:05:24.614 --> 00:05:27.179 by which most of humanity is totally blind 00:05:27.179 --> 00:05:28.866 to seeing and comprehending. 00:05:28.866 --> 00:05:31.196 They view this act as utter foolishness. 00:05:31.196 --> 00:05:33.846 They mock what Christ did on the cross. 00:05:33.846 --> 00:05:35.147 You see, on the cross, 00:05:35.147 --> 00:05:37.896 Christ took our sins upon His own account. 00:05:37.896 --> 00:05:39.598 And what happens to a person 00:05:39.598 --> 00:05:41.981 who has your crimes on their books? 00:05:41.981 --> 00:05:44.214 They must now suffer the punishment 00:05:44.214 --> 00:05:45.947 that you deserve. 00:05:45.947 --> 00:05:47.314 That's what Christ did. 00:05:47.314 --> 00:05:49.444 On the cross, the wrath of God 00:05:49.444 --> 00:05:52.096 that I deserve in hell for all of an eternity, 00:05:52.096 --> 00:05:55.395 that wrath fell down upon Jesus Christ. 00:05:55.395 --> 00:05:58.511 And God the Father crushed His only Son 00:05:58.511 --> 00:05:59.927 in my place... 00:05:59.927 --> 00:06:01.813 for me, one of His enemies. 00:06:01.813 --> 00:06:04.445 No greater love has man known than this. 00:06:04.445 --> 00:06:08.460 Jesus became a curse in order for sinful humanity 00:06:08.460 --> 00:06:12.566 to not be cursed in hell for all of eternity. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:12.566 --> 00:06:14.387 Some would no doubt say, 00:06:14.387 --> 00:06:17.381 this video, it's not historically accurate. 00:06:17.381 --> 00:06:20.027 There's no such spiritual virus in existence. 00:06:20.027 --> 00:06:22.262 This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. 00:06:22.262 --> 00:06:24.728 No, friend, please heed the warning. 00:06:24.728 --> 00:06:26.694 The Bible warns us that men 00:06:26.694 --> 00:06:28.861 suppress the truth. 00:06:28.861 --> 00:06:33.147 They refuse to give thanks to God their Creator. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:33.147 --> 00:06:35.775 When a treatment for the coronavirus is found, 00:06:35.775 --> 00:06:38.077 will it be 100% accessible 00:06:38.077 --> 00:06:40.626 to the whole world at one time? 00:06:40.626 --> 00:06:42.982 No, it's not going to be. 00:06:42.982 --> 00:06:45.278 When treatment is discovered, 00:06:45.278 --> 00:06:47.963 will it 100% work on everyone? 00:06:47.963 --> 00:06:50.097 No, there's not going to be a cure 00:06:50.097 --> 00:06:53.148 that's instant and accessible to all. 00:06:53.148 --> 00:06:55.714 Yet, in contrast, can anyone obtain 00:06:55.714 --> 00:06:57.812 this cure from sin? Yes. 00:06:57.812 --> 00:07:00.813 It's accessible to everyone at this very moment. 00:07:00.813 --> 00:07:04.479 No matter what strand of illness of sin you have, 00:07:04.479 --> 00:07:05.962 this cure will work, 00:07:05.962 --> 00:07:07.330 whether you're extremely, 00:07:07.330 --> 00:07:08.979 outwardly a wicked person, 00:07:08.979 --> 00:07:10.646 a murderer, an adulterer, 00:07:10.646 --> 00:07:12.263 or whether you're the opposite. 00:07:12.263 --> 00:07:14.530 You're extremely self-righteous and proud, 00:07:14.530 --> 00:07:15.963 and you're a religious person 00:07:15.963 --> 00:07:17.811 who's trusting in your own works 00:07:17.811 --> 00:07:19.395 or your baptism to save you, 00:07:19.395 --> 00:07:21.411 and you go to church. 00:07:21.411 --> 00:07:23.476 No matter which person you are, 00:07:23.476 --> 00:07:25.044 if you agree with God 00:07:25.044 --> 00:07:28.412 about your wickedness and your sin 00:07:28.412 --> 00:07:30.635 and your inability to save yourself, 00:07:30.635 --> 00:07:33.534 and you turn from sin to Christ 00:07:33.534 --> 00:07:36.217 and you trust Him to save you from your sin, 00:07:36.217 --> 00:07:39.018 He will not only forgive you of your debt, 00:07:39.018 --> 00:07:41.219 but the Bible says God causes people 00:07:41.219 --> 00:07:42.636 to be born again. 00:07:42.636 --> 00:07:45.051 He gives them a new heart with new desires. 00:07:45.051 --> 00:07:47.319 Now they actually want to live for Him. 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:49.718 It's no longer a burden to live for Christ. 00:07:49.718 --> 00:07:52.017 It's now their actual desire. 00:07:52.017 --> 00:07:55.044 They're a new creation. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:55.044 --> 00:07:57.666 Does this cure work 100% of the time? 00:07:57.666 --> 00:07:59.168 Yes, it does. 00:07:59.168 --> 00:08:00.667 There's never been a case 00:08:00.667 --> 00:08:03.384 of someone truly believing in Jesus Christ 00:08:03.384 --> 00:08:05.451 who has not been healed. 00:08:05.451 --> 00:08:07.679 Now, some are saying, wait. Wait a minute. 00:08:07.679 --> 00:08:09.184 Well, you see, there are many 00:08:09.184 --> 00:08:11.119 who claim they took the cure. 00:08:11.119 --> 00:08:12.657 They later fall ill and sick 00:08:12.657 --> 00:08:14.118 and they go back in their sin 00:08:14.118 --> 00:08:15.405 and they live in their sin. 00:08:15.405 --> 00:08:17.235 The Bible teaches this only proves 00:08:17.235 --> 00:08:20.459 they never partook of it to begin. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:20.459 --> 00:08:23.751 So friend, the coronavirus is a pandemic 00:08:23.751 --> 00:08:27.488 that pales in comparison to this disease of sin. 00:08:27.488 --> 00:08:29.769 And in our world, so often, sin - 00:08:29.769 --> 00:08:31.468 it's not even called sin. 00:08:31.468 --> 00:08:34.955 Because the world hates God's standard of holiness. 00:08:34.955 --> 00:08:37.484 Jesus says that if you even look at a woman 00:08:37.484 --> 00:08:39.934 with lustful intent in your heart, 00:08:39.934 --> 00:08:43.051 that's the equivalent of adultery in God's courtroom. 00:08:43.051 --> 00:08:45.566 You see, sin is not a physical illness. 00:08:45.566 --> 00:08:47.200 But men love their sin 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.601 and darkness rather than light. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:49.601 --> 00:08:52.865 So today, I remember Jesus Christ 00:08:52.865 --> 00:08:55.167 Who came to die for His enemies 00:08:55.167 --> 00:08:57.550 and save them from the greatest virus 00:08:57.550 --> 00:08:59.721 that has ever been known to man - 00:08:59.721 --> 00:09:01.269 that of their sins. 00:09:01.269 --> 00:09:03.418 And you need to be cured. 00:09:03.418 --> 00:09:05.718 And the fear of death that you presently feel 00:09:05.718 --> 00:09:08.068 due to the coronavirus pandemic - 00:09:08.068 --> 00:09:10.653 that should only point you to Christ. 00:09:10.653 --> 00:09:12.867 Even when this pandemic calms down 00:09:12.867 --> 00:09:15.637 and things seem to be back to normal, 00:09:15.637 --> 00:09:18.768 the matter of your sins will not have died down. 00:09:18.768 --> 00:09:20.503 And that will still be an issue 00:09:20.503 --> 00:09:22.869 no matter how much you suppress it. 00:09:22.869 --> 00:09:24.932 Many say, "I'm a good person." 00:09:24.932 --> 00:09:27.065 But friend, the Bible says none is good. 00:09:27.065 --> 00:09:28.498 No, not one. 00:09:28.498 --> 00:09:30.230 You want to take the correct test 00:09:30.230 --> 00:09:31.629 and go to God's Word 00:09:31.629 --> 00:09:33.899 and see what God says about you. 00:09:33.899 --> 00:09:35.581 And God says that you're dead 00:09:35.581 --> 00:09:37.464 in your trespasses and sins, 00:09:37.464 --> 00:09:40.568 and only Jesus Christ can make you alive. 00:09:40.568 --> 00:09:44.049 Don't ignore the warning signs of this virus. 00:09:44.049 --> 00:09:46.267 Your very conscience - it accuses you 00:09:46.267 --> 00:09:48.583 of guilt and of sin. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:48.583 --> 00:09:51.813 Yet, in John 19:30, Jesus said from the cross, 00:09:51.813 --> 00:09:53.448 "It is finished." 00:09:53.448 --> 00:09:54.913 What a relief! 00:09:54.913 --> 00:09:56.513 He completed the cure! 00:09:56.513 --> 00:09:59.030 He's finished it on our behalf - 00:09:59.030 --> 00:10:01.397 what is required to pay our sin debt 00:10:01.397 --> 00:10:03.915 through sacrificing Himself in our place 00:10:03.915 --> 00:10:06.547 and rising from the dead with mighty power, 00:10:06.547 --> 00:10:08.608 and He's seated in Heaven right now. 00:10:08.608 --> 00:10:10.148 And He says all who come to Me, 00:10:10.148 --> 00:10:12.049 if you're sick, if you're heavy laden, 00:10:12.049 --> 00:10:13.846 He says He will heal you. 00:10:13.846 --> 00:10:15.498 He really will. 00:10:15.498 --> 00:10:18.132 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 00:10:18.132 --> 00:10:21.063 and you will be saved. 00:10:21.063 --> 00:10:22.696 Acts 4:12, it says, 00:10:22.696 --> 00:10:24.864 "There is salvation in no one else, 00:10:24.864 --> 00:10:26.729 for there is no other name under heaven 00:10:26.729 --> 00:10:28.181 given among men by which 00:10:28.181 --> 00:10:30.098 we must be saved." 00:10:30.098 --> 00:10:32.480 Christ - He has the only cure. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.131 In 1 Timothy 1:15, it says, 00:10:35.131 --> 00:10:36.514 "This saying is trustworthy 00:10:36.514 --> 00:10:39.067 and deserving of full acceptance, 00:10:39.067 --> 00:10:41.431 that Christ Jesus came into the world 00:10:41.431 --> 00:10:42.565 to save sinners, 00:10:42.565 --> 00:10:44.465 of whom I am foremost." 00:10:44.465 --> 00:10:46.233 And oh, that the world would have 00:10:46.233 --> 00:10:48.730 full acceptance of the truth 00:10:48.730 --> 00:10:50.450 that there is a virus. 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:52.729 Their sin is a real deal. 00:10:52.729 --> 00:10:55.831 And Christ is a real Savior. 00:10:55.831 --> 00:10:57.466 Accept that reality. 00:10:57.466 --> 00:11:00.030 Bow the knee to Jesus Christ. 00:11:00.030 --> 00:11:01.698 And have life and be saved 00:11:01.698 --> 00:11:03.276 from the greatest pandemic 00:11:03.276 --> 00:11:04.931 that the world has known. 00:11:04.931 --> 00:11:09.540 And it's still going on right now in 2020.