What is the root cause of CoVid19?

[Music] do welcome and happy sabbath um you might be saying who's this guy up here um i know my my son paul has kind of introduced our live streams for the last what four four and a half months and he's gotten awfully good at it he does it just right on cue without even thinking about it well i might need a list so just be patient with me this morning uh we'd like to thank everybody for joining us here in the sanctuary as well as if you're watching us on our youtube channel and again as paulo he says uh on our youtube channel if you would subscribe hit the subscribe button hit that little bell next to it so that you can get notifications anytime we put a new video or a live stream up you will get notified and then like these videos so that then maybe your friends and your families will see that you have liked them and and you know maybe click on them themselves that's the point of all of this is to share it um also uh leave your prayer requests in the uh comment section uh so that when we get to that point we we may have them to read when we get to our our prayer time um a couple of announcements that i have with uh dwayne lammon uh starting his uh consultation series here tomorrow right and it's going to be for the next seven days through the following sunday if you are signed up to take part in that i got an announcement or a reminder this week to remind you on the two sundays to bring a sac lunch i guess it's from nine till three if you forget your sank lunch you're going to be hungry so bring a sac lunch for the two sundays that you'll be participating in duane's series also really the only other uh notes that i have to bring to you is our other zoom meetings we have the golden prayer meeting at 7 p.m on tuesdays that's on zoom wednesdays is denver west and lakewood prayer meeting and then fridays at 7 p.m is the hebrew religious calendar study which is an excellent study so hopefully you have been on some of those and have gotten a blessing from them at this point i would like to remind everybody here at church um that are tithes we will not have anybody going around to collect your tithes and offerings but the box is in the back and for you online if you're still a little leery maybe about coming back and congregating in the church here but you still can turn in tithes and offerings through the church's website you can mail them to our p.o box there's a lot of ways and i know you probably hear this each and every week and you've gotten in your own routine but just a reminder on that so now we'll get to our prayer requests and we've had a few that were mentioned here in the church and i'll just kind of hit a couple of them quickly here beth said her surgery went well and thanks for prayers for her rhonda gadway a longtime member of this church who uh her and her husband went up to wyoming to further serve the community up there i guess chuck's stepfather has passed away so prayer is to be with them and their family also bill said that his wife ruth is not feeling well so prayers for her sharon said to pray for her son i know last week we heard that he might have some interest he seems interested so prayers for him that that interest will continue also we had somebody say we need prayers for a revival so keep that in your in your heart and in your prayers and the last one i'll mention here that we had mentioned in church here was praises for the end of an another week and for another sabbath that we have here today so do you have anything that's coming in online it doesn't sound like it so let's go ahead and pray you can kneel if you'd like we're going to kneel up here and we'll bring these to our god our dear heavenly father we come before you today anxious to hear your words anxious that very glad that we have another sabbath here to come and meet with you and and we pray that those who could not come here today are watching they're able to get a blessing from this we have a guest speaker today that we're very glad is here and so we ask that you would bless him and send the holy spirit to guide and direct him we've heard a lot of prayer requests here today and i know there are so many more that we've kept to ourselves so i just asked that you would you know these prayer requests you know the resolution the best thing for our concerns i just pray that we would accept your decisions and that we would be trusting in your decisions that affect our lives and and that you would just comfort us as we go through what we go through here on this earth and that we would never turn our eyes from you until the great day when you open up the clouds as a scroll and you and you come to to get us and bring us home we ask and pray all these things in jesus glorious name amen testing all right well let me go ahead and say happy sabbath to everyone how are you all doing it's been some time are you doing well you doing blessed staying healthy amen amen i'm very grateful and i'm very thankful for this opportunity for us to you know come together and study the word of god a little bit and we're going to be talking about the times in which we're living okay i don't think there's anything that's happening in our world that speaks to the climate we're living in like of course this very serious issue of this pandemic the coronavirus and all of the problems that have come ever since it existed we have been impacted economically we have been impacted of course with the loss of lives lives have been debilitated and as i was saying earlier it is a very real disease i i dare not say to you that it's not a real disease there are many who have this belief that this thing is all just a big hoax but there are some of us probably in this room that have lost loved ones that have you know lost some friends uh as a result of the things pertaining to this disease and we of course the lemon family pth ministries we give our condolences to you all if there's anybody here who is actually mourning the loss of someone as a result of this disease the bible makes it very clear that disease will become very prevalent in these last days um it's going to be real okay and uh i'm like you i sure would love to snap my fingers go to sleep wake up and say oh it was just a dream you know everything's back to normal but that's not the case and this disease is not going away anytime soon it is very serious and god wants us to take it seriously there are things connected to this disease that are concerning there's areas and elements of dishonesty that has taken place even from very high places even by those whom we were supposed to trust and there were some elements of dishonesty insincerity uh there were some things that are inconsistent inconsistency is through the roof uh there's problems and you know americans i did a poll you know i have these studies that i do where whenever i go through bible prophecy and we go to luke 21 and we talk about the fact that men's hearts will fail them for fear i have a consensus poll where it goes into the fears of the average american you know thousands upon thousands of americans hundreds of tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of americans uh are being interviewed and one of the number one things you know what the number one fear is uh in america according to these polls fear of governmental corruption literally in 2015 it was only 50 it was only about 55 today 2019 the last one that was done uh it is now at 79 and so the reason we're seeing a lot of drama happening in our country right now and people responding to mandates and otherwise is not so much because of what does or does not make sense but it's the issue of trust it's that's really the issue and uh if if leaders either in our country and quite honestly in the church even in the home if there's a message to all leaders the message is the more you can help people trust you the easier it is to get them to follow you and so right now we live in a world where there's no trust and there's a lot of people just kind of doing what they want in their own eyes i believe the bible has counsel for us and as a minister of the gospel it is my desire and my calling and my job to give you what the word of god says and so we're going to be studying the word of god we're going to let god teach us and i believe that he's going to open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things that comes out of his word and so as we prepare our hearts to do this i'm going to pray one more time with deep specificity i'm asking for the lord's spirit to take complete control of my mind so that everything that comes out of my mouth i know comes from the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary and so i want to encourage you to please join with me in that prayer and so i'm going to kneel one more time to do that you don't have to kneel but if you'd like to you're welcome to join me otherwise just bow your heads reverently but let's go before the lord in prayer and let's prepare our hearts to receive the word our father in heaven lord we thank you so much for your wonderful words of life we thank you for the privilege of worship and we thank you for this opportunity that we can come together and press together and study together and lord we need your holy spirit we are seeing that the arms of flesh will fail us but you have not failed your people not even once you are worthy of our trust and i pray that even in our study time together that you will increase our faith as we behold your word and so i'm asking that you will grant us your holy spirit let him be the guidance of my mind that every word that comes out of my mouth is born of heaven and i pray that you might bless my brothers and sisters and give them ears to hear what your spirit wants to say to the church and i'm grateful that as we hear may we understand and as we understand may we apply and as we apply may we effectively share with the dying world this is our prayer that we do ask in jesus name amen there are some things that's happening in our world that is most concerning and i know that it has gotten god's people asking questions and it's a great place to be and i want to talk about that a little bit there are some biblical facts that i think needs to be understood you see right now we are living in a society like never before where people want answers people want answers especially when you tell them what to do when you start telling a person what to do in their person you know telling them what to put on what to take off how far to stand and so on there comes a point where people say why why do you want me to do this for what reason and then they want to be one to whatever that truth may be i'm gonna let you know in advance that i do see the relevance of mask wearing in the context of you and i have droplets that come out of our mouths according to your government because standards this this distance that i am from you is more than enough that they have said the the speaker does not have to wear the mask and i'm like okay great you all are obviously wearing your mask but what is stated is that when the person talks their droplets that come out of their mouths the masks in front of them help block those droplets from as freely going in the air that's logical that's purely logical that that is sensible and that is something especially as christians we ought to accommodate when going into a store and all these things i mean can you imagine that people are using their breath like a bullet i mean we're living in a time now where there are videos out there people are so mad over these mandates that they're literally going in stores and coughing on people and they're using their breath as if it's an assault weapon and my hope and my prayer is that none of us who name the name of jesus christ will ever be found doing that foolishness that we will never be found in such a manner that whether you agree or disagree there's a lot we again we act like mass mandates is the first thing that america has ever done that we have opposition to th there's many things that we've done in our country in our history that we don't necessarily agree with but we cooperate with it don't we some people don't like seat belt laws some people don't like the fact that you know we we have to you know go at a certain distance if you want to smoke at an airport there's lots of things that people don't like and they don't feel but they cooperate with it you understand you go on a flight you got to go through the tsa process some of us don't like that the bottom line is is we've done this before and by god's grace let us do what we can to cooperate with what caesar's asking us to do because at the end of the day we can render unto caesar what belongs to caesar as long as we can still render unto god what belongs to god that should settle the matter if it does not cause me to violate the law of god i'll go ahead and cooperate with what caesar's asking me to do because i'm a child of god but people still want answers they want to go deeper and they want to understand where is this going because there's a legitimate question that's out there and i'm gonna be bold enough to put that question out the question that was asked is this ah so we're mandating mask wearing because of what i might have not because of what i have because of what i might have i might be an asymptomatic carrier and i'm wearing the mask not so much to protect me but i'm wearing the mask to protect you the people around me and so the question is asked if you can mandate me to wear a mask for the sake of what might happen to others what's the limit will you possibly mandate me to take a vaccine for the sake of protecting others that's a legitimate question and it deserves a legitimate answer and so there are some people that are concerned not for what's being asked of us now but what may take place in the future because more than likely your mandates won't stop at a mask more than likely it may progress and so i think that this is a time that the religious liberty departments i think it's time that certain people should speak and say hey what are going to be the limits of mandating what other people do for the sake of possibly hurting someone else what are going to be the limits that's a legitimate question it should not be ridiculed it should not be considered conspiracy theory talk it should just be considered as a genuine concern that individuals have a right to ask because what's being done now usually is setting up a stairwell by which there'll be more steps that will take place in a later time that is not a conspiracy or fanatical way of thinking that in my opinion is a logical way of thinking and so people need to be respected for their different thoughts and their feelings and their concerns because again people want what answers well i'm so thankful that the bible has an answer the bible hasn't answered all these questions and if only we could come to the word if only we can just stop talking to people and look to the book you would find that god helps us understand many things and so i just want to share a few things with you during our time together some answers to some very serious questions probably the biggest question is where did this thing come from and when is it going to end i think those are some pretty big questions lots and lots of money and time has been spent trying to figure out did it come from an animal did it come from a lab did it come from china did it come from someplace else and when does it stop and when does life get back to normal these are all legitimate questions that people are asking that they have a right to get an answer and i believe that the bible has an answer and i want to go ahead and share that with you there are three biblical facts three biblical facts that god wants to share with his people let's go to the book of genesis chapter 3. i want you to see what the bible says in the book of genesis we're going to the third chapter we're going to take a look at three precious biblical facts and i want you to see what the word of god says it was in genesis chapter 3 this is the beginning of time this is the biblical testimony of the beginning of time and i want you to see something the bible says that's very important it was in genesis the third chapter that when you get there just let me know by saying amen the bible says in the book of genesis chapter three we're starting at verse one it says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said unto the woman yea have god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest ye die then verse 4 says something very important for us to pause it says and the serpent said unto the woman what you shall not surely die in today's modern vernacular we call that a lie god made it very clear if you eat from this tree you shall die the serpent said no you won't that's called a lie okay when we deal with the ten commandments that is a violation of the ninth commandment thou shalt not bear a false witness it's a lie okay lying is not good lying is a sin hear that carefully lying is a sin by the way it does not matter what complexion your lie is sometimes we like to call certain things white lies well there's a lot of drama just behind that very term but we try to make it sound like it's an innocent lie there's no such thing as a white lie first john 2 and verse 21 the bible says no lie is of the truth it doesn't matter if it's white brown green yellow or blue and so the bible's very clear on that no lie is of the truth so let us not get comfortable telling soft lies or hard lies white lies or any other color lie the bible is very clear a lie is a sin and this is what satan did now watch in verse 5 it says for god doth know he built on his lie he said for god doth know that in the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil knowing good and evil this is exactly how something the bible calls sin came into our world i want you to follow this please very carefully we're answering some serious questions and we're going to enter into some serious solutions to the crisis we're in right now the bible makes it very clear a lie took place in the beginning of time that ultimately it brought forth sin now satan therefore is the originator of sin would you agree with that we agree with that satan is the originator of sin now the reason why i like going through this study is because nowadays both in churches and especially in the world we don't address this serpent enough we really don't now notice i said the church and the world why do i say that very simple acid test tell me how many of you have ever suffered from this you really hope something goes your way you're hoping and praying something goes your way it doesn't matter what it is it can be relocation to a certain place it could be obtaining a certain product it could be that a certain person enters your life it can be that a certain person stays in your life we have hopes for all sorts of things right now watch this tell me if you've ever been infected by this unfortunate disease when you hope for that good thing to take place and then guess what happens it doesn't take place the person you wanted to remain dies the person you were hoping come goes the place you were hoping to move to gets turned away the thing you wanted to purchase gets bought by somebody else whatever it is that you enter into that world of disappointment when you go through that disappointment isn't it interesting how sometimes our minds begin to say why did god not do that for me and we begin to get as it were upset at god and you notice what we hardly ever consider that wicked serpent satan have any of you ever gone through any steps like that before oh yeah it seems like god often gets the blame and we act as if there's no devil that doesn't have a job and his job is to constantly try to block what god wants that's why the bible often talks about christians doing something called persevere that's why you hear paul talk that language in philippians 3 where he says i press towards the mark why do you think the bible talks like that because god understands we're in warfare and when you're in warfare you have an enemy and the enemy's work is to try to constantly hold back the blessings from god and so sometimes when you pursue it once it doesn't mean that god didn't want it because it's not there sometimes god is saying press fight you have an enemy but you have a friend in jesus fight and so a lot of times the devil as clearly stated in genesis 3 he's subtle he has a policy to stay hidden that nobody sees him and we get to the point that we don't see satan at all that when the bad things happen we say why did god let that happen and that's exactly why we're doing this study biblical fact number one is that satan is the originator of sin now watch this i want to talk about the fruit of sin let's go to romans chapter six these are some fundamental verses these are verses that some of you i would imagine you know by heart and you know these things very well and so i'm not here to educate you on something new i'm just here to remind you on what you've learned and maybe you're tempted to forget so let's go ahead and let's consider romans chapter six i want you to watch romans 6 we're going to consider verse 23 because now we're going to look at some of this fruit of this thing called sin in romans 6 and verse 23 we're just going to read the first portion right now we will magnify the other portion later on in our study in romans 6 and verse 23 the bible clearly says for the wages now let's stop right there what does that word wages mean payment now you ever did a job and didn't get paid you ever did a job how do you feel when you work and don't get paid you get upset don't you right if you work you need to get paid well the bible makes it very clear if you work sin you need to get paid so let's look at the payment the bible says for the wages of sin is what is death so if we work sin you cannot be afraid of getting your payment you need to get paid you did your work you need to get paid and the bible says the payment for sin is death but it's no it goes deeper than that my friends let's go now to the book of numbers chapter 12. numbers chapter 12. i want to show you something else one of the fruits of sin is death but it goes deeper than that in numbers chapter 12 we're now going to consider verses 5 through 10 numbers chapter 12 and we're going to consider verses 5 through 10. we're going to answer some questions these questions need to be answered by god's grace once and for all and i want you to see what the bible says in numbers chapter 12 verses 5 through 10 let's now notice what the text says here i'll read verse 5 you'll do six i'll do seven you'll do eight and then we'll take it down to verse 10. is that all right all right so the bible says in numbers chapter 12 starting at verse 5 and the lord came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called aaron and miriam and they both came forth go ahead verse 7 my servant moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house and the anger of the lord was kindled against them and he departed verse 10 together and the cloud departed from off the tabernacle and behold miriam became leprous white as snow and aaron looked upon miriam and behold she was leprous so let's notice this aaron and miriam have a problem their problem is with the authority that moses has been given as well as with the woman that moses married being of another nation as they are having this dialogue which was very negative language that they're speaking one with another it gets to the point that god now has to intervene god begins to help both aaron and miriam understand how special moses is to him god says normally i talk to people in visions and dreams but with moses i speak to him mouth to mouth and god says therefore were you not afraid to speak against my servant moses the way you've been speaking and god distributes a judgment and that judgment was called leprosy today we simply call it a disease leprosy leprosy is one amongst a million diseases and when they got that disease i believe we need to understand the cause and verse 11 helps us understand the cause verse 11 says and aaron said unto moses alas my lord i beseech thee lay not the what sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned what was the cause of miriam's disease it was sinned now somebody says well that was miriam's problem is that the cause of all diseases well let's go to psalms 107. let's see what the bible says in psalms 107th division psalms 107. let's go ahead and consider psalms 107 and verse 17 and let us see what the bible says here we are answering some questions in psalms 107 and verse 17 keep in mind that one of the things aaron said that he did was he acted foolishly well let's look at what it says in psalms 107 and verse 17. the bible says in psalms 107 and verse 17. if we're there please say amen it says fools because of their what fools because of their transgression and because of their what iniquities are what afflicted afflicted the bible declares when we transgress when we commit iniquity it is a foolish thing and it brings affliction and that's exactly what the bible teaches is that disease is an affliction you see this is why when jesus healed the man at the pool of bethesda he said to him sin no more lest a worst thing come upon you john 5 14. that's why jesus said that because jesus understood sin brought on your disease don't do it again unless you get something worse this is the same reason my friends that when john and the disciples when they saw that man who was born blind and they came to jesus and said master whose sin is it that this man was born blind his or his parents it was understood that the root cause of disease is sin now the reason why this is very important is because we need to understand these biblical facts number one biblical fact number one sin is the foundation of disease and death did the bible just show us that yes sin is the foundation of disease and death now second fact is satan is the originator of sin and therefore the originator of disease and death we're getting some answers we're getting some answers to some very important questions because this is a lot deeper than what came from a lab or what came from an animal we're talking about what came from the very mind of satan himself the most wicked scientist that has ever existed and the bible declares sin is the foundation the root cause of disease and death and satan because he's the originator of sin he is therefore the originator of disease and death but there's another biblical fact you see these things are very very important because what we need to educate the world is to help them understand the reason we are in the coronavirus crisis is because of sin in our world that's a fact and what's sad what breaks my heart you have no idea how disheartened i am what breaks my heart is that the people who know this are not speaking up enough pointing this out we're not dealing with this this is the cause of why these thousands upon thousands of people have died from this terrible pandemic oh i understand the numbers may be inaccurate i see that i i see it very clearly i have personal friends and individuals who have been literally told they had coronavirus and never had blood work done never so i know that the numbers are not holistically accurate but the numbers are real enough because one death is too much one death is too much it's a real disease the bible prophesied matthew 24 and verse 7 that pestilences are going to exist before the coming of the lord precious little book called great controversy page 589 and 590 says satan will put a deadly taint in the air and thousands will die at the pestilence and we're dealing with airborne disease right now so there's no question in my mind this is a real disease i don't even want to waste my time talking about this thing is not real yes the numbers may not be accurate but the disease is real and the question that people are saying is where did this thing come from how did it get here and so on and we're getting mad at china and we're getting mad at laboratories but we are not getting mad at satan we're not hating sin we're not understanding that this stuff is the reason why this disease exists and is continuing to kill people and by the way there is still cancer i know we don't talk about that anymore there is still diabetes which is another pandemic by the way still doing a lot of damage all these diseases come as a result of that originator and i can't expect the white house to address the sin issue i cannot expect the world's greatest scientists and and greatest you know immunologists and all the other you know specif specified uh areas of practice in medicine i can't expect them to deal with the sin issue god has given that responsibility to you and to me and it is a tragedy my friends it is a tragedy when we know the problem and we're not making it known to the people you owe it to your community to show them this you owe it to them to let them see this what a lot of us are doing is we are basically echoing what we're being told we're hearing from the top down wear your masks practice social distancing oh and we as a church don't have a policy against vaccinations in other words indirectly what is it saying uh we cannot back you up if you choose not to get a vaccination so uh it's on you if you choose to do it or not but some of us we're gonna do it but then outside of that we're not hearing a whole lot more of the councils not at the absolute trumpet level it should be taught by a very intelligent people like god's remnant people in these last days sin is the cause of the disease family and god always wanted this to be known this is the root and guess what jesus's method of dealing with problems is go to luke chapter three look at jesus's method of dealing with a problem i've always learned this and i thought to myself man this is this is beautiful luke chapter 3 jesus's method in dealing with problems you know what does this say in luke chapter 3 i want you to watch this you know god he's so beautiful in how he teaches us and there's a principle that's brought out in these verses here luke chapter 3 and therefore it talks in verses 8 and 9 dealing with of course john the baptist and his message but this is all the testimony of jesus it says in luke 3 and verse 8 it says bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance this is john who's responding not only to the people but also to the leadership right and he says to them bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our father for i say unto you that god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham and then i like this in verse 9 it says and now also the what the ax is laid unto the root of the trees every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire god always believes in dealing with the root of a problem lay the ax at the root you want to uproot a problem you got to hit it at the root we cannot uproot disease if we keep dealing with its symptoms and not its cause any halfway intelligent medical practitioner understands to effectively address disease you don't just address the symptoms your greatest efforts are to address the cause any medical practitioner that is intelligent will tell you that and so the cause of the coronavirus as what is the cause of cancer and the rest is s i n sin and the ax must be laid to that root and the problem is the white house doesn't have the ax the problem is the greatest of the world's medical uh practitioners they don't have the acts can you imagine it's the people of god who has the ax somebody says brother lemon are you suggesting that we common ignorant fishermen are to be the ones to speak to the realities and the problems of disease and dare to even try to provide a solution yes why because i'm a messenger i don't make up stuff i'm too dumb for that but i'm a messenger i know how to hear a message and give a message and so what does the messenger have to tell you luke chapter 9 go to luke 9 watch what the messenger says see i'm just a mess i'm the guy passing on the message you got a problem with my message you got to go to the author not me look at luke 9. could god use common people to help address the issue of disease well let's look at luke 9. let's let the bible answer it well in luke 9 here's what the bible says in luke 9 starting at verse 1 if you're there say amen in luke 9 and verse 1 it says then he called his how many please don't lose that number he called how many 12 don't lose that then he called his 12 disciples together and gave them something what did he give them power and authority over how many all devils and to do what else cure diseases now question if you know anything about your bibles you should understand some things about chronological order in luke 9 this is the beginning of christ's ministry so when the bible says his 12 disciples when the bible says his 12 disciples question how many of his disciples was that was all of them don't lose that please that was all of his disciples all he had was 12. he didn't have the 70 yet all he had was 12. so notice all 12. now watch this how many of the 12 were given power by the great physician by the way how many of the 12 were given power to cure diseases all of them oh now here goes the question of questions here goes the question i love asking this question how many of the 12 were medical practitioners none luke the physician came later so you mean to tell me 12 non-medical practitioners were given power by god to actually cure diseases yes absolutely it's the gospel commission you can go back to matthew chapter 10 and verse one you can go to mark five you can go wherever you want the bible you'll see it over and over and over again jesus always gave his disciples power not just to preach i don't read that anywhere he did not just give them power to preach he did not just give them power to teach he gave them power to heal he gave them power to address diseases and the only reason why we don't see enough of this power today is because of one word unbelief the average child of god that comes to church today does not believe that god can use them and god says according to your beliefs so be it unto you even jesus said that you don't believe you can do it guess what you can't but boy if you could put your trust in me jesus says i can do the impossible luke 18 and verse 27 says that it literally says it that which is impossible with man is possible with god it's like god literally has all this power that he's waiting to give his people if only they just had at least mustard seed level faith to actually say i believe you can do it through me what i'm saying may be radical but just remember it's biblical i don't have any doubt that it's radical but it's biblical god has always wanted his people to believe his words you see a fanatic goes above what god has said a fanatic may fall short of what god has said but a fanatic is never ever someone who does exactly what god says that's not a fanatic you know what that's called that's called faithful it's called faithful that's what god wants you to be faithful he wants you to be full of faith he wants you to trust him that he could use you in spite of your ignorance and lack of skill because according to the bible god has plenty of skill and power to download to you and to me if we were simply ready to receive it biblical fact number one family sin is the foundation of disease and death biblical fact number two is satan is the originator of sin and therefore the originator of disease and death but there's a biblical fact number three watch this we need to identify what sin is because sin is something that's universal it's not a it's not an american problem it's not an african problem it's not a haitian problem it's not a german problem it's a problem that's worldwide it's universal so we need to define sin sin according to the bible what is sin the bible says whosoever commits sins commits lawlessness for sin is lawlessness the problem with this is that there's 613 laws in the bible so how do you know which law is it that if i'm violating it it is sin well the bible helps us with that romans 7 and verse 7 says hey i would not have known sin except through the law for i would not have known covetousness except or unless the law had said you shall not covet ah we're narrowing it down now whatever law that says you shall not covet is the law that if i break it it is sin now watch exodus 20 and verse 17 points us to that very law that says you shall not covet it says you shall not covet your neighbor's house you shall not covet your neighbor's wife nor is male servant nor is female servant noise ox noise donkey nor anything that is your neighbors that is the tenth commandment so somebody says okay fine then what i'll do is i'll avoid violating the tenth i'll keep the tenth and violate the other nine no i'm sorry james tells us for whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in how many points one point he's guilty of how much all so sin is transgression that's why that psalms 107 verse 17 was such a powerful verse because it says by transgression and iniquity affliction comes it is by breaking the ten commandments any of them it brings on disease this is what the bible teaches so lawlessness the violation of god's ten commandments any of them is the reason why we have not only death in our world but why we have disease in our world and so biblical fact number three is so powerful to me because here's biblical fact number three these three verses watch this in first john 2 1 my little children these things write down to you that you do what sin not then biblical fact number two john 8 11 she said no man lord this is the woman who was caught in adultery jesus said who condemned you her answer no man lord and jesus said unto her neither do i condemn thee go and do what sin no more then john 5 and verse 14 jesus meets that man at the pool of bethesda sick for 38 years jesus heals the brother jesus comes to him in his healed state and jesus says unto him behold thou art made whole sin no more lest their worst thing come upon you so you know what biblical fact number three is remember biblical fact number one says sin is the foundation of disease and death biblical fact number two is satan is the originator of sin and therefore the originator of disease and death but guess what the best news in the world is biblical fact number three is sin is a choice that's the best news in the world sin is a choice you don't have to do it you have a nature bent on doing it but through being born again and having something called the divine nature the indwelling presence of christ in you the hope of glory you don't have to do it you can have victory over sin and in many respects victory over sin can equate to victory over sickness why do you think the bible says what it says in psalms 103 where it says bless the lord o my soul and forget not all his benefits and it says who can heal all of our iniquities he can forgive all of our iniquities and heal all our diseases when jesus came to this earth he came with a package deal he didn't want to just save man from sin he wanted to deliver man from sickness and he bore both of them on the tree first peter 2 and verse 24 says he bore our sins on the tree matthew 8 16-17 says he bore our sicknesses on the tree man every time somebody's forgiven for their sins it's because of the life of christ that was bearing our sins every time we are healed from disease it's because the life of christ was willing to bear our diseases that's a full gospel message what i'm trying to say to each and every one of us is we owe it to the world we owe it to them to tell them the story of jesus to help them understand god's truth in such a way that they can actually be delivered from the diseases that's destroying many but the way it's going to come is not through lawlessness it's going to come through keeping the commandments of god and putting your firm and absolute and complete trust in jesus my brothers and sisters this is the solution this is the solution you see when i think about sexually transmitted diseases right when i think about that i want you to just watch this you got a lot of things that exist in the context of sexually transmitted diseases i mean just look at all of these things look at this look at that all of these are sexually transmitted diseases now again can a couple of them come through other ways yes but by and large these are sexually transmitted diseases people get this as a result of entering into sexual relationships do you know that god put something in existence that could protect us from all these things you know what god gave us he said very simply i mean it's just it's just beautiful when you think about it thou shalt not commit adultery if everyone simply obeyed this command we would not have those diseases that we see happening today if the only person that you was with was the person that's your spouse and nobody else just imagine that in other words what god wants to do with his ten commandments is he wants his people to actually see the blessing in obedience and not merely the warning of what happens to you if you disobey god says when i gave you my law he said i was trying to protect you he said i was trying to bless you this is why john says that his commandments are not grievous they're not a burden they're a blessing and i want to show you something i want to show you something that i i believe it's it's just such a blessing to us as god's people go to the book of deuteronomy chapter 28. i want to show you this i'm getting ready to come down this mountain i want to bring out a few more points to you in deuteronomy the 28th chapter there's something god specifically says in verse 13 that i just thought to myself i said wow this this is really good in deuteronomy 28 28 there's something god always wanted his people to be in this world deuteronomy we're looking at 28 we're considering verse 13. watch what the text says in deuteronomy the 28th chapter and the 13th verse the bible says this it says in deuteronomy 28 and verse 13 and the lord shall make thee god was talking to his people he said and the lord shall make thee the what the head and not the what and not the tale and thou shalt be what above only and thou shalt not be beneath if that thou do what hearken unto the commandments of the lord thy god which i command thee this day to observe and to do them god has promises in his word that he says for those who fulfill my promises for those who obey and who follow through on the things that i tell them to do the conditions god says i will bless them beyond measure god has no problem doing this the problem is we have the problem doing what he says these promises has always existed the whole purpose of the new covenant is that god says listen the old covenant was built on that which is weak the new covenant is built on that which is strong the new covenant is built on better promises hebrews 8 and verse 6. the reason why is because god's the one promising before it was the children of israel promising and you know how our promises are our promises are like ropes of sand we promise god all sorts of things and we break it as fast as we promised we are so unreliable as a people and god knows this he remembers our frame he knows that we are dust and so what the lord does is he gives us a new covenant in the new covenant is based on better promises why because god says the promise is on me that i will put my spirit within you i will cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and you will do them god says that's the new covenant it's the promise it's the same law but it's a new promise my reality i am realizing amongst the people of god today and it's a sad reality not merely by what i observe but what i see in my own life at times what i've realized we have almost lost complete confidence in god's promises let me show you a promise god said because he wants you to be the head he wants you to be above he doesn't want you to be beneath paul says it in first corinthians 4 and verse 9 paul says we were supposed to be a spectacle the word spectacle in the greek means theater it literally means a theater god actually wanted you and i to be a theater to men and angels that everybody would look at us and say this is a powerful show look at these people they are walking in the privileges the prerogatives and the promises of god and look at how god is blessing them in fact do me a favor go to deuteronomy 4. i just want to show you something we're going to go to exodus deuteronomy 4. i'll give you a couple more verses and then we'll bring it to a close here i want you to go to the book of exodus i'm sorry deuteronomy 4 and i want you to watch this this was always god's plan always always always god's plan deuteronomy we're looking at uh chapter four here yeah you should not add it to the word uh i'll talk to you stat your judgments yeah oh i love this look at this deuteronomy chapter four this is deuteronomy 4 verses 5 and 6. this was always god's plan family this was always god's plan watch this in deuteronomy 4 verses 5 and 6 it says behold i have taught you what statutes and judgments even as the lord my god commanded me that you should do so in the land with the ego to possess it now watch verse six he says keep therefore and do them okay so notice this we're dealing again with obedience to god's commandments he says keep therefore and do them why he says for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the what in the sight of the nations which shall what hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people god always wanted this for us he said i wanted my people to be the head i wanted them not to be the tail i wanted them to be the lenders i did not want them to be the borrowers i wanted them to be above i do not want them to be beneath why because god says because people will see it and from them seeing listen family tell me this is not a truth from them seeing god working in our lives it makes their minds more open to hearing what we have to say to them is that not a fact you see a lot of times people are hearing us but they're seeing no power did you get that family this is our great problem if all you do is wear a mask like everybody else listen to the key functional word all if all you do is wear a mask like everybody else if all you do is social distance just like everybody else if all you do is wait for a vaccine just like everybody else and if you have nothing else to say i'm here to let you know you are part of the problem you are not part of the solution god is trying to bring us back to his words to say listen sin is the reason this stuff exists ain't no vaccine in the world that can protect you from that and it's fruit god says listen there's something more important i'm not saying don't take a medication that is your choice what i'm saying is do not take a medication do not put on a mask do not social distance in a spirit of complacency that you've done your job you are the people of god you have a lot more work to do you have a lot more to say i i was communicating with a doctor earlier this week well respected in our church speaks to the issues of the pandemic and all these other things and me and him had a very intimate dialogue kind man wonderful man and he and i are kind of going back and forth because to a degree i'm an independent thinker i mean i i like to think for myself and so i was challenging on some of the things that he was sharing i said you know i don't see it that way and i we would go back and forth and i said let me ask you something i said do you believe the promises of god of course i do he says i said okay then why is it that i hear more from you about wearing masks than about obeying the law of god on your posts and all these other things you have a voice all you're doing is you're talking medical to people but you're not talking medical missionary to the people and you know what he said you're right he says i receive this loving rebuke he says i need to do better he's influential i told him i said brother i said you have many doctor friends that are listening to you you have power you're in a position that you could bring people back to god and his law use your power and oh how my heart was touched no more than eight hours later he's putting up posts bringing the people to god and his law and i just said lord thank you please raise up a thousand more we have more to tell people than the mere fact mask wearing and etc and listen we are still not doing our job just because you talk about the benefits of vitamin d and so on we have to talk about the cause we got to lay the ax at the root the root is sin and all doctors that are part of this movement as well as all ministers that are part of this movement we owe it to the church and to the community to tell them the root cause of this issue and it is sin but along with that point them to the promises what is the promise let's go to exodus 15. brothers and sisters this i i lied to you not listen i don't listen to a whole lot of sermons i really don't but i know that there's a lot of sermons going on and folks folks want to preach all sorts of stuff you know endorsing wearing the mass avoiding fanaticism avoiding conspiracies etc that's fine there's a place for that there is a place for that i've done it myself but we as preachers and teachers of righteousness as gospel medical missionaries it it saddens me because i'm going to test you right now i want to know how many of you have been listening to programs by our people high levels high ministers secretaries presidents and etc how many people you've been listening to and they're quoting this to the populace exodus 15 26. in exodus 15 and verse 26 the bible says exodus 15 and verse 26 and said if thou will diligently hearken to the voice of the lord thy god and will do that which is right in his sight and will give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes i who is the i that's god he says i will put how many none of these diseases upon thee which i have brought upon the egyptians for i am the lord that does something special what does god do how many of you have been hearing this promise just echoed throughout the networks how many of you have been hearing these promises just echoed throughout our publications and you know why because of that problem that i told you earlier i think a lot of us don't believe our promise god's promises we're not sold yet you know i've looked up every single comment that ellen white said on this subject on this verse every single one i looked up everything she ever wrote in all of her existence under inspiration and every single thing she said is the texture saying what it's saying god says do everything i tell you to do i will protect you from these diseases i looked up i said did the egyptians suffer with viruses yep you literally studied deuteronomy 28 verses 15 to 60. the egyptians suffered with cancer they suffered with viruses they suffered with all sorts of stuff uh let me see if i put it up here i don't know if i have it in the slides yeah that's definitely not it so the point is very simple god in his love family god in his amazing grace and love he's helped us understand listen when you keep my law i'll protect you he actually said that i'll protect you and everybody always what what i see a lot of people do which is so pathetic to me is they move from the promise and immediately go to an accusation are you saying that everybody who's sick is because of violation i'm like listen what i'm saying is everybody who gets sick is because of sin in this world whether it's their sin or somebody else's all right people get sick because of sin the bible teaches that the ones that god says it wasn't because of sin job the man born blind when they got sick the disease didn't kill him the disease afflicted them for a period of time so that god could manifest his glory through them and bring them back to restoration that's the testimony of scripture somebody said oh elijah got sick elisha got sick and he died and i'm like yeah and who says that elisha didn't get it because of his sin do we do we assume that elisha was sinless i don't read that daniel wasn't sinless either i don't know why elisha got it but let's not assume what i'm saying is that god has put a promise out that we need to dwell on it because i think a lot of us are afraid to quote this promise we're terrified of it that's why you're not hearing it but i'm not terrified of it and i'm telling you right now if brother lemon gets sick it is not because god's command and promise failed it's because i failed are you following that you see when peop when people who profess health get sick we start questioning god not the person that's crazy do you know how many of us ministers don't follow god's laws of health we stay up late all the time and we make excuses for it oh i got to put together sermons i got to preach to the people god didn't ask you to do all that god told you to get sleep like anybody else because you're not superhuman you're a human you need to sleep and you need to plan better do you know how many ministers don't eat healthy especially the ones that travel we compromise our diets all the time we eat all sorts of bugs and parasites and everything mingled in our food and we get sick as dogs a lot of times we compromise we know there's certain things we shouldn't put in our mouths and we put it in our mouths anyhow what i'm saying is don't assume too quickly that when a health reformer medical missionary when they get sick that something was wrong with god's plan start if you're gonna assume something assume the right thing something was wrong with brother lemon there's nothing wrong with god's plan there's nothing wrong with god's promises god has made promises to you god has given us so many promises that we should be totally not fearful to go into the communities and go tell these people the true story of the cause and the solution jesus came to save man from sin not in sin sin is the violation of god's spiritual and physical laws in proverbs 24 and verse 13 if right now if you saw me preaching and i'm teaching you like right now and if all of a sudden you see me start struggling and next thing you know you see me just and i just vomit right on the floor some of you would say oh wow brother lemon must be sick see smart people in other words the vomiting would equate to sickness right go to proverbs 24 please 24 just just go there just just watch the verse we clearly saw that sin is violating god's ten commandments but there's spiritual laws that god's physical laws that god has given to us and they're just as divine in origin as are god's precious ten commandments watch what it says in proverbs 24 and verse 13. are you there the bible says in proverbs 24 and verse 13 my son eat thou honey because it is what good now watch go one chapter over to proverbs 25. now in proverbs 25 and verse 16 watch what god says here in proverbs 25 verse 16 he says hast thou found honey then he says this eat so much as is what sufficient or needed lest you be what full or filled and then you'll do what and when you vomit it is indicative of being sick you see when you violate physical law you get sick are you following that god is the originator of the ten commandments god is the originator of physical law that's why in creation when he made sunlight he knew people needed it you go to new england you go to uk and all these places whereas clouds clouds clouds what's one of the number one sicknesses you're seeing all over the place mental health disorders why because they're not getting sunlight you understand that and it's not so much that they're not getting it because sunlight is available it's that they're not prioritizing getting sunlight you see when god created sunlight he knew it was for your blessing and benefit when god created the open air on day two he knew that was going to be for your benefit you got to breathe in pure air which is an interesting thing again i'm saying it's worth the question if i work at a job where i work for eight to ten hours in a day and i have a mask on over my face for eight to ten hours in the day and i'm breathing in my own air for eight to ten hours in the day can that have a negative impact that is worth the question that's not conspiracy theory thinking that's worth the question if god prioritized pure fresh open air to be breathed in then could there potentially be a problem if i'm breathing in my own air for x amount of hours in a given day it's a legitimate question god created open air as a law of health that you and i needed to stay healthy what i'm saying family is god created some beautiful things god wanted us to understand ah there it is all these diseases look at this these are diseases in deuteronomy 28 but they were called curses isn't that something look at that all of those all of those are diseases like literally when you look up consumption in verse 22 if you look up the hebrew word for consumption it literally deals with an affliction of the lungs and that's why they call it today tuberculosis you know it's like literally when you look at these things these are what's called curses in the bible but today they're diseases these are diseases and so when solomon says in proverbs 26 and verse 2 the curse never comes without a cause disease never comes without a cause and what's the cause of disease it is sin the violation of god's law moral and physical yours and my job is to give this light to a world that does not know it to a church to a large degree that does not know it and god doesn't want you to give the light for the sake of not following it yourself he wants you to live up to the light and then it makes your life bearing more effective to others always remember that there's something called god's plan this is what we need to teach the people to live by we need to show the people how to have godly trust to breathe in pure fresh open air to get daily exercise to get plenty of sunshine to get proper rest lots of water to always be tempered and only eat food and drink drinks that are nutritious this is what we are to bring to the people god's ten commandments his laws of health as properly obeyed he promises none of the diseases which have fallen on the egyptians will i allow them to come upon you and the same reason that israel didn't enter into the rest of canaan land is the same reason why we as god's people are not experiencing the power today unbelief i want to encourage you to believe god has made promises to you you see to me when i read the the the message of the third angel in revelation 14 12 here is the patience of the saints here are they that keep the commandments of god but what else do they have they have the faith the trust of jesus you see when jesus said in john 8 and verse 29 jesus said i know my father is with me he has not left me alone he says because i always do those things that please him what enabled jesus to go to the cross you know what it was he totally rested on the promises of god's word he rested on the promises of his father what i'm suggesting to you my brothers and sisters acquaint yourself more with the promises of god there's nothing else you can trust go to the white house they're battling with each other they're fighting with each other we don't know what's the truth you go to the medical practitioners there's there's only a certain group that's that's getting all the airplay while the other one's got to find these little tiny local networks to get their thoughts out and then they're arguing with each other but there's one person who's not arguing with himself there's one person who says look i know the answers again remember what are the people looking for they're looking for answers god says i know the answers because if sin is the reason for disease then i think we can appreciate matthew 1 and verse 21 our last text let's turn there in matthew 1 and verse 21 jesus shows us something very beautiful in matthew 1 and verse 21 our lord says something very beautiful the bible says in matthew 1 and verse 21 and she shall bring forth a son and thou shall call his name jesus why because he shall save his people from their sins that's how you sin no more it's christ in you the hope of glory sinning no more does not just have spiritual benefits it has physical benefits when we allow christ to dwell in us that we choose to suffer rather than to intentionally and deliberately break his heart and sin against him god says i reward faith god says i love rewarding faith and i just want to encourage each and every one of you again i'm not here to tell you don't wear a mask go ahead and wear your mask show forth courtesy do what you can to protect yourself watching brothers and sisters i've been washing my hands for three decades so it wasn't like new news to me every time i come my wife will tell you every time i come from outside touching steering wheels door knobs and whatnot the first section i go to in my house is the sink and soap washing your hands is a totally legitimate practice we should be doing it anyhow distance yourself from people sometimes the logic is a bit challenging but we know for sure it helps people's hearts be at ease and i'm not here to cause perplexity i'm not going to stand intentionally by somebody you know and just get them agitated that's somebody i'm trying to reach with the gospel so even if i'm not convinced on the social distancing concepts hey you know what for christ's sake i'm going to go ahead and cooperate with this is not a violation of god's law again i am not here to say don't do those things what i'm saying is please don't limit yourself to these things you have a lot more to do you have a lot more to tell you owe it to the people because if they die and you didn't tell them ezekiel 33 1-9 says their blood can rest on our heads but god says but when you tell the people and if they still don't listen god says they die in their sins but you are free but how much the more because we love people we should tell them this i don't want to tell somebody because i don't want to have your blood on my head that's not my motivation my motivation is brother sister there's a better way there's good news there's a savior he lives in the world today he's able to save us from sin and sin is the root cause of disease that means he can save you from this sickness that's afflicting a lot of people right now he can help you and my encouragement to each and every one of us is to increase your faith in god's promises his promises are as real as your faith may god increase your faith if there's any of us in this room that can honestly say you know what i know i haven't been trusting god's promises as i should have maybe you know that there's been more doubt in your life than trust sometimes your lack of trust in god is your overworking that's one of the clearest ways you show you don't trust god is when you overwork yourself and do things that god never asked you to do so i'm really serious when i say i think a lot of us really struggle with trusting god and specifically his promises and so if it's if it's you in this room that says you know i've been struggling trusting god's promises and preacher i want you to pray for me that i will exercise a greater trust and a greater faith in god's promises i want to invite you to stand to your feet i want to pray for you if you know i i've been struggling trusting god's promises i really have but i want you to pray for me that i will trust his promises more i want to encourage you get yourself a bible promise book whether you write the promises yourself or you get one of the ones that's already made and i want to encourage you go over them every day every day just review the promises of god and one of the for those of you who have trouble sleeping at night because of anxiety and stress one of the best things you could do is read god's promises before going to bed it'll bring calm to the mind my hope and my prayer is that we will trust his promises more and please remember pray for me as i pray for you let's pray our father in heaven we thank you lord for your precious promises for by these we become partakers of the divine nature and escape the corruptions that are in this world through lust lord you have made it clear in your words the very root cause of this disease that we're living in right now and father by your grace you want us to make these truths known to others because there's many people who could be made free and so lord i just pray that you might increase our faith bless us lord and help us to experience the power of your promises for we ask all these things in the worthy and mighty name of jesus amen amen i'd like to thank you pastor lemon and for anybody actually for everybody uh if you're watching online especially um we have uh several of uh uh duane's videos from last year on our youtube page if you want to hear a little more uh go there and you can find some more videos and again thank you for this here this morning and i'd like to remind everybody there is no revelation 7 seal study this afternoon it is week 2 of the month and so this is the week that we that we don't do that study so you've got plenty of time to check out a few more of dwayne's videos and we'd like to just lastly say thank you for watching and happy sabbath

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