Amen.
Okay, we're in Leviticus chapter 26.
Tonight, look down at your Bibles at verse 21.
It says, If you walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven
times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
I will also send wild beasts among you which shall rob you of your children and destroy
your cattle and make you few in number and your highways shall be desolate.
Here in Leviticus chapter 26, we find a very extensive list of things that will come upon
the people of God if they disobey God, if they rebel against the Lord.
And it's just kind of God threatening his people with various punishments that he can
impose upon them for their rebellion.
And one of them is that he will send wild beasts to kill them, to kill their children,
to kill their cattle.
It seems very extreme, but this is actually something we find throughout the Bible.
And we're going to come back to this later on in this sermon.
Go with him to 1 Corinthians chapter 9.
First Corinthians chapter 9, we're picking up tonight where we left off this morning.
The title of the sermon is Man's Relation to Animals.
We went over part one this morning, tonight is part two.
And let me just give you a little bit of review from this morning in case you forgot
or were not here.
Of course, we talked about the fact that animals play a significant role in the
Bible.
God esteems animals.
He values animals.
And there's a lot in the Bible to say about creatures that God created.
We said, number one, that animals are not an afterthought in the mind of God.
We never want to have this attitude that because maybe you've heard some bad
story of some animal attack or people that esteem animals more than human
beings, that somehow we should despise the creation.
No, we have to realize that God esteems creatures.
He cares for them.
He's created an atmosphere and an ecosystem conducive to their reproduction
so we can feed them and use them.
And of course, God wants us to behold these creatures and glorify him because
of it, right?
And I'm sure all of us have seen some sort of creature on the Discovery
Channel, on Instagram.
And we looked at him and we're like, man, that thing is awesome, right?
You've seen these octopuses that, or is it octopi?
I don't know how you say it.
We see these octopuses that basically can change colors and even try to mimic
the creatures that are around them.
There's even one in, I believe it's Indonesia, where they discovered this
octopus that not only camouflages itself according to whatever background it's
in, but it's also able to mimic a lot of the creatures.
And in fact, new species of animals have been discovered because of the
mimicking nature of this octopus.
And I look at something like that, I'm like, man, praise God that you would
create such an incredible creature.
I like to, I love to look at God's creation and just marvel at the creator,
right?
Marvel that he has such a creative, you know, nature about him to make
these animals and have us stand in awe of that.
And so he cares for the creatures.
He created them prior to creating mankind.
Doesn't mean that they are somehow superior to man.
It just means that they hold an important aspect in God's plan,
especially when he created a sinless world.
He made all creatures and he said that all things were good.
We also said that animals are inferior to mankind and should be
dominated by man, okay?
You know, this is why it's important for us to realize that we should
be advocates of tearing down the forest and building buildings there, right?
Like, oh no, you know, we shouldn't get rid of these forests and all
these, this is where the animals live.
And there's so many animals that need that.
Yeah, but we are more important than them.
And if we need more buildings, we need places to live.
We need places to shop, tear it down and build up cities, build up buildings,
build up whatever is necessary for a society to, if you need to thrive.
And so it's important for us to realize that that's God's will for our
lives, okay?
And in fact, you know, in the Bible, when a part of a signaling
that God's judgment has come upon a city is when animals begin to take
over actually.
You know, anytime God would judge a particular nation and make it desolate,
part of the punishment, part of the curse is that animals would begin to
inhabit the cities and the houses that once belonged to mankind.
And that was an indication that God was punishing that particular nation.
And so God wants us to dominate the creatures.
We see that in Genesis chapter one.
And we talked about a couple of things in that regard.
Number one under that was that the life of an animal should never be
prioritized over the life of a human.
You know, kill Harambe, save the baby, nuke the whales, whatever, you know,
kill the whatever creature that has threatened the human being.
And if it has gored a person, if it has injured an individual,
they need to be put down, right?
And what's interesting is that, you know, after the sermon, or
after the sermon on Sunday morning, someone came up to me.
You know, because we've got a lot of animal lovers in our church, you know?
But someone came up to me and said, you know what?
I actually own a lot of, or a good amount of dogs.
And, you know, I love dogs, but you're absolutely right about that.
They're like, I had this dog, and he named the type of dog or whatever.
And it's just this massive dog with a huge head.
And it was just like, it was a great dog.
But it started attacking my other animals.
It started biting my other dogs.
And then it started kind of like being aggressive towards us.
Like it started growling, becoming like as if it was going to attack us.
And he said, the moment it did that, I was like, this thing's got to go, right?
This thing has got to go.
Because here's the thing, folks, it's an animal, and
it's always looking to dominate you.
So you've got to make sure you assert your dominance, your authority over
that creature.
And good thing he did get rid of that because of the fact that that does
happen, it can happen.
You can't necessarily trust animals all the time.
They are animals.
They don't have a moral compass.
They are trained to be a certain way.
And so don't be dumb.
If you own a creature that is known to bite and attack people,
attack you or whatever, it's time to get rid of your little puppy or whatever.
And so why?
Well, because the life of an animal should never be prioritized over the
safety in the life of a human being, OK?
Man is more important than the animal.
We also said that animals, what is the purpose of animals?
Well, aside from bringing glory to God, right?
We obviously know that's the purpose there.
But animals are made to improve man's quality of life.
Animals just improve my quality of life just about an hour ago.
I was back there.
By the way, I want to say thank you to brother Jose, brother Alex,
and brother Mark Barfield for making great meats back there.
You know, pecania, you guys missed out if you didn't get a chance to go.
There are salmon, pecania, pork butt, meat, drinks, and diverse washings.
It was amazing.
It was awesome.
And they essentially manifested by point here
that animals improve our quality of life, right?
Ate all kinds of meats, got all the protein, filled my stomach up.
They did not muzzle the ox to tread it out the corn.
And so thank you guys for doing that.
You know, that's what animals are for.
And I'm not saying go home and eat your dog.
I'm saying like in general, animals, the purpose of animals is to consume.
That's what God specifically said, that that's what they're made for.
Now look, you know, in the tribulation, you know what I mean?
You're not taking the mark of the beast.
You can't do it because you're saved.
And you know, you got your little dog there and you know,
got 75 days of great tribulation.
You might have to, you know, cook that thing and eat it, okay?
And so I'm not encouraging you to do that.
You know, there's Chinese people who are like,
we don't need the tribulation for that, you know?
So they're made to improve the quality of life
by giving us food and amusement and entertainment.
So animals are there so that we can, you know,
observe them, enjoy them, watch them,
see how they eat, how they function, how they live,
be in all of their creation.
And so zoos are very much, you know, a biblical thing.
You have Solomon who owned apes and peacocks.
He would import all these exotic animals
just for his enjoyment to tame them and show them off
before his 700 concubines or whatever and do that.
And you know what?
That's exactly what they're for.
It's for us to observe, to enjoy
and to glorify God because of it.
And then lastly we said that they are important
because of the fact that they improve our quality of life
through food, entertainment and companionship.
So here's your justification to have your pet, amen.
You know, if you like dogs, you're like cats,
you like whatever, and you're like,
oh man, is it wrong?
Is it sin?
No, you know, they actually do provide companionship,
but here's the important aspect of that point
is that they are not to substitute human companionship.
Okay?
You know, you should not relate to an animal
more than you would relate to a human being, okay?
And you know, obviously people can often become
very close to and affectionate with animals.
They love their dog.
They love their cat.
They love their whatever animal they have.
But you never wanna become this weirdo
where it's just like, well, you know,
this is enough for me.
I don't need friends.
People are just weird.
I relate more to this dog than I do.
Really?
Cause the dog eats its own crap.
So it eats its own vomit.
It uses the restroom everywhere.
It can't speak English.
And it's kinda weird that that's what you would relate to, okay?
Oh, I just think, I just feel more connected to it.
Well, reprobates feel connected to animals too.
I don't think you would want to have that type of affection.
You know, we need to realize that there needs to be
an appropriate companionship with animals,
but that it will never replace your friendships
with your family and other people and God's people.
Of course, I'm obviously speaking to Christians.
So we need them for food, entertainment and companionship.
And so that's important.
And we obviously know that, you know,
God gave us animals for food and coverings.
We see that in Genesis chapter three,
when we went over that, we talked about Solomon importing
the exotic animals and so forth.
Now let's get into the point number three.
I started this in the morning,
but I'm gonna go through it right now.
And that is that animals are meant to illustrate
spiritual truths.
So another purpose that animals have in our lives
is that you could actually observe them
and they have a certain function
that could actually teach us an actual spiritual truth,
to teach us character and godly attributes
that God will want us to learn.
And in fact, he spends much of the book of Proverbs
talking about animals, telling us how not to be
like slothful people, sluggards, right?
But also teaching us to be like the diligent animals
as well.
And we talked about that.
We talked about going to the ant thou sluggard
instead of being lazy and not working
and not doing anything that you would observe the ant
and see how diligent that ant actually is.
It puts in work.
He lifts heavier than his own size.
He gets the job done.
He's reliable.
He's sacrificial.
And he foresees evil, meaning that he knows
that he's gonna need food in the harvest.
Therefore he prepares in the summer.
These are some great qualities that we can learn
from animals and creatures and insects and so forth.
Now here's another example.
Before we get into 1 Corinthians chapter nine,
Proverbs 26 gives us a picture of a dog
returning to his vomit and saying soulful
return it to his folly.
So we make fun of the dog and we're like,
ah, look at this stupid dog.
He just threw up and now he's eating his own vomit.
Yeah, but that's what you do
when you go back to your own sin.
So when you get right with God
and you're not sinning anymore,
you're like, oh, I don't drink alcohol.
I don't smoke weed.
I don't fornicate.
But if you go back to that,
you're as filthy as the dog that returns back to his vomit.
So just as disgusted as you should be,
by the dog, eating its own throw up,
well, in like manner, God's saying
you should feel the same way
when you go back to your own sin.
Okay, soulful return it back to his folly.
So just as we laugh and are disgusted,
at the same time, God kind of is disgusted with us
when we return back to our folly as well.
And obviously that passage of scripture is there
to kind of prevent us from doing so, okay?
Prevent us from going back to whatever vice,
whatever sin that we're tempted with,
whatever ideology, whatever it may be.
You know, whatever you're enticed with,
God's saying don't be like the dog
that returns back to his vomit.
Make sure that you abstain from that sin.
You confess your sin, you forsake it
and you live a sanctified life before the Lord, okay?
We also see in Proverbs chapter 30,
he gives us illustrations about the ants,
the locusts, locusts teaching us teamwork,
the conies, the conies are those
which build their houses upon the rocks.
Now, why does the conie do that?
Well, because of the fact that it has a lot of predators.
And so, you know, and it's very weak.
So it can't necessarily fight off its predator.
So what does it do?
It builds his house in the rocks
in order to prevent predators from actually reaching them.
And what's the spiritual application there?
Well, you know what?
We are also weak, the flesh is weak,
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
We have an enemy known as Satan
and the way we can avoid the attacks of Satan
or overcome the attacks of Satan
is by building our house upon the rock,
which is the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
Making sure that we read the word of God,
have the word of God as our foundation and so forth.
So we have the ants, the locusts, the conies,
the spiders, the lions, the greyhounds, the goats.
All of these are given to us in order to teach us
spiritual behavior, to learn character,
diligence, boldness, and so forth, okay?
Isaiah chapter one uses the ox and the ass
recognizing their owner
in order to illustrate Israel's rebellion against God.
He's saying, how is it that the ass, the ox,
understands who's in charge,
but you, oh Israel, you, oh Judah,
are in complete rebellion to God,
even though you have the oracles of God,
you have the prophets, you have the knowledge,
yet you don't know who your Lord is.
It's a great illustration there.
Probably one of my favorite illustrations of animals
to use to teach us a spiritual truth
is in Matthew chapter 10, verse 16,
that says to be wise as serpents
and harmless as doves.
Now keep in mind,
not every time that the Bible talks about serpents,
is it in a negative connotation?
We obviously have that idea because serpents in general
are a symbolic representation of Satan, right?
But serpents just kinda carry a connotation of being cunning.
Another word for being cunning is to be wise, okay?
So the Bible is telling us here,
hey, be wise as a serpent,
but make sure that you are harmless as a dove.
So when you're dealing with persecution,
you're dealing with people who are trying
to push your buttons,
they're trying to cause you to fight them,
they're trying to cause you to lash out,
they're trying to cause you to behave
in an un-Christian manner, just understand this,
be wise as a serpent, be cunning, be subtle,
but make sure that your subtlety
doesn't carry you off into violence or something.
You gotta be harmless as a dove, okay?
And you know, obviously I'm not perfect at this.
I don't think any man is.
I think any man here would say that if someone
just started talking trash to your face
for being a Christian and they started swinging on you,
you would probably react, right?
You probably just hook them or give them a cross
or something, knock them out, or you try to fight back.
I think that's just the natural tendency
for every man to do.
But here's the thing, folks,
the Bible tells us to be harmless as a dove, so.
And so we need to make sure we have restraint and duck,
okay?
Or take off, run away, flee from that type of confrontation.
I know we all have in our minds that we wanna be
like a hero or something, and you know,
be able to beat someone up for doing something like that.
But the Bible tells us that we need to be harmless.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnival mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds, okay?
And then we have another example in 2 Peter 2.22,
teaching us that reprobates are as dogs and sows
in order to illustrate their apostasy and corruption.
And so that's important to note there.
You can read that on your own.
Now, Deuteronomy 25 in verse number four
is where 1 Corinthians chapter nine,
is what 1 Corinthians chapter nine is actually quoting.
Okay?
Let me read it to you.
Deuteronomy 25 verse four says,
thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Now, initially when that's written,
God is literally saying, hey, feed your ox.
Okay?
If the ox is plowing, it's working,
it's plowing the field, it's doing its job,
make sure you give it some food, right?
And that's just common sense.
You know, whatever vehicle you have,
whatever machines you use,
you need to be a good steward of that particular tool,
that vehicle, especially if it's helping you
to succeed at your job, right?
Well, in this particular case, it's the ox.
The ox needs to be taken care of.
Now, in the New Testament, this scripture is quoted
not to negate what it's actually saying regarding the ox,
but to illustrate a spiritual truth
regarding those who are laboring in the word and doctrine.
Okay?
This is also stated in 1 Corinthians chapter five,
but we're gonna look at it at 1 Corinthians nine.
Look at verse seven.
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?
Who planteth a vineyard,
and eateth not of the fruit thereof?
Or who feedeth the flock
and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Sayeth these things to as a man,
or sayeth not the law the same also?
For it is written in the law of Moses,
thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the corn.
Now, the apostle Paul is making an argument here
that people who labor in the gospel
should live of the gospel.
In other words, full-time Christian workers,
pastors, evangelists, deacons,
those who are laboring in the church,
should, they merit, they earn a paycheck.
They earn to make a living off of that
if that's the work that they're doing,
especially if they're being successful at it, right?
And then he addresses Deuteronomy 25.
He says, doesn't even the law say
that you shouldn't muzzle the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the corn?
In other words, it's just common sense
that you feed the beast who's putting in the work, right?
Then he says here,
doth God take care for oxen,
or say eat altogether for our sakes?
So the answer is, yeah,
obviously God takes care for the oxen,
but the ultimate application of that verse
is that he's applying it to New Testament spiritual truths
of allowing those who are in full-time Christian service
to live of the gospel, okay?
He says, for our sakes, no doubt, this is written,
that he that ploweth should plow in hope,
and that he that thresheth in hope
should be a partaker of his hope.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
So what is he saying?
He's saying, look, it's just common sense
that the pastor should earn a living
if he's preaching the word of God,
people are getting saved, the church is growing,
people are being reached, then pay the man.
And look, this is important to talk about
because of the fact that
a lot of people don't have this philosophy, okay?
Now, this is not a problem here.
My church takes care of me very well,
and thank you all for taking care of me and my family
over these last nine years or whatever.
We've never had an issue with that.
And in fact, you guys take a little too good care of me,
I mean, you know, all these meats and stuff.
You guys are, you know, our church is a very generous church.
Never had anybody complain about stuff like that.
Everybody believes this here,
but it's important to talk about
because there's churches out there that don't believe that.
You know, those people are all like, oh, you know,
he should do that for free.
Yeah, he should do it for free
if his preaching sucks.
He should do it for free if no one's being reached,
the preaching sucks, no one's being edified,
no one's learning doctrine, people aren't being trained,
but you know, if people are being reached,
souls are getting saved, 500 salvations in a month,
thousands of salvation over the last couple of months,
you know, people's lives are being changed
through the word of God,
people are, visitors are coming to church,
people are being changed through the preaching
of God's worth, that man deserves a salary, okay?
He, his bills need to be paid,
he needs to be able to take care of his family
and take care of the man so he can do more for God.
So he can spend more time investing into the house of God
doing what God wants him to do,
reaching more people and growing the church.
And you know what, this was an issue, you know,
and the old IEP at times where, you know,
this is, you know, people who would have
like a deacon board or something
and they would determine like,
how much this pastor should be paid.
Bro, just pay him whatever he needs to be paid.
Don't try to look for like the least amount
you can give the man to do the work of God.
You know, this man has an important job,
you know, he's counseling people,
he's preaching the word of God,
he's teaching you the Bible,
take care of the ox that treads out the corn.
And the Bible specifically says
that some oxes are just worthy of double honor
because they're laboring in the word and doctrine,
people are growing in the church
and the knowledge of the Bible,
they're learning doctrine, they're becoming
better Christians, that merits
taking care of the man of God.
And so here we find a great application
to using an animal in order to illustrate
the spiritual truth.
Take care of the ox, don't let that thing
be all, you know, starving and everything,
missing meals, he's putting in the work in the field,
he's trending out the corn,
people are getting saved,
people are learning the Bible,
reprobates are being thrown out,
you know, the flock of God is being taken care of,
you know, everything's going great,
the children are being taught,
people are being protected,
people are learning the word of God,
people are being trained how to preach the gospel,
take care of the ox, right?
No, this is not a cry out for you to take care of me
because again, you guys already do that, right?
So I really appreciate that.
Go to Romans chapter one, if you would,
Romans chapter one, Romans chapter one,
Romans chapter one, and again,
you have churches out there just like,
well just give that man the least amount possible
and you know, let him figure it out or whatever,
that's not right to do.
And again, you know, if it's a guy
who's just like preaching a 15 minute sermon head
every week, you know, a 20 minute sermon head,
you're not really learning anything,
the church is absolutely empty,
it's just him, his family,
and maybe a couple of people
sprinkle throughout the building or whatever,
and it's not really growing, you know, okay,
Pastor, you're gonna have to start,
you know, get on social media or something,
start making some content,
start going viral,
start getting people in the church,
start putting it in the work, right?
You know, tread that field, work that field.
And so I get it, you know,
if there's a church out there like that,
where the pastor's not really laboring,
okay, what do you expect, you know?
Can't expect your church to take care of you
if there's no one in the church to take care of you, right?
How do you expect to earn the salary
if you ain't reaching nobody?
And the people you are reaching,
they're not staying because they're not growing, okay?
And so animals, back to the subject of animals,
they are created or are meant to illustrate
spiritual truths and provide practical applications to man.
And I would encourage you to just do
a topical study in the Bible regarding animals.
It's fascinating what the Bible has to say
as far as the application of these creatures are concerned.
All right, let's move on to the next point here.
Regarding animals, and that is that
worshiping animals precedes degeneracy, okay?
So God wants us to behold the animal
and be like, man, that lion is awesome.
Like praise God for that,
that God created such a beautiful creature, you know?
And you know, I'll be honest with you,
I don't think all creatures are beautiful, you know?
Rats aren't really beautiful to me.
I don't really think rats are,
I don't think opossums are beautiful
or those things are ugly, especially when the mama
has all the babies on top, it just looks nasty, you know?
I don't consider spiders beautiful.
Maybe some of you do, you know?
I'm not a big fan of snakes, especially just,
I don't have a phobia, I just don't like them, okay?
Especially now during the summer,
they're just popping out of nowhere
and you just worry sometimes, right?
But there are creatures out there
that I'm just like, man, look at this bird.
This bird is just absolutely beautiful.
I think of one particular bird from Guatemala,
which is the national bird, it's called the Quetzal.
It's extremely beautiful bird.
It's a green bird with a red chest, a long tail
and when it flies in the air,
it looks almost like a serpent
because of the tail that kind of, you know,
moves like a serpent, just a beautiful creature.
And so, you know, there's nothing wrong
with actually observing animals and saying,
man, this is such a beautiful creation of God.
God is just amazing, he's so powerful, he's so creative.
And so, you know, may animals cause you
to worship God, right?
Not cause you to worship the animals.
They're like, oh man, these animals are so good,
they're so much better than us, right?
And look, I'm gonna tell you right now
is that when you find a society that worships animals,
just mark it down, it's a society
that is a reprobate nation.
It's a godless nation, okay?
I mean, look at all the false religions of the world
and how much they worship serpents.
They worship cows, right?
In India, they were literally starved,
even though you got a good, you know,
four by four walking by, right?
You got pecania walking by,
you got all this good food walking by
and they're just like, we're just dying of starvation.
Yeah, cause you're eating dung instead of cows.
You're choosing to eat garbage
and I'm not joking with you, this is what they do.
They choose to eat garbage and filth and literal dung
instead of killing that cow
and making some good food out of that thing, right?
Oh man, how can you say God exists with all this evil?
Look at all these people that are starving.
Oh, you mean the people who rather eat dung than a cow?
That's their fault.
They have food walking around them all the time.
Yeah, but they believe it's their ancestors.
That's nonsense.
You say, what are their ancestors?
It's called hell.
Because if they believe what they believe,
they've split hell wide open.
Oh, you know, you're just so insensitive.
It's just the truth.
People will literally live and die in India,
never getting to taste the deliciousness of a ribeye.
What a shame.
All because of a false religion, my friends.
All because of a stupid religion
that tells them to abstain from meats.
Just be like this for the rest of their life,
thinking that they've obtained some sort of spiritual
aptitude of just being the best
because they can keep their hand like this
for 40 years or whatever,
never eat meat and just die and go to hell
and they can finally lower their hands or whatever.
It's nonsense, but this is what false religion does.
Now look at Romans 1 verse 20,
for the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen.
Being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse.
This is basically saying that creation
testifies that God exists.
They're clearly seen.
You look at the heavens,
you look at the forest,
you look at the animals
and you're just like a creator made this.
That alone can't save you,
but it testifies of the power of God, of a creator.
You don't look at it and be like,
man, this all came from promoting a soup.
No, you look at it and be like,
intelligent design is involved here, okay?
And the Bible says so they are without excuse.
So even if the pygmy dies and goes to hell,
because supposedly he never got the gospel, guess what?
The reason he never got the gospel
is because he rejected the fact
that creation testified to the creator.
He's without excuse.
He knows that this testifies of a creator.
He knows that all life and all of creation
testifies that God exists and he rejected that.
Therefore, the gospel didn't go to him, okay?
And he has YouTube anyway,
so he hears about Jesus all the time.
Verse 21 says,
because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened.
This is basically saying
that when they look at the creation,
they know that God exists.
What do they do?
They choose not to glorify him.
They're like, oh no, all this was made by a raindrop
that fell into the ocean and created Japan, you know?
Just some stupid story out there.
What does that call?
It's called being vain in your imagination, right?
It's a nonsensical, you know,
fable that doesn't exist.
That people created their minds
in order to excuse God away, okay?
Their foolish heart was darkened,
meaning that light is removed from them.
The truth begins to be removed
because they can't even accept
the most fundamental beliefs of just humanity
that there is a creator based on this creation.
He says,
professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools.
And I want you to notice this
and change the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beast and creeping things.
So what happens when a person
rejects the creation as being the byproduct of a creator?
They begin to worship creatures.
They begin to worship birds, four-footed beast
and creeping things the Bible says.
So they start looking at animals
and saying this is our ancestor.
Don't eat it.
It belongs to our ancestor.
Well, you believe in reincarnation?
Eat that thing.
Your ancestor will go into another one.
You're good, bro.
Bypass it.
Bo, you say, well, that's so offensive.
Yeah, because they're vain in their imaginations.
They've rejected the truth
and now they're worshiping animals.
It says in verse 24,
wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lust of their own hearts
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves
who changed the truth of God into a lie.
And I want you to notice this
and worship and serve the creature
more than the creator is blessed for ever, amen.
So the Bible says here
that when a person rejects the initial lie
given to them of the creation,
they become vain in their imaginations.
They begin to change the image of the corruptible God,
the incorruptible God to an image
made like the corruptible man,
meaning that they make a God in their own image, right?
They start thinking,
well, I think God actually looks like this.
I think this is God,
this devil-looking thing is God, okay?
And look, folks, if you ever want to see truth
and plain sight regarding demonic entities
that people think are divine, just look at Hinduism.
They don't hide it at all.
That thing just looks demonic.
There's nothing comforting about that image.
God, six arms, it looks all red, it looks like a demon.
And the Bible says that when they begin to do that,
God gives them up to vile affections, okay?
Why? Because they're rejected into truth.
So he gives them up to vile affections.
Obviously we know that this is referring to sodomy,
it's referring to phagotry and so forth, okay?
And it says that because of that,
they begin to serve the creature more than the creator.
They begin to worship animals.
And so this is the progression
when it comes to degeneration.
Turn with me if you would, go to Exodus 22, Exodus 22.
I'm gonna read to you from Deuteronomy chapter four,
verse 15 says,
Take ye therefore good heat unto yourselves,
for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day
that the Lord spake unto you in horror,
out of the midst of the fire.
Lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image,
the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
the likeness of any beast is on the earth,
the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in the air,
the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters
beneath the earth.
So he's basically saying, hey, you know,
the progression here is that when someone begins
to reject the God of the Bible,
they're tempted to become these creature worshiping
type people and they begin to make images and idols
out of these animals.
Second King, 17, verse 16 says this,
and they left all the commandments
of the Lord their God and made them molten images,
listen to this, even two calves and made a grove
and worship all the hosts of heaven and served Baal.
So what happened to Israel when they would forsake God?
They worship calves, they worship animals, right?
As soon as Moses goes up to meet with God,
they think that he's not gonna come back,
what do they do?
They make a golden calf.
They start worshiping animals.
And what does it lead them into?
Degeneracy, start taking off their clothes
and worshiping false gods and saying,
this be your gods that brought you out of the land of Egypt
and start acting abominably before the Lord.
In Ezekiel chapter eight, for example,
when Ezekiel is grabbed by the hair from the Lord
in spirit and he shows them the greater abominations,
he digs through a hole and what does he see?
Just people worshiping creatures, creeping things
in secret.
Why?
Because worshiping animals precedes degeneration.
That's what people begin to do
when they reject the God of the Bible.
Now, let me give you an example of this.
Let's talk about the uncomfortable subject of bestiality.
And I hate talking about this
because it's so disgusting and filthy and perverse
and just nasty.
But it is in the Bible for a reason, though.
Okay?
And you think to yourself like, yeah,
but pastor like people in the United States,
are they really into?
Well, here's the thing is that there are cases
in the United States of people doing this stuff.
But let me just tell you,
it is a thing just globally though, okay?
And it is a result, listen to me,
of worshiping false gods.
It's a result of rejecting the God of the Bible, okay?
When a nation rejects the God of the Bible,
even if they think they have the truth,
even if they're in close proximity
to the geographical location
of where the truth came out of, guess what?
They will become degenerates
and will be involved in bestiality.
You say, well, like who?
How about Islam?
Islam is a perfect example of this.
Bestiality is relevant because of the fact that,
you know what?
Muslims participate in bestiality.
Bunch of freaks and weirdos and perverts.
And it boggles my mind how Christians like,
hey, don't go after the Muslims,
you know, because therefore they're against Jews too.
Oh, you mean the one who commits bestiality with a goat?
You mean the one who worships Muhammad,
who married a six-year-old girl
and consummated the marriage at the age of nine?
You mean that pervert?
It's funny, you know,
I know you wanna get on the Epstein files,
but before the Epstein files, there was Muhammad.
Before Epstein, you know, before all these Jews,
you know, Muhammad was doing this long ago.
And you know what?
He was, I mean, he wasn't,
but his followers participate in bestiality.
Muslims do this stuff.
97% of Pakistan's population is Muslim, okay?
And this is where this stuff comes from.
97% of them are Muslim,
and they appear near the top of historical Google searches
involving animal pornography alongside
Muslim-majority countries such as Iran,
Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and so forth.
Pakistan has also experienced
multiple officially documented bestiality cases
in 2021, five men were booked for sexually assaulting
and killing a goat in Okara.
This is gross, I'm sorry,
but I'm just, I gotta tell you that this is real.
In 2022, police formed a nine-member investigation team
and arrested suspects involved
in a case involving an alleged pornography ring
that used a trained dog.
What is it showing us?
It's showing us, by the way, these guys are Muslims.
I know you think Muslims are like,
oh, isn't that from Iraq or something?
Well, Pakistan, they're all, 97% Muslim.
And you might have other Muslims like,
oh, we don't do that.
Yeah, but what about these guys, though?
These guys participate in that nonsense
and that abomination, but why do they do that?
I'll tell you why, because they're a degenerate nation
that is evolved in a godless, false religion
that rejected the God of the Bible
and led them into degeneracy,
where they're worshiping the creature more than the creator.
And look, folks, when we read these verses in the Bible,
the condemnationality, God's not just pulling this
out of a hand, just like,
well, let me just make something up real quick.
Just make sure they never do this.
He's using the example of the surrounding nations, okay?
What happened here in Exodus 22?
Is that where you guys are at?
Yeah.
Yes or no?
No.
Look at verse 19.
Who serve a lieth with the beast,
shall surely be put to death?
You said, why isn't he expounding on that?
Does he need to?
You said, why is he even mentioning that?
Because the nations that they're about
to inherit geographically were involved in that.
They're like these Pakistani dudes doing that stuff.
Look at Leviticus 18.
Leviticus chapter 18.
You're like, oh man, that actually makes more sense now
that why the land vomited out her inhabitants?
It wasn't just because of sodomy,
it was also because of bestiality.
Well, let me just tell you, bestiality and sodomy
are one and the same in like the Bible, okay?
Look at verse 23 and verse 18.
It says, neither shall thou lie with any beast
that defile thyself therewith,
neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down there too.
It is confusion.
Chapter 20.
Go to chapter 20 if you would.
Chapter 20.
And verse 15 says that if a man lie with the beast,
he shall surely be put to death
and ye shall slay the beast.
And if a woman approach unto any beast
and lie down there too,
thou shall kill the woman and the beast,
they shall surely be put to death,
their blood shall be upon them, the Bible says.
So these verses are very obvious to us.
We know about these things.
I'm just explaining to you why God had to put him there
in the first place.
It's because they came from nations
that had rejected God.
The Canaanites were nations that rejected God for centuries.
They were in close proximity to the truth.
They didn't believe in the God of the Bible.
They knew about God.
They knew about his judgments.
They knew what happened to Egypt.
They know about it all.
And despite that, they still didn't get saved.
I mean, if you remember in 1 Samuel,
you know, when the Ark of the Covenant,
the Philistines take the Ark of the Covenant.
You guys remember that story?
This is where Hafti and Phineas die
and they take the Ark or whatever.
They end up staying in the land of the Philistines
for quite some time.
And then God ends up cursing them, right?
And he curses them with like an infestation of mice
and hemorrhoids.
We were talking about this earlier.
You know, weird conversations, I know.
Not that anybody had, we're just talking about the story.
Okay, let me clarify that.
You know, God cursed them with hemorrhoids.
Okay, the Bible calls it emeralds,
but that's what it's referring to.
So, you know, God has a sense of humor for sure.
You know what I mean?
That's like, that's so embarrassing, you know?
Like just the entire city just has hemorrhoids, okay?
So they're infested with mice.
Like mice are overrunning, you know,
animals are overrunning the countryside there.
And they themselves are afflicted with hemorrhoids, okay?
And the priest of the Philistines says,
hey, this is coming upon us because
of the Ark of the Covenant.
God's the one who's doing this to us.
That shows us that they believe in God.
They knew who God is.
And they're like, this is what we gotta do.
He goes, because this happy, and he even said,
like the priest said, you know,
don't you remember what happened to Egypt?
How God, what God did to Egypt?
And you wanna ask yourself like,
yeah, so why are you guys still like he didn't and stuff?
Why are you so pagan if you know about these stories?
I'll tell you why, cause people just hate the truth.
You and I don't understand how someone
can reject the God of the Bible because we're saved.
But you know, there's people out there
that have full knowledge of the Bible.
You know, they're being judged by God
with mice and hemorrhoids,
and they still remain pagans.
Why? I don't know.
It's reprobates.
So it's like, this is what we'll do.
We need to send an offering.
When you send back the Ark of the Covenant
with an offering, make golden mice and golden hemorrhoids.
Idiots.
Whose job was that?
Leigh, I got another job for you.
What is it, a key?
No, it's not a key.
I need you to make a mouse,
and I need you to make one of these.
Just take it.
You know what I mean?
It's just like make a ton of them
because we got to send this off.
This is gonna help us or something.
Vain in their imaginations.
You know, I'm sure the people of the land
were just like, man, these guys are so smart.
Yeah, professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools.
It's insanity.
They know the truth.
But yet despite that,
they come up with foolish solutions
because their heart is darkened.
They don't know the truth.
That's why the Bible says
that the wisdom of this world
is foolishness with God.
Because the world by wisdom,
they don't know God.
They can't know God by the wisdom of this world.
It's just like, oh man, hell is real,
heaven is real,
and the Lord Jesus Christ
died across the pay for your sins.
So repent of your sins to be saved.
What kind of nonsensical,
stupid solution is that?
Repent of your sins to be,
it do works to be,
like they could have the full knowledge
of the sacrifice of Christ
and then still say,
you gotta do works to be saved.
What is that?
That's someone who's rejected
the knowledge of the truth.
And so these people are committing
these abominable acts of,
these perverse acts with animals.
I'm not trying to get into details here.
And I'm not even encouraging to go online
to even research Pakistan.
But just,
I don't typically say this,
but I'll say this now,
just take my word for it.
Okay?
This is a legitimate thing.
This is what they do.
And that's only two cases that I read about.
There's way more cases out there.
But let's just say there isn't any cases whatsoever
that are known out there, okay?
They still rank high
on their Google searches for,
you know, perverse things regarding animals.
I should tell you something.
And they're Muslim.
That's the biggest point
that I want you to understand.
Okay?
These are Muslims, okay?
And you know what?
I'm sick and tired.
Just as I'm sick and tired
of the false left, right paradigm
of whether you're,
if you're not a Republican,
you must be a Democrat.
If you're not a Democrat,
you must be a Republican.
It's like, oh, you're against Jews.
You must be for Muslim.
Oh, you're for Muslims
or you're against Muslims.
That means you must be
on one side or the other.
You know, if you're talking trash on one,
if you're exposing one,
that means you must be for the other.
I'm against both.
Both Islam,
Muslims and Jews
are going to split hell wide open.
And I'm not interested
in joining forces with Muslims
who date goats,
commit pedophilia
to go against Jews.
I don't need help.
I don't need help
fighting against Jews and Judaism.
I got this, bro.
I don't need Islam's help.
Islam is a false religion.
And let me just explain something to you
because this is the problem
with a lot of churches
that expose false religions
is they're not detailed enough
regarding the right doctrines.
Because what will happen is this,
people will say,
this is how Muslims try to infiltrate, okay?
Because Muslims are cool with you
until they outnumber you, okay?
Number one.
But number two,
what they'll do is they'll find common ground
with you as much as possible.
Which right now, it's like,
oh, you're against Jews?
Me too.
Brother.
We're like, brothers, we gotta stick together.
You know, the Arna Schwarzenegger
and the black guy meme, right?
It's just like, Dylan, you know?
It's like Islam.
And we're both gonna fight against Jews
and destroy the tyranny of the Jews in Israel.
And we're both against whatever, you know?
But no.
But let me explain what Muslims will do.
They'll tell you this
and it confuses a lot of Christians.
Because they'll say, hey, whoa, no, no, no.
We believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
They will tell you that
because they do believe that.
So you didn't know that.
They believe that.
They believe Jesus is the Messiah.
And then you're like, oh,
maybe there is hope for these goat lovers.
These goaters, you know?
Oh man, they believe that Jesus is Messiah.
And I'm telling you, they'll say this all the time.
They're like, oh yeah, Judaism, Jews are evil.
Thank you, brother, for exposing this.
We believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
He's not just a prophet, he's a Messiah.
And they do believe that.
And so in the Christians' mind,
they're just like, well then,
man, I thought they didn't believe that.
No, no, no, let me explain to you what this means, okay?
When a Muslim tells you that,
say, oh, do you believe that he's God?
And they will say no.
Because them believing that Jesus is the Messiah
does not equal them believing that Jesus is God.
Because they can uphold him being as a Messiah
without divinity.
And let me explain to you another group that does this.
It's called Jews.
Jews believe in a Messiah, did you know that?
They believe in a Messiah.
But they don't believe their Messiah
is a divine individual.
They believe their Messiah is more of a political guy,
a political ruler.
So they can say, oh, we have a Messiah,
but they don't believe that he's God.
They don't ascribe divinity to their Messiah.
Just the same thing with the Muslims.
So don't be tricked by these Muslims
when they tell you, oh, we also believe in Jesus.
You don't believe in my Jesus,
because my Jesus is God.
And you know what?
If you believe that he's the Messiah,
not good enough, no, not enough.
You failed.
I want to hear that you said that he is God.
Because they don't believe he's God
and they don't believe he's the son of God.
So they'll try to trick you.
You know what I've asked?
I'm like, oh, you believe he's God?
Silence.
Won't say nothing.
Because they know Christians are so stupid sometimes
that they don't know their doctrine.
They're like, oh, he's Messiah.
That's right, see, they're like our brother's right.
They're kind of like, they're right, they're Ishmael.
It's cool.
They're Godars.
They've rejected the God of the Bible.
And by the way, Messiah simply means the anointed one.
Okay?
And you know what?
Kings were anointed.
They were also anointed.
Here's the major difference between them and Christ
is that Christ is divine.
He's the son of God.
He is God.
He's Jehovah.
He is the I am that I am.
He is the eternal son of God.
So you know what?
It's not enough to say that he's a prophet.
It's not enough to say that he's the Messiah.
They have to believe that he is also God.
Don't let Muslims trick you into thinking
that they're somehow on your side in that regard.
We do not agree.
Muhammad was an illiterate pedophile.
He is the Mormonism of the Middle East.
It's a satanic religion.
And it is the counterfeit antichrist of the end times.
But you know what?
If Muslims do not believe on Jesus Christ,
meaning for salvation, meaning that he is God.
And you know what?
They can claim, oh yeah, he died for our sins.
But folks, not enough.
If they don't believe he's God, it's not enough.
It's a false profession.
Because you know what?
Jehovah's Witnesses will say the same thing,
but they believe in a false Christ.
Mormons will say the same thing,
but they believe in a false Christ.
They have to ascribe to the doctrines of Christ,
which means that he is God.
And so you know, these Muslims,
they will split hell wide over.
We're not on the Muslim side, okay?
And you know, obviously people want to put you
in either category.
They're like, oh, if you're against Jews,
then you must be pro-Muslim and vice versa.
But no, we're against both
because both are false religions.
And you know what?
I can call out Jews all day long,
and I do, but as soon as I mentioned Muslims,
Muslims come up and they're like, oh, you've been bought.
Oh, you're a traitor.
Like bro, I've been against Islam like from the start.
It's just Jews are an easier target.
And the Bible's obviously more condemning towards you.
It actually names them.
Y'all didn't exist when the Bible was written.
And so we'll come after you next.
You know, and at the end of the day,
in my opinion, Jews and Muslims,
they actually do like each other, you know?
At least some of them do.
They're part of the same satanic umbrella
that Satan's being forth in order to blind people.
And it's causing people to become polarized
even within Christianity.
And I've had literally Christians,
and obviously I'm saying that loosely
as far as Christians are concerned,
I've had them contact me and be like,
hey, just my opinion,
I think you should leave Muslims alone.
We really need them in order to like,
you know, you know, go against Jews and Israel.
And it's just like, brother.
And I don't call him brother.
But I'm thinking of myself like, you know,
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelief.
What conquer that Christ with Belial?
What agreement have the heterosexual
with the goer?
We have no communion.
There is no common ground.
And you know, obviously I've had better conversations
with Muslims that I've had with Jews for sure.
But you know what, they're godless
and they don't get a free pass either
just because they're against Jews.
And I know a lot of Muslims have been violated
and they've been killed by Jews and by Israel.
I know they're suffering at their hands.
And you know what?
I don't believe innocent people should die, okay?
And Israel's godless for doing that,
but we already know they're godless.
They're a cursed nation.
But Islam and every nation that pertains to Islam,
they don't get a free pass because of that.
It's not like, well, you know, you're a victim,
so therefore you get a free pass.
No, some of them are victims,
but let's talk about Pakistan though.
Right?
And then you bring up the whole pedophilia thing
with Islam and this is what they say.
Well, how old was Rebecca though?
Rebecca, where in the Bible does it say Rebecca
was like nine years old?
It doesn't even give the H.
You know, they don't like you bringing up Aisha.
They, you know, he married her when she was six
and consummated at nine.
They hate bringing it.
They hate when people bring that up
because it exposes them for being a pedophile religion.
Nasty.
And it's not just pedophilia.
Again, it's bestiality as well.
That's their relation to animals.
And so, you know, the Bible says in Deuteronomy,
go to Deuteronomy 27.
Deuteronomy chapter 27.
And obviously Islam's not the only one.
There's other religions that produce this type of
reprobation, but I mean, Pakistan is just really,
I mean, that's like,
you know what I mean?
It's pretty bad.
It just carries that connotation.
Like everyone kind of knows that.
There's terms that are used for those in Pakistan
who are involved in that stuff.
I can't say it behind the pulpit.
You know, we'll talk about it after service.
Okay.
But this is what they do.
And this is the result of reprobation.
Okay.
Look at Deuteronomy 27, verse 21.
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast
and all the people shall say, amen.
Why are they cursed?
Because it's indicative of a nation
that has rejected the God of the Bible.
They're adhering to a false gospel,
therefore they're accursed.
And their bestiality is a byproduct of that.
All right, my next point.
Go with it if you would to, let's see here.
Go to 2 Kings 17, if you would.
2 Kings chapter 17.
That's all I'm gonna say about the whole bestiality thing,
but just to let you know that this is, it is a thing.
Because in times past it's like,
why would I even preach against that?
It's even a thing, but it is a thing
amongst these false religions.
That's what happens, okay?
It's disgusting, it's vile,
and that's what happens when you're a part of Islam.
My last point here, and I'll just kind of breeze through
this is that God uses animals to judge mankind.
So, you know, God wants us to appreciate the animals.
He wants us to admire them, to glorify him because of them.
He wants us to eat them.
He wants us to be amused by them,
to use them as companions, you know, just as Adam did.
You know, he wants us to use them for positive things,
to learn from them, to take their example
and learn from the way that God wired them
and kind of extrapolate biblical principles from that
and learn character and attributes and so forth.
But, you know, if you start acting up,
God can also use these same animals to kill you, okay?
And this is something that's found throughout the Bible,
where God uses animals consistently to kill people, okay?
Now, we already know of a lot of these,
like for example Jonah, right?
Was swallowed by a great whale.
He prepared a whale to swallow him up, okay?
Obviously you have animals in the plagues of Egypt
as well that he used to judge the nation of Egypt.
In 1 Kings chapter 20,
a lion slays a man who refuses God's command.
So he disobeys God and then God prepares a lion to kill him.
He doesn't eat him, he just slays him, okay?
Acts chapter 12, verse 23,
you have worms eating Herod, right?
After not giving glory to God.
And then of course we already read in Leviticus 26
where he threatens this.
He says, I will send beast among you.
And it says that will rob you of your children,
it will destroy your cattle and make you few in number.
Deuteronomy chapter 28, you don't have to turn there.
Verse 25 says, the Lord shall cause thee
to be smitten before thine enemies.
Thou shalt go out one way against them
and flee seven ways before them
and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
And thy carcasses shall be meat
unto all the fowls of the air,
unto the beasts of the earth,
and no man shall fray them away.
So another way that God uses animals to punish people
is by dishonoring them.
Because God, obviously we see this throughout the Bible
where we like to honor our debt.
When someone dies, there's a memorial for them,
place them in a coffin, we give them honor,
we speak well of them.
Part of the most dishonoring thing to do
is for an animal to consume that carcass.
And God specifically says like, hey, if you disobey me,
your carcass is gonna fall in the field
and I'm gonna allow the birds of the air
to come and just eat your carcass and no funeral.
That's basically what he's saying.
And one of the greatest examples of this is found where?
I think we have a coyote in the church.
I'm just kidding.
You know, Revelation 19, right?
Revelation 19 is the battle of Armageddon.
All these armies are destroyed before the Lord
and then the great supper of the day is come
where God calls all the fowls of the air to come
and just literally eat the flesh of captains,
the flesh of servants, the flesh of the bond and free.
Just everyone in that field just is like,
come on and eat, come on.
It's like the way we were back there.
Just like we're just flying in on Jose and just eating.
That's what the fowls of the earth do.
And you're like, man, why does he do that?
Cause it's a dishonoring thing.
It's done with the intent to dishonor them.
No funeral, no coffin, just vultures and animals
just eating away at the carcass.
It's pretty nasty, huh?
But it's kind of cool, you know?
And look, they have this in like pagan cultures too.
I forgot what it's called.
Does anyone remember what it's called?
You can literally have a funeral
where they place your body.
I think it's like in Tibet or something like that.
They place your body and then they just call vultures
and the vultures come and just eat your carcass.
It's like a pagan thing.
But it's just like, I guess that's,
they're literally fulfilling what God says, okay?
First Kings 13, a lion slays a prophet as well.
Second Kings chapter two,
bears kill children who mock the man of God.
Okay, and the children are making fun of Elisha,
saying go up thou baldie, right?
They're making him fun of his bald head.
Go up thou bald head.
And then, you know, he's just like,
he curses them and she bears come
and just kill all the children, you know?
And you know these atheists like, oh yeah,
what do you think about that?
That's, yeah, don't make fun of the man of God, yeah.
What's, you think that's right?
Everything that the Lord does is right.
And if God wouldn't approve of it,
he wouldn't have allowed Elisha to be able to do that.
Elisha's not the bear whisperer.
He's not like some Indian or some Native American
who's just calling the bears or whatever to come.
No, he's just, he's the man of God.
God's on his side.
And so, God allows these she bears
to come and kill these children, okay?
Showing us that God does not like it
when people mock the man of God.
Look at 2nd Kings, chapter 17, verse 24,
says the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon
and from Ctha and from Ava and from Hamath
and from Sefar Vaeim
and placed them in the cities of Samaria
instead of the children of Israel.
And he possessed Samaria
and dwelt in the cities thereof.
So what's going on here is that
Samaria is sending forth their own kind of profits
to inhabit the cities of Samaria
and they're making kind of like an amalgamation
of a religion between the religion of Israel
and pagan religion, okay?
It's kind of like Catholicism, right?
It's just like kind of like
putting them, blending them together.
Well, look at the result of there, verse 25 says
and so it was that at the beginning
of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord.
Therefore the Lord sent lions among them
which slew some of them.
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria
saying the nations which thou has removed
and placed in the cities of Samaria
know not the manner of the God of the land.
Therefore he had sent lions among them
and behold they slay them
because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
So they're coming into the land
making this bastardization of the religion of the Bible
and God's like, oh, you're making a mockery
of my religion.
I'm gonna go ahead and send lions among you
to kill you guys.
These idolaters is what they are.
And look, this is a real thing even today.
Look at the story of the man-eaters of Savo, okay?
Took place in India where you have these workers
that were being terrorized in railroad camps.
They were like these workers to create these railroads
in 1898 and these two male lions
basically terrorized them
and killed 135 workers.
They're Indians that they kill.
Okay, you're like, well, isn't that just like,
doesn't that just happen?
No, I think God sent lions among them.
You know, I'm pretty sure these Indians
were like idolaters, you know?
They're probably idolaters worshiping false gods,
mocking God in their heart.
Oh, you're just kind of making that up.
You don't really know that.
I just know that based upon what the Bible says, okay?
That he will send lions among them.
And so it's a very unique case,
but it's happened throughout history
where God will send animals
just like the man-eaters of Savo.
Let me see if I can pronounce this.
The Champawat Tiger, which is a female Bengal tiger,
killed 436 people in Nepal and Northern India.
She primarily attacked women and children
gathering firewood or tending livestock near the forest
often in broad daylight.
Her attacks brought entire villages to a standstill, 1907.
Hunter Jim Corbett tracked and killed her
after she murdered a 16-year-old girl.
But we see this in Leviticus 26.
He says, I will send beasts among you
and they will rob you of your children.
So he said, what's the point of like saying that,
pastor, you're making me feel uncomfortable.
I'm trying to teach you that God is loving,
but you know, he's also judgmental as well.
And he don't play around.
So you better fear him, okay?
And you know what?
This is motivation for you to serve God,
to obey the Lord.
Oh, are you using scare tactics
to try to get people to serve God?
Yeah, yeah.
It's called, you know, lions, for sure, yeah.
Oh yeah, I can't believe you would do these pastors
to use all these scare tactics
and fear to try to get people to serve God.
Yeah, you know, how about hell?
God uses hell to motivate people to get saved.
Some save with fear, pulling them out of the fire.
There are no lions here, there's mountain lions though.
And you know what?
I want to make sure I stay right with God
because I want God to bless me,
but I don't want to be consumed.
The worst way to die is to be consumed
by some sort of animal.
Probably the worst way to die.
Right?
Why don't you think that?
Like for a mountain lion to just eat you
or you know, what other animals have we got around?
Bears to eat you or something, you know?
We have this recorded throughout history of this happening.
There's also another case of a great white,
I think it goes off the coast of Rhode Island
who terrorized the city as well,
ate a lot of people for a period of time.
And I don't believe that's just like a random thing.
I do believe that something was happening
in the hearts of the people of that particular region
where there might have been cursing God in their heart,
they're mocking God,
they're just blaspheming God in their heart.
And then God says, oh, you think that's funny?
Let me send lions among you.
Let me send a great white.
Let me send a Bengal tiger to just consume your people
and see if you find that funny.
He sent she bears, right?
To destroy the children.
God's not messing around.
I am trying to instill fear in your heart.
To fear God, to love him with all your hearts,
mind and strength, stay right with him
lest this should befall you, okay?
That's pretty much it, you know?
There's other examples,
but you know, I don't have time to go through it all.
One notable example that's always worth mentioning
is the dogs that eat Jezebel.
They just, they left her hands,
I think her hands and her feet, right?
Her hands and her feet.
Was it the skull?
Who can verify that?
Is it the skull?
I know they left her hands for sure,
but they ate the majority of the corpse, right?
And as part of a punishment,
it was God's judgment upon Jezebel
for being a blasphemer,
for being such a wicked person, okay?
Lions, they ate Daniel's accusers.
So he was thrown into the lions then,
nothing happens to him,
but once he comes out,
they throw the other guys in
and the lion's like,
hey, the master said, these are the guys.
And then they go and they make a mastery
of them and their families
for accusing the man of God.
And then the last example
is the locus tormenting men for five months
in Revelation chapter nine.
You're like, all right,
they're talking about like animals on earth.
I'm just talking about any animal.
And these are creatures,
they're not just,
they're not spiritual creatures,
they're supernatural creatures, okay?
And they torment men for five months.
And why is that?
Because they're wicked,
godless people on this world,
they're reprobates
and they don't repent of their sorceries.
They keep doing idolatrous things.
They murder their thieves
and then they'll repent of their ways.
So God is just doing it just to judge them.
What's the point of the sermon today?
Well, the point is simply this,
just to help you to understand
our relation to animals, right?
Let's keep it on this side
where we are worshiping God
because of the animals he created,
use them for their original intent,
which is that food, companionship,
entertainment and so forth
and recognize that God can also use these animals
to turn on us in order to judge us.
If we stray and disobey God
and we get to make a mockery of the things of God,
he can definitely do that to us.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for animals, Lord.
We're so thankful that you created
these magnificent creatures
and that we can stand in all of your power
and your creativity.
I pray that, Lord, we continue to do so.
Lord, help us to be good stewards of the animals
you led us to come in contact with, Lord.
And may we never be cruel to animals
and but also recognize that animals are,
though a good companion,
they are insufficient for us as Christians,
as human beings.
We need human contact.
And I pray that, Lord, you help us to remain in the way
so that you would not send a lion to consume us
as you did with the prophet who disobeyed you, Lord.
And I pray, Father God,
that you help us to stay in the way to do so.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.