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Mark Finley

The Ultimate Vaccine

Father in heaven, as we open your word at a time of unusual crisis in America, at a week where deaths are at an all-time high, where recently over 2, 000 people in a day died the highest death rate.

Father, give us hope as we open your book.

And help us focus on your promises and the ultimate vaccine to the problem of sin.

If you've been reading the news reports or watching the news media outlets, you've sensed that America and the world is in the midst of a major crisis, in the midst of a pandemic.

As we look around the world, we see the devastating toll of this crisis.

People have been furloughed and they're unemployed.

You look around the world and every aspect of life has been seriously impacted.

The economy has been impacted, devastated in many countries and the United States is facing some very serious economic issues.

But 1 of the things that has developed recently is the search for a vaccine.

Could people be vaccinated so that they would not get COVID-19?

Could you give them a vaccination like a polio vaccination or a measles vaccination.

Research laboratories, university medical centers throughout the United States and the world are racing at breakneck speed to discover this COVID-19 virus vaccination.

Now these trial vaccinations are designed specifically to improve our immune systems to produce a greater production of antibodies so that we'd have a long-lasting protection against these viral and bacterial infections.

1 group of United States researchers is looking at a skin test where you can just prick the skin and tell if a person has already had the immunity and if they do not vaccinate them so they will not get this coronavirus.

The University of Nebraska is part of a global hunt for the much needed protection against this virus that's played havoc with our economy and forced people into self-quarantine and isolation as countries have attempted to control the spread of this deadly pandemic.

The United States National Institute of Health, as well, is coordinating work in laboratories and universities and research institutes in a frantic attempt to discover this vaccine.

The University of Seattle, or in Seattle, Washington, they have a cohort study right now that's quite fascinating that about 2 3rds of the study's participants have already gotten 2 doses of the vaccine.

Now don't get too excited about it because most of researchers indicate that this vaccine is about at least 1 year away, maybe a year and a half away.

But just to give you a scope of these studies, the University of Pennsylvania, University in Kansas have already begun trials.

Clinical trials are being done with chemical laboratories like Invio that's cooperating with the Chinese on a study.

Dozens of potential vaccines are in these clinical trials now.

Anthony Fauci, who is the National Institute of Health's infectious disease chief, said in the Journal of American Medical Association, he said people are just beating down the door to get into these trials because they want to figure out if we have another wave of COVID-19, will they be protected?

People are so afraid of this deadly, rapidly moving virus that they're anxious to get the vaccine as soon as they can, because the pandemic has caused tens of thousands of deaths around the world.

But there is a virus that's spreading much more rapidly than COVID-19.

There is a virus that is much more deadly than COVID-19.

You see, COVID-19 may be able to destroy your body, but it cannot destroy your eternal life.

Jesus talks about another deadly, Fatal disease.

Matthew, the 10th chapter and the 28th verse.

Matthew chapter 10, you're looking there at verse 28.

The ultimate vaccine for a disease that is deadly, that is fatal.

He says, do not fear those, do not fear those who kill the body but who cannot kill the soul, but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.

There is something more serious than COVID-19.

It's the virus of sin that is spreading rapidly through the human race that destroys not only the physical body, but destroys eternal life.

COVID-19 can destroy the body, but sin can destroy our body and soul.

God created human beings perfect in the Garden of Eden.

There was no taint of sin there, but when they listened to the voice of the evil 1 and yielded to the temptations of Lucifer, The virus of sin infected their bodies and was passed on to their descendants.

The truth of the matter is that every single 1 of us have been infected.

The Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

We've been infected with the virus of sin.

That sin's virus is deadly, sin's virus is fatal.

Listen to the cry of the Bible, Jeremiah 17 and verse 9.

Jeremiah 17 verse 9, whether you realize it or not, you have been infected with the virus of sin.

Jeremiah 17 verse 9 puts it this way The heart is deceitful above all things and what?

Isaiah, the prophet adds in Isaiah 53 and verse 6 Isaiah 53 and verse 6 Unless we understand the disease, we will never desire the vaccine Unless we understand that the disease is fatal, we will never desire the solution.

If you are asymptomatic for COVID-19 and do not realize that you are even infected, it's not likely you're going to do anything.

So if you are asymptomatic and do not feel that you have the disease of sin, why seek a vaccine?

Isaiah chapter 53, looking there at verse 6, Oh, we like sheep have gone, what?

We have turned everyone, not a few, everyone to his own way.

So Jeremiah says, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

Isaiah says, all we like sheep have gone astray and drifted everyone to his own way.

Listen to the cry of the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 7.

Romans chapter 7 we're looking here at verse 54.

Romans chapter 7 and we're looking at verse 24.

He says, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death?

Jeremiah says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

Isaiah says, oh we like sheep have gone astray and turned everyone to his own way.

Here Paul says, oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death?

Now, do you recall that in this COVID-19 business that there are people who are asymptomatic.

They don't have a sore throat or a fever.

They appear normal, but they are walking around affecting other people.

In fact, the state of Michigan, Detroit particularly, is a hot spot in this epidemic.

And in this hot spot, just this last week, the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmore, has said you cannot even go out of your house to visit another residence.

Because 1 family, 2 families, 3 families went to visit others.

They were asymptomatic, didn't even know that they had the virus, passed it on to others.

Those others got so sick, they passed it on to others.

May I suggest to you, there are scores of people walking around the virus of sin.

They, oh they may be wonderful on the outside, but there's a selfishness, there's a greed, there's a lust, and they're passing that virus of sin on to others, and they do not even recognize that they're infecting others.

You know, if you're asymptomatic with COVID-19, it's very likely that soon your temperature's going to rise.

Soon the breathing's going to become labored.

Soon you'll be fighting for your life and the best efforts of the most outstanding medical personnel will be placed to save you, but sometimes they are powerless.

Is there a vaccine for the COVID-19 for the COVID-19 virus of sin, where is the solution?

I thank God that Paul did not end with Romans 7, verse 24, when he cries out, O wretched man that I am, and then he raises the question, who shall deliver us from this body of sin?

He does not leave that lingering question in our minds.

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