All right, how many people got a Bible?

Hold up your Bible.

That'll encourage me if I can just see your Bible, just hold it up. You know, I've got to get up and preach the Bible this morning. No, no, hold it up. In fact, why don't you just keep it up for the whole sermon today? And now I'll go ahead and take it down and open it. That's what we do. We open it. Let's open our Bibles to Revelation 9. We're continuing our year-long series through the book of Revelation.

We're open it. Let's open our Bibles to Revelation 9. We're continuing our year-long series through the book of Revelation.

We're studying it.

A verse at a time, Revelation 9 is a passage.

You'd never preach if you weren't committed to preaching through the Bible.

While you're finding your way there, let me just ask you a question that will set the stage for this message.

Just think about this with me.

What do you believe is the worst sin

that a person can commit?

Let me just think about that with me first.

What do you think is the worst sin

that a person can commit?

All right, well, let's work through some categories here.

How about perversion?

You know, that's such an insult to God and twisted evil

behavior, but really in that instance, you're damaging yourself, you know, but, well, how about,

how about a sin of perpetration where you're injuring someone else who's innocent and, and,

be it murder or some form of victimization of someone else.

That, the Bible has a lot to say about that.

That is great wickedness in God's eyes.

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