Welcome to Reverend Ben Cooper's podcast, your source for faith and inspiration on RB Christian Radio. Love what you hear? Support us by buying us a coffee and help keep this ministry thriving. Don't forget to subscribe and find us online at rbchristianradio.net. Stay encouraged, stay faithful, and know this. You are not alone.
SPEAKER_01Sisters, wherever you are this evening, without further ado, let's just jump straight into prayer. In the name of Jesus Christ, may God bless you and carry you in the greatest name in heaven and earth. You know, we're living in very, very powerful days. Jesus Christ is coming back, and let's just remind ourselves it ain't church I've got to be in. I've got to be in the word. I've got to be in Jesus Christ. We're going to turn to the book of Psalms. Wherever you are across the world, we want to welcome so many tens of thousands of people that join us on uh live stream, podcasting on RB Christian Radio, wherever you are at this moment. May the power of God and the love of the Holy Spirit be over each and every one of you. Let's just jump straight in. We're going to jump straight in some prayer. We've got to get some uh scriptures through this evening. And if you have a Bible, please grab a Bible. Let's turn to Psalms 34. We're going to go to Psalms 34. Let's just get ourselves ready. We're just checking a few things, but we're ready to go in the mighty name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. There is power in the name of Jesus. I really believe that we are living right at the end. Right at the end days. When you see what is happening across the world, as I always say, watching Israel, watching things that are happening in Israel. And this in this government, we've got to pray. I'm going to pray in a moment for the government, as we always do. But we welcome everybody in the house of the Lord. We welcome for those that are across the world, wherever you are, joining us right now, those that are on live stream on the other side of the camera, those that are on RB Christian Radio. Thank you for those that listen on RB Christian Radio at the other side of the world. And we're giving out Bibles. Uh, thank God that we're able to give Bibles out across the other side of the planet. God is
good in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. But we're going to turn to Psalm 34, Psalms 34, verse 1, and we'll read it through in a moment. But let's just pray. Come on, let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we believe in the word of God. We believe your word is power. We believe your word is life. And Lord, as we come before you right now, we pray for such an outpouring of your spirit. Lord, we thank you that you are going to make a way where there is no way. That your glory, Lord, is over our lives, that your presence is in our lives, Lord, that your love is over our lives. But right now, Lord, Father, I pray for everybody, Lord. Tens of thousands, Lord, online, watching, listening across the other side of the world. I pray that the glory of God will touch their hearts, their minds, their bodies, their souls. Lord, that they will feel your love and your goodness. And Father, we know that your calling. Lord, there is a calling right now. Lord, you're calling us to walk in the Word of God. You're calling us, Father God. Lord, we are watching the end days unfold before our very eyes. Father, we thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus. But wherever we are, scattered across the world, Father, we pray for such a power, such an anointing over each and every one of us. All those that are online, Father, we pray that you'll touch their hearts tonight. All those, dear God, that are at home wherever they are at this moment in time. Lord, we pray for such an outpouring of your glory, your mercy, your saving grace. But Lord, I pray for those that are in the valley right now. Those that are really weary and those are really tired and exhausted. Father God, I pray for those, dear God, that just feel so run down because of life. Those that have got depression and worry and fear, Lord, those that are having panic attacks, those that are having doubts. We pray, Father, that the Spirit of God will bless them, press down, running over, shaking together. But Lord, we pray for this government. We pray, Father, that you will save Keystama. We pray, dear God, for Zadiq Khan, that you'll save him too. Lord, we ask you that you'll cover him in the blood of Jesus, that you will give us leaders that will lead through the gospel of truth, that you'll give us leaders that will lead by the word of God. But Father, we ask you right now that you'll stretch down from heaven. Lord, that your hand will be over this nation. We pray for every street, every town, every house. We pray, Lord, for all humanity within the four walls of England right now. Lord, we pray for Scotland, Ireland and Wales and the UK. Father, we pray that your blessings will be over each and every one of us, that we will feel your love, your saving grace. But Lord, remind us, Lord, it ain't church I've got to be in it. I've got to be in Jesus. Lord, remind us, Lord, I ain't got to be in religion.
I've got to be born again. So Lord, I thank you that we are born again, spirit-filled, blessed and highly favored, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. And wherever we are connecting to tonight, Lord, wherever people are, Lord, we pray that there will be such an outbreak, an outpouring of your spirit. Lord, we pray for those who are at home tonight that they will feel your love, your mercy, those that feel lonely tonight, Lord, that they will feel the saving grace of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Come, God, we need your glory in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's turn to the book of Psalms 34. We're going to read from verse 1. This is a really interesting scripture. It says, I will exalt the Lord at all times. His praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast of the Lord. Let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and he answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. From from all those that look at him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame. The poor man called, and the Lord heard him. He saved him out of all of his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. Taste and see the Lord is good. Blessed is the man. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, you saints, for those who fear him lack no good thing. The lions grow weary and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Sisters and brothers, I want to encourage you, it's not church we need, it's the power of God. It's not ministry that we're requiring requiring. It's not the social media church and everything that goes along with church and the wheels of religion. It is Jesus Christ. I really believe now is a time for us as individuals to get ourselves to the cross of Calvary, to get ourselves to that place. You know, we are saved, we are blessed, but you know what? The spiritual temperature is really strong. You know, depression is higher, fears are high, doubt is high. We're in the season, the winter season is starting to hit the UK at this moment in time, the winter season, and I'm referring to the weather system. But just before that, we've also got to remind ourselves that we are in a very dark season. We are in a very dark season. We have a government that is an anti-Christ. We have a leader that is anti-Christ, he's not for Christ at all. We've also got someone, the mayor of London, that is leading London away from the gospel of truth. What we need is the power of God to move. And the church has got to rise, that the leaders have got to rise through the word of God. So when we look at this scripture here, I want to encourage you to seek Jesus. I want to encourage you to be a Jesus follower. I want to encourage you tonight to seek the arm of God. I want to encourage you wherever you are. You've got to get in the Word of God. God is calling you for scripture. He's not calling you for church. Church is irrelevant in the UK. The church cannot beat the drum anymore. Church is finishing. We are watching a great falling away within the UK four walls. We're watching a great falling away. And what we need is such an outpouring of God. We need the power, the Holy Spirit. We need heaven to move. I don't know about you, but I need to hear the heartbeat of God. I gotta hear the whisper of the scripture. I've got to get into the scripture. It's not worship that I need, it's not church that I need, it's not the preaching area that I need, it's not theological understanding I need. What it is is prayer. It is prayer and the word of God because prayer takes you to that ultimate place of worship. Prayer will take you when you take the Lord's Prayer. If you have a Bible, turn to the Gospel of Matthew chapter six, and you will read there the Lord's Prayer, the prayer that Jesus Christ gives us. That great prayer. You know, the psalmist here is in a in a in a place of destruction, what he is going through in his life. And it says, I will exalt, I exalt the Lord at all times, I will lift him, doesn't matter how I feel. See, the issue is that we live our lives by our emotions, we live our lives by what social media is driving, we live our lives by what pastor is saying, we live our lives by what the world is saying. The Bible says, do not conform to the pattern of the world, but have your minds transformed by the renewing of Christ. We gotta, we gotta cannot, I cannot follow the pattern of the world. You know, to be an individual means everything, to be stripped back. It's easy just to fall in the crowd, but what we got is we got mass depression at the moment. We got mass depression because we are following the crowd of life. And when we follow the crowd of life, it just takes us away from Jesus. You've got to look at the circle that you're in, you've got to look at the people around you, you've got a people, are people lifting you and carrying you? Are people taking you to the cross of Calvary? That you will find true friendship, you will find true leadership when you've got people in your life that are taking you to Jesus. If you've got people in your life taking you away from Jesus, we have to question ourselves: what am I doing around this type of person? Why am I spending and wasting my time around people, you know, that are taking me
away from Jesus rather than them taking me away from Jesus? What I got to do is I've got to take these people to the cross of Calvary. But first, what I need to do is I've got to get in the word of God. I gotta get in the word of God because we are living at such powerful spiritual days. We're watching the prophecies of the scriptures just coming out like bullets at the moment in time. We're watching the word of God, the season of God. God is moving powerfully. And you know what? The more you seek him, the more you want him, the more lonely it can feel. The more lonely it can feel when you want and you're hungry for God. I believe that we're living in a time when so many people are hungry for God and they don't know where to go and they don't know what to do because church, religion isn't giving the real drumbeat. Religion and church and ministries are really not taking us to Jesus. You know, we we need great preachers and pastors and leaders that will take us to the cross, keep us at the cross, hold us at the cross, and we will just come to the cross of Calvary because when we realize what happened at the cross of Calvary, through the power of the word of God, we need the blood of Jesus over our lives. And when you look at the psalmist in Psalm 34 and verse 1, I will exalt the Lord at all times, his praise will always be on my lips. Psalm 23, six verses, probably the most famous psalm the world has ever read, along with Psalm 91, Psalm 40. But when you look at Psalm 23, even though I go through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. God is making, God is making a platform for you to rest at. We're chasing money, we're chasing life, we're we're chasing social media, we're chasing the WhatsApp groups, we're chasing the socializing, we're chasing this church, that church, we're chasing the church that is packed out with people, and we're not getting fed. You know, we're not getting fed spiritually. We need to be fed spiritually. The Bible says man doesn't live on bread alone, but by every word that perceives out of the mouth of God. We got to be fed through the word of God. David hit many crises in his life, but there was one point in one chronicles, roundabout there, uh, where where David hit a place where he hit a flat spot in his life. And he went out and he came back to the territory that was in it, and he realized, and he sees, and all the armor and all everyone with him, and the armor bearers and everyone with him realized that the enemy took what he had in his life. When they went back to where they lived and they went to the area where they was, everything had been taken. Let me tell you this: the devil is trying to steal everything from you. The devil is trying to steal everything from you, and the church is being used because of the watered-down messages that we got. We got weak, woke preachers and leaders in churches that are not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. So when the enemy comes in, the enemy comes in, and we are living such powerful days. We are living in a spiritual storm, and if I don't strengthen myself, now this is what David did. The storm of life came, he he everything was stripped back in his life, and it says that David cried out to the Lord, and the ones that David went into the battlefield with turned on him. Be careful of the turncoats in your life. Just because they're walking with you, just because they're clicking your story, just because they're on your WhatsApp and your prayer group, and just because they're sitting next to you at church, just because they carry you and you walk to school with them and you do this and you do that with them, watch your back. Watch your back. Sister and brother, watch yourself. It's better to be alone in Jesus and know who you are and watch out for the dogs and the manipulators, watch out for the foxes, watch out for the snakes. We don't realize how many snakes are in our lives. That there are certain areas. We got snakes, we got locuses. The Bible also talks about the foxes that are nipping at your ankles. You've got to protect yourself, you've got to get yourself in the word of God because there are people in your life that want to take your pizza from you. There are people that are jealous of you, there are people that are frustrated with you, there are people in your life that don't even like you. Just because they walk with you and talk with you, be careful of the people in the circle of your life. You've got to be so careful there are more snakes out than we've ever seen. The nation is full up with locusts. You've got to watch out. There are people trying to tear you down. There are people trying to take you away from Jesus. There are people trying to take that peace that God has dropped in you. There are people trying to take your calling. We are living at a time when God is calling many. And what do you mean God is calling? I'm telling you, God is calling you to the word of God. Before a ministerial calling, every one of us has a call unto salvation. And now we've had the call unto salvation. God is calling us to walk in a greater intimacy with Him than we've ever had before. But we're so busy with this over there, that over there, him, she, her, this, that. Our lives are jam-packed with being busy. And we keep ourselves so busy we forget about Jesus Christ. I'm busy, I've got so many plates spinning, but we are living in such a crisis. You know, we don't need the devil to take us away from the gospel because we got satanic leaders in number 10 Downing Street and in strategic places around the nation that are taking this nation away from God. And we got the church following number 10 Downing Street, we've got the Church of England, you know, with the things that are happening in the Church of England and the things that are happening in many denominations at this moment in time. I believe that we got to cut the umbilical cord to church. Seriously. We got to cut the umbilical cord and not rely on church and this church, that church. Don't rely on me. Don't come here into Elium and think you're gonna get all your everything sorted out. You've got to go to Jesus. It is only Jesus, it is the it is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. It is Jesus Christ who set the captives free. But there are so many in pulpits, there are so many in congregations, so many online, in the world of podcasts, in church, here, there, and everywhere. Where there are so many people chained down with the worries of yesterday. We're more worried about what the world is saying about us than we're worried about what God is saying about us. We're more worried about pleasing the snakes, the vipers, the serpents in our lives. We're more interested in feeding the dogs at the table rather than listening to what God is saying. There are many people going to their gravestones, many people going to the graveyard, not living the full potential of their life, because we are living to the drumbeat of everyone around us. We're worried about what he's saying, we're worried about what she's saying, we're worried about the cultural drive, we're worried about the color drive, we're worried about what pastor says, we're worried
about what religion says, we're worried about what the boss says, we're worried about what the children says, we're worried about, we're worried about, we're worried about, and there are many people not fulfilling their calling, not fulfilling their visions and their dreams because we are worried about the environment and the world around us, and then suddenly we fall into the crowd of life. And there are many people that have gone to the mortuary table with a tag on their toe, zipped up in a bag, not fulfilling the dreams and the visions that have been dropped inside of them. You've got to be bold, you've got to be braggadocious, you've got to realize who is in my life, who are for me and against me. When you look at the psalmist, when you look at David, David hit a place many times in his life, and the Bible says that David cried to the Lord, and God said to him, David, stop crying. Yes, but God, yes, but God, yes, but God. He said, Stop crying. And the Bible says that David strengthened himself in the Lord. You ain't gonna find strength in me. You ain't gonna find strength in these podcasts, you ain't gonna find strength on these online services, you ain't gonna find strength in the megachurch, you ain't gonna find strength in Ealim. You ain't gonna find strength in your social media, you ain't gonna find strength on your WhatsApp prayer groups, you ain't gonna find strength in the cultural, you cultural press, in your color, in your life. You're not gonna find the strength that you need to get to the next destination of your life. The only place you're gonna find the strength is in the Word of God. The Bible says that David strengthened himself in the Lord. And then David said to the Lord, What do I do next? God said, Pursue your enemy, overtake your enemy, and deal with your enemy. We are too worried about our enemy, we're too worried about the backstabbers, we're too worried about those that are barking at our ankles, we're too worried about those that are entrap us in our history. We're more worried about what people say rather than fulfilling the calling that God has on your life. Do you realize that you are called to be uh braggadocious, to walk in fullness, holiness, and glory? Why are we dancing to the tune? While we dance into the tune of the neighbors in our lives, while we listening to the world, where has the world got you? Where has the world got me? Where has people in our lives got us? They've got us in a rabbit hole of confusion. Where has the church got us? It's got us in a trap. The church has trapped us, whereas has life and culture got us, it's got us trapped. See, you will only find strength in the power of the word of God. But it takes everything, living at the days in which we live, to break out of the mold because we've been molded to follow the crowd. We've been molded to adapt to what they're saying, we've been molded to adapt to what the family's saying, what the wife, the husband, the brother, the sister, whoever we are, we adapt ourselves to the culture that we've been brought up in. In the kingdom of God, there is no culture. Culture is of earthly areas of life. What there is in God, there is freedom. You know the truth, and the truth will set you free. And David strengthened himself in the Lord. We got many Christians going to the mortuary slabs, we got many Christians going to the grave, we got many Christians adapting and falling into the trap of the crowd and and not living in the full potential because we're in and out, we're in and out, we're in and out, in and out of church. There's no point being in and out of church. We've got to be in the word of God. And this is what the Bible says I will exalt the Lord at all times. When I'm weary and when I'm tired, thank you, Jesus. When I've lost a plot, thank you, Jesus. When there seems to be no hope, but there's all hope. Lord, I thank you that at the name of Jesus. The Bible says, His praise will always be on my lips. His praise will always be on my lips. May my soul boast in the Lord. Let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Are you afflicted tonight? If you're afflicted, you've got to rejoice in the name of Jesus Christ. If you feel crossed, you've got to lift up the name of Jesus. If you feel lost, you've got to glorify the Lord. The Bible says in Psalms, what we're in, Psalms 34, verse 3 glorify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together. See, this is what the church isn't doing. The church isn't glorifying the name of Jesus Christ. It's lifting up Mary, it's lifting up the Pope, it's lifting up him, it's lifting up her, it's lifting up the worship band, it's lifting up pastors, but it's not lifting up the greatest name in heaven and earth. I actually believe that we are living in a time when the church across the platform of the UK, in leadership, out of leadership, we are at the most biblically illiterate we've ever been. We have a leader at number 10 Downing Street that says he goes to church. He's a Christian, and he's just signed certain things against Israel. He's agreeing stuff with the Church of England. When you look at what's happening just weeks and hours ago, not long ago, the man is taking us to the gates of hell. I've got to break the umbilical cord, and the only way that I do it is through the power of prayer. I cannot have an alliance with this government. And I know we've had such a conversation over it lately, but the Bible says, you know, follow the government. I am not following the government that is taking me to hell. I'm gonna follow the cross of Calvary, I'm gonna follow the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Paul writes, yes, if you've got a government that is for the gospel of Jesus, if you've got a government that is for the word of God, you are blessed and follow and pray for that government. But if you've got a government that is signing treaties, if you've got a government that is feeding war and not feeding your children and not looking after you, those that are in the land, what am I doing following the government that is the antichrist? I've got to follow the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I've got to break the mold. I've got to break the mold. I've got to come out of the crowd. Where is the crowd leading you and me? Where are your friends leading you? Where is your family leaving you? Where are your partner, your husband, your wife, your brother, your sister?
Where are these people? Where is the church leading you? Where are you going? What is the destination that you are facing at this moment in time? The destination should be the word of God. It should be the word of God for me and for every one of us. It has to be the word of God. There is no other way right now. The church can't cut it. The church is not gonna be able to do it. It has to be through the word of God. And wherever you are, prayer is needed like never before. But I'm not gonna go into the house and pray like pagans and babble and all that. I've got to get in the word of God, I've got to open up the word of God, I've got to turn to Psalm 91, Psalm 23, I've got to get in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 6 through 9, and I've got to pray the Lord's prayer. Our Father who aren't in heaven, hallowed be thy name. See, when you make that first line, your declaration, you are telling God that you are worshiping the Father in heaven. See, we don't worship the Father in heaven, we worship pastors, we worship churches, we worship bands, we worship music, we worship this, we worship that. We don't put God first in our lives. Quite a brutal thing to say. Maybe it's different for you, maybe you're super holy and you're flying on the wings of eagles. We have to put God first. It has to be Jesus. Is the church putting Jesus first? Is the church putting God first? Is the government putting God first? Are your friends the circle of your life, the people that you are connected to? Take today for an example. Who in your life has taken you to a conversation with Jesus? Who has taken you to the cross of Calvary? Who is in your life that you know that you can count on when it hits the fan, when a rubber hits the road, when everything else goes wrong? Who do you know that you can count on in your life other than God in the human capacity? Who is in your life that you know that you can call on, that won't judge you, that won't look at you, that won't ridicule you, but that will put their arm around you and say, Ben, it's okay, we're gonna get through in the name of Jesus. See, this is the critical thing. We're putting our weight on earthly human beings that are not following Jesus. And we're trying to find peace in the world. There's no peace in the world. Jesus says, I don't give you as the world gives you. My peace I give unto you. I don't give as the world gives. The world gives you trouble, the world gives you debt, the world gives you fake friends, the world gives you fake jobs, the world gives you fake church, the world gives you fake life. But if you want a real life, if you want to be that braggadocious, that person that is living radically for Jesus, and I'm telling you right now, it will be the hardest thing that you will, the easiest thing to do in life is just roll over and just walk with the world and follow the crowd and just bob along and get on with it. But you one thing that you'll be missing, you'll be missing peace. You'll be you'll be tortured because you're not living in the fulfillment of the word of God. You will find yourself living outside of what God has for you. You will find yourself living outside the full potential. There are so many people laying in the graves right now, there are so many people taken to the mumultuaries right now, Christians with tags on their toes that might as well say they didn't fulfill their dream. Why didn't we fulfill our dream? Because we're more worried about listening to what the world is saying rather than listening to what Jesus said. What do you mean? Let me tell you, go to Genesis. God gave clear instruction to Adam and to Eve. The garden is yours, everything is yours, but one thing I say to you. He gave clear instruction. Whatever you do, don't take and don't touch of that. Suddenly the snake comes along. Let me tell you this: the snakes are out to get you. They're dressed in a dress, they're dressed in a suit, they're dressed in social media, they're dressed in church, they're dressed in clergy clothes, they're dressed in everything. Watch out for the snakes in your life. And suddenly we find ourselves that Eve is in the Garden of Eden, the most beautiful place the world has ever seen. And God told them, You've got everything, guys. All I want you to do is to listen to what I tell you and don't come out of instruction. Whatever you do, everything is yours, the land, the fish, the seas, every the everything is your land, everything is yours, it is your territory, but don't come out of instruction. And then the snakes come out in our lives, and the snakes on the WhatsApp groups, the snakes on the emails, the snakes in church, the snakes at work, the snakes at school, the snakes in areas, the snakes online, the snakes here, there, and everywhere. They come out, and suddenly what happens to us? We listen to the lesser voice. And the serpent slipped up the trunk of the tree, laid across the branch. And he said, Are you sure? God said. See, what a line to drop. What a line to drop. There are many people in our lives that are wanting you and me to foul. And they're leading us to the slippery slope
where Satan is. So the snake comes up the tree, across the bark of the tree, wraps itself around the tree, and there's a conversation between the human being and Lucifer. And God said, Whatever you do, just listen to what I say. Now, I have a book in front of me, and you have a book in front of you. Now that book is fully loaded, fully charged, fully filled with so much power and authority. Where the Bible says the devil is under your feet, where it says sickness and disease bows to the name of Jesus. It tells you very clearly that if you live in instruction, you're going to live a life that you never thought possible. But what happens is I listen to the lesser voice. So Eve listened to the lesser voice. Suddenly, when the lesser voice comes in, let me tell you there's snakes in families. The snake is still trying to talk to you about your history. The snake is trying to tell you that you're not going to live in your full potential. The snake is telling you that we are bigger than your God. The snakes are telling you the foxes and the dogs that are nipping at your ankles are telling you you're never going to achieve much because we are bigger than your God. And what happens as human beings, we listen to the lesser voice. And Eve gave in to the lesser voice. So, right from the very beginning of time, we listened to the lesser voice. But God said, Whatever you do, don't touch. You've got everything. You've got everything and more. It's very clear that God has given us instruction. So we come back up thousands of years up to the timeline of now where we sit. And we got bishops marrying men, women and women. We got leaders in church. That don't know how to lead. We got shepherds dressed in unusual clothing. We've got unusual things happening in the church. And what we find ourselves, we got wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. We got fake preachers and teachers in many areas of the UK like we've never seen before. We got fake name it and claim it gospel messages going out. And suddenly we find ourselves listening to the lesser voice. We listen to the social media voice. We listen to the human voice. We listen to the business voice. We listen to the government voice. We listen to the voice of religion that is trapped by government. We listen to fake preachers. We listen to fake pastors. We listen to the culture rather than getting out of the culture and walking in the kingdom of God. I've got to tell you, there is a life for every one of you in the house and online tonight. There is a life for you that is unbelievable. But what it's going to take is going to take everything you got to jump out of the boat and say, I'm jumping away from my history. I'm getting out of the boat and I'm going to walk for Jesus. I'm going to exalt the Lord at all times. His praise will always be on my lips. I'm going to walk for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I'm going to walk not for church. I'm going to walk for Jesus. I'm not going to lift the Union Jack. I'm not going to lift any other flag. I'm going to lift up the word of God in my life. I'm not going to worry about the political drive. I'm going to listen to the heartbeat of God. I'm blessed and highly favored. I'm wonderfully and fearfully made. God has chosen you for end times. But there are many Christians at the grave. There are many Christians living a life now that you might as well be dead because you're not living the full potential of your life. We are living such weak, woke lives because we are listening to the voice of the snakes, the rattlesnakes, the voice of number 10, the voice of school. How many children are at school that are coming from Christian parent homes and uh and what was happening at the school? We're allowing offstead, we're allowing the children to be taught false truths. We're allowing the children to be spun lie after lie. We're allowing the children to watch and play games all day, all night. We're allowing this is the greatest danger in our lives. The TV. What it portrays through our house, what it portrays through the screen, what we watch, who we walk with, who we talk with, who we socialize with, who we have on our groups across the socials, like begets like. Now the Bible says iron sharpens iron. Who is in your life that you could say is like an iron? That when you're with them, you feel the sharpening of God. You feel the power of the Holy Spirit. You talk and you get breakthrough. You talk about Jesus and you find that there is breakthrough. Who is in your life that is taking you to Jesus Christ? Don't worry about going to church. The devil goes to church. But who is taking you to Jesus? There's one area where the devils won't go. They can't get in the presence of the king. They'll preach from the front, they'll ask for your gift aid form. They'll fake it, name it, and claim it. We have got more satanic ties in the area of church than we've ever seen in the UK. It's not church we need, it's Jesus. It's not me you need, it's Jesus. It is the power of the word of God. And I pray that wherever you are right now, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, watch what you watch. Careful who you listen to. Be careful of the people that are in your life, and they are carrying you from historical events. There are many people in church, there are many people on the mortuary slab that are still awake. You might as well be gone. Because we are dead, not in our transgressions, we are dead in our history, and we are more worried about what they are saying and what they're gonna do and what they might say and where they might lead us. We're more worried about people in our lives, we're more worried about what the social group says, and we're more worried about doing
that rather than living for the full potential in Jesus. There are, you know, the church is like a mortuary. The church is like a mortuary, it's cold,
nothing's happening, there's tags on toes. What we gotta do, there's none on
yours, brother. What we gotta do is that we gotta get in the word of God. There's no other place but to be in the word of God. There's no other place, but let me tell you this: there are people in your life that are snakes, there are people in your life that are dogs, there are people in your life that are foxes, there are people in your lives that are just like the locusts. When you watch one locust, you would never know it's just one locust. But watch out for the swarm, the swarm of people. Watch out for the swarm of locusts. When you look at a locust, a swarm of locusts, the Bible says that a locust on its own is not really going to do much damage. But when you get a swarm of locusts, they come into your life, and the Bible says in the book of uh the Old Testament, rather, when they came into the land of Israel, when they came in, the locusts came in and they devoured the land. You've got too many locusts in your life. You're more worried about what your family's saying about you. You're more worried about what your pastor's saying about you, you're more worried about your children, your husband, your wife. You're more worried about your social groups, you're more worried about your WhatsApp groups, you're more worried about what the crowd is saying, and the locusts are taking the blessing from your feet. Sister and brother, it's time to wake up. And I'm talking to myself. It's time to get real, it's time to get in the word of God, it's time to believe the church in the UK is finished and busted and gone. We are in a great falling away, but wherever you are right now, I've got to encourage you to get to Jesus. Because what happens if he comes tonight? What happens if he comes tonight? Where will I go when I die? What is the destination? Are you sure of your salvation? You know, as I said the other week, I would rather be the last one in heaven and just get in by the skin of my feet. I would rather be the last one in heaven than never get in at all. Because there's a day coming, but the crowd is leading you away from Jesus. The crowd is keeping you busy. Work is keeping you busy. Culture, don't get trapped in culture. The color of your skin, don't listen to that culture, the background that you come from, don't listen to that background. Don't get caught in a cultural church, don't get caught in a denominational church. Get yourself out of church and get yourself in the Word of God. The Bible says you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. See, it is Jesus, it is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, it is the power of the Holy Spirit. You know, I pray for every one of us tonight. I pray that God will move in our lives and God will cut the umbilical cord to the fake plastic people in our lives. We are surrounded with fakeness. We are surrounded by people that are not really interested in you. All they want to do is get what they're gonna get from you. They're not interested in you, they're not worried about your life. They're just they want to get from you. They're like locusts. Be careful of the locust. Remember what I said when Eve was in the garden. She listened to the lesser voice. Don't listen to the voice of the world, listen to the word of God. There are many people on the mortuary slab that are Christians that haven't lived the full potential because they're frying to live because of what people say. They're frying to come out and say, I'm a Christian, I'm a Bible-believing believer. I'm not gonna follow your group, I'm not gonna bend to that way, I'm not gonna allow you to hold me back. I'm not gonna live my life by narcissistic controllers. I'm not gonna live my life by my family, I'm not gonna live my life by my friends, I'm not gonna live my life by the crowd, I'm gonna live my life by Jesus. And I'm gonna pray that God is gonna take me out of here and I'm gonna live a life that no one could ever get me to. I'm gonna live a life in freedom. There are more people on the mortuary slab laying on that slab, not even dead, but the bag is being zipped up, the tag is on the toe already, and they're not living the full potential in the word of God because we're worried about the crowd. I gotta please everyone in my life. I gotta please everyone, and suddenly we find that we fall into depression. Suddenly we find that we fall into these dark thoughts, we fall into an area of our lives of unfamiliar territory, and we're trying to find peace in the shops, we're trying to find peace in a new car, in a new TV, in a new sofa, in the world. We're trying to fulfill the vacuum that we have within, with the era of socializing with fake people, with materialism, when God has given you a vacuum, and the vacuum can only be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. I pray for you tonight and me tonight that we will not hang around in the plastic area anymore. I've said this so many times. You've got two sets of knives and forks in your hands, you've got a proper traditional set of knife and fork, it's made of metal. And then you suddenly you've got a plastic set of knife and fork. It does the same thing to a certain degree. But when heat starts to touch the plastic, when suddenly, if you get in front of a fire, when you get in front of a fire with the metal instruments, it's gonna hold it. But when you get in front of a fire with plastic, it's gonna melt and it's distorted. There are many people that are distorted because they're hanging around plastic knives and forks. You were not made to hang around chickens. Chickens can't fly. You were made and you were brought to hang around and to soar on wings as of eagles. We have too many Christians with tags on their toes, living a life that is like living in a mortuary. It's cold, it's boring, and it's not fulfilling. And what we are doing, we're living our lives according to what the world says and not according to the word of God. And what we're doing, we're living according, do not conform to the pattern of the world. Today, what has happened in my life and your life today? What happened in our life yesterday? Have we got people in our lives that are making us angry, frustrated, taking
our attention from God, taking us away from prayer, taking us away from the word of God? Again, I've got to repeat myself. I worked in an area of palliative care, and so many people on the dying table said, Rev, why did I not live the life that I should have lived? Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, every human being suddenly gets faced with mortality. And I don't want to get to the graveyard and find myself I haven't lived to the full potential. I don't want to get zipped up in a black bag because that's what happens. Do you know what happens when we die? If I die at home, I'll have two men come and get me. They'll be outside on the drive in a black transit. This is what we've come to. They pick me up, put me on the trolley, put me in a bag, zip me up, throw me in the back of the van, take me to the morgue, chuck me in the morgue, I'm put on ice. Game over. We have got many people, many Christians, that are in mortuary bags, zipped it up themselves, put a tag on the toe themselves, laying on a slab, and not living to the full potential. Do you realize the power that is in this word? Do you realize the authority that you carry? Do you realize that no one can touch you in your life? Do you realize that you are bloodwashed? See, the church doesn't understand the power of the blood of Jesus. If I understood the power of the blood, if I understood what the blood does, if I understood that the blood was shed at Calvary's Cross, if I understood the character of Jesus, you look at the stained glass windows in many churches, and you got St. Peter carrying a little lamb depicting Jesus Christ, or he's laying in the crib up there, and the sun shines through. Oh, there's Jesus laying in the crib. That was my Jesus, but my Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. My Jesus has full authority over darkness, sickness, and disease. My Jesus is coming back. Eschatology, the rapture of the church. The church doesn't know who Jesus is. We know who's in the world, but we don't know who Jesus is. We have tags on our toes and we've zipped out the mortuary bag and we're laying on the slab. We might as well go. What is the point in living in a mortuary bag waiting to go? Live the full potential of your life. Live the full potential. We have people in relationships, in situations, in jobs, in culture, worried about the surrounding area. And we've zipped up the bag. I'm dead, I'm finished, it's gone. I've got a tag on my toe. And the tag says, not fit for purpose. You've got to take the tag off, undo the zip, and tell yourself this sickness is not gonna end unto death. You've got to tell yourself I'm coming out of this grave. I'm not allowing myself to live by weak, woke people. I'm not living my life by narcissistic people in my life. I'm not living my life by spiritual abuse. There's another area where the church isn't preaching. Spiritual abuse. What do you mean, spiritual abuse? We got spiritual, spiritual abuse from probably 90% of the pulpits in the UK. Because when you don't preach the truth, you're abusing. And we got people that are being abused spiritually in congregations because the leaders are biblically illiterate, and the leaders don't know how to lead. What we need are true shepherds. We got many hired hands. You look in the scripture, Jess, when you look at Jess, when you look at Abram, when you look at the great men that ran um uh their great businesses, when you look at David, when you look at David, he was a shepherd boy, and when they really got busy, they would hire in helpers. That's what the church has done. It has given them a great wage, it has given them a car park space out the front, it has given a life of luxury. Too many pastors, we've got lives of luxury, we got easy lives, we got golf clubs in the back of the boot, we've got everything going on, we're in 35, 40 grand a year, everything is great. We're draining the church finances, everything is happening. I'm living the dream, but I shouldn't be in the pulpit because you're not called. So, what we have is we have pulpits with hired hands. They look like a shepherd, they sound like a shepherd, they do a certain part of the shepherding, but when trouble comes, when the bear and the lion reveal itself, they're on the golf course. When the bear and the lion reveals itself, it's their day off. And what we need, we need Davids. We need Davids that fought the bear and the lion. We need Davids that will lead the congregations in power, in biblical truths. We need Davids that will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ without error. We need brothers and sisters that will take us to the cross of Calvary. We've got to get rid of the fake, name it and claim it, and you've got to find out who you are. There are again, I'm gonna say it again. The church is like a mortuary in many areas across the UK. It makes a little bit of rattle, and they call that at the end of life the death rattle. The church has got a good death rattle at the moment. It makes a gasp every so often. It makes a gasp every so often. Have you ever heard a death rattle? Have you ever heard what it sounds like when someone is gasping for their last? This is what the leaders are doing in many denominations. They are strangling the congregations and they got their hands around the neck. What do you mean? Spiritual abuse. They're not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the death rattle is singing out, and there are people dying in congregations. There are people dying that are not even dead yet. They are dying because they got a tag on their toe. Pastors have zipped them up. The church is dead, the church is a mortuary. I want the power of God. I don't know where you are. I want the glory of God. I want to see
the dead be raised. I want to see the blind seen. I want to hear that the deaf are hearing. But I don't want to have the Benny Hins in my life that wear white gloves, white coats, and push you over. I don't want the Todd Bentleys that kick you in the gut and say the spirit's calling you. I don't want those fake preachers that are pushing over, who are laying on their back, crying out, making stupid noises. I want to hear the power of God. I want to see the glory. But what we want is braggadocious men and women that will be a Jacob, that will go to the God of glory and push everything on the other side of the brook and say, I'm coming for my God. Because I've got to get answers. I've got to get to God. We got to get to God to get the answers that we need in our lives. I can't give you the answers. Elim can't give you the answers. You know, all those churches out there, I won't name them because I'm getting in trouble lately. That they can't help you. They're not going to be able to help you. We are living in a spiritual crisis. Don't look to the church, look to the king. Look to the king of kings and the lord of lords. We got spiritual abuse. We got narcissistic leaders that are interested in their own parking space, their Mercedes, their lifestyle, their everything. We have a problem in the cultural church. We have an issue to do with color. That we are frightened now to talk about color because if I say that, I'll be branded as this. So what we have is the devil working in color. We got the devil working in areas of church. Don't go to a church where you call him daddy and you know what I'm saying. It sounds a little bit perverted. Don't go to the church where you call the pastor daddy and you're bowing down and you're worshiping him and you're giving him money, you're giving him this, you're giving him that, and you're treating him like a god. Get out of the church and get in the word of God. We got issues in culture where we can't mention a certain colour. We got a certain month coming up, we got a certain this coming up and all that. We gotta wear armbands, you've got to wear this, you've got to recognize color, you've got to recognize everybody else, but you can't recognize Jesus. Well, let me tell you this. If we don't recognize Jesus, he won't recognize me. What do you mean? When I die, and they come and pick me up and they zip me up in a five-pound foul, five-pound plastic bag, and they put a tag on my toe, and they put me in the fridge or the freezer, depends where I go. The Bible says, within a twinkling of an eye, you'll be with me. When I stand in the front of the ruler and judge, I've said it a thousand times. You're saying it already. I know what you're saying. What is he gonna say to me and you? Because I'm not gonna have Ealin with me, I'm not gonna have no human being with me, I'm not gonna have the pod room with me, I'm not gonna be in this mode, I'm not, I I am gonna be on my own in front of the ruler and judge. And what is he gonna say to me when I get upstairs? Dear God, I open prayer, you say to me, You're in, son, by the skin of your teeth. I'll let you in by the skin of your teeth. Because if we get upstairs and he says, Away from me, but Jesus, what Jesus you're talking about, Ben? What are you talking about? You denied me. How did I deny you got? You denied me at work, you denied me in your family, you denied me at the pulpit, you denied me. You spent hours and hours wasting your life when I was calling you, Ben. I was calling you to live a life that will give you freedom. I was calling you to live in holiness and beauty, but you you allowed yourself to be manipulated by the crowd and the culture and the colour. Why did you live like that? You know, when God calls us home, we're gonna be on our own. There'll be no one with me and no one with you. And what's he gonna say? What is the line that he's gonna drop to us? It's no good shouting out, God loves me, God loves me, God loves me. It's no good coming up with that. It's time to get in the word of God, it's time to get in the scripture, it's time to get in the holy word of God. If you're in a church that is one color, get out. If you're in a church that is one culture, get out. If you're in a church that dress the same, look the same, get out in the name of Jesus. If you're in a church that I've got to be careful, I've got to be really careful. I hear what you yeah, yeah, I won't go that way. If you're in a church where the hair is combed a certain way, where the women are over there, the men are over there, I'm here, you're if you're in a church that is a type of, if you're in a religion that is a type of, get out. You gotta be careful. You gotta follow Jesus. If there's anything you remember me for on this earth, if I was to die tonight, I want you to remember me for this. If I was to die now, if I was to go right now in the pulpit, I want you to remember me for this. He told us to follow Jesus, to follow Jesus Christ. Don't follow me, don't follow Eelim, don't follow the denominations, follow God, follow the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. We're gonna come to the table right now. We're coming to the table, and we gotta break bread. If you haven't got bread in your hands, I would urge you to get bread. If you haven't got a cup in your hand, I would urge you to get a cup in your hand. This is so critical. At the stages where we are, we gotta break bread and take it a cup. You know, God is calling you, it can't get any more clearer than it is. God is calling you, and he's calling you to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. Someone is calling you, and his name is Jesus. He's calling you to walk in the Word of God, he's calling you to cut and to break those chains that are making you depressed and tired and weary. What are those people doing for you in your life? Are they praying for you? Are they carrying you to Jesus? Where is the people in your life taking you to? That is a massive indicator in your life.
Father, I thank you for this bread because it symbolizes the body. And Father, as I break bread together right now with people across the world and in the house, I thank you, Lord, that I'm a sinner saved by grace. I'm a sinner saved by grace. And Lord, I want to get close to Jesus. I want to walk in the word. I don't want to identify to the crowd. I'm not interested in the world. I want to be in the kingdom of God. I gotta get in the kingdom. So Lord, I ask you tonight. Lord, get me out of the crowd. I want to walk with Jesus. I want to walk with the King. I want to walk in the Word. So, Father, bless this bread in the greatest name in heaven and earth. Amen. Father, I thank you for this cup that symbolizes the blood of Jesus. I thank you for this cup that represents redemption. Redemption is over your life. Redemption is over your life. We are limiting ourselves because we have put ourselves in a mortuary too early. We have zipped the bag up, we put a tag on our toe, and we said it's finished. Get out in the mortuary, unzip the bag, take the tag off your toe, and live in the word of God. Live fearlessly, live like a brave warrior for Jesus Christ. I'm trying to think, I'm being serious. I'm trying to find great preachers in this nation. I'm trying to think of warriors for God. I'm trying to work out where they are. Holy Spirit. I want more of you in my life. I don't care what the world says about me. I don't care what anybody says. I ain't bothered and I'm not talking in arrogance. Lord, I want freedom. I'm free from that trashy world. I'm free from the rubbish in my life. I'm free and I'm walking in the power of the word of God. I'm not gonna listen to the trashy people around me. I'm not gonna listen to the snakes. I'm not gonna listen to the vermin. I'm not gonna listen to the rats. I'm not gonna listen to all that. I'm gonna listen to the voice of God and I'm gonna walk in the scripture. I'm gonna trust him because I've trusted everything else. And where are we? Broken, bruised, depressed, scared, worried, skin, tired, exhausted, because I've lived by the other voice. So tonight, Lord, I want to tell the world I want to live by the only voice. I want to live by the only voice, the voice of God. I want to live by the power of the word. I want people to, when they when that when I die, I want people to know. Do you know what? His life was wobbly, but he really followed Jesus. He made some serious mistakes, but he really tried to follow Jesus. Cover me in the blood of Jesus. Amen. We're out of here. We're gone. May the Spirit of God carry you. We are living in days as it was in the days of Noah. Everything has been been desensitized. Anything can be achieved. You can do anything, live how you want to live. Shout, we've lost all respect, we've lost all understanding of everything. We are living in a wild nation. The nation is wild, the kids are out of control, everything's going wrong. Why? Because the church, and I'm talking about leaders, have taken us away from the gospel of Christ. Get out of church, get in the word of God, and cover yourself in the blood of Jesus. Stand up and in closing, find out who you really are. Many of us, many people across the church. Church platform are living in a lie. We are not living to our true self. We're living in fear, in doubt, in worry, in tears. We are living such a lesser life because we're worried about the snake's voice. We're worried about the world. Listen, I'm out of here. May God carry you and bless you. Never give up. But be absolutely on point for God. Don't be found in the mortuary years before you have the death rattle. Live your life outside of the mortuary bag. Take the tag off of your toe and live in freedom in the name of Jesus Christ. We're gone.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for joining us on Reverend Ben Cooper's podcast. We hope you feel inspired and uplifted. Don't forget to support us by buying us a coffee. Your generosity keeps this ministry thriving. We'd also love to hear from you, so please leave us a review and let us know what you think. And of course, for more inspiration, visit us anytime at rbchristianradio.net. Until next time, stay encouraged, stay faithful, and know this you are not alone.