Endtime Rebellion in the World

As the world advances in technology, science and what is celebrated as knowledge, so is it descending into the deepest level of crass immorality.  But all this is seen as advancement and pursuing the freedom of man; but they plunge themselves into further bondage to the devil.  The deplorable state of evil and moral decadence in the world should not come as a surprise to the faithful believers; we have been given signs and knowledge of what to expect.

As the world carries on regardless of God's impending judgement, which they are surely aware of, but would rather deny, the Church must stand firm in these evil days.  We are being persecuted and will face rising persecution, but it is well with our souls, the Lord is near, and we must stand firm in the battle.

This discourse informs biblically on the sorry state of mankind, increasing signs of evil that we witness, and reassures the faithful believers of God's sovereingty over all.

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Excellent. So we're on the subject of um the end times, signs of the end times, you know, that um the Bible speaks about so numerously. And um last time we were able to speak about signs of the end time in the church, which is very, very important because it's so sad. As I said, um, the church is meant to be the only source of truth, the light in a world of darkness. But uh uh on the whole, it's as though the church has failed. But the church hasn't failed because Christ's own church remains, and that is all of us individuals, individuals who still hold on to the truth, who still live for the truth and live by the truth. We are still standing strong, and the word of God will never fail. This is why we will still speak the truth, whether the world likes it or not. And people are speaking that truth. The world of the church of Christ, there's nothing wrong with the church of Christ. The church of Christ is clean, it is holy, it is devoted, it is faithful, it is true, it is powerful. Yes. So even though the world does not embrace us, the world detests us, and they try and kill us. Well, they don't try, they do kill those who they kill, they persecute, you know, many that persecute true Christianity, even the fake ones, because the world does not know the difference between fake and um and true. So Christians have been persecuted all over the place. But the true servants continue to forge ahead, continue to march on, even though they're having their heads dismembered from uh, you know, from their necks and their bodies, and they're being thrown in prison for untrumped up charges and lies and falsehoods, being impoverished, being driven out of their homes. There's a lot of that going on at the moment in India, you know, where people, entire towns that are being emptied of Christians, and Christians are having to flee their homes. Thousands flee their homes because of persecution. They are being burnt alive, they're being killed, they're being a lot is going on. A lot is going on. Those of us who are able to worship in relative freedom wherever we are should be thankful to God and not just that, but not forget those who are suffering for the same faith that we share. So, yeah, it is a shame that the picture of the church that the world sees is the false one. They never see the true church, they just see the false ones because they are the loudest. The true church is quiet, subdued. We do our work, our power is in the word of God, not in um physical shows of signs and wonders, which are fake anyway, you know, and and and loud noises and posters on buses and all over the uh billboards and things. We don't make noise. That's not what we're called to. So, you know, we don't go advertising just in for advertising space as the secular world and business, you know, we don't do that. So, what the world sees as the church, unfortunately, is the falsehood that proclaims itself as church. And in that, we see all the issues I raised last week, which were from the Bible and the scriptures. They were prophecies then, they are now happening, you know, and it's so sad. It's so sad because it shows the church as weak and not powerful to save. But you know what? The Lord is still saving those who will be saved according to his own will, and according to his own predestination, he is still saving his people by the power of his word. So let's not judge the world, I mean the church, uh, according to the world, making the oh, the church is not powerful anymore. There was a time I hear professing Christians say, Oh, there was a time God used to answer prayers. Now he doesn't anymore. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. But he doesn't answer prayers from a sinful mouth and evil heart. He will not answer, easy. That's what people fail to see. The thing is it's to do with the number of fasting or style of fasting that they do, the number of times they go for deliverance, the seeds they sow and everything. Answering prayers is nothing to do with that. God listens to his children. The Bible makes it clear. You know, when people were accusing our Lord during his uh earthly ministry of when they were accusing him of um working by the power of Bilzebab and all, one of them said, Listen, we know that God does not listen to sinners, he only listens to those who obey him and do his will. So this man definitely must be from God. He opened the blind, you know, the eyes of uh a blind man who was born blind. Who can do that by the power of Bilzebab? Nobody can. It must be the power of God, and we know we know that God does not listen to sinners. People forget that little portion of the Bible, he doesn't. So when you hear professing Christians saying, Oh, I've been praying, God doesn't seem to answer question uh prayers anymore. Oh, the power of God is not at work as it used to be. It is, it is, and faithful Christians will witness to that. So now, rebel uh signs of the end times in the world. It covered the church, I don't want to go back into that. Well, in the world, because uh there's a lot of ground to cover, but it's all summarized in one one um half a chapter actually. We're gonna study from Romans chapter 1, from verse 18 to the end, which is verse 32. And we see there what God said about the world. Everything we read last week was to do with the church, rebellion in the church, so-called Christians. But as I said, they're not. Many people can claim to be Christians, it is our character, our lives, that evidences our faith, whether we are truly in the faith. That's why Paul said when he was speaking in, I think it's somewhere in 2 Corinthians, speaking to the church at that time, he said, Examine yourself whether you be, whether you are truly in the faith. Examine yourselves. He was writing to people in the church. So now this is about the world. Romans 1 from verse 18. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds of the birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things, rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to a sh over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with one another with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, god haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent ways of doing evil. They disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they do not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them. If I give us a minute each to think about the words we just read, I'm sure all our minds will go to what's going on around the world in the world today. Starting with the very governments who are meant to maintain law and order, to who are meant to keep society, maintain society. God created governance to to in order to reduce evil and sin. Not to take it all away, because I mean let's face it, unless we've got godly leaders, and there isn't one I can point to anywhere in the world as of today. I don't think there ever has been, you know, unless we can do unless we've got godly leaders everywhere who were born-again, God-fearing men or women, we cannot have um a fault-free society or sinless society. It's not written in the anywhere in the scriptures that we're gonna have a sinless world until this present world is taken out. Then we will have a sinless world, the home of righteousness is called. But the inhabitants, you see, of that are gonna be those of us who have been rescued, been delivered, been saved in this present age. We are going to be the inhabitants of the new heavens and the new earth, not everybody. And we're all going to be holy people, righteous people whom God has set apart from Himself for Himself and trained in His way of holiness and righteousness. We are clothed and robed in righteousness, as is, and we're going to be made perfect when everything in this world is taken out when we see the Lord, we are going to be made perfect and immortal. So it's going to be different. There'll be no further room for sin. It will not be possible to fall back into sin because even Satan will be finished at that time, will be totally, utterly defeated, taken out, dismissed, destroyed, whatever word we want to use for it, well, the Bible makes clear. So there'll be no danger of sin. So now we're going to go back to the beginning of this and start breaking it down, you know, what the uh all the verses be read say to us. From verse 18, it says, The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. In other words, I hear people ask the question, yeah, but what about those who haven't heard the gospel? Can God hold them accountable for their sins? Can God hold them responsible for their lack of faith in Christ? Since they haven't heard about Christ. The Bible says here that what may be known about God is plain to everybody. Everybody, it says, because God made it plain to everybody. Okay, it said because for since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his invisible qualities, his power, his authority, his sovereignty. Who is it that controls the atmosphere? Who is it that controls the climate? Who is it that makes all things abound on earth? It is God. So these are his invisible qualities. He said, since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power, that power that created the earth and it remains unshakable. Forget all the nonsense the scientists are splourting out about climate, this climate that, the world is gonna end this. It's a lot of rubbish. Nobody is gonna end the world. And all the threats of nuclear devastation and all that, nobody. Not Putin, not any other crazy North Korean anybody is gonna destroy this world. It is not possible. They can have their nuclear weapons and their nuclear buttons, they will not. They do not have the authority to take the world out, so they won't. So I never feel threatened, even when they're, you know, boasting uh against one another and threatening to push the button. I think you can't destroy the world, it's not in your hands to you. Didn't create it. The one who established the world has said he will take it out when he is ready. And he's not gonna do it by Putin's bomb or or North Korea's uh atomic button. No, that's not how he said he's gonna do it. Our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made, he's gonna come back himself and do it. Nobody's gonna do it. So he says, God's eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, the earth, the entire universe. God made it all. We see it all. We can't explain how it came. He says, because it's clearly been seen, clearly seen, been understood from what has been made too that men are without excuse. Human beings, in their cleverness, at least that's what they call it, an intelligence, keep trying to um keep trying to is it obliterate? Is that the right word to use? The the existence of God. So what do they come up with in all their cleverness? So the the world, the earth and everything, came by by some big bang. Big bang. What on earth is that? That something, some substance, rule or something, and it's it's also stupid. That to be honest with you, I really don't put my mind to it. You either believe God or you don't. I don't have time for believing in um God's creation and then also giving room to science, and that way they are both at loggerheads. So, you know, I've not paid too much attention to it. I just laugh at it each time I hear it because I'm thinking, and this is supposed to have come from very the most intelligent people in the world. If that is their level of intelligence, I'd rather stay stupid, you know, because it's come out of nothing. This entire amazing creation of God. You and I, the most beautiful of God's and most intelligent of God's creation. Why are we the most of everything? We are the chief of all his works. Because he created us, mankind, in his own image and likeness. We don't physically look like him, but we have his sensibilities, we have his feelings. He gave us feelings and all those things, he gave us the power of creativity, even. Look at how we deliver music, look at how we do well, how we come up with structures and inventions and things. But what do we do? We give ourselves a pat on the back for that. Well done, us. We're doing very well. It is God who gave us the brains that we use. So we come up with all those things and we think, ah, there's no God. It's all about us. So this big, unintelligent, lifeless thing blew up, exploded. Who was there to document it? We don't know. So because they don't know either, because they know they're talking nonsense, the throne they they they throw us all overboard by telling us it happened 300 billion light years ago. What is the meaning of that? What is 300 billion light years ago? Who can work it up? They know we'll never work it out because they can work it out. So we all, you know, we all drop our shoulders in despair, like, all right, that's what they say. But some people, because, and this is the majority of humanity, because they would rather not retain the knowledge of God, they'd rather not believe there is a God, because that means they have to submit their lives and the authority they think they have in themselves to the to they have to be subject to honoring and and the control of these gods. They don't want that, so they'd rather follow the stupid scientific theory, as daft as it sounds. They prefer that because that then gives them the freedom to do what they want and live as they want. What is they what they'd fail to understand is even God gives us the freedom to live and do what we want. Oh, yeah. It's just that it tells us there are the consequences. And even though they choose not to believe in God, it does not absolve them from responsibility for their sinfulness and wickedness, they will be equally punished. In the same way God has said also not to be punished, they will be punished. Whether they want to believe there is God or not, does not change the fact that God exists. The Bible says men are without excuse. Why? Because we see everything. We see rains, we see the sunshine, we see the moonlight, we see the stars, we get the climates, we have seasons, and we have absolutely no control over anything. That is enough to tell anybody that there is one, there is a power who is in charge of all those things, because we can't explain how they came to be. I mean, they talk about this Big Bang. So Big Bang created all the perfection that we see in human beings giving birth to human beings, monkeys giving birth to monkeys, dogs giving birth to dogs, all in their own season, without the help of man. We have the natural processes that God has given to everyone to do what we have to do. Humans know when to sleep, nocturnal animals know when to sleep, the ones that prowl around in the day know when to sleep and when to move around. Amazing, isn't it? We can human beings can plant things and we do. So do animals. Even the ants. Even the ants, the tiniest creatures, they have plants. They know how they store away their food. I mean, I have watched documentaries, and I actually watched them live when I was young, growing up in uh back home in Nigeria, then, watching ants during the season that they used to come out and how coordinated that they used to be in carrying their prey. You know, whenever they killed an animal, a mighty big animal, big, much bigger than themselves, like a cockroach or something, or a mouse. And they will coordinate themselves and be carrying these things, those tiny things. There'll be millions maybe of them, I don't know. But they will be carrying this thing along after they've killed it. They've all attacked it with their own venom in them, and the thing has died. It's much bigger than them, and they organize themselves. You see them in the straight line, marching on, carrying it. It's amazing. Who taught them that? Look at the squirrels, the birds. They know their seasons when they go and find their food and store it up someplace because they know the season is going to change and there'll be no more knots or fruit falling off the trees. They know. So while the things are falling off in that present season or the necessary season, they store up these things. Who taught them? They are animals, they know when to reproduce, they know when to go into hiding, into hibernation, when the weather is going to change. They know. In the same way, look at the birds. Birds know. They're birds that fly south in the winter and all that, they coordinate themselves. I love it when I don't know what their seasons are, how they work out their seasons, but they work it out right to work with the seasons that we human beings also live by. And but I love it. I know that it's their time of migration when I look up suddenly and I see them, flocks of birds flying in the same direction, beautiful formations and everything, and they're going thousands of miles away where they're going to be for the winter here, and they know when to come back. And all that, these are just small things. We are not even talking yet about the vegetables, the fruit trees, the flowers. All of them have their seasons. They know when they drop their leaves, they know when they start budding again, they know when to produce fruit and all that, to nurture all of humanity and animals, everything that God has created. We all get our food from God's creation, yet no man can speak of the origin of the first apple. Nobody can say where the first banana came from. And all that intelligent world came out of a senseless, lifeless explosion. Like I keep saying, if that is intelligence coming from the scientists, let me stay stupid. So we have been told here that God, the wrath of God, is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Because what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. But with their wicked hearts, their colours hearts, their disobedient, sinful, darkened hearts, they still keep on saying there is no God. So they suppress the truth, which cannot be suppressed. Because those fools wake up tomorrow, they expect to wake up tomorrow morning, some don't. They wake up tomorrow morning and they cannot explain how the morning came by. They just know it's morning gotta wake up, go back to my lab and conjure up more foolishness. But they can't explain how the morning came by. At the time they sleep at night, they don't know that they may not wake up. They may not wake up. They just expect to. And they still cannot give credit to God or supreme power. But God says, you know what? Ah, no one's got an excuse. And as such, he says the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them. God is not a liar. He's made it plain. He's made it plain. And we simply have to acknowledge and thank him for it. Because he does all these things. If God were to withhold the oxygen in the air for five minutes, we'd all be gone. We'd all be gone. Yet he gives it to us. He gives us sunshine, he gives us rain so we can have a harvest. He gives us seasons. He's done amazingly, astonishingly beautiful things. His works are awesome. But no, the world doesn't like it because it means they're submitting authority to God and they're not willing to do so. So we'll see what happens. So when you see all kinds of disasters overtaking the world, I, as much as it may sadden me watching people suffer, at the same time, I think, well, if the world will not praise God, this is the wrath of God being unleashed. We hear of tsunamis, earthquakes, and such devastations, natural disasters, they call them. They're not just well, natural disasters they may be, but the Bible tells us that it is God's wrath. We know, remember when we said to uh when we studied the book of Revelation, all those things we saw them there, and we haven't finished the study of the book of Revelations, which I keep promising to go back to soon. I will. I've just been a bit lazy because it takes a lot of comprehensive studying, which I don't know. I need to get my life back in order. I confess to that. So we're gonna go back and finish Revelation at some point, but we have studied far, we uh as far as seeing the things that happen, all the disasters in the world and things that it is God's wrath. He's not shying from it, he's not God is not hiding from it or disclaiming, disowning responsibility because he wants to be seen as the good guy. No, he's not interested in that, he does not repress any of us. He has said what's gonna happen, and that's it. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. There is no God, feel free to leave as you want, suppressing the truth, and they're punished, and they are being punished. Unfortunately, everybody is being punished as long as we all leave here, but those of us who belong to the Lord, we have peace through all this. So, because it says men are without excuse because we all see the glories of the amazing works of God. So we'll move on now. Hallelujah. Yes, thank you, sister Esther, amen. Move on to now to verse 21 to 23. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God, nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Now look at that. Although the new God, yes, there is a knowledge of God within each human being. Yep, it is there. It is there, we can deny it, but it is there. Why? Because we were created in his own image and likeness. There is a knowledge of God within each human being. Why is it that people who are non-worshippers of God, non-Christians, and know, when they get in trouble, they shout at God help me, or something like that. Oh God, why? You don't know, you've never acknowledged him. I've seen it so many times. I hear it so many times. There is a knowledge of God within everybody. If for no reason, for the reasons we read before, that all of his works, his amazing works, are to be seen by everybody. We look up, we expect, look, it's still bright here now at the moment because it's um it's spring going into summer. So even at this time of the night, it's like 5 p.m. somewhere in Africa, nice and bright. But you know what? I'm expecting, like everybody else, that once it gets dark, we have nothing to worry about. We're not gonna plunge into total darkness. Why? Because we expect the moon and the stars to do their job. Did we put them there? Can we explain how they work? Can we explain their existence? No, we just expect it. So, where have they come from? Because this big bank theory has not explained everything. Where it would tell us about the stars there, it would even give them names and all sorts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but where did they come from? How? What out of this bank? And they're not to stay up there, why don't they fall to the ground? Why has the sun never dropped? Who holds it in orbit? The moon. It's never fallen. Who holds it in orbit? We know about God. We all know about God. So it says, for although they knew God, they neither glorified, neither glorified him as God, nor gave thanks to him. No, they don't want to acknowledge. We believers, what do we do? Once we come to know Christ, everything we're going, thank you, Lord, thank God, thank you, Lord, thank God. Every time I pick up a plate of food, and I mean every time, if I eat six times a day, I'll do it six times a day. I say in my heart, thank him, thank you, Lord, for this provision. Because without him, I'd have nothing. I may claim, yeah, I work hard, it's my money, I bought the food. Oh, yeah? Who created the food? Who gave me the strength to produce this money to buy the food? Who is it that gives me the ability to eat? It's God, the ability to smell, to make this food, to do all these things. Everything. We cannot take anything for granted. The fact that I can even lift this finger and wiggle it is a gift from God. There are people who have none. There are people who have them can't move them. Oh, there are diseases in the world, I tell you. That I can open my mouth and speak. Why would I not speak the glories of God? That I can behold, open my eyes and see the beauty of things around me. I can look at anything. I can look at somebody and say, Oh, you're so pretty. I can look at some butterfly and say, Oh, what a beautiful butterfly. It's because I've got eyes that work. A gift from God. So you see, men are without excuse. Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. But their thinking became futile. Yes, everything came out of a big bang. Is that not futile? Is that not stupid? And their foolish hearts were darkened. Yep, they've shot out the light that is God. So their foolish hearts are darkened. So, what can they do but live in sin and you know, drill deeper and deeper into sin? And we'll see. That's what is going on. So, although they claim to be wise, because like I said, all these foolish ideas are invented by the intelligents of the world, daftest people in the world, if you ask my opinion, they became fools. That's God's opinion as well, you see. So I buy into that. And exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Idolatry has always existed because of the foolishness of man in refusing to acknowledge God. They will make things, and sadly it's still going on, where they will make things, you know, create things, whether a man of some sort, who they call a clever man, you know, uh, or Buddha or some guy, some philosopher comes up with some kind of idea. I mean, do you see the images of Buddha all over the place? Very common here in the Western world. You know, this great big fat guy is always sad. I don't know, maybe he couldn't walk after a while. Great big fat guy with an amazingly large belly, and he's sitting there, and some people worship him. Buddhists. You know, they're worshiping a creature like them that came into existence in the way, same way they did. I don't know what he offered, maybe some wise words or something. They, you know, there's Hare Krishna, the they're too numerous to count. I can't begin to. And then we have those who actually make images of reptiles and animals and birds and bow down before them. Isn't that stupid? Things that are created, you know, and you're bowing down before it and calling me your God. I mean, come on. You know, isn't it so sad? It's such a very sad state of affairs. When you think that we are chief of God's creation, humans, he gave us the supremacy over everything, he created everything else before us. We were the last of his creation, and he gave he made us the chief of his creation. He said to us, fill the earth and subdue it. And people are creating things to subdue themselves. They make it in gold, they make it in wood. The Bible speaks about them, you know. In um, maybe I'll do that, I'll talk about that next week, where God condemns them all. Like, look at you, foolish people. You're making your own idols, you know. You make them by wood. You give it to a craftsman, he carves it out for you from wood. And maybe if you've got money, you cast it out of metal or gold, whatever, and you bow down to that and say, Oh, you gave me life. This thing cannot speak, it cannot walk, it can't do anything. It's been created by the hands of man who is meant to be more intelligent and have supremacy. And then the people pray to it. They pray to it. Oh, stupidity of mankind. It's it's it's it's very alarming, it's very painful, really, to when you think about it, because nothing hurts me more than seeing God not receive the honor due to his name. It really breaks my heart, it really hurts me, you know. So, because of all that madness, verse 24. Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the creator who is forever praised. Amen. God gave them over. So when we see people, I mean, a sexual revolution happened ages and ages ago when people decided that um, you know, God's ordination for sex was for the marriage bed, for procreation primarily, and then the exchange of emotions and affections between an a man and a woman. That's how God created marriage, a man and a woman. You know that um, I understand there's a version of some kind of Bible written by mad men and women, you know, where they uh are taking out the beat about God creating man and woman, but they rather putting now, um, God created putting together the same gender as um a couple. We've got to be very careful. This is why preachers nowadays we are warning people against reading Bibles online. A lot of corruption have entered the new versions of Bibles being written today. A lot of evil have come in and been corrupted. They said the Bible needs upgrading to accommodate the madness of men that's going on in the world today. There's nothing like having a good old book, paper book in your hand, and not modern versions, by the way. Stick with the old ones, you know. Anyway, so now it was good to get them over, all right, because you will find I can tell you this for free because I've done uh I've done over the years, I've done some research into all kinds of um pagan religions, and I have found that um sex is always part of their uh worship ritual, you know, group sex, which uh what do they call them nowadays? Orgies, yeah. Group sex are part of it, sex with the priests, with the temple priests and temple priestesses, sex with prostitutes and all, they're all part of all kinds of pagan worship. Now, the people are thinking with what they advertise today in the modern age, they're calling it freedom, sexual freedom, they call it. But no, they think they're the ones doing it because the world is modernized and they can do what they want with their bodies. You can do what you like with your body. That's the way they like to put it here in Britain. You have your right when they're encouraging abortion, or you have the right to decide what you do with your body and what happens to your body, to your body, as if the person created the body. So they say you don't want to carry a pregnancy, that's fine. They wouldn't say, well, I stem from sex, they won't say that. They said, No, no, it's your right. Sex is your right. So, but if you don't want the baby that comes with it, if you happen to get pregnant, kill it. You know, it's not a big deal. It's your body. You decide what you want. Sad, isn't it? That is, yes, thank you. Ecclesiastes 3, 11 to 12. Yes, God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men. Yes, but many men would rather not think of that eternity. They want to live for today, and that's why they indulge more and more in sin. God gave them over. In other words, God told them, feel free, help yourselves, do what you like. But people think they're enjoying freedom, they're not. They're in bondage to the devil and dipping themselves more and more in bondage to sin. And the wages of sin is death, not death from this world. Everybody's gonna get that one separation, but eternal separation from God, the second death, which is gonna be painful, awful, because they're gonna be in hell. That's the thing. We live forever with God in the new creation, the sinners will live forever in hell, where there'll be gnashing of teeth and weeping, and there'll be no reprieve from that. So, because they exchange the truth of God for a lie and worship the and served greater things rather than creator who is forever praised. Amen. Yes, that's why when you see people living foolishly in their crass sexuality and um all kinds of madness that go on, stupidity of what they call sexual freedom, having multiple sexual partners, prostitution and all those things, adulteries, fornication. They are people who God have left to their own devices. A lot of us may have been caught in certain of those sins before, but when we came to know the truth of God, he himself redeemed and rescued us and brought us back into his marvelous light. This is why we cannot but praise and glorify him. Okay, so we have that. We're now taking from verse 26. Because of this, now because of their refusal to worship or acknowledge God, because of their madness, you know, of um their sexual impurity during the lustful desires of their hearts, to which God gave them over, do it as you please, but there will be recompense, you know. He says because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Incredible. God gave them over to shameful lusts. Women exchanging natural relations for natural ones, women having sex with women. You can't even say they're having sex because they don't have the right organs to do so, but they do all sorts of things, improvise a lot of things, and they have sex with animals, and it's so sad to me, disgusting talk about, but we have to be realistic. And this is what the word of God is telling us for unnatural ones, women, you know, having sexual relations with other women, with the animals and all sorts. Men do the same, you know, and even the men. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another, homosexuality, um, lesbianism is gone much further now. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. We're coming back to that in a minute, you know. So, God has you know is created. A man is to be with a woman. Thanks for that, Sister Esther. That is true. God created all things perfectly. You know, Ecclesiastes 7:29, Solomon said, one thing I know, God created mankind upright, but men have come, have gone in such a many schemes. God created men, he created women, he brought them together, one man, one woman, to be husband and wife, procreate, create a family, live for God. No, what we don't men have gone exploring other ideas. No, a man can be with a man uh with a man, a woman can be with a woman. Uh they can have sexual relations with animals. There's nothing new about this thing. These things happened before Christianity came into place. That was the way the world was, full of idolatry, full of filth, full of sin. Before Christ came to redeem us. And the idea is now that the light has come, God's light, who is Christ Jesus, we're supposed to latch onto him as to their life. But no, men would rather continue. So when you hear some idiots sometimes trying to argue against Christianity, say, Christianity is only a new religion, it only came by this time. Before then, everybody had their own gods they were worshiping. And and they think they're sounding clever. Oh, before then, everybody had their own gods, every every every uh tribe had their own gods, had their own. What are you talking about? Their gods, whatever they may have been, created things or created or people like themselves, never had the power to save, never had the power to deliver from sin. That's why Christ came. And he is the only way, the truth, and the life. But people don't want to hear that. It upsets them. It really upsets them because it means them submitting to Christ and they're thinking that's too much. Why can't I have the liberty to do what I want and live as I please? So, anyway, this after the sexual revolution of people throwing sex all over the shop, humankind, that is, human beings throwing sex, you know, having sex willy-nilly, you know, just doing what they wanted with it, forget about marriage and all that. Then they graduated into homosexuality. It's all a process into homosexuality, lesbianism, homosexuality. Where are we today? They went into homosexuality, lesbianism and gayism, if we can call it that. And then they went into what is it they call the ones with animals, um, bestiality, sleeping with animals, all kinds of animals, having sexual. God spoke about all those things in the book of Leviticus. So people are thinking they're the ones who are wisening up and saying you can love any, you can love your animal or whatever it is, or they're saying, or whatever it is, the ideas, you know, they're not discovering anything new, they've just been given over. God has given up on them, get lost. Do what you want, but there will be punishment. So now, what where are we? Now we uh now changing God's order of things or trying to. I should say they, I can't say we, that's not fair on us, you know. They are now trying to change the order of things and telling people you can change, you can change your sex. If you think you've been born in the wrong body, are you a male? You can change to a female. Are you female? We can help you change to a bow to to to be male. How? So they're discovering and inventing ways. We're coming to that of doing more and more of this evil. Anybody who does uh gender transformation is a gay person. Is a gay why don't you just I don't know, not neither of them is better anyway. I'm just gonna say, why don't you just if you're a man and you think you should be a woman, so in other words, you want men to be sleeping with you, you are gay. If you're a woman who thinks you have to be a man, and so women should be sleeping with you, you should be sleeping with men, you're a lesbian. It's the same thing. They're just trying to redesign it and make it more trendy and more fashionable. But listen to this. Men, this is the second part of verse 27. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Does that call to mind anything, any disease before you? HIV AIDS. I was alive when it began. You know, it may have been on a smaller scale before, but I was alive and very knowledgeable, you know, when it grew up into a full-scale thing. And many of them perished. And now they think in their cleverness of fully in their cleverness, which is foolishness before God, they think they have conquered that. They have not been able to stop it, but now they're making themselves what kind of chemicals are putting in their bodies on a daily basis to suppress the short-term effects of it, so that it's devastating and killing them finally is prolonged. And so, before, where they will be losing weight and all sorts of things, now they're growing fat and big and robust. You know, a person looking like me who have old HIV AIDS and you wouldn't even know it because of all the chemicals they're giving them, you know, so so but so they can continue for longer in their sin. They think they've conquered HIVAIDS, they haven't, because they've not been able to eradicate it. But further, in this age, let me read you something. I'm sure you've all heard something about monkey pox, haven't we? Monkey pox, your mind will first go to monkeys in Africa, wouldn't it? Or monkeys, wherever they are. We always try to point in the direction of Africa for every disease. When HIVAIDS was discovered, first they blamed monkeys in Africa, but later we found it was a homosexual problem, it was a problem with gays. And the reason it spread and became a global pandemic or whatever was because in those days, homosexuality was not openly received or accepted. So men, married men, would go outside, practice homosexuality with their with their gay partners and come back into the home and still have sexual relations with their wives. And so it became a thing, uh a disease that was spreading like wildfire. Now, this latest thing called monkeypox, let me read to you something. This is from the BBC, 16th of June, five days ago. Okay. Um, there have been the heading is the offer of an MPOX monkeypox vaccine has been extended in London because of a spike in infections. The UK Health Security Agency has announced. There have been 11 cases of MPOX, which used to be known as monkeypox, they're giving me a nickname now, in London over the past few weeks. Health officials said. The immunization program will stop across the rest of the country as planned at the end of July. Those eligible will then have to travel to a London clinic for the job. A global outbreak of MPOX was detected last summer, predominantly affecting gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Vaccines were one part of the response. Okay. And then carrying on, carrying on, he says cases are falling in the UK because we started giving them vaccines, which was giving them 78% protection against the virus, apparently. So, and then they give them a second one to extend that protection. However, cases are falling in the UK since last year when about 35 cases a day were being detected at one point. There have been only 21 cases in 2023. However, 11 have been detected in London since about the start of May. Most were in people who were chosen not to have the vaccine. And then, I'll carry on, I'll skip a couple of uh paragraphs that are not so important. I'm trying to get us to the important things of what the Bible said. And um, right, Dr. Claire Duznap, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said she strongly encouraged people to have the vaccine after a worrying spike in cases. This is particularly important as we move into the summer months during which festivals and events are more common, increasing the likelihood for people to have multiple sexual partners, she said. Why? Because we are coming into festivals and events season. So people are likely, you know, to have multiple sexual partners. Does that make sense? But this is what the world is today. Those eligible for the vaccine include gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men who have many sexual partners participate in group sex or attend sex on premises or yeah, on premises, venues such as gay saunas or fetish venues. Staff who work there are also eligible. You see the problem? Is the gays at it again? Yeah, those are the eligible people. Thank goodness, we are not eligible. We don't want to ever be eligible for this vaccine. It is for the, you know, the eligible vaccine includes the people who are gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men who have many sexual partners participate in group sex or attend sex on premises venues such as gay saunas or fetish venues. I mean, what on earth? This is what we're saying. Is it new? It's not new. It's not new because the Bible said men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves, in themselves, the due penalty for their perversion. HIV AIDS now monkeypox. I don't know what next, but I'm sure there will be more because God's wrath is being unleashed against the madness going on in this world. So where they think they're clever. All these other men, I mean, I mean, I don't know what they mean by gay and men and men who men who have sex with men and other. What are we saying? Men who get involved in group sex. What's this thing about group sex? But this it's always happened. Ojis happens a lot. They said about fetish venues. Yeah, those are pagan worship places and things like that. They've always done it. So they're spreading all these things, it's all going on. Sex, God created it between a man and a woman in the confines of their own privacy and things, the celebration of their own love, primarily for procreation and the celebration of love between a man and a woman, not to be shared by all in group sex. You know what? Group sex, where they go from person to person, all in one room or one venue, and they're just exchanging love with this one, then move on to the next one, and then the next one. Sad. But God's wrath is being unleashed. As I've discovered and seen and studies have revealed, doctors have said it, there'll be many programs I've listened to on radio about people who are having their gender changes. None of them is mentally well. They fall into depression eventually and all sorts of things. Commit suicide because I find they want to change Baba, they can't. Unfortunately, now this thing is being promoted among children in the United Kingdom. I don't know about other countries, but certainly in the United Kingdom, it's being promoted amongst children. I was still reading a report the other day about this teaching of things in school, teaching children to masturbate from about the age of four. And they're teaching about sexual relations with the same gender and all sorts from the age of four in primary school. This is what is going on in the UK now, and I'm sure it's not just the UK, it is anywhere in the world where the thing they're modernizing. Okay, now let's conclude this from verse 28. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, this is all this mad, perverse people on the world. Don't exclude the government, you will see. Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind. Depraved mind, a mad, crazy mind that invents madness in many ways to do what ought not to be done. Yeah. Changing their sex, changing their gender, doing all sorts of things, men dressing as women, women dressing as men, and all sorts of things like that, having their genitals cut off so that they can become women, or having something done so they can become men. And I mean, naturally, it doesn't all work naturally. Something gives them away, they give them all sorts of puberty blockers, all kinds of chemicals and drugs to help them mutilate their bodies. Chemical mutilation, this is what it all is. Yes, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. You know, greed. They're not willing to stay in what they are supposed to be. They want to explore, they want more out of life. They have no purpose for living, they have no vision for their future because they have bought into the ideologies of equally depraved men and women who have told them and denied the existence of God. So they can't understand what they're here for. So they want to maximize their enjoyment. That is where this greed matter comes into it, you know. And they've got, you know, so all kinds of evil, all kinds of every kind of wickedness, sleeping with children, paedophilia, raping children, sleeping with corpses. Yes, many uh uh when I used to watch documentaries on crime, you know, there were men, you know, serial murderers who will kill women and keep them, keep their bodies, you know, for as long as they're called, just to be having sex with them. There's a lot that's gone mental in this world, and it's still happening, unfortunately, and it's getting worse. We know we studied last week when we studied about the things in the church, um, somewhere in Timothy, 2 Timothy, I believe, where Paul said, evil men will wax stronger. In other words, evil will be on the rise, it will get worse and worse, the things that we see. So now they are gossips. No, no, no. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are god haters, you see. Well, he says that later. They are gossips, slanderers, god haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent ways of doing evil. They disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. I mean, isn't that amazing? Every kind of possible nasty word to describe them. That also happens within the people in the church. The church, I say the word church in quotes, not the church of Christ, no, but the things that the world called church, because we had all that, all those characteristics in 2 Timothy 3 as well, you know, last week. But this was people outside, they're just as bad. So you see, there's no difference, they're the same, the same people. The ones who are hiding in the church, who are God haters, having a form of goodliness but denying his power, as we as we studied last week. And those who we've outrightly deny God, see they're the same. And people will tell you, oh, don't worry, you don't judge anyone in the church. Oh, God is gonna judge. Shut up. I always say to people, if God didn't want us to judge, he wouldn't tell us what to look out for and to reject. We have to. It is because we have not rejected this nonsense generally that we have every fool now coming up, setting up any nonsense they call church, receiving people and losing souls, killing people, destroying them, because sending people to hell is killing them. So, anyway, so he says, These people, they're everything listed here. You know, that's the world, the God-hating world. You know, they they just don't like it. And it starts with the government. Look, although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them. Is uh, isn't it, governments across the world, particularly the Western world, some African ones are falling into it as well, South Africa is one. Um, I think Kenya subscribed to the LGBTQ nonsense. Can you respond a bit? Ghana is trying to work its way into it. Nigeria's rejected it so far, Uganda's rejected it, but many are doing it and falling into the madness that is being sold to them by the oppressive governments of the world saying we're not going to give you any more aid if you don't embrace the LGBTQ insanity that has destroyed and is destroying our own society. But that's exactly what he's doing. Not only do they know, everybody knows what the Bible says about it. Everybody knows what God says about it because God never invented that kind of life. God never gave us the liberty to change our gender because we don't like the body into which we are born. He created men and women. End of story. He never gave us the license to have multiple sexual partners, to have orgies. He put a man together with a woman and said, You are a family, procreate, you know, your husband and wife. He never gave us the license for gay relations and things like that. So definitely the human mind knows that in as much as we're doing these things, we are under God's wrath. But they try to push it out of their mind, like, oh, there's no God that we don't believe in him. If we don't believe in him, we won't be punished. That's where they're mistaken. I'm thinking if they don't believe, they will not be held, they will not be held culpable of sin. They are sinful and they will be punished. He says, although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things, because all these things are natural, absolutely against everything natural and decent. But they know, but they continue. They know God's righteousness, righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death. They not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them. They approve, they applaud them, they encourage them, they give them free money, they give them grants, they give them, they make laws in their favor. Now, those of us who are regular heterosexual people, certainly here in the UK, we are being held as villains. We are being told there's something wrong with us. We are being told if we don't embrace the LGBTQ idea, there's something wrong with us. We are bigots, we are nasty, we're unloving, we are intolerant, we are we are being we are being vilified. We're being told we are the criminals, we're being criminalized, the church is being criminalized for pray uh preaching, but God does not subscribe to homosexuality, and it is a sin. We are being told we cannot be saying things like that because we're intolerant. But we are not going to say the things the world is asking us to say because the world is not God. We are not denying the existence of God. We stand for God, we know there is God, and we honor and obey Him, and we will only speak His truth. We are not going to buy into the lies of the world. So there we go. The end is coming. These are the signs of the end times. The end is coming because there will be a day when grace will be called off. God would have had enough of all this, and He's told us it's going to happen. We just don't know when or which moment, but we know for sure that the worse things get, the closer we are to that day. May the Lord be with us all and continue to preserve his own. I know he will. He wouldn't let us go. Otherwise, that will mean that Christ's work on the cross is foolish. But one thing we want to do as a precaution for all of us, because the time will come when we wouldn't know who was born as a male and who was born as a female, because they continue to improve on their technology and science to make to change these genders and nonsense like that. We want to make sure we have a strong bonding with the Christian, I mean faithful Christian community, and encourage our children. For those of you who are yet to have children, for those who have young children, we want to encourage our children to stay in that path lest they fall into the foolishness and deceit of the world. So that our children will remain. Our girls will grow to be women, and our sons will grow to be men, and they will come together with fellow men and women and make families according to God's ordination. We must not and will not be caught in the madness that has overtaken the world, in the deception. Many I've seen many situations, you know, in documentaries and programs and news where somebody thought they were with a woman, turned out it was a guy who had turned himself to a woman, and they've beaten each other. Well, they've not beaten the actual man has beaten the change one into a pulp or even killed them. Like I'm not gay. I never wanted gay relations. What we have done is push me into it. And they've killed them. They've murdered them because of the deception, because they did the thing so nicely, they didn't know. You see them until you know you don't even know. And then tell this person is transgender. I think, what? But the Lord knows how to protect his own children. Let us stay prayerful for our community, the family of God. Let us stay prayerful of our children and those of you who are yet to be parents. You need a lot of prayers. I'm telling you, start now. Start praying for your future, you know, families now. Start blessing your future children from now that they may know and honor Christ with their lives so that they will not fall into the man. Because we don't know when Christ is coming, you see. So we gotta be on guard because our enemy, the devil, is sprawling around around as a roaring lion, seeking who he may devour. Nothing we we have in so-called churches embracing this LGBTQ madness, embracing homosexual marriages and things, embracing homosexuality, then making them pastors and things and priests, and all. So you see, the days are evil. I'll end it there for tonight. Um, any questions? And uh, can somebody please pray for us concerning these matters? I don't want to be the only one who's doing it. The what Lord wants to hear from all of us. So, anyone please pray for us concerning this matters, the evil days we're in. Thank you.