Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Reverend Ben Coopers podcast, offers an inviting space for listeners to explore Christianity and spiritual growth with wisdom, humor, and a deep commitment to biblical truth. Through Rev. Ben's engaging conversations with guests, the podcast not only explores the timeless wisdom of the Bible but also tackles the pressing issues of life, faith, and hope in a way that is accessible, thought-provoking, and enriching. Whether you’re seeking spiritual nourishment, answers to life’s big questions, or simply a place to reflect on your faith, the Rev Ben podcast is a valuable resource on your journey.
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Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Reviving the Church: Prayer, Leadership, and Radical Faith - Sunday service (#701 - Elim)
Is the church losing its voice in today's world, or can prayer reignite its power? We embark on a thought-provoking discussion about how fervent prayer and strong, fearless leadership can revitalize the church across all denominations. Reflecting on the current state of the UK church, we express a deep yearning for impactful messages that truly resonate with believers. Our conversation addresses the growing commercialization of religious celebrations and stresses the need to keep Jesus' teachings accessible to everyone, despite societal and political pressures that challenge Christian values.
We explore the notion of living in times reminiscent of the days of Moses, marked by both preparation and persecution. In this critical era, strong leadership is essential to guide us through metaphorical rivers of challenge. We urge listeners to cultivate genuine faith, focusing on spiritual readiness rather than succumbing to worldly distractions. The transformative power of the gospel, particularly the message of being 'born again' as highlighted in John 3:3, is a central theme as we call for a return to the authority of scripture and the spirit of God.
True revival is more than a spectacle; it's a personal awakening and a deeper connection with God. We challenge cultural perceptions of manhood and leadership, proposing that true strength lies in following Jesus' example of humility and gentleness. Our discussion also touches on mental health, proposing that a strong relationship with Jesus can aid in healing and transformation, complementing medical treatments. Through prayer, we invite divine change and healing in our lives, encouraging listeners to embrace a radical faith and the miraculous power of God.
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Speaker 2:Good morning and welcome to everybody in the Lord's house and God bless everybody across the world. Wherever you are scattered across God's earth, you know, never give up, never giving. God is with you, wherever you are. We're turning to the Gospels? No, we're not. We're turning to the Old Testament. We're going, we are going to the book of Joshua. We are going to the book of Joshua, chapter one, and we're just going to press down into about verse six and we see where the power of God will lead us.
Speaker 2:Today, you know, we've got to pray, we've got to pray and we've got to pray and we've got to pray like we've never prayed before. What are we praying for? We're praying that the Lord will strengthen the church. We've got to pray that the Lord will strengthen every church, every denomination, the Pentecostal movements, the free church, you know every church, that God will strengthen every church. We've got to pray that the next lot of leaders in pulpits will preach the gospel fearlessly. Every pulpit, every church, even here. We've got to pray God, who is the next one that is going to lead this church into victory? You know, I'm just a caretaker, I'm just holding the keys for a while. I'm just holding the keys for a while and I'm just getting us by by the skin of our teeth, but God will get us. We need to pray that God will raise up leaders that will preach the word like never before.
Speaker 2:I want to go to church and hear a message that makes my shoes fly off my feet. I want to hear a message that makes me shake. I want to hear a message that takes me to the cross of Calvary. Come on, who's not frightened of saying I'm bored of church? It's really weak, isn't it? The UK church is really pink and fluffy. It's getting ready for Christmas. It's going to pull our Lord, jesus Christ, out the loft for a few hours. We're going to dance around the pagan Christmas tree. We're going to have tinsel Christianity, it's all going to be ramped up and we're going to be selling tickets to Carol Night. Jesus never charged for anything with jesus is free. If you're paying to go to a carol night, I won't bother going, because everything for jesus is free, everything is free. The price has been paid.
Speaker 2:But, seriously, we got to pray. We got to pray that every church, that God will prepare every church for the next level. We are in a serious crisis across the world. The weather structure. We watch the weather structure. We see what's happening, the storms that are happening, the unusual things that are happening in the political agenda. If there's anyone that is an antich, the political agenda Kirstama. If there's anyone that is an antichrist, it is Kirstama. When you look at Sadiq Khan, again antichrist.
Speaker 2:When you look at the government, we have to look at the government. We can't bury our head in the sand. We've got to understand what they're taking our children to. Do you want your children at school to be taught the same sex agenda? Do you want your children to school to be taught the same sex agenda? Do you want your children to be taught Darwinism? Do you want your children to be taught God is not real? Do you want your children to come under the voice of Islam, hinduism, buddhism? Do you want your children to hear the truth? If you want your children thank God I haven't got a child at school. I wouldn't even take them to school. I would get my child out of school. They are being brainwashed. They are being brainwashed by world religions, the wokeness, the gayness, the same-sex agenda, because this government does not believe in Jesus Christ and we have a crisis like we've never had before. As each hour goes by, we are getting spiritually thinner and the shorelines are being flooded with people that serve foreign gods. The gateway is open. Foreign gods are all across the nation.
Speaker 2:Where is the church? Look at the scandal that's happened in the Church of England the last week or so. Hiding abuse, hiding all the abuse, hiding everything. Lifting up same-sex marriage hiding abuse. Not talking about Israel, too scared to talk about Israel. The church is weak. The church has gone off the peg. It is not fit for purpose.
Speaker 2:Now it's time for the warriors to stand up for Jesus Christ. Are you A rhetorical question? This is all rhetorical. This is to me. There's no one in the Lord's house. There's no one online. I'm just talking, speaking to myself in a mirror. Are you born again, ben? Yes, it's time to stand up for Jesus. Do you believe in the gospels of Jesus Christ? Yes, I believe in the gospels of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:We need to pray that God will give us leaders in every pulpit, even now, this church God. Who is the next leader for this church, lord? We need a leader, lord, that will stand up in this church and preach the gospel, because my days are numbered. I'm just a caretaker when he preaches in every pulpit. Strip us back of the celebrity church. It's boring, it doesn't do anything. Strip me back, god, of everything and give us leaders from number 10 down in street to every church in this land that will rise out of the ashes and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. I can't wait. I can't wait for this nation to be shaken more. I want God to get hold of this nation and shake this nation.
Speaker 2:We're in an interesting piece of scripture. Come on, let's get in the word. We're in Joshua, chapter one. Joshua chapter one, the first six verses, and it says After the death story of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, son of Nun we need leaders like Joshua. We need to pray that God will give us leaders like Joshua that are fearless, that will take up the sword of the spirit and will go into the areas where angels fear to tread. We need leaders like Joshua.
Speaker 2:They said we've had the Joshua generation. We haven't had the Joshua generation. If we've had the Joshua generation, I must have been asleep. What we have had? We've had a weak generation. We've got a gaming generation. We've got a gaming generation. We've got a tech generation. We've got a generation that don't know Jesus Christ. If we'd had a Joshua and a Caleb generation, let me tell you this, the government would have had a licking and a kicking from the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:But what we got is a weak church. There's no point in skirting around the edge of it. We have got a weak church that is not interested in the gospels. How much? What would we say? 95, 96% of church, maybe, is biblically illiterate of the gospels of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:It's time for you, everyone online and in the Lord's house, to get in the word of God and understand. I've got to be John 3 3. You are born again. Tell yourself that you are born again and you are a warrior and you are spirit filled and all things are possible to those who believe. But we are waiting for the Joshua preachers to rise to give us the gospels of truth that will go in with the sword of the spirit, that will go in with the power of God.
Speaker 2:When you look across many pulpits, oh my days, what have we got? We have got weak preachers. We have got weak teachers. We've got people in pulpits that don't know about creation, that don't understand that creation is so powerful. We've got preachers that are giving self-propelled messages that are elevating the human rather than giving us the scriptures and telling us that I must decrease so that he can increase.
Speaker 2:You know we've got sermons out there that you've got to be the best version of yourself. Don't be the best version of you. Get to the cross of Calvary, because if I'm the best version of me, there'll be carnage. I've got to be the best disciple that he called me and you to be. So I need to get to the cross. So I decrease, he increases in me and then suddenly there is a change in us. Don't be the best version of you. Be a bible believing, radical warrior for Christ. Come, come on. We got to pray that God will give us leaders like Joshua that will rise out. We're in the Moses time. I'm in the Moses time and I'm waiting for God to reveal these leaders for here, for every church, that will rise and carry us. Carry us to the promised land, carry us to the gospels, carry us to victory.
Speaker 2:When was the last time you heard a message in church that made you sweat? When was the last time you heard a message in church that made you think about God? Shape me, clean me, keep me on the potter's wheel. You know, my prayer is keep me on the wheel, dear God. I just want to be on the potter's wheel. When I'm on the potter's wheel, you know, my prayer is keep me on the wheel, dear God. I just want to be on the potter's wheel. I'm on the potter's wheel, I'm all right. I'm all right because I'm not the best version of me, because the master is shaping me. I don't want to be me. I don't want to be shaped by me. I want to be shaped by the glory, by the power, by the anointing. I want the power of God.
Speaker 2:And we are still in the Moses days. We haven't crossed that river yet. God is preparing us and God is getting us ready. We are in the days of Moses. We're not in revival, we're in persecution. There is no revival coming to this nation. Open our eyes, lord. Open the eyes of the church. We've got locusts on the street, four types of locusts hidden under the vow of Islam, hinduism, buddhism, every religion. God tells us watch out for the four types of locusts. They'll come in. And what's happening? They'll come in like a swarm. And what have we got? We've got a swarm of world religion coming in and devouring our land, but the church is dancing around a pink handbag.
Speaker 2:You can be whatever you want. You can identify to whoever you want to be. Oh, I'll be a cat today. Mom, why don't you take me to church? I'll identify to a cat, you can. This government is crazy. The church has shot to pieces. We are in a crisis. We need the gospels.
Speaker 2:We're in the Moses time, where we're waiting for God to reveal the next leader that will lead us across the river. Come on, I want to get across the river. I want to get across that river. I want someone to walk in this Lord's house and preach like I've never heard messages before. I want to hear messages across the social networks that take me to the promised land. I want to hear messages that will put us on fire and stir us for the kingdom of God. We're in the Moses days. We're in the Moses days, but look what it says Moses is dead. My servant is dead. Now then, you and all the people get ready to cross. We haven't crossed. We're getting ready to cross. We're getting ready to move. We're getting ready.
Speaker 2:The Bible says out of the ashes, you should soar on wings as of eagles. I pray that God will take you above the storm line. God will take you above the cloud line and you will soar in the blue, beautiful sky. We wasn't created to do what we are doing. You weren't created to get up at silly o'clock in the morning, go and serve Keir Starmer as a slave. Who the sun sets free is free. Indeed, the world has lied to us. Governments are lying to us. Indeed, the world has lied to us. Governments are lying to us.
Speaker 2:We got all that stuff across the airways about save the planet. Come on, the flags are out, save the planet. We are not going to save the planet. You can go and glue yourself to whatever motorway, but you are not going to save the planet. The greatest green energy deal ever written is where Come on? Genesis, chapter one.
Speaker 2:Many of the major denominations and especially some of the larger churches I can't mention them, I've got in trouble. Some of the churches you know that push the music out and all that sort of stuff. When you look at their websites, what do they push? More than Jesus? This is our green energy deal. This is save the planet stuff. We're not going to save the planet. Brother and sister, don't worry about the rainforest, worry about salvation. The world is doing what it wants to do. If anyone was listening to the news the last few days, what have they brought out for the poor plumbers? A taxation onto installing boilers. A taxation here, a taxation here. It's control and manipulation.
Speaker 2:Open our eyes, god. I want to be in a church that is full of power and authority. I want to be in that kingdom that is on fire for God. Ask God that he will put around you leaders that will lead you across the river. I'm a caretaker, I'm just holding the fort.
Speaker 2:When you look at these scriptures, it says there. It says now. Then you and all the people get ready, get ready. The church has got to get ready. Where do I get ready? I'll get ready at the cross. It's at the cross where it's victory. It's in the scripture, where the power of God is. You can be in a field. You can be sitting on the edge of your bed. You can be in your transit van. You can be wherever you are and read the word of God.
Speaker 2:You don't need church. You need the power of the sword of the spirit. You need the power of the sword of the spirit. You need the glory of God. You don't need another motivational message from a weak, woke preacher. You need fire in your belly, you need the power of God. The Holy Spirit is with you.
Speaker 2:All things are possible to those who believe, as I said and as we've been looking at in the gospel of John, chapter 3, 3, open that Bible up and see what it says. John 3, 3, you must be born again. The greatest preacher that ever walked this earth is Jesus. The greatest theologian that walked the earth was Jesus. They called him master, but he didn't go to Bible college. They called him healer and he didn't give anyone pharmaceuticals. They called him king and he didn't have a palace. Come on, who do you serve? Kirstama or the woke church or Jesus? Don't follow me, follow Jesus. Don't follow Reelium. Don't follow the church, follow Jesus. Come on, look at John 3, 3. You must be born again. The message that was given at the dead of night, in darkness. Nicodemus went to Jesus by night and he said master, rabbi, rabbi, it can't be possible to do what you're doing unless you're sent from above. It's impossible, jesus and Nicodemus went to Jesus at night in the darkness. And we are at the darkness.
Speaker 2:There's an interesting scripture in the Old Testament when it talks about the plagues. Covid-19 was a plague. Very interesting. They're pushing over the airways right now. They're getting you ready. Go and have a jab, come and have a jab. Come and have a jab, and I won't give you my thoughts over the jab because they will flick me off. Come and have a jab. It's Christmas, winter's coming, come and have a jab. It's free. Come on. Come and have a jab and we'll inject you with all the chemicals under the sun, but you're going to be all right.
Speaker 2:I was forced to have the jabs by the evildoers and when I had the jab I said God, I'll push this to the last minute. When I had the jab, I said God, I'll push this to the last minute. And when I sat down and the nurse pulled the needle out and she said I've got to read you all this stuff. I said I don't want to know. Don't read it to yourself, don't read it to me. I'd only close your kit on. She said I've got to read it. I don't want to know. I said because when you pump that in my system, god is going to remove it in the name of Jesus. I took it. Second, one bang.
Speaker 2:Don't be caught by the world of the jab. Don't be caught by the world of the jab. God has protected us from the jab. If it was any good, why have I had COVID five times? Tell me that, boris. God is with us. Be careful. We are living in end days.
Speaker 2:Control, control, manipulation, manipulation, manipulation, taxation, taxation, taxation. Keir Starmer is going to tax everything under the sun. He's going to tax the air that you breathe. He's going to tax the steps that you walk. He's taxing the poor old plumber now that is fighting, that is trying to hold it together. Not only has the plumber and the trades and everybody else been stung by the camera. Now they're going to be stung by. I'm going to work, I'm going to put a boiler up. Oh, you've got to pay taxes. But what does Jesus say? Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. Give them everything. Let them have it and follow Jesus Christ. Tell the world that you are a follower, that you are a Bible-believing believer In the book of the Old Testament about the plague COVID-19 was a plague.
Speaker 2:There are many more plagues coming out, many more plagues coming out, but you've got to pray that God will keep you strong. We are in the end days and there was a plague of darkness Very interesting in the old scripture. A plague of darkness. Who did the darkness affect? The darkness affected only the Egyptians and Pharaoh, and everybody. But the Bible says when Moses stretched out and Moses called darkness in, do you realize? There's darkness over this world and this is not a doom and gloom message. This is a message to stir us, to get ready. There is a darkness that is over this world. Moses stretched out and the plague of darkness fell. But what did the Bible and does the? Isn't it interesting that right back then you go to Genesis, chapter 1, verse 3. What did God say? And let there be light. What happened when Moses stretched out his hand and darkness fell? It was a plague.
Speaker 2:And the Bible says that no one could see in front of them. It was so dark, it was so black. No one could see anything except the Israelites. And it said there was enough light. Because light? What does Jesus say? I am the light of the world Just because it's dark out there. You've got light inside your innermost being. Everybody online with me this morning, everyone in the Lord's house, you are carrying light.
Speaker 2:When God said let there be light, he wasn't just talking about the light, the different lights of lights that he created for us to benefit as human beings. He was speaking. Also, if you undo the fabric of that text and you look how the scriptures are woven together, he he said let there be light. But also he was letting you know that Jesus is on his way. Jesus is on his way. When you look at the tapestry of the scripture, when you look at the way it's woven together, people will look at Genesis, chapter 1, verse three, and look and just think it's just about creation, primarily it's about creation. But when God reveals, when God opens up, he's telling you Jesus is on his way, jesus' light is on its way. When God created the heavens and the earth, he created light because he knew that man would fall in the garden. And he's letting man know that light has always been.
Speaker 2:Light is greater than darkness. We understand through science, through reasoning. We understand through the test tube of education. We understand that darkness only exists because of what? The absence of light. There is light in every one of you. Don't hold back back. Don't be like the army of the Israelites that was standing in the valley when Goliath came out. Every morning he came out shouting what happened? The Israelites went back because of fear. Don't run to the cave. Don't run back. Run down to the face of adversity, because the devil is a liar and there is light in you. And we are in the Moses time. We are in a time when we're waiting to cross the river, to get into the promised land, to get to see the full promises of God.
Speaker 2:The scriptures are being revealed, but Jesus in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3, the greatest message the world has ever been preached is John 3, 3. You must be born again. About four minutes it took Jesus to deliver that message and it's the most powerful message. It's the message that the globe is talking about Jesus. How can the message get out of a tiny room with Nicodemus and Jesus and a conversation between two human beings? Yes, jesus Christ was human, the man Christ Jesus. And Jesus said to Nicodemus you are Israel's teacher. And Jesus said to Nicodemus you are Israel's teacher and you don't have a scooby-doo, you don't have a clue, son, you are the greatest teacher that Israel's ever seen and you don't know. And that is where we are in the church today.
Speaker 2:God, through Christ, through the power of his word, is speaking to the leaders. Make sure you hear what I say, not the congreg to the leaders. Make sure you hear what I say, not the congregations, the leaders. Every leader is in serious trouble if he's not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. God, will you have mercy on me? God, I ask you, is my name stamped in there? Am I going to get across the river? God, I pray for all the mistakes through preaching and teaching the weak, woke messages I've given. God, have mercy on me because, lord, I don't want to live in hell forever. I want to get across the river. Your names, the congregations have been fleeced by the preachers in the UK, wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. The congregations are being set free. Let me tell you this the congregations are being freed. The congregations in every church, every denomination. God has you. It is the leaders that God is questioning, myself included, about the messages that have come over the airways.
Speaker 2:Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again. He doesn't talk about church. He doesn't talk about religion, he doesn't talk about any mechanics of church. Church is business Church. We all have it, I'm afraid to say. We all have a charitable status. And when we have a charitable status, who owns us? The government, who the son sets free, is free.
Speaker 2:Indeed, jesus stood in a room and he preached to Nicodemus. He didn't have any social media feed. He didn't have cameras. He didn't have any pastoral team praying him into action. He didn't have any social media feed. He didn't have cameras. He didn't have any pastoral team praying him into action. He didn't have the worship band getting ready.
Speaker 2:Because pastor's coming back, let's put on a weak, woke song and ramp it up, because when pastor comes back, we're all going to float and we're all going to meditate in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus just stood in the depth of the middle of darkness and he said to Nicodemus he locked his eyes on him and he said you've got to be born again, son. That's the only message I want to hear coming out of pulpits you must be born again. You've got to be born from above. Thank God, thank God, it's not in the hands of the church. Jesus says you've got to be born from above. So we're in a Moses, we're in a position of the Moses generation where there's a handing over, there's a handing over to leaders, there's a handing over.
Speaker 2:And let's get further down into the scriptures, let's press in. And it says there let me back up. Let me back up to verse one of Joshua, chapter one After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua Moses, uh, assistant. Verse two Moses, my servant is dead. Now then, what is he making clear then? Stop looking at history. What is the church good at talking about old revivals, old stuff.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to put a question out there. Probably 70, maybe 80, 90% of revivals were energized by the human being, not of God. Does God want you on the floor barking like a dog? Do you see Jesus rolling around like a snake on the floor? Do you see Jesus laughing and jumping around a church and standing on pulpits, laughing and shouting and hollering? Is there any scriptures that reveal to us Jesus was calm, collected, he was a gentleman. Collected, he was a gentleman. Was Jesus this is a bit terrible puking up, puking up bad spirits rolling around? Was there pastors beating him on the back and kicking him in the name of the Holy Spirit, don't give me all that rubbish, but the church rolls along with it because it's a different spirit. It's a different spirit. It's the Jezebel spirit, it's a foreign spirit.
Speaker 2:You won't find a scripture where God says get on your back bed and bark like a dog. You won't find a scripture where he says run around the church shouting all this crazy stuff out. He says humble yourself, church shouting all this crazy stuff out. He says humble yourself, humble yourself, get to the cross and pray. What was Jesus doing in the garden of Gethsemane Forgive me, jesus, from what I'm about to say Was he lying on his back, kicking his feet in the air? He was on his knees in prayer and he said God, if it's possible, if it's possible, take this cup from me. The cup of what? Come on, you've heard me a thousand times, walt the cup of redemption. The third cup on the Passover table, the cup of redemption. He was talking about the cross. If it's possible, take it from me, but not my will you study revivals?
Speaker 2:You look at all the revivals and forgive me, but many leaders talk about historical revivals. Yeah, look what it was in the Hebrides. Look what it was in Wales. Look what it was out in America. Look what it was in the Hebrides. Look what it was in wows. Look what it was out in America. Look what it was over the pond. Look what it was. Was it really God? The revival of laughter? Come on. The revival of barking. Come on.
Speaker 2:The revival of running around a church crazy. There's no scripture that supports it. What is revival? Revival is when someone runs to the cross when no one else is around. Revival is when someone has an awakening, running the hoover around the house, washing up, cutting the grass. Revival is when someone's broken and completely lost in the world. Revival is when God's broken and completely lost in the world. Revival is when God reveals himself to you. Revival isn't when the pastor kicks you on the back and says be filled with the Holy Spirit. How many pastors online and the celebrity world of, of, of, uh, revival? You don't have to go far. I can't mention their names because I'll get into more trouble, but there are certain one with a ginger beard where he used to punch people, or someone that wears a white suit. That has been so far back. Now they're repenting of their ways, pushing them, kicking them. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Is that really Jesus?
Speaker 2:Let me tell you something about Jesus. He was the most gentle man that walked the earth. Tell you something about Jesus. He was the most gentle man that walked the earth. The world is scared of him. He never jumped in a boxing arena, he didn't go to no gym, he didn't put no gloves on and the world wants to tear him down. He never slapped a woman, he never kicked the kids, he never kicked the cat. He never disrespected any woman on earth and you see that, for his love for his mother, he never kicked the cat. He never disrespected any woman on earth and you see that, for his love for his mother, he never got angry, he just flipped the tables over. Don't bring that one to me, because I'll tell you he never hit a human being. He never punched anyone. We got men hitting their wives and their children's, kicking and screaming at them. They're not men, let me tell you. Let me tell you this straight out, the barrel of truth if you've ever hit a woman and I will tell you now you get to the cross. If you've ever hit a woman, brother, I'm telling you now, you get yourself to the cross. Because when, when judgment day comes, brother and I'm not looking at anybody in the house, I'm not talking about anyone online, I'm just putting it right across the airwaves If you want to be a man, you be like Jesus, not Andrew Tate, donald Trump, leaders, motivational speakers.
Speaker 2:If you want to be a man, you study the man that the whole world is talking about. If you want to be a real man how to treat your family, your friends you follow Jesus and that will be the biggest challenge you'll ever have as a human being. If you want to be a great, beautiful woman, you study Jesus and follow Jesus. If you want to be that strong man, it ain't going to the gym, it ain't doing this and it ain't doing that. It ain't cursing and swearing at the kids and showing off in front of the other men in your culture. It's about being quiet, getting up, going to work and putting bread on the table. What did Jesus do when his dad died Preachers don't like preaching about this one when Jesus's father stepfather let's put it across the airwaves like that when he died, jesus had to be the head of the house. Jesus knows what it's like to pick up a saw, a D-Walk, get in a transit van because he's a carpenter and go to work. Jesus worked.
Speaker 2:We got lazy men across the world gaming. We got lazy men smacking the kids, not interested in feeding the people around them. We got lazy men that are just self-focused, jealous, angry, arrogant, full of pride. We've got men across this nation and I've got to be careful how I put this word out there. We have got a certain geographical man out there that is I can't say the word, but it begins with R and we understand. You get what I'm saying. It begins with R and understand, you get what I'm saying. It begins with R and it's a very strong word. They've come in from other places of the nation and they are treating our women absolutely despicably. Abuse, abuse, physical, mental, sexual abuse is in this nation like never before. So I'm asking where are the men of this nation?
Speaker 2:There's men in certain colours, cultures across the world, in church, out of church, that will stand by a man and, knowing that he's beating his wife or his children, go down to pub, have a drink. Yeah, bruv, it's all right, I've got swagger, I'm a geezer. You ain't no geezer, you're an animal and you're filth, and may God have mercy on your soul. So what I'm saying is we need Joshua's Come on church. We need men like Joshua, just like Jesus, that will stand up for the gospel, the truth, that will take the word and will get us free.
Speaker 2:What does the scripture say in verse five? It says in verse five let me pick it up in verse four, it says your territory will extend to the desert, the Lebanon, to the great river, to the Euphrates, to the Hittite country, to the great sea on the West. No one. You take this scripture, verse 5, church online church. You take this because this is for you. Verse 5 of Joshua, chapter 1 no one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. God is with you. Tell yourself right now that God is with you. Tell yourself right now that God is with you.
Speaker 2:If you are a woman and you want to be the best you could ever be, study Jesus. If you are a man and you want to be the best man, study Jesus. If you want to be the greatest preacher the world has ever brought in, don't go to Creflo Dollar. Don't go to transatlantic preachers. Don't go to certain preachers. Don't look at me. Look at the greatest preacher that ever walked the earth, jesus, the greatest theologian.
Speaker 2:Jesus, he is the living word. He is the great I am. He says no one. How often are we hearing this? Every road leads to God. Every religion will take you to. Jesus says something very clear I am the way, the truth and the life. No one gets the Father through anybody else. There's no way in to what being born again. No one can see, no one can walk, no one can enter, no one can get into the kingdom of God unless you are born again. We are waiting for the Joshua's to rise with the sword of the spirit in their hand to carry us to the promised land. The river is at full flood stage. The river Jordan is at full power. We've got crisis breaking out in every house, every tribe, every tongue, every Crazy things are happening in Parliament, even in the monarchy. Things are happening that we never thought we'd see happening. Things happening in the church, out of the church, everywhere. And the greatest preacher that delivered the greatest message you must be born again. No camera, no podcast studio, no congregation, no TikTok account, nothing, no internet. It was just Jesus and Nicodemus, and it is the greatest message and something that's really important.
Speaker 2:Jesus never charged for a sermon. He never charged for a Bible study. He never charged for a carol night. He never charged for a church event because it's business. I understand buildings have got to be run. I get that, trust me. Trust me. That's the biggest fear I have.
Speaker 2:If we don't go by faith in this house, the doors will close. Let me tell you that If God don't answer prayers, these doors will shut. No one is on paid staff, no one. We literally say God, if it's your will, keep the door open. We literally say God, if it's your will, keep the door open. If it's your will, whatever will be will be. We need to go by faith and the Bible says the just shall live by faith. You're born again, you're spirit filled. We're coming to the table and I want you to hold yourself in verse 5.
Speaker 2:No one will be able to stand against you, for every woman out there, every child out there right now, especially in the UK, that is going through that terrible area of religion that is marrying old crusty men because of the sake of religion, that is marrying old crusty men because of the sake of religion. We need to pray that God will break that act of pedophilia in religion, because that's what it is. It's child abuse, and we have religions in this UK and especially from the area of Pakistan and areas are marrying underage girls. We have women that are caught in relationships and marriages under severe abuse, and the government is more interested in firing rockets into Russia. We have girls being married off, being abused in the slave trade, underage marriage happening. The way they get around it, we know how to get around it. They whisk them off back to Pakistan or Iran, they marry them and they bring them back. That's the type of government we got. They're allowing child abuse to happen with a wedding ring on the finger. That's the type of government we have that will not stand up for women in this nation. That's the type of government we have that will not stand up for people that are in abusive situations. That's the government we have that will not deal with the abuse that has gone in within many denominations, because there are abusers on every level and in every level.
Speaker 2:We are seeing the rise of the Antichrist. We are watching the days being prepared for him. Wars, rumors of wars. Do you want to be under a government that will allow everything to happen? If you don't, I would urge you to pray a prayer. Cut the umbilical cord between me and this government, set me free from their policies, set me free from the underhanding things that they're doing, and ask God to put a hedge around you, a fiery hedge around you.
Speaker 2:God is with you. The power of the Holy Spirit is in you and as we come to take the cup and the bread this morning, I just want to read verse 5. No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. But for verse 5, the first few words in no one will be able to stand up against you. You've had people that have been standing up against you. You've had people coming to you. You've had people, abusers. You've had people in your life threatening you. You've had people and they're still in your history bag. Take it to the cross today and give everything to Jesus, because we're waiting to cross the river and God is going to give us leaders like Joshua that will stand up and not be fearful of preaching the gospel of truth.
Speaker 2:I pray that as we leave church and as we click offline very, very soon, that we pray that God will place in every church, including here, leaders that will fearlessly give us the gospel of truth that will lead us when God opens up that river. And that's another area, because I don't want to be left on the wrong side of the river Jordan. I want to go through the river on dry ground. You know. Wherever you are across the world, I pray that you will find peace. I pray that you will follow Jesus all the days of your life. Don't follow me, don't follow the major ministries. Follow Jesus, be a Jesus follower. Be someone that is radical, that stands up for the gospel, that believes in healing, that believes on the birth of the Pentecostal church in the book of Acts, that believes in the birth of Pentecost.
Speaker 1:believe for the signs and the wonders, believe that God is healing now that cancer is being erased, that sickness is gone.
Speaker 2:Why have we got so much mental health? Because the pharmaceuticals and the doctors don't know how to deal with a spiritual crisis. So what they are doing when there's mental health? They're filling us up like smarties. We're bouncing around and we're shaking with tablets, but we have a spiritual crisis. If the spiritual crisis was addressed, there would hardly be any mental health.
Speaker 2:Because it's spiritual, because it's mental, when you get yourself right with Jesus and you start worshipping and you realise the devil's a liar and greater is he that is in me. Suddenly, over time, suddenly you start to find you think different, you act different, you move different. When you follow Jesus Christ, mental health has to bow to the greatest name. But the government want us on the pharmaceuticals because they're making serious money, because it's all about money. It's all about money. Let me tell you this Whatever problem you've got, whatever you're doing, carry on doing what you're doing, carry on taking what you're taking.
Speaker 2:But you ask God to deal with sickness and disease and you radically call him in and say God, I'm disturbed in me, noggin Me, head's shot to pieces. Deal with me now, god. And when he starts to deal with you, you start to think straight, you start to walk straight, you start to realize hang on, lord, remove the thought pattern, lord, remove the stuff. Lord, remove, remove, remove, remove, remove. Keep the prayer fired out, speak it out and call the word in. Let's pray, father, fathers, we come to the table. Thank you.
