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.
In each episode, Rev. Ben guides listeners through profound theological reflections, personal stories, and practical insights drawn from the Bible and the broader Christian tradition.
Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Defending the Vulnerable in Religious Spaces (#1004 - Elim) 08-01-2025
What if we told you that our collective silence on issues of abuse within religious communities is perpetuating the very problems we seek to eradicate? Join us for a powerful conversation with Rev Ben Cooper as we explore the urgent need for both prayer and tangible action in addressing abuse, particularly against women and children, within the church. This episode shines a light on the significant role of Rev Ben Cooper's podcast ministry, which tirelessly works to spread the Gospel and provide Bibles worldwide, all while grappling with the complex societal and religious challenges in the UK.
What if our collective silence on issues of abuse within religious communities is perpetuating the very problems we seek to eradicate? In this powerful episode of Rev. Ben Cooper's podcast, we explore the urgent need for both prayer and tangible action in addressing abuse, particularly against women and children, within the church. Rev. Ben Cooper’s podcast ministry plays a significant role in spreading the Gospel and providing Bibles worldwide, all while grappling with complex societal and religious challenges in the UK.
We don’t shy away from the hard truths. From the pervasive issue of spiritual abuse to the inadequacies in church leadership when it comes to protecting the vulnerable, we tackle these difficult topics head-on. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of open dialogue and the critical role of prayer in seeking justice and healing for victims. We also delve into the intersection of cultural practices and religious freedoms, challenging listeners to consider the balance between upholding scriptural values and ensuring equality in expressing Christian beliefs without fear of persecution.
This episode calls on men to step up and be protectors, urging both the church and its followers to take a firm stand against abuse. Through reflections on scripture and personal anecdotes, Rev. Ben Cooper underscores the moral responsibility of religious communities to safeguard the vulnerable. By fostering faith and solidarity, we advocate for transformative change—a change where silence is no longer an option.
Whether you're a church leader, an advocate, or someone seeking hope and guidance, there's something to learn and act upon in this compelling discussion. Together, we can ensure that our faith communities become places of healing, accountability, and justice.
We're not shying away from the hard truths. From the pervasive issue of spiritual abuse to the inadequacies in church leadership when it comes to protecting women and children, we tackle these daunting topics head-on. We discuss the necessity of open dialogue and the critical role of prayer in seeking justice and healing for victims. As we examine the intersection of cultural practices and religious freedoms, we challenge listeners to consider the balance between upholding scriptural values and ensuring equality in expressing Christian beliefs without fear of persecution.
This episode calls on men to step up and be protectors, urging both the church and its followers to take a firm stand against abuse. With reflections on scripture and personal anecdotes, we underscore the moral responsibility of religious communities to safeguard the vulnerable. Through faith and solidarity, we advocate for a transformative change, emphasizing that silence is no longer an option. Whether you're a church leader, an advocate, or someone seeking hope and guidance, there's something to learn and act upon in this compelling discussion.
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Speaker 2:But we're going to dive straight into the scriptures tonight. We're going to get straight into the word of god and, uh, there is so much happening within the framework and I just want to concentrate on the uk at this moment in time and we're're very aware of what we said on Sunday regarding them, certain gangs across the UK, and I just want to bring a few scriptures because I think it's really, really important. And as we look at cultures, we look at life and as we especially look into religion as well, and as we look at what's happening, especially in the UK government and certain leaders that are supposed to be the safeguarding and all that stuff, I've got to be really careful tonight how I present this, because I've got to be careful. I don't want to get kicked off or kicked out. I've got to be extremely careful.
Speaker 2:But we're looking at a really, really difficult subject to talk about and the Bible speaks so much. It speaks so much against the violence against children and women and, obviously, men. It speaks so much. It speaks so much against the violence against children and women and, obviously, men. It speaks about that, but we are living in a culture, we're living in a time when the church really needs to address all this stuff that's going on in the church. But these are prayer points. So the way I need to put it over tonight this is about prayer and we're going to start with prayer in a moment.
Speaker 2:We've got all this stuff happening up and down and around this nation regarding the Muslim rape gangs that are out there. It's harsh language, it's very difficult to speak it from here. It's very, very important, but it's prayer points. That's what we've got to get to. It's a point that we need prayer. We need to pray for these young, vulnerable women that are out there, that we need prayer. We need to pray for these young, vulnerable women that are out there. We need to pray for these young, vulnerable women that are now, uh, adult women that have come through all this sort of stuff. It's extremely important that that god opens our eyes, the church's eyes, to see what's going on, and obviously we've within the church context of abuse as well.
Speaker 2:The church and I'm referring to religion and certain areas out, and we know what we're talking about has got so much to answer to. But the Bible is a wash. The Bible is a wash with scriptures about against violence, against abuse of every level. So we really need I pray that this church will be a pioneering church, where we're not frightened to talk about what's happening across the nation, across the world, and we address things. And coming from myself as a young paperboy experience in being in a pedophile ring I know what it's like and it haunts you, and may God have mercy on certain people in certain areas of life. But this, this needs to be addressed. The church should be at the forefront of it, not religion.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about the body of Christ because it's prayer. It's prayer and the reason I'm talking about this is because it's not of this natural world. It's evil, it's dark and it's bleak and it's and it's really steeped in evil. So we really, as the church, as the body of Christ, we need to say God, give us the wisdom to deal with this, give us the wise words. And there are so many people out in culture, in life, in certain areas of society, that are going through so much of this at this moment in time, and we understand. So let's start the service with some prayer.
Speaker 2:Maybe you know someone in your life that has gone through the atrocities. Maybe you're familiar of certain things. Maybe you're being captured in the podcasts and the news channels and all these big hitters and everything that's going on in the government through Keir Starmer, jess Phillips and all this stuff. All these ones you know, and even Elon Musk putting his toe in the water in certain areas and different things. You know we've got to be careful that this, because at the moment it's a political thing and also it's a racist area and the government are extremely worried about mentioning anything because it will be branded as racist. But you flick it around the other way. It's serious racism against white women. You can't take it any other way. You can't look at it any other way. That's what it is, but the government are so scared, so frightened. Even the areas of the church won't touch subjects like this.
Speaker 2:It's really important that, as men men that are in the church tonight, men that are online that we need to protect the women, not just of this nation, but the women in our lives and the women on the outskirts and women in generally, because Jesus is the greatest man that protected women and when you study Christ, you will find how he protected women, where he stood up for women, where he stood in the gap for women and he made it clear from Genesis all the way through, the old and the new violence against women and we're going to flick them. Scriptures open in a minute. But I want to assure you tonight the Bible is laced, is filled and packed with scriptures against violence, men and women and children. But we're going to pray because this is really really, really important. You know abuse and obviously we I pray that god will give us a chance to go into spiritual abuse. We I don't think we'll be able to touch the thread of that tonight, but religion and church uses spiritual abuse, the power of pastors and leaders to manipulate congregations. You find it tribally, you find it in certain colored congregations and churches. You find that the pastors are using spiritual abuse and their power and their authority to bring fear.
Speaker 2:So there is a lot in this nation. There is a lot. We can't just look outside of the church where we're looking at all this sexual abuse, because it happens right within the world of religion and I've experienced that as well in certain areas and it's such a massive subject and it's a tender subject and I understand it's a difficult subject and we might not be able to stay and listen, we'll have to put our fingers in our ears tonight, we'll have to flick off and I don't know, because it's areas that just need to be looked at through the eyes of scripture, because that's what we've got to do. It's through prayer, it's through the holy spirit. This nation is in serious need, serious need of god, of really strengthening the body of christ and the leaders to deal with everything that goes on and especially within the church of england, when we've watched the abuse and in catholicism, and the abuse and obviously happens in the in the Pentecostal movements as well. No movement is outside of the framework of it. But you've only got to look in the main area of Catholicism and the Church of England, how they try again, just like politicians, try to hide it and try and cover it up and move priests on and move leaders and they leave a devastation.
Speaker 2:And coming from where I've come from and without putting it out on the airways, because it's too graphic, you know it's too graphic it's really, really important, sisters and brothers, that we pray. We pray for the boys, the girls, the men, the women in these areas, everything. It's seriously, seriously in need that we need to address all this stuff and it can only be addressed. It can seriously, seriously in need that we need to address all this stuff and it can only be addressed. It can only be dealt with through prayer. It can only be dealt with through prayer. It can't be dealt with politically, it can't be dealt with financially. There is the healing that I can't begin to tell you how it is and how it feels, the healing process that is needed through that area.
Speaker 2:And let's come before the Lord in prayer. Let's just come to the Lord in prayer tonight, because we're hitting bars, we're hitting levels in the UK where the church really needs to put down the pink handbag, put down a feather duster, and it really needs to pick up the sword of the spirit, because sometimes it feels to me that it's embarrassing to say I'll go to church and the church is just. You know we really do. Let's pray, father, in the name of Jesus. You know, god, that we're in a serious situation here in the world and right now, tonight, in the UK. So, lord, we pray for this word that can be very difficult.
Speaker 2:Father, to speak about abuse. So, lord, we pray for this word. That can be very difficult, father, to speak about abuse. So, lord, we ask you right now, lord, that you will give us boldness and you will take the fear away, the worry away, the uncertainty away, lord, and where the church generally is frightened to talk about it and to bring it out and to deal with it and go through it. So tonight, lord, we ask you, father, that for those that are having violence in their life, those that are in violent relationships, those that are seeing the hand of violent leaders through cultural church, through religion, those, dear God, that are in relationships that are violent, those that are coming out through violent relationships, those that have had the strength to leave violent relationships, those that are in cultures that are really holding men and women through the manipulative way that it is using, lord, this is big tonight, lord, and we pray tonight, father, that you will give us boldness and strength. You will give us wisdom. How to deal with it, lord, when people talk to us, lord, privately, lord, how to deal with this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:So tonight, lord, we thank you, lord, that you are a healer and for everybody that has gone through all types of abuse, we ask for healing. We ask you, lord, that you will help us to heal on the journey of life. Lord, that you will help every one of us boys, boys, girls, men, women to heal. But, lord, running with healing is an area called forgiveness. Oh Jesus, please help Lord, please. God, father, I thank you that you are the Lord that healeth thee and across the world as we share this podcast, this live stream through cameras and through people in the Lord's house tonight, this tender subject, lord. I pray, lord, that you will help us and lead us in paths of righteousness. We love you, lord, but we need your help, father, and we pray for the church in the UK. We pray for the leaders that they will know how to deal with this and they will know how to bring this to the table for healing, for wisdom, for strength.
Speaker 2:So, lord, we pray for those that have been on the wrong end of the abuse, but also, lord, we pray for those that have brought the abuse, that you will remove the evil spirit from them, that you will remove the hand of Lucifer off their life and, lord, that you will save them. Lord, it's a difficult prayer. Trust me, jesus, all those people, father, that have been abused, father, wherever they are now across the world. We ask you, lord, that you'll help us to forgive, to lay at the cross and to find a place of freedom through the message of Jesus Christ. Come, holy Spirit, have your way. We pray In Jesus' name, amen. You know it's a subject that's really tender. It's a subject that's really scary to even talk about, to discuss publicly and openly. It's going to be very different tonight. So, as we look at these scriptures, for anyone that has come in and going through and coming out of relationships where it's been physical, it's been sexual violence, you know all that stuff that goes along with that, I pray that if you've experienced that and you know what it feels like, I pray that you will find a place to be healed.
Speaker 2:I just want to take us firstly to the Old Testament, and there are too many scriptures to mention where God, through the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ, shows us that violence is not acceptable, not acceptable in any way. Even when you look at certain areas of sport Now that is a very interesting subject Certain areas of sport, violence. When you look at certain areas of sport, because God is completely against it, there's nowhere where you will find that God accepts anyone striking another human being. Whatever way you look at that, you won't find a scripture that supports it in any way, shape or form. So we're going to start with the Old Testament and as we look at the old testament, let's read this together. We're in the book of 2 samuel, 2 samuel, chapter 22, verse 49. If you're online across the world, I pray that god will just help us to to navigate our way through the scriptures.
Speaker 2:But I'm afraid to say one of the biggest areas where we have seen historically is sexual abuse and violence against children is within religion, and we see that in world religions as well. We see these men coming under their religious sound and making it acceptable in their culture, their world, to say that it's okay to marry a girl that is really young, that hasn't even hit puberty, that it's just beyond human understanding, and they use religion and they use that. It's a word that is so difficult and I've got to be careful how I present this word. It's a word that is so difficult and I've got to be careful how I present this word, but it is like religion. It's religion hiding under the banner of pedophilia, child abuse. When you look at those words, when you look at all that sort of stuff. Religion uses it to sit and it uses it to get hold of young girls and it hides under the banner.
Speaker 2:As believers, as Christians, we need to pray. We need to pray against this, that this government will really step up to the mark. You know, you watch this across the religious areas, the Middle East, and even there are certain loopholes within the UK law where they certainly are not for it and the law is not for it. But there is a certain way that these certain areas of religion get around it by taking the girls out of the nation, marrying them and bringing back and it's a way, that of escaping and a way of moving and it makes it even darker and because they're they're using and they're ducking under the law and they're they're it's a serious area, brothers and sisters of prayer, and it sits under the radar of we'll push it under the carpet because if we talk about this as a white British man, I'm going to be labelled as a racist.
Speaker 2:I've been called a racist pastor many times and that doesn't bother me. But what we have and we've got to be extremely blunt and extremely open we have, every other month, celebrated throughout the year in the UK. You've got Gay Pride, you've got Black Lives Matter, you've got all these events happening. But if you are a white person speaking and just having something to say, you suddenly are branded as a racist pastor. And I will get this and I've had it and it will continue to come. It's got nothing to do with racism. It's to do with what is right and what is morally and scripturally right. But we have too much political, political danger and it is coming against the white British person. A very dangerous thing to say. I could really get myself in a lot of trouble this evening.
Speaker 2:But this is not about race. This is about the darkness, the darkness, the blinkness. That is beyond it. But you have to say it to get it over. It's not about a political drive. It's not about a racist drive. It's not about a gender drive.
Speaker 2:It's about what Jesus says in the Bible. He doesn't discriminate in any color, shape, form, boy, girl, man or woman. He doesn't put anybody in boxes. So when you look at each month, there is something for each month. But if I was to say in the month of November what I'm going to have is a white, heterosexual month, I'll be locked up. I will be locked up. I'm going to have a white heterosexual month. That's what this month's going to be in November. I'll probably even now I'll probably have quite a bit of a lash back coming back from just what I'm saying here. But this is the severity of what we are saying. You know, and God made every tribe, every color, every tongue. The Bible speaks about that. But political and government and certain areas of of political persuasion, they use that to close the mouth of certain areas of people's lives.
Speaker 2:Because if you speak like that, if you look at christianity, if you look as a, as a, as a christian preacher, if you was to go and to stand on the majority of any corner, get yourself one of them, old-fashioned milk crates. Do you remember the milkman? Do you remember them? Milk crates? If you grab yourself a milk crate, oh, you can't use milkman anymore. Oh, dear me, no, he's got a milk person, a milkman. Do you remember the milkman? Do you remember them? Men that used to walk down your drive you know, with a little hat on, driving a milk float, the milkman, the milkman with a little blue crate, and he'd express dairy, all careful, what he's saying. If you took one of those crates and you stood on that crate and you started preaching against sin, against the world.
Speaker 2:If you started preaching the cross, you will be almost guaranteed that you would have the authorities coming at you. But if you are of a certain culture, a certain demographic, you can lay your mat out wherever you want and the establishment will protect you and allow you to deliver what you want. There is a certain demographic and a certain flag and a certain culture that has been hanging the flags over the London bridges and they have been praying to a certain way, in a certain direction, and you know what I'm saying and you can see the security there that is protecting them on the London bridges, with certain flags praying out at certain times. But if I was to go, do you know what I might do? This? If I was to go and to stand on the London bridge and to drop a Union Jack flag and strap the cross to me back and start talking and start praying, and start praying to the God of Israel, I would find that I would be thrown into the back of a van and whisked off.
Speaker 2:That is the fact of the matter, that this nation does not belong to foreign gods. This nation doesn't belong to any government. It doesn't belong to any religion, it belongs to the God of Israel and as a Bible-believing believer and as the God that owns the cattle on a hill, the God that created the heavens and the earth, we are free as human beings, as believers, to go anywhere and to pray. And I've got to be careful about this subject that there has been a certain few people that have been silent, praying out in certain areas, that have been stopped not even moving their lips. But because you're praying in silence, we're going to arrest you. But if I had a mat and I was of a certain demographic, I could go anywhere in this land and I would get the support of the authority.
Speaker 2:This is what Jesus says very, very clear. This is what Jesus says In the last days, you'll be persecuted. So we automatically think of persecution as being run out of towns, run out of villages. But persecution has changed its face, it has changed its demographic to what it was in Jesus' day. It's still persecution and Jesus said if you truly are a Bible-believing believer, this is what to expect. Great God, we're going to have revival. He says it's not about revival, revival isn't coming.
Speaker 2:The Bible doesn't talk about revival, it talks about persecution. He says just as they persecuted me, so are they going to persecute you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you persecution. So we should not get angry and frustrated by what we see on the streets of London, birmingham, around the corner, here, there, everywhere, across the whole demographic of this nation. We shouldn't be surprised by what we see, because we are certainly in the end time, harvest and the coming of Jesus, but what we are finding is the Western church, the church in the UK, is praying for money and praying for revival when we've got absolute persecution like we've never seen before. So if you are a Bible-believing, spirit-filled believer, we need to pray for strength.
Speaker 2:So as we look across this nation, we are watching world religions doing what they want to do, at any time and anyhow they want to do it, and they will get the support from number 10, downing Street. But if you are a Christian and you want to go and pray, let me tell you this If you picked up a cross and you walked down the main street, downing Street, and you took four or five of you and you stood in the middle of the road and you laid across down and you decided to pray, you will be removed before you can undo your shoes. But if you are of a certain demographic and you've got a certain rug that you kneel on, you're allowed to stop the traffic. The government will support you, they'll give you offices to protect you. But if you are a Christian, you will not be protected. You will be severely removed and reprimanded for what you are saying because you can't speak about the Bible. But anything else can be spoken about and the church can't deal with this.
Speaker 2:Subject violence. The church doesn't know how to deal with violence. It wants to pick up the pink drum and it wants to bang all that sort of stuff and it wants to dance around on Sunday mornings and shout hallelujah and praise God. Of course we do. That's the whole point of that. But the church, the majority of the church, is allowing so much to go on. And the church and I'm not referring to the congregation, because I don't do that, I'm referring to the leaderships, to the structures, to the mechanisms of church what we have in this nation is a weak leadership within the church. It doesn't know how to deal with violence, sexual abuse against men and women, boys and girls, and we are watching this nation struggle as a government to deal with what is going on with the Muslim rape gangs, and the church won't mention a word about it. The church will pick up other things and it will push itself over in a pink field and it will do all that lovely stuff and it will bury its head. But if you are a Christian, you can't bury your head.
Speaker 2:We've got to pray that this evil, this evilness, because it's evil, it's not natural. It's not natural what these satanic evildoers have been doing. And the Bible says something very, very important. Now, this is all about prayer, this is all about the Bible. This is really really clear. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the end of days.
Speaker 2:You've only got to study Sodom and Gomorrah. You've only got to study what their men wanted to do to their angels. You've only got to look at what was happening in Sodom and Gomorrah. You've only got to look and you see what is going on. So let me just tell you this there's nothing new under the sun. There's nothing new under the sun, honestly. There's nothing new that God hasn't seen before. Because when you look at the scripture, god said to the Israelites do not copy, do not mirror, image what the Canaanites are doing. Just because I'm taking you into the land, do not copy what they are doing and I won't go into that drum beat tonight what they were doing, but you can imagine what they was doing and everything that was going on. There was so much, so much going on.
Speaker 2:But if you're with me, I want you to turn to 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel, chapter 22, verse 49. And it says says who set me free from my enemies? You exalted me above my foes. This is the line, this is the serious line. From violent men, you rescued me.
Speaker 2:So as you look at that scripture in 2 Samuel, 22, verse 49, from violent men, what we are seeing across this nation. There is so many violent men out there hiding under the word religion and doing the most barbaric. I've got to be careful. Our word this because we can't be knocked off. I see Alex nodding over the back there because he worries about what I say, which is fair and that's right and true. So what we have? We have violence like we've never seen in the UK, and I'm not referring to the running around of streets. We're talking about violence against girls and violence against women. We have never had an increase in the UK like we have at this moment in time Spiritually and I'll use the word spiritually because that goes in in religion they're using, they're using their certain holy books to allow themselves to marry at such a young age, which is which is absolutely off the scale.
Speaker 2:That is just completely unbelievable. What is going on. So, when you look at that, they're using religion. So that's where we have the spiritual abuse, that they're using that to control young girls, women, to manipulate and to shape them. Then also, above all that, above the spiritual, we have the cultural one as well. We have a cultural abuse that is out there In certain areas of culture. Many, many. We're all from different cultures. We all see it in our culture, but there are certain ones out there in in certain areas of culture. Many, many. We're all from different cultures. We all see in our culture, but there are certain ones out there in certain areas, certain demographics, that I've got to be extremely careful because we want to keep this moving.
Speaker 2:It's very, very important, very, very real. In certain churches, it's very real in certain churches as well, certain areas and certain areas of color and certain places. We find spiritual abuse. We find violence against women, manipulation, but this scripture that we're in. You won't find many preachers will dip their toe into these types of scriptures, because when you dip into that you are really putting your head above the parapet and you are really coming under the gunfire of everything.
Speaker 2:But it needs to be addressed, it needs to be spoken about and I don't mind being the target for that, because being on the abuse side of it as a child, being on that side of it and I buried it for 38 years, to be honest with you and I know what it feels like to be at the hands of violent men, violent men but if you see them in the street you wouldn't think anything of them. It wasn't because they was enormous Goliaths with muscles and all that what you would imagine. It's beyond what you would imagine. The grooming side of it, everything that runs along with that, very, very powerful, very dark, very dark, very evil. It's still going on. It's very real to this day because it has something that is not of this natural human world. It is driven by Lucifer, it is driven by dark spirits, dark agents, because it's not natural. It's not natural. So in these scriptures that we're in, it's not natural.
Speaker 2:So in these scriptures that we're in, god is completely against violence at any. Look at Against violence. God protects women and we're going to turn to a scripture in just a short while and we're going to read a couple of scriptures, but I just want us to look at this scripture again in 2 Samuel 22, verse 19,. Who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes, from violent men. You rescued me.
Speaker 2:Now we know what we got going on within the UK. We know that we got a very weak, a very woke government that are frightened to dip their toe into that area because it is against the white young woman and they cannot dare say anything against that because it would flip it, it would turn it. So we have a government that is extremely racist, extremely. We have a government that is not for the white British person. I've got to be careful because I'm touching stuff where I could get in serious trouble. But if I need and I've made it my goal for the rest of my life if I can set one person free from a certain area of child abuse, I've done my job. If I can help people to be set free, to know that there is hope, there is future, that there is life outside of those certain circles that you get drawn into, that you get manipulated into, that you're drawn into. Now God has something in store for anyone that lifts a hand against a woman or a child or even a man.
Speaker 2:But the Bible speaks extremely clear against violence. The Bible is not supporting violence, sexual abuse, religion in any way, shape or form. It is one of it. I'll say it actually is the only holy book and I'll use that. It is the only holy book that protects women. You read the others or you look at it and you find that it's all for the man to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, any particular time he wants, and the woman is the lesser, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond beyond. But the Bible is telling us that the men need to protect the women at all costs, at all costs, not just in the circle of your family, not in your workspace, but everywhere that the man treads, needs to be eyes open, making sure that the women at work, the women in culture, the women at school, the women at education, the children, every woman is treated correctly according to the word of God.
Speaker 2:But we have leaders within the church that won't even go down the road that I will talk about, won't even entertain anything like that. You've only got to look at the Church of England. We've had a certain leader that has just stepped down for a long run because of certain things that have gone on, where they've hid it. It's just like the government. They're hiding it, they're too frightened to deal with it. But God, god will not allow this to go on. God will not allow this to go on. God will not allow this to go on.
Speaker 2:There are consequences, serious consequences. So you've got Catholicism, you've got the Church of England and you've got areas of the evangelical movements, every area that is hiding and trying to push it under the carpet and get rid of it. They will move priests around from here to there, this, that, and shift them around and they will push it. And they've got their own way, internal way, of dealing of it. They will move priests around from here to there, this, that and shift them around and they will push it. And they've got their own way, internal way, of dealing with it. It's not how you deal with it. You deal with it in a biblical way and you will not find any scripture that tells you to go, if that person has been abused in any way, shape or form to go if that person has been abused in any way, shape or form, hide it, cover it, carry on breaching. There is serious consequences. What God says very, very clearly in this Bible against violence, and we are watching a government that does not know how to deal with these uncountable women. And don't forget the vast numbers that we see that are coming through the streams that we know. That is just a small percentage, that is tiny, to what is happening outside of the ones that haven't come forward.
Speaker 2:And I know what it's like not to come forward when you're coming out of that sort of situation. I know what it's like as a young child. I know what it's like. I buried it for 38 years coming out of situation. I know what it's like as a young child. I know what it's like. I buried it for 38 years. Coming out of that. I pushed it down, pushed it. It didn't happen, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it didn't happen to me. Blah, blah, blah, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:And then suddenly starts to talk about it. Let me tell you this is freedom. It's freedom. I'm on the most difficult journey of my life, my entire life. This is the most difficult time of my life. But God has given me strength and if I can rescue one boy, one girl, one woman, one man from an abusive sexual situation, I've done it. And if we can rescue one person, one human being rescues another person. Suddenly, the numerics click in suddenly.
Speaker 2:But what we have is a government, a government that is frightened to use the word. It won't dare itself, it won't allow it to say yes, this was racism coming from muslim rape gangs against white girls. It won't touch that, it is too scared. Even the church won't even label it. But the church has so much to answer for it has hidden it, it has pushed it away. And then we come up with all this legalized chat in government offices and government departments. What we need is a leadership within church, because church needs to deal with it first. Why does church need to deal with it? Because it's spiritual, it's not political. You cannot deal with this through the government arm. The government can't deal with this because it's not political and it's not human, is far beyond the human being. It is a spiritual, dark, evil force that has entered into them, men, them, abusers, and satan is using them. But you won't hear anything across the airways about this spiritual drive. Government politicians, areas of government will not go down that road. It is trying to avoid it. It's trying to skirt it. The church is as bad in religious areas as what the government is in dealing with it.
Speaker 2:The Church of England we have watched. They have hidden it time and time again. Catholicism hidden it time and time and time again. Catholicism hidden it time and time and time again. Sisters and brothers, if this relates to your life, if this relates to you and you are keeping something to yourself that has happened to you as a young boy or a young girl, please come and find me. Wherever you are across the world. Wherever you are in the world, please contact me. I know what it's like as a 12, 13, 14 year old boy. I know what it's like First hand account and God is setting me free. I could sit under a thousand counsellors and God bless them they're not going to help me. I could go to the doctors and fill myself up with pharmaceuticals, but they're not going to help me. The only way out of this hole that I've been living is through prayer and through trust and through the living word of God, because it's not of the natural realm, it is of the dark forces. It is in the deep dark places where Satan uses the human being to get his dark work done.
Speaker 2:It is subjects the church will not talk about. The church and religion will hide it and say that you can't talk from the pulpit like that. I pray that we will get leaders behind pulpits that will be bold and strong and put their head above the parapet and say do you know what? We're going to fight this with the word. We're going to stand in the arena and we're going to stand up for women that are coming under abuse. We're going to stand up for any woman, any color, any creed, any tribe, every tongue, because that is actually irrelevant.
Speaker 2:Where has racism come from? It has come from the government departments, and I'm not just talking about the government, I'm talking about all the areas of HR, gdpr. It has come out of something that did not exist and it has made up this drumbeat. It has made up this stuff and it has elongated stuff that isn't really true, and people are frightened to speak. People are frightened to say anything. You can't say anything. If you say that, you'll be branded. It's time. It's time for the leaders in the church of every denomination, of every tribe, of every color, of every tongue, to stand up and to protect the women in the lives that they walk around in and the men in the congregations to check and make sure that the women are safe in their relationships, their lives, school, work, home, every area of life.
Speaker 2:God is against violence and he says in 2 Samuel 22, verse 49 he says there, you exalted me above my foes. From the violent men you rescued me. Let's turn to the new testament. Before we go to the new, let's just drop into psalm 11, psalms 11. Turn to psalms 11. If you're with me, turn to psalms 11.
Speaker 2:Difficult conversations tonight, difficult subjects, but it's got to be spoken about because prayer is what we're about. So in psalms 11, if you have got psalms with you, I want you to turn to psalms. Psalms 11 and we're going to pick it up in verse 5, and it says the Lord examines the righteous, god examines us. God examines us because we are righteous in the eyes of God. He examines our heart, he examines our mind, he examines everything about us. And when you look at this scripture Psalms 11, verse 5, the Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, the wicked, the wicked and those who love violence.
Speaker 2:There are many people in this world that love violence. There are many people that love beating women to a pulp. There are many men that love abusing women with their masculinity. You can't call them men, actually, they're dogs. They're not even dogs, they're not even rats. There's nothing the Bible tells us and shows us that they are nothing in the eyes of God, and if any man.
Speaker 2:This is a serious subject. This is a serious subject. It's a scary subject. It makes us quake in our boots, it makes us look down at the floor, it makes us want to turn everything off and not deal with it. When a man strikes a woman, there is serious consequences, serious consequences. And then when the man of the house allows the children to hammer the mum with words, swearing language, abusing the mum, as in wording, that man is in serious trouble.
Speaker 2:He can call himself the Christian, and we see it in certain demographics of church. We see this a lot in culture and in church, where certain areas of certain churches think it's acceptable and they don't know how to deal with it. But this is serious stuff, gentlemen acceptable and they don't know how to deal with it, but this is serious stuff, gentlemen. This is serious stuff that God has laid a mantle on me and on you as a man, and anyone online, to make sure that every woman, every woman, is protected from the workspace to life, every area. It's a serious subject, but what we have, we have these. I don't even like to use the word men or a man there. We'll use that terminology because we get what we're talking about. God is against any violence from any side of the gender tribe. Whatever way you look at that, god is extremely against the man that lifts his hand to any woman, whether marriage, relationships, sisters, whatever. We also get it through where men are abusive to their mums. This is serious stuff. We are in a serious place at this moment and it needs to be addressed.
Speaker 2:So when you look at these scriptures here verse, uh, verse five I'll pick up verse five of psalm 11 again, and it says there the lord examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence, his soul hates. Now, if you look at that scripture there, how can God have a soul? How can this God be? So what we have to do is we have to unpack it. And we have to unpick it and we have to look at it theologically. He's talking about someone that has got two legs, two arms, two eyes and a head. He's talking about Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate role model to protect children and women and their men. He is the ultimate man that this world has never seen. Anything like it Literally put his life on the line to protect little children, the vulnerable the Bible speaks about, and women. Jesus Christ is in Psalm 11. Psalm 11. Psalm 11 because it is so clear his soul hates on the wicked. Now, this is quite a text on the wicked. He will.
Speaker 2:So to have a he, he must be referring to the masculine, the, because we know if it, if it, it's a woman, if it's he, it's a male. So as we look at these scriptures, it's referring to a male. Where does the male come in the scripture? Where is this in the Bible? I know we've got Father, son, holy Spirit. There we have. We have male, we have a man. What we have is we have a man, what we have is a, we have a man. The Bible says the man, christ Jesus. So we've got a link. And the Bible says the word became flesh. So if you become flesh, you are either a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. There's no in between the fabric of the page, there's no in between all that stuff. So we understand that the Bible says and Jesus became flesh and made his. So we got another word in this that's driving towards a male. He made his presence known to us and the word became flesh and he dwelt among us.
Speaker 2:John, chapter one, verse 14. I'm bringing this almost to every service that we have. John, chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. So Jesus is from Genesis to Revelation. So Jesus is from Genesis to Revelation.
Speaker 2:Jesus is against violence. Jesus did not strike any human being. He did not strike anyone. He was not for violence in any shape, any form, any way. So when you look at verse 6 of Psalm 11, on the wicked he will reign Fiery coals, fiery coals and with burning sulfur, a scorching wind will be their lot. Hell awaits. Hell awaits a violent man. Silence across the platforms, silence in the church. Hell awaits any man that is breeding violence in his life, advocating violence.
Speaker 2:If you are a man and you know that a woman in certain areas of your life is under an abusive man. You need to take that to prayer, brothers, because it can't be left as it is, and we find it in so many areas of life where people just let it go. Oh, leave them, leave them to it, leave them to it. We're not going to get involved, we'll leave them to it. But there is a responsibility, whether it's your brother, whether it's your father, whether it's your friend, whoever it is. As men, there is a responsibility, whether it's your brother, whether it's your father, whether it's your friend, whoever it is. As men, there is a responsibility that God has given us to make sure that the women within the world and our world is wherever we go and wherever we move in are safe and not harmed in any way. There is serious consequences to any man that turns a blind eye and knows it's going on. It's a serious subject that the church is just just escaping itself from.
Speaker 2:So when you look at these scriptures, now we're gonna. We're coming to a close. This is running over. When I'm not gonna, I'm gonna wait till I'm finished. I'm not going to worry about the time, because now we're going to enter into a real area of awkward conversation. If you're with me tonight, turn to Matthew, chapter 18.
Speaker 2:Turn to Matthew, chapter 18, from verse 1 down to the end of verse 6. This is what Jesus says about children. When you look at these scriptures, I cannot be any more serious than I am this evening. If you are, and then you know and you see and you hear, even if it's just down the grapevine of conversation, that that man is beating his woman, his wife, his children. Seriously, gentlemen, I ask you from the bottom of my heart that you find a way of dealing with it biblically correctly and through the law. This is not allowed in the world. In the kingdom of God, we're going to enter into some scripture that we could read over and the church doesn't even read over and the church doesn't even preach about. So let's get going.
Speaker 2:Verse 1 of Matthew, chapter 18. At that time, his disciples came to Jesus and asked who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? He called the little children and he had them stand among him and he said I tell you the truth unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like these little children, it will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Now we come to verse 5. And anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. This is serious stuff. This is serious stuff.
Speaker 2:And then Jesus goes on and says verse 6, but if anyone this is harrowing just to read along.
Speaker 2:But if anyone he's talking about, of anyone of any color, of any tribe, of anything, anyone, man, woman, anyone, this is what he says. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, god, help me, god, help me Jesus it will be better for him. Now it's very interesting that God, through christ, through the holy spirit, spins it back onto the mouth, because that's what the bible says. It will be better for him him, to have a large millstone hung around his neck it's referring to the man and to drown in the deepest depths of the sea. So now let's talk about world religions, certain colors, certain tribes, certain cultures, certain demographics. I ask God to have mercy on your soul. I ask God to have mercy on your soul If you think, through your book, that it's acceptable to marry a child, because your book says you're on your way to hell, because the wind of hell is coming towards you. Burning sulfurs have got your name on it.
Speaker 2:Torture, beyond torture, awaits any man that breeds violence against a woman and any child. It's a subject that makes us twitch and itch and scratch and it's a subject that we don't want to even hear about. It's a subject that the church won't go near. Why? Because it's doing it in many areas. It's doing it in many areas. Woe betide. The scripture, in two places, has mentioned he and him. The child abuser is on his way to hell. The child abuser has a wind that is coming down that has his name on it. Name on it. Jesus says it is better for he and him to tie a weight around his neck and go to the deepest ocean. But what Jesus was saying is you're not going to survive that deepest ocean because that's an easy way out and to me that's probably one of the most horrific ways to go out Because that's an easy way out and to me that's probably one of the most horrific ways to go out. But Jesus is saying there's a more horrific way for you to go. And if you were to look in certain areas and certain translations of the scriptures, the Bible says suffer the little children. What Jesus was saying there in the old language, he was saying the vulnerable. If anyone touches these vulnerable women and children, hell has your name on it. But the church is preaching revival. Cultures won't deal with it. Cultures are allowing women to be abused, beat, pushed around, laughed, spat at, kicked at, punched, laughed at, sexually abused beyond human understanding, in church, out of church, in religion, out of religion, and this government is allowing it to exist. I pray that God will have mercy on this government. But if you talk, if you mention these Muslim rape gangs and you say because this is across the board of the news, it is on all feeds of social media, it is out everywhere, but the church won't talk about it. It is one of the biggest prayer points that the church should be in prayer, but the church is praying for more money. The church is praying for revival. What a load of rubbish.
Speaker 2:How pathetic is that, when we have the biggest spiritual onslaught against women of every color, of every tribe, of every culture, of every skin color across the world, of every culture, of every skin color across the world, and the church and religion and world religions are endorsing it through what they call their holy books. It's evil, it's driven by Lucifer. So if you are I would say in my situation, a white man, and say anything about these Muslim rape gangs, I'm putting myself up for target. But if, through what I say can rescue one boy, one girl, one man, one woman from hell and I'm not referring to the hell that the Bible talks about, I'm talking about the hell that you live when you are under an abusive, evil driven, narcissistic man that has Lucifer in his DNA, in his bones, in his gut, in his eyes, in his thought. There is nothing on earth, in all humanity that would drive another human being because it is driven by Lucifer, but it's hidden under religion. Politics will skirt around it, governments will allow it. I pray for every color, every culture, every area of life that God will open our eyes, and especially in the UK, as we are watching a government literally being unbelievable because they're frightened of being called racist and allowing everything going on and the church is hiding what it knows goes on under the fabric of church and religion and pushing and moving it around, hoping that time will erase it. Let me tell you this, church and religion, you abusers out there, it will not go away for the ones that have been abused. It will not go away for the ones that have been abused and the only way healing can come, the only way healing can come is not through counseling, not through pharmaceuticals, but through the God of Israel.
Speaker 2:If you are on the other side of my voice this evening and you are in a relationship and you are being beaten, come and find me and I will stand up for you. If you are a child and you know of a child and you are in an area of abuse, let me tell you I will stand up for you. I will be your voice. If there's any men out there that knows, blatantly knows, that there's violence going on behind certain doors, whatever colour, whatever culture, and you're turning a blind eye, and myself included, hell could await for us. We are living in very dangerous, very bleak, very dark, satanic days, but light is greater than darkness and truth will always come through. If you need help out there this evening, it doesn't matter how big and ugly the perpetrators are. God will set you free. Don't live in a life, don't live in a culture, don't live in a house, don't live in an area of life. If you are coming under abuse, find me. You can find me all over the social networks, everywhere. You know where I am In Elim Church, swanley in Kent. I will stand for you. I will stand beside you, I would stand in front of you. We need the church, we need leaders to stand to bridge the gap.
Speaker 2:Sisters and brothers, this is serious prayer points. We are in a nation that is driven by a political agenda and not Jesus Christ. Wherever you are, I pray for anyone tonight, of any age, of any color, of any culture, that is in an abusive situation. But, as it's been on the news, as it's been highlighted on the news, I pray that God will have mercy on them Muslim men that have been in them, gang cultures, them rape gangs. I pray that God will have mercy on your soul. I pray that hell won't sweep you away. I pray that by a miracle.
Speaker 2:But then we enter into an area that only X amount of people can understand what I'm going to say. As we come to the table, the word forgiveness is the most difficult, hardest thing you will ever do. That is on the wrong side of this situation, because you've been told in a a way. This is happening to you because of you. This has happened to you because of you. Because of you, I'm going to treat you like this.
Speaker 2:Sisters and brothers, boys and girls, whoever you are, wherever you are, I pray that you will not allow the satanic lie, the satanic lie, to drive you into a place of despair, but you will get a hold of the word of God, wherever you are across the world tonight, and you will find peace in the holy word of Jesus Christ. Forgiveness is so difficult, forgiveness is so difficult. You might hear people say, well, I'm learning to forgive, but I can't forget. We're in difficult subjects. We're in difficult conversations, difficult podcasts, difficult sermons, difficult live streams.
Speaker 2:So we're coming to the table and I'm asking the men across the world, the men across the world, if you know as, according to the word of God, and you are born again Christian and you are born again male, if you know any women that are being abused, please don't turn a blind eye, please do not allow that to go on. Find through counsel, wisdom, prayer how to deal with it, because there are more women in culture, color, certain areas of life that are in abusive relationships and the male thinks it's acceptable to do that To the women out there. I ask you, if you are in an abusive situation, to find us. To find us because there is freedom to find us to find us because there is freedom, and do not allow that Mao in your life, that culture, to dictate to you, because, just in a few areas that I've picked out, and the Bible is telling us that God cannot stand a man that is using violence against a boy, a girl or a woman. It is completely something that you will find where the scripture says that God hates. That's the terminology that the scripture uses, that God hates it. The Bible says that his soul hates it and he is being referred to as Jesus Christ. I'm telling you, men, there is a wind blowing against the abusers. There is a holy wind blowing and when you say holy, it is seriously holy. Holy because God, there is a serious consequence.
Speaker 2:I do not know how to finish this this evening. I do not know how to draw a line because it's a subject that is so strong and so real and the church is hiding so much. There are people in church on Sundays across this nation of many cultures, of many colours. There are women sitting in churches that have just come out of being beaten, spat at, kicked, laughed at, ridiculed, hit and struck by so-called husbands, ridiculed, sworn at, and then what you find is the children within the house think it's okay to speak to their mum as bad as the father does. Seriously, we are on a serious subject and this subject is not going to go away. So if you find it very, very difficult to sit under to listen to, I understand that and I pray that God will give you peace. But it might be best that you may go to another church for a while or don't listen, because God is using us to deal with a subject that needs to be dealt with. It's raw, it's painful, it's frightening, it's deep, it's dark and it's evil, but Jesus sets the captives free.
Speaker 2:So if you are in some form of abuse tonight that we've been talking about in an area of violence, do not accept it. The culture should never accept it. The church should not hide it. Seriously, gentlemen across the world, we have a serious mantle to pick up to protect women across the world of every color, of every tribe, of every nation, of every tongue. Father, we come to you tonight in this unfamiliar territory, and I ask you for wisdom, I ask you for guidance, I ask you to help all of us, god, through prayer, through scripture, through love, through forgiveness, through experience of how to deal with certain things that we are seeing. And, lord, I ask you, jesus, dear God, we come to you tonight and we recognize that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. The cup symbolizes the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 2:Lord, if there's anyone tonight on the other side of our voice who is in an abusive situation physically, sexually, mentally, whether married or unmarried, lord, I pray that you'll get them out of that relationship. There's nowhere that Scripture says ladies, boys, girls, men that it's acceptable to stay in a relationship of any shape where your life is threatened, you're being treated despicably, pack your suitcases. I know it's easy to say, pack your suitcases. I know it's easy to say and remove yourself and find a safe space. I pray for the women, the girls, the men, the boys out there that are in very difficult situations. I pray, god, that you will close the eyes to the abuser, the ones, father, that is bringing the abuse. And, lord, allow those that need to escape to escape in the name of Jesus and get them safe. So, father, bless this bread, bless the cup, come.
Speaker 2:Jesus. You tell us through the word that we're two or three are gathered. Do this in my name and we're doing this in the name of Jesus. Bless us tonight In Jesus' name, amen. Jesus said in the same way after supper. He took the cup and he had blessed the cup and he prayed about the cup. We know what the scripture says, we understand what the Bible says and we understand that this cup is symbolic to the blood of Jesus. If you are in a situation that your life is threatened, if you are in a situation, I pray that you will get out in the name of Jesus. Dear God, cover us in the blood of Jesus. Cleanse us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. Wash us, cleanse us In your wonderful name, amen. Wash us, cleanse us in your wonderful name, amen.
Speaker 2:Sisters and brothers across the world and in the house tonight, I understand it's difficult, I understand it's very, very touchy. We strike nerves and maybe we come to church and maybe we've come on live and we didn't want to get entangled in this sort of conversation. But, brothers, seriously talking to the men across the world tonight, it is not acceptable. It is not acceptable to sit back and to listen and to hear of stories of people, of men, abusing women. God is against violence. The Bible tells us that.
Speaker 2:So, as Christians, I pray that God will give us wisdom and strength as men, and God has told us to protect women, to protect children, and whatever that takes. I pray that God will protect you as a man, as a young man, an older man, and God will give you wisdom of how to deal with a situation. That is like throwing in an hand grenade, pulling the pin, but what we've got to remember is there is a responsibility on our shoulders as men to protect, to lead, to guide and to strengthen. It's critical because, I would say, 98% of church leadership is looking in the wrong direction. I pray for leaders, I pray for every denomination, I pray for all men, I pray for myself and I put myself in the firing line and I need to speak out more. I need to speak out more. So, father, have forgiveness on me tonight, have forgiveness on all of us tonight, lord, in many areas of our lives. But, lord, we feel the wind is changing, the wind of end times is changing and I do not want to get to glory and Jesus drops a line like this Ben, you knew that that boy or that girl was under abuse.
Speaker 2:Ben, you knew that that woman in that relationship was being struck and you didn't do anything about it. And you want me to let you into heaven. You want me to put you in the lamb's book of life. We are in a serious conversation and it needs to be had. It needs to be had, it needs to be spoken about and if anyone across the world knows of anyone that is in a dangerous situation, the authorities need to be alerted. It needs to be dealt with with wisdom, prayer and spiritual guidance from God. It could be the most difficult decisions that you're sitting on in your life, but God is watching us.
Speaker 2:God hates violence. God hates it, his soul hates it, and Jesus said if anyone touches the vulnerable, the weak, anyone touches that woman of vulnerability, that boy or that girl. If anyone touches them, the wind of hell is coming to you, sulfur and fiery coals are coming your way, and Jesus refers to him and he as the abuser. We're going to finish. I pray that God will get you to sleep tonight and God will give you peace, and I pray across the globe that women and children and men will escape violent situations.
Speaker 2:Father, I pray tonight, lord, as this goes out across the globe. I pray, dear God, especially at this moment because it's hitting the news as we speak the white women that have been caught beyond human understanding by Muslim rape gangs. That God, you will deal with this, please Jesus. That God, you will deal with this, please Jesus. And for anyone of any colour, of any tribe, of any culture that has experienced any area of this, we ask you, father, we ask you God, to have mercy In Jesus' name. Amen. May God bless every one of you. In the name of Jesus Christ, we will see you Sunday morning as we gather online and in the Lord's house for the word of the Lord, for worship, for prayer, for communion. But, sisters and brothers, the wind of heaven is changing direction and it's not praying for revival and it's not praying for revival, it's not praying for prosperity. I pray that, as men, we will rise and be men and as women, we will rise and be women and we will see the glory of God. May God bless every one of you.
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