When Flags Rise, the Cross Should Rise Higher #1116 Elim

 In this episode, recorded in London, England, Reverend Ben Cooper delivers a deeply challenging and prophetic message under the theme “No Flag but Jesus.” Drawing from the powerful words of Deuteronomy 8, this devotional takes listeners into the heart of God’s reminder to His people during their wilderness journey.

For forty years, Israel was humbled, tested, and refined in the desert. They experienced hunger, but God provided manna that no one had ever seen before. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet never swelled. Through every trial, God was teaching them one fundamental truth: “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

Centuries later, Jesus Christ Himself echoed these words in Matthew 4:4 when He was tested in the wilderness. Hungry and physically weak, He resisted temptation by declaring that His life was sustained not by earthly bread but by the eternal Word of God. This connection reveals an unchanging truth: God’s Word is the ultimate source of life, strength, and victory.

The title “No Flag but Jesus” captures the heart of this message. Nations may raise flags, movements may demand allegiance, and cultures may try to define identity, but for the follower of Christ, there is only one kingdom worth living for and only one King worth serving. No political system, no ideology, and no earthly banner can bring salvation or eternal hope. Our allegiance belongs to Christ alone.

Biblical Foundation:

• Deuteronomy 8:1–8 – God’s discipline, provision, and promises during the wilderness journey.
• Matthew 4:4 – Jesus Christ’s declaration that man lives by God’s Word.
• Joshua 1:8 – The call to meditate on the Word of God day and night.
• Psalm 119:105 – The Word of God as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.

Episode Highlights:

• The wilderness as God’s testing ground for His people.
• The lesson of manna: God’s provision teaches trust and dependence.
• The unchanging Word of God as the foundation of life.
• The danger of forgetting God in seasons of blessing and prosperity.
• Why Christians are called to place their allegiance solely in Jesus Christ.
• What it means to live daily under the banner of No Flag but Jesus.

Life Application:
Every generation is faced with the same question: Who will you serve, and where will you place your loyalty? The world waves its flags—nations, ideologies, and identities that compete for our devotion. Yet all these symbols are temporary. They fade, they fall, and they fail. The Kingdom of Christ is eternal.

To declare “No Flag but Jesus” is to proclaim that our allegiance is to Him above all else. It means trusting God in the wilderness, remaining faithful in seasons of testing, and remembering Him when life is abundant. It is a call to obedience, humility, and daily surrender. True life is found not in worldly symbols but in the Word of God that nev

Chapters

• 0:19 Welcome and Introduction
• 3:41 Man Shall Not Live By Bread Alone
• 12:30 Returning to Fundamental Truths
• 21:33 Deuteronomy 8: Do Not Forget God
• 30:41 The Church Facing Political Division
• 39:52 Breaking Bread and Prayer
• 49:12 Final Exhortations and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

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Speaker 2: 0:35

Good evening everyone and welcome for tonight's special edition on the Bible Study. Tonight we're going to do something special and something nice as we gather tonight. I want to begin with a powerful word of Jesus in Matthew 4, verse 4. Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Those words were spoken in the wilderness. Jesus had faith forty days and forty nights. He was fiercely weak through the temptation and yet his response was not to focus on earthly, on every bread, but on heavenly truth. Bread but on heavenly truth. In a moment he pointed back to foundation, led in demotronicity eight. God has let his people through 40 years in the desert and humble. But before then let us take a little prayer for tonight.

Speaker 2: 1:45

Dear God, we thank you for your words. It's living bread in our souls and everywhere in wilderness seasons. Please help us go through everywhere we go. Remind sources of the lead. Lord, forgive us when we forget, when we chose an empty thing, when we trust in ourselves instead of trusting you. Teach us to walk humbly, not to obey and love fully. Just remind ourselves, please. We need everything we do. Please make it right for everything we do For Jesus' name, amen.

Speaker 3: 2:22

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Speaker 3: 2:53

At this moment in time, we want to say a massive thank you and all to them idiots that are trying to get into our accounts. We want to say thank you so much to them dirty little scumbags that are trying to get in to our account, those social media hackers. You really need Jesus in your life. Thank you for what you're doing. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. May God cut your electric off. In the name of Jesus, brother and sister, if you knew what goes on in this studio. It's absolutely unbelievable. Wherever you are this evening, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, you know the Bible says we've got to pray for our enemies and Lord, wherever you are this evening, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, you know, the Bible says we've got to pray for our enemies and Lord. Forgive me in the name of Jesus Christ, but we're turning to the book of Deuteronomy. We're going to turn to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 8. Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verses 1 through to 9. Wherever you are, the power of God is in your life. Never give up. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, there is power. But, sister and brother, you know God is calling us. What is God calling us to? I really believe this with all my spirit, with all my heart. God is calling us to what? To the fundamental truths. Back to the word of God. He says I am the same yesterday, today and forevermore.

Speaker 3: 3:55

And Alex read that scripture out this evening. He said man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that perceives out of the mouth of God. It is critical for me as a Bible-believing believer is to take no notice of what the church is doing, but to take full notice of what the scripture says. Take no notice of what religion is doing, take no notice of what the world is doing, but to take every notice what the fire of God is doing, and I pray wherever you are. What do you mean, fire of God? I mean the presence of God, god's heart. It's really critical that we listen for the whisper of God in the chaos of life, that we capture God's heartbeat. Wherever you are, we pray for you and we pray that the fire of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit will be with you.

Speaker 3: 4:37

We thank you to everybody on social media, right now on camera. We thank you to everybody on RB, christian Radio and the World of Podcasts. You know 27,000 downloads zipping along there. You know really, really quickly, everything you know and we want to say thank you to everybody that just prays for us and supports us and everything that goes on. But we want to encourage you now Never give up in your dream, never give up in your dream. Never give up because God is with you.

Speaker 3: 4:59

But it's really, really interesting what's happening across this nation at this moment. Really, really interesting what's happening across this nation at this moment. You know the UK is ramping up for some form of a political weekend, as it always is. You know, there's things happening across the globe, brother and sister, it's not about lifting up the flag, it's about lifting up Jesus Christ. That is the critical thing. You know the Bible.

Speaker 3: 5:17

Yesterday we was in the scripture. We was looking at what the Bible says about government. What the Bible says about government. Yes, god has put government in position, but if the government is not following the word of God, I don't follow the government. That is that simple. It is so clear. You know, we're getting straight into the book of Deuteronomy and the reason I had that little ramble a moment ago is that we've got to keep in the commandments of God. We've got to keep in the word. We can't come out of the word. We've got to stay under the protection of the word of God. This nation is slipping down the sewer moment by moment, but the power of God is with you.

Speaker 3: 5:54

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Speaker 3: 6:17

But it's really, really critical for me right now, as a Bible-believing believer believing believer, to stand on the word of hope, to stand on the gospel of truth, and whatever platform you're listening to now, may the spirit of God lift you and carry you. It is critical. If you live in the UK, you will feel the temperature, not of the sun in the sky, but you will feel the temperature and the atmosphere of what is happening around the globe. You will feel the atmosphere, what's happening on your streets and your towns. You will notice that there's a strange, unusual feeling within the atmosphere. If things feel very quiet, they feel very odd. You know it's like a tsunami experience when you're waiting from watching the ocean and suddenly the tsunami goes out. You know, suddenly the tsunami sorry, the wave goes out and then suddenly it disappears right out and it's very quiet, it's very still and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you hear this sound. You hear a sound and it's coming to the shoreline. You know, that's what I actually believe.

Speaker 3: 7:14

What's happened to the UK at this time? You know, there's this stillness. It's like the wave has gone out. It's gone right out and you can't see what's happening. But all of a sudden, you know, before long, suddenly, there's going to be a great crash, there's going to be a great wave, a great tidal wave that is going to swing right through the UK.

Speaker 3: 7:33

You know, now is the time to get in the word of God. It really is critical that we get in this word. But the text that we're in tonight, you know Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verses 1 through to 9, it says Do not night. You know Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verses 1 through to 9, it says do not forget the Lord. What has the UK done? The UK, through its teachings and through its prophetic way of church, it has forgotten the word of God.

Speaker 3: 7:58

Now, I'm not talking about congregations. I would never talk about congregations. I'll never talk about the believers that sit in the pews, in the chairs I'm talking about when I always speak about the chairs I'm talking about when I always speak about the church. I'm talking about leaders, I'm talking about the structure of the church the UK church has got a lot to answer to, and who's it going to answer to? It's going to answer to Jesus Christ when he calls us home. You know, if you are a minister, if you are a preacher or a teacher, an evangelist whatever you want to call yourself I would urge you to check that you are living in a calling that God has called you to be, because we are waiting for a tsunami to crash across this nation like we've never seen before, and it is critical that the church gets strengthened. It is critical that the body of Christ gets food, and we're not talking about the sustenance that the world offers. We're talking about, as Alex in the scripture mentioned earlier, man doesn't live on bread alone, but by every word that perceives out of the mouth of God. It is critical for us, as Bible-believing believers, that we do not forget the Lord, but religion and the majority of the UK church has forgotten the Lord Again. I'm not talking about congregations. I am talking about the leaders. I'm talking about those that preach the gospel, that bring the gospel, that are in the wheels of religion. I'm talking about that. This is what we're in.

Speaker 3: 9:14

It is absolutely, fundamentally important that we, as Bible-believing believers, to actually get into the scripture and do not let the word of God go Wrestle with the word, like Jacob, and do not let the word of God go Wrestle with the word, like Jacob.

Speaker 3: 9:26

Do not let the word of God go. Here we go. I'm going to read now I've been rambling too long Verse 1, it says Be careful to follow every command that I'm giving you today so that you may live and increase and may enter into the promised land that the Lord had promised on oath to the forefathers. Remember how the Lord, your God, led you all the way in the desert for 40 years to humble you and to test you in order to know where your heart is, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and to feed, and he fed you, sorry, on manna, which neither of your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that perceives out of the mouth of God, your clothes, verse 4 of Deuteronomy, chapter 8,. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell Due over these 40 years.

Speaker 3: 10:19

Verse 5,. And it says Now then, in your heart, that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord will discipline you. Observe the commands of the Lord, your God. Walk in his ways, revering him For. Observe the commands of the Lord, your God. Walk in his ways, revering him. For the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good land, a land, streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and the hills. A land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey. A land with bread that will not be scarce and you will lack nothing. A land with uh bread that will not be scarce and you will lack nothing. A land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. You know god is our supplier, god is supplying. God will supply all my needs according to thy riches in glory. We don't need anybody else to feed us, to water us or to carry us, because the fire of God is over your life.

Speaker 3: 11:10

But now is a time, as the scripture says in Deuteronomy, chapter eight, verse one do not forget the Lord. Brother and sister, if you are in a church that's not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, it's time to evacuate and it's time to leave that. We have got to be in the word, we've got to be in the scripture. We've got to be in the power of God like never before, because there is a tsunami about to break over the shoreline of this nation and it is going to rip right the way through the towns. It's going to rip all the way through. We are waiting for this spiritual volcano to come down. The glory of God is with you wherever you are right now.

Speaker 3: 11:46

But I need to encourage you. If you are in a church and it's pressing the word of God amen. If you're in a church and they're preaching the fundamental truths of God, that is powerful. If you're in a church that is talking about eschatology, the rapture of the church, the last days on earth, if you're in a church that is speaking about the power of God and the word of God, if you're in a church that's speaking about all these really core points of Christianity, you know, with the sound doctoring, stay in the church. But if you are in a weak church that puts more weight on worship and more weight on men and women, the worshiper team, if you're in a church that puts more weight on worship rather than the word, it's always the word first. The Bible says in the beginning was the word If God wanted us to put worship first, he would have told us to put worship first, because word brings worship.

Speaker 3: 12:35

It's really, really important that when we look at Paul and Silas, they didn't have the latest razzmatazz that was out there. It says that they worshipped him in spirit and in truth. How did they worship God without a band? How did they worship him without Wi-Fi? How did they worship him without Wi-Fi? How did they worship him without any instruments whatsoever? They sang hymns and psalms. They sang psalms, psalm 23 and Psalm 91.

Speaker 3: 13:01

When you look at psalms, psalms are so powerful. I will tell you this now whatever song, whatever worship song that you think that is out there, that is really powerful. Let me tell you Psalm 23, and you sing Psalm 23, is going to give you more freedom than any of the secular Christianity worship songs that are on the earth, because Psalm 23 and Psalms are of the Word of God and they are fundamental truth and they are steeped in theological and deep understanding of God's word. So what we have to do is we have to worship in spirit and in truth. I can only worship in spirit when I'm in the Holy Spirit. I can only worship in truth when I'm in the word of God. So the spirit and truth has to go together. But first, if you start singing Psalm 23, let me tell you whatever song is in the Christian charts at this moment in time. Psalm 23 will knock the socks off of that right now, because there is power in the word of God and there is power in the name of Jesus. Never before.

Speaker 3: 14:12

It's time to forget church. It's time to forget what the world is doing. And now is a time to saturate yourself in the scripture. And this is what it says in Deuteronomy, chapter eight, verse one be careful to follow every command I give you today so that you may live and increase and may enter into the promised land that the Lord, thy God, promised on oath to the forefather.

Speaker 3: 14:29

There are so many promises that the church hasn't grabbed hold of because it's come away from the teaching. If you come away from the commandment, you come away from the promise. If you come away from the promise, you come away from the blessing. If you come away from the blessing, you come away from hope. If you come away from hope, you come away from faith. If you come outside and you walk outside of the word of God, sister and brother, I cannot emphasize this enough.

Speaker 3: 14:55

It's time to evacuate church and literally get in the word of God. Saturate yourself in the holy power of God. God's word is power. God's word is awesome. God's word will carry you. God's word will lift you wherever you are. But there is something powerful about that word. The word is greater than worship. The word is greater than any preacher could deliver. There is power in the word of God. It is the word. It is the word of God. It is the word of God.

Speaker 3: 15:27

No worship song on this earth can get near God's word. No worship song, no worship leader can get anywhere near the word of God. You know there is power in the scripture. If you are looking for cancer to bow, it is through the word of God. If you are looking for blindness to go, it is through the word of God. If you want to see the dead raised, it is through the word of God. Everything is through the word.

Speaker 3: 15:49

The Bible says very clearly that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No one can enter the kingdom of heaven without going through Jesus. You've got to be born again. There's nothing more powerful than being born again. It doesn't matter what the greatest Christian songs are out there at this moment. It has to be scripture. Scripture is clear.

Speaker 3: 16:12

Every time we read these areas, god points us to scripture. He don't point us to worship. We are worshipers. We are worshipers and the Bible says the worshipers worship in spirit and in truth. We are worshipers. We don't need a guitar, you don't need a drum, you don't need a microphone, you don't need any band to get you into the position of worshipping God. Because if you take up God's word and take up Psalm 23 and you start getting that in your spirit and you start speaking Psalm 23 over your life, over every area of your life, suddenly you are going to see such an acceleration because you are speaking God's word and the Bible says God's word cannot return void. But if we sing certain areas of worship, they are lacking doctoring. It is critical.

Speaker 3: 17:02

Every time you pull up the word of God, it is right now. You know it is scripture that breaks the yoke. It is scripture that kills cancer. It is scripture that destroys the work of the enemy. Jesus said what did Jesus say when he was in the wilderness? It is written. It is written.

Speaker 3: 17:22

There is something so powerful about the word of God and this is what God is telling the Israelites in Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1. Be careful to follow every command I give you today so that you may live and increase. This is why we have so many issues within the world in which we live. We have come away from the word of God and we have made our own gospel up. We have made our own understanding up. We think that we are bigger than God and we can write our own Bible. But let me tell you there is power in the word of God. If you want breakthrough, it's through the scripture. If you want hope, it's through the scripture. Everything comes through the word of God. John, chapter one, verse one. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. He was with God in the beginning. It is the word of God and it is God that will sustain you.

Speaker 3: 18:14

If you are looking for a miracle, brother and sister, wherever you are, it is not through worship, it is through the word of God. Worship is secondary, worship is secondary. Prayer is powerful. If you're looking for that breakthrough, you get down on your hands and your knees, you lay, prostrate out straight on the floor and you say Father, in the name of Jesus, spirit of the living God, I come to you right now and I pray that the fire of God will descend on my heart, my mind, my body, my soul.

Speaker 3: 18:43

Today, god, this is the day of breakthrough. Today, god, cancer bows. Today, god, the enemy bows. Today, god, the devil flees at the name of Jesus Christ Because there is power in the word, and if God didn't want us to have anything to do with the word, he would have told us that. But he tells us through the book of Joshua meditate on the word day and night so that you will be A, b, c and D.

Speaker 3: 19:16

You know the book of Joshua. If you're looking for breakthrough in your life, get hold of Joshua, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, and start reading that and then run a parallel with the book of Ephesians. Ephesians is like Joshua, but the spiritual side of it. Joshua is the practical application, ephesians is the spiritual application. So if you get Joshua and Ephesians and you read them parallel, you will find that you got fire in your life like never before. The Bible says keep my commands and do not deviate from the left nor the right.

Speaker 3: 19:41

No wonder the church is being crushed at this moment in time. No wonder the church doesn't know what to do in a crisis. We got a political agenda that is on the streets and the church is back indoors doing crochet and got its knitting needles out. You know, we have to get out of the word of God and we have to get on the streets and tell the world. It's not what flag I lift up, it's the word of God. We've got to lift up the word of God. We're more interested in the political agenda. We're more interested in the colour divide. We're more interested in the political agenda. We're more interested in the colour divide. We're more interested in the political status. We're more interested in the social media status than actually lifting up the word of God.

Speaker 3: 20:21

If we want change in our government, if we want change in parliament, if we want change in our schools, if we want change on the streets, what do we lift up? We don't lift up the Union Jack flag. You don't lift up any other flag. You lift up the name of Jesus, because it is Jesus that breaks the yoke. It is Jesus that brings change. It is prayer that brings change.

Speaker 3: 20:43

The Union Jack ain't going to get us nowhere. What the Union Jack is going to do is going to bring more political division. It is going to bring more trouble. It is going to bring a political divide. We've got a political divide, we've got a color divide, we've got a cultural divide, we've got an age divide, we've got social media, we've got church and religion. There is so much division in this nation.

Speaker 3: 21:07

What the church needs to do is get hold of the word of God, not lift up any flag, but it needs to lift up the scripture and the body of Christ. Come on, we're born again, spirit filled, blessed and highly favored, wonderfully and fearfully made. You don't need a flag, you need a cross. You don't need a political agenda, you need faith. What the Bible says the just shall live by faith In Hebrews. The book of Hebrews tells us, chapter 12, keep your eyes on Jesus. He doesn't mention any parliamentarians, he doesn't talk about any political divide. The scripture says keep your eyes on Jesus.

Speaker 3: 21:45

If the church leaders will keep their eyes on Jesus, if congregations will be told keep your eyes on Jesus, imagine what it would be like if suddenly there was an eruption of the power of God and God on Sunday morning for forever and more in a day, told the whole church to lift me up, lift God up, don't lift up Mary, don't lift up the Church of England. Don't lift up leaders. Don't lift up this ministry, that ministry Just drop it all. Come to the. Don't lift up Leaders. Don't lift up this ministry, that ministry just drop it all. Come to the cross and lift up the cross.

Speaker 3: 22:14

Imagine what it would be like if every Christian, every Bible-believing Christian, got hold of a cross and walked the streets with a cross. That would be so powerful. Imagine what it would be like at the weekend where Christians got on the streets and they started reading the Lord's Prayer. Imagine what that would be like if the church said we're not going to go down the political drum, we're not going to lift up a flag, we're not going to do nothing like that. But what we're going to do is we're going to get in the gospel of Matthew, chapter six, and at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon we're going to call everyone into London, we're going to call everyone into the towns, to the streets, and we're going to start speaking the gospel of Matthew, chapter 6. We're going to start speaking the Lord's Prayer. Imagine what that would be like. Imagine what it would be like if the leaders of the church rose up and started to get a backbone. Imagine what it would be like if denominational leaders stopped looking in the mirror and giving themselves Botox and blowing smoke up their own chimney and literally got on the word of God and picked up a cross and took the church to the streets and started lifting up the name of Jesus.

Speaker 3: 23:23

We don't need another flag lifted, we need the cross lifted. We don't need another political party. We need the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. It is the word of God and this is what has happened to the UK. The title in the footnotes, deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1, says Do not forget the Lord, thy God. What has the UK done? It has forgotten the word of God. It is simple, it is fact. I don't need to be a scientist to work this one out. We have the biggest spiritual battle as a nation. Why? Because we are a sweet shop of religion and what we have on the streets are world religion, demonic forces, witchcraft, wizardry. We have absolutely black magic, white magic. We have every other foreign God on the street and we are lacking the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Not because Jesus isn't big enough, not because Christ can't cope with it, but because the leaders within the church of the UK are more interested in picking up a flag, more interested playing golf, more interested messing around rather than lifting up the cross of Calvary.

Speaker 3: 24:36

Imagine what that would be like if we all got a cross for every member of the church and everyone walked out on a Saturday afternoon and literally plundered the streets where we was. Imagine you can go back to lockdown. Do you remember that funny time when that man with a blonde hair and number 10 down the street had a game with us and started messing about and said, oh, we're going to lock down. You know, go back to them days, a moment. Go back to when that IKEA member that used to lead this nation said to us and he brought all this in. You know, covid-19. Remember those days? What happened? Do you remember? On a certain time, at a certain moment, we started getting on the streets and we started clapping the NHS.

Speaker 3: 25:19

Imagine what it would be like if the church leaders said at 12 o'clock every Saturday, we are going to walk the streets of London, we're going to walk our hometown and we are going to call every Bible-believing believer to stand in your house and pray the Lord's Prayer. Imagine what it would be like if the church started praying the Lord's Prayer on the streets. Imagine what it would be like if the Lord's Prayer was coming out with power and authority. Imagine what it would be like if Christians had a cross not lifting up a Union Jack, but lifting up the cross of Calvary and telling the world that this nation don't belong to a political party, it belongs to God, that this nation belongs to God. It doesn't belong to the left, not a right. It doesn't belong to number 10 Downing Street. This nation is a Christian nation and this nation is a God-given nation, and the spirit of God is on the streets.

Speaker 3: 26:20

What are we doing? Lifting flags as Christians? What are we doing in the political divide? What are we doing? Putting our trust in horses and chariots and kings and devils? Why are we not putting our trust in the word of God? Because the church leaders are too coward and they are too scared to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the simple fact of what is happening in this nation. We have political division because of what the scripture says. God says do not forget my commands. This nation, through the church and through the religious wills, has come away from the fundamental truths of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3: 27:01

Let me tell you, brother and sister, we do not need another political party. If you are with us online right now, I would urge you to get a Bible and open it up to Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1 through to 9. We are watching the biggest political divide we've ever had in a nation. We are watching the biggest color divide, the church divide, a class divide, an educational divide, a money divide, and what we don't need is another political party telling us what to do. What we need to do is get the church together, get yourself across and get on the streets and tell the world about Jesus. Imagine what it would be like if every church, every denomination, this weekend, didn't lift up a Union Jack, but lifted up the cross. I mean Walkmill. We are more worried about the Union Jack and who is in number 10 Downing Street rather than thinking who is on the cross and who was on the cross and who left the cross and now who is seated on the throne.

Speaker 3: 28:01

It is Jesus Christ that we need in this nation. We do not need another political divide. We do not need a color divide. We do not need a cultural divide. What we need is Jesus Christ, and the Bible says in Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verses 1, all the way through to 9. Do not forget my teachings. If you want to live and you want to prosper, it is through the word of God. What does God say to Joshua? Do not let this book of the Lord depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night. It is not a flag we need lifted up, it is Jesus Christ. Imagine what it would be like what I said earlier on.

Speaker 3: 28:38

Imagine this if the body of Christ and the church came out of its walls on Sunday morning and there was this mass amount of Christians on the street of the UK and as us, as Christians, we got in, say it was 12 o'clock Sunday and the church said we're not meeting in the church this day. We're going to meet on the streets. We're going to walk on the streets of London and we are going to pray. From 12 o'clock onwards, we are going to pray the Lord's Prayer. Imagine what that would sound like. It would make the devils flee. It would make the devils flee. It would make the witches flee. It would make sickness flee. But what is happening?

Speaker 3: 29:16

We have church leaders with no backbone and all they are interested in is their own gain. What we need is God to raise up leaders and God tells us in the scriptures do not forget my teachings, do not forget the word of God. But what we have is we have a church that has come away from the fundamental points of the word of God. No wonder we got political divide. No wonder we got Muppets in number 10 Downing Street. No wonder we got trouble everywhere is because the church has taken us away from Jesus Christ. Imagine what it would be like. Every Christian that got on the street lifted up a cross of Calvary, lifted up a word of God. Imagine if the church started praying the Lord's prayer, the only prayer that God gave us through Jesus Christ, our Father, who art in heaven. Imagine every locust would bow, every foreign God would bow, every politician would have to give way to Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3: 30:16

But what we got is a church that is scared. We got leaders that are scared. We got leaders that are staying in their four walls. We got leaders that won't talk about Israel. We got leaders that won't preach the blood of Jesus. We got leaders that don't enter into the scripture. They are too scared to upset the foreign gods that are in this nation. We need leaders in parliament, we need leaders on the street. We need a church that is filled with the power of God. We need the word of God like never before.

Speaker 3: 30:44

In these scriptures that I read out, if you have a, I made you, I created you, I formed you in your mother's womb. This is critical for where we sit right now. You know, we got to wind it back a minute. We got to wind this back, we got to get to the table. It is critical in our Christian walk that we break bread. Now let's take it a little bit further. 12 o'clock on Sunday no one in churches. We're out on the streets. Sunday no one in churches. We're out on the streets. And what else do we do on the streets? We take the breaking of bread and we take the cup to the streets.

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Imagine what it was like, rather than having an Ikea prayer mat at a certain time, with a man with a funny beard rather than that, imagine that stopping London. Imagine that they go and pray and they do what they want to do, but where are the leaders of the church? They Imagine that they go and pray and they do what they want to do, but where are the leaders of the church? They're scared. They're hiding under the sofa. Imagine what it would be like where you took your Bible and you went into London and you took bread and wine and at 12 o'clock, the church across the UK was starting bringing out the word of God.

Speaker 3: 31:55

Imagine what it would be like. The Lord's Prayer at 12 o'clock and once that's been said and done, one hour of praying, the Lord's Prayer across this nation would destroy the work of the devil, would flatten everything that was supposed to be happening. Then imagine, at one o'clock, suddenly, we all broke bread and we took out a cup. If we want revival, we got to get on the street. It's no good being in these four walls, it's no good hiding behind the cover of the building. We got to get out.

Speaker 3: 32:27

You got to tell the world about Jesus. You got to tell the world about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You know he is the great I am, he is worthy of all praise and there is power in the name of Jesus. You know, brother and sister, get ready for the tsunami that's coming. I'm telling you now. I'm telling you now there is a tsunami coming. We are living in days as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the signs of the coming of the one. His name is Jesus. Jesus Christ is coming. He's coming back. Let me tell you again the prophecies of the coming of Jesus, the first coming of Christ, have been fulfilled. We're waiting for one more, one more prophecy to be fulfilled when he comes out of that sky. And where will we be when he turns up? Where will we be when he shows up? The world will freeze, everything will stop, atheists will turn to him, foreign gods will bow down to him, but the church will probably be doing yoga. The church will probably be doing a scratch card. The church won't even know when he shows up.

Speaker 3: 33:39

Brother and sister, we are critically, desperately, in a position where we need to shake ourselves up, and I'm not talking about the congregations, I am talking about the structure, I am talking about the fundamental truths of j I've got to calm down a minute, because I'm going to end up bouncing around this wall in a minute. Come on, let's get straight to the table. We're going to break bread together, but, brother and sister, we're at critical days. It's not a flag I've got to lift up, it's Jesus. I don't need another political party telling me what's going on. What I need is Jesus.

Speaker 3: 34:18

Do you realize that the UK church is bigger than any other party, any other religion in this nation? Do you realize that the UK church is an army on itself? Do you realize that we huddle, that we huddle in buildings and we hide ourself away? Imagine what it would be like if the UK church, of every denomination, of every tribe and every tongue, suddenly the walls collapsed on Sunday. We are the biggest army that the UK has. It is the biggest power there is across this nation. It is bigger than any other religion. It is bigger than anything else. But we are hiding because the leaders that we have are too frightened to preach the fundamental truths. We're more interested in fake it name it, claim it prosperity, gospel and the weak, woke, educational message, rather than the church equipping us for the end time. War that is happening. There is a war in this nation. There is a clear spiritual war and the fire of God is moving.

Speaker 3: 35:30

Let's break bread, father. We come to you tonight, lord, in the power of Jesus Christ, and Lord, I pray that will you wake me up. Lord, wake me up, lord, wake me. Power of Jesus Christ, and Lord, I pray that will you wake me up, lord, wake me up, lord, wake me up, jesus. Lord, open my eyes, lord, let me see. Lord, more and more. What's going on, father. Open the leader's eyes up of this nation.

Speaker 3: 35:51

Father, I pray for unity. I pray for unity in denomination, sisters and brothers. We got more divide. We got more division, more division and more divide within the church than there is on the streets that we are watching. You know, the church needs to pull its trousers up and do its belt up and get on with it. The church needs to get on with it and deal with what's on the streets. What do you mean by that? There is war, and I'm not talking about fisticuffs, I'm talking about spiritual war. If the church knew how to dress and I'm not talking about the congregations, I never talk about congregations, people in the congregation, I talk about leaders If the church knew how to dress itself in the armor of God, then this nation would look very different. This nation would be very different if the leaders that call themselves spiritual leaders, the pastors, the deacons, the bishops, the apostolic, this brother, that brother, him, her if we took more conscious effort in the word, we would be in a different place in this nation.

Speaker 3: 36:58

Spirit of the living God, will you bless this bread. Father, will you bless this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ that was broken for each and every one of us? So, lord, as we break bread together right now, you tell us in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter eight do not forget the commandments. So, lord, I pray that I won't forget your commandments. I won't forget your word, because it is your word that will bring health to my bones. It is your word that will strengthen me. It is your word that will bring power. It is your word that will set the captives free. It is your word. There is nothing else like the word of god. It is the word that I need. It is the word that you need. It is the word that I need. It is the word that you need. It is the word that the church needs. It is the word, because the word is worship, the word is spirit, the word is life, the word is hope, the word is power. The word is freedom.

Speaker 3: 37:51

Do you need freedom tonight? Have you got dogs in your life? Have you got little rats coming out of the sewers at your life? Is people governing your life? Are you running around the devils? Don't please the devils, don't worry about what the devils are doing in your life. Don't feed the rat sewers food. Don't give them an inch anymore. Don't give the rats in your life any more attention. You know, don't look at the foxes. Don't follow the dogs. Don't listen to what the world is doing. Focus on the king of kings and the lord of lords.

Speaker 3: 38:27

If you want victory, you ain't going to find it down the sewer with a rat. If you want victory, you ain't going to find it in a pigsty with pigs. If you want freedom, you're going to find freedom in the word of God. And I would tell you now, right now, before we come to the table, check the people in your life, every person you got in your life. Are they taking you to Jesus or are they taking you to Lucifer? Just two ways. It's just two-way traffic. It's that simple. Are they taking you to Jesus or are they taking you to Lucifer? Two questions Lucifer or Jesus, sister and brother. One final thing before we break this bread If they're taking you to Lucifer's game, we've got to hold our place.

Speaker 3: 39:16

Really important, because we cannot be taken to Lucifer's playground. We've got to take those that are taking us to Lucifer's playground. We've got to take them to the cross of Calvary. Don't take them to church, take them to a Bible. Don't take them to religion, take them to the Word of God. Church, hold church.

Speaker 3: 39:36

At the moment, every one of us needs scripture. We can do without church, but I can't do without the word, because the Bible says smack bang. Centered right in that scripture that I was in. Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that perceives out of the mouth of God. It is scripture that we need. Father, bless this bread in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3: 40:01

Lord, we pray for the devils around us. We pray for the rats that are around us. We pray, dear God, for the dogs. We pray, dear God, for those foxes that are nipping at our ankles. We pray for the witches. We pray for black magic, white magic. We pray for those that are caught up in spiritual entities. Lord, we pray for those, dear God, that are trying to cause us trouble. We pray for the enemies in our lives. We pray, lord, that the work of the devil will be crushed because of the cross of Calvary. We thank you, lord. The devil's work is crushed. Lord, I ask you that we will not hang around with rats, lord, that we will not feed the foxes, lord, that we will not feed the dogs, dear God, that we, dear God, will not cast our pearls to pigs. Spirit of the living God, awaken the body of Christ. Open our eyes, lord. We want to keep our eyes on Jesus.

Speaker 3: 40:49

Hebrews 12, verse 2,. Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author, the perfecter of your faith. Father, I thank you for this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ and as I break this together right now, with an uncountable amount of people across the world that is online, lord, thank you for Alex, thank you for myself, thank you for everybody on camera, thank you to everybody in the world of podcasts, thank you to those on RB, christian Radio. And Lord also, will you bless those little dogs that are trying to get into our social media account? Lord, I pray that you will smash their laptops and get them out of our life. In the name of Jesus, but, father, forgive me, lord, in the name of Jesus, save them, lord, and just get them out of our lives. In the name of Jesus.

Speaker 3: 41:29

Spirit of the living God. As we come to the table right now, father, I thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus, as we break bread together. Spirit of the living God. Lord, we are not going to allow the enemy to rule us. We are not going to listen to the lesser voice. We are not going to listen to the dogs that are barking. We are not going to follow the rats down the sewer. Spirit of the living God. We are not, lord, going to eat with pigs. We are not going to walk with swine. Spirit of the living God. We are not, lord, going to eat with pigs. We are not going to walk with swine. Spirit of the living God, just like the prodigal son did get me to my father's house.

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Father, I thank you for this bread.

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As we break it and take it, we thank you that it symbolizes the body of Christ. And as we take this cup as well, lord, bless this cup, this redemption cup. Cleanse us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. In Jesus' precious name, take bread with me now. Wherever you are across the world, in Jesus' name, I'm in. The Holy Spirit is with you. The Holy God that you serve is with you. The Bible says Holy. Holy is the Lord Most worthy of all praise.

Speaker 3: 42:35

Brother and sister, count how many rats you got. Count how many dogs you got in your life, count how many swine that are in your life and add them up and then suddenly go who is walking with me? Who is a true believer that is taking me to the power of God's word? If you have no one in your life that is taking you to the power of God's word, if you have no one in your life that is taking you to the scripture, sister and brother, be very careful. Be very careful of who you have in your life.

Speaker 3: 43:07

Then we need people in our lives that will take us to the word of God. You know, I pray for you, wherever you are tonight, across the world, as we take of this cup. Father, will you cleanse us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. Lord, as we call on the greatest name in heaven and earth, lord, will you stir us today? Lord, will you stir us? Lord, will you enrich our lives with the power of the word? Lord, will you enrich us today, father, we call on your name today and, lord, wherever we are scattered across this globe, father, I pray that you will crush the rats in our lives. Lord, that you will destroy the work of the devil. Lord, that we will not give the devils any more airplay. In the name of Jesus, lord, shut their mouths.

Speaker 3: 43:51

In the name of Jesus, spirit of the living God, this is what God says in the Old Testament. He says I will break the teeth of your enemy. Oh, hang on a moment. Pastor Ben can't say that. Oh, dear God is love. Lord, smash the teeth of my enemy, lord, lord, break them. Lord, get them out of my life. In the name of Jesus, I do not want devils around me, lord, I do not want Lucifer, lord, worshippers around me. Spirit of the living God, get rid of the rats, get rid of the dogs, get rid of all those fake. Name it and claim it, get rid of the plastic people and put around me and every one of us, brothers and sisters that believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ, spirit of the living God, cover us in the blood of Jesus. Amen. Jesus Christ, spirit of the Living God, cover us in the blood of Jesus, amen.

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I'm going to close on one scripture, and I love this scripture. This is what God says to the Israelites. He says I will be an enemy to your enemies. Lord, I ask you that you will be an enemy to my enemies Because I'm washing my hands, lord of them tonight, in the name of jesus, and I'm free. I'm not going to give the devils, I'm not going to give the rats, I'm not going to give the foxes and the dogs, and I'm not going to cast my pearls to pigs anymore. Lord, I'm done with them and I'm free, because who the son sets free is free indeed, and the battle belongs to the Lord.

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Sister and brother, I've got to tell you one thing before we get out of here Keep in the word of God. Do not come out of the word of God. It is scripture. It is scripture. It is scripture and guess what it is scripture. It is scripture and guess what it is scripture all the way through.

Speaker 3: 45:39

If you are looking for healing, if you're looking for a miracle, if you're looking for a breakthrough, if you want to see your enemy crushed literally crushed, and gone without you laying a hand or a finger, it is the scripture, because the Bible says vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. Touch not thine anointed. Do not be scared about your enemy. Do not give your enemy any more vocal conversation. Wash your hands of those people that have trod you down too long.

Speaker 3: 46:11

It is time to rise up. Don't lift up a Union Jack flag. Lift up the word of God. Don't lift up any flag, don't vote. I will tell you now don't vote anymore for anyone in this nation. You follow Jesus Christ. It is God's nation, it is God's land. Do not engage in all that crazy stuff that is out there. I've got to tell you to lift the word of God up. Not any political party, not any political agenda, not any flag, because we cannot lift up a flag. We have got to lift up the word of God. You've got to lift up the cross of Calvary. You've got to tell the people around you you've got to be born again. That's all that matters.

Speaker 3: 46:50

It doesn't matter who's in the puppet street, number 10, Downing Street. It doesn't matter who's dancing in number 10. It doesn't matter what color hair they got. They are not going to change your life. No politician and no journalist and no journalism and no news channel is going to change your life. They don't care about you. No one cares about you except God. That is fact. It is brutal tonight. It is serious tonight. It tells you something in the scripture the political divide doesn't even know your name. It doesn't even know your name. The politicians don't even know where you live. The MPs don't even know, they're not interested in your life. They'll never know anything about your life.

Speaker 3: 47:41

Let me tell you this If we have a change of government tonight, they will not change what is going to happen, because what is happening is according to the prophecies of God, and God is moving and God is doing what he's doing. Don't lift up a flag, don't vote anymore. Don't put your mark against any politician. Give your life to Jesus Christ. We're going to get out of here on a prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus, lord, I pray that we will not give ourselves to any color movement, to any political movement, lord, that we won't engage in what is happening in number 10 Downing Street. Lord, bless the politicians. Engage in what is happening in number 10 Downing Street. Lord, bless the politicians, but get them out of the way.

Speaker 3: 48:24

I want the word of God, I want the power of the Holy Spirit and, lord, I pray that this nation will be saved. It will be blood washed. The fire of God is over this nation. Spirit of the living God, rip through this nation, god, remove everything that is to do with political division and bring the scripture to the towns, to the villages, to the church, to the pulpits, to number 10 Downing Street. Father, bring your glory to this nation. Father, I pray that we will never vote again, that we will never look at another politician. We will just look at them and pray for them and say you need Jesus, spirit of the living God. We're out of here. God bless you. We'll see you soon. Take care, god bless. Bye-bye.

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