The Danger of Decrees: Why ‘Pleading the Blood’ is Theologically Dangerous

• Cultural War and Confusion 00:02:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes the current cultural landscape as a war between truth and lies, citing confusion over gender, rising depression among youth, legalized gay marriage, and high abortion rates as evidence of this conflict.
• The Lie of Political Neutrality 00:04:53 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor identifies the core theological error as the belief that Christians should stay out of politics and only preach Jesus, arguing this is a lie that has made the church ineffective.
• Biblical Precedent for Political Engagement 00:06:14 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor cites biblical figures (Daniel, Moses, Esther, John the Baptist, Paul) who confronted political authorities to demonstrate that engaging with power is a biblical mandate.
• Theological vs. Political Issues 00:08:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that issues like the sanctity of human life and the definition of marriage are theological issues defined by Scripture, not political ones, and thus fall within the church's domain.
• The Role of Government vs. The Church 00:10:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor distinguishes the government's role (establishing God's standard and punishing wrongdoers per Romans 13) from the church's role (being the moral compass and speaking truth).
• Christian Political Engagement 00:09:26 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues against the idea that Christians should stay out of politics, asserting that they are the moral conscience of the nation and must speak on behalf of God.
• Role of Government vs. God 00:10:22 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor distinguishes between the government's role to enforce God's standard of morality and the error of government defining morality itself, citing Romans 13.
• Imago Dei and Human Value 00:14:12 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor explains that because humans are made in God's image, only God has the authority to define the value of human life, not the government.
• Pro-Life Stance 00:15:09 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that all humans are innately valuable regardless of their origin (planned or accidental) because they are created by God, and Christians must defend this value.
• Historical Christian Activism 00:17:57 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor lists historical issues where Christians stood against injustice (infanticide, slavery, etc.) to argue that the current pro-life stance is consistent with Christian history.
• Moral Relativism and Evil 00:19:28 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor critiques the cultural trend of empathizing with villains and using mental health as a justification for murder, contrasting this with the biblical view that evil is real and humans are born sinners.
• Spiritual Warfare and Violence 00:21:40 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor connects current cultural violence to the 'spirit of Hamas' (violence) prophesied in the days of Noah, calling for the church to rebuke this spirit and plead the blood of Jesus.
• Children as Spiritual Warriors 00:23:06 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that children are not burdens but 'arrows in the hands of a warrior,' meant to advance the kingdom of heaven, and that parents are warriors raising up the next generation.
• Parental Responsibility vs. State Indoctrination 00:24:35 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor warns against handing children over to 'Caesar' (public schools) for indoctrination, asserting that parents have a duty to train children in the Word of God to prevent them from hating God.
• Definition of Marriage 00:27:05 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor defends the Christian stance on defining marriage as a man and a woman, arguing that only the Creator has the authority to define the terms of marriage, using an analogy of IKEA instruction manuals.
• Divine Authority over Marriage 00:28:55 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that only the Creator (God) has the right to define the terms and function of marriage, using the analogy of an instruction manual for a created object.
• Biblical Definition of Love vs. Cultural Feelings 00:30:26 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts the cultural view that 'feelings make it moral' with the biblical definition that love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, labeling same-sex relations as lust rather than love.
• Slippery Slope of Redefining Morality 00:31:02 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor warns that accepting feelings as the basis for morality leads to a slippery slope justifying other immoral acts like pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality.
• Theological Rebuttal of 'Born This Way' 00:33:08 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor refutes the idea that God created gay people as gay, arguing instead that all humans are born with a sinful nature due to Adam and Eve's rebellion, and that 'born this way' is a false presupposition.
• Universal Sin and Gospel Freedom 00:34:16 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that all people struggle with sin (e.g., drunkenness, anger) and that Jesus's death on the cross provides freedom from the power of any sin for those who repent.
• Worship vs. Government (Caesar) 00:37:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses the tension between worshipping God and obeying government, citing the COVID-19 church restrictions in Australia as a test of loyalty to God over state mandates.
• Legal Persecution and Prayer 00:38:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor highlights the 'Conversion Practices Ban Act' in Australia, which criminalizes praying for those struggling with homosexuality, framing it as a battle for the next generation against demonic forces.
• Worship and Allegiance 00:38:22 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts worshipping God with worshipping Caesar or man, asserting that believers serve only King Jesus.
• Biblical Precedent for Boldness 00:39:25 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references Daniel praying openly despite government bans and Paul and Silas singing in prison as models for Christian courage.
• Fear of Man vs. Fear of God 00:41:05 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor challenges the congregation to decide whom they fear, arguing that believers should only fear God who can harm both body and soul.
• Personal Testimony of Courage 00:41:15 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares personal experiences of receiving death threats to demonstrate a lack of fear for man and total reliance on God.

• Sermon Illustration 00:02:15 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about being uninvited from preaching in Germany because the local church was angry about her previous messages, contrasting this with the boldness of her current hosts.
• Sermon Illustration 00:01:52 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts how pastors in other churches often ask her to 'dull down' her message to avoid offending big donors and losing tithing, illustrating the pressure to compromise truth for peace.
• Sermon Illustration 00:09:08 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses a hypothetical scenario about the rise of Islam and Sharia law in the US to challenge the idea that Christians should stay out of politics when moral issues are at stake.
• Sermon Illustration 00:11:38 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts the story of the Pharisees and Herodians trying to trap Jesus with a question about paying taxes to Caesar, leading to Jesus' response about giving to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
• Sermon Illustration 00:13:09 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about driving in the United States compared to Australia, noting that he feels freer to break traffic laws in the US due to lax enforcement, contrasting it with the strict camera culture in Australia.
• Sermon Illustration 00:18:50 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the Lindsay Clancy case, where a woman strangled her three children, and notes the cultural reaction of solidarity with the mother rather than condemnation of the murder, using it to illustrate moral relativism.
• Sermon Illustration 00:19:28 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor compares the current cultural celebration of women killing their children to historical precedents and contrasts modern superhero movies where villains are protagonists with older biblical worldviews of good vs. evil.
• Sermon Illustration 00:19:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the case of Lindsay, who raised $3 million after murdering her children, to illustrate cultural moral relativism and the justification of evil through mental health narratives.
• Sermon Illustration 00:20:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor cites the opening line of the 'Wicked' trailer ('Are people born wicked or is wickedness thrust upon them?') to exemplify the cultural worldview that denies inherent evil.
• Sermon Illustration 00:29:29 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of an IKEA instruction manual to explain that just as one must follow the creator's instructions for a table to function correctly, society must adhere to God's design for marriage.
• Sermon Illustration 00:29:19 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses an analogy of buying a flat-pack table from IKEA: just as one must follow the instruction manual provided by the creator to ensure the table functions correctly and doesn't break, believers must follow God's 'instruction manual' (the Bible) for marriage because He is the Creator.
• Sermon Illustration 00:31:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the historical context of 50 years ago when pastors avoided talking about homosexuality, leading to a crisis for Gen Z who are now struggling with their identity because no one addressed the topic.
• Sermon Illustration 00:32:30 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor mentions the cultural shift in language regarding 'minor attracted persons' (MAPs) and the claim that 'age is just a social construct,' using this to illustrate how cultural shifts start with language changes to redefine morality.
• Sermon Illustration 00:37:51 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts the experience of Australian churches during COVID-19, where they were told they could attend but not sing, leading him to sing anyway while wearing a mask as an act of defiance and worship.
• Sermon Illustration 00:38:38 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes the 'Conversion Practices Ban Act' in Australia, noting that praying for someone struggling with homosexuality or speaking against Islam could result in up to five or twelve years in prison, respectively.
• Sermon Illustration 00:39:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts a meeting at Echo Church where they decided to continue praying despite the new law, noting the decision took only ten seconds because there was no other option for believers.
• Sermon Illustration 00:39:25 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Daniel opening his window to pray toward Jerusalem in front of the government, rather than hiding in private.
• Sermon Illustration 00:40:04 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor mentions the biblical account of Paul and Silas singing in prison, where the doors were opened by God's power.
• Sermon Illustration 00:41:15 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about receiving weekly death threats, including threats against his nine-week-old baby boy, and his response that he has 'already died' to self and lives only for God's will.

• Pastoral Charge 00:10:07 ▶️ 📄
  > Refuse to be silenced by political pressure and speak on moral issues.
• Pastoral Charge 00:10:17 ▶️ 📄
  > Go into the world to be a light and speak for God.
• Pastoral Charge 00:15:09 ▶️ 📄
  > Reclaim the authority to define human value from the government and return it to God.
• Pastoral Charge 00:21:52 ▶️ 📄
  > Spiritually rebuke the cultural spirit of violence and murder.
• Pastoral Charge 00:22:15 ▶️ 📄
  > Pray for national healing and the covering of Jesus' blood over the nation.
• Pastoral Charge 00:25:09 ▶️ 📄
  > Take personal responsibility for training children in the faith.
• Pastoral Charge 00:26:40 ▶️ 📄
  > Confront schools directly about indoctrination and ensure children are protected from false teachings.
• Pastoral Charge 00:32:50 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor calls the congregation to actively resist cultural shifts regarding pedophilia and minor attraction, framing it as a spiritual battle to protect the next generation.
• Pastoral Charge 00:36:54 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor urges the congregation to accept freedom from any sin or addiction through Jesus Christ, regardless of its duration or generational nature.
• Pastoral Charge 00:43:10 ▶️ 📄
  > Raise hands to receive boldness

[00:00:05] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:05] Jesus some praise all over this place come on the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords would you exalt him all over this place he is the only one worthy of all your praise and adoration he is the one that we came for this morning do you believe that are you ready to receive a message from heaven today amen amen you can take a seat i am so honored to be with you i so enjoyed being with you all this morning i kind of i i'm i'm so i'm so glad you came this morning but to be honest i'm kind of jealous
[00:00:35] I kind of, I'm missing out on my husband preaching at the other campus this morning.
[00:00:39] He's definitely the better half.
[00:00:41] If I was you, I kind of would have sneaked out and went to Lake Norman.
[00:00:44] Is that where he is right now?
[00:00:46] He's the better half.
[00:00:47] But I'm so honoured to be with you all this morning.
[00:00:49] You know, some people always, whenever they see me preach in person, you might have seen some clips like going on online.
[00:00:55] And the number one thing that people always tell me, I heard this from a few people already this morning, whenever they see me in person, they're like, wow, Millicent, you are really short in real life.
[00:01:04] i'm like yes i know i know i'm loud but loudness does not always mean height it does not always mean you at all but i may be loud um i may be vertically challenged but i i do come with the
[00:01:15] fiery word of god and i may be vertically challenged but the lord can still use me praise god i want to just before before i continue i just want to honor your amazing pastors pastor
[00:01:24] troy and penny would you help me honor them for a moment i love them so much we have we have known each other online for a few years now but this is actually our first time actually getting to
[00:01:35] meet in real life, in person. And you guys are just truly, truly amazing. I can just tell you, you know, me and my husband, we travel all around the world. We go to so many different conferences
[00:01:43] and churches. And I can tell you, the amount of times, you know, we'll go to a church and the pastor will, you know, pull us in the green room and we're like, oh, we know what's about to happen.
[00:01:52] They pull us in. They're like, you know, we love your message. And, you know, we want to hear the truth. But, you know, just dull it down for the next service a little bit. Just dull it down.
[00:02:02] You know, we saw a couple of our big donors and we saw them get a little bit offended and we don't wanna lose any tithing from our venues and we don't wanna make anybody upset
[00:02:11] and we wanna make sure that everybody is happy and keep the peace and just dull it down.
[00:02:15] In fact, me and my husband were meant to go to Germany this week.
[00:02:17] We just got uninvited because apparently all of Germany is very angry that we were about to come and preach.
[00:02:23] But I'm here to say, not your pastors.
[00:02:25] Your pastors are unlike majority of the churches in the USA.
[00:02:29] They are bold, they are unashamed.
[00:02:30] they are not afraid to say something that is true in the Word of God that might offend you they love God more than they love you and that's a very very good gift to have in a pastor so would you help me
[00:02:39] honour them one more time it's hard to realise what you have when you're so used to it but you have a very very very big blessing in your pastors so I love them I'm so honored to be with you guys
[00:02:51] you know I really wanted to speak this morning on the cultural war that surrounds us you know we are in a war between truth and lies like never before there's so much going on in our culture right now
[00:03:01] People right now, they're confused about gender.
[00:03:03] We have young people that are mutilating their own body parts because they believed a lie that they were born into the wrong body.
[00:03:09] So our young people are confused.
[00:03:11] Our young people are more depressed and anxious statistically than they've ever been before.
[00:03:16] We have gay marriage legalized.
[00:03:17] We have abortion.
[00:03:18] We have 1 million abortions every single year in just the United States alone.
[00:03:23] We have drag queens dancing around little kids in libraries.
[00:03:26] I mean, we're in the midst of a cultural war between truth and lies.
[00:03:30] people like Charlie Kirk that would speak the truth in the public square he was martyred because we're in a battle between truth and lies never before has our culture been this confused I mean you can't even ask somebody what a woman is without people freaking out and deconstructing
[00:03:45] and not knowing how to answer this question because we're in a war between truth and lies and even my nation when we were speaking about the nation of Australia just a hundred years ago we
[00:03:57] were 99% Christian. Can you believe that? We were 99% Christian. You want to know what it's like today. We are now only 39% Christian as a nation. And this is quickly declining. We are seeing a
[00:04:10] great decline of Christianity in Australia. You know, here when I'm in the States, if I wear Jesus merch, people are like, ah, I love your shirt. I'm walking through the airport and I've got Jesus on
[00:04:19] my shirt. They're like, love you. Love you, Christian merch. I wear that in Australia and people give me dirties and people look at you like you're crazy. And there is such a decline.
[00:04:28] And I always ask myself this question, how did we get here? How did we get here where there is such a confusion about what is true versus what is lie? How did we get to this cultural battle?
[00:04:38] And I believe it's come because of one singular lie that has entered into the mind of so many Christians and so many churches and it's polluted our world. There is one lie that we have believed
[00:04:49] that has taken out our power as the body of Christ.
[00:04:53] It has made us ineffective in this world.
[00:04:55] And it's by believing the lie that as a Christian, you and I are supposed to remain out of politics.
[00:05:02] That if you are a Christian, you should never get political.
[00:05:06] You know, as Christians, we shouldn't talk about marriage and whether two men can get married because this is a political issue.
[00:05:12] And as Christians, we're supposed to stay out of politics and we're just supposed to preach about Jesus.
[00:05:16] Let's just talk about Jesus and let's just smile at everybody and hug everybody like Jesus and never talk about anything that might be deemed political.
[00:05:24] We can't talk about abortion.
[00:05:25] Oh no, we can't talk about the sanctity of human life because this is a political issue.
[00:05:30] We can't talk about gender.
[00:05:31] We can't talk about our young people that are cutting off their body parts.
[00:05:35] No, we can't talk about any of this stuff because these are political issues.
[00:05:38] And as a Christian, you should never get involved in politics.
[00:05:42] You just need to preach Jesus, be the love of Jesus in this world.
[00:05:47] See, I have two issues with this premise that we're to remain outside of politics.
[00:05:51] The first issue I have with this is if you think as a Christian you're supposed to remain out of politics, I don't know what Bible you have been reading.
[00:06:00] If you think that as Christians, we're supposed to be these silent little Christians that keep the truth of the Word of God to ourselves and we keep what the Bible says within the four walls of the church
[00:06:09] and don't go out and offend anybody in culture, I don't know what Bible you have been reading.
[00:06:14] Don't you remember when Daniel went up to the king and told him to repent.
[00:06:17] Moses went up to Pharaoh and said, let my people go.
[00:06:20] Esther went up to the king and said, if I die, I die.
[00:06:23] John the Baptist went up to the king, told him to repent of his sexual morality.
[00:06:27] Paul went up to the Roman governor.
[00:06:29] Felix, if you think that we're supposed to remain outside of politics, I genuinely don't know what Bible you have been reading.
[00:06:34] I don't know what translation you've been reading, but it's definitely not the Word of God.
[00:06:39] Because as the people of God, when you read through the Scriptures, throughout the story, you'll see that the people of God are either politicians themselves, like Joseph, or they're going up to politicians and people in power and authority and telling
[00:06:51] them, hey, get back to what the Word of God says. Get back to the Scriptures. And if you think that we're supposed to remain outside of politics, then you are telling me that John the Baptist
[00:06:59] lost his head for nothing. You know why John the Baptist was beheaded? Because he got involved in politics. John the Baptist was martyred. He was beheaded because he went up to the king and told
[00:07:10] him to repent of his sexual immorality. So if you tell me we're supposed to remain outside of politics and, oh, Christians should just stay within the four walls of the church. I don't know what Bible you are reading. The devil is not threatened by Christians who want to know the
[00:07:23] truth but keep it to themselves. The devil doesn't care how well you know the Bible as long as you keep it to yourself. He doesn't care. You can memorise the Scripture. He doesn't care if you
[00:07:31] have the right view of marriage, the right view of the sanctity of human life, so long as you keep it to yourself. He's not threatened by you. He's not threatened by a church that stays within the
[00:07:41] church. He's threatened by Christians who take the truth of the Word of God out into the public square, out into their workplaces, out into their colleges and speak the truth. That's who He's threatened by. Jesus did not say, keep the truth to yourself. He says, what I whisper to you in
[00:07:56] private, shout it from the rooftops. Speak the truth that sets people free in the public square and shout it from the rooftops. So that's my first problem. Who believes this lie that we just stay
[00:08:08] out of politics. But my second issue, all these people that are like, oh, you can't talk about marriage and you can't talk about abortion. You can't talk about any of this stuff. It's political.
[00:08:17] My second issue with this is, who told you these are political issues? I mean, like who gets to define what is a political issue? Because if you think about it, the sanctity of human life, that's
[00:08:26] not a political issue. That's a theological issue. The definition of marriage, you just have to turn one page in the Bible and see that the definition of marriage is not a political issue. This is a
[00:08:36] theological issue. This is a Bible issue. This is a Jesus issue. Who told you these are political issues? See, Jesus is not just the King of Kings. He's the King of this world. And He has something
[00:08:47] to say about how it ought to run. No issue that we face in culture is just outside of what God wants to do. It's not just political. God wants to govern things in this world a certain way.
[00:08:59] And how far are we going to take this concept of, well, as soon as they class something as political, it's out of our domain. I mean, like, let's just play this out for a second. You know,
[00:09:08] you're seeing the rise of Islam in this nation. You're seeing that, you know, they want to take over and they're getting into different forms of politics. And we're seeing like, you know, they're trying to bring Sharia law into the courts. Well, let's just play this out for a second.
[00:09:20] Imagine a couple years down the track, now they're trying to bring Sharia law into your nation.
[00:09:26] And all of a sudden we're having the political debate about whether it's moral and lawful for an older man to marry a younger woman like Aisha with the Prophet Muhammad. Are you going to stay
[00:09:35] out of politics then? Are we going to stay out of politics? Oh, oh, we don't get involved in politics. We're Christians. We just stay out of these topics. No, no, no, Christian. You are the
[00:09:46] moral compass of the world. We are the moral conscience of this nation. If you're not speaking up for morality, if you're not standing up for right and wrong, for good and evil, who else will?
[00:09:55] God gave you His Word to be a light in this world, to speak on His behalf. If you will not speak, who will? Stop letting the world intimidate you by saying, oh, it's political. You can't talk
[00:10:07] about that, Christian. Stop letting them intimidate you into silence. We are the ones that hold the truth of God's Word. We are His spokesmen. We better go out into the world and be a light in
[00:10:17] this world and speak on His behalf. See, the role of government was never to define morality.
[00:10:22] The role of government was never to define right and wrong.
[00:10:25] It was merely to establish God's standard of morality on the earth.
[00:10:29] It was never to define right and wrong.
[00:10:31] Romans 13 tells us that the one in authority, the government's role, the president's role, the one in authority is supposed to be God's servant and agent of wrath to bring on punishment on the wrongdoer.
[00:10:44] So the one in authority is not to define right and wrong.
[00:10:47] they're just supposed to bring about justice to maintain the standard of right and wrong in the civilization so if you step outside of right and wrong we're gonna we're gonna punish you we're gonna bring upon God's wrath so that you know you cannot keep doing this not to define morality
[00:11:02] just to enforce God's standard and whenever the government usurps that authority and starts to define what morality is then God sends his prophets through the Bible to say hey you've you've overstepped your place. So when King Herod wants to redefine sexuality and start to redefine
[00:11:19] morality, he sends John the Baptist to go and say, hey, you're out of line. This is what the role of government is. And when Jesus was here on this earth, He gave us, you know, a picture of what
[00:11:27] really is the role of government and what is the role of God. In Matthew 22, we see this story where the Pharisees and the Herodians, they come up to Jesus and they try to trap Him with a question.
[00:11:38] They're always trying to trap Jesus with a question. They always come up with evil intent.
[00:11:41] And so they come up to Jesus and they're trying to like puff him up.
[00:11:44] They're like, we know you're a man of integrity.
[00:11:46] You know, they're buttering him up, even though they're lying and they're just trying to flatter him.
[00:11:50] And they say, Jesus, tell us, should we pay the taxes to Caesar or not?
[00:11:54] They're like, should we pay our taxes?
[00:11:56] And they were trying to trap Jesus because if Jesus said yes, they would have been like, well, you're disloyal to the Jewish people.
[00:12:02] And if Jesus said no, they would have been like, well, you're committing treason.
[00:12:04] So again, they're just always trying to trap Jesus.
[00:12:06] And Jesus in His wisdom responds to their question with a question.
[00:12:09] he's like all right you're asking me should we pay our taxes he said he asked them what do you use to pay your taxes they tell them it's a denarius so denarius is the coin that they pay
[00:12:18] their taxes with so jesus is like all right bring me the coin bring me the coin that you use to pay your taxes he says whose image is on his on this coin whose face is on the coin they say caesar's
[00:12:29] face so just like our money today we have our notes you have your all your notes you have the president's face you have different presidents faces on there they had that as well they had
[00:12:39] Caesar, the government's face on their coins. So Jesus says, okay, give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, but give to God what belongs to God. So he's basically saying, all right, so Caesar's face is on the coin, right? So he's like, so it kind of belongs to him. If his face is on it, if he's
[00:12:56] minted the coin with his face, you got to give it back to him. So he's like, pay your taxes.
[00:12:59] There are things that we owe the government. There are things that we owe Caesar. You know, we owe like our civil obedience to the government. You know, we're going to obey the traffic laws unless you're in America
[00:13:09] because I feel like you can break the traffic laws here and you don't get in much trouble.
[00:13:12] I love it.
[00:13:13] In Australia, we got cameras everywhere.
[00:13:14] Here, I'm just like, I'm like pumping the pedal.
[00:13:17] I'm like, yeah, you try and catch me in the USA.
[00:13:20] I feel like I can break the road rules here.
[00:13:22] It's great.
[00:13:23] You guys are free.
[00:13:25] It's a free nation.
[00:13:28] I love it.
[00:13:29] I'm not condoning breaking the law.
[00:13:30] I'm sorry.
[00:13:32] You gotta understand in Australia, we just can't do these things.
[00:13:34] They're very strict.
[00:13:35] So I just have to have a bit of fun when I'm here in the States.
[00:13:37] So this is what we owe Caesar, right?
[00:13:39] we obey the governing authorities, traffic laws, all this kind of stuff. This is what we do. We give back our taxes. This is rendering to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. But Jesus didn't just say
[00:13:48] that. He said, give to Caesar what is Caesar's, but give to God what belongs to God. So my question to you is, what belongs to God? What is in God's domain? The question is, if Caesar's face is on
[00:14:01] the coin, where has God put his face? Where has God branded his image? Where has God inscribed His face? And the answer to that question is on every single human being because we are all made
[00:14:12] in the image of God, meaning mankind belongs to God, meaning only God gets to define the value of human life. Only God gets to define the value of human life because His face is on you. He has
[00:14:26] branded you in His image, which means stop handing to Caesar that which belongs to God. We have handed over to Caesar what belongs to God, the ability to define the value of human life. We have told
[00:14:37] the government. We've told Caesar, oh, you can define whether life in the womb is valuable or not. You can define whether we can kill our babies in the womb or not. You can define, you can tell us government whether, you know, euthanasia is lawful or not. Whether if you're
[00:14:50] elderly and we think that you're not valuable to society anymore, we can just euthanise you.
[00:14:55] You get to define the value of human life, Caesar. I'm like, not his domain. You better give back to God. That which belongs to God. Mankind belongs to God. Only God gets to define your value. And I'm
[00:15:09] here to tell you, I don't care if your parents wanted you or not, whether you're an accident or not, whether you were planned or not, you are innately valuable. Why? Because you were created by God Himself, made in His image and knit together in your mother's womb. And no government gets to
[00:15:23] take that away from you. No person gets to take that away from you. You're innately valuable. Why?
[00:15:28] Because God created you. I don't care if you're an accident. According to your parents, you weren't an accident to God. He planned you, He created you, and He designed you for a purpose. Human beings are innately valuable. I hear Christians tell me, well, you know, I personally wouldn't
[00:15:43] get an abortion, but who am I to dictate what somebody else wants to do? I personally wouldn't do it. I'm all holy. I'm all righteous. I personally wouldn't. I go to church every Sunday. I lift my
[00:15:54] hands in worship. I personally wouldn't do it, but we should just stay outside of this topic in culture because who are we to dictate what other people want to do with their right to choose
[00:16:03] we should just keep our own opinions to ourselves I'm like what do you mean who am I that's like saying you know I personally wouldn't gas the Jews but who am I to dictate what Hitler wants to do
[00:16:14] what do you mean who am I you can do whatever you want but if you want to harm somebody else made in the image of God that is my place to speak because I see your value because I know
[00:16:24] that God knits you together. So you can sit against God, but you do not get to harm somebody else made in the image of God. That is your place to speak, Christian. That's your place to speak.
[00:16:35] If somebody wants to attack somebody else's, another human being, that's an attack on your God because His face is on them. So when human beings are being attacked, you ought to speak.
[00:16:46] And if you're silent today over the genocide going on in our culture, over the slaughter of millions and millions of babies, if you were silent about that today, I'm here to tell you, you would have
[00:16:55] been silent during the Holocaust. You would have been silent during slavery because it is no different. We have seen time and time and time again throughout history where one group of people dehumanise another group of people and say, well, they're not valuable because of their skin colour
[00:17:09] or they're not valuable because of their ethnicity or they're not valuable because of their size.
[00:17:13] And it's always been the Christians that stand up and say, hold on a second. No, they are valuable because they're made in the image of God and we must do what we have always done and that is to
[00:17:22] stand up for the sanctity of human life. We've always been pro-life Christians. We've always been pro-life. This is our worldview. Why? We're not atheists, right? We don't have an atheist worldview. What does an atheist worldview say? It says that we are just a bunch of cells, that we're
[00:17:39] just a bag of blood and bones. This is an atheist worldview, right? That we just evolved from monkeys. I'm like, I'm much more beautiful than an ape, thank you very much. I don't go to the zoo to
[00:17:47] look at my great great grandpa so we don't believe that we evolved from apes and monkeys we believe that we were created by God himself this is our worldview this is why you have to be pro-life
[00:17:57] and we always have been throughout history can I tell you it was the Christians who fought against infanticide it was the Christians who fought against human sacrifice it was the Christians who fought against pedophilia it was the Christians who fought against the burning of widows in India
[00:18:09] it was the Christians who fought against slavery like William Wilberforce and it will be the christians today that will abolish abortion because we will do what we have always done and stand up for the sanctity of human life we will do what we have always done and say i will
[00:18:24] stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves and no man gets to take away you no human gets to take away you no government gets to take away your value because they are made by god knit together
[00:18:39] by god himself you know we've seen anybody been seeing the lindsey clancy case over the past few weeks. If you don't know what that is, there's a case going on right now where there was a woman
[00:18:50] who strangled her own three children to death with exercise bands, strangled her children to death.
[00:18:55] And you'd think that, you know, America would have the common sense to, you know, condemn this act of murder. But instead, what you've seen all over social media and all outside the courtroom, you've seen a bunch of women standing in solidarity, not with the children, but standing
[00:19:09] in solidarity with this woman, Lindsay, saying, we understand, you know, the postpartum hormones, and we understand the mental health, they've raised $3 million for her.
[00:19:18] $3 million raised for this woman who murdered her own children.
[00:19:22] And honestly, I'm not surprised by this because as a culture, we have been celebrating women for killing their own children for a long time now.
[00:19:28] I mean, we've been celebrating this for a long time in history.
[00:19:31] So I'm not really surprised, but you know, they say, oh, well, you know, she's just dealing with mental health.
[00:19:36] I'm like, since when?
[00:19:37] Like, this is how messed up our culture is.
[00:19:38] Since when do we use mental health as a justification for murder?
[00:19:42] I'm sorry.
[00:19:43] Like since when? Did we stand in solidarity with Ted Bundy and be like, well, he had a tough upbringing, so it's okay. All his victims, like since when? And you know, our culture has been
[00:19:53] dancing with this moral relativism for a long time now. We see this in Hollywood. You know, in Hollywood, in movies and superhero movies, it used to be a biblical worldview of morality and the fight between good and evil, because you'd see the superhero was on the side of good
[00:20:07] and he would fight against the villain who was evil and there would be a war between good and evil. But nowadays, most superhero movies are not like that. Nowadays, the villain is actually the main character. The villain is actually the protagonist and it takes you on a journey of
[00:20:21] really empathising with the villain and seeing the villain's upbringing and, oh, he's not really a bad guy. He does bad things, but he's not really a bad guy because life has just been tough to him.
[00:20:31] This was the opening line of the Wicked trailer. Are people born wicked or is wickedness thrust upon them? This is the current worldview of our culture, that we're not born evil. There is no such thing as evil. Evil is subjective. Nothing's actually wrong. It's just people have a hard life
[00:20:46] and so maybe they do hard things. And this could not be more unbiblical. Evil is real. The Bible says, hate what is evil. And the Bible doesn't say that we are all born good and we're all good
[00:20:57] and it's just life is hard to us. No, the Bible tells us we're actually born as sinners. And at some point you and I need to repent of that sin, run to Jesus as our Saviour and repent of our sin.
[00:21:08] this is a biblical worldview and I'm not surprised by the rise of violence that we are seeing in our culture today did you know that since this case has come out there is case after case coming out
[00:21:18] now of mothers also killing their own children and I'm not surprised by that because Jesus promised us that in the last days when the son of man is returning it would be like the days of Noah
[00:21:28] he told us that when we get closer to his return it would be like the days of Noah what were the days of Noah like? Genesis 6, 11 tells us that in the days of Noah, there was a spirit of violence
[00:21:40] ruling the earth. That word violence in the original Hebrew is the word Hamas. He told us that when Jesus is close to coming back, there would be a spirit of Hamas on the earth. Hamas,
[00:21:52] violence, bloodshed, murder, you name it. And I just want to say in this place, as the people of God, we rebuke the spirit of Hamas in America. We rebuke the spirit of violence. We rebuke the
[00:22:03] spirit of bloodshed. We rebuke a spirit of killing our children, of murdering our children. We rebuke a spirit of bloodshed. We hate that which is evil. We hate the shedding of innocent blood because God
[00:22:15] hates the shedding of innocent blood. And we plead the blood of Jesus over this nation. We plead Jesus. We plead the blood of Jesus over this nation. Heal this nation, Lord. We don't need bloodshed. We need the blood of Jesus in this nation. We need the blood of Jesus in this nation.
[00:22:32] so children much to our much to the disagreement of our culture children are not a burden they're a blessing from the Lord our culture despises children we think that children are going to hold us back from our dreams and our careers all my boss babe feminists in the place I don't want
[00:22:47] to have children because it's going to hold me back from all of my dreams we we kill our children we despise our children we think that they're going to ruin our life but according to Psalm
[00:22:55] 127 the Bible says children are a blessing from the Lord that babies are a reward why because they are like arrows in the hands of a warrior. According to the Bible, children are like arrows
[00:23:06] in the hands of a warrior. They're not a burden. They're not a hindrance. They're like arrows.
[00:23:11] See, what I realised is the problem is never the babies. The problem is never the children.
[00:23:16] They're always a blessing. They're never a burden. The problem is always whose hands the babies are in. It's either, do you see yourself here to live for your own selfish ambitions and pleasures?
[00:23:26] Or do you see yourself as a warrior here to advance the kingdom of heaven? Because once you realize you're a warrior here on this earth to advance the kingdom of heaven and fight the kingdom of hell, then you realize with every child you have, you are bringing forth an arrow into this
[00:23:41] world to fight the kingdom of hell. You are giving birth to the next preachers, the next world changers, the next evangelists. We are advancing the kingdom when we train them up in the ways of
[00:23:52] the Lord. You're not just a mother. You're not just a father. You're a warrior for the kingdom.
[00:23:57] raising up children in the ways of the Lord this is spiritual warfare this is why we don't say you're just a mother no no I'm raising up the next generation that will fight the kingdom of hell
[00:24:09] did you know hell trembles when the people of God have babies you wonder why there's so much abortion in the church because hell doesn't want the Christians to pass on Christianity from one generation to the next hell trembles when the people of God have babies so do not hand to Caesar
[00:24:24] that which belongs to God and that is the ability to define the value of human life. But a lot of parents have also handed to Caesar that which belongs to them and that is their children.
[00:24:35] A lot of parents have given to Caesar, given to the government, their children and have said to the government, you know what government, you train them up in the ways of the devil so that
[00:24:44] when they're old they will not depart from the devil. We send our children off to public school systems. We send them off to state-run schools. We send them off, let's be real, to indoctrination camps so that they can be brainwashed to believe there's no such thing as gender and two men can
[00:24:59] get married. We send them off to the camps of Satan and then act surprised when they come back hating God. You've handed over to Caesar that which belongs to you, that's your children.
[00:25:09] It is our duty and responsibility to train them up in the ways of the Lord so when they're old, they will not depart. I hear so many parents say, you know, I don't want to push Christianity down
[00:25:18] on my children. I don't want to force them into it. I don't want to brainwash them with the Scriptures. I'll just let them figure it out for themselves. It's like shooting arrows aimlessly and hoping it lands on the target. See, the truth is your children will be brainwashed one way or
[00:25:31] another. They're either going to be brainwashed with the lies and with the demonic strongholds in the schools right now, or they're going to be washed, as Ephesians 5 says, they'll be washed with the Word of God. They're malleable. That's what children are. They're either going to be
[00:25:44] washed by the Word through your teaching, or they're going to be brainwashed in the school system. And as Votie Bochum, he said, the late Votie Bochum, he said it like this. He said, do not send your children to Caesar and act surprised when they come back as Roman soldiers.
[00:25:58] Do not send them into a school that hates God and then act surprised when they come back hating God.
[00:26:03] Don't send them off to a college that hates God and then act surprised when they come back with blue hair thinking that homosexuality is liberation. Don't act surprised because you sent them over to Caesar. And I know this is a hard message to hear, but it's the truth. The truth
[00:26:19] is you will not be able to look at God and say, it wasn't my fault. It was Caesar's because it was never Caesar's responsibility in the first place. It was yours as the parent. It's my duty.
[00:26:28] It's your duty. I'm not saying you have to homeschool your kids, pull them out. I'm just saying you better make sure you know what they're teaching your kids at that school. That's all I'm saying. I'm just saying you better go. And if you find out that they're indoctrinating your kids,
[00:26:40] You better go there into the school office and say, how dare you teach my children all of these lies and falsehoods. You better make sure your children are not hearing this. Why? You better train them up in the ways of the Lord. So when they're old, they will not depart. So do not hand
[00:26:55] the sanctity of human life to Caesar. Do not hand your children off to Caesar. But the next thing, you know, that we've handed over to Caesar is the ability to define marriage and relationships.
[00:27:05] A lot of people are like, man, you Christians, I understand the whole pro-life thing. I get that you guys care about the sanctity of human life. It's very consistent with your history as Christians, but why do you guys care so much about the definition of marriage? Like, why do you guys
[00:27:18] care so much? If two men want to love each other and get together and call it a marriage, like, just let them do it. Like, why do you care so much about the definition of marriage? You know,
[00:27:27] one time I went to the shops and, you guys don't call it that, hey? You call it the mall? The mall?
[00:27:32] I went to the mall? Do you call it the shops? That's like what we call when we go buy clothes.
[00:27:36] I went to the mall and I was buying cute little outfit. And you know, I went to the counter and they were like, do you want to donate to the LGBTQ community? I was like, yes. I was like,
[00:27:46] absolutely take my money. I was like, I hope we find the cure soon. Yes, take it. I was like, I'm standing with you on this. But people are like, why do you guys care so much? You know,
[00:27:56] just let people love whoever they want to love. And they're like, isn't your whole Christianity thing about love? Like, why do you guys care? And this is my response. See, God has given everybody free will. You can choose to reject Him. You can hate the Bible. You can think that, you know, the
[00:28:09] fact that God defined it male and female, and He defined marriage between a man and a woman. You can hate that. You can reject that in the world. You do not have to do things God's way. But here's
[00:28:18] where we draw a line in the sand as the people of God and say, ah, you can't take this. You've gone too far. Now you're stepping into God's domain. You can sin. Two men can get together.
[00:28:26] They can live in sin. Here's the difference. You just don't get to redefine that which God established. You don't get to call it marriage. You can live in sin, but you don't get to call
[00:28:34] it a marriage. You don't get to call it family. You can have your pronouns, but you don't get to make me use your pronouns because I do not lie and you cannot get me to redefine my God's designs.
[00:28:45] Who are we to think that we can redefine marriage? I mean, it's like we created it. Like, do we think we created marriage? Like, do we think Hollywood created marriage? No, no. God created marriage.
[00:28:55] We see the first marriage in the first few pages of Genesis. We did not create marriage. Only the creator of it gets to define the terms only the creator of marriage gets to define its terms
[00:29:06] when we take a census voting on whether gay marriage is moral or not lawful or not i'm like who are we to define the terms we did not make this you got to go to the creator to know how
[00:29:19] something best functions do you guys have ikea here wow they made it all the way here go to the swedish people is it sweet i think it's swedish okay well we have ikea in australia as
[00:29:29] well. So when you buy a flat pack from Ikea and you're putting the table together, you've got to use the instruction manual to know how the table best functions together and how you've got to put
[00:29:38] it together. Why? Because you didn't create the table. You've got to go to the creator of that table to know how it best fits together. And the person that put the instruction manual in the box
[00:29:47] is not trying to press you and trying to limit you and, oh, I just want the table done my way because I made this table. No, no. They care about you and they may want to make sure the
[00:29:57] table's not going to break. They want to make sure you're going to use the table in a way that's beneficial for you. God didn't give us His instruction manual for living because He wants to limit you. And because He's trying to harm you, He gave us His Word to liberate you. He created
[00:30:10] you and He knows how you best function. He knows how marriage best functions because He made it.
[00:30:15] He made marriage. And so when He gave us the instructions for marriage, He wasn't trying to harm you. He was trying to set you free. He wants you to do it His way because He loves you.
[00:30:26] But people are like, oh, but why can't you just let people love whoever they wanna love?
[00:30:29] Isn't Christianity all about love?
[00:30:31] Well, you have to define love biblically because the Bible says love does not rejoice with wrongdoing.
[00:30:36] Therefore, if sin is involved, it's not love, it's lust.
[00:30:39] If sin is involved, if it's defined as sin, then it's no longer love.
[00:30:44] Two men don't love each other.
[00:30:45] It's lust now because love does not rejoice with wrongdoing.
[00:30:50] And when we start saying that, well, if they feel love towards each other, it makes what God has deemed immoral moral, this is a very slippery slope. When we start saying, well, they feel love towards each
[00:31:02] other. And it doesn't matter that the Bible says it's wrong. They feel love towards each other.
[00:31:06] Therefore that must make it okay. If we start saying the presence of feelings makes something moral, this is a slippery, slippery slope to all forms of degeneracy and wickedness.
[00:31:16] Because by that same argument and that same premise, what is wrong with the 50 year old man who feels love towards the child.
[00:31:25] Well, if it's just about my orientation and how I feel, well, what's wrong with that?
[00:31:29] See, this argument of, well, it doesn't matter what the Bible says, but the feelings I have makes it moral.
[00:31:35] This is the same thing that could justify pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, you name it.
[00:31:40] And if we cross the first bridge, the second is inevitable.
[00:31:43] If we start to redefine what love is, the second is inevitable.
[00:31:47] And you might be like, well, Millie, this is just too intense for church this morning.
[00:31:51] I did not come this morning.
[00:31:52] to hear about such topics.
[00:31:53] You can't talk about these things from the platform.
[00:31:56] You can't talk about pedophilia on stage.
[00:31:57] I'm like, well, that's what people were saying about homosexuality 50 years ago.
[00:32:01] All the pastors were like, we don't wanna talk about this topic.
[00:32:03] Well, guess what?
[00:32:04] Now 20% of Gen Z are gay and struggling with their identity.
[00:32:08] Why?
[00:32:08] Because no pastor wanted to talk about homosexuality.
[00:32:11] Now our young people are struggling.
[00:32:13] And I'm not gonna make that same mistake.
[00:32:15] My job is to sniff the devil while he's still far away.
[00:32:17] And I can see him trying to bring this whole idea of pedophilia into our culture today.
[00:32:22] And I'm going to call him out while he's 50 years ahead.
[00:32:25] I'm calling him out ahead.
[00:32:26] They're trying to bring it in culture.
[00:32:28] They're trying to redefine it now.
[00:32:30] It's not pedophilia.
[00:32:30] It's minor attracted persons.
[00:32:33] Have you heard this phrase in culture?
[00:32:34] Maps, they call it.
[00:32:35] It's a minor attracted person.
[00:32:37] Age is just a social construct.
[00:32:40] It always starts, by the way, cultural shifts always start with language shifts.
[00:32:44] They're already trying to do it.
[00:32:45] And I'm going to sniff the devil while he's still far away and say, uh-uh, I won't let you take any more of our children.
[00:32:50] and we will fight for the next generation.
[00:32:53] We will protect our children from these evil demonic forces that are coming against us in our culture.
[00:32:59] No, no, we can only define marriage according to God's way.
[00:33:04] Male and female, He created them.
[00:33:06] But you might be like, but Millie, it doesn't make sense.
[00:33:08] Why did He create them then?
[00:33:09] I mean, why did God create gay people if He condemns homosexuality?
[00:33:13] That doesn't seem very fair.
[00:33:14] Why does God call it sin and then make them like that?
[00:33:17] Why are they born gay then?
[00:33:19] And if we take on this ideology of, you know, born this way, and God created me this way, there's a false presupposition there. God created me this way. And that false presupposition is that God created you the way that you were born. That's not true. You and I, we were born sinful. We were
[00:33:35] born with a desire to rebel. You and I were born with a desire to get drunk. We weren't born with a desire to be faithful to one's spouse. No, we were born with a desire to sleep around and get
[00:33:45] drunk. But God did not create us like that, right? How did God create us? God created Adam and Eve perfect, but with a free will. He didn't create them with a sinful desire. He didn't create them
[00:33:56] as sinful. He created them perfect, but with a free will. And they used that free will to eat from the tree of the garden. And when they did that, they brought sin into this world. Because
[00:34:06] they chose to rebel against God, sin entered into this world. Now, each and every single one of us, homosexual heterosexual whatever every single one of us we have a sin nature that we wrestle with
[00:34:16] for the rest of our lives all of us are born sinful we struggle with something now we don't get to turn around and look at God and be like well you made me like this I struggle with with
[00:34:25] drunkenness and you made me like this and how dare you expect me to control that you don't get to look at God and be like well I struggle not to hit my wife when I get angry and you made me like this
[00:34:34] how dare you expect me to control that no we understand that God expects us to make our body a slave, make it submit to Christ and say, hey, I'm not going to give into my sinful nature. I'm
[00:34:43] going to make it a slave and I'm going to actually give into the Spirit and I'm going to obey the Scriptures. We know that God expects us. At some point you have to decide, am I going to obey what
[00:34:53] the devil wants? Am I going to obey my flesh or am I going to obey God? But how is that fair? How is it fair that God knows that we were born with a sinful nature and yet He expects us to control
[00:35:03] that? How is that fair? God knew, by the way, He knew the minute they ate from that tree, He knew that every single one of us in this room would wrestle with sin for our lives.
[00:35:12] He knew that.
[00:35:13] So how is it fair that He expects us to control that?
[00:35:16] Maybe fair enough if it weren't for the cross and if it weren't for Jesus Christ and the fact that He went to the cross to crucify the power of sin and death.
[00:35:25] That is the whole point of the gospel, that He who knew no sin became sin, that we might become righteousness of God.
[00:35:31] Don't you see it?
[00:35:32] Jesus went to the cross so that sin doesn't have to control you anymore, so that sin doesn't have to have power over you anymore.
[00:35:39] So when someone says born this way, I tell them I got good news for you.
[00:35:43] You can be born again.
[00:35:45] Jesus went to the cross to set you free from the power of any sin.
[00:35:49] Every one of us here, we have to be born.
[00:35:53] Every single one of us is dealing with some sin in our life.
[00:35:57] But Jesus says, hey, come to me.
[00:35:59] I went to the cross to take away the power of that addiction on your life.
[00:36:03] You can be free this morning because of the blood of Jesus.
[00:36:06] All you have to do is repent of your sin and He will make you new.
[00:36:10] He will wipe you clean.
[00:36:11] He will give you a new heart and He will give you a new mind.
[00:36:15] But some Christians wanna act like Jesus, He paid for some sins, but not others.
[00:36:20] Oh, Jesus can set the drunkard free, but He can't set the homosexual free.
[00:36:24] You know what you're doing when you say that?
[00:36:25] When you separate different sins into different categories, like some are too hard for God to set people free from, you are spilling the blood of Jesus on the floor.
[00:36:34] You are telling me that He paid for some and not others.
[00:36:36] You are telling me that He did not do the finished work at that cross, that His power was limited.
[00:36:43] No, no. Jesus went to the cross to set any sinner free who would come and repent. And I don't care what you came in this morning dealing with. I don't care what addiction you've had for the last
[00:36:54] decade, the last 20 years. I don't care what kind of generational things you've been going through, that your parents did that and your grandparents did that. And you've just been doing this for all of your generations, drunkenness, alcoholism, whatever it is, pornography, I don't care what
[00:37:09] you are dealing with. Jesus went to the cross to set you free this morning. That is the blood of Jesus Christ. That's the blood of Jesus Christ. I would never subscribe to the kind of thinking
[00:37:22] of born this way. No, I will never subscribe to that. I want to see people set free by the truth of His Word. So we cannot give to Caesar the ability to define marriage. And as we land,
[00:37:32] And the last thing that a lot of Christians have done is they have given to Caesar that which belongs to God and that is their worship.
[00:37:40] A lot of Americans, you probably haven't faced this test yet, but you will at some point face the test of, do I worship God or do I worship Caesar?
[00:37:48] Do I worship God or do I worship government?
[00:37:51] We, as the body of Christ, we went through this test during COVID when they told us, oh, you can't attend church.
[00:37:56] You're not allowed to come to church.
[00:37:57] You're not allowed to gather.
[00:37:58] You're not allowed to worship.
[00:38:00] I don't know what it was like here, but in Australia, they told us, you can go, but you're not allowed to sing. I'm like, wow, you're really threatened when we praise, huh? You're really threatened when we worship. But we had masks on. So I was like, well, I'm just
[00:38:10] going to sing because you can't see me anyway. I'm just going to sing anyway. We had a test in that moment as a church, as the body of Christ of who do we worship? Do we worship God or Caesar?
[00:38:22] Now your pastors, your bold pastors, you know, they stood up and they're like, hey, we worship God.
[00:38:28] We don't worship mankind. We serve one King and His name is King Jesus. That's what it's like to have bold pastors. Thank God for them. A lot of churches were not like yours. A lot of churches,
[00:38:38] they buckled down. And you know, in Australia, they passed a law a couple of years ago in April 2024 called the Conversion Practices Ban Act. And what this law means is if somebody is struggling
[00:38:48] with homosexuality and comes up to us after the service and asks for prayer, if I pray for that person, no matter how much they want it, I could go to prison for up to five years just for praying
[00:38:58] for them. Not just me as a preacher or a pastor, even parents can go to prison in Australia right now for five years for praying for their own child. Not just that, there's hate speech laws
[00:39:09] where if we speak about Islam, for example, we could go to prison for up to 12 years right now in Australia. And, you know, at Echo Church, we had to, you know, we got together and we met when
[00:39:18] they brought this law in and we're like, what are we going to do? You know, they told us we can't pray. They made prayer illegal. Are we going to stop praying? What are we going to do? And the
[00:39:25] meeting lasted about 10 seconds. Because like, what is there even to talk about? When the government tells you not to pray. What did Daniel do when the government told him not to pray? Daniel didn't
[00:39:35] just keep on praying in private. No, no. He didn't just keep on praying behind closed doors. Daniel opened up his window and prayed towards Jerusalem in front of the government. Why? Because we don't worship Caesar. We don't worship man. We worship one King and His name is King Jesus. So you can
[00:39:51] never stop me from praying. You can never stop me from worshipping. You can never stop me from preaching. Why? Because I worship God. I worship God. And if they take me to prison and they make
[00:40:04] Christianity illegal, you know what I'm going to do? I'm just going to start singing like Paul and Silas because even the prison doors were no match for the power of God in that room. You'll never
[00:40:13] stop me from preaching. Why don't you stand to your feet all over this place? I want to pray for boldness to fill the believers in this room. You might not have this battle now, but the truth is
[00:40:25] a lot of Christians in America that we meet, you're afraid to speak the truth of the Bible.
[00:40:30] You're afraid, you're embarrassed, you apologise for it.
[00:40:33] Oh, someone asks you at work, what do you believe about marriage?
[00:40:36] What do you think about homosexuality?
[00:40:38] You're scared to tell them what the Word of God says.
[00:40:40] But the truth is, if you do not speak the truth now while you have the freedom to do it, eventually it will become illegal.
[00:40:46] If you don't use your freedom now while you have it, eventually you will lose that freedom.
[00:40:50] All across the other parts of the West, They are classifying certain Scriptures as hate speech.
[00:40:57] Certain verses you are not allowed to say or you will be going to jail like parts of the UK.
[00:41:02] And you need to decide today, Christian, who do you worship?
[00:41:05] Do you worship God or do you worship government?
[00:41:08] Do you worship man?
[00:41:09] Do you fear man or do you fear God?
[00:41:12] Even if they were to take my life.
[00:41:15] People are like, are you afraid?
[00:41:16] Like, are you afraid of all the death threats?
[00:41:18] Me and my husband, we get death threats weekly.
[00:41:20] We are constantly being messaged.
[00:41:22] They even messaged us about our baby boy who's only nine weeks old.
[00:41:25] Death threats all of the time because of what we say.
[00:41:28] People are like, are you scared?
[00:41:30] Are you scared to die?
[00:41:31] I'm like, truthfully, I've already died.
[00:41:35] Like Millicent is already in the grave.
[00:41:36] I have already died to self and I'm now alive in Christ.
[00:41:39] And the only reason I exist on this earth is just to do the will of the Father.
[00:41:43] And if you take my life, you can't actually kill me.
[00:41:45] You're just gonna relocate me to heaven where I'll be in the presence of my God anyway.
[00:41:50] So you can come at me with the things of this world.
[00:41:52] You can come against me with a sword, but the truth is I don't fear man.
[00:41:56] I only fear God.
[00:41:58] I only fear the One.
[00:41:59] The Bible says, do not fear the One who can harm the body, but only fear the One who can harm both, throw both body and soul in hell.
[00:42:06] Who is that?
[00:42:06] God.
[00:42:07] The only One you should fear is your God.
[00:42:10] Have a holy reverence and fear for God.
[00:42:14] We are so afraid of offending people.
[00:42:17] We're not even afraid of offending our God.
[00:42:20] The only person you should care about offending is God.
[00:42:23] It's your Creator.
[00:42:24] it's your Father. When you speak, when you don't speak, are you thinking about whether God is pleased or if He's ashamed? I want to pray for boldness all over this place. If you want to
[00:42:33] receive just an impartation of boldness to speak the truth, no matter what the cost, I'm coming as an Australian, I'm coming from the future. I'm coming from the future because I'm coming from a place where if you do not keep on speaking the truth in this nation, it's going to
[00:42:47] become like mine. So I'm coming from the future now to impart courage to you. You have to decide today, I'm going to stand no matter what comes my way. If you wait to the moment of persecution to
[00:42:58] decide, will I stand for Jesus? I promise you'll buckle. You need to decide today. No matter what they say, no matter what they threaten me with, they can try to take my job. They can try to take
[00:43:08] my finances. They can try to put me in jail. I will never deny my God. If you want to receive that boldness, raise your hands all over this place. God, I pray boldness over the body of
[00:43:17] Christ. I speak courage over every believer here in this place. God, courage to speak Your Word, no matter what the cost.
[00:43:25] God, we will not deny You in front of man, God.
[00:43:27] We want to be bold.
[00:43:29] We wanna be proud of what Your Word says, God.
[00:43:31] We don't wanna ever apologise for what the Scriptures say, God.
[00:43:34] And they can threaten us with our workplace.
[00:43:36] They can threaten us with our livelihood.
[00:43:38] They can threaten us no matter what they come against us with.
[00:43:41] We will never deny You because You are the only thing that matters in this world.
[00:43:45] This world will fade.
[00:43:46] Our life is but a vapour.
[00:43:48] You are the only thing that shall stand.
[00:43:50] So God, we give our lives into Your hands.
[00:43:53] If persecution ever comes our way, oh God, give us your spirit of courage.
[00:43:58] Give us your spirit of boldness, God, where we will stand for your truth, no matter what the cost.
[00:44:04] In Jesus' mighty name.
[00:44:06] And everybody said, amen, amen, amen.
[00:44:09] Thank you, Freedom House.

[00:44:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:44:11] Amen, amen, amen.
[00:44:15] You know, Pastor Millicent said it.
[00:44:17] Jesus went to the cross for you.
[00:44:20] And just for one moment, I just want everybody to stay still in the room because I think today is the start of your boldness.
[00:44:29] by accepting a free gift, by actually understanding that, yes, I am a sinner. I've done wrong and I need a savior. And Jesus is that savior. He saw you way before you ever came along. He said,
[00:44:48] I'm willing to go to the cross for you. He stretched out his arms. He poured out his blood for you. And he said, my blood is sufficient. I am the final sacrifice that needs to be made because
[00:45:02] I am totally righteous. I am totally blameless. I am totally sinless. And I want my blood to wipe away the sins of anyone else who would receive the gift that I'm giving them. So with head bowed
[00:45:17] and eyes closed, if that's you today and you want to repent, you want to say, Jesus, I want a brand new start. I want to accept you into my heart and start brand new. Would you just
[00:45:32] put up your hand? Would you be bold online? If you want to click that button, let us know you're raising your hand. I see your hands. I see your hands. I see your hands. Be bold. Don't let the
[00:45:47] enemy hold you back from what God has in store for you. I see your hands. Freedom House, let's say this prayer all together with them. Everybody repeat after me. Jesus, thank you for going to
[00:46:02] the cross for me. I receive the gift of salvation. I repent of my sins. And today I start a new life with you. Be the Lord of my life. Be my savior and give me a brand new start today in Jesus name.
[00:46:22] Amen. Amen. Come on. Let's celebrate with everybody. You raise your hand today.