Hi guys, I hope that you are having
a good afternoon, a good evening, a good
morning, wherever you are in the world.
And as always knowing the strength of the
Lord and the leading indeed of the Lord.
And there is no doubt that we are
in precarious times, uncertain times.
For us even as the redeemed of the
Lord, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But not precarious and uncertain to the Lord.
The Lord knows the end from the beginning.
And more than ever, we as God's people
need the voice of the Lord.
We need the leading of our God.
We don't seek to look to other sources,
but the only source of truth and that
is our God, the Holy Scriptures.
I do believe wholeheartedly that the enemy is
ramping things up against the Church.
As we know much is going on and
much is taking place in the world today
and even against the Church.
There's no doubt that the strategy of hell
is to see the Church capitulate, to cease
from operations, to cease from worship, to cease
from prayer, to cease from preaching and all
measures and all strategies of hell shall be
implemented or being implemented, that again that the
Church would capitulate and surrender.
You know, I believe that another great strategy
of the wicked one and the hordes of
hell is the war of attrition, attrition warfare.
And for anybody that doesn't know, attrition warfare
is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts
to win a war by worrying down the
enemy to the point of collapse through continuous
losses in personnel and material.
And I have no doubt guys in this
are that that type of warfare is employed
by hell.
There's no doubt that the enemy seeks the
collapse of the Church, seeks that the Church
will be in disarray, that the Church would
turn against one another, its members.
And so the enemy is throwing everything at
the Church in this hour against God's people,
against what we have, our possessions, in the
hope again that we would collapse and perhaps
cease our worship unto God.
But I believe that the Lord wants to
stir up our hearts today to continue to
fight this good fight of faith and to
continue to bellow out the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ and continue indeed with no
restrictions to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh come and let us magnify the Lord
together.
And that is imperative, dear brothers and sisters,
that we magnify this great God of ours,
this great God, that we adhere to God's
word and God alone and what he says.
And as we do, as Peter said to
those that were in opposition to the gospel,
is it right for us to obey God,
our man, to obey you over God?
And dear friends, today we must obey God.
Our allegiance alone is to the Lord.
Our God is to the Saviour.
I pledged allegiance many years ago to the
Queen when I enlisted into the armed forces,
into the British Army.
But this is what I say today, that
my allegiance as a Christian, your allegiance as
a Christian, is to the King of Kings
and the Lord of Lords who trumps every
government.
His ways and his word is superior to
all.
And so let us be mindful today that
our allegiance is to the Lamb and to
the Lamb's word and to worship unto the
Lamb.
We cannot minimize it.
We cannot compromise it.
We cannot dilute it.
We must not in this hour, we must
continue through the help and power of the
Holy Spirit to magnify the Son of God,
the only begotten Son of God.
He deserves it so.
He deserves our worship, the entirety indeed of
worship, not part worship, not partial worship, but
whole worship.
And dear friends, though he slay us, yet
we must trust in him for we know
that our Redeemer lives.
So the weapons of hell are in operation
and continue to be in operation against us.
And let me say this just in closing,
the Apostle Paul said this, that Satan hindered
him.
Now some of you may know what that
means, some may not, but Paul was talking
about men, men who were under the influence
of the demonic.
He said men interfered with regards to his
ministry.
And dear friends, Satan seeks to hinder the
advancement of the church through men and through
governments and through powers to be in our
hands today.
Satan seeks to hinder the gospel.
He seeks to hinder the worship that is
due the Lord.
And we must not let whatever hindering dissuade
us, discourage us from standing firm in the
Lord and given what is rightly due to
the Lord on the Lord's day and every
day.
I will bless the Lord at all times
and his praise shall continually be in my
mouth.
And my mouth, dear friends, as I'm sure
your mouth will continue to praise and magnify
the God indeed of our salvation and will
not be shut by anyone.
Satan seeks to shut, Satan seeks to confine
and to close, but he shall not prevail
because the Lord Jesus Christ said that he
would build his church and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against the church, shall
not prevail against the remnants, shall not prevail
against the blood bought people of God.
The called out ones, you're called out, we're
called out, we're called out from the world,
love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world for the world is
at enmity with God.
The world does not love God.
The world despises God and everything our holy
God stands for.
So we love not the world.
We are not in fellowship with the world.
Our fellowship is with light, not with darkness.
Our fellowship is with the Lord.
Our allegiance is to the Lord, our God
and only the Lord.
Hallelujah.
May the Lord continue to empower us all,
to give us wisdom, to give us savvy,
to be able to recognize the stratagems of
hell in place and working right at this
time.
The church cannot cave in nor collapse because
of pressure from outside sources.
The church must stand as Elijah, the prophet
of God, the man of God stood on
Mount Carmel with the courage of the Lord
when all around him were gnashing their teeth
and desiring his demise, desiring his death.
But the man of God looked to heaven.
The man of God would not be influenced.
The man of God would not surrender.
The man of God would not bow down
to idols.
The man of God would not be persuaded
by the king or by any other.
His allegiance was to the Lord God, his
God.
And dear brother, dear friend, your allegiance again
is to the Lord and there is much
pressure and there is much gnashing of teeth
against us to do contrary to the Lord,
but we cannot bend, we cannot buckle, we
cannot surrender, we cannot bow down in this
hour.
The church must stand, it must stand and
it must be fixed upon the God of
our salvation, upon the author and the finisher
of the faith.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Praise be to God, the God that answers
by fire.
Hallelujah, the God that rents the heavens.
Indeed, hallelujah.
Praise God, we cannot cower, we cannot collapse
but we must have the courage of the
Lord again to fight the good fight and
to soldier on in the spirit indeed of
the Lord.
God bless you guys.