Amen. Right so it's the 5th of November in case you're wondering why is it that
he's not preaching finishing our series well it's the 5th of November which is
Guy Fawkes night, bonfire night, whatever you'd like to call it which is a bit
frustrating probably for those with young children and those with pets as
well it kind of goes on for a while doesn't it seems like you can hear
everyone in the area in fact it's it's probably one of the few times in this
nation that the golden dog idol gets relegated to you know hiding under the
sofa while people are letting off loud fireworks and stuff like that what are
they actually celebrating if you ever wondered this or people are that aware
of what it's about it's not the end of Halloween although they should be
celebrating that but it's not that it's the end of Halloween it's bonfire night
like I said previously known especially as Guy Fawkes night and it's a
celebration to mark the foiling of the plot to blow up Parliament on November
the 5th 1605 so this was when a group of Catholic conspirators plotted and planned
it was a huge mass murder attempt okay and they were very close to being
successful now the following what I'm going to read is a pretty nice I thought
pretty seemingly accurate summary of what happened and and it reads like this
in late October 1605 an English nobleman Lord Monteagle received a mysterious
letter along with the rest of England's peers and the King Monteagle intended to
attend the opening of Parliament a few days later on November the 5th the
unsigned letter got straight to the point my lord out of the love I bear to
some of your friends I have a care of your preservation therefore I would
advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift of your
attendance at this Parliament and it goes on to say for though there be no
appearance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow and the
sender then urged Monteagle to burn the letter after having read its contents
now Monteagle a Catholic didn't do that saving himself from the gruesome
punishment that would soon engulf certain of his co-religionists is how
it's written here he forwarded the missive to Robert Cecil chief minister
of King James the first many English Protestants suspected that members of
the Catholic minority were plotting to topple the monarchy and impose a
Catholic regime with foreign funding and aid and this message seemed to confirm
their suspicions the letter made its way to King James who doubted at first
that the threat was genuine despite the royal skepticism on November the 4th the
Earl of Suffolk conduct a search of the Palace of Westminster and its environs
where England's Parliament was due to meet the next day the old reported that
he found no substantial cause for concern but he did notice a privately
rented ground store floor room that contained an unusually large amount of
firewood later that day Sir Thomas knivet a minor but trustworthy royal
official oversaw a second search of the buildings around Parliament that same
storeroom likewise attracted his attention as did the man knivet found
guarding it he was not dressed like a watchman instead he was wearing a cloak
boots and spurs clothes more suit it seemed for making a quick getaway and
horseback knivets men shift the fire would have found 36 barrels of gunpowder
hidden behind it the man who gave his name is John Johnson who was found to
have matches which were long fuses on his person knivet had uncovered an
astonishing conspiracy to blow up the members of both houses of Parliament the
king most of the royal family and leading officers of state the aim was to
set up a Roman Catholic regime in Protestant England with James the first
daughter Elizabeth who would not be in attendance as its puppet ruler now the
man found was was Guy Fawkes who called himself John Johnson who was the
gunpowder expert of the group which was actually led by a guy called Robert
Catesby I think some people think he was a leader no he wasn't it was a guy called
Robert Catesby but Guy Fawkes was was he kind of gunpowder guy and you might be
sitting there going okay so what's all that got to do with us isn't this a
Baptist Church you know why aren't I just telling everyone you know about
God's love or something else as many churches around the nation probably
preaching today why am I preaching about this because had Guy Fawkes been
successful that the nation would have been under Roman Catholic rule at least
at that point the Mayweather pilgrims would likely have probably been put to
death instead or at least put in prison and this King James Bible wouldn't exist
we wouldn't have the King James Bible had they been successful 1605 was a key
moment in the English-speaking Christian world or for the English-speaking
Christian world to follow in 1604 King James the sixth of Scotland and first of
England commissioned the greatest translation work ever undertaken he he
commissioned so a translation work which for seven years originally 54 reducing
the 47 of the finest language scholars in the world in a time by the way when
the knowledge of language and biblical text was huge okay this was something
that many people pursued many intellectuals would have pursued they
worked on translate the King James Version and these sorts of scholars
just don't exist now okay these sorts of men don't exist anymore okay people who
have dedicated and put that much time and effort into the study of languages
older languages study of texts and things like that a lot of people go into
different pursuits now they had access to and and use the same text that have
been used for the century and a half proceeding by the way okay so we don't
worry that they didn't have some buried Alexandrian scrolls that no one even
cared about that's why they were buried okay they use the text that have always
been used by people you know who wanted God's Word and the result was a perfect
translation that is still the most widely used English translation to this
day the King James Bible now it's no coincidence that the next year off the
work had begun there was an attempt to kill the man responsible for
commissioning the work and no King James didn't translate the Bible you get
people that try and say that to you really a translation some King James no
no no he commissioned it okay he got these guys together who took it so
seriously translating a perfect translation there wasn't he wasn't
telling what you got to change this to this and do this no the whole point was
to do a perfect translation of God's Word and there was an attempt to kill
him and in fact there had already been two attempts to kill King James the
previous English translations had they been successful would have likely been
destroyed too by the way Bloody Mary had had already had a go at sort of some
version of this in a five-year reign of terror from 1553 to 1558 she executed
John Rogers who was also known as known as Thomas Matthews the printer of the
Matthews Tyndale Bible his execution was followed by the execution of former
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer who was primarily responsible for the
printing of the Great Bible look they there's always been an attack on on
God's Word okay and those preceding barbers which are very very close to the
King James they just weren't quite the King James Bible they didn't want those
either and fast-forward 50 years with a potential puppet child queen controlled
by a load of savage Catholic mercenaries and things would have been
very different in this nation now things will still be very different so when it
comes to celebrating Guy Fawkes night I'm all for it
yeah I love it last week I was pooping Halloween for good reason this week I'm
all for Guy Fawkes night watching Bible deniers NIV heretics and others
celebrating the survival of the same King that many still slander to this day
it's for me just a great irony it's one of you know the nation's great ironies
that all these people are celebrating a guy that they then slander and a book
that the the translation of Bible that so many of these people seem to have a
an absolute hatred for is for me it's great in January 1606 James the first
pastor Thanksgiving Act to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot and his
deliverance from danger called the observance of 5th of November Act 1605
it remained in force until 1859 although celebrations still take place today so
it's in fact it not it was previously a law to celebrate it now people still
choose celebrate it brilliant it's great however something I've noticed more
recently and it's probably been growing for many years is the increasing
glorification of Guy Fawkes as a sort of hero rebel you ever kind of notice that
he's like turning into this sort of hero character this hero rebel now according
to Wikipedia there's a little passage which I thought was pretty interesting
James Sharp professor of history at the University of York has described how Guy
Fawkes came to be toasted as the last man to enter Parliament with honest
intentions that's what they claim William Harris Harrison Ainsworth 1841
historical romance Guy Fawkes or the gunpowder treason portrays Fawkes in a
generally sympathetic light and his novel transformed Fawkes in a public
perception into an acceptable fictional character Fawkes subsequently appeared
as essentially an action hero in children's books and penny dreadful such
as a boyhood days of Guy Fawkes or the conspirators of old London published
around 1905 according to historian Lewis Cole Fawkes is now a major icon in
modern political culture whose face has become a potentially powerful instrument
for the articulation of postmodern anarchism in the late 20th century Fawkes
is regarded as some by some as a martyr political rebel or freedom fighter
especially amongst a minority of Catholics in the United Kingdom so
despite being involved in a in a terrorist plot Guy Fawkes was named the
30th greatest Briton in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 and I think I don't
think this was like one of those so-called polls where they kind of ring
up ten people and then come up with the findings that they want and then you
nine of the people they run now I think it was a fairly sizable poll I've never
watched it but apparently it's especially since V for Vendetta if you
heard of that movie that people use the Guy Fawkes mask to protest against
tyranny right or they claim their protests against tyranny they have this
Guy Fawkes mask so basically you've got a load of so-called freedom fighting
types running around in a mask of the man that wanted to establish a Roman
Catholic government subject to the Pope in Rome bit strange however that's not
even half it today we're going to learn a little bit more about Guy Fawkes and
therefore hopefully similar types of people okay today that's what I'd like
to preach about Titus 1 16 said this they profess that they know God but in
works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work
reprobate and the title of my sermon this morning is the psychopath Guy Fawkes
the psychopath Guy Fawkes I'd like to pray before we continue father thank you
for your word thank you that we have this word of God Lord that we have the
inspired preserved words of God in English in our hands that we can trust
every single word of it Lord we thank you that that it was due to your
Providence due to your protection of the King that was that was responsible for
commissioning this work that we that we have this Bible Lord and we we we just
pray today that you just just help me to show the importance of that and help me
to show that the characteristics of the people that hate your word Lord people
that hate you people that hate us and help me to just preach this this sermon
that you've laid on my heart just clearly and clearly accurately and
boldly fully your spirit Lord we want to have a tent of his Jesus name pray Amen
okay what is a psychopath the title is the psychopath Guy Fawkes well according
to psychology today psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence
of empathy and the blunting of other affective states callousness detachment
and a lack of empathy enable psychopaths to be highly manipulative
nevertheless psychopathy is among the most difficult disorders to spot
psychopaths can appear normal even charming underneath they lack any
semblance of conscience their antisocial nature inclines them often
but by no means always to criminality psychopaths spark popular fascination in
clinical language adult psychopathy is largely resistant to treatment though
programs exist to treat callous unemotional youth in hopes of preventing
them from maturing into psychopaths brain anatomy genetics in a person's
environment may or contribute to the development of psychopathic traits I'm
just highlighting those words to make it clear they don't really know okay the
hopes and the may and everything else psychopathy is diagnosed using the hair
psychopathy checklist scored on the three-point scale based on whether the
item does not apply zero applies to a certain extent one or fully applies to
the individual that's two points the bar for clinical psychopathy is a score
of 30 or higher serial killer Ted Bundy you may have heard of scored 39 out of
an available 40 okay that guy was a psycho okay now the revised version of
the checklist and they've revised it to I think it used to be 22 in the
checklist it includes the following characteristics now just before I read
these and before everyone starts either self diagnosing or diagnosing those
closest and nearest to them and everything else I just bear in mind that
that like I said some of these things you're gonna have to some people will
display signs of to a certain level okay a lot of this is sort of you know I
wouldn't quite say normal but a lot of this you might see in people but it's
scoring you know 30 plus on this and you know try not to be an amateur
psychologist because a lot of people love doing that but let's have a quick
look at these and because they are interesting glibness superficial charm
grandiose sense of self-worth need for stimulation proneness to boredom
pathological lying frequent and can include compulsion to do so conning and
manipulative lack of remorse or guilt shallow affect which is reduced
emotional responses callous lack of empathy parasitic lifestyle poor
behavioral controls promiscuous sexual behavior early behavioral problems lack
of realistic long long-term goals impulsivity irresponsibility failure to
accept responsibility for one's own actions many short-term marital
relationships juvenile delinquency revocation of conditional release from
prison criminal versatility ie commits different types of crimes like I said a
maximum score 40 30 is apparently the bar so it's not everything it's not that
everyone would have to you know have the fully applied score to for everyone now
as we know our so-called science experts are often way off okay they
often weigh off with many things but interestingly with this subject it seems
to line up in many ways with the Bible and that's an interesting part about the
sort of more modern understanding of psychopathy only the Bible doesn't call
these people psychopaths the Bible calls these types of people reprobates children
of the devil children of Belial the wicked sometimes workers of iniquity the
proud they often called the proud with false prophets false brethren and
sodomites being a type of reprobate according to the Bible here turn of
Romans 1 to see some of these parallels with but I'm also going to quote just
it's going to be hard for you to keep flicky and there's a bit I want to get
through today I'm also going to quote some verses from 2nd Timothy chapter 3
which has a long passage as well or fairly long passage on these types of
people 2nd Peter chapter 2 and then the book of Jude being the the very
descriptive passages of these types of people as well so you're turning to
Romans chapter 1 we saw glibness superficial charm now Jude verse 16 says
their mouth speaketh great swelling words having men's purses in admiration
because of advantage okay that's how Jude describes it we saw grandiose sense
of self-worth 2nd Timothy 3 2 says for men shall be lovers of their own selves
also it calls them boasters and proud as well we saw need for stimulation
proneness to boredom 2nd Peter 2 13 says they that count it pleasure to write in
the daytime we saw pathological lying you're in Romans 1 and verse 29 says
that they're full of deceit is one of the characteristics codding and
manipulative 2nd Peter 2 13 says that they're sporting themselves with their
own deceivings while they feast with you lack of remorse or guilt 1st Timothy
4 2 says speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a
hot iron shallow effect which is reduced emotional responses 2nd Timothy 3 3 says
without natural affection callous lack of empathy Romans 1 31 where you are
says without understanding unmerciful it says as well parasitic lifestyle Romans
1 29 says that they're filled with covetousness maliciousness they're full
of envy okay so they're happy to just live off other people who they envy who
they covet their things poor behavioral controls Romans 1 29 says being filled
with all unrighteousness promiscuous sexual behavior while Romans 1 29 says
they're filled with all fornication early behavioral problems 2nd Timothy 3
2 says that they're disobedient to parents lack of realistic long-term
goals 2nd Timothy 3 4 says that they're heady impulsivity Jude and verse 16
says walking after their own lusts irresponsibility Romans 1 32 says who
knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of
death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them we saw
failure to accept responsibility for one's own action 2nd Timothy 3 4 calls
them high-minded we saw many short-term marital relationships 2nd Peter 2 14
says having eyes full of adultery juvenile delinquency Romans 1 30 where
you are also says disobedient to parents revocation of conditional
release from prison 2nd Peter 2 14 says that they cannot cease from sin and
criminal versatility ie commits different types of crimes or Romans 1
and verse 29 where you are says being filled with all wickedness so all of
these passages are describing I'm not just picking various you know just you
know talking about sins in the Bible these are all passages describing these
people okay they're all passages which are dedicated to describing what the
world calls a psychopath and only only really more recently started calling
them psychopaths okay this is sort of a more modern sort of study that they've
been doing in the last sort of few decades now to and started using the
term psych psychopathy and and and psychopaths for these types of people
now I'd like you to keep something in in Romans chapter 1 and look down at Titus
1 and there are many other smaller passages which talk about these people
like I said those Romans 1 2nd Timothy 3 2nd Peter 2 and Jude being very
descriptive and very long passages about it but Titus 1 also talks about these
types of people where Paul has just reminded Titus in Titus 1 that he left
him in Crete to plant churches okay he gave the qualifications of an elder or
pastor reminding him that one of their jobs is to exhort and encourage people
but also to convince and convict is another word of saying that the
gainsayers the opposition the enemy okay he said that that passes it and
when we say convince convict it's not to convince them of the truth it's to
convict them of their wickedness okay and that's that's one of the jobs of a
pastor okay and and it's not look again you know liberal Baptist Church then
you'll never hear a message like this you never hear most of messages that you
should hear from a proper church which is warning you about wickedness warning
you about these types of people and convicting them of their sin and helping
you to spot these types of people right well he said that pastors need to be in
verse 9 holding fast the faithful word as he had been taught look we could read
psychology today all day long but really what do we really need to have our faith
in the Word of God okay if it lines up with the Word of God great if it doesn't
it's wrong okay but he said holding fast the faithful word as he had been taught
that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers for there are many did he say a few or did he say many many right
many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they have the
circumcision whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses
teaching things which they ought not for filthy Lucas sake so if I just told you
every week how much we all love each other and God loves you and go home and
just just keep love in the middle of your hearts is that really gonna help
you now it might do maybe one week maybe you you know you're feeling you're a
bit missing out on the love servant sometimes right but you know what they
their mouths must be stopped these people he's told him to hold faster
faithful word to be able to exhort and to convince these gainsayers he said
that they subvert whole houses these these look the serial killer is a
failure basically they are a failure yeah they've killed some people okay but
for what they're meant to be for what for what their purpose could be they
really failed okay the open sodomite is a failure they're not going to really
do that much great work for the devil they couldn't control themselves enough
to try to blend in and do real damage that the higher level children of the
devil is how the Bible calls them they do real damage real work for the devil
these these children of the devil are doing the most effective work behind
pulpits damning people to hell in the droves infiltrating churches trying to
destroy legitimate churches infiltrating governments positions of influence
positions of influence in the world in the media place like that that's where
they do the most damage you know living just a life of absolute filth and
squalor and sin and you know just just going over the edge and killing some
people that's kind of they just destroyed what chance they had to really
work for the devil really yeah these people are those types of people are
failures says in verse 12 one of themselves even a prophet of their own
said the Cretans are always lies evil be slow bellies so we're talking about the
false prophet types here now okay a prophet of their own he's now just saying
that the Cretans look at these people in Crete always lies evil be slow bellies
this witness is true not what he's saying but the fact that one of their
prophets said this wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in
the faith now I believe he's saying to rebuke the false prophets so that others
will be sound in the faith rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the
faith that is a job of a pastor isn't it one of the jobs of passes to rebuke
false prophets it's a call out false prophets is there is to show who are the
false prophets show the false religions show the wickedness that's being said
around this nation that that can turn heads that will be something you come up
against when you're out trying to get people saved he said not giving heed to
Jewish fables such as for example two thousand year old ridiculous bloodline
claims to someone else's land you know those sorts of just bizarre Jewish
fables out there and commandments of men that turn from the truth and there are
a lot of commandments of men that have nothing to do with the truth aren't there
a lot of commandments of men that are in what we call churches for example
salvation via the seven sacraments is a complete nonsense it's commandments of
men praying to Mary as some sort of mediatrix is commandments of men it's
not biblical at all repenting of your sins for salvation is commandments of
men there's nothing biblical about it it's not the truth yeah he said in verse
15 unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and
unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled
they profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable
and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate reprobate is rejected okay
they're rejected they're reprobates the title is the psychopath Guy Fawkes and
we're going to look first at his defiled mind and conscience we're going to look
at Guy Fawkes his defiled mind and conscience verse 15 says unto the pure
all things are pure unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
but even their mind and conscience is defiled now defiled in this context is
depraved effective I'd like you to keep a finger here and just go back a few
pages to 1st Timothy chapter 4 keep a finger here and go back to 1st Timothy
4 remember that we heard that psychop psychopathy is a condition characterized
so the characterization of psychopathy what really makes makes a psychopath
wall a psychopath the the kind of the most obvious things is the absence of
empathy and the blunting of other affective states callousness detachment
and a lack of empathy enable psychopaths to be highly manipulative
nevertheless psychopathy is among the most difficult disorders to spot and
this lines up with the Bible which often refers to the mind of these types of
people in a similar way talks about the minds Romans 1 28 says and even as they
did not like to retain God their knowledge God gave them over to a
reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient we just read in
Titus 1 15 their mind and conscience is defiled and in 1st Timothy 4 2 it's
described like this we're gonna look for verse 1 no now the spirit speak
expressly that in the latter time some shall depart from the faith okay so
these are people that just turn the other way from the faith they're not
saved okay they reject salvation giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a
hot iron so whereas the psychologists are still trying to work out what caused
their brains to be defective in scans they just can't figure it out they're
just looking at these brain scans and seeing people where just certain parts
their brain aren't lighting up like normal people's are they just can't
really work it out whereas the Bible says their conscience is seared with a
hot iron that's why they have no empathy that's why they don't seem to have a
conscience that's why they're able to do such wicked and vile things their
conscience it's like it's been seared they've been given up on their God
given conscience is gone it's defiled okay it doesn't function anymore like
normal normal people's consciences do that's why they're able to do such
outlandish things to behave in a way that regular people would have behaved
now a lot of those things that we see yeah people can do the odd thing on that
list but when you're ticking off the vast majority of that list on the
psychopathy checklist let alone all the things we're going to see as you go
through those passages in the Bible that's not normal to be filled with all
that stuff in Romans 1 isn't normal okay it's because their their conscience has
been seared it's as if it's been seared with a hot iron okay now what should
happen is that we see them and say that's the result of rejecting God I
don't want to be like that that's the result of choosing the devil that's the
result of just of changing the truth of God into a lie that's it that's a result
of doing that I don't want to be like that that's a good warning that should
be an example however our unbelieving world has been increasingly uplifting
these types of people including Guy Fawkes now we talk a lot about for
example the big one in the world bit just pushing all these different weird
forms of sodomy on normal people like it's somehow okay and and that is one of
the symptoms of a of a reprobate mind however it's not just sodomites and
sometimes we can kind of almost as focus too much maybe on the sodomites
and not on the other types of reprobates I don't know if you can focus too much
on that because it's pretty wicked it's in your face however there are other
types well look at we're gonna look at those trademark qualities so go back to
Romans chapter 1 the title is psychopath Guy Fawkes and number one is his callous
lack of empathy he's callous he has a lack of empathy Romans 1 31 said it like
this without understanding covenant breaks without natural affection it
said implacable unmerciful so these psychopaths are callous they're cold
they're hardened to just sort of normal emotions to just having mercy on people
to being able to be placated even just with time or you know in normal ways to
have the understanding of other people to be able to look at people and just
think I wouldn't want to treat someone like that I wouldn't want to do that to
someone I want to behave like that because of the effect it would have on
someone else they're able to put themselves in other people's shoes normal
people are able to put themselves other people's shoes now what evidence do I
have that that Guy Fawkes was callous with a lack of empathy well how about
the fact that Guy Fawkes are kind of turning into a kind of villain hero or
something else was attempting to murder likely into the thousands of innocent
people he was about to blow up thousands of innocent people and it
wasn't warfare so I don't know like people try and picture it like he was a
freedom for this wasn't warfare it wasn't even assassination he was going
to blow up women children families maim loads that didn't get blown up could you
imagine the result of 36 barrels of gunpowder that was going to blow up it
wasn't just those people in Parliament not that that's okay anyway you just
talk about so many people anywhere nearby it wasn't a crazy moment okay it
was a cold-blooded calculated attempt to commit the mass murder of at least
hundreds if not into the thousands of innocent people research from the
Institute of Physics has found that guy thought had Guy Fawkes been successful
on 5th of November 1605 the blast would have covered a 500 meter radius for the
St. James's Park to the London Eye and if anyone's been up that part of town
that's a densely populated area in fact it was especially before a lot more the
amusement attractions and everything else let alone all the people descending
on Parliament that day for the opening reopening of Parliament all of the staff
there who worked there all of those bit like what they done to him etc etc this
wasn't war this was murder this was mass murder and he didn't care and it was
pre-planned mass murder or attempted mass murder now he was apparently a
gunpowder expert so he knew the results of 36 barrels of gunpowder he wasn't
just our world just gonna get a few more he knew that this was going to cause
massive destruction people in all you know people just maimed for life all
sorts of just horrific effects of this how does a normal man justify that how
does he reconcile that in his mind I'll tell you what normal men don't normal
people don't say yeah I'm just gonna blow up a load of innocent people for
whatever so-called cause whatever reason it wasn't normal that that was not a
normal a normal person with normal with a normal mind we're looking at the
psychopath Guy Fawkes number one a callous lack of empathy and I say that
just because we get to this we're at this point in the world where people
are constantly just trying to justify murder aren't they just constantly
trying to justify mass murder bombing people bombing children blowing them up
families you name it like it's somehow well you know it's just a bit of war
it's wicked it's absolutely wicked that's not warfare that's just bombing
people and that's been going on for a long time and people try to justify it
throughout different wars and things like that it's not okay
however many poppies you wear and and try and act like you're just really
patriotic it's not okay it's bizarre isn't it that people try and justify
mass murder number one was it was callous lack of empathy and like we said
Romans 131 called it without understanding covenant break is without
natural affection implacable are merciful we're going to look in Titus 1
now but number two is lack of remorse or guilt so another sign of a psychopath is
lack of remorse or guilt Titus 1 15 said unto the pure all things are pure but
unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even
their mind and conscience is defiled these people don't feel guilt like you
and I okay they don't feel bad for what they've done or tried to do now something
pretend they do okay so the most effective psychopaths blend into society
and pretend and copy and watch and try and act like someone else because they
know that otherwise they're going to stick out like a dirty sore thumb okay
however however they don't really deep down feel the guilt they don't feel that
remorse now some might say well perhaps he was just a professional soldier he
saw it as a job to do in a religious war because I'm trying to picture him like
that you know the freedom fighter is a soldier he was just very professional
well it says this is something I was reading about him and again I've kind of
looked at a lot of this I've been reading about guide forks for a long
time this year and last year and everything else but apparently after
being discovered forks was taken to the king's bedchamber to explain why he
wanted to kill him now this was after the torture forks answered that he
regarded the king as a disease after he had been excommunicated by the Pope he
also explained that he needed such a large quantity of gunpowder so he could
blow you scotch beggars back to your own native mountains that's what guy Fox
it now have it whatever you might think of Scots okay that's not okay is it
that's not normal this is kind of this is after the event now okay they didn't
he didn't he wasn't successful in it however for him it wasn't like yeah I
know yeah well we probably went a bit overboard on the gunpowder it's just
like yeah I want to blow you back now I don't care who who would have died in
the process definitely no remorse or guilt about it even when facing the king
that he was a trying to assassinate even really went in front of the king
that maybe he could have hoped he might have received some form of attempted
maybe not pardon but lessening of punishment or something else now
according to him he needed it so he could blow you scotch beggars back to
your own native mountains and look for me so far just these first two this
isn't a normal person this isn't a normal man this isn't a hero this is
someone that we should aspire to be like now when you look on it I clicked on
because I was trying to see how they're trying to push it on children so BBC
bite-sized for the kids and it's like a smiling Guy Fawkes like this on earth
you know like he's this cool comedy character no for me it's pretty clear
what he was let's look at another one no Turner's second Peter chapter two we're
looking at the psychopath Guy Fawkes number one was callous a lack of empathy
with Romans 131 calling it without understanding saying that there are
implacable unmerciful number two was a lack of remorse or guilt with Titus 115
saying that their mind and conscience is defiled and number three is conning
and manipulative conning and manipulative so second Peter 213 second
Peter 213 talks about these types of people sporting themselves with their
own deceivings while they feast with you now this is specifically the church
infiltrating type they sport themselves they get enjoyment with their own
deceivings while they feast and while they're fellowshipping with other people
acting as if they're normal so they're deceitful that they're manipulative and
and they're good at make you believe their lies now how about this foot for
Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes took the false identity of John Johnson and pretended
to be a servant originally okay to try and get access however the conspirators
managed to rent a basement in the House of Lords and the tunnel plan was
abandoned so first he managed to pretend to be a servant and was trying to tunnel
under there then they rented this this this basement room there basically a
cellar down there soon it was loaded with 36 barrels of gunpowder and
concealed as a pile of firewood now on 4th of November 695 the basement was
searched and Fawkes was questioned by the way after this letter he begged his
innocence by saying he was storing firewood a claim that was initially
believed that's someone that was good at lying right that was someone that was
down there with 36 barrels of gunpowder who somehow managed to convince the
people that were searching it due to a tip-off that in fact he was just
storing firewood however suspicions were raised again another search was
conducted 36 barrels of gunpowder were found stored under the wood the game was
up Fawkes was arrested that's a good deceiver though isn't it and by the way
you go yeah come on he just lied look can you imagine the adrenaline coursing
through normal people you're underneath the House of Parliament about to do
a huge mass murder you've got all these barrels of gunpowder you know that if
you're caught you're going to be hanged drawn and quartered and tortured and he
managed to blag his way out of it for me that's someone who's a who's a deceiver
that's someone who can manipulate easily turn to the book of Jude we're looking
at the psychopath Guy Fawkes number one callous a lack of empathy Romans 131
said without understanding implacable unmerciful number two a lack of
remorse or guilt Titus 1 15 said that their mind and
conscious is the file number three conning manipulative second Peter 2 13
says sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you
number four impulsivity impulsivity Jude verse 16 says is these are murmurers
complainers walking after their own lusts they walk after their own lusts
they're impulsive basically and their mouth speaketh great swelling words
having men's purses in admiration because of advantage so they're often
impulsive they'll make rash decisions based on emotion and of course they're
cold and calculating as well but they they are impulsive with many of their
decisions and what they choose to do and here's something I read about Guy Fawkes
in 1592 at age 21 Fawkes sold the estate he had inherited okay it wasn't like a
pauper from from from coming from nothing no he sold the estate he'd
inherited and set sail for Europe to join the Catholic Spanish army to help
wrench the Netherlands back from the Protestant Dutch forces that's a pretty
bizarre decision to me isn't it he sold up sold it all and gone off to join the
Catholic Spanish army or an idiot that's it is that's the impulsive decision
isn't it what what a foolish decision as well and it eventually results in
getting involved in the gunpowder plot anyway because he's out there kind of
fighting as a mercenary for the Catholic Spaniards I mean didn't they have enough
for their own people to fight for for their you know their so-called cause
against the Protestant Dutch but Fawkes decided to join that and sold up
everything to do so for me that's a sign of his impulsivity go back to Romans 1
though for another one we're looking at the psychopath Guy Fawkes number one was
callous lack of empathy Romans 1 31 says without understanding implacable
unmerciful number two a lack of remorse or guilt Titus 1 15 says that their mind
and consciousness defiled number three was being conning or manipulative
second Peter 2 13 says that they they are sporting themselves of their own
deceivings while they feast with you number four was impulsivity with Jude
verse 16 talking about their walking off their own lusts and number five
irresponsibility Romans 1 32 says who knowing the judgment of God that they
which commit such things are worthy of death not only do the same but have
pleasure in them that do them so basically even with punishment hanging
over them even with it hanging over others they still commit and enjoy
others committing their sins and and especially here we're talking about
crimes that there is one one source by the way that that claims that he had a
family but it is unconfirmed so we don't really know if that was true one source
claims that he did have a child he had a wife and child I'm not sure regardless
what a foolish irresponsible thing to get involved in if you know he had a
real cause well it resulted in torture and a gruesome death I mean that was
irresponsible to say the least wasn't it yet the prisons are full of
irresponsible psychopaths who do stupid things they say I think it's something
like 25% or over more than 25% of the prison population clinical psychopaths
because they just do irresponsible moronic things the rest of our
checklist so they're there ones that you can't find a lot of info on Guy Fawkes
their ones for me that are more obvious but the rest of our checklist includes
glibness superficial charm with Jude verse 16 saying their mouth speaks
great swelling words having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage we're unsure but he did blag his way out of capture the first time
round like I said I reckon there's probably a bit of charm that helped with
that as well grandiose sense of self-worth self-worth so second Timothy
3 2 says for men shall be lovers of their own selves also boasters proud what
what made him think that his Catholic cause was important enough to murder
hundreds and hundreds of people possibly a grandiose sense of self-worth need for
stimulation proneness to boredom second Peter 213 says that they counted
pleasure to riot in the daytime and that's selling up and going to fight for
the Spaniards you could say was maybe a sign of that pathological lying Romans
129 says it full of deceit unsure it was pathological but he was clearly good at
it wasn't he shallow effect ie reduce reduced emotional response second
Timothy 3 3 says without natural affection I think we can safely assume
this one with the mass murder attempt can't we parasitic lifestyle Romans
129 says filled with covetousness maliciousness full of envy I'm unsure
about that one poor behavioral controls Romans 129 says being filled with all
unrighteousness again we don't know about that promiscuous sexual behavior
Romans 129 so they're filled with all fornication again we don't know we don't
know enough about him early behavioral problem second Timothy 3 2 says
disobedient to parents and that would depend on which parent parent as he
converted from his father's Protestantism after he died when he was
nine years old eventually to his stepfather's Catholicism lack of
realistic long-term goal second Timothy 3 4 calls them heady and the plot itself
not to mention the fighting for Catholic Spaniards was bizarre failing to accept
responsibly for for one's own action second Timothy 3 4 says high-minded and
apparently took two days of torture for him to admit his involvement in the plot
and he was clear just caught red-handed okay so that was just pointless you
might as well it just said yeah okay you got me many short-term marital
relationships second Peter 2 14 calls it having eyes full of adultery and we
don't know about that juvenile delinquency Romans 1 30 says also
disobedient to parents while converting to the illegal Catholicism was pretty
delinquent for me revocation of conditional release from prison second
Tim second Peter 2 14 says and that cannot cease from sin he got bought
before the king and continued with the insults basically didn't they what a
what a moron criminal versatility ie commits diverse types of crimes Romans
129 says being filled with all wickedness and he went from an illegal
Catholic conversion to fighting abroad for them to plotting trying to tunnel
underneath the House of Parliament loading up the gunpowder to attempted
mass murder before joining before he was planning to then join the insurgency
with the kidnap of a young princess and a puppet monarchy I would say that he
was filled with a lot of wickedness right now I don't know about you but I'm
screwing him up there with Ted Bundy anyone doubting that one I've got him up
there with Ted Bundy myself possibly trumping Ted Bundy and that's only the
stuff that we kind of can say yeah we know for sure and some of those things
who knows what was going on behind the scenes with with Guy Fawkes we don't
know enough with all the kind of weird sexual stuff look that wasn't a day when
kiss-and-tell people got paid money for that sort of stuff you know that was a
day when that's a shame isn't it like it should be right that sort of
fornication lifestyle but ultimately it's not the scoring on the psychopath
checklist that does it okay the question is how does Guy Fawkes compare to
scripture and like we said we saw some different parts of scripture describe
these types of people which hopefully you know has helped educate you a bit on
this subject of psychopathy but back in Titus 1 back in Titus 1 it said this in
verse 15 unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and
unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled
they profess that they know God but it works they deny him being abominable and
disobedient and unto every good work reprobate because that's what he was he
was a religious reprobate that's what Guy Fawkes was he was similar to the
many false prophets that you and I have come across over the years religious
reprobate claiming to be religious the the majority of the UK probably see him
as some sort of Catholic freedom fighter religious guy that was just really
convicted of his Catholic beliefs and just wanted to kind of you know fight
for freedom for the Catholics this is what Sir William Ward lieutenant of the
tower said he said this is a guy that supervised the torture and obtained
Fawkes his confession he searched his prisoner and found a letter addressed to
Guy Fawkes to Ward's surprise Johnson which is what he was calling himself
remained silent revealing nothing about the plot of its authors on the night of
6th of November he spoke with Ward who reported to Salisbury he Johnson this is
Guy Fawkes told us that since he undertook this action he did every day
prayed to God he might perform that which might be for the advancement of
the Catholic faith and saving his own soul another work salvationist another
Christ hater another work salvationist used by the devil this is our high-end
work salvation a high-end child of the devil a Christ hater and that is a
Christ hater because what is the real Jesus Christ through he pays for your
sins yeah he saves your soul he did it all but another one who's rejected that
and another one who's used who was used almost in a mighty way right by the
devil and 2nd Timothy 3 describes this type of psychopath down to the T so if
you turn to 2nd Timothy 3 this is the work salvationist the reprobate in the
faith 2nd Timothy 3 says this from verse 1 because what does scripture say this
know also that in the last days perilous time shall come this is a type of
psychopath we're going to describe here the religious type of psychopath the
false prophet time for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous by
the way he was a mercenary boasters proud blasphemers yeah he had some
blasphemous beliefs this guy disobedient to parents unthankful unholy there's
nothing holy about Guy Fawkes without natural affection as we've looked at
that truce breakers false accusers incontinent can't control themselves
fierce is about to kill hundreds if not thousand people despises of those that
are good by the way King James was for me potentially and I would hope his son
King Charles as well maybe one of the only saved monarchs we've ever had I
believe he probably was saved I think when you read his book Basilican door
and he claims its grace through faith alone it's not by the works of the law
at all again people can claim that and not really believe that but for me King
James is probably the only saved guy which kind of for me makes sense
considering he was the king that was therefore used to to commission the
greatest translation the preservation of the of the Bible in English well King
James was someone that he clearly hated he thought is a Scotch beggar that
needed blowing back to the mountains of Scotland he was a despised of those that
are good traitors he was a traitor heady high-minded we've looked at all of
that lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God he sure as hell didn't
love God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof what's the
power thereof it's grace through faith it's the power of the cross it's the
power of the Lord Jesus Christ death bell and resurrection the power of the
blood they deny the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they
which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away
with diverse lusts ever learning and never able to come to knowledge of the
truth can these people get saved no they're reprobate they're rejected
they're given over they're done they're psychopaths they're never able now as
jannies and jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of
corrupt minds of reprobate concerning the faith but they shall proceed no
further for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was
I'll tell you what Guy Fawkes his folly was manifest unto all men wasn't it it
still is we're still talking about it to this day and there was folly there the
folly of trying to prevent God's Word being preserved in English that was
folly he was he was trying to stand against God Psalm 12 7 says thou shalt
keep them Oh Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever God
promised to preserve his word and God did that in English in the King James
Bible okay I have no doubt about that at all there is nothing like there's
nothing like the King James Bible these other these other Bible versions are an
absolute joke compared with it although obviously they try and hate they try and
scorn they always trying to attack the King James Bible well everyone who's
sitting here that saved got saved by the King James Bible and and we're all
growing and we're all learning and we're all getting edified by the King James
Bible and what we see in other churches is something else these these NIV
churches whatever Bible of the Month churches the rest of it what a joke
however Guy Fawkes was basically just another religious psychopath wasn't he
that's what he was he was just another type of false prophet another religious
psychopath this one well was trying to blow up the King and it's not always
that they'll be used for mass murder or something else but do you know what most
of them are doing they're doing their best to damn people to hell in fact
they're doing their best to have some horrific eternal consequences on
people's souls some could say it's much worse what a lot of these people do yeah
this was monumental because of the King James Bible but look whether it's
attacking the King James Bible and there's a lot of them out there that
their whole ministry is just attacking the King James Bible isn't it are there
so-called so-called pass out there like that weirdo James White and others what
they do they just attack the King James Bible what so what sort of ministry is
that I'll tell you what that's that's the spirit of Guy Fawkes ministry that
is Guy Fawkes Baptist Church let's just attack the King James Bible every week
or attacking those that believe the gospel which is seems to be what what
Guy Fawkes is doing with King James seem to actually be saved which is rare for
monarchs and people in leadership in nations and again isn't that what we see
so often people that are attacking so-called easy believe ISM yeah it's
easy yeah it really is easy because Jesus Christ did the work getting saved
is easy serving God is hard getting saved is easy and and they want to
attack easy believe ISM they want to attack the gospel they want to attack
people that believe the gospel they want to attack so winning you know and
someone ever subtle with it as we know as we've been around these types of
people claim to believe all that and it's subtle subtle just trying to sow
seeds of doubt trying to put you off trying to stop you going out and
preaching the gospel trying to put doubt in your mind are they really saved
trying to slowly encourage a bit of work salvation with the gospel did they
repent of this oh I just mean you know feel bad for their sins or say just
constant constant trying to chip away at the gospel or just the most blatant ones
who are just behind a pulpit pushing work salvation on people you must repent
of your sins to get saved you must make Jesus Lord of your life to get saved you
must follow all his commandments to stay safe you must avoid whatever sins I've
managed to avoid to stay saved and to still make it to heaven or whatever
other version of work salvation whether it's before during or after salvation
and those people are religious psychopaths those people you could argue
are worse than Guy Fawkes and that's what we've just seen a description of is
the types of people that we're in battle with we're still battling Guy Fawkes to
this day in many different ways whether they're behind pulpits whether they're
trying to come into churches like ours where they're trying to turn the heads
of our of our people on YouTube or social media or something else they're
out there they're all out there and hopefully this sermon has helped you to
be able to spot them a little easier because they're there they're hidden in
plain sight sometimes and look they're what the world call psychopaths and what
the Bible has called for thousand years now reprobates and other terms similar
but that was Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes the psychopath and Guy Fawkes who I hope no
one here would want to lift up a man like that I mean that is a wicked guy
as much the world lifts up wicked people on a daily basis we don't want to lift
up psychopaths mass murderers killers and everything else we want to lift up
the Lord Jesus Christ don't we and we do that with the Word of God on that we're
gonna finish in a word of prayer father thank you for the Word of God thank you
that we we have the preserved inspired words of God in English that we can just
trust every word of it that we don't have to have you know doubt as to what
what you've said we know what you've said because we have it in our hands Lord
we thank you that you preserve that word and not only preserved it in the
translation of it but also Lord that that we have the preserved word because
of you you you know just protecting those that you know did their utmost to
translate it to do that work to get us a perfect Bible in English we thank you
for that Lord help us to use that Bible to go out and and preach your gospel
loud and clear to preach your gospel to people and get people saved Lord and try
and encourage them to get involved with a church like this a church which just
wants to go out and preach that gospel Lord to want to stand for the truth they
want to preach the whole counsel of God help us to encourage people to get
involved with us as well and so we have a bigger army but Lord help us also just
return for this evening service as well in Jesus' name pro-lose amen