Amen. Okay so Acts chapter 14 and we're just going to focus on the first few verses so Acts
chapter 14 and starting in verse 1, Acts 14 one. And it came to pass in Iconium that they went both
together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and
also of the Greeks believed but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds
evil affected against the brethren. Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord
which gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by the
hands and the multitude of the city was divided and part held with the Jews and part with the
apostles and when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their
rulers to use them despitefully and to stone them they were aware of it and fled unto Lystra and
Derbe, cities of Lycaonia and unto the region at Lythron about and there they preached a gospel.
Okay verse two there have a look at verse two, but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles
and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. Evil affected against the brethren and
the title of my sermon today is the stirring tactics of the enemy the stirring tactics of
the enemy so the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil
affected against the brethren so basically they made them think evil of the Christians
they made them think evil of the Christians and this tactic continues until this day
okay this tactic continues to this day stirring people up to think and behave in a certain way
so how do you make someone's mind evil affected against people that are teaching and preaching
grace through faith how do you do that how do you make people think evenly of people that are
basically going around and preaching that you can be saved by by grace through faith in the finished
work of Jesus Christ the guy to heaven that's amazing isn't it how do you stir someone up
people who are trying to show you how to avoid an eternity in hell because that's what they're
doing aren't they they're trying to show you how god said you can avoid eternity in hell and
they're stirring up people's minds okay by stirring up the people and like i said this is something
that we see time and time again we see it in nowadays and throughout the book of acts it's
constantly talking about the people getting stirred up now to stir is to incite to animate
to instigate by flaming passions as to stir up a nation to rebellion and it wasn't just enough
that they made them think evil of them okay that wasn't enough if you have a look at verse five
says and when there was an assault made both of the gentiles and also of the jews with their
rulers to use them despitefully and to stone them they were aware of it and fled unto lystra and
cities of lycaonia and unto the region that lieth round about so the result was an attack
the result was trying to kill them so they've stirred them up to the point where they want
to kill these people and we don't have to go far to see this again so jump forward just
just along to verse 18 verse 18 okay they're in lycaonia they've healed someone and the people
think that they're gods okay in verse 18 it says and with these sayings scarce restrain they the
people that they had not done sacrifice unto them so basically at this point they've tried to stop
the people sacrificing to them as gods okay because they've just healed someone they're
thinking these guys are gods verse 19 there came with a certain jews from antioc and iconium
who persuaded the people and having stone pool drew him out of the city supposing he had been
dead so somehow between verse 18 and verse 19 they've gone from wanting to worship them
to stoning them okay why well certain jews from antioc and iconium and these are ones from earlier
in the chapter so they followed them they followed them and now these people have gone from wanting
to worship them to now wanting to stone them now you're thinking wait a second hold on aren't these
the chosen people these are jews aren't they the apple of god's eye the special ones no these were
unbelieving jews the bible says oh the ones that believe in the torah those ones the ones that
believe in in god the father but just not god the son the ones that believe in the old testament
no these were unbelieving jews the bible says in john 5 46 jesus said for had ye believed moses
ye would have believed me for he wrote of me they didn't believe moses either in fact not only did
they not believe they hated him they hated him turn to john 15 gospel of john chapter 15
just before the book of acts said john 15 and verse 22 john 15 22
jesus said if i had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin but now they have no cloak
for their sin he that hateth me hateth my father also if i had not done among them the works which
none other man did they had not had sin but now have they both seen and hated both me and my
father but this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law
they hated me without a cause okay and he's referring to psalm 69 but you don't have to go
there okay and to this day there are still people claiming to be jews who follow the religion of
judaism and what that's become that hate jesus christ okay that we still see that to this day
and as christ is in us they hate us too they do they hate us too and anyone that's done any proper
soul winning and gone out and knocked doors and sadly knocked doors of people that clearly follow
this religion they'll see they absolutely hate you okay and all the all the zionist worshipers
and everything else what a coincidence none of them actually go out and try and preach the gospel
do they okay they do and sadly they do now let's have a look at this then so have a quick look at
revelation chapter two got a revelation chapter two okay now these were current churches at the
time but like the rest of the bible we can apply it to our day can't we okay and have a look at
verse nine here and i believe that being in revelation there's obviously future symbolism
to it too and what the bible's saying here is that there were and still are to this day
those which say they are jews but are actually the synagogue of satan have a look at revelation
two verse nine the bible says i know thy works in tribulation and poverty but no art rich and i know
the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not but are the synagogue of satan fear none
of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that you
may be tried and you should have tribulation 10 days be thou faithful unto death and i will give
thee a crown of life now verse two is implying that they will suffer persecution at the hands
of these people satan and the devil being the same person right okay so who are these people
who are these people that say they are jews and are not but at the synagogue of satan turn of
romans chapter two so romans chapter two just after the book of acts where we were and we'll
be going to the book of acts quite a bit so just keep a finger there okay romans 2 and from verse
28 the bible says for he is not a jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which
is outward in the flesh but he is a jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart
in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of god so according to the bible
circumcision as we know it and as the world knows it doesn't make you a jew that does not make you
a jew neither is a name with burg or stein at the end that doesn't make you a jew neither is your
so-called family tree or anything else neither do curly sideburns or funny hats or any of the
rest of it according to the bible it's something inward of the heart in the spirit who god praises
have a look at philippians 3 and yeah this goes against what the world teaches us
and for some alarm bells ring what you're saying that that that someone's not a jew says they're
a jew what on earth you're talking about well let's see what philippians 3 3 says
for we are the circumcision which worship god in the spirit and rejoice in christ jesus
and have no confidence in the flesh so although these people are referred to as jews are known
as jews and they're referred to as jews especially in the book of acts there to make it clear we're
talking about here it is us as believers which are really jews in god's eyes okay the bible's
clear about that isn't it the bible's clear about that we are the jews in god's eyes we are the
circumcision who worship god in the spirit and rejoice in christ jesus okay and we still have
to this day people that claim to be jews either religiously or genetically and it's completely
unbiblical and it's racist to the core it's racist to the core okay there's no other word for it
they're racist these people and the people that support it are claiming that someone has some
right to a land and someone is something special because of their claim genetic tree because of
their claim genetic line it's wrong and it's completely at odds with the bible and i don't
care what the world says it's wrong okay now just to make it clear we don't here hate people that
claim or call themselves jews i hate the religion and i do i do as the bible says i hate them that
hate god okay do not hate them that hate thee i hate them with perfect hatred but
people that are caught up in that people that don't hate god they don't hate jesus
they just call themselves it because they've been brainwashed to do that i don't hate those people
but the bible does warn us of these people that say they're jews are not but other synagogue of
satan okay now on that note then the bible's clear that there is no special race of people in the
world that's racist isn't it however much you shout anti-semite at someone that doesn't agree
however much you shout and name call and tie with a brush that's racist but there are people
that follow or at least claim to belong to what is nothing more than a blasphemous religious group
isn't it it is a blasphemous religion now like i said there are people that don't even have any
idea what that religion teaches and call themselves jews i i you know i love those people like like
the bible teaches us to we should go out and try and get those people saved but not above anyone
else they're no more worthy of salvation than anyone else but yeah we want all unbelievers to
get saved but there are people that that follow this blasphemous religion now whether it's through
conversion at some point and let's make it clear what we call jews this day did convert they
converted majority the vast majority of what we call ashkenazi jews and they've converted it's
around the 8th century ad and and these people have no claim to any sort of land no more claim
than you or i do in fact probably less okay and there were converts throughout the bible we see
clearly at the book of esther many many people converted to judaism okay so whether it's through
conversion or because their mother claimed to be a jew because they call it a matriarchal line don't
know that if your mother was you just automatically become one but again how many of these people
again a lot of them don't even know what they're teaching they just call themselves it there's
quite an insular sort of truthfully it's quite a xenophobic culture um and they're proud of that
and they they feel that they're being persecuted from all sides or at least they told there are
some of these people but the religion itself hates jesus and still persecutes his followers
as well as as well as persecuting any others that they consider their enemies sadly
okay now how do they do this how do they do this and how do how is this persecution on christians
in general because like i say we're going to see some examples how the bible says it's jews
and whether or not you want to believe that that is to this day or what they call themselves jews
because ultimately they're not anyway so whatever they call themselves let's see how the bible gives
examples of this and if there's stuff we can learn from this because every person pretty much i think
in this room is it is is a saved christian which means that that how christians have been persecuted
throughout the book of acts there's going to be some lessons for us to learn from that yeah
okay so let's have a little look at how they do this now multiple times in the book of acts
it's by stirring up the people okay you see this multiple times in the book of acts that they
stirred up the people and like i said by inciting animating instigating by inflaming passions
and let's look at a few ways that the bible says they do this i turn to acts 13 now so acts chapter
13 now paul and barnabas have been preaching the gospel in the synagogue in antioc okay and he
warns them in verse 40 to 41 he says this in the synagogue he says beware therefore lest that come
upon you which is spoken of in the prophets behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for i work a
work in your days a work which shall in no wise believe which ye shall in no wise believe though
a man declare it unto you okay so he's warning them here is he's calling them the despisers like
we said sadly many despise they hate god jump forward to verse 44 and the next sabbath day
came almost the whole city together to hear the word of god but when the jews saw the multitudes
they were filled with envy and spake against those things which are spoken by paul contradicting and
blaspheming okay so firstly they're filled with envy they're filled with envy at the numbers the
multitudes that are coming to hear the gospel they're filled with envy now provost 27 4 says
wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous but who is able to stand before envy okay because envy is
such a powerful thing isn't it who is able to stand before me if you've been around people
that are envious they have envy for for things in your life yourself or anything else you'll know
that is a powerful emotion isn't it it's a hard thing to deal with sometimes okay so they're
filled with envy but now what do they do it says they're filled with envy and spake against those
things which are spoken by paul contradicting and blaspheming okay so the stirring tactics of the
enemy number one is contradicting the bible because paul's preaching the bible he's preaching
the gospel they contradict the bible now contradict is affirming the contrary to what has been
asserted denying opposing paul is preaching the gospel the word of god and we see a lot of that
to this day don't we we see a lot of contradicting of the bible and the word of god okay and this is
a tactic used by the enemies of christianity they contradict the bible constantly constantly trying
to discredit jesus only yesterday i knocked on the door i'm preaching the gospel to a fella
and he um he halfway through suddenly starts telling me that um well didn't jesus you know
was jesus really sinless didn't he end up with a prostitute i mean unbelievable this is the jump
that this is a guy that claimed to be a christian from a church wringler church
he claimed that he was going to heaven because he was such a good person and then he's telling me
this sort of filthy blasphemous rubbish and then i said so it's up to you do you want to believe
the bible or do you want to believe dan brown who wrote the da vinci code well you know or is it a
sin if he married her you know he's trying to be all like you know i'm so knowledgeable and cool
and i'm going to throw a spanner in the works here but this is the sort of stuff people believe now
stuff like those those blasphemous books which people read i mean that's not a one-off is it
i mean i've seen newspaper articles claiming the same stuff claiming he was he was married to this
person he had this affair he had this i've seen some real real blasphemous junk come from the
media i'll tell you what if that was about any other religious religious leader you could imagine
the uproar couldn't you anyone else but no jesus they will attack him they will they will blaspheme
against him and they will contradict the word of god won't they they're contradicting the word of
god the bible how many attacks do we see how many how many suggestions that they left out this
special book or that book or this one was actually written by someone else or this one
was something we see it all the time don't we all the time constantly trying to contradict constantly
trying to discredit the bible the false bibles that's what they are they're an attack 400 were
so-called bibles in english what are they doing and every single one has a bit of a difference
doesn't it has to have a certain amount of difference to have a copyright the one that
doesn't have a copyright the king james bible the word of god the preserved word of god in
english yeah all these other bibles contradicting the word of god putting doubt in people's mind
making people question now on that note because we look at this and i think many people will look
at that and look at the world and see and they'll see yeah there's a lot of discrediting they'll see
that and they'll see that from the mainstream media and there's no denying in the mainstream
media there is clearly constantly discrediting contradicting of the bible the word of god
jesus christ but then they'll look to the alternative media and think because it's
alternative well then everything that says will be true and we have to be careful that obviously
because there are fingers in every pie there's deception at every corner isn't there at every
turn and obviously the alternative media doesn't suddenly mean because someone's not spouting
the mainstream rhetoric it doesn't suddenly mean that everything that the mainstream sorry that
the alternative media says is true does it okay so obviously we have to look through it through
the lens of the bible okay and there is so much out there creation what about the creation
the pushing of of of basically discrediting the biblical creation and pushing this absolutely
ridiculous ridiculous big bang stroke macro evolution theory okay and you have to decide
for what it is don't you because they like to lump it all together that somehow the adaptation
of a species proves a big bang and fish turning into people and everything else okay which is
it's laughable isn't it and how this has been pushed on on people like i said these people
have been stirred up to basically believe something that's completely contrary to the bible haven't
they and we see that throughout the world don't we at least in the west it's pretty big now on
that creation thing just something i was thinking about with this um about that contradict to the
bible it made me uh it made me remember that when um when all the stuff first come out about
Jeffrey Epstein everyone know who Jeffrey Epstein was so he was this basically absolutely vile
pervert who was a financier and and and quite a big player in the world who happens to have
had this private jet that they nicknamed the Lolita Express to almost make it into a joke
thing i mean how you even do that oh it's just a little you know like it's all so so almost
acceptable but no i mean it should be called the satan expression there but this guy this guy was
was basically inviting all these world leaders and and and big names in the world were coming
to his island and getting up to all sorts of disgusting despicable things and this guy was
making a lot of money out of this as well but from what it seems he had a lot of money he was rubbing
shoulders with a lot of big people who somehow seem to still not have been arrested to this day
over this but Jeffrey Epstein also one of i think he's probably his biggest philanthropy work was
towards the promotion of uh evolution evolution in schools evolution studies and when it first came
out i was looking at his links to that now i tried to have a quick look last actually it was first
thing this morning and um and so much of it is really hard to find now when you go on search
engines and stuff like that it's kind of all been overridden by some news story but Jeffrey Epstein
used to basically and you know before he died apparently he's he's he's dead now some people
claim he's not i don't it doesn't really matter because either way when he does die he's going
to get it isn't he but Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was donating big amounts of money to the
promotion to the promotion of this ridiculous evolution theory but the bible says every word
of god is pure he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him so as much as they try
and contradict the bible though as much as they try and attack the word of god as much as they
try and do that in their stirring tactics we know that every word of god is pure don't we okay so we
just need to be firmly grounded in the word of god now stirring tactics of the enemy number two
blaspheming god we just saw their blaspheming god they love to blaspheme god blaspheme is
uttering impious or approachful words concerning god and you know why almost everyone you meet now
blasphemed so much and sadly a lot of christians do don't they as well they don't even seem to be
aware of it um is because hollywood and the rest of the movie industries and tv industries everything
else have been blaspheming and pushing it for years haven't they absolutely pushing it for
years and years and years um to the point to the point where it's basically part of most people's
speech to either exclaim jesus jesus christ etcetera god oh my god and and anything along those
lines where even the point i was thinking about this recently where we as christians who
understand the bible and know that we should not take the the name of the lord in vain
we we then will still use words because we've been so promote like put it's been pushing us
that begin with a g or or a j stroke you know phonetically don't we so a lot of people say
goodness and gracious and good grief and all these things and the truth is they're just replacing it
aren't they now i'm not saying that that's necessarily blasphemy some people say it is
somebody so what's good who is goodness the lord god isn't he but but we all then replace it don't
we we replace it for something else because it's just such a part of culture and speech
it's a constantly be saying something with a g or a j jeez a lot of people say jesus what's that
really saying what they're saying not saying jeez or jeez louise all these sorts of things are
really they're just exclaiming jesus aren't they and use his name in vain and we see this throughout
throughout i mean i i think back to when i used to watch movies and and all the old action movies
it was literally like every other word wasn't it just constant blasphemy blasphemy blasphemy
okay and that's a that's to take the name you know the name of the lord in vain blasphemy
but the more you hear it the more you hear that stuff the more you you're kind of just getting
stirred up to do that yourself and to blaspheme and he becomes almost like a mocking figure then
doesn't he and not that that feared god that we should be in fear of and fear of eternity and hell
and instead he becomes this sort of almost joke figure doesn't he and part of that is a blasphemy
but with the blasphemy as well there's obviously much worse as well and sadly these people that
hate jesus christ they blaspheme worse than that and i've heard this as well i've heard
this off someone's lips i've tried to get saved um turn them to mark chapter three
so you've got the gospels matthew mark luke so we're going to mark chapter three
and from verse 28 the bible says mark 3 28 verily i say unto you all sin shall be forgiven unto the
sons of men and blasphemies wherewith so ever they shall blaspheme amen to that hey you can
get get forgiven for that but he that shall blaspheme against the holy ghost hath never
forgiveness but is in danger of eternal damnation now blaspheme the holy ghost is for example
because he says here in verse um he says here he says in verse 30 because they said he have
an unclean spirit saying that jesus christ is a devil saying that he has a devil in him and the
rest of the stuff which sadly these reprobates were saying that's it you're done you're given
over that's you're you're beyond salvation you're beyond hope and i had someone say this once
tried to say to me yeah but wasn't he possessed by a devil when i tried to give him the gospel i just
stopped it there and said do you believe that he said yeah see you later you know done what what
can i say to someone who believes that and and that is wicked isn't it when you're saying
something like that that's that's beyond just saying oh my this and that and use the name of
the lord in vain okay saying that he has a devil devil and sadly the religion of judaism teaches
that it teaches that he was a magician that he was basically doing doing tricks from the devil
and and the rest of it and anyone that really believes that the bible says they have never
forgiveness okay you can't you you once you get to that point you've crossed that line haven't you
okay the bible's clear there are lines that you cross okay verse 46 i back in ax back in the book
of ax and we're in chapter chapter 14 weren't we okay and and uh sorry not chapter 14 i think
i think we did we jump forward guys where were we uh 13 so uh okay ax 13 and verse 46
it says then paul and barnabas wax bold and said it was necessary that the word of god should first
have been spoken to you but seeing you put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting
life lo return to the gentiles for so had the lord commander saying i've set thee to be a
light of the gentiles that thou shouldest be for salvation to the ends of the earth
and when the gentiles heard this they were glad and glorified the word of the lord and as many as
were ordained to eternal life believed and the word of the lord was published throughout all
the region but the jews stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city
and raised persecution against paul and barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts so the jews
stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city and raised persecution and
the stirring tactics of the enemy number three is to stir up the respected women to stir up
the respected women why did they stir up the devout and honorable women because it's one thing
to stir up what people might call the dregs of society but getting the respected in society on
side is much more effective isn't it getting the respect in society on side is much more effective
now notice how the chief men aren't described as devout and honorable it says the devout and
honorable women and the chief men of the city not devout and honorable women and chief men
and the chief men so why the devout and honorable women well maybe maybe honorable men wouldn't be
so easy to be stirred up against people simply preaching the gospel and i'm not going to have
a big uh women here but i'm going to tell you why i think that is in a second okay maybe those men
wouldn't have been stirred up against people simply preaching the gospel because that's all
they're doing aren't they they're preaching the gospel they're preaching the word of god so how
are they getting stirred up something that we see nowadays is a lot of deception aimed especially at
women don't we we see a lot of deception aimed especially at women now i believe it's because
it's designed to work on the emotions it's designed to work on emotion something that we
as men apparently can lack a little sometimes we could be a little bit devoid of emotion can't we
okay and again we're different aren't we as much as our our you know our media our mainstream our
society will tell us we're the same we're not the same are we men and women are different we're
wired differently um and pulling on the heartstrings i think is something that's especially aimed at
women because our heartstrings men can be a little bit tighter can't they a little bit
harder to get hold of and pull on um and i'm not saying that's either a good or a bad thing but
sometimes that's why we need a woman to help us with that but pulling on the heartstrings like
those mean christians are suggesting that your dear old work salvationist nan is in hell how
horrible are they for trying to get you saved because they're suggesting that people are in
hell those lovely nice people um but nowadays the attacks are to turn people against god and
to make his word a stumbling block aren't they okay there's a big big part of that it's attacks
against god and the feminism movement for example the feminism movement was an attack on god's roles
for men and women wasn't it it was it it was and it still is okay and that is a massive one that
is a massive one in society it wasn't organic anyone thinks that these things just spring up
out of nowhere you live in a dream world you think that with the power the the the the basically
the small amount of power and if and again this isn't conspiracy stuff just look into who really
holds the power in this world look at the very small amount of people that do right at the very
top and you think that organically out of nowhere that a load of women that just want to you know
go and vote and everything will do that without any backing uh brother john did a good sermon on
this research is showing about the suffragette movement and who was behind that and how that
worked out and who these people were and it's disgusting it's disgusting how these things are
pushless and promoted and then we're convinced that somehow it's just come organically and it
was all just good people no it's just it's just an attack on god it's attack on god and god's word
okay and i could go into that that could be 10 sermons couldn't couldn't it on the feminist
movement but we'll move on the pro-choice mass murder abortion industry is an attack on god's
sanctity of life and command to multiply isn't it just it's absolutely wicked yet we have been
persuaded that somehow pro-choice like it's this good thing that women can can basically commit
murder it is disgusting and the word and the word of god is clear isn't it that life starts conception
the lgbtqrstuv and whatever the rest of it is an attack on basically just about everything godly
isn't it an absolute attack on it but truthfully the women are so much more sympathetic to it
that's the truth because when i was young it was nothing like now when i was young you know the
people that generally were a little bit more their heartstrings were pulled a bit towards the whole
sympathy and these poor people and they didn't choose it and everything else was was the women
how many women i knew that we would call it you know i'm going to use the word we used to call
them a fag hag yeah because basically they would love to be best friends with someone who claimed
to be a sodomite and because for that but for a guy it was like no way it's like they didn't want
to be anywhere near it because we're naturally we're disgusted by it but with the women there
was this push there was this encouragement the the pull on the emotions the tug on the heartstrings
now i noticed something recently so i noticed that the the pro mask warriors okay now i i i'm
exempt from wearing a mask and at the beginning i i didn't wear a mask and and i i for me the
whole thing was absolutely ridiculous i'm not ill i'm not sick i don't need to wear a mask walking
around which is more likely to get me ill and sick wearing a mask all day so i wasn't wearing
a mask and the people that gave me the grief the people that would make comments the people that
were that would eyeball me the most were generally middle-aged fairly middle-class women
that was the truth the honorable and respectable women seem to have been drummed up to almost you
know that was their cause that they were fighting that people without masks were making everyone
sick even though it was completely ridiculous um but turn the chat uh turn the genesis chapter 3
and just to see the first first instance of this genesis chapter 3
genesis chapter 3 and verse 1
genesis 3 1 now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made
and he said unto the woman yay hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden
and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god have said ye shall not eat of it
neither shall you touch it lest ye die and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely
die for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened
and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil so notice verse four the contradicting and
blaspheming really he's saying he's contradicting he said you shall not surely die then verse five
for god does know that in the day eat thereof then your eyes shall be open basically calling
god a liar in that one verse verse four you shall not surely die okay so he's contradicting his
blaspheming okay now look at verse five then he stirs up the woman for god doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as gods knowing good and evil and
you could probably see an emotional angle here couldn't you how unfair god is he doesn't want
what's best for you that mean old god you know he doesn't want you to you know have what's best and
have your eyes opened and everything else and then what's the result look at verse six and when the
woman saw that the tree was good for food and it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired
to make one why she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her
and he did eat and the devout and honorable women can then influence their husbands can't they
they infer and i'm not saying that they necessarily mean badly they might mean well
it's like well i want you to be able to have your eyes opened as well and you know to know good or
to know good from evil in the same way i want you you know your husband i don't want you to
be sucked in by these evil christians going around preaching the gospel trying to pull
people out of the fire and you can see that can't you and in many other angles as well the devout
and honorable women can and do influence their husbands don't they we see that the very first
first time that ever happened in the bible now how about the chief men though
how about the chief men so verse 50 back in acts 13 there
okay acts 13 and verse 50 but the jews stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief
men of the city and the stirring tactics of the enemy verse sorry number four stir up the rulers
stir up the rulers now nowadays how do you stir them up well they're easily influenced by lust
aren't they rulers sadly are easily influenced by lust and it's usually one of two things
lust for money and lust for perversion lust for money and lust for perversion it's basically
bribe or blackmail bribe or blackmail i think of the two tactics we see with the chief men of the
city micah seven three you don't have to turn there says that they may do evil with both hands
earnestly the prince asketh that's the the principal the leader the ruler and the judge
asketh for a reward and the great man that's the rich man he utterth his mischievous desire
so they wrap it up basically they wrap up that gift and give it to him the great or rich man
gets his mischievous desire in return for giving the chief men of the city gifts okay that's how
it works and those gifts are either in money or sadly in some form of perversion now like i
mentioned earlier jeffrey epstein and that was what what and i think that's the tip of the
iceberg and what a wicked example that was of someone that was basically giving leaders
rulers gifts and a lot of the time there and what we can see and what's coming out more and more
were gifts in terms of sadly underage women men you name it disgusting filth and and and as well
i would say if you look back at financial records they were giving financial gifts as well through
this guy maybe but he was a big part of that and that is it that is a tactic isn't it stirring up
the rulers now once you've got those rulers stirred up with their lust you've got them
stood up with their lust for money their lust for for perversions and other things they're easily
controlled aren't they they're easily manipulated they're easily used and we still see that to this
day and that was going on back 2 000 years ago and before that you can see a lot of old testament
examples as well so the stirring tactics of the enemy number five create persecution create
persecution so we just we just saw there didn't we in that verse before we saw in um in verse
verse 50 there we saw but the jews said that the devout and honorable women and the chief
man of the city and raised persecution against paul and barnabas okay persecution now more recently
we've seen we've had a great example of that where a bible preaching church in the united
states got bombed got bombed for preaching the word of god how on earth have we got to that
point in the united states where churches are getting bombed for preaching the word of god and
that's not a one-off well that's just there no i mean throughout the world there's violence in
many countries there's violence against christians in many many countries there's persecution all
over the world against christians you know in israel you can't preach the gospel and the
persecution against real christians there is real it's really real um that you know all sorts you've
seen the videos and being surrounded spat at slapped about and everything else for daring to
try and preach the gospel daring to be a christian in israel um but this is all over the world as
well and we see this all over the world the banning of bibles in many countries i don't know the exact
total but there's still a lot of countries around the world where the bible is banned the bible is
banned and again you might think well that's just come for a lot of those will be islamic countries
you might think that that's just come out of you know that's their own desires or maybe it's not
maybe it's been manipulated by other people um persecution like in this country like laws against
so-called hate speech how about that and we're seeing that now aren't we creeping up laws against
hate speech and to the point where we no longer have freedom of religion because a lot of this
king james bible this word of god this preserved word of god according to our now you know wise
rulers is hate speech is it not absolutely wicked isn't it and that's going to come soon isn't it we
we know it's going to come soon where we're going to be we're going to be pulled up for preaching
the bible preaching the word of god and that's where we're going to have to make a stand and say
no we're preaching the word of god and we're going to try that law try that well what happened to
freedom of religion because i'm preaching the bible the bible which which has been in our hands
in this country we've had the perfected word of god since 1611 and you're going to say that this
is somehow some sort of hate speech it's absolutely wicked and what that is is that's just a sad
indictment of where this nation has got to isn't it that is a sad indictment of where this nation
is right now oh you know rule britannia rule britannia that says that that this bible's hate
speech it's absolutely evil isn't it it's evil but but there is persecution like that persecution
on the biblical view of of of how to raise a child now how about that persecution the biblical view
of how to raise a child with actual punishment punishment that works punishment that we're
commanded to do in the bible the biblical view on on on you know on what you teach your kids what
you teach your kids about certain what they will call lifestyle choices and the rest of it now
that's coming to a point where that's becoming against the law absolutely wicked isn't it okay
and that's persecution that's and that's going to get worse isn't it yeah okay we're not all getting
strung up yet we're not all getting arrested for it yet but we're not far off are we we're not far
off and it's coming okay but they persecuted jesus didn't they so we should expect it john 5 16 you
don't have to turn this is and therefore did the jews persecute jesus and sought to slay him because
he had done these things on the sabbath day just just healing people on the sabbath day was enough
to want to kill jesus okay verse 50 there in act 13 and expelled them out of their coasts
so the stirring tactics of the enemy number six is ban the opposition ban the opposition
they expelled them out of their coast who expelled them well i don't know when you look at that
it says but the jews stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city
and raised persecution against paul and barnaby that still seems to be the jews and expelled them
out of the coast so how are they expelling them out of the coast of where they seem to be people
who have dwelt there but by all means they it looks like they have some control there some
power don't they at this point they've expelled them out of their coast and and we see pastors
to this day men of god expelled from countries don't we don't we just we know we we know some
people know personally pastors that are expelled that are banned from from countries around the
world for preaching the word of god how have we got to that point well we always were at that
point by by all accounts weren't we because again 2 000 years ago that was going on attempts to
expel them from youtube we're seeing aren't we youtube is expelling people for preaching the
bible for preaching the bible certain parts of bible they don't like they like the love love bit
oh that bit's popular you know they love the you know forgive your neighbour and everything else
but but you preach some of the harder parts of the bible you get expelled from youtube as well
and and they are getting expelled from countries as we've seen now that was one of the concerns
with part with from people wanting to come here and plant a church wasn't it one of the concerns
was that they would just get expelled that if someone came here and preached the gospel from
another nation they would just get expelled they get kicked out okay and and fortunately there's
been a way for us to have a proper church to preach the gospel there isn't hide there isn't
hiding hiding behind well not even the pulpit hiding behind the the the government or whatever
else it tells you should and shouldn't do and thank god that we have a church for people here
that want to hear the word of god preached because that that's what we're commanded to do aren't we
preach the word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long
suffering and doctrine but sadly most pastors most churches in this world are too lily-livered
they're too weak they're too scared aren't they they're too scared to preach that preach the bible
the word of god but we're commanded to do it okay but how evil how evil does someone seem to
be to the world if they're banned from countries what do you think because it does stir up the
people doesn't it you for example talk about pastor stephen anderson to people and people
have heard of him people that have no idea about christianity have heard of him because that guy
was on a bbc documentary as a hate preacher because he preached what the bible says about
sodomy and that guy that guy is in a lot of people they think well they're no smoke without fire they
must be thinking it's got to be pretty weak got to be a bit of a hate preacher at least to be banned
so again you're just stirring up the people aren't you to then reject biblical preaching to to reject
biblical christianity now turn to acts chapter 6 now acts chapter 6
and verse 8
okay let's talk about stephen here it says in stephen full of faith and power did great wonders
and miracles among the people then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called the
synagogue of the libertines and syrenians and alexandrians and of them of silicea and of asia
disputing with stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he
spake that wisdom and spirits the word of god so they couldn't resist the word of god the spirit
and wisdom that comes from the word of god so verse 11 what they do then they suborned men
which said we have heard him speak blasphemous words against moses and against god suborned
is basically obtained to lie so they couldn't win the disputes with the spirit-filled man of god
and just got false witnesses to lie instead and the stirring tactics of the enemy number seven
is slander people number seven is slandering people verse 12 jump forward to verse 12 there
and they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and came upon him and caught him
and brought him to the council so they stirred up the people elders and scribes with their lies
they stirred them up with their lies and this happens a lot with our media doesn't it
this happens a lot in the media we've seen it throughout you know the age of the newspaper
especially haven't we just people being slandered people's characters just being attacked for daring
to oppose what the mainstream tell you should and shouldn't think and do just slandered attacked
name just just dragged through the mud without necessarily any any due cause without any
you know it won't go to some sort of you know before two or three witnesses the rest of it just
that's it newspaper prints it you're done and nowadays it'll be social media so-called witnesses
so-called witnesses we sometimes see they just claim a person said a spokesman a witness said
that's enough for most people isn't it now cue on them again no smoke without fire must be some
problem and we see that the slandering it's a wicked thing as well isn't it slander is a
wicked thing when you're just completely just drugging someone's name through the mud in public
it's just unbelievable and and what happens is everyone gets stirred up people get stirred up
they love it people love to just jump on a victim and claim how evil he is and so much worse than
them because people love to have someone that they can just just really just put their own problems
on to it well i'm not as bad as that person oh how wicked and get all their anger up on them now
verse 13 it says and set up false witnesses which said this man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous
words against this holy place and the law so now they've ramped up the lie he ceaseth not okay
before it was in verse verse 11 we heard him speak blasphemous words now he ceaseth not to speak
blasphemous words against this holy place and the law so they're ramping it up just starting to go
a bit further now verse 14 for we have heard him say that this jesus of nazereth shall destroy this
place and shall change the customs which moses delivered us mix a little truth and it sounds a
lot more convincing doesn't it mix a little truth with a lie and it sounds a lot more convincing
because jerusalem did get destroyed didn't it the meats drinks divers washington carnal ordinances
were done away with weren't they they were done away with okay but mix that tree and then and
then the rest of the lie just goes goes as well doesn't it okay and then well look they got that
bit right verse 15 and all that sat in the council looking steadfastly upon him saw his face it had
been the face of an angel and then what what happens after that steven ends up getting killed
in the next chapter killed it wasn't enough just to slander him just false witnesses kill him
destroy him and we see that we see that don't we and and i was thinking about this as well looking
back on on um on past past for example uh pastor jack hauls i mean that guy got absolutely hammered
still getting hammered now you know and the media just slander stuff without without evidence just
constant constant attacks constant attacks on men of god and we're starting to see that happen more
and more with with passes that we know is and respect as well and and we're going to see more
and more of that um turn to acts 21 acts chapter 21 and verse 26
so paul's just been encouraged to try to appease the jews okay so it says in verse 26 and paul
took the men and the next day purifying himself for them entered into the temple to signify the
accomplishment of the days of purification until that an offering should be offered for every one
of them when the seven days were almost ended the jews which were of asia when they saw him in the
temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him you're starting to see a bit of a trend here
yeah they stirred up all the people and laid hands on him so how do they stir him up this time
how do you think they did this time let's have a look verse 28 crying out men of israel help help
this is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people and the law in this place
and further brought greeks also into the temple and have polluted this holy place it's victim time
isn't it victim time men of israel help the stirring tactics of the enemy verse sorry number
eight play the victim card play the victim card he's a racist he's a racist they're saying aren't
they he's saying that he's teaching men everywhere against the people against the people what a vile
racist he's so sinful he's so sinful against the law an anti-semite aren't they saying and this
place this place you know our religion our temple anti our religion anti our temple and the victim
card is very effective at stirring up people isn't it oh that stirs them up a lot the victim card
everyone loves to feel like they're helping out the victim that they're just that bit more loving
and a bit kinder than everyone else oh well i'm not that tall you know i wouldn't be an anti-semite
you know i wouldn't say what the bible says you know i'm not that type the victim card is very
effective the race card he teaches everywhere against the people people love the race card
don't they it's a great way to get support use the race card and the irony in that verse is quite
amusing because if you see further on it says and further brought greeks also into the temple
and have polluted this holy place you teach against the people at any point those horrible
greeks in here i mean it's just ridiculous isn't it but colossians 3 11 says where there is neither
greek nor jew circumcision or uncircumcision barbarian sithian bon offery but christ is all
and in all it's it's again completely unbiblical isn't it they said he's teaching against the law
you can imagine you know the accusations of cheap grace once saved always saved oh what
once saved always so what cheap grace you can just do what you like you can imagine that can't you
yet romans 3 31 says do we then make void the law through faith god forbid yea we establish the law
i don't think paul was teaching us that after faith to just do what you like did he did he
no we're saying we know we're saved by the blood of jesus christ but after that we should be living
for god shouldn't we we should we should want to we should try our best um teach you against the
temple but then first coincidence you don't have to turn there chapter 3 verse 16 to 17 says no
ye not that you're the temple of god and that the spirit of god dwelleth in you if any man
defy the temple of god him shall god destroy for the temple of god is holy which temple ye are
what's the teacher against the temple was he okay what about acts 21 29
where they said here they said for they had seen before with him in a city trophimus an
ephesian whom they supposed that paul had brought into the temple they suppose but that's enough
isn't it they suppose he brought him in but that'll do it that'll do it for another slander
another lie verse 30 and all the city was moved and the people ran together and they took paul
and drew him out of the temple and forthwith the doors were shut but it worked didn't it it worked
the victim card worked the city was moved they came together against the hate mongers didn't they
those hate mongers preaching the gospel the city was moved and the people ran together and they
took paul and drew him out of the temple verse 31 and as they went about to kill him tidings came
unto the chief captain of the band that all jerusalem was in an uproar who immediately
took soldiers and centurions and ran down onto them and when they saw the chief captain of the
soldiers they left beating of paul they were beating paul to death they were beating paul to
death for preaching the gospel how about that the hypocrisy the so-called holiness and victim
mentality and they're beating him to death they're trying to kill him by beating him to death
and sometimes i think we can read this and we can just gloss over that paul was getting beaten to
death for preaching the gospel that is wicked isn't it that's absolutely wicked but the hypocrisy
it's not really a problem for these people if you don't know luke chapter 23 the enemies of god
luke chapter 23
and just have a look at from verse one
okay this is obviously jesus christ here in his in his final final hours really and the whole
multitude of them arose and led him unto pilot and they began to accuse him saying we found this
fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to caesar saying that he himself
is christ a king notice the lies there again verse three and pilot asked him saying aren't
thou the king of the jews and he asked him and said thou sayest it then said pilot to the chief
priest to the people i find no fault in this man and they were the more fierce saying he stirreth
up the people teaching throughout all Jewry beginning from Galilee to this place they're
accusing jesus of stirring up the people they're accusing jesus stirring up the people and again
they just project what they do onto others whilst trying to stir up the people because later we see
them calling for barabbas don't they stirring up the people to do so now go back just to to acts
and go to the chapter 17 now and this is paul and silas after the famous prison events i think most
people have probably quote some of when they're preaching the gospel in act 16 but this is act 17
and have a look from verse one now when they had passed through ampif um amphipolis at apollonia
they came to thessalonica where was the synagogue of the jews and and paul as his manner was went
in unto them and three sabbath days reason with them out of the scriptures opening and alleging
that christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this jesus whom i
preach unto you is christ so he's preaching the gospel and some of them believed and consulted
with paul and silas and of the devout greeks a great multitude of the chief women not a few
but the jews which believe not moved with envy again took unto them certain lewd fellows of
the base assault and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house
of jason and sought to bring them out to the people the stirring tactics of the enemy number
nine is let the dogs loose let the dogs loose a lewd fellow of the basis or lewd is wicked
vile profligate licentious so basically disgusting the base assault are basically the lowest of the
low okay the lowest of the low so and i don't mean to be crude here but think about that these are
like because we saw these outside churches process protesting these are like your transsexual
prostitutes aren't they these are the most vile wicked lowest of the low people protesting out of
churches and and i don't know if anyone's seen any image any videos of this we're talking about
showing pictures to kids as they go past talking about being dressed in all sorts of filth calling
out to the kids to come over and everything else i mean it was absolutely vile what's gone on at
these churches for preaching the word of god for preaching the bible it's absolutely disgusting
they let the dogs loose and they encourage them and they wind them up and they work them up and
then they let them loose um and and like i said these wild people were saying sick things to
families as they went past it it was it's terrible i mean this has been outside quite a few churches
and and here with it they it said it said here that they they took upon them certain lou fellas
of the base sort and gathered a company and settled the city on an uproar and assaulted
they asked jacob to bring him out for people so basically they join themselves and two and
propagate people at depths of depravity so you can see how basically that how pride for example is
massively sponsored now encouraged it's pushed it's used to then just attack god attack god's
people anyone that says anything otherwise is evil is wicked it is some sort of you know
homophobe and the rest of it again for just preaching god's word for preaching leviticus
2013 for preaching romans one and many and many other passages um okay so they join themselves
and propagate people at the depths of depravity like i said and then they like i said they
encourage them to oppose the righteous now but what happens with that so just quickly
some 37 12 says the wicked plotth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth and that's
really what they're doing there when you see say i'm gnashing upon them with his teeth but what
happens when they do that is that the other people the other people the people that aren't part of
the lewd fellows of the basa sort they want to join in to appease these animals that's what
happens they want to join in because they don't want to also be on the wrong side of them okay so
this is what happens so you get the most vile people the most wicked people and people then
their their position on the fence becomes a lot further over the fence gets moved doesn't it
because they don't want to be on the receiving end they don't so so basically you've just shifted
the goalpost massively there because it said here that they they they took upon them lude
certain loo fellows of the basel gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar
so the loo fellows of the bases sort being gathered together then set the whole city on
an uproar and assaulted the house adjacent so they're just like yeah yeah you know don't want
to wind up these people these wicked vile people who literally will stop at nothing let's just join
in with them and yeah these people must be evil and that's that's kind of that's the bully
mentality isn't it and sadly so many people will just will just fall in line with the bully
okay um okay look at verse six so there and when they found them not they drew jason and certain
brethren unto the rulers of the city crying these that have turned the world upside down
a come hither also whom jason has received and these all do contrary to the decrees of caesar
saying that there is another king one jesus the stirring tactics of the enemy last one number 10
attack anyone associated attack anyone associated with the victim so verse six there said and when
they found them not they drew jason certain brethren unto the rulers of the city so they
couldn't find them they just turned on jason turned on jason for daring to house them
and again this is something we see a lot of now don't we anyone in association with people that
have been deemed the enemy of the mainstream the enemy of the media the enemy of the the people
whatever it is they will get attacked as well and they have to distance themselves or they become
fair game don't they um and what this tactic does it puts people in fear of even picking aside
doesn't it also of not picking aside it puts them in fear of of just sitting on the fence they have
to basically move that fence way over and basically take the side of the wicked or they will be
attacked for being somehow associated even by not picking the side it's easier to join the masses
isn't it than to even sit on the fence the fence can be a bit uncomfortable can't it sitting up
there it's easier just to join with the masses and you're left alone and that's what that does there
so you attack anyone associated and we see this in the media a lot don't we where anyone that
doesn't distance and publicly renounce the latest villain they get attacked don't they and get
attacked and we've seen this tactic for years um and that's happened more recently in the u.s with
with bank providers we've seen this with people providing on like online donations and everything
else um where the bible preaching churches owes that they'll basically distance and come away
and they'll come away from them because they're worried about being attacked for being associated
with them okay so you've got like these sort of online donation accounts and these easy tithe and
tightly and all these sorts of ones that some of them now will distance from bible preaching
churches um and there's many many examples of that and and with previous bigger churches it was the
same people were getting attacked for any sort of association and and members of churches get
attacked as well and they'll get it on a small scale they'll get persecution with their jobs
and other things for being a member of a church which preaches the bible um so the stirring
tactics of the enemy that we see in the book of acts number one contradict the bible number
two blaspheme god number three stir up the respected women number four stir up the rulers
number five create persecution number six ban the opposition number seven slander people number
eight play the victim card number nine let the dogs loose and number ten attack anyone associated
and these are common tactics that we see from from our enemies today and and we shouldn't be
surprised by them should we we shouldn't be surprised by them we should oh it's just so
wicked i can't believe it because this was going on this pretty much has been going on from the
beginning hasn't it i mean you can go back and see story after story in the old testament we see the
same thing going on and i've just gone back to to the new test at the book of acts in just the
formation of the church and people going around preaching the gospel clearly preach the gospel
you know we see clear examples of it um but all of these examples have been given to us haven't
they for us to be aware and prepared when it comes haven't they so we shouldn't be shot but
we should also be prepared now we can't always do much about it though so i'm not saying we can be
prepared right we're going to counter fight with all our you know the tentacles we have in our
media and everything else well we don't do it okay we're just simple humble christians trying
to preach the word of god trying to be honest to the word honest to god preach and do as he
tells us to do okay so we can't always do much about it so what's the answer then
well turn to revelation three well i read proverbs 10 12 proverbs 10 12 says hatred
stirreth up strifes because it comes from hatred doesn't it hatred stirreth up strife
but love covereth all sins love covereth all sins so it comes from hatred the strife
but we just need to love god don't we love god and love people enough to keep going keep working for
god keep preaching the gospel and keep preaching the truth because that's the real love isn't it
the love isn't pretending pretending that god doesn't have any judgment on anyone at all
and that no no no all sins are equal you know i love love love the the sinner hate the sin
and the rest of it no because the bible is clear about that isn't it okay that's not love that's
not love for people it's not love for people pointing out sin it's it's not love if we don't
point out sin sorry it's not is it if i was to just stand here and tell you how great everyone
is every week we're all just these brilliant christians no one does anything wrong that's
not love and is it is it love not warning people of the of the wickedness out there
and the risk to our children a risk to us that's not love is it but the bible says love covereth
all sins and that's the love to go out and preach the gospel the love to to preach the word of god
in its entirety the love for god the love for people revelation chapter 3 and verse 9 says
this so and this is something to remember behold i will make them of the synagogue of satan which
say they are jews and are not but do lie behold i will make them to come and worship before thy feet
and to know that i have loved thee god's loved us and there's a time coming when they will they
will come and worship before our feet and that's something to remember because they're going to be
some hard times for us there's going to be some hard times as a church we're going to be under
persecution we're going to suffer it if we do things as god wants us to do we are going to
suffer persecution okay this isn't some sort of liberal fun center where we just come along and
play a bit of rock and roll and go home and pat each other on the back at what how great
christians we are and everything else we are going to suffer persecution but but we've got a promise
there behold i will make them to come and worship before their feet and to know that i have loved
thee okay and and that's something that i think does apply for us to this day as well and that
will happen but in the meantime in the meantime let's show that love to others let's go out and
get people saved and that means all people across all people unless they literally are showing that
they hate the lord jesus christ to the point of blaspheming the holy spirit or any other
obvious signs of reprobation we should be going out and getting the gospel that should we guys
and on that let's pray
heavenly father i thank you for your word i thank you for the book of acts and all the the great
lessons we can get from that and and the clear clear teachings of what we're up against and what
sort of what the enemies of god will do and and how they'll persecute us how they do that
how they stir up the people against us and help us to to not marvel that the world hates us because
because they hated jesus christ and and they're going to continue to hate us but but help us to
to understand that to accept that and to carry on moving forward and are working for you to carry
on with that love for for the lost to get out they get the gospel out help us to to just be
comforted by by the many words you give us by the instruction you give us by the guidance you give
us and and knowing that that one day all this will end and and and in the meantime help us
just get out there starting this afternoon get out preach the gospel let's people saved
and in jesus name we pray amen