Okay, so Proverbs chapter 16, I love a lot of the Proverbs out of there, there's a few good ones on pride here as well, verse 18,
for example, pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fool, sorry, verse 19,
better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.
However, I want to focus on verse five, which is our verse a week today, which says this,
verse five in Proverbs 16 reads, every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord,
though hand joined in hand, he shall not be unpunished. The title of my sermon this morning
is three open abominations of pride, three open abominations of pride. I'd like to pray
before we continue. Father, thank you for your word, thank you for, well, you know,
chapters like this in the Bible just make so clear about this wicked sin of pride and the
other passages we're going to look at today as well, Lord, just make it so clear about what
we're seeing today, this huge movement we're seeing in our world and just how against your
word it is, Lord, please help me to preach this message just clearly and boldly and accurately,
Lord, help me to preach it in the right way, Lord, and just fill in with your spirit, please,
just knowing for all of this, Amen. Okay, keep something here, we're going to be coming back
here in a bit and turn to Isaiah chapter five, Isaiah chapter five, there was one of these pride
parade marches through London yesterday and some news reports claimed that over a million people
were involved in it and this was selective numbering as it was apparently 30,000 that
actually physically marched in it, so they go, oh, a million are involved, you're thinking, wow,
like a million people marching, but no, that people, I mean, in fact, the vast majority of
those are people standing and watching it, gawping or probably people that just happened to be in
London at the time and kind of wander over to the barricades to see what's going on and they get
counted into that million. Now, it was selective numbering, but regardless of those real numbers,
I'm sure that there were still a lot more spectators than there should have been, right?
Even if half of them were reporters and virtue signalling celebrities and, you know, anyone else
that could kind of get their name out there as someone that supports this sort of thing. Now,
just a couple of stats on this. It's 51 years since the first Pride March in London, which was
in 1972, which was soon after the Stonewall riots. Anyone know how many participants that had? Don't
all put your hands up at once if everyone was going, yeah, that's a bit strange. Okay, it had
200 participants, okay, 200 people march in 1972 and it seemed to be approximately 30,000 in 2023,
so things have changed, right? Okay, things have changed a lot. And anyone who says for the better,
and I hope no one here would say things have changed for the better, but there are people
out there and there are people that claim to be Christians that would say, well, things have
changed for the better. Well, they're definitely not taking biblical stance, are they? Okay,
because the Bible has a lot to say about what many witnessed sadly yesterday in London. And I
don't know about you, but I'll go with the inspired, preserved words of God over the sodomite
influences in the mainstream media, right? Okay, and there's a lot of sodomite influences in our
mainstream media. And this is how bad it's got here, okay? It's got so bad that you have 30-odd
thousand deviants marching in London. You have apparently a million people involved when it
comes to spectators and things like that, although I'm sure there's selective reporting and selective
videoing and photographing and everything else. But do you know what? There wasn't. There wasn't
a load of people protesting this, were there? And look, I know we're not called to protest,
but the world out there will protest a lot of stuff, won't they? Yet they're not protesting a
load of deviants marching through London with their pride flags and everything else. And that's
weird, isn't it? In fact, there wasn't. No, sorry, I'm wrong. There was a protest. Did you know that
there was a just stop oil or whatever they call it protest? Seriously? But do you know this is
how bad it's actually got? Those stop oil protesters never seem to get arrested, do they?
When they're blocking people on their way to work and everything else, they got arrested and removed
within a few minutes at the pride protest, okay? That's where we're at right now. Even those just
stop oil lot, who seemed to be the goodies for a few minutes yesterday, actually got removed in
London and got arrested. So that's how bad it's got. And yeah, our pro-sodomite police force was
out in force yesterday too, okay? There were loads of them. They apparently, what I read is they've
even set up an LGBTQ plus liaison team now, where they've got a group of them, I can't remember how
many, it might be eight or so officers that are now dedicated solely to liaising with the LGBTQ
community. And of that, they were parading one of these officers as being a proud sodomite and
everything else. I mean, that's where we're at in this country, okay? And that's bad, isn't it? Now,
again, like I said, they try and encourage us to think a lot more people are involved than are,
however, make no mistake, the powers that be are. Sadiq Khan is still the mayor of London,
am I right? This guy's fully behind this stuff. Prince William is doing some sort of sodomite
mental health thing during it all, okay? These people are fully behind this sort of filth,
and that is just an absolute, just shame on our nation, isn't it? How bad has it got? Well,
Isaiah has a warning for these people. Isaiah said in chapter five, verse 20, where you are,
he said, woe, woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and
light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. And that's exactly what
we're seeing, aren't we? Just the complete opposite. Everything turned its head, woe
unto those people, said the prophet Isaiah, and obviously that's God speaking through him. Woe
unto them, okay? They're calling evil good and they're calling good evil. They call him preaching
like this evil, aren't they? They're calling people that have the stance, the biblical stance,
that have a stance, which pretty much has been the normal stance throughout modern history in
this nation, they're calling that evil, okay? They're calling good evil. They put darkness for
light, they're calling this stuff light, like it's somehow something good, something to be sought of,
something to support, and they're calling light, the light of God's word, darkness. They're calling
bitter, they put bitter for sweet, and there is some bitter wickedness going on there, isn't there?
And sweet, the sweetness of God's words that we've just read here, haven't we? That pleasant
words of us and honeycombs, sweet to the soul and health of the bones, is there anything more
pleasant than the words of God? But they're calling those bitter. And turn to Leviticus
2013, because as Bible-believing Christians, as those seeking to be more Christ-like, I think like
I said in our study on Genesis, we are seeking to be more Christ-like. We therefore take God's stance
when it comes to sodomy and similar perversions, don't we? Okay, look, we're all trying to be more
Christ-like in this church, aren't we? Okay, so we take God's stance. And God said through the inspired
and preserved word of God, in Leviticus 20 and verse 13, Leviticus chapter 20 and verse 13, God
said this, if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination. They shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. The title is three
open abominations of pride. And abomination number one is sodomy. Okay, abomination number one
is sodomy. What's an abomination? Maybe you're going, well, I've heard this word before, I'm sure
it's something that's not very good. What exactly is it? Well, it's the object of extreme hatred or
detestation. God extremely hates, he extremely detests sodomy. Okay, homosexuality, whatever you
want to call it, he despises it, extreme hatred for it from God. Okay, they have committed an
abomination, it said here. And these parades are celebrating something that God detests.
He absolutely detests that he calls an abomination. That's what they're celebrating. And any so-called
Christians supporting this film, and there are a lot of so-called Christians supporting this stuff,
they are in direct opposition to God's word. Okay, direct opposition, clear as day. He said,
if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination. They shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. Now, when it's
talked about being put to death, we're not talking about vigilantes here. Okay, this was how God's
theocratic government was to deal with this sort of thing. This is how a government modelled how
God would want it, would deal with this sort of thing. Okay, we're not a government here before
anyone tries to, because they try and do this, they try and attack our church, it's like we're
inciting violence or something else. No, we're saying this is how a government should deal with
it. Okay, this is how a government would have dealt with it in the past if it was doing what
God's will was, and how it should deal with it in the present and in the future if it's doing what
God says him to do. And by the way, incidentally, it's how God's government will deal with it in the
coming millennial reign of Christ. Okay, when he rules and reigns on this earth, do you think he's
going to suddenly go, oh yeah, but I'll go a bit easier on the sodomites now? Well, no, the Lord
Jesus Christ doesn't change. Okay, when he rules and reigns, Revelation 19.15 says of Jesus Christ,
and out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, and with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
of almighty God. When Jesus Christ comes back to rule and reign, it will be with a rod of iron.
He'll be treading the winepress, basically the wrath of God, he'll be executing that wrath
on the world. Okay, it's scary for some, isn't it? For others, it's reassuring, isn't it? It is
reassuring, and that's coming soon to a town near you, by the way. Turn to Romans 1, because look,
one of the big lies in the world, and in compromising false Christianity, is that there's
this different Old Testament God. Okay, you will have heard this a lot, that you'll hear sometimes
when you try and preach your gospel, you know, do you believe the Old Testament as well? They
come out with this sort of thing, right? That Jesus is sort of this chilled out, laid back hippie,
as opposed to the mean Old Testament God, yeah? This sort of thing you hear out there.
But there is only one God, isn't there? And Jesus Christ is God. He's one of the three persons that
is that one God. And Hebrews 13-8 says, Hebrews 13-8 says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
and today, and forever. It's the same Jesus. Same Jesus yesterday, in the Old Testament,
as it is today, as it is in the future, as it is in the book of Revelation, when Jesus Christ
comes out with some pretty ferocious sorts of punishments. It's the same Jesus. He hasn't
changed, and he hasn't changed his stance since he inspired Moses to write the book of Leviticus,
has he? He hasn't changed his stance since, through Moses, he called them dogs in Deuteronomy
chapter 23. He hasn't changed his stance since his godly kings were removing the sodomites out of the
land in 1st and 2nd Kings. Okay, he hasn't changed any of that stance, let alone all the other
passages in the Bible that fly in the face of these modern liberal compromising lily-livered
so-called Bible teachers out there, who aren't tackling this. Or if they are,
they're tackling it completely wrong, aren't they? Because, look, unlike the born that way
unproved gay gene liars out there, okay, and there's a lot of those, aren't there, out there,
okay, unlike the compromising bunch it together with other sexual sin sell out pastors out there,
and I've seen a few of these, I've seen these statements of faith where they'll go,
we consider, and then they'll just list homosexuality with fornication, with adultery,
with all these other things, like we consider it all. And in fact, I've seen them where they'll
then list it with pornography, as if it's all just sexual sin, like it's all just kind of
of the same level. That's not what my Bible says. My Bible says something different about sodomy.
Jesus taught us that it's actually the symptom of a reprobate mind, didn't he?
A mind whose conscience has been seared, that's what sodomy is. In Romans 1 he tells us through
the Apostle Paul why someone does these disgusting things, okay, and I know this isn't kind of news
for many here, but it sometimes needs, you need reminded this stuff sometimes, okay. Verse 21 in
Romans chapter 1 says this, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. So they have
a knowledge of God but they've rejected it. Professing themselves to be wise they became
fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and forfeited beasts and creeping things. So they've tried to change God,
wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour
their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator has blessed forever, amen. So these people have
changed the truth of God, they have a knowledge, some knowledge of God, they've changed him,
they've chosen willfully to change God into a lie, for this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections. They've been given up to what the Bible calls vile affections, for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature and likewise also the men, leaving
the natural use of the woman burned in their lusts one toward another, men with men working
that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat.
Okay basically it's suitable for them, the recompense and the recompense isn't good,
okay that's what they're going to get in return and even as they did not like to attain God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
So he then goes on to give other symptoms of a reprobate mind and the world would use the word
psychopath, these are typical symptoms of what the world would call a psychopath, being filled
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors
of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful. By the way are we in the New Testament or the Old Testament?
Anyone know? This is the New Testament isn't it? This is the New Testament, this isn't what people
are trying, oh well that's the Old, no this is the New Testament and the New Testament says this in
verse 32, who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things, what things are you talking
about? The things in verse 28, those things which are not convenient, okay those things that he's
just talked about in the verses before, that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
that's what the New Testament says, not only do the same, they not only do those things but they
have pleasure in them that do them. Okay that's Jesus Christ stance isn't it? Yeah if anyone's
wondering here, the Word of God is all inspired, men of God spake as they were moved by the
Holy Spirit okay, that's what the Word of God is, it's Jesus Christ talking through people,
Jesus Christ talking through men who wrote it down and Jesus Christ's stance is this,
and Jesus Christ's stance is the same yesterday and today and forever because he doesn't change
and as Christians our goal is to be more Christ-like isn't it? And by the way such things
included women doing the same as well okay because some people they focus all on the sodomite men like
the women, well it's not so bad, no it's wicked okay, it's wicked, it's vile, they're all worthy
of death because it's all abomination okay, it's all abomination isn't it? Now keep a finger on Romans
1 and turn to Deuteronomy 22 because yesterday and throughout these marches all over the western world
they're celebrating sodomy, they're celebrating something that we've just read is the symptom of
a reprobate mind, that is a symptom of mind that's been given over, that's been given up,
that God's given them over to a reprobate mind but they're parading this, parading sodomites
and acting as if somehow you're discriminatory if you don't support something that God said
is an abomination, that God said is is a symptom of someone that's been given over
okay that has changed the truth of God into a lie, someone that's a God hater,
someone who has been given up by God to unclean this through the lust of their own heart,
it's madness isn't it? It's madness when you compare it to God's word and it is also madness
when you compare it to just history throughout the western world where people have just recognised
this as deviant behaviour, sexual deviants, sexual perverts, people that have always throughout
history not only been given a wide berth but have been arrested and either imprisoned or
put to death for this. God said that they which commit such things are worthy of death
however we saw yesterday it being paraded through the capital city of our nation
all these sorts of different types of sodomites but it's not just sodomites look down at well
in fact most of them are sodomites but there's something else that they're
praying look down at Deuteronomy 22 and verse 5. Deuteronomy 22 and verse 5 says the woman shall
not wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that
do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God the title is three open abominations of pride number
one abomination number one is sodomy abomination number two is cross-dressing abomination number two
is cross-dressing now they can call them trans this and non-binary that and are there any more
along that lines i think it's something along those lines but as far as i'm concerned they're
all cross-dressing reprobates that's really what it is it's cross-dressing reprobates whether or
not they take some bizarre hormonal treatments and go under the surgeon's knife and all sorts
of weird creepy things like that they're still ultimately cross-dressing reprobates because they
can never change that they can't change the fact that either a man or a woman so they can do their
best and they can dress up and they can do whatever they like but ultimately they're
cross-dresses whether they've had had bits removed or bits put on they're still cross-dressing
okay it makes no difference if God said in Deuteronomy 22 5 that cross-dresses are abomination
okay he hates that filth hates it and by the way have you noticed how they're never wearing female
trouser suits ever notice that never wearing the trouser suit like the kind of career woman
they're they're they're never uh it's never some like ladies casual wear is it it's never that is
it they never seem like they're just hanging around in sort of some sort of unisex type
clothing according to the world's sort of standards it's nearly always skimpy it's nearly
always attention seeking and it's nearly always a skirt or a dress isn't it isn't it it's pretty
that's that's what I see out there and and look why is that why is that because that's
what women have worn throughout history skirts and dresses okay as much as the world tries to
blur those lines as well but we're not going to go on to that today but but yesterday yesterday
in London you would have had a load of women dressed as men and a load of men dressed as women
now are they abomination to me yes but more importantly they're an abomination unto the
lord thy god okay that is an absolute abomination he said here that that people just dressing like
that are an abomination putting on the garment is an abomination so how do you think he feels about
people putting on wigs or women getting crew cuts and all of that just crazy weird stuff acting
trying to act as much as possible like a bloke always make me laugh we we laughed about this in
a in like a builder's merchants when we did the work at this you go in and this like local
builders merchants and the the the sodomite in there is basically saying things like
you know mate and ogies and things like that I mean it's just ridiculous and and all they're
trying to do is act like a man and it's saying the other way okay with the cross-dressers but
okay they're an abomination to god god extremely hates he extremely detests he despises that's what
abomination means cross-dressing and and yesterday in London apparently the cross-dressers were the
theme of the day anyone know that I don't know if anyone read any of the reports on this stuff
but they were apparently the theme the 2023 theme was never march alone okay in support of trans
and non-binary allyship I mean what does that even mean so I've got a translation all cross-dressers
of different names are welcome basically whatever you call yourself if you're a cross-dresser you're
welcome with us but was that ever not the case I don't know maybe the original pride marches they
just had a load of sodomites and no cross-dressers but now it's well it's their theme 2023 was never
march alone in support of trans and non-binary allyship but you know what the truth is okay and
the truth with this is that normal men normal people because you can look at it and go okay
well maybe just these people are a bit confused they just kind of want to put on a skirt yeah
because that's what they're trying they won't even say try and try and say they're confused but but
the world out there kind of want to sit on the fence go well there's some funny beat it's a bit
weird isn't it and everything else but the truth is is that normal men regular men don't start
putting on wigs and miniskirts okay if you start getting drawn to put on a wig and a miniskirt
okay don't come back okay for starters okay regular women don't suddenly shave their heads
and put on even more blokey clothes than normal okay normal people don't do that do they do you
know what they all are they're pretty much all just another flavor of sodomy that's really what
it comes down to isn't it they're just another flavor of sodomy it's it's basically another
symptom of the reprobate mind okay that's what it is now some the symptom will just be full sodomy
without dressing like a woman okay but for many it's a bit of sodomy and a bit of cross-dressing
like a woman for others it's a bit of sodomy and for the women a bit of cross-dressing like a man
okay it's all just flavors of the rep might mind go back to romans one which shows us that it's
all sorts of unrighteousness and wickedness that goes along with the symptom of a reprobate mind
romans chapter one and verse 28 romans one and 28 says and even as they did not like to retain god
in their knowledge god gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not
convenient so remember they've been given over to this warped mind okay being filled with all
unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate to see
malignancy whisperers okay so unrighteousness wickedness like glorying in the sorts of things
that god calls abominations yeah that's unrighteousness of wickedness like going to some
public parade dressed in the most horrific revealing female outfits that's all unrighteousness
isn't it that's wickedness because what are they really trying to do they're really trying to defile
people's eyes aren't they that's why they're in a public parade where there's photos videos and
everything else with them dressing next to nothing it's it's it's horrendous and just trying to look
at some of the stats on this yesterday i mean you want to kind of shield your eyes while you're
looking it's awful just absolutely terrible but think about the poor kids think about the people
that take their kids to that i mean that's a sermon for another day what sick twisted weirdos
oh uh we we have a there's a church plant over in spokane and and um uh the the one of the preachers
there he preached a sermon where he said that parents would do that that take their kids or
i think i don't think it was just to a pride parade he said parents that basically take their
take their kids for some sort of like treatment and a hormonal treatment should be shot
anyone see a problem with that he got a lot of grief for that i mean that went viral and he
our pastor was getting death threats and and they even got the police involved i mean what
sort of parenting is that what sort of parenting but what sort of parenting takes your child to
watch that sort of filth i mean that that's how bad it's got here like i said 1970 whatever it was
72 200 sodomites now 30 000 sodomites cross-dressers all sorts of free korean show and people bringing
their children along to watch it people who aren't sodomites bringing their kids along to
see that stuff and parading them and having them with pride flags everything else that's beyond
belief isn't it i don't think anyone in the 70s could have seen that happening 50 years later
could they horrendous look at verse 29 again it said being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity
whisperers so unrighteousness wickedness like cross-dressing in a stripper's outfit and reading
kids stories in the local library that's unrighteousness and wickedness isn't it i mean
that's sort of that's inventors of evil things i mean it even comes up with that who even comes up
with that idea i mean getting lined up and shot is probably is kind isn't it i mean how do you come
up with that how do you decide that that's a good idea how do we have apparently libraries across
i thought it's a windup when my wife was first telling me about this i thought she i thought
this is probably one of those well they've done it at one library and it's probably not really
it's going on everywhere i mean that is something else isn't it this our nation is so in free fall
it is unbelievable at least the people that are running and controlling and and like i said no
who's complaining about this really like some people mumble and yeah there's the odd thing
where some parents outside of school will go stop teaching our kids this stuff or we might
even take them out of school you know it's like yeah okay it's gone a bit further than that
hasn't it and you get a bit of that but this should be i mean this is unbelievable isn't it
what we're seeing out there people and where people are queuing up to watch these guys go
past us like this it's just unbelievable okay however look at verse 29 uh look at
our study it then says backbiters haters of god despiteful proud
boasters and we're going to pause there because the title is three open abominations of pride
abomination number one is sodomy okay that is an abomination according to god's word
abomination number two cross-dressing that is an abomination according to god's word
but abomination number three is pride abomination number three is pride and this is what i want to
focus on a bit more today because when describing a reprobate minor romans one god through paul
tells us that they are proud and they're boasters and isn't it ironic that these worldwide parades
of reprobates are called pride parades i mean that's just bizarre isn't it in fact it's not
but it's ironic isn't it it's ironic that they're also celebrating another wicked sin it's like if
that's not enough we're going to actually celebrate pride as well and and a sin that is also described
as an abomination so back in proverb 16 i hope you kept something there where we started
proverb 16 and verse 5 says this proverb 16 5 says everyone that is proud in heart
is an abomination to the lord though hand joined in hand he shall not be unpunished so those that
are proud in heart are an abomination to god god extremely hates remember he detests or extremely
detests he despises the proud in heart who are those that are proud in heart that for me is a
reprobate okay now there are people that that can be prideful there are people that can get proud
you can have moments of pride and some people maybe deal with this more than others but someone
that is proud in heart it's just deep in their core the pride that's a reprobate that that's in
their heart they ooze pride okay they're so prideful that they're actually proud of vile
perversion okay that's super weird isn't it being proud of vile perversion i mean think about this
for a second god hates it when you're proud of actual real supposed achievement okay so so if
you were proud of your job proud of some achievement in life proud of proud of your
supposed godliness maybe proud that you managed to resist some sins god doesn't like that okay
god hates that god's god's looking at you going look you need to stop taking the credit and give
the glory to god because of also where that leads and it's just it's just a wicked way of looking
at things isn't it because people get puffed up with that god hates that a proud look is one of
the six or seven things that he hates yeah when you look at proverb six but imagine being proud
not just of a more obscure sin so not just you're proud of something you didn't quite realize with
sin maybe not just as some regular sin that you just want to try and justify but imagine being
proud of an abomination i mean that's just it's it's just beyond just weird it's just it's
completely out there isn't it you're proud of an abomination proud of something that's associated
with a deviant mind proud of something that shows that you're beyond hope that that's that's just
off the wall isn't it for weirdness how are you proud of that how not only are you proud of it
you're telling everyone that you're proud of it you're having a parade and a march to show
everyone that you're proud of being a reprobate deviant it's it's like it's beyond weird it's so
just crazy now isn't it however we shouldn't be surprised okay we shouldn't be surprised because
this is one of the classic characteristics of the reprobate mind it's pride okay pride is a massive
part now we we've we we've dealt with sort of similar stuff in this church in the future and
sorry in the past and we will in the future but we had in the past where it was just ridiculously
obvious okay and it was like a good insight into that mind because it was just laid bare for
everyone to see yeah the pride boastful just wickedness okay and they're not always as obvious
as this but the rep that like the reprobate sodomite is just kind of out there like this
aren't they i mean they're just like a kind of glaring example for everyone and then some are
better at hiding this sort of thing but these guys look these guys out there in these pride
parades or something else don't a second timothy three pride however like i said it's not just
amongst the most open obvious sodomites and cross-dressers either okay the the reprobate mind
has a predisposition to immense pride okay that's what sadly that's kind of one of the the classic
characteristics of the reprobate and i was thinking about this i was thinking that probably
without it it would be an even more depressing existence wouldn't it if you think about it you
imagine you're just some some just deviant reprobate deep down you know you're a reprobate
without the pride that would i don't think you'd probably last very long would you the suicide rate
would be even higher okay and obviously they have a fragile ego so now and again kind of it cracks
and then they just give up yeah however i think the pride is probably something that's needed to
keep them alive second timothy three you're turning to yeah he's talking about the false
prophet type here though okay this is like the religious type reprobate so these can be the false
prophets behind the pulpits in the false churches it can also be that the infiltrator types of false
brethren in various different ways and we talked about this before you know the for us the false
brethren in a sort of you know in a in a in a dress in a catholic church with a kind of collar
doesn't really con us does it okay that's a bad wolves outfit in a church like this would be
different but there's many many different false prophet types religious reprobate second timothy
three just tells us sort of again just gives us the the most common at least repeating type of
characteristic is his pride it says here in secretary three this know also that in the last
days perilous time shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves okay the lovers of
their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without
natural affection truths breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despised of those that are
good traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god having a
form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such a way so they claim some sort of
religious type sort of behavior they have a form of godliness but denying the power basically
they're unsaved okay they're unsaved for one reason or another okay for of this sort are
they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers
lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth they're never able why
because they've been given over they've been given up to a reprobate mind they're unable okay they
cannot be saved verse 8 says now as janis and jambres with submoses so do these also resist the
truth and janis and jambres were for me some of these false prophets around pharaoh so do these
also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith okay they're
reprobate they're rejected that means okay the lord reprobate silver shall men call them for the
lord has rejected them okay that's what a rep rate is someone rejected they're rejected they cannot
be saved but did you notice how they were lovers of their own selves okay they're they're boasters
they're proud they're heady they're high-minded okay they're big parts big characteristics of
the reprobate mind do they admit it like the marching sodomite though i mean a marching
sodomite i mean that's just beyond weird is it they're just walking around proudly going i'm
you know marching on a pride parade oh it's just so so weird isn't it however not everyone
emits it like that okay so of course you know the infiltrator type won't but turn some 119
because not only is it one of the prominent characteristics of god's enemies
god's enemies are actually defined by this characteristic okay so this is why the pride
pride being called pride is just so fitting i mean i love that they call it that okay because
it just helps remind you of what not only what we should be looking out for and avoiding but also
you know that's the sin that we want to just be as far away from us as possible don't we
okay look everyone in different ways in different times of life might have the odd temptation or
tendency to this sort of sin pride that is okay however we want to put it as far away from us
as possible because it is basically what god's enemies are called okay they're they're defined
by this sin look at some uh you're trying to turn to some 119 but what are you trying to
i'm going to read psalm 86 14 where david said oh god the proud are risen against me
and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them
okay so david's talking about a group of people he's calling the proud they're the enemies of
god they've risen against him okay they're seeking after his soul they have not set god before them
okay because they're reprobates they've rejected god he's rejected them they're known as the proud
so it is fitting isn't it it's a fitting name for this wicked parade of god haters
the psalmist is psalm 119 also refers to his enemies by this characteristic and we'll just
start from the beginning so you really get a flavor no i'm kidding we're going to start
for verse 21 psalm 119 which says this thou has rebuked the proud that are cursed which do earth
and thy commandments so they're known as the proud and what are they the cursed okay they're cursed
the proud here he's rebuked their curse they've erred from thy commandments okay they they've
erred they've gone away they're basically they've rejected god look at verse 51 the proud have had
me greatly in derision yet have i not declined from thy law okay so they they will mock god's
people they will laugh at them they'll when they're together when they're away maybe whether
it's a couple or whether it's a group whatever else oh they will mock they will snigger they
will mock everything about god's people they'll have us in derision but we don't want to decline
from the law of god okay ultimately they're wicked they're reprobates yeah okay the proud have had me
greatly in derision yet have i not declined from thy law look at verse 69 the proud it's the proud
again and he's he's proud of coming up a lot aren't they they're proud of forged a lie against me
but i will keep thy precepts with my whole heart so the psalmist is saying that the proud of forged
a lie they'll lie they'll convince themselves of it okay this is what these people do because
they're too proud to accept their own wickedness they're too proud to go no i'm wicked i'm a problem
so it's everyone else's fault yeah it's always someone else's fault and of course you know the
most extreme example is the sodomites yeah they'll just kind of make up all sorts of things
i mean i've been around these people before in the past and these are some wicked vile people
they'll convince themselves of their lives but the proud the enemies of god they'll forge lies
against you but we should therefore keep his precepts with our whole heart look they want
anything on you right okay and when it comes to people that are trying to find fault trying to
attack god's people they want anything the goal is keep his precepts with your whole heart right
verse 78 says let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause but i
will meditate in thy precepts yeah they'll treat you badly okay they won't have a reason they'll
convince themselves of reason because they're prideful okay but let them be ashamed but what
do we do we meditate in his precepts verse 85 the proud it's the proud again have digged pits for me
which are not after thy law so they'll try to entrap you as well they'll set up traps they'll
try and find ways of trapping you in one way or another they've digged pits for me which are not
after thy law and verse 122 in psalm 119 122 says be surety for thy servant for good let not the
proud oppress me they will try to oppress you okay and that's what they're trying to do now that's
like if you think so many of these the the way the world's going so many of the laws that we're
seeing so many of the support for all this sodomy and then obviously the opposite for people just
you know all the hate speech stuff coming out all of that for just preach the word of god
is ultimately these same people it's the enemies of god the enemies of god wanting to oppress god's
people be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me but we can rely on god can't
we we can rely on god with it and they will look they will proudly justify everything that they
do against god's people these people okay but like i said what it should do when we see that
and when we go through and by the way i've just chose 119 because it's just easy there's psalms
there's many psalms just concerts the proud the proud the proud okay and what should that do it
should number one it should remind us how bad a sin that is shouldn't it okay when you've got god's
enemies just being called the prat look we don't we don't want that associated with us do we okay
and sometimes you're gonna have times alive some people are going to deal with this more than other
times times that you get a bit lifted up a bit puffed up and sometimes flatterers can do that
can't they the flatterers will come and try and lift you up okay and they you know because pride
goes before destruction holds a bit before fall so you've got to watch for that because it can for
some it can be easy to get a bit prideful right we want to a make sure that we cut that out okay
and number two what it should do therefore when we know how bad it is it should just
make us just want to avoid it at all costs and and ultimately not be around people that are like that
right people that are pride filled they're so proud boasting petty high-minded look they're
massive red flags aren't they look i'm not saying that anyone who gets a who seems to get a little
bit of an ego or something else right that's it cut them off but i mean they're big red flags
aren't they okay bid reg and i'm talking about outside as well i'm talking about when you're in
your workplace you don't want to suddenly find that you're buddied up and best mates with a
reprobate or something else you know or my work buddy here we get on so well they're just they're
a bit prideful but hey look you want to avoid that stuff okay they're because it's it's it's
the classic characteristic of these people now like i said some will humble themselves some will
crouch down and humble themselves and act like they're not and they're the they're the cleverer
ones right but here when it comes to the pipeline you just see the complete opposite i mean these
are just open bearing all to everyone okay these are like your most just blatant reprobates out
there okay but what they should do is they should help us to learn about others as well
they're they're so debased they're so debauched they're so messed up that they're proud of open
weird perversion okay that's unbelievable isn't it however their time is coming so
you can listen to a sermon like this just go this is messed up we've got we've got a million people
apparently involved in somewhere or another walking past it 30 000 people marching through
the streets of london we've got pride parades going on all around this country and different
months and everything else it's a bad situation isn't it oh man i'm going to come away from here
and just think like what do we do it's like time to give up it's not it's not no turn to malachi
chapter four their time is coming god's enemies don't have long left even though the numbers are
growing you don't have to fear them okay we don't have to fear these people as i 13 11
while you turn a malachi force says and i will punish the world for their evil and the wicked
for their iniquity and i will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the
haughtiness of the terrible another name for being puffed up haughty haughtiness i like that word
nice old english word the haughtiness of the tale he will lay low the haughtiness of the table
it's coming to an end okay the day that day is coming malachi 4 tells about that day where it
says in verse 1 for behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea
all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the
lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch so just let's just go back to
god's view on this sort of thing okay we've made it clear that god considers sodomy and
abomination we've made it clear that god considers cross-dressing and abomination we've seen that
god prescribed the death penalty for sodomites and now we've also seen that god considers the proud
an abomination and he's now saying the day's going to come when all the proud all that do
wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up what do you think god's view on
the pride parade is anyway how on earth do you have so-called bible believing christians and
claiming to believe the bible claiming to believe the bible is the word of god christian churches in
inverted commas all over this nation who claim to support this sort of stuff talk about inclusiveness
talking about getting these people in to try trying to trying to roll out the red carpet for
this it's absolutely wicked isn't it isn't it wicked what a shame on the name of christ call
themselves christians to the point where where people i i had a guy i think i told you this
story recently because it was to do with that clown andrew tate yeah and there was a guy i know
who's friends of this guy and he um he basically was having always just been anti all sorts of
religion so they're basically trying to um at least i wouldn't say glorify but he basically
was saying well at least with islam at least they speak out about sodomites because the christians
aren't are they now obviously he'd been just hoodwinked by andrew tate it's now become a
muslims and where he's like you know it's kind of it's it's like the david eich thing isn't it
they give a bit of truth on certain things and then they just pull you into a load of falsehoods
yeah and this is what's happened with this guy but the the reality of it is though is that there is a
little element of truth there the element of truth is is that people just look at christianity around
this nation and go why aren't they talking about sodomy why aren't they talking about sodomites
now i don't know how much the muslims are on i don't really know because no one really understands
what they're preaching right okay that's the truth is it we don't really know what's going on
okay but what we do know is that christian churches around this nation aren't talking
about something that is absolutely wicked that every single church in hyde park where i think
they all met up yesterday should have been preaching them if they were real churches
they would have been preaching about this they would have been warning their congregants about
this they would have been telling them to batten down the hatches to stay inside to not bring their
kids out and and what do you think the reality is probably half of them are getting involved in it
probably put up pride flags outside their churches that's how bad it's got isn't it
but that's completely opposite to what the word of god says and if you just take the pride part
of it alone the fact that these people are not they they they they call themselves like pride
it's a pride parade they're talking about being proud of sodomy and perversion then god says and
the day that comers shall burn them up saith the lord of host and it shall leave them neither root
nor branch they're done that's what god thinks about that and that's why a church a church has
to preach that don't they and you don't have to preach it every week you know and we you know
obviously it will come up in bible studies it'll come up at times and there's a lot that a church
needs preaching and sometimes there's a lot of other things that need preaching as well
but that has to be preached surely by the churches at least nearby there as well but unto you that
fear my name that's us shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings
and you shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stool and you shall tread down the wicked
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that i shall do this saith the
lord of hosts look it's not only god that's going to tread him down he said we'll be treading down
the wicked there shall be ashes under the soles of our feet in the day that he'll do that you
know why because well we are going to return aren't we with the lord jesus christ yeah we
won't have to do the fighting you know our god leads from the front right okay however we'll be
trending them under our feet afterwards won't we and that's something that he's enticing us with
okay you want to be more christ like get in get in step with the bible all right getting set with
the bible don't think you're somehow more loving more kind more accepting than god because you know
that is that's a proud heart isn't it that's a proud heart but until that day comes we may
have to put up with a few more parades of the proud flaunting their abominations right we have
to put up with that but it's eternity that counts isn't it okay it's eternity that counts so the
title today was three open abominations of pride and of course there are many other abominations
going on there aren't there but the open just clear as day number one was sodomy number two
was cross-dressing and number three was pride it's a fitting name and i hope they keep that
name because it just just reminds us how wicked pride is as well and on that we're going to finish
in a word of prayer well thank you for your word thank you for um well you know just how clear you
you you make things that we deal with today lord issues that the world is dealing with that we
have in our faces lord in this nation and many other nations around that your word just has a
lot to say about everything your your word um speaks to us today as clear as it spoke to us
yesterday as clear as it spoke to us many many hundreds if not thousand years ago lord you you
know the word of god is clear the word of god um just is a rock for us to stand upon lord um
you know you never change and we thank you for that we thank you that uh we we have this rock
to stand upon lord in it when we're in a world that's just going absolutely crazy around us
help us to be grounded lord on on the rock help us to be grounded on your word help us to
to to just stay steady to stay firm lord help us to um to get to go out this afternoon and preach
the gospel to people lord to to help help get you know just just help us please to find those that
that want to get saved that want to hear your word that want to put their faith in you lord
lead us to those people this afternoon help us return for this evening's service just
thank you for all of this amen