A Holy Church — Keith Malcomson

The 21st-Century Church and Biblical Sexual Morality

Amen, I want you to turn with me this morning to Ephesians chapter two. I normally don't do what I'm gonna do this morning. Now we're staying in our series on the 21st century church, looking at its unique environment, its unique features, maybe some of the unique temptations and trials that we're gonna have to face in this hour that are very unusual, and what we are gonna be.

Standing Firm Despite Legal Opposition

What's God's plan for the church in this hour? But a few weeks ago, I come across notification of something that was gonna happen in Canada, and I felt I had a fallen step with it. You see, this morning, I'm gonna preach in line.

I knew this would be my message anyway. It is directed in a certain direction. All over Canada, America, and the world, there are preachers who are gonna preach this morning, very deliberately, for a deliberate reason, and I'll explain it, on making a clear stand on biblical sexual morality, and I felt it was very important we do the same this morning.

So I am joining my brothers, preachers all over Canada, who actually this morning, it could well be illegal for them to preach what they're gonna preach this morning, but you know what they're doing? They're saying, we're gonna preach the word of God no matter what.

One of those men has already been thrown in prison the past year for simply continuing to gather as a church, and he was thrown in prison, arrested. We're now gonna see in this hour what sort of convictions men have and women have.

The 21st century church is either gonna be forced to bow the knee in compromise to a man-made system, or it's gonna stand and be thrown in the fiery furnace. What a choice. I made my choice long ago, long ago.

It's not a choice for me. I don't need to pray about it. I don't need to wrestle over it. I don't need to worry about it. It's not a choice. So I hope you'll understand. We are standing with not a few this morning, many, many, and there's many others, if they'd known about it, would have joined as well and preached the same this morning.

A Holy Church and Ephesians 2

My message is part eight of our series, The 21st Century Church, and this is my title this morning, A Holy Church, A Holy Church. The subtitle is A Stand on Biblical Sexual Morality, reading from Ephesians chapter two, verse one, through to at least verse eight.

Ephesians chapter two, reading from verse one. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air.

The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we had our conversation in times past in the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, by grace are ye saved, and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.

For by grace are you saved through faith, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not a works lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Let's pray here this morning, and let's especially pray for Canada, those churches, our brothers, our sisters, not only there, this is coming your direction. It's at the door for Ireland, what's happening in Canada.

So I'm preempting that, I'm reminding you what the Bible says, to make your stand individually, and as a church, this preacher will no matter who does. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for the clarity of the word of God, we thank you for the new birth, we thank you for regeneration, for justification, for imputed righteousness, we thank you for the finished work of the cross, for the blood of the lamb, for the atoning lamb of God, we thank you for our propitiation that was laid out as a mercy seat for us at Calvary.

Lord God, we thank you for the miracle of the new birth. We didn't change ourselves, we didn't save ourselves. By grace, through faith, we were saved. It was a finished work, it was a miraculous experience.

You changed our thoughts, our desires, our choices. Lord God, you changed our nature, you changed our heart, our spirit, you gave us a new heart, you gave us a new spirit. Lord God, you give us a mind that is renewed by the word of God, and we give you glory.

We are a work in progress, but this one thing we know, you changed us by your power. You do change homosexuals, you do change the drug addict, you do change adulterers. My God, you change the heart of liars, of every form of sin.

Lord God, it isn't a myth that you miraculously change lives. It is a glorious provision of the gospel that you change men, and such were some of us. We were effeminate, we were adulterers, we were liars, we were thieves, we were blasphemers, we were evolutionists, we were all manners of things, we were Catholics.

We bowed down to statues and lit candles and prayed to saints, and yet you have brought us to glorious salvation in Christ. And Father, in this 21st century, these 2020s, when everything is happening, the hour that you have us, we are praying for the power of God, that you would send us a glorious revival, that we might preach regeneration by the spirit of God, redemption by the blood of the Lamb.

Lord God, that you'd empower us, that your church would revive again in this immoral, dark, depraved, wicked hour, when men are changing legislation, and to persecute the church. We pray that you'd revive us, and that miracles of changed lives would be multiplied on the streets, that your name alone would be glorified.

Lord God, bless the churches in Canada. Bless our friends in Canada, the real Christians, the real preachers. Lord God, give them courage to stand and to preach the truth of God. And Lord God, to remain holy and pure morally in their minds and in their hearts and in their lifestyles, that you would be glorified in Jesus' mighty name.

Amen. My message, a holy church. Holiness is not a particular unique emphasis of a certain type of preacher. No, absolutely not. It is not a unusual doctrine or select doctrine of scripture. Though it is, it's more than that.

It's not a denomination defining a certain group of people. Neither is it an experience for the elite or the select in the church. Do you know what holiness is? It is a vital part of basic, genuine Christianity.

You cannot get saved or converted without becoming holy. Show me a new convert that doesn't become holy, or his life isn't changed. I'll show you someone who never got born again. You cannot profess Christ and yet not change your life.

If a man continues getting drunk, if he continues using profane language and blaspheming, if he continues sleeping with his girlfriend or his boyfriend, as we have to face in this hour, that man did not meet with Christ.

We know a real Christian can fall back into sin. We know that. We know it from the Bible. We know it from experience. We know it from ourselves. We know the frailty if we neglect spiritual things. But listen to me, a real convert is a saint, a holy person, is made holy by the power of God.

Not only forgiven, not only washed from his sin, he is sanctified, made right, made pure in the very presence of God. And so our message this morning is a holy church or a stand on biblical spiritual morality.

Abounding Iniquity in the Last Days

As we've said many times in Matthew 24, verse 12, one of the signs of the very last hour that we are now at the end and we'll never go back, never go back and never have another generation, that we are right at the end and Christ is at the door.

What is one of the 10 signs of Matthew 24? It is abounding iniquity. Jesus said in verse 12, and because iniquity shall abound, the love, the agape love of many in the church, because that world doesn't have agape love, you cannot say the world has agape love, normal love.

Their love is not agape love. You only get agape love in a Christian in the church. And so Jesus is saying one of the marks of the last day of this beginning of sorrows, of this leading to the last events of Bible prophecy, he said, it's abounding iniquity that actually causes the love of many in the church to grow cold.

And abounding iniquity is like a cold wind being blown on you that moves your love away from agape. You lose that spark, you lose the power, you lose the reality of passion for the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know what causes that?

Iniquity shall abound. Jesus said, he said, look, this is one of the signs of the end. You can know you're at the end. Why? Iniquity is going to abound. The word iniquity means lawlessness, an absolute widespread, worldspread, national rebellion against the law of God.

An utter rejection of morality, of the 10 commandments, of basic humanity. There's going to be a legal legislation, a great revolt against it, where in our world it's going to become so noticeable in every nation that we are going to see iniquity is abounding, lawlessness, a rejection of biblical principles.

You know, for generations in our countries, many sinners have been glad to live by the 10 commandments. All over our world, sinners who didn't know Christ said, this is good to live by. It's good to have it in our law.

We are the, listen to this, first generation that has removed all the principles of God from our legal system. We are the first system. It was 2015 that we legalized homosexual marriage in Ireland. And we know it's been happening over our world.

This is the first generation. It never happened before. There's always been homosexuality. There's always been sin, always been these things. But this is the first generation where our country said, it's a law.

We accept the two men can marry each other, or two women, and it's legal. It's in our law. We reject any other idea. It's the first time that it's actually happening. Listen to what Jesus says in Luke chapter 17, verse 28.

He says, likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built it. In other words, life carried on as normal. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

What was it that brought such a drastic time that God sent fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed an entire culture, an entire generation, entire cities? It was like a nation being destroyed by fire and brimstone.

What was the wickedness of that particular hour? He didn't do it 10 years before, or 20 years before, or 50 years before. He'd done it right at that time. But it was only as Lot got out of the city that he destroyed it all.

Notice what Jesus says, and this is Christ speaking. He's talking about the last hour before he returns, just like in Matthew 24. In Luke 17, he is trying to describe that generation. He's describing the climate, the moral climate.

And do you know what he says? It's gonna be like the days of Lot. You'll remember that Abraham was Lot's uncle. For a whole period of at least 20 years, they journeyed together, lived together, prayed together.

They were in the same church, the same assembly. They journeyed together as a family. Why is it Jesus says the days of Lot and not the days of Abraham? He doesn't say the coming of the Lord's gonna be like the days of Abraham.

He actually chooses Lot, and he says, when I return again, when the hour's approaching for the end, do you know what he calls it? The days of Lot, like the days of Lot. Where was Lot? In Sodom, where he shouldn't have been.

He set his home towards Sodom. He never should have. And so Jesus says, when you look at Lot's life in Sodom, you are looking at a culture, a civilization, a society, an hour that's gonna be repeated right at the end.

What happened in Sodom is gonna be in our culture before he sends fire on this world again. What a remarkable thing. Why am I preaching this sermon or aiming it specifically? I would have preached it anyway, but it's got a certain specific emphasis this morning.

Conversion Therapy Laws and the Canadian Debate

On January the 8th of this month, just a week ago, a political legal bill was passed in Canada called Bill C -4, banning conversion therapy right across the nation of Canada. It was passed, and they have two legal houses.

They have the House and then the Senate. And it was passed both in the House and the Senate without one man or one woman in the entire legal political system of Canada, not one single person opposed this bill.

And it also received royal assent from the Queen. Do you know what the shocking thing about it was? The conservatives led the way. When they tried to get this law through in previous votes, 62 politicians, conservative politicians, voted against it becoming law in Canada, but not this time, not one dissenting voice.

And some of those politicians claimed to be born-again Christians or evangelical Christians. Nobody spoke out in an entire nation, not one single politician. It's changed the entire law of a nation. As it was voted in, and I watched this, you could see the politicians cross party lines, which they never do.

And they're walking over and they're shaking hands and hugging each other, something never seen. You remember when they voted in abortion in Ireland, the joy, this unbelievable demonic joy that broke out in our nation?

You think that's natural? When they voted for homosexual marriage in Ireland, the joy that broke out. Do you know Ireland is one of the leading pro-homosexual nations in the entire world? Out of 200 nations, it's number nine as pro-gay homosexual rights.

We are right at the front of this, I wanna tell you. What are they voting against? They voted against a thing called conversion therapy. And listen, like with abortion, how did they get abortion in Ireland?

They said, well, there's some poor woman who's been raped, she's been abused. And you know what? It's so tragic, she's in trauma. We've gotta allow her to abort her baby. This man has raped her, do you want her to have that baby?

And so they have an extreme case to try and convince you and feel sympathetic. And they bring a law in when 99 of women are killing their baby because they're lazy, they don't care about a burden, they don't want to be encumbered, they never wanted it, they want their sexual freedom, they want their trim body, they wanna dance in a disco on Saturday night.

So what is it? It's a straw man. They're actually playing a game on you, it's a Trojan horse. Look, we need to bring it in. And so they call conversion therapy, they define conversion therapy, saying, do you know this conversion therapy, poor homosexuals have maybe 10 of them, they've been forced to change their identity.

These psychiatric therapists used to use electric shocks to try and change their mind. And I'm against that. And they had to see a psychotherapist who began to put them under pressure and say, you're not normal, you're not right.

There were even things where they were raped to try and correct their preference. All of that is wicked, I'm against that. See, it's like the abortion. They give an extreme case and say, we're against this, make it law in the land.

They're doing it again. I'm against electric shocks. I'm against therapy. I'm against trying to change a homosexual. I'd never try to change a homosexual against his will. I would never put pressure on him.

I would never want him condemned or to commit suicide. Do you know, I had a young friend once, a young guy who loved holiness and would preach in a street corner. And I got the shock of my life when someone come to me and said, do you know he's a homosexual?

He'd been staying at my house on a visit for a few days. I tell you, that's enough to shock you. And I went to his pastor and I said, brother, I've been told, can you tell me? He said, please sit down.

I'm gonna tell you about him. I was nervous. I've got a testimony. And he says, let me tell you about him. How he was raised by his granny and every man in that family raped him. You wanna know why he's messed up?

Every man in that family from he was a child raped him. You be very careful how you judge a homosexual. Sin is sin. You're gonna hear that this morning. I'm very clear in what I say, but don't you underestimate what this world's done.

In 74, when we held our school of Christ meeting, and some of yous will remember a very prominent person who was one of the leading voices in this city for LGBT rights, stood with me for about an hour after that meeting.

He didn't rush off. He stood with me and he talked for an hour. And we talked very honestly. And at a certain point he asked me, he says, why do you think I'm like this? I said, I don't know. Didn't like to say.

He said, I had an experience with a Catholic priest. Made me like this. My heart broke for him. He didn't choose that. He's been messed up. And they're not all like that. And now we've got a generation where they're brainwashing the kids where it's an experimentation.

It's funny. They're being educated at school and it's gonna affect a whole generation. And so in Canada, they're pushing this in as a straw man. They're showing the extreme. They're showing the abuse.

But do you know what they're bringing on the back of it is something very, very wicked. In Canada from the eighth, and this is the first Sunday chosen. There's a first Sunday that it's against the law now.

And do you know in that law in Canada, it's illegal to force someone to go through conversion therapy or to promote it or to advertise it or to suggest it or for you to tell your child. It's not right to be a homosexual.

It's against the law in Canada now. It's banning trying to change sexual behavior, full stop. When you embark on trying to affect someone's sexual behavior or tell them what's right and wrong, you could be breaking the law in Canada now.

So bisexuality, transgender and us, it's all the same. There's no difference. Canadian law is banning therapy for unwanted sexual attraction and gender confusion, even if you want that. So in Canada, if you come in, I hate this, I want help with it, I want free from it, you could be breaking the law, even if you want free.

Since our world is changing and this is moving across our world, it's not confined to Canada. This Canadian law, listen carefully, defines conversion therapy. And you know what? I'm not into conversion therapy.

You're gonna see this morning, I don't believe in it. I don't believe in psychiatric, trying to change someone's mind. I don't believe in medically trying to change them. I don't believe in counseling to change them.

I don't believe any of that can change them. I don't believe in drugs and medication or making them feel bad for it. I don't believe in that. But listen, the danger that you can bring in a law saying, oh, we're against all this extreme stuff, but it's gonna affect real Christians who simply preach the gospel.

And that's what's so dangerous about this. Canadian law defines conversion therapy as any practice, any treatment, or any service designed to change or repress a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

It makes it illegal to provide, promote, or to profit off conversion therapy. The definition is intentionally very broad and very vague. And that's what's so dangerous. As of this week, in Canada, if you're accused of trying to change someone's sexual preference, pressuring them or forcing them or talking to them or trying to get your children to go in a certain way, you could spend up to five years in prison.

Things are changing. Written into the Canadian law on this, they say if you say heterosexual, a man with a woman, is to be preferred or is better or is normal or that we should be that. They said heterosexualism, it's a myth.

One man, one woman in marriage for life is a myth. It's written into their law now. This idea that this is the way a family should be, it's a myth. Remember what a myth is, like that's leprechauns and fairies, that's myths.

But now they're saying a normal functioning family that we've always had. Now, mommy, daddy and children, it's a myth. That's what is Canadian law. They put it in law. In other words, they're saying the biblical view of marriage that we hold, that's in our Bible, it's unchangeable, is a myth.

It's nothing. We laugh at it, we reject it. But today they are doing this in our schools, isn't it right? So we are not allowed to say anything to anyone. But your schools in Limerick City, your children are being brainwashed.

You will not stick one of your children in the school system without them facing this. You better pray for your children. You better teach your children because every single one of them is gonna be taught this, brainwashing.

So they're allowed to brainwash our children. We get threatened, if you're in Canada, with being thrown in prison if you do this. Do you see how wicked and narrow it is? Jesus warned about it. It's the days of lot.

Radical homosexuality is one of the marks that Jesus warned about in the last days. So they're banning country views. Peer pressure in schools. Your mate's saying, come on, experiment. Remember, like I've always said, the teachers now, they'll say, if you're a little boy and you don't like girls, you're a homosexual, you must be.

And if you're a girl and you prefer to be with the girl than the boys, do you know if you're a normal wee girl, you're gonna go, those boys are a problem. I don't wanna sit by them. I don't wanna be around them.

It's a love-hate relationship, you know? And you're playing, you're brainwashing little children. It is wicked. But we're not allowed to speak the biblical view that has been held for 6 ,000 years and has been the law of nations right up until now.

So we are told it's ours as a myth, but they are allowed to move in and sabotage educationally, politically, legally. What a dreadful day that we live in. The danger of this law in Canada is that to preach will become illegal.

To evangelize, to hold simple convictions, or to tell your children what is right and wrong. How dangerous. You may say, thank God it's in Canada, not Ireland. Just you wait. In the papers in Limerick in May 2018, two years ago, do you know for two years while we've had this lockdown, the LGBT, or should I say sodomites, the LGBT are pushing their agenda while you sleep.

Do you hear what I'm saying? While the church sleeps, they are radically changing the laws of this nation. Big time. Do you know there's plans for April 2021 this year to change the law and to push through.

There's a full investigation going on in Ireland. Hope they hear my message. I'll be on their list. There's a full investigation going on across Ireland, cross border, to investigate any institution that is promoting conversion therapy.

Can I tell you, I don't believe in conversion therapy, but I do believe in conversion. Radically do. I believe a man can be born again. And so they wanna push these laws in and they're very radical. It's coming to Ireland.

You better get ready for this. You better know what the Bible says. You better know how to preach this. And so there's churches all over Canada. Now you understand why there's churches all over Canada that are preaching on this subject this morning.

They're making a stand against the law. Across America, one pastor has said at least 3 ,000 churches are gonna preach this morning. And so I felt I wanna join them. One of those preachers called this conversion Sunday.

I like that. They're saying you can't convert someone. Well, this is conversion Sunday. Oh, to have someone to get born again today. What a glorious thing. That we can see someone saved by the grace of God to preach on God's biblical plan for marriage.

Three Pictures in Ephesians 2

I've got three points here on Ephesians chapter two. I've laid the whole backdrop for you to understand what I'm saying. Three points here. Listen carefully that I'm gonna preach from Ephesians chapter two.

First of all, a perfect picture of a sinner. Second of all, a perfect picture of a saint. And third of all, a perfect picture of a savior. That's our three points. And you know what? We're talking about a holy church.

A Perfect Picture of a Sinner

How is the church gonna function in the 21st century? How are you gonna change when all the laws are radically changing to criminalize you in your home, in your church, in your workplace, on the high street, where everything you believe basically is now becoming criminalized?

Are you gonna stop speaking the truth to your kids or in the workplace or from this pulpit? Or are you gonna be in fear tiptoeing round the daisies, scared to stand for your conviction? Are you gonna be intimidated by the brainwashing of this hour?

Are you gonna stand up and be a Daniel? Are you gonna be a Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Or are you gonna stand up like the great martyrs of every age? You're not suffering. None of yous are suffering in this room.

God help us. A bit of suffering would do you good. It would show you what's in your heart and life. It really would, saints. We need to stand because then I'll know what you believe. You know, when you're put under pressure, we always know where someone compromises and yields and stops doing what they say they believe, that's what you are.

That's exactly what you are. My first point, a perfect picture of a sinner. Look at verse one here in Ephesians chapter two. It's describing a sinner. Let's have the biblical view of a sinner. It says in verse one, dead in trespasses and sins.

The Bible says, all have sinned. You were born a sinner. You're part of Adam's race. Nobody escapes that. None are born morally pure. None are born perfect. You're a perfect sinner. That's what you are.

All of us are born sinners. You don't need to tell a child how to lie or how to steal. You ever seen a child and they'll take that biscuit and, did you eat that chocolate, Becky? Nope. And the chocolate's all over their mouth.

They're not mature enough to know, wipe your mouth before you lie. Then you get a bit older and you know to wipe your mouth and you can lie looking in someone's eye. You see, the Bible says, all are born dead in trespasses and sin.

You're dead. What does dead mean? You're spiritually dead. You're not physically dead. You're not emotionally dead. You're not mentally dead. But do you know what? You're dead in your spirit. You're dead to God.

You don't feel God. You don't walk with God. You don't see God. You don't hear God. You don't touch God. You don't love God. And so if you're dead in trespasses and sins, do you know what your nature is?

You trespass and sin. That's your life. Do you know, as a sinner, a perfect picture of a sinner, you do sin. You know this argument, are homosexuals born sinners or are born that way? Or do they become that way?

Yes, both. Lots of Christians deny that they're born that way and say, no, it's culture. I don't believe that because I believe in that fallen nature is every depravity. You don't get trained to lie. It's in that old flesh, Adamic nature.

You are dead to God. You are dead to righteousness. You're dead to holiness. You're dead to morality. You don't need to teach any young guy out there to be immoral, sexually immoral. And I'm not just preaching about homosexuality.

I'm talking about fornication. I'm talking about pornography. I'm talking about every form of immorality, whatever your feelings are. Do you know what? We're all born dead in sin. Not one of you escaped that.

And I'm sorry to say none of the children escaped that. They couldn't hear all about God and say, I believe in God and grew up believing, but they're born dead in sin. They need a relationship with God.

You see, to be dead, you're dead in trespasses and sins. That's your condition. No spiritual life. You know what? You're dead to holiness. Show me a church where you go there and the pastor has low views of morality.

Do you know what? And there's preachers like this. And they say, you know, the homosexual, I believe you can be like that, but still be saved. You can never believe that. That shows me that preacher's dead in his sins because there's no holiness.

I go to a church and they go, well, there's nothing wrong with sleeping around. They're dead. Oh, we believe in Jesus. No, you're not. You're dead. I can tell if you're dead or alive by your morality.

By your convictions, by your practice. So if you go to a church and they're immoral, but they talk about grace and the love of God, and we love Jesus and he died on the cross, but you've rejected holiness.

You're dead in your sin. You're dead. Look what else it says in verse two. And this was the condition of all of us. A perfect picture of a sinner. We walked according to the course of this world. So they're not only dead as a condition, they walk, they're moving, they're living out their life according to the course of this world.

I've mentioned this many times. Again, the word course there is the word eon. You remember that word eon, that Greek word eon. What does eon mean? It means an age, a generation, a period of time, a lifetime, a culture, a society.

Or listen how I've coined it, the contemporary society. Do you know when we reach this hour and there are change in everything, and they go, wow, aren't we improved? We're different than every other. Those were all old fogies and dodgies all the way back there.

Those old timers. Now we're a contemporary eon age. It's a new hour. It's a new time of liberty. Every young generation thinks that thing. We know better than 6 ,000 previous years. We think differently.

We know more. We've improved everything. We've got science on our side. And so we call a man a woman. Or in fact, we say, you've got 27 different genders you can be. Don't we know so much? Think of them wise.

They're fools. And they'll end up in hell. What a dangerous time. Do you know what it says here? A picture of a perfect sinner. He's dead in his sins. He is walking according to the course of this world.

Do you know people in the church who claim they're born again, and there's no holiness, biblical holiness? They're not saved. They're dead in their sin. They might be religious, but in their heart, in their mind, they're dead.

You know why? Because they're walking according to the aeon of this age. In other words, they walk in line. They follow the trends of the world. The world out there is molding the church. If that world is molding this church, it's politics, it's laws, it's legislations, the television media, Facebook, YouTube.

If all of that is molding this church, we're in real serious trouble. See why I'm calling this a holy church? You need to understand what a sinner is. Because you know what? If you can't identify a sinner and a saint, this is not a holy church.

And so when you're walking according to this hour and the latest ways, and you know, we now understand the Bible about homosexuality different than all the previous generations. And you know, we've discovered it's okay.

It's not sin at all. And God loves you and he loves your homosexuality and he won't send you to hell. Do you know what that is? That's a world, that's a church, a Christian and a preacher conformed to this world.

What does Paul say? Be not conformed to this world or this contemporary culture. It's thoughts, opinions, attitudes, ways, speculations. It's impulses, it's desires. He also says in verse two, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

He's describing a sinner. Not only does this world mold your convictions and mold your actions and mold how you speak, where are you getting your morality from? Your convictions, your beliefs, your lifestyle.

Are you getting them from the Bible or from the world around you? If you don't spend any time in the Bible, I'll tell you where you're getting your morals from. You don't even know what the Bible says.

You don't even believe that anymore because it needs to wash your mind. Every day you're getting hit by media, online, the news, education, in your workplace, your mates, your family. You think you can go through all of this and not read the word of God?

That's gonna wash you and tell you the truth of God. It says that according to the prince of the power of the air. In other words, a real sinner and a real sin in society. You know what's behind it? The prince of the power of the air.

He is suggesting things. He is on the radio. Do you know the devil's on the radio? Man, I only need to get ahold of one sinner, get in his brain, get in his mouth, and I can affect 100 million. Do you think the devil works hard to make sure that he's on Christian, I mean, secular television?

Do you think he does? I get one man and I'll affect, I'll be speaking to him every day, morning to night. You be very careful what you listen to. You see, Satan is the power of the air. He's now influencing our schools, changing our laws, forcing Ireland into a mold.

Far worse than under the rule of Catholicism, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Then look at verse three, among whom also we all had our conversation. The word conversation means lifestyle.

So no one gets out of this. I'm not picking on homosexuals, I'm picking on you. I'm picking on us. We all had our conversation in this realm. In times past, and notice this, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.

I'm explaining what a sinner is. Do you know what a sinner is? Are you sure you're not a sinner? Because if you're a sinner, if you are this, you're on your way to hell. Doesn't matter what you believe.