Are You Brainwashed (Coming Deception)？ — Keith Malcomson

Are You Brainwashed (Coming Deception)？ — Keith Malcomson

We're coming to part 7 of our series on the battle for the mind and I really do believe it's timely what we're dealing with. This is volume 2 of our series. We will have a volume 3 and we'll go back to certainly dealing with things more practically.

But here in this series I believe it's timely for what is happening in our world, in politics and in society. In fact I believe we need to be warned and prepared. Some preachers do not like to warn the church lest it seems like scaremongering.

I want to tell you that Jesus in Matthew 24 warned the church about the hour we're living in now. 3 times before he dealt with anything else about earthquakes or pestilence, 3 times he warned the church, beware of men, beware of false prophets, lest any man deceive you.

3 times he warned of deception. You see I believe we serve a Christ that does warn. It's not scaremongering. It's not to create fear or concern. It's actually to prepare you. It would be a terrible thing if you as a church were not prepared for what's around the corner.

Do you know we live in an hour, and I wish we didn't, where you need to warn your children about who they go with, about getting in cars, about who comes and speaks to them. We actually have to warn them.

I wish we didn't have to, that it was such an hour that we can trust everyone. But do you know what? There are certain times you've got to warn your children. It's not every generation it's like that, but there are certain generations where wickedness abounds.

You better prepare that child early. You don't need to tell them everything, but you need to give simple, clear warnings. It's not making that child scared or insecure. It's not doing that. It's protecting that child.

And it's the same with us with the Bible. When the Bible warns, we warn. We have to warn. This generation that you and I have entered into has more said to it than any other church generation in 1 ,900 years.

All of the Scripture is for all of the church in every generation. That's true. But I believe there's more specific, detailed, applicable prophecies, descriptions, and warnings for you than the church for the past 1 ,900 years.

That ought to get our attention. And you know what that tells me? God wants to warn you. Such events are going to happen in our generation. You must be aware and have your eyes open and your ears open.

The Coming Assault on the Mind

We're coming to part seven of this series on the battle for the mind. And I believe that we are about to, we the church of this hour, are about to engage in the greatest assault of the mind that you could possibly imagine.

And I believe these messages prepare you so that you won't be ignorant or shocked at the mental battle that comes against you because it is coming. You haven't seen anything yet. My message, part seven here, my message tonight, I've simply called brainwashed, brainwashed.

Read in from 2 Kings chapter 18, verse 1 to verse 8 tonight. 2 Kings chapter 18, verse 1 to verse 8, as we deal with brainwashed. And I'm going to make a double play on this title here tonight, which I'll explain shortly.

But read in from 2 Kings chapter 1 and verse, chapter 18 and verse 1. Now it came to pass in the third year of Hosea, the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was also Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.

He removed the high places and he break the images and cut down the groves. And he break in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made. For unto those days, the children of Israel did burn incense to it.

And he called it nehushtan. In other words, just a piece of brass. Do you notice that's what he calls it? It's just a bit of brass. Why are you offering incense to this thing? It's idolatry. Then it says in verse 5, He trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

For he claimed to the Lord and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments which the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and he served him not.

He smote the Philistines even unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fence city. Will you pray with me as we deal with brainwashed here tonight in this battle for the mind.

Saints, you need to be aware that an intensive part of the battle that the church is going to face for its mind is going to be this thing called brainwashing. Father, I do pray tonight as we come to your word, will you speak us, will you prepare us, will you make us ready, O God, to stand like Hezekiah did in his day.

What an example that there was no king before him or after him that clung to you, that trusted you, that prospered in obeying your word, in meditating in the word of God, in removing idolatry and all manners of traditions of men from the people of God.

Father, what a remarkable man that brought revival, revival burnt in Jerusalem, then in Judah, then in the surrounding regions. Father, thank you, Lord God, that you can suddenly, dramatically raise up men and women to see revival again.

Lord God, I pray as this man, Hezekiah, made a stand against brainwashing and preserved the city of God and the people of God from every brainwashing of politics, of military strategy, Lord God, of social agreement.

I pray that you would give us the same victory in simple faith, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Now, I know with a title like this, brainwashed, it seems strange to be reading the text that I have just read tonight, but you're going to fully understand why I read this text here tonight, because I believe Hezekiah has everything to do with what you need to hear tonight.

Biblical Warnings About Global Deception

My message, brainwashed. As I said, no generation is going to be faced with being brainwashed like this generation of the 21st century. You see, the Bible speaks very clearly about the generation you're in.

It gives us details precisely, politically, socially, nationally, in every area of society of what is just about to happen in our world. In this generation of almost 8 billion people, God gives accurate information.

And I believe one of the great things that's going to come to our world is this thing called brainwashing. It's going to come as an act of hell, an act of Satan, and it's going to saturate the nations of the world.

Listen with me for a moment. It says in Revelation 12 and 9, and the great dragon was cast out. That old serpent who was in the garden of Eden called the devil and Satan, a listener which deceiveth the whole world.

He was cast into the earth and angels were cast out with him. It says in Revelation 13 and 11, and behold, another beast, we dealt with it last week, another beast coming up out of the earth. And he had two horns like a lamb, but he speak as a dragon.

Revelation 18, 23, it says, thy merchants, speaking about Babylon, that city that's going to arise in these last days, thy merchants are thy tradesmen, are the great businessmen of the world, the great men of the earth, by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Then Revelation 19, 20, the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, that is the Antichrist, with which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast and that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake burning with fire and brimstone.

Saints, I believe the Bible warns us of a coming hour where all nations are going to be deceived. The Bible is very clear. This generation, and I believe this is the time, we are preparing the stages being set for all nations to be deceived.

There are coming great leaders, a great prophet is going to arise doing miracles, doing signs and wonders, and he is going to speak like a dragon. We're told that this prophet and this political leader who arises in the last days, they are going to use pharmacia.

It says in chapter 18, that through thy sorceries, the word there is pharmacia, or the use of drugs. And it's not talking about drugs, it's talking about a government system coming that's going to use drugs, or pharmacia, and it's going to use this thing called sorcery, or pharmacia to deceive all nations.

There's going to be a bid for the mind of this generation using pharmaceutical drugs. Since I'm telling you what is going to come, there is a ploy and a plan by very powerful persons to use drugs to deceive an entire generation.

But not only that, they're going to use technology to tie you into an economic system. And not only that, this prophet is going to have a voice, a message, he's going to speak. There is going to be a worldwide message to deceive an entire generation.

That's why here I am speaking on being brainwashed. Brainwashed, it's a very, very real thing. What does it mean to be brainwashed? It means to affect a person's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process.

Doesn't matter whether it's drugs, or technology, or a politician standing proclaiming his message. This is also known as mind control, menticide, thought reform, or a nice way to coin it is re-education of the population.

It is the concept that the human mind can be altered and controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing is said to reduce its subjects or its victims' ability. They lose the ability to critically think or to think independently.

In other words, they fall into line. Or to allow the introduction of new unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds. Notice that brainwashing moves you reluctantly. It doesn't tell you what it's doing.

It's not presenting an idea and saying, why don't you believe this? Or you should believe this. No, no. What it is doing is subtly and deception is to change your thinking over basic things. You do it reluctantly and yet you can be deceived in having your whole idea within a period of time changed to allow new ideas, new agendas to come into your mind as well as to change your attitudes, your values, your beliefs, your convictions.

All of this is the work of brainwashing. You see, another word we know is propaganda and real propaganda has one object to brainwash an individual. Brainwashing is also called coercive persuasion. It's an individualistic system or effort to persuade you or a mass population to accept a certain allegiance, a certain command, or a certain doctrine.

It is more generally applied to any technique designed to manipulate the human thought or the actions of individuals, listen this carefully, against their desire, against their will, against their personally held knowledge of the individual by controlling the physical environment around them.

It is an attempt to destroy loyalties that you hold within your heart and your mind and to move you in an utterly different direction than what you would normally desire to hold. It is the individual, that his attitudes and patterns of thinking are being changed to align with the political ideology or something else.

This could happen in a political realm or a religious realm or even a cult. That's why we stand for the liberty of conscience. We believe in a man's right to go to hell as much as to go to heaven. We believe in the rights of a man to reject the gospel on the basis of knowledge.

We don't trick men or women into the gospel. We tell them the full consequence. It will cost you to follow Jesus. It will cost you to turn your back on this world. You see, we don't trick people in with the gospel.

We openly hold out the Bible and say, you can test our words. Everything we say is in the open. You can weigh it. You can make your own decision. And when you make it, you will sleep in your own bed. You see, that's why the gospel is not brainwashing in that sort of style.

It's not a deception. It's not trying to coerce people into opinion against their will. If you don't want to believe this, I'd hate for you to believe it. If you didn't desire to be in the house of God, I'd hate for you to be here.

I really would. But we're talking about brainwashing. That's my message, part seven, the attack on the mind, brainwashed. But let me, just before I go to this, is just to tell you two different sides of this I'm gonna deal with tonight.

Brainwashing by Deception or Renewal by the Word

One side is the side that I've just mentioned, brainwashing. Brainwashing in society and in history, and I'm gonna give you examples. But there's another realm, and I wanna play on the word here, brainwashed.

I believe all of you are gonna be brainwashed one way or the other. Every person in this room, you're gonna be brainwashed. Either you're gonna be brainwashed, moved by deception into something that you would not wanna believe, or your brain is gonna be washed by the water of the word of God.

I'm using that in two different ways. Since we need, as Christians, our brain to be washed, washed by the word of God, washed by the truth of God. And I believe we're at an hour. Either the devil is gonna deceive you and brainwash you, or the Lord Jesus Christ is gonna wash your brain.

He's gonna renew it, rewire it, fix it up again, and then clean out all the filth and the pollution. Since you are gonna have one of these two things, you're either gonna be brainwashed by an antichrist spirit that's in the world right now, or you're gonna be brainwashed graciously by the Lord Jesus Christ in a remarkable, a remarkable way.

Brother Paul preached a message in August, 2019, called The Propaganda of Satan. It would do you well to listen to it again. How Satan uses his propaganda against the mind. Do you know what propaganda is used to do?

It's used in advertising. It sends you information, and it's usually biased in its nature. It leaves out realms of truth. The Bible doesn't do that. The Bible gives you everything. What brainwashing and propaganda does is it stops the voice of discontent or of being challenged.

It wants to silence every other voice, and it wants to proclaim its own message. It wants to be absolutely in control. It wants to dominate or to flood the scene with its own voice. I believe we've got many examples from the 20th century.

I believe Lenin, who led the Russian Revolution, was such a man who understood what I am saying. Listen to what he said. Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed that I have sown will never be uprooted.

Do you know as well, Candice used to teach music, and she told me, she said, Lenin said, give me the music of the people, and I will have that people. These men like Lenin, these men like Stalin, and Hitler, and many others like Mussolini, and we could keep on listing them, they understood you've got to have the mind of the people.

You've got to capture the mind of the people. If you're going to have power in the nation, if you're going to exert military and political power, you must have that mind. Never will a world's population have their mind grabbed for like this generation that we are living in.

It's a very serious hour, and so you need to know how to stand against being brainwashed. You need to know the cure for it. You need to know how to have a mind washed by the word of God, whereby you are not brainwashed by this world system.

Propaganda, Media, and the Capture of Public Opinion

Let me give you an example and a foretaste of what I believe is coming, and it's already here in this hour, and will intensify in the days ahead. We know how Hitler arose. He was a painter from the back streets of Austria.

He was a nobody. He used to carry bags at the train station. Nobody could have looked at him and imagined the man that would rise up to dominate an entire generation. At his right hand was another man called Joseph Goebbels.

He was the prophet of the Nazi regime, and I believe Goebbels gives us an insight into brainwashing into a political system that is trying to silence every other voice and to lead us in a certain direction.

Joseph Goebbels from 1933 stood as the right hand man of Hitler. He was Hitler's prophet, and he was the main man who took a hold of the radio in that nation. He would buy you a radio in order to get his message to you.

He says, we'll buy you all radios, and you can listen to me at night, the message that I'm going to pump out. What did he preach? Utter loyalty to the state, utter loyalty to Hitler, and utter loyalty to an ideology.

Listen to a few quotes from him. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. He is playing on the emotions of people. He said, give me the media within Germany, and I have the people. If I control the media, I'll have that entire generation.

Do you understand what's happening in this day and hour? Every voice is being stopped in our nation. They're doing it on YouTube, Facebook. They're doing it on news media. They're doing it on television.

They're doing it with newspapers. We are not living at a normal hour. This wasn't happening like it is now two years ago. Something is happening in our world. It is spiritual. There is a power, and it's for a purpose.

And do you know what? All the nations of the world, the same thing is happening. A silence of every other voice, and only one message coming through. Through, doesn't matter the nation or the political party.

It doesn't matter the newspaper, the history. You've got the same message, the same voice coming through. How could that possibly happen? But it is happening right now in our generation. Goebbels also said, if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will believe it yourself.

He said propaganda works best when those being manipulated are sure that they are acting out of their own free will. This is the secret of propaganda. Those who need to be persuaded must be immersed in the ideas being propagated without realizing that they are being immersed in it.

He also said, a lie you tell once remains a lie, but a lie you tell a thousand times becomes the truth. You see, that's why Goebbels knew, I've got to control that voice that speaks to every person within the nation.

I've got to be in the radio. I've got to be in the biggest pulpits. I've got to be in the newspaper. We've got to get the young. We've got to have the Hitler youth. We've got to infiltrate the schools.

We've got to get inside the churches. They radically changed the German nation within a period of a decade. They radically changed an entire generation. I lived in Germany for three years and I often said, how could the people of Germany have been deceived by this?

They're an intellectual people. They're an academic people. They're a free thinking people and yet an entire generation pulled behind a man called Hitler that pulled our entire world into great tragedy.

He goes on to say further, think of the media as a grand piano for governments to play upon. This is how they done it. Change the mind. Saints, change the mind of an entire generation. Propaganda, brainwashing an entire generation and their main focus was that young generation.

Give us that young generation and we'll change the entire nation. It is the absolute right of the state to determine and shape public opinion. The essence of propaganda is to win people over to an idea with their whole being so that they eventually sink into it completely and can never escape from it.

Whoever is able to conquer the street or the masses that walk on the street will one day conquer the state because every form of power politically and every state controlled by a dictatorship has its roots in a popular movement amongst the masses.

What am I telling you tonight? You live in a unique hour and I've watched this for years. The UN, the ideology in the early 90s, I'm reading about what they planned for the young people of every generation.

They were bringing out a worldwide education system, political system, social system, legal system. They've been planning this openly since the early 90s. You know what? It's here now. This is the hour, the World Economic Forum, the IMF, the UN, all these institutions and now our governments in this hour are all falling into step with this since we have just watched the beginning of the biggest fascist takeover of world governments.

We have literally watched it. No shot was fired. No army was in the field. Do you know how they've done it? Through what I'm saying. Propaganda, the media, the emails, the internet, all the technology.

Give me the internet. Give me YouTube. Give me Facebook. Give me the BBC news every night and I'll have that generation. Do you hear me? That if the people don't understand what happened with Lenin and the Russian revolution, if they don't understand what happened with Stalin and with Hitler and with Napoleon and all through the ages, if they don't understand that entire societies can change overnight when you get the right people who know what they're doing accordingly and the devil inspires them, you can have a worldwide revolution.

Do you know what they're making a bid for now? A worldwide revolution. Now that I've got your attention, I want to preach from the word of God here tonight. My message brainwashed, but I'm showing you two different types of brainwashing.

Hezekiah's Faithfulness Against Assyrian Propaganda

The devil's brainwashing. I believe Hezekiah, who I want to bring you to tonight, was a man who stood against one of the most unbelievable hours of brainwashing that ever come against God's people. And I believe he stood resolute.

You ought to ask why. And God's people, God's remnant stood and came through that hour. It was unbelievable. We read about this in 2 Kings 18. Read with me here for a moment. As we look at this man, Hezekiah, the type of man he was.

It says here in verse 3, that he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. According to all that David his father did, his heart was right. He did what was right because his heart was right. He obeyed God.

It says in verse 4, he removed the high places, all the false ideologies, the compromise, the compromise of the altar of God, of worship, of the word of God, of the order in society. Do you know what he done?

He's a man of 25 years old. And you know what? His father was one of the most wicked kings in Judah, in its history. He was a vile man. His father had destroyed the temple, the house of God, had brought an apostasy and a false altar to worship at.

In other words, Hezekiah growing up as a young boy and then a teenager, watched an utter destruction of God's house until the doors were shut on it. Can you imagine that? But this young boy, Hezekiah, you know what somebody got to him?

And do you know who that somebody was? He was a man called Isaiah the prophet. You see that young boy had a wicked home, a wicked family and had to sit in wicked services with wicked priests and wicked prophets.

But there was a prophet in the nation called Isaiah, an old man of God who lived a ministry through the reigns of four kings in Israel. And yet here is a young boy who begins to hear the word of God. We don't know who we're affecting in this hour.

I'm talking about a different type of brainwashing. Hezekiah's father had destroyed the nation with a form of religious brainwashing. Every other voice was silenced and this false ideology was brought in.

But you know this young boy heard the preaching of a real prophet and man of God. And do you know what it made him do? To seek after the Lord. The Bible says there was no king before him or after him like him.

You can only liken him to King David. That's the closest. But nobody was as remarkable as him. 25 years old, he's only in the door. And within seven days, he clears out Jerusalem. I mean, he turns a city around within one week.

Within 21 days, revival is spreading out through the nation. He gets rid of the false worship. He pulls down idolatry. He begins to put God's people back in order. He restores holiness, the preaching of the word.

He restores everything saints of God. What a remarkable man of God. It says in verse five, he trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him. He trusted, he had faith in the Lord God.

In verse six, it says he claimed to the Lord God. Not only did he trust, but he claimed and he departed not from following him. And he kept his commandments. And the Lord was with him and he prospered him.

You know what the Bible says? A man in the house of God prospers when he meditates upon the word of God. You want to prosper, you're going to meditate. That mind is going to be washed. Your brain is going to be washed.

I'd like to hold up to you King Hezekiah, the young king that was brainwashed. Not brainwashed like Lennon did it, but he was a young man that had his mind washed clean. He had a pure motive. He had a pure desire.

He had a pure vision of the Lord and he claimed to the Lord or he stuck to the Lord. Here tonight, you are going to have to make a choice in this generation. Do you know what King Hezekiah was being prepared of God for an hour when the greatest political, religious, social, military system was going to invade the land and desire to conquer Jerusalem and to finally stamp out any opposition of the people of God.

We are there now. That's where we are right now. And I believe God prepared Hezekiah and he was going to be able to stand in that hour. When we come to 2 Kings chapter 18, read with me verse 17. And we read, And the king of Assyria, Sentorton, and Rabsarus, and Rabshaketh, from Lachish to King Hezekiah was the great host against Jerusalem.

And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. Since this was an hour that the Assyrian army invaded the little nation of Judah.

You see, I believe a great massive invasion has taken place in our world in every area. And there is an agenda in the UN, the World Economic Forum, and in the system of education to stamp out morality, to remove the laws of God, to remove the influence of biblical preachers.

I believe that with all my heart in this hour. And I believe it's exactly like Hezekiah's day, when you've got this massive great army invading the land led by Rabshaketh. He invaded leading this army.

And it says it was a great host against Jerusalem. In other words, they were weighed down with military force and power. And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Aspha, the recorder.

Notice here Hezekiah sends out his three key men. One of them is a scribe, a writer of the word of God, a scholar of the word of God. He sends three men out to meet these three great generals of the Syrian army and to talk together.

I believe here, and I'm going to give you it right now. This king or this general that was sent against Jerusalem was going to bring three lies to try and deceive, to try and brainwash the people of God in Jerusalem.

This great general, this leader, Rabshaketh, came not with an army. He doesn't fire any shot. No battle takes place. Do you know what he's coming to do? He is going to defeat Jerusalem by words, arguments, by threats, by pleas, by persuasion.

In other words, he uses propaganda. That's what we see in this entire chapter. And Hezekiah is there having to stand against it. This is an onslaught of unbelievable arguments, ridicule, pointing out weaknesses, offering you presents, doing everything.

You know what? To conjure you to submit unwillingly because you've got a lot of doubts, a lot of fears. But he's using arguments to make you fall in line with this political, social, military system. And he doesn't want to fire one arrow across the walls of Jerusalem.

The First Lie: Denying God's Faithfulness

I want to give you three main lies that this great general speaks against the people of God because I believe we're going to face it. Everything is going to come against the people of God in this hour.

The first one is that he denies, that he denies God's faithfulness. That's the first lie. Rabshaketh, when he comes against them, he denies God's faithfulness. Look at verse 19. And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah.

Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? You're going to find in this first argument, propaganda or brainwashing. Remember this great general is a wordsmith.

He is a brilliant man like Goebbels. I mean, he's a mastermind of words and elocution and of the psychology of individual minds. He knows how to speak to men. He can make you drop your gates to leave the walls of defense all by arguments, by verbal arguments.

Isn't this what we find from the Garden of Eden? How the devil works down through. And notice here, his first attack is on their confidence or their trust in the Lord. He actually begins to deny that God is going to be faithful to them.

He's after their faith in God. You know what? You're going to get attacked in this hour and it's going to intensify. I promise you, it's going to get very, very strong. There's going to come a challenge that God is not faithful, that your faith is misplaced, that your confidence in the Bible has been misplaced.

I believe we're standing in an hour where the enemy in our world society from the UN down to local schools is going to attack the word of God like never before in all of world history. Do you know the Bible is the most attacked book in all of history?

Do you realize it was the most burnt book, the most challenged book, and yet it still marches on? No other book has been attacked like the Bible and yet it doesn't even have a scratch upon it. The word of God is still as mighty and powerful.

They haven't found one contradiction in the word of God. This great general, when he come up, begins to challenge their confidence and their trust. What is this confidence that you have in this old book?

What is this faith that you have in this old-fashioned Middle Eastern religion? What is it? He begins to challenge. He then says, thou sayest, and they're only vain words that you're saying, but thou sayest, I have taken counsel and we are strengthened for war.

What does he say to them? Now on whom does thou trust that thou rebellest against me? Do you realize there's coming an hour where there's going to be a mighty rebellion against the ideology of this hour?

Do you realize if you don't bow and submit to this, there's going to be a mighty rebellion that's going to spread across the face of the earth? Individuals are going to come out of every area of society in this hour and stand up and rebel against an ideology that's being forced on them.

You will believe in evolution. You will believe in our ideology. You will submit to our commands and dictates. You know what we're going to see? A rebellion from ocean to ocean in this hour. When the devil comes, he begins to challenge this trust, this faith, this rebellion.

You know all you are is an old rebel or a young rebel. That's all you are. Why don't you believe like everyone else? Why can't you just sit quietly? Keep your religion, have your faith, have your confidence, but just fit in with everyone else.

Why do you have to be different? Why do you have to think different and believe different? You know why? Because what you're doing is a lie. It is deception and it's undermining the confidence in the word of God.

He goes further and he says here as he challenges their faith. You see, he's saying, you're a rebel. No, I believe in the authority of the Bible. I believe in free speech. I believe in free thought. I believe a man can challenge the Bible and question the Bible and question the preacher, but they're taking away our rights.

You're not allowed to challenge the medical system or the politicians or the prime minister or anyone else. Saints, I'm telling you, something's changed in our world where you're not allowed to be a rebel in this hour.

You see all the young guys, and Rory has said this, all the guys with their strange haircuts and all their tattoos and all their earrings. You know what? They're all falling in step with this. You know who the nonconformists in this hour are?

People like you and I who know what the Bible says. We have a confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm not a born rebel, but I tell you what, try to challenge my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You're going to find I'm a mighty rebel against all of these ideologies in this hour.

This great general, when he came against Hezekiah and the people, he's challenging their faith, calling them rebels. We're not rebels. We're the best citizens Limerick's ever had. I tell you, I'm a law-abiding citizen.

I'm a good citizen. I'm trying to clean up this city. I'm trying to see drug addicts saved. I'm turning away from sin. I'm not a rebel, but when an ideology comes in that makes people like you and I a criminal, the whole thing's rotten top to bottom.

Whenever those that break laws and do evil are let off in our courts and yet the innocent ones start fearing for their freedom, something very evil has got into that legal system. Rabshakeh goes on further in verse 21.

He says, Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of the bruised reed, even Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

Do you know in Israel, in Jerusalem of that hour, there were some, there were voices, there were people, there were families who in that hour, they start saying, why don't we go to Egypt for help? You know, Egypt's got a good army.

It's very structured. It's fought many battles. Why don't we go to the world? Egypt always represents the strength of this world, the power of man's hand and might. You know, there's many in the church of this hour, they're looking to worldly ways to deal with this.

Why don't we demonstrate? Why don't we sign petitions? Why don't we do all these things? That's very well. But I assure you, listen to what Rabshakeh says here. None of that's going to save you bunch.