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[0:00] Antichrists. Of course we know the Bible talks about the Antichrist, but it also says many Antichrists as we see in 1 John chapter 2.

[0:10] ! If you've got your Bible there, 1 John 2 verse 18. Talking about Antichrists or also Christianophobia. Christianophobia. We've seen lots of talk these days about, for example, homophobia or things such as that.

[0:30] But there's actually the reality of Christianophobia. And that's been defined, there's actually a definition you can look up on the net and it says, this word Christianophobia is, quote, an irrational animosity towards or hatred of Christians.

[0:50] Or Christianity in general. An animosity, a hatred towards Christians. The last days tell us in the word about Antichrists and it tells us many Antichrists shall come.

[1:07] Many Antichrists shall come. We see that in 1 John 2 verse 18. We read it. They're little children. It is the last time.

[1:21] And as you have heard that Antichrists shall come, even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.

[1:32] The Antichrist, we know he will be a power of evil in the one man. But John the Apostle tells us that of the last time, the end days of planet Earth, many Antichrists shall come.

[1:52] And there are, even now, many Antichrists. We're seeing an Antichrist movement. An Antichrist movement. An Antichristian movement. And I put to you that it's in all arenas of life.

[2:06] All arenas of life. There's an all-out assault against Christianity. We're seeing a rise in hatred towards Christians in all arenas of life.

[2:18] We're going to touch on those. Just to paint the picture to you today, you're probably all very well aware of it, I'd imagine, already. But sometimes we can not be aware of it in the subtlety of it at times that happens.

[2:39] It subtly creeps up on us. And as Christians, what are we to do? Should we just be apathetic and just let it all go on without any resistance?

[2:51] Or should we rather speak up and stand up for Christ against this Antichristian bias that seems endemic? This persecution, effectively, that's going on.

[3:02] This hostile environment that is present day. Here's an extract from a book called, or an article that's called America, Christianity, and the Culture War.

[3:16] Just to lead in. A lot of this is various quotes and sources, but it's aimed to paint that picture to you today, to show you the broadcast of evil that's happening all around us.

[3:33] And I was talking with someone lately about the prince of the power of the air. He rules the airwaves and the media, you could say, in all manner of media.

[3:44] And here's the quote. For 185 years, American culture was friendly towards Christianity. America was once, in fact, considered a Christian nation. America has never been considered an Islamic, Buddhist, or Hindu nation, even as it has never been a religion-less nation.

[4:01] But for the last 50 years, sinister forces from humanism, atheism, and evolution, to social liberalism, pluralism, and political correctness have been aggressive in their assaults on the Christian religion.

[4:14] They've succeeded in gradually dismantling many of the moral and spiritual principles that once characterized society. America's religious, moral, and spiritual underpinnings are literally disintegrating.

[4:28] Indeed, America is at war. This war is far more serious and deadly than any physical conflict like the Iraq war. America is fighting a spiritual, culture war.

[4:41] Regardless of the surface issues, the central issue is God. Make no mistake, America is in the throes of a life and death struggle over whether the God of the Bible will continue to be acknowledged as the one true God and Christianity as the one true religion.

[4:57] Now more than ever, social and political liberals from Hollywood to the university to the nation's capital are openly hostile towards God. Those who profess Christianity are facing the most perilous times ever faced in America.

[5:14] Every effort is being made to expunge references to God and Christianity from public life. End quote. It's just setting the scene. Some of these sources are secular.

[5:28] Some of these sources are like mainstream commentators who are seeing this stuff that's going on. Now I'm going to start with something that people might kind of think, oh come on, that's just nothing.

[5:45] We'll get to that. Pocahontas. Disney's Pocahontas. What a lovely family friendly movie.

[5:57] Take your children and take your family, take your whole family and go and watch Pocahontas. They were saying when it first came out. Disney's Pocahontas. What a harmless movie it is.

[6:11] After all, it's the retelling of a real story of an American Indian princess, Pocahontas. But when you actually look at Pocahontas and what is behind this harmless Disney cartoon, it's full of pantheistic, which means pan, many, theist, gods, many gods, pantheistic and new age themes that are replete through this movie.

[6:40] As well as feminism, radical feminism, of spiritism. Here's the picture here of Pocahontas kneeling down and talking to the willow tree. She's portrayed as an animist.

[6:54] In other words, one who worships nature or objects. And throughout this movie, Christians are vilified and portrayed as evil.

[7:06] Oh, those monsters disturbing that natural religion of the day of those American Indians who are worshipping the willow trees and worshipping spirits here and there.

[7:22] Pocahontas, Disney's Pocahontas is displayed, is portrayed as a spirit worshipper. Contrast that with the real Pocahontas.

[7:36] The real Pocahontas. Here's a picture of the real Pocahontas. In 1613, she was 18 years old and Pocahontas accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her saviour.

[7:48] She received Christ into her life, she was baptised, she took the Christian name of Rebecca to mark the beginning of her Christian life. She was freely and gladly converted to Christ.

[8:01] She was the first American, first Native American Indian to become a Christian. And here she is pictured with King James, the man who was instrumental in giving us our Bible as we have it today.

[8:17] She was the first Native American to become a Christian. Christian. But in the Disney Pocahontas movie, she is seen as an animist, a worshipper of nature.

[8:30] And the Christians who came are shown as evil, destructive, disruptive people, disrupting the native culture and such.

[8:45] Disney! Oh, come on preacher, come on, Disney's really one of those family friendly, all the princesses and everything, Princess Pocahontas, all the other princesses.

[8:58] Disney. You can get one of these when you go to Disney World now. A Mickey Mouse ears in the rainbow colours with the pride, gay pride.

[9:10] You can go to Disney on a gay pride day and celebrate all of that. they're coming after our children. They're coming after our children. Let's look at some antichrists today and just understand what's going on.

[9:27] Some of this might seem a bit radical but I'm trying to be factual here, I'm trying to give you the facts. There's an antichristian bias that's going on, even in seemingly harmless things.

[9:39] If you had to choose a movie, maybe Disney, you wouldn't think there'd be that much wrong with them but it's subtle, it's endemic, it's intrinsic, it's weaved in there subtly by the hands of dark forces, the evil one, the antichrist is in these things.

[10:02] We see an antichristian bias in education, education, such a wonderful thing. I thank God I was educated, I went to school, I learnt how to spell, in those good old days when you actually learnt how to spell and the teacher actually put big red crosses on things and said no, this is the way you're supposed to spell it.

[10:21] Antichristian bias in education these days, and I'm not denigrating, I'm encouraging Christian teachers who are in our midst today because it's a hard job they've got and it's getting harder, especially as there's this increasing antichrist bias in education.

[10:39] Christian. And I was reading how even in some textbooks they're changing history, so it's rewriting history. Here's an example, I've got a quote here, that even during lessons on the Roman Empire they're turning the tables cleverly against the Christians.

[10:57] So one textbook tells us about the Roman Colosseum where we know the Christians went to their deaths as they stood up for Christ, they wouldn't say Caesar is Lord, they said no, Jesus is Lord, they took them down to the lions in the Colosseum.

[11:11] Here's what the textbook says, the school textbook says about this persecution. It's defined now as simply being harassed for differing beliefs. And the lesson plan instructs the teacher to tell the students that persecution of Christians in the early days was occasional and local.

[11:30] Don't make mention in other words that Christians were martyred for their faith. Instead it goes on, quote, discuss why minorities, face persecution in times of trouble. And as background information for the teacher it says, use this discussion question of relevant, of identifying Christians as the true persecutors.

[11:51] In early times Christians made fun of rural people and their old beliefs in gods and goddesses by calling them pagani, which means country people or hicks. This is the origin of the word pagan.

[12:03] So it's saying that the Christians were actually the ones causing all the trouble, calling these disbelievers, pagans or country people or hicks. And it goes on, obviously the lesson's motivation is not the teaching of accurate history, but it's a social agenda.

[12:20] It's a conditioning, it's a brainwashing, simply to build sympathy for politically favoured groups today that might think they are under persecution by Christians.

[12:30] And the lesson goes on with this role-playing exercise where it tells the students, the teachers to tell the students, take the role of a traditional Roman disturbed by the rise of Christianity and write a letter explaining why you're opposed to the new religion.

[12:48] It's actually turning the tables completely contrary to what history says. Christians were persecuted and fed to the lions. It's making Christians look like they're the bad guys.

[12:59] And we're seeing this all over in education. Here's a story here. Harvard, one of the great universities of America, declares war on orthodox Christianity.

[13:11] And the subtitle is The Culture War Intensifies. The Culture War Intensifies. There's a censorship. We're being censored. And it's like Christians can't tell the truth anymore.

[13:22] We can't speak up and tell the truth anymore. We're at the mercy of the social engineers of our day who invoke hatred towards Christianity and its values in the name of diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance.

[13:37] These words are used as masks, to mask the truth that it's anti-Christ. Here's another book title. Persecution. How liberals are waging war against Christianity.

[13:50] Liberals, it's using that American term to talk about the real left, the real radical anti-Christ side of politics.

[14:01] Persecution. Waging war against Christians. Another title here is Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Modern liberalism and American decline. These are at times secular commentators saying these things about what is going on.

[14:17] What was once a quasi-Christian culture is now anti-Christ. And it's in rapid increasing. And there's a rapid decline of Christian cultures once it was, as much as it was weak.

[14:32] At least it was quasi-Christian. It was built on Christian values and truths. And we're witnessing this today. The erosion of moral values. A rising of liberalism and secularism. Truly it's a degenerating culture.

[14:45] Here's another article. Gay Act... Sorry, I've lost the track of that one. I've... I'll just check on...

[14:56] My slide's a little bit mucked up here. I think. Here it is. Gay Activists War Against Christianity. And the subtitle in it, or the reading underneath here is this gay revolutionary, Michael Swift, says this.

[15:11] Quote, All churches will... All churches who condemn us will be closed. That's what the gay activists are saying. All churches who oppose us, who condemn us, will be closed.

[15:24] And this article says in part, I quote, It should come as no surprise when Christians see themselves as portrayed on countless television shows as self-righteous bigots or hate-filled lunatics who simply refuse to accept the fact that things have changed in America.

[15:43] I'll put to you it's not just America. Things have changed in the world. History is being rewritten. And Christians are routinely ridiculed. For the best part of 2,000 years, here's a quote, The Christian faith in some form or another was governing how people of the United Kingdom, this is a quote about the United Kingdom, how people used to think and act and speak.

[16:05] This quote goes on, Men and women attended church and said prayers. They uttered grace before meals. Whether they followed the tenets of the church or not, at least they considered them. But now it's different.

[16:19] America has changed. The UK has changed. Australia has changed. It's changed all dramatically. Here's another quote from an article headed Secularism's War Against Christianity.

[16:30] It says secularism and Christianity are distinct, immutable religions. So distinct, immutable, it means they can't be changed. You can't change what it says. Christianity is Christianity.

[16:43] Secularism is secularism. In other words, the world's way of thinking is the world's way of thinking. And secularism believes in the fundamental goodness of man.

[16:53] In other words, human nature is bent towards good. That's what they say. That humanism says that human nature is bent towards good. Oh, everyone's got some kind of goodness inside.

[17:04] That's what it's saying. But the Bible says that actually we're born in sin. We're lost. All have sinned and we need a saviour. That's the fundamental truth of Christianity.

[17:16] The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it? We need a saviour. And so there's no mixing or blending here. They're contrary. They're distinct.

[17:27] And they're not changeable. These are the truth that we see in the word of God. And as Christians we can take heart in what the Bible tells us.

[17:38] It says that, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

[17:49] If you're going to live for God, if you're going to live godly, you will be persecuted. And it says that evil men will get worse and worse and worse. People who lie and deceive and trick people, they will get worse and worse.

[18:05] They will grow worse and worse. But Paul tells Timothy, continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

[18:16] And it goes on to talk about the Holy Scriptures. Take heed to the Bible, it's saying. Continue in this. When you see the persecution, when you see the evil men and seducers getting worse and worse, continue thou in the Bible, in God's truth.

[18:33] Don't be detoured from it. So we're seeing a rise in all of these anti-Christs. Here's another anti-Christ. The anti-Christian bias in the media.

[18:45] In the media. In the news media. There's a distortion, there's a misrepresentation of Christians. How do they paint the Christians? Usually pick some wacko group to kind of hone in on them, or some evil that's being perpetrated in some evil kind of mockery of a church where children are getting molested, and they make that Christianity.

[19:09] That's not Christianity. That's not Bible Christianity. That is what's going on in the world today, in the media today. They're painting Christians as wackos, as paedophiles, and all this vile stuff that's going on, and they're labelling Christians as that.

[19:24] There's an anti-Christian bias in the media. And we're seeing this bias that's shifting people's worldviews all the time, from the Christian worldview to their secular, materialistic, God-hating kind of worldview.

[19:38] Even secular commentators are saying this. Andrew Bolt, for one. We're seeing these things, and the quote here is, the ABC's war on Christians is becoming hysterical, as well as factually inaccurate.

[19:52] It's wrong. Wrong. Wrong, morally wrong, and wrong, actually historically wrong. It's inaccurate. So today, it's almost heartbreaking to turn on the news when you see this barrage of misinformation.

[20:06] You know, the news, people often turn to the news to get facts. Whereas it's not. It's fake news. It's false. It's fake. It's wrong. And it seems like everything that we were taught, this is what someone has quoted here, I'm quoting again, that everything I was taught as a child is flipped upside down.

[20:27] To be a Christian is to be labelled as bigoted and hateful. And much of what was taught as evil is now trumpeted as virtuous. To believe in one God is considered intolerant and arrogant.

[20:40] We're told that every belief has the same validity. Here's another headline. It says, there is a war on Christianity. The West must stop being scared to say no.

[20:51] To say so, rather. So the news media is slowly taking over and it's slowly being taken over by people who are actually hostile to Christianity. Here's another one.

[21:03] The war on Christians. The war on Christians. There's a war going on. It's almost like we're actually under an immense attack in all of these arenas.

[21:16] All these negative attitudes towards Christians. Here's another title called persecution. There's this Christian bashing. I can't read what it says there. But Christians are regularly mocked.

[21:28] And news is misreported. And even sports have been hijacked by the antichrists. Here's what someone had. One of my Facebook friends was sharing how he is a Christian and he went down with his daughter.

[21:44] He said he missed church. It was another church that he goes to to support his daughter. He plays football. Now playing sports on a Sunday is another big question.

[21:55] Who is your God? Who is it that counts? Who is it that's more important to you? But aside from that, his daughter went down. She plays in the AFL for women.

[22:07] And she's just a teenager. And they made these children run through this gay flag. This gay flag that celebrates all kinds of love.

[22:18] love. All kinds of love. It's brainwashing people, isn't it? This is brainwashing. This is conditioning. This is changing the culture.

[22:28] This is changing the values of young impressionable minds. And you might think, some of you that are younger, you almost think, well, what are you going on about? This is normal now. Look, it's not normal and it's not right.

[22:40] And it's not right at all. It's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's anti-Christ. It's anti-Christ. We're seeing anti-Christian bias in entertainment. We're becoming couch potatoes.

[22:53] Here's what someone said, a quote here from a Christian who had their eyes open. He says, I'll always tell people that three to four hours of church a week can't hold a candle to 30 to 40 hours of television.

[23:06] as far as power and influence on a young kid. Church was boring. Television was fun. Here's a picture of what's happening.

[23:18] They just sat there in a trance. And what are they receiving? What is coming in the ear gate and the eye gate? Profanity. Nudity.

[23:29] Crudeness. Bad behaviour. Unacceptable behaviour is being taught or insinuated is okay. Sexual overtones. It's like right through it. It's saturated with it, with these messages.

[23:41] And this quote goes on, I believe that commercials are harmful. More harmful is the general belief system that's perpetrated in movies. Like one movie called Supernatural. Supernatural.

[23:52] Where God is, where is God in their lives? It's all about hocus pocus and, you know, Eastern mysticism and such things with the supernatural.

[24:03] Even programs that talk about, spiritual things are antichrist. The quote goes on, Big Brother or reality TV.

[24:14] Don't they have anything better to do with their lives? Supermodels. What are they teaching our children? The shallowness and superficiality. It's all about the looks. movies. I must admit that the mindlessness of TV is very attractive and seductive.

[24:30] And it does take willpower to push the off button. What about the movies? Harmless things like Star Wars. Star Wars. Here's what the quote says.

[24:41] May the force bewitch you. May the force bewitch you. This is what's going on. Modern movies often got spiritual themes that are occultic.

[24:56] What does occult mean? It means it's kind of hidden. You've got to kind of, oh, there it is. It's kind of hidden. You've got to, it's hiding. That's what occult means.

[25:07] It's secret. It's covered with a little veneer of other things to get your taste buds going. It's sugar-coated poison.

[25:21] And so, here's another quote about the movies and such things. The reasons why we got rid of commercial TV, this one says, is lust, sodomy, envy, covetousness, nudity, rebellion, anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family, promiscuity.

[25:41] Let's see, but just in the first commercial break, I've discovered that TV is shaping society. When you pull out or unplug, you find you no longer fit in, which is a good thing.

[25:55] Programmers dictate fashions, values, goals for youth. Children get to a point where they want to make some independent decisions, even good kids. But they've already been led in a certain direction.

[26:09] What about video games? Here's someone saying, guns cause all of this trouble. And then behind them there's this kid saying, kill them all, kill them, kill them. You know, bang, bang, bang.

[26:21] You know, these shoot-em-up games, these video games. Kids are just, it's just normal now. That's normal. What are you going on about? That's fun, that's entertainment. It's conditioning.

[26:33] It's programming. That's why they call them TV programs. It's programming. It's programming, brainwashing. What about anti-Christian bias in music? The Beatles?

[26:44] What are you going on about, preacher? These are innocent enough people. They're better dressed than many Baptists, these Beatles here. The Beatles, many would think they're innocent enough. Music can be quite an anti-Christian influence.

[27:03] Anti-Christ. Anti-Christ. Young people, wake up to it. See beyond the catchy little, oh, toe-tapping, dance along, jive along, hop along, hip-hop along.

[27:19] The Beatles, even the Beatles. It's where it began. The Beatles. One commentator said, the Beatles changed everything.

[27:30] Now, I guess there was probably bad before then, but Lennon said, we're more popular than Jesus now. End quote. They were just the beginning.

[27:42] What were they into? The Beatles? They were into the occult, immorality, pagan religion, anarchy, drugs, you name it. And what do we see now?

[27:54] We've gone a long, long way since the Beatles. We've come a long way, people. But the Beatles are still bad. Bad to the bone. What do we see now?

[28:06] Here's Kanye West, I think it is, with a mock Jesus on stage. We're seeing this deliberate mocking of Christianity.

[28:17] It's going on. You might like some of those tunes, but what are they saying? What are they singing? What are the lyrics? What are the subtle messages?

[28:27] What are the visual pictures that you're getting saturating your mind? There's an arrogance, there's a defiance, there's a selfishness, there's a glorification of folly.

[28:38] Here's Kanye West. He's a mock Christ. He's mocking Christ there, on the cover of the Rolling Stone.

[28:49] I don't know who this female singer is, but I don't think I want to know her. I don't think I want to know who she is, even. You probably know who she is, some of you here today, but see the devil's salute.

[29:05] These are the rock stars of our world today. Young people don't buy into it, don't have a bar of it, don't have a bar of it.

[29:17] What place has that got in a Christian's life? Rock music is evil. It's anti-Christ. Here's Jay-Z and Kanye West, I don't really know who they are, but they're well known by many.

[29:35] And it says here, Jesus Christ and Jehovah. They're just blatant, aren't they? How blatant can it be? How blatant, yet a lot of it is subtle, it's hidden, it's covert, it's occult.

[29:51] And the activists have taken over. Don't buy into it, young people. In times past, in Christian churches they actually had bonfires of the CDs and the DVDs and the trashy LPs and stuff.

[30:06] Burn the stuff. Send it to hell where it belongs. Don't have a bar of it, Christian people here today. And we as Christians, we are in the target sites. Conservative Christians are in the target sites.

[30:19] Oh, that's bigotry, that's animosity. Here's a quote, I know some of this might be a bit hard to read. It says, this is Time magazine, regular Christians are no longer welcome in American culture.

[30:33] We're no longer welcome in popular culture today. And the book title here is, It's Dangerous to Believe. There's a war on. This is war. It's war.

[30:45] This is not just me having a rave here. I'm telling you the truth. These are facts. This is what's going on. There's a war on. It's anti-Christ.

[30:56] I haven't touched on anti-Christian bias in the justice system. We haven't even touched on this. I know there's some conversations I was engaged in of late. The law is against Christians.

[31:07] They're locking them up. There's something that happened in the UK lately where somebody stood up and made a bit of a protest and they immediately locked him up and sentenced him the same day.

[31:22] So was it seven months or something? And he was just speaking out against something that was against the culture that he knew. it's a culture war.

[31:35] And the change agents are training a new generation in wickedness. There can be no dialogue with that. They are polar opposites. There's no dialogue.

[31:47] There's no middle ground. There's no mixing, blending, getting together. They're polar opposites. There is no communion between dark and light. They are opposite. It's darkness and light.

[31:58] That's the contrast. And the Bible clearly warns us be not to see. Be not to see. Here's what someone said. I think he's a secular commentator. The war on Christianity is getting even worse.

[32:11] The war on Christianity is getting even worse. Here's an American commentator. Here's an Aussie one. The ongoing war on Christianity in Australia. Now I'm going to quote from this article.

[32:23] This is by Bill Muhlenberg who is a Christian reporter on current events and current affairs.

[32:34] And I'm going to quote what he says here in this article by Bill Muhlenberg. The ongoing war on Christianity in Australia. And he talks about the New South Wales Education Department, how it's attacked a Baptist pastor.

[32:46] And this Baptist pastor is Keith Piper, someone that we would stand shoulder to shoulder with in much of what he is about. He's an independent Baptist.

[32:56] He's a Bible believing Christian pastor. And one news report goes like this, I quote, A Baptist pastor who claimed Islam is a cancer that will destroy society during a recorded sermon has come under fire.

[33:11] Footage of Keith Piper, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Sydney, has been submitted to the education department. They're watching. After it was revealed that the church provides scripture to government schools, and Liberty Baptist Church provides scripture lessons, an optional 30 minute weekly class for students by government schools when a teacher is available.

[33:33] And this 40 minute video on YouTube, Mr. Piper repeatedly condemned Islam and the Quran. Islamism is a cancer, we must destroy the cancer or cancer will destroy our society and our freedoms and everything we hold dear, he tells the crowd.

[33:49] And the New South Wales Education Department took exception to this. It goes on, I quote, the Education Minister, we're concerned that the current provisions for religious education greatly increase the risk by enabling organisations such as Liberty Baptist Church to get involved in their education.

[34:11] And Keith Piper says that actually the education outreach that he does to the schools has nothing to do with that.

[34:24] But it's just, they're attacking Christians. That's the point here. I'm not going to labour it here today, but there's a bias here against Christians and it's endemic.

[34:35] It's in Australia, it's worldwide. And I'm putting to you today, people of God, that we need to have our eyes open to what's going on. James says, you adulterers and adulterers know you not that friendship of the world is enmity with God.

[34:52] To be a friend of the world is to be in enmity and hatred with God. It goes on, whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

[35:04] Do you think that the scripture saith in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? It goes on, but he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

[35:18] It's telling us here that the prideful, the ones who are all about self and me, me, me, God is against them. God resists them.

[35:29] But it says that God gives grace, he gives blessing and favour and receives those who are humble. So come before God in humility is what he's telling us here.

[35:40] And it says submit yourselves therefore to God. Come unto God, submit to God, submit to him and his will, submit to his word. Submit yourselves to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.

[35:54] It says draw nigh to God, draw near to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts, you double minded. Don't be double minded at saying, you can't have it both ways.

[36:07] You can't have one foot in the world and one foot in God. Let it go. The worldly trash, the antichrist stuff, let it go. It's war. We can't fraternise with the enemy.

[36:21] Can we? Are you going to be a traitor to the cause or are you going to stand fast with what's true and right? Humble yourselves therefore in the mighty, in the sight of God, in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up.

[36:37] This is war. Faith is being mocked, mocked routinely. Christians are being attacked maliciously, violently. It's a propaganda campaign against Christ and Christianity.

[36:52] Faith is mocked and unbelief is praised. And you wonder, when you see all this, you wonder, what is the world coming to? What is the world coming to?

[37:07] Judgment. Judgment. I started off with this scripture. Little children, it is the last time.

[37:18] John is saying, little children, time is running out. It's getting to that last time. We get on that last hour. We're at midnight almost on the clock.

[37:33] Time is running out. you have heard that Antichrist shall come. even now, there are many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.

[37:50] Why don't we to wake up to it? The Antichrist, the Antichristian bias of media, of music, of entertainment, of education, it's right through everything.

[38:05] It's like Christians have been muzzled and silenced. we are the ultimate minority group as Christian believers.

[38:19] Dare we say anything? It's almost, we need to get radical, don't we? who will rise up for me against the evildoers?

[38:30] says God. Who will rise up for God? Who will rise up, he says, for me, against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me?

[38:43] Are you going to stand up for Jesus? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Brothers and sisters, I'm saying all these things about this culture war that is going on, that I pray that your eyes would be opened, that you'd be a bit more aware of this, that you'd be more alert to this.

[39:03] And some of it is subtle. The Beatles, Pocahontas, an innocent family friendly Disney movie, rated G.

[39:15] Come on. It's real. It's real. And it's, there are many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.

[39:30] Let's wake up and smell the coffee. Let's see, let's be more mindful of this. Don't just swallow anything. You know, especially, look, we can all get a liking for things.

[39:46] certain secular music. Read what the lyrics say. Read what the lifestyle of these ones are.

[39:59] What they promote. What they live in their daily lives. Immorality, drugs, evil. What they worship.

[40:12] What their beliefs are. the people that are pulling the strings, the puppet masters behind the movies. Don't just look at what's on the stage.

[40:22] Realise there's puppet masters above. Pulling the strings and making the puppets dance up and down and do this and that. The puppet masters. Who's pulling the strings?

[40:34] The Hollywood directors and movie makers are often very anti-Christ in their views. And naturally they weave these things into the movies.

[40:51] Who will rise up for me? Says God. Let's not be afraid to stand up for God. make some personal decisions about what's anti-Christ.

[41:07] And rather continue in the things that you've learned. Continue in the book. Get in the book and continue in the book. And just to close now, I've been talking really to believers, to enhance them, to help people wise up.

[41:26] If you're not a Christian here today, if you do not know the Saviour, you can come to know him. He says, come unto me. He says, receive me.

[41:38] Receive my pardon. Receive my love. Receive forgiveness, salvation. It's a gift. Hear his voice and bow your heart, your will to him.

[41:52] Trust him. Receive the gift of his saving. By what he has done at the cross for you. Put your heart's trust in him, in him alone.

[42:03] Not in religion, not in churchianity, not in custom or culture, but put your faith in him and rise up for him, stand up for him wherever you can, whenever you can, by his grace.

[42:19]  Amen.