Amen. Turn with me today in your
Bibles. We're turning to the Book of
Job. I find the Book of Psalms turn
back to the Book of Job. I want to read from Job chapter
33 and I'm going to read the first 14 verses of the chapter.
Job chapter 33 commence reading at verse one let's hear the word
of God for those online. The words will come up on screen
and of course the words are from the most reliable and faithful
translation of the Holy Scriptures, the Authorised
Version itself. Job 33 verse one let's hear
God's word together. Wherefore Job, I pray thee, hear
my speeches and hearken to all my words.
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue have spoken in
my mouth. My words shall be of the
uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge.
Clearly the Spirit of God had made me, and the breath of the
Almighty have given me life. If thou canst answer me, set thy
words and order before me, stand up.
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead.
I also am formed out of the clay.
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my
hand be heavy upon me. Surely thou has spoken in mine
hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words saying, I am
clean without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there
iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions
against me, He counteth me for his enemy, He putteth my feet in
the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Behold, in this thou Wert not just, I will answer thee, that
God is greater than man. Why dost thy strive against him?
For he giveth not account of any of his matters.
For God speaketh once, yeah, twice.
Yet man perceiveth it not. Amen.
With no, the Lord will stamp with his own approval and
blessing this reading of His own precious and infallible word.
Now my text this morning is taken from the book of Job, Job
chapter 33 and verse four. Job 33 verse 4 says this.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty
have given me life now. When titled the sermon, the
Principle, the Peril and the Providence that Parliament
forgot. Last week was one of the most
wicked weeks in the history of our United Kingdom Parliament.
Last week, within the space of a few days, the Westminster
Parliament executed the most wicked assault against the
sanctity of human life. On Tuesday the 17th of June,
Members of Parliament voted sinfully and mercilessly, 379 to
137 against, to pass an amendment on a private members
bill decriminalising self managed abortion up to birth.
This bill now protects the rights of a woman from
persecution should she murder her baby in the womb at any
point from conception right up to birth.
And then on Friday the 20 of June, the same Parliament voted
again, very maliciously, wickedly, 314 to 291, in favour
of Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Suicide Bill.
In past years, the British nation has showcased and took
profound pleasure in the excellent work of
philanthropists, doctors and missionaries.
Individuals who travelled the world, who expended their
efforts, spent their time and their money in order to protect
life, in order to preserve human life.
You want some examples? Think of the majestic work of
William Wilberforce in the very same Parliament, 1759 to 1833, a
leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade
and the horrors of it. What about Mr William Carey, the
missionary to India, who worked tirelessly to secure the
outlawing of the practise of widows burning themselves to
death on their husband's grief? What about the Lady of the Lamp,
Florence Nightingale, in organising the kind of care for
wounded soldiers during the Crimean War that helped reduce
the death rates of soldiers significantly?
What did she do? Well, it was simple.
She improved hygiene, clean linen on the beds, clean
bondages, she improved living standards in the hospitals and
on her return to the United Kingdom, she helped to lay the
foundations of professional nursing care that we see today
in the NHS. The One of the greatest
tragedies of last week's vote in the House of Commons is that the
majority of Members of Parliament no longer believe in
the sanctity and dignity of human life.
It's with great sadness that the majority of elected MPs no
longer wear the mantle of preservers of human life.
They now bear the infamous mantle of the destroyers of
human life. How tragic and wickedly Tuesday,
the 17th of June's decision has consigned many children in the
womb to death before they are born.
Friday's decision, at the other end of the spectrum, consigns
many of the elderly, some of the most vulnerable in our society,
to an early death where palliative care is no longer
highly valued or praised. What happened in the Westminster
Parliament last week is not only sheer madness, it is gross.
Wicked. If you want proof positive that
the United Kingdom is now a post Christian country, that the
United Kingdom, especially among parliamentarians, has forgotten
the Lord and forsaken Him, then reflect on what I'm saying.
John Calvin once said when God wants to judge a nation, He
gives them wicked leaders. And tragically we have a bunch
of wicked, ungodly, demonic inspired leaders who appear in
the one hand to hate children and deprive the elderly.
And they're the ruling class over us today.
Listen to Jeremiah, Jeremiah chapter 23, verses 19 and 20,
and we read the following. Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord
has gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind.
It shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the Lord shall not return until He have executed,
until He have performed the thoughts of his heart.
In the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
You see, here's something that every member of Parliament who
voted in favour of these on wicked ungodly practises, here's
something that they forgot, something that they've forsook,
something that they have ignored.
And it's this. The spirit of the Lord have made
me the breath of the Almighty, have given me life.
These words, if I put them into context or part of a speech to
Job. Remember, he was God's suffering
servant. He lost all, and he was a man
who feared God and hated evil. And this speech was delivered by
one of Job's friends, a younger friend to Job by the name of
Eli, who Eli, who has come alongside the other three, he to
comfort Job. He's heard their speeches.
He's heard Job's reply, and now it's his turn to speak.
And a Eli who speaks to Job about God's role in creating him
and sustaining him and giving him life.
And he's saying to Job, Job, you're a man.
You're a man made by God. You're, you're a man by his very
creation, and you have the spirit of God in you.
Now. What a lie who said was true?
What a lie who said is very important.
Not just true of Job, but true of every man made in the image
of God, true of every child developing in the womb.
Why did he say it? I I believe so that Job could
remember it, so that Job would not forget it, so that Joe would
learn this and lay into his heart despite his circumstances.
The Spirit of God had made me in the breath of the Almighty, have
given me life. Now here's a principle, Come to
me on Friday evening. Here's a peril.
Here's a Providence that Parliament not just forgot, not
just forsook, but deliberately ignored three things.
One, the principle that politicians ignored.
As I've said in the House of Commons last week, the majority
of MPs wickedly ignored a threefold biblical principle.
One, they ignored that God is the creator and source of life.
Think of these words. The Spirit of God hath made me.
This is a revelation. This is a recognition that God
is not just the living and the true God, but he's also our
creator and Maker. We'll ask the question, where
did we come from? We'll have to trace our roots,
don't we? We'll have to think about our
ancestry. Well, here's a great fundamental
truth. We did not make ourselves.
Man's origin is outside of himself.
Man is made by the Spirit of God.
And the old Nicene Creed says we believe in the Holy Spirit, the
Lord and giver of life, and that's a confessional statement.
And our existence is not the product of chance.
It hasn't come about by an evolutionary process.
We don't trace our ancestry back to the apes or back to the
monkeys. Here's the answer.
Where did we come from? The Spirit of God hath made me.
Now the Spirit of God is one of the Trinitarian persons in the
Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 3:00 and 1:00 and 1:00
and 3:00. The God of the Bible is a A1 God
who subsists in three persons. And these three persons are
coequal and Co eternal. They coexist.
And these three persons have distinct personality, and these
three persons have essential deity.
The word spirit here, it means breath, it means wind, the
spirit of God, the spirit is of God, and the spirit is from God.
If we ask the question, how many persons are there in the gold
head? Here's the answer of Shorter
Catechism question 6. How many persons are in the
Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
And these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in
power and glory? I want you to think of this
picture in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7.
We read in the Lord God form man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a
living soul. Do you get the picture?
God made a body of clay and from the dust of the ground he made
it, and then God the Holy Spirit, he gave that clay body
the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
You see we read in Genesis chapter one verse 26, and God
said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of
the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him male and female created he they who are we?
We're not just animals. We are human beings made in the
image of God, and we owe our existence to Him.
He is the living God. It is He that hath made us.
You see, only God can give life. Only God can impart life,
physical life, material life, spiritual life, eternal life.
But we'll ask this question, why does death exist in the world?
Because there's life, that's why there's death, because there's
life. And who can raise the dead?
Only God can raise the dead, and only God himself can die and
raise, rise again and and bring himself back to life, having
fully paid for our sins on the on the cross.
See, let's understand today the reference here.
The Spirit of God is a reference to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy
Spirit is a person, the third Person of the Holy Trinity and
the least understood person of the Holy Trinity.
And the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, sadly today is largely
ignored and greatly misunderstood.
And yet he's the third person of the Holy Trinity.
The Holy Spirit is God's ancient in creation, inspiration,
regeneration, the new birth, in, in, in power and, and in revival
and and giving life and, and bringing liberty.
See, the Holy Spirit is truly God with eternality, deity,
personality, and the whole work of creation is attributed to the
Spirit of God. And in creation all three
persons were involved, because the Holy Spirit is the Lord and
Giver of life. Each person performs a
particular portion of the work, and yet the three persons work
in harmony with each other. Who is it that gives life to all
creatures? The Spirit of God gives life to
all. All creatures then owe their
existence to this life giving source.
Man can do lots of things for himself, but he can't make
himself alive. And if we're honest and honest
to admit it, we have not caused our own being to come into
existence. Our origins from the Spirit of
God. The Spirit of God was fully
engaged with our creation. Remember what we read in Psalm
139. We read this in verses 13 and to
15. For thou has possessed my
reigns, that was covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully be
made marvellous and thy works, and that my soul knoweth right
well my substance not hid from thee, when I was made in secret
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
And it was old Jeremiah that said in Jeremiah chapter 1 and
verse 5, God said to Jeremiah, Before I formed thee in the
belly, I knew thee. And before they came forth out
of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet
unto the nations. And our politicians, the
majority of them with their votes last week, chose to ignore
this reality that our existence and origin is attributed to the
Spirit of God because the Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of
life. And they forsook that they, they
rejected that. We can trace it all the way
back. Remember to Adam the first man
over there in the book of Acts in Acts chapter 17 when Paul was
preaching in Mars Hill. He said this in Acts chapter 17
and in the verse 26 and hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and have determined
the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation.
The second thing that they ignored by way of the principle
is this. They ignored that God is a
maintainer and sustainer of life.
You see, we've already read in Psalm 139 and verse 14.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made, and our existence is
maintained by the Spirit of God. Every breath that you breathe,
every step that you take, everywhere you go, all that you
do, we owe it to the maintaining of the Spirit of God.
We only live because God has given us life by His Spirit, the
Bible says in Him. We move and live and have being,
and that's just not just our physical life as we live them
out, we live them out by the breath of the Almighty.
The life that we live now must regard it as being lived out by
the breath of the Almighty. As I said, we can't take a step
without Him. You couldn't breathe without
Him. He can't do anything without
him. Jesus said, without Me ye can do
nothing over there in Job chapter 26 and verse 13.
Job said this Job chapter 26 and verse 13.
By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens.
His hands hath formed the crooked serpent.
In Job chapter 27 and verse 3 it says all the while my breath is
in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.
In Job chapter 32 and verse 8 we read these words.
But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the
Almighty giveth them understanding.
The Spirit of God is the sustainer of all of creation.
He provides life to all. The third principle that they
ignored is this. They ignored that God is the
conveyor and sanctifier of life. You see the the Holy Spirit in
the beginning is associated with chaos and the lack of order.
Genesis 1 and one, Genesis one and two, but the Holy Spirit not
only produces life and provides for that life, but He presides
over that life. Remember he said Genesis 6, my
spirit shall not always strive with man.
See that breath of life that we enjoy, The Holy Spirit can
withhold it. The Holy Spirit can withdraw the
breath of life. The Holy Spirit is not when he
conveyor and sanctifier of life. He's also the governor and judge
over not life. The Spirit of God is the power
and the authority to withdraw and withhold in judgement, and
we are fully and totally dependent on the power and work
of the Holy Spirit to convey and sanctify our life.
And there's a wider context here.
Listen to me carefully. The work of the Spirit of God in
the whole world, the whole of the created order, will only be
brought to its ultimate victory and destiny by the Spirit of
God. All in the animal Kingdom, all
in the plant were the trees of the forest, the produce of the
ground that the stars in the universe is all being worked on
at this time and moved upon and directed by the Spirit of God.
It's the Holy Spirit's presence and power that's quickens and
makes alive and supports and sustains that life in our world.
You see, the Holy Spirit is the divine instigator of it all.
The Holy Spirit's not just limited, therefore demand to
individuals or even to the life and witness of the church is a
bigger picture. There's a broader picture.
It's the whole of the cosmos. Scholars sometimes speak and
write of the cosmic Spirit, the work of the Spirit of God in the
world. You see, without the work of the
Spirit of God, there could be no life.
Now let me ask you this. Does that humble you this
morning? Does that impact upon your heart
and mind? Does that speak to you?
Does that bring you to know something of the majesty and
holiness and power of God? You see, the greatest knowledge
in the world is the knowledge of God.
Be still and know that I'm God. Psalm 14 verse 16, first Psalm
46 verse 10 and over there in John's gospel in John chapter
17, remember the Lord Jesus said this, and this is life eternal,
that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent. The greatest knowledge in the
world is the knowledge of God, and part of that knowledge of
God is God of Creator and Maker, Goddess, Sustainer and provider.
God is conveyor and sanctifier. God is governor and judge.
See Hitch Spurgeon said this. The single most important
discovery in life is the worship of God.
The single most important activity in life is to worship
God. You've been made for this.
You're made to offer your whole life to God in all its parts, as
the hymn of praise unto him. See, God has not only created us
this morning, and God has not only sustained us and provided
for us, but God has allowed us to live.
And he's decided when you come to life and that life that you
have us in him. And that was the principle that
our Westminster parliamentarians ignored on Tuesday and ignored
on Friday. Quickly, the peril that
politicians ignored. You see their consequences for
forsaking and forgetting the Lord.
Choices have consequences, and the consequences, I believe, of
last week's vote will bring down the judgement of God upon the
land, Job said. And Job heard from Eli.
Who for God speaketh once, Yeah, twice.
Yet man perceiveth it not. See, man forgets that God is
creator and *** He forgets that God is the one who maintains
that life sustains it. He forgets that God is conveyor
and sanctifier. He forgets about the sanctity
and dignity of human life, forgets that there's a judge to
whom he has to give an account. And the Bible tells us in Romans
chapter 14, verse 12, then every one of us shall give an account
of himself to God. And the parliamentarians are
included. They're a accountable.
They're answerable to Almighty God.
So we ask this question to them today.
Why vote for murder? Why violate the 6th commandment?
Why vote for the taking of life? Of course, abortion came into
effect in 1967 and from then 10 million babies have been
murdered. We say to those, you've got
blood in your hands, There's blood in the hands of the
legislators as well as the perpetrators.
And I want to tell you this morning, listen to me carefully.
It's not about compassion, it's about control.
It's a form of social engineering.
It's the ideology of the Fabian Society and it's all of
falsehood. It's unbiblical.
It's it's based on a lie. It's not about care for the
dying. It's not about the individual
dying with dignity. They already have that in the
hospital. I I've witnessed that myself.
They don't care. It's all about the cost.
It's all about saving money for the National Health Service.
I've heard millions of pounds being mentioned in savings.
It's not about comfort. It's not about comfort for the
mummy or for the elderly. It's about convenience.
Women and men deciding to please the God of self.
Men and women deciding to play God.
Whose life is worth living and whose life is not.
Bear with me just for a few moments.
Think of this here. A baby life starts with one tiny
cell for every human being born. Life begins as a single cell.
There's a name for that little cell called ZYGATE that I have
difficulty pronouncing, and it's about the diameter of a strand
of hair. Listen to me carefully.
That one cell contains all the detailed information that
determines the colour of the eyes, the hair, the skin, the
height, the build, a boy or a girl.
It's all predetermined and not one single sail by the genetic
code of the DNA. And that one sail, God made it.
And it's the Spirit of God that giveth life.
And that one sail is destined and ready for rapid development.
And that one sail grows into a tiny human baby.
And that one sail is alive and is alive by the Spirit of God.
And you see a day 25, the head and trunk and the tiny arms and
the legs are visible facial expressions, the ears, the
mouth, the eyes, the heart is pumping blood.
And by day 45-7 and eight weeks into the pregnancy, the baby's
skeleton is complete in cartilage form.
And the baby can hiccup and the baby can clap hands together and
the baby is sensitive to touch and feeling.
And the baby starts moving and gaining strength.
And by 8 weeks, the cartilage turns to bone structure.
The baby's body is complete. Then the three months, which is
12 weeks, that baby can feel pain, it can smile, it can
swallow. And you tell me that you have a
right to terminate that precious life, not only at that time, but
right up to nine months when that little baby's on an
incredible journey and one sail turns into two trillion sails of
an infant and up to 30 trillion sails in a nozzle.
In every one of those sails is like a living factory inside the
human body. I want to tell you that little
baby's unique. That little baby is full of
beauty and personality. You want to murder that, You
legislate to murder that. Why?
Because life has lost its secrets.
And of course abortion is not a new practise, it's an old one.
In years gone by, long before Christ, there was a desire to
get rid of the weak and the unwanted and the sickly.
Why? Because they didn't view life as
made by the Spirit of God, didn't view life as a gift of
God. They they forgot that they're
accountable to God, that they're under the judgement of God for
their actions. The Bible says he that believeth
not is condemned already because he's not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God. See, we live in a day when life
is disposable. Life is no value.
Why? Because they've ignored the
sanctity of life. Whenever we have possessions
that are old and worn out, we dispose of them.
Tend to replace an old worn sofa, take it to the dump.
We dump an old TV. Well, you see, now we've decided
to have that disposable attitude toward the elderly and toward
the sick and the National Health Service that we've prided
ourselves in from 1945 has now become the National Death
Service and death is going to be offered to you as a former part
of the treatment plan. Do you know that 5% of all
deaths in Canada are now assisted suicide?
People who have chosen to take their own life, the elderly at
risk, euthanasia, so-called easy death.
I want to tell you it's not right.
Why? Because God is the giver of
life. God is the stainer of life and
the God who gives life is the only God who can take human
life. Do you know that in Westminster
months past, the Labour Party blocked an inquiry into the
grooming gangs that raped up to 250 young white English girls
250,000 This is the third reading of their assisted
suicide bill. They've now voted and Tuesday
passed to decriminalise abortion.
Self managed abortion right up to birth.
Did you hear the cheers? I want to tell you the
government is wicked. I want to tell you our United
Kingdom is under a judgement from God that this is this is
the work of the devil. What must we do?
Well, I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to preach against vocalism.
I'm going to preach against militant feminism.
I'm going to preach against the ideology of the Fabian Society.
And I'm going to say to those churches that support abortion
and support assisted suicide, I'm going to say to people in
those churches, leave and don't go back.
If that's what they believe in, is that what they preach?
Is that what they stand for? Then don't support them.
As a child of God, we need to pray for the defeat and downfall
of these wicked, evil politicians.
I know that we're fighting not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the wickedness
and the rulers of the darkness of this world.
But the devil uses flesh and blood, ungodly wicked man that
he takes control over of their mind and their heart.
We need to pray for the removal of these wicked leaders.
Another thing he could do is vote against this wickedness.
Don't support politicians that voted for this, that supported
this kind of legislation. Say no.
Tell them to their face. We'll not be voting for you.
Let me move on and finish this. Just bear with me for a minute.
The Providence that the politicians ignored, No, not,
not just the principle threefold, not just the peril
that puts us under the judgement of God and brings us displeasure
and arouses his wrath, but the Providence that politicians
ignored. You see what we have got 1000
years of rich Christian tradition and heritage in the
United Kingdom. We thank God for our Bible
believing Christianity. We thank God for men like
Wilberforce and Carey and Florence Knangood.
They they what motivated them to do what they did was their
Christian background was their love for God.
What was their love for the souls of men and women?
Was their love for their neighbour.
You, you think of 80 years ago VE Day in the 8th of May there
in 1945 when we celebrated that this year, the 80th anniversary,
what do they ignore? They ignored the good news. 7th
of May 1945, it was announced the unconditional surrender of
Germany. And they've ignored not only
that good news, but they've ignored the good news of the
gospel. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
They ignored the fact that Christ come into the world just
seeking to save that which was lost, to die in the cross and
atone for our sins. And if we put our faith and
trust in Him, we can be saved and have the assurance of going
to heaven. They ignored the costly
sacrifice of our forefathers. We could direct back to the
English Civil War. We could go back to the Spanish
Armada of 1588. We'd go back to the Glorious
Revolution, the Williamite settlement of 1688.
You see, it was said then in the 7th of May in 1945, was part of
that broadcast by the king, I think it was.
King George said this. Let's remember those who never
came back. Why did they not come back?
Did they not want to? No, they were dead.
They gave themselves up by way of sacrifice to preserve our
free civil and religious liberty.
The Crimean War, World War One at the Psalm 5500 fell on the
first day, World War 2. Do you know that in World War
Two, 383,700 service personnel died?
Do you know that 67,200 civilians died as a result of
that war and then lifted up? And when you think of that
sacrifice to the greatest sacrifice of all and the
sacrifice of Christ upon the cross and they I'll tell you
something else. They ignored that happened 80
years ago in VED 200 Lancaster bombers transported as the
crowds were cheering in the streets, 1300 prisoners of war,
those that were taken captive. And there's thousands in our
United Kingdom taking captive by the devil.
And the only one that can set them free is the Lord Jesus
Christ himself because he came to preach deliverance to the
captives. They also ignored a new
prospectus because in World War 2 they developed a system called
radar, and that radar helped 80 years ago, and that radar
helped. We could think about the
miracles of Dunkirk. Man has an inability to
understand spiritual things because he's darned in his mind.
He's diseased in his affections, he's dead in his sin.
And we need to ask help and wisdom from God.
We need to turn to the Lord. And I say this as we finish.
I thank God for the 8 unionist members of Parliament who voted
against us. Why did they vote?
Because of their Christian heritage.
They stood in remembrance that there's a God in heaven with
whom they have to do. And what are we called for this
morning? Well, we call this just as it
was called during VE Day. We surrender unconditionally all
forces under German control to the British Exhibitionary Force,
and we call for the unconditional surrender of every
Member of Parliament before God. We call upon them to repent of
their sin and their wickedness, for by grace you see it through
faith and not not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, less than any man should boast.
Listen to me as I finish. Our help is in the name of the
Lord. We need the Lord.
The Lord must be called upon to give wholesale repentance and
call the people back to him and back to the House of God on the
day of God. We want our land to be healed.
Do you want their land to be healed?
Are you sick of what happened in Parliament?
On Tuesday and Friday then we need to pray, pray to God.
We need to repent of our sin and turn to the Lord.
We must stand to openly correct the errors that have been
perpetrated. We must rebuke the evil and the
evil dear. And we must stand fast for the
honour and glory of God. And we must say the way back is
back to God, to the old paths to God's Word, to the honour and
glory of our God, to our rediscover our Christian
heritage. And I say to those that are
advocating taking a stand, men like Jeff Taylor in England, and
we thank God for that stand. But at the heart of that stand
has to be a return to Bible believing Christianity.
If you leave the Lord out and ignore the Lord and forsake him
and forget him, then nothing that we do is going to restore
this land to truth and righteousness.
I leave this sermon with you. I've preached it as God has
given me help. The principle the politicians
ignored, the peril that they have ignored, and the Providence
that they have ignored. They have forgotten how God
worked in the past. God uses means.
God uses men. May God give us godly men and
godly women, and return the land to righteousness.
Sin is a reproach to any people. Righteousness exalteth a nation.