Well, I had planned just to sit quietly for a minute and smile, but just for fun. But since it's you, Sonia, greetings, Sonia, it's really good to see you. And thank you for joining us for the broadcast. I did start a minute early tonight, but the Lord bless you across the pond there and encourage you. And I hope your family are well and doing well, but the Lord bless you and encourage you. I'm going to do a review. of the year and it's been a busy year for me and a lot of really encouraging things this year and Well, yeah, you saw some of them with your own eyes. So again, you know that this is the case, but there's a lot to be said. I seriously don't want to bore anybody this evening. I really do want to speak in such a way as would encourage people to see that the work that's going on is good work and that it's work which comes from the Lord. Kim, welcome. and Miriam, welcome to this live broadcast. I'm a little bit more relaxed than normal because I'm not formally teaching the Word of God. I did think I might do a third study on Psalm 96 tonight, but then I thought it's better just to do a review. I think it's important. I think it's a way of glorifying God. Lan, welcome over there in the United States, and Margaret, welcome. Well, I hope I don't bore you this evening, Margaret. Sincerely, I hope I don't. So thank you for joining us. Now, I think some of you are already aware of the news regarding Hatton Tash. I don't know if anybody saw the live broadcast by some of her best contacts last night. Last night here would have been the evening, I suppose, in Australia. But one of them had had a phone conversation with Hatton and others had received emails and it was agreed that that they should say that we shouldn't be contacting the police or pursuing the matter further. Hatton Tash had communicated to them that she was well, that she was safe, and this is really good news. What we don't know is exactly what her situation is. Now, I would say, as someone who's very concerned for her, but I don't know her, that whatever her situation is, if she's safe and well and free, then that's really none of my business. And I'm just very, very thrilled, and I'm sure we are thrilled to know that she's alive and has communicated with her people. That was a time when we feared the worst. that they're asking us to continue praying. And I think that's absolutely right. There is a possibility that she's in difficult circumstances. We don't know, and we may never know, but we know that she's alive. We know that she's been able to communicate, and that's very good news indeed. And we hope that she'll soon be back at Speaker's Corner, working with other Christians there for the glory of God and for the furtherance of his cause. That's wonderful work. So let's read from the word of God. Magda, welcome. Let's read from the Word of God. We'll read from Psalm 118, verses one to nine. Let us hear the Word of God. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, because his mercy endureth forever. Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth forever. Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth forever. Let them now that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth forever. I called upon the Lord in distress. The Lord answered me and set me in a large place. The Lord is on my side. I will not fear. What can man do unto me? The Lord taketh my part with them that help me. Therefore shall I have, see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. Amen. May God bless that reading of his word. Father, we just ask that this would be a profitable time for us as we recall how you have blessed this ministry over the last year and how the gospel has been preached, not just by me, but by many others, Lord. And I want to thank you also, Lord, with all my heart for those who prayed for this work and encouraged me and joined in with our discussions online, which have been a big encouragement. at times jolly good fun as well, Lord, but we just ask and pray, Lord, that you be with us now, and that we give the glory and honour to the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you, Father, for our Saviour. We thank you that he loves us, that he died for us, that he gave himself for us, and we ask for the forgiveness and cleansing of our sins, and we commend ourselves to you now. Father, we do thank you with all our hearts that Hatun Tash is alive, and we just pray for her, whatever her circumstances, that she would soon be able to continue the work of witnessing to Muslims, and Father, not just her, but those others also who do that difficult work, especially at Speakers' Corner in London. But we thank you for that very good news, and we thank you in Jesus' name, Amen. Amen, that is good news indeed, and I thank the Lord for that. So God's mercy endures forever. It's been a year of mercies, great mercies and goodness. Peter, welcome, good evening. Yes, 2024 may well be prophetically significant. So this was an interesting year for me because I spent the first six months in Hull. I was there for three years almost in total, and the last six months I've been in Kittimins, the two very different places. Hull with a population of a quarter of a million, and Kittimins with a population of about 40,000. But I'm quite certain that I made the right move at the right time and for the right reasons. I had to leave Hull anyway, but one of the big answers to prayer was that I had nowhere to move to and God has given me a place here in Kidderminster to live and that's very thrilling and very wonderful. That was something which As with so many things, it was one of those last-minute things, but everything was ordered perfectly, and here I am with my own books. You don't see the gold-covered books that we had in Hull for the broadcast, or the railway carriage, which was a great place to broadcast from, but now you see my own stuff, and I'm glad to have my own books back, which are helpful in the preparation of preaching material. But overall, over the last year, 2023, a great deal of gospel preaching has taken place in many towns up and down the United Kingdom, and the online ministry has developed, and you yourselves have helped me to develop this ministry. I didn't set out with this format, but it seems that we've got into this format where I'll talk and people will comment, and it works really well, I think, and it's actually really enjoyable to talk to people in this way. The only thing that would be better is if we could actually talk to each other. And I would love to set up Zoom meetings. I still haven't done that. I'll have to continue looking into that. It's been difficult to get the time and to figure out the actual way of doing this. Hedge, welcome. It's good to have you. The Lord bless you. We're glad to have you with us. But you yourselves are witnesses of the way that this has developed. And of course, most importantly of all, I hope that we've met with the Lord Jesus Christ and we've learned more about him through his precious and holy word. Oh, what great things God has done for us. So the main thrust of the ministry has been the internet and open air work. And a lot of open air work has taken place and many discussions have been had. And it's sowing seeds, sowing seeds, sowing seed. And there are grounds for encouragement, but a great deal more work to be done. Well, let's go back to January of 2023. I was in Hull. It was cold. You can see I put up a January 2023 photograph there of the puffin in Hull. Actually, there's a few of those puffins in Hull. And there I was in January, standing in a heavy coat, preaching in the cold weather in Hull. But C.E.K., who took the photograph, she arrived in Hull in December and she came and joined me and was a great help to the open-air work and I'm very grateful to her for that. She required some literature and the extraordinary thing was, and I think this must be a gift from the Lord, people just came from all directions and took it from her. She didn't have to go and ask if they would take a track, they would come to her and say, can I have one of those please? So she was a great help to the work and an encouragement to it for several months and I thank the Lord for that. The other thing that C.E.K. did was that she recorded a very excellent audio book, I say very excellent, there's some interference in the first chapter which is my fault entirely, But CK has a wonderful reading voice, and she has produced a beautiful audio version of The Indian Pilgrim, that excellent book, The Indian Pilgrim, by Mrs. Mary Martha Sherwood. And most of this was recorded in the train carriage in the house in Hull, which is a good place to do recordings. And I'm very grateful to CK for doing that. I put a link below in the description to the book the Indian Pilgrim and I would recommend it. Now I originally wanted that book to be republished, it has been republished, but I thought it would be a very fitting book to give out to women particularly, although I enjoyed it thoroughly myself, women particularly perhaps from Muslim or Hindu backgrounds or other backgrounds as an evangelistic tool. But we now have an audio version and I thank C.E.K. for that. Now, in February, we had the problem that the General Synod of the Church of England met, and they decided to investigate the blessing of same-sex, that is, sexual relationships in churches. This is a disaster for the nation, but essentially they agreed to pursue it. Many Christians were very concerned about that at that time. I took the opportunity to preach in the open air outside what's known as England's largest parish church, Hullminster. St Stephen's, I think, is its other name. While I was preaching out there, I felt I had real unction and I was thundering against what was going on in the Church of England. Two of the clergy, one man and one woman, came out. They stood right in front of me and told me to stop. When I refused to stop, they went back into the church and locked the doors and started ringing the church bell, which I thought was rather funny. What I didn't think was funny is what's going on in the Church of England and the betrayal of the gospel and the betrayal of the truth. The following day, I was preaching at Monument Bridge in Hull and the man who was a young curate, I believe, came past and we had a discussion in which he refused to describe homosexuality as sin according to the Bible. Now you can take your pick, he's either a wolf in sheep's clothing, or he's a blind leader of the blind, or he's both. But this is why people don't know their Bibles, and they don't teach the Bible except the things that they want to teach. And they heap up for themselves teachers having, preachers having itching ears, ear ticklers. and that was what was going on. But even so, what took place in February in the Church of England General Assembly is an alarming thing to happen in the nation because it provokes the wrath of God. Also in February, I went to Scotland for the first time in a long time, and I went to a funeral in St Andrews of a godly man, George Baird, a man who had been a great blessing to me when I first became a Christian. He and his family had offered me great assistance many years ago and also in the years just before his death when my own family was in crisis, George gave me great help and great encouragement and at times great rebuke as well when he felt that I was worthy of it. But George died, and it was wonderful to go up. It was a wonderful funeral. It was God-honoring. The gospel was preached there. And I met old friends from many years ago. But I also took the opportunity to preach in several cities in Scotland, and this was thrilling. And that included Stirling, for example, and that went well. And some young people came and asked me about the gospel, and I put that broadcast up on YouTube, and it's been well-received, the gospel preaching in Stirling. And I also preached in Edinburgh and recorded that. And while I was preaching at Edinburgh in the Royal Mile, and I was standing in the spot where this statue of John Knox used to be stood, but they hated the man so much, they took his statue away and put it in St. Giles Cathedral, which was opposite me. There are probably few places in the United Kingdom that have so much to do with the history of the gospel in the United Kingdom as the Royal Mile and the grass market below it. In Edinburgh, it's an extraordinary place to be. It's a thrilling place to preach. Now, while I was preaching there, there was a table set up and a woman came out and this woman was covered in a massive amount of tattoos. And she had, I would say hundreds of piercings, extraordinary. And I think this was some kind of tourist attraction. But she had with her a very heavily muscled man who was obviously looking after her. And they were playing their business there. And at one point, the man came over to me and walked right up to me and I thought, oh dear, we're in trouble now. And this man extended my hand and he said to me, well done, brother, keep preaching. Extraordinary things happen in the open air, and who are we to judge? But it was thrilling to preach in Edinburgh. Now I returned to Hull after that, and then I returned to Scotland in March. I had been invited up there by a lovely Christian couple who live in a wild part of the county of Angus, and with a very warm invitation to stay as long as I liked. And I didn't stay for too long, but I'm very, very grateful to that couple. I was still exploring at that time the possibility. I thought I said St. Thomas. Yes, S Thomas. Welcome, S Thomas. But I was... They offered me great hospitality, and I'm very grateful to that lovely Christian couple for offering me such hospitality. And at that time, I was seriously praying, Lord, do you want me to move to Scotland again? Now, that didn't happen, and I regret I haven't been able to return to Scotland since then. And I'm very much looking forward to the next chance, opportunity and time that I can go to Scotland and preach the gospel again, but that must be in the Lord's time. And sadly, also this year, another thing I wasn't able to do was get over to Wales to the 17 chapels that are empty, which I've had some involvement in, in hoping and praying for their reinstitution as chapels for the worship of God. God willing, I might be able to do something there. I would love to go over to Wales and preach the gospel again as soon as possible. And also, especially in Cardiff, I wanted to preach in Cardiff by Christmas, but I wasn't able to do that. But I was able to return to Scotland and I was able to preach in a number of small towns and also in the city of Aberdeen. Aberdeen's up in the northeast of Scotland. I lived there for eight years, and in fact, I've done more gospel preaching in Aberdeen than anywhere else on the planet. And for that reason, it was thrilling to go back to Aberdeen, although the city seems to have declined somewhat since I was last there. In April, I met up with, some of you are aware of the Gospel British Isles channel here on YouTube. Well, I met up with David from the Gospel British Isles channel in Hull. He came over to see me. Both of us preached in the open air. And that was very encouraging. Now, David was a man who'd been repeatedly arrested in Hull for preaching the gospel. And he taught the police there the law. Some of you saw the video where one day three police officers slowly filed across the square in Hull towards me. And I thought, well, that's it. I'm gonna get arrested just like David. And I thought, well, this is it. Well, okay, I'll just put my hands out. They can put the cuffs on and put me in the van and cart me away. So they came up and I said, well, are you gonna arrest me? And they said, oh, no, sir. They said, we're just here to make sure we protect your freedom of speech. Now, that was extraordinary as far as I was concerned. That was a fruit of David's ministry, the other David. That was a fruit of his ministry. He had taught the police the law and now they were upholding it. So I wasn't breaking the law and they did what they said. They were there and if anybody was aggressive, they told them to calm down. David, the evangelist, came over to see me. Now, some of you are aware of my court case with the British government over transgender pronouns. David, the evangelist from Huddersfield, he had been hauled over the coals by the courts. He had been accused of misgendering somebody in the open air. He saw somebody that looked like a man and referred to him as he. The courts hammered him. The courts hammered him, and he was given community service. And this had a devastating effect on him and his family for a while. So we mustn't ever think that these things come without a price. That man is worthy of our prayer and encouragement because he has so often, not just in Hull, but in many other cities, been arrested for preaching the gospel, and he preaches it faithfully. On appeal, the appeal judge said that despite all the hardships and all the bad things that have been done to him, the appeal judge said it's not illegal to use the wrong pronoun. That was a mighty victory for the truth on David's part. He accomplished what I haven't been able to achieve and I have great respect for him for that. I also ought to mention that my legal team also were his legal team. They represented him as well. The Christian Legal Center represented David McConnell in court, but he had a terrible time and God blessed it. And he's won an extraordinary legal victory. Anyway, I was very pleased. We had a very good day together. He preached, we had a cup of coffee, then I preached and good work was done. In May, I took a trip to North Wales. This was my trip to Wales, and I hadn't preached the gospel in North Wales before. It was a tourist time. It was the It was half term in May, and the whole place was heaving with tourists from all over. So I was able to preach in seven towns in Wales, in North Wales, which I really wanted to do. They included places like Llangollen and Llangudno. Now in three of those towns, Llangudno and Rhyl and Bangor, I had worked as a doctor, but I hadn't preached there. So I was very glad. to go back and preach in those towns. And that was a blessed time and an encouraging time to be in North Wales. And I'd love to go back and repeat that. On the way back, I preached in the town of Chester, in Cheshire, a well-known, famous town. And when I started preaching, there were three police standing next to me. And one of them said to the other police officers, should we arrest him then? And the other one said, oh no, only if he kicks off. So again, that just demonstrates how confused the police are about the law. We should arrest him just because he's standing on a street corner and speaking in public. No, no, no, not in a country where there's freedom of speech. We've still got freedom to preach the gospel. Anyway, I was in North Wales and I was in Chester. And then finally I drove North. And for the first time I preached in Preston, the town of Preston in the county of Lancashire. Now in June the pressure was on. In June I had to move by the end of the month and things weren't sorted. This is how it all came about at the last minute at the right time and it was important because Tim who owns the house in Hull had to come back from Texas where he'd been for years and I had to move out and there was nothing unreasonable about it. I have to thank Tim with all my heart for his generosity in letting me use his house whilst he was there. And you've been the beneficiaries of that because you're the ones who've seen along with those wonderful videos which I had the delight in producing when I was in his living room and you had those books with the gold covers behind or I was in the train carriage which was a very atmospheric place to produce videos. And Tim, who was in Texas, is now back in his own house. But I can only thank Tim with all my heart for his generosity. That was God's opening, and as a result of Tim letting me use his house, then I believe that was the opportunity to sow a lot of gospel seed in Hull, which you've seen with your own eyes, and which was really important. I love that city. That was the city of my father's. I hated it when I was growing up, but having spent three years there, I loved it. In fact, what happened was that three years ago, I was facing homelessness and crying out to God day and night for a place to live. Tim contacted me and said, I've got this house in Hull, would you like to borrow it? I went there for one night and ended up staying there for three years. That was a big service to the Lord by Tim, so I cannot thank Tim enough for enabling me to do that. The result of that, I believe, will be fruit for eternity. So that was in June. Another thing that happened in June was I went and preached in in York, in the city of York. Some of you are aware of York because it's the seat of the Archbishop of York, and there's this big church called York Minster there. Well, I preached, yes, Margaret, thank you for thanking Tim, yes, and I preached in York, and I preached on the duties of an archbishop. And again, that sermon, I think, is up on YouTube. It's certainly, I think, on Sermon Audio. But I preached on the duties of an archbishop in which I made very clear in the open air that the duties of an archbishop are to preach unswervingly, faithfully, fully and without deviating at all the whole counsel of God, the Word of God. And the reason for that is because the Archbishop of York has been an absolute prime mover in this business of bringing in same-sex sexual blessings in churches. Other towns I preached in included Beverly, which is a small town north of Hull, but a lot of work was done in Hull, and I spoke to a lot of young people in particular about the Lord Jesus Christ, and a great deal of seed was sown. Thank you, Lan, for that. I think there are open-air preachers in Texas, I know, but Lan, thank you very much for the invitation. So that was June. By the end of June I was going to move out and God had given me a place to move to and that's absolutely thrilling. That's this place here in which you see me in now here in Kidderminster. Kilminster is in the middle of England. It's actually easy for me to get to London and it's not too difficult for me to get north. I felt as though I got a bit stale with Hull at the end of it and I felt as though rather than having an awakening ministry, which is what I prayed for in Hull, it would become a hardening ministry and it was time for me to move on and others to take over that work and still pray that God would move the churches there into the city centre and empower them to continue that work. that there's a great work to be done in Hull city centre and there are churches and there are people who have the ability and the means to do that and I pray that they would but I pray that there'll be a reaping of what was sown. One of the things I preached a lot on in Hull and this threat still remains was nuclear war. And because at that time Vladimir Putin started to talk about the possibility of nuking the UK, and if he was to choose a city, why not Hull? It's separate from all the other cities. It's just a small one. Why not nuke Hull? And I was warning people about this. Did anyone take warning? The same situation prevails. The same war is going on. It's escalated. There's war in the Middle East, and yet people won't take warning. Another thing I was able to tell them for certain was that if Hull isn't destroyed in nuclear war, I can tell them for absolute certain that it will be destroyed by an earthquake because there's this great earthquake in revelation in which the cities of the nations will fall. Well, in August, I went to the Keswick Convention, and many of you will have followed my video diary of going there. And this was of necessity, Keswick Convention, a world-famous Christian convention in Keswick in the beautiful Lake District in the Northwest of England, because somebody had told me that they had been bringing in the teaching of LGBTQI plus ideology into the convention. So I went up there to protest, and as I'd said, God could have sent them a theologian, he could have sent them a pastor, but he sent them an open-air preacher. So I stood at the gate and protested. I was joined by John and Susan from Sheffield, and they were a tremendous help. They understood what was at stake. They understood the issues just as I do. And we worked together for two or three days, and just thankful to the Lord for that. We spoke to many Christians there. And some Christians, particularly the older ones, would say, we know what you're talking about, and we are very concerned about this, and we don't know what to do. We don't know how to raise our voices. We don't know how to be heard. Others, often young Christians, would say, you're crazy, there's nothing wrong with this, you're a sinner, so why shouldn't we have other sinners in our midst? Not understanding the issue. And some were even abusive and threatening, even though they call themselves Christians, which is utterly reprehensible. But here's the problem. What they're basically doing is saying is that it's all right to be a homosexual as long as you don't practice. Now, this is not what the Bible teaches. This is not what the Bible teaches. I've met lots of Christians who were formerly involved in gay or lesbian lifestyles who've come out of that. God has changed their hearts. They are new creatures in Christ. What this new teaching is saying is that if you're gay, God made you gay, and therefore it's fine to be gay as long as you don't practice that. Now this is bringing LGBTQI plus ideology into the church, and as it brings that ideology into the church, the church becomes corrupted. this ideology will be going out from Keswick, people not understanding, not discerning what's going on. And so it was really important to stand there and to speak to people. And I'm very, very glad that I did. Whilst on that Keswick trip up North, I camped and I was also able to do open air work preaching in Keswick, in the town of Carlisle near the Scottish border, and in the town of Kendal. I worked in Carlisle as a doctor, actually I worked in Kendal as a doctor as well, but I hadn't preached in Carlisle before, and that was encouraging, the work in Carlisle, as the others were as well. In September, with the able help of the Christian Legal Centre, I decided that it was time for me to refer myself to the General Medical Council here in England, here in the United Kingdom, as a very bad chap because I refused to use transgender pronouns. So with the help of the Christian Legal Centre, we drafted a letter and sent it to the the General Medical Council, asking them whether I should be allowed to continue as a doctor because I refused to use transgender pronouns. Now, I knew that they might strike me off for saying that, and I knew that they could discipline me and they could do all kinds of nasty things which doctors dread to me. Some doctors would rather go to prison than face the GMC, but I was up for a fight, but that's exactly what I didn't get. Two weeks later, three weeks later, rather, I had a lovely letter from the GMC saying, dear David, we don't think that you've committed any offence because no real patient was involved. Therefore, we're going to do nothing. Now, that was good because they hadn't charged me with wrongdoing, but it was bad because their duty is to guide doctors and they hadn't given guidance. There was a specific question. Am I, as a doctor, legally obliged to use transgender pronouns? And there was no clear answer. And of course, just after that, the Telegraph published an article about the GMC in which it pointed out that the GMC, in its men's toilets, in its offices in Manchester, has a ready supply of female sanitary products, which apparently go like hot cakes. So there's probably a black market for them somewhere. It's nice to know that the fees that we pay to the General Medical Council are being wisely spent. But the point about it is this, it's a sign that the GMC is utterly embroiled in transgender ideology itself. And they were merely passing the buck when they told me, we don't want to fight you, David. I was up for a really good fight, but I didn't get it, sadly. But anyway, I was exonerated. So that was in September and again I can only thank the Christian Legal Centre. In October the Christian Legal Centre the evangelism in the open air and the live broadcasts continued, but in October I heard from my lawyer Michael Phillips of the Christian Legal Center that my appeal to the European Court of Human Rights over my sacking five years ago by the Department for Work and Pensions for refusing to use transgender pronouns would not be allowed. I won't be going back to court. That's the end of my legal case. Now I can only leave that in the Lord's hands as they contrast that with David who lost his case and that David the evangelist who lost his case and then won it in the courts. I lost my case and they won't hear it and the reason they won't hear it as far as I understand is because I refuse to use transgender pronouns. There's no law that says we have to use transgender pronouns so it should have been heard in court as far as I'm concerned. That's the end of my legal case. I can only thank Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre for the extraordinary amount of work they did on my case and many other people's cases, and be very thankful to God for the work that they have done. In November, I travelled to London again whilst continuing the evangelistic and live broadcasts. I travelled to London again for the meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of England in Church House in Westminster. I was there as an observer in the galleries, and I was there because they had come to vote again on the question of blessing same-sex sexual relationships in churches, a catastrophe for the nation. And this is what they voted for. And since December the 17th, this has been going on in churches of England in the United Kingdom. This is a disaster. There were a group of Christians, former homosexuals, who are now thoroughly transformed, changed by the power of God, exiled. They were there in the gallery as well. They stood up and protested in the gallery, and then they silently walked out. Now that is a protest which I thoroughly, thoroughly approve of. But if there was a handful of them protesting outside, why were there not thousands of Christians outside the General Synod? Why is it that most churches are silent and most Christians are silent? Why is it that we have not got a voice, that we won't fight to maintain the truth of the gospel, to defend the cause of Christ? Sorry, Anne-Marie, we're living in the end of days, I believe it. And Anne-Marie, I suspect there is not much time left. I myself preached outside the entrance to Westminster Abbey as the delegates were leaving, and I preached what I called a warning sermon that God's judgment would be there. Now when you go to London, you know that London is like, people call it Lunderstan, and you can feel and you can see when you go to London that the influence that is taking over there is the influence of Islam. I can feel it myself, I can see it with my own eyes. If the Church of England has chosen to pick a fight with God, which it cannot win, then the Church of England, because Christianity, Bible-based Christianity, is the only ideology that can stand up to Islam and can counter Islam. It's not guns and bullets. They will never defeat Islam, but the gospel of the love of God in Jesus Christ is the only ideology that can stand up to Islam. Hence, we are so thankful to God for our sister, Hatun Tash, But if the Church of England collapses like that, then there's nothing to stop the takeover by Muslims of this nation. I should have mentioned, I missed out, I should have mentioned at the beginning of July, the beginning of July, I went down with about 30, there were a group of about 30 of us went to the Gay Proud March in London, and we went there to preach the gospel. And it's one of the most terrible things I've ever been to. Now, by God's grace, between us, we were able to keep going, preaching nonstop for seven hours in circulation. And some of you know that it took months for my voice to recover. It was so loud and noisy, except for one moment, for 20 minutes, when some of their own people lay down in front of the trucks to protest, just stop oil. And that gave us 20 minutes of complete silence to preach the gospel. And we thank God for that. That was a wonderful intervention by God on our behalf. But the man who organized it, Peter from Buckinghamshire, a pastor from Buckinghamshire, he said that it may be that the only reason God's wrath isn't poured out on London today is because we're standing there preaching the gospel. And if you had been there, you would have believed that. how God didn't pour out his wrath. But you see, there are these two judgments. The first judgment is that the Church of England has forsaken the Lord and forsaken the gospel of Jesus Christ. And those who are Christians in the Church of England now need to come out. There's no reason not to. But also the judgment of God is the takeover by a nation of Islam, replacing historic Christianity. So God's judgments are definitely abroad in the land. Well, in December, I found myself back in London again. I was going to a meeting put on by Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Center. And I went and I preached on my way there. I went and preached in Speakers' Corner because I knew that Brothers and Sisters in Christ were having hassle there. And I preached there and there were many Muslims who came past, including many women wearing burqas, for example. And those of you who heard the tape know that I got pushed around and abused and threatened to have my head crushed in and that sort of thing. You know, all the usual stuff. But the man who threatened to do that to me also said that he was a Christian. And these are appalling days in which we're living. But even so, I was able to preach the gospel there. And I thank God that I was at Speaker's Corner. That's the first time I preached at Speaker's Corner for about 35 years. But then I went to the meeting that Christian Concern was holding at the Law Society in central London, the Law Society headquarters in central London. And it was there that I learned from a friend that Hatun Tash had gone missing. And as I say, I don't know her personally. I'm very familiar with her work. And as one open air evangelist looking at another, I just thank God that there's a woman who's on fire for Christ and with a burning love for people of the Islamic faith. burning with love for them to preach the gospel, to teach the gospel to them. And therefore I was concerned by this and I prayed about it and I thought about it and I thought that I should go public on this and ask people to pray for her. I think that was the right decision. I think it's very important that we pray for her and her associates and others who are working at Speaker's Corner. And some of you have been praying very much for her and thank you for that. And we should continue to pray for her and for her work. This has been brought to light. If nothing else comes out of this, then what should come out of this is that we should be much more aware of our brethren in Christ who are suffering for the sake of the gospel and willing to suffer in this country for the sake of the gospel. Now, Hatun, who's Turkish, has been abused and hurt and on occasion stabbed for preaching the gospel, arrested unjustly. And I've never seen anybody with so much courage in my whole life, outstripping anyone I know, outstripping all of us in her courage. So those were some of the things that went on. Well, Anne-Marie, the question is, when Islam becomes so powerful, they might not allow you to be atheistic. That's the thing. We're looking for a situation. We're looking at a situation where they become all powerful and you either convert or die. I don't know how things are going to work out, but what we can say for certain, and we can demonstrate that from the scriptures, is that this is a judgment of God upon an unbelieving and an untoward generation in which we live. online. Those of you who've been joining me online and who've been supporting the ministry in prayer, I've been thankful to God for that. I've started a series on Isaiah and I've started a series on Philippians and that went to Wednesday morning. We changed one of the broadcasts to Wednesday morning because it became apparent that we have a number of people in Australia and New Zealand who enjoy the broadcasts and therefore this was a better time for them. Currently, we have three broadcasts a week, and that's quite a lot of work. I've certainly thoroughly enjoyed the discussions that we've had. I know I like doing all the talking. That's the trouble, isn't it? talker, I suppose, but thank you for everybody who's contributed with their comments and encouragements and this is good. We started a series on Revelation, which is daunting. We've got through the seven churches in Revelation. Now we have to get to the prophecies in Revelation and I certainly feel unequal to that, but I'll see what I can do because I think we should certainly in these days be aware of what God says in the book of Revelation. I certainly don't claim to be any more right than anybody else. There's a million different possible interpretations, but even if we don't understand the whole book, we can certainly gain from it. Also, I have continued to warn people about the Mark of the Beast, because I believe that that is coming very soon, and I would much rather be wrong about that, and people say you were wrong about that, than not warn people and be wrong about not warning them. because there'll be many people, even Christians, who take it. If you are a true Christian and you belong to Jesus Christ, it's impossible for you to take it. But there will be many who say they're Christians who take it because they have no defense against it. The right time to prepare is now, and we prepare by walking with the Lord Jesus Christ. and we've had some good times in the last year and God has blessed us and I'm encouraged. Now I've um I've undernod and I've prayed about whether I should say the following thing but I'm going to say it and I'll say it as a doctor breaking bad news so I'll say it matter-of-factly but this is about the income for the ministry. My income for the tax year to 2023 was about £8,000 from the ministry. Now the ministry is my only source of income. Putting that in context, if I was working as a doctor I would be earning 20 times as much for the same amount of work. Putting it also in context, the UK minimum wage from next year for a 40-hour week will be £22,000, so £8,000 is on the lower side. However, I commit myself to the Lord and I would rather die than give up preaching. So I'm giving myself to the Lord, but I felt that it was right to make a financial statement. So that's my financial statement for the year. This year, I'm looking to perhaps just slightly more than last year. but I think you understand the situation. I look to the Lord. I commit the ministry to the Lord. I'm thankful to everybody who has helped financially. A few people have helped, and your help, however great or small, has been a big encouragement and a real blessing, and it makes you a partaker in this work. So if I go out and preach, it's because somebody's supporting me. But please, please pray for the work. Please pray that the Lord would take the work forward, sustain the work and use the work for his glory. I would rather die than give up preaching. In fact, my greatest fear is I will have to give up preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. What's lacking in the ministry? We need to be honest about this. The first thing that's lacking is visible fruit. Now I know because I've been there that there's been a lot of good contact with people. There's been a lot of, sorry I should have mentioned because there's a sister here who actually visited Hull and joined and helped with the open air work for a couple of days and I'm very grateful to her for that. But we should continue to pray. I haven't set myself to buttonhole people and say, make a decision or say a little prayer. I've made it my duty before God to preach the gospel and to go deep and to sow seed and to look for the good soil and to know that God will bring fruit, but to give the results and leave the fruit and leave the results to the Holy Spirit. I've been involved with, I'm currently involved with a church in Kinnerminster and hope that I can be a blessing and encouragement to them and other churches in the area as well. But thank you to all of you who pray for this work, and God willing, the work will continue in 2024. God willing, we'll see fruit. We're praying for revival. We're longing for the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit. And we hope to go forward in this work. And it can only happen with the Lord's blessing and the Lord's help. And I commit myself to the Lord. I'm content to be in God's hands. I'm content that he is the one who provides for me, looks after me, cares for me. And I'm willing by his grace to suffer privations and hardships as well for the sake of the gospel. But this work is in God's hands and it's his work. And the desire is that the Lord Jesus Christ should be honoured and glorified. Father, thank you for enabling me to preach the gospel this year. Thank you for the support of so many in different parts of the world, those who have prayed very much for the work, those who've encouraged, Lord, those who've helped support it in other ways as well, Lord. But we pray, Lord, it's not about men, Lord, it's about the gospel itself. It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, I think of that city of Hull and pray, Father, that you would send others to reap what's been sown. Father, that you would raise up your cause there, that a great hunger for God would come upon the city of Hull, Lord, In other cities represented by people here, Lord, we think of Scotland, Lord, and pray that those in Scotland would find mercy, Lord, that you would return to Scotland and send them preachers of your word, faithful ministers of your word. We think of England, Lord, and we pray, Lord, that you would have mercy upon us. We deserve your wrath and judgment, Lord, for the wickedness in our established church, Lord. And we pray, Lord, that you would deliver us from Islam. And we pray and thank you, Lord, for the work of those who are preaching to Muslims and sharing the Gospel with Muslims. Again, praying for our sister Hatun Tash and others who, week in, week out, go to Speaker's Corner and engage in intense discussions with hostile crowds about Islam and about Christianity, Lord. Father, we pray also for Wales, Lord, and pray that you would return in great measure by the outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon that Principality of Wales, Lord. Remember how you visited there, how you came down in power in 1904, and we pray that you would do it again, Lord, that every one of those empty chapels would be needed, needed for the preaching of God's Word, needed for the furtherance of your cause. And so, Father, I pray for each one of us. I pray you'd have mercy upon us. Those of us who are unwell, I pray, Lord, that you would quicken us in our bodies and help us and have mercy upon us. And those of us who are discouraged, Lord, that we would be encouraged through the word of God and that you'd meet with us and help us and strengthen us. Those of us who are alone over Christmas and New Year, Lord, that you'd be yourself our exceedingly great reward. So, Father, we commend ourselves to you now. We pray that this ministry would continue. We pray, Father, that the gospel would be preached, and we ask and pray these things in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen. Amen. I, of course, have to thank God for all his goodness to me, and I trust him, and I believe that he will make my paths very clear indeed. Well, Kim, thank you, and I'd like to go on being a blessing to you as long as God makes me a blessing and as long as I can be a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. At least I'm not cold this year. You understand that comment, Kim. Yes, so God willing, I'm hoping to go back to Hull tomorrow. I've got a 99-year-old aunt in Hull, a lovely 99-year-old aunt, and she finally lost her marbles. So the last time I saw her, she thought I was a guy called Charlie who was trying to chat her up when her parents weren't there. And when she found out I was actually her nephew, she was quite disappointed. But she's a lovely 99 year old aunt and I'm hoping to go and see her tomorrow. But if I can go to Hull and see my aunt, I can hopefully also preach in the open air there. And that's what I hope to do. We'll see how that works out. But I want to wish you all a very happy new year. And I think, God willing, the next live broadcast will probably be on Wednesday morning. and I shall look forward to that. But I hope that in the year to come we can all do everything we possibly can to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and to follow Him. So are there any comments, questions? Thank you for listening and thank you for being with us this evening. I mean God has been very good to me. In terms of my family, he's been very good to me. Just as I say, that move from Hull to Kidderminster just went like clockwork and that was just such an answer to prayer. As is so often the case when we're Christians, it's a last minute thing, but everything happens perfectly. Everything works out as it should do. God opens doors. He gives you the help you need. He makes it possible. Every mountain is made low. Every valley is exalted. The crooked places are made straight. But God helps us and wonderful answers to prayer. Magda, yes, may the Lord bless you. Thank you, Magda. Well, at times, she's a Yorkshire woman, and Yorkshire people are known for speaking what they think, and she was no exception to that. So yes, there is a story about my art, but I'm not going to tell it. So Peter, welcome. Thank you for being here. Peter is the man that organized the witness at the London Pride March that we mentioned. It was distressing to be there, but I'm very, very thankful to you, Peter, for organizing that witness. And I agree with you that if we weren't there, who could say what God would have done? But it was distressing, it was hard work, it was difficult. And Peter, I know that you've been doing it for years. And as you said, we don't go there because we hate people. We go there because we love every single one of them. but we have to preach the truth, we have to speak the truth in love. Every blessing to you, Peter, and your household and your church. I visited your church and it was a big encouragement to me, and on your Bible convention there. Peter and his church had a day on the state of the nation. I put a link up to the addresses that were given that day, but it's really, really important. So here's a man with a burden for the state of the nation. We need men who are burdened for the state of the nation and have confidence in the Word of God. Thank you, Peter, for everything you've done this year. God bless you and be with you in your church. And Miriam, thank you, David. I do hope you have a bit more down time next year. I think, as I keep saying, I keep trying to work with the strength of a 20-year-old, but actually this year I turned 60, in May I was 60, and I have to realize that I have to pace myself and I can't do... I have more knowledge and I hope more wisdom than I had when I was younger, but at the same time I don't have the strength I had. You know, God uses us, he blesses us in our weakness. My strength is made perfect in weakness. And the same is true for us all. So many people come and they say, well, I couldn't do what you do. And of course, we can only do what God's called us to do. We can only use the gifts that God's given us. The question is not whether we're using the gifts that God hasn't given us, but whether we're using the gifts that God has given us. And we're all in the same boat there. dependent upon the Lord, but I wish I could preach the gospel an awful lot more. I wish I could preach it dawn till dusk every day. I wish I could go without needing any rest, but unfortunately I do need rest and I would like a break sometime this year, that would be nice. I know some of you in Australia have said, I'll come over and visit Australia. Well, I would love to, but we'll have to see whether that ever becomes possible. But thank you for the invite. Hedge, the church in my country has been corrupted by the state. Hedge, are you free to remind us of which country you're in? Obviously you don't have to if that's sensitive information, but if you could tell us, we certainly would pray for that. But thank you so much for joining us. Lan John, Amen, Miriam. God gives us strength but he also wants us to take care of our health. Yes, and you'd have thought I would have known better, but doctors are very bad at taking care of their own health, I'm afraid. We're the worst patients of all. We don't do what we're told and we don't take the pills either. Reform Baptist Continuationist at Peace. Hello Reform Baptist. Yes, hi Chris. Now we stood together in the open air and preached yesterday in the town of Starbridge and that was really encouraging. You thought it'd be really quiet but there were a lot of people around and some really good conversations were had and then we had a nice cup of coffee in a warm restaurant which was good. But Chris, that was good and thank you for organising that yesterday and that was a real blessing. The Lord bless you, Chris, and the others that are with us. Germany, I'm just going to pray. Father, we just pray for your cause in Germany, and we ask, Father, you know your cause. I don't know an awful lot about the church in Germany, Lord, but I know that as with this country, there must be difficulties and problems. I know that the Lutheran church is not teaching the truth as Martin Luther did. So I pray for Hedge, Lord, that your blessing would be upon Hedge and that your blessing and mercy would be found in Germany, Lord, and that just as we pray for revival in the United Kingdom, so we pray for revival in Europe and in Germany, Lord, that you'd have mercy upon that nation and the people in that nation at such a time as this. And this we ask and pray in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen. Amen. And yes, Yes, it did rain very hard, didn't it? We did get a little bit damp. Reform Baptists continue. Chris, we did this. Miriam, that's why I'm telling you, David, doctor, you need to be reminded. Yes. Well, I probably need to be scolded, actually, but told off, rebuked. But if I have any health at all, it's by the grace of God. And I do have health problems, but many of us do. If we could just use every breath. I don't know if any of you attended last night the live broadcast by the Friends of Hatton Tash, you were talking about that one of them had been on the phone too, and they were saying that she lives in a tent. And they were saying that the only thing on her mind is to get back and to spend every possible moment that she has sharing the gospel with Muslims. And they call her Paulina, after the apostle Paul, because she is absolutely unstoppable for the gospel. And that puts us to shame, it really does. We're in the middle of winter complaining about the weather, and complaining about this, that and the other. And somebody's out there in a tent, raring to do everything in their power to preach the gospel. Thank you, Hedge. I didn't know how else to pray, but I do pray and I do hope that in Germany, the church is strengthened and blessed by the Lord and that she also would be revived in these days, just as we pray for our own nation. But thank you for joining us. It's thrilling to have somebody from Germany joining us. And thank you for being with us this evening, Hedge. Thank you. Thank you. Okay so I was disappointed because I didn't get to go to Wales and to meet up with Robert who owns the 17 empty chapels there this year. I did do some work on that in that I spoke to a number of pastors who had some interest but I don't know whether any would take any of those buildings on and they probably deteriorated a lot even in the last year which is sad. because there's nothing wrong with the vision of the man who bought them to preserve them from being turned into flats or mosques or carpet warehouses, to preserve them for the preaching of God's Word. And some of those chapels have a history of extraordinary preaching of God's Word in the past. But alas, in Wales and in England and in Scotland, the gospel is in rapid decline. But God can change that in a moment. I believe in revival. I pray for revival. I preach. By God's grace, I preach for revival, and that's what we long to see. Well, may the Lord be with us all this coming year, and may we have great cause for rejoicing. But whatever happens, may we walk closely with the Lord Jesus Christ. May we remain firm and faithful in the Lord Jesus Christ, firm in our faith, faithful to him. And by God's grace, may we grow in grace, and may he be glorified in our hearts and lives. That's what we desire. That's what our lives are. We live for the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I'm going to leave the broadcast running for another minute or so, but I'll turn the camera off, and you're welcome, if you want to, to put closing remarks.