Good morning, I greet you in the precious name of our Lord and of our Savior. Bring you greetings from the uttermost parts of the Earth, from Cape Town to Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. We're at the other end of the African continent, another hemisphere. Of course, we're now going into our autumn and winter right now, while you're heading into your spring and summer. We do everything the other way around over there, except we still drive on the correct side of the road like you do. I've just been driving on the wrong side of the road in America. I bring you greetings from Frontline Fellowship, our emblem. 42 years we've been serving in Africa. We are Bible-based, Christ-centered, and the sword of the spirit represents the spiritual warfare we are involved in. The message that I have been asked to deal with this morning is reformation, resistance, and revival. We're in a time of apostasy. We need a back to the Bible reformation and we need to resist the new world disorder and the globalists who are trying to destroy everything we stand for. The word of God comes to us from Joshua chapter 24 verse 15. Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. It's a choice we must make. Church of England minister and missionary Bishop Stephen Bradley, who's a good friend of our mission, he came from Sydney Diocese in Australia. He planted hundreds of churches around South Africa, South West Africa, and Rhodesia. He said, we are in danger of forgetting truths for which previous generations gave their lives. and that our churches are in danger of forgetting the Reformation truths for which previous generations gave their lives, was forcefully impressed on me during a mission to Europe. I had the opportunity of visiting Oxford University and seeing the martyr's memorial and it drew my attention to an event that occurred more than 450 years before. On the 16th of October, 1555, just outside the walls of Balliol College, Oxford, a stout stake was driven into the ground with faggots of firewood piled high at the base and two men were led out and fastened to the stake by a single chain bound around both their waists. The older man was Hugh Latimer, 80 years old, the Bishop of Worcester, one of the most powerful preachers of the day. The other man was Nicholas Ridley, who is the Bishop of London, reported as one of the finest theologians in England. More wood was carried out and piled up around their feet, and then it was set alight. And as the flames began to rise, Bishop Latimer encouraged his companion, be of good cheer, Master Ridley, play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as our trust shall never be put out. Hundreds in the crowd who are watching the burning of these bishops wept openly. At his trial, Bishop Ridley was urged to reject the Protestant faith, and his reply was, as for the doctrine that I have taught, my conscience assures me it is sound and according to God's word. In confirmation thereof, I seal the same with my blood. What greater confirmation can it be of sincerity and truth than I'm willing to die for this? After much further pressure and torment, Bishop Ridley responded, so long as the breath is in my body, I shall never deny my Lord Christ and his known truth. God's will be done in me. Bishop Latimer declared, I thank God most heartily that he has prolonged my life to this end, that I may in this case glorify God by this kind of death. He's thanking God for the privilege of being burned at the stake. The place of the execution is marked today by a small stone cross set in the ground in Broad Street. And nearby in St. Giles is the imposing Martyr's Memorial, which was erected 300 years later in the time of Queen Victoria. In memory of these two great men, and Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. Four months later, he was put to the same tortured death in the same place for the same reason as Letterman Ridley. One day, In 1519, seven men and women in Coventry were burned alive for teaching their children the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles' Creed in English. That was a death penalty offense. Fox's Book of Martyrs used to be a required reading and was considered essential for Sunday school teaching. And Fox's Book of Martyrs documents many cases like this of Protestants who gave their life for the faith, especially under Bloody Mary, Spanish Inquisition, and other Catholic institutions. The Reformation was a defining moment when the Christian convictions and courage of the reformers met the crossroads of decision. and engage in the battlefields of belief and behavior. Our belief should affect our behavior. Our creed should guide our conduct. And these people did both. If I had a place to stand, I could move the world. The Greek engineer Archimedes was referring to the wonders of the lever. In principle, the capacity of a lever is unlimited. An ordinary weakling could move a rock the size of a house. All you would need would be a fulcrum, which is a pole strong enough that it won't break and long enough to multiply the force. That, and a place to stand. The force multiplying physics of the lever are a function of distance. The heavier the object, or the weaker the person trying to move that object, the longer the pole would need to be, and the further away from the object you'd need to stand. However, with the right fulcrum, with the right bar, and the right distance, All you would need to do is push the lever down and the boulder, no matter how heavy it was, would move. So theoretically, Archimedes famously declared, with the right fulcrum, the right bar, and the right distance, you could put a lever to plant earth and you could move the world itself, as long as you had a place to stand. On the 18th of April, 1521, a 37-year-old professor from the University of Wittenberg found himself summoned before the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. And standing before the assembled political and spiritual authorities of his time, Professor Luther was presented with a simple choice. Will you, recant, will you reject everything you've been teaching about the gospel? Or will you be cast out of the church as an heretic and out of state as a traitor, effectively to be condemned to be burned at the stake? Martin Luther's reply moved the world. He changed history because he had a place to stand. Dr. Martin Luther declared, my conscience is captive to the word of God. Here I stand. Our Lord Jesus declared our faith would be able to move mountains. Martin Luther's faith moved the world because he had a place to stand. He stood on the word of God. The fulcrum he used was the gospel. This was balanced on the bar of the law of God. And Dr. Martin Luther actually achieved what the Greek engineer Archimedes had merely hypothesized about. Standing on the word of God, using the bar of the law of God, and the fulcrum of the gospel, Martin Luther's faith did not only move mountains, he moved the world. He changed the world. It brought to an end the Middle Ages. It ushered in the modern world. Martin Luther is, in a sense, the last medieval man and the first modern man. And the Protestant Reformation and the resultant scientific revolution and the industrial revolution produced the most productive, prosperous, free nations in the history of the world, epitomized here by Zurich in Switzerland. All this because Dr. Martin Luther had a place to stand, and he made his stand on the unchangeable word of Almighty God. These decisive actions were blessed by God with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which made the Protestant Reformation one of the greatest movements for faith and freedom in history. And we are heirs of that wonderful heritage. Dr. Martin Luther's actions have been described like that of another Elijah, confronting the false prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Indeed, there's many similarities between the religious superstitions and the corruption that Martin Luther had to confront in the 16th century and the national apostasy of Israel that the prophet Elijah confronted in 1 Kings 18. It was a defining moment when the conviction and courage of Elijah confronted the corruption and cowardice of the priests of Israel. 1 Kings 18 verse 21, and Elijah came to all the people and said, how long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal is God, we'll follow him. Elijah stood alone against the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah. Elijah challenged them to a contest. Those 850 false prophets, they were to build their altar, and Elijah would build his altar, and each would pray. and the one who answered with fire would be recognized as the one true God. And everyone agreed this is a good idea, but the people answered him not a word. Sometimes silence is golden, but other times silence is just plain yellow. There's a time to speak, and a time to be silent is often cowardice, if one assumes a time like that. But the people of Israel were so backslidden, they were so apostate, they just nailed their colors to the fence. They didn't say a word. They remained uncommitted. They were going to wait to see how things turned out. They would surely back the winner, but they were waiting to see which way the wind blew, or should we say which altar the fire fell on. As there were far more false prophets of Baal and Asherah, they started first. We mustn't be intimidated when we are outnumbered. God with one person is a majority. It doesn't matter what the multitude of false prophets, false teachers have to say. Well, from morning till noon, the false prophets called out to the name of Baal. They leapt about. There's a lot of shouting and screaming and what they called songs, noise, a lot of what today is called music's nothing but noise, and dances. They even cut themselves with knives till the blood flew. They worked themselves into a frenzy. But there was no answer, no fire. After hours of futility, the false prophets had utterly exhausted themselves and were just lying by the altar, unable to move. Then Elijah said to all the people, come near me. So all the people came near him and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. That's where we need to start when we think about revival. We start with repairing the altar, devotion, worship, our personal worship, family worship, congregational worship, national worship. First, Elijah laid down the stones. This is symbolic of the foundational doctrines, which we must know. There are truths we must know in our head, which are foundational. However, the stones are not enough. An altar is not complete with just stones. It's not enough to know the great truths of scripture in our head. We must believe them in our heart. Some people miss heaven by 11 inches, the distance between your brain and your heart. Some people have it here, but not here. Other people have it all here and nothing up here. Some people feel like Christians but they don't understand biblical worldview and they don't think like Christians. Many Christians are now practical atheists in the way they live. Now the wood symbolizes faith because he had to indicate his faith that the fire would fall by placing the fuel, the wood, on the altar. We must not only know the truth in our head, we've got to believe it in our heart. And on top of the stones and the wood, Elijah placed the meat of the sacrifice. We need to put flesh to our faith, or we need to put feet to our faith. It's not enough to have it in our head and our heart, it's gotta be in our hands and our feet as well. Yes, we know some truths in our head. We might believe the truth in our heart, but are we living out the truth in our life, in our actions? Over the sacrifice and the wood and the stones, Elijah had water poured until it saturated the sacrifice, the wood, and the water even filled the trench around the altar. Now this symbolized the prayer which we should soak our lives, our faith, and our doctrine in. And it was a lot of hard work. They were on top of Mount Carmel. They were in a time of drought. Where did the water come from? Probably from the Mediterranean Sea. They probably had to walk down the mountain, pick up these buckets of water and carry it up. Where else would the water come from? It was a time of drought. The ocean was probably the only place that they could get any water from. And sometimes prayer is a lot of hard work. And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and I am your servant, and that I've done all these things at your word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their hearts back to you again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and it consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. It evaporated the water. Now when all the people saw it, they fell down on their faces and they cried out, the Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God. There is a time to stand up, and there's a time to step out, and there's a time to speak up. And that is exactly what Elijah did at Mount Carmel. when he confronted the false prophets of Baal. Although heavily outnumbered and opposed by the wicked King Ahab and the wicked Queen Jezebel, Elijah had the conviction and the courage to fight the good fight of faith. There were two altars, but only one altar at the fire. Jesus spoke of two men who built two houses on two different foundations. The one house was built upon the sand, And when the rain fell, and when the floods rose, and when the storm raged, the house built on the sand collapsed. But the house built on a solid rock stood firm. You can tell people's foundations of their lives when storms come. Whether we talk about cancer, or crime, or national disasters, economic disasters, when the storms rage, then you can see what foundation we're on. You know what flavor a teabag is when it gets into hot water. There are two ways. The broad way that leads to destruction, it's popular, it's easy, it's smooth, it's downhill. And there's the narrow way that leads to life. It's steep, it's difficult, it's rocky, it's narrow, and it's not so popular, and it's quite lonely often. The broad way is smooth, downhill, easy, and popular. The narrow way that leads to life is steep, difficult, often rough, and often lonely. But we do not choose our roads by how comfortable and easy the road is, but whether it's going in the right direction to get us where we need to go. I've traveled down some pretty rocky, sandy, muddy roads in obscure parts of the world because to take me where I needed to go for my mission. You don't choose the highway if you're trying to get to the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. There is no highway there, and so on. Which road are you on is the question we've got to ask ourselves and everyone we know. On what foundation are you building your life? Jesus said you'd know a tree by its fruit. What is the fruit of your life? Is it the fruit of the spirit that we read about in Galatians 5? The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control. Or is it the fruit of the flesh? Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like, of which those who practice those things will not inherit the kingdom of God. We can see the fruit of the flesh all around us. The fruit of the spirit is a lot rarer. Are you for Christ or are you against him? Jesus said, you're either with me or you're against me. You're either helping me gather or you are scattering. If you confess me before men, Jesus said, I will confess you before my Father who is in heaven. But if you deny me before men, I will deny you before the Father and the holy angels. That is a very serious warning and charge to us. Despite the social pressures, despite the political danger, despite the ecclesiastical pressure, Elijah stood up, he stepped out, and he spoke up for Almighty God. The priests were in apostasy, the king was in apostasy, the queen was in apostasy, and what he did was risking his life, but he did what was right. He confessed the Lord before men, and God most powerfully answered his prayer. Our mission has been a mission to war zones, and one of the places where we fought as soldiers was on the southwest African border with Angola, fighting the Cubans, Russians, North Koreans, all the other communist internationalists who were assembled there, threatening us during the height of the Cold War. Well, our mission was motivated to go to the enemies for the gospel. And so we were going into Angola Wrigley by the back door, which used to be a war zone for us. And now we're going to try and take literature and Bibles. Our mission is distributed hundreds of thousands of Bibles and Christian books. We average something like 100 tons of Bibles and books distributed throughout Africa every year, free, completely free. These are just some pallets of Bibles and books in the back of our mission, by our stores. going overland. We have missionaries from many missions coming to get Bibles from us, but we take them into the field. This is the road to Angola. On the map, it's a thick red line. You get there, and it takes imagination to know where the roads are. I can see the trees on this side. This must be the road. They call it the developing world. The only thing developing is weeds and rust and landmines. We'd spend more time under the bonnet fixing the car than we would behind the wheel driving the car. And getting into these remote areas and what the Portuguese called Coimbra Cabango province, the end of the earth, the remotest place on earth. And heading into this one village in Coimbra Cabango province, our team heard a very unusual sound. They recognized the tune immediately. A mighty fortress is our God. But they couldn't understand the words they were singing. And they came and they found a church that had no building. The building had been destroyed, but it didn't stop the people gathering for worship. And they saw the people celebrating Reformation Day. It was the 31st of October, 1994. And shamefully, our mission had never celebrated Reformation Day before this. We have every year since 1994. And we thought if Ovumbundu tribesmen in the Uttermost Parties could celebrate the Reformation, and their school children had all kinds of banners up, I'm sorry I don't have pictures of it because our team was out of film at that stage, back in days of 16 mil films, 35 mil cameras and so on, well, They were, they had banners across the road, 31 October, 1517, and the children had posters, Sola Firi, Sola Gracia, Solus Christus, Sola Deo Gloria, Solus Scriptura. And we had the privilege of delivering to these people Bibles. and Sunday school materials, and they said, we have not had a Bible for five years. I've been praying every day for five years for my own copy of the Word of God. This is the greatest gift anyone could have asked for, the Word of God in my own language. Well, we mobilized Days of Prayer and Repentance in South Africa and started to mobilize the Reformation Society. And we've met at our mission house every Thursday night since 1995, regularly gathering to commemorate the Reformation, to teach a way through Reformation events and doctrines, and to work and pray for revival in our time. In the Reformation, bold believers made a courageous stand for righteousness and truth. Professor John Wycliffe of Oxford University, the greatest professor of the greatest university in the world at that time, he spoke out against the superstitions and the corruptions of the Roman Catholic Church. He used the word church with a small c, of course. Wycliffe proclaimed Christ alone as the head of the church. Scripture contains everything necessary for our salvation. All authorities must be tested by scripture. Scripture alone is the ultimate authority. Professor Jan Hus of Prague University, he gave his life standing up for the truth of God's word against papal idolatry. And we just consider there used to be a time when professors of these universities were reformers. Cambridge was accused of being a hotbed of reformation, quote unquote. And some called Cambridge little Germany, where Martin Luther's books were being studied. Cambridge University and the Whitehorse Inn produced people like Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Bishops Ridley, and William Tyndale, who gave his life for the Bible to be translated into English. And here you've got a professor of Prague University, the Rector of the University of Prague, Jan Hus. And to think we used to have a time when the professors were proclaiming God's word. And what has gone wrong with our universities today? Univeritas. One truth. The very name university shows they have a Christian origin. University should be Christian. If the atheists want to open up an aversity, or polyversity, or diversity, that's for them. But a university should be Christian. The very word testifies it. Univeritas, one truth. These pagans don't even believe in truth, let alone that can be known. They certainly don't believe there's only one truth. They don't even believe there's two genders. So they don't know if they're ortho or martho. Jan Hus gave his life for the gospel. As he said, truth conquers, and the truth of the gospel continues to conquer. Jan Hus was burned, but the truth was not burned. His truth goes marching on. In Wenceslas Square in Prague, you can see this magnificent monument to Jan Hus, one of the great patriots, reformers, and resistors of all time. Jerome Savonarola, many people don't realize there was a reformation attempt in Italy. And Savonarola in Florence was burned at the stake for his brave attempts at reform. He had for 20 years led reformation movements in Florence, and he is at the base of the Martin Luther monument in Wurms. And in the very square in Florence where he was burned to death, there's a monument honoring him. And what a tragedy when Italy burned its reformer and condemned itself to centuries more papal superstition. Dr. Martin Luther, probably one of the bravest people in history, boldly confessed his faith before the assembled might of the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. We can't imagine how much courage it would have taken. You know, you and I, we can profess the Protestant faith in a day when millions share our faith worldwide. And if we don't like it in one place, you can move to another. And if you want to flee religious persecution in one country, you can go to another. Martin Luther did not have that option. The Holy Roman Empire was the reality of Europe, and he couldn't go and join a denomination down the road. It was just the Roman Catholic Church and the Inquisition keeping it that way. Unless I am convinced by scripture or by clear reasoning that I'm in error, for popes and councils have often erred and contradicted themselves. I cannot recant for I'm subject to the scriptures I've quoted. My conscience is captive to the word of God. It is unsafe and dangerous to do anything against one's conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise, so help me God, amen. Martin Luther's earnest quest for peace with God, his intensive study of the scriptures, and the 95 theses that he wrote in Latin and posted on church door in Wittenberg challenged unbiblical practices of Roman Catholic papacy. And this led to primary questions on authority. Do you know Martin Luther was a doctor of the scriptures and he was teaching the scriptures at Wittenberg University. He did intensive studies on the Psalms. And he saw Psalms show you true worship, but we don't see true worship in the church around us. He studied Galatians and he saw what true faith is. And he said, I don't see that kind of faith in myself or the people around me. He studied Romans and he saw what salvation is. And he said, I don't know anything about the salvation personally, and nobody I work with knows anything about the salvation that we read of in the scripture in Romans. These are the best books he could have studied. The Psalms, which he knew off by heart, by the way, Galatians and Romans. Worship, faith, salvation. Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. All these things will be added unto you. Martin Luther was not seeking to start a denomination. I'm sure you'd be appalled that there's a group called the Lutherans today. He was not seeking to start a new denomination. He was seeking to reform the church. He didn't want division. He wanted the church to be reformed from within. but he was seeking peace with God. He didn't plan to launch a reformation. The reformation was launched because he was seeking first God's kingdom and all these other things followed. Martin Luther's love for the word of God and his dedication to the truth, that's what led him to challenge the entire ecclesiastical political structure of the Roman Catholic Church and the empire. Unless I'm convinced by scripture, scripture alone is the ultimate authority. Clear reasoning, that's a bit absent these days. You can't even reason in an average university today. If you bring up any issue, they shout you down with slogans. These people have slogans and mantras in their minds. They don't have books. They're not thinking in terms of research. You cannot even reason. They shout you down now with slogans and accuse you of hate speech because they hate the truth. It is unsafe. It is dangerous to do anything against one's conscience. It was extremely dangerous and unsafe for us to go along with the mosque-grade madness, the lockdown lunacy. the Salvation by Vaccination COVID Cults of the WHO. Here you had World Health Organization closing churches. WHO closed more churches in 2020 than Mao Tse-Tung and Joseph Stalin combined. Cesar Nero would have been jealous of what Fauci and the WHO managed to achieve. I said to our people in Cape Town, we cannot close our churches. The churches in China and in Russia, they didn't close because the communists said you're not allowed to meet? Do you think the churches closed because Nero or Diocletian forbade it? It's unacceptable for churches to be so spineless and so cowardly. Oh, the government said you can't meet for worship, so we've got to cancel our church services. Unacceptable. I've been a missionary to the Persecute Church now for 42 years, and it is dangerous to do anything against our conscience. Christ is the highest authority in the world. There's nobody who can count him on the Great Commission. This is where we must stand, on the scriptures. We cannot do otherwise. In this incredibly courageous stand against the assembled political might and religious might of Europe, Professor Luther argued for freedom of conscience. My conscience has kept the word of God. Based upon the authority of scripture alone, my conscience has kept just the word of God. By translating the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into the local common language, by making it widely available to all, Martin Luther championed universal education and universal literacy. and freedom of conscience, and religious liberty. And it's a fact to this day, Protestant countries have the highest levels of literacy in the world. It was pointed out in Africa about a century ago, the Protestant colonial powers had the highest literacy in Africa. The Catholic powers' literacy rate was less than half of that. So a Protestant country could have anything from 60% to 100% literacy. A Catholic country would have something like 30% to 60% at a height of literacy. And you can see the Protestants have always had a high standard of literacy. It's also true that if you go in Africa and you find any country in Africa that has a multi-party democracy or a free press, they had a Protestant colonial power, whether Germany, the Netherlands, England, but certainly not the Catholics. Those that were colonized by the Catholics, such as French colonies or the Belgian or the Portuguese, they would have a one-party state, state-controlled media, no real freedom of conscience. That's standard. The Protestant doctrine of the priesthood of all believers became the foundation for modern representative governments. Instead of the prevailing rex lex, the king is the law, rex for king, lex for law. The reformers inverted it to lex rex, the law is king, the king is under the law. No one is above God's law. Jesus Christ is the king of kings, he is the Lord of lords. Everyone is under God's law, sola scriptura. The social implications of this religious reformation were enormous. The doctrine of sola scriptura led to constitutionalism. The idea that it's what's written, law, that is what rules the government. Not what the king's whim is, not what the government or the ayatollah says, it's not what the sheikh says, it's what the Bible says. The law is king. God's law is over all. And the priesthood of all believers led to the concept of representative forms of government based upon law. The priesthood of all believers is the foundation for the idea of every citizen having rights. Religious liberty and freedom of conscience led to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association. All the other outworkings of political and religious social freedom came from the Reformation because ideas have consequences. Ideas and words are not neutral. The reformist teaching on the depravity of man and the covenant with God and church government influenced representative political developments throughout the world. And these were positive developments in liberty throughout the Western world and beyond, establishing checks and balances, the separation of powers, constitutional authority. You can't trust the government. You can't trust a king. You can't trust any leader because we are depraved. People are not basically good. People are sinful. And because of the doctrine of human depravity, the tea and tulip, total depravity of man, you've got to separate powers between a higher a branch of government like the House of Lords and lower the House of Commons, or the Senate in America and the House of Assembly. And in South Africa, we separate powers so seriously, we've got, because the Dutch formed influence, our capitals are separated by 1,000 miles. Our executive capital is in Pretoria, union buildings. Our parliamentary capital, House of Assembly, is in Cape Town. And our judicial capital is in Bloomfield, where our Supreme Court is. So we've separated powers like Switzerland geographically, not just in terms of structures. But in Britain, you can see the roots of this. If you go to the House of Lords, what's on the wall in the House of Lords cabinet room? A massive wall painting of Ezra reading the law to the children of Israel and Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the tablets of law. That's what dominates the House of Lords cabinet room. And there's so many symbolisms in your country, like the Westminster Abbey, separated by a street from the Palace of Westminster, because you've got the government that has the sword of justice, they're the minister of justice, and you've got the minister of grace, who have the keys of the kingdom, separated by a road, but mutually supportive. All of us are beneficiaries of this tremendous movement for faith and freedom. If you love liberty, you need to re-examine the history and the principles of the Reformation. And we need to resist revolution in all its forms. The middle chapter in the Bible is Psalm 118. The middle verse is Psalm 118, verse eight. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man. That is the middle verse in the heart of the Bible, smack in the middle. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man. There's no salvation by politics. So many people think if you can vote for this politician or this party, that'll solve the problem. No, it won't, because people are depraved, including these politicians. You know how you can tell when a politician is lying? His lips move. And when he dies, he lies still. Do you know the difference between organized crime and a government? Organized crime is organized. And the difference between a mafia and a government? The mafia turns a profit. You cannot trust a man. The Reformation was inspired by a great vision. Without a vision, a people perish. What is your vision? What are you living for? Reformers like Dr. Martin Luther were living for a vision far bigger than themselves, far bigger than their times and their nations. So we still talk about Martin Luther centuries later because his vision was so great. It goes all the way along to our time now too. By the way, does anyone know whose birthday it is today? 12th of May, Florence Nightingale. Now there's somebody, that's why today's also called National Nurses Day, because it's the birthday of Florence Nightingale. She had a vision of professional nurses, when nurses were the despised profession, and she made it respectable. Their vision continues to impact and to bless our world, hundreds of years after their life on Earth. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. John chapter eight has got so many truths in it and it's vital for us to know the truth and whoever's son sets free shall be free indeed. Ecclesia reformata reformanda est. The church having been reformed must still be reformed. Semper reformata, always reforming. The word of the Lord declares, so I sought for a man amongst them who would stand before me in the gap and build up the wall on behalf of the land. that I might not destroy it. And it's often been commented, the Lord sought for a man and he couldn't find one. That's why the Lord's often used woman. Because if the men are wimps, then God may raise up a Deborah. in the Book of Judges, or the greatest prime minister in British history in the 20th century, Stephanie Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady was the best man Britain had, evidently. And when I first said that, that she was the best prime minister Britain had in the 20th century, I immediately had some people saying, well, what about Winston Churchill? My response was, what about him? Margaret Thatcher left England stronger. politically, militarily, spiritually, economically stronger. Churchill basically wrecked Britain. When Churchill entered into politics in 1910, as first Lord Admiralty, Britain was at the apex of its power. By the time he left politics, Britain was now third rate power and it was no longer great. Because the secret of Britain's greatness was given by Queen Victoria, when an African prince came to Buckingham Palace and asked, what is the secret of Britain's greatness? Queen Victoria presented him with a Bible and said, this is the secret of Britain's greatness. If Britain wants to be great again, it must go back to the Bible. It needs a back to the Bible reformation and a spiritual revival. Are you standing in the gap? Are you interceding on behalf of the land? God's looking for someone to stand in a gap and help build up the walls that are being broken down to intercede for the land. Are you helping to rebuild the wall? Are you impacting your world for Christ? What does God want you to do today, this week, this month, this year? If you knew that you were gonna die in a year's time, what would you do differently in the next year? Scripture alone is our ultimate authority on all matters of faith and conduct. Salvation is by the grace of God alone and it's received by faith alone. Christ alone is the head of the church. He is the only mediator between God and man. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by him. Jesus is the way. We are lost. He is the way. We are deceived. He is the truth. We are dead in our trespasses and sins. He is the life. Nobody comes to the Father except through Christ. Everything must be done to the glory of God alone, soli deo gloria. I thought it was so providential that Pastor Roberts read from Psalm 85 at the beginning of the service. In the middle of Psalm 85 is verse six. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Will you, will God, God alone can send revival. Unlike the Americans who think they can schedule revivals, nobody can schedule a revival. Nobody can make a revival happen. Revivals can only come from God. We can pray for it, but we cannot make it happen. Only God can send revival. Will you not revive us? That's our need, revival. And to church, that is the focus of revival. Americans think revivals are an evangelistic crusade to reach the unsaved. Well, that may be a byproduct, but at its heart, a revival is bringing the church back to God, back to the Bible, reviving our devotional life. Because we've lost our first love. Will you not revive us again? God has sent revivals before. As when we study these great revivals of the past, such as in the Reformation or the great evangelical awakening on the times of Whitefield and Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, when we study the revivals of the past, the revival of Wales in 1905, 1904 to 1905, then we can learn how God blesses and how he's brought revivals in the past and what we need to do to help prepare the way. Will you not revive us again that your people If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, I will forgive their sin and heal their land. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Christ is the end of revival, he's the means of revival, he's the source of revival. And there might be a lot of tears of repentance in digging the foundations for revival, but there's tears of joy and much rejoicing at the end of it. Restore us, O God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, that we shall be saved. Anyone know what this picture's of? Ian Paisley speaking to a quarter of a million people in Belfast. Largest gathering ever in Belfast. More people in the population of the city at that time. And the occasion was Britain was seeking to betray Northern Ireland into the hands of the IRA and the Catholic Southern Ireland. And Ian Paisley, who preaches or preached every Friday lunchtime in front of Queen Victoria's monument in front of the City Hall in Belfast, he gathered the people to give a resounding no. under no circumstances, we will not join with Southern Ireland. And he basically derailed the British government's betrayal plan. When I was invited in 2005 to Martin's Memorial Church in Belfast, Ian Paisley introduced me saying, Peter Hammond comes from Rhodesia. He understands what the British Home Office is trying to do to us here in Northern Ireland, because it's what the British Foreign Office did to Rhodesia, his home country. And that is true, we know about the betrayal of those characters in Whitehall. On the last day of the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried out saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. But this Jesus spoke concerning the Holy Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive, because the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. On this great significant day, Jesus stands up and says, if anyone thirsts, do your hunger and thirst after righteousness. Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled. Let them come to me, Jesus said. Now, only Jesus can send revival and send living waters. You can't get from any pastor, any denomination, any music group, any worship team, as they want to call it, although the whole service is meant to be worship, And we cannot get it from baptism. We cannot get the living waters from any service or activity. Only Jesus can pour out the Holy Spirit into our hearts and lives. We need to be filled with the Spirit. We need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. We need to have living waters flowing from our innermost being. We're living in a dry and arid land and many people's lives need the living waters of Christ. What must we do? We must come to Christ. Now even a baby can thirst and drink. Jesus says, he who believes in me, as scripture said, out of his innermost heart will flow rivers of living water. We need to believe and we need to receive, we need to drink. Drinking should be easy, it's one of the first things we can do as infants. We need to receive the Holy Spirit. If we believe in Christ and we come to him thirsting, hungry and thirsting after righteousness, we can be filled. Now, to try and inspire a new reformation, we produced a 95 Theses for Reformation today, leaflet which we translated into German and French. into Dutch and Afrikaans as well. And all of these are available on our website for people who want. We've distributed tens of thousands of these in many languages, especially in the Reformation 500 in 2017. And you can get hold of a lot of our resources for reformation and revival and resistance on the www.frontlinemission.sa.org website, where we've put a lot of audiovisual resources, and radio and video links, and a whole range of Bible studies, sermons, summarizing every book of the Bible, Old and New Testament. And I produced the book, The Greatest Century of Reformation, 16 biographies of 16 greatest reformers of the 16th century. And this is a handbook for reformation. It's not any biographies, well illustrated of the reformers, but look at their doctrines, look at the events, the calendars, what happened on this day, and understanding like responses to the libel against Luther and the importance of the printing press, many different appendixes at the back too. I've brought some books which are downstairs for when we have fellowship just now in the basement. And those books are available from our Christian Liberty Books bookshop and also some of them by e-books and by prints on demands worldwide. This is our headquarters in Cape Town, Livingston House. And you'll see we've got a Cape Independence flag out on a flagpole because we are the center of a movement in the Cape to bring about an independent Cape of Good Hope. We're seeking to secede from chaos. We're trying to follow the example of countries like Switzerland, South Sudan, Singapore, that seceded and are so much stronger today. We hold Reformation conferences regularly, this in Franschhoek at the Dutch Reformed Church in Franschhoek. And 31st of October, we will celebrate Reformation Day visiting the Huguenot Monument and Museum. And we've got so much of our great heritage. I believe this church used to be a Huguenot church 300 years ago. Well, we have Huguenots who fled for religious freedom to the Cape of Good Hope as well. Magnificent history in the Cape that we gather people around for. And in front of this Huguenot monument, we sing a mighty fortress as our God and celebrate the reformation every 31st of October. It is better to put your trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in man. And so we've marched to Parliament regularly to protest against the paganization of our country by Mandela and the ANC. This is a group of 30,000 people who marched to Parliament back in 1995 to protest the attempts to legalize abortion and pornography and prostitution, gambling, blasphemy, all these other evils, and presented the memo to Cyril Ramphosa, who then was chairman of the Constitutional Assembly. He's today president of the country. we were able to get people to put feet to their faith and go and protest. It's so important that we're willing to stand for our faith. I came to England in 2014 and saw a protest outside the House of Lords, Palace Westminster, protest against a hate speech bill, which would interfere with religious freedom. And a big crowd of a few thousand Londoners there, and the people organizing it were pastors from the Congo, Nigeria, and Angola. So I met with them and they welcomed me as a fellow African and said, you know, these people in England, they don't appreciate what they've got. They don't know what they're losing. They don't understand what's at risk. To think that there are African pastors in London who see clearer than some people in London what is going on because they come from communist countries, countries that have been in civil war. They know what happens if you go away from the Bible. They can see the consequence of socialism. Here the sign says, the constitution must be grounded on the word of God, on the law of God. Our message has been back to the Bible, consistently outside Parliament, calling people back to the Bible. This man just behind me here was from the President's office. Mandela's a man who came to summon me to meet the President because I'd marched so many people to protest his policies. He tried to sweet-talk me and propagandize me that he wasn't so bad after all. Didn't do any good for him. Well, now we're leading the campaign for the independence of the Cape of Good Hope. We all need good hope. I don't know any country in the world that's got good and hope in its title, but that's what we're planning for. And so we've got people campaigning for the Cape of Good Hope to secede from the rest of the country. We don't want to go down with the SA Titanic. We'd rather launch out in our own free and independent country. This is where I live in Cape Town. We climb Table Mountain regularly. And these farms are all in danger. The government is trying to pass a new bill right now expropriation without compensation, that they can just steal people's property. Farms at first, but I think they want all the property ultimately, not just the farms. We live in a beautiful part of the world dominated by Table Mountain, what Sir Francis Drake called the fairest Cape of them all. And we have some of God's covenant people at the Cape of Good Hope making a stand for faith and freedom. And we were marching protests against what the government's doing with us, wanting our freedom, wanting independence. We never chose to join the Union of South Africa. There was no referendum. This was a shotgun wedding that Kirchner and Milner organized after the Anglo-Boer War had burned and dynamited 30,000 farms, killed millions of cattle, wiped out tens of thousands of our women and children during the Anglo-Boer War. And we weren't asked if the Cape wanted to join the Transvaal, the Free State, and Natal, let alone that we would want to have the kind of communist government we've got now. So we are declaring independence. We want free freedom, and we are going about constitutionally, legally. Please pray for us. There's an election coming up on the 29th of May. I've got on Thursday night this week, I've got a day of prayer that we're leading. It's going to actually be live streamed on Loving Life TV for praying for the country for God to intervene at this critical time. Cape Freedom. That's what we need. Here's some of the Cape Peninsula. By the way, this big green area here used to be a concentration camp run by the British during the Anglo-Boer War. And they had Boers interned over here. And some of them were shot while having Bible studies, because it was lights out and soldiers of the gods are shot. And we've got in the museum a picture of a Bible with a bullet stuck in it, a Leinfeld round stuck in the Bible. I don't know that these things are taught in your schools, but that's just part of what has gone on in our country in the past. And you can see this awful football stadium as a symbol of what we built during the insanity of 2010 when the World Cup soccer came to South Africa. And this is the Cape of Good Hope, at least our capital city of it. Isaiah 58 verse 12 says, there are those from among you who shall build up the old waste places. You shall rise up the foundations of many generations. You'll be called repair of the breach, restore of the streets to dwell in. London is so rich in history. You've got so much reminding you of great achievements of the past, great people of the past, like Florence Nightingale and others who did such magnificent work. And I hope that this would inspire people to rebuild. You can't allow the New World Order and the pagans and the globalists and those who hate Christ to hijack your city and your country and to derail Britain from its heritage of faith and freedom. From Britain has gone out missionaries to the uttermost parts of the earth. And now, I'm one of those beneficiaries from the other parties coming here saying, save your country. Stand up. Resist the new world order. Don't let the globalists get their way. We must be faithful to the faith that's been handed over for many generations before. So I'm moving for the Cape of Good Hope and produced recently a book called A Case for Secession. And we had somebody say in South Korea recently, secession is stupid and unworkable. Well, I've got here 23 flags of countries that had successful secessions, starting with Switzerland, who seceded from Austria, Netherlands, who seceded from Spain, United States of America, you know who they seceded from, Belgium, Texas, remember that one, Nicaragua, Norway. Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905. Finland seceded from Russia in 1917, not that long ago. Island, well, less said about that, the better, I guess. Pakistan and then Taiwan. Taiwan secede from China. And Taiwan is much freer and stronger, and a stronger economy than Red China, too. Singapore is a magnificent example of excellence. Singapore secede from Malaysia in 1965. Singapore is a waste island with no natural resources, but it's now a powerhouse economically because it's a tax haven. Bangladesh, East Pakistan, seceded from West Pakistan. Namibia, seceded from South Africa, the old German Southwest Africa. They're now Namibia, and they're doing better than we are in South Africa. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, Croatia, Slovakia, and East Timor, we've got, Sorry, that's too much. South Sudan, I was heavily involved in the independence campaign for South Sudan. Ministered over 1,200 services in South Sudan over the years, 27 missions to Sudan I undertook, and was in the forefront of persuading the leaders in South Sudan that they needed to go for full independence. And back in 2001, 2002, I was arguing with Commander Silvercare about this, and he was saying, Independence is a good idea, but it'll never happen. It's not possible. The Organization of African Unity would never allow it. They haven't redrawn the map since the Berlin Conference of 1885. And I said, you can't continue to stay within Sudan. You will always be a persecuted black Christian minority in a majority Arab Muslim country, unless you break away and redraw the map where in South Sudan, where black Christians are the majority. Then you can be a majority in your own country. And he said, it's not possible. Well, on the 9th of July, 2011, Silvakia was sworn in as the first president of South Sudan. He's still the president of South Sudan. Just to show these things can happen. Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Miracles happen. God does answer prayer. These are just some examples of successful secessions that have happened. And we praise God for that. And we pray that the Cape of Good Hope will be one of the next. And our theme for Independence of South Sudan was, let my people go. Many people forget that Israel began with secession from Egypt. And notice, the Hebrews were always Hebrews. They didn't become Egyptians. Even after 480 years in Egypt, the Hebrews were still Hebrews. And we are not geographic accents. We are demographic descendants. And our ancestry matters. And knowing our roots is super important. And I believe London has got a Egyptian What do we call it? Yeah, obelisk. You've got a Cleopatra's needle. I think this is a reminder of your roots. Where did your ancestors come from originally? In fact, King Alfred's common law of England begins, I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the house of bondage, out of the house of Egypt. You ought to have known the gods before me. The whole 10 commands is listed there in the common law. And it starts off with you, were slaves in Egypt, I've brought you out of the house of bondage. That is part of your heritage and your history.