These provide firm foundations for our future. The Lord said, there's a wise man and a foolish man. The foolish man builds his house on sand. The wise man builds his house on the rock. And one day, the storm will rage, the winds will blow, the rain will fall, the floods will rise, and the house built on the sand will collapse. But that which is built on the firm rock foundation of God's word will endure forever. There was a time, not very long ago, when Christians were known to be people of integrity, who could be trusted to keep their word. So pervasive was the Christian work ethic that verbal agreements were binding and sufficient. Now you get Christians violating even sworn agreements and oaths and written contracts, sadly. I remember this. I remember seeing nurses bowing in prayer, kneeling in the ward before their term began. It was 1972, I was in the hospital in Bulawayo, and I remember seeing this, I was there as a kidney stone patient. But when did you last see nurses kneeling in prayer in a ward these days? Or singing and praying around a patient's bed? Burglar bars and alarms and security gates were unknown and unnecessary. When I grew up, I never got locked out of home because there was no such thing as locking the doors, except maybe at night when everyone was asleep. Maybe our father locked the doors late at night, but I never recalled being locked out of home growing up. So when people ask who the born frees, I raise my hand because I was born free of burglar bars, security gates, razor wire. I walked to school. I remember at age 12 in Bolivar, putting on my bush knife, my bush hat, and my water bottle, and going for adventure, walking out of town to Komi ruins, which is 20 kilometers away. And I walked there and back on a Saturday. My parents didn't know I was going anywhere. And it didn't matter. I just had to be home in the sunset. And Rhodesia was at war at that time. I was freer and safer in Maribyland back during the war in Rhodesia than you are today in anywhere in South Africa. Extraordinary. And I saw bullets. are buffalos and wildebeests, giraffe, zebra, warthogs, not in a game reserve, just outside the city limits, just walking from Bulowai to Kami ruins and back. We were free from all those settings. There were no burglar bars in our windows. If it ever was locked out, I could have climbed through a window, but we never were locked out. If the front door ever was locked, you'd go the back door, which is never locked in. We didn't live with the attitude of locks and keys that we have today. I hitchhiked 140,000 kilometers around this country in the early years of this work. And you know, sometimes I was stuck in a town, there's nowhere to go, just pouring with rain. You know what I'd do? I'd often go into a church. Churches were unlocked. Especially Anglican churches. We'd go into church any time for prayer and meditation. At night, when it was raining, I often went into church, laid out my sleeping bag on the carpet, and slept out of the rain. That happened often, many a time. It was so unusual. Now you've got churches, burglar boards, security gates, motion sensors. Maybe not in your country, but in South Africa, that is normal, sadly. And this is the way things used to be. I remember if I was downtown, I'd been to the library or bookshop, and I had some books, and I saw my father's car. I'd go and put the books in the car, because the car was locked. So downtown, I could put my books here, so my arms were free, carry on shopping or whatever. And sometimes I think the car ignition, the keys were still in ignition. That was normal. There were times that I was hitchhiking and I slept in parks. I remember middle of the night even, sometimes, middle of nowhere, JP Park, Jo'burg, Hillborough, rolling out my sleeping bag and sleeping, sometimes in the rain. And you were safe. You'd be considered insane to do it today. There was a time when you could hitchhike around the country and I'd stand by the side of the road, pull out my thumb and get lifts and I had a chance to witness people. As a new missionary I had no resources and no funds and no vehicle, so hitchhiking was a key way of travelling. And you were safer on the roads then. I think you'd be irresponsible if you did that. Just think how clean and safe the beaches and so on and so forth were. But that's when you had a serious police force and when you actually had law and order and respect for law and order. But now Durban Beachfront is a crime zone. I went to Durban Beachfront recently and got mugged twice in the space of 10 minutes. So I started to walk across the street. a conference for the ACDP, African Christian Democratic Party. The hotel they put us up in, it was boiling hot and air conditioners didn't work and so on. So I was down to go for a walk along the beachfront, the Golden Mile. And I go down there and I'm in my shorts and t-shirts and sandals. I'm starting to walk across the road. And I could see at the end of West Street, to one West Street, there's four men positioning themselves to mug me, to ambush me. And it's all happening slow motion. I'm thinking, for years I've been waiting for this to happen. Somebody try to mug me, please, you know, try it. And here it's going to happen. I'm so amazed. So I'm walking across the road and sure enough, on the other side, a Nigerian chap pulls out a massive big silver gun. probably 45, and he's waving at my face and he says, we're mugging you. Well, he probably thought in t-shirt and shorts I couldn't be armed, but I had my hand in my pocket of my shorts and I had nine millimeter thrust into his face. My finger was on the trigger. My thumb was on the safety catch and slipped it off safety catch and said, no, you're not. And suddenly he disappeared and his four friends around all disappeared. and I'm in the middle of West Street that time, where is everyone? They've all gone. So I start walking along Marine Parade and wasn't long, I saw people following me. So I'm quick on my pace, I walk briskly anyway. Very few people can keep up with me when I'm walking. So they're still keeping up with me, they're gaining on me, seeing in car mirrors, some streets. glass windows and I'm seeing the reflections. I cross the road, they cross the road with me. I cross back again, they cross back with me. I'm definitely being followed. So I put my hand in my pocket, got my thumb on the safety catch, finger to the side of the trigger, ready. And I looked over my shoulder and there behind me, two of them were much more advanced and one had a big knife in his hand. So I swiveled around, raised my 9mm towards him. This chap disappeared very fast, as did the other man. But the third one from a distance kept walking and he was laughing. So I stayed at the ready, still pointed down, but I waited and he laughed. He said, I said you were too alert, but they said they'd take a chance. So he said, are you from Sweden? I said, no, I'm not from Sweden, I'm from Cape Town, I'm South African. And he says, I knew you were tourists. We normally just concentrate on tourists, because tourists are never armed. And so he's acting like he's in the tourism business and chatting away. And we walked for a while, and I pocketed my pistol, and then he disappeared after a while. Well, after an hour's walk, I get back near the swimming pool. And there by the Wimpy Bar and the Milky Way and so on, I find lots of police, bulletproof vests, weapons all around, submachine guns. armored cars. I said, has there been a riot or something? No, they're just on patrol. And I said, on patrol? I've been an hour walking on the beach and I haven't seen one policeman. There's about eight here by this Milky Way. He said, we're stopping for some coffee and donuts. All at the same time, all at the same place. And I wrote to the mayor and I wrote to city councilors and so on about this incident. Two mugging attempts in 10 minutes on the Golden Mile. Now, what's the matter with Durban? You're meant to be a tourist place. What tourists are going to manage this? Swedish people aren't going to be ready for this. And they'll never come back again. You mug one person, it gets all over the media overseas and they stop coming. You've put billions into tourism industry in Durban. The tourists aren't going to come to get mugged. This is bad PR. But anyway, that's just showing you how things have changed. The crime, there were times when you could cycle almost anywhere. And this is what downtown Durban once was. In Moroland, up in Equatorial Sudan, the people there have been so evangelized and so discipled. I said to Samaritan's Purse of Franklin Graham, I was trying to talk them to come into Sudan to set up a hospital amongst the Moro people. I said, there's no hospital for seven million people in Equatorial and I wanted them to come. Well, as I was telling them about the Moro people, I said, these people are so Christian, you could leave your wallet lying on the main road opposite the market and someone would bring it to you and nothing would be missing. And these guys were so skeptical, they said, that's not possible. So one day, we are about to head out in a vehicle to go to Louis to see the original hospital, where I think they can set up a Samaritan's Purse hospital. And so on the way, Ken Isaacs, the communications man, says to me, Peter, do you really believe that rubbish about you can leave your wallet at the marketplace and someone will pick it up and another thing will be missing? Yes, I said. So he said, give me your wallet. I gave him my wallet. He threw it out the window, landed on a dirt road just outside the market. Now I'm starting to have second thoughts. Not that there's a lot of money in my wallet, but there are some cards and a little bit of cash, but it's mostly the cards that are valuable, and my ID. But anyway, I'm worried all day. What if somebody from another village or some refugee comes past? I trust the moral people, but I'm not sure about the Dinka and the Bari and Zandi and others around me. And so I'm just praying that the right people are going to find this. So that night we come back, not a word. The next morning, just as we were preparing for church, along comes Ken and Ruben, and he says, these two boys found this wallet by the marketplace. Is it yours? I opened up, well, there's my ID with my picture, so yes, obviously it's mine. But everything's there, nothing's missing. I look, and there's Ken Isaacs. mouth wide open. They were shocked. They were impressed. And so Samaritan's Purse came back to Moorland just a few weeks later, set up a hospital. They said, we're never anywhere more than three months, but we'll commit to six months here to this project. They were there 10 years. which was the best and biggest project ever done by Smilespace. Hundreds of thousands of operations, 10 years, magnificent work, it all because the people had integrity, they wouldn't steal somebody's wallet left lying on the open road. And you can see the fruit of a God-fearing society, where people read the Bible, where people fear God, where people respect their neighbors, where people love their neighbors, not fear their neighbors. And these are some of my friends in Moroland, in Equatorial South Sudan, what now is the independent country of South Sudan. But these are people who've been influenced by the gospel of Christ. And these people, they will not lie, they will not steal, nor will they tolerate amongst themselves anyone who does. That is a Christian society where you can build a future without being afraid of your neighbor who's going to steal from you when your back's turned. There was a time when women and children could walk alone without fear or danger. What happened? In South Africa, we've got Freedom Day, which is celebrated behind bars. I mean, have you noticed, if you've been to South Africa, how many people live behind burglar bars, security gates, razor wire, and they celebrate Freedom Day. It reminds me of a joke I learned to announce in Zambia recently. Up in Lusaka, they were telling a joke that the South African ambassador was, a new South African ambassador came to Lusaka, and he was introduced to the Zambian Minister of Naval Affairs. And the South African ambassador said, you can't have a Minister of Naval Affairs, you're a landlocked country. And the Zambian responded, but in South Africa, don't you have a Ministry of Justice? It's a good point, you know. Proverbs 14 verse 34, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. Hate evil, love good, maintain justice like in the courts, let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never failing stream. That's Amos chapter five. Just think of Victoria Falls. the water flowing over and over, millions of tons. Let righteousness flow like a mighty stream. We should have a never-ending flow of justice. That's what the fruits of Christianity should be. But the solution to all our political and social problems is not merely to have Christian officials elected. Recent history amply demonstrates many of those who claim to be Christians can advocate and vote for policies that are blatantly in conflict with God's law. We've got people in South Africa like we have a head of the Democratic Alliance who was a pastor. Can you please, Musi Anani. Now Musi, meant to be a pastor, ran a party that stands for LGBTQ, gay, trans, perversion rights, gambling, legalized pornography, legalized legalized abortion. What good is it having a pastor running a party that stands for killing babies and all the rest of it? The Bible forbids the shedding of innocent blood. Yet how many Christians vote for political parties that support the killing of babies through abortion? Here we are standing outside the High Court in Cape Town and God's court abortion is murder. The Bible forbids theft. Taxation above 10%. The Bible forbids the taxation of property. No taxation of inheritance. Your grandfather paid his taxes. Now, a righteous lays up inheritance for his grandchildren. So now, he wants to leave inheritance for his children. He paid tax on what he earned. Now you've got to pay tax on the inheritance. That's stealing from the dead, that's theft. That is forbidden in the scripture. God forbid that you should tax the inheritance. God forbid that you tax property. The Bible forbids the taxation of those involved in the full-time service of the Lord. Even the choir people, whoever was involved in the full-time service of the Lord in a temple, they did not get taxed. Why? They were supported from freewill offerings of the congregation. And those people are really paid their taxes. How can a government make a tax on a freewill offering made unto the Lord? Do you know, back in 1980s when our mission began, If somebody gave me 100 rand for Bibles, I could buy 50 Bibles, you know? The average Bible is 2 rand a Bible. Hardcover. 2 rand. And I didn't take anything off for tax because the Bible study was exempt from tax. No taxes on Bibles. Today, if someone gives me 100 rand for Bibles, I can buy half a Bible. Half, and less than half because they're going to take 15% off for tax. They tax Bibles and it's pathetic, the whole situation. What we've got now is pastors paying taxes, churches paying taxes, God forbids it. They're taxing what's already been taxed and which is now a free will offering as unto the Lord. They're stealing from God. Yet many Christians support taxation policies which break all these biblical principles. You're not to tax property, you're not to tax inheritance, and you're not to tax people in full-time service to the Lord. Isaiah 61, verse 8, for I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery. I hate iniquity. The great British reformer, the Bible translator, Professor John Wycliffe of Oxford University, he taught, the Bible is given for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. By the way, you may think that was said by Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln quoted it, but he didn't attribute the quote. He plagiarized it. That was written in the 1300s by John Wycliffe in a preface to the first English Bible. The Bible is given for the government of the people by the people for the people. That's not an Abraham Lincoln quote. That's a Professor John Wycliffe quote. The primary message of the Bible is how sinful men and women like you and I can be reconciled to a holy creator. How can a holy God allow sinful people like you and I into his heaven? That is the main issue. The secondary message of the Bible is how we are to live our lives in obedience to the law of God. Because God is the creator of all, his word speaks to all areas of life. God's word speaks about education, crime, punishment, economics, justice, entertainment, all areas. Yet many Christians reject or neglect God's word and its application to all areas of life. Look at how many Christians will say that the Bible says nothing about politics. Well, not party politics, but it says a lot about political principles. Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, you will have no authority over me unless it's been given to you from above. All authority is limited. All authority is delegated. All authority is answerable to God. And there's key principles that Lord Jesus did teach that affect political issues. Jesus said, if anyone loves me, he will obey my teachings. Most Christians don't seem to understand we're in a war, a spiritual world war. It's a war of ideas, it's a war of ideologies, and if we could see the spiritual realm, the demons arrayed against us, the angels arrayed fighting for us, understand the weapons God's given us, the sword of the spirits, which is the word of God, the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith, feet shewed with the preparation of proclaiming the gospel of truth. It's a war we're involved in. You either give your allegiance to God or you give your allegiance to Satan. And the world is a battlefield. And you've seen some people's minds are not filled with much at all, except a few slogans and mantras of some ideologies these days. And you can see the LGBTQ, the communist, the Antifa mobs, the BLM, EFF and so on. They just have a whole bunch of slogans and hatred to shout out at you. You can't apply knowledge in the libraries that you've read to them because they're not even thinking. Unfortunately, many Christians have failed to renew their minds. Romans 12 says, we're not to be conformed to this world, but we have our minds renewed, not removed, renewed. Some Christians think that Christianity is about a blind leap into the dark, a blind leap of faith. No, it's an intelligent step into the light. Faith is faith in facts. We're not meant to be just blindly jumping into the dark. Most Christians don't seem to understand how the humanist worldview and the new world disorder is conflicting with a Christian biblical worldview. How many Christians are accepting the LGBTQ nonsense that's being shoved down their throats and what Hollywood's giving? They're not even thinking, let alone thinking biblically. If you read the newspaper more than you read the Bible, if you read secular books and secular magazines more than Christian publications, if you visit secular websites more than Christian websites, if you watch TV more than you worship Christ, then it is inevitable. You may have a Christian heart, but you will have a humanist mind. Many Christians are practical atheists because they're watching TV more than they are reading the Bible. How on earth can they have a Christian mind? Their mind's not being renewed at all. Romans 1.28 says, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind. You think of how many people have a depraved mind. Why? They didn't think it's worthwhile to retain knowledge of God. They don't start the day with a Bible. It's not the Bible before breakfast, not the scripture before supper. They don't read a psalm before lunch. They are just the world. What does Wikipedia say? What does Google say? What is the world saying? What is the Clinton News Network or the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation or Slime Magazine or Useless News and World Report, Newspeak, the Sunday Crimes? I mean, what does the Cape Crimes have to say? They're not thinking about God. Now, it's not that the humanists have actually abolished the Ten Commands. They've just replaced God's law with man's law. Do you want to know what the new Ten Commands are? If you're a secular humanist, these are the new 10 commands. You shall not be intolerant of other religions, beliefs, or views, except for Christianity, of course. You can be intolerant of Christianity, but you're not allowed to be intolerant of Buddhism, atheism, Satanism, occultism, Islam, whatever. You shall not read the Bible or pray in schools. However, sex education, even in primary schools, must be mandatory. That's what they're trying. The Bailer Bill, Common Core, they're trying to continually force sexual perversion on kids, even in primary school. You've got to brainwash little kids in primary school now about transgender nonsense. Maybe you're a girl in a boy's body, maybe a boy in a girl's body, and so on. Do you know what gender-affirming care is? Castrating boys and vasectomies for girls, sterilizing kids, they call it gender-affirming care. That's not gender-affirming care, that's genital mutilation, that's mutilation, that's child abuse, it's evil. It's insane, and this is what they've been pushing in America. We're looking forward to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. changing a few of these things. I certainly hope Donald Trump demolishes the Department of Education, which is just a perversion, indoctrination, woke, evil outreach for Satan that they're running in America. And Europe's got worse. It's not like they're not doing things like that too. Praise God that in Swaziland you've got some standards, and you've got a king who stands for biblical principles. Praise God for a little island of sanity in an ocean of insanity. We've got so many insane, stupid, bizarre, ridiculous things going on in the world. Europe, North America, Australia, Canada, one of the worst governments on the earth is under Trudeau and Kander. And South Africa's government is pretty stupid and insane. You know what the middle letters of cancer are? Middle East of cancers, A and C. You know what a cancer is? A cancer is a cell that doesn't contribute to the health of the body, it breaks down the health of the body. So we've got a cancer government. When I write about our government, I put small c, capital A and C, small e r, cancer. It's becoming popular on social media. I started the trend a few years ago. And you can see here, in the world of ideas, you're meant to look at these dead trees, but you're not allowed to look at the fruitful trees that's under religion, off limits. It's okay for Muslims to block traffic without bowing on the streets during the midday prayers. That's fine. But a Christian praying on the sports field before or after a match, that is considered unacceptable. So we're living in a crazy world. Third commandment, you shall never take the names of Darwin, Marx, Mao, or Mandela in vain. However, cursing and ridiculing names of Jesus Christ is an essential part of free speech. Take the Lord's name in vain, no problem. but you're not allowed to take the names of the idols of the New World Order in vain. Remember to keep holy Human Rights Day, Freedom Day, Workers' Day, Women's Day, Youth Day. I trust you've got more sensible holidays in Swaziland, but in South Africa we've got these mindless, worthless, idiotic days. Here we've got effectively human trafficking legalized in South Africa, prostitution legalized, pornography legalized, and then they have a woman's day. Women don't need a meaningless public holiday. What they need is respect and protection. Ban pornography, execute rapists. That would be sensible, but just a meaningless woman's day from pious, hypocritical politicians. What does that mean? And do be sure to go shopping on the Lord's Day. Plan other activities for Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, and Xmas, but keep holy Human Rights Day and so on. In fact, they got very upset when we did life change on Human Rights Day, reminding them of the most basic rights of all, the right to life of pre-born babies. You know, we were desecrating, blaspheming Human Rights Day by having a life change, standing for life. We are often accused of blaspheming Women's Day because we campaign against human trafficking, sex trafficking, and prostitution, pornography, and therefore we're desecrating their Women's Day by doing Women's Day outreaches standing up for women. You would think that that was a good thing to do. And when we have Freedom Day and we'll organize outreaches on how you can be free from sin, that's considered blaspheming Freedom Day. They can see where these things stand. Fifth command, honor your mother earth and father state. Sixth command, you shall not defend yourself against assailants and rapists. You may not kill rapists and murderers. You may not have convicted murderers executed, but you may kill helpless infants through abortion. You can kill the incurable and very old through euthanasia. But don't stop with them. Once you realize what a burden you've become to Mother Earth, you may want to request a physician-assisted suicide. So in a place like Canada, literally people go to the doctor saying, I'm depressed. How can you help me? And the doctor says, have you considered physician-assisted suicide? Dead serious, this is Trudeau's government. They are trying to encourage people to commit suicide. Not just old people, even young people, even teenagers. They're underpressed. What teenager's not depressed on some occasion? Have you considered physician-assisted suicide? The medical professionals in Canada are being encouraged to encourage people, their patients, to commit suicide and to give them the drugs, to give them an injection, whatever. Can you imagine? These people need help. They go to the doctor, and the doctor's encouraging them to kill themselves. Why? The Canadian government says they're wasting a lot of money on keeping these sick people alive. It's better that we can redirect those funds. So the state, and they've got national health, in other words, socialized health care. You go to the government for help, you know, I've got a medical problem. We can help kill you. That'll get rid of all your problems. You know, you think that this is a joke, but unbelievably this is what's happening in some of these idiotic, insane governments. And Canada and New Zealand must have two of the most idiotic governments on the planet. Abortion is murder. We marched to Parliament on a 1st of February every year to protest against our government's legalization of murder. We have had between 2 to 6 million babies murdered in South Africa through abortion since 1997, since they legalized it. Every abortion stops at beating heart. So these are some of our protests outside the gates of parliaments in Cape Town. You shall not commit murder. Abortion is murder. And just in case they don't get the meaning of words, we have a picture of life and a picture of abortion. And does that look like choice to you? cutting a baby into pieces. We know that President Thabo Mbeki saw this. He must have been the worst president we ever had in South Africa. Thabo Mbeki was a hardcore Marxist Socialist, humanist, anti-Christian, trying to close every Christian school, trying to close down every Christian radio station in the country. We really had to fight every day to keep our rights under Mbeki. Well, we did this poster, a quote from scripture, Deuteronomy 30. This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you, that I've set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life so that you and your children may live. Thabo Mbeki saw this, he was going in his car through the gates of Parliament, and just a few minutes after he went through the gate, riot police came running out in full battle gear, with shields and so on, took this banner, brought it inside the gates of Parliament, and burned it. Now what's so offensive about this scripture? Choose life, said Junior Children Manifestation. That's offensive, that's hate speech. People who hate the truth hate, these kind of truths. So they call it hate speech because they hate the truth. And so we thought, well, if they hate this verse so much, we're going to put it on T-shirts, we promote it all over the place. Deuteronomy 30, choose life. This, by the way, is Planned Parenthood's abortion facility headquarters in Texas, largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere. What does this remind you of? The Aztec temples where they used to take people up to whip their beating hearts out, human sacrifice to make the sun rise each day. But this is what's happening, blatant paganism in the West. Planned Parenthood said, does this remind you of a Baal temple also, Aztec Inca temple or what? If you haven't seen Apocalypto, I recommend it, to see what societies were like before the gospel got there. This is a representation of how many babies are killed every day just in the United States of America through abortion. More than 4,000 babies killed per day through abortion in America. I'm sorry to say in South Africa it's something like 700 a day. Seventh command, you shall not call it adultery or fornication or homosexuality. You shall not call it pornography or perversion. Don't be so bigoted and judgmental. If it feels good, do it. Don't consider the consequences for yourself, or the consequences for your family, or your spouse, or your children, or for society in general. Give free expression to every lust and craving. Just call it an alternative lifestyle. That's the seventh command. But we've demonstrated outside the adultery worlds. This was illegal in South Africa in the past. But Manila legalized this in 1997. All kinds of pornography allowed. Every kind of pornography allowed. Absolutely disgusting. But the scripture says, I will set before my eyes no vile thing. Real men do not use porn. I mean, what kind of pervert, sicko, needs digital dolls and plastic dolls. Can they not grow up, get a life, get a wife? I mean, what is the matter with these people? Real men do not use pornography. Eighth command, do not steal, because the government hates competition. Pay all the taxes we demand from you, even if you don't receive any services back from the government. And as these people say, corruption is killing us. We had a president in South Africa say, corruption doesn't hurt anyone. Actually, corruption hurts everyone. According to the African Union, well, this is a picture worth 1,000 votes. In the last elections we had, vote ANC, 2024. Yeah, and that's the kind of litter you have around their posters. Nice to come to Swaziland and not see litter all over the place. You've got a clean country and you've got people who take pride in your country. Praise God for that. This is Johannesburg. It used to be Igouli, the land of gold, where the streets are paved with gold. Well, that was a long time ago. Not now. If you must steal, take from the hardworking bourgeois middle class. Just leave enough for us to get our tax on them too. Now, what could the billions lost to corruption have bought? Well, here's just an example of how $275 billion could have built 10 new hospitals in London for 18 years. $216 billion could have built 4 million houses. But I mean, this is just lost, lost in a year. $15 billion could have built 1,000 more schools. $50 billion could host 10 more World Cup soccers. what's it, 50 billion could have built 40 kilometers of new roads and so on. And the African Union reports over 34% of the gross domestic product or GDP of Africa is looted every year by government corruption. That's on average. That means more than a quarter of the total wealth of Africa is stolen by so-called civil servants. That's 10 times more than all the foreign aid to Africa combined. So you don't need foreign aid. All you need is 10% less corruption. How about 100% less corruption? Now, I'm sorry I don't have this in Rand, but this illustration works just as well with dollars. So there's a $100 note. Could just easily be a 100 Rand note. So start with that. Most everyone's seen them. Slightly less people have owned one. This is 10,000 Rand, or $10,000. You could fit it in your pocket. OK? Now that is a million dollars. You could fill it in a plastic bag, grocery bag, and walk around it. That's a million, OK? They've got a million rand. Now a pallet. We deal with pallets of literature. One pallet has about a ton. So here you've got 100 million on a pallet. So OK, there's your packet of 10,000 that can fit in your pocket. There's the million that could fit in a grocery bag. Here's 100 million that's fitting on a pallet, one ton. Okay, here's a billion, 10 pallets, 10 tons. $1 billion. Here's a trillion. Notice these are double stack pallets, double stack, there's a person. That's a Pentecostal 18 wheeler truck. There's a pallet, there's one person, there's a million. This is 1 trillion. The South African government steals more than a trillion rand every year. That's more than a football field. That's a look at the size of a 747 jumbo jet. So it's bigger than the space taken wing to wing, top to toe or tail of a massive aircraft. And that's a trillion. And by the way, the American government spends something like $6 trillion, but that's going to be chopped down by Musk and Vivek Vamashrami on America's now got this commission to get rid of unnecessary government waste. Just watch how many trillions are cut off the American deficit and so on by cutting unnecessary government programs and unnecessary government employees and so on. But when you talk about the ANC wanting, for example, national health. National health. Canada's got national health. And do you know what happens? Every year, hundreds of thousands of Canadians come south of the border to buy in America what they can get free in Canada. Why would you do that? Because they can die before they get the free care in Canada, if they haven't been committed to suicide. But Canada's national health is a failure. Britain's national health is a failure. I met a nurse in the same hospital ward as my wife was in Cape Town, and she came from Britain. Why did she fly from Britain to buy in Cape Town what she could get free in England on national health? Because she'd be dead by the time she got to the front of the queue. There's such a backlog of cases. National health is a total failure in Britain. So Britain has failed with national health. Canada has failed with national health. But the ANC is going to do national health in South Africa and it's going to work. They say. It's just another cookie jar for them to smash and loot. These guys are kleptomaniacs. DANC, instead of more taxes, maybe just steal less. We don't need more taxes. If we just cut the corruption, we'd get more than all the taxes. That's the eighth command. Ninth command. You may not tell the truth or preach the gospel to your neighbor, for that may offend them. You are not to offend your neighbor or suggest he's wrong. Unless he's a Christian, then he deserves any abuse, right? You can see how slime magazines are continually putting blasphemous covers. Every Easter, every Christmas, they put something blasphemous, something anti-Christian on their covers. These are not journalists. These are prostitutes. Truth is a new hate speech. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Has anyone here ever read the book 1984? They talk about thought crimes and thought police, because it looks like you've had a little bit too much to think. Support your local thought police. Don't speak out of question. Closed minds stop thought crimes. Have you noticed today, if you think like Christian, you'll be in serious trouble in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and in the United States of America, because what we think is a thought crime. If you say something like, well, there's only two genders, male and female. God created the male and female, and it was good. That's a thought crime. You say marriage can only be between a man and a woman. That's a thought crime. How can you be so bigoted and judgmental, so intolerant, so unfeeling? You homophobic bigot, you transphobic bigot, you fascist, you Nazi. And you say something like, Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and life. No one comes to the Father except through me. That's a thought crime. You've offended someone. We think there's many ways to God, like Oprah Winfrey and so on. Now they're offended at being told Jesus is the only way. So we are in a thought crime society now. 10th Command, you shall not think differently from what the state TV tells you to think, for deviation from the politically correct position is intolerable. You see how people lost their jobs, lost their professorships. got failed from school, got expelled from school, because they expressed something like Professor Peterson saying something like, well, there's only two genders biologically. And next thing, they go berserk. How can he say something so offensive? So what is shaping and filling your mind? If it is television and popular music, and newspapers, then you'll be a humanist in your thinking. Because these areas have been generally taken over by those people who reject God and reject the Bible. And therefore they're promoting, sometimes subtly, but they're promoting evolutionism. Billions of years and so on. Situation ethics. Is it right to sleep with your girlfriend before you get married? Well, it depends. Is it okay to steal? Well, it depends. Situation ethics. and immorality, socialism. Socialism is legalized theft and it's institutionalized envy. Humanism is a secular religion. Humanism teaches that people are not created in the image of God. And there are no absolute moral standards of right and wrong. They teach man is a product of evolutionary chance, product of the environment. You've evolved by random chance from goo to the zoo to you, from mud and molecules to monkeys to man. Once upon time, there was nothing. And then there was something. And that something became everything. A whole lot of time and a whole lot of nothing made everything. And so you just matter in motion. Therefore, people are not moral agents. We're victims of circumstances. It's not my fault. My mother dropped my dummy when I was small, and I suffered irreparable psychological damage, and it's the teacher's fault, and it's the police's fault, it's the government's fault. Nothing's my fault. I'm innocent. And man is the measure of all things, not God. That's the way the humanist thinks. What does the Bible say? Colossians 2, verse 8. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition. and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. In a household that has television, the average child will see between 15,000 to 30,000 hours of television before they leave school. And they will listen to over 10,000 hours of music before leaving school. It might even be worse than that, actually, now that almost everyone's got a cell phone. The amount of time kids spend on a screen, screens are, television or their cell phones, blasted, cursed, damned cell phones, is just mind boggling. Now, during that time, he'll have seen from 800,000 to 1.5 million acts of violence, including up to 360,000 murders depicted on television, and about a quarter of a million to almost half a million sexual acts or references to sex. That's the average home that has television on. During that same time, they'll have spent about 800 hours in church, 2,000 hours with their parents, and about 12,000 hours in school. Now, what's bringing up your child? Between 11,000 to 16,000 hours in school, less than 2,000 hours of conversation, interaction with their parents, and about 800 hours in church, or Sunday school, or youth group. What values and worldview will they receive from those choices? You can't expect one hour of Sunday school to counteract 40 hours of school every week. That's why the school must be God-fearing and must be Bible-based. Having secular humanist schools is counteracting everything. Now, my wife and I, we chose no TV in our home, ever. We did not have TV in our home, and that was a good choice. Then we chose to homeschool our children, and that was an even more wonderful choice. We protect our children from all the evil garbage that we're gonna get in the school. Now, they did learn about evolutionism and communism and so on, but they learned it from a Christian perspective. And all of our children, we never had any teenage rebellion, all of our children, I've got four children and three grandchildren. They all live in Cape Town. Now, most South Africans, their children are all over the world. Bombshell, Australia, Canada, wherever. Our families stay together because I'm sure homeschooling and no TV. In our case, we found it was much better. The media is not a reflection of reality. I mean, just think of the COVID cult. Millions of people are going to die from COVID in our country. That's what Trump has said. Millions are going to die in South Africa from COVID. Hundreds of millions are going to die worldwide from COVID. The worst plague to ever hit the world. Even worse than the bubonic plague apparently. Remember that scared us into closing down. We closed down two million churches. Two million churches closed down for Easter 2020. That's more than the history of the world. The church continued to operate throughout the bubonic plague that killed a third of Europe. Martin Luther invited people of the plague into his home while his wife was pregnant. Ulrich Zwingli was in Zurich caring for people of the plague, even got the plague himself, almost down to it when the plague hit Zurich. He didn't flee. The idea of closing churches during a pandemic was just a bad flu when he got down to it. I got COVID three times. Everyone I know in our mission, our family got COVID, and we all survived. My wife, who was dying of cancer at the time, had to go to hospital and they said, sorry, our oncology ward is full. We're putting in a COVID ward, but don't worry, there's no one else there. The COVID ward, which is meant to be overflowing, had not one single person in our local hospital. My wife was alone in there, and she's an oncology patient, cancer patient, not there for COVID. And this COVID cult Lockdown lunacy, mass-grade madness, salvation by vaccination, Covid cult. It's an absolute scam. And to think they were able to close down millions of churches, destroy how many businesses? destroy how many people's lives, and they got away with it because the media lied, the doctors lied. How can you ever trust a medical professional again, if they went along with this COVID cult? What a scare. What an absolute total disgrace. They crippled businesses, not the big businesses, the big businesses with lots and lots and lots of employees, they stayed open. The small businesses were shut down. This is just insane. It made no sense. Nothing made medical sense. A stupid little mask isn't going to keep out this virus anyway. And for someone healthy, the first rule of basic health is fresh air, which if you smoke or wear a mask, breaks the first rule of good health. Fresh air, clean water. healthy food, regular exercise, not allowing people to go for walks, runs, or exercise, or on the beach, or in the forest, was the worst thing you could do. It made no sense. Why could people not go for walks? We need exercise and a positive attitude. Well, they destroyed the positive attitude just keeping people fear porn. That's what it was, fear porn, just continually, you know, be afraid you're all gonna die and fear your neighbor. I'm out walking with my grandsons and I've got people screaming, where's your mask? Put on your mask! Social distance! And it's disgusting. Imagine if our churches spent as much time proclaiming the gospel as they put into the gospel of social distancing. I mean, how about teaching people about distancing themselves from the corruption of Hollywood and from the TV and DSTV and all this other junk? If they put the same emphasis into sanctification as they put into hand sanitizing and all the other charades that they went through, just imagine if the church had put as much money, time, and energy into promoting the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as they put into this whole COVID cult, this whole masquerade madness, lockdown lunacy. The amount of prostitutes, these media prostitutes who should be reporters, and the doctors who should be dealing with health were dealing with propaganda. and ministers of the gospel who showed more enthusiasm for the gospel of the COVID cult, salvation by vaccination, than they ever did in the gospel of Christ. Absolutely disgusting if we've ever seen how insane the world's leaders have become, COVID cult was, but the media is not a reflection of reality. Romans 12 verse 2, do not be conformed any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds. then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing and perfect will. How many pastors tested what God's will is during the COVID cult? Is this of God? Is this true? Do the facts back it up? Is it healthy to wear masks and to hibernate and to be too scared to go out and to not visit your parents or your grandparents and all the rest of it? Do you know how many people died alone? where their children are not even allowed to visit them or say goodbye at the hospitals. The cruelty of this, and the amount of people who died from this damn vaccination, cursed, blasted, damn vaccination. My brother-in-law was forced to get the jab, the clot shot, the Fauci-Alci, the so-called vaccination, in order to keep his job. He took a few, maybe four or five steps, fell over, went into a coma, died within a week. That's back in 2021. And the amount of people we know in Cape Town who died from getting the vaccination. I don't know anyone who died of COVID. I know lots who died from the COVID vaccination. And what a total scandal. I hope these people are put on trial for war crimes. What a criminal operation the whole bunch was involved in. Unless you make a conscious, deliberate, daily effort to study God's Word, and to apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of life, you will inevitably be conformed to this world. They'll brainwash you. News media, Wikipedia, Google, all the news feeds that you get on your cell phone, billboards, there's so much propaganda coming. And if you ever watch a Hollywood film, they're going to be pushing their woke, critical race theory, garbage, morning, noon, and night. You will have your mind so scrambled you won't even be able to think straight if you just let the world dump everything into your mind. It's like putting an open sewer connection into your brain once you're living in it. The news media, the educational institutions, the entertainment industry are seldom sympathetic to biblical values. They're normally hostile. What we see influences what we think. What we think influences what we become, and that influences what we do. Just think, why does Coca-Cola put millions and millions of dollars every year into adverts? Because even just a few second adverts is going to influence you, and influence your buying choices. They wouldn't put millions into a 30 second advert if it didn't have an impact, and if it wasn't worth the while. So if Hollywood spends $100 million on a film, Do you think they didn't put in that one or two hour film what they really wanted to believe? They are pushing down our throats their critical race theory, their gender dysphoria, their transphobia and all the rest that they're continually shoving down our throats what they want us to do, believe and become. Ideas have consequences. Actions flow from thought patterns. We need to be culturally wise. What form of education is moulding your thought patterns? What entertainment and news media is filling your mind? In South Africa we've got E-TV, we call it Evil TV. Be very careful in how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. People have asked me how I had the time to write the books I've written. Simple answer, I don't watch television. So I've saved myself hours a day. The average person spending, what, five, six, seven hours a day watching TV? That's a whole lot of extra time that you can use for research, writing, and more important things like family. Here's the biblical standard, Philippians 4 verse 8. Whatever is true, how much of our media is true? Whatever is noble, how much of Hollywood is noble? Whatever is right, Whatever's pure, is there anything in Hollywood that's pure? Whatever's lovely, whatever's admirable, if anything is excellent or praised well, think about such things. That's the Christian standard for our entertainment and our news media. And I'm afraid most of the world's media fails. The BBC is the biased or Bolshevik broadcasting corporation. The American CNN is the Clinton News Network or the Communist News Network. Time Magazine, I call Slime Magazine. Newsweek, I call Newspeak. U.S. News and World Report, I call Useless News and World Report. SATV, Satanic Ultra-Television. Ezekiel 44, verse 23. They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. How many of your congregation can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean? or between the right and the wrong, or the almost right and the wrong even. We need discernment. The gift that people should be praying for is the gift of discernment. We need more discernment in our churches. What has gone so wrong that those who claim to be Christians can be guilty of deceit, Theft, immorality, promotion of pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, gambling, and abortion. I mean, just think of somebody like Pastor Muzi, who was running the DA for years. A pastor, and his party stood for all these things. Legalized pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, gambling, Sabbath desecration, totally anti-Christian agenda. We called the DA the demonic alliance. The ANC and the DA, Call him the D-A-N-C. Must have joined together anyway. Don't you like how the government can't even spell stop? So how can Christians belong to political parties which blatantly reject God's law and which promotes gross evils? How can Christians vote for political parties which advocate legalized prostitution, legalized gambling, homosexuality, pornography, abortion, euthanasia? And that's what most of the parties in South Africa stand for. And most of the votes go to parties that stand for these idols. Yet we meant to have 85% Christians in South Africa. Why are Christians not voting their values? Romans 3, 18 says, there is no fear of God before their eyes. And it's true. That was written about pagans, but you can now write that over many churches. There's no fear of God before their eyes. Many churches do not even fear God. You see the distress we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach. By the way, these pictures are of Tswane, what used to be Pretoria, a while ago when I was there. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding. For a society to be prosperous and peaceful, it's essential that the society be made up primarily of moral people. The foundations for a truly free, stable society can only be laid in characters, minds, lives changed by the grace of God. We need regenerate people to have a peaceful society. In order to be successful, a society needs to be made up of honest citizens who will not steal. Diligent people who are hardworking and productive. Compassionate families who concern for their neighbours. The church should be central in any society. We need responsible workers who will fulfil their obligations and be faithful stewards of public resources, not looting and stealing for personal enrichment. The essential foundations for any society is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the fear of God. You cannot have a moral society unless people have faith in Christ and the fear of God. the foundation for a free society. People who fear God, who pray. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands. Does anyone recognize where this is? Anyone been here? Do you know which city this is? It's the capital of a country. That's a Vintook in Namibia. And you see the Christus Church, the Lutheran Church, is in the smack center of the city because it used to be that cities and counties were built around churches. The church was at the focal center, geographic center, and moral center of the society as well. Here we get into the heart of the problem. Most of our churches are devoid of the fear of the Lord. And far from delighting in God's commands, many Christians actually despise God's law. I've heard preachers claim, we're no longer under the law. And I was at a church where the youth pastor took the communion service and he was forced because the communion service to go through the order of service that required even the 10 commands. He had to read the whole 10 commands, all 10 of them. At the end he says, phew, ah, glad we don't need to worry about any of that anymore. And so I waited till everyone had left and I got him by the door and said, what you had to say about the 10 commands is very interesting. Which of the 10 commands do you think don't apply anymore? He said, none of them. So I said, can we worship other gods? No. Can we bow before idols? He didn't think so. Can we take God's name in vain? He wasn't sure. May we desecrate the Sabbath? Yes, definitely we should desecrate the Sabbath. Sabbath doesn't apply anymore. Oh, okay. Can we diss on our parents? He wasn't sure. What about murder? No, we can't murder. Come on, can't we at least kill little babies, helpless babies, babies before we can see them? Can't we at least vote for parties that will kill for us through abortion? He wasn't sure. What about adultery? Can we commit adultery? He didn't think so. Well, can't we at least enjoy watching adultery on the screen performed by actors in Hollywood films? He wasn't sure. Can we steal? No, he didn't think so. Well, can't we at least vote for political parties to steal for us? He wasn't sure. What about lying? Can we lie? No, he didn't think we should lie. Well, can't we at least enjoy watching lies on Instagram? This is based on a true story, inspired by real events. Can't we at least enjoy reading lies in the scandal mags and newspapers and magazines? He didn't know. What about covetousness? Is it okay to covet? He wasn't sure. Well, I mean all advertising is basically built on covetousness. What you've got is not good enough. You need the new super duper deluxe new edition of whatever. And everything you've got you should be dissatisfied with. Covetousness is built into our whole materialistic society. Well, anyway, the Bible defines sin as lawlessness. Here's a youth pastor who didn't think that the Ten Commands were fine anymore. You know what antinomianism is? Antinomist. Nomist is law, antinomist, negative. So antinomian is someone who rejects God's law. They need to listen to the words of the Lord Jesus. Jesus said, do not think that I've come to abolish the law or the prophets. I've not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen will be able to disappear from the law. Anyone who breaks one of the least of God's commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever practices and preaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Now how much clearer could the Lord have put it than he'd put it in Matthew 5, 17 to 19? God's law applies today. King Alfred the Great of England laid the foundations for the common law. The common law of England begins with these words, I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the house of bondage and the house of slavery in Egypt. You ought to have no other gods before me. The whole 10 commands the case laws of Exodus, and then the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus. That is the common law of England. That is the dunes of King Alfred, the foundations of Western civilization. These, like the golden rule of Christ, do unto others who want to be done unto. That's the common law. The principles of limited government and the foundations of individual liberty can be traced through King Alfred to the Bible, and that's according to a history of the English-speaking people's history book. The law of God is the only effective foundation for freedom and justice. The Ten Commands covers our responsibility to God, our responsibility to our parents, and our responsibility to other people and to even God's creatures. Notice even animals are to be given a day of rest on the Sabbath. There's even concern for the animals in the Ten Commands. And God spoke all these words, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and who keep my commandments. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh is the Sabbath day to the Lord. On it you shall not do any work, neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that's in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God has given you. You shall not commit murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Now, these 10 commandments summarize all the commands of God in the Bible. And each command deals with a specific area. God, worship, speech, time, authority, life, love, property, truth, conscience. So when it comes to God, we should worship God alone. This forbids atheism, polygamy, pantheism, all these different idols are forbidden. But it establishes your freedom of worship. The second command deals with do not bow to any idol. It doesn't tell us how to worship. It's not telling you you've got to worship in the Presbyterian way or the Anglican way. It doesn't say you've got to worship in the Lutheran way. The only restriction on the worship is don't worship idols. worship God alone. So you've got freedom here. You can have Pentecostal worship, you can have Methodist worship, you can have Baptist worship, you can have Anglican, Presbyterian. There's a wide range of worship options, but you're not departed to either. There's very little restrictions put on our freedom here. So you've got freedom of worship. Freedom of speech. The only limit to your speech is do not take God's name in vain and do not lie, do not bear false witness. So those are the only restrictions. Outside of that, you've got huge freedom of speech. There's very little restrictions actually in the Ten Commands. God gives us Ten Commands. Governments give us thousands of laws. Time. Remember Sabbath day to keep it holy. You're to work six days. You've got the right to work, and you have the right to rest. There's a real freedom here. When it comes to authority, your first authority is your parents. Honor your father and your mother. And it's not just your biological father and mother. It would also include your grandparents, your uncles and aunts. This would include the extended family, also your spiritual fathers and mothers, your secular fathers and mothers, like the mayor, the king, the governor, the prince. You've got to respect authority. This would include respecting the police, respecting the authorities in your life, whether it's your employer or your pastor. You can see honoring your father and mother includes all the other authorities you need to respect too. The right to life. Do not commit murder. This establishes the right to life. And also the sanctity of marriage. Do not commit adultery. Now this would include forbidding fornication, it would include forbidding pornography, it would include forbidding perversion, but sanctity of marriage, do not commit adultery. Property, do not steal. Plainly, right to own property is written into the Ten Commands. Truth, you have the right to be protected from slander and from gossip and from libel. Do not bear false witness. This gives the authority, the obligation to government to protect people from being slandered, libeled, and people being gossiped against. And the only restriction on your conscience is do not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. And of course, do not commit idolatry. So that's why you've got freedom of conscience. There's a wide range of things that are covered by freedom of conscience. Every command has a prohibition, and every command includes an implicit right, like freedom of worship, the right to know God's will and to do it, freedom of speech, the right to work and to rest, respect for authority, the right to life, the sanctity of marriage, private ownership of property, the right to be protected from slander, and there's freedom of conscience. So all of this is in the Ten Commands. Our Lord summed up the second tablet of the law, our duty to man with, do to others as you want them to do to you. How do you love your neighbor? Do to them what you'd want them to do to you. Don't steal his life. Don't steal his wife. Don't steal his property. Don't steal his good name and reputation by slander. Do not be jealous, envious, or covetous of your neighbor. That's how I love my neighbor. Many would ask, what does the law have to do with eternal life? Well, Galatians 3.24 says, the law was our tutor or schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by our faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ expressly affirmed the eternal validity of God's law. Do not think I've come to destroy the law of all the prophets. I didn't come to destroy it, but to fulfill it. Assuredly, I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away, but not one jot, not one tittle, not the slightest stroke of a pen will by any means pass from the Lord till all is fulfilled. Therefore, whoever breaks one of these least commands, teaches men so, will be least in the kingdom of heaven. How much clearer could the Lord make it? The law of God applies today. I say to you, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. So plainly, the law of God applies today. And Jesus said, if anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. Our Lord summed up the Ten Commandments. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. And you shall love your neighbor as yourself. How do I love God with all my heart? Well, worship God alone. Don't bow before idols. Don't take God's name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The first tablet of the Lord tells you how to love God. The second tablet of the Lord tells you how to love your neighbor, by not stealing his life, by not stealing his wife, by not stealing his property, by not stealing his good name and reputation, and by not being jealous and envious of him. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. Now, I've written a book, The Ten Commands of God's Perfect Law of Liberty, where I summarize each of these commands. And I deal with one sermon a Sunday, dealing with each of the commands. And it's a wonderful way to do pre-evangelism, to get to people's conscience, to prepare people, but also to disciple people in how we should behave after we are converted. And there's not enough emphasis on law, but the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. What converts the soul? The law of the Lord. It's a schoolmaster that leads us to Christ, that we can be justified by faith. How then can so many Christians claim that God's law doesn't apply today? Have you heard people say that? The law of God doesn't apply today? Has anyone heard someone teaching that, maybe on TV or something? Yeah, I've heard it. Well, Are we free to worship other gods? No. Can we bow before idols? No. May we take God's name in vain? No. May we desecrate the Lord's Day and dishonour our parents? Surely not. May we kill pre-born babies through abortion and old and infirm through euthanasia? Definitely not. May we commit adultery or steal or lie or covet? No. Which of these commandments may we break without fear of serious consequences? It's like the law of gravity. If you wander off the side of the table, you're going to fall. Gravity is not just a suggestion. It's the law. You break yourself on the law of gravity. The law of gravity is not going to be broken. You're going to break yourself. God is not a permissive God. He didn't give us the 10 suggestions. He gave us the 10 commandments. Jesus said, do not be afraid of people who can only kill the body. And after that, they can do nothing more. Rather fear God who can destroy both body and soul in hell forever. That's whom we should fear. This is an interesting portrait in Switzerland at Lausanne, Palace of Justice. It's called Justice Lifts the Nations. And this shows you the people of the city of their arguments, their disagreements and their complaints. And here's the two sheriffs standing with a double-edged hand and swords waiting for instruction. And here the elders of the city looking to Lady Justice for wisdom. Now, there's Lady Justice statues all over America and Europe, but in America, they're always blindfolded. The Americans want the Lady Justice blindfolded for some reason. In Europe, Lady Justice is not blindfolded. She can see. And she's got a sword. Now, they always have a scale of justice to weigh the evidence in one hand, and they have a sword in the other hand, double-ended sword. And normally, the sword's pointed upwards, So she's weighing the scales of evidence and she's pointing to the Holy Bible, the open Bible. And the elders are looking to justice to determine how to respond to these complaints in the foreground. This is a very meaningful illustration of what biblical justice is all about. Only God can produce lasting justice and righteousness. In individuals, in families, in churches and in nations, only to the degree that people fear God and obey his commandments can society function for the good and the freedom of all their citizens. Honest and hard work abounds when God is being feared. Sound economic practices flow from the fear of God. You know, I've been in Switzerland where you're driving along the road and there's a farm stall. There's this farm store, there's nobody there. They've got the farm products out on the table, there's a shade over it, and there's prices on a box. You put the money in or take the change needed to get the farm items. Nobody's there to watch, it's assumed you're going to be honest. I've been to game reserves there in Switzerland and so on too, where they've got an honour box. You've got to pay to enter, but there's just a box, and you put the money in for how much it costs to enter this game reserve. They don't have someone there to supervise and open the gate. You are trusted to honour this, and think how much cheaper everything becomes when you don't need to worry that everyone's going to steal. There are even shops where you can help yourself and pay on the way out, and there's nobody supervising. Can you imagine? That wouldn't work in a society where people want to steal. You've got to have people who fear God and have faith in Christ to not steal. Adherence to God's law would result in respect for God, respect for people, respect for property, respect for creation. A society where you would love your neighbor instead of fearing your neighbor. For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish. It will be utterly ruined. And we are seeing societies ruined because of the lack of integrity, lack of fear of God, lack of love for neighbors. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Imagine being one of the children of Israel coming out of Egypt and You've got the pillar of fire at night. Now a desert can be very cold at night. I've been in a desert at night. Very cold. You'd want to be as close to that heat as you could be in the middle of night. And in a day in the desert, you'd want to be as close to that cloud, in the shadow of that cloud, as possible because the heat in the day is so bad. And the Lord led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Doesn't it make sense? You'd want to be close to God. under that shadow by day, close to the fire by night. Blessed is the nation if God is the Lord. When something is repeated in the scripture, its emphasis is important. Loving God, loving his name, loving his word, loving his law is mentioned 88 times in the Bible. It is important to love God and to love his name, to love his word. 88 times it's mentioned. Trusting in God, trusting in his word occurs 91 times. It's seriously important to trust God. Do you trust God? But do you know there are 278 references in the Bible to fearing God? You read of the fear of God more times than any other aspect of devotion, even more than loving and trusting God. The fear of the Lord is the most basic, fundamental attitude of our faith. By the fear of God we mean the reverential awe, respect of God. Any view of God which doesn't lead us to fear God cannot be biblical. For example, I've been in the army, and we feared our commanding officer, our commandant, and rightly so. As a soldier, I was a basic private, a rifleman, and when you heard of commandant's inspection, you made sure everything was polished. The commandant's going to walk through your bungalow, he's going to look at your bed, your rifle, your kit. your trommel, your trunk, your cupboard. Everything has to be polished, clean, perfect. Even the dustbins were polished to a shine that you could look at them like a mirror. The bathrooms, polished, shine. Everything was clean, spotless, perfect. We feared our commanding officer. We wanted to please our commanding officer. We did not want to incur his wrath. I mean, he could bring all kinds of punishment upon all of us. We could all be out there doing fast break, 8.4 kilometer runs with full kits carrying big tires and poles and huge drums, and there's so many things he could do to make our life difficult. But he could give us a pass and leave, an extra leave, and he could authorize all kinds of good things for us too. You wanted his favor, he didn't want his anger. And so there was a respect for our commanding officer. Well, God is far greater than any commandant of any military base. We should fear God more. You think you're going to a job interview, you might feel a bit of fear and trepidation. You might go to the bank manager for a loan. You might be dressing in your best and you might feel some fear. You might go for a doctor's interview and you might actually fear the doctor what he might say. We should be more respectful, more reverential and in awe of God than we are for any of these human authorities, however insimilating they might be. That's what we need for our society to work. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. Psalm 19, verse seven. Great and marvelous are your deeds, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O King of the ages. Who will not fear you? O Lord, bring glory to your name. You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed. Revelation 15 makes it clear. Because we fear God, we should worship him. Unless we as individuals, as families, as congregations, as communities, and as a nation, unless we return to God's word, we're doomed to suffer the inevitable consequences of humanistic situation ethics, which is escalating sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, inflation, unemployment, increasing corruption, crime, and violence. We've got a choice. It's God's law or it is chaos. It's that simple. There's the broad road that leads to destruction or the narrow way that leads to life. It's a choice before each one of us. And every day, we have got to choose to obey God. We've got to choose to resist the devil. God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. See, I've set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. Love the Lord your God. Walk in his ways. Keep his commands, decrees, and laws. Then you will live, and you will increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land. Deuteronomy 30. the very verse that Thabo Mbeki ordered burned, because it so offended him at the gates of Parliament. And so we are on a journey. There's the broad path that leads to destruction, there's a narrow path that leads to life. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that to face judgment. The wage of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life. So we need to recall every single day What path am I on? We need to warn other people about this too. You can visit our website www.frontlinemissionsa.org and this audio and video will be placed up there too. I've written a book, Biblical Principles for Africa, which covers a lot of practical principles of biblical principles, economics, crime and punishments, education, justice, many issues like that. Unfortunately, at this moment, the book's only available in French and in Afrikaans, but we'll have to reprint the English one soon. These books cost a lot of money. We struggle. Trust the Lord for when we can afford to print this, but we've already printed 40,000 of these. They're popular all over Africa, but we've got to get more. The Ten Commandments books are available for those who have got a limited amount. So if somebody can come to me and quote the Ten Commandments, I'll gladly give you a copy for free. Ten Commandments, you don't have to give it every word, just a summary. Worship God alone. Do not bow before idols. Do not take God's name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. honor your father and mother, do not commit murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not lie, do not take, do not bear false witness against your neighbor. I mean, even my three, four-year-olds can recite that. God's perfect law of liberty. So we've got other books like Reforming Our Families, others that you can get from our bookshops. These are just some of our resources and helpful materials.