The Truth of It | Ep. 57

g'day i'm martin isles and this is the truth of it and today i'll be talking about the great reset and if you don't know what that is stick around because it's significant it's quite big it's also something that's been the subject of many conspiracy theories and concerns in recent times i'll also be talking secondly about the change and suppression conversion practices prohibition bill 2020. it's a word salad it's a mouthful but uh we'll be talking about that it's in the state of victoria it's about lgbt conversion therapy and uh what does it mean for the whole country quite a bit [Music] but first of all i want to make a quick comment about the elephant in the room which is the u.s election i talked about it last week a number of things have changed since then i'm not ready to talk about it again until next week the reason for that is it's really difficult to know what's going on until the court cases are actually filed i don't want to comment about the pr i don't want to comment about press conferences i don't want to comment about politicking i'm really just interested in the cases themselves in the evidence that's being put forward and the nature of what's going to actually be put into court where you know the rubber meets the road they're going to have to try and prove that's what i'm interested in and the reality is that right now there really doesn't seem to be anything in court that could change the election outcome it all depends on sydney powell's the name of the attorney in question it all depends on her promise to quote release of the kraken uh her comment that this was going to be a biblical case a case that would allege fraud and allege hacking of the dominion voting machines and the smartmatic software and all the rest of it huge things have been said she says she's going to file imminently and that means if she does one of two things is going to happen either it's all going to be in there like she promised in which case we'll have a lot to talk about next week or it's all going to be pr and no substance in which case i'll certainly be you know pretty annoyed about all of that but we can cover that as well let's wait and see i don't know if evidence is there we'll look at it but for now i think the wisest thing to do is wait and see otherwise we risk getting caught up in the noise having said that let's move on to another big global issue which is the great reset as i said this has been quite topical of late there's a lot of different theories swirling around some of them are verging on conspiratorial but it's important to address it because it is real it's not actually the existence of it is not a conspiracy uh you know time magazine is running a great reset issue uh the world economic forum is calling its next national annual meeting the great reset and they've put out a paper called the great reset it's very very real it's an actual thing um and it has meaning for all of us because it's got great influence at the area of global governance with with uh world leaders and so on but to understand the great reset you first need to have some understanding of the world economic forum or the wef this is a body it's just an organization and not for profit it's based in geneva in switzerland it was founded by a bloke called klaus schwab in 1971 and basically in a nutshell it is a think tank it's a think tank kind of on steroids though a think tank is kind of an organization that produces research and they put together research papers on areas that are relevant to government policy so might be research on tax rates and the impact it has on business or it could be on i don't know um the nature you know how many trees are in a suburb and what that does to happiness of the community or whatever it could be any number of things and they could put this research paper together do all this original work prove the whole bunch of things like a 20 tax rate is ideal or seven trees per square meter is ideal or whatever that'd be a lot of trees but you know all that kind of stuff and they go to government so here's our recommendations here's our research some of these think tanks are quite influential and they can really influence government policy through the work that they do the world economic forum is a bit like that except that it's kind of enormous it is global for one thing and also it's managed to get real influence with a lot of global figures mostly world leaders but also global business leaders also figures like prince charles greta thundberg all these types and a lot of sort of celebrity types and everything as well so it's quite a broad church so to speak and it brings all these people together what they call these annual meetings the annual meetings in its own words quote bring together top leaders and shape global regional and industry agendas all that kind of blah blah blah wording is pretty common in everything that they write um it's boring um but in january 2020 of this year about 3 000 of these so-called top leaders attended they were mostly business people and they were mostly world leaders uh politicians it's influential enough to have informed political campaigns so the phrase build back better which was joe biden's one of joe biden's slogans for the u.s presidency is actually a phrase that comes out of the world economic forum and the work they've been doing it was also used by boris johnson the same the same three words in some of his work also you can see the slogan appear on a lot of government department letterheads and communications they put out in research papers everywhere from canada to pakistan the oecd justin trudeau prime minister canada made public statements using that great reset phrase and a few associated phrases so it's a think tank with lots and lots of high profile friends and very influential it influences governments it influences businesses and it influences the way all these people think because they get together and talk about this stuff and go away and do their own thing and it's all lodged in their head that brings me to the great reset what exactly is it well it's actually a project of the world economic forum it is the title as i said of their next annual meeting in may 2021 it is also produced in a big document it's full of many words that make you know that are boring reading and a lot of them are buzz words and generalizing all the rest of it it's just frankly excruciating but some of the buzzwords it includes are things like change and transformation it's always all about change and transformation it wants to really change things it wants to see that change and transformation in every country and every industry so it's quite radical and it wants to see that change and transformation shaped and brought on by the recovery from covert 19 to reimagine economic systems and reimagine capitalism as we shall see in just a moment it's full of lots of pc stuff there's lots of stuff but equality and sustainability really heavy on climate change really heavy and and and also there's lgbt inclusion and all that stuff as well importantly this is not just a document that is or or even a body the world economic forum that's all about governments it's also all about big the biggest businesses as well it brings them into the agenda and it does that by saying oh businesses aren't just about business businesses are actually all about uh you know i'm making a better world and businesses are all about politics and businesses are all about leaving legacies and changing society and we've seen that a lot in businesses lately most with mostly with them becoming more and more woke uh enforcing diversity and inclusion agendas and you see like rugby australia sacking israel fallout you see qantas with all of their games that they play we're seeing this a lot in business well the world economic forum is inviting businesses into the fold and saying this is business and government and we're all in to this this thing of making a better world that's significant because we're about to see the world economic forum supports stuff that traditionally businesses would not embrace but they've cleverly included business in the agenda so that's that's very clever on their part now all of that's very general but there are times when people like mr schwab himself klaus schwab are a lot clearer about their meaning and they really distill what they want and you can get a sense of what they really mean with a bit more clarity and a bit fewer words one example is october the 22nd time magazine an article by klaus schwab himself summarizing a lot of his work and much of what the great reset stands for i'm going to just read some quotes and make comments he says this for example he says a better economy is possible but we need to reimagine capitalism to do it what he really means is pitch out capitalism and put something in its place but reimagine is a little bit more acceptable and genteel in the diplomatic world uh he goes on to say the same economic system that created so much prosperity in the golden age of american capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s is now creating inequality and climate change so in other words capitalism is no longer any good it was great but no longer any good and he says and the same political systems are not economic system but now political system that enabled our global progress and democracy after world war ii now contributes to societal discord and discontent each was well intended but had unintended negative consequences so short version capitalism is bad now democracy is bad now both of them are broken both of them need resetting both of them need fixing you can get a sense of where this is going he says crazy things like evidence that democracy is now splintered and messed up is things like black lives matter and the climate justice movement which is insane because these things have not been birthed from belief in democracy or any of the ideals of democracy these things have been set up as uh an antithesis to democracy they're revolutionary movements that don't believe in democracy or don't believe in western values or any of these things at all and they've been set up and they're causing all this trouble he's like yeah so you see what democracy does suit all the trouble it causes no these are anti-democratic movements um and you see this a lot it's almost like a kind of gaslighting for example with biden and the democrats coming in and saying now's the time for healing we're all going to you know heal america we're gonna have peace and quiet like we we couldn't have under donald trump because of all the division and the anger and we know that the movements that were causing the violence when donald trump or donald trump is still president but you know in the in the in the trump term over the last few years we know that they're left-wing movements we know there's black lives matter that was doing that we know there's antifa that was doing that it wasn't you know trump following um you know uh texans that were doing that it just wasn't but see there's a kind of gas lighting here it's like oh well now we can heal because that was his fault when it was them all along um anyway that's a slight tangent but uh it's becoming more and more common so cloud schwab is up the creek on that stuff but nonetheless that's his point he says i don't capitalism's got to change democracy's got to change he goes on there are reasons to believe a better economic system is possible and that it could be just around the corner he goes on to say two reasons for that covet 19 here's a great reset opportunity here's a new economic system we can bring in uh now's the chance since we've botched our economies effectively and maybe we can do something different now to hide that the other thing he actually uses a lot and that the world economic forum uses a lot is climate change climate change has another sort of crisis so to speak to um to precipitate a massive reinvention of these systems he goes on for the past 30 to 50 years the neoliberalist ideology has increasingly prevailed in large parts of the world this approach centers on the notion that the market knows best that the business of business is business and that the government should refrain from setting clear rules for the functioning of markets those dogmatic beliefs have proved wrong but fortunately we are not destined to follow them yeah really okay i would say that a lot of the debt trouble that western countries are in right now isn't because of markets but it's because of government interventions like coronavirus um seriously but anyway notice how he's saying that businesses he's bringing them into the political realm the business of business is no longer business after something far greater join us you know be part of this program that's uh really significant and here's the other thing he says these things have been proved wrong the reality is that the last you know since world war ii if you look at the democratic and the capitalistic systems of the world and how that spread into more and more countries the reality is that it has lifted more people out of poverty than any other time in history it has elevated more into the middle class than at any other time in history it has it has raised up the lives of more people it has improved the lot of more people than any other move or idea in all of history and actually when you do that you get all the other things that mr klaus says that he wants you get for example far less emissions per capita with the technological advancement and with the change from a country from third world to developing to first world you get all sorts of benefits and he says no no we don't want those benefits through the capitalistic tradition we've got a better idea that's important to note here's something far more telling far more telling a video was released by the world economic forum since deleted interestingly based on the notion of imagining life in 2030 it's a short video with a number of taglines the first tagline that appears on the screen and indeed the thumbnail of the video was you'll own nothing and you'll be happy now here's a question who exactly is you who's owning nothing i'll tell you this it isn't klaus i'll tell you this is not the world economic forum i tell you this is not the big businesses and big governments that are involved in the world economic forum i know but it's you it's the little guy you own nothing because someone is going to own something that is pure communism with an elite ruling class that oversees all things and the little guy owns nothing and is meant to be happy doesn't work that way in practice great idea the next line is whatever you want you will rent and it makes my point who are you renting it from who are you paying i thought we all own nothing someone owns the things someone made the things someone replaces the things someone is responsible for the things it's just not you it continues the us won't be the world's leading superpower in other words and it goes on to say it will be a coalition of nations so it will be a multinational government that's what will dominate right um as if that could possibly go wrong and again if america is not the superpower i mean what do we want china to be the superpower do we think that'll go well i mean this is sort of the world government stuff it's idealism it says you'll eat much less meat an occasional treat not a staple so in other words someone is now telling me what i can eat someone's now telling people what kind of meat they can grow and how they can distribute it and they're controlling food production supply and what you put into your mouth surprise i guess if you don't own anything and you're dependent on the government who owns everything to rent stuff from why not let them define what your diet is it goes on a billion people will be displaced by climate change will have to do a better job at welcoming and integrating refugees okay the first part of that statement false a billion people will not be displaced by climate change but even if climate change was happening of that nature there's plenty of work been done to show that the best way to deal with it is technological advance and actually have the technology to deal with it people can live anywhere with the right technology people can handle anything with the right technology that is technological advanced that will do it but no they say instead we're going to have to welcome and integrate refugees and what this is based on effectively and frankly a lot of countries do a great job welcoming and integrating refugees they just do it in a sustainable way but of course this is based on the idea that all cultures are relative a relativistic view of culture that there's no culture that's better than another there's no values that are better than others you know no country has gotten further ahead because of its values and its culture which are good and therefore to dilute that doesn't matter it doesn't matter uh it is to and you'll go on to see that they don't believe in western values and so that's really what they're after they want the western world to be overwhelmed by cultures from develop the developing world quickly so that they no longer exist it says polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide there will be a global price on carbon again i say levied by whom who gets the carbon price well not you because you don't own anything no the carbon price will go to the people who own the stuff and they'll get fatter and they'll get richer and whose expense will that be yours who doesn't own anything because that's what happens the carbon price filters down to everything else it increases the prices of everything they actually say this western values will have been tested to the breaking point which goes in with what what klaus was saying before about the fact that western values uh democrat democracy capitalism and all that are on the way out they no longer work what are western values well do you know what's interesting western values at the very least are freedoms freedom of movement freedom of speech freedom of conscience freedom of religion freedom of assembly freedom to protest that sort of thing at least people agree on that ah okay so freedoms i'll tell you what else people basically agree on is that christianity or a form of it is universally considered to be a western value although i've been tested at a breaking point old hat now who needs the freedoms who needs the christianity new system well finally let me read quickly a couple of quotes from an article published by the world economic forum how life could change in my city by the year 2030. this is hair raising it says welcome to the year 2030. welcome to my city or should i say our city i don't own anything i don't own a car i don't own a house i don't own any appliances or clothes it might seem odd to you but it makes perfect sense for us in this city everything you considered a product has now become a service we have access to transportation accommodation food and all the things we need in our daily lives one by one all these things became free so it ended up not making sense for us to own much now again someone created that stuff someone has power over that stuff someone takes the rent for that stuff as it said in the last list someone developed it someone repairs it it's just that you don't own it you don't own it someone's getting rich off it once in a while note this this is how it closes once in a while i get annoyed about the fact that i have no real privacy nowhere i can go and not be registered i know that somewhere everything i do think and dream of is recorded i just hope that nobody will use it against me i mean it's just 1984 out in the open it's not even hidden so you're going to be tracked everything you think everything you dream of everywhere you go will be registered you will be fi so i wasn't wrong was i when i said oh it's just you that won't own it it's just that you that pays all the money it's just you that has your life control to the point of whether you can eat your meat or not it's just you now that is tracked and watched and followed this is pure communism notice all in all it's a good life much better than the path we were on where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth we had all these terrible things happening lifestyle diseases climate change refugee crisis environmental degradation completely congested cities water pollution air pollution social unrest and employment we lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently it's utopian it'll solve the fact that there's countries in the world from which people want to flee because of war we're going to end wars have you heard that before we're going to have world peace there's going to be no refugee movements we're going to get rid of diseases i mean for heaven's sake we're going to get rid of climate change as if that's within our power i mean it's utopian communistic now here's the thing is this a conspiracy theory i don't know i mean i should say just no i was gonna say i don't think it is and then i said no it sounded like i said i don't know that's not what i meant i don't think it is um it's a real idea by a real bloke and a real entity the problem is that entity happens to be sort of the hobnobbing place of many world leaders and business leaders and these ideas are going to be rubbing off on them now i hope that our government has the good sense to resist this i don't have a lot of confidence because the thing is there's not many donald trumps in the world who are not part of this establishment class who have to pander to their friends in the political worlds right that have to be seen to pay credence to this stuff because their future and their politics and their lives depend on it uh trump was a true outsider and that's why they didn't like him we don't have many of those figures and this shows us how these people at the very top in these global institutions how they are thinking they actually are marxists and or communists and or something a little bit like both of those things whatever word you want to give it centralized government people they are that kind of person this is what they believe they believe in the power of themselves and their own ideas to make a utopia that puts people into a position of total control total being controlled that is and here's the thing covert 19 has shown that the west will embrace this at least at first in exchange for a sense of safety and security and for handouts from the government and for the odd footy match we have state of origin with 50 000 and yet we can't even go to a church with all of our friends at church not allowed to do that but a 50 000 footy match is fine for that we will give up most things we will give up our movement we will give up our work we will give up our western freedoms like protesting and assembly we will give up connection with our family we will give up everything because the government will keep us safe isn't that precisely what they want no wonder klaus schwab has written a book covert 19 and the great reset because this he says is exactly what we want and that was what we did for a disease with a 99.9 something survival rate for young people and a high 90 survival rate for old people as if it was the black death and we're all going to die give away a lot don't we quickly easily people will drink this up at first but as the old saying goes you only vote for communism once um and by the way covert 19 was one thing the next they'll try and engineer into a crisis to get more of this agenda off the ground will be climate change and it's very clear in the great reset documentation that's precisely what they want to do and that really is i think the threat posed by this is the influence of this group the world economic forum and the way people are primed to accept it you know i was asked very recently at a public forum what i believe is the biggest threat in the next decade or two which we're largely unaware of that was the question i was asked there's actually a forum in alice springs i thought about it i didn't want to give an answer because it sounds crazy but i said then communism and i have thought that for a while but i haven't really said it because if you take people too far ahead of where they are they switch off and don't listen to you but that is what i believe it's already happening institutionally in many changes to legislation in many changes around crises like covert 19 the response is communistic or maybe there's a more precise word but communistic is close it's already happening radically in movements like black lives matter we're trained marxists they said they're revolutionary they want to wreck the joint they're total this is how they think or extinction rebellion or occupy wall street or safe schools or any number of others and there'll be more in the future it's already happening mentally by capturing the minds of young people in the education system if you teach them marxist and communistic concepts in the curriculum for long enough they will embrace it when it arrives i know more than one young person who's recently finished year 12 who proudly announces that they are marxists and it was purely i can tell you because of their education that's here in australia but of course it has to happen doesn't it when you remove god where else do people go for contentment for security for purpose for everything of that nature if there is no higher authority than the state and with starry eyes and with their misplaced hopes they will start looking to the state to make them happy it won't last because it'll prove false but that's where people are starting to look but there is something more than the state there is something more than politics the destiny of all things ultimate meeting are found in none other than the living god utopia is not on this earth utopia is in the next life and the next world and i am so glad that there's something more than politics i'm so glad that trump or biden or whoever my favorite candidate is winning the presidency is not what my happiness my security my joy and all that sort of stuff that's not what it depends on never has never will because there's something far greater than trump there's something far greater than biden there's something far greater than scott morrison and anthony albanese for the australian politicians there's something greater than the world economic forum the world is losing sight of that fact people everywhere are losing side of that fact our leaders don't believe that fact and so statism is what is going to happen unless we recover that fact afresh all right second up i'm going to be talking about the change and suppression conversion practices prohibition bill 2020 a word salad a mouthful but it is effectively this issue of lgbt conversion therapy that is the name of a bill that is introduced this week into the victorian parliament victoria is the second most popular state of australia for those watching from overseas um search our youtube channel for my conversion therapy commentary from the past particularly one from last season but i want to speak about it again with extra clarity because victoria has raised the bar with this latest bill introduced into the parliament this week i've read a lot about the bill i haven't read the detail of the bill but i'm pretty sure i understand what's in it based on what i've read about it and the information we've been given it is a bill which as the title says note the change in suppression change in suppression it's purporting to outlaw change and suppression practices i mean it's a bill that prohibits change it's a bill that prohibits suppression and the other word in there is a bill that prohibits conversion now it will be falsely marketed as a bill that prohibits torture and coercion and abuse and it'll be falsely justified based on a report that was given to the victorian government by the human rights law center and latrobe university which claims that such things are rife in christian and religious communities that is torture coercion and abuse i quote from the report harmful conversion practices emerged in conservative christian communities in the 1970s our research suggests that conversion practices and ideologies are being mainstreamed within particular christian churches conversion activities can constitute torture or cruel inhuman and degrading treatment particularly when they are administered through force or to children they go on to make the outrageous claim that up to 10 percent of lgbt australians are vulnerable to these harmful practices that is torture and etc degrading treatment cruelty because 10 of australians attend religious institutions like protestant churches and that's a huge leap let me be clear these are lies abusive coercive treatments of lgbt people were as much a part of mainstream medicine as they were of any religious communities these things were done in government institutions but there's a bigger issue none of these things are happening anywhere in australia today full stop end of story it's a sham it isn't even true in fact successive governments have admitted that queensland admitted that south australia's admitted it the a.c.t have admitted it not happening no evidence so what does the bill do well i go back to where i was a moment ago what does it actually do the words change suppression conversion those words are important and examples that are given in the aforementioned report include churches that state quote change is possible churches that have a quote welcoming but not affirming stance churches that are quote saturated with an exclusively heterosexual ideology as if heterosexual sexuality is an ideology right it's called biology creation the idea that same-sex attracted people are committed to celibacy discussions in faith-based settings between freely consenting adults scripture reading prayer let me be clear these things could constitute crimes punishable by imprisonment we ask during a briefing with the government a few questions we ask whether a parent with a gender dysphoric child would be engaging in criminality for encouraging their child to embrace their biological sex they couldn't give us an answer so a parent who is apprehensive about putting their child on hormones and potentially ruining their life by chopping up their body for for who wants to who is apprehensive about that for good common sense and scientific reasons namely that most children grow out of it they might be criminalizing themselves we ask whether a fully mature grown adult could voluntarily seek support from like-minded individuals or maybe a pastor or a counselor now these group sessions where people who get together who want to get together they happen if they want to control their lgbt inclinations because that's what they want for themselves again the government couldn't give an answer would they be encouraging criminality so apparently anyone can live out their identity without judgment or restriction unless they're a christian right if you want to live as a christian first you can't you can't seek that the help that would allow that because that would be encouraging criminals it's that's not to mention medical practitioners who don't want to rush to affirmation but want to check for underlying causes that's not to mention pastors who just preach the bible there's a number of other scenarios i could come up with all concerning i mean the question that arises to me is who does the victorian government even think that they are they've never met these parents they've never met their children they've never met the lgbt christian who wants to live as a christian first they know nothing about them and yet they decree on thread of prison what is best for that person regardless of who that person is or what that person wants this is just about outlawing change it's about outlawing suppression or indeed even seeking self-control it's insane or it's actually evil here is a statement released this week by the victorian premier he says this this is daniel andrews cruel and bigoted practices that seek to change or suppress a person's sexual orientation or gender identity will soon be stamped out across victoria thanks to new laws introduced to parliament today well firstly cruel and bigoted practices were ended a long time ago and it wasn't thanks to daniel andrews this is just rhetoric to hide what's actually within the bill he goes on the bill denounces such practices as deceptive and harmful reinforces that ideology behind these practices is flawed and wrong now if you say if you define these practices as everything that the bill covers and then you say what's the ideology behind these things that i've just been talking about but the parents and the counseling and the pastors and all this kind of stuff what's the ideology it's called christianity that's the ideology it's called the bible it's called parents rights to raise their kids according to their moral and religious values that's the ideology that's flawed and wrong according to mr andrews he goes on responses to reports will be survivor-led and trauma-informed focusing on community education and facilitation this will ensure that any response meets the needs and wishes of the affected person you know i've read and i don't want to have a go at anybody except this is a fact i've read the 15 survivor testimonies in the report that i mentioned before and the individuals here whilst they say what they went through hurt them they did not survive coercion or abuse they're not survivors of torture they're survivors of having once gone to church and very much disliking the doctrine or having once gone to a voluntary consenting support group and having thought better of it afterwards or having disagreed with their parents over their uh sexuality and having later been upset by it or been upset by it at the time those are the sorts of things that they are survivors of and that's the extent of it let's not overstate this and say that this is all about torture it isn't and i'm sorry that they felt that these ideas were hurtful and harmful to them but here's the thing you don't have to go to church you don't have to go to these groups some people like it some people want it you don't have to and you left that's how it should work it's called a free world um not to mention there are huge numbers of people in christian churches who used to identify as lgbt but no longer do and there are increasing numbers of people who used to identify as transgender and no longer do and it's been christians that have i know a guy here in australia who was a trans woman for a number of years and then de-transition and he was dropped like a hot potato by the trans community for doing that and it was christians who picked up the pieces and he joined a church and he's a great fellow and he now sees that what he did he disagrees with what he did he disagrees with the life that he lived and he wants to and he couldn't be happier about living the life that he's living now as a christian these people are real there's heaps of them they couldn't be happier about it and they're erased by this bill the life they want to live it will be illegal for people to seek that life if this bill passes i repeat who does the victorian government think they are to live these people's lives for them andrew says this bill also puts in place strong criminal sanctions for people who subject others to change or suppression practices that cause injury or serious injury with up to 10 years jail for the latter those who try to get around the new laws by subjecting people to change or suppression practices will cause which cause injury outside of victoria could face a jail term of up to two years while advertising these practices will incur a criminal sanction and a maximum fine close to ten thousand dollars so this is where we are the risk here is and it's not even a risk it's true that the gospel itself parts of it parts of the bible itself and pastoral ministry and responsible parenting and good medical care parts of all of these things are set to become potentially jailable offences we're actually here we've arrived now it won't happen immediately i don't think that's how it works these laws tend to sit on the books for a while and they'll sit there until culture changes a little further and then they'll be used for the first time by an activist to attack some fringy case that it's hard to defend because they'll be waiting for it and waiting for it could take five years to happen but it'll happen and then they'll be used more and more and more to attack truth and attack people who have done nothing wrong that's how these things work out you know i recall doing an interview for 60 minutes on this subject of conversion therapy and this part didn't go to where but i remember asking the journalists i said what if what if all that is good and right what if true joy and peace and happiness what if those things weren't actually to be found within a person's identity or within a person's inner self what if this whole mantra of identity of self-discovery of pride what if it's all exactly backwards what if i'm not actually god what if worshiping and serving the inner self the creature as romans 1 25 says what if that's not my destiny what if that's not what's right and good and best for me what if in fact god whom i should serve and submit to he's not inside of me but it is outside he is outside of me what if he is transcendent what if all that is good and right what if true joy and peace and happiness are to be found outside of myself in god alone and what if a life enslaved to self and its passions and desires is a life of misery a life of shame one that you have to compensate for frankly by shouting about pride waving rainbow flags at people and suing them for saying things you don't like what if actually the converse of that is a life that's liberated from self a life that's alive to god reconciled to god and submitted to his will and purpose and what if that was true freedom what if that brought peace to the heart what if that was actually joy as paul says rejoice in the lord always again i say rejoice what if as jesus says you know it is for freedom that christ has set us free the truth will set you free you know it's not what if it's actually true we are those who are made to worship and serve the creator not the creature to use the language as romans 1 25 the answer is not in self-worship but it is in being reconciled and said to god through the cross of jesus christ and worshiping and living for him and i know that many i really do know this actually uh it's it's some of the more difficult times in my life have been spent reading documents to this effect i know that many an lgbt person suffers a lot of mental anguish i know that the mental health outcomes are bad and make really tough reading i know that suicide rates are high i've read papers on the subject i've heard many testimonials and it's a hard read because every time i do it i read stories from people who are oppressed in themselves and very unhappy now i've been told that by gay activists it's not just my words i've read that in the reports authored by people like the the the human rights commission i'm here to tell you this banning conversion therapies won't solve any of that it won't jesus will solve that he stood up to speak his first sermon in luke's gospel and he said that he had come to set free those who are oppressed and he did that by taking our sin on himself which is the thing that oppresses us our slavery to ourselves and the passions and desires of the self and he nailed that to his own cross he suffered under the judgment of it and hear his words in matthew chapter 11 he says come unto me all you who are weary and burdened and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you in other words submit to me not self but me learn from me for i am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light now that's the truth and if daniel andrews wants to call that bigoted quackery and wants to send me to jail for it well i guess i'll have to go to jail with half the christians in victoria because there is no way you can expunge that message and that truth because it is the gospel and it's never been expunged before despite people's best efforts to quote the apostles in the book of acts when the ancient anti-discrimination tribunal the sanhedrin told them to shut their mouths and stop speaking they said we must obey god rather than men i'm mark niles and that was the truth of it 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Published: Wed Nov 25 2020