Unthinkable (New Zealand)

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Matthew 5:15

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel light, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in Heaven.”

John 18:36

“My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

Mark 8:34

“He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, ‘If anyone wants to become my follower, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel will save it.’”

Exodus 20:15 (Implied)

“Thou shalt not steal.” (Referenced in context regarding the right to own property.)

Luke 11:17

“A kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.”

Memorable Quotes

“I’m going to talk about something that’s affecting your children whether you like it or not, and it’s important that we understand where these things are coming from so we can respond in a Biblical manner.”

“Marxism is what’s driving a lot of what is happening with our young people in our colleges and our public school systems today.”

“When people say today that he is a progressive in a political term, you have to ask yourself: what are we progressing towards?”

“The Communist Manifesto was a 10-point plan that included abolition of private property, heavy progressive income tax, confiscation of property from immigrants and rebels, centralization of credit and communication, among others.”

“Marx explicitly sanctioned state terror in order to enforce the new communist ideology. He said, ‘We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.’”

“Marx wasn’t so much an atheist as a Satanist. He had an intense hatred of God and Jesus Christ and expressed this repeatedly in his poetry and writings.”

“Both Marxists and Islamists share a common hatred of Jesus Christ, and that is why there is an alliance of convenience between the radical left and radical Islam in our world today.”

“Postmodernism teaches radical skepticism about whether objective knowledge or truth is possible, preferring a relative idea of truth and cultural constructivism.”

“In the postmodern worldview, the individual is replaced by group identity. You are now judged not by the content of your character but by the color of your skin.”

“Critical theory divides the world into the oppressed and the oppressors and problematizes everything in the West so that the West will collapse.”

“The sexual revolution calls us to rebel and reject any sexual oppression. Any restraint on sexual expression is inherently repressive and psychologically harmful.”

“Transgender ideology is the ultimate rebellion against God’s created order. It is overwhelmingly young, white, middle-class teenage girls who are turning to transgenderism.”

“Many Christians today are hiding their lamp under a bushel. They are embarrassed to preach and afraid to say things on social media for fear of being canceled or losing their jobs.”

“Fighting the enemy physically is problematic because it leads to hatred rather than love of the enemy. It risks destroying the message of the gospel.”

“Accommodation to culture rather than scripture destroys the church by compromising its witness and making the gospel subservient to today’s fallen ideologies.”

“The theology of the cross means living according to the teachings of Jesus no matter the cost. It is willingness to accept loss for the cause of Christ that gives our witness credibility.”

“It is the church’s willingness to suffer without retaliation, while continuing to love its enemies, that advances the cause of Christ. It is not flight, it is not fight, it is faithful discipleship.”

“Before Jesus returns, there will be a time when it will no longer be possible to preach the gospel openly in a legal environment. Then it will be time for an underground church to teach and live the gospel faithfully and fully.”

“We need to understand these ideologies and prepare a Biblical response because the next lamb to be stolen by that roaring lion may be our own daughter or granddaughter.”

“Defend your families, defend your children, defend your daughters—not just for this world but so that they can enter Paradise. Teach your children what is moral and what is not moral from the word of God.”

“Until we meet again, be faithful unto the Lord, be faithful to his teachings and his commandments, and ask each day for the infilling of the Holy Spirit.”

Other Quotations

Karl Marx (1844)

“Communism is the riddle of History solved, as it knows itself to be this solution.”

Karl Marx (1849)

“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, our turn comes. We shall not make excuses for the terror.”

Lenin (1920, at the Third All-Russian Congress of the Russian Young Communist League)

“We do not believe in God. We reject any morality based on extrahuman and extraclass concepts.”

Joseph Stalin (1932, League of the Militant Godless)

“Not a single House of Prayers shall remain in the territory of the USSR, and the very concept of God must be banished from the Soviet Union as a survival of the Middle Ages and an instrument of the oppression of the working masses.”

Richard Wurmbrand (Voice of the Martyrs)

“Marx was not merely an atheist but he plunged into the depths of Satanism. He not only rejected God but was true to Lucifer.”