Welcome to God First with Brian C. Thomas, a program committed to encouraging you to put God first while viewing life through the window of the Bible. Now, in honor of the one and only true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, let's join Brian C. Thomas for today's message. This past Thursday, March 31st, was the International Transgender Day of Visibility. In the PCUSA, we welcome all of our transgender and queer siblings into this family and relationship with the Creator God. So today, I wish to pray a prayer that was written for this incredible day.
Will you pray with me? O God of Pronouns, we give praise to the Great One, the One who was identifiable as God. I am what I am, you say, the Great They, the incarnate He and She, the God of trans being, impregnating Mary, fathering God, breastfeeding God of many breasts. You shatter all stereotypes, making every single person male and female.
Male and female intersects non-binary in your image, exactly in your image. Welcome to the program. My name is Brian Thomas. I greet you in the name of our great Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And as always, it is a joy and honor and a privilege to join you each week.
I want to thank you for tuning in. Well, I guess, folks, I owe you an apology for welcoming you to the program with that so-called prayer. But that is the reality of the days that we are living in, where we see this type of thing going on, even in so-called churches. And you may say, why is it that you tend to focus on these matters?
Why don't you talk to us about things that make us feel good? But folks, God has called me to be a truth seeker and a truth lover and a proclaimer of the truth. That is what God has called me to. And so I have to highlight these matters because of my love for the truth. And Jesus Christ himself said that he is truth, the way and the life. No one comes to the father, but by him. And so I am a lover of Jesus Christ.
So therefore I am a lover of the truth. And the book of First Timothy chapter four tells us that in the latter times, some will give heed to doctrines of demons. In verse one and two of First Timothy four. Now the spirit expressly says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscious seared with a hot iron. And what we hear from that opening clip is just that.
We see that right before our eyes. That was a prayer from a Presbyterian church, USA that we often hear referred to as PC USA, that denomination following the March 31st international transgender day of visibility. And you heard the woman in the prayer. She was saying things like God of pronouns and referring to him as the great, they, the God of trans being. She said the breastfeeding God of many breasts. That is how she is speaking of our holy God.
She goes on to say he is intersex and non-binary and all of these things. And she goes to talking about, this is the image of God. This movement that has taken place in our nation is the reason why we now have a Supreme court justice that will not give the definition of a woman because people have fear because of this movement in which we see this push to not speak truth, the truth of how God truly created us in his image.
And so there are a lot of people out there that out of fear, including those in the church, including those in pulpits that will not speak up out of fear. But what I want to do today is share with you some clips from a sermon from one of the few preachers out there who does speak on these matters. And I don't know if anyone who speaks more powerfully, more eloquently and more consistently than this pastor, I'm referring to the pastor of the upper room church of God in Christ and Bishop Wooding in the sermon, he doesn't speak directly to this prayer, but what he does speak to is a proclamation from the white house concerning this transgender day of visibility. So I'm going to play a series of clips.
I really don't need to add any substance to it. His words speak for themselves, but as the host of the show, I do have to chime in from time to time. So I do apologize in advance for the interruptions, but let's begin by listening to again, Bishop Patrick wooden, senior of the upper room church of God in Christ, speaking on this proclamation from the white house in clip one. There are things going on in this nation that deeply concerns me and that the Lord have shown me.
I talked about this Thursday night and I'm going to move as expeditiously as I possibly can. Last week, the 30th of March from the white house, a proclamation was given on transgender day of visibility, transgender day of visibility, 2022, March 30th, 2022 presidential actions, the president of the United States of America, president Joe Biden. Here's his proclamation to everyone celebrating transgender visibility, transgender day of visibility. I want you to know that your president sees you, the first lady, the vice president, the second gentleman, and the entire administrations see you for who you are made in the image of God.
So there you hear the Bishop and he's opening with this proclamation and keep in mind folks, this proclamation is coming from the highest position in our nation, from the white house, from president Joe Biden. So let's continue to listen as he talks about the purpose or the point of this movement. Isn't the whole point of the transgender movement. Isn't the whole point that God got it wrong. Isn't that the point of the movement? And they are trying to remake themselves into a image that God did not make them in. Is that not the point? If the man is trying to be a woman, then he is not celebrating the image that God made him in.
He is trying to remake himself. I mean, there can be no debate about that. So what we hear is the Bishop is speaking of the point of the movement. And I echo those words. This whole movement is to really say in essence that God, you got it wrong. And we as mankind can change ourselves into whatever gender that we would like to. And folks, we know again that this is deception.
This is a lie from the enemy. So let's continue to listen to the Bishop as he talks about the fact that this is not celebrating the image of God, but trying to be God. You're not celebrating the image of God.
You are trying to be God and create your own version of yourself. He said, we see you for who you are. Well, they're confused about who they are. That's the whole point of the transgender movement. And there are transgender people who have made the transition back to the way they were before they lost their minds. I just heard a podcast of a young lady who tried to be a trans man and found out that it just didn't work. And oh, she talks about what she went through. I mentioned this to you after just shooting mega doses of testosterone in her body. She had more testosterone in her than a bodybuilder has. Extraordinary amounts. Now you're putting this male hormone, artificially putting it in your female body. So there's a clash going on in you. There is nature.
Amen. Chromosomes. Biology. Saying woman, woman, woman, woman, because that's what she is. But she's put something in her that says man, man, man. And the lady said every time the time came to take the shot again. And then she said parenthetically, and they don't tell you that you got to take this shot for the rest of your life. A three inch needle.
That's going to deliver some of you right now. A three inch needle that you got to jab in your quad. And then she's, according to her, put it in there and work it and get it deep in the muscle. And she said every time the time rolled around, you were with me, every time the time rolled around, there was time to take that shot again. She said everything in her, her instincts, her inner voice, her body would start screaming don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, please don't, don't, don't. Now I've just described to you demonic activity. And yet that kind of activity, activity gets a presidential proclamation.
Oh God. Now folks, you do not hear this type of truth telling in many pool pits today. You do not hear this type of truth telling on a lot of podcasts or a lot of radio programs. But I am right now, I am begging preachers, begging pastors, evangelists, teachers. We need you to speak up on these matters because as the Bishop said, this is demonic activity. And we are to be lovers of the truth. If you love Jesus Christ, you are to be a lover of the truth.
And you should want these people delivered from what they are living in. So I'm urging you to, to speak up for the truth of God's almighty Holy word. Let's continue to listen to the Bishop. I'm just hoping, you know, Lord, remember me and us Lord, you know, and, and the people who said, amen, when you get ready to move on this stuff, when you get ready to visit this stuff, just know Lord, that not everybody in America was for it. Have mercy Lord.
Yes, we cry out to God for mercy because not everyone is in agreement with these things that are taking place from the highest position in our nation. We're going to pause for a short announcement, but please don't go away. We're going to come back with more on the other side from Bishop Woodin speaking on this vital issue of our day.
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You can also sign up for our monthly newsletter and visit our web store, so please visit us at Godfirst.org. Now, let's return to the conclusion of today's message. And in the third paragraph of the proclamation, and this really rubs me the wrong way, despite this progress, talking about the progress of transgender Americans, they're really making progress.
They're beating all the women's swimming. Despite this progress, transgender Americans continue to face discrimination, harassment, and barriers to opportunity. Listen to this. Transgender women, which are men, and girls, which are boys, especially transgender women and girls of color, continue to face epidemic levels of violence. There is always an angle, a racial one, to try to pull us in and make you think they're concerned about black folk. The sad thing is, we buy it.
We fall for it. I'm not with this push to make the blackness synonymous with perversion. There has never been anything wrong with our complexion. There's never been anything immoral about our complexion. There are immoral black folk, like very moral white people and Asians and Hispanics, everyone else. But you're not moral or immoral based on complexion.
But they like to try to link it in to make you think they're doing something for you. You know, as I look at these matters and I listen to the words of the bishop, and I cannot agree with him more, I have scratched my head over the years in wondering why is it that so many blacks do not get upset over the fact that these people will equate immoral behavior and action with the civil rights movement of blacks. I find it very offensive and I scratch my head. But you know, the reality of it is, I do know why so many do not speak up against it because in doing so, they will be speaking against the political party that the majority of blacks support. So you see, there's a contradiction there.
And so they choose to stay quiet. But it is offensive because I'm not with, as the bishop said, this push to equate blackness with immoral behavior. There is nothing wrong with our skin color. Our skin color, the way in which God created us is not immoral.
You will not find that in the scriptures that our skin color is immoral, but you will find that sexual behavior outside of what God calls between one man and one woman as immoral in doing things that are outside of his commands. So I echo the words of the bishop on this matter. Let's hear more. These battles, these kingdoms, let me get to this, these kingdoms are vying for our attention. And here's what the kingdoms know. They know that you got to respond a certain way. Everything depends upon, is linked to how you respond to what's been placed before you.
Now let me just say this to you and I want to read something. In the advertisement industry in America, I'll tell you something that I know. In the advertisement and marketing industry, because I want to explain to you why you see what you're seeing. In the entertainment and marketing industry in America, where they make commercials, where they market stuff, where things are promoted, these areas have been inundated, infiltrated, and filled with LBGTQ folk. They work in those industries. Businesses want to sell product.
Businesses hire marketing agencies to make their commercials. So the marketing agency, they may market you a car, but if you notice whether they're trying to sell you a car, medicine, socks, eyelashes, a strand of hair, whatever, they always throw in there a same sex this, a same sex that. Now the method is, the thing behind it is to make you think everybody's like that. To make you think all people go along with that stuff and every other person you see is participating in that kind of godless behavior.
That's marketing for you. And they know the longer you see it, the more you become desensitized. And once the desensitization have taken place, once people no longer desensitized, when most people are desensitized, then many times what people do is they just simply give in. They fold.
Whether they fold consciously or subconsciously. Whether they admit, well, it's not that bad. I really don't get the big deal myself. I like Walden, but I don't know why he talks about this so much. When you hear stuff like that, you're hearing that from someone who's cave. So as the Bishop said, there is an agenda out there.
There is a marketing. It is to water down the issue. It is to brainwash us, to condition us, to accept these things more and more. And again, folks, I do apologize for interrupting the Bishop. I wish that I could just play him uninterrupted, but as the host, I have to chime in from time to time. But again, he is speaking great truths on these matters. So let's hear more as he continues to talk about how Satan wants us to stop being witnesses for Jesus Christ. See, Satan doesn't care if you become an astrophysicist. Satan doesn't care if you become a multi-billionaire tycoon. Doesn't matter to the devil if you win an Oscar.
Satan doesn't care. You know the only thing Satan wants the saints to fail to do is to be Christ's witnesses. Jesus said, the Holy Ghost will come upon you. You shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost have come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me. See, Satan's goal is not to make you a cussing blue joke comedian. He don't care if you never utter a cuss word, just a witness for Christ. He want to rob us of our edge.
That is what it is. Satan does not want us to be witnesses for Jesus Christ, the truth of our great Lord Jesus Christ. Let's continue listening as he speaks about the battle for kingdom ideologies in our minds. You see two kingdoms mentioned right there by our Lord. Our Lord speaks of the kingdom of Satan and he speaks of the kingdom of God. And then he talks about kingdom activity and kingdom rules. These kingdoms, each kingdom has ideals, ideologies, thoughts, lifestyles, rules, things that they want us to submit to.
There is a clash of kingdoms taking place in the world. And the battlefield, as I mentioned, for mentioned, is your mind. It's my mind.
It's our ear gate. They want to get things in us. They want to change what we believe. Amen. And they understand how the human mind works. If you can get the human mind to doubt God when it comes to our origin, if you can get the human mind to disbelieve the Bible when it comes to gender, sex, okay? That's why I talk about this stuff.
If they can get you to buy that, then let me tell you this. Let me ask you this. If you really have no problem with a man trying to turn himself into a woman, I'm glad you all are listening to me. If you really, if corporate America, your job, your family, and everybody has worn you down to that point.
And, well, we're going to use the word worn down. You just wouldn't, I don't see the big deal. Okay. And you already know that the Bible says that God made them male and God made them female, right?
But it's not a big deal with you. Then let me ask you this. Do you believe then that Jesus died and was dead three days and God raised him from the dead? If you are all right with these other things and a person can love whomever they want to love and do what they want, then do you actually believe that a virgin had a baby? See, if you doubt God, adopt biblical Christianity, when it comes to how we got here, well, I have problem with creationism. I just believe in the big bang theory. Okay, so then do you believe that Jesus actually walked water?
Do you believe that he actually fed 5,000 with two little fish and five barley loaves? This is the way the mind works. It's the way the mind works. See, if he can attack the pillars of the faith and get you to cave on those issues, oh, you're not going to believe that he's coming back.
I cannot agree more. That is what this is all about. It's about the mind folks. It is about to get you to doubt one truth will cause you to doubt even more truths. So let's continue to listen to the Bishop as he addresses doubt. You don't trust him when it comes down to these things that we're talking about. Are you telling me that you actually believe that there's going to be a rapture when we're going to get caught away? The answer to all that is no, you don't.
If you don't believe these other things, you won't believe these things. So I'm showing you how the enemy works. What he does is he attacks. He doesn't attack you whole. He attacks certain pillars, certain pillars of thought.
He attacks important things. And if he can get you to doubt those things, then that leads to you doubting everything. And you cannot be saved by doubt.
To be a Christian, one must believe. Praise the Lord. Let's wrap things up with one last statement from the Bishop, a warning to us all. Woe unto them, Isaiah 5 and 20, that call evil good and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. He said them, whoever does it, woe unto them that call good evil, that put light for darkness and darkness for light. Doesn't matter who you may be.
You can be the president of the United States. You can be whomever. God said, woe unto them that do such things.
Are you praying for me? Amen. And we're living in a day where we're putting light for darkness and darkness for light, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
We're calling wrong right and right wrong. Well, those were a lot of clips, but as I stated in my opening, I want you to hear from the Bishop because I don't know of anyone who speaks more powerfully, eloquently and consistently on these matters. And I have been following him for more than 15 years, and his message has not changed during that time. And I've heard others who say they follow them for his entire ministry. And his message has always been the same to stand on the truth of God's word.
And that is what we must do. And I was listening to Alex McFarland just the other day on his radio program, and he was stating that if you were in a church and the pastor never speaks on these matters, he never speaks on LGBTQ, he never speaks on abortion. He says, there's a time when you need to approach that pastor about these matters. And I am urging again, preachers out there, we're all in this thing together. We need you to stand up and speak the truth of God's holy word. And for those out there who are struggling with these issues, I want you to know that the blood of Jesus Christ still works. Jesus died at Calvary for all sins, including the sins that we have been discussing on this program today. And so I want you to know that you can have deliverance.
You can be made whole in Jesus Christ, but you must confess your sins and repent and then profess Jesus Christ as Lord and savior, and he will deliver you. So why don't you come to him today? If that is you, you've never received him as Lord and savior, and you are battling with this issue, come to our Lord Jesus Christ on today. Well, folks, that is going to do it for this week as we are all out of time, but please come back and join us next week as we continue to encourage you to put God first while viewing life through the window of the Bible. Until then, remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, bless God's great nation of Israel and to the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. Thank you for tuning into the God First program. Please come back and join us next week as we continue to encourage you to put God first while viewing life through the window of the Bible. Until next time, remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, bless God's great nation of Israel and seek first the kingdom of God.
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