President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Sonoco Products
Search every verified Robert Coker interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Robert Coker, president, CEO and director of Sonoco Products, has delivered religious sermons at the Ministry of Salvation Fellowship conferences in 2016 and 2017. In a May 2017 sermon titled "Ye Must be born again," Coker stated that he previously believed he was saved but later concluded he was "lost and Hellbound" due to his past involvement with drugs and crime. He asserted that "the sinner's prayer does not save you" and that salvation is "the work of God not of man," and he urged listeners to verify his teachings against the Bible. In a December 2016 sermon titled "Like a Flood," Coker criticized Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, saying he rejected the characterization of Earth as "sister, mother" and stated he prays "through the name, power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, not 'Mother Earth.'" He discussed the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, describing its goals for legal identity, fossil fuel subsidy reform, and marine conservation as potentially leading to surveillance, higher gasoline prices, and loss of private land access. Coker characterized the agenda's language of "global solidarity" as the "spirit of the Beast" or Antichrist.
“Whenever I preach I always tell people don't believe anything I tell you; you need to check the words yourself — check what I say with the word of God.”
“Jesus said except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God; you must be born again to see and to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
“For years I thought I was saved but I was lost and Hellbound — I was so involved in drugs and perversion and criminal life that there's no way I was saved.”
“The sinner's prayer does not save you; Salvation is the work of God not of man — it's by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.”
“How hard shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God — it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
“We're not good people; our sense of goodness is self-righteousness which is nothing but filthy rags — when you realize you're not good you are ready to receive a Savior.”
“You crucified Jesus Christ — you are personally, individually responsible for the crucifixion of the King of glory; let that sink in.”
“Regeneration means something new is born; the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost is the mechanism by which God saves, not human works.”
“One evidence of salvation is that you come under conviction; you read and love the Bible, you tell people about Jesus, and you continually repent.”
“This past century governments have killed and murdered more people than any other organization or group — Hitler, Stalin, the Armenian genocide — well over hundreds of millions of people have been murdered in the past 100 years by their government.”
“Pope Francis’ encyclical speaks of our common home as a 'sister, mother' who sustains and governs us — I reject that: when we pray to God we pray through the name, power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, not 'Mother Earth'; I am not under the government of Mother Earth, I am under the government of the King of ki...”
“The papacy and some global institutions assert the need for a 'true world political authority' to manage the global economy, food security, migration and more, and even invoke the principle of subordinating private property to the universal destination of goods.”
“The United Nations '2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development' pledges that all countries and stakeholders will implement this plan, with a revitalized global partnership and 'no one will be left behind' — a comprehensive international effort to shift the world onto a sustainable, regulated path.”
“Goal 12.c calls to 'rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies' — that means removing cheap gasoline subsidies, and could push U.S. gasoline toward European-style prices of $8–$12 a gallon.”
“By 2020 the agenda calls to 'conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas' — they plan to set aside lakes, rivers and oceans, and that will mean regulation and, in the speaker's view, people losing effective control of private land and access to waterways.”
Ministry of Salvation Spring Conference 2017 Oxford, NJ Pt. 1 SPEAKER: Robert Coker www.theministryofsalvationfellowship.org ...
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