Proverbs 1:20-33, “Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”
This is perhaps the most important passage in the Bible, albeit there are no unimportant Scriptures. My favorite verse in the whole Bible is Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” That simply means to maintain your thought life. It means to guard and protect your heart. It means don't allow sinful thoughts of lust, hatred, revenge, committing a crime or other foolish ideas to have place in your soul. Proverbs 24:9, “The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.” We all desperately need wisdom. I don't care who you are, you absolutely need God's wisdom. A mother at home with her children needs God's wisdom, to raise them as arrows to shoot against the Devil (Psalm 127:4). A wife needs God's wisdom to draw her husband closer to God, by her own wifely submission (1st Peter 3:1). Nothing will drive a man away from God faster than a rebellious wife who refuses to submit (Proverb 12:4).
I love the book of Proverbs. I have never heard anyone teach this, but I think Solomon wrote the Proverbs to teach all his children. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Can you imagine how many children he must have had? I think it is safe to say that the old horney goat king had thousands of children! What a shameful testimony! Solomon wasn't very wise was he? No man is wise who married 700 wives! Volumes of books could be written on this subject. Think about how lonely his wives must have been, having intimacy with your husband once a year, if that. Solomon was a very selfish man. No woman deep in her heart of hearts wants to share her husband with another woman.
When the Bible speaks of Solomon's wisdom, it is secular wisdom, not godly wisdom. Likewise, Donald Trump is a very wise man in the business world. I think he was a great U.S. President and I miss him. I am sad that he didn't win re-election in 2020. However, I agree with Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) that Mr. Trump's success is not good success in God's eyes. If you'd like to hear the sermon in which Dr. Hyles says this, it is called: 'I Don't Want To Be A Success.'
Wisdom crieth from the housetops and in the streets. Knowledge is truth. Skill is knowing how to use truth. Wisdom is knowing what to do with truth. Heresy is a perversion of truth. Apostasy is a departure from truth. Proverb 13:18, “Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.” The Bible promises life, safety and happiness from obtaining God's wisdom. Proverb 3:13, “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
Let me share something a bit philosophical with you. I think it is safe to say that everybody wants to be happy. But have you ever thought about finding happiness in deciding not to be happy? What if I decide to be unhappy? What if I decide that I like being unhappy? Then I can be at peace with myself. The secular world has convinced everyone that if we are not happy something is wrong with us. Is that really true? If I am happy not being happy, then there is nothing wrong with me is there? I speak wisdom. To be quite honest, I am not a happy man.
A survey of one thousand 50 year old men learned that only 12% said they were happy. I can relate to that. A whopping 88% of 50 year old men are not happy in life. I lost my good health at age 37, learning that I have permanent Cervical Degenerative Disk Disease (stenosis, radiculopathy and displaced disk). I lost my former wife at age 39 when she abandoned and divorced me. Consequently, I lost my 3,500 square foot paid home at age 42 and have rented an apartment since. I underwent two major neck surgeries in 2009-2010 with no one by my side; I wanted to die.
I finally found happiness at Harvest Baptist Church of Guam in 2013-2014, making new Christian friends, loving my church, and I thought I had found a wife when the nurse Kris liked me. My happiness was suddenly ripped away from me in November of 2014, when Harvest's pastors forced me out of the church for telling them THE TRUTH—the truth that Lordship Salvation is a perversion of the Gospel, the truth that Bible repentance doesn't mean “turn away from your from sin” to be saved, the truth that the modern Bible revisions are corrupt Devil's Bibles. As Ephesians 4:15 says, I spoke THE TRUTH in love!
Tragically, and it sincerely saddens me, I was speaking in the ears of fools at Harvest:
Proverb 23:9, “Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.”
Proverb:17:10, “A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.”
Proverb 16:2: “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.”
Proverb 16:5, “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”
Proverb 1:29-32, “For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
Proverb 26:12, “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.”
Proverb 26:16, “The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.”
I have been preaching and uploading sound doctrine for decades now, since 2002 when I began my humble website ministry. Yet my preaching against the apostasy at Bob Jones University and the Harvest Baptist Church of Guam has fallen upon deaf ears. They are fools. It is interesting that the Bible says a fool won't listen, even if SEVEN MEN can render a reason, because there are about seven free grace preachers that I regularly promote:
- Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)
- Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold
- Pastor Max D. Younce
- Pastor Bob Gray Sr.
- Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995)
- Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951)
- Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008)
Yet, the arrogant pastors at HBC and the proud Bible professors at BJU are wiser in their own eyes than these wise preachers. Ecclesiastes 12:9, “And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.” I am eating a spiritual Smorgasbord today. My mother Barbara Jean Stewart (1935-2001) was born and raised in Sweden. She came to America at age 13 with her mother, after my grandfather went to Heaven. I've been listening to the book of Proverbs all day. I put the video on “loop” so it will play over and over. I don't know about you, but I need God's wisdom so much!!!
One of the great joys in my Christian life is answering emails and writing articles. Proverb 15:23, “A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!” It is my joy to teach the Scriptures, and to give godly advice. I am very careful, now more than ever before, to ensure that my advice is 100% biblical. I welcome questions and if you have problems, please let me help you through it. I don't claim to have all the answers, but the Bible does! I do not have any special insight, but I do have THE MIND OF CHRIST (1st Corinthians 2:14-16). Proverb 28:5, “Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.” Amen and amen! The King James Bible says: “But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant” (Matthew 23:11). When web visitors or Facebook friends brag on me (and I sure appreciate it), I always simply PAY IT FORWARD to my dear Savior. Jesus is worthy, I am not.
We are hearing much heretical teaching in Neo-evangelical churches today about “repent of your sin” and “turn away from your sin” to be saved. Seventh-Day Adventism (SDA) teaches that in the year 1844, Jesus entered into the heavenly Holy Place to begin His work of Investigative Judgment (a theological term exclusive to SDA). Miss Ellen G. White (1827-1915) is the most revered prophetess in the SDA false religion. Tragically, Dr. Steve Pettit (president of Bob Jones University since 2014) and the Lordship Salvation crowd preach THE SAME damnable heresy that you must “repent and turn away from sin” to receive God's free gift of eternal life.
This passages reminds me of the Bob Jones University crowd and Harvest Baptist Church of Guam...
Proverb 1:29-32, “For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
Since 2014 I have taken a godly stand against the falsehood of Lordship Salvation. I have taken a godly stand against the falsehood of MI understood Repentance. I have taken a godly stand against the falsehood of the modern Bible revisions. Yet for speaking THESE TRUTHS, shewing forth righteousness as the Bible says, I have been hated, shunned, ostracized and abused by the Bob Jones gang on Guam. Harvest Baptist Church on Guam won't even let me attend church, nor go to men's prayer meeting, because I am telling THE TRUTH.
How do you think God feels about this? Am I supposed to just go find another church, like looking for a different McDonald's restaurant? Should I just quietly go away while they corrupt people's minds and send young people to the Lake of Fire? Should I just pretend like there isn't a problem? Only a fool would let this matter go. As a child of God I am obligated to SPEAK UP FOR GOD!!! Ephesians 5:10-11, “Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
I am stuck in limbo, without a church family, while a bunch of incompetent Bob Jones pastors continue to drive HBC into the ground. But you say, this is not a Christlike spirit. On the contrary, I am being VERY Christlike. What did Jesus say about the hypocritical religious leaders of His generation? Matthew 12:34, “O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Matthew 23:33, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” The Lord literally called them SNAKES!!!
That is exactly what today's Lordship Salvation preaching pastors are, serpents, who prey on the weak and vulnerable doctrinally, taking their money to damn their souls to Hell forever. Harvest Baptist Church of Guam and Bob Jones University have much blood on their hands, as does the Moody Bible Institute camp, and Liberty University, and Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary, Masters University and any institution that propagates another gospel. If the shoe fits, wear it!!! The only plan of salvation taught in the King James Bible is a free grace Gospel, which teaches that you CAN have the absolutely instant assurance of salvation, simply by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 16:30-31, “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
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