Galatians 3:1-3, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 6:6-8, “Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
The entire purpose of the Epistle of Galatians is to rebuke and warn the churches of Galatia that they had been infiltrated and corrupted by a religious cult concerning the Gospel. Our text verse from Galatians 3:1 is very plain. The apostle called the churches of Galatia “foolish,” because they had adopted a perverted plan of salvation that required keeping the law in addition to faith in Jesus Christ. This was very similar to the popular heresy of Lordship Salvation today, which requires that people surrender all to Christ, turn away from sinful bad habits, faithfully run the race (live the Christian life), exchange all that you are for all that Christ is, count the cost and pay the price and follow Jesus no matter what the cost, to be saved.
The method of salvation is frequently different, but the core basis is always the same—the focus is upon YOU instead of only upon JESUS CHRIST to be saved. I love what Paul said in Galatians 3:2-3, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Paul said that he only wanted to know ONE THING—were they indwelt by the Holy Spirit (i.e., born-again) by doing the works of the law, OR by simply believing the Gospel they heard preached? Here we see the childlike simplicity of salvation.
Notice that this is how 3,000 people were wonderfully saved on the Day of Pentecost. Acts 2:41, “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” Several thousand tourists to the city of Jerusalem heard the Apostle Peter preach the Gospel. The 3,000 people who gladly received the truth of the Gospel being preached were instantly saved. As a public profession of their salvation they were water baptized. In the Bible, NO ONE ever got water baptized before or as a requirement to be saved. Believer's baptism always followed salvation.
There was no probationary period. The disciples didn't require that those 3,000 people be monitored, scrutinized and followed up for time to come, to determine if they really got saved. I am so sick and tired of hearing Pacific Garden Mission (i.e., 'UNSHACKLED' radio), the Bob Jones University crowd, Evangelist Ray Comfort and other false teachers, saying that we must watch someone's life who has professed faith in Christ, to see if they really got saved. If you have to live the Christian life to prove the genuineness of the reality of your faith, you are not saved. That is exactly why Paul is rebuking the churches of Galatia, for teaching that unless a person keeps the law they're faith is insufficient to save them. The Bible teaches FAITH IN CHRIST, PERIOD; not FAITH IN CHRIST, PLUS something more to be saved.
All false religions require some degree of works to get to Heaven. Many pseudo-Christian religions (i.e., false Christian religions) are caught between grace and works. They'll say deceitful things like—“We're saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, but we must do works to prove that our faith is genuine.” This is what the Bob Jones crowd (Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Gary Walton, Chuck and Daniel Phelps, et cetera) heretically teach. Please keep in mind that all false gospels include faith in Jesus Christ! All of your pseudo-Christian cults include faith in Jesus, but they also require MORE. This is why Paul is upset at the churches of Galatia, for adding the works of the flesh to faith alone. Galatians 3:3, “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Paul is rebuking and exposing the false idea that you get saved by faith, and then you need to prove you're saved by the works of the law. Effectively this is adding works to grace.
Turning away from one's sinful ways to be saved is a work of the flesh. Nowhere in the Scripture are we taught to turn or repent of sin to be saved. Repentance is required for salvation, but to “repent” simply means to change one's mind. 2nd Timothy 2:25 speaks of “repentance to the acknowledging OF THE TRUTH.” It doesn't say “OF YOUR SINS,” does it. Repentance is simply the realization that you are a guilty needy sinner (Romans 3:19-20), so that you will BELIEVE ON JESUS to be saved (Galatians 3:24-26). Salvation is not partial faith in Christ plus turning from your sin, or surrendering all to Christ as Lord. Salvation is simply receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, resting in the risen Savior for forgiveness of sins and eternal life (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; John 6:47).
Evangelist Paul Washer is a devout Calvinist, who heretically says:
“No, no, if you don't have works, you're going to Hell!”
SOURCE: Evangelist Paul Washer's Garbage Theology
What saith the Scripture? Romans 4:4-7, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.” I don't know about you, but I am going to believe God, and not Paul Washer (Romans 3:4). The Bible says we are saved WITHOUT WORKS (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). Yet, Paul Washer says if you don't have works, you're going to Hell. The Bible teaches the exact opposite, that your “many wonderful works” will send you to Hell (Matthew 7:21-23).
You don't go to Heaven by doing GOOD WORKS, nor by giving up your BAD WORKS! Hebrews 6:1 in the inspired King James Bible speaks of repentance from DEAD WORKS. That is, ceasing from trusting in any and all works to be saved. What saith the Scripture? Hebrews 4:10-11, “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” Oh how I love this Scripture passage! God set the eternal example for us on the seventh day of creation, when He ceased from all His works, and RESTED.
The blessed Sabbath Day represents Jesus Christ, in Whom we completely REST for salvation. It is alarming that tens of thousands of pastors today have bought into the Devil's lie of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation (two excellent articles by Pastor Jack Hyles), two separate but often related heresies. The shameful new executive vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, Dr. Marty Herron is guilty of these evil teachings! This man is a shameful opportunist, following the money wherever it leads, serving his own belly instead of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 16:17-18; Titus 1:10-13). When I literally handed THE TRUTH to him in 2014 at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, Pastor Herron rejected it!
Consequently, HBC still today is a cesspool of iniquity, a rotting corpse in Christendom. Bob Jones University today is not the same college that it was 75 years ago while Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968) was still alive and at the helm. Tragically, for the past 40 years the university has taken a dangerous shift of course into new-evangelism, adopting the satanic lies of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation.
According to our text Bible passage from Galatians 6:7-8, God PROMISES to punish them for hobnobbing with the Devil's crowd. The churches in Galatia had allowed a suave, likable and trendy religious cult into their midst, which required keeping the Old Testament law to get to Heaven. In a word, WORKS! This is the SAME evil false doctrine being taught by sinister ministers' John MacArthur, Steve Pettit and Marty Herron today (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15), requiring people to “REPENT AND TURN AWAY FROM THEIR SIN” to get to Heaven. In a word, WORKS! No such teaching is found in the Word of God, unless you have one of the corrupted modern Bible's Bible revisions, like the English Standard Version (ESV).
I Want God To Avenge Me Of The Utterly Wicked Bob Jones Crowd
The biggest problem (and it is wickedness) that I see today going on in churches, especially in the United States, is that pastors and congregations alike just don't give a damn! As long as their 6-digit paychecks clears, Marty Herron and Steve Pettit don't give a damn. Well I do! By God's grace, I intend to preach against these wicked men for the rest of my earthly life. Marty Herron played God with my life between 2014 to 2018, and Kristen Hurlburt as well as her boss, costing her as my wife. I love Kristen and always will. I deeply miss and love her. I KNOW as sure as I am saved that Kris would have married me, if her pastors hadn't ostracized me as an evildoers for TELLING THE TRUTH.
I humbly want God to avenge me of Kristen, and I have that biblical right (Romans 12:19-21). Those wicked pastors must pay for the evil they have done. They must be held accountable by God almighty for rejecting THE TRUTH of a free grace Gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). They must be held accountable by God almighty for perverting the Word of God, for adding words to the Bible that God did not say (Proverbs 30:5-6; Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:19). I want God to speedily avenge me of Harvest's ungodly corrupt pastors, who all insisted that Martin Luther (1483-1546) is a born-again Christian in Heaven, even after I proved to them with Luther's own writings that he taught the heresy of Baptismal Regeneration until his death.
I want God to bring Herron's blood upon his own head, for all the souls he has deceived and damned to the Lake of Fire with his fake Bibles, Misunderstood Repentance, Lordship Salvation and for booting me from Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014, and banning me from returning. I begged in 2017 three times for Harvest's pastors to please let me return, so I could court Kristen Hurlburt (their school nurse). Oh how I love her so! There hasn't been a day since 2013 that I haven't thought about her, wanting to marry her.
What kind of pastors refuse to allow a broken, humble and hurting man to even sit in church? A monster like Marty Herron, who is a rotten phony Christian, that's who! The man dresses for success, a member of the elite white shoe boy's club, an arrogant snob who thinks he is better than people like me. That is not a true man of God. That is a secular businessman, a wolf in sheep's clothing, preying upon complicity apostate churches! I am not just a peeved man with a blog. Dear reader, I am upset with the Bob Jones crowd for very legitimate reasons. I am a thankful graduate of Hyles-Anderson College in Crownpoint, Indiana. I have never regretted my time and money spent to attend HAC, it was a privilege for which I will always be grateful to God, my parents (who encouraged my choice to attend HAC), and my hero of the faith Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001).
I attended Bible college for 8 years, between 1985 to 1993, when I graduated on the Dean's List. I worked hard to finish what I started, and by God's grace I did. Many of my Bible professors are alumni of Bob Jones University. So I am speaking out as someone with an inside view of my own independent fundamentalist Baptist group. The Bob Jones crowd have a sordid history of racism, prejudice, hatred, authoritarian intolerance, lack of compassion for hurting people, lack of mercy, abuse, and even abuse toward victims (literally blaming rape victims and telling them to repent). Don't take my word for it, read the story for yourself:
CONCORD, N.H. — A woman says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and that the pastor of her church told her to forgive and forget instead of doing what the law required: report it to authorities.
The woman commented after a recent trial during which a New Hampshire prosecutor suggested that the same pastor, the Rev. Chuck Phelps, did not do enough to help another young church member, a rape victim.
Phelps, former pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord and now a pastor at a Baptist church in Indianapolis, has not returned messages seeking comment.
I was abused horribly at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam by Marty Herron. That wicked man abused me between 2014 and 2018 because I befriended him with THE TRUTH. Pastor Herron could have simply befriended me, talking to me like a normal human being. Instead, he had his associate pastor Joe Hansen confront me (doing the dirty work) in the church office, as Herron sat there for the coward that he is. Just like Charles Phelps, who did nothing when allegations of sexual abuse happened in the church, Marty Herron washed his hands of the matter, knowing that my life was broken and I desperately needed his love and help at that time. Folks, something is very wrong with these shameful Bob Jones pastors, when they care more about protecting their pride, church and comfort level, than they do about real people!
I too feel like I was emotionally raped by the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. I was always kind, loving, generous and friendly toward everyone at the church. But they were rude, mean, uncaring and quick to get rid of me. My only crime was sharing my humble opinion with them that the King James Bible is the only Bible we can trust today, and the modern Bible revisions (literally HUINDREDS of them) are corrupt. That is what I believe. Was it going to ruin the pastors and church, because as a free American I have my own opinion? Sadly, these men are abusive thugs in church leadership! They bully people, forcing people to embrace THEIR TEACHINGS ONLY. You don't have the freedom to be yourself in the Bob Jones camo. If you don't dot your i's and cross your t's just right, they gang up on you, force you out, ostracize you, and then blame you for their ungodly hatred, prejudice and sickening behavior.
I am thankful that God promises in Galatians 6:7 to hold false teachers, and those who follow them, accountable. Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” Pastor Marty Herron shamefully thought he would stab me in the heart, back and neck and then flee to Iowa, like the serpent in Genesis after ruining Eve's life. The face of a coward is the back of a man's head as he flees from a battle. Marty Herron is a slick religious used people salesman, preying upon churches any way that he can to feed his belly.
Dr. Herron literally uses people, milking them dry of their money to feed his shady fake form of uncaring Christianity. If you are parents with money, Marty loves you! He went from preying upon parents with money at Harvest Baptist Academy and Harvest Baptist Bible College on Guam, to preying upon parents with me at their disgusting religious college in Iowa. They charge parents $30,000 a year at the Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. I am so sick and tired of the sinister complacency of professed Christians today. Nobody gives a damn anymore about right Bible doctrine, or hurting people that need help, or things that really matter. When I pleaded earnestly for Pastor Herron's help with my broken life in 2017, three times, he threw me under the bus and left me for dead. God will treacherously deal with Marty Herron the way that he treacherously dealt with me, like garbage (Matthew 7:1-2).
And then I read about that two teenage girls that were raped by a church member, and Herron's good buddy Chuck Phelps did nothing, telling the girls that THEY NEED TO REPENT! It gets much worse, look at what Dr. Steve Pettit (another buddy of Marty Herron, and president of BJU) did to a BJU student who was raped. He expelled him from the college! Folks, I am exposing the satanic Bob Jones University camp!!! Beware of Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Gary Walton (the new shameful BJU incompetent pastor of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam), John MacArthur, Chuck Phelps, and countless more infidels and shady characters lurking in the pulpit today, are of the Devil. John MacArthur is a BJU alumni and personal buddy of Herron, Pettit and others I listed. Look at what a scoundrel John MacArthur is!!! I call these people shady for good reason! These wicked imposters in Christianity fall all over each other with sycophantic praise, because they all have their filthy hands in the cookie jar, preying upon the churches with their greed and false humility. Woe unto the Bob Jones crowd!
Beware Of Shady Ministers' Marty Herron And Chuck Phelps
Any church that would invite someone like Marty Herron (an abusive Bob Jones authoritarian), as did Chuck Phelps (the ungodly minister who covered-up for a child rapist), is a sick man. It gets worse, according to the Boston Globe there is more than one woman accusing Pastor Chuck Phelps of covering up for child rapists! Kindly, please search the internet for these shameful names and for rape victims, authoritarian abuse, lack of compassion and hatred, and you'll see why I preach against them. None of this is Bible Christianity. These men cannot even get the Gospel correct!!! They are wrong on repentance. They are wrong on the Holy Bible. They are wrong on God's simple plan of salvation.
They are academics, who woefully lack God's compassion for hurting sinners. These phonies in the clergy are arrogant, self-righteous, self-willed, clever conmen and full of wicked pride. Marty Herron ruined my life!!! The woman who would have married me rejected me because of Herron's pressure upon her as her boss. She was the nurse at Harvest. Literally, Joe Hansen was told by Marty Herron to get rid of me. I was told that Kristen would feel uncomfortable is they let me come back to church. Harvest has several hundred church members. Joe Hansen is a walking devil! These wicked men need to be exposed. They corrupt the Gospel. They corrupt the true meaning of repentance. They are woefully unlearned and wrestle the Scriptures to their own destruction, and those who foolishly follow them (2nd Peter 3:9). These men have much blood upon their hurtful hands!!!
These Bob Jones alumni and affiliated religious men are all evil! Whether it be corrupting the Word of God, perverting the Gospel, blaming rape victims and telling them to repent and let it go, covering up for rapists in the group, denying hurting people (like me) the right to attend church for 7 years, ignoring hurting people (like me) who cried out repeatedly for love and help, or financially preying upon the churches—THESE WICKED MEN ARE ALL GUILTY! Marty Herron is 100% guilty! Steve Pettit is 100% guilty! Gary Walton is 100% guilty! John MacArthur is 100% guilty! Chuck Phelps is 100% guilty! These are devils in the pulpit.
By God's grace, I have dedicated the rest of my life to preach against these dastardly villains, who need to be driven out of every town and banned from standing behind any pulpit, lest they corrupt your family, bilk you of your money, and let rapists prey upon your children!!! God damn these evil men! I think I speak with the Spirit of Christ in me. They certainly haven't exemplified the Spirit of Christ by hating, rejecting and ignoring hurting people (as Marty Herron did me for several years). That man has no heart!!!
We've got enough yellowbellied pastors today, Caspar Milquetoast types like Marty Herron, opportunists who milk the churches for every penny they can. Herron is now being paid well over $100,000 a year as the executive vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary (preacher's cemetery) in Ankeny, Iowa. That shameful man belongs in prison, which is where I'd put him for the rest of his life if I had the power to do so! 2nd Corinthians 11:6, “But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.” God knows that I love everyone, and I don't hate anybody; but I also LOVE JUSTICE!!! These men need to be brought to JUSTICE, which is what out text verse promises from God. Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
I have spoken THE TRUTH! I told THE TRUTH that the modern Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort Bible revisions (since the year 1881) are all corrupted by the Devil. I told THE TRUTH that Lordship Salvation is a perversion of God's free grace. I told THE TRUTH that repentance simply means “a change of mind,” and doesn't mean “to turn away from sinning.” I told THE TRUTH that Martin Luther was not a born-again believer, because he trusted in water baptism his whole life. I told THE TRUTH and was persecuted by Marty Herron, Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin, Gary Walton and Harvest's other pastors for it. Between 2014 and 2021, they all threw me under the bus, knowing that I desperately needed their love, compassion and help with my broken life. Kristen Hurlburt wanted to marry me, and I her, but Harvest's wicked pastors kept us apart, and for that I want God to avenge me of their hatred, persecution and evil hardened arrogant perverse hearts, because I TOLD THE TRUTH!!!!!!!
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