Lamentations 3:22-26, “It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
Our God is a good and merciful God. Our Scripture passage is astonishing. The children of Israel had rebelled against the Lord for hundreds of years. They hadn't kept the Sabbath day for 490 years!!! That is why God sent them into bondage as slaves into Babylon, one year for every seven years that they refused to observe the Sabbath Day. That amounts to 70 years of captivity (70 times 7 = 490 years). God was merciful, He could have sent them into captivity for 490 years!!!
King Zedekiah refused to obey the Word of God. The Lord sent His prophet, Jeremiah, to warn of coming judgment, but Israel's leaders refused to heed the warnings. So God raised up the nation of Babylon to judge Israel. There were a series of three invasions that took place. The first invasion involved taking the the rich into captivity. Daniel was taken in the first invasion. Then the middleclass were taken into captivity during the second invasion. And then at the final invasion, Jerusalem was completely destroyed. The women were tortured and ravished. Pregnant women were slaughtered. The Babylonian soldiers showed no mercy. The men were tortured and killed. The children who weren't slaughtered were taken into captivity 400 miles away west into Babylon.
The Prophet Jeremiah was spared from destruction. King Nebuchadnezzar had heard about the man of God, Jeremiah, who had told Israel to submit to Babylon per God's command. Unfortunately, Israel's leaders were proud and arrogant, calling Jeremiah a false prophet. They learned the hard way that Jeremiah had been telling THE TRUTH all along. King Zedekiah was forced to watch as Babylonian solders slaughtered all 80 of his sons. Then the solders put out Zedekiah's eyes the Bible says, blinding him for the rest of his life. What a sad true story. Dear friend, it never pays to disobey God's Word!!!
So now Jeremiah sits in the ashes of what's left of the holy city of Jerusalem. The crying prophet weeps for his people and in his sorrow writes the book of Lamentations (in his lament). I am amazed to read what Jeremiah said in out text passage. The weeping prophet boats of his God's mercy and goodness!!! Wow! Dear reader, would you or I have such humility after losing our city, our home, our friends, the only life that we had ever known? ...
Lamentations 3:22-26, “It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
God had shown great mercy upon Israel by sparing them from total annihilation. Had God not intervened and put it in King Nebuchadnezzar's heart to take the Jews into captivity, they would have all been murdered. Jeremiah thanked and praised His good God, determined to wait upon the Lord. We can learn a great truth from Lamentations, about praising the Lord during the tough times of life. The Jews brought this evil upon themselves. Perhaps you have made a mess of your life. Well that is exactly what the Jews did here! It doesn't matter, because our great God is faithful, regardless of the reason why we are suffering. OUR GOOD IS MERCIFULL AND GOOD!!! Great is Thy faithfulness!!! ...
Revelation 20:11-15, “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Not all of God's promises are positive. In our text passage God promises to cast all Christ-rejecters who die in their sins into the Lake of Fire. This is the “second death.” The first death is when our body can no longer survive due to age, disease or accident. The first death is separation of our soul and spirit from our body. The second death is separation of our body, soul and spirit from God forever in Hell.
Matthew 10:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” We ought to FEAR GOD, Who can destroy BOTH body and soul in Hell. Obviously God will have to provide some type of body to lost sinners who are cast into Hell, because the old fleshly body is gone at death. This new body from God must be able to withstand the incredibly high temperatures and horrifying conditions of Hell, that a normal human body couldn't not tolerate.
There is considerable debate over the temperature of Hell. Revelation 21:8 reveals that Hell burns with brimstone. The primary component of brimstone (lava) is sulfur, which starts to melt at 527° Fahrenheit and remains in a flowing liquid state down to temperatures as low as 248° Fahrenheit. The temperature of lava flow is usually about 1,300° to 2,300° Fahrenheit. Deep inside the earth, usually at about 95 miles, the temperature is hot enough that some small part of the rocks begins to melt. Once that happens, the magma (molten rock) will rise toward the surface (it floats). Scientists have yet to directly measure the temperature of the Earth's inner core (because they cannot get testing equipment down that far), but most estimates put it at somewhere between 9,000 and 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,000 and 6,000 degrees Celsius). That's pretty hot—hot enough, in fact, to equal the temperature of the sun's surface!
There is an abundance of Scriptural evidence to support the claim that Hell resides in the inside of the earth. Ezekiel 31:17, “They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.” Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Acts 2:27 and 31, “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. ... He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.” By cross referencing these helpful Scripture passages, we learn that when Jesus died on the cross, His soul went to Hell. The Bible says that Jesus went INTO THE HEART OF THE EARTH!!! This is further strong evidence that Hell is inside the earth.
We are also told in Luke 23:43 that Jesus promised the repentant thief on the cross that they would both in in PARADISE that very day. So how did Jesus go to Hell and Paradise? The only logical conclusion is that Hades (Hell) is compartmentalized, with the place of Paradise on onw side and the place of Torment on the other side. We see this truth well explained in Luke 16:19-32 in the true account of the rich man and Lazarus. Jesus did not call this story a parable, nor did He afterwards explain what it meant (as the Lord always did when He told a parable). So we must take this account as being 100% true and literal. If you are interested in learning all about this topic, Pastor Max Younce has authored a helpful book (which you can read and download for free in .pdf format) titled: “A Biblical Examination Of Hell.” Dr. Younce gave me permission to type out his books in HTML format. I greatly encourage you to read Pastor Younce's book, and also visit his ministry website where dozens more books and writings can be found to freely read and download.
Dear reader, Hell is a real place. I don't want to go there and I'm pretty sure that you don't either. Most people don't believe that Hell exists, but just because somebody refuses to believe something doesn't mean that it is not true! I read in the news today that Star Trek legendary actor, William Shatner (who starred as Captain James T. Kirk) flew into outer space above the earth. Shatner, at age 90, is the oldest person to ever enter into outer space. I think that is so cool! The flight ascended 350,000 feet above the earth:
Back on Earth, William Shatner grew emotional describing his experience launching into space...
"I'm so filled with emotion about what just happened. It's extraordinary, extraordinary. I hope I can maintain what I feel now. I don't want to lose it. It's so much larger than me and life."
Speaking to Jeff Bezos after the Blue Origin flight, the 90-year-old actor told him: "What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine."
He continued: "It hasn't got anything to do with the little green men and the blue orb. It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death." —William Shatner, 'William Shatner goes to space on Blue Origin mission'
Tragically, William Shatner is an avowed lifetime atheist:
In a March 9, 2006 Associated Press story by David Germain headlined "Shatner Explores World of 'Trek' Tech," Shatner says:
"I've always had sort of an ironic view of life," the 75-year-old Shatner said. "My belief system is that when this is over, it's over. That you don't look down from heaven and wait for your loved ones to join you. There may be some soul activity, but I'm not sure about that. But what I am sure about is that your molecules continue and in due time become something else. That's science."
In a 1968 interview, Shatner said, in response to a question about whether he has religious beliefs or believes in an afterlife:
"No. I don't. Emotionally I would like to believe there is a life after death. Intellectually . . . . I cannot accept the idea. . . . as for myself, I have finally come to the conclusion that life is here and now . . . and nothing more." —Celebrity Atheists, William Shatner
Mr. Shatner claims to be a member of Judaism, which essentially is the same as being an atheist, since either way they deny the deity of Jesus Christ. It is sad that at age 90 William Shatner is so close to eternity and yet after 90 years he is still walking in darkness without the Lord Jesus Christ!
Dear friend, our blessed Savior warned the world in John 3:3b, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 14:6,“ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Just because William Shatner doesn't believe in an afterlife doesn't make it so!
1st Corinthians 1:18-21, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
The PREACHING OF THE CROSS (i.e., the Gospel) is foolishness to William Shatner's intellect because he is ready to PERISH as a lost man. To “perish” means to go to Hell forever!
Hebrews 4:1-3, “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.”
I love that passage of Scripture! We who have BELIEVED on Christ have entered into REST!This is what Jesus meant in Matthew 11:28-30, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” There is no peace of mind like RESTING in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Dear reader, that is how you get saved—you simply CEASE from all your own works (human effort) and completely REST in Jesus Christ because of what He did through Calvary's cross to pay for our sins, believing that He is risen from the dead (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). If you are saved, then your name is recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven!!! Luke 10:20b, “rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”
But if you have never come to a place in your life where you realized that you are a guilty sinner in the sight of a holy God (Romans 3:19-23), and that there is a penalty for your sins, which is death (including a second death in Hell forever - Revelation 20:11-15), and you TRUSTED (BELIEVED) on Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior, then you cannot enter into God's Kingdom and Hell is the only other place left for you to go. Is the preaching of the cross foolishness to you dear reader? Or is the Gospel the POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION to you? Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” I BELIEVE! Do you dear friend?
The news reported today that William Shatner was overwhelmed emotionally when he exited the space shuttle. The 350,000 feet high flight only took 11 minutes from takeoff to landing! For 3 minutes they had experienced Zero Gravity. That is so cool! Shatner was humbled with awe at the sights and things he had just experienced. I would love to take such a flight into outer space!!! But oh how it saddens my heart to know that Shatner (born in 1931) is so close to splitting Hell wide open! Jesus plainly warned in John 3:3b, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The Devil's greatest desire is to blind men so that they will never be saved, so they will spend eternity burning in Hell with him in the everlasting Lake of Fire. The Devil is no one's friend!!!
Apart from childlike faith alone in Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, no one can go to Heaven (John 20:31). John 14:6,“ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.” Oh how good is our beautiful God and Savior!!! Jesus paid a debt that He did not owe, knowing that we owed a debt we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL! Christ died for the ungodly the Bible says in Romans 5:6, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
The Bible says that the lost world BY WISDOM KNEW NOT GOD. This speaks of the secular wisdom of the sinful world. 1st Corinthians 1:21, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” One of my favorite sermons is by Pastor Max Younce titled, 'The Wisdom Of The World Versus Divine Wisdom.' I encourage you to listen to this. Here's Part Two.
If God allows suffering and torment in this world, you had better believe that God allows it in the next for lost sinners who knowingly reject God's free gift of eternal life and forgiveness of sin through His only begotten Son. Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” The choice is yours alone to make oh sinner! I am so glad that I'm a part of the family of God. Oh it is wonderful to be a Christian! It is wonderful to be God's child! Jesus, please don't leave earth without Him!!!
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 6:7-8, “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.”
Their damnation slumbereth not! The demonic Bob Jones University (BJU) camp in Greenville, South Carolina and their thousands of complicit graduates are of the Devil. They are guilty in God's sight of preaching another gospel of Calvinism (aka, Lordship Salvation). BJU are guilty of preaching a misunderstanding of repentance, requiring people to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get saved and prove that they are saved. That is NOT the free grace Gospel taught in the inspired Word of God. Bob Jones University is guilty in God's sight of promoting, selling and using the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions.
The Bible promises in Galatians 6:7 that GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!! Whatsoever man soweth, that shall HE ALSO REAP!!! There is a woeful evil happening all across the United States and the world today, which is professed Christians bidding Godspeed to false teachers!!! This is why Jesus warned in Luke 16:13 that NO MAN can serve God and mammon, for he will love the one and hate the other. There are no exceptions! The Bob Jones University camp are all about making money and careers. BJU advertises that their college trains nurses, businessmen, accounting, engineering and other secular careers to make money. BJU has deteriorated into a den of thieves, a cesspool of iniquity, a Satanic religious cult that prioritizes making money over preaching THE TRUTH and preserving right doctrine.
Bob Jones University is evil to the core!!! I am saddened that shameful pastors from the Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp (e.g., Sean Quinlan and Jeff Redlin) chose to scold me for exposing the Bob Jones camp, rather than commend and join me to “earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3). Instead, those sorry devils hobnob with false teachers, bidding them Godspeed, going along to get along because they are all in the stinking dirty business of making money, parasiting off of Christendom!!!
I long and pray for the day of judgment to see infidels' Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Sam Horn, Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin, Gary Walton, the rotten Harvest Baptist Church cult on Guam, Bob Jones University cult headquarters and Pastor John F. MacArthur cast into the fires of Hell. I do not rejoice that anyone would go to Hell to be tormented forever. I do not rejoice in the fall of my enemies. I do not find happiness in seeing evildoers cast into the Lake of Fire. Even God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:32). God is not willing for any to perish, but that all men should come to repentance (i.e., believe the Gospel to be saved from one's sins).
But as God does, I also do rejoice to see THE TRUTH avenged (). I look forward to seeing my Bible preaching avenged. At the Great White Throne of Judgment, I will be weeping as Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Gary Walton and John MacArthur are cast by the angels into everlasting darkness, into the lake of Fire to be tormented in fire and brimstone without rest for ever and ever. I will weep, as joy floods my soul that my preaching of THE TRUTH has finally been vindicated by God's Word. Daily I feel frustrated and let down by God, wondering WHEN the righteous Lord is going to punish Marty Herron and the rest of the rotten Bob Jones University (BJU) cult!!!
Justly so, I want Marty Herron to suffer and pay for all the lives he has ruined, including mine and all the lies he continually defends of spreads!!! God's curse is upon Pastor Herron and his day of reckoning is coming for rejecting THE TRUTH and hurting me for telling THE TRUTH at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (Hosea 4:6; Romans 12:19-21; Galatians 6:7; Titus 1:10-13). Sadly, Harvest is caught in the clutches of a deadly octopus of BJU's damnable heresies and arrogant pride!!!
What saith the Scripture? Revelation 6:9-10, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” These dear saints who will be slaughtered during the coming Tribulation period, will be frustrated waiting for God to avenge them, just as I am daily frustrated. How long O Lord will the ungodly Bob Jones University crowd be allowed to continue preaching their damnable heresies and lead people into an eternal burning horrific Hell?
The time will come when God will encourage the saints to REJOICE to see that we have been avenged. Revelation 18:20, “Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.” I long to be avenged of Marty Herron and Gary Walton, BJU alumni who despise truth-tellers like me who tell THE TRUTH!!! Psalms 58:10-11, “The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.” For every Bible truth, there is often a paradox, a seeming contradiction. Bible ignoramuses will cherry pick only what they want to see in the Scriptures, to support their false doctrine.
To rightly divide the inspired Word of God, we must be careful to find the balance in doctrine. For example: In Mark 9:40 Jesus said whoever is not with us is against us. But in Matthew 12:30 that Lord said whoever is not against us is for us. This seems to be a major contradiction. Unbelievers and skeptics often prey upon such alleged discrepancies in the Scriptures, mishandling the Word of God in their unlearned ignorance. The wise Bible student studies the Holy Bible to find THE TRUTH.
In Mark 9:40 Jesus is referring to Christians who serve God in their own way, which may be different than how we serve Him. If you've ever been to a black church, they often get wild in their meetings and worship God with much zeal. We need some of that in all of our churches today. God never intended for the church to resemble a funeral home. Is your church dead? Also, please don't mistake zeal for the Holy Spirit. If the Gospel is being preached correctly, and the world is rejected by the church, and the truth is being preached, and the congregation is full of true born-again believers, then you know that the blessed Holy Spirit is present.
Zeal itself is not a sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit. TRUTH is a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence, for in John 16:13 He is called “the Spirit of truth.” Sometimes it is carnal zeal, such as in Charismatic churches when they speak in tongues. The Apostle Paul commended the Jews for having zeal in Romans 10:3-4, but Paul rebuked them because their zeal was false, not according to knowledge! Speaking in tongues as done in Pentecostal churches, Assemblies of God and Charismatic churches today has its origin in witchcraft! Charismatics have much zeal, but it is not according to Bible knowledge.
In Luke 9:50 and the surrounding context Jesus is referring to “the Unpardonable Sin.” If anyone rejects the Holy Spirit of God concerning salvation, then they are against Christ. This is what the context teaches us. So although these two passages in Matthew 12:30 and mark 9:40 seem to contradict each other, they do not. By simply studying the surrounding context in which these statements were made by the Lord, we see their accurate meaning. The biggest cause of false doctrine is lifting text out of context, which creates a new pretext (heresy).
So although we are warned against rejoicing in the calamity of our enemies, it depends on why they are our enemies. There are many people who have hurt me throughout my life, but I have forgiven them all. Yet, there are wicked religious people like Pastor Marty Herron, who destroyed my life and discouraged the woman who was going to marry me, because of his hatred and contempt for me as a truth-teller. Herron falls into a different category, because I am justified in my preaching against him. Romans 3:4, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”
I pray that Marty Herron could lose his wife and see how loneliness feels, and to be thrown under the bus by a senior pastor (as he did me) when I pleaded for his help in 2014 and 2017. Pastor Herron wickedly told me verbatim to “Go elsewhere!” on Guam. I had nowhere else to go and didn't attend church for seven painful years between 2014 and 2021. John 8:26, “I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.” Someone said to me that I need to let Harvest go, but I don't want to because of the underlying principle of the whole matter.
My critics will foolishly try to diminish the issue to say that I am holding a grudge, but the issue is oh so much more important dear friend! Regarding the religious false teachers of His day, Jesus said in John 8:26, “I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.” Only Jesus is the Judge Who standeth at the door (James 4:12), but I do have MUCH TO SAY against Marty Herron, Gary Walton and the Bob Jones University crowd. But I won't have to say anything. God does not need a jury in His eternal court, because God knows all (omniscient). God doesn't have to figure out the truth, HE KNOWS THE TRUTH!!! What matters is that I am preaching THE TRUTH, which is exactly what Romans 3:4 teaches. If what I preach aligns with the inspired King James Bible, then my sayings with be justified at the Judgment Seat Of Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:9-11). The Bible Jones camp are preaching manmade traditions (Calvinism) and the fables of wicked men (Mark 7:9-13; Titus 1:10-13; 2nd Timothy 4:1-5).
When He was suffering on the cross, Jesus prayed for His heavenly Feather to forgive the men who had just crucified Him. But when Jesus dealt with the wicked religious crowd, He never asked the Father to forgive them? Why? It is because the religious crowd knew the truth, but they rejected it. That is why they rejected Jesus, because He told THE TRUTH (as I did at the arrogant Harvest Baptist Church cult on Guam. John
John 8:40 and 45, “But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham... And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” Wow! These statements from Jesus are mind-blowing! They Jews tried to murder Jesus because He told them THE TRUTH! The Lord said the reason why they wouldn't believe Him is because He told THE TRUTH. Likewise, when I humbled attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam for one year in 2013-14, I loved them and wanted to help them, so I did what a true friend does, I TOLD THE TRUTH!!!
I saw dozens of different Bible revisions circulating in the pews at Harvest. I knew that is very bad!!! Friend, God only authored ONE BOOK, not hundreds. According to the American Bible Society there are approximately 900 English Bible versions in part or whole. That is the Devil folks, who is the author of confusion, not God (1st Corinthians 14:33). Satan knows that by publishing hundreds of different Bible versions, he can confuse everybody and render the Word of God ineffective. By changing the Holy Bible every 6 months, people no longer adhere to EVERY WORD. Jesus said in Matthew 4:4 that man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. If I am to live by EVERY WORD of God, then I need an EVERY WORD Bible!!! That is why I have only used and promoted the inspired KING JAMES BIBLE since I was saved at age 13 from it! All of the modern Bible revisions are horribly corrupt and doctrinally flawed. I could give you literally thousands of examples!!! Nothing in this universe is more important than the Word of God, nothing!!!
Jesus asked His Father to forgive the magistrates and soldiers who abused and crucified Him, but the Lord never showed such empathy for the rotten self-righteous religious crowd! Jesus loved the heretical religious crowd, as He loves all woeful sinners (Romans 5:6-9). CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY!!! That means you, me and everybody!!! But the ungodly Pharisees and scribes fully knew what they were doing, rejecting THE TRUTH. The Lord said that He had MUCH to say and to judge of the ungodly Pharisees!!! The Bible teaches that to whom much is given, of the same much shall be required (Luke 12:48). I handed THE TRUTH directly into the hands of the pastors of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. Here are the books that I gave them:
Martin Luther: Master Of Deceit (an awesome book by Pastor Max D. Younce; free to read online, freely download as .pdf or purchase)
I was called into the church office the next time I came to church, harshly rebuked by the church pastors for sharing these books at church. Pastor Herron was a coward, listening to the entire conversation, but making his associate pastor Joe Hansen do the dirty work of rebuking me. For well over an hour I earnestly contended for the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3). When I stood my ground and told him how corrupted the modern Bible perversions they are using are, Joe Hansen threw it in my face that he is a Greek teacher. If his life depended on it, Pastor Hansen couldn't order a pizza in Greece!
God deliver us from so-called “Greek scholars”!!! Hansen knows enough Greek to be dangerous! I rebuked him kindly by sternly, saying that any Bible which removes the word “begotten”from John 3:16 is going into my garbage pail. All of the Devil's modern Bibles completely remove the word “begotten,” attacking the deity of Jesus. According to John 1:12 and Romans 8:15, every child of God is an adopted son of God; but Jesus is the only “begotten” (biological) Son of God. So by removing the word “begotten,” the modern Bible revisions are corrupt, perverse and diminish the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a blatant attack against Christ's deity in all of the modern Bible revisions!!!
I would never fault a pastor for being imperfect or weak. We are all imperfect, sinful and weak. In fact, God wants us to relish in our weaknesses. 2nd Corinthians 12:10, “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” When we are weak, we need God's strength through His only begotten Son Jesus (Galatians 2:20). Jesus lives the Christian life through us by faith!!! I love that!
God knows that I do not hate anybody. I hate evil as Psalms 97:10 commands every Christian to do. I hate every false way because I love THE TRUTH of God's Word. Psalms 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.” If you listen to today's ungodly TV preachers, 99% of what they teach is not based upon the Holy Bible. Increasingly, as we delve further into the Devil's New World Order, churches and TV preachers are propagating the life's character lessons of Jesus, and are teaching secular humanism and psychology instead of Bible theology. You'll be hard pressed to find a TV preacher nowadays who teaches Bible theology (i.e.. the deity of Jesus, the Godhead, a literal burning Heaven and Hell, the necessity of Jesus' blood being sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, Jesus' bodily resurrection, His sinless life and virgin birth, et cetera).
Pastor Joel Osteen preaches mostly motivational speeches, self-help junk, secular psychology and building better relationships. What makes Joel Osteen so dangerous is not what he preaches, but WHAT HE DOESN'T PREACH!!! Hell is a literal place of fire and brimstone, where all Christ-rejecters and religious people who add the the gospel go. Sadly, Joel Osteen pollutes the simplicity that is in Christ, perverting the grace of God.
Every child of God ought to care about right doctrine! Adding water baptism to faith seems so trifle. Would a loving almighty God really cast someone into Hell for all eternity to suffer in torment and fire, just because they trusting in water baptism in addition to faith in Jesus Christ? Yes, absolutely! God will NOT allow any sinner into Heaven who tries to enter in some other way, than through FAITH ALONE in Jesus. John 10:1, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” Jesus plainly warned that anyone who attempts to climb up and enter into Heaven “SOME OTHER WAY” is a dirty THIEF and a LIAR!!! Please take heed dear reader to Christ's stern warning. There are approximately 4,400 different religions in the world, all of which cannot save you!!! Salvation is not found in any religion, but ONLY in a person—the Lord Jesus Christ!!!John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
Why oh why is it so difficult for the Bob Jones University camp to leave the simplicity of Christ be! Why cannot they simply LET IT BE!!! The Beatles had it right in their iconic song: “LET IT BE.” Dear reader, LET IT BE!!! Let the Gospel be! The primary reason why most people will burn in the fires of Hell someday is because they were trusting TOO MUCH to get to Heaven! The Lord Himself simply said in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” That is how you get saved oh sinner! You simply come to God in your sinful ungodly state, BELIEVING the Good News (the Gospel) that Christ DIED on the cross to pay for your sins, and He was BURIED, and three days later the precious Savior RESURRECTED from the dead:
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
“You can't just speak about getting saved, and you accepted Christ, and then that's it! There is a justification; There is a sanctification; There's ultimately a glorification, and though there are three parts, they are all part of the whole, and you cannot separate them. In order for you to qualify for the award, you have to get into the race, you have to stay in the race, and you have to finish the race. If you want to win, you have to run to the end; and winning in the Christian life is everything, because if you lose—if you don't finish—you lose everything—you lose your SOUL. And so, the Christian race is the life of faith that begins, is run, and is finished when we cross over into Heaven!” —Dr. Steve Pettit (“What Does It Mean To Run 'The Race'?,” BJU chapel - January 26th, 2015)
BLASPHEMY!!! Dear reader, what you just read by false teacher Steve Pettit is the Devil's lie of Calvinism. It is high time for all Christians everywhere to “REBUKE THEM SHARPLY” (Titus 1:10-13) who teach things contrary to the inspired King James Bible!!! I was unjustly criticized by Pastor Sean Quinlan at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam in 2018. Pastor Quinlan sarcastically said to me in rebuke: “You are obsessed with the Bible debate!” I took that insult as a badge of honor, because I have stood for THE TRUTH!!!
What saith the Scripture? 1st Kings 18:21, “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” I cannot think of a more applicable passage of Scripture to describe the Bob Jones (BJU) crowd, and sadly the Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp, and hundreds more increasingly apostate institutions and churches today, who are INDIFFERENT toward doctrine and truth. The prophet Elijah gave an invitation to the people of Israel. Elijah put them on the spot, asking the Jews to make a decision, but THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD!!!
That is so tragic and sad. That perfectly describes the PCC camp today, who refuse to take a Biblical stand against the damnable heresies being taught at Bob Jones University, and in the infidel churches of BJU alumni worldwide. How you live has nothing to do with your final destination!!! The Bob Jones University crowd are utterly confused on sanctification and justification concerning salvation. I love what Evangelist John Bunyan wisely said:
“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Amen, amen and amen!!! What a great statement! BJU are corrupting the Word of God and casting stumblingblocks before the people. It is not hard to discern why when we consider that the BJU camp uses umpteen different Bible revisions, which contradict one another! For example: Look how the modern Bible revisions pervert God's simple free grace plan of salvation. According to the Easy-To-Read Version (ESV), you must change your heart and your life to get to Heaven. Folks, that is NOT what Jesus said in John 10:9. The blessed Savior said in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” That is so simple! Jesus is THE DOOR by Whom we enter by faith into Heaven. Do not add anything to that!
The only requirement to be saved is to know that you are a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20; Galatians 3:24-26). You need to know what you are being saved from! Jesus came into the world and died on the cross to save us from our sins (John 3:16-17). It is the false religion of Cain (who ignorantly tried to impress God by the works of his own hands as a farmer), which works God vehemently rejected!!! Dear friend, there are only two plans of salvation: DO and DONE! You either think that you must DO something to be saved, or else you think that it is DONE. JESUS PAID IT ALL on the cross!!! Jesus Christ paid a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a debt of sin that we could not pay.
I could say so much more. Dear reader, my heart yearns for you to become hungry for THE TRUTH. So few churchgoers are truly born-again today. So few of those who are genuinely saved care about RIGHT DOCTRINE!!! Truth matters. There is a dull spirit of indifference over the churches today. The Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp don't care. PCC merely goes along with the apostate BJU camp, sinfully bidding Godspeed to them!
Dear reader, every believer is called to join the battle. The inspired Word of God teaches that we do not battle (fight) against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces in an unseen angelic world. Ephesians 6:12-13, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” I marvel that most believers have never been properly taught by their church leaders, and have never studied it for their self in the Holy Bible, that we are all in an ongoing spiritual war in this world.
2nd Timothy 2:3-4, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” Young Timothy was a called minister. Not all believers will be leaders in the church. Some Christian men are called by God to preach as an evangelist. Others are called to become missionaries. But dear friend, EVERY believer is a missionary!!! I think every church should have a big banner posted over the inner church door which reads: “YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE MISSION FIELD!,” because that is so true dear friend. We are all missionaries in this dark and dreary world of sin in which we all live.2nd Corinthians 5:20, “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.”
Having said that, each and every born-again saint of God is involved in this spiritual war between light and darkness! During World War II in the United States, mothers left their kitchens and went to work in factories to manufacture bombs, tanks and ammunition for the war cause. They became nurses and served as cooks in the kitchen to prepare food for the soldiers on and off the battle field. Likewise, we are at war dear reader. Each and every saint of God has a part in the war, a role to play. I encourage you friend to pray and ask God to show you your place of service in the battle for the Lord.
Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
I get frustrated when I hear Baptist preachers boasting about the hundreds or thousands of people they have led to Christ. I like to name names. I literally heard Missionary Steve Heidenreich claim to have won 200,000 people to Christ throughout his ministry. That frustrates me to read, because The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20 is not just to get people saved, but to water baptize and then indoctrinate (mentor) them with all things concerning Christ. Praise God for souls saved! I would rather hear a guy bragging of having led thousands of souls to Christ, than to hear nothing from the apostate Bob Jones University camp today. Even worse, the Bob Jones camp are wrong on the Gospel, which means they are not even saved. BJU are reprobates and infidels of the faith!!!
Dear reader, RIGHT DOCTINE MATTERS!!! There is something very wrong today with the multitudes of churches, pastors, evangelists and missionaries who are eerily silent about damnable heresies creeping into the churches and Bible colleges. The reason why few saints are exposing the Devil's religious crowd is simply because we are thinking about the wrong things. The average believer is choked by the cares, riches and pleasures of this life (Luke 8:14), never maturing in their faith, never becoming a witness for Jesus Christ.
Most Christians think about their favorite upcoming TV show or football game, but couldn't care less about RIGHT DOCTRINE!!! Truth is important. I spend my time thinking about the Holy Bible. ...
Psalms 1:1-3, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
I have suffered much hardships in my personal broken life over the decades. I have suffered constant chronic neck pain since 2004, from getting hit by a bus in 1992 and a fall at work in 2004 which worsened my condition. The only thing that saw me through was the precious promises of our great and wonderful Savior!!! Thank you Lord for loving and dying on the cross for a dirty undeserving sinner like me!!! JESUS IS PRECIOUS!!!!!!! I never could have made it, being all alone since 2006 when my wife divorced me, if it weren't for God's grace and faithful abiding of the blessed Holy Spirit to comfort and guide me with the Scriptures.
God is more than amazing!!! To be honest, I get angry and frustrated at Go sometimes. I get down and depressed sometimes, wondering why God has abandoned me. But the inspired Holy Bible teaches that the trial of my faith is worth more than gold that perisheth (1st Peter 1:7-9). Unshakable faith comes from having our faith shaken! Faith is like film, it develops in the dark. The most discouraging thing to me as a child of God over the past several years has been seeing the abhorrent indifference and woeful lack of compassion among Bob Jones University graduates; namely, the apostate Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. SHAME ON HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH AND PASTORS' GARY WALTON MARTY HERRON!!!
Those heartless monsters and cowards threw me under the bus and left me for dead, selfishly serving their own bellies and not the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 16:17-18). God will avenge me, but my hand shall not be upon them. I have faithfully taken a stand for THE TRUTH in the ongoing battle of the ages over the inspiration and purity of God's Word. Friend, if you don't have a King James Bible in the English language, you DON'T have an inspired Holy Bible! All of the modern Bible revisions are corrupted by Satan, with the intent to destroy the churches and blind unsaved sinners from seeing the glorious light of the truth of the Gospel (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). I have been faithful, they have lied and sold their souls for money!!! Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.”
