2nd Thessalonians 1:6-10, “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”
I have been horribly persecuted, ostracized and kicked out of numerous churches over the years because of my truth-telling website ministry. John the Baptist wasn't murdered for preaching the Gospel, but for preaching against Herod's sin of adultery with his brother's wife. Wicked sinners will despise and hate us when we Biblically stand for what is true and righteous. This is what the Bible means in 2nd Timothy 3:12-13, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
My worst enemies over the past 24 years of website ministry have been church people, particularly Baptist pastors, not the heathen world as you might expect. Go figure. Satan has successfully crept into over 95% of churches, Bible colleges, rescue missions and parachurch ministries with a false gospel of partial faith in Christ plus works. I cringe when I hear these ungodly false prophets teaching that more than faith in the Gospel is necessary to get to Heaven.
Case in point is Unshackled! radio broadcast nationwide from Chicago by Pacific Garden Mission since 1950. They were doctrinally sound in the old days when Harry Saulnier (1902-1990) directed the rescue mission, but since his graduation to Heaven ungodly neo-evangelicals have taken over the mission and run it into the ground, now preaching the Devil's fraud of Lordship Salvation. According to Unshackled! you must make Jesus “Lord” of your life to live for and serve Him, and turn away from your sinful behavior, and leave the old worldly ways behind permanently, and you must become a follower of Christ, all to be saved. But dear reader, you won't find any of that nonsense in the inspired King James Bible.
I could show you the same toxic tommyrot being taught today at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I could show you the same demonic garbage being preached at every church in Pensacola that is affiliated with PCC, including the following corrupt disgraceful churches:
- Campus Church at PCC (Pastor Jeff Redlin)
- Family Baptist Church (Pastor Brad Moffett)
- Smyrna Baptist Church (Pastor Bill Adams)
- Fairfield Drive Baptist Church (Pastor Josh Thompson)
And there are many more, but I have personally attended these religious cults and met their incompetent pastors who preach another gospel (Galatians 1:6-7). All of these churches have thrown me under the bus, persecuting and hurting me, simply because I TOLD THE TRUTH and they counted me as their enemy.
The Apostle Paul suffered the same woeful persecution and rejection from churchgoers. Galatians 4:16-17, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.” Yes, Paul, they do count you as their enemy, just as I have been labeled as the enemy and a troublemaker by evil incompetent pastors and their ungodly wives.
I am comforted by what the Apostle Paul said in 2nd Thessalonians 1:6-7a, “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” These corrupt churches and PCC religious school have not obeyed the Gospel; but rather, they have perverted it.
Not one verse in the inspired King James Bible teaches that to get to Heaven you must repent “of your sins” or turn away from past sinful ways (works). These are arrogant men, wicked clergy who have deliberately rejected the truth in order to keep their own manmade traditions (Mark 7:7-9). Jonah 3:10, “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.” Please notice two truths in the preceding Bible passage:
- God saw their WORKS, that the Ninevites turned from their evil way. Being willing to turn from one's sins is a self-righteous work, not grace (Romans 4:4, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.”)
- God repented. If repentance means to turn from sin, then how could God repent since He is incapable of being tempted or doing evil (James 1:13)? Biblically, to “repent” simply means “to change your mind,” nothing more. God changed His mind not to destroy Nineveh. The Assyrians didn't get saved, they just experienced moral reform for a time.
God the Father solemnly promises that someday in the likely near future when His only begotten Son returns, this world will be judged. That judgment includes all of the ungodly neo-evangelical pastors today who pervert the Gospel, embellishing God's simple plan of salvation to add more than the Scripture requires to be saved.
In the inspired Word of God we find a man asking: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” in Acts 16:30b. Paul and Silas directly answered his question in Acts 16:21b, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” No one told the Roman jailer to—repent of his sins, become a Christ follower, live a lifestyle of continually turning from his sins, faithfully run the Christian race, make Jesus “Lord” of his life, get water baptized, speak in tongues, surrender all, reform, prove the genuineness of his faith by living a changed life, publicly confess the name of Jesus—nor anything else that wicked preachers keep adding to God's simple plan of salvation.
Jesus plainly said in John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” As I type, I am banned from attending the aforementioned churches in Pensacola by their wicked pastors. One day the tables will be turned. One day my Bible preaching will be vindicated. I have done nothing wrong to harshly rebuke these foolish pastors for joining together against the Gospel. Titus 1:13, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.”
Proverbs 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.” I eagerly await the day of reckoning in the afterlife, when God reprimands these wicked pastors in my presence, and exonerates my Bible preaching against them, putting those wicked pastors to utter shame for perverting the Gospel. They will reap what they have sown (Galatians 6:7).
1st Corinthians 15:1-4 defines “the gospel” as three things:
- Jesus DIED on a cross for our sins.
- He was BURIED.
- Jesus RESURRECTED from the dead three days later.
That is the GOOD NEWS (Glad Tidings, Gospel) by which all who believe it are saved.
We are all guilty sinners (Romans 3:10-23). There is a penalty for our sin, to spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell (Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:11-15). That is the Bad News!
The Good News is that Jesus Christ died in your place on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago, paying a debt He did not owe because you owed a debt you could not pay. The moment that you believe this Good News, Jesus (who is God) reads your mind and He saves you. Nothing more is required or allowed to be saved. 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.” You need to simply believe that Jesus did it all for you.
Woe unto those false prophets who preach another gospel, damning men's souls to the eternal Lake of Fire. God promises to avenge us against those who trouble us with a counterfeit gospel. Galatians 1:7b, “there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” The LORD promises to avenge us as truth-telling believers against those lying false prophets who have wronged, persecuted and kicked us out of their churches for being honest. Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.”
