Our Defense Of The Gospel Will Be Vindicated

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:

1. 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.”)
2. 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:

1. Jesus DIED on a cross for our sins.
2. He was BURIED.
3. 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.”

God's Promise To Send Strong Delusion

2nd Thessalonians 2:8-12, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

I humbly believe that this passage of Scripture means God doesn't want anyone getting saved after the fact, that is, after they know what the truth is. When they were living for the pleasures of sin, they refused to heed the Gospel to be saved; but when the Tribulation comes and the truth becomes quite evident, it will be too late for them. God promises to send STRONG DELUSION to ensure that those wicked sinners don't get saved.

Please don't misunderstand, God does want sinners to get saved. 2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

This interesting passage of Scripture reveals God's mindset in salvation. The LORD wants every human being to come JUST AS I AM without one plea, as a guilty needy sinner deserving of eternal damnation in Hell, to be saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ. Salvation is simply a matter of believing that Jesus did it all for you through Calvary's cross.

The inspired King James Bible warns that love for sinning hinders a person from getting saved. God's wants us to acknowledge THE TRUTH (which is repentance) to admit that we are a SINNER and Jesus is the only SAVIOR. Many preachers make the fatal mistake of thinking that being willing to turn away from your sins is the antithesis of John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” This verse plainly tells us that a person's love for sinning prevents that individual from coming to the light of the truth of the Gospel to be saved. This is why Jesus said in John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Jesus did not say “ye cannot,” He said “ye will not come.”

What every corrupt neo-evangelical and neo-fundamentalist pastor ignores is John 3:21, “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” Carefully notice that the Bible doesn't say, “But he that is willing to turn from his sin” cometh to the light. No. The Bible doesn't say, “But he that repents of his sin” cometh to the light. Nope. The Bible doesn't say, “But he that follows Christ cometh to the light.” No. The Bible simply says, “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light.” The opposite of doing evil is not turning from it; the opposite of doing evil is doing truth (that is, obeying the truth of the Gospel by believing it).

2nd Timothy 2:25, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” I love that phrase—REPENTANCE TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE TRUTH!!! That is what repentance is dear reader—to simply acknowledge THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER, and Jesus is the only SAVIOR. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is. In salvation, you have turned from your sin of unbelief to trust Christ.

Now is the time to get saved dear friend while you still can. The LORD frowns upon those who refuse to heed the Gospel in fair weather. If you wait until the Rapture comes, and you are left behind, you may find yourself out of luck. The Scripture warns that God is going to send STRONG DELUSION, and the Bible tells us exactly why. It is because when those sinners had the opportunity to get saved, they chose their sinful lifestyles over cometh to the truth of the Gospel to be saved. The problem was never that they needed to turn away from their sinning. No Sir! That is the counterfeit plan of salvation that most churches are propagating today.

The issue is that they refused to repent TOWARD GOD (Acts 20:21), to simply admit that they were guilty needy sinners and believe upon the name of the only begotten Son of God, the Christ (John 20:31). I am alarmed that I increasingly hear bad preachers embellishing the Greek meaning of the noun (metanoia) “repent” in the New Testament. The word just means “a change of mind,” nothing more. It doesn't mean “a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior,” which is what they wickedly teach at Pensacola Christian College (PCC).

In fact, the Greek word metanoia (repent) doesn't even tell us what to change our mind about. So, we need supplemental information! That extra information can only be determined by a particular Scripture passage. For example: I quoted 2nd Timothy 2:25 to you a moment ago. Here it is again. 2nd Timothy 2:25, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” In this text the Bible makes it clear that we are to change our mind to acknowledge “the truth.” The Greek word for “acknowledge” is epignosis which means “recognition, that is, full discernment.” No man can believe the truth to be saved until he first has and accepts the truth. Bible repentance is changing our mind to accept (or recognize) the truth that we are a SINNER and Jesus is the SAVIOR. This has nothing to do with reformation or turning from your sinful ways to get to Heaven. Reformation (a change of behavior) is a work of the indwelling Holy Spirit in the growth of an obedient believer (i.e., sanctification and discipleship, not salvation and sonship).