Hosea 2:23, “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” Daniel 11:15, “So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.”
I love Pastor Steven Anderson, but I disagree with him on various doctrinal matters. One such disagreement is regarding God's “Chosen People.” In his popular "Marching To Zion" documentary (which I agree 99% with), he errantly teaches that the Jews were once God's CHOSEN PEOPLE, but are no longer God's CHOSEN PEOPLE today. I humbly disagree, because unsaved Jews were never God's "chosen people." God's promises have always followed a line of faith. As we just read in Hosea 2:23, God will call future saved Gentiles“my people.” ...
Galatians 3:6-9, “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
Amen, all men are justified by faith. Abraham was a heathen, just like you and me. We're all heathens! In Exodus 19:5-6 we read, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”
Carefully notice the very important word "If". This is a conditional promise from God. God's promise to bless the nation of Israel depends upon their conditional obedience. If they disobey, then God is not bound to bless them. The Jews didn't obey, committing spiritual adultery with pagan idols, so God divorced Israel (Isaiah 50:1; Jeremiah 3:8). Although God divorced the nation of Israel, He never cast away His people. God made a way back, but ONLY through faith in Jesus Christ:
Romans 11:20-23, “Well; because of unbelief they [the Jews] were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee [the Gentiles], goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they [the Jews] also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.”
Respectfully said, Pastor Steven Anderson is correct that we (all Christian believers) are the chosen today! But I think he is wrong that unsaved biological Jews were ever at any time, God's "chosen people." In the following lengthy passage of Scripture, we read the frightening curses which God brought upon Israel because of their wicked disobedience:
Leviticus 26:12-25, “And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.”
Wow! Good night in the morning, that is frightening stuff! God warned the Jews (His people) that if they refused to obey Him, all manner of evil would befall them and their families.
The following Bible passage teaches that obedience is required to be one of God's people:
Jeremiah 7:23, “But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”
The following Bible passage speaks concerning saved Gentiles in Hosea 2:23, “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy [the Gentiles]; and I will say to them which were not my people [the Gentiles], Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” How does this happen? We just read the answer in Romans 11:23. Unbelieving Jews may be graffed back into their own olive tree BY FAITH ALONE:
Galatians 3:6-9, “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
So it is a fallacy that unsaved Christ-rejecting Jews were ever God's "CHOSEN PEOPLE." The only thing that I disagree with Pastor Steven Anderson on is his support of Replacement Theology. I don't believe that Christians (the Church) replaced the Jews, I don't believe unsaved Jews were ever God's chosen people! Every Scripture that I have found teaches that God's promises were always conditional upon one's faith in the Messiah. As I just showed you in Jeremiah 7:23, God only promised to adopt the Jews as "My people" if they obeyed Him.
God's promises and blessings were always applicable to a line of faith. The promises were not made to the Jews, but to Christ. Romans 4:13, “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.” The Bible couldn't be more clearer that God didn't make a promise to Abraham, nor to his biological descendants (the Jews), but ONLY to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Since 2002, I have counseled many people through my popular website ministry. It is always my soul's joy and privilege to help others find their way in the Lord. From time to time we all get off course. All I do is take the Scripture and help hurting people find what they need in the Word of God. The Holy Bible has ALL the answers to all your problems, in one way or another!
I learned a wonderful truth years ago in 2018 from one of my favorite people, Pastor Steven Barnes. First lets examine the Scripture passage:
2nd Timothy 3:16-17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
This is what Pastor Barnes taught me about this passage of Bible:
DOCTRINE shows us what the right path is.
REPROOF shows us when we're getting off the right path.
CORRECTION shows us how to get back on the right path.
INSTRUCTION shows us how to stay on the right path.
Good stuff Menard! Oh, how we need the inspired Word of God each day of our life. Pastor Jeff Owens once said something in a sermon that I never forgot. Brother Owens said: “When you don't read your Bible and pray you are saying to God, 'I don't need your help God, I can make it on my own!'” That is so very true! We all need the guidance, comfort and hope which the Scriptures give to us. ...
Psalms 119:165, “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
I looked up the Hebrew words in this beautiful passage. The word “peace” here is the Hebrew word Shalom, which means “well, happy, prosperity.” The word “offend” is the Hebrew word miksholand means, “a stumblingblock, to cause to fall, offence.” Hence, the Bible is teaching us in this wonderful passage, that if we love (have affection for) God's Word, applying it to our daily life, then we will not stumble along life's way, and we will be happy and find true lasting eternal prosperity.
This doesn't mean that we won't suffer heartaches, losses and problems in life, it just means that through it all we can have the unquenchable joy that comes from knowing our name is written in Heaven (Luke 10:20). We can rejoice in knowing that we have a home beyond the stars, where no storm clouds rise. Psalms 119:165 means that if you heed the Word of God, you won't stumble along life's way. You will not be led astray by the False Shepherd (the Devil)! No one can deceive you doctrinally if you heed the inspired Holy Bible! Great peace have they that love Thy law, and nothing shall destroy them! Nothing shall cause them to fall.
What saith the Scripture? ...
Philippians 4:6-9, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”
I love this simple but profound passage. Everyone likes to quote verses 6 and 7 about prayer, but they leave off verse 8 about controlling our thought life. Folks, I don't care how much time you spend in prayer, you are going to be down, depressed and miserable if you listen to negative news, slander and gossip all the time. I follow Pastor Bob Gray Sr.'s Twitter page each day. Yesterday I saw some slander from another Twitter member about Dr. Bob Gray Sr., so I blocked that account out! I refuse to hear gossip and negative comments about my friend Dr. Bob Gray Sr.! I won't listen to it!!! No way!!! Dr. Bob Gray Sr. is my good friend in soulwinning!!! Remember, the Devil is the accuser of the BRETHREN (Revelation 12:10). The Devil doesn't accuse the heathen world, he accuses THE BRETHREN!!!
God PROMISES to keep us in perfect peace as believers, if we'll simply STAY OUR MIND on the Blessed Savior JESUS CHRIST. Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” What an awesome God!!!
What saith the inspired Scripture? Hebrews 12:2-3, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” Please don't miss the great truth taught in verse 3. The Bible teaches us to CONSIDER the persecution that Jesus faced from enemies on a continual basis, to encourage us, so that we won't be wearied and faint (quit) in OUR MINDS.
That is interesting. The Bible doesn't say QUIT, it says, FAINT IN YOUR MINDS. I believe this is speaking about depression, discouragement, negativity and feeling down because of persecution. We've all been there! I sure have. Many times I have felt like just quitting in my mind, which if we don't properly counsel yourself we will quit in real life. No one has ever quit anything, but that they didn't first quit IN THEIR MIND.
The Bible exhorts us as saints to focus on the sufferings of Christ, so that we won't be discouraged and quit. Isaiah 53:3-4, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” Jesus was a man of sorrows! He was rejected of men, and no stranger to grief. Think about that.
Many people despised Jesus everywhere He went. Luke 8:37, “Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.” Isn't that horrible? The townspeople of Gadarene besought Jesus to leave and don't come back! Mark 5:17, “And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.”They were upset about their 2,000 dead pigs. But Jesus didn't kill those pigs, the demons did! It is so typical of wicked people to only think about money. That is what is wrong with today's apostate Bible colleges and churches, everything has become about salaries and making more money!
Dear reader, God PROMISES you and I perfect peace and joy, if we'll simply STAY FOCUSED on Him. It is so easy to stop trusting God. Mark 11:22, “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.” Do you have faith in God friend? While you are riding the public transit to or from work, do you feel perfect peace in your soul? You can. You should. You won't get that peace listening to the daily negativity in the news. You'll find that peace by placing your soul's trust in Christ, the keeper of our soul. Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
James 5:14-19, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”
I once heard a beautiful illustration about prayer that forever changed my prayer life. Two preachers were once sharing a conversation about prayer. The one preacher was still young and naïve, and the other preacher an older and wiser man of God. As the young minister rambled about the virtues of prayer long prayers, the elderly wise preacher interjected the $64,000 question—“Young man, you don't expect to receive big answers from God in response to your little prayers do you?” The young preacher replied: “No, of course not!” The elderly preacher wisely replied: “THAT is why you don't receive BIG answers to prayer!”
Dear reader, without faith we cannot please God. Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Faith is trusting God! Faith is the cause of why we do the things we do for Jesus Christ (Hebrews 11:1). By God's grace, I have labored diligently night and day for the past 19 years since 2002, spending literally tens of thousands of hours working on my website ministry for Christ. I often am reminded, and tell all my web visitors, that this is not my own ministry, IT IS GOD'S WEBSITE. I have seven websites total, which are listed here. And then there's my music website, which is also a ministry that I use to preach the Gospel to musicians. Praise the Lord, for without Jesus I can do NOTHING (John 15:5).
THE TRUTH is that you CAN pray LITTLE prayers, and receive BIG answers from God. What saith the Scripture? ...
Matthew 6:5-8, “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”
Our blessed Creator, God and Savior already KNOWS what our needs are. Nothing ever occurs to God. There is no “oops!” with God. The Lord doesn't need a calendar like I do. He doesn't need to set reminder alarms on His mobile phone like I do. God does not need email reminders sent to Him, to remind Him to pay His bills on time each month, and go to His doctor's appointment on schedule. God doesn't get sick, doesn't grow tired and never needs a vacation from a stressful environment like we humans often do.
Our blessed Savior PROMISED that we need not pray long repetitive prayers, or spend extended time (hour upon hour) in prayer, because He already knows what we need from day to day. That is a remarkable teaching in the Scriptures. I think it is very common for saints, especially those who have been saved for decades and are very familiar with the Word of God, to not really pay attention to the details and rely upon the Scriptures as we ought. I had known all my adult life that God already knows my needs, because I was familiar with this passage of Scripture in Matthew 6:5-8. Yet so often I still feel like God won't answer my prayers unless I get down to business, by spending quality time in prayer.
Now, please don't misunderstand me. We should spend quality time in prayer. I dare say that less than 2% of Christians spend quality time in prayer. I would consider “quality time” in prayer to be at least 30 minutes to an hour a day, where we give God our undivided attention. If you are like me, then you have a bad habit of what I call, “Drive-By Praying.” When I lived in Chicago most of my adult life, we had the unfortunate and unpleasant reality of “Drive-By Shootings,” which were nearly always related to street gangs and the money they made from selling illegal drugs. In fact, at the time in 2004 when I finally moved away from Chicago, the city's dozens of different gangs were operating an astonishing $500,000,000 a year drug empire! So I picked up the term “Drive-By” from having grown up in the big city.
Sadly, I think many of us are guilty as God's children of “Drive-By Praying,” that is, praying on the go as we pass by hurriedly rushing about our busy day. Granted, we are commanded to pray throughout the day, all the time as things come to our mind. 1st Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray without ceasing.” Pastor Jack Hyles' (1926-2001) dear mother, Mattie Coystal Hyles was born in Illinois on December 13, 1887. She graduated from this earthly life at age 96 in 1984 in Indiana. Dr. Hyles' mother's favorite Bible verse is Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” I love that verse too!!! God knows our weak human frame, He remembers continually that we are made from the mere dust of the earth. It is important that we always keep this wonderful truth in mind, knowing that God is very patient and understanding toward our short comings, weaknesses, faults, failures and sin.
David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a Gospel missionary's in New York to the native Indians. Brainerd loved the Indians so much, that he was purported to pray at length until his knees left imprints in the wooden floor beneath. Wow! That is love my friend. The Bible does teach IMPORTUNITY in prayer for others! Pastor Jack Hyles has authored a helpful book on prayer, called: 'Exploring Prayer With Jack Hyles.' in which he address this issue of importune prayer in chapter 49 called: “THIS KIND.”
When Jesus' apostles could not heal the little boy possessed of a devil, Jesus told them that they lacked faith. But the Lord also made it clear that “THIS KIND” requires PRAYER AND FASTING.Matthew 17:21, “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” So there will be times in our life, for the sake of OTHERS, when God will require sacrifice in prayer if we are to help them. It is important that we differentiate between our personal needs, which the Lord doesn't want us spending a lot of time praying about (Matthew 6:5-8); as versus spending quality time in prayer, out of a heart of LOVE for others. God wants every believer to GET OUT OF THE SELF LIFE!!!
“Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.” —Missionary David Brainerd (1718-1747)
David Brainerd died of Tuberculosis in 1747 at the age of only 29. Brainerd was known as a man of prayer. What saith the Scripture? The prayer of FAITH changes things...
James 5:14-19, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”
Dear reader, yes, you most certainly CAN receive BIG answers from God in response to LITTLE prayers. There are no “little” prayers!!! The Bible exhorts us in Philippians 4:6 not to be careful (anxious) about anything; but rather, to take EVERY THING to God in prayer...
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear And what a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer
Oh, what peace we often forfeit Oh, what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer
1st Peter 5:7 is one of the most amazing Scripture passages in the Bible, which is so often overlooked, and few believers think it is true—“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” I admit that there have been multiple times in my life, when I earnestly prayed to God for His help, but didn't visibly see any results in the months and years to follow. So I became discouraged and quit praying. That is the worst thing we can do!!! There is a wonderful little nugget of gold tucked away between verses 6 and 8 of the following beautiful passage:
2nd Corinthians 5:6-8, “Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
I love that! Verse 6 says while we are at home in our physical body, we are ABSENT from being in Heaven bodily with our blessed Savior. And then in verse 8 the Apostle Paul reminds us as believers, that the blessed day is coming when we WILL BE ABSENT from the body, and we'll be present with the dear Savior. Tucked right in between those TRUTHS, we find the lovely phrase—FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. Dear reader, we ought not look for visible answers to our prayers. God doesn't do things our way, nor in our time frame, nor according to our desires. What saith the Scripture? ...
Isaiah 55:6-9, “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Many proponents of the Devil's lie of Calvinism, misunderstood repentance and “Lordship Salvation” misinterpret this passage of Scripture. Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) wisely says that as a general rule, we should never use an obscure passage of Scripture to contradict a clear one. I fully agree! This passage is obscure, which is often used in a foolish attempt to require people to turn away from sinful ways to be saved. That is not the free grace Gospel.
We are taught in Genesis 15:6 that Abram (Abraham) believed the Lord and it was counted unto him for righteousness (Romans 4:4-7). Habakkuk the prophet said in Habakkuk 2:4 that THE JUST MAN SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH. Salvation has ALWAYS been by faith alone in Christ. Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” ALL the prophets, Old Testament and New, gave witness that remission of sins comes only through faith in Christ.
The prophet Isaiah exclaims in Isaiah 55:7-8 that God's ways are not our ways, and God's thoughts are not our thoughts. One of my favorite sermons by Pastor Jack Hyles is titled: 'Either Let Me Do God, Or Do It My Way.' We are ALL somewhat guilty of this sin! We are all guilty of sometimes wanted God to let us do things OUR WAY, and if God refuses, then we want God to do it OUR WAY. Dear friend, God not only knows what provisions we need from day to day, He also knows what we need spiritually in our life. No believer wants to suffer, but the Bible teaches that God has called every saint to suffer!!! Philippians 1:29-30, “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.”
2nd Corinthians 5:7 says, FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. We must keep this TRUTH continually in mind, lest we become discouraged when we don't SEE God's hand at work in response to our prayers. I have learned and found sweet peace in my soul, to just settle it once and for all that God loves me (Ephesians 2:4; 2nd Thessalonians 2:16), cares about me (1st Peter 5:7), knows what is best for me (Romans 8:29)), and He hears my every prayer as His child (Hebrews 4:14-16). If it is God's will to answer, He will. I am 100% convinced that God always answers my prayers, but usually NOT in the way I want Him to, or when I want Him to, or where I want Him to. Prayer is a matter of FAITH. Trust and obey, for there is no other way, to be happy in Jesus, than to TRUST and OBEY.
Yes, you can receive BIG answers to prayer from God, for just LITTLE prayers. That is because the basis upon which our prayers are answered is not a matter of how much we sacrificed to earn God's response; but rather, it is a matter of FAITH alone. We are saved by faith. We walk by faith. We pray in faith. We do all that we do for God by faith. The works we do as saints are by faith. Works don't prove our faith to be genuine, but they show that we love God (John 14:14).
Psalms 27:13, “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”
I woke up this morning thinking about how good God is. I searched the book of Psalms and found the word “goodness” mentioned 18 times. The word “good” is mentioned 79 times. Despite all the ugliness in this sinful world, God is a good God. In fact, He is a very very good God. Like David in the Old Testament, I am continually amazed at the incredible wonder of the human body. God is more than amazing! David said in Psalms 27:13 above, that were it not for his hope in the goodness of God, he would have quit (fainted). It was David's faith that God is a good God, which the Bible declares and nature evidences Him to be, which gave David the strength to keep going day by day. I also can testify to the same!
I receive many emails from disgruntled and miserable believers, web visitors, who are looking at the wrong things in life. We are what we think about. I encourage others to focus on Jesus Christ and the many promises of God in the Bible. Hebrews 12:2, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” When I praise God for His goodness and think about His many blessings, I find peace each day. We all have problems, some more than others at different times in our lives. It is during the darkest times that we ought to praise God even more, showing our faith in the Lord.
Psalms 31:19, “Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!” God is so good, He's so good to me. And He's good to you friend. If you think God has not been good to you, then you have a wrong attitude. Ironically, it is the people in life who suffer the most and have the least, who praise and thank God the most for what they have. It is the most famous and the wealthiest among us humans who appreciate God the least, and rarely if ever praise and thank God for His blessings. Most rich people are too ashamed of Jesus to openly brag on Him, because they love the praises of men more than the praise of God (John 12:42-43).
Psalms 33:5, “He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.” I have learned that people who live in the big and dirty cities often lack faith in God the most. They are surrounded by ugly manmade concrete buildings, streets and bridges. They see homeless people everywhere. Crime is rampant in all big cities. But I have rarely met a family who grew up and worked on a farm out in a rural area, who didn't have strong faith in God. God is seen in nature. That is why I think everyone who lives in a city should take time to drive or travel to the country once in awhile. Please don't misunderstand, God's handiwork is seen in the cities too, if you can see any stars through the smog...lol. But there's just something healing for the soul about seeing a flowing river, a waterfall, a mountain, a forest and a brilliant rainbow in a valley.
Psalms 52:1, “Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.” God's goodness abounds in our earthly world. I went down to the Community Maritime Park in Pensacola yesterday. I walked around for awhile, limping in pain from my neck injury, which radiates into my arms and legs. I've had horrible stinging pain this week from my neck extending down my left arm into my two middle fingers. So I need to get out by the ocean and see God's handiwork often, to remind me that God is so good. I watched the beautiful big sea birds swoop in gracefully and fly away with great ease of flight. God is so amazing! I saw the beautiful Pensacola Bay, looking out on the ocean as far as I could see. The sun was warm about my body, as I enjoyed the 70 degree pleasant weather in November.
God is not just good to His children, He is good to everyone, even the wicked. Luke 6:35, “But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” Wow! God is good even to evil people. They still get to eat His food, drink His water and enjoy God's creation. But dear friend, God's goodness will not last beyond the grave for the unbeliever. Evil people whom the Lord does not know, will go straight to Hell forever!!!
Psalms 25:7, “Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.” In the preceding verse David speaks as a child of God. The Lord is good. One of my favorite Bible passages is Micah 7:18, “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.” Christianity stands apart unique from all other religious faiths. Only in Bible Christianity does God offer a free pardon, even to wicked people who are not ready to turn away from their sins.
I am so sick and tired of hearing ungodly preachers demand that lost sinners forsake their lifelong sinful bad habits or else God won't save them! Nothing could be further from the truth of the Holy Bible. God freely offers eternal life as a gift to all humanity, to anyone who is willing to receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sins, believing that Christ resurrected from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Jesus paid our debt of sin on the cross. He shed His precious blood, died, was buried, raised up the third day, ascended into Heaven, and then sprinkled that shed blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat in the presence of God the Father (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24).
To be saved, all a lost sinner needs to do is acknowledge that they are a guilty needy sinner, and BELIEVE the Good News (the Gospel) that Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected to pay for their sins. The very moment that you make that Good News yours personally, through faith alone to accept it as true FOR YOU, you are forever saved. You are then and forever a born-again child of God. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” It is not what you do that gets you into Heaven friend, it is what God did for you through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son through Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. Simply BELIEVE and you will be saved immediately and eternally (Acts 16:30-31). What a good God!!! The Lord wants to save you now dear reader, if you have never made that decision to receive Christ as your personal Savior. Please don't delay another second, because life is predictably unpredictable!
Psalms 33:11, “The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.”Psalms 78:4, “We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.”Psalms 100:5, “For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”Psalms 119:90, “Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.”
We hear a lot of Christians worrying about the next generation and what kind of world they will inherit. I found this poem today which made a lot of sense. I think we tend to worry too much as believers and sometimes forget that God is faithful unto every generation...
Don’t feel sorry for or fear for your kids because the world they are going to grow up in is not what it used to be.
God created them and called them for the exact moment in time that they’re in. Their life wasn’t a coincidence or an accident.
Raise them up to know the power they walk in as children of God.
Train them up in the authority of His Word.
Teach them to walk in faith knowing that God is in control.
Empower them to know they can change the world.
Don’t teach them to be fearful and disheartened by the state of the world but hopeful that they can do something about it.
Every person in all of history has been placed in the time that they were in because of God’s sovereign plan.
He knew Daniel could handle the lions den.
He knew David could handle Goliath.
He knew Esther could handle Haman.
He knew Peter could handle persecution.
He knows that your child can handle whatever challenge they face in their life. He created them specifically for it!
Don’t be scared for your children, but be honored that God chose YOU to parent the generation that is facing the biggest challenges of our lifetime.
Rise up to the challenge.
Raise Daniels, Davids, Esthers and Peters!
God isn’t scratching His head wondering what He’s going to do with this mess of a world.
He has an army He’s raising up to drive back the darkness and make Him known all over the earth.
Don’t let your fear steal the greatness God placed in them. I know it’s hard to imagine them as anything besides our sweet little babies, and we just want to protect them from anything that could ever be hard on them, but they were born for such a time as this. ~Alex Cravens
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.”
We find a solemn promise from God in Galatians 6:7, warning all humanity that we will REAP what seeds we have SOWN. Within proper context, the Apostle Paul in Galatians 6:7 is warning the churches at Galatia about succumbing to false doctrine.
Galatians 6:1, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” I have heard many preachers using Galatians 6:1 to teach about restoring fellow Christian brethren who've gone into sin. Although this is indeed true, I think the particular fault which Paul is referring to is being misled by false teaching.
Paul stresses that we all are ultimately responsible and will be held accountable by God for OUR OWN DECISIONS. Galatians 6:5-6, “For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.” Paul says that believers who are taught (skilled) in the Word of God should teach those whop teach. Wow! In other words, if you hear a pastor wrongly teaching the Word of God, you and I have a duty biblically to share doctrinally sound information with him.
When I attended the neo-evangelical Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (HBCG) for an entire year in 2013-2014, I was dismayed after hearing senior pastor Marty Herron preach a perverse gospel of “Lordship” salvation. Pastor Herron was preaching from multiple different Bible revisions, and the church members were using over two dozens different Bible versions (a house confused). The church was ignorantly promoting Martin Luther (1483-1546) as a born-again Christian, when in reality Luther taught Baptismal Regeneration his entire life. Luther was not saved. Sadly, there pastors at HBCG didn't care. I communicated with those who taught at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, because by God's grace I am learned in the Word of God.
Kindly said, Marty Herron is an incompetent pastor theologically. It sickens me that he is now corrupting young people as executive vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. Mr. Herron would be in prison if I had the power to put him there, for all the people whom he has victimized and hurt! Pastor Herron will bear his own damnable burden on Judgment Day when he appears before God. Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” God has promised it so! Galatians 6:5-6, “For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.” I spoke words of wisdom to a fool, and they cast me out of their church and ostracized me as punishment for TELLING THE TRUTH. Romans 3:4 promises that God will avenge me!
The Apostle Paul elaborates further...
Galatians 6:12-14, “As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
To become a follower of Jesus Christ meant certain persecution, back then in history and still today (2nd Timothy 3:12). Consequently, the cult which had infiltrated the church of Galatia was trying to get the churches to adopt keeping the law of Moses as a requirement to be saved. We know that this is a false gospel according to Romans 3:29-20, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” The ONLY purpose of GOD'S LAW in Salvation is to give THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN!!! That is, the law shows us our hopeless sinful condition and need for the dear Savior (Galatians 3:24-26).
The Apostle Paul is obviously upset in the Epistle of Galatians, upset that these professed believers had succumbed to a dangerous cult that requires keeping the Mosaic law to get to Heaven. Paul calls them foolish and bewitched in Galatians 3:1-3. Paul warns in Galatians 1:6-9 that there are not two gospels, there is only ONE. Paul warns that anyone, even an angel (demon) who preaches another gospel, is accursed by God. Getting our doctrine correct is a very serious matter. Hebrews 10:31, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! Paul didn't merely assume (ass-u-me) that the churches of Galatia were caught up into mere semantics, so it really didn't matter. That is the sinful poor attitude of foolish men like Dr. Kevin Bauder. Calvinism does NOT fall within the realm of orthodox theology! Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary, Bob Jones University and Moody Bible Institute are sadly teaching damnable Calvinist doctrine today, perverting the Gospel of free grace. Anybody who says that you cannot know 100% that you are saved and going to Heaven at the moment of the new birth is a liar and false prophet.
Calvinism is based upon a WRONG understanding of what it means to “repent.” In the Bible, repentance concerning salvation always means only “a change of mind” (Greek noun: metanoia) or “to think differently” (Greek verb: metanoeo). Repentance never means "to turn away from sinful ways,” which is the heresy tragically taught at Bob Jones University today. It is a dangerous thing to embellish the Word of God. It is wrong and dishonest to add or subtract meaning from the Holy Bible.
The first big noticeable problem is that Pastor Allen Cotton corrupts the true meaning of repentance. Instead of a simple change of mind, Pastor Cotton changes it to mean “a change of mind that leads to a change of direction.” The problem is when Cotton says repentance means to “turn from sin,” it strongly implies that to be saved a person must give up their sinful behavior or at least make an effort to clean up their life, which is a false gospel. The only thing that we need to turn away from to be saved is the only thing that can prevent us from going to Heaven, which is UNBELIEF!
Marty Herron (former shameful pastor of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam), Chuck Phelps (shameful pastor of Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana), Ray Comfort (Living Waters), Gary Walton (shameful pastor of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam since 2018) are all corrupt doctrinally! These aforementioned infidels all teach a perverse meaning of repentance, requiring lost sinners to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to receive God's free gift. That is NOT the Gospel taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 and the Gospel of John (John 20:31).
Repentance Unto Salvation NEVER Means To Forsake Your Sinning
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.”
