The death penalty for adultery in the Old Testament serves as a stark reminder of the holiness of God and the seriousness of sin. It underscores the need for atonement and the ultimate fulfillment of the law in Jesus Christ, who offers forgiveness and redemption. The shift from law to grace in the New Testament reflects the transformative power of the Gospel, which calls believers to live in righteousness and purity, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
David J. Stewart
“Fundamentalists don't change, people quit being fundamentalists!” —Pastor Jack Hyles
Thursday, December 4, 2025
God's Hatred For Sin Hasn't Changed
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
You're Just As Wicked As Anybody Else
James 2:8-12, “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.”
There is a powerful truth to be learned from this passage of inspired Scripture. The Apostle James is admonishing believers not to become respecters of person, where we treat others unkindly whom we perceive to be worse sinners than we are.“If you want to never do anything that is terribly wicked, then you never do anything that is slightly wicked.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Unjust In The Least"
Anyone is capable of committing any sin under the right circumstances. I truly believe that there is no such thing as a “good Christian.” We are all struggling sinners. Of the Christian's three enemies (the Devil, the world and the flesh), I believe THE FLESH is the worst enemy of all, simply because it is with us all the time. Our flesh is tired, hungry and weak.
The Apostle James elaborates further in James 2:11-12, “For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.” Knowing that we are all woeful wicked sinners, this truth should cause us to treat others the same we we would like to be treated. Now let me delve deeper.
Why Repenting Of Your Sins Is A Counterfeit Gospel
The entire concept of turning from one's sins to get to Heaven is flawed, rooted in self-righteousness. NO ONE, and I repeat NO ONE, has ever turned from their sinning.
Making an effort to clean up one's life is the act of reformation, not repentance.
To feel sorry for your sins is penitence, not repentance.
To amend your wrongs is penance, not repentance.
Many people confuse and mistake these virtues with repentance, perverting God's simple plan of salvation. The truth is that to get to Heaven you DON'T have to feel sorry for your sins, amend your sinful ways nor change your behavior by turning from your sinful bad habits. You may do all these things and yet never have been born again. Christ died for your sins!
It is tragic that over 90% of Baptist churches today have succumbed to Satan's lie that you cannot go to Heaven unless you first “repent of your sins,” which is nowhere taught in the inspired King James Bible. It really upsets me that most incompetent pastors who require people to “repent of your sins” to be saved, intentionally won't explain what that phrase even means, so he can straddle the fence and go either way (Twitter video clip).
In some churches today they do explain what “repent of your sins” means, telling lost people they must turn away from their past sinful ways, or forsake sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. This is the dire error of Pensacola Christian College (PCC).
In toxic Chick Tracts (which I loath), on the back page of every tract it says you must “Be willing to turn from sin (repent),” if you want to be saved. This is in addition to step 1, which says to “Admit you are a sinner.” Step one is correct and necessary to be saved, but step two is damnable heresy which is not necessary to get to Heaven. Turning away from ones evil ways is “WORKS” according to Jonah 3:10.
Also, carefully notice in Jonah 3:10 that God Himself 'REPENTED.' So, if repentance means to “turn from your sins,” then it would imply that God is a sinner, and we know God is incapable of being tempted with sin (James 1:13-14). The simple truth is that God simply CHANGED HIS MIND in Jonah 3:10, which is the true meaning of repentance. When you change your mind in faith (trust) to acknowledge that you are a guilty sinner and Jesus as the only Savior, that is repentance unto salvation.
We repent TO believe; We don't repent AND believe. Neo-evangelical Evangelist Tom Farrell (1952-2021) got that very wrong in his misleading preaching before he died. Neo-evangelicals are WRONG on God's simple plan of salvation. In fact, biblically, you need only repent from your unbelief to trust Jesus to be saved. The only thing you and I contribute to our salvation were the sins that made it necessary.
We are commanded by God as His saints to love everybody, regardless of who they are. Our proper attitude as believers should always be “We have sinned,” but never “He has sinned” or “She has sinned.” James makes it clear that to commit one sin makes us guilty of breaking all of God's commandments. In other words, it only takes one sin to condemn a person to the Lake of Fire forever.
I once heard famous actor Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) foolishly say in a 60-Minutes interview that he didn't think God would send him to Hell for committing one sin. Oh, how wrong Mr. Gleason was, which he now realizes in eternity! We can only hope that he trusted Christ before he died, but I cannot find any evidence that he ever did. Gleason was dubbed “THE GREAT ONE,” by Hollywood, being one if its patriarchs; yet he didn't know THE GREATEST ONE, Jesus Christ. That is so sad. Do you know the dear Savior friend?
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
How Not To Change
One should weigh himself every day. The clock that loses a minute a day will in 60 days lose an hour if it is not set daily. The individual or institution which is not weighed daily and whose compass is not checked daily will soon find itself way off course and in bad spiritual health. One should check his position every day to be sure that he is not off course.
One of the sad things about the Christian life is that we do not become dissatisfied with a little bit of wrong. The best housewife hates a speck of dirt. The best mechanic hates a spot of grease. The best husbandman hates one locust. The best preacher hates one sin. The best judge hates one crime. The best athlete hates one defeat. The best doctor hates one germ. The best botanist hates one weed. The best musician hates one unharmonious note. The best writer hates one grammatical error, and the most consistent Christian hates to veer one degree off course. Because of this, the land must be surveyed every day. Our spiritual height must be measured every day. Our course must be charted every day.
Think of all the things the Apostle Paul did daily. He died daily, and he buffeted his body daily. The wise Christian will make a daily check on his position. the wise Christian institution will check its position every day, not in its relation to other institutions, but in its relation to what it was when God blessed it most and to its nearness to the purpose of its founders. Look at the great liberal universities which were founded by fundamental people and financed by fundamental dollars. Their change did not come dramatically. It was a slow gradual evolution. Even the most astute of its leaders did not realize a change was taking place.
The landmark was moved so slowly it could not be seen, and yet one day the institution awakened to find itself asleep, came alive to find itself dead, found enough light to find itself in darkness, walked straight enough to find itself in crooked, had just enough health to find itself incurably diseased and had just enough strength to find itself too weak to recover.
Monday, December 1, 2025
The Greatest Faith Is To Trust God's Word
Matthew 8:5-10, “And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”
Sunday, November 30, 2025
You Will Be Persecuted For Your Christian Faith And Walk
My former boss had no problem with the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, pimping into the shop listening to his worldly Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), taking God's name in vain in public, et cetera. He was a difficult man to be around, a total religious hypocrite.
I didn't want to offend the company's owner, but I hated booze and didn't want to look complicit. I thought it was very inappropriate that the company's owner ass-u-med that every employee would want his liquor, which was very insensitive and unethical of him. So, while my mind was trying to think what to do, another employee who was about 20 years older than me asked if he could have the wine, so I handed it to him, which I still regret to this day.
On another occasion, in my boss' presence I said: "Yes Ma'am" in the office to his wife, who had asked me a question (I don't remember the question). His wife also worked at the company. His wife was a fat big-mouthed woman, who wore immodest blue jeans to work. When she heard me say, "yes Ma'am," she sarcastically replied: "I don't know where they get that 'no Sir,' 'yes Sir, 'no Ma'am' 'yes Ma'am' stuff from. Her husband said with a Smart-Alecky tone, "They teach it at that Bible college that he's going to." They both mocked my proper good manners. It is so shameful how neo-evangelicals are, which is exactly what they both are, idiots.
For the 4-years I worked at that company (I am showing grace by not mentioning any names), between 1987-1991, they persecuted me on a regular basis. Most of my co-workers were at least twice my age and older. They stole my work uniforms, which I had to financially pay for. They often hung naked Penthouse photos on my work locker, preacher jokes, put booze bottles in my toolbox, left cigars on top of my toolbox, and called me "baby Jesus." They all knew that I was going to Bible college to become a pastor. They ridiculed and taunted me, just like they did Jesus.
Another co-worker in hatred spit on me. The guy was several years older than me. A certain coworker, who was a friend toward me, went and told my boss about the incident, but he couldn't have cared less. By the way, when my car broke down and I needed a ride home from work (about 10 miles). The same guy who spit on me offered to drive me home in his new sports car. I agreed. He drove as fast as 110 miles per hour down North avenue in Chicago. We're lucky we didn't both get killed! I cannot remember if he spit on me months before or after driving me home. My memories are fading as I grow older.
I got tired of listening to AC/DC and Van Halen from co-worker's radios in the shop, so I brought my own tape recorder and played music from, The Marshall Family, Statler Brothers and other pretty music. A co-worker who was 10 years older than me smashed my radio onto the ground in pieces. I went to tell my shop foreman what had happened and he merely said, "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." Great boss, huh?
Anyway, I could tell you much more. Because of God's love, I feel nothing but compassion toward those men because they didn't know the Lord like I do. They eventually fired me for allegedly missing a grease fitting. It was in 1991, during a time of nationwide recession. There simply was no work coming into the shop, and the union contract required for the company to still pay employees 36 hours of wages per week, even if there was no work, so you get the picture. They had just celebrated in 1990 being in business for 25 years without ever having to lay anybody off. So they fired me instead. I was one of many to follow from what I heard years later at a different job, working as a truck mechanic again in 1993.
One day when I came to work, I saw a metal object sitting on my toolbox and picked it up. I jumped a foot into the air. It was an ignition capacitor that a co-worker had charged with electricity, wanting me to get zapped, and I sure did. The same co-worker who cared enough to go tell my boss that an employee had spit on me, told him that a certain man put a charged capacitor on my toolbox which could have stopped my heart. My boss couldn't have cared less either time. What a wicked coward! I could go on and on. I know what it feels like to be persecuted for my Christian faith, working in a Hostile Work Enviroment. I won't even get into my other jobs, which were just as horrible.
I've been persecuted and harassed all my life because of my Christian faith by the Devil's children. Not just being saved, but living godly in Christ Jesus (2nd Timothy 3:12). My co-workers at times invited me to go with them to local Strip Clubs after work, but I refused. I wasn't a good Christian (and I don't think anyone truly is a good Christian), but they hated me without cause because I am a child of God. I was a square block trying to fit into a round hole.
In this blog, I didn't even get into the rotten neo-evangelical churches that abused me over the years, worse than the heathens! Even Jesus Himself, in a rhetorical question to His disciples in Luke 18:8, asked if He would find any faith when He returns. The implied answer is, no.
I am so humbled and grateful for God's goodness and faithfulness. We serve an omnipotent more than amazing God. I learned this week about the wood frog, that freezes solid during the winter months and thaws back to life in the spring. Astounding! I learned today about a mysterious black hole in the universe that is so big, it could fit 100,000,000,000 of our suns inside of it! Wow! Our sun has a diameter which is 109 time greater than the earth's. You could fit 932,844 earths into the sun. Our Creator is magnificent to say the least.
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) discovered that the universe is expanding in 1929 by observing that galaxies are moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distances, a relationship now known as "Hubble's law." This groundbreaking find fundamentally changed man's understanding of the universe, supporting the idea of an expanding universe. It was Hubble's Law which led scientists to call it "The Big Bang." I do not know if the universe began with a 'Big Bang' from God, but science seems to confirm it. Astronomers have proven that the universe as a whole is still expanding outward at the speed of light. God certainly could have exploded the universe into existence. This does not endorse the bogus theories of evolution, which I reject on all levels. What saith the Scripture?
God created the universe by the Word of His mouth (cf. 2nd Peter 3:5).
Psalms 33:6, "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.It is God who is causing the universe to continue expanding outward (stretching)...
Psalms 104:2, "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain."Theoretical physicists, astronomers, planetary scientists and cosmologists are perplexed today over what is commonly described as "dark matter" or "dark energy" which are essentially terms used to describe man's woeful ignorance of what hidden energy force is causing the universe to still expand at the speed of light. I humbly believe that their so-called "dark energy" is none other than our omnipotent faithful Creator, God!
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Seventh-Day Adventism Has Another Gospel
- another Jesus
- another spirit
- another gospel
Can I Be Sure I’m saved?
When we accept Jesus as our Savior and give our life to His control, we can be sure of our eternal salvation. John writes, “Little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming” (1 John 2:28, NKJV).
As we abide in Jesus Christ, we can be confident we have eternal life.
From the moment we claim Jesus as our Lord and Savior, God counts us as worthy because of the sacrifice of Jesus. We can be confident in our salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Paul writes, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38, 39). When we choose Christ, He will hold us in His hand. He will never let us go, unless we decidedly turn our back on Him. [emphasis added]
SOURCE: https://adventist.org/beliefs/official/experience-of-salvation
- You don't have to “give our life to His control” to know you're saved. That is the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, which is adding works to God's grace (Matthew 7:21-23). Giving God control over your life is a matter of SERVICE (Romans 12:1), not SALVATION (Galatians 3:26).
- You don't have to “abide in Christ” to know you are saved; you know you're saved because Christ's Holy Spirit abides in you (Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24). Eternal life is a free gift from God which doesn't require serving Him, turning from your sins or following Jesus as “Lord.”
- You don't have to take Jesus as your “Lord” to get to Heaven, only your Savior. Lordship is strictly a matter of discipleship (Luke 14:33), not sonship (John 1:12).
- It is not biblically true that Jesus will let us go if we “decidedly turn our back on Him.” There's not even one example in God's Word of someone losing God's free gift of salvation. If someone claims that they “used to be a Christian,” but no longer, it just proves that they were never born again in the first place. They may have joined a Christian organization or ascribed to some Christian philosophies, but they were never regenerated by God's Holy Spirit (1st John 2:19). IF SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED!
- 1st John 2:28 addresses service, not salvation. You are saved if Christ abides in you. Abiding in Christ is a matter of pleasing God as His redeemed child (Galatians 5:25). We cannot win souls to Christ unless we abide in Him (John 15:1-5).
Friday, November 28, 2025
Beware Of False Prophet Luke Bishop In Arkansas
Sin and SalvationWe believe all men were born with an inherited sin nature received from our common ancestor, Adam. We believe that because of his nature, man is a sinner by choice, and he is totally incapable of reforming himself or ceasing from his sin by his own power. We believe the only hope of deliverance for man is a total change of mind concerning his sinful condition and inability to change it, and a turning to Jesus Christ as the only Savior. We believe that only through the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ on the cross can a man be delivered from his sin. We believe that all those who reject Jesus Christ as their Savior are already condemned to an eternity in the lake of fire. (Genesis 5:1-5; Acts 4:19; Acts 16:31; Romans 3:10-23; Romans 5:6-12; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-6; Revelation 20:11-14) READ MORE
Acts 16:29-31, “Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
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