Who Are The “Synagogue Of Satan” In Revelation 3:9?

Revelation 3:9-10, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

Someone asked me the question today: Who are the “synagogue of Satan” mentioned in Revelation 3:9? There is considerable debate over the interpretation of this Scripture passage, but the Bible plainly gives us the answer if we rightly divide the Word of Truth.

 

I dug out my Bible commentary this morning titled, “Revelation: 'Behold He Cometh'” by Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) to seek Brother Rice's wisdom regarding this passage, and I fully agree with his exegesis...

'Which Say They Are Jews, and Are Not' (Vs. 9)

Could a Jewish synagogue be a “synagogue of Satan?“? Yes, if it opposed Christ and rejected Him. Although they might be physically of the race of Israel they are not real Jews in the Bible sense. Romans 2, 28, 29 tell us: 

“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” 

The promise of Christ and His blessing were promised to “Abraham and his seed,” but the future seed of Abraham were promised to be like the sand of the seashore and so a great group of literal Israelites. But the seed were also likened to the stars of Heaven, which we think mean a heavenly seed of the faith of Abraham. So Galatians 3:29 says, “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” 

Unsaved Jews claimed to be Abraham's seed, but Jesus denied it as John 6:39 tells us: “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” So those who are descended physically from Abraham are not spiritually his children unless they have faith in Christ as did Abraham.

SOURCE: Dr. John R. Rice, “Revelation: 'Behold He Cometh',” p. 92; Sword Of The Lord Publishers, ©1977

Bravo Dr. Rice! I fully agree.

By the way, that's not a typo above. I had a difficult time trying to understand what Dr. Rice was saying by quoting John 6:39. Brother Rice is simply showing us that God draws those who come to Christ, which proves that all physical Jews are not automatically saved. If the physical descendants of Abraham were automatically among the redeemed seed of Abraham, then there would be no need for God to draw them. John 12:32, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” Calvinism errantly says that God draws SOME men, but the inspired Holy Bible says that God draws ALL men (cf., Titus 2:11). The Holy Spirit of God draws all men to salvation. Whether they accept the invitation is up to the individual.

No unsaved Jewish person is a true Jew biblically. God divorced Himself from the rebellious nation of Israel in the Old Testament. Jerusalem was finally conquered in the year 586 BC by Babylon and still does not exist today. What does exist (since 1948) in Palestine is a manmade secular state, an abomination to the Lord. Present-day Israel is NOT the fulfillment of Bible prophecy to restore Israel when Christ returns.

Just as Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament sinfully doubted God's promise of receiving a son, who took matters into their own hands by impregnating Hagar to conceive Ishmael; even so have wicked impatient men taken matters into their own hands once again in modern times, by creating the manmade state of Israel in 1948 and demanding for a holy God to bless a bunch of heathen Christ-rejecting Jews. That dog won't hunt!

Seven million Jews have returned to the land of Palestine, but they still haven't repented to turn back to the Messiah, Jesus (Hosea 3:4-5). Shame on those Zionist churches today who support manmade counterfeit Israel. Less than 2% of Jews living in Israel today profess faith in Jesus Christ. Psalms 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” Their God is not Jesus today!

As I mentioned earlier, God divorced Himself from the rebellious nation of Israel in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 3:8). But God did not forever cast away His people, the Lord made a way of restoration for every Jew, through faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 11:23, “And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.” Unbelieving Jews have no stake in God's promises of blessing, except that Hell will be their eternal doom unless they repent of their unbelief to be saved (Revelation 20:15).

Dear reader, I cannot warn you enough not to be sucked into the deception of Zionism that has infected so many churches today. I have heard some insane teachings from Zionist Baptist pastors. For example: James Modlish (born 1944) while pastor years ago in Rochester, New York, said that he wanted to hire a Jew to witness only to unsaved Jews (you can listen directly to the sermon audio excerpt), so that God would bless their church. That is the sin of racism! As if witnessing to Asians or African Americans wouldn't bring God's blessings! Preachers say the darndest things!

So, the “synagogue of Satan” in Revelation 3:9 refers to unsaved Jews who claim to be the children of Abraham, and who also falsely claim to be recipients of the promises of God to the Jews. Tragically, 98% of Jews living in Israel today are members of the synagogue of Satan. They vehemently reject Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus made it abundantly clear in John 3:3b when speaking to Nicodemus (a Jew) that “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

President Trump's new White House spiritual advisor, false prophetess Paula White, has stated publicly that Christians ought not bother to share the Gospel with the Jews; but rather, to learn from the Jews instead. What arrogance! What blasphemy against the inspired Word of God! Kindly said, Paula White is a hellbound infidel. Miss White is very wrong! To enter into God's heavenly Kingdom, Jews must be born again by faith alone in the GOOD NEWS (Gospel) of Jesus' death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-6)—just the same as the Gentiles! John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗺.” —𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲

I love some of the changes that President Trump has made in 2025, but he really blew it by hiring Paula White as spiritual advisor to the White House. She is a Zionist religious clown!

Monsters Are Real: Benjamin Netanyahu

Please do not buy into the Devil's lie that Jews are more special to God than Gentiles, because they are not (Romans 1:16, 10:12; James 2:1). Galatians 3:28-29 plainly teaches that whether Jew or Gentile, we are all “ONE” in Christ through faith, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” God favors those who obey Him, whether Gentile or Jew, but He loves everyone unconditionally (Romans 5:6-9).

I have been absolutely sickened and disgusted over the past year, watching over 46,000 innocent Palestinians (mostly defenseless women and children) be brutally murdered in cold blood by Benjamin Netanyahu (a real life evil racist and monster).

I am really disappointed with President Trump for effectively giving immunity in 2025 to President Netanyahu for his heinous war crimes! The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued Arrest Warrants in November of 2024 for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, two monstrous Israeli leaders. They should be arrested and tried for mass murder and genocide! President Trump has wickedly imposed sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICU) for doing their job to call for justice.

Ironically, President Trump yesterday called Ukrainian President Zelensky “a dictator,” but if anybody is a dictator it is Mr. Trump! President Trump is bullying the ICC to ignore the atrocities committed by Israel against the defenseless Palestinian people. And now President Trump is stealing the displaced refugee's land and homeland in Gaza, planning to turn the region into an upscale hotel resort community.

Zionism is a false doctrine, and it is evil. True Israel hasn't existed since 586 BC, and won't exist again until the future Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. What Israeli nation exists today in Palestine is an imitation, awaiting their False Messiah (Antichrist, who is the Man of Sin). When the Antichrist comes he will rule over his counterfeit kingdom, which is the New World Order. The true Messiah (Jesus Christ) will return someday and reestablished true Israel, and will reign over the earth from His throne in Jerusalem for 1,000 years. Beware of the Devil's present-day counterfeits!

Arrest Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu For Mass Murder!

God Is More Than Amazing!

Song of Solomon 2:11-13, “For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.  Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.”

My neck pain has been unbearable yesterday and today. I caught a chest cold or something, which has made my neck pain much worse. My throat has been sore all day and my voice hoarse. The pain is so bad that it radiates into my face, causing sharp pain (especially behind my right eye). I have endured this horrible inexplicable physical suffering over the years, since 2004 when it began. I was hit by a church bus in 1992 (of all things), and then fell down at work in 2005, which worsened my existing injury. Over time my neck began to deteriorated, which medically is called Cervical Degenerative Disk Disease. It has been a dreary journey.

Anyway, to try to forget my woes, I went down to Home Depot last night to look at their flowers and took these pretty photos to share with you. 

I have two palm trees in my front yard. They looked like they were dying. So I trimmed them yesterday. Here is the larger one, what it looked like before I trimmed it...

And here is what the palm tree looked like after I finished trimming it...

By pruning the dead branches and rogue ground foliage from the tree, it frees up valuable resources to help restore the tree's health. I also bought 2 packs of Palm Fertilizer Spikes from Walmart. I pounded 5 spikes into the ground in a circle around each tree, two feet away from the trunk, as the instructions specified. And then I watered both trees very well. Lord willing, hopefully in 3 months the two trees will be in much better robust health.

In the same way dear reader, sometimes God needs to prune our lives of the dead branches, which can be painful at the time, but ultimately it will make us healthier spiritually in the Lord. Hebrews 12:11, “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Amen and amen. God is so good to all of us!

I planted these pretty flowers today outside my front door by the steps...

The yellow flowers are perennials and will rebloom each year. But the pretty red flowers are annuals, which will only bloom for this year and then die. Lord willing, each year I will replace them with something pretty. Our earthly life is as an annual flower, a one time shot. But eternal life is as a perennial flower plant that will live and bloom in perpetuity. John 10:27-28, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”

Can Alcoholic Wine Be Used For The Lord's Supper?

1st Timothy 4:16, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”

No, alcoholic wine cannot be used for the Lord's Supper! Unfermented juice is fine to use for the Lord's support, but alcoholic beverages should never be used. Intoxicating wine is made by allowing the wine to ferment (rot). It would be inappropriate to symbolize the dear Savior's precious sinless blood with corruption. I humbly believe that it is wrong for Roman and Orthodox Catholic priests to use alcoholic wine in the Eucharist.

During the Eucharist ritual, Catholics practice what is known in theology as "transubstantiation," in which the bread and wine allegedly turn into Jesus' actual flesh and blood, to renew spiritual life in the participant's body.

Lutherans practice a similar belief called "consubstantiation," in which it is thought that the bread and wine don't literally become Jesus' blood and flesh, but these elements do produce a divine supernatural grace upon the participant. Of course, that is poppycock and tomfoolery! Both ideologies are unbiblical and wicked!

The Bible teaches that the Lord's Supper is simply a time when true believers in a local church REMEMBER Jesus' sacrifice on the cross of Calvary. The Lord's Supper ought not be done so often that it loses its meaning, nor observed so infrequently that the Body of Christ forgets what the dead Lord has done for us to rescue us from eternal damnation in the Lake of Fire.

There is no magical power of efficacy bestowed upon the participants of the Lord's Supper, or "Eucharist" as Catholics choose to call it. Presbyterians also errantly teach that the Lord's Supper bestows a spiritual grace, an efficacy (or power if you will) upon the participant. There is no such strange teaching in the inspired Word of God.

Neither is the Lord's Supper (nor water baptism for that matter) a church "sacrament." Sacraments are NOT taught in the inspired King James Bible. Religion and Christ are opposed to each other.

“Religion and Christ are in opposition to each other!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Religion Or Christ?”

Religion always complicates the things of God. I humbly believe that is why Jesus warned in Matthew 7:13-14, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Jesus said that only a FEW people ever find the true way of salvation.

The Devil's corrupt modern Bible PERversions, like the New King James Version (NKJV) corrupt this passage, replacing the word narrow with difficult. Salvation is not difficult, it is easy! I humbly think the reason why Jesus warned that only a "few" people will make it to Heaven is because the way of salvation is so easy, free and simple that most people miss it! Religion adds, embellishes and complicates God's simple plan of salvation (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4). God's simple plan of salvation is like a tiny town that if you hiccup, you might drive past and miss it entirely. Please don't let religion blind you to the truth of the Gospel.

Religion blinds lost sinners to the light of the truth of the Gospel (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4).

Why You Shouldn't Be Using Google For Searches

2nd Timothy 3:1-5, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

We are living in perilous times in 2025. Put another way: Watch your back Jack! Pastor Jack Hyles wisely said: “Always be on guard!”

Countless people have been convicted and sentenced to life in prison based upon their Google searches! Even though like me, you may think that since you are an honest person who is trying to obey the law and live right, that you don't need to worry about your searches. If that is you friend, THINK AGAIN!

DuckDuckGo cannot even give your search history to the police if they demand it, because DuckDuckGo doesn't collect any data to begin with. There is nothing to surrender to the police!

In fact, your Google searches CAN get you arrested!!! Albeit, I use Google searches for my ministry search box for two reasons:

1. My code to search multiple websites at the same time doesn't work on any other browser except Google. DuckDuckGo doesn't work, so I don't use it for my search function.
2. The searches are strictly ministry related, which is safe enough.

However, in your personal searches dear reader, I strongly encourage you to use DuckDuckGo or Startpage that won't track you.

You are a fool if you trust Google with your data! We are now living in the unprecedented time of the forming New World Order. This will ultimately bring to fruition the Beast System of the coming Man of Sin, that is, Antichrist (or “in place of Christ”). The Devil is an imitator! Satan doesn't want to force religion on humanity. He knows he cannot succeed by using that tactic. So the Devil is imitating Christianity, creeping the heresies of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance into the church and religious colleges to corrupt everyone. Satan has also perverted the inspired Words of God, introducing hundreds of corrupt English Bible revisions into society to confuse, corrupt and mislead everyone.

I am being your friend to warn you not to use Google for your search activity dear reader. Always protect your privacy. We're living in perilous times. Anything you type on Google can and will be used against you in a court of law.

I also recommend that you install the free Ad Block Plus extension to your browser that blocks all annoying ads and pop-ups. I love this program! Tens of thousands of ads and pop-ups have been blocked on my computer. I hate those pesky ads, which are worse than termites!

Beware Of Peter S. Ruckman's Dangerous Cult

Acts 13:39, “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

Oh how foolish and incompetent are corrupt preachers like Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016), his corrupt Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola that continue to preach his poisonous heresy, William P. Grady (a devout Ruckman follower), Robert Breaker (a graduate of Rockman's cult school), and other idiots who teach that people were saved by works under the law of Moses in the Old Testament. Acts 13:39 plainly teaches the NO ONE was justified under the law of Moses.

I cannot warn people enough to avoid the Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola, whose founder was the late Dr. Peter S. Ruckman. Mr. Ruckman is no doubt burning in Hell today, because he preached a perverse works-based plan of salvation. Their ungodly cult in Pensacola also distribute toxic Chick Tracts, which pervert the biblical meaning of repentance and thus corrupt God's simple plan of salvation. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

'I NEVER KNEW YOU'
(a helpful book by Evangelist Michael P. Bowen)

The Counterfeit Plan Of Salvation Of The First Baptist Church Of Pensacola

Galatians 1:6-10, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

Our nation's churches are in big trouble! I have been a Baptist since I was saved at age 13 in Chicago in 1980. As a Baptist, I am qualified to criticize Baptists who are departing from the faith. I know my own camp! Sadly, the Devil's perversion of Lordship Salvation has crept into MOST Baptist churches today, perverting the Gospel of free grace.

A Counterfeit Plan of Salvation At The FBCP

The following Statement of Faith is a quote from their website at the First Baptist Church of Pensacola (FBCP). Before I share the quote with you, let me say that I have visited their church dozens of times and I love the people there. Pastor Dave Snyder is a good man. He's originally from Missouri, and myself from Chicago, so were both from the Midwest. I like Pastor Snyder, who has been their pastor at FBCP since 2018. However, I humbly disagree with his teaching of Lordship Salvation, because I sincerely believe that the Bible disagrees with Lordship Salvation. To be saved you just need to take Jesus as your Savior!

The following is damnable heresy...

VI. Salvation
Since all persons are separated from God by sin and are in need of forgiveness, God offers the free gift of salvation. Each person must individually accept this gift, repent of sin, and place faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

Ex 6:2-8; Matt 16:21-26; John 3:15-16; John 17:3; Rom 3:23; Rom 5:1; Rom 6:23; Eph 2:8-9 SOURCE

BLASPHEMY!!! There are FOUR major problems with the preceding Statement of Faith:

1. The Gospel is not even mentioned. 1st Corinthians 15:1-6 defines “the gospel” as Jesus' death on the cross, burial and physical resurrection.
2. Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible teach that to get to Heaven you must “repent of sin.” Many of the modernized Bible revisions corrupt the Word of God, adding repentance from sins to be saved (Proverbs 30:5-6).
3. Nowhere does the  inspired King James Bible teach that to get to Heaven you must place faith in Jesus as your “LORD.” 1st Timothy 4:10b says Jesus is “the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.” You just need to trust Jesus as your personal Savior to be saved, not your Lord (which would mean that you must follow Christ in service to be saved). Many people followed Jesus in the Bible, but they were not saved (John 6:26).
4. Neither Exodus 6:2-8 or Matthew 16:21-26 have anything to do with getting saved. Matthew 16:21-26 is addressing discipleship, not sonship. Nowhere does the Holy Bible teach that you must follow Christ in service to get to Heaven. God specifically authored the Gospel of John to show us how to have eternal life (John 20:31).

Dear reader, ask yourself, where did the FBCP (and other false teachers today) get the wrong idea that you must do these extra biblical requirements to be saved? I am so sick and tired of religious people ADDING things to God's inspired Word. Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” It is a serious violation to tamper with God's Word. Again, you cannot show me anywhere in the inspired King James Bible where it says to “repent of sin” or “place faith in Jesus as your Lord” to be saved. Wicked, but well-meaning, people ADDED these things!

There are two main reasons why pastors today preach a counterfeit plan of salvation:

1. They have been adversely influenced by other corrupt preachers.
2. They have been adversely influenced by Satan's false bibles.

Peer pressure is a dangerous thing. The FBCP is 1 of 45,000 member churches in the apostate Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Sadly, most pastors and churches today prioritize prosperity over pleasing God. That is, they prioritize increasing their church attendance and keeping the money flowing in. The same sad thing is true of most religious colleges today, like Pensacola Christian College who also preach a counterfeit plan of salvation.

I thank God for doctrinally sound preachers like Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951), who wrote these edifying words:

“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …

Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”

SOURCE: Harry A. Ironside, from the sermon: 'What Is The Gospel?'

Amen and amen! Bravo Pastor Harry Ironside!

God's Curse Is Upon Anyone Preaching Another Gospel

Sadly, Moody Ministries today (77 years after Dr. Ironside's pastorate ended in 1948) has become doctrinally corrupted by false prophets such as Dr. John MacArthur (Moody publishes all of MacArthur's new books and have repeatedly honored him at their Founder's Week for many years). John MacArthur plainly teaches a false plan of salvation in his heretical book titled, 'HARD TO BELIEVE.'

“There's no room for passive spectators: words without actions are empty and futile... The life we live, not the words we speak, determines our eternal destiny" (Hard to Believe, p. 93).”

First, it is not hard to believe. The reason why most people aren't saved is NOT because it is hard; but rather, because they love their sins and won't come to Jesus to be saved (John 3:20; 5:40). It is a matter of unbelief and not of forsaking one's sinful bad habits. Jesus paid for our sins on the cross with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). Jesus came to save us from our sins, not demand that we promise to reform as a condition of salvation.

The upright life that we try to live as believers is the FRUIT of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and not a part of the ROOT of saving faith (Galatians 5:22-25). We live righteousness because WE ARE saved (as we grow in grace), not as a requirement TO BE saved. The Holy Bible teaches that Jesus Christ lives the Christian life through us. Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” The life we live cannot get us to Heaven, because God does NOT accept works of self-righteousness. Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

We are saved by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (that is, Christ's robe of righteousness), and not our own. I try to live upright because I love my Lord and don't want to grieve Him. I fail horribly sometimes, and it makes me mad at myself, and I get up and ask God to help me to do much better. That's how the Christian life is lived, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Even the best Christians are still sinners who battle daily with the flesh.

Misunderstood Repentance: An Enemy Of Soulwinning (a doctrinally-sound book by Dr. Jack Hyles)

The word “repent” (metanoeo, such as in Mark 1:15, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel”), simply means “a change of mind.” Evangelist David Cloud errantly defines the meaning as “a change of mind that results in a change of life.” That's not what the Bible teaches. Biblically, a changed life is the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which is not required for salvation.

I think Michael P. Bowen, in his excellent defense of the Christian faith titled, I NEVER KNEW YOU, says it best...

I am at eternal odds with the false, counterfeit messages of salvation-by-works that are taught from virtually every pulpit today, on every television channel, and on every Christian radio station; however, I am not at eternal odds with the individuals who preach these counterfeit messages. My heart literally goes out to all of them because they simply do not understand Christ’s plan of salvation. They have been lied to by a crafty enemy named Satan, whose sole aim is to take as many people with him to the lake of fire as he can possibly manage to steal away from God using a counterfeit plan of salvation that appears so real, so genuine, and so holy that few ever realize they have been deceived by it. Oh reader, so many of today’s professing Christians who think they are going to heaven when they die are not going to make it to heaven as they had assumed because they’ve been lied to by today’s error-filled gospel messages.

SOURCE: Michael Patrick Bowen, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU,' p. 17; © 2009, Xulonpress.com Hard Copies Available

A tree without fruit is still a tree with roots. This is evidenced by the parable of the sower and the seed in Luke 8:12-15. Of the four groups, only the first are unsaved, because the Devil removed the seed from their heart before it could sprout into new life. The second and third group represent believers who never mature to bear fruit (leading others to Christ). They never mature into fruit-bearing Christians because of shallow roots, or because they are choked by the cares, riches and pleasures of this life. Ah, but the fourth group mature, having an honest heart, keeping the Lord's Word, bearing much fruit unto Christ (John 15:1-7). Just because the second and third groups don't bear fruit doesn't mean that they are not saved, as Ray Comfort and David Cloud errantly teach.

Wrong Repentance = No Salvation
(MP3 by Pastor Hank Lindstrom, 1940-2008)

Most pastors today are full of pride, arrogant and unapproachable on the matter of correcting their false teachings. Dr. Jack Hyles was so right: “Unsought advice is seldom taken and usually resented.” So I don't waste my time trying to correct corrupt pastors, because I have been literally forced out of numerous churches when I did do.

When I lived in Guam for 17 years, I was listening to KMHG 88.1 FM, a local radio station broadcast by the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. While listening to their radio station, I heard the following wonderful statement: “A friend helps a friend to see.” Ironically, when I befriended their pastors at Harvest with the truth in 2014, they threw me under the bus! I showed them Scripturally that Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance and False Bibles are of the Devil.

I also kindly showed them that Martin Luther (1483-1546) taught the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration all his life, and they ought not be promoting Mr. Luther as a born-again believer to their hundreds of students in their school. For trying to open the eyes of those wicked pastors at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, I was forced out of church and banned from returning! God will avenge my preaching in eternity. God knows that I pray incessantly for that glorious day of reckoning, when my truthful preaching will be justly vindicated! Martin Luther taught Sacramental Salvation and is sadly burning in Hell forever. No one goes to Heaven who adds trusting in water baptism to their faith in Christ (Acts 15:1).

My heart goes out to the First Baptist Church of Pensacola. It breaks my heart, it really does! The church had humble beginnings, originating back in 1848. What a beautiful heritage! Yet, like so many churches today, the FBCP have fallen prey to the neo-evangelical fallacies of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance and the Devil's False Bibles.

There is only one Gospel dear reader. Either you must turn from your sinful bad habits to be saved, or you do not, but it cannot be both ways. Either you must follow Christ in obedient surrender in your daily life to make it to Heaven, or you don't, but it cannot be both. The Bible says that eternal life is the free gift of God (Romans 5:15-18). A gift cannot have any stipulations, requirements or demands, except that you simply take it by faith.

And let me also say, I sincerely think the reason why so many pastors are perverting the Gospel is in an attempt to force people to live a holy life. Although I can understand their frustration, that doesn't justify perverting God's simple plan of salvation. The reason why there are so many professed Christians today living wicked lives is not because of a shallow Gospel message; but rather, it is because cowardly pastors refuse to preach hard against sin—afraid of a bully Pulpit Committee or afraid of losing their career. Isaiah 58:1, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.”

The problem today is not insincere conversions; but rather, compromised preachers! Jeremiah 23:1-2, “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.” The pastors weren't caring about the people! I have attended several Baptist churches around the city of Pensacola and am utterly disappointed in what I have found. People are sadly expendable in most Baptist churches.

I have visited FBCP numerous times since I moved to Pensacola in July of 2021, but not once has Pastor Snyder ever bothered to introduce himself to me. Not once has their pastor even shaken my hand. I have attended numerous Wednesday evening services, enjoying eating a meal with some of the people. I went to their Christmas Candle Service on Christmas Eve in 2024. I had a good time...

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I attended the FBCP picnic at Bayview Park for the past two years in the spring. They are some of the best people you'll find. The FBCP does a lot of good works to help the poor, hurting and needy, but none of that matters since they are WRONG on the Gospel. There are not variations of the Gospel. The Apostle Paul warned that there is only ONE GOSPEL (Galatians 1:6-7). In hundreds of Scripture passages we are told to simply BELIEVE ON JESUS to have everlasting life. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

I triple-dog dare you friend to show me one place in the inspired King James Bible where it says to repent of sin to get to Heaven. Acts 20:21 says to repent toward God. 2nd Timothy 2:25 says to repentance to acknowledge the truth. But nowhere does the Bible teach to repent of your sin, or to turn from your sin, to be saved.

A commonly misinterpreted Scripture passage is Isaiah 55:7, “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.” Carefully notice the invitation to “RETURN” unto the Lord. This passage is addressed to backslidden Israel, not lost sinners. It never ceases to amaze me how people will totally ignore the entire Gospel of John, which doesn't teach to turn from sin or follow Jesus as Lord to be saved. The Book of John is God's Gospel tract (John 20:31).

I love what Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) wisely said: “A good rule to follow when interpreting the Bible is to never use an obscure passage to contradict a clear one.” It is poor scholarship and just plain wrong to base a doctrine on a single passage of Scripture while ignoring dozens of clear passages. John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

Again and again we are taught in the inspired Holy Bible to simply BELIEVE ON JESUS to be saved. That is, to believe on the 'GOOD NEWS' of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day (1st Corinthians 15:1-6; 1st Thessalonians 4:14). So, where in the world do preachers get the erroneous deception that you cannot be saved unless you are willing to first forsake your sinful bad habits, and surrender to follow Jesus as “Lord” of your life from now on? Their neo-evangelical poison may sound good to the carnal mind, but it is completely unscriptural my friend.

Good works are not the payment for sin, the payment for sin is death.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty!

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

A Double Standard Exists At The FBCP

I visited their Contemporary Service last year at the FBCP. They also have a Traditional Service at a later time every Sunday. The Contemporary Service is way too contemporary for me (with their electric guitars, boring modern religious music and emotionalism). And the Traditional Service is way to traditional for me (with their lifeless deeper-life Episcopalian type hymns and formal worship of which they pride themselves).

I attended their Discover Class for potential new members by request in 2022. I was encouraged at first, when the associate pastor who held the class said that the church simply believes that you get saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ. Tragically, several weeks later when I attended one of their Traditional Services, Pastor Snyder broke my heart by preaching hardcore Lordship Salvation. I cringed as I lowered my head in my pew in disappointment. What is wrong with pastors today? Why don't they search the Scriptures as Jesus commanded in John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

Pastor Dave Snyder preaches for both services. He wears blue-jeans for the Contemporary Service, and a suit for the Traditional Service. I heard Pastor Snyder last year announce at the end of a service that a 12 year old boy had been saved that morning, by deciding to become a Christ follower. Ladies and gentlemen, that is NOT how you get to Heaven! Matthew 7:21-23 tells the story of a group of people who followed Christ—who did many wonderful works in Jesus' name, who prophesied (preached) in Jesus' name—yet the dear Savior Himself rebuked them, calling them all WORKERS OF INIQUITIY, and they went to Hell forever in their sins. You see friend, you cannot merit your way to Heaven by becoming a Christ follower, you must be BORN AGAIN (John 3:1-7).

According to John 6:40, the will of God the Father is for you to BELIEVE ON JESUS to be saved. There is no other way to enter into God's Kingdom, except through faith in the name of Jesus (Acts 4:10-12). You must place your childlike faith in the GOOD NEWS (i.e., the Gospel) that Jesus is the Christ—the only begotten (biological) Son of God—who died in your place on the cross of Calvary. He was buried and then three days later resurrected from the dead. Jesus raised up forevermore as every believer's heavenly High Priest (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 4:14-16). All you need to do to be saved is simply BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (Acts 16:30-31). Just believe that Jesus did it all for you!

Sadly, they have a Double Standard at the FBCP. What was told to me in their Discovery Class in 2022, does not match up to what Pastor Snyder actually teaches from the pulpit. Their website confirms what the church believes and teaches, which I have refuted in this important blog article. Folks, RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!

You Don't Have To “Repent Of Sin” To Be Saved

I love what Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) said on the issue...

"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)

John Bunyan (1628-1688) fully understood the dire consequences of mixing sanctification (service) with justification (salvation)...

“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.” —Evangelist John Bunyan

They are not able to rightly divide the Word of Truth at the FBCP, because they have refused to make a distinction between salvation (Galatians 3:26) and service (Romans 12:1). Until you settle it once and for all in your mind that sanctification has nothing to do with justification, you will continue to wallow in confusion, doubt and worry about eternal life.

By faith alone in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, I became a born again child of God in 1980 at age 13. It doesn't matter how I choose to live my life, as far as going to Heaven is concerned. We will all be held accountable by God in eternity for the choices that we make on earth (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Romans 14:10-12). Some believers will receive no rewards (1st Corinthians 3:11-15), because they didn't earn them (1st Corinthians 3:7-9). Others will shine as the stars forever, cherishing their many converts (Daniel 12:3).

The life that we live now on earth is strictly a matter of Civil Court and potential rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ (Revelation 13:14; 2nd Corinthians 5:1-11). The unsaved damned will be tried in Criminal Court at the Great White Throne of Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Oh to God, that churches today would embrace the biblical truth that eternal life is the free gift of God, which is without works.

Sadly, most Baptist colleges and churches today have adopted the demonic lie that the unbiblical requirement to forsake a lifestyle of sinning is not works, but it definitely is salvation by works. Jonah 3:10, “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.” The people of Nineveh did not get saved, they merely repented of their sins.

Did you know that Judas in the Bible repented of his sins? Matthew 27:3-4, “Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.” Judas was sorry (penitence) for what he had done to betray Jesus. Judas even returned the 30 pieces of silver (penance). He was a changed man (reformation). Judas changed his mind about his sins. But tragically, Judas failed to repent of his unbelief, which is the only sin that can keep someone out of Heaven. Judas hung himself and died in his sin of unbelief. Judas sadly went to Hell to burn forever. He could have been saved, but Judas didn't believe Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, the Christ (John 20:31).

God knows my heart, that I hold no animosity toward the FBCP. I know a few people there, whom I feel sorry for, having been blinded by deceived religious leaders. The FBCP take in about $5,000,000 annually in revenue. The church pays an annual fee of $50,000 just to continue being a member of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). What a waste of money! I wouldn't join the ungodly SBC even if they paid me $50,000 a year!

The inspired Holy Bible warns in Galatians 1:6-7 that there is a curse upon anyone who preaches ANOTHER GOSPEL. Argue as some people will, the fact remains that nowhere does the Bible teach you must repent of your sins, or trust Jesus as your Lord, to get to Heaven. Hopefully this won't seem like a trifle matter to you dear reader. If you've been paying attention, they you know that the Gospel is being embellished everywhere today. There is a drastic difference between teaching that Christ died for our sins, versus teaching that God won't save you unless you're first willing to forsake a lifestyle of sinning. The former is grace, the latter is works. Romans 4:4, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” True salvation only comes to the individual who rests solely in Christ's redemptive work apart from all else (Hebrews 4:10-11).

Please Pardon My Indignant Anger At Times

Matthew 21:28-31, “But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”

I love this passage of Scripture! In this humble passage, Jesus tells a parable about two sons: one with a GOOD ATTITUDE who didn't go work in the Father's field; and the other son who had a BAD ATTITUDE, but later repented and did go work in his father's field. Jesus said that the son who had the poor attitude was the victor, because ultimately he obeyed his father's will. I love this passage because it often encourages me when I get angry, frustrated, tired and sometimes in my writings use colorful metaphors and language that I probably shouldn't use.

I recently expressed my anger at Pensacola Christian College in a Facebook post. I called them “sons of bitches” for the horrible way that the college shuns, ignores, mistreats and throw hurting people under the bus. I know firsthand, because they did all those things to me as a newcomer in 2021. As if August 2, 2002 I have been banned in writing from attending their Campus Church and we have been bitter enemies since. My great crime was trying to help their wicked pastors at PCC stop preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation. Tragically, PCC's leaders and pastors are cocky, arrogant, have huge egos and think they are above God's law.

Anyway, as a result of using the phrase “sons of bitches” to describe PCC's leaders, one of my longtime Facebook  “friends” unfriended herself and completely blocked me. That hurt, but I make no apologies for being human. I admit that I get really pissed off sometimes at the Devil and his malign crowd. I get angry at abortion (which is first-degree premeditated murder), same-sex marriage (which is perversion), and the fraudulent Federal Reserve Ponzi Scheme (that has been stealing from hard-working Americans since 1913).

I also get very angry at the Devil's lies of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance, Baptismal Regeneration, Sacramental Salvation and other damnable heresies that send people to Hell forever. Sometimes I express myself in sharp and harsh words to get my point across, and my anger comes out. If that offends you dear reader, I apologize; not for my anger or biblical message, but for the times when I use inappropriate foul language. Humbly said, I am who I am. If you are so much of a religious legalist that my street language from time to time offends your delicate sensibilities, then what can I say? Anyone who has followed my writings for a long time, knows that I rarely use street language.

When I was a little boy, I think around age 7, I innocently asked my grandma (my Mom's mother) what words like “fu-k” and “ass-ole” meant (I had heard those words and many more from my father when he was angry). She wisely said, “Those are silly words,” but she told me never to take God's name in vain. Grandma was right! Still, as a Baptist preacher, and moreover a child of God, I try not to talk like the world, but I sometimes fail. I am a fighting soldier for Jesus Christ. 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.”

Whenever I get angry and use some strong off color words that I probably shouldn't have wrote, the Holy Spirit always comforts my soul, reminding me in a still small quiet voice within how proud of me He is, that I care enough to get worked up and angry over sin and evil.

I vividly remember a wonderful true story that Pastor Jack Hyles told in a sermon. It was about a pastor who got very angry one Sunday morning in his pulpit. He got up and started cussing up a storm at the Devil. He told his church congregation how tired and worn out he was, and fed up with that blankety-blank, blank, brickety-brackety ole Devil. His congregation's ears were burning on fire after several minutes, hearing their pastor use foul language that they had never heard him use before. He apologized for the things he had said, but said he stood behind how he felt. Then gave his resignation from the pulpit and walked out the church door with intentions of never returning.

A moment later the chairman of the deacon board and some other men ran out into the parking lot to catch the weary pastor before he drove away. The chairman said: “Pastor, you are the best preacher we've ever had and we love you! We want you to stay and we're going to give you a generous raise. Please stay as our pastor!” The pastor and chairman and church members all wept, and their pastor stayed.

My friend, that is true Christianity!!! Not this garbage where PCC has banned me from even attending their Campus Church, because their little man for a senior pastor, Jeff Redlin (a twerp who gets paid $200,000 a year salary) is a high brow pompous rich snob who won't even allow me to attend their church. I hate the PCC cult! They are money-grubbing religious whores!!!

The ironic thing is that I sincerely attempted multiple times in the summer of 2022 to make peace with PCC's pastors and leaders, but they cold-heartedly refused. They can sue me like they did Peter Gage (a PCC alumni) for $100,000, but I won't cower like Peter did. An Escambia county judge (and the greedy attorney I will need to hire) can take every penny I have and throw my ass in prison, but I won't shut up about how evil Pensacola Christian College is! They don't intimidate me. God called me to be a Bible preacher before I was born, and I will preach against evil and hatred wherever I find it. Until a judge takes away my freedom of speech, I will never stop preaching against the evildoers at PCC, BJU and other apostate religious institutions today! God is on my side, because I am telling THE TRUTH.

The entire PCC network, which includes several local Baptist cult churches in Pensacola, are all the same! They have the 99% of sheep, so they couldn't care less about the 1% of lambs. I saw an elderly man (who was 82 years old) tell his younger 35 year old pastor, that as a pastor he ought to be warning his congregation about the modern corrupt Bibles. The pastor was greatly offended and showed the old man the door, telling him to leave, and he did. When the elderly man tried to return to the church, the pastor shamefully threatened to call the police on him. This is where our churches are at today. That is NOT biblical Christianity. That elderly man is 100% right in what he told that younger pastor, but the PCC crowd are haughty and filled with pride. The Devil's bibles are dangerous! The corrupt PCC camp couldn't care less.

That elderly Christian man (who is still a good friend of mine) is 47 years older than that young whipper-snapper cocky pastor. I often pray for God to humble that wicked pastor's heart. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS! We are commanded as Christian men “that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3b). The PCC crowd refuse to contend for the Christian faith. They are wickedly hobnobbing with neo-evangelicals in the Bob Jones University cult, who preach Calvinism! PCC's students partake in intercollegiate sports with BJU, which is shameful. It just tells the students that right doctrine doesn't matter. Making money is what really matters to PCC and BJU!!!

Jesus Became Indignant Over Exploiting The Things Of God To Make Money

The English dictionary defines the word “indignant” as: “Anger at something unjust or wrong.” Jesus became indignant when He saw the things of God being exploited by greedy people to line their own pockets...

John 2:13-16, “And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.”

The inspired Word of God tells us in our text passage of Scripture that Jesus became very angry. The Lord became angry when He saw the House of God being exploited to make money. I cannot think of a better example than the demonic Prosperity Gospel crowd today.

...in an Easter Sunday service in 2016, [Paula] White said salvation would come to a TV viewer if they donated a “resurrection seed” to her ministry:

There’s someone that God is speaking to, to click on that donation button by minimizing the screen. And when you do to sow $1,144. It’s not often I ask very specifically but God has instructed me and I want you to hear. This isn’t for everyone but this is for someone. When you sow that $1,144 based on John 11:44, I believe for resurrection life. SOURCE

Isn't that sick! That is evil beyond words to describe it! I am disgusted that President Trump just hired Paula White as spiritual advisor to the White House. Paula White preaches another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus works. She is a child of the Devil.

Beware Of The Pensacola Christian College Cult

But there are many other religious predators among us besides Paula White, such as Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who preach the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. PCC take in roughly $175,000,000 per year in revenue. Religious crime pays well! Although they would deny it, today's religious colleges by their actions evidence that all they care about is making money. The Bible warns that THE LOVE OF MONEY (i.e., prioritizing money) is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:12).

Like Jesus, I am indignant over the exploitation of the things of God for the sake of filthy lucre. These damned Bible college today don't even believe or teach that we have an inspired Holy Bible in 2025. They ALL teach the gross error that only the original autographs (which don't exist anymore) were inspired. These apostate religious institutions ALL foolishly teach that at best all we have today is an inferior King James Bible full of mistakes. Dear reader, I find NO FAULT in the inspired King James Bible.

SHAME on PCC, BJU and Hyles-Anderson College (of which I am an alumni, 1985-1993) for denying that the KING JAMES BIBLES is inspired by God. Since 2008, the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, no longer believes that the King James Bible is inspired. The truth hasn't changed, so why did they? Their present pastor John Wilkerson is sadly henpecked, told by those meddlers who control the church not to rock the boat or open old wounds, so he won't address the issue. That is so sad and pathetic!

“Now you say, 'Brother Hyles, you make an issue.' You dead sure better know I'll make an issue!” —BATTLE OF THE AGES (MP3, Dr. Jack Hyles, “The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!”)

Yes, I make an issue! I appreciate my ministry followers who have bared with my rants over the years. I apologize if at times my harsh language offends you. God knows that was never my intention to offend anyone with my colorful use of words. I say: If the shoe fits, wear it! I am just a passionate Christian man with a burdened heart to PREACH THE TRUTH! I spent eight years training in Bible college to become a church pastor, but by the time I graduated I realized that I didn't want to become a pastor after all, I wanted to PREACH THE TRUTH to help others. So, I became an evangelist and missionary to cyberspace. My heart since I got saved at age 13 has always been to HELP OTHERS! God knows my heart.

I was hurt this week by the woman on Facebook, who I had considered a friend, blocked me out for calling PCC's corrupt and greedy selfish leaders “sons of bitches.” Well, that is how I feel folks! I guess I'm the Rambo preacher of fundamentalism...lol. Have you ever heard Pastor Steven Anderson preach? Like me, he uses some harsh and offensive words at times, and I love him when he does it because I feel the same way about sin, corruption and evil.

God Knows That I Just Want To Be A Blessing

I can only hope in my heart of hearts dear reader, that you would look beyond my faults and see a heart that genuinely cares about truth, righteousness and loving people. I have never received a single penny for all my 23 years of website and blog ministry (which is a rare thing in today's covetous world). I want everybody to know where my heart is at, in helping others for Christ. I don't want anyone's money, but I welcome and ask for your earnest prayers.

When my lazy, lying, disloyal, ungodly, former wife wickedly abandoned and divorced me in 2006, my attorney said that my wife's lawyer wanted my tax returns for the past 5 years. Her lawyer wanted to make sure that I wasn't hiding any money. So I surrendered my tax returns. My attorney later told me that my wife's lawyer was impressed that with a website as big as Jesus-is-Savior.com, I didn't use it to make any money. My tax returns showed that my only income was from my secular job. My former rebellious wife never had to work a single day in 19 years of marriage, yet she cost me everything by divorcing me! God hates divorce and so do I. I have never wanted nor asked anyone for any money to serve Jesus Christ. I have a full reward waiting for me in Heaven (Matthew 6:19-21; 1st Corinthians 3:8-9). I love giving my life away as a living sacrifice to serve God (Romans 12:1).

My greatest reward will be my converts whom I had the privilege of leading to Jesus Christ. If you dear friend are one of them, then you are my children. That is why the Apostle John said in 3rd John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” John could call them his “children” simply because John had led them to Jesus with the Gospel. By God's mercy and grace, I have many spiritual children around the world. Jesus is precious!!!

I honestly think God likes when humble preachers like me get angry at sin, corruption and false doctrines. I know that it pleases our great God when His children contend for the faith (Titus 1:9-14). God pity the preacher that the world don't hate! I said: GOD PITY THE PREACHER THAT THE WORLD DON'T HATE!!! Would to God that a lot more pastors will shed their Caspar Milquetoast demeanor, and start preaching like Billy Sunday (1862-1935). Oftentimes it's not what a preacher says that makes him a false prophet, it's what he doesn't say. The vast majority of Baptist pastors today couldn't preach their way out of a paper bag. They are afraid to speak THE TRUTH, more concerned about their income than the outcome!

Today's vast majority of shameful pastors are mere employees sucking a salary. Jeff Redlin (senior pastor) at PCC's Campus Church is a millionaire, who gets paid well over $100,000 a year. The president of PCC got paid a disgusting salary of $205,069 in 2023. What greedy dogs! Woe unto PCC when they stand before God in eternity! Just like Jesus in the Bible, I get upset (His indwelling Holy Spirit working through me) when I see the things of God being exploited for money. These accursed religious institutions love the praise of men more than the praise of God (John 12:42-43). I love the praise of God!

I make no apologies for offending people with THE TRUTH. I make no apologies for being controversial, for delving into issues that most pastors are too cowardly to preach against. We need a whole new generation of preachers who are not afraid to offend people with biblical truth. Sadly, nearly every pastor today is a henpecked pansy, afraid to preach against the evils of feminism. ALL women preachers are FALSE PROPHETS, including Paula White! Shame on President Trump for hiring her as spiritual advisor to the White House!

RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! I am one of less than 1% of Bible preachers today who get upset and bent out of shape over the evils of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance and False Bibles. I hope that you can appreciate that dear reader. I might type some strong words sometimes, which might even offend you, but at the end of the day I AM PREACHING THE TRUTH. I am as the son with the bad attitude who refused to go work in his father's field, but then he later repented and went to work in the field. THANK YOU for your understanding and continued interest in my writing ministry. I love you all unconditionally with God's love.