1st John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
Kindly said, Pastor Matthew Stuckey gets the epistle of 1st John very wrong. He plainly says in the video below that the Epistle of 1st John was only written so that believers can have joy. 1st John 1:4, “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” So, yes, in part, John did pen his Epistle led (by the inspiration of the Spirit of God) so that our joy could be full as believers.
But then Pastor Stuckey horribly denies that his epistle was also written so that believers can KNOW we have eternal life, which blatantly contradicts the plain statement of John. 1st John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” Clearly the Epistle of 1st John was written to show us how to KNOW we are saved so that our joy can be full. Stuckey left off 1st John 5:13.
For Pastor Stuckey to deny that the Epistle of 1st John was written for the purpose of helping believers KNOW that we are saved is to blatantly contradict the plain teaching of 1st John 5:13. It's no different than Pastor Anderson teaching that Jesus burned in the fires of Hell for three days, when Luke 23:43 plainly teaches that He and the repentant thief went to PARADISE the very same day they died. Steven Anderson is grossly incompetent in his theology, elevating his Andersonology over the inspired Word of God.
The Epistle of 1st John was not just written to give believer's joy, but also to help us individually determine whether we are saved. Here is Pastor Matthew Stuckey making a total fool of himself, denying that the Epistle of 1st John was given to us by God so that we can “KNOW” we are saved. Stuckey says the epistle was only intended to give us Christian joy. ...
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I am just going by Pastor Stuckey's exact words, he states: "It's not a book written to show to us whether or not we are saved." Those are his exact words! The guy is incompetent as a wannabe theologian. 1st John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” Pastor Stuckey conveniently left off mentioning this Bible verse in his video, because it contradicts his perverted view of 1st John. I don't see how Steven Anderson can defend him, but he foolishly does, to his utter shame. Pastor Stuckey is WRONG and so are you if you agree with him! Shame on Steven Anderson and Matthew.
I humbly think the epistle's key verse is 1st John 3:24, “And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.” The acid test is whether or not we have the indwelling Holy Spirit; and that is what 1st John helps us determine, individually—if we have the Holy Spirit.
If we hate a Christian without cause, we may not have the Holy Spirit, and thus are not saved (1st John 2:9-11). If we can sin without any conviction whatsoever from the Holy Spirit, then something is very wrong, and we may not have the Holy Spirit, and are not saved (Hebrews 12:6-8). John is NOT saying that we are unsaved if our life is filled with sin; but rather, if we can live like the Devil without being chastised by God, then we may not have the indwelling Holy Spirit. God is not an absent parent. Hebrews 12:6-8 plainly calls someone a "bastard" who is never scourged and chastised by God for our sin. Anyone who does not have the Holy Spirit (i.e., the Spirit of Christ) is unsaved (Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24).
We have to be very careful when interpreting the Scripture to rightly divide it. Many people read 1st John 2:4 that you are not saved if you don't keep God's commandments. They assume that this means keeping all of God's commandments, but John plainly writes in 1st John 3:23, “And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.”
So, you are not saved if you don't believe on Christ. That is God's commandment. We know from umpteen other Scripture passages that works are not allowed or necessary to get to Heaven (John 6:28-29; Romans 3:20; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 5:4). So, we know that John is not teaching that you must keep God's law to be saved. The ONLY commandment that you must keep to be saved is to BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, which the dear Savior Himself confirmed in John 6:28-29. Many Bible students get 1st John wrong.
1st John 3:9 simply means that the indwelling Holy Spirit cannot sin. The Bible does not say that we won't practice sinning as the new corrupt Bible versions read, it says the man who walks in the Spirit "cannot sin." It means when we sin, we do so in the flesh. When we walk in the Spirit we cannot sin (Galatians 5:16). But we all walk in the flesh every day by default, because we are all carnal sinners by old nature. I reject the heresy that when a person gets saved, they only have a new nature and the old nature is gone. No, we still have the old flesh to contend with. The Apostle Paul makes this clear in Romans 7:14-25.
This is mostly an excellent and needful video by Pastor Stuckey, but he is wrong that 1st John was ~not~ written so that believers can KNOW we are saved.
The day I got saved, the preacher said that if you can commit sin without any conviction whatsoever from the Holy Spirit, you are not saved. I knew that I didn't have the Holy Spirit, because I had never felt bad about my sinning. When I look back now in my mind, before I got saved at age 13 there is only a blank in my mind concerning God. I was spiritually dead. But from the day I got saved until today I have felt the presence of God's blessed Holy Spirit in my life: convicting, comforting, guiding, rebuking and teaching me as His child.
The day I got saved was like a light switch being turned on in my soul. For the first time in my life I heard an inaudible small voice in my soul convicting me about sassing my mother. I started reading my King James Bible in Genesis through Leviticus, and then I jumped to the New Testament like most believers do...lol. There was a change in my life. I remember my mother saying to me one evening, "You've changed." In hindsight, that is a beautiful confirmation of God's Holy Spirit in my life. I had been born again!
To clarify, I do not believe in Lordship Salvation. I do NOT believe that a changed life proves anything, because the false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 lived a changed life, doing many wonderful works and they followed Jesus while calling Him: "Lord, Lord," yet they were hellbound sinners. They were living the Christian life without ever having been born again. That is Satan's favorite weapon!
There is only one thing that the unsaved person cannot have, and that is the blessed indwelling Holy Spirit, and that is why 1st John was written, to give us the joy of knowing that we are truly saved.
I have heard Benny Hinn preach different plans of salvation to various audiences. When he was in Colorado speaking to Catholics, Hinn praised the Virgin Mary and presented a Catholic plan of salvation. When in Israel, he preached a different gospel. But when I heard him preach in Tennessee, he preached a free grace gospel, which confused me. I had to give it some thought but eventually figured out what he was doing. Benny Hinn is a chameleon, changing colors to appease different crowds to get their money (2nd Peter 2:1-3).
Even though I heard Benny Hinn preach a free grace gospel, I realized that he doesn't believe a word of what he is saying. So, to me, that helps understand why God gave us the Epistle of 1st John.
Pastor Jack Trieber is definitely wrong in his errant views put forth in his book; but this video also needs to be corrected, because the Apostle John did write his epistle to help the Christian KNOW that we are saved according to 1st John 5:13. 1st John 3:24 plainly teaches that we KNOW we are saved by the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit, by which we were "sealed" the moment we trusted Christ to be saved (Ephesians 5:13-14).
One of the reasons for which God gives us His indwelling Spirit is “๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐น ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป” (๐๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ญ:๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ). The Holy Spirit is God's downpayment on His child. No preacher is perfect. I didn't post these comments to shed a bad light on Pastor Stuckey; but rather, to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3b).
As a result of this article, which I had previously posted on Facebook, Pastor Steven Anderson has unfriended and blocked me. Real nice guy, huh? You see, in the NIFB you are not allowed to express your own contrary opinion. Steven Anderson is a hypocrite! He preached a sermon titled: "Only One Viewpoint Is Allowed," and yet that is exactly what he does to people. It's his way or the highway, which is why his four oldest children have turned against him, accusing him of physically abusing his own family for decades. Ask Steven's older brother Clint Anderson and his wife, who harbored his daughter Miriam from his abuse, what they think about Steven Anderson. This is your NIFB's cult leader!
Matthew Stuckey, like all of your incompetent NIFB pastors today, has never attended any Bible college. They are a bunch of rogue wannabe theologians who have no formal theological training. I spent eight long tiresome year at Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993) earning my degree in Pastoral Theology. That is why by God's grace, unlike the NIFB pastors who butcher and wrongly divide God's Word, I preach the truth. To God be the glory!
1st Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
Well, Pastor Steven Anderson has unfriended, blocked and turned against me on Facebook. So be it! I have had it with the abuse from the New Independent Fundamental Baptist (NIFB) gang of thugs. If they want another enemy, so be it, I will be their most formidable enemy. I am sick and tired of being bullied, disrespected, called names and derided by bullies in the NIFB. They literally worship their pastors, and anybody who dares to question their false teachings is thrown under the bus. I've been saved longer than all of them have been born, 46 years. I am 59 years old. I got saved at age 12 or 13, I think it was early 13.
There's a reason why Pastor Anderson's children hate him, because of what he is doing right now, hating on people. I have been a good friend to Pastor Anderson, always defending him for over a decade, but he has a hate problem. That's why he has been banned in over 40 countries, not because he preaches against homosexuals, but because he says hateful things like: they should put a bullet in their head, commit suicide and he calls them pedophiles, which is rarely the case. He's a hate preacher, and that's NOT what a man of God is supposed to be, far, far, from it!!!
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I guess I'm going to have to start writing a lot of articles exposing the NIFB, and it will be my pleasure. I have had it with those hateful religious people! God is love.
Pastor Jonathan Shelley in Texas preached an entire sermon against me because I do not agree with their horrible false teaching that you cannot be saved without praying a sinner's prayer. The NIFB horribly degraded, insulted and bullied my ministry friend Onorato Diamante on YouTube. They are abusive in the NIFB! And as much as I love and have supported Brother Anderson, right now he is being an enemy toward me.
And unlike him, I actually graduated from Hyles-Anderson College, I didn't quit. I spent 8 years in blood, sweat and tears earning my degree in Pastoral Theology, signed by Pastor Jack Hyles, something that Pastor Anderson does not have!
I am not going to tolerate being bullied, told I am railing on God's man for refusing to silently go along with Mathew Stuckey's blatant perversion of the Scriptures. I had a strong hunch when Pastor Steven Anderson sent me a friend request last year that our friendship was shaky at best, because for many years I have respectfully disagreed with him on at least a DOZEN ISSUES.
Clearly, he has zero respect for my right to contend for the faith (Jude 1:3). I am sick and tired of NIFB thugs! Pastor Anderson doesn't deserve the respect that I and others have given him. With Anderson, respect is a one-way street! I heard him call Attorney David Gibbs Jr. "a fat slob." That's not the way a pastor should talk. Brother Gibbs is a godly preacher and I respect him tremendously. If you ever want to hear some life changing preaching, look him up on YouTube.
If Pastor Anderson wants to block me out for taking a biblical stand against Pastor Matthew Stuckey, then so be it, but I TOLD THE TRUTH. 1st John 5:13 plainly teaches that the purpose for the writing of the Epistle of 1st John is so that we can know we are saved. Matthew Stuckey plainly teaches that 1st John WASN'T written for that purpose; but rather, he says John penned his epistle to give the Christians joy. Mr. Stuckey is dead WRONG!
Pastor Stuckey's exact words: "It's not a book written to show to us whether or not we are saved." Those are his exact words. ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ป ๐ฑ:๐ญ๐ฏ, “๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ป๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ; ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ.” Some slanderer named Mulch Garcia rebuked me and falsely accused me of "railing on a church elder." I rebuked him back, unfriended him and told anybody else who foolishly agreed with him to also leave. I didn't think Pastor Anderson would leave, but he did, so that's that. I didn't do anything wrong, I stood up for THE TRUTH. Pastor Anderson is more loyal to his cronies in the NIFB, than he is to truth and principles. So, I am sad about this.
As a Bible preacher, I am loyal to truth and principles, not to men or institutions, which quality is extremely rare today in a preacher. I am not bragging, I am simply saying that I decided way back in Bible college 40 years ago to adopt Brother Hyles' 5 life's decisions:
Nobody will ever tell me what to preach or where to preach.
Money will never be an object in my ministry.
I will always be a friend to my friends.
I will be loyal to principles, and not to Institutions. In the sermon Dr. Hyles states:
“Students of Hyles-Anderson College, do not give your loyalty to Hyles-Anderson College. You give your loyalty to what we stand for today, and if tomorrow we don't stand for it, you withdraw your loyalty—loyalty to principle, loyalty to right, loyalty to character, loyalty to integrity, loyalty to conviction, loyalty to truth; not loyalty to institutions.” —Dr. Jack Hyles, from the sermon titled, “Filled With All The Fulness Of God.”
I will make the decisions of my ministry on the basis of what I think is right only.
Unlike Pastors' Anderson and Stuckey, I have never made a single penny from my 24 years of website ministry. They are both drawing nice salaries. I am a missionary to the internet and God has blessed my work for Christ for 24 years. I started my ministry long before there was such a thing as the "NIFB." They have NO RESPECT in the NIFB. They bully, slander and tear down any pastor, layman or preacher who dares to disagree with their heresy. I have had it! No more Mister Nice Guy!
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The NIFB do nothing but hate on the Old IFB. I have never taken sides. I support the truth, and truth-tellers, wherever I find them. I think what Pastor Anderson did to his "friend" Pastor Roger Jimenez is shameful. As if Pastor Anderson doesn't have a Skeleton Closet of his own, he attacks and verbally destroys his "friend" of 20 years. All Pastor Anderson did for months was tear down Pastor Jimenez in his hatred. There's a big difference between telling the truth, versus just looking for any reason to destroy someone. Pastor Jimenez said he stepped down as the pastor of Verity Baptist Church over an indiscretion, but Pastor Anderson derided him for months for not mentioning the specific sin committed, as if it were any of his rotten business. The NIFB have no loyalty for anyone.
I heard Pastor Jimenez say that Brother Anderson was the only reason he got into the ministry, and I am 100% convinced that when Pastor Anderson turned against him (because Brother Roger wouldn't make a crazy video attacking Clint Anderson for allegedly "kidnapping his daughter" Miriam), Anderson turned on him! Clint is Steven Anderson's older brother, who took in Miriam and sheltered her from the Andersons. It was only after that that Pastor Jimenez went downhill. Pastor Anderson is not true friend, he uses and manipulates people to do what he wants or else. Pastor Steven Anderson's own children hate him.
That is why he just unfriended me and blocked me out, because he is so arrogant and proud that he cannot handle being corrected. All this hatred just because I told THE TRUTH that Matthew Stuckey is WRONG to say that the Epistle of 1st John wasn't written to show us how to "know" we are saved. Stuckey is foolish, and so is Pastor Anderson for defending him. Well, as Mrs. Beverly Hyles said when Pastor Jack Schaap tried to buy her off by silencing her, "I am not for sale!"
To Hell with the NIFB! I have been frustrated with their shameful behavior for decades. I feel like a fool for even trying to be friends with a hateful bully like Steven Anderson. He says a lot of great stuff in his preaching, but it is all overshadowed by HIS BLATANT HATRED! His mother and father raised him to hate people, and he does! As Christians we are commanded to hate evil in Psalms 97:10, but never people. The NIFB hate unrepentant sinners, but Christ died for the worst of humanity (Romans 5:6-9).
I have stood firmly against Pastor Anderson's ungodly hatred of a certain class of sinners, homosexuals. He is worse than they are! I wrote this article 7 years ago titled, "How Pastor Steven Anderson Greatly Hurts His Ministry," by hating sinners.
I know how Roger Jimenez feels. Lord willing, I have much writing to do in the future, and I will be exposing Pastor Steven Anderson and the NIFB. The Bible says in 1st Corinthians 11:19 that we need heresies, so that they who are approved can be made known. I am going to use the corrupt, hateful and belligerent NIFB as a canvas upon which to preach THE TRUTH. God is love and anybody who preaches hatred of people is NOT of God.
Although I admire their zeal, their hatred of sinners is unbiblical. SHAME on Pastor Steven Anderson for turning against me, when all I have done is support him while he craps on his family, his former friends, and anybody who disagrees with his NIFB cult. It is a cult. Anybody who dares to disagree with their popish pastors is attacked and demonized. That is classic cult behavior, and Steven Anderson is their incompetent hate leader. Anderson is no better than Fred Phelps (1929-2014).
I still love Brother Anderson, but we both knew from the very beginning of our short friendship that we were "tolerating" each other, because I have made it clear from the very start that I AM NOT NIFB, and I would never want to be a member because of their hatred for sinners, people and dissenters. God is love, but you'd never know it from the hatred in the NIFB.
And you know what, I've never once seen Steven Anderson shed a single tear in the pulpit in 20 years. That speaks volumes about his lack of closeness to God. Brother Hyles cried often, using pathos in his preaching, comforting the weary, bereaved and afflicted. With Anderson everything is hate war!
I am broken hearted. All I have ever done is take a stand for the truth. I totally reject the unbiblical idea that you are somehow sinning by rebuking an elder. I have been saved for 46 years, longer than those NIFB haters have been alive! I spent 8 years earning my degree in Pastoral Theology in Bible college, something that NONE of them have. And yet somehow they have appointed themselves as "kings" over God's flock. My soulwinning ministry is just as valid, recognized by the dear LORD, and sanctioned by God as any church.
This is a sad thing. God knows that I didn't want this to happen. The NIFB pastors think much too highly of themselves than they ought. How you treat others matters infinitely more than one's position as a leader. The Word of God warns in 1st Corinthians 13:1-3 that although you can preach the greatest sermons, it all means NOTHING of you don't have LOVE for people. Steven Anderson is a hateful person, woefully lacking in God's love for sinners. He has cruelly thrown people left and right out of HIS church; it's not the Lord's church.
Until Pastor Anderson learns humility, and to love the unloving, he will NEVER be a great man. He is successful to a degree, but he is NOT the epitome of what a pastor should be. I humbly think Pastor Jack Hyles epitomized strength and beauty, denim and lace. Pastor Anderson is all strength and denim, a burning cake unturned.
Please pray for me folks, I am discouraged by this. I sincerely tried to be friends with the NIFB and Brother Anderson, but his malicious behavior toward those who offend him, and his twisting of facts, and his hatred are too much for people to bear. Go look at all of Steven Anderson's recent photos of his family on social media, and you will see that he has DISOWNED his four oldest children. They have been completely removed from ALL photos. The guy hates his own children! That speaks volumes about his true character, which I will be writing about in the future. I've held back my feelings for years, in an effort to promote goodwill and peace, and to try to be a catalyst between the Old and New IFB, but what saith the Scripture? ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฎ๐ต:๐ต, “๐๐ณ ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐๐ต ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ด๐ต, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐.”
Honestly, Steven Anderson is a fool! His hatred precedes him everywhere he goes. I am sick and tired of hearing him lie to people, telling them that Jesus burned in the fires of Hell, that it's okay for mothers to breast feed in public with their nipples showing, that God hates unrepentant sinners, that praying a sinner's prayer is the Bible method to be saved when John 6:47 contradicts that heresy, that homosexuals cannot be saved, that the Rapture will happen 75 DAYS after the Abomination of Desolation event (date setting), that the earth is young, that the Church replaces Israel; and get this, Anderson actually teaches that Jesus was NOT omnipotent, omnipresent nor omniscient while on the earth.
I've been exposing him for the past 10 years! Now that he has thrown me under the bus, I have no reason to hold back anymore. So, the gloves are off! NIFB here I come! I won't be exposing them to be vindictive, their not worth time; but rather, to heal the many wounds which have been inflicted upon thousands of people by authoritarian abusive NIFB pastors like Steven Anderson, Jonathan Shelley and others. If you've read this far, thank you. It comforts victims hearts when they hear a faithful Bible preacher rebuking bad pastors.
Right now I have more respect for Eric Skwarczynski at "Preacher Boys" than I do for Steven Anderson and his NIFB. Anderson's true colors came through tonight. His heart was never with me or my ministry from the beginning. With Pastor Steven Anderson, he always has a knife behind his back, ready to cut the throat of anyone who is not 100% loyal to him and his preaching.
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Say what you will about Eric Skwarczynski, but he is just exposing the ungodly incompetent pastors and churches in the fundamentalist movement today, and the NIFB comprise the bulk of the manure pile.
Pastor Anderson likes to use movie clips to make fun of people. Okay, here's one. Do you remember in the 1982 movie "First Blood," where Sylvester Stallone says: "There wouldn't be any problem if it weren't for that King Shite Cop!" Well, Pastor Anderson is a "King Shite Pastor," and there wouldn't be any problem if it weren't for him! What Anderson does to mistreat people is no better than what the bully cop Art Galt did to abuse Rambo in the movie.
Humbly said, by God's grace, I am bigger in heart than Pastor Anderson is. All God has to work with is us sinners. Dr. Hyles used to say that there were likely more opinions per square foot at Hyles-Anderson College than anywhere else in the world, and when you have that many strong differing opinions, well, it can cause tension. The NIFB are opinionated on drugs...lol. I learned a long time ago to just take the good and leave the bad. I don't plan on removing any of Pastor Anderson's sermons from my websites and blogs.
I still partly believe in what he is doing, soulwinning, but he has some really bad character issues, for which all we can do is pray for him. I am just glad that he unfriended and blocked me out, and not me him. In a thousand years I never would have unfriended or blocked him out, because he has been one of my spiritual mentors, even though I am 15 years older than him. He doesn't respect the people who are loyal to him. He has his small group of cronies. They're as thick as thieves, but there is no honor among thieves.
“He is equally unqualified to be a parent or a pastor, because any amount of that kind of abuse is too much.”— John Anderson
Now that Paul Wittenberger, Pastor Roger Jimenez, umpteen former NIFB pastors, his four oldest children, his older brother and his wife, and an army of other people have become Steven Anderson's enemy, he is grasping for straws and looking for anyone who still wants to be his friend within "his" NIFB cult. God knows that I love Pastor Anderson, but he is NOT a friend to his friends; he only cares about his agenda, his ideas, his theology and his cult. The NIFB are as shallow as Judas. Bad pastors need to be exposed!
I don't apologize for getting upset about Matthew Stuckey perverting the inspired Word of God, and Pastor Anderson is foolishly sanctioning and promoting his heresy. You are a fool if you honestly think that the Epistle of 1st John wasn't written to show Christian believers how to "know" that we are saved, when 1st John 5:13 states in plain English that John wrote his epistle so “๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ.” What is wrong with Pastor Anderson? He is obviously more loyal to men, than he is to truth. I thank God for Pastor Jack Hyles, who wisely taught me by example and by word to prioritize truth over men, and principles over institutions. Pastor Anderson is angry at me because I am more loyal to God and truth, than I am to him and his cronies.
I love you all and I am sorry on behalf of the shameful behavior of the NIFB. They do not love God or truth as much as they love themselves and their cult. God deserves better than this.
The idea that just because some NIFB guy holds a position as a leader doesn't exempt him from being rebuked by a Bible preacher like me when he corrupts the inspired Word of God. I am an evangelist. I afflict the comforted. I plan to write many articles about the NIFB; against their hatred of sinners, unscriptural doctrinal positions, and abuse toward people.
I am sick and tired of being bullied by NIFB thugs! I have already been writing articles for the past 10 years, but now I have no reason to hold back anymore, since Brother Anderson has thrown me under the bus. The guy hates his four oldest children so much that he has removed them from all his family photos on social media. That speaks volumes! My eyes are slowly being opened to how horrible some pastors in the NIFB have become. I hate the whole idea of Old IFB, New IFB, I am just a born again Christian and a fundamentalist Bible believer.
Sadly, Pastor Anderson is a cold-hearted, cruel, wicked man who will deeply hurt you if you get close to him. He's a narcissist, consumed with himself. You're not allowed to express your own opinion in his world. It's his way or the highway!
I remember one poor Chinese man who was a member of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe years ago. In his own country, in their culture, they call everyone by their first name, regardless of who they are. So, he called Pastor Anderson “Steve,” which greatly offended the narcissist pastor. So much so, that he preached an entire sermon against the Chinese fella, so that he left the church wounded and never came back again. Steven Anderson is abusive!
It deeply hurts me that Pastor Anderson just up and left, gone with the wind. That's no way to treat someone who has promoted his sermons and ministry for over a decade. He has zero loyalty for his supporters. I took a biblical stand today against Matthew Stuckey's heresy, for which I make no apologies to anyone. He is not above reproach. No pastor is above reproach. He's not my elder. If anything, since I am old enough to be his father, I am his elder.
SHAME on Matthew Stuckey and Pastor Steven Anderson!!!
I just purchased the 'SWORD SCRAPBOOK' volumes I (1969) and II (1975) on eBay by Dr. John R. Rice's loyal lifelong secretary Miss Viola Walden (1915-2007). I snapped some photos today of interesting things in Volume I.
Proverbs 18:1, “Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.”
I've been playing pedal steel guitar for 34 years since 1992, which has been a passion for me over the years. I started playing lap steel in 2006. My Mom Barbara Jean Stewart (1935-2001) while she was still alive enjoyed hearing my steel guitar. My father took this photo in 1998 at his Rescue Mission on Chicago's West Side...
Dad took a photo of Mom and Me (1998)
She went to Heaven on August 20, 2001. I miss my mother. I thank God for music.
Here are some of my Mom's Gospel piano recordings. She never played anything except hymns of the Christian faith:
When I moved from Chicago to the island of Guam in 2004 and lived there for 17 years, I learned to play the Hawaiian lap steel guitar, which was fitting for living on an island.
I just ran across this pretty song today and thought I'd share it with everyone. I love country music with a pedal steel guitar (mostly 1970s music). Nearly all of today's so-called "Country music" is garbage. Alan Jackson is right, country music is dead! This song is a pretty song with nice lyrics and has a great pedal steel guitar. ...
You Must Be out of Your Ever Lovin' Mind
Many years ago, I started a dedicated website just for the Hawaiian steel guitar, which is mostly played using the C6th tuning. On my website you'll find several hundred songs containing steel guitar, which is the best way to learn to play any musical instrument, by saturating your ears and mind with what a particular musical instrument is capable of doing.
This was the song in 1992 that drew me into learning to play the pedal steel guitar, "My Wonderful Jesus" by The Gospel According To Steve, Leroy And Brother Dave. My favorite Hawaiian steel guitar artist is Jerry Byrd (1920-2005). I met Jerry in 1993 in Winchester, Indiana, at the bi-annual Hawaiian Steel Guitar Convention. I also met famous steel guitarist Bud Tutmarc (1924-2006) at the convention in 1993. When I attended Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993), I bought one of Bud's gospel cassettes at the college's bookstore. Bud Tutmarc made many recordings with the Ralph Carmichael orchestra. ...
“For Ever and Ever” - Bud Tutmarc & Ralph Carmichael (1969)
Lloyd Green (born 1937) is my favorite pedal steel guitar artist, and one of my musical heroes. I had the privilege of meeting Lloyd and his late wife Dorothy, in 1995 at the International Steel Guitar Convention in St. Louis. Lloyd has recorded pedal steel guitar and Dobro on about 30,000 songs as a career Nashville musician from the 1960s throughout the late 1980s, including all of Don William's recordings. Lloyd played steel guitar on "Remember When" by Alan Jackson. Here is "In The Garden" by Lloyd.
I had been offered countless times on Guam a full time job to play my steel guitar in bars and nightclubs (they offered me $200 per night), which I always kindly turned down because I never wanted to use my God-given talent to help the Devil sell booze. Plus, by God's grace, I have never drank one drop of Liquid Devil, and by God's grace I never will. Those aren't my kind of places. I have always played freely at home, nursing homes, weddings, or in the sand at the beach when I lived on Guam. Music makes the world a better place.
These days at just play my musical instruments at home for the dog, Miss Pickles.
I Love Playing 5-String Banjo
I had learned to play the 5-string banjo in the late 1980's but there was no internet back then and living in Chicago meant I had no inspiration. Chicago is a Blues town! But in 2017 I learned about a guy named Dave Hum (1966-2012) in Salisbury, England, and his music inspired me to get back into my banjo playing, which I am still passionate about.
The banjo is a happy instrument. Thanks be to God, I have a Deering Calico (maple neck) and Golden Wreath (mahogany neck) banjo, and a Recording King Elite-85 banjo (maple neck), but I mostly enjoy playing my Deering Goodtime Special (hard rock maple) student model. The Goodtime Special is 3 pounds lighter than my other banjos, which helps my neck since I have an old injury that causes me tremendous pain all the time. I love the 5-string banjo!
God Is Faithful And Good
These days I just play at home at my leisure, when my neck pain and related afflictions aren't stifling my ambition. When you're suffering in constant chronic neck pain, and taking multiple different prescription meds, you don't want to do anything except rest. My burning neck pain is so bad every day, and the burning nerves throughout my upper body, et cetera. I digress. I have no complaints to the good LORD, He is wonderful and I love Him.
Kindly said, I don't claim to be a good Christian, but God knows that I do care and I want to be a blessing to as many people as I can for Christ with my website ministry, which is my greatest passion, serving Jesus. I enjoy making music with my banjo, steel guitar and other stringed instruments, but those things don't change lives or earn me rewards in Heaven. So, I am making an investment with my ministry labors!
I recently bought some music from Hyles-Anderson College and added my pedal steel guitar to one of their songs just for fun, “He Knows My Name.” I am grateful to be an alumnus of the college while my hero of the Christian faith, Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001), was still with us. Brother Hyles is still alive, he has simply relocated to Heaven to be with the dear Savior.
In the photo below, you can see the “Division 4, 76-3,” blue birthday gift that my bus kids and workers (my church family) gave to me while attending Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993). Our church bus route was in Chicago in the Wicker Park neighborhood. I voluntarily served the Lord on the 76-3 bus route for 7 years, drove a church bus for 4 years, and then I helped out in the church Bus Garage for my last year with Rick Suba, the mechanic for the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. And you can also see a Youth Conference poster on my wall.
Me in 1992 with my Emmons D-10 Pedal Steel Guitar
I hope you've enjoyed hearing some of my music. I just wanted to take a break from my other articles and share my music with everyone. Tomorrow we'll be back to my regular ministry articles. God be the glory. Music makes the world a better place.
1st Corinthians 3:16-17, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
Ephesians 1:13-14, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
A Christian man recently wanted to debate with me, insisting that he is demon possessed. He told me that he has a psychiatrist doctor to help him with his mood swings, nightmares that cause him to grind his teeth and dark thoughts. The man said he is taking numerous prescription medications. I sympathized with his medical afflictions and prayed for him. It is not my place to condemn anyone. There but for the grace of God, go I and you.
However, I needed to kindly disagree with his assertion that a born again Christian can be demon possessed, simply because it is not true, which he didn't take lightly. The inspired Word of God is very clear the the believer's physical body is the “temple” of the indwelling Holy Spirit. 1st Corinthians 3:16-17, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
We also learn from the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:13-14, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” The moment that a lost sinner trusts Christ as his or her personal Savior, that individual is immediately and forever SEALED with the Holy Spirit of God. A transfer of ownership has changed hands from Satan to God. There is no way that a child of God can be inhabited by a demon, although it is possible for a Christian to be influenced by demonic spirits.
In Matthew 16:23, Jesus called the Apostle Peter “Satan.” We know that Peter was not the Devil, but he was thinking like the Devil at that time, wanting to prevent Jesus from going to the cross, which was the entire reason for His coming to earth.
The Afflicted Woman In Luke 13:16
According to biblical teaching, Satan can cause suffering and sickness, as seen in Luke 13:16, where Jesus refers to a woman who had been bound by Satan for eighteen years. However, not all sickness is attributed to Satan; some may arise from natural causes or divine purposes (John 9:1-5).
In an attempt to prove that a Christian can be possessed by a demon, the man I mentioned earlier brought up Luke 13:16, “And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?” Since she is a daughter of Abraham, we know that she was saved. The guy debating with me insists that “Satan hath bound” means she was demon possessed. Now, dear reader, the Bible doesn't say that she was demon possessed, it says that she was bound by Satan for 18 years. Jesus said the thief only comes to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10).
In Job chapter one we read that God gave Satan permission to afflict Job terribly. Satan caused thieves to murder Job's servants and then steal all of his livestock. The Devil murdered all ten of Job's children. Poor Mrs. Job! I have always been empathetic toward Job's wife for suggesting that Job curse God and die, because she had just lost every last one of her precious children. Of course, she was very wrong and lacking in her faith, but she was hurting deeply. Job's wife is a perfect example of how NOT TO respond to life's tragedies. Yet, I wonder how you or I would have done in her situation. Would we have praised the Lord anyhow? God allowed Satan to afflict Job and his wife. Mrs. Job was tested just as much as Job! Yet, neither of them were demon possessed.
According to “Barnes Notes On The Whole Bible”:
Whom Satan hath bound - Satan is the name given to the prince or leader of evil spirits, called also the devil, Beelzebub, and the old serpent, Matthew 12:24; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2. By his “binding” her is meant that he had inflicted this disease upon her. It was not properly a “possession” of the devil, for that commonly produced derangement; but God had suffered him to afflict her in this manner, similar to the way in which he was permitted to try Job. See the notes at Job 1:12; Job 2:6-7. It is no more “improbable” that God would suffer “Satan” to inflict pain, than that he would suffer a wicked “man” to do it; yet nothing is more common than for one “man” to be the occasion of bringing on a disease in another which may terminate only with the life. He that seduces a virtuous man and leads him to intemperance, or he that wounds him or strikes him, may disable him as much as Satan did this woman. If God permits it in one case, he may, for the same reason, in another. [emphasis added] —“Barnes Notes On The Whole Bible”
I agree with Pastor Albert Barnes (1798-1870). The woman in Luke 16:13 was not demon possessed, she was bound by Satan with a disease for 18 years until Jesus freed her.
And may I kindly say, I think it would be foolish for a Christian to try to determine if our illness has been caused by the Devil, the Lord, or is just a result of living in a fallen world. Does it really matter? I mean, since we know that nothing can happen to anyone without God's knowledge and permission, we would be wise to simply trust God rather than to try to figure out the cause of our suffering.
I admit that I myself have a hard time knowing that God sees an innocent person being robbed and then murdered, and does nothing to stop it, but we suffer because we live in a fallen world of sin. I am not going to place God on trial as the heathen world continually does. Living in a fallen world doesn't mean that we suffer evil because of any particular sin we may have committed; but rather, because Adam's sin brought the curse of sin and death upon the entire human race (Romans 5:12). That is why bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. And to clarify, we're all bad sinners in the sight of a holy God (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:10-23). Some of us may live above reproach, but no one can live above sin.
The Apostle Paul's “Thorn” In The Flesh
Another argument that the man I mentioned earlier brought up is the Apostle Paul, citing 2nd Corinthians 12:7, “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” Again, the man claims that Paul was demon possessed as a Christian. Dear reader, this is false teaching! It is IMPOSSIBLE for a child of God to be possessed by a demon! Likewise, no child of the Devil has the Holy Spirit living inside them. Romans 8:9, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” No one is saved who does not have the Holy Spirit living inside (indwelling) them.
The Apostle Paul did not claim to be demon possessed; but rather, he said “there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.” We must never read into the Scripture what it does not say. The messenger of Satan was not a demon, it was the “thorn.” The Bible plainly says that! To say that the “messenger of Satan” was a demon who entered into Paul is a wicked thing to claim. Most theologians think that Paul's thorn was poor eyesight, because he said to the churches of Galatia in Galatians 4:15b, “for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.” Paul had poor eyesight. We don't know for certain if that is the “thorn” which he spoke of, but it certainly could have been.
The Human Heart Doesn't Need A Demon To Do Evil
Dear reader, I find no evidence that the afflicted woman in Luke 16:13 or the Apostle Paul were demon possessed. That is a serious accusation to make about someone. Just because you are going to a psychiatrist doctor, taking multiple prescription medications, suffering from dark thoughts in your mind, grinding your teeth at night during nightmares and you're struggling with your mental health, does not mean friend that you have a demon living inside you! Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
I think we give the Devil way too much credit. I do not believe that every time someone commits a horrible crime that the Devil made them do it! We are fully capable of committing the most unimaginable heinous evil deeds as humans. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that some monsters are demon possessed! How do we know the difference? I don't think it was meant for us to know. There are some things that only God Himself knows. So, I think Christians are sometimes inspired by demons, but never possessed. It is impossible!
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) didn't think the fight over the inspiration and accuracy of the King James Bible was a trifle matter. Dr. Hyles pastored First Baptist Church of Hammond from 1959 to 2001. Along with co-founder Dr. Russell Anderson (1931-2023), Dr. Hyles started Hyles-Anderson College in 1972. Dr. Anderson was saved in 1959 in Michigan. There was no truth any more important to Brother Hyles than the inspiration of every single word in the King James Bible...
“And brother, any time anybody ever casts any reflection upon the accuracy and the inspiration—verbal inspiration—of this Bible, I'll guarantee you he was inspired by the demons. I'll guarantee you! I don't care if he's got a 'reverend' in front of his name. I don't care if he has a clerical collar on. I don't care what school he's been to. He's of the Devil if he says that the Bible is not verbally inspired by God!” —Dr. Jack Hyles, a great quote from the awesome MP3 sermon titled, “Satan's masterpiece”
You see, a Christian can be inspired by demons, as was Peter in Matthew 16:23, but that doesn't mean you are demon possessed (i.e., a demon lives inside of you).
I humbly think as Christian believers that we need to be very careful about casually going around deciding who is demon possessed (including our self). If you were to suggest to me that serial killers' John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer were demon possessed, I wouldn't argue with you. Those monsters were pure evil! But even though Pastor John MacArthur preached a counterfeit plan of salvation, I do not think he was demon possessed. I do think he was inspired by demons to preach the lie of Lordship Salvation.
Beware of nutty Pentecostals and Charismatics who see everything through a filter of being demon possessed. To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts looking like a nail sticking up. And to the wacky Charismatic, they see all evil as being the result of having a demon inside you. I reject all that utter nonsense! Humans are evil enough of our own nature, without needing a demon to make us do bad things to other people. To become evil, all you need to do is just stop caring and your life will spiral downward into insanity and ruin. That is why my favorite Bible verse for many years has been Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Always be on guard!
Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
I am so sick and tired of our ungodly crooked society in the United States. Everywhere I turn as a born again Christian, at age 59, I see corruption. But this is nothing new. I remember when I lived in Chicago decades ago, that I received a disturbing letter one day from my bank. The Park National Bank sent me a letter saying that they would be selling my personal information to strangers, and if I wanted it stopped I would have to write them a letter requesting that they don't sell me out. That made me so angry. It should be the other way around. Legally, no one should be able to share or sell your personal information without your express authorization, and I don't mean permission buried in 50,000 words of fine print in an agreement that you were pressured to sign without having 8 hours and a lawyer to read and understand it! I hate our unethical culture of greed, selfishness and manipulation in America.
I went to download an app for my Discover credit card today, because their website is not working properly and I cannot log in. I called and tech support said their website is down. When I downloaded the app from Google Play and went to open it, I was accosted with a threatening message that said if I use their application, they are going to spy on me. You are being spied on by your credit card company. Yes, credit card companies monitor your spending habits and transactions to assess creditworthiness and detect fraud. They also collect data on your online behavior and social media activity for marketing purposes. That is so immoral, unethical and sinful. If you want a credit card nowadays, you have no choice.
And then there are ungodly realtors. If you read a standard real estate contract today, the realtor makes out like a bandit either way if the seller or the buyer reneges. I really hate lawyers! Hell is full of accursed attorneys who spent their lives preying upon their victims.
I typed "professional banjo" into a search engine, but I was disgusted when a bunch of cheap inferior quality banjos came up for $150 to $500 from China. Then at the bottom of all those pages I found an unethical disclaimer that says the person recommending the essentially garbage banjos gets paid kickback money from Amazon (or some other merchant) for referring people to their website. That is highly unethical and immoral, because that person is telling you that they are lying to you to make money. Nobody thinks that a piece of crap for $150 from China is a “professional banjo.”I hate when people lie to make money!!! I paid $4,436 for my Deering Calico banjo, and that is a bona fide professional banjo (which I bought at a 15% discount from Fuller Guitars in Houston, Texas).
Tragically, we live in a wicked world of liars, cheats and con artists! Whether it be Priceline, Alamo Car Rental or Allstate Insurance, they are all ungodly and unethical thieves! There is a never ending cry in God's ears from hurting victims of hundreds of wicked insurance companies who make money by denying claims. Insurance companies are lying crooked thieves! Prudential Life Insurance are dirty ungodly thieves!!! Hell is coming up to meet them at their coming!
While our U.S. government is giving hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars away to Ukraine and Israel, many Americans cannot afford to live anymore. Food prices are so high right now that people aren't buying it anymore. I am spending less and less on groceries, sticking to whatever bargains I can find. I bought a big 5 pound bag of Russet potatoes at Walmart for $3.34. Why should I pay $10 for skimpy prepared meals? I love making homemade French fries with ketchup. I also make my own hashbrowns with my Hamilton food processor. Just one potato makes enough hashbrowns for me. Why spend more?
I guess it's mainly because I am growing older, but I notice unethical things a lot lately. The inspired Holy Bible teaches in Revelation 20:6 that we as saints will someday reign with Christ during the Millennium. I agree with Pastor Steven Anderson that there won't be any laws, rules, codes nor regulations at that time, the Holy Bible will be our only rule Book. I sure hope that is so. I can tell you one thing. If the Lord entrusts me with any power to control laws, I will do away with all shady fine print that attorneys write to hurt people. I hate fine print! They deliberately make it tiny for a reason, because it is unpleasant and if you really understood what that fine print said, you'd RUN AWAY!!!
Furthermore, if I had my way as a ruler, I would ban all disclaimers and legal notices from being any smaller, or a different color, or less vibrant and loud, than the original advertisement used to attract customers. So, if you use a megaphone to promote your service or product, so must you also use that same megaphone to tell customers the bad or potentially risky information! I am so sick of liars, cheats and cons!
I saw a woman in New York City get arrested for changing the locks on her own house, because some squatter stole her home, hasn't paid a penny in rent for years, and the criminal government are doing nothing to give her justice! God damn New York City! They're way past unethical at this point in NYC, now it's just downright criminal. I feel so sorry for those home owners! Can you imagine being bilked for $15,000 a year or more in property taxes, and there's a squatter whose been stealing your house for years and hasn't paid a single dime in rent, damaging your property with wear and tear, and the law sanctions it and there's absolutely nothing you can do? Welcome to New York. That crap is not allowed in Florida!
I admit that with my constant chronic neck pain, burning nerves throughout my upper body and related bodily afflictions (from getting hit by a bus in 1992 and suffering a steep fall at work in 2005), I just don't have much patience with anyone or anything. Unfortunately, my wife doesn't understand what I am going through, but I love her still. I live in a lonely world of constant physical burning pain in my neck and bodily discomfort that only somebody suffering constantly from damaged cervical nerves and osteoarthritis can even begin to understand.
For the aforementioned reasons, I just don't have the patience to read lengthy legal jargon and fine print one mile long in a business or service agreement. Like most people, I just sign the stupid thing. Damn the torpedoes! Call me a fool, and maybe I am sometimes, but I am miserable in my suffering and just want to go home to be with the dear LORD. I have zero patience with complicated things. For that I have nothing to apologize for.
I view American society today as a giant mousetrap! With all the extra security at every public event and cops galore, societal paranoia over crime, and everyone having a mobile phone stuck to the side of their head these days, I just want to stay home where I am safe.
I have visited the First Baptist Church of Pensacola downtown a couple dozens times over the past 4 years. It's only 10 minutes away from my home. I get creeped out each time I visit because they have not one, but two police cruisers parked outside of the church all the time during services, anticipating crime. Why does a church need such protection? Granted, they're one of the largest churches in the city, having well over a thousand members. Also, the church has some very wealthy and influential members from the community, which I think plays a role. Sadly, the church is corrupt, preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. They only use the English Standard Version (ESV), which is highly corrupt. I could NEVER join such a cult!
I think it is sad and tragic, and a shameful testimony of what our American culture has deteriorated into, when a church needs police presence at all times. There's always a cop sitting next to the information desk. I exited the contemporary church service one Sunday and the cop looked at me like he wanted to kill me. That was creepy! I don't know what has happened at their church in the past, but it feels more like Nazi-Germany than a church today. I digress.
Dear reader, if you are a born again child of God, be an ethical person. That is, do the right thing! If you borrow a cart at a store to use it while shopping, please put it back where you found it. Don't just leave the cart in the parking lot for someone else to have to deal with. I always return my cart, even if it means walking all the way back into the store to return it. That is being ethical.
I've been to some websites that refuse to allow me to exit, and I have to close the whole browser just to escape. That is so wrong, thuggish and unethical to do to people. Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
Thousands of websites today, including YouTube sad to say, display big busted lewd women in advertisements who are scantily clad like harlots, luring men to dating websites to get their money. It is highly unethical and sinful to buttonhole guests with immoral temptations, all so that the company can make more money. It is truly evil. The inspired Holy Bible calls men's struggle against the lusts of the flesh a "war" (1st Peter 2:11).
Yet, countless unethical companies today couldn't care less, exploiting the ungodly lusts of the flesh to make money. I am reminded that the Holy Bible warns the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:8-11). And this truth holds true for today's wicked religious schools—that deny the inspiration of God's Word, set low moral standards for their students, and preach Satan's fraud of Lordship Salvation—all in an effort to make more filthy lucre (Romans 16:17-18). RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
We made the mistake of attending the Pensacola Seafood Festival in September of 2025 for Labor Day. One of their umpteen unethical vendors charged me $14 for one chicken teriyaki stick. The meat was cold and there were only about three small pieces of chicken on it. I added some fried rice, which was another $11. I paid $25 for garbage! I was so pissed off! I told my wife we'd never come back to the festival, because they have become utterly greedy and don't want to give the patrons something worth the money, they just want to empty your wallet and give you nothing in return. Nothing is worthwhile anymore in our rotten society!
Hollywood is very unethical. When you buy a movie, Hollywood forces you to watch previews for 10 other movies, trying to lure you into buying more of their films to get your money. But you paid for that movie DVD or Blu-ray, so why should you have to watch (or go through the trouble of skipping through) 10 other movie previews that you didn't buy (and are very likely not interested in)? If they were ethical, which they are not in Hollywood, they would have put the movie previews at THE END of the movie, not at the beginning each time you want to see it. Hollywood has no class at all, they are just ungodly greedy jerks!
Nearly everywhere that we go on social media today, we are bombarded with unethical advertisements, being hounded IN YOUR FACE to buy something. Facebook does it incessantly, shoving advertisements IN YOUR FACE. They are ungodly greedy sinners.
The company Microsoft is one of the most unethical companies! They forcefully reboot my computers on a regular basis without my permission. I have tried to stop it, but aside from turning my computers off, there's absolutely nothing one can do. Microsoft are thugs!
If you buy a computer that comes with Microsoft 10 Home, they won't allow you to buy software from any other company. The software is locked. You have to literally go through a scary in depth process to disable it. Microsoft has faced harsh criticism for various unethical business practices and software issues, including allegations of monopolistic behavior and aggressive tactics. Some users and critics have described the company's actions as thuggish, particularly in its handling of competitors and customer concerns. It's no wonder why so many people hate Microsoft! Thankfully, there is a caring holy God in Heaven who sees everything, and no evildoer can escape the wrath and judgment of our faithful Creator (Ecclesiastes 5:8, 12:13-14; Matthew 12:36; 1st Thessalonians 4:6; Hebrews 4:13).
Another one of my pet peeves is when you visit a website and they unethically buttonhole you with pop-up messages, IN YOUR FACE, harassing you with whatever they are pushing. When you close one window, another one rudely pops up, and then another, dangling in your face to annoy you so that you cannot enjoy the material that you came to read in the first place. Sadly, companies are often ruthlessly competitive and don't care about their neighbours. This is nothing new, this disturbing but intriguing documentary shows how ungodly and ruthless competitors were when the television was invented, stealing other men's inventions.
Libraries could be written about the unethical things that go on in the United States today, let alone the entire world. I want no part of any of it as a born again Christian. Although we cannot control what other people do, I strongly encourage you dear reader to be different than the average bear. I fear God and I hope you do too. Knowing that I must give account to my Creator one day compels me to be careful how I treat people. I am careful to avoid getting into difficult situations where I might be tempted to lie or to do something wrong.
I absolutely love what Pastor Jack Hyles said:
“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"
I wish that all corporations and our government would treat people the way they want to be treated to fulfill 'The Golden Rule' which Jesus taught in Matthew 7:12, but they don't. The real world doesn't work that way. But this is nothing new under the sun. Psalms 142:4, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” Have you ever felt that way? I certainly have, often.
I called Medicare yesterday and was put on hold for almost an hour, but was rudely hung up on when a man finally answered. I don't even get upset anymore, because I understand that people are angry, worked up and don't know the Lord. And if they do know the Lord, most believers are carnally-minded, walking in the flesh.
Jesus foretold in Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Although He is speaking about the coming Tribulation period, we are already seeing this phenomena today in America. The daily news is filled with horrific stories of unpunished crime and corruption, which injustices cause people's hearts to grow cold. Everywhere we go in the United States today we are meeting cold, uncaring, unkind and frustrated Americans. Evil begets more evil.
I could spend a day sharing my own painful experiences of dealing with irate Americans with you. We need to always remember what the Scripture teaches in Ephesians 6:12,“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.”
