Something Difficult For Lifelong Christians To Understand

Ephesians 4:17-23, “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”

I was saved at the early age of 12 or 13 (I've been giving this matter a lot of thought lately and I am leaning toward I had just turned 13). I was saved at a very early age. So, I never really went into what some Christians would call “deep sin.” I was a rambunctious kid. I used to steal vegetables from my neighbour's garden in their backyard and then throw the vegetables at their house. That wasn't very nice! I used to love playing “Ding Dong Ditch,” ringing neighbour's door bells and then me and my friends would run away to hide. Some people would get really mad, yelling at ghosts (because we were hiding) things that I cannot repeat. Today, people shoot kids for ringing their doorbell. Times sure have changed from when I was growing up in the 1970's.

Anyway, as rough as I was as a kid, I was mild by today's standards. Teens today are scary! I've been horrified by some of the recent local news. I saw a shocking news video this week of a punk shoving a stranger into a speeding train. You couldn't make this stuff up! In November of 2025 a deranged lunatic set a 26 year old woman on fire. He murdered her! The perpetrator had been previously arrested 72 times and convicted of 10 felonies, but was still free to hurt others. A judge who acquits the guilty condemns the innocent. We are living in perilous times in the United States. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Something that Christians like me have a difficult time understanding, who got saved at a very early age, is that there are cold-hearted wicked people in this world who can commit heinous acts of evil with no conscious whatsoever. We simply cannot fathom the depths of their depravity, and thank God! I am grateful to the LORD that I cannot grasp the mindset of a homosexual. If you don't think that homosexuality is gross and perverted, you are not right with God.

Sadly, my next door neighbour was robbed last month by dirty thieves. My security camera recorded the criminal's face and body, and his pickup truck, in the very act of stealing my neighbour's trailer from his yard. I gave the videos to my neighbour, who gave them to the local sheriff's office. Unfortunately, security camera companies today are so greedy that they are selling crap quality merchandise for premium prices, hurting consumers. Even though I paid $2,200 for my GW Security camera system from Amazon, and the system did record the thief's vehicle license plate, the resolution is so bad that you couldn't even guess what the letters and numbers were on the plate. I hate our greedy degenerate ungodly culture today in America that places no value, priority or consideration on quality anymore! We've lost our goodness.

Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) was so right, who in his sermon titled “Titanic” said: “America was 'great' when she was good, and she was good when she had great churches.” Those days are forever gone my friend! Today's churches are pathetic instead of great. In 2025 there were 15,000 church closures across the United States, and another 15,000 churches are expected to close their doors forever in 2026. To be honest, I think this is a GREAT THING! I wish they would all close their doors, and then we can start over. There are an estimated 350,000 churches across the United States. Tragically, 99.9% of them are DEAD spiritually! I'd dare say that there are 350 great churches remaining in our country.

Pastors and their wives are as carnal as can be nowadays. God pity the pastor's wife who wears pants in public, and her henpecked husband who allows and defends such wickedness. I'm preaching at you Family Baptist Church in Pensacola!

God pity the wicked pastors wife who deliberately mistreats people so that they will leave church and never come back again. I'm preaching at you Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola! SHAME!!! Pastor Bill Adams' wife dissed me as a human being. She is as carnally minded as can be, merely going through the motions of playing church year after year. The easiest place in the world to backslide is at church because you get used to the routine. That is what church revivals are all about, but tragically most revivals today are nothing more than entertainment time and filling your belly with food. SHAME!!!

The thief in the video that my security system recorded on March 6th and 7th of 2026, looks to be calm, just another day for him, while stealing with impunity from an innocent family. Folks, if you have been saved for 47 years like I have, we have a hard time understanding those kind of cruel people. I cannot even fathom someone hurting another human being without having any conscience about it whatsoever. That is because I FEAR GOD, and so should you if you are wise.

I assure you dear reader that there are evil people in this world who could easily put a bullet in your head and go home to enjoy a good movie over dinner with their own family. The infamous Golden State Killer (a career police officer) was finally apprehended after being on the loose for 40 years (DNA finally caught up with him thankfully). He was convicted of brutally raping 53 women, some young teenagers. He murdered 13 of his victims. He burglarized over a hundred homes. Yet, in court his own niece testified that he was the most loving uncle a girl could ever want. Weird? No, he chose his victims. He loved his own family while fortuning others. Only God knows the incalculable damage that he caused by his evil crimes. There were many divorces, heart attacks, mental breakdowns and suicides because of what he did to his victims! Thankfully, I cannot even wrap my brain around how he could live with himself.

If you've ever seen the infamous 1972 film “The Godfather,” that is reality! Murdering people is just business to some men! Most of us have never met true evil in our lifetime, and I pray that we never do. I have met some evil people, but I cannot say that I have ever met true evil yet. The way that I humbly see it as a Christian, there are four types of sinful people (and we're all guilty sinners in God's sight until we become born again)...

1. The Goodie Two Shoes Person - This person doesn't cuss, doesn't use tobacco or drink booze, doesn't watch Hollywood movies or listen to worldly music. This type of person often enjoys going to church and is just a decent person with high morals.
2. The Average Person - They cuss from time time time. They enjoy movies, might drink beer or use tobacco. They watch Hollywood movies. They have some bad habits or worldliness in their life, but don't want to hurt or take advantage of anybody. I'd consider myself in this group.
3. Bad People - These people do hurt others. They'll steal your money, lie about you and if given the opportunity, commit adultery with your wife. You cannot and should not trust them. They'll cheat on their taxes, break their promises and do not fear God.
4. The Purely Evil Monster - This is where you'll find criminals like John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Benjamin Netanyahu and Adolf Hitler. The value of life means absolutely nothing to them! This is why Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu could murder 75,227 innocent Palestinians (mostly defenseless women and children) without showing the least bit of remorse. Only a purely evil monster could murder innocent people!!!

For most of my adult life, I couldn't grasp the reality that there are completely heartless humans who can commit the most unimaginable crimes against others, and feel zero guilt or remorse; but I now understand that such evil people do indeed exist. Not all of them are psychotic serial killers like Ted Bundy, some are heathen politicians like the present insane mayor of Chicago. Brandon Johnson is a lunatic communist monster!

I remember years ago that admirable former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said his own mother refused to believe that 911 was an Inside Job. Jesse said that his mother was such a good, sweet and honest human being that she couldn't even begin to grasp the thought that our own U.S. White House could be so evil to orchestrate the 911 attacks, but they most certainly did dear reader. The evidence is irrefutable and damning!

The smoking gun behind 911 was that President Bush's younger brother, Marvin Bush, headed up the security co many that oversaw all electronic surveillance on The Trade Tower complex in the 2-years prior to the 911 attacks. That's how they obtained access to plant the explosives. Bush and company think that they've escaped justice, but the inspired Word of God PROMISES that they haven't (Ecclesiastes 5:8, 12:14). Hell is coming up to meet George W. Bush at his death someday, where monsters' Dick Cheney and George H. Bush are already burning in torment without rest day nor night, without hope, forever.

Yes, there are some evil people in this world, the depths of whose corrupt wicked souls we will never truly understand. When demonic serial killer John Wayne Gacy (who literally made money on the side working as a clown) was finally executed (15 years after sodomizing and murdering over 40 boys), his brain was dissected and mailed to Kansas so that a pathologist could slice it up to see if there were any abnormalities in his brain. The results all came back normal. Boy, that's frightening!

You see dear reader, they were looking in the wrong place. What saith the Scripture?  Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” They were examining Mr. Gacy's physical brain, but the inspired Holy Bible warns that it is the human heart that is evil.

Matthew 15:17-19, “Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.”

Jesus said that the source of manure is the food that we eat, but the source of murders, adulteries, gossip, heresy, immodesty, Lordship Salvation, mistreating others and every evil thing is from THE HUMAN HEART. Only a fool trusts his own wicked heart! The adage is true: Never trust a man who trusts himself.

We are all sinful by nature. I have heard some preachers foolishly teach that as a Christian we no longer have a sinful nature, but that is false teaching. Although it is true that every believer has a new nature in Christ Jesus (2nd Corinthians 5:17), we also still have the old nature since we are still in the flesh (Romans 7:14-25).

It is difficult for many saints to grasp the reality that some people have zero conscience. I admit that I still have a problem understanding such people. I am glad that I have difficulty understanding the calloused heart of a hardened sinner, because by God's grace I don't ever want to become that person. The less someone cares, the less they care. The hallmark character trait of being a Christian is caring. Do you care dear reader?

The Sin Of Indifference Is Destroying Fundamentalism

Titus 1:13-14, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”

Jude 1:3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”

Revelation 3:1-2, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”

I cherish these passages of Scripture as a fundamentalist Bible preacher. A big part of my website ministry over the past 24 years has been contending for the Christian faith. As you can imagine, that has made me many enemies, and gotten me kicked out of numerous corrupt neo-evangelical and neo-fundamentalist churches.

The Sin of Indifference is Worse Than Cancer

One of the greatest sins that I see in today's churches and Bible colleges is INDIFFERENCE. Much disorder and confusion has been caused in our churches because of pastors who have waxed complacent, refusing to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3b).

According to ChatGPT, “indifference” means:

A lack of concern, urgency, or engagement toward truth, doctrine or spiritual responsibility. Knowing something matters—but not caring enough to act, examine, or defend it

INDIFFERENCE is a real pattern some people notice:

• Accepting whatever a pastor says without examining it
• Little interest in studying Scripture personally
• Avoiding doctrinal discussions or disagreements
• Prioritizing comfort, routine, or community over truth
• Reluctance to “contend” for beliefs, even when challenged

Why indifference happens

A few common reasons:

• Comfort — people don’t want conflict
• Trust in authority — “the pastor must know”
• Lack of confidence — feeling unqualified to question
• Cultural shift — less emphasis on doctrine, more on experience

Bottom line

In a religious sense, indifference is spiritual passivity—a lack of concern for truth strong enough to examine, question, or defend it. SOURCE

ChatGPT practically just gave the address of Pensacola Christian College (PCC)! God knows that I don't hate anyone in this world, truly. I do not hate anyone in the PCC camp. Quite the contrary, I love them with God's unconditional love. When I extended an Olive Branch of friendship to the pastors at PCC's Campus Church in 2022, and to PCC leadership as well, they wickedly threw me under the bus and effectively murdered me because of my website ministry. Since 2022, I am as a dead man to PCC. God is on my side because I am TELLING THE TRUTH about them, that they mishandle the Gospel.

I saw a big banner at work 30 years ago that read: “Attitudes are contagious—Is yours worth catching?” I like that. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) said it so well...

“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”

Yep, that is PCC today, zero compassion! They are educators, not church builders, so they woefully lack compassion. All you have to do for people to think you don't care is nothing. When the sin of indifference sets in like cancer, it does all kinds of serious damage.

From where I sit as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher, I see a bunch of shallow churches merely going along to get along with PCC. Birds of a feather flock together! The Bob Jones University cult is just as bad, preaching deadly Calvinism (aka, Lordship Salvation) and promoting the Devil's corruptible seed of the modern perverted English Bible versions. Neo-evangelical churches are destroying America!

The Corrupt Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola

When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2024 for several months, I noticed that they use and distribute toxic Chick Tracks which preach a counterfeit Gospel. Take a closer look at the damnable heresy taught in Chick Tracts! The following image is page 20 from the Chick Tract titled, “This Was Your Life”...

The inspired King James Bible already answers this question in Acts 16:30b-31a, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...” So, why does Jack Chick (1924-2016) answer it so differently to instead answer, “REPENT! - Surrender your life to Christ.” That is NOT what we are taught in Scripture. Dear reader, the hellbound false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 surrendered their lives to Christ, even calling Him “Lord, Lord.” But Jesus denied knowing them as His sheep. Things that are different are not the same. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

Smyrna's senior pastor is Bill Adams, who is several years younger than I am. He is a tough fella, possessing strength without beauty and denim without lace. I liked Pastor Adams, but he is holding a grudge against me. I had approached him to shake his hand on the last Sunday of August 2024. He rudely looked left over my shoulder while we shook hands. I contacted him when I got home about the incident to ask him if I am welcome at their church, because I didn't feel like I was. Understandably, the pastor's diss sent negative implications. He kindly apologized and said he didn't know why he was so rude. I forgave him immediately and told Pastor Adams that I'd see him next Sunday. As far as I was concerned, all was well.

I went to Smyrna Baptist Church the next Sunday. During the planned time of shaking hands in each service, Bill Adams' wife approached me in my pew. She deliberately shook my hand and immediately looked hard right 45 degrees off in the distance to diss and offend me, and it sure did. The bold impudent look of disrespect on her face was unmistakable. She had every intention of offending me, and she did. She had heard what her husband did the week before which hurt my feelings and offended me.

After the pastor's meddling wife dissed me, I contacted her husband as soon as I arrived home from church, again asking him if I am welcomed in their church, but this time he ignored me. I waited a few days and I contacted him again, including his secretary to make sure he received my messages. Pastor Adams completely ignored me. So, my last email to Pastor Adams, I scolded him in Jesus' name. I respectfully wrote that he and his wife ought to be greatly ashamed of themselves for mistreating of me as a new comer. I had been kind to them.

The truth dear reader is that I was a marked man from the very beginning because of my biblical stand against the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I have a right to my opinion, and in my view PCC is a theological and religious cult. Only cults ban people from coming to church. I didn't ask to attend their college in the summer of 2022, I kindly l asked if I could attend their Campus Church. Their ungodly hateful pastors held a grudge against my ministry websites, so they refused, for which wickedness they will answer to a holy God in eternity (Galatians 1:6-9, 3:1-3, 5:4, 6:7).

Everywhere that I try to go to church, my fundamentalist website ministry precedes me! I have never said a word to anyone in these churches about my ministry websites, but they already knew and sinfully held it against me. Telling the truth is not a crime! 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

Mrs. Adams didn't want me in their church, so she found a way to offend me so that I would leave and never return. When she had heard what happened between me and her husband in late August of 2024, it was her golden opportunity to get rid of me the next week, for which hateful behavior she will be held accountable by almighty God. No one wants to be somewhere that they are not welcomed.

What upsets me so much is why she did it, because I am taking a courageous biblical STAND against the multiple counterfeit plans of salvation being taught at PCC. There can be only ONE true Gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). Pastor Adams' daughter attends PCC. Smyrna Baptist Church is conjoined at the hip with PCC, committing spiritual adultery with spiritual headquarters. They are indifferent toward the truth, perverting the Gospel to follow headquarters at PCC.

Don't Support PCC and You Will Be Blackballed

Anyone who speaks out against PCC and their leadership is expelled from the group and community. Several dozen churches throughout the Pensacola area wickedly bid Godspeed to PCC. 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” Before they had their own Campus Church which seats several thousand people, PCC had internship programs in local churches for their students. So, PCC still has a close working relationship with many local churches in Pensacola.

The sad truth dear reader is that PCC is an authoritarian cult. Their leadership have HUGE egos at PCC. Anybody who dares to call them out to question their teachings, ruffle their feathers and oppose their authority is blackballed, shunned, ostracized, ignored and thrown the bus. That is what they have wickedly done to me since 2021 when I first attended their Campus Church for a few months. I had left the church in the fall of 2021, hurt and frustrated by their incompetent cold pastor, Jeff Redlin. But several months later I missed the friends at PCC I had made, and I needed a church family, so I tried to go back, but PCC's pastors and leaders refused. We have been enemies since, by their hand.

I am a born again child of God, created in the image of our Creator, yet their leadership horribly treated me like garbage at PCC, Smyrna Baptist Church, Family Baptist Church, et cetera. SHAME on all of them! They are indifferent toward the integrity of God's simple plan of salvation. You don't repent of your sins to be saved, you trust Christ who died on a cross to pay for your sins 2,000 years ago. Jesus Christ bore the unbearable weight of our sin burden, simply because we couldn't bear that impossible load.

I echo with the Apostle Paul in Philippians 1:17b, “I am set for the defence of the gospel.” The wicked arrogant pastors of Smyrna Baptist Church, Family Baptist Church, Campus Church and Fairfield Drive Baptist Church in Pensacola can all detest, hate and shun me as a trouble-maker, as wicked King Ahab did to the prophet Elijah (1st Kings 18:17-18), but God is on my side for TELLING THE TRUTH. I am not the one perverting, changing, embellishing and altering God's simple plan of salvation to include turning away from your sinful bad habits, and forsaking your self-serving sins to obey God's will instead of yours to get to Heaven; they are preaching that crap!

The PCC Camp Are All Indifferent Toward The Truth

 

Right doctrine matters! The horrible sin of indifference is destroying fundamentalism today. I am just doing what every preacher should be doing, contending for the faith. Titus 1:13-14, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.” Whatever a pastor stops preaching against is what his church will fill up with in five years.

I and my wife were wickedly kicked out of Family Baptist Church in June of 2025. Their ungodly pastors are siding with immodesty and a counterfeit plan of salvation. SHAME!

You see dear reader, in today's spiritually DEAD churches you're expected to just show up, shut up and put up. No Sir! I cannot do that. Revelation 3:1-2, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” This Scripture passage indicts PCC! They have made a name for themselves since 1974 when they opened their doors, but THEY ARE DEAD while they live. That is, they are spiritually dead while being physically alive.

The $64,000 question is: “Do you care dear reader?” I do care, and it gets me into trouble sometimes. Religious people get mad at me for exposing their foolishness.

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have bene fooled.” —Mark Twain

The PCC camp are in denial. I found four different conflicting plans of salvation in the ministries of PCC, yet they couldn't care less. Depending on where you look, you'll find a different plan of salvation at Pensacola Christian College. Do you think the LORD honors such confusion? Do you think God is okay with presenting different versions of the Gospel? I assure you on the authority of the inspired Scripture that He does not (Galatians 1:6-7).

Sinful human nature is to become defensive. The PCC camp has become very defensive against my Bible preaching against them as being a “cult.” It all depends on that you consider “a cult.” There are different types of cults. There are personality cults, which they had at the First Baptist Church of Hammond when Pastor Jack Hyles was still alive.

That is not a bad thing necessarily, but I knew a college student who literally assaulted another student, putting him in the hospital with a broken collar bone for criticizing Dr. Hyles. That is evil, not Bible Christianity. Unfortunately Brother Hyles encouraged that type of shameful behavior in his preaching at times by telling people to physically stand up to critics. I love Dr. Hyles but disagree with him on that matter. You can verbally stand up to a gossiper or critic without beating them into silence. The Bible commands us as God's redeemed children to be as “harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16b).

I am a VOICE! I am just preaching the truth of God's inspired Word in the King James Bible. Tragically, 99% of today's fundamental Bible colleges and Independent Fundamental Baptist churches have grown complacent making lots of money. PCC takes in about $175 million each year. Great fluff biscuits in the morning! That's a lot of cheddar! They've got a cash cow! But what about THE TRUTH? PCC has blood on their hands for preaching a false gospel, and for wickedly bidding Godspeed to the Bob Jones University camp who also preach Lordship Salvation. Did I say that birds of a feather stick together? They're all making filthy lucre! When the Gospel is being perverted, it is blood money!!!

We Ought Not Bid Godspeed to False Prophets

The Sword of the Lord shamefully supports PCC to get their money from advertisements PCC runs in their bi-weekly publication. 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” Oftentimes I see full-page ads in the Sword, wickedly bidding Godspeed to heretics who pervert God's simple plan of salvation. The biggest problem today in the churches and Bible colleges is indifference, but who cares? Right! Well, I care damn it! Little things are important. Pastor Jack Hyles was right...

“Nothing is unimportant.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Unjust In The Least”

God knows that I don't want or like to make enemies. The good LORD knows that when I attended all these churches in the city of Pensacola I was a complete gentleman. I was kind and loving toward everyone, including the leadership. But they ignored me from day one because of my reputation as a fighter who preaches against PCC. I needed a church family. So, I stayed quiet in those churches, but behind the scenes I was (and still am) taking a biblical stand by preaching hard on social media against the incompetent leadership at PCC and their Campus Church, and that got me kicked out. Sadly, it has become next to impossible nowadays to find a doctrinally sound church to attend. What's a poor fella to do?

By not contending for the Christian faith, today's Bible colleges and churches have become spiritually dead and indifferent concerning THE TRUTH. Senior Pastor Jeff Redlin and his sidekick “Boy Wonder” (Associate Pastor Timothy Zacharias) at PCC are spoiled yuppies! 

When I contacted Jeff Redlin in July of 2021 to ask him if I was welcomed at Campus Church as a divorced man who intends to remarry, he totally ignored me for 10 days. I asked him that question because I know they frown upon divorced people getting remarried. And he had already made me feel like human garbage by mistreating me from day one. I told him the truth that I was sleeping in Walmart's parking lot and he just coldheartedly walked away at their church picnic on the 4th of July. Jerk!

So, I needed to know if I was welcome at their Campus Church, and if he had any compassion and love at all as a pastor (he doesn't). Nobody wants to be where they're not wanted. His lame excuse for not responding was that a student had died a month earlier in June. Unreal. What a liar! I don't think he lied about the student, but I don't believe him for one second that is why he ignored me. You see dear reader, PCC is a religious cult for self-righteous snobs. Divorced people who need to get remarried for sex (1st Corinthians 7:9) are outcasts at Campus Church. You're just supposed to just suck it up and masturbate for the rest of your life. Oops, I wasn't supposed to say that. I'll try to remember for next time. They are so out of touch with reality at Pensacola Christian College. Their heads are buried in the sand! Somebody needs to expose rotten places like PCC—who shun hurting divorced people, throw truth-tellers under the bus, and preach another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus turning from your sins.

Indifferent pastors aren't concerned about fighting the good fight of faith. Since preachers have disagreed for centuries over the biblical meaning of the word “repent,” many pastors today dismiss the matter as something not worth debating over. But what we believe will determine where we spend eternity. If you're wrong on repentance, you're also wrong on the Gospel.

We've got too many pastors and churches today merely going along to get along. They have the herd mentality that ruins churches. What we need are Spirit-filled men of God who are learned in the Scripture and unapologetically stand for THE TRUTH.

We Need to Strengthen Christian Fundamentalism

Revelation 3:1-2, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”

Christian fundamentalism is upholding the fundamentals of the inspired King James Bible, and separating from those who don't. It's that simple.

Fundamentalism excludes the world's Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) that has robbed today's churchgoers of the beautiful hymns of the faith that conveyed great theological truths; unlike today CCM 7-11 songs (7 words repeated 11 times). Yuk!

Fundamentalism excludes the Devil's hundreds of perverted modern English Bible revisions. Ladies and gentleman, the King James Bible is not merely a “version,” it is God's inspired Word! God only authored ONE BOOK!

Fundamentalism excludes the Satanic lies of Calvinism, Lordship Salvation and repenting of “your sins” to be saved. Christ died for your sins; He doesn't demand that you make a futile attempt to forsake your sinful bad habits to receive God's free gift of eternal life (Romans 4:4-6; Ephesians 2:8-9). The only thing that you and I contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary. The only sin you need to turn from to be saved is the sin of UNBELIEF.

Fundamentalism excludes Christian females wearing pants in public. Shame on any pastor's wife or daughter who wears Spandex, pants or short skirts. Modesty matters to God!

And I would like to add that there's no such thing as a fundamentalist who's not a hypocrite to some degree. There's simply no earthly way that we can all be perfect. Fundamentalism is essentially a synonym for simply obeying the Holy Bible, and all of us fall short (Romans 3:23). No one can withstand the attack of a critic. So, if you have your big magnifying glass out and want to follow a fundamentalist around like Eric Skwarczynski (how to pronounce) does to condemn and destroy their life, you WILL find plenty of flaws and sins.

I am humbly proud to be a born again Christian since age 12. I am also humbly proud to be an Independent Fundamental Baptist. Not everybody is selling out in our camp today! I love this sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, 'It's Time To Come Out Of The Closet' (or, 'Where Are The 7,000?').

The sin of indifference is destroying fundamentalism today, simply because today's shameful pastors have lost their zeal to contend for the faith. The “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven heresy has crept into nearly every Baptist church today (all of the pseudo-Christian false religions teach it). The reason for this is indifference! Put another way, it's like that great 1990 country song by Aaron Tippin, “You've Got To Stand For Something.”

Thank you for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!

Please Pardon My Indignant Anger At Times As A Fundamentalist Baptist Bible Preacher

I just want to say THANK YOU to all my ministry friends. I apologize for my rude, brash and no doubt offensive language at times when I rebuke heretics. I was driving along lower Tumon road one day in Guam several years ago and I heard Attorney David Gibbs III say something that I have never forgotten, because it is so true. He said: “Having the Spirit of Christ is one thing; having a Christlike spirit is another.” Ouch!

I read another statement in a meme on social media last year that really convicted me. It read: “How people treat you reveals their heart, how you respond reveals yours.” Ouch!

I feel that I am guilty at times of going overboard in my harshness, and of not choosing the best words to express myself. Perhaps some of you might disagree and think I am doing fine. The hardest person in the world to analyze is our self, because “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁?” (𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮𝗵 𝟭𝟳:𝟵).

That being said, I do not apologize for my biblical stand, correct doctrinal position and faithful website and blog ministry to “𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀” (𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝟭:𝟯).

I Use Facebook To Inspire Ideas

When I started my Facebook page several years ago (I think it was around 2019), I never wanted anybody to find me. I couldn't care less about connecting with anyone. I love people, I'm just a reclusive person by nature. I started my Facebook page as an extension of my website ministry, thinking that it would help draw people to my websites (and now ministry blogs). Just yesterday, by God's grace, I had over 4,000 people read my Stewart1611.blog ministry. THANK YOU! Some days only a couple hundred people show up. I am grateful to have anybody reading my ministry blogs. I never try to write to impress people, I just share my heart to tell the truth; if I perish, I perish. 

I realized a couple years ago that Facebook wasn't bringing more web visitors to my ministry websites. But something that I did come to realize is that Facebook inspires me as a Bible preacher, as a think tank. When I write a long post concerning an issue on Facebook, spending an hour of my time for 15 people (which is worth every moment spend), it just makes perfect sense to share that information with thousands of people in my ministry blogs and websites. I sometimes wonder what draws people to my ministry writings, but I am grateful for whatever reason. I think it is because people know that I speak the truth as a preacher.

So, that is what I mainly use Facebook for, as an inspiration to write articles, sermons and such. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘀 𝟮𝟳:𝟭𝟳, “𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻; 𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱.” 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝘀 𝟭𝟯:𝟮𝟬, “𝗛𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲: 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱.”

That being said, I have never liked Facebook. Besides being utterly complicated to figure out and not being user friendly, I hate having my posts regularly censored as “False Information.” I wouldn't recommend Facebook to anybody! I heard in the news last week that Mark Zuckerberg finally woke up, changing Facebook's primary focus from connecting with people to content. That is how I have been using Facebook from day one. I think they made a smart move at Facebook to switch to focus on users sharing content.

My Health Afflictions Make Everything More Difficult

I cannot express in words how difficult each day is for me because of my heath afflictions—the constant burning debilitating neck pain, burning nerves throughout my upper body, the whole right side of my body feeling half asleep, the feeling of tension in my neck, fatigue, taking seven different prescription medications and difficulty sleeping sometimes at night. Those aren't excuses for my anger at times, but they are a primary reason. This is my burden alone to bear. 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟲:𝟰-𝟱, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻.”

I give God alone ALL the praise, credit and glory for anything good accomplished through my humble ministry labors over the past 24 years since April of 2002, when by the LORD's grace I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry. I am passionate about the ministry work that I do. It is tedious and demanding, but I love the work, which is a perfect ministry for a guy like me.

I feel so blessed for being born at this time in history, on March 5th, 1967. I mean, people who were born centuries and millenniums ago didn't have the amazing incredible opportunities and open door for soulwinning that we have today. I mean, only in these modern times can a Christian fella sit in the privacy of his own home, working on a laptop computer, and exponentially reach tens of thousands (potentially billions) of people via social media with the Gospel.

When the Apostle Paul was confined under house arrest for two years, people came to hear him preach and ask him Bible questions, but that is no longer necessary in today's world, they can come to us online. Paul would drool if he could have had a global soulwinning ministry like mine, humbly said. Eat your heart out Paul! 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟲:𝟵, “𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀.”

I think if Paul could have lived today, he would have been astonished at the opportunities to preach the Gospel. Those poor guys were persecuted, beaten within an inch of their life with whips, unjustly prosecuted, thrown into prison and put into iron shackles and chained to a wall, et cetera. Today our meme gets taken down, or our social media post gets censured as "False Information" and we consider this persecution...lol.

I am very thankful to God for giving me this golden opportunity to MAKE AN IMPACT for Jesus Christ in the world in which I live. My Jesus-is-Savior.com website received 17 million visitors in 2017, but is now down to 1 to 2 million a year due to Google's censorship, but I work just as hard. I prayerfully trust God to use my labors according to His will. God can open doors.

My regular ministry visitors know that I don't complain about my health afflictions, but I sure could use your prayers if you are a praying Christian. All we have is each other as believers. If we don't pray for each other, the world certainly isn't going to do it. I regularly pray for God to work in the heart of my blog visitors, as my written words speak to your mind.

I'm Working To Improve My Search Engine Ranking

Other than my several blogs, I also have several ministry websites. This is my main ministry page where you can access all my websites and blogs. I am now changing all my old "http" protocols to "https," which should help improve my SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Just my Jesus-is-Savior.com website alone contains 55,572 files on it. Wow! I'm also adding code to make all my webpages Mobile Friendly. I think that is why my blogs are MUCH more popular now than my websites, because Google automatically formats all my blog articles to be Mobile Friendly, and over 60% of my ministry's visitors are now using mobile devices instead of desktop and laptops. In a few years I'm sure that percentage will rise to 80%. Technology is ever changing.

All of my eight ministry websites now have security certificates, which should also help improve the SEO. For a website ministry, SEO is EVERYTHING!!! Nearly 92% of all website searches filter through Google. So, literally, Google has the legal power to shape public opinion, and they certainly do. Google has been caught repeatedly censoring Christians and conservatives. But ultimately, God alone is in charge and I trust in His omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), omnipresence (all-present), omnisapience (all-wise) and omnibenevolence (all-loving).

THANK YOU for your patience with me. I am who I am, by God's grace. 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟱:𝟭𝟬, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗺: 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗻; 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗹: 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗜, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲.”

Thank You For Following My Internet Ministry

God knows that I labor night and day for the cause of Christ on my ministry. I truly do care, which gets me into trouble sometimes. That is why I get very angry when people defend false doctrine at Pensacola Christian College! When I throw a fit of anger, and say some things that I probably ought not have said the way that I did, and I feel bad; God's beautiful Holy Spirit always comforts my soul and impresses upon me that He is glad to have a servant who gets riled up, who gets pissed off over heresy, who has strong feelings about false doctrine, and cares enough to throw a fit of anger!

I seem to recall a peculiar fella in the New Testament named Jesus, who made a whip of cords to go beat some greedy men over the head, and He flipped their tables over with money flying everywhere, and He let their birds all go and they flew away. Yep, Jesus really lost it that day, didn't He? Jesus must not have had a very Christlike spirit, huh?

I also seem to recall a story that Jesus told in the New Testament about two brothers, sons. Their father asked them to go work in the field. The one son got upset and refused his father's request, but afterward repented and went anyway to work in the field. The other son was agreeable and gladly told his father that he would go work in the field, but the Bible says he changed his mind afterward and never went to work in the field. Jesus asked His disciples which of the sons was their father pleased with, and they said the son with the BAD ATTITUDE who later repented and went to work in the field, and Jesus agreed.

This parable is so powerfully packed with applicable truth for the churches and individual believers today. There are pastors all across the United States who are essentially doing nothing for the cause of Christ except collecting a paycheck in Jesus' name. They are wonderful and likable people with agreeable attitudes, but haven't led one lost sinner to Christ in years!

But then you've got a few pastors today who are in your face and offensive. Some Christians would accuse them of not having a Christlike spirit at times, but THEY ARE WORKING IN THEIR FATHER'S FIELD. So, who do you think God is more pleased with? I'm going to go with the brothers working in the Father's field who are bringing in the harvest. I'm not going to criticize the preachers who are working in the field to harvest souls.

To God Alone Be The Praise, Credit And Glory

THANK YOU for reading my post today. I just felt like sharing my heart. I get upset sometimes and use strong language, but I think I come a whole lot closer to being right than ministries like the Sword of the Lord who refuse to take a biblical stand against Pensacola Christian College, Bob Jones University and other religious cults that pervert the Gospel of free grace.

Any so-called "church" that teaches that you cannot go to Heaven unless you repent to turn away from your sinful behavior is preaching ANOTHER GOSPEL. That cannot be a bona fide New Testament church. Folks, there is only ONE plan of salvation, not two (Galatians 1:6-7). Either you can just come to Christ as a guilty sinner and believe the 'Good News' of Jesus crucified, buried and risen to be saved; or else in addition to believing the Gospel, you must also be willing to no longer hold onto your self-serving sins and turn away from your sinful bad habits, which is what Pensacola Christian College teaches today in their Campus Church booklet, "John & Romans" (pp. 60, 62). THAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL!!!

Yet, everybody is mad as hell at me in the PCC camp for exposing their damnable heresy!!! 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟭:𝟲, “𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲; 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀.”

Please remember me all in your daily prayers friend, for my health afflictions and the needful ministry that the LORD has entrusted to me. God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9).

Some People Will Believe The Gospel, Some Will Not

Acts 28:23-28, “And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.”

Today I was listening to Alexander Scourby read the book of Acts from the insoired King James Bible. As I listened this text passage from Acts 28:24-28 caught my attention, particularly Acts 28:24, “And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.” This is so typical of humans. The Bible says in verse 23 that Paul expounded the Word of God (from Moses to the prophets) from the MORNING until the EVENING (8-12 hours), persuading them to BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ.

 Some of them believed and were saved, but tragically some of them still didn't believe and remained lost in their sins. I am reminded of the Lord's own words to the two men which He walked alongside travelling on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24:25-27, “And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” Anyone who is slow to BELIEVE the Gospel is a FOOL.

All of these stupid stiffnecked pastors today who errantly preach that you must "repent of your sinning" to get to Heaven are guilty of preaching another gospel. They are Gospel perverts!

I'm talking about that gospel pervert Jeff Redlin at Pensacola Christian College's Campus Church. I'm talking about that gospel pervert Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016). I'm talking about that pervert John MacArthur (1939-2025). I'm talking about that dingleberry pervert Bobby Moffett at the corrupt Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. These brutish religious leaders are pulling on the same rope as the Devil, corrupting God's free grace by adding human effort to "repent of your sins" to be saved. FOOLS! I didn't say that, God did!

I marvelled today as I listened to Alexander Scourby (1913-1985) read the book of Acts (written by the Apostle Dr. Luke). The Apostle Paul taught the Scripture to these Jews from morning until evening concerning Jesus, the Christ, but at the end of the day many still weren't convinced by THE TRUTH. Paul ends the day by quoting Isaiah 6:10 to the Jewish group...

Isaiah 6:10, “Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.”

What does this mean? God knew that the Jews wouldn't listen to the prophet Isaiah. Paul was aware of this sad fact. Jesus said the Jews refused to listen to any of the Old Testament prophets, just as most refused to heed His warning. Matthew 23:31-33, “Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” The old adage is true: “Like father, like son.” And another adage: “The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.” That's some pretty powerful preaching from Jesus' (God's) own lips, and a damning indictment against the corrupt religious leaders of the Jews. No matter how much we share the Gospel, pray and labor to persuade unbelievers to come to Jesus Christ, most simply won't (Luke 13:23-24). The truth most often falls upon deaf ears, blinded eyes and hardened hearts.

That being so, God still wanted Isaiah (and all Bible preachers) to preach THE TRUTH, knowing that it will just harden their hearts further. The old adage is true: “The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay.” Likewise, the same truth that melts one sinner's heart will harden the heart of another. Only God knows why this is so. Regardless of whether people heed THE TRUTH or not, it must be proclaimed to this lost and dying world of sinners.

I found it interesting that even after listening to Paul expound them with the Word of God all day long, they still refused to BELIEVE. John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” God has always been faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9, 10:13). 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

Even today in the world, very few Jews are Christians. In Palestine and Israel, approximately 2% of all Arabs and Jews alike profess any faith in Jesus as the promised Messiah (the Christ). BOTH ethnic groups desperately need the Lord Jesus Christ, which is why there is so much resentment, hatred, relentless bloodshed, and lack of human compassion in The Middle East. God is not a respecter of persons and He loves Jews and Arabs the same (Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Colossians 3:25). The Lord will not be partial in His judgment in eternity. Your sins have either been cleansed by the blood of Jesus and you've been born again (1st Peter 1:18-23); or else you will die in your sins and split Hell wide open someday (John 8:24; Revelation 14:11, 20:11-15, 21:8). The choice is yours along to make dear friend.

A Review Of Dr. Shelton Smith's Book, “What About Repentance?”

Acts 20:20-21, “And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I heard a sermon recently from Pastor's School in March of 2000 by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, “When Preachers Disagree.” In that sermon (at 28:15 time) Brother Hyles said that he resigned from their Board of Directors in 1996 and withdrew his support of the Sword of the Lord in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, whose editor since 1995 has been Dr. Shelton Smith. Pastor Hyles said he refuses to preach for Dr. Smith, nor will Dr. Smith preach for him, but they are friends.

That got me to wondering what happened. Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) succeeded Brother Rice, whom Pastor Hyles recommend to succeed Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980). Pastor Hyles became a board member of the Sword of the Lord after he declined the editorship in 1960, following a request from John R. Rice. But why did Dr. Hyles resign under Shelton Smith? I do not know, but wish that I did. I asked ChatGPT and the A.I. said it was over differences in their views on repentance, scandals at First Baptist Church of Hammond, and conflicts in leadership in the independent fundamentalist movement.

What ChatGPT said about repentance caught my attention. I admit that I've made a hobbyhorse out of the Gospel and repentance, because these issues are of the utmost importance. What you believe determines where you will spend eternity.

So, I ordered Dr. Shelton Smith's 30-page booklet written in 2015 titled, “What About Repentance?” The Sword of the Lord insanely wanted $17.50 for shipping for a booklet that only costs $1.49, so I ordered it from '4Gospel' instead, which cost $6.95 including the shipping. Now, I spent eight years at Hyles-Anderson College. By God's grace, I graduated with honors on the Dean's List in 1993. Pastor Jack Hyles signed my diploma. I doubt if anyone is more familiar with Pastor Hyles' thousands of sermons and Bible studies than I am. I know what Brother Hyles believed and taught about repentance. That being said, after reading Dr. Shelton's booklet, I FULLY AGREE with Dr. Shelton's teachings on Bible repentance. I do not see any difference between what Pastor Jack Hyles teaches and Brother Smith.

Pastor Jack Hyles said about repentance...

“Repentance is not some little silly, 'I'm sorry.' Repentance is not simply a fear of God. Repentance is not a monk fasting and afflicting his body in a monastery. Repentance is not remorse because of sin's consequences. Repentance is not penance performed before the pope as you kiss his toe... Repentance is not being sorry for what I've done wrong. It is not confessing one's sins to a priest. It is not just conviction of sin. It is not the signing of a pledge of abstinence. Repentance is that thing when you come before God and see yourself as you are, and see Him as he is, and say with Isaiah 'Woe is me, for I am unclean!'” [emphasis added] —Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), 'THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADETH TO REPENTANCE'

I encourage you to read my helpful article, 'What Is Biblical Repentance?' You've got to know what you're being saved from—the penalty of sin, which is the second death in Hell (Revelation 21:8). No one has ever been saved who didn't admit that he is a sinner!

Consider the following quote by the faithful man of God, Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951)...

"Repentance is the recognition of my sinnership — the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be in His holy Word." —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' chapter 3

Pastor Bob Gray Sr. of the former Longview Baptist Temple church in Texas correctly says...

“Repentance means to change your mind—change your mind—change your mind about how you want to get to Heaven to what God says you've got to do to get to Heaven. If you've got to repent of all your sins, you're still headed for Hell tonight.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr., a quote from the awesome MP3 sermon, 'Why You Should Be A Part Of A Growing Church'

Pastor Harry A. Ironside rightly describes repentance...

“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.” —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' p. 16

The only thing that we need to repent from to be saved is the sin of UNBELIEF. Repentance simply means “a change of mind.” Believers change our minds every day about all kinds of things, including the sins in our life. Repenting of sins throughout one's Christian life is solely a matter of DISCIPLESHIP, not SALVATION. It is a matter of growing in the Lord's grace (1st Peter 2:2), as we yield to the Holy Spirit's leading in obedience to the Scripture (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6). Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

Dr. Shelton Smith says in his book on page 1 that the word “repent” in its various forms appears in the King James Bible 112 times total (46 times in the Old Testament, and 66 times in the New Testament). I full agree with Dr. Smith that repentance is TOWARD GOD and not “from sin.” Repentance is looking up to God the Father as an acknowledged guilty sinner, and turning by faith to His only begotten Son to be saved.

On page 3, Dr. Smith says:

The word “repent” in its various forms is found 46 times in the Old Testament. Of that number, God Himself does the repenting 28 times, and man, only 9 times. The other 9 times tell of things of which God will not repent. If “repent” means to turn from sin, then you have God turning from sin 28 times in the Old Testament and man turning from sin only 9 times. —Dr. Shelton Smith, “What About Repentance?,” p. 3

Amen and amen, I agree. Brother Smith says of all those 112 mentions, it seems to him that there is only place that the Bible gives us the meaning of repentance, which is in Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” I humbly disagree with Dr. Smith that this defines what it means to “repent.” We already know what it mean to repent from the Greek noun metanoia, it is “a change of mind”; nothing less, nothing more.

What Dr. Smith is referring to is the application of repentance, not the definition. Since the Greek word “metanoia” itself does not tell us what to change our mind about, we need supplemental information, which as Dr. Smith correctly says on page 4 can only be determined by the context of a particular passage. In the case of Acts 20:21, we are taught to change our mind (or the Greek verb, metanoeo, which means: “to think differently”) toward God. Nowhere in the entire inspired Holy Bible are we told to repent of our sinning to get to Heaven.

Bible repentance is a matter of repenting (changing your mind) to acknowledge the truth (2nd Timothy 2:25). You must acknowledge THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER (Romans 3:19-20), and that Jesus is the only SAVIOR (Galatians 3:24-26). That is the only things you need to change your mind about to be saved.

I agree with Brother Smith that repentance and faith are inseparable, as two sides of the same coin. I also agree with him on page 8 that, “Some folks make everything so hard that they rarely win anybody to Christ. That is a tragic misrepresentation of the Gospel!”

On pages 10 and 11 he rightly refutes the error of Lordship Salvation.

Dr. Shelton Smith Ought Not Sanction the 'Repent of your sins' Unbiblical Expression

The only real problem I have with his book is on page 4, where he writes:

“We often hear the expression, 'Repent of your sins,” and I don't see anything wrong with using that expression. But nowhere does the Bible says, Repent of your sins.' When the Bible uses the word 'repent,' what the repentance is about is always determined by the context.” [emphasis added] —Dr. Shelton Smith, “What About Repentance?,” p. 4

Whoa Horsie! I DO have a problem with using that expression, simply because it is not found anywhere in the Bible. If the inspired Word of God doesn't teach to repent of your sins to be saved, then why in the world would Dr. Smith be okay with it? I cannot help but feel that he is coddling his ministry's supporters. I'd dare say that over 90% of the churches and Bible colleges that financially support the Sword of the Lord today foolishly teach that you must repent of your sins to get to Heaven. In my humble opinion his book attempts to appease BOTH sides of the argument, although in fairness to Dr. Smith he plainly refutes David W. Cloud (without mentioning his name in the booklet) as a false accuser and troublemaker. Anybody who is familiar with the writings of David W. Cloud KNOWS exactly who Shelton Smith is talking about in his book.

Accuser of the Brethren, Dr. David W. Cloud 

Missionary to Nepal, India, David W. Cloud has slandered the Sword of the Lord for decades, wrongly accusing Dr. Curtis Hutson and Brother Smith of changing the Sword's earlier position which was held by Dr. John R. Rice. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Dr. Smith rightly points out in his booklet in defense of the Sword of the Lord, these editors all used their own different words (some stronger than others), but they all believed in salvation by grace without actually having to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved. John R. Rice made it abundantly clear that the man who trusts Christ has turned from his sins; that is, he has repented toward God. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

There are those hyper-dispensationalists who think that John the Baptist preached a different Gospel from Christ when he commanded repentance (Matt. 3:2). But it is the same repentance Jesus commanded in Matthew 4:17, in Luke 13:3 and 5, and the same repentance that Paul preached in Athens that God “now commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30 31). Repentance is not a different plan of salvation from having faith: it is part of the same plan of salvation. Or rather repentance is simply another way of describing or looking at the plan of salvation. One who turns from sin to God has done so by trusting in Jesus Christ. A change of mind toward sin is necessarily involved in saving faith. [emphasis added]

SOURCE: Evangelist John R. Rice, “Acts: Filled With The Spirit,” pp. 251-252; Sword Of The Lord, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; ©1963

Oh dear friend, that is so beautiful. Clearly Dr. Rice did not believe nor support the damnable heresy that you must be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. He plainly taught that when you put your faith in the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day, you have turned in faith toward God from the sin of unbelief. The only thing that you and I contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

I have heard Missionary David W. Cloud and other false teachers, attempt to portray Dr. Rice as a proponent of Lordship Salvation, saying he taught that people must turn away from a lifestyle of sin to be saved. David Cloud even goes as far as to pitch Dr. John R. Rice against his successors Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) and Dr. Shelton Smith. Mr. Cloud claims that Curtis Hutson leaves off repentance, thus corrupting the Gospel. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Dr. Shelton Smith Wickedly Bids Godspeed to PCC

What I don't understand is why Dr. Shelton Smith wickedly bids Godspeed to PCC. From reading his booklet, “What Is Repentance?” (published in 2015), it is abundantly clear that Dr. Smith does NOT agree with PCC's perverted plan of salvation. I personally contacted the Sword of the Lord in 2024 to warn them about what PCC is preaching. I asked why the Sword of the Lord are wickedly supporting PCC. To no surprise the Sword totally ignored me. They will answer to God for pulling on the same rope as the Devil for filthy lucre's sake!

The Sword of the Lord for the longest time have run full page advertisements promoting Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who preach Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance. We have a terrible sore evil in fundamentalism today of indifferent preachers going along with the herd, tolerating the “repent of your sins” damnable heresy which has crept into most churches and Bible colleges. I am convinced that all Bible colleges do today is neuter the pastors of tomorrow.

I understand that the words “Rapture,” “Trinity” and “Bible” and not in the King James Bible, but the meaning of those terms is quite clear; whereas the meaning of the expression “repent of your sins” can mean a bunch of different things to a lot of people. It is a dangerous phrase to use! In fact, that is the very reason why a lot of preachers use it without explaining what it means, so when challenged they can go either way on the issue.

I think it is wrong and shameful that Dr. Shelton Smith doesn't earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). It is not a trifle matter that he is going along with damnable heresy which the Bible calls “doctrines of devils.” There is no controversy if you believe the Bible. I am tired of hearing sincere but misguided preachers dismiss the matter as not worth dividing over, merely because so many preachers cannot come to an agreement on what it means to “repent.” The Greek meaning of the noun “repent” is simply “a change of mind.” That is what it means. To know what we must change our mind about can only be determined by a particular Scripture passage. For example: Mark 1:15, “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” Repentance in this Bible verse means to change your mind to believe the Gospel. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

Christian author Michael Patrick Bowen rightly states in his excellent book titled, “I NEVER KNEW YOU,” on page 114...

“Repent, as Christ meant it to be in terms of salvation, means to change your mind from trusting in what you can do for God to trusting only in what He can do for you.” —Michael Patrick Bowen, a quote from the awesome book, “I NEVER KNEW YOU” (Page 114)

I picked up a little Gospel tract titled, “God's Way Of Salvation,” authored in the 1920's by Evangelist Alexander Marshall (1846-1928). The original Gospel tract that I have set before me is nearly a century old. It is a little 31-page booklet, which could easily fit into a man's shirt pocket, and it's as thin as a dime. This excellent Gospel tract was originally published by Moody Press in Chicago, back when Moody Bible Institute and Moody Church could be trusted doctrinally. In his tract, Brother Marshall correctly writes...

“I HAVE NOT REPENTED ENOUGH”
What do you mean? “I am not sorry enough for my sins.”

And if you were very sorry, would God be more willing to save you than He is now? “I think so.”

Then you are completely mistaken.

“But does it not say, unless we repent we shall perish?”

Yes; but what do you think is the Scriptural significance of “repentance”? If you say “sorrow for sin” you are wrong. It does not mean sorrow for sin: it means a CHANGE OF MIND (Matt. 21:29). This change will doubtless produce sorrow; but sorrow and repentance are two very different things (Heb. 12:17. margin, and II Cor. 7:9). When God calls on you to “repent, and believe the Gospel,” He wishes you to lay aside your wrong thoughts, and believe the glad tidings that He proclaims to you. Formerly you may have imagined that you were required to feel very sorry before being saved. Change your mind. You may have supposed you must first “feel” some great change in order to know you were saved. Change your mind. First believe in God's great love to you, as revealed in His gospel, and you will KNOW that you have eternal life (John 5:24).

Yes, that is excellent. Mr. Marshall is 100% correct! We are at spiritual war in our churches today over the meaning of repentance (and thus, the Gospel). Dr. Smith is sinfully coddling the enemy by supporting PCC. Look for yourself at what demonic garbage PCC teaches...

“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60

My God in Heaven, why does Dr. Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord wickedly bid Godspeed to this blatant heresy? 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” This is a counterfeit plan of salvation on par with the Church of Christ, Seventh-Day Adventists and Mormonism! PCC's Campus Church further states:

“I repent of my sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits.” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62

Oh My! Folks, this is NOT part of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6...

1st Corinthians15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

There you have it! The “Gospel” is the “GOOD NEWS” that Jesus Christ DIED on a cross for our sins, He was BURIED and after three days He physically RESURRECTED from the dead. In Paul's Gospel (which Paul said he received directly from Jesus in Galatians 1:11-12), did you see anything that reads: “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins”? No, that is not what Paul taught. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

So, why is PCC and their Campus Church promoting this filth? 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” That is the true Gospel, not the demonic garbage that is being preached at PCC and throughout the city of Pensacola today.

Whereas Shelton Smith Profits from Sinful Compromise; I Am Shunned for Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

You know, I have been blackballed by PCC, their Campus Church, and all PCC associated churches in the Pensacola area. They all know who I am and what I stand for as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher, and moreover that I am taking a biblical unapologetic uncompromising stand against Pensacola Christian College for perverted the Gospel. They all know about my website ministry, which I have never shared with any of them. They found it!

You just read it for yourself dear reader. How am I the bad guy in all of this? And yet, I am not welcomed at Smyrna Baptist Church. I am not welcomed at Family Baptist Church. I am not welcomed at PCC's Campus Church. I mean I've been banned in writing, since August 2, 2022. They kicked us out of Family Baptist Church in June of 2025 and threatened to call the police if me and my wife didn't leave.

Telling THE TRUTH will cost you something. It might even cost you everything! I have been shunned, ostracized, kicked out of churches, banned, mistreated, slandered, falsely accused, hated, ignored and blackballed for taking a courageous stand against the gods at PCC with their huge egos, because they are guilty of perverting God's simple plan of salvation.

And that also includes the ungodly corrupt Calvinist Bob Jones University (BJU) Lordship Salvation cult too, with their umpteen different Bible versions!

All in all, I approve of Dr. Shelton Smith's booklet, “What About Repentance.” It is well written and makes some excellent points. On pages 12 and 13 he shows that many passages about believing on Christ in the Bible don't even mention repentance, and that is so important to see dear reader. In fact, the word “believe” in it's various forms appears in the Gospel of John 90 times, but the word “repent” is never mentioned ever once. That is because the man who believes has repented. That is, he has changed his mind. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

The only main thing I didn't like in Brother Smith's excellent book was that on page 4 he says he's okay with the expression, “Repent of your sins,” and I think that is a big mistake. That stupid phrase has caused so much unnecessary confusion and division, creating doubts instead of dissolving them. Dr. Smith concedes that the expression is not in the King James Bible, which is why I think he ought not support it. My suspicion is that since his predecessor Dr. John R. Rice used it, he doesn't want to create a rift in their organization's image. Seems to me.

I think Dr. Smith sums it up well on page 14, “The 'sins' we have committed will be forgiven and placed under the blood of Christ when we have repented of our 'sin' of unbelief.”