Psalms 145:9, “The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.”
I prayed the other day for the lost serviceman in Iran. The two Airforce soldiers ejected when Iran shot down their F-15E military jet on Good Friday. The pilot was rescued quickly, but the Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) was missing in action. Thank God, he was rescued 36 hours later by his peers in the U.S. military. The soldiers were both wounded in the incident from shrapnel when their jet was attacked by Iranian fire. The missing airman made the right choices. He climbed a 7,000 foot mountain and hid in a ridge to evade capture, and then using his radio made contact on Good Friday, simply saying: “God is good.”
At first the U.S. military thought it might be a trap, because of the religious fanaticism of Islam. But his commanding officers recognized his strong Christian faith and confirmed that it was him. Thank God they had enough sense to accept the soldier's message as valid. The U.S. military went in and rescued their peer on Easter Sunday, thank God! What a blessing!
You definitely know there will be some great movies made about this incident. What a great story! Those two soldiers are an American hero. I am so grateful to God that the Iranian Guard didn't capture him, because they would have slowly tortured him to death on world television.
I am not a Zionist and I am disgusted over the needless murder of 75,722 innocent Palestinians in recent years by Israel, but that doesn't excuse Iran's tyranny. Both Jews and Arabs in the Middle East hate each other with a passion. I remember years ago that some radical Muslims in Palestine had captured an Israeli soldier and tortured him to death. The evildoers had blood all over their hands, literally, and were smiling as they tortured the young man to death. That is something I have never forgot. You couldn't pay me to live in Palestine!
God is good! Amen and amen. God is so good to all of us, whether you realize and acknowledge it or not friend. Psalms 145:9, “The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.” Even if that Air Force soldier hadn't been rescued, God is still good. Thankfully he was rescued, and just in a nick of time. After being self-ejected from the jet, he was injured. Few people realize that the tremendous amount of ejection force can literally damage your spine. I am not sure what type of injuries he sustained, but I'm thinking he likely suffered some lacerations while landing hard.
I am so proud of that Air Force serviceman for honoring God during his hour of crisis. As far as the soldier knew, he was going to die on the Zagros mountain range. Of the thousands of things that he could have said over the radio, he chose to glorify God by uttering: “God is good.” The soldier didn't panic. He didn't lose it. He could merely have said: “Please help me” or “I'm okay guys” but he chose to say: “God is good.” What a beautiful thing! God is good dear reader.
U.S. military Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a beautiful comparison between Good Friday/Easter and what happened to this Weapons Systems Officer. Their fighter jet went down on Good Friday and many people thought the soldier was dead, but then he resurrected alive on Easter Sunday from his situation. How fitting. Praise God!
Philippians 4:6-7, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
1st Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray without ceasing.”
I am making Puerto Rican pasteles today while my dog Pickles watches. I made the filling yesterday and am making the Masa today. Here is the recipe. I've been ordering ready-made pasteles (regular pork flavor) from New York from the Freakin' Rican restaurant, but they're so expensive, so I am trying to see if I can make them on my own. I love pasteles! I ordered the green bananas from Amazon. Unfortunately, stores don't sell green bananas in Pensacola. I thought you might like this too.
Onward! We are commanded by almighty God to pray continually. That simply means throughout the day as we think about things, we should take everything to the LORD in prayer. Supplications are long term prayer requests. When a sad thought enters into our mind, perhaps over something hurtful that somebody did to hurt us in the past, cast that care upon the Lord. 1st Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
So often when I pray to the Lord, I become frustrated because God rarely seems to answer my prayers. In fact, at age 59, I cannot even point to even one case of God (no ifs, ands or buts) answering one of my prayers. When it seemed that God answered my prayers, it could just as well have been coincidence. There is nothing wrong dear reader with being honest. To me an answer to prayer needs to be a miracle, not something that could have happened anyway.
I have corresponded with my Christian believers over the 24 years of my website ministry and they have testified the same thing, that it seems like God never answers their prayers. To be very honest, if I looked at my prayer life alone, I would become an atheist. But when I behold the moon, the stars, our Milky Way galaxy and the unsearchable universe, I do not question the existence and omnipotence of our omniscient and omnisapient and faithful God.
When I hear braggadocios Christians (or rather said, professed Christians) boasting that God answers their prayers all the time, I am extremely skeptical and I simply don't believe them. Charismatics in particular really upset me, making bold bogus claims of healing (always in some remote place like deep in Mexico where no cameras were present). It sickens me to the point of wanting to barf when I hear wacky Charismatics boasting of their fake miracles, unbelievable answers to prayer and speaking in tongues nonsense.
Please don't misunderstand dear reader, I DO believe in a miracle-working all powerful caring God. I am simply saying that for whatever reason, I have not seen such miracles in my life, and I resent when religious ungodly hypocrites falsely accuse me of not being filled with the Holy Spirit, or not having enough faith.
In 2009, the scumbag pastor of Victory Chapel Church on Guam (a Charismatic hellhole of false religion) verbally attacked me in a local business parking lot. I had just come out of the House of Brutis' restaurant (no longer in business) and in front of two of his victim church members, the pastor told me that I wouldn't have needed neck surgery if I had been filled with the Holy Spirit. As the gentleman that I am, I kindly smiled and said nothing, but wanted to tell him in Jesus' name to go to Hell. Sadly, he's already headed there in his damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation.
As I mentioned, I often get discouraged when I pray. I am not saying that God has never answered my prayers. That would be presumptuous of me. I simply do not know. I am sure that the good LORD has answered many of my prayers, even before I asked for something, but He answered in ways that I did not anticipate. My mother use to wisely say that God works in mysterious ways. That is what the Bible teaches in Isaiah 55:7-9,“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Don't try to figure out God, because you won't.
I thank God for His never-ending love, provisions and blessings. God has always provided for me and taken good care of this broken redeemed undeserving wretched sinner. I have absolutely no complaints to God. But when I go to pray and start to feel like it's just a big waste of my time, I always resort to a safe prayer. which is simply to ask God that His will be done. That way no matter what happens, I didn't set myself up for a disappointment. I still sometimes ask God for a specific thing, but I always add the words (as did Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego when about to be thrown into the fiery furnace), “But if not.” Daniel 3:18, “But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
By God's grace, I will continue to pray about everything for the remainder of my time on earth, because that is what God commands me to do to please Him as His redeemed child. If God answers my prayers, great; BUT IF NOT, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 13:15, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.” I refuse to sinfully place God on trial as the heathen world does, challenging His existence and power. Romans 1:20 warns that atheists are all WITHOUT EXCUSE, because even nature itself proves the existence of God.
I love Jesus and thank Him for dying on Calvary's cruel cross 2,000 years ago for my many sins. I am so unworthy of Christ's love and sacrifice. THANK YOU GOD!!!
By God's grace, I will continue to pray without ceasing for the spiritual needs of OTHERS, and for the Lord to work through my humble ministry labors to reach and build OTHERS for Christ. My only heart's desire all my life as a Christian has been for God to use me as a vessel to His purpose and glory. I am God's servant. Damn the torpedoes!
I suspect that a lot of my ministry blog readers feel like you're wasting your time when you pray, but I assure you on the authority of the Scripture that you are not dear friend. I don't believe that prayer makes a difference. You read right! I believe that GOD MAKES A DIFFERENCE!!! I don't believe in the power of prayer, I believe in the power of God.
Jesus acknowledged in Matthew 6:7-8 that even heathens pray, “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Big deal if you pray. Do you have faith in God?
I used to feel that since God doesn't appear to answer my prayers, perhaps it was because there was sin in my life. Who doesn't have sin in their life? I worried that maybe it was because I listened to some secular music, or watched a Hollywood movie, or didn't do something that I should have done that was right to do. That kind of thinking will make you paranoid and nuts. Dear reader, religious scrupulosity will drive you crazy if you let it!!!
I encourage you to keep on keeping on in your prayers. Never stop asking God for what you need, and for the needs of your loved ones and the people you meet. Prayer is not preparation for the greater work; Prayer is the grater work! Never stop casting your cares, burdens and hurt feelings upon the LORD. NEVER!!! By casting your cares upon the Lord, you can walk away with “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7b).
But when you are not sure what to pray, or feel frustrated as I often do, just pray that God's will be done and then completely REST in the goodness and wisdom of God. The old adage is very true: When you cannot see the HAND of God at work, trust the great HEART of God.
In closing, when it comes to why God never seems to answer my prayers, I have two consuming thoughts to help you:
God In Luke 18:1 Jesus said, “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.” And then He tells a story about The Unjust Judge. A widow appeared in court before the judge, but the Bible says he was a heathen man who couldn't have cared less about avenging the widow. But she kept bothering the judge, coming back day after day, until he finally relented to give her what she wanted. This is called IMPORTUNITY, which the Bible teaches please God. Jesus used this story as an illustration of a Christian's prayer life. Literally, Jesus is teaching that GOD WILL IGNORE US WHEN WE PRAY, not because He doesn't care, but because a faith must be tested. Hebrews 11:6 says without faith no man can please God.
The Bible plainly teaches in 2nd Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” When we pray and become discouraged by not seeing visible results, we are walking BY SIGHT, not by faith. This is why I stopped looking for visible results several years ago. Now I just pray and TRUST the character of my faithful God and Savior, knowing that He is all wise, all loving and all powerful; and that is exactly what God desires for us as His saints, and why He seems to ignore us in the first place. God is still on His throne dear reader, and the good Lord knows what He is doing.
One of my favorite songs is Garth Brook's 1990 song, 'Thank God For Unanswered Prayers.' Just because God doesn't answer doesn't mean that He don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. That is why I nowadays just pray for God's will to be done, because I know enough to be dangerous in my prayer life. Romans 8:26, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” I sure don't know what to pray for. I need the good Lord's help.
I encourage everyone to keep praying, knowing that we walk by faith and not by sight. Trust the great heart of our good and faithful God.
Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God alone by all the credit, praise and glory.
1st Timothy 6:5, “Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”
There is no nothing any more evil than today's satanic Bible versions. First I'll quote the accurate King James Bible, and then take a look at what the Devil's modern Bible versions do to corrupt God's Word...
King James Bible (KJB) — 1 Timothy 6:6, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”
Easy-To-Read Version (ERV) — 1 Timothy 6:6, “Devotion to God is, in fact, a way for people to be very rich, but only if it makes them satisfied with what they have.”
Good News Translation (GNT) — 1 Timothy 6:6, “Well, religion does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have.”
International Children's Bible (ICB) — 1 Timothy 6:6, “It is true that serving God makes a person very rich, if he is satisfied with what he has.”
New Century Version (NCV) — 1 Timothy 6:6, “Serving God does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have.”
The KJB doesn't say that devotion to God makes us “rich.” Serving God doesn't make us “very rich.” It is clear that the new versions mean financial wealth, because they say it is okay to be rich if we are satisfied with what we have; but that is not what the King James Bible says. The Holy Bible is speaking about riches that money cannot buy, not earthly wealth.
I could go on and on and quote hundreds more perversions of the Scriptures! All modern Bible revisions are of satanic origin!!! The average shameful church pastor today couldn't care less. They are sinfully proud and arrogant, more loyal to their clergy peers than they are to the Lord Jesus Christ, whom they falsely claim to love. May I remind everyone that Jesus is the living Word of God.
John 1:1-3 and 14, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
If You're Saved And Content With God's Blessings, You Have Great Gain
The King James Bible accurately teaches that godliness (the Gospel, that is, being saved) with contentment (being satisfied from yourself) is great gain. In other words, if your name is written in Heaven, you can be content with just basic provisions in life. We were born into this world with nothing, and we're going to die and leave this world with nothing (1st Timothy 6:7).
Proverbs 14:14, “The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.” Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) used to say that there are two ways to be rich: Either have all you want, or want all you have! I like that. If your name is written in Heaven, you have something that very few people will ever have, eternal life. Learn to make the best of the blessings you DO HAVE from God, instead of always dwelling upon what you DON'T HAVE. We have much to be grateful for in life. Some of the wealthiest people in this world are hellbound in their sins, paranoid, at war with God, miserable and very unhappy in life.
The greatest things in life aren't things! Many people are miserable, who don't love the Lord, and only live for this temporary world. Pastor Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) once said that the only happy life is to live for the salvation of souls! Amen!!! When all else fails, at least I know that I have a home in Heaven, and have been laying up rewards for many years, winning souls to Christ. Fame and fortune cannot buy that! The true measurement of my success in life won't be how many people show up to say goodbye at my funeral; but rather, it will be how many people are waiting to greet me when I get to Heaven!
1st Corinthians 6:16, “What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”
In ancient times, many marriage unions were informal or based on mutual consent without legal recognition, evolving over time to include legal contracts and ceremonies recognized by governments and religious institutions. It doesn't matter if a couple is married in court, under water, on a mountain, on a llama, et cetera.
The faithful LORD honors and recognizes court marriages as much as He does a church marriage. One is no more or less valid than the other, although a Christian might find some greater memorable value in a church wedding. The marriage is officially consummated when carnal knowledge takes place.
The Bible teaches in 1st Corinthians 6:16, "What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh." When an unmarried man and a woman fornicate, there is a union, a "soul tie" is created. It is not the same as a marriage union, where a commitment is exchanged. If joining with a harlot were to form a new marriage, then how could a husband commit adultery? 1 Corinthians 6:16 discusses the idea that if someone unites with a prostitute, they become one body with her, reflecting the biblical concept that sexual union creates a deep lasting bond. This verse emphasizes the seriousness of sexual relationships and suggests that such actions can have significant spiritual implications.
To engage in sexual relations with someone is to share the deepest part of yourself. That union should be reserved for the covenant of marriage where true commitment exists. Remember that your body is not just a physical entity. It is a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, and the choices you make have spiritual implications.
The Corinthian culture, known for its wicked sexual liberality like America today, stood in stark contrast to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Consequently, the Apostle Paul urges believers to understand that their bodies are not their own, but of God. The believer's body is the temple of the blessed indwelling Holy Spirit (1st Corinthians 3:16-17).
Getting married anywhere (including in a court of law) is a real marriage. Marriage is sacred in God's sight, not to be taken lightly. Sadly, we live in a throw away society in America today. It is much easier to sin when nearly everybody else is sinning.
James 4:6-11, “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
Here are some golden truths that I gleaned from the sermon...
“I'm not a good Christian, but I'd help my bitterest enemy, and that's the truth.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Walk With God”
“I don't hate anybody; I love everybody!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Walk With God”
“I do care. Nobody ever gets mad at me when I don't cry about it.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Walk With God”
“You have a right to hear a man who's walked with God.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Walk With God”
“Did you know when you walk with God you're not going to be very usual; something very odd about you. Did you know the more you walk with God the more peculiar you're going to be.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Walk With God”
l encourage you to listen to Pastor Hyles' life changing sermon dear friend. There's no secret to walking with God. As a redeemed child of God, you just need to spend time with Him by meditating in His inspire Word (Psalms 1:1-3). Learn to love the inspired King James Bible. Psalms 139:17, “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!” Listen to lots of fundamentalist Bible preaching, pray about everything (Philippians 4:6-8). Although I don't agree with Pastor Steven L. Anderson on several doctrinal issues, he is one of the finest soulwinning preachers of our generation. Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona (for 2025 to 2026) led 10,121 lost sinners to Jesus Christ. Brother Anderson personally led 182 people to faith in Jesus Christ.
To walk with God, maintain a thankful spirit continually toward God (1st Thessalonians 5:18). The Holy Bible is the most wonderful Book I've ever read. It is a Living Book (Hebrews 4:12). Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” When you walk with God, you will be emboldened to stand for truth and righteousness. That is why I preach boldly the way I do, unapologetically with uncompromising truthfulness and transparency. That is why for the past 24 years of website ministry, as a Christian missionary to cyberspace, I have never received a single penny for my 50,000 hours of diligent labor day and night for my blessed God and Savior.
Ye Must Be Born Again
Dear reader, if you have not been born again, you can never walk with God (Romans 8:9). God's wrath rests upon the head of anybody who isn't saved (Psalms 7:11). John 3:36, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” If you don't know 100% that your name is recorded in Heaven, you can know right now (1st John 5:13).
If you want to go to Heaven, simply acknowledge that you are a guilty sinner under the condemnation of God's Old Testament law (Romans 3:19-20). There is a penalty for your sin, which is to spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell (Revelation 14:11, 20:11-15, 21:8). That's the BAD NEWS! The 'GOOD NEWS' (i.e., GOSPEL) is that God the Father sent His only begotten (biological) Son into the world to die in your place on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt of sin we could not pay.
To be saved, you must come to God by faith (taking God at His written Word) as a needy sinner. You need to know what your being saved from. Simply accept Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then miraculously resurrected from the dead three days later. This is “the gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. BELIEVE IT, oh sinner, and the work is done.
Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” I LOVE THAT! The Gospel is the “power” of God to save whosoever BELIEVES IT. The Gospel is not good advice to be lived, it is GOOD NEWS to be believed. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. It's not what you're doing that gets you to Heaven, it's where you're looking. LOOK TO JESUS! Isaiah 45:22, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
That is what it means in John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” God had sent fiery deadly serpents to bite the Hebrews as a consequence of their persistent complaining against God and Moses. God sent serpents to bite the Hebrews as a punishment for their complaints and lack of faith during their journey in the Wilderness. This incident led them to recognize their sin and seek God's mercy, which He provided by instructing Moses to create a bronze serpent for healing. Moses instructed the Jews to LOOK AND LIVE! ...
Numbers 21:7-9, “Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”
That brass serpent which Moses made symbolized Jesus Christ, the sinless Lamb of God who became as sin for us sinners who knew no righteousness (2nd Corinthians 5:21). The way to be saved dear reader is to simply come to God by faith as a guilty sinner (bitten by the serpent of sin), and LOOK TO JESUS! It's that easy, free and simple to get to Heaven.
John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
Thank you for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!!!
Ephesians 4:20-32, “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; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
I highly encourage you to read the entire chapter of Ephesians 4, because it all goes together. God wants us as redeemed saints to put off the old carnal man. God wants us to be renewed in our mind. That is, the LORD wants our thinking to be brought into line with the inspired Scripture (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6). I have told people for years that I am as narrow-minded as the King James Bible. Amen.
I want to quote a portion of our text passage, because this TRUTH is so life changing. Ephesians 4:21-24, “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; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Boy, I sure love that truth!
That being said, no professed Christian women who wears pants in public has put on the nee man which is after Christ. She is carnally-minded, immature, backslidden and worldly. And any henpecked husband who defends his wife wearing immodest clothing is in the same sinking boat. I have the inspired Word of God on my side in this important matter.
Family Baptist Church in Pensacola Kicked Us Out
On the Sunday morning in June of 2025 that Pastor Bobby Moffett shamefully told me and my wife that we're no longer welcomed at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, he threw it in my face that I referred to Bob Jones University as: “God damned.” I make no apologies for my preaching! I stand 100% behind my biblical comment about Bob Jones University (BJU). Here is my exact comment that Pastor Bobby Moffett read on my ministry website:
Since [Sean] Quinlan foolishly rebuked me publicly at the entrance of the church, I had to rebuke him back in public in front of his own people, because it was a matter of THE TRUTH. I shouted as I was leaving: “SHAME ON YOU!!!” And I'd gladly do it again 10,000 times!!! I wasn't about to let that fool defend Lordship Salvation, Devil's Bibles, Martin Luther's Baptismal Regeneration and the God damned Bob Jones University crowd! No pastor has a right to hide behind his clergy position while defending gross Satanic error (Titus 1:10-14; Jude 1:3; Ephesians 5:11). Pastor Quinlan falsely accused me of being "obsessed" over the Holy Bible. Yes, you better believe I am "OBSESSED" over the Bible, and so too should you be friend. SOURCE
The Bible is very clear in Galatians 1:6-8, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” So, it is very appropriate for me (or any other preacher) to refer to the Calvinist false prophets at BJU as “God damned.” Only a fool would disagree. And by the way, Bobby and Brad Moffett (and their sick Family Baptist Church in Pensacola) are also GOD DAMNED for perverting the Gospel with their heretical “repent of your sins” garbage to get to Heaven, which is nowhere taught in the King James Bible. That unbiblical statement is in their official church's Statement of Faith.
So, why did Bobby “Dingleberry” Moffett attack me in the church parking lot with false accusations? I'll tell you why, it is because his worldly wife (and his worldly daughter in law) wear their ungodly pants in public. They resent and hate my fundamentalist Bible preaching on my ministry websites. I never told them about my websites in the 45 months that I attended their church (2021-2025), they went and found my ministry on their own, and they despise me for what I stand for and preach. Wicked neo-evangelicals despise Bible fundamentalists! They always have and they always will!
Shame On Pastor Brad Moffett's Ungodly Wife
When my modest wife arrived with a full-length dress at their Family Baptist Church Memorial Day picnic in 2025 at the Lilian Recreational Park in Alabama, the pastor's ungodly wife instantly felt like a whore. We saw it all over her face. She refused to even greet my wife, which is telling. Without saying a single word, the pastor's wife felt convicted. You see, that's what happens when you commit sin, you flee when no man pursueth in paranoia. Proverbs 28:1, “The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.”
But that's not all, the pastor's horrible wife was so irked by our very presence, that she walked over 50 feet to our picnic table and said: “I like your shorts!” to a young teenager girl sitting next to us. Of all the thousands of things she could have said to that girl, do you really think for one moment that she randomly just chose those words? Not a chance! She didn't stop at the three picnic tables in front of us. No, she walked all the way over to our table to provoke us as fundamentalist Christians, and to defiantly let us know that she isn't doing anything wrong to wear her immodest pants. Woe, woe unto that ungodly pastor's wife.
Brad Moffett Wickedly Slandered Pastor Jack Hyles
And woe unto Brad Moffett (her henpecked husband) for sanctioning his wife's immodest attire (Proverbs 7:10). I am going to go to seed in this matter of preaching against women's immodesty!!!1st Timothy 2:9, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.” Brad kept challenging me to show him from the Bible where it says that women cannot wear pants. That's the same wicked argument that homosexuals keep making today, challenging the Word of God. Genesis 3:1b, “ Yea, hath God said...”
It was this very article on my website that started the whole ordeal. Dear reader, in the book of Acts in the New Testament when the disciples of Jesus preached THE TRUTH, either revival or a riot always ensued. THE TRUTH is only hate to those who HATE the truth. The Moffett family are not right with God. Their wicked wives are defiant against God's Word in the matter of public decency and modesty. A century ago you couldn't find a female in the United States wearing a pair of pants. Even 75 years ago women all wore skirts or dresses in 1951.
The Satanic women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s finally helped to break down the biblical stigma against women wearing pants, plunging our culture into the depths of Satan. Do you really think that the evils of fornication, abortion, adultery, divorce, murder, covetousness, homosexuality, corporate greed, substance abuse, neglecting the poor and every other form of wickedness imaginable just coincidentally followed the women's liberation movement in America? I hope you're not that naïve. One evil begets another evil.
I Don't Have A Dirty Mind, I Have A Man's Mind
Bobby Moffett's wicked son (also the church pastor) shamefully slandered my hero of the Christian faith Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), essentially calling him a carnally-minded dirty old man when I met with Brad in his church office in April of 2025. Pastor Brad uttered this slander in response to Dr. Hyles' truthful statement, quote: “I don't have a dirty mind, I have a man's mind” (it is in this article that I quote Dr. Hyles). Dear reader, you'll never hear a more truer statement than what Brother Hyles just said.
A fella doesn't have to be a dirty-minded pervert to think an impure thought when he sees a pretty pastor's wife wearing pants at a church picnic, because he is a man. I can tell you that when I saw Brad's wife wearing her tight pants last year, I wasn't thinking: “Amazing Grace.” I was thinking: “Honey, sit on my face.” Perhaps you say, “You have a dirty mind.” No, I have a normal man's mind, and any honest fella and legitimate psychologist would agree.
Male lust is considered a normal aspect of human sexuality. Research indicates that men experience sexual desire frequently, often more intensely than women, but this does not imply that all men are constantly consumed by lust (1st Peter 2:11). Men are aroused by sight. Pastor Brad actually argued this biological FACT with me in his office, claiming that it's not true. The guy has some serious theological and spiritual issues.
I Refuse To Let This Matter Over Modesty Go
I won't be quiet in this matter. Being kicked out of one's church family was cruelty on their part, but we did nothing to hurt them. We were their friends. It was Bobby Moffett's ungodly way of hurting us, because he is angry that my truthful fundamentalist Bible preaching exposes their counterfeit plan of salvation, and the worldliness of his wicked wife and daughter in law. So, instead of them repenting to do what is right in God's sight, it was much easier for them to just throw me and my wife under the bus. Woe unto Family Baptist Church and their God damned pastors on Judgment Day!!!
The Bible warns in Matthew 7:1-2, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” They wrongfully condemned us and kicked us out of our church family. They didn't even have the decency to talk with us first, because they know that they are in the wrong. They just wanted to effectively murder us, to make us go away permanently, but in so doing they murdered Jesus! Matthew 25:40, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
I forgive them for the horrible wicked things they did to us. God knows that I love Pastor Brad and am grateful for the truths I learned from him over 45 months. I have nothing against his wife, but I do have something against her immodest attire and flagrant attitude about it. I do not hate Brad's verbally abusive father, but the guy is a grudge holding jerk. Bobby is rude, unkind, arrogant and has no business being a pastor since he woefully lacks God's love.
Nobody has a right to dismissive Bobby's abusive behavior with such excuses as: “Well, that's just the way he is” or “We'll, we're all sinners.” Being a sinner doesn't give anyone a license to be unkind, abusive and rude to people. The first time I introduced my wife to Pastor Bobby, he rudely snapped at me while we were talking with him. Bobby has anger issue with people and needs psychiatric help. Mr. Moffett needs to repent of his contempt for others, and get right with God.
Bobby Moffett continually brags about having started four churches, but the truth is that their carnal religious social club has merely moved into four different buildings over the years. He has a false sense of pride. Proverbs 20:6, “Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” They've been unfaithful to rightly divide the Word of Truth, guilty of perverting God's simple plan of salvation. Repenting of your sins to be saved is damnable heresy, a false teaching which cannot produce the required new birth to enter into God's Kingdom. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
I am not belaboring the wickedness that happened at Family Baptist Church merely because they hurt us. God will deal harshly with them, the same way that they harshly dealt with us unjustly. What goes around comes around (Galatians 6:7). I am making a big fuss because they are defending the sin of immodesty at Family Baptist Church. They are defending the sin of preaching another gospel. They are defiant against the inspired Word of God. Somebody's got to care ladies and gentlemen. Psalms 94:16, “Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?”
God knows that I love the folks at Family Baptist Church, but they shamefully kicked us out of our church family because they are not right with God. They are wrong and they know it. Me and Alice refused to take their shame upon us. And lest anybody falsely accuse me of causing trouble in a church, I never once in the 45 months that I attended their church made any mention of women wearing pants in the church, because it was none of my business.
In fact, it was their ungodly henpecked pastor and his bratty worldly wife who took issue with my fundamentalist website ministry, and drew first blood, for which they will give account to our holy God in Heaven. Pastor Brad boldly declared with contempt in his office on April 30th, 2025: “I am not a fundamentalist!” Yeah, no kidding, who would have guessed? We are innocent in the matter, but they must give account for preaching another gospel, promoting worldliness in the church, and for kicking God's children out the door for telling the truth.
1st John 3:18-21, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.”
Dear reader, you have to be really careful with our text passage of Scripture. Although it is true that we will have confidence toward God if our heart doesn't condemn us in the things which we allow in our life (e.g., booze, movies, rock music, smoking, missing church, et cetera), it is also true that many people needlessly torture themselves with guilt because of paranoia over what God thinks. I am guilty of doing this, which is why I am writing about it, to help you.
I am not an optimist nor a pessimist, I am a realist. The old adage is very true: There is a fine line between faith and foolishness. Many adults struggle with Religious Scrupulosity. Most people suffer from much milder forms of the disorder than severe cases, as I also do sometimes. Honestly, I think we all do.
And we must differentiate between legitimate feelings of guilt or Holy Spirit conviction due to present sins in our life (which is a good thing); versus feeling guilt or conviction for eating a steak, or for watching a Hollywood movie, listening to secular music, missing church because you need a break from church, or guilt over sins committed decades ago that you've done all you can to rectify (these are all bad things). Yes, these are realities of life that few Bible preachers are honest enough to admit.
It Is Not A Sin To Miss Church; Ignore The Idiots
It all depends on why you're missing church. I suffer horribly day and night from stenosis and radiculitis in my cervical spine due to being severely rear-ended by a church bus 34 years ago in 1992 (which accident left the bus behind our vehicle in pieces on the street), and a 15' fall at work in 2005 that worsened my injury. I underwent two major neck surgeries in 2009 and 2010 the second of which made me 100% worse. I suffer 24/1 from burning nerves throughout my upper body, debilitating tension and pain in the bony area in back of my neck, the whole right side of my body feeling half asleep, et cetera.
That being said, sitting through a church service for me is torture! I rarely make it to church these days, or anywhere else. I just need to stay home where I am safe. I used to feel Religious Scrupulosity, guilt for missing church. Even after being forced out, kicked out and banned from six wicked neo-evangelical churches over the past 12 years, for merely TELLING THE TRUTH on my fundamentalist ministry website, they all despised and rejected me for one reason or another. People can be so cruel.
Those ungodly churches are; namely, Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (Pastor Marty Herron), Agana Heights Baptist Church on Guam, Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam (Pastor Sean Quinlan), Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (Pastor Jeff Redlin), Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola (Pastor Bill Adams), Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (Pastors' Bobby and Brad Moffett). These are prisonhouses of religion, not New Testament churches! They are ALL pathetically WRONG on repentance and the Gospel of free grace!!! SHAME! RUN from these hellholes of apostasy!!!
People are quitting the churches today to walk closer with God. Please don't misunderstand my Bible preaching. We should go to church. The Bible says in Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” But this passage of inspired Scripture doesn't mean that you should attend a corrupt church, which is effectively a theological cult if they are wrong on Bible repentance and the Gospel.
Nor does that passage of Scripture mean you should go to church sick so you can infect everyone else. If you are suffering in physical pain, as I do continually, God understands if you stay home. Nobody listens to as much Bible preaching at home as I do. Yet, I have heard pastors foolishly say that if you have to crawl, you should be at church three times a week. Humbly said, I couldn't disagree more! If you are not careful dear reader, other people will drive you crazy with guilt, paranoia and resentment; and you might become bitter as you grow older. I have had to pray much for God's love, wisdom, understanding and patience to cope with self-righteous hypocrites in churches, who like to take liberties to comment about your life.
When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church back in 2014, a young fella in the Navy scolded me for missing church the previous Sunday. I was old enough to be his father. He asked where I was on Sunday and I told him the truth that I was suffering in excruciating burning neck pain. He made the snide remark to me, “Forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, Brother.” I felt like cussing him out in Jesus' name. What a hypocritical little jerk! But as I often do, I just stayed quiet and absorbed his insensitive and unkind insult. What a hypocrite!
I had one hypocritical woman in 2018 scold me for not coming to the Light House Baptist Church on Guam every week. I explained that I am suffering in much neck pain. She said there is another man in the church with a heart condition, and she said he takes the same medications that I do, and he attends church regularly. I am a gentleman and tend to let people mistreat me, as I did that day. First, she was way out of line for not minding her own business, but I just stayed quiet and let her play the fool. Second, the alleged man with the heart condition is not taking the same prescription drugs as I am for chronic neck pain, radiating pain, burning nerves, et cetera. Years later that same woman quit church with her husband. What a hypocrite! I'm telling you dear reader, people will drive you bonkers if you let them. There are millions of wounded people who no longer go to church, because some self-righteous POS hurt their feelings by playing God with their life.
Neo-evangelicals Hate Me As A Fundamentalist Christian
God knows that I have been ruthlessly kicked out of six churches since 2009 (3 on Guam, 3 in Pensacola). Seven churches if you go back to 2001. My own father kicked me out of his church. My Dad was a Moody Bible Institute graduate in Chicago, a neo-evangelical. He hated my Bible preaching against booze, movies and sin. Moody college went liberal a half century ago. All my adult life I have been despised, persecuted and rejected by neo-evangelical pastors, even my own father. They are arrogant, wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, and they all have low moral standards. They detest me as a fundamentalist, which is exactly why neo-evangelicals hate Pastor Jack Hyles vehemently.
My father went to Heaven around 2010. I am not sure exactly when he died. My father never talked to me again after kicking me off the Grace Mission Church board of directors in 2001. My father also had a Lutheran pastor on his church board. When I called the Lutheran pastor to see how my Dad was doing (because I couldn't talk with my unreasonable father), that wicked pastor said: “You and that King James Bible heresy!” I kindly replied that any Bible revision which removes the word “begotten” from John 3:16 is going into my garbage pail!
I never should have went to voluntarily work with my father after I graduated from Hyles-Anderson College in 1993, but I did for eight tough years and I paid for it. Dr. Hyles had personally warned me that fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals cannot get along, but I didn't take his advice, for which I regret. I have learned the hard way at a great personal price that neo-evangelicals hate fundamentalists!
I love, forgave long ago and miss my Dad. I hope that he is proud of me for fighting the good fight of faith up in Heaven. Hundreds of lost sinners have come to faith in Jesus Christ since 2002 through my soulwinning ministry, because of God using a humble broken nobody (a wretched redeemed sinner) like me. I am forever grateful to God for His many blessings!
Feeling Guilt Is Not An Indication of God's Displeasure
I admit that whenever I have eaten a steak dinner in a fancy restaurant, I always feel so unworthy and undeserving. Does that mean God is upset with me? Of course not. God knows that I never eat a bite of food without thanking Him for the food and my health to enjoy the food. There are 10,080 minutes in each week. Have we thanked God with even one of them?
I am often reminded of a horrific incident in Europe. In 2012, a stupid group of teenage girls couldn't wait to take their naïve friend on her 18th birthday to the local nightclub to drink her first booze. The young fella who worked at the bar brought the girl a fancy drink fuming with liquid nitrogen. While her senseless “friends” were cheering her on like idiots to consume her first alcoholic beverage, she guzzled the drink down, including the pieces of liquid nitrogen, which ate holes in her stomach's lining.
The injured girl fell to the floor screaming in pain. Hours later she woke up in the hospital with her stomach removed. Surgeons did the only thing they could do, they attached her large colon from her esophagus in her throat to her anus. That poor girl will NEVER eat any solid food again for the rest of her miserable life! No pizza! No cheeseburgers! No steak! No French fries! She has to eat baby food (pulp) 20 times a day just to survive. I'd rather be dead!
I often think about that poor girl when I enjoy all the wonderful foods that God has given to us to enjoy. Curse those stupid friends of that poor girl! Listen to me carefully dear reader—people will get you killed! I'd say ask legendary Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads, but he was murdered at age 25 by someone whom he trusted. To survive in this insane world of lunatics you have to be smarter than the average bear. I digress.
When I was younger as a teenage, I had heard a lot of Bible preaching against watching movies, listening to rock music, et cetera. I really felt convicted, not because of the Holy Bible, but because that is what pastors were saying from the pulpit.
Much Of Our Guilt Is Self Induced
I actually took a hammer to my Beach Boys collection at age 19. Decades later I found peace with myself and started listening to the Beach Boys again. I went to a Beach Boys concert in Pensacola in 2021 and it was one of the greatest and most enjoyable musical events I ever attended. I am so glad that I went. Are the Beach Boys a Christian band? Of course not. Their personal lives were filled with sin and shame, as well as much charity and good things that the band members have done (just like you and me, and every other human being). But the music itself is beautiful, I humbly think. I see nothing wrong with songs like: “Be True To Your School” and “God Only Knows” and “Wouldn't It Be Nice” and “Surfer Girl.” I am a lifelong stringed instrument musician, so I naturally love all kinds of pretty music. God made the gift of music!
I enjoy watching some Hollywood movies: “Jurassic Park” and “The Thing” (1982) and “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.” Can you find some fault in those films? Yes, absolutely. But that is true of nearly everything in American culture today. I make no apologies for being a normal human being, having grown up in American culture, and being myself. I love hard fundamentalist Bible preaching, but I learned a long time ago to take it all with a grain of salt, or you'll go crazy with guilt for watching a movie, listening to “New Kid In Town” by The Eagles, et cetera. I love that song by the way! I make no apologies for being human. I would go crazy if I tried to live a touch not, taste not, handle not type of legalist lifestyle.
I preach against everything on my website ministry, so that Christians can be informed. For example: I preach against the true meaning behind Halloween. But that doesn't mean that I hate pumpkins on Halloween. No one preaches against booze more than I do, but I have used some Brandy in the past to make the famous Steak Diane Flambé recipe. The alcohol burns off in the frying pan. I enjoy cooking because I enjoy eating. If you are worried that you might be tempted to drink some of the alcohol, then don't use it! I take Nyquil (with 10% alcohol in it) sometimes to help me sleep at night, due to my chronic neck pain. Pastor Jerry Falwell (1933-2007) called Nyquil “Baptist wine.” I like that title.
You're Only As Good A Christian As You Love
Please hear my out dear reader. If you don't watch secular movies, don't listen to secular music, don't chew, don't smoke, don't gamble the lottery, don't drink booze, don't go to the beach, don't miss church, never say a cuss word, et cetera—those things make you RELIGIOUS, but not necessarily a GOOD CHRISTIAN! You're only as good of a Christian as you LOVE God and your neighbour (everyone you meet on the planet). Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) rightly said that the two greatest commandments in the Bible to love God and love thy neighbour as thyself are really just one—TO LOVE.
I know a Christian wife who writes out Bible genealogies for fun. She loves going to church. She never cusses, never drinks booze, never smokes, never gambles the lottery, and you won't find a better goodie-two-shoes type person! She is RELIGIOUS! But she is rebellious against her husband, sassing him, disobeying his authority and causing him much grief and needless pain. She is a HORRIBLE CHRISTIAN! I hope you are getting my point.
I stopped feeling guilty for listening to secular music 35 years ago. I would feel guilty if I mistreated someone. We've got an epidemic of fundamentalist Christians today who go around avoiding this and avoiding that, and they foolishly think that pleases God. Meanwhile, they treat others like garbage. The wicked incompetent pastor of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), Jeff Redlin, would never drink a beer, smoke a cigarette or go to Pensacola Beach in the summer when it's filled with 99% naked women; but he sinfully kicked me out of their church (in 2022) in his hatred, simply because he could.
I love the guy with Christ's unconditional love, but Dr. Redlin is a HORRIBLE RELIGIOUS PERSON who woefully lacks God's love. I doubt if he is saved because he preaches another gospel. At PCC they're in the religious business for the INCOME, not the OUTCOME. That's why they're now offering engineering classes, going secular. SHAME!!!
Don't Let Religion And Religious People Drive You Crazy
I wrote this blog to encourage anyone who may be driving yourself crazy with religion. Please don't feel guilty for being a human being. I'm not saying that we should play The Beatles' music for the church youth department, God forbid. We should set the moral standards higher than that for our youth. But if you like listening to The Beatles in your own backyard while having a barbeque, I think that is fine (with the exception of certain lewd song, like: “Let's Do It In The Street.” Use common sense folks. I think lovely songs like: “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “'Til There Was You” are just fine. I love music. I sometimes enjoy Old Christian Radio religious music, but I prefer secular music myself, and I always have, and that is okay. For the past few years I've really gotten into my banjo playing. I'm saying that you don't have to become religious to still please God. The good LORD loves you just as you are. All God desires friend is that you do better today than you did yesterday.
I enjoy a Christmas tree in December. I actually like to keep my Christmas lights up all year round. They are pretty and cheerful. I enjoy pumpkins on Halloween. I don't celebrate witches or worship Satan, I just enjoy our traditional American holidays. I think kids should enjoy Easter Egg Hunts on Easter. Just make sure they know that to your family, Easter is about Jesus' resurrection. You don't need to feel guilty as a born again Christian for being yourself.
Please understand that I am not sanctioning any form of sin. I just turned 59 years old on March 5th, 2026. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. I have never drank a drop of booze (Liquid Devil). I have never been drunk, not once. I have never used any form of illegal drugs. I don't know what a cocaine high feels like, nor a heroine trip. I've been an innocent guy all my life, for the most part. I definitely have my own Skelton Closet. There but for the grace of God, go I. I have never claimed to be anything more than a broken redeemed sinner. As I am typing out this blog I found this pretty Christian medley on Old Christin Radio. ...
Let's Talk About Jesus/I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord
Pastor Jack Hyles use to wisely say: “Don't be reluctant to admit to others that you have feet of clay, but don't ever show them your feet.” To that I say amen and amen! I have had countless web visitors over the past 24 years of ministry confess some horrible sins to me. I have always suspected that perhaps they were fishing, hoping that I would confess some of my sins to them. Not a chance in Heaven or Hell! I'm not that dumb. As a fundamentalist Bible preacher I need to be careful to protect myself (Proverbs 4:23). So, never confess your sins to anyone except God, and that includes not even to your spouse.
When my wife divorced me in 2006 after 19 years of marriage, I was absolutely devastated. I've been to hell and back in my personal life. I've been bilked for $77,000 in my lifetime by three greedy lawyers. My wife cost us one million dollars in lost retirement savings. Now I will die a thousandaire...lol. Praise God anyhow! Our God is faithful, good and wonderful!!! Let's talk about Jesus more and more! I forgave my wife a long time ago. We all have to give account to God at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Even though there is no condemnation to those who have faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 8:1), we are still warned in 2nd Corinthians 5:10-11 that we must “give account” for the good and bad done in the flesh on earth. That is, every saint must appear in God's Civil Court, but not Criminal Court.
A lot of Christians struggle with Religious Scrupulosity—feeling guilt, worry and stress needlessly. Relax dear saint of God. Everything is just fine. There have been times in my life when I started thinking too much. I have a bad habit of reading into things, connecting dots that don't exist, worrying. I know that I am not alone in doing this. I tend to blame myself for everything. When my wife became angry at me in the past, I felt like somehow I was always at fault. In truth, I wasn't, but because I have a tender heart I tend to blame myself in humility.
I used to think that God was upset with me. In hindsight, I did that to myself. Preaching will make you go crazy if you don't filter it with Bible truth, common sense and God's love. I know that God loves me (1st John 4:19). I know that God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9). I know that God cares about me (1st Peter 5:7). And most of all, I know that “God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2nd Timothy 1:7). God wants all of His children to be mentally stable; not worried, uncertain, fearful or stressed.
I take seven different prescription medications, which also affect my mood. Sometimes I just feel like crying. My constant burning nerves throughout my upper body are overwhelming at times. There is no escape from my torment. My health afflictions keep me humble, kind of like fasting all the time. My neck pain is so bad on a continual basis that is burns. It is my painful thorn in the flesh. I long to receive my resurrected body fashioned like unto the LORD's glorified body at the Rapture (Philippians 3:21; 1st Corinthians 15:51-58).
The way that you treat OTHERS is a direct indication of your walk with God. I dare say that only 1-in-50 born again believers truly walk regularly in the Holy Spirit. That is why today's churches are so pathetic and dead spiritually. When a pastor and his wife couldn't care less if you ever come back to their church, it plainly reveals that they don't walk closely with the LORD, because God cares!!! I care dear reader. That is why I incessantly write to share my heart to help others for Christ. I have never made a single penny from all my ministry labors.
Amidst the tens of thousands of emails I've received over the past 24 years, I have received countless emails from distraught believers who were at the end of their rope. Some were going through difficult marital problems, others talked of taking their own life, and some just felt down on life. I have always counseled them to focus on the things of God, and not the things of this world. Colossians 3:1-3, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” This is why the same Apostle Paul who penned Colossians said in Philippians 4:8 to think on things that are true, lovely, of good report and virtuous, to avoid negativity.
Persecution Will Come If You Live Godly In Christ Jesus
I hope this article has been helpful and edifying. There have been times over the decades when I thought I might lose my mind, but God's grace saw me through. I was devastated in 2006 when my wife of 19 years abandoned and divorced me against my will. She was rottenness in my bones. It's not easy being married these days, which is why there is so much divorce and fewer people are even bothering to apply for a marriage license anymore.
Also, I could write a lengthy book about the intense persecution I endured in the secular workplace all my working career. I fully know what it is like to work in a Hostile Work Environment. In 2009, I was awarded $42,000 in damages (compensation for my divorce costs) from an EEO complaint I filed against the U.S. Postal Service on Guam for relentless the harassment (even death threats) I suffered at the hands of a Filipino clique of ungodly sinners. The day my wife filed for divorce in 2006 was the day I filed my EEO complaint!
My enemies at work were Roman Catholics. They had found my website ministry and declared open season on me as a Christian. The judge who flew in from California blamed the U.S. Postal Service for my divorce, due to the stress caused by working in a Hostile Work Environment. The judge determined that I was a victim of criminal discrimination based on both religion and race. Their incompetent postal management wickedly looked the other way for 4 years while I was being persecuted in a workplace prison.
Some of my co-workers sabotaged the machines I was responsible to maintain. They stole my car, toolbox and house keys. They tore up religious tracts found in the mail and dumped them on my toolbox. They stole my work activity forms. They deliberately overflowed toilets on me. They stalked me around the building, making veiled threats. I was threatened to be murdered multiple times. One co-worker even opened a switchblade in front of the operation's supervisor and threatened to kill me, which she was required to confirm in court hearing testimony.
I could share several dozen equally traumatic events from my life with you. When I went for my two major neck surgeries in 2009 and 2010, I was all alone and wanted to die. My wife had abandoned me in 2006. Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) was so right: “You'll never know that Jesus is all you need, until Jesus is all you have left.” I flew from Guam to California to get both surgeries. Loneliness is a very difficult burden to carry. At least it is for me because I have a big heart and am a loving person. I get attached to people, pets and things quickly.
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is my favorite Bible preacher, and for very good reasons. Brother Hyles grew up very poor. He didn't eat his first cheeseburger, eat an egg or use a flushable toilet until he was 15 years old. His older sister worked a job and bought him his first bike when he was 11 years old. Dr. Hyles grew up in a two room home. The stove was in one room, and the bathtub was in the other. Back then the entire family shared the same bath water, and Brother Hyles dreaded bath time because he always went last. I always enjoy hearing Pastor Hyles talk about his poor childhood, such as in this beautiful sermon titled: “Hasty Fruit.” Unlike Joel Osteen and other infidel clowns in the pulpit today, Pastor Hyles didn't grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth. He had humble beginnings and by God's grace worked hard to build everything he ever accomplished for Jesus Christ.
Another one of my favorite sermons by Brother Hyles is called “Wasted Suffering.” All of the horrible inexplicably painful and traumatic things that I have suffered and endured throughout my life has enabled me to help others through their trials, burdens and problems. A big part of my website ministry over the past 24 years has been to encourage and guide discouraged Christians. I've even befriended atheists with God's unconditional love, because the dear Savior died for everybody on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago.
Since I gave my life at age 15 in a church revival to serve God for the rest of my life, all I have ever humbly wanted and prayed for is to be used of God to be a blessing to OTHERS for Jesus Christ. I believe by His wondrous grace that the Lord has used me as His servant, and continues to use this broken redeemed sinner for His purpose and glory. People often contact me and say that their life is a mess. I am quick to encourage them that my life is a mess too. All of our lives are trainwreck! That is what grace is all about dear reader.
Hebrews 12:2, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Just keep your eyes on Jesus! When the Apostle Peter took his eyes off Jesus, he began to sink into the depths of the Sea of Galilea. Peter's mistake wasn't looking at the storm's tempest and raging waves, it was taking his eyes off of Jesus!
