David J. Stewart: Why Follow Men?

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Why Follow Men?

Ephesians 5:1, “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”

What saith the Scriptures? John 5:39, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” Most of the debating, arguing and controversies plaguing the churches today could be eliminated if religious leaders would simply stop following men, and start SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES!!! The inspired Word of God is our ONLY authority, and not men. Any man can pay some money to buy a piece of paper called a “degree,” and all of a sudden he is considered “qualified” to lead a church; but he could be a total deceiver, theologically incompetent and an ignoramus concerning the Scriptures!

I'd like to share a quote with you from Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980), from his booklet titled: “HYPER-CALVINISM: A FALSE DOCTRINE.”

III. WHY FOLLOW MEN?

Do you follow Arminius? or Wesley? Then you are certain to be wrong wherever those good men but frail men were wrong. Do you follow Calvin? Then whatever doctrine Calvin formulated or invented will be wrong for you as for him. ...

In truth, the false doctrines of hyper-Calvinism would not do so much harm if they were emphasized as little as Spurgeon emphasized them, and particularly, if those who advocate them worked unceasingly to win souls as Spurgeon did.
But why follow Spurgeon? He was human. he was an amazing pastor, and evangelist. Some think he was the greatest preacher since the Apostle Paul. But when he was wrong he was wrong. He plainly said he did not know enough about the return of Christ to preach on it. No man is perfect. It would be as foolish to follow Spurgeon in whatever part of the false doctrine of hyper-Calvinism he believed as to follow him in smoking cigars. He saw the error of smoking a little while before he went to Heaven, and I am sure he saw the errors of hyper-Calvinism, besides those he himself criticized, as soon as he reached Heaven. Why not just follow the Bible instead of Arminius or Calvin or Wesley or Spurgeon?

SOURCE: Dr. John R. Rice, “HYPER-CALVINISM: A FALSE DOCTRINE,” pp. 16, 18; Sword of The Lord, ©1970

I couldn't agree with Dr. Rice more! Amen and amen. Our churches are being destroyed today because of foolishly incompetent pastors and Bible college leaders, who follow popular reprobate Bible teachers; namely, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, Chip Ingram, Steve Pettit, Rick Warren, William Lane Craig, Joel Osteen, Beth Moore, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Doug Batchelor, Don Blackwell, David Cloud, Dan Corner, Brian Derringer, John Hagee, Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson, Max Lucado, and other ungodly gospel-corrupters! These people all pervert the Gospel of free grace, ADDING something else to it which God does not require to be saved. God freely offers the free gift of eternal life to anyone who wants it! This gift is free because Jesus paid for it with His precious blood!!!

You won't find a more helpful Bible verse to live by than Psalms 118:8, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” I have heard some preachers say that this verse is the center of the King James Bible. Jeremiah 17:5, “Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” We ought to therefore be followers of God. Ephesians 5:1, “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;” We “follow God” by abiding in the eternal words of the inspired King James Bible!!!

Walking with Jesus gives a Christian “BOLDNESS”! Why do you think I preach boldly the way I do? That is Jesus' Spirit in me. 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.” People will know when you've been walking with God, because of your boldness for truth, righteousness and love for others. Walking with God compels a believer to “hate evil” (premeditated sin). Psalms 97:10, “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.” And a sure sign that a Christian is following God is that they hate every false way. Psalms 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”

You know that all these pastors are pseudo-religious leaders today. The prefix pseudo- (from Greek ψευδής, pseudes, "lying, false") is used to mark something that superficially appears to be (or behaves like) one thing, but is something else. On the surface, today's clergy appear to care and be knowledgeable of the things of God, but upon closer inspection, you will be very disappointed. Today's pastors are theologically incompetent—promoting multiple different Bible versions, promoting a false gospel of being willing to “turn from your sins” to be saved, and bidding Godspeed to false prophets like Ray Comfort and John MacArthur. I refuse to follow Jacob Arminius (1560-1609). I refuse to follow John Calvin (1509-1564). I refuse to follow Martin Luther (1483-1546).

Today's cotton-candy religion tastes so great for a few seconds, but then quickly disintegrates into nothing! A genuine man of God, who follows God, WILL care about the truth! Such a man will hate the evil LGBTQ agenda, hate abortion, hate the prevailing injustices of the U.S. Justice Department, hate the Devil's Bible revisions that confuse everyone, and hate all manner of fraud, evil and taking advantage of other people! The believer who follows God unconditionally loves every living creature!!! The main reason why churches are so messed-up nowadays is because pastors and Bible colleges are FOLLOWING MEN instead of FOLLOWING GOD! If you want to follow God, then you must follow only the inspired King James Bible. If you follow God, then you must follow only a free grace view of the Gospel. Lordship Salvation is a lie of the Devil, a false teaching that produces much worry, fear and uncertainty in the soul of those who fall victim to it!

The main reason why professed Christians in churches are so messed-up today is because they FOLLOW MEN. Instead, we ought to all SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!!!

Matthew 4:19, “And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

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Inspiring Preacher Quotes

“Every word in this Bible is inspired by God almighty!” —Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001), "A Friend At Midnight"

“I never thought, I'd see a day when Baptist preachers would not preach the true Gospel. Tonight, all across this nation, Baptist preachers have succumbed to the heresy of John MacArthur. I said the heresy of John MacArthur! I said the heresy of John MacArthur! And somebody that's got several thousand people to hear 'em, who can go across this country, has got to alert Baptists that we have false teachers in our midst who are no longer teaching and preaching salvation by grace through faith plus nothing. Folks, we're fighting for our lives tonight!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "A Vote For Preaching"

“Before I got saved, I had troubles, and since I’ve been saved, I’ve had troubles, but I’m going to a land where there will be no more troubles.” —Pastor Paul Sisk

'The world' includes the mass of humanity that is alienated from God and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ. It involves worldly affairs, earthly things, riches, pleasures, and pursuits that are shallow, frail, and fleeting. These things stir desire, draw us away from God, and are obstacles to the cause of Christ. The divorced or torn relationships between Heaven and earth, between God and His creatures, finds its expression in the term 'the world.'” —Pastor Edward M. Bounds (1835-1913), "Guide To Spiritual Warfare"

"Unshakable faith comes from having your faith shaken" —Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)

“The TRUTH is a thousand times more powerful than what these liberal churches are selling. The truth is so concentrated, that just one drop of the real unadulterated truth of THE GOSPEL, hard preaching—one clear 10-minute presentation of the Gospel—is more powerful than one hundred hours of NOTHINGNESS in their 'BLAH!' church or school!” —Pastor Steven L. Anderson, "The Dechristianization Of Our Nation"

“When America lost her way to the right kind of church, she lost her way to living right!” — Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982), "Titanic"

“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, "Jesus versus John MacArthur"

“If it's settled in Heaven, why are we trying to change it down here?” —Brother Lester Roloff (1914-1982), sermon titled: "Wisdom Of The Word" (Psalms 119:89)

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” —Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —Evangelist John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The only inspired Words of God are in the King James Bible!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, THE REAL BATTLE!"

“If there is a secret in my life it is this: I do everything by schedule.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“We believe in the inspiration of the Bible.” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr., “Comments On Here And Hereafter,” page 103; Bob Jones University Press Inc., 1942

“I've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.” —Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” —Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965), “The Tabernacle,” Pg. 101

“God always finds someone to champion the cause.” —Pastor Jeff Owens, "Who Cares Anyhow?"

“More people will die and burn in Hell, because they're trusting too much!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!"

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!"

“There is much mourning to-day over false 'isms,' infidelity, and the like, but sum them all up, and I do not fear them one half so much as that dead and cold formalism that has crept into the Church of God.” —Pastor Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

“Now you say, 'Brother Hyles, you make an issue.' You dead sure better know I'll make an issue!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "THE BATTLE OF THE AGES"

“The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "THE BATTLE OF THE AGES"

“Repentance don't save you! Calling on the Lord don't save you! You know what saves you? Receiving what Christ done for you on the cross!” —Pastor Danny Castle, "WHY THERE'S A HELL"

“The religions of the world say, 'do and live.' The religion of the Bible says, 'live and do'.” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968)

“When a person is condemned and goes to Hell, you don't go to Hell because of what you did. You don't go because you lied, you cussed, you drank, you smoked, you drugged; you don't go because you're a homosexual lesbian, adulterer; you don't go to Hell because of what you did, you go to Hell because of what you didn't do! You go to Hell because you did not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God! You go to Hell and you are rejected, and have God's judgment on you, because you refused to realize and embrace Jesus for Who He is!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., "Have You Been Born Again?"

“You'd be shocked if you knew, how the versions of the Bible that are coming out, which are so unnecessary and not even Bible. You'd be shocked if you knew what they're doing to cause Christian people to feel subconsciously unstable. You'd be shocked if you knew what it's doing to the nervous system of our people! All these Bibles!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Don't Chase The Pendulum"

“You say, 'You shouldn't talk trash about other churches!' Well, if they'd stop being trash, I'd stop talking trash!” —Pastor Steven Anderson, "Queer Sounding Music And Skinny Jeans"

“You know the greatest difficulty and hindrance today, is not that people are not good enough. The great hindrance is they're not bad enough, to be saved!” —Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988), "Why The Gospel Is Not Preached Today"

“Sometimes you may leave here and say, 'I wonder what he's mad about?' I'm not mad about anything, I just know one thing—whatever a preacher quits preaching on, is what his church will fill up with!” —Pastor Phil Kidd, "I Am Ashamed"

“Never let your guard down!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "When You Have To Stand Alone"

“A man doesn't get better to get saved; he gets saved to get better.” —Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), "Salvation Crystal Clear"

“The greatest need of every individual is to know and hear the gospel and to accept it.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "LET'S GO SOUL WINNING!"

“You don't go to Hell because you won't quit your sinning!” —Pastor Curtis Hutson, "Why Do Men Go To Hell?"

“God doesn't need a brilliant mind, He needs a voice!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "I AM A VOICE!"

“I believe any man in this world, can love any other man in this world, if he thinks right! The reason you hate is because you think hate. The reason you love is because you think love.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "What The Law Could Not Do"

“I will not want the friendship of folks that will not give it to me. I'll be their friend, but I will not want the friendship of somebody that withdraws from me; because I want to be happy, and happiness and riches come when a person's haves and wants equal each other.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Be Content"

“If you want to never do anything that is terribly wicked, then you never do anything that is slightly wicked.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Unjust In The Least".”

“You see, we not only believe the fundamentals of the faith, we believe in Ecclesiastical Separation. You don't yoke up with somebody that is not saved and call him a Christian brother!” —Pastor Curtis Hutson, "Things That Are Different Are Not The Same"

“The only reason that we fear anything is because we are people of little faith. When your faith is small, your fear is great; when your faith is great, your fear is small! America has a fear problem; Christians have a faith problem. Why are you fearful?” —Pastor Chuck Baldwin, “A CONTAGION OF FEAR”

“Don't forget that the whole point of the 'main stream media' is to make enough noise that you don't know the truth!” —Pastor Joel C. Fugate

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” —Third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Human beings just want to be loved... just love the hell out of them!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.

“I cannot love you as I love myself until I love God as I ought to love Him.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“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”

“What we need in this generation, is for about 30,000 churches in the United States to go out of business, and just shut the doors, and let who mean business, get the power of God, and witness to this generation!” —Pastor Danny Castle, “How To Have Power With God”

“When you get dissed by men—the whole reason God allowed you to be dissed—is because He didn't want you to fit in! He don't want you to fit in with the world. He don't want you to fit in with the rest of the group! He don't want you to be just like them! 'Cause there is something special about you! There's an assignment for you. There's a call for you. There's an anointing for your life. God does not want you to fit in!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., “Being Dissed”

“Lord, help me to preach today as if it were the last sermon I would ever preach.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“There is no greater joy in the Christian life than to trust Him and need no explanation.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“Salvation can only be evidenced by works, if works are required to be saved.” —Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong!”

Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do!” —Pastor Jack Hyles

“The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.” —Brother Lester Roloff

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.“ —Billy Sunday

“When someone does something wrong, make it a point to never forget all the things they did right.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr.

“I've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.” —Billy Sunday

“We're saved because we have faith in Jesus. We believe that He died on the cross. We believe He was buried, and stayed there for three days, and we believe He got up out of the grave. ...The law never gives life!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., “Justified: The Book Of Galatians, Chapter 2”

“Nobody can love God who doesn't love sinners!” —Dr. Jack Hyles, “The Happiest Man”

“Ladies and gentlemen, one of the saddest things in fundamentalism today is the fact that you hardly can find a fundamentalist that literally walks in the Spirit; almost unheard of, almost unheard of.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I do not think I've ever seen fundamentalists as carnal as I do now.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I am concerned about the fundamentalism in America that's churchianity. I guarantee you, you'll be just like the new-evangelical crowd in a few years, unless we stop to realize that we're supposed to walk in the Spirit of God almighty!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I am so sick and tired of Christian people gettin' mad at each other because of the dollar, I don't know what to do. I wonder sometimes if there is anybody left that's spiritual. I really do. I mean, fuss about a dollar. If a guy wants some of your money, let him have the money! I mean, I spend a lot of my time refereeing fights of people in this church, who get mad at each other because of money. Listen, there's not enough of that to fight over.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I'm tired of us calling them 'gay.' They're not gay. Gay is a mighty good word to denote happiness and joy. I'm tired of the queers choosing the 'gay' word for themselves. Let's take it back!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

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Why Follow Men?

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