When You Stand, People Will Get Mad At You

1st Kings 18:21, “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.”

One of the saddest things that we see today is that preachers don't stand anymore. But this is nothing new. As we read in our text passage from 1st Kings 18:21, the Israelites also refused to stand. Just like the false teachers of Lordship Salvation today, who corrupt the churches with lies; so also did the false prophets of Baal during Elijah's time do the same. According to 1st Kings 18:19 there were 950 false prophets total (450 prophets of Baal, plus 400 more prophets of the groves which ate at Jezebel's table). So it was the man of God Elijah versus the 950 prophets of Satan!

I know how Elijah felt, stuck in the middle between the people and the false prophets! I have spent my entire ministry fighting with false teachers in our churches today. My own father drove me out of his church rescue mission ministry in Chicago over my King James Bible only stand. One Lutheran pastor that my father appointed to his church board of directors said, and I quote: “You and that King James Bible heresy!” That heathen pastor's name was on the dark letter mailed to me by my father which effectively said, “You're out!” I had voluntarily served as my father's assistant pastor after I graduated Hyles-Anderson College from 1993 to 2001. So as you can see, my stand for THE TRUTH has cost me everything.

So I decided to become a missionary and I started my website ministry in 2002. I chose to move to Guam with my former wife. Little did I know that I would be diagnosed with Cervical Degenerative Disk Disease in 2004, and then my wife of 18 years would abandon and divorce me in 2006. My life had become a trainwreck, languishing in pain and heartache. My co-workers at the U.S. Postal Service found my ministry website. They were Catholics and decided to make my life hell on earth, and they did, which a California judge who flew to Guam for my EEO complaint said caused my divorce. The judge made the Post Office pay me $42,000 in damages to cover the cost of my divorce.

In 2013 I used that money, and a bunch more, to try to relocate back to the United States. I went to Hawaii and Tennessee, all of which turned into a big nightmare. I didn't know what I was doing, and had no wife or anyone by my side to help me think. I was a lost soul. I spent over $50,000 going in a big 4 month very painful circle, from Guam to Hawaii to Tennessee back to Guam. I crawled emotionally into the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (one of the hardest things I have ever done). I desperately needed their love and help. Everything went fine for the first several months, but then like Samson my spiritual hair began to grow. 

I started to feel like a person again at Harvest, after living as a recluse for years in both physical (my neck) and emotional (divorce) pain with no wife or a church. I had visited some Baptist churches on Guam, but they didn't want me. The senior pastor, Alfred, at the Agana Heights Baptist Church in 2009 was mean and didn't want me in his church, insulting me and making sure I didn't return, after he listened to some gossip about me from a deacon who knew me in his church. I watched the man slander me. Like the Lord, I am despised and rejected of men. Isaiah 53:3, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”

I ended up at Harvest in 2013. I was so happy while there. I had finally found a church family, so I thought in error. In 2014 I befriended them with THE TRUTH. I am not King James Bible only for an aimless reason folks, I HATE these modern Devil's Bibles which were translated from Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort's perverse 1881 Greek text. The Bible commands every believer to HATE! We are commanded to HATE EVIL. 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.” Psalms 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.” I am sick and tired of seeing these stupid bumper stickers that read, “Stop Hate!” No, I am not going to stop hating evil. The bumper sticker ought to read: “Stop Hating People!” God commands us to HATE EVIL and to HATE EVERY FALSE WAY! I hate deception. I hate false Bibles. I hate the lying false teaching of Lordship Salvation.

I visited another church on Guam in 2018, the Lighthouse Baptist Church. Sadly, Pastor Sean Quinlan got upset with me when he overheard a private conversation, in which I said “Bob Jones University sells corruptible seed.” It turned out that Quinlan is a follower of the BJU crowd. I have learned that the Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp are in bed with the apostate Bob Jones crowd, and none of them stand for anything! Quinlan's exact words to me were, “Harvest is our sister church!” At that point I had heard enough and rebuked him, which I would do again a thousand times over with joy, saying, “SHAME ON YOU!” I reminded him that Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is a cesspool of iniquity—preaching Calvinist doctrines of devils, promoting corruptible seed, bidding Godspeed to false prophets like John MacArthur, and rejecting and ostracizing anybody who tells THE TRUTH (as I found out painfully so since 2014)—to Hell with all of them!!! God is on my side (Romans 3:4).

My stand for THE TRUTH has cost me church family after church family, and caused me a Hostile Work Environment in the secular workplace, and so much grief and loneliness. I never mentioned my website at work, they found it online. When I was put out of work in 2008 for my neck injury, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me, although I fought to keep my job as a postal mechanic and lost. Unfortunately, my neck injury just has only worsened since then, after my second neck surgery in 2010 made me 100% worse. Jesus said if they hated and persecuted Him, so also will they hate and persecute godly believers (John 15:19; 2nd Timothy 3:12). Pastor Jack Hyles saw this evil of preachers not taking a stand long ago, stating these words:

“I've been preaching a long time, and I've watched a lot of things happen. To me the saddest thing that I've watched in my life, apart from my own country going to the Devil nearly, has been the change of preachers and churches. I find myself amazed and stunned with near disbelief, as I see men who once stood who don't stand anymore ... I know every week I cry some, I mean cry, I mean tear cry, because of preachers who are turning.” SOURCE: Pastor Jack Hyles, from the 1972 sermon titled, I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

It is emotionally painful for me to even write about this stuff, because I suffered through it all, being despised and rejected by people because I stood for THE TRUTH. Harvest Baptist Church on Guam booted me out of their church family in 2014, and again in 2017 rejected me when I literally begged 3 times to please let me come back to my church family. Pastor's Marty Herron, Jared Baldwin and Joe Hanson all said, “No.” I almost commit suicide because of those cruel and wicked prophets of Baal. And then Gary Walton, Harvest's new immature senior pastor since 2018, as well as some of the old farts still there, refuse to give me a second chance to have a church family. They HATE me, but I HATE the wrong doctrine that they teach. I HATE the false teachers (e.g. Steve Pettit and John MacArthur) that they bid Godspeed to, making Harvest partaker of their evil deeds. It's their way or the highway!

Today's pastors and churches are not standing anymore, just like the people didn't stand in Elijah's time. Elijah asked the people whom they were going to serve, God or Baal, but the people answered him not a word...

“God has a special rebuke, again and again and again in the Bible, toward those people who keep their neutrality in the work of God!” —SOURCE: Dr. Jack Hyles, a quote from the great MP3 sermon, “Where Were You In The Battle?”

Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is NOT standing for anything! They only stood against me for taking a stand. What do you think God feels about that friend? Do you think God is proud of me, and is on my side, for standing against the Devil's Bible, the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, and the Devil's lie of repentance as meaning “turn from your sinful bad habits” to be saved? Or do you think God is on Harvest's side (and the corrupt Bob Jones University camp today), who say that it doesn't matter, we're all preaching salvation by grace, and free grace is the same as Lordship Salvation? If you believe the latter, you need to get saved. Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) fully understood what I just said. Dr. Hutson took A STAND!!!

Consequently, I haven't had a church family since 2014, because of the incompetence, cruelty, indifference, arrogance, sinful pride and selfishness of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. They'll help orphans, but they won't help their Christian brother? Perhaps it is because they are not saved at all, which would explain their woeful lack of compassion FOR ME as a hurting human being, and their woeful lack of love for THE TRUTH. I need to move, but my body hasn't been up to it. I look fine outwardly, but I suffer in constant neck pain 24/7 and it is debilitating. Besides myself, God only knows what I suffer through. Even my family doesn't understand, but I love everyone unconditionally. I am a loving man, but I get frustrated easily because of the pain, and no one wants to be around me, which hurts my soul inexplicably.

I am so thankful for Pastor Jack Hyles' statements, about how preaches don't stand anymore. That eases my pain, because I have faithfully stood, and I have been kicked out of numerous churches, hated by religious people, and abused as an outcast by the churches. What saith the Scripture? Romans 3:4, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.” The truth is on my side, because I preach THE TRUTH!

Dear reader, if today's Bible revisions have indeed been corrupted by Satan, then my preaching will be vindicated by God in eternity. If Lordship Salvation is a perversion of the Gospel, then my preaching will be vindicated by God in eternity. If repentance to get saved doesn't mean behavioral modification, then my preaching will be vindicated by God in eternity. If Martin Luther (1483-1546) went to Hell because he taught Baptismal Regeneration all his life, then my preaching will be vindicated by God in eternity.  

Harvest Baptist Church on Guam calls me, “THE TROUBLEMAKER”! 1st Kings 18:17, “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?” Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) was also a “troublemaker,” which is why he is still hated by thousands of corrupt churches today...

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

While Bob Jones University is using, selling and bidding Godspeed to the Devil's false Bibles, I am exposing, hating, criticizing, and doing all I can to burn them! If you don't die a hero, then you live long enough to see yourself become the villain! Like Elijah the preacher, I am considered a troublemaker for speaking THE TRUTH! But who is really at fault here? I love Elijah's answer to King Ahab in 1st Kings 18:18, “And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.” No, it is YOU Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, who are the troublemakers! It is YOU, oh Bob Jones University in South Carolina, who are the troublemakers! It is YOU religious fakes and Christian phonies—with your dozens of corrupt Bible revisions, and your doctrines of devils on Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation—that cause trouble in the churches, and damn men's souls to Hell for eternity!

Pastor Jack Hyles taught me to take a stand for what is true and right, and not what is convenient. I remember that Jared Baldwin (an assistant pastor at Harvest), mocked me in 2015, sarcastically saying to me: “How's your beliefs working out for your social life?” It is my often prayer to God that the Lord will force that wicked man to eat those words someday, and be held accountable for what he cruelly said to me.” You're right Jared, I haven't had a social life since you, Joe Hanson and Marty Herron took my church family away from me in 2014. And now Pastor Gary Walton abuses me as well, upholding the evil decisions of the former pastors. And as of 2021 I still have no church family! Harvest's pastors, staff and congregation all have my blood on their hands. The church as a whole sanctions the decisions of their pastors, making them all accountable and guilty. I have faithfully stood for THE TRUTH!!!

I am a hurting man. I am very lonely in my life, but not in my soul (I have the blessed Holy Spirit indwelling me, Ephesians 1:12-15). I have stood for THE TRUTH, and I have paid the ultimate price of total rejection. Some things are worse than death. When you tell THE TRUTH, wicked people will get upset at you. They will shun and ostracize you, trying to silence you. They will gaslight and paint a negative picture of you, in a sinful attempt to justify their false teachings and sinful ways. The Bob Jones University crowd today are of the Devil. I am not the troublemaker, they are! Just as the humble preacher Elijah, I am simply telling THE TRUTH. How long halt ye between two opinions friend? I hope you'll choose a side, if you haven't already.