Have Faith In God

Psalms 47:8, “God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.” Psalms 103:19, “The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.”  John 16:33, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Romans 8:14-18, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

We are all struggling in one way or another these days. The crime rate rose 5% in 2020 and the homicide rate soared 30% in 2020, as compared to 2019. The pandemic, whether a media hoax or legitimate crisis, has wreaked havoc across America and the planet. Everyone is having a rough time. I focus most of my preaching on contending for the faith, because I feel that is where most preachers are failing nowadays. It is rare in these perilous times to hear a pastor call the names of false teachers! It is rare to hear pastors preach against the rotten and corrupt Bob Jones University camp and the shameful Pensacola Christian College camp who sinfully bid BJU Godspeed. These wicked institutions refuse to fight the good fight of faith, and are instead consumed with covetousness and greed to make more money. Something is very wrong with pastors today who refuse to stand. They are irresponsible and cowards!

Sadly, I see millions of apostate churchgoers putting their confidence in man instead of God. Psalms 118:8, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” When naïve parents send their children off to corrupt colleges like Bob Jones University, they damn their children to be indoctrinated with the Satanic lies of Calvinism!!! This is not faith in God, this is faith is man. Satan is always attempting to infiltrate the churches. The Devil infiltrates first the Bible colleges, corrupting the students with Calvinism, knowing that foolish churches will hire these perverse graduates; which will then corrupt all the churches, missionaries and institutions they infect with “Lordship” salvation and misunderstood repentance.

I find myself struggling just like everybody else to stay positive and keep an attitude of faith in God. That is really what everything all boils down to, HAVING FAITH IN GOD. Mark 11:22, “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.” HAVE FAITH IN GOD!!! That is what Jesus said. Let me say unequivocally that no man has true faith in God who preaches another gospel. Jesus kindly told the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well in John 4:24, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” God cannot be worshipped in error and lies.

Calvinism is a doctrinal poison which kills its hosts. What is Calvinism? It is the doctrine of a wicked man named John Calvin (1509-1564). Sadly, Calvin did not recognize salvation as an instantaneous new birth, but as an ongoing process in which the recipient must continue to repent of sin and live a faithful Christian life to get to Heaven. Due to the influence of Calvinism, modern preachers have wickedly changed the meaning of the word “repent” in the Bible, redefining it to mean “turning away from sin.” That is not what “repent” means at all in the Bible. The Greek word for “repent” in the New Testament is the noun metanoia (a change of mind) and the verb metanoeo (to think differently). Bible repentance is LAYING ASIDE WRONG THINKING, to instead BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (Acts 16:30-31).

Dear reader, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. The way we get saved is by taking God at His Word, believing the record that God has recorded in His written Word concerning His only begotten Son, Jesus. Jesus is the Christ, who died on the cross to pay our sin debt. He was buried and after three days Christ resurrected from the dead for our justification:

Romans 4:20-25, “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”

That is so beautiful! Abraham had FAITH IN GOD and it was imputed (credited) to him for righteousness. If we will simply BY FAITH believe that Jesus was crucified for our and sins and resurrected from the dead, then God will also impute the same righteousness to us. What a great God and Savior!!!