Titus 1:9-14, “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”
It grieves my heart that Pensacola Christian College, their pathetic Campus Church, and corrupt churches nationwide continue to wickedly bid Godspeed to Ken Ham and his Answers-in-Genesis cesspool of iniquity. ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ป ๐ญ:๐ญ๐ญ, “๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ถ๐บ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐.” Nobody is born again who trusts in their own efforts to turn away from their sinful bad habits. That is works!
Some people are quick to rebuke me for pointing out the problems in churches today, but it needs to be done! ...
I have been getting shunned by pastors, received dirty looks from haughty pastor's wives, had insults hurled at me from ignorant church members for many years—for my well-known website ministry in which I take an uncompromising biblical stand against doctrinal, ecclesiastical, and moral error. If the shoe fits, wear it! The vast majority of today's so-called “churches” are spiritually waning (a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent) and wanning (to become pale and sickly). Most Baptist churches today are pathetic!
THE TRUTH offends those who resist it! Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is pulling on the same rope as the Devil, and so are all the local churches who support and follow their counterfeit plan of salvation, which requires that you first be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to be saved. PCC and Ken Ham errantly understand this to be Bible "repentance." They are woefully deceived.
There is a BIG difference between a church not being perfect, versus a church that doesn't want to be perfect. These churches that blindly follow the PCC cult, couldn't care less about RIGHT DOCTRINE! They only care about being accepted by PCC. I am not going to bow to some almighty, idolatrous, overgrown for their britches, egotistical religious school who have wickedly added to God's inspired Words (Proverbs 30:5-6).
SHAME on PCC! SHAME on Ken Ham and Answers-in-Genesis! SHAME on any pastor and church who support, go along with, honor, invite or bid Godspeed to infidels' Ken Ham, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, John Calvin or John Piper, et cetera. These evil men are enemies of the cross of Jesus Christ! They all preach a distorted perverse view of God's simple plan of salvation. If my words offend you friend, then repent of your false religion, get right with God and start caring about THE TRUTH, because RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!
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.”
In 1999, when I was sent by the U.S. Postal Service for maintenance training in Norman, Oklahoma, I was horribly told by a punk security guard to go pray in my hotel room, because someone had allegedly complained that I was talking to myself. He violated my legal rights to freedom of speech and religion.
I had been praying out loud as I walked outside alone, on the designated walking path in a big field, talking to the Lord. It is sad that we live in a faithless world of unbelievers. Had I known about my rights, I wouldn't have felt intimidated, and I would have continued walking and praying out loud; and then called an attorney to start a $5,000,000 lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service if their thug security guards did something to stop me from praying in public. That was the last time I ever stepped foot into the training center, because I refused to go. This is not communist North Korea! It will always bother me that I ignorantly allowed those bullies to violate my freedom of religion and speech.
In 1999, I didn't know my Bill of Rights. If my life had depended on it, at age 32, I couldn't have told you what the First Amendment was. But in 2002, I finally woke up from my American slumber—I learned about Alex Jones, the New World Order, my Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution), and I started my website ministry to PREACH THE TRUTH!!!
This coming April 2025 will be the 23rd year of my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry. To God be all the praise, credit and glory (John 15:5). Jesus is precious! Over the past 22 years I have encountered many enemies along the way, by God's grace I've thankfully led countless lost sinners to Jesus Christ, and I've even made a few friends. My life is the Lord's—good and bad alike—the Lord knew that I would fail Him before I was even conceived, yet He loved me and gave Himself for me on the cross (Romans 5:6-9). ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ญ๐ฑ:๐ญ๐ฌ, “๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐บ: ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป; ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐น๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น: ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐บ๐ฒ.”
In the past, I have been horribly accused by foolish laymen and incompetent pastors alike of finding weakness in preachers and of being judgmental toward others; but in reality, for the past 22 years as an evangelist preacher, I have taken a biblical stand against the evildoers. ๐ฃ๐๐ฎ๐น๐บ๐ ๐ต๐ฐ:๐ญ๐ฒ, “๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฝ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐? ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐พ๐๐ถ๐๐?” I have honored God with my earnest labors, night and day, faithfully running the course for Jesus Christ. Thank you for reading my blog.
Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
I love the inspired book of Proverbs in the Holy Bible! I don't know about you, but in the past I have said some foolish things that I later wish I hadn't said. One of the many things that I love about God's book of Proverbs for humanity is that much is said about keeping one's mouth shut. Let's face it, we all tend to talk too much. I sometimes wonder if God made us with two ears and one mouth, to teach us that we ought to listen twice as much as we talk. The adage is true: You cannot listen until you are willing to hear.
Lord willing, I will turn 58 years old on March 5th, 2025. I've never been the type of person to make New Years resolutions, but I think it's a good idea to at least have some general ideas about things we'd like to improve each year. One of my goals each new year is to: SIN less, SAY less and SIT less! I learned this great truth from one of my favorite Bible preachers, Pastor Danny Castle, from his life-changing sermon titled: 'If I Could Live 2010 Again.'
Having said that dear reader, here is Alexander Scourby (1913-1985) reading the book of PROVERBS. I encourage you to bookmark this video and listen to it weekly from now on:
Proverbs
I just heard a precious Scripture read from Proverbs 29:10, “The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.” I love that! This is a beautiful snapshot of our dear Savior and Lord, Jesus. The Lord was hated by the bloodthirsty religious Pharisees and unsaved Jews, who were thirsty for His blood. That is, they were trying to murder Him (John 10:33). Yet, our beautiful Savior sought the salvation of their soul. I cannot think of a more appropriate verse to describe our precious Redeemer. After the brute Roman soldiers had spat upon, stripped naked, driven a piercing crown of thorns into His head, beat Him to a pulp and crucified Jesus upon a cross, and further humiliated Him by mocking and taunting Christ as He suffered in excruciating pain on the cross—Jesus uttered the astonishing words: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34b).
Proverbs 29:10, “The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.” We should all learn a divine lesson from this Scripture. That truth is that even when wicked sinners torment, persecute and afflict is in their hatred for Jesus Christ (John 7:7), we ought to emulate our dear Savior's love and wisdom by seeking the salvation of their soul. That is, we should love them unconditionally with God's love. We should keep praying for God to convict their heart and work in their life to bring them to Christ.
We should view the unsaved who afflict us as being broken instead of bad. They don't fully realize what they are doing. What saith the Scripture? 1st Corinthians 2:7-8, “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” Before the Apostle Paul was saved, he was named Saul. As such, he relentlessly persecuted the Christians in his hatred. It is commonly believed that it was Paul (then Saul) who held the garments of the Jews who murdered Stephen in Acts 7. Acts 7:58, “And cast him [Stephen] out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.”
I Was Persecuted For Decades In The Secular Workplace
If you are a born again Christian and you are living separated from this terrible world of sin—the world will persecute you (2nd Timothy 3:12). All my working life, for decades, I had been horribly persecuted in the workplace for my faith. If you are a Christian the whole world is waiting for you to fall. I had my work uniforms stolen twice when I worked as a mechanic. I had nude centerfolds placed on my locker. I found booze bottles in my toolbox. One man spat upon me in the workplace. My equipment that I was responsible to maintain was sabotaged to make extra work for me. One wicked man blocked the urinal and flushed it to flood the entire restroom while I was in there. One ungodly man stole my keys (car, house, et cetera).
Another unsaved man in his hatred for Christ threw a 3-pound sledge hammer at me and thankfully missed. Another man threatened twice to kill me. Thankfully he did it in front of an Operations Supervisor at the U.S. Postal Service when I lived on Guam. I filed an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint because my rights were being violated and I was awarded $42,000 in damages in 2009. The Post Master was terminated for not doing his job. Sometimes you have to fight back or those evil punks would have had me fired, or worse. I led a co-worker to Christ at that job, and two more where I previously worked in Chicago. As a Christian you need to watch your back Jack! Abusive people will do to you whatever you let them do to you. Thankfully, unlike most places in the world today, we do have legal protections in America (unless you are a human being in your mother's womb, then you have no rights).
There is a fine line between faith and foolishness! I once knew a Caucasian young Christian man. He was taking a nap on the back seat on a church bus on Chicago's southside. Am ungodly minority punk gangster opened the rear door and crushed-in the entire side of that Christian young man's face with an aluminum baseball bat, while he was sleeping. The surgeons had to operate for several hours through his nose to reconstruct his left jaw. When I saw that young man with his face all wired shut, I kindly asked him if he called the police to file a report. He said he hadn't and wasn't going to. I was shocked and asked him why. He calmly said, “What would Jesus do?” Dear reader, that guy is a darn fool! By doing nothing he is ensuring that there will be further victims. That was about 35 years ago.
If you are a victim of a crime, you should call the police. God never intended for you to look the other way when a crime has been committed. Sometimes you need to fight back when you are in the right. There is another true adage: You must choose your battles wisely. I couldn't fight every abusive incident, every hurtful word and every injury in my life. In nearly every case it was my word against someone else's who had violated me, and the police or management couldn't do anything since there was no evidence.
Then again, in some cases I did have any evidence of abuse, but wicked managers looked the other way and didn't care, which is why I needed to file an EEO complaint in 2006 against my employer. I was being forced to struggle in a Hostile Work Environment, while a group of punks were having a fun time persecuting, stalking and harassing me, making my life hell on earth. God will also be their Judge.
By the way, just for your information, if you are ever being harassed or victimized by someone, keep a diary of every incident. Write down what happened, what was said, the date, time and place. Even though it will boil down to your word against someone else's, keeping a log of the incidents is powerful evidence if things escalate and the police need to get involved, or a lawyer or you go to court, like I did. I am so glad that I recorded every incident, writing down all the details. And if you are working in the workplace dear reader, you would be wise to learn about YOUR RIGHTS. Join the union if you haven't already, because that protects you. Learn the union book rules well and become an expert on policies, rules and laws which impact you. The old adage is very true: Knowledge is power. And if you are a working man with a family, you should learn all about the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). You are entitled to take time off work, by law, to care for a pregnant wife, sick family members, et cetera.
We all need knowledge and wisdom, especially God's knowledge and wisdom. Someone has said that knowledge is knowing that a tomato is classified as a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad. I like that. Knowledge is knowing your rights in the workplace, and your rights as a citizen of the United States. Wisdom is knowing when to stand up for your rights and take the necessary action. People often feel fear and stress in the workplace because they simply don't know how to handle an ongoing bad situation. I didn't learn what my Bill of Rights was until 2001 when I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry. I was already 34 years old! That is sad. Do you know your Bill of Rights dear friend?
You Have Every Legal Right To Pray Out Loud Publicly
When I went to Norman, Oklahoma, in 1999 for job training, I was walking alone outside the facility on my own time, praying outloud to God as I walked. Two punk security guards approached me and said that a woman complained that there was "a crazy guy outside talking to himself." I was deeply hurt by his rude remark. They wouldn't tell me who the woman was. I had been walking alone on a big field with a walking pathway, and as far as I could tell there was no one else around. I told the guards that perhaps I had been praying, because really it was none of there business. They one thug guard violated my rights (but I didn't know it at the time) when he horribly said: "Why don't you go and pray in your room." I don't like police or security for that very reason, that many of them are abusive and bullies. So I ended my walk and went up to my room.
In hindsight 26 years later, I have often deeply regretted that I didn't know about my Bill of Rights back in 1999, because the first thing I would have done is continue praying outloud while I was walking, just hoping that those two stupid fascist guards did something to me. If they had, I would have had a million dollar lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service! Folks, this is not communist North Korea. I was 32 years old at the time and ignorant of my rights.
Second, I would have called an attorney right away, to see if I could sue my employer for violating my rights to free speech and religion. You as an American have every legal right and protections to pray outloud in public. Effectively, if you don't stand up for your rights, you don't have any! We've all seen it with cops and security types—when someone gives them a badge and a gun with some authority—they abuse it; they become a fool with a John Wayne attitude, always looking for trouble and eager to bully others with their peon power.
Police Abusive Is Increasing Across America
For this good reason, for years now I have avoided big public events where there is an increased police presence and heightened security. There's just to many ungodly idiots with badges these days! That sadly includes interacting with the local police. When a punk stole my Amazon.com delivered package on May10th, 2024, I called the local sheriff's department. Two young goons came to my residence, looking like punk gang members. The female in particular was covered with ugly multi-colored tattoos all up and down her arms.
I live in West Pensacola, which is considered rural and not part of the official city of Pensacola, even though I'm just 10 minutes from downtown Pensacola. My address still says Pensacola. That's weird. Anyway, the female cop looked like a retarded circus clown! This is American society today, and it's a shameful disgrace. Ladies, please DON'T pollute your God-given fleshly beauty with manmade tattoos. As a normal man, and I can speak for men in general, I love plain old skin on a woman with no markings, butt-lifts, rhinoplasties or plastic surgery. I love a woman without any makeup, and a long dress turns me on more than a miniskirt does. Virtue and chastity are major turn-ons for real men. I digress.
I showed my home video security camera recording to the cops, in which you can clearly see the thief's face. To add insult to injury, when I told the police that Amazon kindly replaced the stolen $30 item free of charge, the cops said even if they did catch the thief, there was nothing that they could do. They said Amazon is the victim now, since they replaced the stolen item. That is so awful! Amazon would have to prosecute the thief. That is so messed up and corrupt! I complained about that to the Sheriff's Office too. I told them no wonder theft is so bad in West Pensacola, when the police are telling victims that there's nothing they can do! This country is getting worse and worse every day.
We All Need God's Wisdom
I could share hundreds more stories with you of disturbing things I've seen and personally experienced in my lifetime. One thing that I've learned is that I desperately need God's wisdom. The inspired King James Bible is our INSTRUCTION BOOK on how to live. The old adage is true: When all else fails, read the instructions. Most people will refuse to read God's Word until their life is in absolute shambles and everything is in chaos! It doesn't have to be that way dear friend. We all wise-up eventually. Wouldn't it be great if we'd wise-up before ruining our lives, and ruining the lives of others?
Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Wisdom is the most important thing in a person's life, next to being born again so you can have eternal life (John 3:1-7). Knowledge can be acquired through learning (books, social media, college), perception (learning from watching others; their mistakes and successes) and experience (what happens directly to us); but wisdom cannot be acquired those ways, it is a gift from God. James 1:5, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” Have you ever asked God to give you wisdom?
I love the book of Proverbs! I just heard another great Scripture from Proverbs 29:20, “Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.” May we all learn to hesitate before speaking. I need to work on this for sure. I live alone without a wife, so when I am in the presence of people, I desire to talk as much as I can. That puts me in a more vulnerable position, so that I need to especially be careful what words leave my mouth. Jesus warned in Matthew 15:19-20, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”
The prophet Jeremiah 17:9. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” The human heart should never be trusted. That is Proverbs 3:5-7 exhorts us not to lean upon our own understanding; but rather, we should trust in the Lord, departing from iniquity, and acknowledging Him in all our ways. Jesus said in Mark 11:22b, “Have faith in God.” Every day we should pray for God to give us wisdom. We need wisdom to live. We need wisdom to serve God by leading lost sinners to Christ with the Gospel. Knowledge is useless without wisdom how to apply it.
My favorite Bible verse for many years now has been Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” The Hebrew word for “keep” in this verse is natsar, which means: “to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain).” This Scripture means to be on guard always!We must guard what we allow to enter into our heart, and what we choose to dwell upon in our thoughts (our heart), because such things will ultimately affect our behavior. Only a fool harbors hatred, lust, bitterness and anger on a continual basis. Life is too short to live with a burden of hatred.
There are numerous wicked religious people who have deeply hurt me, but I don't hate anyone. I have put them into God's hands for judgment (Romans 12:19-21; Galatians 6:7). Case In point, I loathe arrogant pastors like Marty Herron and Jeff Redlin who get paid sickening 6-digit salaries to corrupt people, who have no regard for the truth of God's inspired Word. Both of the names of contemptible false prophets I just mentioned preach the Satanic falsehood of Lordship Salvation. Jeff Redlin is the incompetent senior pastor of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College. Look what evil doctrine PCC is teaching today! Pastor Redlin is a fool for bidding Godspeed to doctrines of devils (2nd John 1:11; 1st Timothy 4:1).
I heard Pastor Marty Herron with my own two ears, at the ungodly Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014, tell hundreds of people in his Sunday morning sermon that it is not enough to admit being a sinner to be saved, but (he said) you must also forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven. That is blasphemy against the truth of the Gospel! Pastor Herron is personal buddies with infidel Dr. Steve Pettit (the longtime incompetent president of Bob Jones University from 2014 to 2023). These men are evil. Look at the demonic Calvinist Lordship Salvation preached by Steve Pettit. This is exactly what Marty Herron and company teach. Dr. Herron quit as senior pastor of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2018, and is now the horrible incompetent vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. These ungodly false prophets will take you to Hell forever with themselves, if you foolishly let them. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!
Dear reader, wisdom is having the courage to expose false teachers and their damnable lies. Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” I fear God. Men who don't care about right doctrine, who choose to merely go along to get along with their corrupt neo-evangelical peers, do not fear God. For if they did fear God, they would heed THE TRUTH even if it meant standing alone as I have done all these many years.
In late 2014, I was banished from attending Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. My great fault was caring enough to befriend the ignorant pastors of Harvest with:
THE TRUTH that Lordship Salvation is a perversion of God's grace
THE TRUTH that the modern English Bible revisions are all corrupt
THE TRUTH that Martin Luther (1483-1546) taught the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration all his life and couldn't have been a born again Christian
THE TRUTH that repentance does not men to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven
Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.” I TOLD THE TRUTH, for which I was formally called into the church office and falsely accused by the wicked pastors of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam of “causing confusion and divisiveness in the church.” They forbade me to speak THE TRUTH anymore about the aforementioned items. That's like forbidding a bird to fly anymore! That's like forbidding a dog from barking anymore. I was saddened, offended and shocked that I was being told by pastors NOT to TELL THE TRUTH at church. They have much blood on their hands, for rejecting THE TRUTH (Hosea 4:6). My Bible preaching will be avenged by God.
I was the only one who did the right thing at Harvest. I told THE TRUTH, but they wickedly counted me as their enemy (Galatians 4:16). Proverbs 17:13, “Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.” They rewarded me EVIL FOR MY GOOD! The wicked pastors at Pensacola Christian College did the same evil thing to me. As of August 2, 2022 I have been banned in writing from attending Campus Church. PCC and Campus Church have blocked me from even reading their Facebook pages. PCC's evil leaders rewarded EVIL FOR MY GOOD, which means evil shall not depart from PCC's house! Evil will not depart from Marty Herron's house. God's curse is upon these Lordship Salvation heretics! They all threw me under the bus for TELLING THE TRUTH!!!
Proverbs 12:19, “The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.” I have told THE TRUTH that a free grace Gospel is biblical, but Lordship Salvation is a deadly perversion of God's grace. We find biblical proof that Lordship Salvation is false in Matthew 7:21-23. Those people boasted to Christ of having done not just a few, but “many wonderful works.” They also bragged about prophesying (preaching) in Jesus' name wherever they went. They bragged of casting out devils in Jesus' name. They called Jesus “Lord, Lord.” Sadly, they had never been born again. Jesus denounced them, literally calling them WORKERS OF INIQUITY. They failed to do the will of God to be saved, which according to John 6:40 is to BELIEVE ON JESUS. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again (John 3:3).
Exodus 19:5-6, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”
by Pastor Thomas Williamson
Much of our Christian emphasis on foreign policy in the Middle East today is based on the promise that God made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
The first half of this verse is a promise that God made to just one person, Abraham. The original Hebrew is in the second person singular, meaning that God is speaking only to Abraham. The King James Version correctly reflects this grammatical construction, since "thee" is singular, referring only to one person, whereas "ye" would refer to multiple persons.
Matthew Henry’s commentary states of Genesis 12:3a that "This made it a kind of league, offensive and defensive, between God and Abram."
Of the second half of the verse, Matthew Henry says, This was the promise that crowned all the rest; for it points to the Messiah, in whom ‘all the promises are yea and amen.’ Note, (1), Jesus Christ is the great blessing of the world, the greatest that ever the world blessed with."
Recently Genesis 12:3 has been spiritualized by Christian Zionist preachers, who say that this verse applies not just to Abraham, but also to Abraham’s descendants, specifically to the modern state of Israel founded in 1948. Supposedly, it means that evangelical Christians as individuals, and America as a nation, are bound to provide unquestioning support, financial and otherwise, to the state of Israel. It is said that if America fails to back up Israel in every way possible, financially, militarily and otherwise, then God will be through with America and will have us nuked.
When it is pointed out that the various Arabs nations, including Palestine, are also descended from Abraham, the Christian Zionists say that the promise of Genesis 12:3 applies only to the descendants of Isaac (Of course, there is no mention of Isaac in Genesis 12:3. They often misquote the verse, saying it refers to "blessing Israel," but Israel is not mentioned in the verse either).
Zionists say, based on their non-literal, speculative, spiritualized interpretation of Genesis 12:3, that we are to give total, unquestioned support to some of Abraham’s children, while others of Abraham’s children are to be hated, persecuted, ethnically cleansed, bombed back into the Stone Age, maybe even nuked.
But in Genesis 21:13, 17-18 God also bestows His blessing on Ishmael and his descendants, saying, "For I will make him a great nation." According to the same principles of interpretation by which we have made Genesis 12:3 a command for political support of the modern nation of Israel, Genesis 21:18 must be taken as a command for political support of the modern Arab nations. (Anybody want to start up a "Christian Ishmaelist" movement to lobby for Arab national greatness?)
Christian Zionists claim to have 70,000,000 followers in America, who insists that our politicians render unquestioning obedience to the military and political agenda of the Israeli Government.
Does God really demand that we support all actions and activities of the Israeli Government, even if those actions violate God’s moral standards of righteousness?
It should be pointed out that even in Old Testament times, when Israel was a nation specially chosen by, and ruled over by, Jehovah, He did not expect His people to support and endorse all actions of the government of Israel.
When the Government of Israel committed human rights violations, the prophets openly condemned them, 2 Kings 6:21 –23, 2 Chronicles 28:9-11, Nehemiah 5:7-11, Jeremiah 34:11-17, Amos 2:6-7, etc. Nowadays, liberal Jewish groups still protest human rights violations in Israel. Nevertheless, most fundamentalists Christians would never dream of doing such a thing – it is against their religion. It is their duty to either deny that such violations take place, or else to endorse and commend such violations. We have been told that God will smite us if we disagree with anything that Israel does.
The lawgiver Moses commanded the Hebrews that they should not oppress the strangers or non-Jews in their lands, Exodus 12:49, 22:21, 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34, 25:35, Deuteronomy 10:18-19, 23:7, 24:17, 27:19. That message, of course, is not mentioned today – it is considered "politically incorrect."
When King Ahab and Queen Jezebel unjustly expropriated the vineyard of Naboth, the prophet Elijah publicly denounced the kind for this unjust action, 1 Kings 21:17-24, Jehu cited this official action of the government of Israel against Naboth as justification for overthrowing that government, 2 Kings 9:25-26.
But nowadays, when the Israeli government expropriates the lands and properties of Palestinians without compensation, we look the other way and say nothing about it.
In Jeremiah 27:1-5, the prophet Jeremiah picketed a public meeting of the government of Judah with representatives of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon. He was protesting the foreign policy of Judah. We would never do anything like that today – it would be considered a violation of the command to "bless Abraham."
In Jeremiah 27:6-17, the prophet advocated the surrender of Israel’s territory to the King of Babylon, in return for peace – today, we would call it "land for peace." But today, our warmongering televangelists denounce "land for peace" as unthinkable for any reason whatsoever, and threaten God’s wrath against anyone who would support such a thing.
Supposedly it is better for Jewish and Arab children of Abraham to keep on killing each other over the land (while these sanctimonious war profiteers collect the money from sales of their Armageddon videos. Could it be a conflict of interest to allow American foreign policy to be dictated by these mega-millionaire preachers, who stand to make a profit if there is a war in the Middle East?)
We have seen that God’s inspired prophets did not meet the Christian Zionist standard of blind, unquestioning support for Israel. As it turns out, today’s Christian Zionists do not meet that standard, either.
Whenever the modern Israeli government takes any action that does not fit in with the speculative doomsday scenarios of the Armageddon Theology, the Christian Zionists will loudly protest and insist that the Israelis are doing wrong.
For instance, in 1994 Christian Zionist leaders, including Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed, publicly condemned the policies of the Israeli government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was seeking a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Robertson has also attacked the policies of Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres.
It seems hypocritical for Christian Zionists to threaten the wrath of God against those who express disagreement with any policy of the Israeli government when they have done the same thing themselves.
Modern-day Israelis and other Jews are well aware of the fact that the Christian Zionists believe, based on a mistaken interpretation of Zechariah 13:8, that there must be a devastating war in the Middle East in which two-thirds of all the Jews will be slaughtered. It is commonly understood that the Christian Zionists do not really care about what is best for the Jews, as evidenced by their constant lobbying efforts to stir up World War III in the Middle East. Million Jews may wind up dead, but it will be good for sales of the Armageddon videos that are peddled on the televangelists’ broadcasts and web-sites. This raises the question who is really "blessing Israel;" those who are working for peace in the Middle East, or those who are agitating for a war designed to get two-thirds of all Jews wiped out?
Some gullible evangelical Christians may not understand these issues, but our Jewish friends understand what is at stake very well – they are being prepared to serve as cannon fodder for the next Holocaust.
Gershom Gorenberg, in his book "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," says, "I’ve listened to….American evangelical ministers who insist on their deep love for Israel and nevertheless eagerly await apocalyptic battles on Israel’s soil so terrible that the dry river bed will, they predict, fill with rivers of blood."
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has stated that "People who say there can be no peace are not really friends of Israel."
Robert O. Freedman, political science professor at Baltimore Hebrew University, says concerning Christian Zionists, "Once you get in bed with them, you are, to a certain extent, subscribing to their view of what America ought to be. And that, in my view, is not in the best interests of the Jewish people."
Former Shin Bet secret chief Carmi Gillon and former police commissioner Assaf Hefetz, commenting on the activities of Temple Mount extremists who are financially supported by fundamentalist Americans, warned that an attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem "would lead to an all-out war and unleash destructive forces that would imperil Israel’s existence."
The eagerness of some televangelists, to get a war going in the Middle East (along with their vociferous Arab-bashing and Muslim-baiting), must be considered in context of their belief in the infamous Armageddon Theology, which insists that 2/3 of all the Jews must die.
Grace Halsell, in her book "Prophecy and Politics" observed: "Convinced that a nuclear Armageddon is an inevitable event within the divine scheme of things, many evangelical dispensationalists have committed themselves to a course for Israel that, by their own admission, will lead directly to a holocaust indescribably more savage and widespread than could have generated in Adolf Hitler’s criminal mind."
American Christians who really want to be a blessing to all the children of Abraham (Jews and Arabs) need to realize that they do not have to render blind, knee-jerk support to the most extremist elements of Zionism, or to those who are actively trying to foment massive wars in the Middle East that would be contrary to the interests of the Israeli people. Not everyone is going to agree that stirring up a war to get 2/3 of all Jews killed is a good thing for the Jews.
Nor should we forget that our Prime Directive as Christians is found in the Great Commission. Our mission is to evangelize, baptize and teach, not to try to hasten Christ’s coming by agitating war and violence in the Middle East.
Zionism is based on a total misunderstanding of what the Bible teaches. It is true that God gave Palestine to Hebrews in ancient times. But the Bible teaches that their possession of the land was under a conditional covenant with Jehovah. If the Hebrews disobeyed their God, they would lose the land. This is clearly taught in Genesis 17:9-14, Exodus 19:4-5, Leviticus 26:40-45, Deuteronomy 7:12, Joshua 23:15-16, 1 Kings 9:6-9, 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, Jeremiah 34:12-22, Ezekiel 33:23-29, Matthew 21:43, etc.
When the Jews rejected their Messiah, God sent the Romans to dispossess the Jews from their land in 70 AD. This was God’s complete punishment on the Jews for crucifying Christ – therefore, the Jews today should not be persecuted for something that happened 2000 years ago. However, their former title deed on the land of Palestine is not abrogated.
The New Testament teaches that Christians are to focus on the heavenly Jerusalem, not the earthly one, John 4:21, Galatians 4:24-28, Hebrews 12:18-24. We are told in Hebrews 11:13-16 that even Abraham has no further interest in a restored Jewish state on earth, because he is in a much better place in heaven.
Christian Zionism is a movement that claims to be based on the Bible, but as we have seen, it is actually contrary to what the Bible teaches. All Christians should repudiate Zionism and should work for a peace settlement in the Middle East that will be of mutual benefit to Abraham’s Jewish and Arab children in Palestine.
Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He contributes to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from time to time. END
2nd Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
The words “transforming” and “transformed” in our text passage of Scripture is the Greek word metaschēmatizo which means, “to transfigure or disguise.” The Bible teaches and warns in our text passage that just as Satan imitates an angel of light, so also do the Devil's counterfeit ministers of unrighteousness (hellbound infidels) imitate godly preachers. They dress and appear like fundamentalist Bible preachers, but in reality they are dangerous wolves in sheep's clothing who teach false doctrines. The Bible warns everyone that Satan and his evil ministers of darkness disguise themselves to deceive people.
The English dictionary defines “disguise” as:
An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something (noun)
Any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity (noun)
The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance (noun)
Make unrecognizable (verb)
I thought it very very interesting and telling when I learned that both Billy Graham and singer Amy Grant were honored by Hollywood, by being awarded stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. How interesting that two of the biggest religious phonies in the world would both be awarded a Star of Fame by Hollywood. Any Grant belongs to the demonic Church of Christ, and in her religious singing career has been a follower of Billy Graham.
Satan is the Boss of Hollywood!
Beware Of False Prophet, Billy Graham
One such minister of unrighteousness is Billy Graham (1918-2018). I cannot warn people enough about the lying counterfeit plan of salvation of Billy Graham, and his son Franklin Graham. Here is a quote from the official website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA)...
“Many people come to Christ without first counting the cost. The cost includes repentance, the forsaking of sin, and a continual, daily, open acknowledgment of Christ in your life.” [emphasis added]
Liar, liar, soul and body on fire in Hell!!! Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible teach those lies!!! Bible repentance is “a change of mind” (Greek: metanoia), not a change of behavior. Changing one's behavior is reformation, not repentance. A changed life for a believer is produced by the “fruit” of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25), and by not one's decision to straighten up as a requirement to be saved. Billy Graham is a liar!!!
Billy Graham has woefully confused service with salvation (confused discipleship with sonship), mixing the two, which is another gospel that cannot produce the new birth by the Holy Spirit of God. One of my very favorite quotes, comes from one of my favorite Gospel preachers, John Bunyan:
“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.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)
That is brilliant! Every pastor and every layman should memorize that precious quote, as I have also. John Bunyan fully understood the free grace Gospel. Bunyan understood that the fruit produced by the indwelling Holy Spirit (aka, the Spirit of Christ) was a matter of sanctification, and not of justification. The heresy of Lordship Salvation confuses people by combining sanctification with justification.
Tragically, both Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and Bob Jones University (BJU) today teach the Devil's lie that: “Justification, sanctification and glorification are a package deal which cannot be separated.” There has never been a bigger lie! What PCC and BJU are teaching are the exact opposite of the truth which John Bunyan tried to get across to humanity—the simple Bible truth that if we do not keep sanctification separate from justification, we will corrupt the Word of God and cast stumbling blocks before the people. That is what is happening all across the world today, especially in America.
Tens of thousands of apostate churches today preach the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, which errantly says faith is not enough to get to Heaven; but in addition, Lordship Salvation says that you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning, become a follower of Christ as Lord, and surrender your will to live in holiness. Dear reader, the Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. That is exactly what Billy Graham and company have wickedly done! They have attached to faith, living the Christian life as a requirement to get to Heaven. That is a counterfeit plan of salvation.
On their BGEA website the following demonic heresy is what they teach you must do to be “born again”...
So how can we be born again?
First, we must admit our sin—that we can’t live up to God’s perfect standard on our own.
Then we must ask forgiveness for that sin and repent, which means to make every effort in turning away from that sin.
Finally, we ask Jesus to be part of our lives.
That’s when God’s Spirit penetrates our hearts to guide us and help us be more like Him. That’s when we’re born again. [emphasis added]
Where does the inspired Holy Bible tells us to “make every effort in turning away from sin” to be born again? That is, to get to Heaven? It doesn't! Billy Graham is a lying false teacher!
Also, where does the inspired King James Bible tell us to ask Jesus to be part of our life to be saved? It doesn't! Billy Graham and his followers are hellbound infidels—imposters who masquerade as children of God. What you just read is a false plan of salvation which cannot produce the new birth in Christ. Mr. Graham is guilty of mixing and confusing living the Christian life with God's free gift of eternal life, which is received by faith alone in the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ.
In 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, the inspired Word of God plainly defines “the gospel” as three things:
Jesus DIED on a cross to pay our debt of sin.
Jesus was BURIED.
Jesus physically RESURRECTED from the dead three days later.
The only prerequisite necessary to believe the Gospel is to admit you are a guilty sinner, because you need to know what your being saved from. You are a sinner and so am I (Romans 3:10-23). There is a penalty (wages) for our sins, which is death (Romans 6:23). This includes a second death in the Lake of Fire forever (Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8).
The Bad News is that we are all guilty sinners deserving of being punished in the fires and torments of Hell forever. The Good News is that God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, into the world to die on a cross for our sins, to make a way of escape through His shed blood (Romans 5:9).
Biblically, you don't have to turn from your sins to go to Heaven; but rather, Christ died on the cross to pay your debt of sin (and mine). Jesus fully bore the weight and curse of our sins so that we don't have to. The Devil's fallacy of Lordship Salvation (which Billy Graham and his followers errantly preach) place the weight and burden of sin upon the sinner instead, which is an impossible burden to bear. Who can turn away from their sinning? That's right, no one. Psalms 130:3, “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
Please be awake to righteousness! These devilish false prophets need to be exposed (Titus 1:9-14). I am saddened when I attended local churches in Pensacola, Florida, and I hear pastors quoting and bragging on Billy Graham. By partaking of Operation Christmas Child (OCC), tens of thousands of compromised churches across the country are supporting, wickedly bidding Godspeed (2nd John 1:11), to Franklin Graham (whose corrupt plan of salvation is the same as his father's plan of damnation). Franklin Graham's OCC has taken in billions of dollars, which Charity Watch Dog Groups have exposed for the organization's lack of transparency to reveal where the money is going. I won't give OCC a penny!
The world is going to Hell while the corrupt churches are dropping the ball about how to get to Heaven. Merely “becoming a Christ follower” is the popular teaching today in neo-evangelical dead churches, but that won't produce the required new birth to get to Heaven. Salvation only comes to those who cease from all their own works, and rest in Christ alone, relying upon His death on the cross, burial and bodily resurrection from the dead three days later. We get saved by receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full-payment for our sins, believing that He was buried, but then raised up from the dead the third day. 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
The Devil is the greatest imitator in history! When the Man of Sin (Antichrist) comes, he will imitate Jesus Christ. The Antichrist won't merely be against Christ, he will claim TO BE CHRIST! The Man of Sin will show himself as being God, in the future soon to be rebuilt Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Satan's ministers look just like God's ministers, but they preach another gospel, another Jesus and have another spirit (2nd Corinthians 11:3-4).
Luke 22:26-27, “But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.”
A friend of mine wrote this and I think it is worth sharing. We need a revival in churches today of loving the unloving—the misfits, losers, smelly, sinful and contemptible of society—people for whom Jesus Christ was willing to sacrifice His life on Calvary's cross! ...
The pastor says they sit front and center. The gay boys. Sometimes they hold hands. And some folks have said he should address the issue. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
There is the couple who are pregnant and not married. Walks in shame as her father a “Man of God”, physically slaps her legs while she is having morning sickness and the Boyfriend who is not wanting to marry her. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And then there’s the man who sneaks in the back door. Fresh off the street. After the service starts. And leaves before altar call. The people sitting close complain about how bad he smells. Of beer and smoke and sweat. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And then there’s the young mama who wears dirty clothes and lets her four children come in and eat all the donuts and drink all the watered-down juice. Some church staff say they “…eat like little pigs. Like they haven’t eaten in weeks.” While the Mama just stands there and lets them. And the elders say something must be done and said. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And there’s the whore sitting among the faithful. And everybody knows her. She sits with a painted-up face, cheap perfume, and a broken heart. And those who sit close, well, they all treat her for what they think she is. And at the last staff meeting, her name came up.
Something must be done about her. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
The pastor is a good man. Holy and just. And he wants to do the “right and loving” thing. And he wants to “look like Jesus”. And he asks me if I have any thoughts on anything he could say. Yes, sweet Pastor. I do. Start with this and say it Louder than any other words:
“Welcome to Church. This is a place of love and hope and safety and forgiveness. There will be food for the hungry. Living water for the thirsty. We are so glad you are here. You are invited. You are loved. Come on in—we’ve been waiting on you. Welcome here. We are the church.”
Say that. To the called and to the called-out. To the leaders and the greeters. To the dirty and the clean. We are all the same. We are.
May we blow the dust of religion out of our souls and choose affection instead. May our words and actions and reactions be a sanctuary for all.
Jesus broke many laws to love. So, Jesus, be our voice. Be the only words we should ever speak. I believe this with all my heart. Years ago we were kinder. Everybody looked out for one another. We need to go back to that. It takes us all. We gotta do better at looking out for each other instead of breaking each other down.
Mark 2:7, “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”
My long time ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) wrote this helpful book titled: 'WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS?.' Only Jesus has the nail-scared hands and feet, and the pierced side. The Pope and Catholic priest didn't die on a cross to pay for your sins, but Jesus did (Romans 5:6-9). The Lutheran minister didn't shed his blood at Calvary to pay your debt of sin, but Jesus did. What saith the Scripture? 1st Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” You either go through faith in Jesus to get to Heaven, or else you won't be going; you'll die in your sins and perish into the Lake of Fire.
I learned recently that in Yellowstone National Park there are geysers that spew scorching steam upward hundreds of feet into the atmosphere. They are surrounded by pools of acidic water in which the temperatures can reach 400° Fahrenheit. In a tragic true story, a visiting man's dog jumped into the pool, thinking it was just another lake. To the owner's horror his dog was being burned alive and couldn't escape his tragic fate. The owner instinctively dived in to save his dog, acting on impulse out of love for his best friend, which ended up costing him his life too. That is so sad. But dear friend, this is only a fraction of what Hell's torment and miseries will be like. The inspired Holy Bible horrifically describes Hell as a literal place inside the earth (Isaiah 14:9), a place of brimstone (sulfur) and fire (Revelation 21:8).
Thankfully, Jesus CAN forgive sin. The wicked Pharisees were offended when Jesus forgave the crippled man's sins and healed him. Those ungodly religious Jewish leaders doubted that Jesus was who He claimed to be—God among men. John 10:33, “The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” Clearly, Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh. John 1:1-3 and verse 14 make this abundantly plain to see in the Scripture. The inspired Word of God teaches in Colossians 2:9,“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” In the earthly spirit, soul and body of Jesus dwelt God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (all of the Godhead). Jesus was 100% a man, and He was 100% God. Anybody who doubts these truths is evidencing that they are not a born again child of God. That is why the Apostle Paul warned in 2nd Corinthians 11:4 about “another Jesus.”
Paul also warned about “another spirit.” As my long time ministry friend, Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023), used to rightly say: “Any spirit that is not the Holy Spirit is a familiar spirit (a demon).” Beware of the demonic Roman Catholic priest and Lutheran minister who errantly and arrogantly think that they have the power to forgive sins. ONLY GOD CAN FORGIVE SINS, AND JESUS IS GOD!
Revelation 1:9, “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
I love this MP3 sermon from 1988 by Pastor Jack Hyles. It is called:
Sometimes a heavy burden comes to stay. I was severely rear-ended by a church bus in 1992. I didn't realize at the time that the accident had permanently misaligned my neck (medically called 'Reverse Cervical Curve'). This abnormal alignment of my neck caused undue pressure in the Thorax region of my neck, causing the disks between bones C5, C6 and C7 to slip and place pressure on my spinal cord.
In 2004, my neck finally gave way, and the agonizing pain and tension started in my neck, never to leave. My life has been adversely afflicted by my bad neck pain, burning nerves, both arms feeling inflated with air, tight tension in my neck, et cetera. This heavy burden is here to stay, it will never go away.
In this beautiful sermon, Pastor Hyles teaches: “Bible patience is when the burden is here to stay, and there's nothing you can do about it—it will never leave—and you hold up.” Amen! This needful sermon has my name written all over it, because of my debilitating neck injury that causes constant neck tension and pain which will never leave.
To make matters much worse, my former unfaithful wife selfishly abandoned and divorced me in 2006, leaving me to sink with the Titanic of our marriage, which is now at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. For the past 19 painful years I have had to suffer alone—having no companion, no cheerleader, no nurse, no lover, no friend—but thankfully, Jesus' grace has been sufficient to sustain me (2nd Corinthians 12:9).
The following photo is an actual X-ray of the titanium surgical hardware that is permanently in my neck. My relentless constant neck pain and tension, and related bodily discomforts, make me long to go home to be with Jesus, because I spend a lot of time with Him, my companion in suffering. ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ญ:๐ต, “๐ ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ป, ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐, ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ผ๐, ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐.”
In his sermon, Brother Hyles quotes from ๐๐๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ญ:๐ญ๐ต, “๐๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐๐น๐.” Do not allow your burdens to control your behavior; you decide how you're going to act, don't react. Be your own man! If you too are suffering with a permanent burden dear reader, like I am, congratulations, because you are a member of the Companionship Club with Jesus Christ and all those who suffer with a burden that will never leave; it will never go away. Revelation 1:9, “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Jesus is precious!
I frequently read recent articles by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. I love his prolific style of writing, his wisdom and hard hitting truthful writings. I recommend that you check out his website and stop be regularly to read his stuff.
Over the course of my lifetime I have watched the role of men taken away. The role of the male as provider, defender, and disciplinarian is no more. It was destroyed by feminists.
To clarify “feminist”: In the past when I have criticized feminists older women who had careers asked why I thought women shouldn’t have careers. Their idea is that a feminist is a woman who has a career. But women have always had careers as mothers, homemakers, grandmothers, school teachers, nurses, secretaries, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and even spies such as Eve Gordon who made during World War II 112 parachute jumps into occupied Europe. Even in pre-feminist days, one of my aunts despite being married had a career outside the home. She enjoyed the discipline of getting to work on time, the interaction with other people, and meeting new ones.
By feminist I mean a person with an ideological agenda of obliterating the difference between men and women. When I was young men were raised to respect women. When a woman entered a room, the men stood. Doors were opened for women and their entrance proceeded the man’s. Car doors were opened for women who were helped in and out. At the dining table men stood until the women were seated. In those days men still wore hats. A gentleman passing a lady on the sidewalk was expected to tip his hat in respect. A man who struck a woman or used a four-letter word in a lady’s presence suffered a ruined reputation.
Feminists derided the many ways in which respect was shown to women as “placing women on a pedestal.” Showing respect for women was somehow undervaluing them and treating them unequally. Feminists insisted on women being pulled down into the gutter with men.
Big brothers were taught to protect little sisters. It was little brother’s job to learn to protect himself, and fights on the school playground was part of the learning process.
Today men are no longer taught to protect women. But it is a natural inclination in men. Studies have concluded that the introduction of women soldiers into conflict causes a loss of cohesion and focus, because men become distracted by concern for the women.
Feminists were not happy until they destroyed men’s colleges, male leadership in politics, military, and business, men’s clubs and male organizations such as the Boy Scouts which was forced to take in girls. Even the military has been taken from men. How is there a band of brothers when the commander is female?
Men have lost their role. They are no longer the provider. The wife might have, thanks to gender preferences in university admissions, employment, and promotion, the better job bringing in more income. Studies conclude that boys suffer depression from loss of a role. Reportedly, the suicide rate of boys and young men has been rising.
What the feminists have established is a new form of male deference to women. Males must stand aside and give up their role to women.
Feminist were not content to only destroy men. They destroyed women also. The idea of a chaste woman was objectionable because it held women to a higher standard than men.
Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, used the magazine to encourage women to be harlots. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s Cosmopolitan was a fixture in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists. I often wondered what my mother and grandmothers would have thought of a woman’s magazine, the cover of which heralded articles titled “How to be unfaithful to your husband without being caught,” “how to find a sex partner when on vacation without your boy friend,” “how to manage multiple sex partners.”
Today young women support themselves with their porn sites. Women brag on social media about having had 150 sexual partners, sparking rivals to vow attaining higher levels of wantonness. Female school teachers get themselves pregnant by their under age students. Mothers have 12-year old daughters on birth control pills. School children are sexualized at an early age to get them ready for the legalization of pedophiles, now euphemized as “minor attracted persons.”
I often refer to the United States as a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel, which is what we have become. It will be a big chore for Trump to rescue us from this predicament. READ MORE
