The Love Of Money Doesn't Mix With Serving God

1st Timothy 6:3-5, “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”

I cringe in my soul when a Christian tells me that they want to start a new ministry for Jesus Christ. The reason I cringe is because 99% of people want money. The love (desire) for money does not bode well with serving God. When I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry 23 years ago in April of 2002, I decided in my heart of hearts that I would never take a penny for my ministry labors, and by God's grace I still haven't. I have never asked for, accepted nor hinted that I want money from anybody, and I never will by God's grace. My ministry is a labor of love for God, truth and people. I just humbly want to be a blessing for Christ to others.

Sadly, I have had umpteen Christians contact me over the years to ask for my advice and help to start a new ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ. I already know before they even say a word that they very likely intend to ask people for donations, sell things or somehow use their so-called “ministry” to make money. That being said, the inspired Holy Bible does teach that a man who preaches the Gospel can live off the Gospel. 1st Corinthians 9:14, “Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.”

Unfortunately, this is one of the most abused passages in the Bible. There are women on YouTube who preach the Gospel, while teaching heresies at the same time, begging for financial donations with PayPal. Renee Roland is one of them. I do not support her work. Women are not permitted to preach the Word of God. If it's wrong for a woman to preach in the church, and it certainly is wrong (1st Timothy 2:11-12), it's wrong for her to preach on social media.

Kindly said, Renee falsely teaches that Christ-rejecting sinners won't spend eternity burning in the fires of Hell. Renee also teaches that Jesus is not the eternal Son of God. She is unlearned in the Scripture, preaching the same annihilation lie of the dangerous Jehovah's Witness and Seventh-Day Adventist cults. Renee asks for money to be donated to her PayPal account, which I think is very wrong for her to do. She is not qualified to teach for multiple reasons. I do not hate Renee, nor anyone else. I don't hold a personal grudge against her, but the Bible is clear that women are not supposed to teach men.

Another YouTube channel is JackSmack77 (Matthew Gordon Correll). Matthew is just plain mean sometimes to people. He is wrong on some doctrinal issues, such as his hyper-grace view that Christ-rejecters today who once professed faith in Christ are still saved. That is untrue! No one is saved who denies Christ, and they never were saved to begin with (1st John 2:19). Matthew begs for money on his videos with links to his Pay Pal account. I think this is shameful. I am against the tens of thousands of religious people today who are exploiting Christianity to make a buck in Jesus' name.

And please let me say, that you should never give any money to anyone who is not a legitimate man of God who is getting the job done for Christ. Nobody on YouTube needs your money to continue what they are doing. They just want your money. I spend about $1,000 each year for my VPS (Virtual Private Server) web hosting package for my seven ministry websites. I need VPS because of the massive amount of resources that my ministry websites uses for the millions of visitors annually. Praise God! I humbly pay that all myself. God has been faithful to provide for me over the years, so that I have never needed to depend on my ministry followers for help. I have never asked for, nor taken, a penny from anyone for my ministry. God has been good and faithful to provide for my ministry work. Thank you Lord!

The tragic truth is that 95% of people interested in ministry work want money. A man recently contacted me, who expressed his interest in starting a new ministry. I commended him for it. I always encourage Christians to start new ministries, or help existing legitimate one's. And let me say that no one has a genuine ministry for Christ unless a free grace Gospel is being preached. There are literally tens of thousands of so-called “ministries” today that fail to present any type of plan of salvation, let alone the free grace Gospel that saves men (Romans 1:16).

The man expressed his interest in starting a preacher's bootcamp to indoctrinate them with the fundamental truths of the Bible. I don't like to beat around the bush and deceive people, so I told him the harsh truth to make sure he wasn't wearing rose-colored glasses. I told him that since he is not a well-known name in the fundamentalist Christian world, he wouldn't have any followers. I mean, if Eric Clapton offers to teach a guitar class, several thousand people will enroll because he is a world renowned guitar player. But if I offer to teach a guitar class, two people might show up...lol.

I also frankly told the man who desires to start a ministry, that if he plans to ask people for money he likely won't succeed. I am sick and tired of Christians wanting money for “serving God.” As I mentioned earlier, if a man is a full-time ordained preacher of the Gospel, then it is okay for him to get paid for his labors. However, I absolutely don't think this means that anyone who knows a verse or two, and starts a YouTube channel or website, should be begging for donations. It has become a big problem folks.

There are thousands of unlearned people who are woefully ignorant of the Scripture, using social media to beg for money. Americans love to give! We are a generous society. That is why religious con men like Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham and Pat Robertson have been so successful at parasiting off of the sincere naïve masses. I have encouraged my ministry followers at Jesus-is-Savior.com for the past 23 years, since 2002, to be very reluctant and careful to whom you give money. I refuse to donate a penny to any so-called “ church” or ministry that doesn't go soulwinning. To my shame, in the past I have tithed in corrupt churches, but I will never make that foolish decision again.

Remember dear reader, our money as saints is really the Lord's. 1st Corinthians 6:20, “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” That “price” was the precious literal blood of Jesus, which He shed on the cross to pay our debt of sin. The “place” where Jesus applied His blood is the Mercy Seat in Heaven in the Holy Place (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). The blood of the precious Lamb of God had to be applied (sprinkled) in the right place. That is how I know Pastor John MacArthur (1939-2025) was a damnable false prophet, because he openly denied that Jesus' blood was applied to the heavenly Mercy Seat. Don't believe anyone who errantly teaches that Jesus' blood wasn't applied in Heaven to the Mercy Seat, in the presence of God's the Father on our behalf. 

In the Old Testament, the LORD was looking for the lamb's blood APPLIED to the doorposts and lintel (plate above the door) of each home. Killing the lamb wouldn't have been enough, the blood had to be applied (Exodus 12:22-23). Exodus 12:13, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” The blood of Jesus absolutely needed to be APPLIED in Heaven!!!

By the way, this is why I reject the popular false teaching that redemption was finished on the cross. When Jesus uttered the words “It is finished” (John 19:30), He was simply referring to all Old Testament prophecies concerning Himself, which the Bible plainly says in the text. John 19:28, “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.” At this point, Jesus still hadn't died, been buried, nor resurrected from the dead, which are “the gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. So, redemption could NOT have been finished on Calvary's cross. THE BLOOD STILL HADN'T BEEN APPLIED IN HEAVEN TO THE MERCY SEAT!!! Only when Christ's blood was sprinkled upon the heavenly Mercy Seat was redemption truly completely for humanity.

Anyone can definitely serve God. There are thousands of opportunities to serve the Lord everywhere. But as far as wanting to make money, that will likely be difficult unless you are already a well-known established name in your field. When I started my website ministry back in 2002 making money didn't interest me, nor has the thought at any point entered into my mind along the way. I couldn't care less about making money. Money brings headaches, worries and problems (1st Timothy 6:9-10). Happy is the man who serves God freely with a servant's heart, not continually conniving how he can make more money. One of the reasons why after 23 years I still haven't compromised my Bible preaching is simply because I don't preach to get money. There's just something about money that once you have it, it has you!

I hate what the love of money does to corrupt people. There are literally tens of thousands of people, quote on quote "serving God" today who want money. There are so many personal ministries asking for money that it has become a racket on social media, sad but true. When I tell people this truth, they become offended. ...

1st Timothy 6:9-12, “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”

Years ago, a Christian man who worked as a police officer asked for my help to start a website ministry. I humbly agreed on the condition that he wouldn't beg for money with his ministry. I never heard from him again. I'm not interested in helping other believers make money!

I have had several dozen people contact me over the years offering to do a link exchange with me. That is, they promote my ministry website in exchange for my website promoting their stuff. It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever sell out to do that. I am not for sale!

I even had the ungodly unrepentant sinners from the perverse Satanic “Girls Gone Wild” business contact me, wanting to exchange website links. I told them kindly to go to Hell. The fact that they would even offer such a wicked deal to a fundamentalist Bible preacher shows how evil they are in their hardened hearts.

I thought it would be good to write a blog about money in relation to serving God. The two things just don't mix well. Nothing has done more to harm true Christianity than the abundance of greedy charlatans, con men, liars and crooks who prey upon the weak, gullible and foolish. Television preachers are notoriously corrupt, deceptive and evil. But the average local church today is no better, deceiving the people concerning God's simple plan of salvation. When a pastor insists that you must “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven, he is pulling on the same rope as the Devil, lying to you. That pastor is a lying false prophet!!!

I encourage every believer to use whatever talents, skills and resources you have to serve God. That being said, please don't seek what a ministry can do for you. President John F. Kennedy is famous for saying: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” The same thing can be applied to every child of God. Ask not what a ministry can do for you; ask what your ministry can do for Christ.

About twenty years ago I contacted The Gospel Radio Hour ministry started by Pastor Oliver B. Greene (1915-1976). I kindly requested permission to type out some of Dr. Greene's Bible study books. His greedy son refused and threatened to sue me if I did. To my understanding Dr. Greene's sons are attorneys. It saddens me how greedy religious people have become.

Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980) founded the Sword Of The Lord ministry in 1934. Sadly, many changes have taken place at the Sword since, some good and some bad. A good thing is that the present editor, Dr. Shelton Smith, has taken the Sword of the Lord King James Bible only. This is a drastic departure from the position of Dr. Rice, who used and promoted some of the Devil's corrupt modern Bible revisions. Dr. Rice did not believe that the King James Bible is inspired nor perfect, but I certainty DO think it is inspired and perfect (and so also did Pastor Jack Hyles think the King James Bible is inspired and perfect).

I was saddened recently to find an article online where Dr. Rice's daughters criticize Dr. Shelton Smith, falsely accusing him of running the Sword of the Lord into the ground by taking it King James Bible only. That is terrible! Dr. Smith has rightly and courageously taken the ministry in the right direction by rejecting all of the Devil's modern Bible revisions, which are all horribly corrupt and based on the perverse Greek of Westcott and Hort.

That being said, I am very disappointed with Dr. Shelton Smith for not contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints. The Sword of the Lord promotes advertisements for the apostate cesspool of iniquity at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), which institution preaches hard core Lordship Salvation today. I contacted the Sword of the Lord in 2023 on their website to warn them to please stop promoting PCC, but they blew me off and didn't even bother to reply. SHAME on Dr. Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord for wickedly bidding Godspeed to false prophets! According to PCC's Campus Church, you must be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven, which is another gospel. RUN from PCC! RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

The tragic and sad truth is that 99% of so-called “ministries” would vanish overnight if the people who run them stopped making money. God never intended for Christianity to become an exploitive means for people to make money. It seems that everybody and their dog today wants to start a new ministry to beg for donations. It makes God vomit! Truly, the love (desire) of money is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:10). No man of God should desire to make money, lest it influence his preaching.

All across America today henpecked pastors are afraid to preach the truth against the evils of bossy feminist women—marriage wreckers, meddlers, gossipers, who wear their immodest pants and blaspheme the inspired Word of God by doing so. We've got a bunch of girly-boy wimps, entertainers, intellects and psychologists in dead church pulpits today; instead of rip-snortin', shingle-pullin', barn-stormin', window-rattlin', truth-tellin', people-lovin', Hellfire and damnation, BIBLE PREACHERS! Ninety-nine percent of pastors today are not preachers!

By God's grace, from the day I began my website ministry back in 2002, my sincere heart's desire as a born-again fundamentalist Bible preacher has always been to give myself away to others for Christ. I have never wanted anything in return except the heavenly treasures which God promises to his children who faithfully serve Him on earth (Matthew 6:19-21; 1st Corinthians 3:8-9). That requires faith, to believe that God will make good on His promise.

Yet, I hear so many professed Christians today talking about starting a ministry and they all sadly want money. Where is their faith? I will never use my ministry to make money. No thank you, I am not interested. My reward is waiting for me in Heaven. That being said, my greatest reward will be all the souls saved and lives changed by God's Holy Spirit, who works through my humble labor for Jesus Christ.

Having said all that, if you are determined to part with your hard-earned money dear reader, please make sure to give your donation to a free grace Gospel ministry, and not to some Lordship Salvation false prophet. Remember, you are accountable to God for every penny He has entrusted to you. Please don't ever give a penny to any corrupt church that doesn't use only the King James Bible. Make sure they preach a free grace Gospel that doesn't mix in repenting of your sins to be saved, which is a counterfeit plan of salvation. Don't ever give money to any church where the pastor is living large; high on the hog as the old adage goes. I admit that in the past I have tithed to corrupt churches, but I will never do that again. I was a fool. So, in this regard, please don't be like me, be better than me!

I just want to be a blessing to others and I don't want anyone's money. I am just thankful that you are here reading my humble ministry blog. THANK YOU! Jesus is precious!!!

1st Timothy 6:9-12, “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”