Pastors Are Gifts From God, But Many Have Not Sought The Lord

Jeremiah 3:15, “And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.” 

The Holy Bible teaches that pastor are God's gift to the local New Testament Church. A pastor's primary duty is to FEED God's flock with knowledge and understanding. This is not possible with the Alexandrian counterfeit Bible PERversions!!! The modern Bible are corrupt, teaching a false type of repentance. There are a raging theological debate in the churches, and has been for centuries, over the true meaning of Biblical repentance for salvation.

Does a person have to forsake sinful behavior to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life? If you have to forsake a life of sinful activity to be saved, then how can it be a gift? Obviously it cannot, yet pastors like Charles Lawson at the Temple Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, teach just that! Pastor Lawson wrongly accuses Dr. Jack Hyles of leaving off repentance! Woe unto Pastor Lawson, who is an admitted 2-point Calvinist. Lawson is wrong on repentance and therefore, wrong on God's simple plan of salvation. Unless Dr. Lawson repents of his wrong repentance, he will spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

Although pastors are a gift from God, they sometimes become “brutish” (not thinking straight) and actually do more damage than good to the cause of Christ. Jeremiah 10:21, “For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.” I believe Pastor Lawson is as good a man as you'll find, as far as good men go, but he is wrong on repentance, and he has the heart of tens of thousands of Americans via his YouTube sermons and website.

There is no middle ground! Many of the Baptist churches have foolishly adopted a middle-of-the-road position on the Gospel, allowing BOTH Arminian and Calvinist theology to co-exist, which is IMPOSSIBLE. Either turning away from sinful behavior is necessary to be saved, or it is not! Romans 3:20, “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

This is not a Baptist issue, it is a serious doctrinal matter affecting ALL churches!!! Here is an excellent MP3 sermon by (non-denominational) Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold titled, “Calvinism And Grace Are Not Compatible.” Jesus was not a Baptist! Although I am an independent fundamental Baptist, and proud of it, there is not such thing as “The Baptist Church.” I learned that truth from Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980). There is only local New Testament churches!

Many web visitors have referred to me as their “pastor,” and I love and appreciate you all. Before I was even conceived, I God called me to preach! The same was true of the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:5).