Psalms 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”
Romans 1:20-21, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
Alex Honnold (born 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents, particularly his historic 3,000 foot climb of El Capitan in 2017. El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, California. He has also free soloed the 1,667 foot tall skyscraper Taipei 101 in Taiwan in January 2026, making him one of the most accomplished climbers in history. Here is a 22-minute inspiring documentary about Alex. ...
Before Free Solo (Full Episode) | Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin
I could watch Alex climb all day and never get bored of watching him. This guy has a backbone and nerves of steel. It blows my mind how any human being (and there's a lot of them in the world) can climb hundreds and thousands of feet into the air without using any safety ropes or equipment in case they slip and fall. I mean, if you get nervous even once and freeze up, you're dead. If you lose your grip even once, you're dead. If your leg cramps up even once from dehydration or fatigue, you're dead. Alex is an incredible rare individual.
Yet, something that astounds me even more than his climbing abilities, lack of fear and incredible mind over body control is that Alex is an avowed atheist. He admits openly and bluntly; making no bones about the fact, that he doesn't believe there is a Creator. That is even more difficult for me to understand because Alex has seen nature in ways that most people couldn't even imagine. Alex has been thousands of feet up a mountainside beholding the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets that would bring tears to our eyes.
You don't find many atheist farmers, who spend a great deal of time outdoors in nature. I humbly think living in a concrete jungle of a large impersonal city breeds atheism. Many young people had never even considered becoming an atheist until they attended some heathen public school or ungodly university that teaches humanism. I am surprised that Alex is an atheist. It is my earnest hope and prayer (I just prayed for him) that Alex will repent of his unbelief, to turn from all else to trust Jesus Christ alone as his personal Savior.
Yes, like many people I have tremendous admiration for Alex for his manly courage and death-defying ability to climb the world's tallest mountains and buildings unaided by any safety gear, ropes or equipment. But what astounds me the most is that a man who has seen the grandeur of God's incredibly beautiful creation, which demonstrates uncanny intelligent design, could deny the existence of a divine Creator. My heart goes out to Alex and I hope he will come to Jesus in faith while he still can. John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
Psalms 6:1-10, “O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.”
“Do you know what? Do you know all most backsliders need? All they need is one person who really cares? That's all they need. One person! Somebody said: 'What happened to all these converts here? [They] walk down the aisle and get baptized and they don't stick.' You! You happened to them. I watch you. A fella will get baptized, walk down here, and stand right there like he was in an exile on Patmos. While your yackety, yackety, yackety, yackety with all the members of this church; your little circle. And that poor fella gets no attention at all. And one friend could make the difference in that fella right there! You haven't got time for him, you're too busy yacking with your little circle of friends here at the church. You don't believe in fellowship; I believe in it! Let me tell you something—there's not a sinner that ever got saved, not a backslider ever in sin, but what couldn't be kept and cleaned and sustained, if he had somebody who really cared.” ~Pastor Jack Hyles, “The Blessings Of Sin”
People just want to be loved!
I shared an excerpt from Brother Hyles' sermon at the beginning of this article, but if you'd like to hear the entire sermon, it is called: “The Blessings Of Sin”
“Pharisaism is fundamentalism not compassionate.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “The Blessings Of Sin”
I could literally write a lengthy book around the preceding truthful statement by Brother Hyles. Most Baptist pastors today are ungodly Pharisees! There is so little love and compassion in today's Bible colleges and churches anymore. I'm taking about these shameful places:
Pensacola Christian College (PCC, a toxic cesspool of Lordship Salvation)
PCC's Campus Church (Pastor Jeff Redlin, wrong on Bible repentance)
Bob Jones University (a toxic Calvinist cesspool of iniquity and Lordship Salvation)
Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (Pastor Marty Herron, BJU alumni, fake Bibles)
Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam (Pastor Sean Quinlan, an incompetent PCC intern; Lordship Salvation in PCC literature)
Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola (Pastor Bill Adams; PCC supporters, wrong repentance, unkind toward people, Chick Tracts)
Fairfield Drive Baptist Church in Pensacola (Pastor Josh Thompson; Lordship Salvation, Josh teaches a class at PCC)
Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (Pastors' Brad and Bobby Moffett; a toxic place of PCC supporters, wrong repentance, hateful of truth-tellers, unkind toward people)
As you can sadly see, our Bible colleges and churches pastored by their graduates are in shambles today. I am not happy about that. It saddens me as a redeemed child of God. Since the false teachings of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation are a perversion of God's grace, they cannot produce the required second birth to enter into God's Kingdom. I cannot help but make the connection between their doctrinal corruption and woeful lack of God's love for people. I humbly think that there is a correlation.
As a faithful pastor for 55 years, Dr. Jack Hyles was a loving and compassionate man and he saw a lot of uncaring and unloving fundamentalist Christians which grieved him. Brother Hyles often expressed his frustration about it. For example:
“If you have one person in this world, one, in or out of your family, who really cares for you; and will care for you when you mistreat them, and will care for you when you cannot give them a thing; if you have one person who cares for you with Bible care, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
Brother Hyles made the preceding statement in a sermon, the day after preaching a funeral for a female church member in her late eighties who had died. Pastor Hyles closely watched as the woman's family and friends in a procession walked by the casket to see how they responded. The great grandkids didn't even bother to look at their great grandmother. Dr. Hyles said afterwards that he was convinced only two of the several dozen people who walked alongside her casket truly cared about her. That is so typical and sad of the perilous times in which we live today. Brother Hyles further stated:
“If you really care about one person, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
“Our trouble is we only love those who appeal to our senses.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
In another sermon I heard Pastor Hyles rightly say:
“I am all for standards, but I am not for standards without love.” —Pastor Jack Hyles
When I heard that statement, I immediately thought about Pensacola Christian College. And also this truthful statement:
“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”
Brother Hyles well knew that there is a serious lack of love and compassion in today's Bible colleges and churches. Oh, that we would start behaving as Christians again to love one another, even as God loved the world and was willing to die for everyone (Romans 5:6-9).
I encourage you dear reader to listen to Pastor Hyles' life-changing sermon, “The Blessings Of Sin.” In the sermon Brother Hyles talks about divorced men who are often despised and looked down upon in churches, as I was when I attended Campus Church at PCC in 2021. Their senior pastor Jeff Redlin treated me like garbage, ultimately banning me since August of 2022 from attending their church. That is the devil in their pastor, not the love of God's Holy Spirit. I wouldn't give you a dime for the money-hungry religious phonies at PCC.
The demonic Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) religion have an official exclusive strange doctrine called “Investigative Judgment” (which most SDA members are ignorant of). This bizarre teaching says that in the year 1844 Jesus entered into the heavenly Holy Place to begin His work of investigating the saints to determine who is “worthy” to enter into Heaven. Dear reader, NO ONE is “worthy” of God's grace or mercy. NO ONE is “worthy” to enter into Heaven. Kindly said, SDAs are a cult who preach the heresy of Lordship Salvation. If anyone ever goes to Heaven, it will be solely upon the merit of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on Calvary's cross.
If we truly want to be like our dear Creator and Savior, then we ought never give up on any human being. Homosexuals are still human beings created in God's image. Jesus died for even the vilest of people, for wretched sinners like yourself and me. We are all so unworthy of God's love and grace, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1st Corinthians 15:57).
2nd Corinthians 7:9-12, “Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.”
2nd Corinthians 8:16, “But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.”
1st Samuel 24:12, “The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.”
These are remarkable passages of Scriptures. In 2nd Corinthians 7:9-12, the Apostle Paul sharply rebuked the church at Corinthians over numerous problems in their midst. Paul said that he didn't write his letter on behalf of anyone; but rather, to show that he cared. I encourage you to listen to this beautiful sermon from 1987 by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), in which you can clearly hear why I love Brother Hyles so much and listen to his wisdom. ...
Here are some inspiring life changing quotes from the sermons:
“I sometimes wonder if there's any love left.” —Dr. Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
“If you have one person in this world, one, in or out of your family, who really cares for you; and will care for you when you mistreat them, and will care for you when you cannot give them a thing; if you have one person who cares for you with Bible care, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
“If you really care about one person, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
“Our trouble is we only love those who appeal to our senses.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
I admit that I felt convicted yesterday while listening to this sermon. I haven't always turned the other cheek when someone did me wrong, threw me under the bus, or deliberately hurt my feelings. People can be so cruel. Sadly, Christians can be as horrible as the heathen world. I have been deeply hurt and done wrong by numerous ungodly pastors and their wives. It is in our sinful human nature to want to get back at the people who hurt us, to retaliate, to seek revenge. I am just as guilty as you are—as we all are at times.
“Father, please help me to do better from day to day; to emulate your only begotten Son Jesus in my thoughts and behavior.”
I learned a long time ago as a fundamentalist Bible preacher that there's a fine line between faith and foolishness. There's a fine line between preaching what is right and against sin, versus attacking people and making matters personal. Sometimes it gets confusing and become hard to sort through our own feelings.
In fact, since I am a caring person with a tender heart, sometimes I have difficulty discerning between my feelings and my Bible preaching. I tend to feel guilty about many things, from a humble heart. I feel unworthy to eat a nice meal in a restaurant. I feel like God doesn't want to be around a guy like me. I know that those are just feelings, which can be deceptive; not reality. So, I have a troublesome tendency to be too hard on myself, and if I'm not careful I can become down and discouraged easily.
We are taught repeatedly throughout the inspired Scripture that vengeance belongs to the Lord, and that we shouldn't avenge ourselves (Romans 12:19-21). To do that is easier said than done, I know; but God wouldn't command us to do something impossible.
Throughout human civilization people in general have been uncaring and selfish. Things haven't changed in 2,000 years. Philippians 2:20, “For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.” Things haven't changed in 3,000 years. Psalm 142:4, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.” In lieu of today's amazing new technologies, selfish human nature hasn't changed over thousands of years.
If you don't care, but want to start caring, then you need to plan time to think about whatever or whoever it is that you want to start caring about. Luke 12:34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Our human heart follows our treasure. That is, our feelings and love will follow our investments, where we spend out time, money, prayers and resources.
In American society today, people don't invest in each other anymore. We are so busy living our individual lives that we don't care about anybody except ourselves. I speak to the shame of 99% of today's Bible colleges and churches. One man can make a difference! You show me any group or church that cares about people, and I guarantee you that the man in charge cares, and his influence is leading his followers to show love, concern and compassion.
As we draw nearer to the end times Tribulation, I am often reminded of what Jesus said in Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” The daily evening news is rife with heinous crimes, government and local corruption, police brutality, public unrest, economic woes, senseless acts of violence and selfishness, war, et cetera. Hardly anybody trusts anybody anymore. The world has always been a wicked and ugly place (1st John 5:19). It is rare to find somebody who really cares anymore.
By God's grace, I want to be a caring person. Since I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry back in April of 2002, I have never made a single penny. My long time ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) mailed me a check for $200 many years ago, but I never cashed it. I kindly mailed it back to him with a 5-page thank you letter. I have had hundreds of kind web visitors over the years offer to give me donations for my labors for Christ, but I have always declined with gratitude. My ministry is a work of love for God, people and truth.
“If you really care about one person, you're above average.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Who Cares Anyway?”
We've all met our share of rotten selfish people in our lifetime. I sure have, many of them pastors. I try not to focus on people, lest I become bitter and discouraged. The Scripture tells us in Hebrews 12:2 to LOOK TO JESUS, who is the Author and Finisher of our Christian faith.
We are all selfish by nature. The Bible tells us that Jesus thought about OTHERS instead of Himself. Philippians 2:3-5, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” If you and I want the mind of Christ, then we need to get out of the self life. We need to start thinking about OTHERS, and how we can help and be a blessing to the people in our life. The Bible tells us as saints to have Christ's mind in us.
John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Dylan Novak was born on March 15, 2002, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His ministry website is at: https://celebrityevangelist.org. I found the following video today about Dylan giving a New Living Translation (NLT) of the Bible in 2023 to Ozzy Osbourne (real name: John Michael Osbourne, 1948-2025). Jack Osbourne (Ozzy's son) said that the gift meant the world to his Dad.
What Ozzy Osborne said about being Christian & the Bible Before Death
In all his videos and Statement of Beliefs on his website, Dylan plainly requires that you not only accept Jesus as your personal Savior, but ALSO as your personal “Lord.” To an unlearned Christian, that addition may seem to be harmless since Jesus is the Lord. However, you need to know that when Dylan Novak refers to accepting Jesus as “Lord,” he means recognizing Christ as the supreme authority in your life, which involves a commitment to follow His teachings and guidance. This acceptance signifies a personal relationship with Jesus, where individuals trust in Him for salvation and strive to live according to His will. This is another gospel.
John Michael Osbourne—better known as Ozzy Osbourne—succumbed to his battle with Parkinson’s disease this past week at the age of 76. Much has already been written about the former frontman of Black Sabbath and how his legacy shaped not only the emergence of heavy metal but of the broader entertainment culture as well.
What’s perhaps most interesting—and maybe unexpected—is the number of conversations his death has sparked about spiritual things. Chief among them, his own spiritual beliefs. READ MORE
Sadly, all of Ozzy's rhetoric about believing in God wasn't enough to save him from Hell. I sure hope that he went to Heaven, but we won't know under the afterlife.
Dylan's Deadly Misunderstanding Of The Gospel
Nowhere in the inspired King James Bible do we read that to get to Heaven you must accept Jesus as your “Lord.” Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688) said it best:
“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
In the preceding video Adrienne Bankert asks Dylan Novak the question:
“With Ozzy, do you know if he ever prayed the prayer of salvation?”
Dear reader, you don't get saved by praying a prayer of salvation, you get saved by faith (taking God at His written Word) to accept Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then resurrected physically from the dead three days later. This is “the Gospel” (Good News) by which all who believe it are instantly, irrevocably and permanently saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-6; Romans 1:16).
In the neo-evangelical video, Dylan mentions the thief on the cross who did nothing but, ”he acknowledged with his lips that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
“Well maybe Ozzy gave his life to Christ at the end.”
Again, this is not how you get saved dear reader. Judas Iscariot gave his life to Christ, becoming one of Jesus' very apostles. Yet, Judas died in his sin of unbelief and went to Hell forever. The false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 devoutly followed Jesus, calling Him: “Lord, Lord.” They boasted of having done “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name, but Jesus still denied knowing them as His redeemed sheep. They had failed to do the will of the Father in Heaven, which we learn in John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” I don't see anything in that passage about accepting Jesus as one's “Lord” to get to Heaven. Wicked preachers have perverted God's simple plan of salvation, adding and embellishing the gospel.
At about 12:45 minutes into the video, Dylan says:
“We don't know because if you look at the thief on the cross, that thief on the cross didn't do anything to further the gospel. All he said was, "Remember me, Lord." He acknowledged with his lips that Jesus Christ was Lord. And Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise." He didn't have to be baptized. He didn't have to go to seminary. He didn't have to go profess Christianity or following Christ to anybody. He believed and he was saved. So again, we see through scriptures. It doesn't matter when as long as you give your life to Christ. And it's with a sincere transformation, change, and acknowledgement in your heart.” SOURCE
Oh my, that's the Satanic deception of Lordship Salvation (which is rooted in Calvinism). Dylan is clearly associating a positive change in one's behavior with being saved. If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23). Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
The Deadly New Living Translation (NLT)
The NLT that Dylan gave Ozzy Osbourne as a gift is of the Devil. Unfortunately for Ozzy, the so-called “Bible” that Dylan gave him which is “easier to read” contains ALL of the same corruptions as all of Satan's modern English Bible revisions. Case in point...
KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB) - Mark 1:15, “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (NLT) - Mark 1:15, “The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”
Do you see how the NLT perverts the truth of God Word? The Greek verb for “repent” in Mark 1:15 means “to think differently.” It DOES NOT mean to repent of your sins!!! Wicked but well-meaning men changed God's Word. Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” Anyone who tells you that God won't save you unless you are first willing to repent of your sins, to be willing to clean up your life of sinful bad habits, has been inspired by demons.
Biblically, you don't need to feel some deep profound regret, sorrow or a desire to reform to be saved; but you do need to acknowledge that you are a guilty hell-deserving sinner. You need to know why you need to be saved (because you are a sinner), and from what you're being saved from (burning in Hell forever). We are SINNERS and Jesus is the SAVIOR.
Dear friend, Christ died on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago to pay for your sins and mine. Why would He demand that you be willing to forsake your sinful ways to be saved, which very idea is IMPOSSIBLE? No one has ever turned away from their sinning. You may clean up your life enough of sin to live above reproach, but you can never rise above sinning; no one can. If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).
After watching the video, it does sound like singer Jerry Lee Lewis did go to Heaven, because he simply trusted Jesus as his personal Savior. But what Dylan is preaching about accepting Christ as one's “Lord,” giving your life to Christ, and experiencing sincere transformation and change, is NOT God's simple plan of salvation. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! Dear reader, since what someone believes will determine where they spend eternity, it is imperative that we present the gospel correctly. I love what Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold said:
“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”
I have no doubt whatsoever that Dylan is 100% sincere, but he has been lied to and deceived by today's ungodly neo-evangelical preachers. I couldn't help but notice the name of Billy Graham emanating from a book on Dylan's bookshelf in the background.
Beware Of False Prophet Billy Graham (1918-2018)
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 King James Bible tell us to “make every effort in turning away from sin” to be born again? It doesn't! Billy Graham is a lying false teacher, as is his protégé Dylan Novak!
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 foolish followers are hellbound infidels—imposters who masquerade as children of God. What you've just read is a false plan of salvation, which cannot produce the necessary new birth to enter into God's Kingdom. Billy 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. These wicked men are preaching the Devil's fraud of LORDSHIP SALVATION!
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 dear reader (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 away from your sins to go to Heaven; but rather, Christ died on the cross to pay your debt of sin (and mine). Whatever changes God wants to see happen in your life after you get saved is His department, and you can be assured that He will attend to it. God is not an absent parent (Hebrews 12:6-8).
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 like Dylan Novak 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; Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 7:15; Galatians 2:5; Jude 1:3). I have been saddened when I attended local churches throughout Pensacola, Florida, and I've heard foolish 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 and 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 and neither should you!
The world is going to Hell while 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.” That is one of my favorite Bible passages. Philippians 1:17b, “...knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.”
If Billy Graham went to Heaven, then there are at least TWO gospels. The inspired Holy Bible warns in Galatians 1:6-9 that there is only one gospel, which the Apostle Paul defines for everyone in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. There is nothing in Paul's Gospel (which he received directly from Jesus according to Galatians 1:12) which requires turning or repenting of your sins to be saved. There is nothing in Paul's Gospel that requires giving your life to Jesus, becoming a Christ follower, or of experiencing some radical change or transformation of one's heart to be saved. In fact, if you are a child of God, your salvation did not change you a bit. I encourage you to listen to a classic MP3 sermon of the same title by my favorite preacher of the Christian faith, Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001). ...
I have combed the internet for information about Ozzy's beliefs, especially before he died. All I keep reading is that Ozzy believed in God. What saith the Scripture? James 2:19, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” I fully agree with Ozzy that you don't have to go to church to believe in God, but believing in God is not enough to enter into God's Kingdom. You must accept Christ's sacrifice on the cross 2,000 years ago as full payment for your sins, believing that He is risen from the dead! If that was Ozzy's only hope for eternal life and forgiveness of sins, then he went to Heaven.
Sadly, throughout his 50 year career as: “The Prince of Darkness,” I've never found any place on social media or elsewhere that Ozzy expressed faith alone in Christ as his hope for Heaven. Merely saying that one is a “Christian” doesn't make it so. Hellbound Mormons, Roman Catholics, Church of Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses, Greek Orthodox, Lutherans and countless other pseudo-Christian cults claim to be “Christian,” but they all trust in partial faith in Christ plus something more (works).
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.
Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.
If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from?
The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.
If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).
One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.
It is my earnest hope and prayer that Ozzy's family will come to the light of the truth of the saving gospel before it is too late. Only God, Ozzy and those already in the afterlife know where Ozzy went when he died. I sure hope he trusted Jesus as his personal Savior before he died. Believing in God isn't enough. Receiving and reading a new modern Bible version isn't enough. Getting excited about having a Bible that you can read is not enough. John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
2nd Timothy 3:12-15, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
I had a ministry friend message me this week to ask why I don't defend myself against slander from enemies on social media. This was my first response...
Regarding slander against me, I haven't read any of it in 15 years and I refuse to look at it. When somebody tells me about it, I always quote Mark Twain:
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
When Pastor Hyles and his successor Dr. Schaap tried to defend themselves, their enemies twisted all their words out of context and used it to further attack them. I think they should have left it alone, which is what I have wisely done. You cannot defend yourself against a critic. Like Daniel, if someone is out to hurt you, they will! I wrote an article years ago about "Why I Don't Try To Defend Myself," but Google has censored more than half of my ministry articles, so that I cannot find it right now. I have 11,000 webpages; and over 55,000 files just on Jesus-is-Savior.
I love what Evangelist Dave Hyles said...
“If there is no credible accusation, then there need be no credible defense.” —Evangelist David Hyles
My ministry friend messaged back and still insisted that I should defend myself, being more specific. Here is my second response...
Critics can and will say all kinds of stuff, but that doesn't mean I am obligated to stoop to their level to answer to it. I have never been convicted of any sexual crimes, nor do I have any felony convictions on my record. That's all anyone needs to know. We need to defend each other, but not ourselves. Proverbs 27:2, “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”I honestly don't care what my enemies are saying about me, and I don't want to hear it from you or anyone else, because I cannot do anything about it. Jesus said the world would hate us, because it hates Him (John 15:19; John 7:7). God pity the preacher that the world don't hate!
My ministry friend replied by saying that I should defend myself like Pastor Jack Hyles did. But what he said is not exactly true. Brother Hyles said he never would defend himself; but rather, only his family, friends and ministry. My ministry friend also said that Pastor Steven Anderson recently defended himself when he was accused of horrible things, and said that so should I. Here is my third and final response...
I won't discuss that matter anymore. You shouldn't be comparing me to Pastor Anderson or Dr. Hyles. 2nd Corinthians 10:12, “For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” Just because I choose not to stoop to my enemies' level to counter their crap, doesn't in any way imply that I am guilty, and shame on you if that is what you were implying. Really, you shouldn't even have brought this slander up, as if I don't know about it already. I mean, 'com on. Nobody wants someone to bring up the slander being said against them on social media. NO ONE! I asked a lawyer 15 years ago about suing the creep slandering me, but because the source is a coward who chooses to remaining anonymous, the lawyer said there's nothing I can do. And the lawyer said, even if I try to sue the slanderer, they'll just find another website on social media to attack me. This is the wicked world that we live in today. Believe me, if there was something I could do, I would, but there's not my friend. I suffer every moment of my life in constant chronic neck pain, burning nerves, prescription medication side effects, the entire right side of my body feeling half asleep, et cetera. I can barely keep up with my own ministry, without worrying about what God-hating evildoers are saying about me on the internet. Romans 12:19 says God avenges all evil; it's not our job to fight our enemies. Jesus said whatever someone does to you or me as saints, they have done it to Jesus (Matthew 25:40). In other words, "Jesus says: “Were in thing this called Christianity together; all for one and one for all.” Pastor Anderson has defended himself and his enemies don't give a flip, they're still hating on him. And Brother Anderson's friends didn't need an explanation in the first place, they would have continued by his side regardless if he did or didn't defend himself. So, it doesn't matter if I defend myself or not, because my enemies won't care and my ministry friends don't need an explanation. I know you mean well, but please leave this alone. God is my defender! Exodus 14:14, “The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”
Thankfully, my ministry friend obliged and let the matter rest. He cleared up that he wasn't implying anything in his message. I appreciate his grace and understanding.
That being said, if someone wants to believe the evil slander against me without evidence to support it, then do so at your own peril because you must answer to God in eternity, and so do all of us. If I were guilty of all the horrible ungodly things Satan's minions are accusing me of, I'd be rotting in prison for the rest of my life; but as you see I am free and laboring for Jesus Christ day and night on social media, laying up rewards in Heaven (1st Corinthians 3:8).
“If there is no credible accusation, then there need be no credible defense.” —Evangelist David Hyles
The inspired King James Bible identifies Satan as “the accuser of the brethren” in Revelation 12:10b. We're never more like Satan than when we wickedly unjustly accuse others with our words. Proverbs 11:9, “An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.” There used to be a time in America when a man was deemed innocent until proven guilty. The old adage is still very true: It would be better to let nine guilty men go free, than to convict one innocent man.
Proverbs 20:6, “Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” I don't proclaim my own goodness. I never brag on myself. I don't claim to be a good Christian. I learned a very long time ago that neither I nor you can declare ourselves as being “good,” because only other people can say that about us. Proverbs 27:2, “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.” When people tell me that I am a “good man,” it means the world to me. God desires for His children to “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). I want people to esteem that I am a good man as a born again child of God, but neither I nor you can say that about ourselves.
And just as we cannot boast of our own goodness, likewise we cannot defend ourselves. Once someone accuses you it is IMPOSSIBLE to defend yourself, because unless someone has followed you around everywhere you've gone, for every moment of your life, there is no way to prove your innocence. Even if you say, “I didn't do it,” the question mark will always remain. The stigma sticks! We live in a very ungodly slanderous culture in America!
That is why wicked people always accuse their victims based upon the original court charge(s), while totally disregarding and ignoring the final court outcome. So, it doesn't matter to hateful critics if a man was found innocent in a court of law and the charges were dropped, his enemies will still condemn him for the rest of his life based upon the original dropped charges, and that is incredibly dishonest, hateful and evil to do to anyone. The children of Satan who create such evil slander are digging their own graves in Hell.
People are going to think whatever they want to think regardless of what we say. I heard Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) say time and time again that he refused to defend himself against enemies. But Brother Hyles would fight to the very end to defend his family, friends and ministry from enemy attacks. God fights my battles because I am His servant.
To him that believeth, no explanation is necessary; to him that believeth not, no explanation is possible.
This blog will be sent to anyone in the future who asks me about the slander against me on social media, or if someone wants to know why I refuse to defend myself. I have much better things to do with my ministry time than to wallow in the muck and mire with the pigs.
Psalms 119:69, “The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.”
Proverbs 21:1, “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.”
I don't know what happened tonight. I had received two very disturbing emails earlier this evening, informing me that my 'Get God's Free Gift Of Eternal Life' blog had been permanently removed. My ministry blog was gone! I was devastated because I've invested thousands of hours of labor over the past several years since May of 2020 writing 808 blog articles just for that one blog. I thought for a few hours that I had lost it all forever! When Google locks your account, you cannot even access your blogs to retrieve your information. That is scary!
I have checked into other free blogs and there is nothing like Google Blogspot. I wouldn't mind paying at all, but that would defeat the entire purpose for which I started a Blogspot account, to preserve my ministry writings when I'm gone someday. If I had to pay, then when I die and don't make the required payment, bye bye everything. So, I really appreciate Google.
Thanks be to God, Google's Bogger Team changed their mind, for which I am so very grateful. THANK YOU Google! I am a loving man, despite my fundamentalist Bible preacher's bark and growl. I just want to be a blessing to people for Jesus Christ. I am very opinionated and I do get worked up emotionally at times with passion in my writings, but that's why a lot of people come to read my articles. I write from the heart. I wouldn't know any other way to write.
I have never bashed homosexuals, Jews or African Americans (groups that are commonly bashed) and I never would, because it is wrong. I believe that as human beings we should respect everyone, regardless of whom they are, treating them with love and respect as human beings. If anything, I am hardest in my Bible preaching against fellow Baptists. Titus 1:13, “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.” I am obeying God to REBUKE THEM SHARPLY who corrupt the Gospel.
That being said, here is the reversal email that Google sent to me, for which I am very relieved. I had taken Miss Pickles (my Cockapoo dog) for her evening walk and I prayed all the way for God to please do something. I don't know if God answered my prayer, or if Google just did the right thing after reviewing someone's decision, but I am grateful regardless. I always give God the benefit of any doubt. This is His ministry after all. I am His humble servant. ...
Amen and amen! So, all is well. praise the LORD! I will continue writing for the foreseeable future, as long as I am alive and able. To God alone be all the praise, credit and glory, for Jesus said without Him we can do nothing (John 15:5).
Google had sent me a second email earlier this evening (that I mentioned earlier in this blog) complaining about an article that I had written, which I just deleted to comply. I will ALWAYS remove any article(s) that Google's wants taken down. I am not foolish. I've invested too much into this blog ministry to watch it all vanish over a couple articles. I may have a loud bark in my ministry's writings at times, but I am just like the nice old guy behind the curtain in the classic 1939 movie, 'The Wizard Of Oz.' And my dog, Miss Pickles.
THANK YOU to all my blog visitors, you are my greatest investment. 2nd Corinthians 3:2, “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.”
1st Peter 1:22-23, “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
I was listening to Alexander Scourby read the inspired King James Bible today and this passage leaped out at me, which is an indictment against 99% of pastors and churches...
1st Peter 1:22-23, “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
There is so little genuine love in today's carnal Bible colleges and churches. The old adage is very true: “You're talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.” Religious people can talk about how “loving” their church is, but if their actions do not back up their words it means nothing. In 1st Corinthians 13 the Apostle Paul said nothing matters in a ministry if God's unconditional love for sinners is MISSING...
1st Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
This is a remarkable passage of Scripture! The Apostle Paul said that even if he were to give the ultimate sacrifice as a saint, to be burnt on a stake as a Christian martyr, yet it would mean absolutely NOTHING without love. Wow! It sounds like this biblical matter of loving one another is serious business to God. Read what the Apostle Peter said...
1st Peter 4:8-9, “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.Use hospitality one to another without grudging.”
The Bible says 'ABOVE ALL' loving one another, and showing sincere hospitality 'WITHOUT GRUDGING' toward each other. I've been wickedly kicked out of several neo-evangelical churches during my lifetime, because they were offended when I TOLD THE TRUTH. Today's ungodly neo-evangelical pastors are wilfully ignorant of the truth that the modern English Bible revisions are all woefully corrupted by Satan. They are wilfully ignorant to the truth that Lordship Salvation is a perversion of the Gospel of free grace. They are willfully ignorant of the truth that Bible repentance does not mean to “turn from your sins.”
Just like the proudful ungodly evolutionist, scientist and astronomer who is willfully ignorant of the truth that God created the universe, so also are today's ungodly pastors willfully ignorant of THE TRUTH (2nd Peter 3:16-17). 2nd Peter 3:5, “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.” I like watching astronomy videos on YouTube. Sadly, of the hundreds of videos I've watched over the past several months, not even one of them mentions, let alone glorifies, our divine faithful Creator, who is God. Those wicked scientists choose to deny God's creative powers and remain wilfully ignorant of THE TRUTH.
The passages of Scripture that I just shared with you in this blog dear reader are all but forgotten in today's religious institutions and churches.
In 2002, Jeff Redlin (senior clown pastor at PCC's Campus Church) in writing kicked me out of Campus Church. It didn't matter that in the summer of 2022 I wrote a long heartfelt letter of apology for offending the pastors at Campus Church, pleading to please return to Campus Church to see my friend. Redlin is a cold-hearted religious thug who lacks God's love for people. Although they are all the same organization, legally Campus Church and PCC operate separately, with separate leadership (who are all in bed together). So, in frustration I also mailed a letter to PCC, asking for their help in June of 2022. They all sinfully decided to completely ignore me. SHAME ON PCC and the WICKED PASTORS!
Contrary to the Lord's plain command to love one another without grudging, these unloving religious hypocrites at PCC do hold a grudge against me because they don't know God nor the meaning of His great love. Pastors' Jeff Redlin and Timothy Zacharias think this is all a laughable matter, no doubt cracking jokes about me and my faithful website ministry in their office. They've been listening to slanderous gossip from the reprobates at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. I can't wait to see them all judged by God in eternity. God sees their wickedness (Hebrews 4:13). God will hold them accountable for even their words (Matthew 12:36). They won't be able to weasel their way out of accountability on Judgment Day (Proverbs 24:12). PAYDAY SOMEDAY!
PCC is guilty of preaching another gospel. PCC is guilty of not loving and caring about hurting people. At PCC, the cult system always comes first but individual people do not matter.
The Woeful Lack Of Love, Compassion And Understanding At PCC
PCC is guilty of preaching the Devil's fraud of Lordship Salvation. PCC is guilty of elevating financial profits above people. PCC takes in about $175,000,000 per year in revenues! Pastor Redlin gets paid a disgusting 6-digit salary. He is an incompetent clown!
After several weeks of frustration in 2022, that monster Jeff Redlin showed his hateful true colors as a reprobate of the faith, banning me from returning to PCC's Campus Church. What saith the Scripture? James 2:13, “For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.” I wouldn't want to be in Jeff Redlin's shoes when he stands to give account to God. Mr. Redlin has much blood on his hands for preaching another gospel. The Bible warns that to those pastors who showed no mercy, God will show no mercy.
When I humbly begged Pastor Marty Herron in 2014 at the corrupt Harvest Baptist Church on Guam to simply please let me come back to church, he refused and threw me under the bus for dead. Woe unto Marty Herron and his accomplices Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin and others. Marty Herron is an incompetent preacher. They were upset with for for TELLING THE TRUTH that all of the modern Bible revisions are corrupt, that Lordship Salvation is not the Gospel of free grace, that Martin Luther was not a born again Christian because he peached Sacramental Salvation all his life, et cetera. These are all wicked wolves in sheep's clothing!!!
In hindsight, I didn't realize that PCC was wrong on the Gospel until I attended their church cult in July of 2021. Since that time my eyes have been wide opened concerning the deadly theology at PCC today. Check this out, I found FOUR different plans of salvation at PCC! You couldn't make this stuff up. Clearly, Jeff Redlin is wickedly pandering to the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam who promote his name and sermons as if he were royalty. Redlin has sold his soul for the praise of men rather than the praise of God (John 12:43). The LORD is on my side for one reason, which is because I AM TELLING THE TRUTH. God is no respecter of persons. Jeff Redlin and PCC are in serious trouble with God for perverting the Gospel and wickedly bidding Godspeed to false prophets.
1st Kings 18:17-21, “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 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. Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.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.”
In our text passage of Scripture, God's man, Elijah the prophet, was making the local leaders angry. Wicked King Ahab called the prophet a “troublemaker.” Any fundamentalist Bible preacher who is worth his salt has been called a troublemaker, and much worse! The Devil's children are all waiting for the Christian to fall, especially the Bible preacher. God pity the preacher that the world don't hate. John 15:17-19, “These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” Nobody is as hated in this wicked world than the fundamentalist Bible preacher!!!
That being said, I get so sick of this crap over Pastor Steven Anderson's family being attacked on social media, which is none of anyone's damn business! It should be obvious to any honest Christian that the Devil is trying to destroy our Brother in Christ over his biblical STAND for truth and righteousness. Satan always goes after the best, seeking whom he may devour (1st Peter 5:8-9). That word "devour" means "to make disappear." The Devil would love for Pastor Anderson to disappear. We needs him!
I don't stand with Pastor Anderson because I think he's always right. I stand with him because he comes A LOT closer to being right than all these pusillanimous, cowardly, salary-sucking, Caspar Milquetoast, practically worthless, religious clowns for pastors today who refuse to stand for or against anything.
I'm talking about twerps like Pastor Jeff Redlin at Pensacola Christian College, who has cruelly banned me in writing from attending Campus Church since August 2, 2022—for TELLING THE TRUTH that they're WRONG on repentance and God's simple plan of salvation. PCC banned me! They've blocked me out from accessing both their PCC and Campus Church Facebook pages. Jerks! I know that the Lord is proud of me for taking a STAND for what is true and right, and God is utterly disgusted with the Lordship Salvation CULT at PCC. Woe unto the wicked!
By the way, here's a tremendous sermon truth by Brother Hyles that he preached in Texas, in which he says to FIGHT the good fight of faith; but if you are weary and can no longer fight, then WITHSTAND (hang in there); but if you are tired and cannot fight or withstand anymore, then just STAND (don't change).
Wicked people are exploiting Pastor and Mrs. Anderson's four oldest adult children in an attempt to discredit and ruin his ministry. Pastor Hyles went through a similar persecution in 1989, when dozens of staff and church members turned against him, and unfounded allegations were made against him. I have defended my friend for these past 23 years, since by God's grace I began my website ministry in 2002.
Dr. Hyles defended himself in 1989, in this fiery sermon titled, 'Weathering The Storm.'
Pastor Hyles' enemies stooped to new lows in a malicious attempt to destroy his testimony and consequently his ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ. Evil people stood outside First Baptist Church of Hammond during their annual Pastor's School that year, distributing damning information about family members who had openly sinned in the past. Dr. Hyles begged the Pastor's School delegates not to take the perverse literature. It broke Dr. Hyle's heart and he wept. People can be so cruel. Ecclesiastes 8:12, “Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him.”
I remember that Brother Hyles apologized to all of us students. Dr. Hyles said he wanted us to attend Hyles-Anderson College during peacetime without having to endure through a raging church battle. But you know what, I wouldn't trade those precious hard times for anything in the world, because we were privileged with the opportunity to STAND by our preacher during the darkest years of his life and ministry; and moreover it taught me to hang in there with FAITH IN GOD even though all hope seems lost.
And praise be to God, Pastor Hyles endured to persevere until the end of his life on earth in 2002. He simply relocated to Heaven. Perseverance is getting to your goal (which should be to fear God and keep His commandments - Ecclesiastes 12:13). That is what the Apostle Paul meant when he said in 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝟰:𝟳, “𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵.” Endurance is the obstacles that you have to face and overcome along the way as you persevere.
We all have our battles. Life has many potholes and sometimes open manhole covers, “𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗚𝗢𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗙𝗨𝗟, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲; 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝘁” (𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟬:𝟭𝟯𝗯). I just heard Pastor Hyles yesterday preach a sermon on this very truth titled, 'You Can Make It!'
Having One's Own Family As Enemies
According to BibleGate.com, the word “enemies” appears in the King James Bible 263 times, and the word “enemy” appears 109 times. That's 372 times! God's children have always had enemies and we always will have enemies. 2nd Timothy 3:12-13, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝟭𝟬:𝟯𝟲, “𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱.” Billy Sunday's (1862-1935) own three sons turned against him. They were all drunks. George, the oldest stole a vehicle and was arrested for public intoxication. George hit his wife one day in front of his mother and then either jumped or fell out a third story window to his death. None of this was Billy or Ma Sunday's fault! Children have a freewill given to them by God to make their own decisions for good or evil. One of the Sunday's daughter-in-law tried to blackmail them, demanding money or she was going to go public with the family's dirty laundry to ruin the man of God. Sound familiar?
I remember one summer that Pastor Jack Hyles got angry at Hyles-Anderson College over his staff's lackidaical attitude, and he threw some chairs and said some harsh words. Some people on staff called for his resignation. Dr. Hyles defended himself, saying that he used anger as a tool. Sometimes tough love is necessary, which doesn't make a man a monster! Jesus Himself overthrust the money changer's tables and released their doves to fly away. Then he beat them with a homemade whip. Surely this cannot be our precious Redeemer! Yep, and Pastor Anderson's enemies are in for a big surprise when they stand before the terror of God in eternity (2nd Corinthians 5:11; Psalms 6:1; Matthew 7:1; Proverbs 24:12; Matthew 12:36; 1st Thessalonians 4:6). Hebrews 10:31, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
We live in an ungodly generation of crybabies, spoiled brats and critiques today. I want no part of any of it. From all the slanderous garbage I've heard said about Pastor Anderson, I see a good Dad who disciplines his children, which the Bible says if you don't do, you HATE your kids (Proverbs 13:24). I see four bright, well groomed and highly intelligent young people, albeit angry at life. They fail to see the beautiful legacy that they have in their parent's ministry, and a great man of God for a father.
I just noticed on Facebook under his life's events that Pastor Anderson (with all his responsibilities and labors) recently graduated from Arizona State University and Liberty University. Wow, that is so admirable! The guy just doesn't stop going. I actually heard their daughter several months ago on social media criticize her Dad for studying all the time. What? A lot of men bum around watching television most of the time, drinking booze, doing nothing to make an impact for eternity.
The Anderson kids have so much to be grateful for and proud of. I am confident 15 to 20 years from now that they'll mature and wake up to reality. No parents are perfect (Hebrews 12:6-8), but I haven't heard anything amidst all the accusations by the kids that even remotely bring into question his qualifications as a pastor. I love and appreciate Brother Anderson in Christ and am grateful for his dedication to our Lord, uncompromising Bible preaching, tenacity, backbone and his relentless drive.
I once heard Dr. Hyles say that he studied great men of God of the past and found that they all had a couple things in common—they continually sought the power of the Holy Spirit upon their ministry, and they had an uncommon driving determination to serve God. Pastor Anderson certainly has those virtues. You just don't find guys like this! I'm sure that Pastor Anderson would humbly disagree, but I see a sincere man who has a burning passion to make an impact for the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a fundamentalist Bible preacher, he is often misunderstood by the heathen world. I hear idiots saying that he hates his wife and kids, hates the Jews, et cetera. Nothing could be further from THE TRUTH. He hates what God hates, and what every child of God is commanded to hate in Psalms 97:10—EVIL! Of course he's not perfect, nobody is, except Jesus.
I left a long scathing rebuke on Paul Wittenberger's YouTube video, for his shameful behavior and upcoming toxic film attacking Pastor Anderson's family. He was never a friend to Pastor Anderson, and he sure isn't a friend to the Anderson's adult children whom he's exploiting for personal gain. I believe I have it correct that the issue arose over money. Paul got upset at Pastor Anderson over his hard preaching, which was costing him money. Truly the love of money is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:10-11). THE PREACHER CANNOT BE BOUGHT!
I read the history of the fundamentalist preacher, J. Frank Norris (1877-1952). For the first couple years of his pastorate the elite church members invited him to functions, dinners and catered to the preacher. During that time Pastor Norris held back and went long with the good life, but like Jeremiah he couldn't forbear (Jeremiah 20:9) and started preaching the dickens out of the church members, and all hell broke loose in the church. Several millionaires quit the church. They had a big church split. The real J. Frank Norris had finally arrived with inspired King James Bible in hand. Amen!
Let me also remind everyone that Jesus had 12 Apostles, who were essentially His family on earth, and yet one of them had a devil in him. John 6:70-71, “Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”If the perfect sinless Savior couldn't keep the Devil out of his own family, then what makes anyone think it should be any different in a Bible preacher's family? Remember, Jesus' half-brothers all rejected Him at first. They thought He had taken leave of His senses! Jesus spoke from personal experience in Matthew 10:36, “And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.”
