Isaiah 3:12, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
1st Timothy 5:14-15, “I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan.”
One of the saddest things I've seen in my lifetime are women being promoted to positions of authority and power in America. I realize that what I just said will harelip every feminazi in the nation. I like something that Pastor Jack Hyles said. He said that a woman is just as equal with her husband as Jesus Christ was to His Father in Heaven (Philippians 2:6 - King James Bible), yet Jesus humbled Himself to His Father (Philippians 2:8). Likewise, a wife is equal with her husband, but she is commanded by God to humble herself to submit to his authority.
It is just a matter of time until we see a woman as U.S. President, which will be the saddest day in the history of our nation. It is tragic that we live in a nation of Bible ignoramuses today! The Bible says in Isaiah 3:12, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.” Notice that the Bible says these WOMEN cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Like it or not, God ordained men to lead. Men are natural leaders, women are natural followers. When women rise to power, it is only because there are weak men in society who allow women to rule over them.
Case in point is the mess were in today in the United States. It is ridiculous to see hundreds of police men subject to a female police chief. That is the consequence of today's ungodly woke culture in America, which is of the Devil. In a recent video from January of 2023, singer Taylor Swift cast herself as being in love with a transgendered man. This is wicked as Hell! The inspired Holy Bible condemns all sexual sins as an abomination to God. 1st Corinthians 6:9 condemns effeminate males. God is willing to forgive the vilest sinner. NO ONE is beyond the love of God and the hope of the Gospel. No one ever goes to Hell except those lost sinners who consciously reject God's free gift of eternal life through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
What about marriage? The Bible doesn't command wives to only submit (obey) to a perfect husband, but to her husband. No husband is perfect. No wife is perfect. Sadly, rebellion in marriage is commonplace in America today. Ungodly lawyers and judges are more than happy to destroy marriages, seeing that the divorce racket is now worth $50,000,000,000 each year just in America. Divorce is a sin! God hates divorce, calling it "treacherous" (Jeremiah 3:20).
In our wicked nation today, our ungodly courts are quick to grant divorces. The popular given reason is "irreconcilable differences." Attorneys call this a "no fault divorce." What do you mean "no fault"? It was BOTH your faults as husband and wife!!! Isaiah 3:12, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
In every case that I know of where a women enters the pulpit to preach, she is corrupt in her doctrine. Pastor Joyce Meyer comes to mind, who preaches a counterfeit plan of salvation. The Bible says that Eve was deceived, not Adam. ...
1st Timothy 2:11-15, “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
Joyce Meyer is horribly sinning by preaching with authority over men. She likes to put the women upfront and seat the women in the back of her meetings, but men are still present. It is wickedness!!! If you think that is outdated, a different culture or too old-fashioned, then you are not right with God. Men are to lead, not women. The Bible doesn't tell heathen society how to operate because they do not fear nor regard God.
1st Timothy 2:15, “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.” This Bible verse simply means that a mother, by raising up her children in the admonition and nurture of the Lord, can help undo the stain of reproach brought upon women because of Eve. When given a choice to do right or wrong, Eve chose to do wrong. Women today have a chance too, of whether to do right or wrong. Mothers who foolishly choose to have an abortion are in the same wicked boat as Eve, destroying their family. When Eve sinned, she brought down her husband Adam, and ruined the lives of her future children. Oh, the spider's web that sin weaves, in which all affected are entangled.
I humbly think there is a good chance that Joe Biden will be re-elected as U.S. President in 2024. If Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis both run in 2024, they will split the Republican vote. Biden will win! I wouldn't be surprised if President Joe Biden passes away during office, and then Kamala Harris will be U.S. President. That would be very unfortunate for America.
Mark my words that when we have a female president, this country will be much worse off when she leaves office. It is ludicrous to think that will all the decorated military veterans in the United States, that we have a woman for Vice President. it is horrible! Why not have a businessman as Vice President, who has run a multi-billion dollar company?
Kindly said, I am tired of seeing Hollywood actors elected to office. As California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was incompetent and ruined the state! I'm not saying that a women couldn't lead better than some men. Clearly, some ladies could. It is simply unethical and unbiblical to hire or appoint women to positions of power, when there are perfectly capable men to do those jobs. Women belong at home raising children and being a wife. This is God's proper plan for every society.
What saith the Scripture? 1st Timothy 5:14-15, “I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan.” The Bible teaches that career women have turned aside after Satan! The Devil's will for young women is to fornicate out of wedlock, get pregnant, thus ruining her life. Satan knows that introducing a young person to sexual immorality is the quickest way to destroy their future. That is why government public schools introduce impressionable children to sex at the earliest age, and then give them free condoms.
It is not a coincidence that interfacial relationships are deliberately being promoted by the Luciferian elite to Americans, which further advances the New World Order, by breaking down all walls of separation and segregation. ...
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” —George Brock Chisholm, in a Speech given at the, Conference on Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954
That is why the U.S. borders have been left open for the past 50 years, allowing 60,000,000 illegal immigrants to break the law to enter the country; thus further destroying our nation's sovereignty. A nation without borders ceases to be a country!
Sadly, most Americans either are woefully ignorant, know about these evil things but don't care, or know but feel helpless to change anything (which boat I am in). All I can do is be A VOICE for God against the Devil's New World Order. Part of my website ministry is exposing the falsehoods of the Devil's counterfeit Bible revisions, the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, et cetera. The New World Order (NWO) is evil to the core! If you use any other English Bible than the inspired King James Bible, you are helping the NWO. If you support present-day manmade Israel, you are helping the NWO. If you support illegals flooding into the United States, you are helping the NWO.
Career women are not only destroying the United States, they are ruining their own lives. According to 'Psychology Today', career women are the most miserable group in American society. What a shame! They are now in their forties and fifties, never been married, no children and will never have any grandchildren. They will be 60 years old and all alone, because feminists lied to them. Women's liberation is rebellion against God!!! Those rebellious females don't want equality, they want to be in charge! They want men's jobs and authority over men, which was the sin of Lucifer against God.
A godly woman knows her place in the grand scheme of things in God's plan. She knows that God created her to be a HELP MEET to her husband. She knows that God has blessed her with the heritage of children, and has entrusted her with teaching and training those children for Him, who were loaned to her by God. A godly woman knows that God has given her as a gift to her husband, to comfort and encourage and help him any way possible, without complaining or making his life difficult by opposing him all the time. Hundreds of millions of women are homewreckers, not homemakers. For this God will hold them accountable (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Romans 14:10-12). The Proverbs 31 Woman is an endangered species.
Children (youth) have become our oppressors. All across the United States, gangs of youth are terrorizing the nation. I just heard in the news this week about a 12-year-old who robbed a store at gun point, with a loaded gun that he fired into the ceiling. Children are our oppressors, because we no longer teach them the Holy Bible in public schools. Instead, we wickedly indoctrinate them with the blatant false religion of evolution (which is solely based in bogus theories, not in facts or science). Clearly, the Devil controls the government and schools.
The issue is not over whether women can lead as well as men; but rather, should they be leading men? The Bible teaches that a woman's place is in the home. No creature made by God will ever be happy until it fulfills its purpose for being created. A bird cannot truly be happy that is locked in a cage. A fish cannot truly be happy trapped in an aquarium. And no woman can be happy who is trapped in a career, who has forfeit marriage and children to make money. The Devil is a beautiful liar!!! Please don't let feminists indoctrinate you with their rebellious ideologies. The happiest women are those who are fulfilling God's purpose as wives and mothers at home. ...
The inspired Holy Bible teaches that men are supposed to lead, not women. Men are supposed to wear the pants, not women. A woman's place is in the home. As the United States drifts farther away from the traditional nuclear family, and the LGBTQ community weave their perverse spiderweb (the homosexual deathstyle and unbiblical ideologies) into the minds of our youth, our nation is crumbling apart. Call me old-fashioned if you will, or a chauvinist hog, I am simply for the inspired Holy Bible. Isaiah 3:12, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
1st Corinthians 16:2, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
There is a fine line between faith and foolishness. Nothing upsets me more as a preacher than money-hungry pastors. I am so disgusted by the love of money that permeates so many pulpits today. I heard Pastor Clarence Sexton in 2016 begging his congregation to raise $1,000,000 to renovate Crown College. Pastor Steven Anderson is so right about the Bible College Scam in the United States! While local New Testament churches are shrinking, the Bible colleges are growing bigger, parasiting off and funneling much needed resources away from the churches.
Most preachers don't like me, because I preach against a 10% tithe. You cannot show me one verse in the inspired King James Bible that commands saints to give 10% of their money to God. When I was a baby Christian as a teenager, I was lied to by preachers, who told me that I was robbing God if I didn't tithe 10% of everything I own. I was wrongly taught that even if I tithes 10%, I still hadn't given God a cent, and that I was supposed to give an additional 5% to make God happy. I was also errantly bullied, told by lying pastors that if I failed to tithe and give more than my tithe, that God would do bad things to me. Those horrible pastors said that your spouse or children might die, thieves might break into your home to steal, you might lose your job, or your home burn to the ground, as God's punishment upon you if you didn't tithe and give above the tithe. They based all of this junk theology on one single passage of Scripture from the Old Testament...
Malachi 3:8-11, “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.”
To understand this passage you need to know that God ordained12 tribes in Israel in the Old Testament. These twelve tribes formed the nation of Israel. They were God's chosen people. God ordained that the tribe of Levi would perform all of the priestly work. They set up the Tabernacle, and dismantled it as they traveled. The Levites performed all the work of the priests, killing of the animals for sacrifice, and purging of the sins of the people with blood (which symbolized the precious blood of Jesus Christ which would one day be shed for our sins). So God commanded the other remaining 11 tribes to tithe 10% of everything that they owned to support the tribe of Levi. It was a closed system ordained by God, only for the Jews, only for Jews who lived in the Old Testament, and only for Jews living in the land of Palestine.
Therefore, that 10% tithing system which was instituted only for Old Testament Israel, does NOT apply to believers today, we who are at liberty through faith in Christ alone. This doesn't mean that God doesn't want us to support the work of the ministry. However, you and are are not required to tithe 10% to the tribe of Levi, nor to any specific church, or any church. I have declared war on these lying pastors and others in the clergy, who prey upon people with the lie that God will hurt them if they don't tithe 10%.
Case in point is a woman that I know. She sinfully divorced her husband decades ago. She is very religious, but not a very good Christian. Most people fail to understand that reading your Bible, praying, tithing and going to church weekly does NOT make you a good Christian, it simply means that you are devout in your religious faith. How good of a Christian you are is determined by how you treat people and God.
This foolish woman that I am speaking of makes poverty wages. She has no job training. She divorced her husband and put herself in this situation. She tithes 10% of her meager wages because she thinks that is part of being a good Christian. She has been deceived by lying pastors. So while her pastor is living large—driving a nice car, dining out, going on vacations and living in a beautiful home—this woman barely survives on what she receives. So she begs her family for money to pay her bills. That is so unethical and wrong dear reader.
Listen to me, if you are so poor that you need to go borrow money from others, then you SHOULND'T tithe! Do you really think God wants you to tithe while needing to beg for money from others? No way! She is effectively tithing with other people's money. This is what religion does to people, it screws up their common sense, inflicting religious scrupulosity (fear and worry caused by religion) upon them if they don't tithe 10%(to a God who will punish them if they don't). SHAME on those lying pastors!!!
Sadly, money is the main thing that preachers try to get from people. I have seen it all my life. I loved Dr. Jack Hyles, but he browbeat and relentlessly pressured his church congregation for their money. Pastor Hyles also gave away nearly everything that he earned and received. SO I am not saying that he was greedy, God forbid. Brother Hyles was always wanting to build and grow his ministry, which required millions of dollars.
Respectfully, Dr. Hyles truly was just like Solomon, which Bill Rice called him. I heard in one of his sermons, that Pastor Hyles was scolding his church members for reneging on $100,000 in promised donations a year earlier. They had filled out financial vow cards in church, because Dr. Hyles pressured them to. That is what happens when you constantly pressure people to give, give, give. Something has to break at some point! When Solomon's son, Rehoboam, told the people that he was going to go even harder on them financially, 10 of the 12 tribes revolted and journey north with Jeroboam to start their own kingdom. They said: “Screw you Rehoboam!” I can't say that I blame them! Would you?
There is something wrong with a pastor who scolds, browbeats and belittles his church members for not giving sacrificially until it hurts. I saw that garbage at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014. They invited a guest missionary's from the Philippines to speak at church. A super typhoon had just devastated the Philippine islands. He said at the time that 1,900 churches were about to close their doors forever in the Philippines, if they did not receive financial help. He said: “I know this churches gives, but we need you to give sacrificially until it hurts!” Just as he said that, I glanced down to my right side and saw a church bulletin laying on the pew. The church was taking a lucrative vacation to the Holy Land in Israel, which was going to cost well over $100,000. Twenty affluent church members were going on the trip. I felt numb and sick to my stomach at the utter hypocrisy of the leaders of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam.
It is clear from this to see, that they just want to suck every last drop of blood money out of every person they can, ultimately for their own benefit!!! The shameful pastor's of Harvest Baptist Church's exuberant salaries always come first, and their lucrative vacations, and needy churches ready to close their doors come last. What hypocrites!!! It is blood money when church leaders and members are taking expensive trips to the Holy Land, at the expensive of churches closing their doors. As I speak, Marty Herron (the former incompetent infidel pastor of Harvest) is now getting paid well over $100,000 a year as the ungodly vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa. Marty belongs in prison, but religious crime spays well in America! Marty is guilty of preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, and perverting what it means to "repent" to be saved, and for promoting Martin Luther (1483-1546) as a Christian. Luther taught the heresy of Sacramental Salvation all his life. Herron also has much blood on his hands for using, selling and promoting the Devil's fake Bible revisions. Woe unto Marty Herron and the ungodly Bob Jones University cult who trained him. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
Dear friend, you ought not tithe just to tithe. You worked hard for that money. If you are saved (i.e., a born again child of God), then the day you got saved everything you own became God's (1st Corinthians 6:20). When you give money away, you are simply letting go of what is already God's. But dear friend, please don't be an idiot with God's money! You shouldn't donate any money to the Salvation Army, who pay their top official over $300,000 a year!!! If they can afford to pay those kind of outrageous salaries (which is nearly 8 times what the average U.S. worker earns in a year), then they don't need God's money!!! And that $300,000 doesn't even include his paid housing, business trips (vacations), business meals and other fringe compensations!!! The Salvation Army's leaders are spoiled rotten to the core!!! Then at Christmas, they'll deceitfully portray to the public the image of a Santa Claus collecting coins.
Money is the last thing I will give a church, unless I see that it is a King James Bible only, free grace Gospel only, soulwinning church. Please don't give God's money to help further the Devil's lordship Salvation cult! That means don't give any money to Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who wickedly bid Godspeed to the Calvinist Bob Jones University (BJU) cult. PCC and BJU are cults that work together to make filthy lucre. That's all they care about, making a lot more money. Cha-ching goes the sound of the cash register! PCC sinfully bids Godspeed to Lordship Salvation infidel Ken Ham, who teaches that faith is not enough to be saved, he errantly says you must also turn away from your evil ways. That is WORKS!!! (Romans 4:4).
I wrote this blog to encourage you to start thinking objectively when it comes to giving. So many believers foolishly only give money to avoid feeling guilty, or legitimately because they do genuinely love the Lord, or errantly because they think giving is the way to get things from God—but ask yourself, “Where is that money going?” Are you paying for someone's giant paycheck? Are people coming to Jesus Christ as their personal Savior? Does the church even have a time scheduled to go soulwinning?
My personal belief is that if a church pastor is living higher on the hog than I am, I refuse to donate one penny to that church. These spoiled Baptist pastors today need to humble themselves to the order of Franciscan Catholic priests, who are sworn to live in poverty for Christ. We can use some of that type of humility in our independent fundamental Baptist churches. Please don't give your hard earned money to any church or ministry, unless you KNOW where the money is going and what it's being used for.
I am shocked how many Christians donate loads of money to missionaries on the foreign field, who do absolutely NOTHING for God. One missionary group in Africa put me on their mailing list. Their big service for Christ that month was trimming branches off the top of the trees on their property, so low-flying propeller planes wouldn't hit the trees. That is NOT a ministry!!! You're darn fool if you donate one penny to that scam. Listen, if the free grace Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and bodily risen the third day is not being preaching, it cannot be a legitimate Christian ministry.
I triple-dog dare you to search the internet with the words: “______ ministry,” and see what you get. For example: Here is a bicycles ministry. There's no Gospel message on their website, nor could I find anything about their ministry where it says they share the Gospel with anyone. They just share God's love through giving asway bikes! Folks, that is a scam! It is a racket, not a legitimate ministry, because nobody is getting a chance to be saved.
Here is another scam, a scuba diving ministry. Their so-called “ministry” is going scuba diving with other believers, but that is a club for diving enthusiast, not a ministry. Since they are not preaching the Gospel to try to win people to Christ, it cannot be a ministry. Many people have a perverted idea of what a “ministry” is. Search the Scriptures and you will find that any biblical ministry involved trying to get people saved with the power of the Gospel.
And here is some nut on Facebook who has even started his own marijuana ministry for Jesus! Oh brother! Again, where is the Gospel being preached? No, they just want to justify getting high in the name of Jesus. What wickedness!
Anyway, back to the main topic of this blog. If you are broke dear reader, God does not expect you to tithe. I think if God has blessed you through hard work or an inheritance to become filthy rich, you should return that kindness to God by being generous. However, do your homework because everybody wants money these days, but less than 1% of today's churches, charities and ministries are worthy of receiving a single penny. Beware of these fat cat charities that pay ridiculous 6-digit salaries to their overpaid executives, while you survive from paycheck to paycheck. Charity starts at home!!! Pensacola Christian College has dozens of employees getting paid 6-digit salaries. They won't get a penny from me!
I contend that you should give what money you have to spare directly to the poor, homeless and needy. That is what I do. So 100% of the money that I give goes directly to the poor. I have eliminated the spoiled rotten overpaid middleman who is getting paid $694,000 a year! That is the annual salary for the CEO of Red Cross! You are a fool if you donate money to them. If I had my way, no charity would legally be allowed to pay anyone more than what the average U.S. worker gets paid. These so-called “charities” pay ZERO taxes, while paying sickening ridiculously high salaries to their executives. It is unethical and just plain wrong!
You are not robbing God by nothing tithing 10%. You are only robbing God if you made a financial vow to the Lord, and then you went back on that vow. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5, “When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.” That was the horrible sin of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts chapter 5. They had promised to sell a home and give all the proceeds to the local church, but then after they sold their home, they held back some of the money. They had broken a vow to the church, which the Apostle Peter said was a broken vow to God. Be careful not to make a vow to man or God unless you intend to keep it, no matter what. Personally, I never make vows for that reason, because vows can be easily broken if circumstances change.
Also, I believe that God will reward us in Heaven for giving, even if the people to whom we gave the money were reckless, dishonest or greedy. God will punish them for their sins. However, if we give money to shady institutions or ministers, the effectiveness of what could have been done with that money was wasted.
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with giving money to secular charities; such as, March of Dimes, Disabled veterans of America, Shriners Hospitals For Children, or The American Cancer Society to fight disease and help disabled people. I am not recommending supporting these institutions, I am simply mentioning them as an example. Albeit, I believe that as saints we should focus on giving our money for eternal causes. There are tens of millions of people who donate money to secular organizations, but only God's redeemed children are going to donate money to churches, rescue missions, missionaries, soulwinning events, et cetera.
I am simply saying to be careful who you give money to. If aimlessly throwing money away at shady charities and bogus churches makes you feel better about yourself, then you are so vain. Don't you support some rich pastor who is living large, while he is browbeating you to give to him until it hurts. Please don't be duped!!! Again, there is nothing in the New Testament which commands any saint to tithe 10%. God wants you to give as your are able, as He has prospered you. 1st Corinthians 16:2, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” If you are on welfare, disability or unemployed, then you cannot give much. God understands. The Lord wants your heart, and then He will get your money, home, family and all that goes along with it. Proverbs 23:26, “My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.”
Romans 16:17-1 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”
I cannot express in words the inexplicable pain of soul because of the hateful cruel behavior of the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. For 7 long years (2014-2021) I begged for their love and compassion. All I wanted was just to attend their church, because I was lonely as a divorced man (my former disloyal wife abandoned me in 2006), but Harvest's ungodly pastors refused to let me attend their church, and threw me under the bus, because I told THE TRUTH.
And then in 2021 I moved 9,000 miles from the island of Guam to Pensacola, Florida. I chose to attend Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC), just to be horrified to learn that PCC is in bed with Harvest, who receive students at PCC from Harvest. The former radio operator on Guam at Harvest, now operates their radio station at PCC.
Shameful senior pastor at PCC 's Campus Church, Jeff Redlin, is promoted on Harvest's radio station on Guam. Because these wicked groups are all spiritually fornicating together, I was also banned and mistreated by the PCC camp. This is all because I took a faithful stand against Harvest's incompetent pastors on Guam, who preach the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, preach a misunderstanding of repentance of be saved (aka, "turn away from your sinful ways" to get to Heaven), errantly teach that Martin Luther is in Heaven (he taught Sacramental Salvation all his life), and they also use and promote the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions.
They are all guilty of spreading a false gospel. PCC is guilty of helping to spread a false gospel, by wickedly bidding Godspeed to the Bob Jones University (BJU cult). Someone slandered me to PCC's pastors and they are condemning me based upon gossip and slander, which is very wicked and wrong. God's wrath is upon BJU and PCC for spreading lies and deceit, destroying lives.
In love, I befriended those horrible neo-evangelical Bob Jones University graduate pastors at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam between 2014 and 2021, but they killed the prophet. They rejected THE TRUTH that I humbly believe God sent me to give them. I do believe that God led me to Harvest, as a testimony against them for judgment day. But if not, at least I did give them THE TRUTH, but they rejected it, for which God will reward and honor me, and punish and shame them! Their sorrowful day of reckoning is coming in eternity.
God knows my heart. I am just a hurting broken divorced man who wants to be loved, but the leaders and pastors at PCC are so filled with self-righteous hypocrisy, huge egos, pride, arrogance, bigotry, carnality and hatred, that they woefully lack compassion and love for individual people like me. I sincerely tried multiple times to reconcile with the PCC camp, but they cold-heartedly refused, which is what the heathen world does. They do not fear God at PCC.
By God's grace, I will continue to preach against these hypocrites until either God takes me home to Heaven, or PCC forgives me for offending them and invites me back to Campus Church. As of August 2, 2022 I have been banned from attending Campus Church, so now this means war. PCC is a cult that needs to be exposed. God knows that I do not hate anybody, but they do hate people at PCC and BJU. They are the epitome of everything that is wrong with pastors and phony Christian leadership in America today! I will go to seed preaching against these ungodly institutions.
The irony is that I truly did try to get along with PCC, but the Bible says in Proverbs that there is no harmony between a wise man and fools. Proverbs 29:9, “If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.” Sadly, it didn't matter to PCC when I criticized them on social media, nor did it matter to them when I humbled myself to apologize and be nice to them, PCC are fools who don't want to make the peace.
I doubt if they will ever repent, because they are shallow neo-evangelicals full of arrogance and hatred, which they are blind to see. Jesus told the church of Laodicea that they were naked, wretched, poor and blind, even though THEY FOOLISHLY THOUGHT they were prosperous, faithful and doing great (Revelation 3:15-17). Jesus called them “lukewarm” and said they made Him vomit. The Lordship Salvation preaching, Harvest Baptist Church cult on Guam, makes God vomit. PCC has blood on their hands for wickedly bidding them Godspeed (2nd John 1:11).
The cult at PCC who wickedly bid Godspeed to false prophet Ken Ham, who says faith is not enough to be saved (Ken Ham says you must also turn away from your evil ways), makes God vomit. SHAME on PCC! I am not the bad guy for telling THE TRUTH, PCC are evil for helping spread a counterfeit plan of salvation. PCC is all about making more money. The cult system always comes first at PCC, individual people do not matter.
It is criminal in God's eyes! What PCC is doing to me is a crime in the Lord's sight. I have humbly offered to do whatever they require to reconcile and make peace, but the shameful pastors at Campus Church refuse. Sadly, PCC leadership refuses to help in the matter, refusing to keep their bad dog Jeff Redlin on a leash. I extended an Olive Branch of friendship to the PCC camp, but they cast it to the ground.
In my first email to Pastor Redlin in July of 2021, I humbly told him that as a newcomer to the PCC camp, I just want to be blessing in any way I can. I offered to volunteer to serve in whatever capacity that I could. I kindly told him that I am a graduate of Hyles-Anderson College and wanted to serve in a ministry at Campus Church. To my horror, Jeff Redlin totally ignored me. Instead he was cruel and insensitive, scolding me for mentioning that (as a divorced man for 15 years) I hoped to find a wife at Campus Church.
Only a darn fool for a pastor scolds a 54-year-old man for hoping to remarry. What is wrong with his heart and head? I mean, after all, it had been 15 years in 2021 since my wife abandoned me in 2006. What a hypocrite Jeff Redlin is! Jeff has a wife, but according to him I am not allowed to have a wife, I should just be alone for the rest of my life. They are out of touch with reality at PCC. Sadly, they are abusive toward divorced people, which is what CULTS do! They started this fight, not me. When you mistreat people, this is what happens!
PCC is a dangerous place to send your child, because they are nothing more than a cult of rules, rules and more rules; but they woefully lack God's love or compassion for their students and church members, of which I am living proof. Whereas Jesus left the 99 sheep to go help the one wayward lamb, at PCC they have the 9,999 sheep so they couldn't care less about one hurting lamb like me. I need their love, understanding and help, but they threw me under the bus instead.
God knows that I love everybody, including the folks at the dysfunctional Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, and the private social cult at Pensacola Christian College's Campus Church; but until they humble themselves to just allow me to attend church again (I only live 2 miles away from PCC), I will never shut up. I say that kindly and with respect, people just want to be loved.
Philippians 1:15-18, “Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.”
The “New IFB” stands for New Independent Fundamental Baptist churches (or movement). This compares to the Old IFB movement. To be quite frank, the New IFB essentially began with Pastor Steven Anderson. God has used Brother Anderson in a tremendous way to bring revival across America. A faithful group of young men have followed Pastor Anderson's leadership and influence, becoming pastors themselves. Namely, some of these pastors are Roger Jimenez, Joe Major, Jonathan Shelley, Bruce Mejia, et cetera. I love the New IFB and thank God for their aggressive emphasis on soulwinning and hard preaching.
Unfortunately, some of the New IFB lacks love for sinners. I firmly believe that we ought never accept the sin with the sinner, nor reject the sinner with the sin. Hatred begets more hatred. You cannot show me one verse in the inspired Holy Bible that teaches us to hate people, regardless of how they live. This is where I respectfully, but strongly, disagree with the New IFB. I don't like that Pastor Anderson says that he hopes all homosexuals will burn in Hell. I do not agree with the New IFB that homosexuals are reprobates who are beyond the hope of the Gospel, so they say why bother trying to witness to them to get them saved. That is so unbiblical and wrong.
Pastor Anderson has been banned in over 40 countries. It is not because of his hard preaching, but because he is preaching hatred against the LGBTQ community. God hates their sins and so should we. Psalms 97:10, “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.” Albeit, we are commanded in the Bible to love everyone. James 2:8-9, “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.” Without love we will hardly win anybody to Christ.
Loving everyone doesn't means tolerating, affirming or accepting their sins. The Bible teaches that the righteous and the unrighteous will NEVER get along in harmony. Proverbs 29:27, “An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.” I am 100% against churches embracing the LGBTQ movement in their unrepentant state. There is hot debate over whether sodomites should be allowed to attend church. Some pastors view a local church as a hospital for sinners, so everyone is welcomed (Pastor Jeff Owens believes this); but other pastors view the church as a group of Christian families and see homosexuals as a threat to families, so they are banned from attending church (this is why Pastor Steven Anderson believes). So who is correct?
What saith the Scripture? 1st Timothy 5:20, “Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.” I think the problem resolves itself if a pastor faithfully preaches hard against sin, which is his duty as God's man. Open homosexuals won't want to attend a church where the pastor rips and hollers with the Bible against the sin of homosexuality. Shame on the cowardly, compromised, incompetent pastor who doesn't preach against homosexuality as a sin! Churches are indeed failing the LGBTQ community today, by not crying aloud against homosexuality as utter perversion and an abomination to God almighty!
I am all for comforting the grieving, helping the needy, and loving people, but never at the expense of righteousness. The proper balance is to unconditionally love sinners, while at the same time preaching hard against their sin, and refusing to tolerate open sin in a local church. Those who commit open sin in a church need to kindly be confronted, and if need be asked to leave (1st Corinthians 5:1-5). There will always be a few troublemakers, who come to church with intent to disrupt the service, and they need to be shown the door. Albeit, 99% of sinners will behave themselves at church, and I humbly believe they should be allowed to stay, because otherwise we would ALL have to leave, because we are all sinners!
I think the New IFB hurt their movement by hating sinners. Pastor Fred Phelps was a devout Calvinist who hated homosexuals. All eight of his children were attorneys, and he often needed their representation in legal matters. Pastor Phelps was infamous for sending his church members to protect at funerals, holding up offensive signs that read: “Thank God for dead miners” and “Thank God for 911” and “Thank God for dead firemen,” et cetera. Those signs infuriated the public! Although I understand what Fred was doing, rubbing it in that we all deserve God's wrath and judgment as Americans, the average person didn't understand his extreme antics.
Likewise, most people don't understand Pastor Anderson praising the 2016 shooting and murder of 49 homosexuals at the gay Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. When Pastor Anderson thanked God publicly for the murders, all his buddies in the New IFB movement followed suit, making the same horrible statements from their pulpits. This is pure hatred of people, not sin. This is why Pastor Anderson has been banned from entering into over 40 countries.
Now, I know that we are engaged in a spiritual war with the Devil and the world. My friend Pastor Max D. Younce has received his second strike from YouTube, for preaching against the sin of homosexuality. One more strike and YouTube will remove his entire church channel for the Heritage Baptist Bible Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. We are at war with the rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6:12).
Pastor Anderson made this helpful video to explain the differences between the Old IFB and the New IFB...
New IFB Versus Old IFB (Pastor Steven Anderson)
To clarify, I love the New IFB and support their aggressive soulwinning efforts. However, I 100% disagree with several false teachings which are prevalent in the New IFB. I don't believe that Jesus burned in Hell for three days. The Bible plainly says that Jesus went to Paradise. I am sad that Pastor Anderson willingly contradicts the Bible in this matter. Jesus did NOT burn in Hell. The Savior Himself told the repentant thief on the cross next to Him, that they would both be in 'Paradise' that very same day (Luke 23:43). Clearly, Jesus did not burn in Hell.
I also respectfully disagree with Pastor Anderson's Strange "Reprobate Doctrine." This heresy falsely claims that God hates homosexuals and has given up on them ever getting saved, banning them from salvation. I do believe the Reprobate Doctrine as Dr. Jack Hyles preached it, which I explain in detail in the preceding article, contrasting what Pastor Hyles taught versus what Pastor Anderson is preaching. I believe there is a point of no return that an unsaved sinner can cross, where they will never get saved; but it is only because of the hardness of their heart, and not because God refuses to save them. Jesus said in John 5:40 that "Ye will not come unto me." He didn't say, "Ye cannot come." Furthermore, in John 6:37 Jesus promised to never cast away anybody who comes to Him for salvation. 2nd Peter 3:9 says that God is not willing for ANY to perish, but that ALL men repent and come to Christ to be saved by faith alone.
I also humbly disagree With a PreWrath Rapture. I believe in a Biblical Pretribulation Rapture (i.e., the Rapture will happen BEFORE the 7-year Tribulation period). Pastor Anderson teaches that the Rapture and Christ's Second Coming are the SAME event, which is unbiblical. I do not believe that OLD IFB and NEW IFB should divide over the timing of the Rapture. That is, we ought to support soulwinning events together, even though churches may not want New IFB pastors preaching for them.
So is the New IFB bad? No, I don't think so. God is working tremendously through New IFB churches to bring revival to America. Sadly, our nation is so far gone into sin and lack of fear of God that the New IFB and Old IFB alike have many enemies. We are at war ladies and gentlemen. I would rather see a guy do right wrongly, than to do wrong rightly. Even though the New IFB is not perfect, neither is the Old IFB for that matter. I am not supportive of hating a particular group of sinners, as is the case with the New IFB hating the LGBTQ community. The sin of homosexuality is no more wicked than adultery, slander, gossip or stealing. It is junk theology to teach that homosexuals are reprobates who are beyond the hope of the Gospel. So I disagree with Nee IFB pastors in this matter.
The one major flaw that I see in New IFB churches is their woeful lack of love for sinners. 1st Corinthians 13:1-5 teaches that if we do not have charity (love), then nothing else matters. The zealous hard preaching of the New IFB means NOTHING until they start unconditionally loving people. Jude 1:22-23, “And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” I think the problem is that all of the New IFB pastors I have seen are quite young. There's just something about growing older, gaining more life's experiences, that cause us to become more understanding, forgiving and loving.
We see this truth evidenced in the Bible in John chapter 8, in the account of the woman taken in the very act of adultery. Jesus wrote on the ground. We do not know what He wrote. My guess would be: “Where's the man?” The Pharisees said they caught her in the very act of adultery, so why didn't they bring the man? The Bible says that the oldest among the woman's accusers left first. I think that is because of what I just said, about gaining life's experiences, understanding, conviction and wisdom as we age. It took the younger guys more time to figure it out. I am still hoping and paying that one of these days, that the New IFB will figure out as they grow older and wiser, that people just want to be loved.
I love the New IFB and will continue to support their sermons, churches, ministries and pastors. They are correct on a free grace Gospel and the inspiration of the King James Bible. Some critics want me to expose and reject the New IFB movement over minor doctrinal flaws and Pastor Anderson's rough edges. I won't do it! I love and respect Pastor Anderson. Some people have accused him of not having a college degree. Neither did Jesus! All a college degree shows is that you paid money for a piece of paper, it doesn't mean that you are learned in the Word of God. Next to Pastor Jack Hyles, I have learned more about the Bible from Pastor Anderson than any other preacher.
One reason is because Brother Anderson has made a science out of the Bible, getting into the nitty gritty and the meat and potatoes. Next to myself, I do not know of a preacher who covers more topics than Pastor Anderson. I love that about him. He exposes the fraudulent Federal Reserve system. He exposes America's criminal injustice system. He exposes Johnny Nixon's insane “Born That Way” junk theology. He exposes the diabolical New World Order. What an awesome preacher! The Old IFB critics who want me to attack Pastor Anderson, unfortunately attend dead churches where their henpecked pastor never preaches against any of the aforementioned evils. So, no, I won't bite the hand that feeds me.
I love the zeal of the New IFB. I love their often soulwinning events. I love their focus on preaching the Gospel to the world. I love that they expose the Devil's modern corrupt Bible revisions. I love that they expose Bob Jones University's Lordship Salvation trash, and Dr. John MacArthur whom they idolize. I love that the New IFB preach against Calvinism and false prophets like Ray Comfort, Sam Adams and the cults. Where are the Old IFB churches on social media? Why is the New IFB doing nearly all the contending for the faith? I am supportive of BOTH Old and New IFB!!! I am for whoever is getting the job done for Christ. Dr. Hyles Hyles is right: “The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.
There are no perfect churches. I know that Pastor Anderson is wrong about Jesus burning in Hell for three days. In his book of the Holy Spirit, in chapter 20, Dr. Jack Hyles errantly teaches that the “Shekinah Glory” abode above the Mercy Seat in the Tabernacle. The “She” in “Shekinah” comes from the cult of Jewish Cabbalism, which refers to the female aspect of God. The Bible ALWAYS presents God only in a masculine form: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (who in John 16:13 is referred to with the masculine pronoun, “he”). Wiccan witches, the occult, Asian false religions and Jewish mysticism pervert the Godhead, portraying God in feminine form.
The First Baptist Church of Hammond, since 2008, no longer believes or teaches their students at Hyles-Anderson College that the King James Bible is inspired by God. Dr. John R. Rice, in his book, “Dr. Rice: Here Are More Questions,” he teaches that it is a sin for a refined white woman to marry an unrefined Negro. What saith the Scripture in Hebrews 13:4? I'll let you decide. I personally do think that there are ethical concerns why interfacial marriage should be avoided, but it is not a sin. Pastor Peter Ruckman foolishly taught that abortion is okay. He also errantly taught that people were saved by works in the Old Testament. Acts 10:43 and Romans 4:4 call Ruckman a liar!
As much as I love Pastor Harry Ironside for his free grace Gospel preaching, he royally botched Matthew 24:13, “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” In his book, “The Eternal Security Of The Believer,” Dr. Ironside errantly teaches that Tribulation saints will persevere (endure) to the end. This is heresy! That is not what Matthew 24:13 means! The Bible gives us the answer in Matthew 24:22, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.” Verse 13 is referring to physically surviving the Tribulation period, it is not speaking about the spiritual new birth.
My point by sharing the preceding observations of false teachings with you, is that whether Old IFB or New IFB, no preacher is without doctrinal flaw. Most preachers change their doctrine over the decades, honing their theology to conform with the Word of God. Pastors all around the world relentlessly quote Charles Spurgeon, nearly all of which quotes were made by Spurgeon in his early twenties as a minister. He was just a stupid kid! Not surprisingly, Spurgeon's theology was full of bugs, contradictions and Calvinism.
Just To Clarify
I support both the Old and New IFB. God doesn't want us dividing over minor issues. Paul rebuked the church at Corinth for dividing into cliques (1st Corinthians 1:11-15). I hate when New IFB try to rid the Old IFB. The IFB is essentially Pastor Anderson, who has doctrinal issues; such as his blatant heresy that Jesus burned in Hell for 3 days. So I am 100% for the Old IFB too. I won't get into this cult mindset that the New IFB replaces the Old IFB, which is silly. I thank God for all pastors who are faithfully serving God. There are godly preachers in both the Old and New IFB. I think we need to be careful about becoming obsessed with this "New IFB" thing. There is only the local New Testament church.
I've had some wacky New IFB followers desperately try to get me to condemn and attack Old IFB pastors. One man attacked Pastor Jeff Owens, because 35 years ago he said in chapel at Hyles-Anderson College that we ought to have, “Hunt a homo day.” Twenty five years later Dr. Owens sincerely apologized for making that inappropriate statement, and I think he did the right thing. But Pastor Steven Anderson lashed out against Pastor Owens, calling him a bunch of names and scolding him for compromising his view on Sodomites. So a man on Facebook sent me a message recently, wanting me to abandon the Old IFB because of things like what I just mentioned.
In response to the preceding accusations, I reminded the man that as much as I love Pastor Anderson, he has some serious doctrinal issues. Like teaching that Jesus burned in Hell for three days and nights. Christ Himself told the repentant thief on the cross that they would be together in “Paradise” that very day. So unless you believe that Hell is Paradise, we know that Jesus did not burn in Hell for one second! Pastor Anderson is also in error concerning his Reprobate Doctrine. I've only mentioned these blatant doctrinal flaws by Pastor Anderson to prove a point, that there are flawed preachers in BOTH the Old IFB and the New IFB.
Therefore, I love them all, though faulty they may be! The truth is that there's not a preacher who has ever walked the face of this earth, except Jesus Christ Himself, who wasn't doctrinally flawed on something. I do the best I can to be accurate in my doctrine, and to correct anything wrong in my preaching. I'm sure my teachings are not perfect, because I am not perfect. That is why I always encourage my web and blog visitors to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, to verify what I teach you (John 5:39; Acts 17:10-11).
So I admonish you dear reader not to get caught up into this pissing contest between the New IFB and the Old IFB. Pastor Anderson spearheaded the New IFB movement, for which I am grateful, but the New IFB movement is not perfect, neither in their doctrines or methods. The Old IFB certainly has many ongoing issues as well, which likely won't be resolved anytime soon. The Old IFB lacks zeal. The Old IFB refuses to contend for the faith, to get their hands dirty by offending the local community with the truth.
I remember many years ago, when I was attending Hyles-Anderson College, that some good friends of mine from Cleveland, Ohio, invited me to come with them to their home. I was delighted to do so. While in Ohio they took me the Pastor Roy Thompson's Cleveland Baptist Church. I will never forget what the sign read in front of the church: “Abortion is cold-blooded murder!” That pastor instantly won my heart and respect. As far as I'm concerned, that was the New IFB!
Pastor Steven Anderson is not the first preacher to be zealous and stand for God. Pastor Jack Hyles was the New IFB of his generation. So much so that the Southern Baptist Convention stripped him of his membership and kicked him out the door!!! There is nothing “new” under the sun. Please remember that friend. During his time in the Old Testament, the prophet Elijah was the New IFB in town! In every generation, it is necessary for godly preachers to “come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
There are some faithful pastors in what is now called the “Old IFB,” who are diligently serving the Lord with zeal. The so-called “New IFB” is actually the movement that Pastor Steven Anderson started in 2006, when he started the Faithful Word Baptist Church. It should also be pointed out that the New IFB drastically departs from the orthodox Old IFB belief in a Pretribulation Rapture (which I think is unfortunate). If you rightly divide the Word of Truth, you can only conclude a Pretribulation Rapture. Anything else and we would know exactly when Jesus is returning, which Mark 13:32-37 says in impossible. So I very much disagree with the New IFB on their PreWrath Rapture theory.
I would like to also say that I don't like this New IFB versus Old IFB cult mindset that some people have today. I am not calling the New IFB a cult, I am saying that some of the New IFB followers have a cult mindset. I saw this in the Old IFB too. The First Baptist Church of Hammond was not a cult, but Pastor Jack Hyles had a cult following. Some of Pastor Hyles followers broke into Brother George Godfrey's home and stole the honorary doctorate's degree that Dr. Hyles awarded him at Pastor's School. That is a crime! That is wicked! That is so awful! No one has a right to break and enter into someone's home to steal from them!!!
When I attended Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993), a man that I knew in the Bus Ministry literally attacked another student and broke his collar bone, sending him to the local hospital, for critiquing Dr. Hyles. That is wicked and wrong and a crime! The Lord Himself teaches us to turn the other cheek, and to be as harmless as doves, not go around beating people up. I am not saying that Dr. Hyles' ministry was a cult, God forbid. The New Testament church is not a cult.
However, when you start shunning, rejecting and ostracizing people for not dotting their i's and crossing their t's, who are less than perfect, you are behaving like a cult. The Bible teaches in Galatians 6:1-3, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” So when we see a weaker believer who is struggling with worldliness and sin, we out to humble ourselves esteeming our self lower than them, and in meekness try to restore them to fellowship with God.
Sadly, most Baptists do the exact opposite, we cast them out and ban them from attending church anymore. That is what Pastor Jeff Redlin wickedly did to me at Campus Church, at Pensacola Christian College, which is a cult. They are a cult because of the way they abuse and mistreat individual people who they don't like. The cult system always comes first at PCC, individual people do not matter. SHAME on PCC's terrible leadership. There is a cult following at PCC, so that if you offend them, they will hurt you. They will shun, ostracize and even sue you, as they did one of their own alumni. PCC totally disregarded 1st Corinthians 6, which forbids suing another believer. SHAME on PCC! They disregard the Holy Bible on a whim.
Having said all that, I love and am thankful to God for all of the New IFB preachers and their followers. I thank God for the Old IFB and the New IFB alike. I will not take sides. There are flaws in both camps. There are bad and good churches in both camps. There are deadbeat and zealous pastors in both camps. The New IFB has a greater presence on social media, so they appear to be more zealous.
However, there are still some great churches across the United States. I am not for or against the Old IFB or New IFB. I am for truth-tellers. I am for principles and right doctrine. I am for righteousness. I am for God. I am for unconditionally loving sinners and uncompromisingly preaching against sin. There is a proper balance that we must maintain. Loving sinners without hard preaching against sin is ungodly compromise. Preaching hard against sin without loving people produces hatred and contempt. People don't care what you know until they know that you care.
I agree that the New IFB is more willing to 'agree to disagree' than the Old IFB, particularly over the subject of the Pretribulation Rapture. I am for SOULWINNING!!! That is why I love and support New IFB churches, because they are making an impact for God. So also are many Old IFB churches. God is doing a great work through Pastor Jeff Fugate in Lexington, Kentucky and their Commonwealth Baptist College. I thank God for their soulwinning ministry and I support them fully. So I encourage you not to think in terms of “Old or New IFB”; but rather, there are only local New Testament churches.
We're all in this thing called Christianity together. Every time I see this beautiful photo of Pastor Steven Anderson's church congregation, I rejoice in the Lord that he was born. One man plus God can make an impact for Jesus Christ...
Luke 23:42-43, “And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy
kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Pastor Jack Hyles said years ago that, “Heresy is creeping into our fundamental churches by the hour!” He was absolutely correct! I am disturbed when I learn of Baptist pastors who teach that backslidden Christians will suffer temporarily in the Lake of Fire. And it disturbs me when I hear pastors teaching that our Lord Jesus died and went to burn in the fires of Hell, which goes against the plain statement of Christ on the cross in Luke 23:43, “To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
Could our Lord have been referring to Heaven? No! Here's why—Jesus exclaimed in Acts 2:27, “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” We have just read the incontrovertible, uncontestable and plain truth from the inspired Word of God that Jesus DID NOT go to Heaven after drying on the cross. So where did Jesus go during the three days and three nights after He died? By cross-referencing the three preceding passages of Scripture, the diligent Bible student who rightly divides the Word of Truth can only conclude that there must have been a literal place called “Paradise.”
The Holy Bible says that Jesus went to Hell, which is the Greek word Hades. We learn from the true story in Luke 16:19-31, of the rich man and Lazarus, that Hell (Hades) is compartmentalized. On one side there is the place of TORMENT, and on the other side there is the place of PARADISE, and a “GREAT GULF” fixed between them the Bibles says in Luke 16:26, “And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.” Some preachers mock at the expression, “Abraham's Bosom,” but this is what God Himself called the place of Paradise in Luke 16:22-23, “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.”
Thus, “Abraham's Bosom” is a term of endearment, not a literal place. Galatians 3:29, “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” All of God's promises to Israel in the Old Testament apply to born-again believers. The Scriptures are very plain that there is neither Jew nor Gentile in Christ. Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” No unsaved Jew will ever enter into the Kingdom of God, and no saved Gentile will be left out! No unsaved Jew will escape the fires of Hell, and no saved Gentile will miss the blessings of Heaven!
Our precious Lord Jesus Christ did not go to burn in Hell after leaving the cross, He went to the place of Paradise. That is the plain teaching of Luke 23:43. This is not strange doctrine, it is solid Bible doctrine! Furthermore, according to Matthew 12:40, which I quote quoted to you, Jesus spent three days and three nights in the “HEART OF THE EARTH.” I think this makes it clear that Christ literally went to the inward parts of the earth, which is where Hell is located. Hell is always referenced as being downward in the Bible. Isaiah 14:9, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.”
Some Bible students believe that Jonah died and went to Paradise for three days and nights, but I disagree for a couple reasons"
Jonah was doing a lot of praying and thinking while in the whale's belly. Jonah 2:1, “Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.” This ole boy was having a personal one man revival, I'll tell you for sure!
Jesus said that Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Also, there is another piece of Scriptural evidence that a place called Paradise exists. John 3:13, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” At the time Christ walked this earth, NO MAN had ever ascended up to Heaven the Bible says. Well, if the saints didn't go to Heaven in the Old Testament, then where did they go? The man of God, Enoch, was taken that he should not see death. The prophet, Elijah, was caught up into a fiery whirlwind (firenado) into heaven (2nd Kings 2:11). The word “heaven” in 2nd Kings 2:1 and 11, refers to the sky, not the celestial city of Heaven. The word “heaven” here is the Hebrew word shâmayim shâmeh, which means “the sky.” This word does NOT refer to Heaven where God's throne is located.
We must not go by human logic or what seems reasonable, but by the plain teachings of the Scripture. The Bible plainly tells us in John 3:13, spoken by Christ Himself to Nicodemus, that NO MAN before Christ had ascended up into Heaven. Since Elijah ascended up into “heaven,” the Lord could not have been referring to the same place, or the Scriptures would be in error. The Holy Bible is never wrong!!!
So Jesus clearly meant that no man had ever ascended up into Heaven where God is seated on His throne. The only logical conclusion, based upon Scriptural evidence, is that a literal place existed in the Old Testament, where saints were held until Christ ransomed them. This place is Paradise, which is located in Hell (Hades), as evidenced in the true account given in Luke 16:19-31 of the rich man and Lazarus.
To clarify, I am NOT talking about the ungodly Roman Catholic heresy of Purgatory, which is a manmade doctrine fabricated by Gregory the Great in 593 AD. There is no temporary place of punishment for believers. Once a person dies, it's over! You either “DIE IN THE LORD” (Revelation 14:13b), or else you “DIE IN YOUR SINS” (John 8:24b). Once your spirit and soul depart from the tabernacle of your earthly body, your eternal fate is sealed, and it cannot be changed by anyone, not even God, lest He break His Word.
Please Don't Go to Hell
Oh, my dear reader, I wish you could know my heart, but you cannot. I am immersed with nothing but a desire to help others in the Lord. Some people are their own worst enemies, and you cannot help them, and that always grieves my heart. More than anything I want you to KNOW that you have eternal life and that your sins have been forgiven. ...
John 3:16-20, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
In the preceding Scripture, we see the need for repentance. Humans are sinners by nature and by choice. The Holy Bible teaches that mankind because of his love for sin (evil) won't come to the light of the Gospel to be saved. Repentance is when a person acknowledges being a guilty sinner in the sight of a holy God (Romans 3:19-20), and that person turns to the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen (1st Corinthians 15:1-4)! Repenting and believing are ONE ACT, not two. You don't repent AND believe; but rather, you repent TO believe. If you get this truth wrong, you will go to Hell. To repent as a separate act is manmade reformation, which constitutes human effort (works) for salvation. Grace plus anything crosses out grace!
We are saved by BELIEVING, not by REPENTING; but no one has ever believed who didn't also repent! Repentance is an automatic thing, so that you don't even need to mention the subject when witnessing to a lost person. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” In the Gospel of John, which is God's Gospel tract, the words “believe” and “believed” and “believeth” are mentioned 87 times, but the word “repent” is not mentioned even once! That is because the person who BELIEVES the Good News (Gospel) of Christ crucified on the cross, buried and resurrected three days later, has also repented.
There is NO SUCH THING as a person who believes but has never repented. I hear corrupt preachers, like Pastor Charles Lawson, teach that if a believer is still living in willful sin, it may be because they have never repented and are not saved. That is unbiblical! A man who believes is saved, period, end of story! I am so sick of meddlers changing the Gospel in an attempt to force people to live right. God's salvation doesn't work that way! Repentance is simply “a change of mind” unto the Gospel itself. How do I know if I have repented? Look, if you have trusted Christ's sacrifice on the cross as the only payment for your sins, believing that He raised up from the dead the third day, you have repented! You are born-again by the Holy Spirit of God!!!
Perhaps you don't believe in Hell. If that is so, I say to you kindly Sir or Mame, you are A FOOL! Are you willing to take that eternal risk? Are you willing to gamble with eternity? Think about that. And if you do one day go to Hell, my words will haunt your soul for ever, because I was the best friend you ever had, warning you of the fiery judgment to comes in a burning eternal Lake of Fire without love, without anybody to care about you, without hope, without a single drop of water to quench your unquenchable thirst!!! Please don't be stupid! Billions of fools are already burning in Hell. Will you join them? Not me buster, no way, my faith is built on nothing less, than Jesus Christ and His righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name...
My hope is built on nothing less, Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
Refrain: On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.
2nd Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” The perfect sinless Lamb of God, Jesus, because as sin for you and me, suffering a horrifying death as a criminal. He did that for you and me! I do not claim to understand it all, and there is no way anyone ever could. How could the Son of God pay for the sins of billions of people in one event on a cross? What you must keep in mind is that Jesus was not a sinful man, He was perfect. If Jesus hadn't dismissed His Spirit, He would have lived forever. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Jesus never sinned (Hebrews 4:15).
Jesus bled, suffered and died on the cross, so that you wouldn't have to be punished for your sins in Hell for ever and ever! If you go to Hell someday, you'll have nobody to blame except yourself! Please get saved before it is too late. Death can come at any moment!
Did you know that you don't have to ask Jesus to save you? God has already told you how to be saved, that is, by simply believing that His Son died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and raised up from the dead three days later. Christ raised up from the dead, which means that God the Father accepted His Son's payment for the sins of the world. Christ suffered on the cross so that we wouldn't have to suffer in a literal Hell forever. Amen! You don't have to bow your head to be saved. You don't have to pray. You don't have to do anything except believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and make that your only hope for Heaven!
