1st Corinthians 15:52-55, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
“Fundamentalists don't change, people quit being fundamentalists!” —Pastor Jack Hyles
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Jesus Gives Us Peace, Not As The World Gives Peace
Why I Hate Parler And Don't Recommend It To Anyone
I signed up for the new popular free speech website called “Parler.com” today. I regret wasting my time! Parler is not user friendly at all. From the half a day I have spent in frustration trying to make some simple posts, I am convinced that Parler is nothing more than a mouthpiece for President Donald Trump and the Republican party, leading into the 2021 election. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Trump himself secretly funded the website, but I don't know. What I do know is that Gab.com is SO MUCH BETTER! Here's my Gab.com address.
What I don't like about Gab.com is that they don't allow you to delete a “repost.” So if you repost someone else's article, but then change your mind, you cannot remove it. Also, Gab incessantly begs for money from its users, claiming that they need your money. This ruins the Gab.com experience, creating an Alex Jones' like atmosphere of greed.
I have tried all afternoon to make a workable hyperlink in my Parler account, to no avail. If I upload a .JPG image, and type out a title for the post, and a hyperlink to one of my own website articles, the title and photo appear, but nothing links to my website! So I can only upload photos and comments, but cannot link to any of my own website articles to share! That is the main reason I signed up for Parler! When I link to Dr. Ron Paul's website, it works fine. But when I link to my own ministry websites at Jesusisprecious.org and Jesus-is-Savior.com, nothing works! What's with that? Parler won't allow me make a working hyperlink, even without an image. it is just bad software! I did a Google search to confirm my suspicions and found this:
“Their technical wherewithal is atrocious, Parler hardly works, it’s a website and application that would fit right in, in about 2006. It’s really bad,” Wohl stated.
I fully agree, Parler is REALLY BAD! Nothing hardly works! Gab.com is great in comparison. I am NOT impressed one little bit. I was 100% impressed with Gab.com in the first 10 minutes, but after 24 hours of Parler I have already stopped linking and promoting their website, because I HATE IT! Parler is very confusing to someone new. It took me a couple hours just to figure out what my Parler address was, because they have no helpful information for new users (and I'm still not sure if it is right). If they do I sure couldn't find it!
I contacted Parler's support department with a detailed explanation of the problem, and I received this one sentence back, and I quote: “Not all thumnails are compatible” (typo theirs). I have no idea what that statement even means. So I wrote them back three more emails over 24 hours, eagerly awaiting their response, but they have completely ignored me. After reading the preceding quote at Wikipedia about how Parler's software hardly works, their lack of response to my friendly inquiries confirms the allegation. Parler's software is cheap, defective and has bugs in it! I kindly wrote them one final time and recommended that they hire someone to fix their broken software, unless they want to lose a bunch of followers.
Gab.com allows you to edit posts, which I really like. Parler doesn't let you edit anything, only delete it and start over. That is really bad! Gab.com worked exactly as I hoped and more, and within 10 minutes after signing up I was off and running! So what is it with Parler? It is awful. I would say it is even worse than Facebook, but that wouldn't be true. Facebook is horrible too!
My Facebook Rant!
I have finally learned enough about how to navigate through Facebook to do what I need it to do, but it took me 3 months. Here's some things I hate about Facebook:
- On your Timeline page they won't allow you to pin any certain post, you have to create a whole new facebook webpage.
- You have no control over the friends in the 9 boxes in the left column on my Timeline. Facebook decides for you! I should be able to choose "my" friends.
- Facebook doesn't allow me at times to delete user comments, only hide them. I hate just hiding them, because they are only hidden from me and my friends; but the user's unwanted comments (even after I hide them) will still be visible to the person who made the comments, and be visible to all their friends as well.
- Facebook bans any information that contradicts the government's official COVID-19 story, which is an obvious blatant hoax!
- Facebook has banned my lovethetruth.com website without explanation. I have contacted them twice, kindly requesting what content I need to remove to have it freed up, but they just keep ignoring me. Facebook treats people like garbage!
Saturday, October 3, 2020
I Feel Like I'll Never Be Right With God
Romans 4:3-7, “For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”
Many people feel like living right as a Christian is hopeless. They struggle with condemning thoughts. They feel that no matter how hard they try, they cannot please God enough, because they fail again and again to live above sin. The truth is that every Christian feels that way sometimes. I feel like I'm a horrible Christian all the time. That is how we should feel. Since God is perfectly holy, it is normal that we (who are sinners by nature and by choice) should feel inferior in His presence. The Apostle Paul felt like a bad Christian, calling himself "wretched" (Romans 7:14-25). We are all wretched sinners. The difference is that we're all either saved or unsaved. Pastor Jack Hyles preached a helpful sermon called: "HOW TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD."
When we got saved, we were made right with God by the blood of Jesus. That is being right with God POSITIONALLY. Our position in God's family as His redeemed child was forever settled the day we got saved. That is very important to understand. So no matter how bad of a Christian we may be, or feel, we KNOW that in God's sight we are just as holy, perfect and sinless as Jesus Himself, because our sins were forgiven and cleansed away judicially at the moment of salvation. I love the Word “imputed,” which means that God credits Jesus' righteousness to us by faith the second we are saved.
That is one of my favorite Scripture passages, which you should mark in your Bible and commit to memory, so it will always be with you everywhere you go. This is the truth that the Lordship Salvation crowd do not understand, for if they did they'd never teach that someone must “repent of their sins” to be saved. The Bible says that a person's FAITH is counted (imputed) for righteousness, so that we don't need any righteous acts, nor to turn from sins, to be saved. We are saved by God's grace and mercy through faith in Jesus' death on the cross, burial, and bodily resurrection three days later. That is the “Gospel,” or the “Good News,” by which we are saved if we simply believe it with childlike faith (1st Corinthians 15:1-6; Romans 1:16; 1st Corinthians 1:21). Another favorite passage of Scripture is:
Philippians 3:7-9, "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"
That is so beautiful of a truth. We are not saved by our own righteousness, but by God's righteousness. The Bible says to BE FOUND IN HIM, CHRIST! This proves that repenting (turning away) from sins is not part of God's plan of salvation. Repentance is simple "a change of mind," realizing that we are guilty for breaking God's commandments in the Bible, and in need of redemption (Romans 3:19-20). Galatians 3:24-26 teaches that the LAW in the Old Testament is our teacher, showing us our sinnership. And then the law brings us to CHRIST in the New Testament, to be saved by God's free grace, which Jesus made possible through His shed blood on the cross. Colossians 1:20, "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."
God divided His Word into two parts: LAW and CHRIST, or respectively, LAW and GRACE. That is God's plan of salvation. Dr. Law shows us that we have terminal cancer, called sin; but then sends us to Dr. Grace (Jesus) to be healed, cleansed of all our sins by faith in His blood that He shed on the cross. Some people wrangle over whether we should truth the name of Jesus, or actually trust in His death, burial and resurrection, or should we trust in His blood. They are all one and the same. We trust the name of Jesus because of what He did on the cross to pay for our sins. We trust in the Good News of Christ's death, burial and resurrection, because Jesus did these things.
So there is no way to separate all these things, they all go together. At age 13 I put my trust in Jesus Christ. Since I have never actually physically met the Savior, I can only believe in His precious name, and I have, since age 13. I was born-again at age 13, a one time thing. The Holy Spirit came inside to live (indwell) my body forever (Ephesians 1:13-15), which is my eternal life, that is, eternal security. These are one and the same thing. Eternal security is not a separate doctrine from eternal life. Jesus is our eternal life (1st John 5:20). Whosoever has Jesus has eternal life dwelling in them.
I said all that to say this: No matter how much of a failure you may feel like as a Christian, remember that your righteousness in God's sight has absolutely NOTHING to do with how you choose to live here on earth. Our righteousness is based upon God's imputed righteousness, which is by faith alone, which we saw in Philippians 3:9. Also, Romans 10:3-4 teaches this great truth! So that is your POSITION in Christ, determined by where you are looking. LOOK TO JESUS and you are saved! Isaiah 45:22 says that, which was the verse that Charles Spurgeon heard, that led Him to Christ at age 15. Pastor Jack Hyles was saved at age 11. Pastor Curtis Hutson was saved at age 13, the same as myself. Over 80% of believers were saved under the age of 18. Pastor Ralph 'Yankee' Arnold was saved at age 18. After age 50, only 4% of people get saved.
That is why I believe Jesus said except a man receives the Kingdom of God, as a little child, he shall in no wise enter in. Children are humble, trusting and innocent. Adults are all messed up. Matthew 18:4, "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Getting saved is a matter of humility, humbling ourselves at Jesus' feet to rely only upon Him to save us. Many Jews and rich people are sinfully proud, so they refuse to humble themselves to trust Jesus. I have received some emails from people saying that Jews will never accept the name of Jesus, so we have to use Yeshua to get them saved. That is a Devil's lie.
Acts 4:10-12 says that salvation is NOT found in any other name, than the precious name of Jesus of Nazareth. I will never call Him "Yeshua," the angel announced to Joseph in a dream that the only begotten Son of God's name is "JESUS" (Matthew 1:21-23). If Jews are too proud to trust in the name of a humble carpenter from Nazareth, then they don't get God's grace! 1st Peter 2:7 says to those who believe, the name of Jesus is precious! That's why I made my website called: JESUS IS PRECIOUS.ORG!!! I like that name.
I have battled depression for the past 14 years, since my wife divorced me in 2006. I have lived alone, not by choice, but simply because I've not been able to find a woman to date and hopefully marry. Guam is a small island, with few activities, and it's difficult to meet people here, especially for a fundamentalist Bible-believing Christian. I tried to move away in 2013, but it turned into a big disaster, and I came back broken and worn out in body and soul. It is a big burden for me to live each day alone, getting older each year, and seeing my life feeling so empty. My website ministry is the silver lining that keeps me going. We each suffer in different ways, and this is my burden.
Plus I suffer with constant chronic neck pain, which I've had since 2004 and get disability. The disability is a blessing, God willing. One day at a time. I am now 53. If I live to see it, I'll be 70 in a skip and a heartbeat. I have so much pain in my past, and in my soul, but if God can use all that to help others in Christ, then I am glad to suffer and be of use to my great Savior. I am so unworthy. I feel like Jacob who said in Genesis 32:10, "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." God is always good.
Here's another sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles, which is helpful, called: "GETTING HALF RIGHT WITH GOD." Falling down is a part of the Christian life. Proverbs 24:16, "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." The unsaved person wilfully lives in sins and doesn't even try to please God, but the child of God struggles, desiring to please God, but we get our priorities wrong and serve the flesh instead. Proverbs 14:14 says that "the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways." We all try and fail, try and fail, and try and fail, as born-again Christians. There is no such thing as a Christian who has achieved sinlessness. We may attain living above reproach (so that others do not see our sins), but NO ONE has ever attained living above sin, except the sinless Lamb of God, Jesus (John 1:29; Hebrews 4:15). This is our CONDITION in Christ. Our POSITION was forever settled the moment we got saved, and nothing can change that, thankfully.
No one can condemn a believer, even if they are rotting in prison behind bars the rest of their life for a crime (Romans 8:34). The believer's sins are gone. The Bible says God separates our sins from us as far as the east is from the west. Psalms 103:12, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." That is because you can get on an airplane and fly east forever, but there will never come a time when you find west. Likewise, you can go east forever, and you'll never find west. But you can only go to the north pole, and then you'll be going south again. That is eternal security!!!
These false teachers, like Pastor Phil Kidd, who say that if you're still living in sin you're not saved, are grace corrupters! Once saved, always saved, our POSITION in Christ is settled permanently. Now we need to focus on our CONDITION in Christ, which is up to us to submit to the Word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit. This is discipleship. Salvation is 100% dependent on God's faithfulness to keep His promise to save them that believe (Titus 1:2; 1st Corinthians 1:21; John 6:47); but discipleship is based 100% upon our faithfulness to obey God (Romans 12:1-2). Titus 2:12 says we "SHOULD" live godly in Christ Jesus, not must or will. God wants us to live right, but we will fail, fall and sin wilfully at times. All God expects of us is what Jesus told the adulterous woman in John chapter 8... "Go and sin no more!" He didn't mean that she would never sin again, but that she should try not to. This has nothing to do with salvation, which is solely of God.
One of my favorite Bible passages is found in Hebrews 4:10-11, which teaches that we get saved by RESTING in Jesus. Just as God ceased from His creative works on the seventh day, so also must we cease from our own self-righteousness, and rest completely in what Jesus did on the cross to pay for our sins. Salvation is so free, easy and simple when we accept these precious passages of Scripture at face value, not reading into them what the Bible does not teach. People who teach Lordship Salvation are guilty of reading into the Scriptures when God did not say.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God And His Righteousness
Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
This is one of my favorite Bible verses. I had memorized the verse and was familiar with it for many years, before I finally actually understood the beauty of this Scripture. Matthew 6:33 is referring to God's imputed righteousness. To seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness are one and the same. That is, the way you seek the Kingdom of God is to submit to God's righteousness, through faith alone in Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” Dear reader, do you see anything about turning from your sins mentioned here? I don't! I see that we enter into God's Kingdom BY FAITH!Please consider Romans 10:2-4, “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Christ Himself is the end of the law, to them that BELIEVE. Again, there is no mention of repenting of your sins to be saved. So why do most Baptist churches and Bible colleges today require people to “repent of your sins” to be saved? Clearly, they have been deceived by the Devil.
I'm sadly talking about Maranatha Baptist University in Wisconsin. I'm talking about Bob Jones University in South Carolina. I'm talking about Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Iowa. I'm talking about Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago and their popular 'Unshackled' radio program. I'm talking about the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. I'm talking about Ray Comfort, Marty Herron, Sam Horn, Steve Pettit, John MacArthur, John Piper, Paul Washer and thousands more demonic false prophets, who are accursed by God for perverting the grace of God (Galatians 1:6-9). These men and institutions are all pulling on the same rope as the Devil, by adding turning away from your sins to the Gospel, which is a counterfeit plan of salvation!
Romans 4:1-8, “What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Zerubbabel's Temple Verses Solomon's Temple
Zechariah 4:8-10, “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”
For their habitual sins against the Lord, Jerusalem was completely destroyed by Babylon in 586 BC. The city was pillaged and burned. Solomon's magnificent temple, adorned with gold shields and all manner of exquisite beauty and wealth was totally stripped bare and utterly destroyed. After their captivity in Babylon, under the Medo-Persian empire, the Jews returned in waves to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel was commission by God to rebuild the temple, Ezra rebuilt the city wall, and Nehemiah rebuilt the city of Jerusalem.
I love that little phrase from Zechariah 4:10a, “For who hath despised the day of small things?” To understand that phrase, you need to know that Solomon's temple was the most grandeur building which the Jews had ever seen. Someone has calculated that in today's money, Solomon's temple would be worth a staggering $216,603,576,000. The temple walls were lined with cedar, on which were carved figures of cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, which were overlaid with pure gold (1st Kings 6:29-30). What a sight to behold! But it was all destroyed during the third and final Babylonian invasion in 586 BC.
After the Jews returned from captivity the temple was rebuilt. The new temple was so inferior to Solomon's temple, that the old men who remembered the old temple wept sorely, while the naïve young people rejoiced, having no idea what the Jews had lost. This is such an important truth, that I want to quote a rather lengthy passage of Scripture from the Old testament book of Ezra:
Ezra 3:8-13, “Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD. Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites. And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.”
So now let me explain the meaning of the phrase in Zechariah 4:10a, “For who hath despised the day of small things?” Yes, it is true that the new temple was not anywhere near as glorious, expensive and magnificent in appearance than Solomon's temple, but it was still the house of the Lord! There are tens of thousands of small Bible-believing churches all across America, some so small that a “big day” for their church would encompass about 25 people! Yet God is there in their midst, and the Lord is using those churches to make an impact around the world.
One such church is the Heritage Baptist Bible Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. The town has a population of about 1,200 people. This is the town where the famous television series, “The Little House On The Prairie” was filmed. Dr. Younce has been their faithful pastor now since 1991. That small church, in a small town, with a humble pastor, with a small congregation, is doing a big work for God!
Also, I have lived on Guam since 2004. I am a humble man, with a small laptop, and a small website ministry, on a small island, out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but God is doing a big work through my earnest labors! Zechariah 4:10a, “For who hath despised the day of small things?” To God alone be the glory!!! Ecclesiastes 11:1, “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.” Don't underestimate the power of God folks! One man plus God equals a majority. You don't have to be a perfect person to be used of God, you just have to be willing to be used. The greatest ability is availability! Samson was a crooked stick, but God still used him because he was willing to be used of God.
I heard a beautiful sermon the other night by Pastor Jack Hyles called: “I'm A Failure!” It is a beautiful sermon. If you feel like you've failed at everything in life, this sermon will help and encourage you dear friend. Perhaps you've failed as a wife or a husband. You've failed as a parent. You've failed as a Christian. You've failed with people. You've failed at the Stock market. You've failed at the career you wanted. You've failed with churches you've attended; something always goes wrong. You've failed and you've failed and you've failed. But dear reader, you're not a failure unless you make it the final chapter of your book in life!!! Everyone is a failure at something! I have failed at things my whole life, but I am not quitting!
I don't care what you may have done dear friend—no matter how vile of crimes you may have committed and been forgiven of by God—the Lord can still use you to serve Him! If God can use murderers like Moses, David and Saul (later Paul), He can use you too! You might not be able to be a pastor or a deacon, but you can still preach the Gospel. You can drive a church bus! You can contend for the Christian faith! You can still volunteer to help in a rescue mission ministry! You can mow the church lawn, clean the restrooms, donate to help meet church needs and share Gospel tracts! I've heard some pastor criticize the use of Gospel tract, but they do plant seeds in people's souls. Passing out Gospel tracts is important!
Many young people today rejoice in the churches today, but I am weeping. I was there at the First Baptist Church of Hammond while Pastor Jack Hyles was still at the helm (1985-1993). I was there for Pentecost Sunday, when over 3,000 people were saved in one day! I was there each Sunday, watching hundreds of full-sized buses pull-up loaded with passengers, all freely coming to church to learn about Jesus! I voluntarily drove one of those church buses for the Lord for 4 1/2 years! That is how I got my permanent neck injury in 1992, when I was rear-ended by another bus. I served on bus route number 76-3 in Division 4 for 7 years, and then helped out in the bus garage with Rick Suba for my last year at Hyles-Anderson College.
I would attend Hyles-Anderson College there again without hesitation, just to be under the ministry of Pastor Jack Hyles, my hero of the faith! I do not claim to be a good Christian, and neither did Brother Hyles, but I caught some of His passion for winning souls. Unfortunately, while the young people are rejoicing today at Hyles-Anderson, the older graduates like myself and Dr. Bob Gray Sr. are weeping, because we remember the old days when the school still believed that the King James Bible is verbally inspired by God. Since 2008 the FBCH and HAC deny that we have an inspired Bible. If I believed that, I'd throw it in the garbage and never preach again, and Dr. Hyles said that very exact same thing! . . .
“I must have every Word if I speak His message. If I didn't think I had a perfect Bible I'd close this one, walk out that door, I'd never walk in the pulpit again.” — Pastor Jack Hyles, “Get Your Stinking Feet Out Of My Drinking Water” | MP3
The new temple was nothing like the old temple. This is much like many believers today, who because of the consequences of sin are no longer beautiful as they once were. Sin has made your life ugly! We may have failed in life in countless ways. Our salvaged life is nothing compared to what our former life once was. We'll never again enjoy the blessings that we once did. Our Solomon's temple is gone. We may never own a home again. We may never reclaim our lost health again. We may never be married again. Our life may seem over. Ah, but there is a second temple. There is Zerubbabel's temple! No, it is not as glamorous and impressive as Solomon's temple, but it is still the house of the Lord!!! Dear friend, your life may never again be what it once was, as mine will never be, but my body is still the temple of the indwelling Holy Spirit (1st Corinthians 3:16-17). God is still with me!!!
I may be despised by Neo-evangelicals for my uncompromising preaching against Lordship Salvation and Devil's Bibles, but I make no apologies. I may be hated by Calvinists, but God is on my side for being on the side of truth (Romans 3:4). I am going to preach THE BOOK (the inspired King James Bible), THE BLOOD (Jesus' liquid blood sprinkled on the Mercy Seat in Heaven), THE BODY (the importance of attending a local Bible-believing church) and THE BLESSED HOPE (the coming Rapture) until God's says I'm done! Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) said the great need of this hour is PREACHING PREACHERS! Ain't it the truth!
I love Pastor Bob Gray Sr., who has an unquenchable zeal for soulwinning, who just started a new YouTube channel. I hope you will subscribe as I have to Dr. Gray's channel, and regularly stop by to glean nuggets of wisdom from this man's 33 years of experience as the faithful pastor of two church between 1976 and 2009. Thank God for Pastor Bob Gray Sr. and his family!!! I fully support and recommend their ministries!
We see two great truths in the story of Ezra, about Zerubbabel rebuilding the temple. By the way the Old Testament is not in chronological order. God gave us the Bible just the way He wanted us to have it. Even though the books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther appear earlier in the Old Testament canon of Scripture, chronologically they happened toward the end of Jeremiah's life, during the Medo-Persian empire. We find two great truths in this beautiful story of the temple being rebuilt.
The first truth is that the new temple was not anywhere near the splendor of the old temple. Zerubbabel's temple was a joke compared to Solomon's temple. To the old men it was a sight for sore eyes, and they wept profusely! They realized what they had lost! Many Christians have ruined their lives. That young lady who gave her virtue to the dogs, succumbing to the lustful advances of some ungodly male, will never be able to give the gift of her virginity to her future husband. That is very sad. She will never be a Solomon's temple again. At best, all she can offer her husband is Zerubbabel's inferior temple. And I'm telling you, young ladies, stay pure!!! Please save yourself for the man whom legally marries you.
There is a Satanic conspiracy in the world today, and there has been since the 1960's, to steal your innocence! That is why we see demonic filth like this in music videos. Look at the vulgar gesture that singer Taylor Swift is shamefully doing. She should be in prison for making this for teenagers! More importantly, please read the eye-opening powerful quotes by Commander William Guy Carr (1895-1959) in the article, about how Satanists are working to corrupt all levels of society with immorality. I weep when I consider what America once was. There was a time, even in the 1970's when I was a kid, that you felt safe to walk down the street. That is not the case today, you have to be alert and careful everywhere you go. Times have changed!
The second truth to remember is that even though Zerubbabel's temple was inferior to Solomon's temple, it was still the house of the Lord. The presence of God filled the temple! The young people rejoiced with shouts and singing, just happy to have a temple back! I thank God for all the small churches today. I have been attending the Bethel Baptist Church on Guam for a few months now. I have known Pastor Steven Barnes vaguely since 2017, and since 2019 have become his friend. My family started attending his church in 2018, and now I am too. I love the guy! I love his family and that he makes my family feel that he cares, and I am fully convinced that he does. Our churches are filled with workers today, but if we're going to reach families for Christ, and build men, we must show them that we care.
I was curious why the Longview Baptist Temple (where Dr. Bob Gray Sr. pastored for 29 years) changed their church's name in 2019 to Emmanuel Baptist Church Longview. I found this video of Pastor Bob Gray II explaining their passion, reasons and outlook for the church changing their name. Dr. Gray cries during the speech, and you can tell that he cares about people. That is why they changed the church's name, to let people know that they care and want to be a caring church. I fully support the entire Bob Gray family and their ministries. I have the same Fundamentalist Baptist roots as Dr. Bob Gray Sr., having also graduated from Hyles-Anderson College. I wish everyone could have known Dr. Jack Hyles. If he was your friend, you had a friend for life! Pastor Hyles always gladly took people back into his ministry, who had ruined their lives by sin. He wasn't perfect, and he ruffled a lot of feathers, but wise people saw his heart for reaching people for Christ!
I preach against Harvest Baptist Church on Guam a lot, but it is because I am a friend toward them. I know they would laugh at that statement, but if they weren't so far from God they would see that I care enough about them to preach against them (Titus 1:13). Who is a true friend—someone who goes along with your wrong direction that is blinding you, or someone who gets in your face and tries to wake you up from your errors? The Bob Jones University crowd are deceived by the Devil, using Devil's Bibles and agreeing with Mormon theology on the plan of salvation. You better believe I'm going to make an issue buster! I offered to make peace with them, if they'd simply welcome me back into their church family in love. They refused. I am just a hurting dog. Hate me or love me, I am what I am by the grace of God.
I thank God for all the Zerubbabel's temples around the world—small churches that will never break a hundred in attendance, but God is just as present, powerful and real in those churches as he was at the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana when Dr. Jack Hyles was still their pastor. We all judge by appearances, and appearances are important, but the size of a church in no way indicates whether God's Spirit is at work or not. Some of the biggest churches today, like the Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, are as spiritually dead as the Dead Sea! Yet, God is doing a great work through thousands of small churches that you'll never hear of. Zechariah 4:10a, “For who hath despised the day of small things?”
In closing, here are some awesome quotes I gleaned from a sermon I heard recently by Pastor Max Younce:
“If you go to Hell, you'll go to Hell with all your sins paid for!” —Pastor Max Younce; Bible Prophecy #5 (https://youtu.be/RIq82qP_mdo)
“You can't fellow-help the truth if you don't have the truth!” —Pastor Max Younce - John 3, part one; https://youtu.be/nUseT3i34fE
“Everything in nature obeys God except man!” —Pastor Max Younce (“23 a - 1 John 3 - v.20” - https://youtu.be/UbYd2GvnhHI)
“Without the Lord, the family goes to pieces.” —Pastor Max Younce (Psalms 127:1, “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”) “23 a - 1 John 3 - v.20” - https://youtu.be/UbYd2GvnhHI (Time in video - https://youtu.be/UbYd2GvnhHI?t=945)
The Antichrist “By Peace Shall Destroy Many”
Daniel 8:23-27 “And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.”
This is an amazing passage of Scripture. To properly understand the New Testament book of Revelation, we need the Old Testament book of Daniel the prophet. One book compliments the other. Also, please don't ever called it the book of “Revelations.” I hear Alex Jones do that all the times. Sorry, I mean “time”...lol. It is the revelation (singular of Jesus Christ. Revelation 1:1-2, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.” So God gave a future revelation to His Son, and then the Son gave it to the Apostle John, who is giving it to the saints of God. Jesus is revealing what God is going to do in the future, “things which must shortly come to pass.”
Here are some excellent doctrinally sound Bible study books...
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (Pastor Max D. Younce)
Revelation: God's Final Word To Man (Pastor Max D. Younce)
The Revelation Of Jesus Christ (Evangelist Oliver B. Greene)
Daniel And Revelation Made Plain (Dr. Mark G. Cambron)
I woke up this morning and thought about how insane the world is becoming. I thought about the sadistic Marxist 'Black Lives Matter' movement, which is nothing less than unbiblical anarchy. At worst it may be a Luciferian conspiracy to advance the New World Order. Time will tell. The answer to America's woes is not anarchy (citizens taking the law into their own hands). The answer has always been, and always will be, THE GOSPEL. The Gospel transforms men by faith, regenerating them with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:12-15; 1st John 3:24). Without the indwelling Holy Spirit, men can become real monsters. And for that matter, even men with the Holy Spirit can become monsters, if they backslide enough (Proverbs 14:14). Yes, believers can do monstrous things. That is why we are admonished in Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
The Bible teaches in Daniel 8:25b that the coming Man of Sin, the Antichrist, “by peace shall destroy many.” I think the Black Lives Matter circus is a prime example of what the Bible is saying. All we hear from these riotous lawbreakers, who burn down innocent people's businesses and even murder fellow citizens, is that they are demanding their “rights.” In an attempt to secure more equal rights, they are destroying themselves! We ought to be giving up our WRONGS as Americans, not our RIGHTS to the government! Ironically, we are giving up our liberties under the pretense of protecting the “equal rights” of wicked people (abortionists, homosexuals, rioters, thieves, feminist rebels, murderers, rapists, transvestites, perverts and atheists). Are you kidding me? What about God's rights as our Creator?
Listen to what our nation's second U.S. President John Adams wisely said:
“We have not government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —U.S. President John Adams (1735-1826)
Is it any wonder why our nation's political process today is a big circus, failing the American people on every level? We are no longer a moral nation. Our government has totally dropped the ball with this COVID-19 pandemic. Over 40,000 restaurants have already shut down permanently. Even a war could not have accomplished the devastation that our foolish government has caused, imposing this unnecessary lockdown of society and the economy.
The feminist movement have been destroying themselves for the past half century! American career women are some of the most miserable people in the world! They got what they demanded—equal rights! How do you like them apples? Now instead of residing in the comforts of a warm and safe home, laboring to prepare a splendid homecooked meal for their family at the evening hour around a big dinner table, now they are strutting awkwardly in high heels in some hellhole work office with obnoxious co-workers, age 40 and childless, unable to find a husband, being ogled all day by lustful creeps, and they are oh so miserable! Satan lied to the, just like the serpent lied to Eve! The Antichrist “by peace shall destroy many.”
We live in the world's biggest insane asylum in the United States! While we legalize murdering human life in any mother's womb who wants her baby DEAD, our same ungodly courts insanely refuse to execute monsters like the recently prosecuted Golden State Killer. Liberal lawmakers and judges say, “We must preserve the sanctity of all human life. Therefore, we cannot execute this man who raped 51 women and murdered 13 of his tormented victims.” In America mass-murdering serial rapists have “rights,” but innocent human beings in the womb don't! The painful truth dear reader is this—whatever God says to do, evil men are always going to do the opposite! God says to use the death penalty for murderers (Genesis 9:6), so wicked men refuse to execute them. God says not to kill the innocent (Exodus 20:13), so evil men are going to murder humans in the womb whenever they feel like it.
And in the few states (like Ohio) where the death penalty still thankfully exists, the utmost care and humane method of execution is used, feeding a roast beef dinner to the convicted before sending them to their Maker. Yet, in an abortion, the child is literally horrified as an intense surgical light is shown in it's face, and a monster called a “doctor” cracks open the back of it's skull, and sucks the child's brains out with a vacuum 29 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner! Isn't that what the Golden State Killer did to his victims? He shined a bright light in their faces. Then he assaulted them! Then he murdered them! So we're okay as a society when a doctor does it to a human in the womb, just don't do it to us!
One of the biggest psychotic madmen on our planet is Roman Catholic Pope Francis, who insanely said on June 9, 2020: “No matter how serious the crime that has been committed, the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person.” Does the Bible agree with El Papa over in Rome? Let's see! Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” As you just read for yourself, God demands that justice be met! God allows us in the Bible to see prior to the flood, what depths of evil men will sink too without capital punishment! Look at the mess in America today! Look at the unbelievable abundance and horror of the types of crimes being committed everywhere we look! I cannot listen to the daily news anymore, because it is too depressing. Drug abuse has destroyed our society! Folks, if this is what “peace” has done to our nation, you can have it!
When you give demented evil people their “rights,” all hell breaks out! God has ordained that men rule over society, not women. 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.” Like it or not, the Bible says that a woman's place is in the home (1st Timothy 5:14-15). If you are a stay-at-home wife and mother, praise the Lord and bless you, because you are right where God intended for you to serve! There is no greater role and job in all the world than to be a loyal wife, and pursue motherhood! Don't let these stupid fools, these career minded feminist women, talk you out of getting married at a young age and having many children. And you get your family into a good Baptist church!!!
People will do to you what you let them! If you are gullible ladies, ungodly people (serpents) will break apart your marriage. And when the damage is all said and done, they'll leave you high and dry with nothing but loneliness and misery! You tell them (and any scum filth lawyers you meet): “GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!” A marriage can only be destroyed from within, but when you are going through rough seas in your marriage, people love to kill, steal and destroy. Misery loves company! You tell them to go back to Hell where they were inspired!
Don't you dare envy those career women, because at the end of life they will regret not having done it God's way! God's way is chastity and abstinence before marriage. God's way is a legally-binding marriage, with all the legal protections it affords. God's way is to have many children and a big family. God's way is for that family to center itself around a Bible-believing, New Testament, King James Bible only, soulwinning, free grace Gospel preaching, local church! That is the way to fulfillment in the Lord! And listen, I'd ten thousand times rather be miserable in life doing things God's way, than to be happy doing things my own way (which is the Devil's way). Satan doesn't want you to do his will, he simply wants to hinder you from doing God's will. The Devil has no will for your life!
We have all seen where women's “rights” have led—slaughtering 60,000,000 human lives in the womb since Roe vs. Wade in 1973. MURDERERS!!! The Antichrist “by peace shall destroy many.” We're seeing now where the blatant lies of evolution and homosexual LGBTQ “rights” are leading—demonizing God-fearing Christians who oppose such wickedness, shaping our children to become atheist revolutionaries, indoctrinating youth that the government is God! Children raised by homosexual parents fare much worse than children raised in traditional homes. Whatever Adam and Steve choose to do in their bedroom, ought not be forced upon the rest of normal society! This is all being done under the pretense of equal “rights,” which is of the Devil. The coming Antichrist, “by peace shall destroy many,” and the Antichrist system is already at work in the world. That is why we know that the Beast is coming soon!!!
Contrary to what many ignorant Bible teachers are saying these days, the woman (whore) in Revelation 17 is not the Revived Roman Empire. I just heard Spencer Smith make that error, in his Third Adam 2 documentary. It is an awesome video which I highly recommend that you watch. I agree with everything in the video except what he says about the woman being the Revived Roman Empire. The Bible plainly tells us who the whore is in Revelation 17:18, “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” The whore is Jerusalem, present-day manmade Israel.
I say “manmade” because that is exactly who made it, in May of 1948. It was the Luciferian elite, controlled by Satan (the god of this world - 2nd Corinthians 4:4), who created an imitation of true Israel. This false nation of Israel today is awaiting its False Messiah, none other than the Antichrist himself. 2nd Thessalonians 2:4, “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” The coming False Prophet (the Antichrist's sidekick, like Batman and Robin) will arrange for anyone to be murdered who refuses to worship the image of the Antichrist (likely The Great Pyramid with All Seeing Eye in the capstone). Revelation 13:15, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” These are exciting times to be a child of God. Are you a child of God? If not, you can become one right this very moment for free. Here's how dear friend.


The Seven Most Important Christian Focuses
Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
One of my web visitors just sent me this truth he wrote out, which I agree with and wanted to share with others:
The Seven Most Important Christian Focuses
1) The FREE GIFT of Salvation from sin, death, and Hell by a moment of faith in JESUS,
2) The GOSPEL Essentials of 1st Corinthians 15:1-4: Jesus, the God-man, died for the washing away of all of our sins: past, present, and future, through His death on the cross. He was buried, and He resurrected from the dead on the third day.
3) The love of God and His Son Jesus,
4) The biblical doctrine of Eternal Security,
5) The biblical fact that, in Christ, believers are holy children of God Our Father,
6) The Indwelling Holy Spirit (and the importance of following Him by our spirit (fully explained in “The Spiritual Man,” by Watchman Nee.)
7) The Believer’s Crucified and Risen Righteous Identity in Christ (and the importance of living out that identity)
I strongly believe that these are the seven most powerful, comforting, and effective biblical teachings for creating spiritual maturity and also a giving, loving, Christ-like community.
Curtis Smale
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