Jesus Was ANGRY and GRIEVED Because Of The Hardness Of The Pharisee's Hearts

Mark 3:5, “And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.”

Jesus was angry! He was angry because of the lack of compassion the Pharisees had for the man. We can easily replace the Pharisees here with Pastors' Marty Herron (former 20 year shameful senior pastor of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam), Steve Pettit (shameful president of Bob Jones University since 2014), Chuck Phelps (shameful pastor of Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Indianapolis), the Bob Jones University (BJU) crowd or even Pastor Jeff Redlin (senior pastor of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College). They have no compassion for hurting people or sadly even The Truth. These are the wicked hard-hearted Pharisees of today! I fully agree with something that Dr. Jack Hyles said:

“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”

My longtime blog, Facebook and website readers know that sometimes I get angry, going off in rants in my articles, using a sharp tone and no doubt even offensive I'm sure at times to some. I admit that I feel bad when I write bombastic articles against preachers. It is not in my peace-loving, caring and kind nature. But EVERY time without fail, God's indwelling Holy Spirit comforts my heart, letting me know that He is proud of me for faithfully taking a stand against FALSEHOODS. Psalms 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.” Right doctrine matters! Psalms 119:128, “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.”

Each time that I get upset and rant in my articles, the Holy Spirit comforts my heart that He is proud of me. God always encourages my soul, reminding me that He too is disgusted with today's LUKEWARM churches:

Revelation 3:15-17, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:”

I am HOT for God. By God's grace, I “HATE EVIL” (Psalms 97:10), I “REFUTE” (expose) works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11), I “HATE EVERY FALSE WAY” (Psalms 119:104), I “CONTEND FOR THE FAITH” once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3), and I “REBUKE THEM SHARPLY” who subvert entire households by preaching another gospel (Titus 1:10-14). It is the shallow Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp who sinfully refuse to contend for the faith. PCC refuses to expose the rotten Bob Jones camp. Instead, they coddle them and bid them Godspeed, becoming partaker of their evil deeds. 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

I am just a humble redeemed sinner. If you want to find a big sinner, YOU'VE FOUND HIM! The only reason why I am going to Heaven is because of what Jesus Christ has already DONE to pay for my sins through Calvary's cross. I don't claim to be a good Christian, but by God's grace I sure want to be. But I do contend for the faith! Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.” As we just read, a righteous man PREACHES THE TRUTH!!! 

Unfortunately, most pastors nowadays are not preachers. They sinfully don't “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3b). Sadly, if you take a stand for THE TRUTH in today's pathetic churches, they will literally show you the door and kick you out! 1st John 4:6, “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”

• Lordship Salvation is THE SPIRIT OF ERROR!
• Misunderstood repentance is THE SPIRIT OF ERROR!
• The modern corrupt Devil's Bible revisions are THE SPIRIT OF ERROR!

I have faithfully taken a stand against these heresies! For rightly standing, I was unjustly kicked our of the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014, where I has happily attended for one year. I was wrongly accused by Pastor Herron and his associate pastors of causing “confusion” and “divisiveness” in their church. THE TRUTH is that Harvest is already a wicked house divided, having literally DOZENS of different Bible revisions circulating in their pews on any given Sunday. Officially, the church uses TWO Bible versions (the King James Bible and The Easy-To-Read Version). I bought several hundred dollars worth of books with my own money. I gave those books to the church pastors and a few school staff members. Here were the books:

• I Never Knew You (by Michael P. Bowen)
• NIV: The Antichrist's Bible (by Pastor Al Lacy)
• Somebody Has Got To Milk The Cows (Pastor Jack Hyles; here's the MP3 sermon)
• Martin Luther: Master Of Deceit (by Pastor Max D. Younce; backup link to book)

For sharing these excellent books by fundamentalist Bible preachers, I was abused and thrown under the bus by all the names I mentioned at the beginning of this blog article! God will be their judge for rejecting THE TRUTH. God said that His people were destroyed for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE in Hosea 4:6, but if you continue reading, the rest of the verse says that their religious leaders deliberately REJECTED KNOWLEDGE!!! Their pastors just didn't want to heed THE TRUTH. Jeremiah 10:21, “For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.” The BIGGEST problem in America today is BAD PASTORS!!!

Jeremiah 12:10, “Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.” Dr. Jack Hyles rightly teaches that the local church is not the vineyard, but pastors are supposed to make it a vineyard of soulwinning. This is The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20.

Sadly, 99% of pastors today refuse to take a Biblical stand against the perverse LGBTQ movement. Consequently, the small handful of preachers who do take a courageous stand against the evils of homosexuality are demonized by the ungodly newsmedia. They are labeled as being a hate group akin to the Ku Klux Klan. The wicked media couldn't get away with this if over 90% of America's pastors would also take a stand against sin. Since they sinfully don't, it is easy for the ungodly media to beat up and demonized the 1% today (faithful preachers like Steven Anderson, Jonathan Shelley and Bruce Mejia who stand). Brother Lester Roloff was absolutely correct: The only two problems in America today are the PAPA and the PREACHER! Jeremiah 23:1, “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!  saith the LORD.”

Sadly, most of today's pastors have been deceived by the Devil in so many ways. Our churches are filled with corrupt Bible versions, manmade Zionism, false ideas of repentance, unbiblical dispensationalism, umpteen counterfeit gospels, false doctrine and all manner of worldliness. Today's churches are pathetic! Sadly, people are leaving the churches to get right with God!!! The average so-called “church” today is a mere stinking money-making business!

Mark 3:5, “And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.” Jesus was angry! He was angry and grieved because of the woeful lack of compassion which the Pharisees lacked, for the suffering man in the synagogue with the withered hand. We can easily replace these wicked Pharisees in this passage, with the ungodly pastors from Bob Jones University (BJU), and the shallow and uncaring pastors (like Sean Quinlan and Jeff Redlin) from the lame Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp. SHAME on PCC for sinfully bidding Godspeed to the Calvinist Bob Jones crowd today, and their damnable Lordship Salvation heresy!!!

I have faithfully exposed these BAD PASTORS, for which I have been horribly maligned, shunned, ostracized, slandered, thrown under the bus, hated and mistreated. For my love to TELL THEM THE TRUTH, they are my enemies. Psalms 109:4-5, “For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.” God knows that I tried to sincerely be their friend. I told Pastor Marty Herron in 2017 at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam that I wanted to become his friend, but he cold-heartedly told me to “Go elsewhere.”

“Nobody can love God who doesn't love sinners!” —Dr. Jack Hyles (a quote from the classic MP3 sermon, “The Happiest Man” (Happiest is the man who will not impute sin to others!)

I told kindly Pastor Herron that I was a thankful graduate of Hyles-Anderson College, and needed a church family, and would gladly clean toilets at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam if that was okay. Pastor Herron didn't even have the decency to reply, he had Joe Hansen (his assistant pastor) do the dirty work of getting rid of me. Joe Hansen attacked Dr. Jack Hyles, sinfully calling me and Brother Hyles “a cult” for exposing the Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort based corrupt Bible revisions today. Dr. Hyles is so right: “If you've seen one Westcott and Hort Bible, you've seen them all!” Pastor Hyles said that because all the of modern Bibles share THE SAME corruptions. Today's woefully ignorant pastors sadly don't care!

I realize that I am not an apostle, but I share their feelings for being made the bad guy for TELLING THE TRUTH. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Yes Paul, you are their enemy now, just like Marty Herron and the ungodly Harvest Baptist Church on Guam wickedly counted me as their enemy because I lovingly TOLD THEM THE TRUTH. Like myself, the Apostle Paul came across as being rude at times. 2nd Corinthians 11:6, “But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.” I know God is proud of me for getting upset, bent out of shape and angry over sin, falsehoods, heresy and lackidaical abusive pastors today. God Himself detests mediocrity, lukewarmness and idle believers. What are you doing with the knowledge, wisdom, talents, resources, money and life which can has given and entrusted to you dear friend?

I may get ornery at times while contending for the Christian faith, but it only because I love THE TRUTH. It is only because I HATE EVERY FALSE WAY. It is only because I HATE EVIL. It is only because I LOVE GOD!!! I love my God and blessed Savior, JESUS CHRIST! I know that God is proud of me. When I feel bad for getting upset, wanting to use four letter words in my articles, and throw my computer keyboard across the room while contending for the faith, God comforts my soul, almost as if to hear Him say to me:

“I am so proud of you David. You have stood faithfully for the defence of My Gospel. You have stood for the inspiration of My Holy Bible. You have faithfully defended the inspired King James Bible. You have faithfully exposed the Devil's modern corrupt Bibles! And yet for taking a faithful stand, you have been abused, rejected, shunned, despised, mistreated, hated, slandered and thrown under the bus by wicked pastors who don't care about THE TRUTH!

I know exactly how you feel and hurt inside David, for I was also despised and rejected of men for TELLING THE TRUTH. Isaiah 53:3, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” I will greatly reward you in Heaven one day for your pain, loss and suffering for my name's sake, afflicted at the hands of these selfish and uncaring Pharisaical men; namely, Marty Herron, Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin, Gary Walton, Sean Quinlan and Jeff Redlin. They all did you very wrong David, and I see everything. Don't you worry my son, they will be held accountable for their sins and unfaithfulness. You just keep preaching THE TRUTH, and leave the rest to Me son. I love you!”

As sure as I'm saved, I know that those are Christ's thoughts toward me, because I TOLD THE TRUTH!!! God only authored ONE BOOK, not two, and certainly not hundreds of English Bible revisions that all contradict one another. God is not the author of confusion (1st Corinthians 14:33), the Devil is (Genesis 3:1). Jesus was ANGRY the Bible says, at the heathen Pharisees, for their woeful lack of compassion toward a hurting man. Mark 3:5, “And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.”

When I told Pastor Jeff Redlin that I was divorced and lonely, and that I hoped to find a wife at Campus Church, that sad little man berated me. Pastor Redlin belittled me for coming to church only to find a wife, but I never said that I ONLY came to church to find a wife. He wicked assumed that erroneous conclusion. Redlin later insulted me further, telling me in front of his own wife that if I did find a woman to marry, he refused to ever perform the wedding. Only a cruel and heartless pastor would say such unkind and hateful words to a man whom he had only known for 2 weeks. That was in July of 2021 at Campus Church on the property of Pensacola Christian College (PCC). SHAME on Pastor Jeff Redlin for mistreating others.

“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”

“No one is any better a Christian, than they are kind.” —Dr. David Gibbs Jr. (a quote from the beautiful sermon “HIS VOICE” about loving the unloving with God's love!)

Pastor Redlin told me that he had read slander about me on the internet, which my enemies had posted, which he took as Gospel truth. Only an ungodly pastor would listen to gossip and then believe the gossip. SHAME on Jeff Redlin. Proverbs 18:13, “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” What a BAD PASTOR! I would never have mistreated Pastor Redlin like he sinfully did to me. You know, PEOPLE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED!!! Oh that pastors would learn that secret to life. There is no love at PCC. There is no love at BJU. There is no love at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. These are all cold-hearted academic types, yuppies, who selfishly only care about their little group and themselves.

Pastor Redlin knew that I was sleeping in my car in Walmart's parking lot, but he was calloused and just walked away, not caring. He knew that I had just moved 9,000 miles from Guam to Florida, and had no one, but he licked me in the head and left me for dead. I wouldn't give you a dime for that ungodly, shallow and phony as can be false Christianity of Jeff Redlin and company, who run their big mouths but won't lift a finger to help a hurting man in need. SHAME on Jeff Redlin and Campus Church!!! Jesus became ANGRY and GRIEVED at the religious leaders in Mark 3:1-5, because they lacked COMPASSION for a hurting man. I know Jesus is angry and grieved at Marty Herron, Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin, Gary Walton, Sean Quinlan and Jeff Redlin (to name the primary offenders), for their abuse and mistreatment against me because I TOLD THE TRUTH!!!

I Have Been Abused By Pastor After Pastor Because I TOLD THE TRUTH!

Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.” Titus 1:10-14, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”

Kindly said, I am utterly tired of being put down, belittled, insulted, ostracized, criticized, banned, slandered and berated by wicked pastors who side with error, rather than side with me for TELLING THE TRUTH. I speak of wicked men; namely, Sean Quinlan, Jeff Redlin, Timothy Zacharias, Marty Herron, Joe Hansen, Gary Walton and Jared Baldwin (to name the main culprits).

The past 16 years of my life have been utterly painful, inexplicably so. And to add salt to the wound, I have met pastor after pastor who were selfish, cruel, arrogant and incompetent, belittling and criticizing me for TELLING THE TRUTH.

The pastors Of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam kicked me out of church in 2014 and refused to let me come back, even though I begged in desperation in 2017. I was so lonely and didn't have a church to attend. I lost all of my friends at Harvest in 2014, when that wicked infidel Marty Herron forced me out of Harvest. He never one time knocked on my door to invite me back! I lost a potential wife, the nurse at Harvest, Kristen Hurlburt. She liked me and I liked her. But her ungodly unsaved boss, the senior rotten pastor of Harvest, Marty Herron, coerced her to get rid of me and she did. She cruelly emailed me and told me never to contact her again. I was devastated.

By his own decision, Marty Herron is going to rot in Hell someday! Herron's damnable Lordship Salvation is NOT the free grace Gospel of 1st Corinthians 15:1-4. According to Herron you must also repent “of your sins” to be saved. I heard Pastor Herron with my own two ears in 2014 tell hundreds of church members, verbatim: “It is not enough to admit that you are a sinner to go to Heaven, you must also turn away from a lifestyle of sin.” Folks, that is KEEPING THE LAW to get to Heaven, which is heresy (Romans 3:19-20). Marty Herron is a dangerous man theologically and ought to be fired as the Executive Vice President of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary (i.e., a preacher's cemetery). He doesn't deserve to receive a 6-digit salary for damning souls to the Lake of Fire with his false gospel. Harvest's assistant pastors, Joe Hansen and Jared Baldwin also have my blood on their hands. When I pleaded for mercy in 2017, they showed NONE, and you can be assured that in eternity when they are judged, God will show them NO MERCY (Matthew 7:1-2).

Those wicked pastors ruined my life, because I befriended them with THE TRUTH.

I told THE TRUTH that the modern Bible versions they use are corrupted by Satan. Truly a picture is worth 1,000 words...

The Bible Is Being Corrupted To Obtain A Legal Copyright!

I told them THE TRUTH that Lordship Salvation is a perversion of God's grace. I told them THE TRUTH that Martin Luther did not go to Heaven, because he taught the heresy of Baptismal Regeneration his entire life, as proven by his own catechisms which he wrote in 1529. Luther allegedly got saved by faith alone in 1517. But 12 years later he insisted that you must be water baptized to get to Heaven. That is not the Gospel of free grace.

For telling these truths I was cast out, rejected, humiliated, banned and lost the woman I had hoped to marry. I lost all my friends that I had made for my year that I attended Harvest. My only crime was that I cared enough to TELL THEM THE TRUTH, but they killed the prophet!

I know as sure as I am saved that Kristen would have married me, if Marty Herron had simply let me come back to church to court her. They refused, in their arrogance and hatred against me, rejecting me and THE TRUTH. God will punish them in eternity, which is my utmost hope and prayer each day for them to suffer as they made me to suffer. I want to be avenged!

And then at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam, Pastor Sean Quinlan abused me, shamefully attacking me verbally for telling the same truths. Quinlan wickedly called Harvest "Our sister church," and berated me for exposing them! I was shocked that he was siding with those infidels. Quinlan said I had no class, but he has no class. Quinlan falsely accused me of usurping authority in his church, simply because I was teaching what I learned from Luke 16 about the rich man and Lazarus to another Christian man whom I had met in the church. I wasn't even talking with Pastor Quinlan, but he was eavesdropping on my conversations and I didn't realize it. Quinlan said for the past several months he had been overhearing my conversations, and he wrongly accused me of “being obsessed over the Bible.” What a shameful thing for a pastor to tell someone! Buster, you had better believe that I am OBSSESSED over the Bible!!! I make no apologies!!! What saith the Scripture? Psalms 119:139-140, “My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.”

Jesus said that a man speaketh out of the abundance of his heart. Since I mediate on God's Word day and night, as I am supposed to (Psalms 1), of course I am going to talk about the Holy Bible all the time. That is who I am!!! SHAME on Sean Quinlan for his backslidden wicked heart!!! He'll never apologize to me, because he is too pompous, proud and arrogant! These foolish church leaders are not merely WEAK dear reader, THEY ARE WICKED!!!!!!!

I humbly think Sean Quinlan was envious of me, because he is a very little man. A real man wouldn't have been so insecure about his "authority" as a pastor. In truth, pastors have NO AUTHORITY in the church, the inspired Word of God is the only authority. When I told him that my 46 year old sister died in Chicago of a drug overdose, that horrible pastor just sat there and totally ignored me. Sean Quinlan mistreated me, but I did nothing wrong. When I tried to reason with that fool, telling him that Harvest Baptist Church on Guam preaches the Devil's Calvinism, that bad pastor literally said that it is none of our business what they do at Harvest. Oh how wrong he is! How can we “REBUKE THEM SHARPLY” who subvert whole households with a counterfeit gospel (Titus 1:10-14), if we don't pay attention to the doctrine they are teaching? It very much IS OUR BUSINESS!!! God's curse is upon these wicked men! The Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camp are deliberately looking the other way, hiding their heads in the sand like ostriches, sinfully bidding Godspeed to the ungodly Bob Jones University (BJU) crowd who wickedly preach another Gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). 

Then in July of 2021, I flew 9,000 miles from Guam to Pensacola, just so pastor Jeff Redlin at Campus Church (Pensacola Christian College) could abuse me further, taking the side of Sean Quinlan and Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. This is the ungodly and sickening condition of pastors today! Pastor Jeff Redlin mistreated me. he was abusive, insulting and made me feel like garbage. It was bad enough that he totally ignored me for 110 days, but then got angry at me and said some very hurtful words, wrongly accusing me of only coming to Campus Church to find a wife. That was an erroneous ASSUMPTION on the part of Redlin, to his discredit and shame as a pastor. PCC is a dead stick in the water today, impotent in the battle against false doctrine, false bibles and the damnable Bob Jones camp with their fake bibles, Lordship Salvation and Calvinist heresies! SHAME on Jeff Redlin!!!

PCC is in bed with Bob Jones University, spiritually fornicating with the Devil, and the truth means nothing to them. According to these ungodly pastors, I am the bad guy for finding weaknesses in other preachers, while they just sweep it all under the table and ignore the problem. No wonder America is going to Hell today! The things I have just shared with you break my heart, and weigh down heavily upon my soul. These are all incompetent and wicked church leaders, fools leading the blind and ignorant to their destruction (2nd Peter 3:16-17). Instead of exposing error, as I am faithfully doing, these wicked bad pastors are going along with it, ignoring the problem, sinfully bidding Godspeed to the Devil's work.

I suffer from loneliness every day and night of my life, but God's blessed Holy Spirit sustains me. Yet, God Himself said that it is not good for a man to be alone. One day hopefully God will lead me to a loyal wife. I have signed up for Match.com, but am not impressed with what I see. Women are all covered in tattoos, show photos of themselves in taverns with their worldly friends, and most are divorced. The others have never been married but have children anyway, it's a mess! The world is an ugly place! So it seems I am doomed to loneliness. The place to find a wife is in a good church, but I keep getting kicked out of ungodly churches who are serving mammon instead of God. For if they were truly serving God they would embrace me for TELLING THE TRUTH!

When Jeff Redlin and Marty Herron were getting paid over $100,000 a year, and not standing against error in the Bible colleges and churches, I was faithfully preaching THE TRUTH without receiving a single penny in all my 20 years of internet ministry since 2002. God sees my utter sacrifice, versus their sinful gain for corrupting the truth and bidding Godspeed to false teachers! Judgment Day is coming!!!

Jeff Redlin told me that his assistant pastor, Timothy Zacharias agrees with him that I find “weaknesses” in preachers, so God's curse is also upon Tim Zacharias, that wicked man! They have no right to foolishly accuse me of such a thing. In fact, I expose WICKEDNESS in other preachers! I expose the damnable Lordship Salvation crowd. I expose the damnable misunderstood repentance crowd. I expose doctrinal error. These are not weaknesses, it is wickedness!!! SHAME on Timothy Zacharias at Pensacola Christian College, for criticizing my faithful ministry TO TELL THE TRUTH. I am preaching the Word, while they stand in my way and criticize and belittle my labors for Christ! SHAME on them!

Anybody can be a suck-up like Marty Herron, merely following the apostate neo-evangelical crowd for his own personal financial benefit. Anybody can be a false teacher like Dr. Steve Pettit (the Satanic incompetent president of BJU since 2014). These are incompetent clergy! I live from day to day with a broken heart, because I have been wounded, hurt, insulted, berated, belittled, cast aside, ostracized, left without a wife and slandered by pastors' Marty Herron, Joe Hansen, Jared Baldwin, Gary Walton, Sean Quinlan, Tim Zacharias and Jeff Redlin. I pray and hope for God to avenge me of these incompetent arrogant, selfish and wicked men! May it be so on the basis of Romans 3:4, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”

Please Avoid Telling People To Have A Relationship With Jesus

1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

We need a revival in our churches today about how we present the Gospel message to the lost, because everywhere today preachers are getting it wrong! I love what my friend Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold said:

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.” —Pastor Yankee Arnold, a quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

Dear reader, please consider that the apostle Judas has a relationship with Jesus, but John 6:70 said Judas had a devil in him. You don't get to Heaven by starting a relationship with Jesus. I understand that every saved person is a CHILD of God, and that is a father and child relationship; but using the term “relationship” can easily be misunderstood. Using this term is not wise, because the Bible never uses it. Since the Bible doesn't mention a “relationship,” neither should we!

In Acts 16:30-31 a Roman jailor asked Paul and Silas, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Their reply was simply, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” The invitation to believe on Jesus Christ was also extended to the man's family. Carefully notice that neither Paul or Silas said anything about starting a relationship with Jesus. They didn't tell the Roman jailor to repent of his sins. They didn't tell the man to surrender control of his life over to God. They didn't tell the man to faithfully run the race, follow Christ, receive Him as “Lord,” nor anything else, just to BELIEVE.

I am leery of pastors who constantly tell people to have a relationship with Jesus. That is manmade lingo, not the inspired Word of God. The $64,000 question is: Why would men want to present God's simple plan of salvation differently than the Holy Bible does? It just doesn't make any sense. So I refuse to do it! If you were to ask me how to be saved, I would simply tell you that you are a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-21). There is a penalty for our sins, which is death (Romans 6:23). This includes a second death in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:6: 20:11-15; 21:8). But God in His love sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, into the world to die on a cross to pay our debt of sin. JESUS PAID IT ALL! Anyone who receives this Good News (Gospel), that Christ died on the cross, was buried, and three days later bodily resurrected from the dead, is forever saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Nothing more is required or allowed.

How To Lose Weight, Guaranteed

Deuteronomy 21:20, “And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.” Proverbs 23:21, “For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.” Matthew 11:19, “The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.”

It is interesting that Jesus' enemies falsely accused Him of being a glutton. A glutton is a person who is devoted to eating and drinking in excess. Our Lord was not a glutton! But He wasn't a skinny wimp either. For Jesus to fast for 40 days and nights, he must have had some extra pounds on Him. But that is only speculation, we don't know His weight.

I am writing this blog to share with you some simple helpful tips on how I lost weight and keep it off. First, there are several different methods to lose weight. The worst way is to simply starve yourself! Although this will definitely work, it is the most difficult to do because your will power must totally overcome your hunger cravings, and that is super hard to do for most of us. I used music to motivate me in 2017, to lose 70 pounds in just 4 1/2 months. But starving one's self is not a sustainable plan. I went from 215 pounds down to 145.0. I kept the weight off for 1 1/2 years, but then gave in to my hunger cravings and gained it all back in 6 months, weighing 208 pounds on the scale in 2019. It is true that 95% of people who lose a significant amount of weight gain it all back within 4 years!

A much BETTER way to lose weight is just start eating healthy food. It was eating processed foods that got us fat in the first place. So if you lose a bunch of weight, regardless of the method, and start eating processed foods again, you WILL gain all your weight back. To lose weight and keep it off, we must permanently change our diet. Most people are simply not willing to do that. Remember, what you eat today you will crave tomorrow! That is especially true if you are overweight and eating processed foods. Such foods spike our insulin, which makes us more hungry for more processed foods (all high in carbohydrates).

Here are some helpful statements that help me lose weight:

• When you are hungry, you make bad decisions (so don't try to starve yourself, or you will get really hungry and binge on food. Eat healthy foods every 4 hours.)
• Multiple your present weight times 10. That is your maintenance calories. Then calculate a 25% and 50% reduction. For example: If you weight 200, multiple that times 10, which is 2,000. That is how many calories you can eat without gaining or losing any weight. It's a fairly accurate way to determine your maintenance calories. So a 25% reduction would be 1,500 calories, and a 50% reduction would be 1,000 calories. If you reduce your daily intake of calories by 25% you'll lose 1 pound per week. If you eat only 50% of your maintenance calories each day, you'll lose 2 pounds per week, guaranteed!
• What you eat today, you will crave tomorrow (so eat the right kind of foods and you will crave them. If you eat greasy French fries, you will crave them tomorrow again).
• If it's in your house, it's in your mouth (don't but a bunch of junk. I usually grab a couple pizzas as a reward for losing weight, but everything else is healthy that I buy).
• You can be uncomfortable now, or you will be uncomfortable later (you will have to endure some discomfort to lose weight, but that's MUCH better than having your legs chopped off from diabetes in 15 years. Diabetes can cause blindness from a stroke. You can have a heart attack or a crippling stroke from diabetes. You can easily get rid of Type II diabetes by simply losing 20 to 30 pounds, depending how overweight you are).

Drink lots of water and stop drinking Fun Drinks (anything with sugar in it). My goal each day is to eat between 1,000 to 1,500 calories. I aim for 1,000 calories. So this is the most important rule for losing weight. To avoid binge eating, you need to avoid getting hungry. So even if you are not hungry, eat something. I keep hearing people online say not to eat if you're not hungry, but that is bad advice. If you don't eat when you aren't hungry, you WILL be starving later, and you'll eat a whole pizza! So every 4 hours eat something, even if just a container of Greek yogurt (110 calories). Eat a handful of mixed nuts (high in good fat). Eat grilled chicken breast. You can but sliced turkey of chicken at the store, which is great to eat. The whole 1/2 package is only 240 calories.

I cannot sleep on an empty stomach. So I like to eat before I go to sleep. Most people will tell you not to eat past 6 pm, but that doesn't work for me. I need some food in my stomach so I can sleep. So eating a sliced chicken sandwich on Ezekiel bread is great! I like mustard on my sandwiches. I eat a nice lunch and then nothing else until dinner, except a light snack at 4 pm. Eat a salad each day. I use Paul Newman Sesame & Ginger dressing. It only has 35 calories per 2 Tablespoons. I snack on something every 3 to 4 hours (Greek yogurt, nuts, avocado, cottage cheese, a smoothie, et cetera).

Last night I made a smoothie in my Nutri-Ninja with some frozen peaches, pineapple and bananas. I buy them frozen so they won't spoil if I don't use them right away. I love frozen fruits and vegetables. The best way to lose weight is TO EAT food every 3 to 4 hours, but only 100 to 200 calories. This will prevent you from getting super hungry, which will cause you to binge every time! So to lose weight you need to always have some food in your stomach. This keeps your metabolism going, supplies needed nutrients to your body, and helps you lose weight without the horrible discomfort of starving yourself.

The most important rule is to decide how much weight you want to lose, whether 1 or 2 pounds each week. For me, I want to lose 2 pounds, so I cannot eat more than about 900 calories per day. But if I fail and eat 1,400, that's okay, because I will still lose 1 pound each week. But I aim for 2 pounds. The key is to eat Low Calorie Density foods. This means you can eat a large amount of these foods, without eating a bunch of calories. Here is a list of Low Calories Density foods which you can pig out on:

• All kinds of beans (a superfood)
• Lettuce (Romaine or Iceberg is fine)
• Tomatoes (I like canned tomatoes, so they don't spoil if I don't use them right away. I like fresh tomatoes for tacos of Bacon Sandwiches)
• Cucumbers (all kinds of pickles are great)
• All kinds of berries (blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, et cetera)
• Hummus (it is made from chick peas)
• Radishes, carrots, beets, squash, cabbage, all kinds of vegetables
• Italian green beans, frozen mixed vegetables, all kinds of peppers
• Greek yogurt (it is lower in sugar than Yoplait)
• Sweet potatoes (each medium sized potato only has 114 calories. Sweet potatoes make you feel full longer and are loaded with nutrients)
• Celery stalks (I use just a little Philadelphia cream cheese. I usually measure 1/8 package, which is 100 calories, and that's the most I can eat with my dozen celery stalks).

These are some of the Low Calorie Foods that you can eat large quantities of without worrying about weight. Then eat the following foods in moderation, which are Medium Calorie Density foods:

• Eggs (70 calories each; I only use brown eggs, which come from chickens fed a high protein diet. Always buy pasture raised chickens, which are much happier and healthier. You don't want to eat eggs from unhappy sick chickens cooped up in cages. I like hardboiled eggs, poached eggs in boiling water with a little vinegar, or fried in a little pure New Zealand butter on medium heat. Butter is 120 calories per Tablespoon, so go gentle on the butter! It's best to avoid fried anything though.)
• Baked fish (avoid frying anything, because the oil will make you crave more oil; fish contains about 100 calories per fillet. I like Tilapia.)
• Baked chicken (140 calories per thigh; I always like the dark meat, the thighs)
• Sardines (about 200 calories per can)
• Avocados (these are great in nutrients and to lose weight, which make you feel full; but only eat one per day, which is between 200 to 300 calories each, depending on the size)
• Mexican Salsa and Mary's sprouted grain crackers (I like mild salsa. The entire container of salsa is only 75 calories. Not bad. But the crackers contain more calories. I usually eat 6 to 12 at a time, loaded with salsa. This is a great snack during the day to get you between meals).
• A Tablespoon of cottage cheese is a great snack (high in protein)
  
• Protein shakes (I only like vanilla flavor. One or two scoops per day can give you an additional 25 to 50 grams of protein, which helps to curb your appetite. I only use Protein Isolate, not whey protein. You can buy it at Vitamin World, GNC, any health store. Whey protein is for gaining weight. Protein Isolate is for losing weight. This is pure protein. I like to add a scoop to my nighttime smoothie, with peaches, pineapple and bananas. I also sprinkle in a little cinnamon. I usually add some nuts and seeds, whatever I have on hand. Last night I added some pecans, macadamia nuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and flax seeds. Just a little of each, because the smoothie cup only holds so much. I add Dasani mineral water and mix it all. Yummy!)

Here are foods that you absolutely must avoid if you want to lose weight:

• Ice cream
• Pizza
• Burgers and fries (the beef is okay for you, it's the processed bun and ketchup and mustard that is bad for you. Eating these types of foods will make you crave more. So what I do is grill a burger, add a slice of cheddar cheese. I put it on one divided slice of Ezekiel bread with no ketchup or mustard. If you make fries, bake them! Even the slightest bit of junk or deep fried foods can derail your diet. We're trying to avoid insulin spikes, which will cause us to binge.
• Pastas
• Rice's
• Breads
• Candy (a little dark chocolate is okay, 100 to 150 calories a day; I like 70% or higher cocoa. Dark chocolate will help curb your cravings.)
• Pastries, donuts, pies and Honey Buns (these things will kill you, making you obese. Get your sweets from berries, bananas, dates, figs, bee honey and a little dark chocolate.)
• Avoid anything that comes in a box! (these foods are all processed, which is why Americans cannot control their weight and are fat slobs!)

If you insist on using Blue Cheese, Ranch or Thousand Island dressing, don't pour it over your salad. Instead, put it in a bowl and dip the tip of your fork into the dressing, just to get the essence of the flavor in each mouthful of salad. All of the salad dressings I just mentioned contain 120 calories per Tablespoon. So you could easily eat a 60 calories giant salad, and add 500 calories of salad dressing if you're not careful. And God forbid, if you add croutons and cheese, you could easily hit 1,000 calories! That is why I always choose vinaigrette dressing, which is like 35 calories total. To lose weight you MUST eat calorie conscious. There is no other way, except to starve yourself, which will work, but it is not wise or sustainable.

It all comes down to character and personal discipline. I use my favorite music to help motivate me. Walking doesn't help me much to lose weight, but it does help me psychologically, giving me motivation to eat better. Also, getting some sunshine helps me. You don't have to exercise or walk to lose weight, but it helps. Losing weight is 95% diet!

So how do you get started? First, plan a health meal schedule for the whole week and stick to it. Plan what you will eat. Use the internet to choose your foods. Go to the store and buy your foods. I wasted a lot of fresh produce when I got started, not realizing how fast it spoils. So I highly recommend buying frozen fruits and vegetables, which won't spoil, and then you won't feel pressured to eat them before they spoil, which is counterproductive. Just make sure that you have enough room in your freezer...lol. I made that mistake too. Start eating healthy and don't listen to your whining body begging for junk food. Eat healthy for 7 days and you'll see that your body will detox and start craving the healthy foods. It really takes about a week to get used to a healthy diet. Now, your body may ache and feel horrible while eating healthy foods for the first week, because your body needs to get used to eating good foods again.

Drink 8 to 12 cups of water per day. A cup is 8 ounces. Whatever your weight is, divide that number in half, and that is how many ounces of water you should drink per day. So if you weight 180 pounds. Half of that is 90. So you should drink 90 ounces of water each day, or about 11 cups of water. That is roughly six 16.9 ounce bottles of water per day! Drinking lots of water increases your metabolism, keeps you hydrated (especially is you've been in the sun or take medications), helps speed digestion, et cetera. Most people don't drink enough water! The human body is made up of mostly water. Not drinking enough water can cause headaches, cramps, back pain, depression, confusion and feeling down. You also don't want to drink too much water. Follow the rule I gave you and you should do just fine.

Don't rely on your scale day by day. Eating carboHYDRATES, causes the body to retain water. One gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. So your daily weight can fluctuate by as much as 10 pounds! Usually it's more like 4 to 7 pounds. Please don't let this discourage you! When losing weight, it doesn't matter what the scale says, go by the number of calories entering your mouth, because that is basic science! It you reduce your daily calorie intake, it is an absolute scientific certainty that in time you WILL lose weight. So I weight myself each week. It the scale isn't going down over a month, then you are not reducing calories enough!

You can look at the scale each day if you want (I do sometimes), but just keep in mind that it will normally go up and down while losing weight. But the general trend should be down! You don't need to get frustrated and quit fasting if the scale seems like it isn't moving, because if you are eating only 1,000 calories a day, you WILL lose weight, just give it some time. But make sure that your not adding a bunch of butter, oil and extras to your meals that boost calories! Any type of oil (sesame, olive, corn, et cetera) contains 120 calories per Tablespoon, so use them sparingly.

This blog hasn't been exhaustive, I just wanted to share some helpful tips and things that have worked for me. I know how to lose weight, because I've done it numerous times successfully. My problem is that I get down and depressed often, and stop watching the scale, going back to my poor American diet of burgers and fries, pizzas, cherry pies, deep fried foods, sodas, et cetera. That is the same reason why we all fail. As we grow older our body's metabolism starts to slow down. Once you reach age 50, you start growing sideways like a refrigerator. Look at William Shatner, Russell Crowe, Steve Perry, Axle Rose and other celebrities (FAAAAT).

Losing and maintaining weight has to become something that we want to do personally for our self, and no one else, or we'll fail and fail. Being hungry is a healthy sign. It means that everything is working properly. Thank God for hunger! But we must exert personal discipline or else we will gradually gain weight, until we hit 300 or 400 pounds and want to die. When I reached 145.0 pounds in 2017, I felt awesome! It was the same me. To be honest, I personally didn't feel any different mentally than when I was 225 pounds. But it was different. I could leap out of bed in a single bound. I could reach around with the bar of soap in the shower without straining my shoulder because I was so fat.

I could bend over in the local shoe store to tie my own shoe, without having to sit sideways and literally pull my leg toward me to tie my own shoe, because my gut felt like a beachball in the way! I didn't look pregnant anymore! Yes, losing weight feels awesome! My goal is to maintain my proper weight of 150 pounds. I would be happy to keep it under 170 pounds, but no higher. I am struggling, not because I don't know what to do, but because I am suffering from depression and it compels me to eat the wrong foods. Just like other addictions in life, once you have become addicted to junk foods (processed food), it will be a lifetime battle to overcome the temptations to go back to the junk food deathstyle.

But at least I am fighting to control my weight, which is more than I can say about other people. I have never seen so many obese people in all my life. I see many fat people stuck in wheelchairs! I don't want to end up like that. Being grossly overweight can wreak havoc on your health. So please don't let yourself go, like many people do. Take pride in the wonderful body that God gave you, which is a true miracle. I am eating homemade bean soup for lunch today with an onion I added (150 calories). I am also eating a whole bag of shrimp today (280 calories total). I will eat a small avocado (200 calories). Before I go to bed I will make my peach, pineapple, protein powder and banana smoothie (250 calories). And a big salad with 2 Tablespoons of Paul Newman Sesame & Ginger dressing (65 calories).

The way to lose weight is to choose healthy foods and eat them BEFORE you get hungry. I ate 1/2 cup of dry beans cooked today with an opinion I chopped up and put in the beans. I also ate a small avocado. I wasn't hungry tonight at all, but I went ahead and drank a smoothie anyway. I did that because I know if I didn't, I would get hungry during the night and eat something I shouldn't. I made my smoothie with Unsweetened Almond Milk, some pecans, a few macadamia nuts, pine nuts, frozen peaches, bananas and pineapple. I just use about 4 or 5 chunks of each. I added some cinnamon and one scoop of vanilla protein isolate mix. It came out delicious, with an ice cream texture, which I ate with a spoon. The whole smoothie was about 250 calories at most. A cup of Unsweetened Almond Milk is only 35 calories!

My Healthy Diet

It's Okay Not To Know What To Pray, Just Make Sure To Pray

Romans 8:22-29, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

Something that I learned several years ago completely changed the way I study the Holy Bible. In my youth I often only focused on one Bible verse, and that was the end of the story. But as I grew older in the grace of God I began to understand that we often overlook and miss so many precious life-changing truths, by not reading the surrounding text in a Scripture passage. A good example of what I say is our Scripture passage from Romans 8:22-29.

These wonderful Bible verses are all interconnected, related. I could have commented on the entire chapter, but chose to start with verse 22. The faithful Apostle Paul begins in verse 22 by mentioning the grief that every living creature feels because of the flesh. Romans 8:22, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” Everything born living is already dying! How long we live depends upon how well we eat nutritiously and live safely to prevent dying prematurely.

Paul then mentions the blessed HOPE of the Gospel which gives us comfort, encouragement and joy amidst the misery and pains of this temporal life. Paul comforts us further by reminding us that the indwelling Holy Spirit (which every child of God has according to 1st John 3:24 and Romans 8:9), helps our infirmities. That is comforting to know! Our flesh is weak and God knows it. Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” That Bible verse was Dr. Hyles' dear mother's favorite Scripture passage. Mattie Costal Hyles (1887-1984) went to Heaven at age 96. She gave the world her boy, Jack Hyles, for which I am so grateful. She could have raised him up to be a drunk or a bum, but she taught him early on that: “I CAN MAKES THE MAN!” Yes, amen and amen!

Let us re-examine our tremendous inspired text passage, shall we:

Romans 8:22-29, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

So we see that Paul starts out mentioning the miseries of creation, with ALL FLESH groaning in suffering and pain, awaiting the Lord's return when the curse shall be lifted and removed from the entire earth during the Millennium (i.e., the coming 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ over the earth from Jerusalem). Of course, for every believer today we are awaiting the Rapture, at which time we will all receive our immortal, glorified, resurrected bodies fashioned like unto the Lord's resurrected body (Philippians 3:21; 1st Corinthians 15:51-58; 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18). I am firmly convinced that it will be a Pretribulation Rapture. That is, Christ will return FOR HIS OWN (the saints) BEFORE the 7-year Tribulation period.

Here is something helpful. Jesus:

• came 2,000 years ago TO HIS OWN (John 1:11)
• is coming at the Rapture FOR HIS OWN (1st Thessalonians 4:17)
• is returning at His Second Coming WITH HIS OWN (Jude 1:14)

In Romans 8:22-29, the Apostle Paul then continues from talking about the misery of all creation, to the hope of the Gospel, to our need for God's Holy Spirit to help our ignorance of not knowing what to pray for (verse 26). And then Paul says that ALL THINGS, as bad as they often seem to be in this life, will work together for good, because God will make it so!!! I love that. As only our great God can do, He will take the lemons in our life and make lemonade.

I heard a wonderful sermon yesterday by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) called: “God Has A Doggie Bag.” God uses the fragments that remain of our broken lives! How precious. As we just read in Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” God more than anyone knows that we as humans mess everything up! But God knew before we were even conceived in our mother's womb about all our failures, short comings, sins, crimes and rebellion. God already knew before David was even born that he would steal Uriah's beautiful wife, Bath-Sheba, unintentionally impregnate her, and then conspire What a scumbag!!! Yet, God still told the prophet Samuel, long before David sinned when he was still a youth, that “the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart” (1st Samuel 13:14b). How could David be an adulterer and murderer and yet be called a man after God's own heart? It is because God doesn't see us for what we are, He sees us through a filter of Christ's imputed righteousness. Romans 4:6-7, “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.”

I believe David was a man after God's own heart because He loved the Word of God. Psalms 139:17, “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!  how great is the sum of them!” Every man who was ever greatly used of God was consumed with a love for God's inspired Words!!! Psalms 119:139-140, “My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.” I am so disgusted and tired of meeting shallow pastors, who have little or no zeal over the Word of God. I'm talking about little men like Sean Quinlan, Jeff Redlin, Marty Herron, Jared Baldwin, Joe Hansen and Gary Walton—all of which sinfully belittled and tried to quench my zeal for the inspiration, purity and exclusivity of the King James Bible!!!

These are wicked and incompetent clergy. Pastor Quinlan literally shamefully called me “OBSESSED” over the Bible, while I attended the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam in 2018. Pastor Hansen shamefully called me and Dr. Jack Hyles “A CULT” for believing that the modern Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort Bible revisions (all based on their corrupt 1881 Greek translation) are corrupted by Satan. The truth is that these ungodly nitwits are all a part of the Alexandrian Cult. Jeff Redlin sinfully and falsely accused me of finding “weaknesses” in these wicked false prophets because I expose them as the Bible commands us to do. I am REBUKING THEM SHARPLY that they might be sound in the faith (Titus 1:10-14). I am earnestly contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). My only crime is preaching THE TRUTH that God only authored ONE BOOK, not two, three, twelve or 900 as The American Bible Society says we have today. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Anyway, I digress. The courageous Apostle Paul sums up his wonderful encouraging words in Romans 8:22-29 by teaching us that this is all part of God's sovereign plan to conform every believer into the very IMAGE of Jesus Christ. Jude 1:24-25, “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” One day in eternity, Jesus is going to present us SPOTLESS (FAULTLESS) before His heavenly Father. Our soul has already been redeemed, but this old flesh is still causing us all kinds of problems. That is what Paul is saying in Romans chapter eight:

Romans 8:22-23, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

We have already been saved and indwelt with the blessed Holy Spirit, made victorious through faith in Christ Jesus. But now our old, tired and problematic flesh needs to be overhauled. God promises in the Bible that Jesus has removed the sting of death. 1st Corinthians 15:55-56, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” When you get saved, the sting of death is gone forever! Why? Simply because we are going to Heaven, and all of of sins have been washed away by the precious blood of Jesus. A bee or wasp has a very painful stinger. OUCH! I was using a weed-whacker in 2017 to mow down a jungle on Guam! I must have disturbed a hornet's nest, because one of their warrior bees stung me on the ear lobe and IT HURT!!! I ran like you wouldn't believe to get away! OUCH! I can't say I blame the bee, after all I had destroyed the comfort of his home...lol. Jesus removed the stinger out of death, so that all who are born-again by faith alone in Christ need not worry or fear ever again.

Romans 5:20 says that where sin did abound, God's GRACE DOTH MUCH MORE ABOUND. In other words, ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED!!! Once a bee stings someone, the stinger is left behind and the bee soon dies. Likewise, Jesus died in our place on the cross, and in so ding He removed the painful sting that death brings for the unsaved, who must be punished according to their works in Hell forever (Revelation 20:11-15). Do you understand friend, that even good works are sinful for the unsaved person? Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” 

Proverbs 15:8, “The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.” In Matthew 7:21-23, we read about a group of unrighteous religious people. They boasted of doing many wonderful works in Jesus' name. The were wholly committed to following Jesus as their Lord. They even called Him “Lord, Lord.” But Jesus denied knowing them as His sheep. Jesus called them “ye that work iniquity.” Wow! Even their good works, dedication to serve Christ, following Jesus as their “Lord” and sacrificial good works which they did ALL TO PLEASE CHRIST, were sinful. Why? It is because they did not strive lawfully as the Bible says.

1st Timothy 1:8, “But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;” The purpose of God's Old Testament law, according to Romans 3:19-20, is to give mankind THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. That is, the law shows men their sinful condition, and then brings them to Christ to be saved by grace through faith in the Gospel. The law is like a doctor who diagnoses us with terminal cancer of sin, but then refers us to another doctor in the New Testament. His precious name is Jesus Christ, and He is a miracle worker! Jesus can cure even the sickest patient who is dying from sin. All you need to do is TRUST HIM! John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

I wanted to teach you this wonderful passage from the Big Picture. But the main thing I want to teach in this blog is about prayer. Dear friend, this earthly life is full of heartaches, disappointments, discouragements; as well as joy, some happiness and contentment once in a while. We all experience ups and down, good and bad, et cetera. I cannot encourage you enough to start listening to Pastor Jack Hyles' helpful sermons. Folks, these sermons were preached on a regular basis to crowds of 5,000 people or more. Dr. Hyles truly gave it his best effort to feed his church congregation. I heard a helpful MP3 sermon yesterday called: 'Roll With The Punches,' which addresses the things I just mentioned, all of life's craziness!

Romans 8:26 plainly says that we KNOW NOT WHAT YE OUGHT TO PRAY. I sure don't! Each day I humbly tell God that I have no idea what to pray anymore, and I don't. So I claim Romans 8:26, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Ah, but please notice that God has given us His blessed Holy Spirit, our dearest friend (and God sure is) to intercede on our behalf when we pray. Literally, the Bible is telling us that our wonderful Savior helps us out when we pray, because we have no idea what we are doing. I sure don't!

If God answered all my prayers, my life would very likely be ten times more a mess than it already is! My life has been a train wreck!!! I was hot by a church bus in 1992, which over time led to Cervical Degenerative Disk Disease (i.e., my neck is falling apart slowly). This adverse health conditioned significantly worsened by a fall at work in 2004, which led to radiating pain down both arms and legs, and burning nerves throughout my body, the entire right side of my body feeling half asleep all the time, et cetera. My beloved wife cruelly divorced me in 2006 without warning. I was devastated. I have suffered much without a life's partner by my side for the past 16 years. Although I have tired to do so, for one reason or another I've never been able to find a woman to remarry. To make matters worse, I have been condemned, belittled and treated like garbage by Pharisaical self-righteous bad pastors like Jeff Redlin at Campus Church (on the property at Pensacola Christian College).

I lost my home after the divorce, to pay $64,000 for insanely high attorney's fees. I lost my retirement savings. I remember literally flipping my steak in the drying pan with needle-nose pliers, because I lost all my possession with the home. It's a very long and inexplicably emotionally painful story. I was forced out of multiple Baptist churches, hated just for showing up. David in the Bible had the exact same thing happen to him, hated without cause. Psalms 109:4-5, “For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.”

In 2009 and again in 2010, I underwent two major neck surgeries with no one there for me in California. I wanted to kill myself, but my faith in God sustained me through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalms 32). I cannot even begin to express in words the darkness that drowned my hurting soul. Less than 1% of people in life have suffered the shocking and overwhelming mental trauma and emotional pain that I have endured. There are some events that happened to me that I am too uncomfortable to even mention, the darkest time of my miserable existence on earth for a few years.

In 2009 I bought two small barbeques with two bags of charcoal to commit suicide. I had read in the news that singer Brad Delp of Boston (my all-time favorite secular band) commit suicide at age 55 in March of 2007, by asphyxiation, so that was my plan. Brad was overwhelmed with a bad situation in his own life, and his wife Mickey Delp abandoned him years earlier with their two biological children, moving with the kids from Boston 3,000 miles away to California. No wonder the poor lonely guy killed himself, his family was all gone!!! But I knew that God loved me, and that this life is a one-time thing, so I was reluctant to end my life in my own time instead of God's. Again, my faith saw me through. I don't know if Brad Delp was a born-again Christian, I doubt it, but I sure hope I am wrong. I love the guy!

Anyway, in Romans 8:22-28 the main take-away truth that I see is PRAYER! I see that God very much desires for His children to pray, so much so that He even helps our infirmities when we don't know what to ask for. Dear friend, GOD LOVES YOU!!! Your Creator wants to also be your Savior, if you'll let Him. Simply cease from your own works and rest in the finished work of Christ on the cross. Hebrews 4:10-11, “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.”

Nearly all religious people foolishly, but sincerely, think that they must DO SOMETHING to get to Heaven. But the exact opposite is true! Like most things in life, things are backward from what most people think. The way you get to Heaven is to STOP doing whatever you've been doing to try to earn your way, and let Jesus pay for your ticket. Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) used to wisely say: “Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.” Yes, Amen!!! That is THE TRUTH.

Dear reader, I encourage you to pray about everything in your life. God has made it so easy to pray. The Lord knew that we wouldn't know what to pray, so He gives us a basic outline to follow in Luke 11:2-4, And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.” Isn't that encouraging? Jesus is helping us to pray.

But wait, the deal gets sweeter than that dear friend. 1st Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray without ceasing.” God knows that we are forgetful as humans. And even if we make a list, we get sleepy and dose off (I do all the time). So God allows us to pray at any time. The Old Testament prophet Daniel scheduled his prayer times at morning, noon and evening. Daniel 6:10, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”

Daniel chose to pray like that, but I don't. I pray throughout the day, as things and people come to mind. I am always asking God to work in the heart's of my web visitors to my ministry. I am just a VOICE, speaking to people's minds, but only God's Holy Spirit can make an eternal difference. Unless the Holy Spirit comes down and works in people's souls, ain't nothing going to happen!!! I need God, and so do you dear friend. That is what prayer is all about, getting God involved with our life, plans, loved ones and everything (Philippians 4:8).

So I have shown you from the Bible that God will help us pray (Romans 8:26). Jesus gives us a template to guide us to get started (Luke 11:2-4). God encourages us to pray without ceasing, spreading our prayers out at our convenience throughout the day, instead of getting down on our hands and knees for an hour or two each day. Some people like to pray like that, and I am all for it, but that is not me. There is nothing in the Holy Bible which requires us to pray in a certain physical position, or at a certain place or time, et cetera. God has given us total flexibility and freedom, He just commands us to pray as His children, because we need God's help and He won't help those who are too proud to pray (James 4:6).

But wait, I forgot to mention, there's even more to this awesome deal. God will even answer our prayers sometimes if we doubt Him, just so long as we pray anyway. Yes, it is true and I can prove it with the Scripture. In Acts 12:1-15 the church was praying for the Apostle Peter's release from prison. Wicked Herod has just murdered the Apostle James, cutting his head off. OUCH! Herod saw that it pleased the wicked Jews. Can you imagine? So now Herod intended to murder Peter too, after Easter. So the church got together and prayed, but they didn't really believe God would answer their request.

God sent His angels to rescue Peter. So Peter returns to where the believers are praying for him and knocks on the door. A young girl named Rhoda answers the door. She is so excited that she closes the door and runs to tell everyone, leaving Peter outside in the cold...lol. When all that were gathered praying heard Rhoda say that Peter was at the door, that called her “mad” (crazy). Acts 12:15, “And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.” I love this encouraging true story, because it confirms that even when we doubt God for whatever reason, He WILL still answer our prayer if it is according to His will, because PRAYER IS ASKING, AND ASKING IN ITSELF IS FAITH. Our doubts do not diminish our faith we had to pray. Amen!

The Big Problem Today Is That Americans Don't Fear God

Proverbs 8:13, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.” Psalms 36:1, “The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.” Romans 3:18-20, “There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

The reason why we see churches being bombed by wicked people is simply because they don't fear God. The reason why abortion has been legalized in America since 1972 is because the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't fear God. They don't hate evil. The reason why ungodly courts all across America—sinfully grant divorces, prosecute innocent people by forcing 90% of them to accept plea agreements for fear of going to trial by an incompetent jury of humans (see the insanely mishandled case of Casey Anthony), delay court cases for years while greedy judges and lawyers bilk people of all their wealth, and impose unfair insanely long prison sentences upon people—is simply because our courts don't fear God. What we call “justice” in this stupid country is anything but justice. It is more like JUST-US! 911 has never been prosecuted. The Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 has never been prosecuted. The U.S. Justice Department is a sad joke! Corruption wreaks at the very core of our rotting Republic!

The whole concept of prisons (locking up human beings in cages) is deplorable, unbiblical and heathen. In the Bible when a crime was committed you either paid a fine, were beaten with a whip in public, or were executed. The Bible requires an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. So the only time a person should be locked in a cage is if you locked somebody up in a cage! It is cruel torture to lock either a human or animal in a cage for any amount of time!!! During the Millennium when Christ reigns as King of kings from the throne of David in Jerusalem, there won't be any prisons I assure you. I know that because I have the mind of Christ as a born-again believer (1st Corinthians 2:16). Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”

In January of 2021, someone did the unthinkable! They bombed the First Works Baptist Church in California. Here is some news from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune which was published last March:

FBI investigators described the man in the video as between 5 feet and 8 inches and 6 feet and 1 inch tall, weighing approximately 170 to 180 pounds. The woman was described as between 5 feet and 3 inches and 5 feet and 5 inches tall, weighing approximately 125 to 135 pounds.

On the morning of the blast on Jan 23, around 1 a.m., El Monte police arrived at the church on 2600 Tyler Avenue to find the windows blown out and profanities painted on the church’s front walls. The interior of the church was significantly damaged. No one was injured in the explosion.

Bomb technicians with the FBI and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recovered a piece of the explosive device at the church. The FBI has described the bomb as “an IED,” or a homemade or “improvised” explosive device. Due to unsafe conditions, city officials red tagged the church building, which remained closed as of this week, said El Monte Police Chief David Reynoso. Congregants have been meeting at other locations for church services, according to livestreams of the services posted to the church’s YouTube page.

Before the bombing, the church’s leader, Pastor Bruce Mejia faced intense scrutiny over sermons that called for executions of gay and lesbian people. First Works Baptist church has been listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lists of anti-LGBTQ groups.

El Monte residents decried Mejia’s teachings at City Council meetings and during protests at the church, describing the rhetoric as “homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.” An online petition calling for the removal of the church from the city has gathered more than 15,800 signatures. “Mejia twists God’s word and actively discriminates against the LGBTQIA+ community,” the petition said. “We need to let Bruce Mejia and his following know that they are not welcomed.” SOURCE

Our nation is in trouble! I want to reiterate the last couple paragraphs from what I just shared with you, because it is so very important:

Before the bombing, the church’s leader, Pastor Bruce Mejia faced intense scrutiny over sermons that called for executions of gay and lesbian people. First Works Baptist church has been listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lists of anti-LGBTQ groups.

El Monte residents decried Mejia’s teachings at City Council meetings and during protests at the church, describing the rhetoric as “homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.” An online petition calling for the removal of the church from the city has gathered more than 15,800 signatures. “Mejia twists God’s word and actively discriminates against the LGBTQIA+ community,” the petition said. “We need to let Bruce Mejia and his following know that they are not welcomed.” SOURCE

Dear reader, there is no shame or stigma in being so-called “homophobic.” I readily admit that I am 100% HOMOPHOBIC!!! I get freaked out around homosexuals. I do not call them gay, because that is a good word which used to mean being happy. Nor do I recognize God's rainbow as a homosexual symbol. Every rainbow is created by God as a reminder to mankind that He keeps His promises, particularly His promise in Genesis after Noah's flood to never destroy the earth by water again. Next time it will be by fire...lol (2nd Peter 3:10).

Proverbs 1:29, “For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.”

Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

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.”

Proverbs 15:24, “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.”

The problem in our society today is that Americans no longer fear God. Carefully notice in the following Bible verse that the wicked CHOOSE not to fear God. Proverbs 1:29, “For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.” Fearing God is a personal choice that we all have to make. I fear God, because I believe He exists and there is a penalty for not obeying Him. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” I don't know about you dear reader, but I CHOOSE TO FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS!!! I am not perfect, but I want to be someday. No one will ever be able to be perfect until God takes away this mortal flesh and gives us a new immortal body.

One of my favorite sermons by Pastor Jack Hyles is called: "You Don't Have To Be Perfect." God doesn't expect us to grow up, He just wants us to GROW! The fear of God literally means to be afraid of what will happen if we rebel against our Creator and Savior. Even for believers, the Bible warns in 2nd Corinthians 5:11, “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.” There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ (Romans 8:1; John 3:18). But we still must give account for the good and the bad done in the body (2nd Corinthians 5:10). No believer will ever have to face The Great White Throne Of Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), which will be as criminal court for our sins; but we must still be judged at The Judgment Seat Of Christ (2nd Corinthians 5:9-11), which will be as a civil court.

The BOOK That Makes The Difference!
(by Pastor Lester Roloff, 1914-1982)