The Most Important Job Is The One That Doesn't Get Done

Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”

Indifference refers to a lack of interest or concern about something, while apathy is a more profound state characterized by a lack of feeling, emotion, or motivation. Both terms denote a disengagement, but apathy often implies a deeper emotional suppression compared to mere indifference. Sadly, most Americans today have become apathetic and indifferent. Everywhere we go these days, we have to deal with frustrations, struggles and irritations caused simply because somebody failed to do their job.

The reason why American society is such a mess today is because our leaders have failed to do their jobs. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done. In 1913, our leaders in Congress failed to do their jobs to protect the American people from the greedy banking cartel. Over a quite Christmas weekend when most members of Congress were absent, the sinister Federal Reserve Act was passed into law, which has destroyed the American economy, and is the root cause of homelessness across the country today due to run away inflation. Ladies and gentlemen, inflation is a tax!

Our shameful pastors have failed to do their jobs. In corrupt churches all across the United States, especially Baptist churches, pastors have failed to warn people about the Devil's corrupt modern Bible revisions. Those horrible pastors refuse to contend for the faith. They refuse to take a stand against women wearing immodest pants in public. They refuse to warn people about the Devil's fraud of Lordship Salvation, which damns men's souls to Hell forever. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

And then there's the spiritually dead church members, who foolishly follows the bad pastor. Those lackadaisical church members merely go along with their carnal pastor, sitting idle in 18 inches of padded pew from Sunday to Sunday, saying and doing nothing to stop their reckless pastor from corrupting the gospel, perverting the inspired Holy Bible, failing to love hurting people and pulling on the same rope as the Devil. The average church today is actually a religious cult. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

We all know the frustration of being brushed off by automated phone systems, which I vehemently hate! Unethical companies today are so greedy that they are looking for every way possible to eliminate human beings from the process. It's getting so bad nowadays that it has become almost impossible to contact a living human being anymore. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

McDonald's is getting rid of its dining rooms. I went into a McDonalds recently and the dining room was about as big as a small shed. There was a long line of customers standing in a single line waiting for service. The workers were overwhelmed. There was also a computer station with a sign encouraging customers to order online instead, which most people (like me) refuse to mess with. The long, brightly-lit, cheerful menu board overhead with photos of McDonald's foods that I remember so vividly from decades past was gone, now replaced by a much smaller unattractive menu with no photos. It was a major turn off! I just walked out the door without placing an order and went to a different restaurant instead. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

Corporate greed, skyrocketing inflation and a stagnated livable wage since 1980, has totally ruined our economy! The minimum federal wage is still $7.25 an hour, which is a sick joke! Even in California, where the minimum wage is now $20 an hour for fast food restaurants, workers cannot afford to even pay their rent. At $20 an hour, your monthly net income is about $2,500. The average rent in San Francisco is $3,800 a month. In Los Angeles the average rent per month is $2,700. With a minimum wage job people simply cannot survive anymore! The ungodly Federal Reserve Ponzi Scheme is the primary culprit.

There have been umpteen times throughout my life when I was frustrated by a situation that was completely beyond my control, all because someone didn't do their job. There is nothing as frustrating as requesting information from somebody who chooses to totally ignore you. I have been in that situation many times, usually when dealing with lazy government employees or abusive lawyers, wishing that I had the power to fire those lazy and mean people. Good luck requesting help from the federal government. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

This week I have been watching dozens of tragic YouTube documentary videos about the homelessness epidemic across the United States. Many of them are addicted to a mixture of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine drugs. A recent study of street drugs found that 94% of all substances tested contained Fentanyl. Just 2 mg of Fentanyl can be deadly to a human, which is the equivalent of two grains of salt. Many of the drugs are laced with animal tranquilizers. The homeless are using these dangerous drugs as a means of coping with their dire circumstances. To the average American who lives in a home and has a warm bed to sleep in at night, with running water and plenty of food to eat, they cannot even begin to understand the plight of the homeless.

Why hasn't President Trump addressed this massive problem across the nation, which has become the white elephant in our living room? His new tariffs imposed on foreign nations is producing $2,000,000,000 every day for the federal government. That's roughly $750 billion a year in profits. Although not bad, it's just a fraction of the $33 trillion of national debt that we owe. Meanwhile, our reckless government generously gave $20 billion in military aid to Israel. Something is very wrong when our federal government cares more about giving money for bombs foreign nations, than it does about helping to house and help our own citizens!!!

My humble prediction is that when President Trump leaves office in 2029—the U.S. epidemic of homelessness and drug abuse will be much worse, the New World Order will be much further empowered and positioned to escalate their plans, and everything will be ripe for the next demonic Democrat U.S. President to plunge our nation into the Satanic diversity, equality and inclusivity gender confusion and all manner of wickedness again. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

For the past century, little by little toxic chemicals and other dangerous additives have been put into our food supply, making Americans sick. If you read the ingredients for Skittles and brownies, you'll find Titanium Dioxide in the list, which is a toxic chemical. The state of California has banned candy Skittles for this very reason. The Food and Drug Administration has failed to do their jobs! I thank God for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy) who has declared war on the food companies who poison our foods. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

I could go on and on about all the ways in which people failed to do their jobs, and the dire consequences that followed. One of the more infamous true stories is the five advance warnings of icebergs that the Titanic received, but their ship's captain Edward John Smith (1850-1912) foolishly ignored them. We know what happened next—the Titanic struck an iceberg which tore a long gash into the hull, causing the gigantean ship to sink 12,500 feet to the bottom of the frigid Atlantic Ocean in 2012. Approximately 1,500 passengers needlessly perished on April 10, 2012, all because one man (the captain) ignored the five warnings of icebergs.

I cannot help but see the striking similarity with today's incompetent neo-evangelicals pastors—who preach another gospel, promote the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions, bid Godspeed to false prophets like Ken Ham and John MacArthur, and fail to heed multiple warnings from concerned truth-tellers like me. I may just be a voice but a voice nevertheless; to God be the glory! Proverbs 12:17, “He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.”

I have faithfully warned the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam that they are preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation, but their wicked pastors have ignored my stern warnings since 2014. Their incompetent neo-evangelical pastors have failed to rightly divide the Word of Truth. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

I have faithfully warned the ungodly pastors of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College about their counterfeit plan of salvation, but they also have not heeded my sincere warnings. Their incompetent neo-evangelical pastors have failed to rightly divide the Word of Truth. A friend helps a friend to see. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

I have also faithfully warned the ungodly leaders of Bob Jones University about their false plan of salvation and their counterfeit Bible revisions, but they have completely ignored my warnings. I know that I am nothing, but the words that I speak are truth. The only English Bible translation that we can trust today is the inspired King James Bible. All other modern English versions today are based upon the corrupt text of Brooke Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton Hort (1828-1892). Their incompetent neo-evangelical pastors have failed to rightly divide the Word of Truth. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

Nearly all failures, incompetence and blunders can be traced back to a lack of proper preparation or somebody not doing their job. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done. I love that truth! We all have a job to do. Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Attitudes are contagious; is yours worth catching? Very few people have a gratitude attitude.

The foundation of gratitude is the expectation of nothing. This is a life changing truth if you'll adopt it as I have. I expect nothing from my wife, so I greatly appreciate everything that she does for me. I am blessed to have a caring wife. I expect nothing from God, so I am continually rejoicing and basking in His manifold blessings. I wake up each day expecting nothing from life, so my life is a continual feast of blessings. Many Americans today are spoiled rotten. They have an entitlement attitude that causes them to continually focuses on the things they don't have, instead of thanking God for the things they do have.

I avoid purchasing big things on credit. I have two credit cards for convenience, but I hate them with a passion. Credit cards can be dangerous! I choose to save first and then enjoy later; not enjoy something first and then pay later. There's just something precious about saving up money for a few months, or even a year or two, and then paying cash for the thing you want to acquire. Pastor Jack Hyles preached a beautiful sermon on this topic titled: “Hasty Fruit,” which I encourage you to listen to. This will be some of the best financial advice you'll ever hear dear friend. We are living in a very wicked covetous generation.

I cannot emphasis enough the importance of little things. One's attitude toward little things will impact our attitude toward everything else in life. When I arrive and see a shopping cart left in a store's parking lot, I always take one or two carts into the store with me to be helpful. Since I am going that way anyway, why not grab a cart or two? It may seem like a small thing, but I know that God sees my servant's heart and honors my attention to little things. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

Paying one's due bills in a timely manner may seem trifle to some people, but it is a big matter to God I assure you. God wants His children, who are His ambassadors to this heathen world, to be honest and to care. The old adage is true: Cleanliness is next to godliness. That is because both being clean and being godly require caring. Caring is the hallmark character trait of a Christian who walks closely with the Lord. The heathen world doesn't care. I have had several medical doctors and nurses over the decades who didn't really care about me as a human being or a patient. Their work was merely a formality, a job from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. That is not God's way; it is the heathen world's way.

The same shameful testimony is true of most church pastors these days. They merely go through the motions of playing church each day, but as the prophet Isaiah truly said, their heart is far from God (Matthew 15:8; Isaiah 29:13). In other words, they are phonies! The average Baptist pastor today is a disgrace! The average Baptist church is a mere fun center and social club, not a place of soulwinning and building families. Those rotten pastors are dropping the ball for God.

The Bible calls them “dumb dogs.” Isaiah 56:10, “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.“ That means the pastors refused to speak out to expose sin and false doctrine. They were as useless “dumb dogs” who didn't bark to warn their owner when a thief came into the house. A dog that doesn't bark is not worth keeping! Likewise, a pastor who doesn't warn God's flock about Lordship Salvation, false prophets, wrong repentance and the dangers of sin isn't worth keeping! The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.

Me and my wife Alice were recently kicked out of the shameful Family Baptist Church in Pensacola by their ungodly carnal pastors. Their haughty church members are imbeciles—the spiritually blind following the blind. Their wicked pastor Brad Moffett promotes infidel Ken Ham, who preaches a counterfeit plan of salvation. They are merely playing church, going through the outward motions but their hearts are far from God, evidenced by their woeful lack of love toward people. People are expendable in this miserable place. God will deal with them. Ichabod (the glory of the Lord is departed) is written over their church doors. 

And may I kindly say, it is every Christian lady's job to dress in modest apparel (1st Timothy 2:9). It is tragic that most Baptist women today flaunt their body in God's sight, by wearing pants in public and disregarding modesty. I meet them from time to time, ungodly proudful neo-evangelicals who despise fundamentalist Bible preachers like Pastor Jack Hyles and myself. Modesty is every woman's job! The most important job is the one that doesn't get done. 

I Added My Pedal Steel Guitar To “Just Over Yonder”

I found a nice Gospel song on Facebook a few days ago by David Johnson. He's singing and playing acoustic guitar. I thought it would be fun to add a MIDI bass, kick drum and tambourine (I used MixCraft Pro Studio 10.1 software). And then I added my pedal steel guitar playing to it, which I humbly think came out okay. It's not perfect but by God's grace I had fun making it. ...

1. Just Over Yonder (original song)
2. Just Over Yonder (added bass and percussion, no steel guitar)
3. Just Over Yonder (with pedal steel guitar)

Here's another recent recording that I made, playing along with Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver's Gospel song, 'Help Is On The Way.' Here is the original song without my pedal steel. I thank God for the privilege to play such a beautiful musical instrument. It is my heart's desire to play musical instruments in Heaven, and continue learning and honing my skills.

I wanted to share some of my music with my blog visitors. I've made numerous recordings over the years, if you'd like to hear some of my work. Here's a Hawaiian album that I recorded in April of 2001 for my mother before she graduated to Heaven in August of 2001. Here's my main ministry music web page. Here is my banjo blog. I try to upload a new backing track every Friday for a song for the 5-string banjo, which I enjoy playing.

I love playing in the Standard (gDGBD) and Double C tunings (gCGCD). You can hear what the Double C tuning sounds like in these popular folk tunes: 'Whisky Before Breakfast,' 'Gaspe Reel' and 'Boys Of Bluehill / Harvest Home,' all of which I enjoy playing on the 5-string banjo. Dave Hum (1966-2012) from Salisbury, England, is my mentor on the banjo. You can enjoy his 219 banjo videos on YouTube. Dave's family sells his albums, original backing tracks and tablature for his sings if anyone is interested.

Dave Hum sadly died of myeloma blood cancer at just age 46 in 2012. I never had the privilege of getting to know him personally, but through Dave's majestic music I feel that I've always known him. I just wanted to share something dear to me with my blog followers. The 5-string banjo is a passion for me, just as is the pedal steel and lapsteel guitar.

Here are some of my banjo recordings over the past year. I have also specified which banjo that I recorded for each song below...

1. My Grandfather's Clock (Deering Golden Era)
2. My Grandfather's Clock (Deering Calico; photos of my Calico banjo)
3. My Grandfather's Clock (Deering Golden Wreath)
4. Golden Slippers (Golden Wreath)
5. Mason's Apron (Golden Era)
6. Old Spinning Wheel (Golden Era)
7. Green Gates (Calico)
8. Green Gates (Deering Goodtime Special)
9. Arkansas Traveller (Golden Wreath)
10. Boys Of Bluehill (Goodtime Special)
11. Dunphy's Hornpipe (Goodtime Special)
12. Off To California (Golden Wreath)

By God's grace, I also recoded a ukulele album back in 2015 if you'd like to hear it.

I didn't intend on becoming a Deering banjo guy, but that is the route I have taken, so I am grateful. I wish that the Gibson banjo company still existed in Nashville, but their factory was destroyed by a historic bad flood in 2010. I am skeptical to pay $5,000 for a used Gibson banjo today that is 20 to 40 years old, having no way of knowing what I am buying. I bought all of my Deering banjos brand new. I bought the Calico and Golden Wreath banjos with 15% discounts, which was nice.

Deering's Golden Era is their attempt to recreate the Gibson ESS model. Dave Hum plays a 1992 Gibson ESS. I had bought a Deering Golden Era from Fuller Guitars in Houston, Texas. Unfortunately, no one at the store bothered to play the banjo and it had an annoying buzz on the first string at the second fret, so I had to return it for a refund. I bought the Golden Wreath instead, which is Deering's attempt to recreate the popular 1930's prewar Gibson RB-250. The Calico has more resonance and a thinner sound than the Golden Wreath does. Each banjo is unique different and nice.

I also have a Recording King Elite 85 with a maple neck that I purchased new back in 2018 for $1,895 from Ross Nickerson. It has a larger 27 3/8" length neck than the standard 26 1/4" neck. As expected, the Elite 85 has a larger sound, but it lacks resonance. My Calico has resonance, which is very important for a banjo. The Goodtime Special has some resonance and a pleasant feel and tone, but it is a student model. Lord willing, I hope to one day play some other high ends banjos (Yates, Huber, Stelling, Gibson, OMG, et cetera).

I have never played a Gibson banjo, but nearly every serious banjo player has one (mostly hybrids of pieces from various different banjos...lol). The local music stores don't sell high end banjos, because it is rare that someone is willing to pay $5,000 for a banjo. Gold Tone sells 5-string banjos for a fraction of the cost, but you're getting Chinese parts assembled in Titusville, Florida. I had a Gold Tone banjo 35 years ago around 1990, but I cannot remember how it sounded or what happened to it. There was no internet back then, and I lived in Chicago where banjos were all but non-existent, so I lost interest. Things are different today.

Strangely enough, of my banjo collection I enjoy playing a student model the most. This is Deering's Goodtime Special (which has a tone ring and weighs only 9.3 pounds), which I bought for $1,099 from Amazon. I paid $4,436 for the Calico. All of my banjos weigh over 12 pounds, so the much lighter Goodtime Special is helpful for my neck injury. I play it over 95% of the time. Like Dave Hum does in the photo below, I set the banjo on my knees to take the weight off of my neck. I love hearing and playing Dave Hum's style on the 5-string banjo!

In the photo below Dave is not playing his Gibson ESS, which I can tell from the neck inlay design. I am pretty sure this is his ODE, which was made in the 1970's in Arkansas. He later sold this banjo, keeping his Gibson Epiphone (Chinese made) and Gibson ESS (American made). In this video, you can hear Dave comparing his three banjos.

Dave Hum

(April 11, 1966 - November 14, 2012)

I Believe The Saints In Heaven Do Have Bodies

2nd Corinthians 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

Philippians 3:21 plainly teaches that at the Rapture every believer in Heaven will receive a new glorified body fashioned like unto the Lord's resurrected perfect body. Our bodily pain, disabilities, baldness, poor eyesight, bad hearing, my crooked nose from a childhood injury, and all weaknesses will be gone, gone, gone! Amen and amen!

We read in our text passage from 2nd Corinthians 5:1 that when our earthly body can no longer house our soul and spirit, we have a tabernacle in Heaven waiting for us, not built with hands. I honestly do not know what that means, but it seems to suggest that we will indeed have some form of body in Heaven.

When the Apostle John met what he thought was an angel in the Book of Revelation, he bowed to worship him but was rebuked. Revelation 22:9, “Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” In this case, we see that John met another fellow saint in a physical body. This leads me to believe that the saints in Heaven do have bodies. And as a side note, we should never worship men nor angels, but only God.

When Jesus went up to the Mount of Transfiguration, He took Peter and James and John. They saw Moses and Elijah appear in physical bodies. So, here again we see that the saints in Heaven do have physical bodies. Jesus told Peter in John 14:1-3 that He was going to prepare a "place" for him, and for all believers. To reside in a "place," let alone a "mansion," you would need a physical body, since a mansion is a tangible thing.

When Jesus ascended into Heaven in Acts 1:11, He had a physical body. The disciples watched His body ascend into the clouds until He was gone. This again suggests that the saints in Heaven do have literal physical bodies. Colossians 3:1 says that Jesus sits on a throne (not an abstract object), at the Father's right hand. Clearly, the Father and the Son have physical bodies in Heaven, which would certainly indicate that we will as well.

And as another side note, Colossians 3:1 destroys the falsehood of Modalism (which false doctrine blatantly denies the Godhead). Heaven is a literal physical place somewhere in the universe, likely in the north according to Job 26:7. Since God the Father and God the Son have physical bodies in Heaven, and we find several examples in the Word of God of saints having physical bodies, it is reasonable to conclude that believers in Heaven do have some form of a body. I cannot be dogmatic, and my opinion is mere speculation, but we do find numerous biblical examples of departed saints in Heaven who appeared in a physical body.

In His resurrected body, Jesus ate and drank for enjoyment with the disciples (John 21:12-14). He walked through closed doors (John 20:26). He ascended physically into the air in defiance of the laws of gravity (Acts 1:11). We will be able to do the same, since our body will be fashioned like unto the Lord's resurrected immortal body. Philippians 3:20-21, “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” This is why at the Rapture, all of the saints will ascend bodily into the clouds in our immortal changed bodies to meet the dear Lord in the air (1st Corinthians 15:51-58).

We read in 2nd Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” I think the Bible is plain that there is no such thing as “soul sleep,” a popular false teaching among Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists, which says that when we die our soul is unconscious in the grave and will remain in such a state until a future resurrection.

These cults say that the wicked will not be resurrected. The inspired Holy Bible teaches something quite different, that everyone who dies immediately goes to either Heaven or Hell forever (Luke 16:19-31). Someone may choose to deny the existence of God, but no one can escape His judgment and wrath, except through faith in the blood of the Lamb of God (Romans 5:9). Are you prepared to meet God dear reader?

Since we know Scripturally that Jesus and the Father both have physical bodies in Heaven, it would be unreasonable to think that the saints do not. I humbly do not think the heavenly saints have their resurrected bodies yet, which we will all receive at the Rapture, but in ways that I do not claim to understand, I believe they do have some form of physical existence in eternity. Obviously, some things were not meant to be understood at this time. 1st Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

Concerning our heavenly body, I often am reminded of the 2009 science fiction movie starring Bruce Willis, “Surrogates.” In the movie, people vicariously live their life through a robotic surrogate. Sometimes when their surrogate was out for repairs, they'd use a cheap loner for the time being. I don't mean any disrespect to the Lord, but I cannot help but wonder if our temporary body in Heaven will be inferior to our immortal glorified body received at the Rapture. It's just speculation.

It is clear to me that when we die, our physical body (whether burned in ashes, eaten by a hungry shark or bear, or formally buried with all due honors in a casket) does remain here on earth until the time of the Rapture. At the Rapture, our spirit and soul will be reunited with our redeemed body. 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.”

At the time of the new birth when we got saved, our spirit and soul were redeemed by God. But our body will not be redeemed until the Rapture, which I humbly believe will happen BEFORE the Tribulation period (i.e., a pretribulation Rapture). I believe the Tribulation period, which is Daniel's 70th week of prophecy according to Daniel 9:24, will last for 7 years. I believe in a pretribulation Rapture. All other theories just don't fit into Bible prophecy. If the Lord were to return at any later time than before the Tribulation, we would literally be able to calculate the time of His return down the the exact day! That goes against the plain teaching of Scripture that no man, not even the angels, know the timing of Christ's return (Mark 13:32-37).

I am fully aware that some pastors and theologians claim Jesus could not have been speaking about the Rapture in the four gospels, because the Apostle Paul called the Rapture “a mystery” when he revealed it in 1st Corinthians 15:51-58. However, Jesus gave vivid prophecies in Matthew chapters 24 and 25 about the future Tribulation period, which are also a great mystery. Jesus was almighty God in the flesh and He knew the future.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Oh, what a wonderful day that will be!!!

God Is Not “Old School” For Commanding Women Not To Wear Pants

Jeremiah 6:16, “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.  But they said, We will not walk therein.”

1st Timothy 2:9-10, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”

When I lived on the island of Guam, I attended the shameful Harvest Baptist Church located in the village of Maite for one year, between 2013 and 2014. Their incompetent senior pastor was Marty Herron, a dangerous false prophet who preaches the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation.

One evening at a church event, I was having a conversation with Pastor Herron and a church member outside the church. The three of us talked about various topics. At one point in our conversation, I made mention that the Bible forbids women to wear pants in public. Pastor Herron (being the neo-evangelical compromiser that he is) looked at the other man and felt compelled to blurt out the shameful words (about me): “He's old school.” That was one of the worst things any pastor has ever said about me.

Dear reader, I am not “old school,” I am morally and biblically right! Marriage is not just the old fashioned way, it is first and foremost the right way! The biblical command that women ought not wear immodest pants in public is simply the truth. God has not changed since 125 years ago, when in the United States you couldn't find a women wearing pants in society. In the year 1900 only harlots wore pants in public. It is mankind that has changed, but God has not changed (Malachi 3:6). Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

I am sick and tired of henpecked husbands (especially shameful pastors), who are afraid to go against their feminist minded wives who demand to wear their pants. I recently had an unpleasant conversation with Pastor Brad Moffett in April of 2025, in his office at the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. Brad is a young fella who has no business being the pastor of any church, for numerous reasons. One main reason is that he is an ungodly neo-evangelical compromiser. He is wrong on Bible repentance and God's simple plan of salvation, which makes Family Baptist Church a cult instead of a genuine New Testament church. I speak this to their utter shame. Woe unto false prophets.

Another reason why Brad Moffett is unqualified to lead a church is because of his low moral standards. He actually challenged me to produce a Bible verse that says women shouldn't wear pants in public. 1st Timothy 2:9-10, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” Only a willfully blind person (especially a pastor who spiritually should know better) would dare claim that “modest apparel” in 1st Timothy 2:9 allows for women to wear men's clothing (pants) in public.

Pastor Brad dismissed Deuteronomy 22:5 (which forbids women to wear men's clothing) as a mere ceremonial law that is no longer applicable today. What a fool! Dear reader, God's prohibition for women to wear men's clothing, and for men not to wear women's clothing, is a moral law, not ceremonial. Deuteronomy 22:5, “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Only an incompetent Baptist pastor would sinfully deny the Scriptural command for women not to wear pants. It is just as wrong for females to wear men's clothing, as it is for cross-dressing males to wear female clothing. It is confusion and an abomination unto the Lord God almighty!!!

I take a lot of criticism and heat from angry females and their henpecked husbands or boyfriends because of my biblical preaching against women wearing immodest pants in public. Pastor Brad Moffett is very wrong about modesty! We've got the wrong people leading the churches nowadays. Instead of doing things God's way, they are doing things their OWN WAY. 

The Family Baptist Church in Pensacola is spiritually dead, a cesspool of iniquity. There is no regularly scheduled soulwinning. There is no preaching against sin There is no contending for the Christian faith, nor exposing false prophets by name. Tragically, the opposite is true, the pastor and his verbally abusive fool for a father (Bobby Moffett) promote numerous damnable false teachers; which include: Billy and Franklin Graham, John Calvin, John Piper, Ken Ham, Jeff Redlin and Pensacola Christian College. All of these fake Christian pastors and institutions preach another gospel that requires turning from your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. No such teaching is found in the inspired King James Bible.

Dear reader, it is a sin for women to wear immodest attire in public. The only place that a woman should ever wear a pair of pants is in the privacy of her own bedroom for only her husband to see her buttocks and thighs. I and my wife Alice went to a Family Baptist Church picnic on Memorial Day in 2025. When we arrived the first thing we noticed was that the pastor's wife was shamefully wearing sexy pants. We didn't condemn her. We didn't say anything to her about it because it's none of our business. We are horrible sinners just as much as everyone else.

That being said, the pastor's wife ignored Alice when she said “hello” twice. My wife was wearing a full length dress at the picnic, which is all she wears in public. I kindly greeted the pastor's wife and she kindly smiled. But the fact that she was wearing pants created an atmosphere of tension which was obvious.

About 45 minutes later, me and Alice sat down at a picnic table to eat with a group of children. The pastor's wife came up right in front of us and said to one of the young girls, “I like your shorts!” At a minimum, her comment was inconsiderate and rude toward me and Alice. At worst, she did it deliberately and is in big trouble with the Lord. The pastor's wife fully knows that I am a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, and she and her husband (the pastor) are fully aware of my hard Bible preaching against women wearing pants on my website ministry. It was one month earlier that her husband interrogated me (Alice was present) in his office about my preaching against women wearing pants. Pastor Brad even had several dozen pages of my ministry websites printed in a stack on his desk. There's no way that his wife just innocently complimented a 12 year old girls' immodest shorts in our faces at the church picnic. In so doing, she mocked God's command for women to wear “modest apparel.”

The sad truth is that the evils of feminism (demonism) has corrupted American women, and that includes 99% of women who attend church. Most churchgoing women (I hesitate to call most of them Christians who trust in Lordship Salvation), don't even realize how infected they become because of feminism in American mainstream culture. Feminism is evil! Feminism is female rebellion against God-ordained masculine authority in the marriage, home and church. Like it or not ladies, God has put men in charge of the marriage, home, church and society. That doesn't diminish the important role of women in their respective areas of influence, it just means that God wants the men to lead, not the women.

It is sinfully wrong for women to wear pants in public on multiple levels. One of the most obvious is that when women wear sexy pants, it makes it much harder for men to think and live right. I was sickened when Pastor Brad Moffett literally defended his wife's pants by claiming that a man who walks in the Holy Spirit won't be tempted to walk in the flesh. So according to Brad it shouldn't matter if women wear sexy attire in public, because a Spirit-filled man won't have a problem with lusting. What a darn fool for a Baptist pastor to say such a calloused, insensitive, ridiculous, blatantly false and wicked thing!

Ask any normal, honest, red-blooded, healthy man who is not a homosexual what he thinks about women wearing pants, and he will tell you the truth that the last thing on his mind will be singing “Amazing Grace.” When I saw my pastor's attractive young wife wearing sexy pants at the church picnic in May of 2025, I assure you that my first thought wasn't John 3:16! When women dress immodestly it makes it more difficult for men to think right.

Pastor Brad couldn't be further from the truth in this matter of modesty. Kindly said, his wife should be woefully ashamed of her sexy snug pants; and her ungodly henpecked husband (the pastor) should fall on his face before God and beg for forgiveness, and for God to give him a a new heart in this matter of modesty. Psalms 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Let's ask King David in the Old Testament about being tempted because a woman wasn't dressed properly, who saw his neighbour's wife Bathsheba bathing naked upon her rooftop, which led to adultery and murder.

One of the greatest evils in the United States today is INDIFFERENCE concerning sin! Due to the evil influence of Hollywood and the Satanic controlled entertainment industry, sin is no longer exceedingly sinful. Contrariwise, sin has become acceptable and we've all been desensitized toward sin as Americans...

1st Peter 2:11-12, “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

This is why so few people care anymore. Everywhere we turn these days, people just don't care. They don't care about doing their job right. They don't care about their customers. Doctors don't care about their patients. I haven't been able to obtain enough pain medications since 2021 since I loved to Florida from Guam, and my doctor doesn't care. If I knew where else to go, I would. The federal government has scared doctors to prescribe pain drugs anymore. They won't prescribe over 90 MME (morphine milligram equivalents) which is the absolute bare minimum and simply not enough for patients like me. The CDC compares all pain drugs to morphine. I need at least 150 MME daily to cope, but can only get 90 MME. I am suffering terribly 24/7. It's just not enough medicine! So, I just have to take what pain medications I can thankfully get, and say praise the Lord anyhow! What a blessed day that will be when God will take away our physical and emotional pain forever (Philippians 3:21; Revelation 21:4). I digress.

Dear reader, the issue of modesty is critically important. I cringe when I read foolish comments on social media by professed Christians who claim that we ought not make a fuss over non-essential issues in the churches. They say that we should only focus on spreading the Gospel, but not worry about the way women dress, drinking booze, abortion, casino gambling, feminism, using tobacco or other things that do not affect salvation. They are woefully wrong! Although it is true that these things do not affect God's free gift of eternal life (to those who trust in His only begotten Son Jesus), that doesn't mean we should ignore or abandon them.

I will go to seed over this matter of women not wearing pants, halter tops, cleavage showing blouses, Spandex, bikinis, miniskirts and other sinful revealing immodest attire. God plainly commands all women to dress in MODEST APPAREL (1st Timothy 2:9). It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a theologian to figure out what it means to be “modest.”

Marty Herron is a disgrace as a pastor for calling me “old school” concerning my biblical ministry stand against women wearing pants in public. SHAME on Mr. Herron for pulling on the same rope as the Devil! Woe unto Marty when he answers to God in eternity, for mocking my truthful righteous Bible preaching about modesty. When Pastor Herron called me “old school,” he also insulted God and called Him “old school.” You better believe I'm “old school” if being old school means upholding high moral standards and decency! There's nothing more shameful than to see a church full of worldly women all wearing immodest pants and men's clothing. Call me what you will, I just think that Christian women should conceal, not reveal. If it's not for sake ladies, then don't advertise it! By the way, God is on my side in this matter.

There is an entire lifestyle that is synonymous with women wearing full length dresses, culottes and skirts well below the knee. Do you think most women who have abortions, who got pregnant out of wedlock, wear pants or dresses? You already know the obvious answer. Woe unto pastor's wives and daughters who wear pants! The one woman in any local church who should set the highest moral standard is the pastor's wife. SHAME!

SHAME on pastor's wives who wear pants in public. Those wicked women know that it is wrong for ladies to wear pants, which is why me and Alice were interrogated by Pastor Brad Moffett on April 30th, 2025 in his church office. He made a big fuss over my website ministry, targeting my preaching against women wearing pants. The reason was blatantly obvious, because both his wife and mother wear pants.

Lest anyone falsely accuse me of making a big issue that was none of my business, they drew first blood. In the 45 months that I quietly attended Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, I never once made a comment to anyone in the church (nor on social media) about women wearing pants in their church. It wasn't until after April 30th, 2025, that I started voicing my opinion about their wicked church leaders on social media.

Pastor Brad slandered Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) to us in his office in April 2025, falsely claiming that Brother Hyles ruined hundreds of families by leading them into sexual immorality and divorce with his wrong teachings on sex and marriage. Me and Alice were disguised and shocked that Pastor Brad was saying these horrible wicked things about the greatest man of God we have ever known. Both me and my wife were led to Christ under Dr. Jack Hyles' ministry. Brad Moffett and his verbally abusive hateful father will answer to God for their wickedness. “Ichabod” (the glory of the Lord is departed) is written over the doors of Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. Shame on all of them!

Cal me what you will, I've been called everything under the sun by haters and critics of my Bible preaching. Jesus was totally sinless and yet His enemies still found alleged fault in Him. They called Jesus a deceiver, a bastard, a liar, crazy and said He was demon possessed. If they'll say those evil untrue things about the sinless Lamb of God, then pray tell me what will they say about guilty sinners like you and me? (John 15:19; 7:7). We don't stand a chance in the unjust court of public opinion!

It is because of ungodly, neo-evangelical, incompetent pastors like Marty Herron and Brad Moffett why our churches are failing, emptying out and have deteriorated into mere fun centers and social clubs. I honestly don't blame people today for leaving the dead churches. They'd rather just stay home to have a barbeque or watch their favorite show on television instead. If that's the only alternative to hearing some corrupt Baptist pastor preach wrong repentance and Lordship Salvation, then I say amen and amen! The most dangerous place to be in 2025 spiritually is in a church! Go figure! The Devil is a beautiful liar folks, don't ever forget that. The churches today are full of unsaved hypocrites who are trusting in a counterfeit plan of salvation. They've been lied to by their heathen incompetent pastors!

“If you want to never do anything that is terribly wicked, then you never do anything that is slightly wicked.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Unjust In The Least"”

It may seen like a small and trifle matter to most of my ministry's blog readers that I make such a big fuss that women ought not wear pants, but it is a very important matter to God I assure you. The most important job is the one that doesn't get done! Every big thing began as a small thing. Every massive building structure began with one brick being laid, one beam, one rivet. Behind every tragedy in human character can be found a slow process of wicked thinking.

God is not “old school” for commanding women not to wear immodest clothing in public. We need true revival in our churches, not the musical event at Family Baptist Church each year which they mislabel as a “revival.” What a joke! It is really a yearly concert. Today's churches are pathetic because today's pastors are pathetic! Where are the door-to-door soulwinning churches today? Where are the free grace Gospel preaching churches; not Lordship Salvation or wrong repentance? Where are the churches with high moral standards; not the average lousy church that follows the sinful world? Where are the inspired King James Bible only churches; not the ones that use Satan's perverted non-inspired bible versions? Great churches hardly exist anymore, because 99% of pastors today are a disgrace. They cannot preach their way out of a wet paper bag.

The $64,000 question is: Do you care reader?

I Love Cold Refreshing Mineral Water

Luke 16:19-26, “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.”

I Absolutely Love Cold Refreshing Mineral Water!

If you've ever drank distilled water from a grocery store, then you know how empty and lacking of flavor it is. Drinking distilled water ironically produces a dry aftertaste sensation, which I don't enjoy. But mineral water is so delicious and satisfying, because it contains important micronutrients which the body craves and requires to stay healthy.

I almost never drink tap water, simply because it contains many toxins and impurities; such, as fluoride, chlorine and literal rusted metal from the pipes underground. I absolutely love Dasani mineral water, which I buy is large quantities from local gas stations and Walmart. I can buy a large case of 18 bottles for about $5. When I lived on Guam that would have cost $20. I make sure never to run low on mineral water. I drink on average about 6 16.9 ounce bottles each day, kept nice and cold in my refrigerator. THANK YOU God for water, and for a healthy body to enjoy water.

One of the most horrifying thought s which has ever entered into my mind, is the sad realization that billions of human beings are burning in the fires of Hell this moments, unable to drink even one drop of water, suffering in the torments of Hell forever. It saddens me. I know they made their own choices, but they are still people, for which Jesus died on Calvary's cross. Oh how the Devil is a beautiful liar!

Matthew 10:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” This is a remarkable passage of Scripture, because it confirms that not only will a damned person's SOUL be cast into Hell, but also some form of BODY. In order for the formerly rich man, who died in his sleep and awoke in the fires and torments of Hell (Greek: Hades), to request a drop of water to quench his thirst, then he logically must have had a BODY. Thirst for literal water is something that only a physical body can need. Most people only think of eternal punishment in terms of the SOUL going to Hell, but Jesus plainly warned that both the SOUL and BODY will be cast into the Lake of Fire forever!

“I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.” —Pilgrim's Progress author, John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Dear friend, I promise you that one of the worst things about Hell will be the lack of water! I would get saved, if for no other reason, than just to know that I'll be able to drink of the water of life in Heaven. Revelation 22:1, “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” Boy that sounds refreshing doesn't it? Cool, clear, refreshing water! In fact, I'm taking a break right after typing this sentence to go drink some COOL FRESHING WATER. Here I go...

Okay, I'm back. Dear friend, we take SO MUCH for granted in this life.

I drink nothing now except Dasani mineral water. I buy cases at Walmart. I thank God for water! Every time that I enjoy drinking cold refreshing water, I am reminded of the suffering once rich man in Hell in Luke 16:19-21, who now is so poor that He cannot even have a single drop of water to quench his dying thirst. Dear friend, that unfortunate man is still suffering in the torments of Hell this very minute! Think about that. It has already been thousands of years, but his suffering continues, and will continue for ever and ever!

Listen dear reader, God is not playing games with you! I often refer to my blog readers as “dear” because you are dear to me. I care about people. I truly do care, which is why I work day and night on my website ministry. It is now 10:53 pm. God knows I am trying to do my best, by His strength. I am far from perfect. The Lord has been convicting me for the past week about something that happened at Walmart recently.

A black man from the street came into Walmart begging people for me. He looked desperate and asked me for some money but I immediately said, “No.” There are people begging for money everywhere in Pensacola, by the hundreds, black and white alike. My neck was hurting bad that day from stenosis and radiculitis (from an old neck injury). As I left Walmart to go to my car, he waited for me in the parking lot and approached me again. I got scared, backed around my cart, and exclaimed: “What the f#ck!” He just looked at me and left. What creeped me out is that he approached me twice. I felt completely justified by my reaction.

But I then later realized that he had seen my hat which says “Jesus” and “John 3:16.” I was wearing a sweatshirt that day which read on the chest: “Stedfast in the faith.” He likely figured that if anyone was going to help him out, it would be a person of Christian faith. I felt so bad. Why didn't I witness to that man? What an opportunity I missed that day. I overreacted in fear and anger, tired of people begging for money all the time everywhere I go. But the Lord has been convicting me, that: “There but for the grace of God go I.” I know I can do better. Hell is real. I don't have to give them a lot of money, but I can witness to them and hand them $5 at least. That is much better than how I poorly responded as a Christian.

Many of these people are addicted to drugs, I know. I really need to find a better place to live, I know. But until that times comes, I choose to love the unloving and share the Gospel with them. I want to love everyone as Jesus would have loved them if He were here. You know, the Bible does in fact call us “AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST” to this lost and sinful world. Did you know that dear reader? 2nd Corinthians 5:20, “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.” Literally, Jesus has appointed us to represent Him in His stead while He is away in Heaven. What a great responsibility and privilege! Matthew 5:14, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”

In Romans 8:32 we read, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” I love that Bible verse! Our dear heavenly Father promises to FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS in eternity. In our rotten American society, nothing is free today. NOTHING! Just to drive to Pensacola Beach costs me a $1 toll each time, plus taxes and fees. Just to take my own money out of the bank at any ATM costs me between $2.50 to $5.00. Many news websites (e.g., New York Times, Washington Times, et cetera) won't allow you to view their website unless you pay money to subscribe. Forget that! I'll just go read the news elsewhere. Their writers aren't that good!

Many local churches are charging 5$ for Wednesday night dinner at Bible study, which costs them about 50 cents worth of food. Where is that money going? Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College shamefully charges $10 to learn how to be a better witness for Christ. Everybody has their hands out for money these days. Thankfully, Romans 8:32 promises that God will “FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS” in Heaven, to those who love Him (i.e., every redeemed child of God). I don't know how our rewards figure into that. I mean, Jesus told us to lay up for ourselves treasures in Heaven (Matthew 6:19-20). So if God freely give all things to every believer, then why would we labor to earn rewards in Heaven. My thinking is that God will give all things necessary to be content in Heaven to every believer, but there will be special rewards for those who labored diligently for the cause of Jesus Christ and the Gospel. What a day that will be! There won't be any property taxes in Heaven. Amen. There won't be any federal, state nor local taxes in Heaven. Hallelujah!

My friend, God loves and cares about you so much, but there are laws and rules which cannot be violated. A lot of people fail to understand this fact. For example: God loves you, but if you climb up and jump off a tall building, you are going to have a really bad day! You are either going to die, or wish you had. The law of gravity cannot be broken. We live in a world of all sorts of laws! There is the law of physics, and the laws of thermodynamics, and the law of God. John 10:35-36, “If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

God doesn't allow unbelievers to go to Hell forever because He hates them or doesn't love them, quite the contrary, God does love them very much. God sent His only begotten Son into the world to die for “THE WORLD” (John 3:16). Christ gave Himself as a ransom “FOR ALL” (1st Timothy 2:6). 1st John 2:2, “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind. Anybody who says differently is contradicting the plain teaching of the Scriptures.

The reason why God allows unbelievers (i.e., the wicked) to perish into the fires of Hell forever, is simply because THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN. There must be justice! Sin is a crime against God, and all sin must be paid for. God would be unjust and unfair if He let some people slide for their offenses, but punished others. That is what wicked men do, succumbing to favoritism, nepotism (favoritism toward family and close friends) and other injustices. Justice is a law of the universe. The statue of Lady Liberty is blindfolded, because justice is supposed to be blind (unbiased). Sadly, justice in human courts is often partial and corrupt, influenced by brides and political power, amounting to “JUST US” instead of true justice. But God sees and will reckon ALL injustices in eternity, guaranteed (Hebrews 4:13). You have God's promise of it (Ecclesiastes 5:8; 12:13-14; Romans 12:19-21; 1st Thessalonians 4:6; Romans 14:10-12).

If you are a born-again believer, REJOICE that your name is written in Heaven (Luke 10:20). We have so much to be thankful for. Just something as simple as cold refreshing water nearly everyone takes for granted. Did you know that most people around the world do not have a pure and clean source of drinking water? In Africa they people who drink from the rivers are drinking water with animal and human excrement in it. There is a limited amount of fresh water in the world. I once visited Long Beach, California for a wedding around 1992. I visited the ocean, which I had never seen before. I met a man who was fishing, telling him that I was from Chicago. I'll never forget that he said he wished he could fish in fresh water. I realized something that day—for me, seeing the ocean for the first time, and testing its saltiness, was amazing to me; but for him that was just another normal day, and for him it would have been an amazing thing to visit back where I came from. So we all have incomplete lives on earth.

I've been drinking cold refreshing mineral water all during writing this blog article. I'm on my third bottle! Good stuff!!! The man who went to Hell in Luke 16:19-31 was rich while on earth, yet because he chose to reject the Word of God, dying in his sins without Christ, he became poor in Hell, unable to even get a drop of water. 2nd Corinthians 8:9, “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” Dear friend, Jesus was also once rich in Heaven, but He chose to become poor, being beaten and crucified on a cross on earth to pay for our crimes against God. We are all guilty sinners for breaking God's law (Romans 3:19-20). God gave us His law to show us how sinful we are compared to Him, and why we need the Messiah (Galatians 3:24-26). The LAW shows us our need for salvation, and CHRIST provides that need through His sacrifice on Calvary's cross.

I have been made RICH because Jesus became POOR for me. You can have that too friend, if you haven't already received God's free gift of eternal life. Simply come to God as a guilty sinner, and receive Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins. Jesus DIED, was BURIED and three days later He bodily RESURRECTED from the dead for the justification of your faith (i.e., so your faith wouldn't be in vain). These three facts comprise THE GOSPEL (1st Corinthians 15:1-4), by which we are saved if we BELIEVE those facts (Romans 1:16). The choice is yours alone to make dear reader. I don't know about you friend, but I want to be drinking icy cold refreshing water in Heaven. Revelation 22:1, “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”

I'll close with this true sad story. I lived on the island of Guam for 17 years. Each year a couple dozen people, locals and tourists alike, drown at sea. I remember reading a sad story one day in the news, about a married couple from Kansas City, Missouri if I recall right. They were married for about 25 years I think the story said. They decided to go snorkeling on the east side of Guam, where the waters can get pretty rough at times. The ocean depth drops off quickly as you leave Guam, descending thousands of feet almost immediately. This causes severe sudden currents at times in the water, pulling the victim into the vast ocean.

Well, as fate would have it that day, as the couple were holding hands and swimming she was pulled under and away by a dangerous undercurrent, but her husband broken free. He survived, but rescuers later recovered her lifeless body from the sea. They came together to Guam, but he flew back to Kansas a widower. For that reason I stayed out of the ocean on Guam. I swam in it a few times in the early years, even went scuba-diving 35 feet down at the Piti Bombhole (literally holes in the ocean floor from World War II bombs), and waded in the shallow water here and there in later years, but I didn't go out by the dangerous reef anymore (after I was knocked back by a wave and cut my hand open on the jagged sharp reef stone). The ocean's tremendous water pressure literally carves the reef into jagged razor sharp rocks.

I don't know if that woman who drowned was saved or not. The important question right now friend is, are YOU saved. If you don't know 100%, beyond any shadow of a doubt that you are going to Heaven when you die, you sure can know! If you have any Bible questions, please email me at the address at the top right of this blog page. I love helping people for Christ! Below you will find a wonderful Gospel tract by Pastor Harry Ironside, which I encourage you to read if you want to know more about getting saved. God bless and kindest regards.

What Is The Gospel?
(a wonderful Gospel tract by Pastor Harry Ironside,1876-1951)

Why Grace Can Save The Worst Man

by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold

I want to continue just a few thoughts from what I had this morning, even though I didn't know I didn't get a chance to do all of it this morning. But I want to help you to see something, and then I got a couple of questions I want to ask you.

I said this here microphone was the cross—before the cross, the law; after the cross, grace. Now you can't mix law and grace together. Under the law, you have two phrases that many people use today, saying this is what you must do. They don't seem to understand that when you say that, and do that, you're putting people under the law. When you tell a man that he has to turn from his sins, well that's what the law taught.

When you tell a person that you have to commit your life to Christ—remember under the law in Mark chapter 12 it talks about a scribe that came up to Jesus and says: "What is the great commandment of the law?" He said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind..." Well that's total Lordship Salvation! That's where God has to be total in control of every area of your life. Love him in every area of your life. That's law. So we know that the law cannot save a man, because a man can't turn from all of his sins, and that a man cannot make Christ the Lord and Master of all of his life. Though you want to try and experiment, and spend your whole life trying, it will not work.

So a man cannot save himself by his works, by the law. So when we trust Christ as our Savior, we are saved by grace. So this is based upon what we do; this is based upon what he did. Now should we trust in what we do to be saved, or should we trust in what He did to be saved? Which would be the best? Trust in what He did to be saved. This is Grace. He did it. On the law, we did it. So is a man saved by what he does? No. So his turning from sin, or making Christ the Lord and master of his life, in order to be saved, is not gonna work.

So what happens if a man trusts Christ as Savior and now he's saved, he has eternal life, and by grace, Christ paid for all of his sins, all of them? Now, how is he to live? The Bible says: "The just shall live by faith." So, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him. So if you receive Christ by faith in what He said, then you serve the Lord by faith in what he said.

Now if you take a person and say, "This is what you must do or you will lose your salvation," and "What you must do is you must turn from your sins and you must make Christ the Lord the Master of your life," what have you done? You have placed them back under what?—under the law. So when you tell them, "You have to keep now the law in order to be saved, to stay saved, and if you don't God will take away your salvation that He gave to you by grace." Does that make sense? This was supposed to be free, without my works, without any of my performance in any way, shape or form; because if it's not eternal it's not worth anything.

When it came to works, the law. Remember [in the Old Testament system]—they sinned, sacrifice; sin, sacrifice; sin, sacrifice; sin, sacrifice; it was never over, you had to stay current. Under grace, we're saved because of what Christ did for us. One sacrifice for all sin, for all time, for every individual, and those who believe that, have His payment put to their account, so I have a sin—a payment—for all of my sins that I will ever commit. So I am saved by grace.

If now I must perform to keep my salvation, then it wasn't free. So now you say you must turn from sin and you must make Christ the Lord and Master, now you pull that person back here under law. This is what you must do. Now should I as a Christian should I depart from the works of iniquity? Yes! Should I allow the Lord to be the Lord and the master of my life? Yes, but I don't have to. Under the law, you have to!

So this is why you have preachers today telling you that, "Yes you're saved by grace, but you have to you must have a change life, and if the change life doesn't materialize in your Christian life, then it's a sign you either really weren't saved by grace at all—because if you were really saved you're not gonna want to go out here and do those bad things—so naturally there's gonna be a change in your life, and if there's no change there's no salvation." So now instead of looking at what Christ did, now you have to focus about what you are going to do, and there's no difference in teaching that, as it is to teach works for salvation. It's the same message.

We're to rest, the rest of my natural life I rest my whole case upon one thing—the work He did! When He went to that cross and He paid for my sins; therefore, I despise legalism, where people are trying to take the Christian and slide them back underneath the law, and as though the keeping of the law is gonna now prove that I'm saved; and if it doesn't and if I don't do it, that I can lose my salvation, because that's what it's teaching. And many people in their mind, if you never see that and never separate that, you can get mighty confused.

So we were under the law with a curse; now we're under grace. But if you try to put yourself back under the law, saying: "Now I must do all of these things or I'll lose my salvation," then you place yourself back under a curse, and you're not gonna be blessed. Remember the reason Christ came and the reason he died, is because God promised to Abraham before the law, He would justify the heathen through faith, and faith alone.

So that the law cannot annul that promise, because this law covenant was based upon us performing, and we failed, we broke, it we didn't keep it. This New Covenant that God made is based upon what He did and He says: "I will save you." Remember under the law, the law could not save the best of man. The best man, the best woman, whatever, the law can't save them; can't save even the best. Under grace it can save the worst! The law cannot save the best. Grace can save the worst. So therefore my life, and how I live, cannot touch my salvation. I am saved because of what Christ did on the cross for me. He gives me this free gift of eternal life because of grace, and this grace says that God will never cast me out. That means what I do or don't do cannot take it away from me. He will never lose me, for no reason.

If He won't cast me out, and He'll never lose me, then evidently my lifestyle; however, I live—good or bad or indifferent—cannot affect my salvation. If he that eats this bread; one bite of this bread and He [Jesus] is the Living Bread—He says: "You will never hunger. He didn't say, "Well you're gonna lose your salvation and have to eat again, and you get hungry because you lost your salvation. Once for all, when He talks about the water to the woman at the well (you drink the water that's in this well, you will thirst again; but the water that I given to you, will spring up inside of you into everlasting life). In other words, and you'll never thirst again. So that's eternal security. This is what He promised. This is why this has nothing to do with the likes of the law. The law couldn't do this, but grace can. So it can save the worst of sinners, and the law cannot save the best of men. So I would rather have grace any day.

Now just because I believe this, does that mean that I'm gonna go out and live a wicked life, because I believe in eternal security? That's what a lot of people try to get me to believe. [They say]: "That doctrine that your teaching is just given people a license to sin!" I am NOT given anybody license to do anything! This was not my plan, it was not my design, this is the Gospel. Eternal security, and if you're not eternally secure you are not secure! It means that you have it to where you cannot lose it! Otherwise, nobody would ever know for sure where they're going when they die. And you won't even know it when you die, if you'll finally make it, because then you'll have to wait until some Judge.

But I can save you a lot of time. I'm not the Judge, but I can tell you what He said. If you die without Christ, you're lost. And if you die in Christ, you're saved. And your works will not determine your destination. Your destination is determined—did you or did you not accept Jesus Christ as your Savior? So I wrote down a few questions. I did this when I was on that little boat we was on you over week. So I'm drinking some coffee and I'm sitting and I'm thinking, "I'm gonna write this question down." So I wrote it down: "Why does 'turn from sin' produce more people living in sin?"

And it was mainly because of a person in India, who emailed me a letter ,of people that he knew that believed in Lordship Salvation, and he was one of them, that thought because he could not measure up, he could not keep this high standard of life, that he lost his salvation and people convinced him that he'd lost his salvation, and he was teaching in a Bible School, a Bible Institute, over in India, North India. So they sent him home to figure out what he was doing, because they couldn't let him teach because he was all messed up. So he thought he's gonna go to Hell, and because he's going to Hell anyway, why not go ahead and do what I want to do and live however I want to live?

Because see, when you have to make Christ the Lord and the Master of your life, and if you're honest with yourself, you know he isn't. It doesn't matter, you want Him to be, you desire it to be; but it's just not reality, because no man can live up to this high standard, because you're going to fail. You're not always going to maintain that spirituality, that level; so therefore, it produces the frustration, the hopelessness, the despair. And when you tell a man that he has to turn from his sins to be saved and he knows the truth of it—he hasn't turned from all of his sins. Well if I'm going to hell anyway, I might as well live like it!

But let me ask you a question: "Is Lordship Salvation, making Christ the 'Lord' of your life—that means you're gonna serve the Lord (e.g., "I promise to serve the Lord," "I commit my life to the Lord"). Well if that is true, would you say that making Christ the Lord of your life, or just believing by faith—which one is real easy-believism?

Now careful, I've often had people accused me—"Yankee you just have that easy-believism." Because I'm not requiring anybody to do anything! I say, "You don't have to keep the law, you don't have to go to church, you don't have to change your life, you don't have to stop anything, you're not the prominent... you can just trust Christ and then live like you please!" That's what you teach, that's that easy-believism!

Alright, and let's say that I said that and it's true. Alright, when it comes to Lordship Salvation, making Christ the Lord and the Master of your life, and committing your life to Christ. They're making it hard! And you've gotta promise to stop these bad things. Promise you're gonna do these good things. I'm really putting it out there, and man that's gonna be hard for you to be a Christian! Being the Christian is so hard because you've got to walk that straight narrow way! You've got to live it! Now that's supposedly the truth. Mine is the easy believism, but it's not mine. I didn't make this thing up. But in reality which would you think is really the easy-believism?

Turn in your Bible to the book of Matthew chapter 7. Matthew in Chapter 7. There's a simple little verse here. And in verse 13 he says, "Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction." So the straight gate, the narrow gate, is the one that leads to life; and then he says "many" there be which go in thereat, the broad gate, "many" that go into the broad gate. Verse 14, because strait is the gate, narrow, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, "few" there be that find it. Now out of these two messages, one is narrow and the other one is broad; more people go through the broad, fewer people go through the narrow. Well which one would be the easiest? The broad or the narrow?

Now if you're talking to people, and think of how many churches there are, and how many preachers are, are and the message they have' and a lot of preachers are teaching works for salvation—you got to turn from sin, make Christ the Lord of your life, change your life, commit—all these things in order to be saved—why is it that more people believe that kind of a message, then the message that says: "It's free, you have to do anything, it's just by grace?" If the salvation by grace message is so "easy," why don't more people believe it? Which one must appeal to the flesh, if you have a part, if you have to do something? That appeals to the flesh. I get to do something! That would be easier for people to accept, because in your mind you think bad people ought to go to Hell (and you know it), and the good people ought to go to Heaven. So that's the way it ought to be! That's easy to believe, evidently, because more people believe that. But the truth is, it's free. It's harder for people to believe it's free, than you have to do something, wouldn't you think? So who is the one who's really guilty of easy-believism? Us or them?

I don't mind people accusing me of being a person who teaches easy-believism, because I believe that it's easy when you really understand it, and you really get it. When you really see the Gospel, understand that it's a gift, and the reason why you have to be perfect to go to Heaven and you're works could never do it, when then they really see it, it's easy for people to trust the Lord. This is why we try to emphasize so much the clarity of the Gospel, because the clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for people to believe; but if you add works to the Gospel it's hard for them to believe. But that's what most people would believe, you've got to do something.

So I guess you would come down to—which is really the easiest: Grace or works? I don't know if I figured it all out, but I do believe that we're responsible to God to teach the truth—and the Bible says it is the gift of God not of works. Isn't that what it says? So regardless of where people come from, and what they want to hear, and what's more pleasing to them—and isn't it amazing how many churches can be packed to the gills and the preacher is preaching a false message, or a "by works" message, by which you have to do something—and the churches that are clear on the Gospel sometimes struggle to keep the doors open. Have you noticed it? Because, which is the easiest?

You see, if we really believe this then, we know that we have a responsibility to win more people to Christ. But if we believe you have to do the other, then there's a thousand churches out there already preaching that! You're already preaching that; but few are telling the true Gospel of how to really know you have eternal life, and go to Heaven. There's the more pressure. If I was the Devil, I'd let them alone; but buddy, I would work on churches like this one. I would do whatever it takes to stop the Gospel coming out of this church! Because we're reaching a lot of people, even though we're a few in number, we reach a lot of people. But remember it's a battle, it's a warfare, it's not easy.

Another question. I wrote down: "Since we are saved by faith, is it faith in what we do, or what Christ did?" If we're saved by faith, is it faith in what we do under the law, or is it faith in what Christ did under grace? Which way is it? This is the message you were supposed to preach. Therefore, we don't try to take people and put them under the law and say, "You must perform." That's law! That's works! It won't work! You're saved by grace alone. Is it faith in my works that I must yet perform, or trust in the work that Christ has already performed? We said, "You're saved by faith." Okay, faith in what? Faith in the work that I must yet perform, or faith in the work Christ has already performed? If I'm saved by my faith in what Christ has performed, it's a done deal; if it depends upon the works that I must perform, it ain't over yet.

That's why [according to Lordship Salvation] you can't know for sure where you're going when you die. This is why we always ask the question: "Do you know where you're going when you die?" And I had a lady tell me the other day, she said: "Oh yes, I'm going to Heaven when I die!" I walked out walked over there to check the mail, and there was a lady at the door. Young lady, the door was locked. And I said, "Are you trying to break into the church?" She turned around and said, "No no no." I said, "What can I do for you?" She says, "I just want to know if you need some people to clean your church." I says, "No, we got all the cleaners we need."

So she came over and she had some literature. And she said, "Can I leave this with you?" I said, "I'll take yours if you'll take mine." So I pulled out my little blue track and I said, "This is my picture on the front." She laughed. I don't know why everybody laughs at my picture, it's not that bad...lol. It's not that bad and so I says, "Can I ask you a question?" She said, "Yeah." I says, "Where you gonna go and die." She says, "I'm going to Heaven." I said, "Are you sure?" She says, "Positive. Positive!" I says, "Is there anything you could do in the future that could keep you from going?" She said, "Well, of course!" She's positive! Can you do anything in the future to keep you from going? Well of course!

Now, what is she depending on to get her to Heaven? Her works! Do you think that's what she believes? She doesn't believe that you're saved by your work, she believes you're saved by grace. But [she thinks], I could do something and lose my salvation. And they don't see it. They just don't see it. And so when I explained it to her, she says, "I ever never heard it like that before." I says, "It's okay, most people haven't." I says, "Once you trust Christ as Savior, He put that payment He made to your account, and you get to go to Heaven on what He did. It's not what you do! I says, "You have never lived good enough, and never will, to deserve to go to Heaven. God says for by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast."

This is why me and Hank loved the Gospel, the clarity of the Gospel. I hadn't heard him for about 20 years. I'd come down here and I'd speak, but I didn't get a hear Hank. But I knew where Hank stood, and he had a reputation. Hank was good. He was clear on the Gospel. Hank was a soulwinner. But that's what, when you see it, and you really understand it, you harp on it. If there's anything that we call a "hobbyhorse," this is our hobbyhorse. But what a horse to ride! Because we know that there's so many people that's never understood.

Did you realize that after the service this morning we had one boy trust the Lord, but also we had somebody from Kentucky, that said that they would trust Christ as Savior this morning. And one before that was somebody in Tampa. But they come from a little bit of here and there, you know, no for sure, and there could be a lot of people trust Lord then we have no clue who they are. I had one guy I talked to him the other day and he says, he says, "I like Calvary." I said, "Well great, I'm glad." I says, "Are you talking about Calvary Community Church?" He says, "No, it's over in Clearwater some place, at Calvary." I don't know what Church, I've never been over there, so I don't know what he's talking about. He said, "But there's another Calvary somewhere."

I said, "Do you know where you going when you die." He said, "Yes!" I says, "Is there anything you can do to keep it from going to Heaven?" He says, "Yes!" Does he really know where he's going when he dies? No, he doesn't know where he's going when he dies. 'Cuz he ain't dead yet. He's thinking, "Well if I died today." And they don't understand that they're really not trusting Christ to take them to Heaven. Does it matter? Does this matter? This is Heaven and Hell! If Christ is not your Savior, you're not going to Heaven. And it means that you must trust Him, and Him alone as your only hope of going to Heaven.

If you have not yet lived a perfect life, what makes you believe you will today, or tomorrow, or the next day, you never will. So there's many people who just not clear on the Gospel. You know there's power in this Gospel message, most people just don't know how to present it. And the reason we keep doing the same thing over and over, and over and over, again is because you learn it that way. You'll learn it. Next thing you know you'll be out someplace, and you'll be talking and you'll say it word for word, like you've heard, because it's ingrained in your brain. So it is important.

I love the Gospel because there's not another message like it. And the works does not work. Salvation by grace and grace alone. So you and I that are saved by grace, and we know that, we know that when Christ died he paid for all of our sins. There's no sin to condemn me. I can never be condemned in the future. Because you see, His death became my death, and His death means that I have fulfilled the demands of the law. The wages of sin is death and I died. The law cannot touch a dead man. I am dead to the law, so the law can never condemn me, because I will never have a sin that needs to be paid. Christ paid it all. That's the best news all the world.