The Stupid Sinner's Prayer Needs To End

John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

Romans 10:13-14, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”

Romans 10:14 plainly teaches that no one calls upon the name of the LORD until they first BELIEVE in their heart, and we are told in several dozen Scripture passages that we are saved by BELIEVING on Christ (John 3:14-16, 18, 36; 5:24; 6:28-29, 40, 47; 7:38; 10:1, 9; 11:25; 20:31). Prayer is NOT required to be saved, but it is okay to accompany one's faith with a prayer if you'd like to do so.

Think about it. Why would you “ask” God to give you a gift that He is already freely offering you? Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” If I bought you a birthday gift and handed it to you, would you ask me if you can take it? Salvation is the same. Shame on any incompetent pastor who insists that you must pray to ask God to save you!

Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) rightly said: "A good rule to follow when interpreting the Bible is to never use an obscure passage to contradict a clear one." Romans 10:13 is an OBSCURE passage of Scripture because it stands alone, as does also Romans 10:9-10. It would be foolish to base a doctrine on a couple passages of Scripture that contradict several dozen clear passages.

On the Day of Pentecost 3,000 people were saved. There is no mention of anyone praying, calling or asking to be saved, they simply "gladly received" the gospel truth which the Apostle Peter preached unto them (Acts 2:41).

Likewise, there is no mention of Cornelius and his companions in Acts 10:43-44 praying, calling or asking to be saved, they simply believed the gospel truth which Peter preached unto them. That is why the Apostle Paul said in 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟯:𝟮, “𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄, 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵?” I love that phrase, "the hearing of faith." Hebrews 4:2 tells us that the Hebrews wandering in the Wilderness heard Moses preach the gospel unto them for 40 years, “𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝘁.” A person gets saved by believing the gospel when they read or hear it preached.

It is wickedness and blatant false teaching for the New IFB (and their lunatic leader Steven Anderson) to teach that a lost sinner cannot be saved without calling or praying (asking) to be saved. What they are preaching confuses people, obscures the truth, and perverts God's simple plan of salvation. I speak to their utter incompetence and shame!

Biblically, a person can simply BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ in their soul and be saved without asking for it. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. The inspired King James Bible is full of people who were saved without calling; they simply believed. I agree that calling and believing are not a contradiction, because the person who calls from a believing heart is saved; but calling and believing are NOT the same thing, which Romans 10:14 plainly teaches.

Steven Anderson foolishly dismisses the issue, but he didn't suffer like I did for several years after I got saved at 13 years of age. I had been confused because every sermon and religious tract that I read required me to prayer a sinner's prayer to be saved, which unfortunately became ingrained into my thinking, misleading me concerning what God expected of me to get to Heaven. Again, you don't have to pray to be saved, not even silently in your soul. You simply need to take God at His written Word to accept Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then physically raised up from the dead three days later. This is the "Gospel" (1st Corinthians 15:1-6), by which all who believe this Good News are saved (Romans 1:16). It's that easy, free and simple to be born again.

I wouldn't learn until decades later from Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) in his helpful book titled, "Salvation And The Public Invitation," that the sinner's prayer is not necessary to be saved. God used Dr. Younce to solidify my salvation beliefs and give me 100% perfect peace. It was that stupid sinner's prayer that misled me for decades, confusing me concerning God's simple plan of salvation. So, I say, the stupid sinner's prayer needs to disappear.

The Tragic Eternal Fate Of The Rock Band “Rush”

John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Revelation 20:12-14, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

I have been a musician all my life, since age 15 when I started learning to play the guitar. I love music. As a lover of music, I appreciate the musical genius of Rush's music. Songs like Limelight and Xanadu are captivating. I love how Geddy plays his bass in Xanadu. That was very creative. My favorite Rush song is Fly By Night from 1975. Rush is a Canadian rock band. They were inducted into the Canadian Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994, and the U.S. Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013. They've had 24 gold albums, 14 platinum. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide for over the past 50 years. And they're still performing.

The Devil's Music

That being said, as a born again Christian I also know that rock music is the Devil's music. That's not to say that every song is Satanic, or even most of the songs. Albeit, Rush's songs are saturated with atheist lyrics, like Freewill and Faithless. What makes it the Devil's music is that rock music is worldly, not rooted in Christian faith, and the music does influence the listener. Marilyn Manson openly admitted that rock stars are Satan's preachers. Rush's songs actually discourage having faith in God, and that is dangerous.

Unlike a lot of rock musicians, the band members of Rush were better known in the 1970s and 1980s for reading books and watching TV after concerts, while the members of KISS were fornicating and committing debauchery (although Gene Simmons never did drugs or booze). But despite not being as bad as other rock stars, the band members of Rush hobnobbed with such wicked people, partaking of the industry. Birds of a feather flock together. Drummer Neil Peart throughout his musical career displayed a Satanic pentagram on his drum kit, clearly identifying the band with the occult and the coming Antichrist.

“When you're living in sin—you're not living it up, you're dying it up!” —Brother Lester Roloff, “Faith”

Jesus Warned In John 3:3b, “Ye Must Be Born Again”

Something that caught my attention, which makes me really sad, is that all of Rush's band members are not Christians. In fact, bassist Geddy Lee, drummer Neil Peart (1952-2020) and guitarist Alex Lifeson are all avowed atheists. Geddy has called himself a “Jewish atheist.” Neil Peart said publicly that he is agnostic (not sure what he believed), but he also said that he was skeptical if God exists. That is so sad and tragic! The inspired King James Bible says they are all WITHOUT EXCUSE!!!

Romans 1:20-21, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”

The band members of Rush are all self-made millionaires. Neil Peart had a net worth of $42 million at the time of his death from brain cancer in 2020. Geddy Lee's net worth is $40 million. Alex Lifeson's net worth is $35 million. They are all rich men who think they have no need of God in this world, but they will regret the day they were born in the afterlife. I say that kindly with love because I care. If the inspired King James Bible be true, and I've staked my eternity that it is, all of Rush's band members will spend eternity suffering in the torments of Hell's fire and brimstone, without rest day nor night, without hope, forever! They made their choice!

Revelation 14:11, “And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

Dear reader, being agnostic is a far cry from being born again! I hate to say it, but Neil Peart is almost assuredly burning in the fires of Hell for all eternity. Unless Neil had some miraculous secret death bed conversion to Christianity, he is now and forever burning in Hell beneath. The man was a brilliant thinker, highly intelligent, but a fool. Neil wrote most of Rush's lyrics, including their most popular song, Tom Sawyer. Tragically, Neil refused to acknowledge His Creator, Jesus Christ (John 1:1-3, 14). So sad and needless. John 3:3, “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The new birth is not optional dear reader, if you want to enter into Heaven someday.

Kindly Said, Atheists Are Fools

There are many atheist celebrities today; namely, Morgan Freeman, Alex Honnold, Seth MacFarlane, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Bill Maher, Linda Ronstadt, Robert De Niro, Elton John and Billy Joel, to name but a few fools. And they're all millionaires!!! No wonder God said that He has chosen the poor of this world rich in faith. That's because poor people suffer here on earth, so they need a Heaven to look forward to in the afterlife. But rich people already enjoy a form of heaven on earth, so they don't think they need God.

In a Classic Rock interview in 2013 for his 60th birthday, Alex Lifeson (Born Aleksandar Zivojinovi to Serbian parents) said these foolish words:

Interviewer Paul Elliot: Do you believe in God?

Alex Lifeson: No. When I was younger I did. My mother is not super-religious but she has a belief. My father was the total opposite. He thought religion was a crock. In my early teens I started to question it all. I had friends who were Jesus freaks, others were just very spiritual, and we had these great long discussions about these things. But as I get older it just becomes a less and less sensible thing to think about. SOURCE

What a foolish man! That is a rich fella talking who thinks he doesn't need God. Dear reader, the most "sensible" thing anyone could ever talk about is God.

Geddy Lee was raised in a really religious family, but he is not a religious person. He told Heeb magazine in 2009 that he a Jewish atheist. His mother Mary Weinrib, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 95, was Jewish and Holocaust survivor. Geddy Lee said:

“I consider myself a Jew as a race, but not so much as a religion. I’m not down with religion at all. I’m a Jewish atheist, if that’s possible… I celebrate the holidays in the sense that my family gets together for the holidays and I like being a part of that. So I observe the ‘getting together’ aspect. ...Well, I’m not a religious person. I was raised in a very religious family, a very strict religious family. That killed any love for religion that I could possibly have had. ...I think that everything you do as a human being influences everything you come in contact with in some way. So I prefer to take the karmic view of things that the more positive energy you put out into the world, somehow that contributes.” SOURCE

Again, what a foolish man! What saith the Scripture? John 3:36, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee won't see eternal life; but instead, the wrath of God rests upon their heads because they have rejected Jesus Christ.

After the tragic premature death of Neil's teenage daughter Selena in 1997 in a car accident, and then his wife died due to cancer just 10 months later, he took a long solo trip with his motorcycle across the United States. While driving through the southern U.S. Bible belt he saw a lot of church signs, and in a subsequent interview with Jim Ladd on SiriusXM's Deep Tracks (from February 3rd, 2015) Neil had this to say:

And I mentioned before that anger and outrage can sometimes be an inspiration, and it gets me writing about it. And people will say to me: “Why are you a faith-basher?” And I say well, I don’t feel like a faith-basher, and it’s not something I’ve thought about all day. 

It’s something that my life has been full without any of that aspect, I don’t really understand it or understand why it’s needed, and it’s a kind of brainwashing in almost all cases where poor children have been brought up and formed into these molds, that you are suddenly this ‘ism’ that is after your name from the time you’re born. They don’t choose it, and for whatever reasons they never do question it, where I did from the beginning. 

I went to Sunday school as a little kid and when they’d tell us to sing the song about god watches each sparrow fall and all of that, and I said: "Well no, I don’t really think so." When you look at the world now, I saw the comic and the great writer Stephen Fry the other day talking about that, he said people would say: “What if you went to heaven and met God?” And he said: "Oh, that wouldn’t be a pleasant meeting." I’d say why did you create those parasites that grow behind babies’ eyes and destroy their vision on the way out and all of that. That’s not any kind of a god to be worshiping, is it? 

And I always say too, if I’m going to go up to heaven and meet St. Peter and Jesus and God and Allah and Buddha, whichever one you wanna pick, I’m gonna be okay, because I have lived a life based on that and I believe in generosity and charity and kindness and courtesy, those are things that just seem good to me anyway, I don’t need a threat to make me behave that way and I don’t need a reward. SOURCE

Those are some very foolish words of ingratitude from a very intelligent man. It's hard to believe that such a brilliant man as Neil Peart could speak so shamefully about his Creator. Neil ignores the reality of sin which caused a curse upon the human race (Romans 5:12).

Stephen Fry (born 1957) is an outspoken atheist who has publicly criticized the concept of God, particularly in relation to the existence of suffering and evil in the world. He often questions the morality of a deity that allows such pain, exemplified by his remarks about issues like "bone cancer in children." Again, just as Neil blames God for bad eyesight, Stephen does the same thing. Birds of a feather flock together! They are both avowed atheists, and they stick together. I have no doubt that Neil also admired atheist comedian George Carlin.

Dear reader, it is a very wicked thing to speak evil of God, our Creator. Romans 9:20, “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?” We've all had the same negative thoughts as Neil and Stephen, wondering why a God of love would allow so much misery, war, pain , suffering and evil in this world to exist, and I admit that it is tempting to get angry at God at times; but we all know in our heart of hearts that sin is the culprit.

For example: While crime is up in every major Democrat run city across the Unite States, our wicked leaders are gaslighting the American people, downplaying that crime is getting worse. Ecclesiastes 8:11 plainly warns that when crime goes unpunished, things will only get worse.

None of the band members of Rush understand that a man must be born again to enter into God's Kingdom. Clearly those men don't believe the inspired Holy Bible, to their eternal demise. Dear friend, getting saved through faith in Jesus Christ is NOT optional in life. You either trust in Christ, or you burn in Hell forever and ever and ever!

1st John 2:22-23, “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

1st John 4:14-15, “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.”

Hugh Hefner, George Carlin and Stephen Hawking discovered the horrifying truth the moment they passed into the afterlife and found themselves in Hell. Psalm 9:17, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

Organized Religion Is A Bad Thing

Dear reader, I didn't write this blog to be unkind or to hurt anyone's feelings. God knows my heart. I will say that I actually agree with the band members of Rush that organized religion is a bad thing. My father was a born again Christian, who wisely taught me that religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. My Dad was absolutely right!

More than any other complaint, I have heard atheists like Elton John, Hugh Hefner, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart and countless others express their contempt for organized religion. But dear friend, God is not religion! Religion is man attempting to reach God through human effort; but Christianity is God trying to reach man through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. Religion wants to fit you with glasses, to get you to see through a filter of manmade tradition (Mark 7:9); but Jesus wants to open your eyes with the truth of the Gospel, so that you'll be born again and go to Heaven (John 20:31).

It breaks my heart to see guys like Ozzy Osbourne, who struggled for answers during the last months of his life, answers that I seriously doubt he ever found concerning how to go to Heaven. There are people who spend their entire life in church, playing a game of religion; and yet they never see the simplicity of the Gospel right in front of them, blinded by religion.

And then there was singer Frank Sinatra, who criticized organized religion in a 1963 Playboy magazine interview. Frank didn't believe in a personal deity; but rather, he believed in pantheism (the belief that God and the universe are one, equating reality with divinity and viewing the universe as a self-organizing unity that does not require a Creator). So, effectively, Sinatra was an atheist, because he denied Jesus Christ, who is almighty God (John 10:33)

Salvation is not found in any religion; but rather, in the person and redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on Him and the work is done. John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

Salvation Is Found Only Through Faith In Jesus Christ

If you want to go to Heaven, you simply need to believe that Jesus did it all for you. Just come to God as a needy sinner and by faith (taking God at His written Word) accept Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then physically resurrected from the dead three days later. This is the gospel (1st Corinthians 15:1-6), by which all who believe it are saved (Romans 1:16).

From what I have seen over the past 50 years of following Rush's music and careers, Geddy Lee has a big heart that is a catalyst which has kept the band together. I think all the band members are good guys, as far as sinners go. Neil always kept to himself, more reserved and private, as I am. But he was a good man. Unfortunately, being good guys doesn't get you into Heaven, you have to be born anew from above by the Holy Spirit of God. Apart from faith in Jesus Christ, who is the only begotten Son of God, the Christ, there can be no new birth (Acts 4:10-12). I trusted Jesus as my personal Savior in 1980 at age 13.

The old adage is true: Life is short, Hell is hot, and eternity is a long time. My heart sincerely goes out to the band members of Rush, because they are now in the last stretch of their lives on earth. They're still performing live concerts, clipping coupons and enjoying life to the fullest, cheering their fans. But they have not glorified God. Daniel 5:23b, “...and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.”

When life's temporary journey on earth is over, we all must give account to God, our faithful Creator. Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” I am tired of the world putting God on trial, blaming Him for wars, evil and starvation, when it is humanity who have done this to ourselves. God is good and faithful.

The Blood Of The Lamb Cleanses All Sin

1st Peter 1:18-19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

There is no sin or evil (planned sin) so great that God won't forgive you dear reader. If you can imagine it, God can forgive it! Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” God invites all humanity to reason with Him. That is, the LORD is a reasonable God. He knows that we are mere flesh made from the dust of their earth. Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”

God desires to forgive all men. 2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” God desires for every sinner to repent (change their mind) from unbelief to trust Christ to be saved. The blood of Jesus is the only thing that can cleanse our sins away. Revelation 1:5, “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.”

From Genesis to Revelation, the theme of the inspired Word of God is the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses all our sins away. From the blood of the innocent animal that God killed to provide skins of clothing to cover the sinful shame of Adam and Eve, to the saints whose robes are washed by the blood of the Lamb in the book of Revelation, we see that the blood of Jesus is the only sure remedy for sin. 1st John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

A counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today which requires something from YOU, instead of focusing on what CHRIST has already done through Calvary's cross to pay our dent of sin. The true gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

Please don't believe any lying pastor who says you must “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven, because you won't find any such teaching in the inspired King James Bible. Jesus shed His blood on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago to pay for our sins, and then ascended into Heaven and sprinkled that shed blood upon the Mercy Seat in the presence of the Father on our behalf (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24).

In the Old Testament, the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in Exodus 12:7 and 13, “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. ...And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” It wasn't enough for the Jews to kill the Passover lamb, the lamb's blood had to be applied to the house's doorposts and lintel (the plate above the door). The blood had to be applied!

Pastor John MacArthur (1939-2025) wickedly taught that Jesus' blood soaked into the ground at the cross and never made it to Heaven. Mr. MacArthur is a dirty liar! According to the Word of God, the blood had to be applied to the heavenly Mercy Seat. Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

In The MacArthur Study Bible, the foolish incompetent pastor Dr. MacArthur errantly teaches that the word “blood” should be translated “death.” Dear reader, if God meant “death” then He would have said “death,” but He said “blood.” God said what He meant, and He meant what He said! Jesus applied His literal, liquid, blood to the Mercy Seat in Heaven.

When you hear umpteen preachers foolishly saying that “It was finished” on the cross, those preachers don't know their Holy Bible very well.

John 19:28-30, “After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” It couldn't be more plain to see from this passage of Scripture that when Jesus said, “It is finished,” He was referring to all of the Messianic Bible prophecy concerning Himself, and not to His work of redemption.

Christ had not yet even died, let alone be buried and resurrected, which three elements comprise “the gospel” by which we are saved if we believe it (Romans 1:16). So, redemption simply could not yet have been finished. So many pastors get this wrong! Christ's work of redemption was finally finished when He sprinkled His blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat in the presence of God the Father.

Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus 

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain:
O precious is the flow
that makes me white as snow;
no other fount I know;
nothing but the blood of Jesus.

What Is So Bad About Easy Believism?

2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”

The inspired Word of God (i.e., the King James Bible) plainly talks about the “simplicity that is in Christ.” The Bible does not mince words, it is simple to be saved. In the Greek that means it is easy to go to Heaven.

Jesus likened getting saved to the ease of looking at an object (John 3:14-16).

Jesus likened getting saved to the ease of drinking some water (John 4:13-14).

Jesus likened getting saved to the ease of eating some bread (John 6:35).

Jesus likened getting saved to the ease of walking through a door (John 10:9).

Nowhere are we taught in the inspired Scripture that it is hard, difficult or a process to be born again. The new birth is the free gift of God. It is instantaneous, irrevocable and permanent.

The only people criticizing the truth of 'Easy Believism' are those hellbound heretics who fail to understand God's simple plan of salvation.

Beware of anyone who speaks evil of Easy Believism, for it is 100% biblical!!! John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Are We Eternally Saved By Committing To Christ?

John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”

Jesus promises that anyone who believes in Him ~hath~ eternal life. Nothing more is necessary, required or permitted in God's simple plan of salvation.

The repentance (Greek noun–metanoia: “change of mind”) that brings eternal life is changing your mind about the sin of unbelief in Jesus.

Pastor Bob Gray Sr. correctly preaches:

“Repentance means to change your mind—change your mind—change your mind about how you want to get to Heaven to what God says you've got to do to get to Heaven. If you've got to repent of all your sins, you're still headed for Hell tonight.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr., a quote from the awesome MP3 sermon, 'Why You Should Be A Part Of A Growing Church'

Christian author Michael Patrick Bowen states in his excellent book titled, “I NEVER KNEW YOU,” on page 114...

“Repent, as Christ meant it to be in terms of salvation, means to change your mind from trusting in what you can do for God to trusting only in what He can do for you.” —Michael Patrick Bowen, a quote from the awesome book, “I NEVER KNEW YOU” (p. 114)

Excellent! As you can see, these men fully understand that God's simple plan of salvation ~does not~ require turning away from your sinful behavior to get to Heaven, which would constitute works. The only change of mind concerning sin that you need to have to be saved is to acknowledge that you are a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20). That is, you need to know what you are being saved from, which is the penalty of your sins (Romans 6:23). And you must repent (change your mind) to acknowledge that Jesus is the only Savior to trust Him.

Consider the following quote by the faithful man of God, Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951):

"Repentance is the recognition of my sinnership — the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be in His holy Word." —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' chapter 3

Evangelist Alexander Marshall (1846-1928) correctly writes:

“When God calls on you to 'repent, and believe the Gospel,' He wishes you to lay aside your wrong thoughts, and believe the glad tidings that He proclaims to you. Formerly you may have imagined that you were required to feel very sorry before being saved. Change your mind. You may have supposed you must first 'feel' some great change in order to know you were saved. Change your mind. First believe in God's great love to you, as revealed in His gospel, and you will KNOW that you have eternal life (John 5:24).” [emphasis added] —Evangelist Alexander Marshall; “God's Way Of Salvation,” chapter 25: “I Have Not Repented Enough”

Yes, that is excellent doctrine! Alexander Marshall is 100% correct! Yet, some unlearned heretical person changed his tract, completely removing the preceding section on repentance from the work. Brother Marshall plainly says that sinners are saved by BELIEVING THE GOSPEL, that is, he says, “to lay aside your wrong thoughts [Repentance], and believe the glad tidings [Gospel] that He proclaims to you.”

“Repenting of sins” in order to be eternally saved is ~NOWHERE~ commanded in Scripture. You must repent (change your mind) from unbelief to trust Christ instead; not change your behavior as a requirement to be saved. The phrase "repent of your sin" is not found in the inspired King James Bible.

Repenting of your sins is not part of what saves anyone. That is salvation by human good works. Also, “committing your life to Christ,” (from false prophet Billy Graham) a.k.a. dedicating your life to discipleship, has NOTHING WHATSOEVER do with being saved. Salvation comes ONLY from believing the GOOD NEWS of Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day. 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”

Sanctification (growing in grace, love, holiness and fellowship) is the “fruit” produced by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Our salvation is eternally and irrevocably secure. That is, our POSITION is forever settled at the time of salvation. It is Christ, and not we ourselves, who lives the Christian life THROUGH US (Galatians 2:20), but only if we will yield to His written Word day by day in obedience (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6). This is walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).

Satan's Modern Bible Versions Butcher 2nd Corinthians 11:3

2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”

The inspired Word of God plainly talks about the “simplicity that is in Christ.” That means it is easy to get to Heaven. There is nothing complicated about God's simple plan of salvation.

Take another close look at what the King James Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 11:3, and then let's compare it to the New International Version (NIV), English Standard Version (ESV), Easy-To-Read Version (ERV), Christian Standard Bible (CSB), Authorized Standard Version (ASV), Good News Translation (GNT), Living Bible (TLB), and the Amplified Bible (AMP):

KJB - But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

NIV - But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

ESV - But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

ERV - But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This could happen just as Eve was tricked by that snake with his clever lies.

CSB - But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

ASV - But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. 

GNT - I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ—in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies 

TLB - But I am frightened, fearing that in some way you will be led away from your pure and simple devotion to our Lord, just as Eve was deceived by Satan in the Garden of Eden.

AMP - But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.

Do you see dear reader how Satan's evil minions have dishonestly changed the emphasis from the simplicity of the gospel, to the simplicity of our pure devotion to Christ? What evil.

We know that the Apostle Paul is talking about the gospel because after the phrase “the simplicity that is in Christ,” in verse 4 he warns the church at Corinth about three dangerous falsehoods:

1. Another Jesus
2. Another spirit
3. Another gospel

The “simplicity” that is in Christ is that you can be saved by just believing the biblical account (the Good News) that Jesus is the Christ who died on a cross to pay for our sins, He was buried, and three days later He physically resurrected from the dead. This is “the gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved (Romans 1:16).

In sharp contrast, the Devil's modern Bible perversions change the context to emphasize the simplicity of our sincere and pure devotion to Christ. Dear reader, no amount of sincerity or purity of devotion to Christ has ever saved anybody! We see this truth in Matthew 7:21-23. Those false prophets followed Christ with devotion, calling Him “Lord, Lord.” They boasted of having done “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name.

For the modern incompetent translators to wrest “the simplicity that is in Christ” to refer to one's devotion to Christ, instead of emphasizing the accuracy of the gospel and the doctrine of Christ is gross theological incompetence! Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) was so right: “If you've seen one Westcott and Hort Bible, you've seen 'em all.” Dr. Hyles said that because all of the modern English Bible revisions share the SAME corruptions. Case in point is the eight corrupt Satanic Bible versions that I just quoted to you. Only the inspired King James Bible gets it right!!!

The two different conveyed meanings are drastically two worlds apart. This is why I continually warn everyone to steer clear of the Devil's counterfeit Bible revisions, each and every last one of them. Remember, Satan is a beautiful liar!

I Didn't Start My Ministry To Make Friends

2nd Timothy 3:12, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”

When I started my website ministry back in April of 2002, my goal was to preach THE TRUTH, not to make friends. Since that time, I have unfortunately made many enemies, mostly other professed Christians who are mad at me for exposing their church for preaching false doctrine. There is nothing more dangerous today than a corrupt plan of salvation.

I recently had a young arrogant fella from Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola message me on Facebook to scold me, insisting that Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is not wrong on the Gospel. Well, that fella is either an ignorant fool, or else he doesn't care what PCC teaches and is blindly looking the other way. Either way he couldn't be more WRONG!

Take a look for yourself at the damnable heresy PCC's Campus Church is requiring that you must do to get to Heaven...

“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” [emphasis added] SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60

Do you still think I bumped my head? That is damnable heresy!!! That is NOT the Gospel which Jesus and the Apostle Paul teach! I've been exposing the cult at Bob Jones University (BJU) since 2014, and now I have been exposing the cult at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) since 2021. By God's grace, I will continue to expose these wicked organizations.

“I repent of my sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits.” [emphasis added] SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62

Oh My! Folks, this is NOT part of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached...

1st Corinthians15:1-4, “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: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

There you have it! The “Gospel” is the “GOOD NEWS” that Jesus Christ DIED on a cross for our sins, He was BURIED and after three days He physically RESURRECTED from the dead. In Paul's Gospel (which Paul said he received directly from Jesus in Galatians 1:11-12), did you see anything that reads: “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins”? No, that is not what Paul taught.

God knows that I don't like making enemies. But I'm not trying not to make enemies either. My duty as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher is to TELL THE TRUTH, regardless of the results. It is tragic that the sin of INDIFFERENCE has crept into most churches today like rigor mortis, causing churchgoers to become uncaring about having multiple plans of salvation. If you're also okay with that confusion you are seriously not right with God either.

If my calling Smyrna Baptist Church a “cult,” and PCC a “cult,” and every church in Pensacola that teaches the same counterfeit plan of salvation as PCC a “cult,” that's too tough because it is true whether you like it or not. If the shoe fits, wear it! I am going to go to seed in this vitally important matter of preaching the truth to defend the Gospel. Philippians 1:17b, “...knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.”

John 9:1-38 Proves That You Don't Have To “Pray” To Be Saved; Just Believe!

John 9:1-38, “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.”

I wanted to quote the entire passage of Scripture so that you could get the whole story. After all that transpired, when Jesus presented the Gospel to the blind man who was healed, at no time did the man pray or call (ask) to received eternal life, he simply BELIEVED and was saved.

I am going to go to seed preaching the truth of God's Word in this matter of having to pray or call (i.e., ask) to get to Heaven. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

Although we do find several passages in the inspired King James Bible where sinners did call upon the Lord to be saved (e.g., the repentant thief on the cross); we find even more passages in the inspired Word of God where sinners simply BELIEVED and were eternally saved without calling or praying to ask to be saved. Verse 38 simply tells us that the healed blind man BELIEVED to receive eternal life. It is so simple, easy and free to go to Heaven.

Jesus simply asked the man, “Do you believe on the Son of God?” It was a simple “yes” or “no” question. The man answered in the affirmative: “Yes, Lord, I believe!” Do you believe in the only begotten Son of God dear reader? Do you believe Jesus is the Christ? John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” I believe!!! I BELIEVE!!!

The healed blind man in John 9:1-28 just BELIEVED on the only begotten (biological) Son of God and was instantly, irrevocably and eternally born again. All you need to do to be saved is just BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for you. No doubt the skeptics, Calvinists and naysayers will disagree and still insist that more than mere faith in some facts can save you, but I will let the inspired Holy Scripture speak for itself. ...

John 9:35-38, “Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.”

It doesn't get any clearer or simpler than that dear friend. Acts 16:31b, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...”

There Is No Such Thing As “Good Works”

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.”

The inspired Holy Bible teaches that in God's sight there is no such thing as good works when it comes to salvation. Even our best efforts, sacrifices and service means absolutely nothing to God if we rely upon it to get us to Heaven. This is what is wrong with 99% of the world's religions, they trust in too much. Religion wants to fit us with glasses, but the Lord wants to open our eyes. There are two types of religion in the world—DO and DONE.

“More people will die and burn in Hell, because they're trusting too much!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

There is a popular false teaching that has unfortunately crept into most Baptist churches today, which says that God won't save you unless you are first willing to turn away from your sins. Cartoon evangelist Jack Chick (1924-2016) teaches this damnable heresy in all of his Chick Tracts. Some preachers will word it as turning from a lifestyle of sinning, which is what I heard Pastor Marty Herron foolishly preach at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam years ago. Kindly said, these are incompetent pastors.

Dear reader, every sinner who has ever been born again has continued living a lifestyle of sinning! Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) makes this truth clear in this needful sermon excerpt in which he boldly says: “I'm Sick Of This Lordship Salvation Mess!” And so am I, so am I. What exactly is Lordship Salvation? In short, Lordship Salvation is combining Christian service (discipleship) with salvation (sonship). Pilgrim's Progress author said it best, I humbly think...

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Bravo John Bunyan! If we do not always keep service and salvation separate, we corrupt God's inspired Word and confuse people, complicating God's simple plan of salvation. I have heard Billy Graham and other preachers cite passages from the book of Matthew about discipleship (i.e., carrying your cross), applying it to salvation. That is false teaching!

God specifically authored the Gospel of John to show us how to go to Heaven. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” In the book of John we find the word “believe” mentioned 85 times, without any mention of the word “repent.” We are saved by believing, not by repenting; but no one has ever believed who didn't repent. “Repentance” is the Greek noun metanoia, which simply means “a change of mind.” You get saved by changing your mind to BELIEVE the Gospel (the GOOD NEWS that Jesus died on a cross, was buried and three days later He physically resurrected from the dead). This is the only Gospel according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6.

Repentance facilitates (makes possible) believing. Repentance is absolutely necessary to be saved. How can you believe the Gospel without changing your mind? The word metanoia (repentance) itself does not tell us what to change our mind about. So, we need supplemental information, which a particular Scripture passage will provide. The reason why the word “repent” is never mentioned in the Gospel of John is simply because it is an automatic thing. The man who believes the Gospel has repented; the man who repents has believed the Gospel. Repentance and believing are inseparable, two sides of the same coin; you cannot have one without the other.

It is very important to understand that we repent TO believe, we do not repent AND believe. Sadly, Evangelist Tom Farrell (1952-2021) got this wrong! I was listening to Tom Farrell preach one day on KHMG 88.1 FM radio station, which is aired by the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam throughout the Micronesian islands. Dr. Farrell said you don't repent TO believe, you repent AND believe. Sadly, and tragically, he got it 100% backwards. I sincerely doubt if Tom went to Heaven, since he believed that more than faith is required to be saved. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Tens of thousands of Baptist churches today across America are preaching a counterfeit plan of salvation. They were lied to by Satan. Christian author Michael Bowen rightly states...

“I have been both an atheist and a victim of today’s false plans of salvation. I am at eternal odds with the false, counterfeit messages of salvation-by-works that are taught from virtually every pulpit today, on every television channel, and on every Christian radio station; however, I am not at eternal odds with the individuals who preach these counterfeit messages.” —Michael P. Bowen, “I Never Knew You,” p. 17

I totally concur. A counterfeit plan of salvation is being preached from nearly every church and Bible college pulpit today. Satan is the author of confusion, not God (1st Corinthians 14:33). Satan is “the god of this world” who deliberately obscures, changes and corrupts the Gospel of free grace to “blind the minds” of his victims (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4).

You don't have to turn from your sins to be saved. You turn from your unbelief to believe the Gospel. Nowhere in the inspired King James Bible (which is the only trustworthy Bible in the English language today) will you find the phrases “repent of your sins” or “turn from your sins” to get to Heaven. Sincere but ignorant men wickedly added those words to God's simple plan of salvation, perverting it (Proverbs 30:5-6),. Galatians 1:7b, “but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.”

According to our text passage from Isaiah 64:6, there is no such thing as “good works.” There are only DEAD WORKS!!! Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.” I cannot warn you enough to avoid the Devil's modern Bible revisions. Case in point, look at what the ERV changed this passage to read...

EASY-TO-READ VERSION (ERV) - Hebrews 6:1, “So we should be finished with the beginning lessons about Christ. We should not have to keep going back to where we started. We began our new life by turning away from the evil we did in the past and by believing in God.”

Oh my! Whereas the inspired King James Bible rightly teaches simply to repent from your DEAD WORKS (which includes good and bad works alike) to be saved; the ERV wrongly teaches to turn away from your past sinful ways to be saved (which is works).

The King James Bible (KJB) simply teaches to change your mind from relying upon your DEAD WORKS (trusting in idols, turning from your sins, turning over a new leaf, living a lifestyle of repentance, being willing to turn from your sins, et cetera) to trusting in the GOOD NEWS of Jesus crucified, buried and risen to be saved.

The Easy-To-Read Version (ERV) teaches something completely different, that to be saved you must forsake your sinful bad habits. How is that not works? This is a perversion of God's grace. Granted, the requirement for someone to turn away from their sinning to get to Heaven is appealing to our carnal flesh. It makes sense to the heathen man that you cannot reasonably expect God to pardon your sins when you have no intention of forsaking them. But dear reader, that is not how God's plan of redemption works.

God is offering humanity eternal life as a free gift, just for the taking. Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Nothing is free in this world. Somebody always has to pay. Salvation is a free gift because Jesus paid for it with His precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23). 

A gift is a TAKE proposition, not a GIVE proposition. So, why would God expect someone to give up their sinful ways to receive His free gift that Christ already paid for in full? Those unlearned pastors and clergy who preach that you must be willing to forsake your sinful ways to get to Heaven do not understand (or else refuse to acknowledge) the true nature of a gift. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

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.” Our best self-righteousness is like filthy rags to God. ...

“You know why good works can't save you, 'cause there's no such thing as good works. ...The Bible says in Isaiah 64:6, even our righteousness is like filthy rags in the sight of God.” —Dr. Jack Hyles, “God's Memorial Day” (1990)

Dear friend, have you been trusting in DEAD WORKS that cannot save? Turning from your sins will prevent you from going to Heaven, if that is what you've been trusting in to save you. You don't get saved by doing good works, and you cannot be lost by doing bad works. Nor can you be saved by forsaking bad works, which is effectively the same as keeping the law to be saved. Romans 3:20, “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.” If you're trying not to violate God's law to get to Heaven (i.e., turning away from your sins), then you are not saved.

To be genuinely born again you must completely REST in Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then raised up from the dead three days later. This is the Gospel (Good News) that is “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth” (Romans 1:16b). This Gospel is THE POWER of God that will save any sinner who BELIEVES IT! The Gospel + Faith = Eternal Life (Hebrews 4:2).

Satan Has Crept Into Most Baptist Churches Today

Galatians 3:1-2, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

This morning I got to thinking about how Satan has crept into most Baptist churches today. To prove my suspicion, I typed “Baptist church Statement of Faith” into Duckduckgo's search engine just to see what would come up. Since I live in Pensacola, it didn't surprise me that the Statement of Faith for the First Baptist Church of Pensacola came up, which reads:

Salvation

Since all persons are separated from God by sin and are in need of forgiveness, God offers the free gift of salvation. Each person must individually accept this gift, repent of sin, and place faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. [emphasis added] SOURCE

Dear reader, what you have just read is a gross perversion of God's simple plan of salvation. I have attended their church a dozen times over the past few years. I enjoy going to their Christmas cantata each year, to hear all the beautiful music, children singing and lighting of candles. The church was founded in 1848 and is the oldest church in Pensacola. They do much good to help the needy in the community, but sadly are wrong on the Gospel (the most important thing). I have sat in both their contemporary and traditional services. Pastor Dave Snyder (who came to the church in 2018 from Missouri as their senior pastor) preaches hard core Lordship Salvation and misunderstood repentance. It is heart breaking.

On one particular Sunday a couple years ago, at the end of the contemporary service, Pastor Snyder announced that a 12 year old boy had been saved that morning by “becoming a Christ follower.” Folks, that is not the free grace Gospel that saves!!! Judas Iscariot followed Christ as one of His very apostles and yet is burning in Hell forever. You get saved by resting completely in Christ's death on the cross, burial and physical resurrection from the dead three days later. That is the only “gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, not becoming a Christ follower.

I was mailed a letter from the First Baptist Church of Pensacola in 2022, an official invitation to attend their Discovery Class with other prospective new members. I went to the class because I was curiosity to find out exactly what they believe about salvation, and also to be a gentleman since they cordially invited me. At the meeting one of their associate pastors told us that the church believes in salvation through faith alone in Jesus Christ. I was so delighted to hear that. There was no mention of turning from your sinful bad habits, following Christ, surrendering all or anything else to get to Heaven, just BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.

I didn't join at that time, but was thinking about it. I needed to investigate further to make sure I knew where I was leaping before I jumped. But, to my horror, when I attended their traditional service the next week, Pastor Snyder said you couldn't go to Heaven without surrendering to the absolute Lordship of Christ, and he said you must forsake your sinful past and live a changed life. I was so sad in the pew. I just put my head down and felt like crying. Not another heretic in the pulpit! Yes, sad to say, Pastor Dave Snyder is a damnable false teacher!

Oh dear reader, the accuracy of the Gospel is of paramount importance. What you believe will determine where you spend eternity. So, it is not a small matter to dismiss.

Satan's Greatest Weapon is to Con People into Living the Christian Life Without Ever Being Born Again

In Matthew 7:21-23, we read a disturbing true story about a group of people who dedicated their lives to following and serving Jesus Christ. They boasted at the judgment of having done “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name. They had prophesied (preached) in Jesus' name. They had even cast out devils in Jesus' name. Judas Iscariot had the power to cast out devils, but was unsaved (Matthew 10:1). By all outward indication these false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 were redeemed saints, but Jesus denied knowing them as His sheep, citing the reason why in verse 21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”

The best way to interpret the Scripture is by using the Scripture. John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Father's will is that you and I believe on the name of His only begotten Son (which includes accepting His death on the cross for our sins, burial and bodily resurrection the third day), and that is how anyone gets saved. There is no other way to Heaven (Acts 4:10-12).

I heard a great sermon today from 1956 by Pastor Jack Hyles, when he was just 29 years old. The sermon is titled: 'Three Types Of leaven.' I made this an excerpt from the sermon and titled it: “Get Born Again Or Go To Hell.” Dear reader, the Devil is more subtle, dangerous and crafty than you or I could ever imagine (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, 11:13-15). I found this meme today and it is correct. ...

I have met numerous incompetent Baptist pastors who gave a free pass to other Baptist churches merely because they identify as being “Baptist.” That is so shallow, wrong, sinful and unethical. A sore evil that I have found is that your average Baptist pastor today doesn't pay attention to the details. They couldn't care less about what the Baptist church down the street is teaching, and that's s big problem when you're supporting that church.

Satan's Little Helper: Pastor Sean Quinlan

Case in point is Pastor Sean Quinlan at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam. He was a Pensacola Christian College (PCC) intern pastor there for a few years. He quit in 2018, thankfully. One evening after church I was sharing a private conversation with a friend in the church. We were standing outside in the parking lot, by the front of the church. I told my friend Bill that “Bob Jones University sells corruptible seed,” which immediately angered Quinlan. He rudely interrupted me and Bill and said, “I've been over-hearing your conversations for the past several months and you're obsessed with the Bible issue.” What a disgrace for a pastor!!!

It didn't surprise me, considering that he is working for the cult at PCC. The name if Harvest Baptist Church was brought up, which Pastor Quinlan instantly defended as their “sister church.” I felt like regurgitating! “Sister Church?,” I said, “They teach the heresy of Calvinism at Harvest, Lordship Salvation!” Quinlan responded, “It's none of our business what they teach at Harvest!” Oh man, did Pastor Quinlan dig a grave for himself. I scolded him for not caring, and for wickedly bidding Godspeed to a damnable cult that perverts God's simple plan of salvation.

Dear reader, this is what is wrong with over 95% of Baptist pastors and layman today, they just couldn't care less about right doctrine, the purity of the Word of God or the accuracy of the Gospel. As long as the money keeps flowing in, and the attendance is increasing, they are content, at ease in Zion. Pastor Quinlan even shamefully told me, “I am trying to build a church and you're bringing controversies into my church.” Well, first of all, to the best of my recollection Bill was the only person I had ever talked to in the church about the Bible issue, and they were private conversations. I hardly think I was a threat to split HIS CHURCH, or run off new members. What the hell is wrong with pastors today?

A month earlier I was having a conversation with Pastor Quinlan outside the front doors of the church, when he admitted to me that if pressed he couldn't show someone one thing wrong with the modern Bible revisions. I couldn't believe that he admitted such a shameful thing. A few weeks earlier during a Sunday evening sermon, Pastor Quinlan warned the church members that some of the new Bibles are “bad news”! Yet, he couldn't show someone one thing wrong with the new Bibles, even if his life depended upon it, by his own shameful admission. Does that make any sense? Shame on him! And shame on PCC!

What do you mean, “It's none of our business!,” what they teach at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam? If that be true, then why do you care what the Mormons, Roman Catholics and Seventh-Day Adventist cults teach? Why does a Baptist church get a free pass on what they teach and preach? Harvest uses the Easy-To-Read Version (ERV), which is highly corrupt! They preach hardcore Lordship Salvation, as does the entire Bob Jones University cult.

I heard their wicked pastor Marty Herron with my own two ears in 2014, tell hundreds of church members on a Sunday morning during his sermon invitation that quote: “It's not enough to admit you're a sinner, you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven.” That is another gospel! That is a counterfeit plan of salvation! That is damnable heresy!!! Why does Pastor Sean Quinlan support and wickedly bid Godspeed to such evil? Maybe if he would pay attention to the details, as I am doing, instead of criticizing me and making lame excuses and turning a blind eye to deadly false doctrine, he would.

This is why the inspired Word of God warns us about THE LOVE OF MONEY, which is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:7-11). Sean Quinlan was paid by PCC to build the attendance at Lighthouse Baptist Church, with no regard for doctrinal integrity. SHAME!!! PCC gave Quinlan $25,000 to spend on fixing up the church's property. He bought a playground set for the children. He paid to have a thick concrete slab put down for a large outdoor patio. He used the money to install a basketball hoop on the church property. But he harshly reprimanded me for caring enough to make an issue over Satan's corruptible seed at Bob Jones University, in a private conversation that was none of his damn business. What a dingleberry for a pastor!

That is the big problem with the whole PCC camp, they are only concerned about protecting and improving their public image, while throwing the Gospel and the inspiration of the King James Bible under the bus. In this sermon excerpt, Pastor Jack Hyles exposes Pensacola Christian College for denying the inspiration of the King James Bible. I wouldn't enroll a dog into PCC! You are a fool as a parent if you entrust your impressionable child to PCC's wolves! Pastor Jeff Redlin is a devil at PCC's corrupt Campus Church. All they care about is money at PCC and protecting their public image, but individual people mean nothing to them. I found that out firsthand when I attended Campus Church in 2021 for a few months.

Tragically, most Baptist churches today have strayed far away from a free grace Gospel, and you simply ought not go anywhere near those cults. I am warning you about the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (who are in bed committing spiritual adultery with PCC). I am warning you about the Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola (whose pastor's daughter attends PCC). I am warning you about the Fairfield Baptist Church in Pensacola (whose shameful pastor Josh Thompson teaches a class at PCC). RUN from these places!!!

Satan has crept into most Baptist churches today. Before you attend any particular Baptist church, you need to ask them these important questions (the answers you should receive are in bold red font):

1. Do you use the King James Bible? YES
2. Do you believe that the King James Bible is verbally inspired? YES
3. Do you use or support any other version than the King James Bible? NO
4. Do you teach that Bible repentance means to turn from your sin? NO
5. Do you believe that repentance is a separate act from faith? NO
6. Do you believe that faith alone in the Gospel as an admitted sinner is enough to get to Heaven? YES
7. Do you believe that you must also accept Jesus as your “Lord” to be saved? NO
8. Do you believe that your behavior must change to prove that you are really saved? NO

If the pastor refuses to answer those questions, or gives you the wrong responses, RUN!

Please don't become another victim by trusting the name “Baptist,” because most Baptists today are hellbound fools, trusting in their misunderstood repentance and Lordship Salvation.