Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Every Believer Needs To Listen To Bible Preaching

Titus 1:3, “But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour.”

Pastor Jack Hyles used to teach in his preaching that every believer ought to keep a life's recipe book, jotting down at the end of a good day what made it good, and likewise, jotting down at the end of a bad day what made it bad. Then, anytime you want to have a good day, look at your recipe cards of what compromised previous good days, and do those things to have another good day. Amen!

May I say, one of the ways that I almost always have a good day is by listening to preaching. I love preaching! Our fleshly carnal nature doesn't like preaching; but as Christians, the Spirit of God Who lives inside of us (Romans 8:9) compels us to obey the Word of God and hear preaching.

Television has become so evil. The Christian life is a constant battle between the Holy Spirit and the carnal flesh (Paul explains this truth in Romans chapter 7:14-25). Either TV will DESENSITIZE you to sin, or else the Holy Bible will SENSITIZE you to the awfulness of sin (Romans 7:13). I didn't make my ministry websites since 2002 by watching TV. I didn't learn to play musical instruments by watching TV. Truly, television is the biggest waste of time in the world, which is why I stopped watching it years ago. Turn off the box and put on some preaching and you'll be blessed.

One of the most prized possessions in my life is a collection of 2,065 MP3 sermons and Bible studies by Pastor Jack Hyles. These sermons and Bible studies are worth more to me than all the gold and wealth in the world. Although Brother Hyles graduated from this earthly life into Heaven's glory on February 6, 2001, his voice is still alive!!! Hallelujah! I am one of thousands of fired-up preacher boys who are continuing the work which Brother Hyles begun. IMPERFECT PEOPLE IN HEAVEN (we owe it to those gone before us into Heaven to continue their work for Christ).


PREACHING! PREACHING! PREACHING!

Every believer needs plenty of preaching!!!

You'll never grow in the Lord the way God wants you to if you rely upon the Sunday pulpit to keep you spiritual. One of the great woes in churches today is that believers look to the pulpit to keep them spiritual. That's ok if you are blessed to have a man of God for a pastor and preacher who feeds the flock. Unfortunately, most churches these days are DEAD, lacking a genuine man of God who is zealous over THE TRUTH. The average church today is like a brown grass lawn. The grass isn't dead yet, but it hasn't been nourished and; therefore, has become unhealthy. The truth ought to burn within every preacher's breast like a fire, compelling him to PREACH THE WORD. Jeremiah said that God's Word did BURN in his heart LIKE A FIRE:
Jeremiah 20:9, “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”
The word “minister” means “a servant.” Most ministers today serve themselves more than anybody else. You cannot truly serve people unless you PREACH THE WORD, edifying (building up) their souls in the faith. The average church is more interested in methods than truth. Preaching the gospel (soul-winning) is a command, not a method. The Great Commission is not The Great Omission; yet few churches obey our Lord's command in Matthew 28:19-20 to make disciples of all men, and then disciple them to follow the Lord in obedient faith:
Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
The purpose of the Church is not to EDUCATE people; but rather, to DISCIPLE them. How can you truly disciple people if you are lackadaisical concerning THE TRUTH. The Church is not a social club, state-licensed 501c3 business or music concert; but rather, the Church is the vehicle by which God chose to carry out The Great Commission.


We Need Bible Preaching For Wisdom

I cannot stress enough the importance of continually bathing one's life with the truth of God's Word and prayer. Truth and prayer change things! Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”


Notice that Proverbs 3:6 tells us to ACKNOWLEDGE GOD in all our ways. This simply means to seek God's opinion in every decision that we make. “For what saith the Scripture?” (Romans 4:3). Jesus told us in John 5:39a, “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES...”! The heathen world couldn't care less about what God thinks. Oh, sure, many of them turn to religion for answers, but the demonic answers provided by false ministers are ungodly advice. You've got wicked ministers, male and female alike, recommending abortion, divorce and even same-sex marriage these days. It is EVIL!!!

The renowned ministry started by Dwight L. Moody, Moody Bible Institute (in Chicago), recently lifted a century-old ban against drinking the Devil's booze, casino gambling and smoking/chewing tobacco. Can you imagine? What kind of decent Christian parents would enroll their child into a Bible college that permits faculty and staff to drink Liquid Devil (The Devil's Cut bourbon), and to suck on cancer sticks to defile the temple of the Holy Spirit (1st Corinthians 3:16-17), and to shoot craps while gambling in Las Vegas in SIN CITY? SHAME!!! D.L. Moody is throwing a Conniption-fit (or a Hissy-fit) up in Heaven!

I can see the prophets Elijah and John the Baptist, as they are passing by, notice Mr. Moody sitting with downcast eyes staring at the ground. “Hey D.L., what's wrong friend?” Mr. Moody with a somber and downcast countenance says, “You absolutely won't believe it.” Again they ask him again in sincere concern, “What's making you so sad Dwight?” With tears streaming down his face and quivering lips, Mr. Moody humbly says, “The faculty and staff of the Moody Bible Institute which I founded in 1886 have forsaken morality, teaching today's youth that it's ok to drink intoxicating booze, gamble for illicit gain (filthy lucre) and destroy their health with cigarette smoking.” How sad and tragic!

Here's some great preaching that'll help you walk closer to Jesus:

Preaching Helps Us To Think Clearly;
The Bible Nails Down Things In My Life!

Here's some of the preaching, news sources and talk shows which I listen to on a regular basis, almost daily:
King James Bible Preaching And Personal Holiness Are Synonymous

In view if the fact that Moody Bible Institute uses the Devil's corrupt modern Bible revisions, it is not surprising that they have apostate preaching too. Moody sinfully invites and honors devil-dog preacher Pastor John MacArthur, bidding him Godspeed (2nd John 1:11). Moody's moral standards are now following their doctrinal apostasy. Lifestyle follows doctrine. A Bible college's morals don't change first and then their doctrines. It's the other way around. One of my all-time favorite sermons is by Pastor Bob Gray Sr., titled: 'Truth Versus Change':
“Somebody said about a preacher, 'He changed his position.' Listen carefully, nobody ever changes his position. CHANGE IS A POSITION!!! ... When you change, you never have a set position anymore. Truth is set. Truth is stable. Change is not. When you leave the truth, you don't stop anywhere, you keep on changing! And that's why it's called 'backsliding'!” —Dr. Bob Gray Sr., a quote from the sermon, Truth Vs. Change.
A Bible college's doctrines first change. They start using corrupt versions of the Bible, so the Bible is no longer near and dear, since it keeps changing every few years and no one memorizes any of them for that very reason!!! I wouldn't give you a dime for any so-called preacher who doesn't use only the inspired KING JAMES BIBLE. Phooey on all the modern corrupted Bible versions, like the New International Version (NIV) whose chairman of the Old Testament committee was a flaming open homosexual.

As a hypocritical gesture of Moody's further evangelical downslide into sinful compromise to fit in with the New World Order, Moody Ministries advertises HOLINESS to their prospective new students. How can Moody's administrators, their board of directors, advertise holiness in view of allowing faculty and staff to drink, smoke and gamble. Notice that Moody's students are still prohibited from drinking alcohol, smoking cancer sticks and indulging in tasteless, unethical, shady, practices, like cards and gambling.

What hypocrites to set DOUBLE-STANDARDS for teachers and students. Hey, if smoking is wrong for teenagers than it is wrong for adults. If alcohol consumption is bad for our youth, than it is also bad for the adults. If gambling is wrong, it is wrong. Why the double standards? If history has taught us anything, it is that youth will follow what the adults DO, not what they SAY. Either lead by example or else you cannot lead.

Will your student's favorite Bible teacher at Moody give himself lung cancer from smoking cigarettes? I'd hate to receive a phone call saying that my child's Old Testament teacher is out of town in SIN CITY Las Vegas, living it up while gambling for a couple weeks. It's unthinkable. Boozing, tobacco smoking, gambling with devils—PRAYER MEETING ANYONE? There's no denying that the inferior moral standards now adopted by Moody Bible Institute will affect everything else downstream. It always does! Major decisions like this always have major consequences later. In the short term the ministry handsomely benefits financially; but in the long term they undermine their character, alienate their institution from Christ and seal their doom in ecumenical apostasy.

I guarantee you that Moody Bible Institute (MBI) will become a heathen university just like Chicago University, which was originally founded by a faithful Baptist preacher over 100 years ago. It was no coincidence that the University of Chicago (UOC) 100 years later, was chosen as the place to announce that same-sex marriages are now legal in Illinois. It is wickedness!!! UOC went from Sanctification to Sodomy in just one century! They've turned from the Savior to Satan, in just one little ole century! How tragic that Moody Bible Institute is following the world afar off as did Peter, ashamed of his Lord. Oh, how Moody's board of directors need to repent. REPENT! Ichabod is written across Moody ministries. The famous Gospel preacher John Wesley was so right: “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”

The Bible tells us that Daniel had an excellent spirit in him. Do you have an excellent spirit (attitude)? Generosity, forgiveness and love are excellent attitudes. The excellent spirit in a yielded believer is the indwelling HOLY SPIRIT of Jesus Christ. Daniel 6:3, “Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.” If Moody's board of directors had an excellent spirit, they never would have permitted the devils of booze, smoking and gambling into their ministry. Moody (as did Achan) has brought the unclean thing, the accursed thing, into the camp of our holy God.

The great need of the hour is preaching preachers! I get nauseated listen to Chip Ingram, Robert Schuller and Mike Kellogg put the audience to sleep on the radio. Brother, we need some preaching preachers, men of God, like Evangelist John R. Rice, Pastor Jack Hyles, Brother Lester Roloff and R.G. Lee (PAYDAY SOMEDAY!). We need leather-lunged men like Evangelist Billy Sunday, who preached without apology, uncompromisingly against the filthy liquor cartel, criminal bootleggers, immoral dirty-dancers and the greedy gamblers.

I love the awesome truth in Hosea 2:15, “And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.” My friend, sin is ALWAYS a gamble, because it's a game of Russian Roulette. Someone's always got to get the bullet.

Preaching is truth set on fire. Preaching is the fire in the pulpit melting the ice in the pew. Oh, how America needs men of God who PREACH THE WORD! I'm tired of psychology creeping into America's pulpits instead of sound Bible doctrine. What's wrong with teaching the virgin birth of Christ, and His deity, and Jesus' literal blood sacrifice (which permanently did more than atone for man's sins, it forever took all our sins away)!!! Amen, glory to God, hallelujah!

We can all obtain wisdom and truth by SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES (John 5:39), and by listening to all the blessed Bible-preaching from men of God, who walked with God, and left us a goldmine of Biblical insights and truths through the testimony of the hardships, testings and persecutions of their life. These preachers have stood the test of time, proved the inspiration and power of the King James Bible, and we would be foolish and worse off for not honoring their lives by at least listening to what they had to say while they were still alive here on earth. I plan to listen to more preaching, Lord willing, over the next year than all the years before. I need preaching, and so do you!!! Amen!

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

 *The Same Sermon In Print (why I don't read gossip)

Here's some awesome life-changing Wednesday night Bible studies by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001). God gave Brother Hyles an incredible amount of wisdom during his 55 years of faithful ministry, as a Baptist pastor from age 19 to 74:
(MP3 sermon by Pastor Jeff Owens;
People in a rough line of work often become hard!)

“God never taught anybody how to quit!”

Oh how America needs preaching and praying preachers! Preaching without prayer is dead, and prayer without preaching is shallow Christianity!!! Acts 5:42, “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”



Preaching Helps Us To Think Clearly;
The Bible Nails Down Things In My Life!

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If You Don't Fear God, You Will

Proverbs 28:14, “Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.” Hebrews 10:31, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” 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.”

The Bible says that when we see people wilfully sinning, it evidences that they don't fear God. Psalms 36:1, “The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.” Very few people fear God anymore. Tragically, one of the groups who fear God the least (but should fear Him the most) are religious people!

A prime example of a religious group who doesn't fear God is Bob Jones University and their corrupt graduates, who preach the Devil's lie of “Lordship” salvation. This is the heresy that says faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not enough to get to Heaven; but in addition, proponents of the Devil's “Lordship” Salvation teach that repentance from one's sin is required. If a professed Christian is living a life of open sin, they are falsely accused of not being saved, because they have never repented of their sins. None of that is Biblical.

As an example of damnable heresy, please read the blatant false teaching of Pastor Charles Lawson of the Temple Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee:

“If repentance is not part of the Gospel, why did the Jews say, 'That God hath now to the Gentiles granted repentance?' If repentance is not part of the Gospel, then you're just believing some facts, and nothing goes on inside you to change who you are. The change is when you've received it into your heart and acted upon it. And once you received it into your heart and act upon it, a profound change is going to take place. Your attitude towards sin is going to change. Your attitude towards your self's going to change. Your attitude towards the world is going to change. You're going to change. That is repentance, not just changing your mind.”

SOURCE: True Repentance: https://youtu.be/kb26H6cRxyw?t=41m10s, Dr. Lawson
Kindly said, Pastor Lawson is woefully ignorant of the Scriptures. The indwelling Holy Spirit produces a changed life in every child of God, and not our own repentance (change of mind). When I got saved at age 13, I knew that I was a sinner deserving of Hell, but that's it. The issue of me turning away from my sin never came up when I got saved. Now after I was saved, the indwelling Holy Spirit (who is given to every believer at the time of salvation - 1st Corinthians 3:16-17; Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:23) began to convict me about the sin in my life. For the first time in my life, I began to feel convicted about my sin, and that was God's Spirit living inside of me doing that. I began to read my Bible, for the first time in my life. I had just become born-again into God's family, and I was a little spiritual baby, hungry for the milk of the Word (1st Peter 2:2).

What Pastor Lawson is teaching is "another gospel" (Galatians 1:6-9). He is requiring more than just faith to get to Heaven. Lawson says you must also "repent" (which he errantly understands to mean to "turn away from your sin," a radical change of mind toward everything in your life). No, Bible repentance is simply a change of mind from unbelief to belief to be saved. Since unbelief is the ONLY thing that can keep a person out of Heaven, then unbelief is the ONLY sin which a person must repent (change their mind) about to be saved.

Pastor Lawson is placing the burden of change upon YOU dear sinner, instead of upon the dear SAVIOR where it belongs. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

The Good News (i.e., Gospel) is that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, and was buried, but triumphantly resurrected from the dead after three days, so that He can save those who believe. How could Christ save us if He were dead and hadn't risen? How could He become our heavenly High Priest if He hadn't risen? Amen! We serve a risen Christ!!!

Dear reader, Dr. Lawson should be very afraid of God, because he is not saved. There is no way that any man can be so confused on the Gospel, that he thinks more than faith is required to receive God's free gift of eternal life, and yet be saved. NO WAY JOSE!!! Ray Comfort is another unsaved infidel. Read what Ray preaches, that you can only get to Heaven by "LIVING A LIFESTYLE" of turning away from sinning to get to Heaven. That is the Devil's plan of damnation!!! GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!!


If You're Not Afraid Of God Now, You Will—YOU WILL BE!

Many false preachers today (e.g., Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Sam Horn, Gary Walton, John MacArthur, William Lane Craig, Adrian Rogers, Chip Ingram, Pat Robertson, Ken Ham, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Charles Stanley, Beth Moore, Franklin Graham, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, Chuck Phelps, Paul Washer and Ray Comfort) should be VERY AFRAID, because what they are trusting in and preaching is NOT the free grace of God. They aren't even in the ballpark. God made two great divisions of His Word: OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS; Or respectively, LAW and CHRIST (Galatians 3:14-26). God's law shows us that we are dying from the terminal cancer of sin, but then brings us to Christ to be saved by grace through faith...

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.” —Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

Do you see dear friend how that God's plan of salvation is all about Christ saving you from your sins, and not about you cleaning up your own life of sin to prove that your faith is genuine to be saved? Keeping the Ten Commandments doesn't prove that your faith is real. It shows how much you love Jesus (John 14:15), but you don't get to Heaven by loving Jesus! You get to Heaven by trusting Jesus!!! The Devil is very cunning and subtle, leading millions of foolish people into thinking that they must try to keep God's law to validate the genuineness of the reality of your faith. I am literally quoting Pastor Chuck Phelps, a damnable false prophet at the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Indianapolis, who says that you won't go to Heaven unless your live the Christian life, to prove the reality of the genuineness of your faith:

“You can't work to have salvation, but if you have salvation it will work!” —Pastor Charles Phelps, “False Faith” (time - 30:13; November 1, 2009 - Sunday morning)
That is typical false prophet doublespeak! That's like me saying that you cannot earn your birthday gift, but if you accept it you will earn it! What in the world is Chuck Phelps talking about? Folks, this is junk theology at it's worst! Nowhere in the inspired King James Bible are we taught, that if we receive God's free gift of eternal life IT WILL WORK! That doesn't even make sense!!! What did Jesus say about works to get to Heaven? 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.” Jesus laid this question to rest forever about doing works to merit Heaven. The Lord said the ONLY work which God accepts is to BELIEVE on the name of Jesus!!!

I am tired of these Calvinist liars! In one breath they claim that salvation is by grace without works; but then out of the other side of their mouth, they falsely claim that if you don't have works your faith is invalid, and you're not saved. The garbage which they are teaching is just a clever way to sneak "works" into God's simple and free plan of salvation. The manner of life which a believer chooses to live, has absolutely NOTHING to do with God's free gift of eternal life. We are saved by faith alone, and that doesn't mean that works will follow later on!

Listen friend, you don't have to be good to get to Heaven, you must be absolutely perfect!!! That is why with men salvation is utterly impossible (Matthew 19:25-26). Jesus Christ paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay (2nd Corinthians 5:21). These darned fools in the Bob Jones camp are blinded by Satan. Worse, they are full of self-righteous arrogance and a haughty spirit of pride, refusing to take heed to THE TRUTH. They are two-fold the children of the Devil, bound for eternal doom in their Lordship salvation. If these false teachers don't FEAR GOD today, THEY WILL tomorrow!!!


Bob Jones University is of the Devil!!!

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Monday, December 27, 2021

Suffering Is As Much A Part Of The Christian Life As Faith

Philippians 1:29-30, “For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.​”

This is a remarkable passage of Scripture. The Bible teaches that it is God's will, not only for us to BELIEVE to be saved, but also to SUFFER to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ:
Romans 8:24-29, “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
I absolutely love the preceding passage of Scripture? The Apostle Paul says we are saved by hope (faith in something that we cannot perceive with the five human senses). Paul explains that if we were already in Heaven, then why would we still hope to go to Heaven? That certainly makes good sense. So we hope, day by day, patiently waiting to someday go to Heaven in God's time to be with Jesus our blessed Redeemer.

I recently learned something beautiful about Fanny Crosby (1820-1915). Fanny was born able to see, but became infected with an illness. While the family doctor was away, another doctor who pretended to be a legitimate doctor was later proven to be a quack. That incompetent doctor applied hot mustard poultices (a thickened paste) to Fanny's eyes, which blinded her just six weeks after being born. When a preacher commented that it was a pity that she was blind, Miss Fanny gave the most astounding wise response:
"I think it is a great pity that the Master did not give you sight when he showered so many other gifts upon you," remarked one well-meaning preacher.

Fanny Crosby responded at once, as she had heard such comments before. "Do you know that if at birth I had been able to make one petition, it would have been that I was born blind?" said the poet, who had been able to see only for her first six weeks of life. "Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior." SOURCE: Christianity Today
Isn't that lovely? Sure it is. What a great attitude Miss Crosby had! One of my favorite preachers, Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, preached a wonderful MP3 sermon titled: 'The Call To Suffer.' I wrote this helpful article of the same title: 'The Call To Suffer.' ...
Romans 8:16-18, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
The Holy Spirit (who is God in us), bears witness (testifies) with our human spirit that we are saved. Sometimes people ask me how they can verify that they have the Holy Spirit. Listen friend, if you have God's Holy Spirit living inside you, YOU KNOW IT! The Apostle John penned the Epistle of 1st John for this specific purpose, to help us individually as believers to KNOW that we are saved (1st John 5:13; 3:24).

I love Romans 8:18, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Dear friend, I encourage you when you begin to sink into the Sea of Galilee in fear, as did Peter; and when you begin to falter in your faith, as did the apostles when Jesus was arrested; and when you begin to doubt Christ altogether, as did John the Baptist in prison—“Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22b).

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

Thieves And Robbers

John 10:1, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

Jesus said in John 10:1 that anyone who tries to enter Heaven apart from Him is a thief and a robber. Jesus plainly states in John 10:9, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven.

I am NOT trying to be mean or unkind, but Jesus calls the Pope a thief and a robber. That's exactly what Jesus said. The Catholic Vatican perverts the Scriptures by claiming that the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ, and that water baptism is the door into the Church. Thus, Catholicism teaches that the way to God and Heaven is through the Catholic Church. That is simply unbiblical and a lie.

The Bible teaches that Jesus, and Jesus alone, is the Christ, our only way of salvation. Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” How much plainer could the Word of God be? If you want to go to Heaven, then you MUST come to God the Father by way of God the Son.

Sadly, nearly all Jews and Arabs are thieves and robbers, because both Judaism and Islam adamantly deny that Jesus is the Messiah. Both religions deny Biblical Christianity. There are also hundreds-of-millions of Hindus, who according to the Bible, are thieves and robbers. It's because they deny that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, Who came into the world to SAVE SINNERS.

Why does Jesus call such people thieves and robbers? It's because they are trying to break into Heaven “some other way,” rather than entering through the Son of God. If you try to get to Heaven by your own self-righteousness, or by some religion, or by some organization, or by religious ceremonies, or by water baptism, or by keeping the Sabbath Day, or by keeping the Sacraments, or by joining a church, or by doing good works, or by committing your life to living holy... then you are a thief who's trying to sneak into Heaven SOME OTHER WAY!

Jesus said we must enter through the DOOR, and Jesus is that DOOR according to John 10:9. Please don't try to break into Heaven. Do you know what is the saddest thing? It's the fact that the entrance to Heaven is freely open to anybody who wants to go through it, yet so many people aren't going to Heaven. Billions of people are scheming, working very hard at religion and lying awake at night trying to figure out how to get into Heaven; while the Door is wide open.

John 8:32 and 36, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free ... If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
There are MANY thieves and robbers in the world today, who are trying to illegally enter Heaven. There is only one way to Heaven—God's way—which is by faith in Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6). Anyone who ADDS self-righteousness to faith is going to Hellfire, because genuine faith EXCLUDES all else. Many religions today teach the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration, i.e., the false doctrine that a person MUST be water baptized to be saved. Many religions require good works of people in order to get to Heaven; BUT, Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Are you a thief or a robber? Have you been trying to get to Heaven some OTHER WAY, i.e., other than Jesus Christ alone? Acts 4:10-12 plainly states: “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The Word of God couldn't be any clearer.

So many people today have their own way of doing things, and falsely think God is going to pardon them on Judgment Day. Think again! Cain was very sincere, but God refused his grain offering (Genesis 4:5). In Matthew 7:21-23 we read about some very sincere religious folks, but God rejected their professed goodness and religious commitment. Many people have a problem being told what to do. By nature, our rebellious sin-nature is selfish, and desires to do things it's own way.

This is why most religious people are going to Hell—because they want a part in their own salvation—whether it be performing good works, forsaking their own sins, or being a faithful church member in a certain denomination. What most people FAIL to realize is that salvation is 100% of God, and not of man at all. Matthew 6:33, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” If you want to go to Heaven, then you need HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS! Self-righteousness is a guaranteed road to Hellfire.

Judaism is of the Devil. Lutheranism is of the Devil. Seventh-Day Adventism is of the Devil. Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses are of the Devil. Islam is of the Devil. Catholicism is of the Devil. The Church of Christ is of the Devil. United Churches of Christ are of the Devil. The Charismatic Movement is of the Devil. The Church of England is of the Devil. These are all thieves and robbers, who are attempting to sneak into Heaven by SOME OTHER WAY (John 10:1).

You don't need to attempt to break into Heaven, by sneaking over a wall as a thief, or digging a tunnel underneath like some robber. The Door is wide open, a free gift if you'll receive it, paid for by the precious blood of Christ Jesus (1st Peter 1:18-19). Jesus Christ IS THE DOOR (John 10:9). Yes, there are many thieves and robbers today, who are seeking to enter Heaven apart from faith ALONE in Jesus Christ. Tragically, they will one day be in horror when they are pronounced GUILTY and then cast into the Lake of Fire forever.
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Friday, December 24, 2021

Beware Of Dangerous Corrupt Pastors Like Marty Herron

Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

I cannot warn you enough dear reader about many of today's dangerous pastors. When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, I was horrified in 2014 when I heard their senior pastor, Marty Herron, tell a few hundred people in his Sunday morning service: “It is not enough to admit that you are a sinner, you must turn away from a lifestyle of sin to go to Heaven.” I knew right there and then that Marty Herron is a child of the Devil. I went home and literally cried because of the damnable false gospel that I had just heard at Harvest.

Folks, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than just Marty Herron. This is the new damnable heresy which Bob Jones University (BJU) has taught ever since John MacArthur attended BJU, and then became famous years later. BJU sinfully idolizes Mr. MacArthur today as one of their alumni, praising and bidding him Godspeed! BJU speaks with a forked tongue! In case you didn't know, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are two infidels, who both preach another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus a bunch of other garbage not found in the Bible. I say that kindly with God's unconditional love for all mankind, but I also say these things with strong boldness on the authority of the Holy Scriptures!

The Gospel of John is God's Gospel tract according to 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.” My friend, you won't find the word "repent" mentioned anywhere in the Gospel of John. In fact, you won't find the phrases "repent of your sin" or "turn away from your sin" anywhere in the entire Bible! To be saved God simply commands us to “believe.” Do you mean to tell me that I can come to Christ and believe on Him to be saved, but then go out and live like the Devil and still be saved? Yes, that is exactly what I am telling you. Get mad at God, because He said it, not me! Romans 5:20, "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

Dear reader, these Bible passages prove that Marty Herron, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are all two-faced LIARS!!! The following Bible verses speak so clearly in Romans 6:14-15, “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” Do you understand that? The unsaved person is still under the curse of God's LAW; but the redeemed child of God is no longer under the law, but forever under God's saving GRACE. Shall we wilfully sin then, because we are no longer under the law? God forbid the apostle says. Of course God doesn't want or give permission to any of His children to continue in a lifestyle of willful sin, but friend, if you do choose to live like the Devil you can never lose God's gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life, which is through faith alone.

If you understand the beautiful Bible truth that I just shared with you, then it will become obvious to you friend, what is so wrong with Pastor Marty Herron's bullcrap theology, which teaches that you MUST forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven. Literally, Marty Herron and company are requiring people to KEEP THE LAW to be saved!!! That is what it means to “keep the law,” you are obligated to try to obey and fulfill it. What are these laws? ..."Thou shalt not kill" is one... "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is another... "Thou shalt not steal" is one... "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain," and so forth.

There is no question that these blinded religious leaders are sincere in their false teachings. Romans 3:19-20, “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” I marvel at the utter ignorance of these pastors and evangelists. God divided His Word into two parts: OLD and NEW Testaments; or, respectively, LAW and CHRIST.

Galatians 3:24-26 teaches that God's LAW shows us our sinnership, and then brings us to CHRIST to be saved from our sins by grace through faith). As we just read in Romans 3:20b, “for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” That is so simple and clear to understand. The purpose of the law in salvation is simply to show humanity our desperate need for the dear Messiah (the Savior). God never intended for men to keep the law (i.e., to turn away from their sins) to be saved. The very idea is Satanic! Jesus came to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21), not to save us only if we are first willing to stop committing them! God forbid.

What heretics' Marty Herron, Steve Pettit and John MacArthur are actually teaching, is that God won't save you unless you promise to keep the law; or as Jack Chick errantly teaches, you must first "be willing" to keep the law to be saved. These men all have a flawed understanding of what it means to "repent" in the Bible regarding salvation. When they say "repent," they mean something VERY different than what the Bible means! They mean to "turn away from your sinful bad habits" to get saved. That is the heathen Roman Catholic and Catholic influenced English dictionary's meaning.

In sharp contrast, in the Bible the word "repent" (Greek noun: metanoia) simply means, "a change of mind." God wants everyone to change their mind (repent) so that they will BELIEVE the Good News (Gospel) of Christ crucified, buried and risen to be saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Most of the churches are corrupted today. Today's wimpy and corrupt pastors are pathetic. Because the Bible colleges have become corrupt, all of the graduates which they produce are also corrupt doctrinally, not workmen approved by God (2nd Timothy 2:15). These incompetent preachers mishandle the Word of Truth, wrongly interpreting the Scriptures to their own destruction, and those who follow their damnable lies (2nd Peter 3:16-17).

What do you need to change your mind about to get saved? That's easy—whatever is keeping you from believing to be saved. You see, you don't get saved by changing your mind (repenting), you get saved by putting your childlike faith in the blessed Savior, because of what He did on the cross to pay for your sins and mine. Why did He do it? Because we are guilty sinners, which penalty is eternal damnation in Hell fire. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. JESUS PAID IT ALL!!! Simply receive His free gift, by taking God at His Word as recorded in the Holy Bible.

There are many false prophets gone out into the world the Bible says. 1st John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” We "try" (test) the spirits by SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES (John 5:39) to verify everything we hear and see taught and preached. Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Dear reader, this is a dark hour in history, when false prophets like cockroaches have crawled out from beneath every social media device. The internet is full of fools! I see Renee Roland on her YouTube channel denying that eternal damnation in Hell is real. Kindly said, Renee is wrong.

I see Pastor John Piper preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation (i.e., Calvinism). Piper is wrong. I see older sermons by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman (1921-2016) preaching that people were saved by works in the Old Testament. Ruckman is a fool. Acts 10:43 teaches that salvation has always been through faith alone in Christ. I challenge you friend to “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES” (John 5:39a). Please make sure you only use the inspired King James Bible, lest you be deceived by Satan. My heart breaks to see the blinded fools at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, following their corrupt pastor, Gary Walton (another Bob Jones University promoting false prophet). SHAME on Pastor Gary Walton and the Harvest Baptist Church (cult) on Guam!!! Any so-called "church" that preaches another gospel is a cult. "Lordship" salvation is not the gospel, not even close!!! Salvation is not a reward for the righteous; it is a gift for the guilty!

BJU is of the Devil folks, investigate their cult for yourself!!! What Steve Pettit, Marty Herron and John MacArthur are all preaching is NOT taught in the inspired King James Bible, not even close. I care about you dear friend, which is why I take the time to write these blogs, for which I have never been compensated in any way. I do it for the same reason that David went out to fight the giant Goliath, because THERE IS A CAUSE. 1st Samuel 17:29, “And David said, What have I now done?  Is there not a cause?” I preach the way I do because THERE IS A CAUSE! The Gospel must be defended and proclaimed. Philippians 1:17, “But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.”

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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Life Is What Happens To You While You're Making Big Plans

Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” James 4:13-16, “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.”

Several months ago I had a speck of something in my eye. I couldn't get it out! I tried using eye drops. I tried gently pulling my upper eyelid over my lower eyelid. Nothing helped. I tried gently splashing water in my eyes, attempting to rinse the speck of whatever was in my eye. I thought that perhaps it was a sty growing, and it would take time to heal. I came so close to going to the emergency room that evening. The next day when I woke up it was still bothering me. My eyes were all red and bloodshot from rubbing me eye (which is the first thing nurses and doctors tell you NOT to do, which could make matters worse). Eventually, after 3 days, my eye cleared up. I waited to see if it would clear u on its own, rather than be charged an arm and two legs in an emergency room for treatment.

All I could think about during that unpleasant ordeal, and afterwards, is how spoiled we all are in America, and how we all take everything for granted. Just one little speck of contaminant in one of my eye's, wreaked havoc in my life! I was praying the whole time for God to let it not be something serious. I couldn't work on my website. I couldn't do anything. I felt this sharp prick in my eye. It was probably something that the wind blew into my eye. From that 3-day ordeal, I realized just how frail, limited, insufficient, weak and vulnerable I am as a human being!!! One tiny little speck of dirt shut down my life.

Dear reader, life is what happens to you and me while were making big plans! All it took was a little speck of dirt to completely ruin my day and set me off track. If I had been planning to do anything or go anywhere during those 3-days, I would have had to cancel my plans. Isn't life so fickle? Our life is as a vapor of steam the Bible says, in our text passage from James, here for a moment and then gone forever! By God's grace, I will become a senior citizen on March 5th, 2022. I absolutely cannot believe it! Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that I was playing football in the streets with my buddies as a teenager in Chicago. It seems like just yesterday that I was collecting and lighting off fireworks all year round, and the 4th of July was my favorite holiday as a kid and teenager.

My how the time has gone, faster and faster as I grow older. I keep hearing about people who've died in their 50's, reminding me that life is so frail and short. George Harrison of The Beatles was only 58 years old when he died. All those cancer sticks that he smoked to look “cool” finally caught up with him in 2001, when he died of lung cancer. Sadly, by all indications George went to Hell in his false religion of Hara Krishna. What saith the Scripture? John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” The Holy Bible teaches that there is NO SALVATION in any other name, than the precious NAME OF JESUS (Acts 4:10-12). Jesus Himself said in John 3:7, “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”!!!

Death often comes unexpectedly. Dear friend, arrogance is the worst enemy you'll ever have. Some people just can't be reasoned with! I have warned umpteen pastors about their wicked preaching of the heresies of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation (i.e., Calvinism). Yet, in their sinful pride and arrogance those ungodly pastors rejected THE TRUTH that I handle to them, for which they will be held accountable by God in eternity (Acts 15:1 and 24; Galatians 1:6-9, 3:1-3, 6:7). Today could be the last day of your life, and mine. I don't know about you, but I want to be on the right side of truth when I meet God. Lordship Salvation is a pack of lies!!! Misunderstood Repentance is NOT the Gospel of free grace! You don't turn away from sin to get saved, Jesus came to save you from your sin.

Every day of life is a second chance from God. Relish it dear friend. That is exactly what the Bible means in 1st Timothy 6:12, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” Each day, every time I work on another website article, every mouse click, every stroke of my keyboard, every moment spent in prayer for my dear web visitors—I am laying hold on eternal life, making the best of the remaining time I have on earth. 

Life is so predictably unpredictable. Look at the 88 deaths in Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee from the recent deadly tornadoes which set down. Tornadoes are very rare for December, but they happened! The tornadoes struck during the wee hours of the morning, while everyone was sleeping. Dozens of children were killed. Seven children were killed on just one block of a neighborhood. It is so sad! Dear friend, death is coming for you and me! Tornadoes aren't respecters of persons!!!

Slayer guitarist and band founder, Jeff Hanneman, died of liver failure after a tiny spider bite. Jeff died at age 49 of liver failure, after battling complications linked to a spider bite. Fans called him a “Guitar God.” He was called a God, but he is now dead. I don't know if Jeff was saved or not. If you ever spend time around these big names in music, you'll learn quickly that they all have garbage pails for minds. You can tell from their song lyrics, the way they talk in public interviews, et cetera. I want no part of that heathendom!

I remember as a teenager, when Eddie Van Halen (1964-2020) was at the top of the world, the Satanic spirit that permeated Van Halen's music. Today it is viewed as a mere novelty, but in their heyday in the 1970's and 1980's, Van Halen's music was a frightening demonic force in the world. Eddie and Alex Van Halen are devout Roman Catholics, which means that they are not born-again Christians. There is not a more fake and counterfeit organization in history, than the rotten Roman Catholic religion! The Pope is the Vicar of Hell, not Heaven.

Sadly, it is very likely that Eddie Van Halen died in his sins and went straight to Hell. I am not happy about that. I liked Eddie. I loved his creative skills on the electric guitar. I am a musician myself. His brother Alex (drummer for the Van Halen band) is an ordained Catholic minister, who performs weddings for friends and family. Truth is stranger than fiction! I am not trying to be unkind, but the Bible teaches there is salvation only by faith alone in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26). Catholics are taught that they must keep 'Seven Sacraments' to get to Heaven, which is 100% unbiblical. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.” That is exactly what men do, they FULLY REJECT GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, keeping their OWN TRADITION instead. Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world!

Our time on earth is brief. Eddie and Alex Van Halen had lots of fun (drunkenness, immorality with women, perversion, wickedness galore), but now where are they? Proverbs 3:33, “The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.” I have had music fans get upset with me for preaching THE TRUTH about Eddie Van Halen. The guy died in a false religion, period. I don't expect a hellbound unsaved person to understand. But that is why I wrote this blog, in hopes that someone will listen to reason. God didn't put us here to party! God didn't give us a healthy body to abuse it with drugs, booze and other substances! Even a child knows that rock music is the Devil's music!

Are you saved dear reader? You would be shocked if you knew how many churchgoers have never been born again!!! Evangelist Ray Comfort is an infidel (not saved). Ray says that to be “born again” refers to the radical change of lifestyle that occurs when a person comes to Christ. WRONG! That absolutely is not what it means to be “born again.” To be “born again” means to have He (Jesus) who is the beginning, born in you! It means to be re-gened with God's genes.

To be “born again” means that God literally merges with your spirit into one, so that you are now a part of God and He is a part of you. That doesn't mean we become God. It just means that we've been born spiritually into God's family. This is more than mere formal adoption by association, but literally becoming born into God and God born into us. It is a supernatural miracle of God solely in response to a person's childlike faith in Christ as their personal Savior. God literally lives inside my body, soul and spirit, and is an integral part of my being (1st Corinthians 3:16-17; Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24).

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

A Common Misinterpretation Of Luke 13:1-5 Concerning Repentance

Luke 13:1-5, “There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”

I am tired of hearing woefully ignorant preachers cite Luke 13:5 as a “proof text” to falsely teach that a person must “turn away from sin” to be saved. Folks, that is simply not true! No where does the inspired King James Bible say that we must “repent of your sin” or “turn away from your sin” to have eternal life. Please read these helpful words from one of my favorite preachers, Curtis Hutson (1934-1995):

'In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin. In this passage, Christ was talking to good people who believed that people suffered only because of their sins, and they concluded that those in Galilee whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices and those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners because they died such horrible deaths. Jesus contradicts the thinking of these self-righteous people and tells them that they need to repent or change their mind and see themselves as sinners, too, or they will perish in their own self-righteousness.'

One does not have to know the Greek language to see that “repent” in this passage does not mean feeling sorry for or turning from sin.

SOURCE: Pastor Curtis Hutson, an excerpt from his helpful booklet titled: 'Repentance: What Does The Bible Teach?'
I couldn't have said it any better. Yes, bravo Dr. Hutson! This is the accurate meaning of Luke 13:1-5. So the $64,000 question then becomes: “Where do preachers get the false idea that 'repent' in this passage means to turn away from your sin?” It comes from Roman Catholicism. It comes from our English dictionary meaning of the word. But the Biblical Greek meaning is something very different. The word for “repent” in Luke 13:3 and 5 is the Greek word metanoeo, a verb which means “to think differently.” A person “repents” (i.e., they change their mind) from a wrong mindset of unbelief, to thinking differently to believe to be saved.

Sadly, we've got a bunch of dumb dumb pastors today who don't take the time to study the Bible. Instead they just listen to infidels like Pastor John MacArthur, who is one of the most dangerous teachers in the world. 2nd Timothy 2:15, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Anytime you hear a religious leader teaching to “repent of your sin” to be saved, you know that he was inspired by demons to say that, because such nonsense is not found in God's Word.

Now I have to warn you, because the rabbit hole runs deep friend. There's another reason why so many of today's pastors, Bible colleges and churches are corrupt theologically—FALSE BIBLES! Jesus Himself warned that a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit! It is impossible! Matthew 7:17-18, “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” Amen and amen! If you don't believe me, then I plead with you to please listen to Jesus! The blessed Savior said that a corrupt tree CANNOT bring forth good fruit. Yet, we've got a bunch of stupid pastors and Bible college professors today, who think that the Devil's false Bibles are not a threat to the world. They've got a whole in their head the size of the Grand Canyon!


The Holy Bible Has Been Changed & Corrupted For Copyright!

Dear reader, things that are different are not the same! Anyone who downplays the danger of these modern Bibles is a darn fool. Buyer beware! The Devil is a beautiful liar! The Devil knows that if he can publish hundreds of different Bibles, then he can confuse and discourage everybody (especially young people) from trusting the Word of God. Isn't it something how words matter to politicians, engineers, lawyers, judges, businessmen and in every contract that someone signs, yet today's insane preachers would have us to believe that words don't matter to God. Please think about that! Words DO matter to God. Right doctrine matters!

So, getting backing to Luke 13:5, please don't allow any corrupt preacher to corrupt your knowledge of the Word of God. Jesus commanded us to “SEARCH THE SSCRIPTURES” in John 5:39a. NEVER accept anything as true until you have gone and verified it yourself! Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but no one has a right to their own facts. The truth of the matter is that you cannot show me any place in the inspired King James Bible where it says to repent “of your sins” to have eternal life.

Of course God wants us to turn away from our sinful living as saints (Romans 3:31). I am not diminishing the importance of holy living, God forbid. I am simply saying that the way you choose to live has absolutely NOTHING to do with receiving the gift of eternal life. Christ paid our debt of sin, because we couldn't. The very idea that God will not save a person, unless they first commit to clean up their life of sin is heresy! No Sir! God does not demand that you give up your sins to be saved. The only sin that can keep a person out of Heaven is unbelief. Therefore, the only thing necessary to get to Heaven is to BELIEVE. If a man believes the GOOD NEWS (GOSPEL) of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the sins in the world cannot keep that man out of Heaven, because he has been WASHED in the blood of the Lamb (1st Corinthians 6:11; 1st John 1:7; 1st Peter 1:18-19).

Jesus wasn't telling them to stop sinning in Luke 13:5 to be saved. He was simply taking the opportunity, upon hearing some bad news, to use it as a soulwinning moment. The wonderful Savior simply showed them their need for salvation. What do we do when we hear bad news? Most of us add our own bad news to the conversation, when we ought to be soul conscious like Jesus was. Upon hearing some negative news, Jesus used it as a chance to share the Gospel. Except you “repent” (change your thinking), you will go to Hell too! Simply change your thinking from unbelief to belief dear friend, and you too can KNOW that you have eternal life dwelling in you.

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