It
is tragic how Satan has crept into so many churches today, which are no
longer New Testament churches. Jude 1:4, “For there are certain men
crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” One of the
most deadly heresies ever conceived is the addition of human effort to
the grace of God in salvation.
We see this error in the human effort of Cain to please God in the flesh. Genesis 4:3, “And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering.”
Abel's lamb offering shewed forth his faith in the coming Messiah, by whose blood humanity could be redeemed through faith. But Cain tried to impress God with the works of his hands, by offering the best grains that his fields could produce under his care.
To the casual ignorant observer, it may seem that both men—Cain and Abel—were good men, hard working, sincere, and brought the best offerings available to present to the Lord. However, to anyone who understands THE TRUTH, “without shedding of blood is no remission” (Hebrews 9:22b).
I was so frustrated last year, when I asked a local Baptist pastor on Guam where Jesus' blood was at today. He literally didn't know! This is a graduate of Dr. Ron Comfort's Ambassador Bible College, who doesn't even know where Jesus' blood is at! MAN, STUDY THE HOLY INSPIRED KING JAMES BIBLE!!!!!!! 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.” This is the same bozo pastor who accused me of being “OBSESSED with the Bible-issue debate.” That same rascal openly admittedly to me that he couldn't identify even one problem with the modern corrupt Bible versions. The truth is that HE DOESN'T STUDY!!! I would mention his shameful name, but I am a gentleman.
Folks, just because a pastor is approved by a so-called Bible college, and has a paper degree with a human institution's name printed on it, doesn't mean that that man has been approved by God! 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.” A man's approval comes from God alone!!! The day I was ordained as a minister of the Gospel in 1994, by a group of local pastors in Chicago, one pastor whom I respect asked me the following question: “What will it mean to you if we decide not to ordain you today?” I immediately replied (respectfully but confidently), “God called me to preach, and I'm going to preach the King James Bible whether you ordain me today or not!” He smiled and said, “That was the answer we we're looking for!” They did approve of me for ordination, for which I am grateful. But their approval means nothing unless God approves of me!!!!!!!
I am approved by God because I
have studied the Holy Bible!!! I know the Gospel. I don't add human
effort like
Dr.
John MacArthur,
Pastor Paul Washer and
Evangelist Ray Comfort do, perverting the Gospel! One associate
pastor at the messed-up Harvest Baptist Church on Guam insisted that he
considers ALL THREE of the aforementioned ministers as men of God. No,
they are bastards in the pulpits, illegitimate, not approved by God,
because they teach false doctrine concerning the plan of salvation.
A Willingness To “Turn From Sins” (Reform) is a False Gospel
I went and did my laundry this morning at a local Laundromat. I keep a hard copy of Michael P. Bowen's book in my car, titled, “I NEVER KNEW YOU.” I love this book! Every time I do my laundry I read from it, to keep me on my toes concerning the purity of the Gospel. I read these great words today, which prompted me to write this article, and I'd like to share these words with you now by Brother Michael Bowen, from chapter 11 exposing Ray Comfort's and Kirk Cameron's false Gospel...
...Christ said we must be born again, and to be born again, according to Him, we must believe that He paid for “your sins” and for “my sins” when He died on the cross. On that cross, He paid for your sin, for my sin, for Hitler’s sins, for everybody’s sins. When we realize that we are hell-bound without Jesus, and when we realize that we are sinners who cannot enter heaven based upon any combination of faith in Christ “plus” how we live our lives, all we can do is simply believe that Jesus paid for all of our sins by His death and subsequent resurrection from the grave, and when we do, friend, He erases our sins and then credits us with His righteousness. That is salvation. It’s easy... it’s too easy...yet, that’s how God the Father designed salvation to be. To “not” believe that His Son is our savior is to call God the Father a LIAR, and that’s exactly what 95 percent of today’s pastors all over America are doing, daily. They are calling God a LIAR. It makes me sick, and that’s why I’m writing a book about today’s so-called “great” pastors who nobody else seems willing to stand up and challenge. For me to attend a church where I know the gospel message of Christ has been deliberately mangled so that it cannot save a lost person, or to present myself to a body of so-called believers and passively sit by while the pastor lies to his congregation, it would be tantamount to my giving an endorsement of his flawed doctrines.
I cannot sit in any of these churches in my current home town because none of them believe what God said about Jesus. No. It’s better to stay at home; in fact, our very first president, George Washington, said that it’s better to be alone than to be in bad company. In fact, the bible tells true believers to never give money to a false ministry and to never wish an unbeliever “Godspeed.” Now, since Jesus is, in fact, God the Son, He, with an authority equal to that of God the Father’s authority, says most strongly the following truth: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (John 6:47). Reader, if quitting sinning and making Him the Lord of your life were a part of the equation He would have told us so, outright, but He did not. Salvation is “free” yet the church down the road, and the cults down the road, too, both in your town and in my town, all say that we must live the Christian Lifestyle PLUS have faith in Christ, or in Mary, or a combination of faith in Him or her PLUS all the good works we can do in order to get to heaven. It’s a LIE of Satan. Christ said that in the days before He raptured His body of true believers from this world, before the rise of the anti-Christ, that there would be many, many liars concerning salvation. Although Comfort and Cameron are good men who sincerely believe in what they are doing, they have been hooked in the jaws by a flawed definition of repentance by a lure like fish on the end of a master angler’s pole. They’ve bitten the counterfeit bait that appeared so real to their hungered souls, and as they are being reeled in by the father of lies himself, they are telling everyone else to bite into the bait that they themselves have eaten, yet, they still have not come to the realization that the lure they have bitten cannot nourish them, because it contains no life-giving power.
SOURCE: I NEVER KNEW YOU, by Michael P. Bowen; by Barbour Books, ©2009; page 116-117.
Every time I do my laundry I read from Michael's helpful book. I thank God for his testimony. The book helps keep me on my toes concerning the purity of the Gospel. Granted, our doctrine comes solely from the inspired Word of God and no book written by any man can even compare to the living Word of God. When a man writes a book, it is just a book; but the Word of God is a living Book. Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” This is why I fight so valiantly against those disgraceful ministers today who DENY the inspiration of the King James Bible. Folks, if the Holy Bible is not inspired, then it is not alive and powerful!!!!!!! How can a faulty Bible with errors in it, mishandled by well-meaning men, a half-truth, be alive? The holy King James Bible is inspired!
If I were the Devil, I would
employ a bunch of intellectual religious scholars to convince people
that we don't have a perfect Holy Bible today (that was the whole
purpose of Westcott and Hort). This would enable me to eventually
publish hundreds of other English Bibles to confuse everyone, so that no
one knows which way is up anymore. I would then gradually change what it
means to repent, so as to add human effort to the grace of God,
and thus pervert the truth of the Gospel to hinder men from being saved.
I would secularize the Holy Bible, substituting spirituality for
theology. Without people even realizing it, before too long, I would
have the churches worshipping entertainment instead of God. I would
render the church alters empty at invitation time, simply by training
pastors to become administrators instead of preachers! I am describing
most churches in America today!
A Bad Pastor Can Be Approved By Men, But Not By God
A man is not approved by God merely because a local church votes him in as their pastor. A man can graduate from a religious college, and be approved by them. That same man can be ordained by a group of religious men, and approved by them as well. And then that same man can be voted to be the pastor of a church, approved by that congregation. Albeit, that same man who has received unanimously HUMAN approval, may NOT receive DIVINE approval. That pastor may not be approved unto God at all!!! It matters not if a man graduates from Bob Jones PANTSiversity or Moody Bible SINstitute! It matters not if that man is ordained and approved by other men. All that matters is whether he has studied to shew himself approved unto God!!!
I am wearied with slackdog pastors who get their doctrine from internet preachers. You can easily tell when a pastor has been corrupted, simply by listening to the men that he quotes. When I attended Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, it was John MacArthur said this, and John MacArthur said that. The pastor even stocked the table in back of the church with doctrinal poison authored by John MacArthur. Did you know that deadly rat poison is 99% good wholesome food? It's that 1% of poison that kills the rat! Likewise, the Minority Texts from Alexandrian, Egypt, upon which 95% of today's Bible revisions are based (aka, the 1881 Greek translation produced by Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort) comprises less than 2% of all available ancient Bible manuscripts.
The most dangerous pastors in America's pulpits today are 98% accurate and trustworthy. It is that 2% of doctrinal corruption regarding the meaning of Bible repentance and the Gospel that makes them so deadly. Most of what Pastor John F. MacArthur says is true. From a secular point of view, he is a brilliant man. I have learned many wonderful truths from John MacArthur. I was listening to him one day on the radio and he said the law is like a mirror, that is, if you tap it lightly, it will break into a hundred pieces. I thought that was a pretty good illustration. That is why thousands of pastors admire and follow Mr. MacArthur, because he is really good when he is correct! Unfortunately, John MacArthur is a devout Calvinist, which is as bad as being a Roman Catholic. I'm not kidding either!
John Calvin (1509-1564) was a monster, who murdered several dozen people for teaching that infant baptism is unbiblical. Calvin taught that God forces men to be saved, and Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross for all men, and if a person doesn't persevere in holy living they aren't really saved. None of that is Biblical. You can tell a Calvinist right away when they say stupid things; such as, you cannot merely write your name, date and place you were saved in your Holy Bible, repentance is an ongoing thing. That is the garbage Ray Comfort teaches (video). Mr. Comfort, despite being a brilliant street preacher, is a lousy theologian. Tragically, he is not saved. How can a man be saved who adds human effort to the grace of God? According to Ray Comfort (as I just showed you in the link), you have to be willing to reform and continue to reform for the rest of your life, to prove your sincerity to God. That is not the free gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). God saves us unto good works, not by good works (Ephesians 2:10).
Tragically, 95% of pastors
and evangelists today are NOT approved by God, because they haven't properly studied the
Word of God. Many of those corrupt men have been messed with in some
preacher's cemetery. Sad to say, over
95%
of America's Bible colleges today are hellholes of apostasy,
indoctrinating young people to disbelieve the inspiration of the Word of
God. It is tragic that a person with common sense goes into Bible
college believing that the Holy Bible is inspired, but by the time they
graduate they no longer believe that we have an inspired, accurate and
trustworthy Bible today!!! It is wickedness. It is PERVERSE SCHOLARS,
manmade intellectualism, wicked arrogant men, although well-meaning, who
keep telling everyone that God's Word exists piece-by-piece scattered among
a sea of hundreds of English
Bibles today. You're a fool if you believe that garbage!!! God authored
ONE BOOK, the Book, and we have it in the blessed King James
Bible!!!!!!!
God is Disgusted With Fence-Straddlers, Lukewarmness
Bob Jones University is rooting for the enemy. They are the Jane Fonda of our generation, sitting on the enemy's anti-inspiration gun of corrupt Bible versions. BJU sells corruptible seed. BJU's alumni sell corruptible seed. They promote and bid Godspeed to the Bible-corrupting mafia! Bob Jones College and Moody Bible Institute, Hyles-Anderson College, and East Texas Bible College are horrible places of apostasy, where young people's faith is shaken in the inspiration of the Word of God.
When Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001) was still alive, Hyles-Anderson College (HAC) believed and taught that the King James Bible is inspired. HAC dishonestly bears Dr. Hyles name still today, while denying the most important truth Brother Hyles ever taught us as students. I attended from 1985 to 1993, when I proudly graduated. I wouldn't trade my years at HAC for all the money in the world. Sadly, First Baptist Church of Hammond (FBCH), Indiana, today spit on Brother Hyles, loyal to some corrupt man who ran the church into the ground spiritually. It just shows how easily people are deceived and led astray into apostasy. One bad pastor changed the mindset of tens of thousands of people! Once a church is corrupted, it rarely recovers. Are there no men of God at FBCH today? Dr. Hyles called the battle over the inspiration and purity of the Word of God, “THE BATTLE OF THE AGES!” Psalms 12:1, “Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.” In a moment of weakness, FBCH voted in their present pastor, who openly admitted that he doesn't think it is wise to criticize corruptible seed! I wouldn't let that man stand behind any pulpit. I would make him a janitor or perhaps run a hamburger stand. Dr. Jack Hyles would be ashamed of FBCH today!!! It breaks my heart. My loyalty is to God and truth, not to any man!
Bob Jones University and Moody Bible Institute and dead, dried-up, theological cemeteries today! They are not fundamentalist! We are in a raging battle today over the inspiration and purity of God's Word. We are in an ongoing raging battle over the meaning of repentance for salvation. The churches are losing the battle! John MacArthur is a false prophet, an unsaved follower of John Calvin. Are you approved unto God? If not, don't teach the Scriptures to anyone, because you'll have blood on your hands if you get it wrong, like this doctrinally messed-up, unapproved, YouTube guy who perverts the Gospel! In the preceding video, the man confuses discipleship with sonship; he confuses service with salvation; he confuses God's faithfulness in giving the gift of salvation by faith to every one who believe, verses man's faithfulness to obey their heavenly Father. Discipleship depends on man's faithfulness to God; but salvation entirely depends upon God's faithfulness to man, to keep His promise “TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE” (1st Corinthians 1:21).
No pastor is approved by God who errantly teaches that reformation is necessary to be saved. I heard a Christian lady tell about a wicked pastor in her former church, who corrected her for testifying that she had led three people to the Lord that previous week. He said, “Well, we won't really know if they got saved until we watch their lives over time, to see if they change.” That idea is of the Devil! If the free gift of eternal life is conditional upon reformation (i.e., a changed life), then it is by WORKS and not by FAITH (Romans 11:6). A person's faith is validated only in the eyes of other men by works. The Holy Bible is abundantly clear over and over that salvation is solely by faith, simply by believing the Good News when you hear it preached!
The intent of my ministry is not to critique bad churches, but to help make them better. Churches are made up of people and people are full of pride. I would like to believe in my heart of hearts that churches are taking heed and benefiting from my writings, even though they would never admit it. Somebody's got to care! Somebody's got to take a stand and tell the truth! Calvinism is not the Gospel.
Chick Tracts are horrible! Granted, the art work is superb, but Jack Chick requires people to be willing to reform to be saved. Is that really what God said in the Holy Bible? Do you have to be willing to turn away from your sinful ways to be saved? All of Jack Chick's cartoon tracts tell you, first, to admit that you are a sinner, which is Biblical. But then he goes horribly awry, secondly, by telling people that they must be willing to reform, to be willing to turn from their sins, to be saved (which he foolishly considers to be repentance). That is reformation, not repentance!!! Judas reformed in Matthew 27:3, but still went to Hell in his sins without salvation.
God saves us and then the Holy Spirit changes us, but you cannot predicate salvation upon those changes. Sometimes those changes won't be clearly visible. Noah and Lot got drunk. David commit adultery and murder. Samson went with harlots. Abraham lied and doubted God. Jacob betrayed his father and stole from his brother. Jonah ran from God's will. After He resurrected from the dead, Jesus found Peter naked in public. These are all Christians! Ray Comfort would errantly say they never got saved! People need to leave God's free grace alone! People need to leave the simplicity that is in Christ alone! People need to leave the Word of God alone! A man is only approved unto God if he is teaching and preaching THE TRUTH!!!!!!!
“Nothing
in my future can ever affect the salvation that I have... Once you trust
the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are eternally secure!”
—Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon
titled, “
