Beware of Charismatic & Pentecostal Nutcases!

2nd Peter 2:1-3, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

I once worked with a Charismatic nutcase! And let me tell you, there's not a more ungodly, weird and covetous group of hypocrites than the Pentecostals, Assemblies, Charismatics, et cetera. They all share three common falsehoods:

1. Speaking in demonic tongues
2. Fake healing crusades or meetings
3. Salvation can be lost because of sin

I once met a crazy religious man on an airplane (a retired commercial airline pilot of all things). He was a Charismatic wacko, very disrespectful of other's beliefs, and a jerk. I wish I had never allowed him to draw me into his creepy conversation. The insane experience was so unpleasant that it compelled me to never engage in another conversation with these demon possessed weirdos. While I was sharing my views against fake healings, he literally started talking over me, reading the Bible incessantly like he was exorcizing a demon. I asked him to please be quiet, but he totally ignored me and just kept reading his New King James Version aloud in his anger. That was creepy! That guy was a strange freak if ever I met one. 

Not surprisingly, I have a VERY LOW opinion of anybody who is involved in the Devil's Charismatic movement. The guy I just mentioned has a Korean woman for a pastor in Colorado. ALL women preachers are false prophets!!! This wicked country has already gone to the dogs! My Christian advice to everyone is to AVOID the Charismatic movement completely! Just like the greedy cult of Scientology, greedy Charismatics are no better! Benny Hinn is one of the biggest conmen on the planet!!! It is unfortunate that so many millions of people fall prey to these monsters, predators in the pulpit today who just want YOUR MONEY!

I used to work with a heathen Pentecostal man, another nut! One afternoon I kindly tried to warn him about the woes of the covetous Charismatic movement (e.g., Creflo Dollar, Peter Popoff, Joyce Meyer, Paul and Jan Crouch, Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn, Bill Hamon, John Hagee and Pat Robertson (to name but a few heretics). I shared with him the story about my pastor, Jack Hyles, who was so humble that he refused a brand new Rolls Royce car. The nut that I worked with falsely accused Dr. Hyles of being too proud to accept a gift from a church member! Isn't it interesting how people can justify anything from a certain perspective?

So in the mind of that foolish co-worker, pastors are being “humble” to accept all the lavish gifts and money bestowed upon them by their followers. And if you don't accept them you are “too proud” they say. GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!! That is the Devil talking in that fool's head. I thank God that I have the inspired Word of God to form, shape and guide my thinking. Romans 12:2, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” The most stupid and dangerous thing that you will ever do is to idly subject your mind to the tommyrot of a Charismatic preacher!!!

When I was traveling on an airplane for neck surgery, a horrible Charismatic nut told me that if I were filled with the Holy Spirit that I wouldn't need to have surgery. Isn't that evil folks? What a horrible and unkind thing to say to someone who is suffering, headed for surgery to go under the knife. That wicked man was laying the blame upon me, for if I had been as spiritual as him, I would have been miraculously healed without a surgeon.

I love something that my Baptist pastor said to us in his sermon yesterday, on Sunday morning. He said that if you get up on the church roof and jump off, you will be rushed to the Emergency Room, but God still loves you! In other words, the fact that God does love you very much, doesn't negate the physical laws of gravity!!! Our wise pastor was teaching us that just because bad things happen to us in life, doesn't in any way mean that God doesn't love us very much. No one is exempt from life's hardships, burdens and evil happenings.

We're all susceptible of become the victim of criminals! Life is never fair to anyone!!! The world blames God, knowing that He is all-powerful and could stop this mess at any time, so why doesn't He? I honestly cannot answer that question. I simply don't know. If I were God (thankfully I'm not or I'd make a total mess of things), I'd try to straiten out the world. But wait, then I would have to force people against their will to do my will, or else terminate them or somehow remove them from the equation. Gee, thing aren't as simple as I thought after all. Did you ever think about that friend? If you were God, how would you improve the world? We could get 1,000 people together in a room, to ask them what they would change about the world if they could. But it would turn into a nightmare quickly, because no one would agree.

Come to think of it, that is exactly what is presently happening in the United States. We've got a bunch of people running around on social media, in the court system, the newsmedia, lawmakers, politicians and top leaders in every profession, including the nutty religious world, dictating to the planet how things should be. The result is always chaos! If humanity has learned one thing over the past 6,000 years of human civilization, it is that mankind cannot rightly govern himself. And since we nearly all reject the inspired Holy Bible, which God gave us in His mercy to guide us through life, humanity is doomed to repeated failure! No one knows so little, as the fool who thinks they have all the answers apart from the Word of God.

Would you really want God to force people against our will to do what is right? If that were the case, then we wouldn't have any freedom, no free will, no liberty. I wouldn't want that. And if God instantly punished everyone who did something wrong, He'd be zapping people all day long from Heaven. That would make us prisoners in a far more cruel world than the one in which we live today because of man's sin. When I really think it through, God is so good to all of us! The world is only in a mess because we as humans have made it that way!

God gave to us a working brain. I marvel how stupid some people are, giving their money and children to the Charismatic movement. Beware of false prophets Jesus warned in Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Beware of Pat Robertson! Beware of John Hagee! Beware of the Oral Roberts camp! Beware of Benny Hinn and anybody associated with his circus of religious clowns. Satan is a beautiful liar! I feel sorry for anyone who has been caught up into the Devil's wacky speaking in tongues, fake healing meetings, and thinking that God's free gift of salvation can be lost. No one is saved who thinks that salvation can be lost! That is slavation, not salvation!!!

Benny Hinn Exposed!

The Scam Of Tithing 10%

1st Corinthians 16:2, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

I really hate a lot of preachers! It is pastors who are destroying the churches. God said it Himself. There is nothing knew under the sun:

Jeremiah 10:21, “For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.”

Jeremiah 12:10, “Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.” 

Jeremiah 23:1-2, “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!  saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.”

Pastor Jack Hyles used to say that the church is not the vineyard, but a pastor is supposed to make it a vineyard for winning souls to Jesus Christ (John 15:1-5). I am so sick and tired of this heresy of tithing 10%. I've heard Baptist preachers tell this massive lie all my life. They get up behind the pulpit every Sunday and browbeat their congregation, lying to the people, telling them that they OWE God 10%. Those false preachers say that if you only tithe 10% you haven't given God anything, you just handed over what you already OWED Him. They teach that only that which you give above and beyond 10% is truly something that you GAVE to God. At least 95% of pastors will tell you that 15% is a good figure! THEY ARE LIARS!!!

I am mad about this, because I know an elderly Christian lady who earns about $12,000 a year. Yet her pastor has brainwashed her with the lie of tithing 10% and giving another 5% to be right with God. So she tithes $1,800 a year. After paying her taxes on $12,000 she has mere peanuts left to survive on. Obviously she cannot live on this little amount of money. Even with her subsidized low-income housing she is still in the dog house financially. She cannot afford glasses. She cannot afford any luxuries. She cannot even order a pizza most of the time. So she begs and borrow all the time from her family. That is unethical and wrong for her to be tithing 15% of her poverty wages, to her church.

And what really burns me up is that her highfaluting pastor is living large with his wife. That pastor is GUILTY because he pressures, browbeats and threatens his congregation with the wrath of God if they cheat God out of His due 15% tithes and offerings. That pastor never once has to do without ordering a pizza, or buying the food that his family desires, because his salary is about $80,000 a year!!!

I fully agree with George Barna, who is against Christian tithing. The word “tithing” itself actually means “one tenth.” Tithing was a Jewish custom, never intended to become a Christian principle! The Jews practiced tithing in the Old Testament, but there is no command in the New Testament for believers to tithe. God has given all men the freedom to give to the local church, or parachurch ministry, at their own wisdom and discretion. You'll hear 99% of pastors today blatantly lie to people, insisting that they either tithe of face God's wrath.

Folks, please tell everybody you know about the scam of tithing today. In the Bible a widow gave her last two mites to the Lord. we don't know the whole story. Obviously she needed food to survive. She needed a place to live. She needed personal care items to survive. Where did she get the money? We simply don't know. But my guess is that she used what money she had, and then with the only two mites she had left, she gave it to God. I am 100% against this insane Baptist doctrine, which says that even if you live in utter poverty, you are expected to still PAY GOD FIRST. That is not Biblical at all. What saith the Scripture? 1st Corinthians 16:2, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”

The Apostle Paul needed money (don't they all). Paul didn't want them taking up a love offering when he got there. He wanted them to lay up what they could, only as God had prospered them already. Don't miss that! Paul didn't expect them to dig deep and sacrificially give to support his ministry!!! How has God prospered you friend? Here are my personal rules for tithing (many will disagree, but you can be stupid with God's money if you want):

1. I will never give money to any church where the pastor is living a higher standard of living than I am. The average pastor's salary is $101,196 today, which is sickening! Don't you dare give a penny to any church that pays that kind of insane salary to a pastor!!!
2. I will never give money to any church where the pastor can afford trips to Israel, but I cannot. I know umpteen pastors who have taken umpteen trips to the Unholy Land, mooching off their people.
3. I will never give money to any church where the pastor is getting paid more than the common man gets paid. Pastor Jeff Redlin of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College gets paid a 6-digit salary. Hell will freeze over before I give a dime to their cult.
4. I will never give money to a dead church that has no soulwinning outreach.
5. I will never give money to a church that is wrong on a free grace Gospel.
6. I will never give money to a church where the pastor browbeats, pressures and threatens people with divine retribution if they don't give more money.
7. I will never give any money to a church with a woman pastor or assistant pastor.

Dear reader, when you give God any amount of money, you are just letting go of what is already His. Your body, soul, home and all your possessions belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are a born-again child of God. You were bought with a price. That price is the precious blood of Jesus. 1st Corinthians 6:20, “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” Be wise with God's money! Don't just go give it away like a fool to some fool, because you only have a certain amount of money and then it's gone! So we must give wisely. Do your homework into an organization before donating a single penny. And if they are not completely forthright, don't give them a dime!!!

Everything you own belongs to God dear friend. And you can tithe with your time too. Perhaps you have more time than money, like my situation. I sometimes spend 70 or more hours a week working day and night on my website ministry, never taking a single penny for my labours for the past 20 years! To God alone be ALL the credit, praise and glory. Any businessman will tell you that time is money and money is time. When you go to work, your employer is paying you for your time. That is why companies will often pay you cash to buy back your vacation time, so you can work more for them. They need your time! Likewise, God promises in 1st Corinthians 3:8 to reward every individual believer according to our OWN LABOURS. If you are part of a ministry group, God is only going to reward you according to the time, money and resources that you invested into that group effort.

So for many low-income people, you may give to God of your time, skills and talents, but not give any money. That is perfectly acceptable to God. The true account of Ananias and Saphira in Acts chapter 5 has nothing to do with tithing. They broke a promise to the Holy Spirit about the sale of their home and where the proceeds would go, and they died for it. Never lie to God. Don't make promises you won't keep. I blame pastors for that.

I love Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001). He is my hero of the faith. But I have some issue with Dr. Hyles. In the 1970's he pressured his people to give the church money. He pressured them into making signed commitments over the next year to donate large sums of money, to fund his numerous ministry projects (just like Solomon pressured the people and they hated him for it). I heard Brother Hyles preaching a sermon a year later, angry and scolding many of his people who reneged on their financial commitment to give money to the church. Pastor Hyles said that $100,000 in funds were never donated which had been promised. He was upset about people breaking their word. Now, I cannot argue with the wrongdoing of anybody who reneges on a promise to give money. However, this is what happens when you lay heavy financial burdens upon your congregation. I don't think Dr. Hyles should have done that.

I heard Pastor Clarence Sexton in 2016, pressuring his church congregation to give $1,000,000 to renovate Crown College. Where does it stop? Where does the browbeating, hounding and pressuring people to give all that they have to a ministry? I love Pastor Steven Anderson's philosophy on money. The church rents their building, carries no balance of money into the next year, and if someone ever sues the church, there won't be any accumulated assets to take. Brother Anderson is wise!

Today's Bible colleges are getting bigger and buying more real estate, growing exponentially. Pensacola Christian College literally own city blocks of real estate. But the churches are shrinking and dying, barely keeping their doors open. Sadly, Christianity in America has deteriorated into a stinking lucrative, cold-hearted, business!!! I speak to the shame of phonies like Pastor Jeff Redlin at Campus Church at PCC. I've never met such a cold-hearted, uncaring, pathetic, coward. When he saw my website ministry (which one of my enemies sent to him to slander me), Redlin criticized my work, accusing me of finding weaknesses in preachers. No, I am REBUKING THEM SHARPLY that they might be sound in the faith (Titus 1:10-14). Pastor Redlin is just a fool who isn't right with God, equating gain with godliness at PCC. The Bible says from such turn away (1st Timothy 6:5).

God is a Miracle Working God

Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”

I recently bought Cecil B. Demille's 1956 epic movie, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Most people, like me, love the scene where God parts the Red Sea. The DVD movie is narrated by Katherine Orrison if you choose to turn on the commentary feature. I watched the entire 2:40 hour movie through, and then once again with the commentary turned on.

I was very saddened as I listened to Katherine Orrison's horrible lack of faith in a miracle working God. All she does throughout the commentary is attempt to provide plausible excuses to discredit the miracles of God. This movie is the 5th highest-grossing movie in North America, with an adjusted total of over $1 billion in 2010[1]

Katherine Orrison suggests that the waters in Egypt turned red due to a nearby volcanic eruption that spewed colored lava, thus changing the water's color. She then speculates that the contaminated waters drove the frogs and locusts from their natural habitat into the Egyptian's homes, and that the volcanic rocks were toxic and killed wildlife, making the rivers to stink. The fiery hail is also attributed to volcanic activity.

It is tragic that people refuse to accept the Bible as literal. The Bible tells us that the waters in Egypt were turned into literal blood, not just given a red color. The Bible says that God cursed the Egyptians with painful boils all over their bodies, which a volcano did not do. Orrison's lack of faith in a miracle working God is disgraceful in a movie that meant so much to Cecil B. Demille (1881-1959). Mr. Demille believed that God could do the IMPOSSIBLE, and He still does today. Life itself is impossible without God. Look around you and you'll see the impossible. This universe would fall apart in seconds if God stopped doing the impossible. Acts 17:25 says that God giveth to all life and breath.

It is not surprising to me that the hellhole of Hollywood would botch the Ten Commandments, attributing all of God's miracles to natural occurrences. The truth is that these unsaved Modernists have no faith at all in the miracle-working God of the Bible. They are unbelievers in every way. Katherine Orrison attempts to explain away God's miraculous power, trying to appease unbelievers, skeptics, atheists, and naysayers. To Hell with the naysayers if that's where they choose to go! God is omnipotent!!! Nothing shall be impossible to God. I love what Luke 1:37 says... NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE! The Bible doesn't say that all things are possible with God; but rather, NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE!!! In other words, God can do the inexplicable, the unexpectable, and the unimaginable!!!

Shame on Katherine Orrison for doubting God's omnipotence. She speculates that a volcano turned the water to a reddish color; however, the Bible says that the water turned into literal blood and stank because of it. All the fish died because they can't breath blood. It had nothing to do with a volcano as Pharaoh in the movie suggests. Katherine Orrison is no better than unbelieving Pharaoh who doubted God's power and might. We ought not attempt to cater to the doubts of unbelievers by explaining away the miracles of God. If a person refuses to believe the Bible because it proclaims a miracle-working God, then they are doomed in their unbelief, for salvation itself is a supernatural act of God (John 1:12).

I'm tired of people trying to find natural causes to explain away the power of God. Such apostates feel that by attributing the enormous miraculous claims of the Bible to some plausible natural event, that they'll earn the respect of unbelievers and naysayers who laugh at the Bible, mock God, and doubt God's power. If you have to reduce God to the level of men to believe Him, then you have made man your god. It's called Humanism and it's of the Devil.

The frogs came out of the red Sea because God made them come out of the Red Sea, not because volcanic rock disrupted their natural habitat. The Red Sea parted because God caused it to part, not because of a dry spell, low-tide, or stepping stones that the Israelites walked upon. The Bible says that the Israelites walked across the Red Sea on dry ground, and the entire Egyptian army drowned when the sea fell upon them. The Bible says Pharaoh's men and horses all ended up on the shore for Pharaoh to see what God had done. From the burning bush from which God first appeared unto Moses, to all the provisions God bestowed upon His people in the Wilderness, it was all wrought by the hand of a miracle-working God.

Leave it to Hollywood to explain away the Bible, diminish the awesome power of God, and make excuses in an attempt to satisfy the doubts of wicked men. It is sad.

We are living in times of woeful apostasy. I searched for further information on the Ten Commandments movie and found it being is sold on the website: FAMILY FICTION... because everyone deserves a good story. That's what they advertise. The website further states, “Your Christian fiction information source.” That's what the Ten Commandments and the miraculous power of God is to them... FICTION. That's all it is to Katherine Orrison... FICTION. They don't believe in a literal God who is capable of performing literal miracles. Certainly, we all have times of doubt in our life; but that in no way means that God is not still on His throne and able to do the IMPOSSIBLE.

Prayer is asking God to do the impossible, when all seems inexplicable, and all hope seems unobtainable. Truly, God's greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145:3, “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.”

The Dark Mental Struggles Of Evangelist John Bunyan

Genesis 15:12, “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.” Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” 2nd Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

I am always encouraged when I read about the humanity, struggles, sins and shortcomings of other preachers, because it reminds me that I am not alone in my own weakness and suffering. Please read the following disturbing biographical information about the famous Baptist preacher John Bunyan (1628-1688):

Conversion and ministry

Bunyan’s conversion to Puritanism was a gradual process in the years following his marriage (1650–55); it is dramatically described in his autobiography. After an initial period of Anglican conformity in which he went regularly to church, he gave up, slowly and grudgingly, his favourite recreations of dancing and bell ringing and sports on the village green and began to concentrate on his inner life. Then came agonizing temptations to spiritual despair lasting for several years. The “storms” of temptation, as he calls them, buffeted him with almost physical violence; voices urged him to blaspheme; the texts of Scriptures, which seemed to him to threaten damnation, took on personal shape and “did pinch him very sore.” 

Finally one morning he believed that he had surrendered to these voices of Satan and had betrayed Christ: “Down I fell as a bird that is shot from the tree.” In his psychopathic isolation he presents all the features of the divided mind of the maladjusted as they have been analyzed in the 20th century. ...Bunyan soon proved his talents as a lay preacher. Fresh from his own spiritual troubles, he was fitted to warn and console others: “I went myself in Chains to preach to them in Chains, and carried that Fire in my own Conscience that I persuaded them to beware of.” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: Encyclopedia Britannica, John Bunyan

John Bunyan was a human being created in the image of God! Amen. That is what I take away from the preceding information. All of God's men in the Bible were humble and saw themselves as lowly men:

Jacob - Genesis 32:10, “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.”

Job - Job 17:1, “My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.” 

David - Psalms 22:6, “But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.”

Isaiah - Isaiah 6:5, “Then said I, Woe is me!  for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

Peter - Luke 5:8, “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Paul - 1st Timothy 1:15, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”

I have had fellow well-meaning believers say things to me like: “It sounds like you're down on yourself” and “You need to grow thicker skin.” My father (1933-2010) was also a Christian, who worked a career as a type-setter for the Chicago Tribune newspaper for over 30 years. Those were in the days before computers came along, when to print a newspaper, every single letter and character had to be printed by a mechanical die. Can you imagine?

We read that Abraham felt a deep horror of darkness which came upon him...

Genesis 15:12, “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”

As a minister, I have received countless emails from hurting people over the past 20 years of my website ministry, telling me about their spiritual and mental struggles with demons, sinful temptations, bizarre dreams, strange experiences and blasphemous thoughts against God. I always humbly tell them that they came to the right place, because I LOVE PEOPLE and I will do everything in my power to humbly help them as long as it takes.

David felt that his soul was in prison. Oh how I know that horrible feeling all too well. ...

Is Your Soul In Prison Dear Friend?

Psalms 142:7, “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”

People sometimes errantly think that the least thing we can do for others is to pray for them. No dear friend, to pray for another human being is the MOST greatest thing you can do for them. Colossians 1:9, “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;” You're never wasting your time when you pray! God answers prayer. One way or another, we are never wasting our time when we pray to God.

Dwight Moody As A Youth Had A Dark Mind His Sunday School Teacher Said

There was a child, born into a large family. Tragically, his father died when he was just four years old, leaving his mother to tend for him, his six brothers and his two sisters. When he was 17, he attended a church, as part of the conditions of his employment at his uncle's shoe store. After several months of attending this church, he converted to Christianity, when his Sunday school teacher told him about how much God loves him. That child was none other than the famous preacher, Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899).

Here is what his Sunday school teacher Mr. Edward Kimball (1823-1901) had to say of him:

“I can truly say, and in saying it I magnify the infinite grace of God as bestowed upon him, that I have seen few persons whose minds were spiritually darker than was his when he came into my Sunday School class; and I think that the committee of the Mount Vernon Church seldom met an applicant for membership more unlikely ever to become a Christian of clear and decided views of Gospel truth, still less to fill any extended sphere of public usefulness.” SOURCE

The young man Dwight Moody had a mind which was “spiritually darker” than almost any that his Sunday school teacher had seen. A month after being saved, he was rejected for church membership (just like Harvest Baptist Church on Guam shamefully rejected me). Moody would be saved for 13 months before his application for membership to a church was finally accepted. No one expected him to be someone who would receive the Gospel, let alone being of service in the local community. Never judge a book by its cover!

God will use anybody if they are yielded to Him! Samson was a crooked stick, but God will still use a crooked stick if it is yielded to Him. We are all crooked sticks in the mud; that is, we are all sinners who fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).

I have struggled with depression most of my adult life. Pastor Charles Spurgeon often suffered from depression. Mr. Spurgeon's wife was an invalid for over 20 years, bedridden. That dear man suffered! My mother suffered a crippling stroke in 1989. She never walked again and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She went to heaven on August 20th, 2001 (several months after my hero of the faith, Pastor Jack Hyles, went to Heaven in February).

We all have an appointment with death (Hebrews 9:27). You may die healthy, as did Dr. Robert Atkins (1930-2003), but you will die. Dr. Atkins slipped on an icy sidewalk in New York, hit his head and died. Go figure! Pastor Lester Roloff (1914-1982) was a health guru. If he hadn't died in a plan crash, Brother Roloff would probably still be alive...lol. 

Dear reader, even great men of God have family problems. I was saddened to learn that Billy Sunday's three sons were all unsaved infidels. Their father himself said that. George Sunday, Billy and Helen Sunday's oldest son, was arrested for public intoxication and stealing a vehicle. Shortly thereafter in 1933 George commit suicide. His father died 2 years later in 1935. I can only try to imagine the pain of soul which Billy Sunday suffered during the last years of his life. Sunday saw all his decades of hard preaching against the liquor traffic undone in a single vote on Capital Hill in 1933. The Prohibition Era (1920-1933) ended, plunging our nation into the depths of Satan. Since that fateful decision tens of millions of Americans have been murdered by drunk drivers, drunken husband, drunken coworkers and drunken neighbors. Woe unto America!!! Booze is LIQUID DEVIL!!!

Oh how the Devil pays with counterfeit money! Satan is a beautiful liar. The Devil always takes you farther than you intended to go, costs you more than you wanted to pay, and keeps you longer than you planned to stay!!! Sin always thrills and then it kills. Sin always fascinates and then it assassinates. The Devil is a liar and the father of all liars (John 8:44).

John Bunyan is one of my favorite Baptist preachers. I love this quote by Bunyan:

“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.” —Evangelist John Bunyan (1628-1688)

So be encouraged dear friend if you have experienced the same type of temptations with sin and blasphemous thoughts. There is nothing wrong with you. You are a sinner. We all struggle with these things. When I used to brush my teeth and spit into the sink, I had blasphemous thoughts of spitting on God. I don't know why. I think it because I read in the Bible that the soldiers spit on Jesus (Mark 14:65). So what I have done for years now is every time I spit, I say to God: “Excuse me Lord.” I do that to show respect for my God and Savior.

God knows if you love Him friend. Many years ago, while Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) was still alive on earth, he underwent surgery. When he awoke from anesthesia, he asked the nurses and doctors the question: “Did I say anything to dishonor my Lord?” Amen. That is all we can do is guard our soul. That is why my favorite Bible verse is Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

As I mentioned, I have received countless emails over the years from believers who struggle with blasphemous thoughts, sinful temptation, negativity and depression. The answer is very simple friend. What saith the Scripture? ...

Ephesians 4:21-24, “If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”

Romans 12:1-2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Philippians 4:8-9, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” 

I guarantee you that if all you do is watch television, hang around negative people, read secular magazines, watch the mainstream newsmedia, read the newspaper and sit around watching professional sports—your mind will be a garbage pail. At very least, your mind will be a spiritual vacuum devoid of THE TRUTH. Wherever I go I have joy in my soul and God's shine on my face. Do you know why? It is because I spend most of my time wallowing in THE TRUTH, humbly walking with God, contending for the Biblical faith.

I admit that I am not a happy person. I am lonely without a wife. Nobody wanted me that I offered to marry. I suffer in neck and bodily pain all the time. My closest friends are on the internet, those with whom we share a common love for THE TRUTH. When I went to Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College for the summer of 2021, Pastor Jeff Redlin didn't want to be my friend. Instead he slandered me and my ministry, falsely accusing me of finding “weakness” in preachers. The Bible calls what I am doing contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). SHAME on Jeff Redlin for his sinful cowardice, compromise and bidding Godspeed to the accursed Calvinist Bob Jones University camp. Folks, RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! Making money is not the most important thing, but it sadly is at Pensacola Christian College and Campus Church (Luke 16:13).

Dear reader, if you are struggling with any of the aforementioned issues, the solution is to bathe your soul with the inspired King James Bible. Burn those Devil's modern Bibles, because they will corrupt your soul. God only authored ONE BOOK, not hundreds of English Bibles. God is not the Author of confusion, Satan is (1st Corinthians 14:33). Psalms 119:105 teaches that God's Word is a LAMP unto our feet, to guide our steps. Psalms 119:105, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Proverbs 3:5-6, “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.”

Let me teach you a wonderful truth dear friend. Proverbs 3:5-6 promises that God will direct our PATHS if we will acknowledge Him in all our ways. What does that mean? It means that if you will use the LAMP of God's Word to light your STEPS, then God will direct your PATHS. We acknowledge God in all our ways by using the LAMP of God's Word to light our steps. Before you make any decisions, “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES” (John 5:39a). 

• When you are confused, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are lonely, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are angry, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are tired, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are scared, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are tempted, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are frustrated, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are confounded, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are betrayed, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are worried, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are upset, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are happy, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are at peace, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are safe, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are confident, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are horrified, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are sad, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are perplexed, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!
• When you are curious, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!