Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”
The modern nation of Israel has earned a negative reputation for themselves since 1948, by terrorizing and bombing the people in Palestine again and again. To add insult to injury, for decades Israel has bene openly hostile toward Christians who preach the Gospel. There is actually a law on the books presently that forbids, upon penalty of arrest and imprisonment, for anyone caught teaching the Gospel from the Holy Bible to children and younger teenagers in Israel. Now some leaders in Israel want to include a ban on teaching the Gospel to adults. ...
Proposed legislation would outlaw talk about Jesus in Israel
It cannot be denied that there is a prevailing hatred among Jews against Bible Christianity and Jesus Christ. President Netanyahu has since tried to downplay the new proposed law, but the fact that some leaders would even suggest and put forth such a law is alarming. Our Scripture text verse tells us that the apostles were physically assaulted by the magistrates, beaten and ordered not to preach the Gospel anymore. ...
Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”
I love that! Even after being threatened by the judicial council not to preach in the name of Jesus, they defiantly went and did it anyway!!! That which is not just is not law. Tyranny is rarely seen except by those who are oppressed by it. It was unjust and horrible what the leaders of Jerusalem did to the apostles. The Pharisees and Chief Priests on the council persecuted the apostles just for preaching the truth of the Gospel. Evidently not much has changed in 2,000 years, considering that Israel's leaders today still want to arrest and imprison Christians for sharing the truth of the Gospel. There's nothing new under the sun. ...
Ecclesiastes 1:9-12, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.”
There is nothing new in the world today as far as human nature. Wicked people have been mixing law with grace since Cain tried to impress God with the works of his hands as a farmer. God rejected Cain's works! Still today we see this sore evil at every turn, ungodly men adding works to God's saving grace. It is disturbing indeed, that Israel's rulers in 2023 would pass such a tyrannical unjust law, forcing its citizens to adhere to only one belief system, on penalty of prosecution. That is tyranny, not freedom in any sense of the word.
When President Harry Truman had the paperwork sitting on his desk in front of him in 1948, to make Israel officially a nation again, he initially rejected the proposal. President Truman rejected the proposal because it specified that Israel would be a Theocracy. Mr. Truman took his pen and scratched out the word Theocracy, and instead wrote the word Democracy. The new nation of Israel was to be free for all people to worship according to their own beliefs, and not a country where the Jews could shove their Judaism down its citizen's throats by force. Even God Himself refuses to force Himself on people. 2nd Timothy 2:13, “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
Jesus warned in the Scriptures that the time WILL COME when the wicked will murder Christians, thinking they are doing God's will. John 16:2, “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” Already, pastors in Canada have been prosecuted and imprisoned for preaching the Bible truth against the sin of homosexuality. This trend will continue, silencing and demonizing the saints , while parading and empowering the wicked.
Revelation 3:1-3, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”
The saddest thing that I have seen in my lifetime is pastors who no longer stand, or never stood at all. Tragically, over 95% of pastors today do not contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). They do not rebuke false prophets sharply as Titus 1:13-14 commands. They do not refute all works of darkness as Ephesians 5:11 commands. They only care about THE LOVE OF MONEY (1st Timothy 6:10-11). Sadly, nearly every one of those pastors (if not all of them), would refuse to admit that they love money, but their actions deny their words. One of the worst offenders is Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who wickedly bid Godspeed to Calvinists in the Bob Jones University (BJU) camp. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
BJU for the past 40 years have preached hardcore Lordship Salvation. BJU praises and wickedly bids Godspeed to their alumni, Pastor John MacArthur (a devout 5-point Calvinist). Sadly, hardly anybody cares anymore about preserving the accuracy of the Gospel, the proper Bible meaning of repentance to be saved, or the purity of the inspired Holy Bible. Steve Pettit, Marty Herron and Jeff Redlin are all wicked religious imposters, who love money more than truth and individual people. They should all be put into prison for their crimes against humanity. Anybody who corrupts the truth, and supports those who corrupt the truth, belong in prison! All of the aforementioned wicked men get paid an outrageous 6-digit salary, for ruining people's lives with their heresy, woeful lack of compassion and religious hypocrisy.
It's bad enough the PCC is hateful, bigoted and prejudiced against people, but even worse they bid Godspeed to evildoers like Ken Ham who says that faith is not enough to get to Heaven. ...
Ken Ham's Deadly FALSE Gospel
I read on Twitter this week that Clarence Sexton (shameful pastor of the Temple Baptist Church in Powell, Tennessee) wickedly bids Godspeed to both Ken Ham and Steve Pettit (president of Bob Jones University). Why does Clarence Sexton praise, honor and support Calvinist devils? Why doesn't he contend for the faith? Why doesn't Pastor Sexton care about exposing a counterfeit plan of salvation? I'll tell you why, it is because Clarence Sexton is living large as a millionaire! He and his wife recently enjoyed a fancy vacation to England. The Sexton's own a large chunk of land, living in a mansion compared to what the average person does. THE LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil the Bible says. SHAME on Crown College. SHAME on Temple Baptist Church. SHAME on Pastor Sexton for not contending for the faith.
I don't enjoy writing blogs like this, but somebody needs to TELL THE TRUTH. Our nation's churches are in big trouble! The Gospel is rarely preached correctly anymore. False plans of salvation abound everywhere, so that lost sinners cannot be born-again. Religion never saved anybody! It is tragic and sad that America's church pastors are cowards, afraid to stand on their own two feet to speak THE TRUTH. Well, I'm not afraid to offend people, lose fair weather shallow friends, or please God by exposing error, false prophets, incompetent pastors and parasite preachers. I speak THE TRUTH in love.
Where are the 7,000 men who have not bowed their knees to Baal? The Bible defines “the Gospel” plainly in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 as Jesus' death on the cross for our sins, His subsequent burial and miraculous bodily resurrection three days later. Anyone who comes to God by faith as a needy guilty sinner, and receives Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sins, believing that Jesus is risen from the dead, is instantly and forever saved. So where do today's incompetent pastors get the crazy idea that you must cease from living a life of willful sin to get to Heaven? Where do those incompetent pastors get the wrong idea that you must invite Christ into your life, and turn control of your life over to Christ to serve Him faithfully as your “Lord”? The Bible doesn't teach those things to be saved.
It breaks my heart that less than 1% of pastors are preachers, who without apology or compromise cry aloud against the false doctrines, counterfeit gospels, fake bibles and perverse meaning of repentance being taught in churches today. The Bible colleges are mostly to blame, 99% of them denying that we have an inspired Holy Bible today. The LOVE OF MONEY silences pastors from making enemies by preaching THE TRUTH. It is sad and tragic. I love you dear reader with Christ's unconditional love. That is why I am telling you THE TRUTH. I don't hate any living creature (but Grizzly bears are getting close to being put onto my list...lol).
Dear friend, God commands Christian men who are learned in the inspired Word of God to contend for the faith. Titus was not an apostle, yet the Apostle Paul told him to “rebuke them sharply” who subvert whole households with a false gospel, that they might be sound in the faith. ...
Titus 1:9-14, “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”
The main reason why Bob Jones University (BJU) is preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation (i.e., a form of Calvinism) is because no other Bible colleges and churches will REBUKE THEM SHARPLY. I triple dog dare you to name even one pastor, Bible college or church that exposes BJU for preaching Lordship Salvation. Dr. Peter Ruckman (1921-2016) had earned bachelor's master's and doctorate's degrees from BJU, yet as an alumni he openly exposed them for selling, using and bidding Godspeed to the Devil's Bible perversions. SHAME on BJU for pulling on the same rope as the Devil.
Sadly, Pensacola Christian College (PCC) wickedly bids Godspeed to the BJU camp and their corrupt churches, like the ungodly Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. When I begged and pleaded for their love between 2014 and 2012, Pastors' Marty Herron and Gary Walton threw me under the bus, leaving me for dead, and I suffered inexplicable mental anguish and pain of soul, having no church family or friends. I felt like dying because of the abuse I was subjected to for all those years—being shunned, rejected, mocked, laughed at, ignored and ostracized for TELLING THE TRUTH—by the wicked pastors and carnal congregation of the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam.
There is no genuine love for broken people and hurting sinners at Harvest, not at PCC or BJU. They're all in it for their bellies, for the love of the money. No wonder Ben Fieldhouse took his own life in 2010, who was a member of Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. Marty Herron doesn't know the meaning of love, forgiveness or compassion, who also ruined my life. God knows that I love all of the people I have mentioned in this article with God's unconditional love, but I am compelled to expose them because they are injurious, cruel, calloused, spiritually dangerous.
They are ALL phony religious leaders, who need to be identified and avoided (Romans 16:17-18). PCC has become the epitome of everything that is wrong with Christendom in the United States and beyond. Pensacola Comfortable College is a disgrace to the cause of Christ. Pastor Jeff Redlin at Campus Church is as phony as they come at PCC, who horribly mistreated me when I attended Campus Church, and has banned me since August of 2022 from attending Campus Church anymore. These ungodly cult leaders need to be exposed! PCC is today synonymous with tommyrot, balderdash and poppycock!
Maranatha Baptist University, BJU, PCC, Crown College, Hyles-Anderson College, Moody Bible Institute, Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary, et cetera—these are all spiritually dead and corrupt institutions today. Combined, these apostate institutions adversely influence thousands of churches across the United States. They influence several thousand missionaries around the world. Most of these organizations are wrong on the Gospel. Hyles-Anderson College is wrong to deny (since 2008) that we have an inspired King James Bible today. I have never wavered from my conviction that the King James Bible is 100% verbally and plenary inspired by God.
Kindly said, SHAME on the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, for departing from the truthful position of their former longtime faithful pastor, Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001), who believed and preached that the King James Bible is 100% inspired by God. The great need of the hour is preaching preachers!!! RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
I saw 'The Jesus Revolution' Friday night. I agree with Pastor Greg Laurie that God uses flawed people. I love the statement in the film that Chuck Smith's wife says to encourage him: "Don't be so arrogant to think that God cannot work through your failures." I love that!
However, the big problem I have with the film is the counterfeit plan of salvation. In the movie the audience is taught to do these 3 unbiblical things in addition to faith to get to Heaven:
Repent of your sins.
Invite Christ into your life.
Receive Jesus as your Lord.
Nowhere in the inspired King James Bible are we taught to repent "of your sins." Men added those words, not God. Repentance is "a change of mind" toward God (Acts 20;21). Repentance is acknowledging "the truth" that we are a guilty sinner (2nd Timothy 2;25, Romans 3;19-20). You've got to know what you're being saved from, and why you need to be saved. We are all sinners and there is a penalty for sin, which is death in the Lake of Fire (Romans 6;23, Revelations 20;11-15, 21;8).
The Gospel is not a message of what you must do to be saved, but it's a message of what Christ has already done for you. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.
Nor does the Bible tell us to invite Christ into our life. Judas invited Christ into his life and still went to Hell. According to Matthew 27:3 Judas repented of his sins, feeling guilty that he got caught red handed. Judas felt remorse (penitence) and returned the 30 pieces of silver (penance). Judas had changed (reformation), but Judas never repented toward God to be saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.
Nor does the Holy Bible require that we surrender to Jesus as Lord to get to Heaven. You don't make Jesus Lord, HE IS LORD! Discipleship is a second decision that every believer must make. This is SERVICE for Christ, not SALVATION. Romans 12:1, “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.”The Jesus Revolution movie fails to make this necessary distinction between SONSHIP and DISCIPLESHIP. The movie sadly preaches another gospel that does not match Jesus' plan of salvation in the Bible. John 6;47, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."
Revelation 18:1-18, “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!”
I humbly believe that Revelation chapter 18 describes the coming horrific destruction of the United States. Kindly said, if we Americans go to war against Russia and China, we are in BIG TROUBLE! The United States is dying and has been for a long time. The insanity that we saw in major cities all across the U.S., during the Black Lives Matter Movement, was clear evidence of our weakness as a people and a nation. We helplessly watching in shock and horror, as angry Americans criminally rioted, vandalized and burned cities to the ground. Where were the police forces? Why didn't the authorities send in the National Guard to stop the mayhem? Jesus said that a house divided cannot stand.
Our military is weak. Our federal government is in massive debt for over $31,000,000,000,000. In Bible prophecy, America is not mentioned, likely because the United States won't be viable anymore as a country. Our country's border have been wide open since the 1970's, allowing 60,000,000 illegals to flood into society, dragging down the whole system. I think the Luciferian elite have done this intentionally to hide with smoke and mirrors the Federal Reserve Banking Ponzi Scheme (aka, the 'Federal Reserve Act' fraud since 1913), which WILL ultimately implode and force tens of millions of Americans into homelessness and poverty.
I agree with Owen Shroyer that China will likely commit their military forces next month to help Russia in the present conflict with Ukraine. I think President Joe Biden may start World War III if he keeps running his big mouth to provoke Russia. President Trump when in office refused to get involved with the Ukrainian conflict, as did President Barack Obama before him. President Trump agrees with President Vladimir Putin, echoing the truth that Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in Europe. Mr. Trump sided with Russia and I do too. They don't tolerate the homosexual agenda in Russia. They don't tolerate liberals pushing their gender-bending insanity upon impressionable children. Satan is in control of America today!!!
It is not the job of the United States to police the world and get involved in everyone's dirty laundry. This reckless financial support of Ukraine is all debt-spending on our behalf, being billed to us and our children and their children, and their children's children. I was sickened when I read in the news last year that the United States borrowed $40,000,000,000 from China, and then gave the money to Ukraine to buy more weapons. Since the beginning of the Russian was with Ukraine, the U.S. have given $75,000,000,000 to Ukraine. In fact, so far the U.S. has borrowed over $1,000,000,000,000 from China!!! Americans didn't vote for any of this insane debt spending, our corrupt leaders did. Proverbs 22:7, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
China desperately wants Taiwan back. Russia and China are in the same boat, wanting Ukraine and Taiwan back, respectively. It is in their best interests to militarily oppose the United States! Our nation's leaders have openly admitted that they are selling us out to a New World Order...
U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush: September 11, 1990: “Out of these troubled times, our objective—a New World Order—can emerge. Today, that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we have known.”
U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush: “What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea—a New World Order... to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind... based on shared principles and the rule of law... The illumination of a thousand points of light... The winds of change are with us now.”
The inspired Holy Bible foretells of the coming horrific total destruction by fire in just one hour of a country (which I humbly think will be a massive all out nuclear attack from Russia, China and possibly North Korea against the United States and its territories). Dear reader, here are some intriguing eye-opening YouTube videos and resources that you should take a look at...
Sadly, the majority of America's churches WILL follow a Republican U.S. President into the depths of destruction. I have seen it all my life. As if Republicans are any better at running the government than Democrats! There is a deadly two-party paradigm in the United States. Republican and Democrat are merely two separate legs both walking in the SAME direction of a New World Order.
The Bible warns us that Satan is the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:4). As such, the Devil is preparing the world stage to embrace the coming Man of Sin, that Antichrist (or “in place of” Christ). The only safeguard against deception is to LOVE THE TRUTH! ...
2nd Thessalonians 2:10, “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”
Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
It was reported in the new this week in February of 2023, that teenage girls across the United States are suffering a drastic increase in sadness, depression and suicidal thoughts. ...
Social media companies face legal scrutiny over deteriorating mental health among teens
It shouldn't come as a surprise to God-fearing Christians, that the main culprit for today's mental illness among teens and society, is the woeful lack of the inspired Holy Bible is their lives. Since 1962 that Holy Bible, prayer and effectively God, have been removed and banned from the entire public school system.
What irony that a child is deprived of the inspired Word of God from kindergarten to twelfth grade in high school, but then are later handed a Holy Bible when they end up in prison. We've got it all backwards in America!!! Today's dysfunctional ungodly adult (drunkards, drug attics, fornicators, adulterers, complainers, homosexuals, haters, liars, cheaters, evil doers, abortionists, et cetera), who grew up in the American public school system, have no moral compass. What was so wrong about teaching children faith in God and prayer?
Dear reader, our founding fathers never intended for separation of government and state, to mean separation of God and state. When you remove God from the government, all you have left is tyranny and idolatry, as men become their own gods. Those who will not by governed by God, will be ruled over by tyrants. Our foolish nation is now ruing the day, that we allowed our rotten U.S. courts to remove the inspired Holy Bible from children's daily lives at school. Yet, the ungodly U.S. government indoctrinates impressionable children with the blatant fraudulent lies of evolution. Evolution is not legitimate science, it is bizarre fiction and wild unverifiable speculation. Only a darn fool lends credence to such a fallacy as the theories of evolution.
Certainly social media has contributed to teen depression, but much more to blame (I humbly think) is the Devil's confusing LGBTQ agenda, and the Devil's confusing gender-bending agenda being pushed off on teens in public schools. Teaching girls that they might really be boys confuses them. The same is true for teen boys. Such confusion would depressed many teenagers, and adults too. I get depressed and sad over these ungodly agendas. Teens are not emotionally mature enough to handle such craziness in life. In the history of human civilization, our society has never experienced anything like this.
I wrote this blog to raise awareness to the REAL PROBLEM today. Social media is partly to blame for teen sadness and depression, but the content on social media is indicative of the moral degeneration of our American society. We continually hear sympathy in the media toward LGBTQ youth, while no such sympathy is shown toward Christian youth.
The heart of the issue concerning the LGBTQ movement is what God's Word says is a sin, versus what liberals and ungodly society says is wrong. Leviticus 20:13 and Romans 1:22-32 plainly teach that homosexuality in all its forms is a terrible sin in God's sight. So also is adultery, murder and witchcraft. Just because mankind in recent times has adopted ungodly sins as being acceptable, doesn't mean that God has. God never changes (Malachi 3:6). Jesus never changes (Hebrews 13:8). Humanity's tolerance and perspective of sin does.
Teens need Jesus Christ! They need to be told THE TRUTH that homosexuality is a sin, and is not God's best choice for them. Teens need to be taught the horrible and potentially deadly diseases that the homosexual lifestyle causes. It is really a deathstyle. The moment that I heard in the news this week about teen girls across the country increasingly becoming sad, depressed and suicidal—I immediately thought about all the insanity in today's schools and culture, which confuses young people about their gender, sexual preference and morality.
The solution is to put the GOOD BOOK back into teenager's daily lives. The Word of God was dubbed 'The Good Book' centuries ago for a very real reason, because it produces goodness in God's children as they willingly yield to the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Obviously, not all saints walk in the Spirit, which does not affect God's free gift of eternal life (Romans 6:1). This is why every child of God needs to attend a local soulwinning, King James Bible only, free grace Gospel-preaching, people-loving, church. We all need fellowship with other saints to be encouraged, edified and comforted (as we do also others). Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982) said it well in his classic sermon titled, “Titanic.” Brother Roloff said: “America was great when she was good, and she was good when she had great churches.”
Daniel 1:11-16, “Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.”
I am so glad that God put this helpful information in the Holy Bible. Daniel had been taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon in 586 BC. This was God's judgment upon the southern kingdom of Israel for their failure to keep the Sabbath Day for 490 years. God punished them with Babylonian captivity, one year for every seven years that they didn't observe the Sabbath Day.
While in Captivity, Daniel was fed junk food, and he detested it. So Daniel asked the eunuch Melzar to please try something new. Daniel suggested feeding the men under his supervision and care pulse (Daniel 1:12). What is pulse? Pulse is seeds, beans and lentils. Pulse is edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants. But Daniel also suggested a 10-day trial for the pulse diet. That is so encouraging to me, because it shows how quickly we can turn our health around by simply changing our diet. Yes, dear reader, you can feel 100% better by simply eating healthier foods and drinking more water.
This morning when I woke up, I started my day by thanking God for another day, and I told the Lord that I loved Him. I then made a smoothie. I highly recommend that you buy a Nutri-Ninja if you don't have one. I bought my first one from Amazon.com, but then it burned out when one of two legs of power went out to the house (a broken tree branch feel on it and knocked the line down), and then back-fed through the circuitry and blew my mixer out. So I bought my second Nutri-Ninja from Walmart.
Today I put about 4 Tablespoons of ground flax seeds, half of a small tray of blackberries, about a dozen strawberries, some granola, ice and water. Then I ate a bowl of Great Grains cereal with some whole milk. That was my breakfast. By eating that way each day, I get my daily fiber. For lunch I ate some mixed vegetables that I bought in a bag at Walmart. They have several different varieties of vegetables in seasoned sauce. Yummy!
It is important for your long term health that you eat enough fiber every day. All kinds of beans are awesome to get enough fiber. Just one can of any type of beans provides 100% of the recommended daily amount (RDA) of fiber.
According to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, here are the health benefits of fiber...
Benefits of a high-fiber diet
A high-fiber diet:
Normalizes bowel movements. Dietary fiber increases the weight and size of your stool and softens it. A bulky stool is easier to pass, decreasing your chance of constipation. If you have loose, watery stools, fiber may help to solidify the stool because it absorbs water and adds bulk to stool.
Helps maintain bowel health. A high-fiber diet may lower your risk of developing hemorrhoids and small pouches in your colon (diverticular disease). Studies have also found that a high-fiber diet likely lowers the risk of colorectal cancer. Some fiber is fermented in the colon. Researchers are looking at how this may play a role in preventing diseases of the colon.
Lowers cholesterol levels. Soluble fiber found in beans, oats, flaxseed and oat bran may help lower total blood cholesterol levels by lowering low-density lipoprotein, or "bad," cholesterol levels. Studies also have shown that high-fiber foods may have other heart-health benefits, such as reducing blood pressure and inflammation.
Helps control blood sugar levels. In people with diabetes, fiber — particularly soluble fiber — can slow the absorption of sugar and help improve blood sugar levels. A healthy diet that includes insoluble fiber may also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Aids in achieving healthy weight. High-fiber foods tend to be more filling than low-fiber foods, so you're likely to eat less and stay satisfied longer. And high-fiber foods tend to take longer to eat and to be less "energy dense," which means they have fewer calories for the same volume of food.
Helps you live longer. Studies suggest that increasing your dietary fiber intake — especially cereal fiber — is associated with a reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and all cancers. ~SOURCE
Wowza! That is great stuff! Sadly, according to Nutrition.org, only 5% of men and 9% of women are getting enough fiber in their daily diet. That is disturbing...
Just 7% of adults meet fiber recommendations, raising risk of chronic diseases
Rockville, Maryland (June 7, 2021) — Only 5% of men and 9% of women are getting the recommended daily amount of dietary fiber, according to a study being presented at NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE. Insufficient fiber intake is associated with a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, two of the most common diseases in the U.S. ~SOURCE
I just wrote this blog to encourage you dear reader to eat more fiber in your daily diet. Without enough fiber, you can unfortunately look forward to cancer, bowel problems, weight gain, feeling lethargic and all kinds of potential diseases. All those boxed pizzas, boxed foods, junk food, ice cream, sugary sodas, greasy burgers and packaged snacks aren't good for your health. In the short term they won't hurt you enough to feel the results, but over the years you will see and feel the damage.
The encouraging thing, as the Bible proves in the book of Daniel, is that it just took 10 DAYS to see a noticeable difference in Daniel and his peers. Daniel 1:14-16, “So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.” I challenge you to start eating a high fiber diet, just the daily recommend amount. You will look and feel better in a short amount of time.
Millions of people are now excited about a new diabetic drug that has been proven to cause weight loss. The drug is called: Ozempic. But Medicare and other insurance companies refuse to pay for it. I don't blame them. I heard in the news this week that 100,000,000 obese Americans can benefit from this new drug. That's a lot of insurance claims and an aircraft carrier full of money!!! I also heard this week that 40% of Americans are obese. Dear reader, we don't need Ozempic, all we need to do is eat the recommended daily amount of fiber. Fiber makes the body feel full, which will curb our appetite. You'll never lose weight eating junk foods that are totally devoid of fiber.
I hope this information is helpful to you. Remember, by the inch it's a cinch, but by the yard it is hard. Don't pull the rug out from under yourself by forcing yourself to eat a bunch of foods that you dread eating. Rather, start including high fiber foods into your daily diet, and eat a balance of healthy foods and a lesser amount of your favorite foods (like ice cream). Keep it fun. Just focus on buying more foods higher in fiber at the grocery store. Also, drink more water. Thank you for reading. May we all be more health conscious like Daniel.
Galatians 1:6-9, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”
Dear reader, let us begin by defining “the Gospel” with the inspired Holy Scriptures. What is the Gospel? ...
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
So according to the Word of God, as we just read, the Gospel (meaning “Good News”) is comprised of three things:
Jesus DIED on the cross to pay our debt of sin.
Jesus was BURIED.
Jesus bodily RESURRECTED three days later from the dead.
We know that Jesus is also the only begotten Son of God, the Christ, John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” We know from the Scriptures that a person must realize he or she is a guilty sinner to be saved:
Romans 3:19-23, “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. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
In these passages of Scripture we see God's simple plan of salvation. Anyone who comes to God as a guilty sinner, receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sins, believing that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who was buried after dying on the cross, and raised up three days later from the dead, is saved. It is that simple! Eternal life is a free gift from God, paid for by Jesus' precious blood (Romans 5:15-18; 1st Peter 1:18-19).
Evangelist Sam Gipp's Damnable False Plan Of Salvation
Now having showed you THE TRUTH, let me show you Evangelist Sam Gipp's different plan of salvation, which does NOT match what the inspired Holy Bible teaches. On Sam Gipp's YouTube channel, in a heretical YouTube video titled: “How To Be Saved,” Gipp states the following (which he admittedly copied in part from cartoon evangelist Jack Chick's religious tract, “The Sissy”)...
“First, you must admit you are a sinner. You have broken God's laws. Then, you must be willing to turn from sin and reject it. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you, was buried and rose from the dead. Through prayer, invite Jesus into your life to become your personal Savior.
Simply pray something like this, and mean it with all your heart:
Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood, and died for my sin. I am willing to turn from sin.I now invite Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Savior.” ~Dr. Sam Gipp
You can watch Sam Gipp's heretical YouTube video for yourself, from which I transcribed the preceding quote...
Evangelist Sam Gipp's Counterfeit Plan Of Salvation
That is NOT the Gospel taught in the Holy Bible. To the unlearned Christian believer, the preceding false plan of salvation may not seem like a big deal, but it is dear friend. Remember, the serpent (the Devil according to Revelation 20:2) is the most subtle of all creatures. Genesis 3:1, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Satan is a beautiful liar! The Devil is a cunning liar, manipulator and deceiver.
When criminals counterfeit money, they intentionally try to make their corrupt money appear as close to real money as possible. Satan does the same thing with religion. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that all of the pseudo (false) Christian cults believe that Jesus is the Christ. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Roman Catholics believe Jesus died on a cross, was buried and resurrected three days later. Hey, that is THE GOSPEL! So are Roman Catholics saved? No, they are not, because they also require keeping Seven Sacraments to get to Heaven. The first sacrament in the prisonhouse of Catholicism is water baptism. All of the pseudo-Christian cults require water baptism to get into the Kingdom of Heaven.
We know from the Bible that water baptism is NOT required to get to Heaven. The thief on the cross didn't get baptized. The Bible plainly teaches in Galatians 1:6 that there is only one Gospel, not two or more. So we know that the thief on the cross got saved the same way that everyone does, which is by faith alone in the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen. No one in the Old Testament was every water baptized for salvation.
Turning Away From Sinful Ways Is WORKS!
The Gospel of John is God's Gospel tract, as we read earlier in John 20:31. In the book of John we find the word “believe” mentioned at least 85 times in various forms, but there is no requirement anywhere in the Gospel of John to be water baptized. And for that matter, neither is the word “repent” mentioned even once in the Gospel of John. This is because repentance is automatic. To “repent” in the Bible regarding salvation simply means “to think differently.”
For example: Mark 1:15 says, “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” The Greek word for “repent” in this Bible verse is metanoeo, a verb form which means: “to think differently.” So a literal interpretation of this Scripture passage is: “Think differently and believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, was buried and physically resurrected three days later from the dead.” You don't repent AND believe, you repent TO believe.
Repentance facilitates believing, by which we are saved. Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” You don't get saved by repenting, you get saved by BELIEVING; but no one has ever been saved who didn't also repent. Repentance and faith are as two sides of one coin. They are inseparable from each other.
I love this helpful quote on repentance from Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951):
“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.”[emphasis added] ~Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' p. 16
Yes, that is it! Repentance is simply the acknowledgment that I am as guilty a sinner as God hath declared me to be in His holy Word. Pastor Ironside further offers these helpful words...
“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …
Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.”
Amen and amen! When the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas in Acts 16:30b, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?,” their simple reply in Acts 16:31a was to: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” The free offer of salvation by faith alone in Jesus Christ was extended to the man's entire family, if they wanted God's gift. Dear reader, please notice that Paul and Silas DIDN'T pressure the unsaved man to forsake his sinful ways to be saved. They DIDN'T tell the Philippian jailer to be willing to stop living in sin, turn away from his sin, or be willing to reject his sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. Sam Gipp is a theological liar—a deadly false prophet who needs to be exposed and rebuked sharply in pulpits across America. ...
Titus 1:9-14, “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”
In typical cult fashion, Sam Gibb mixes works with grace to confuse people. One of my favorite sermons is by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold...
Caught Between Grace And Works (an excellent sermon by Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold)
Tragically, most pastors and clergy today are caught between grace and works, preaching another gospel of partial faith in Christ plus WORKS!!! Sam Gipp and Jack Chick (1924-2016) have blood on their hands. Sadly, Jack Chick printed and sold over 1,000,000,000 religious tracts, all of which lied to lost sinners, requiring them to be willing to stop living a sinful lifestyle to get to Heaven. THAT IS WORKS!!!
Sadly, Sam Gipp has also fallen for the same Satanic deception. Gipp is deceived of the Devil, preaching a false gospel for filthy lucre's sake. I must also warn you about Pastor Keith Gomez in Elgin, Illinois. Pastor Gomez is close personal ministry friends with Sam Gipp. These men are all corrupt in their theology! No where does the inspired King James Bible teach us to “turn from your sinful ways” or to “reject your sins” to be saved. Ungodly religious men embellished God's simple plan of salvation, adding these unbiblical requirements to get to Heaven.
It is man's sinful nature to have a tendency to want to help God save us. If you fully understand that salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9), then it will become obvious that you don't need to give up your sinful ways to receive God's gift. Eternal life is a free gift! You don't have to qualify for a gift, you simply take it. Dear reader, Jesus died for your sins! Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6-9). That means you and me, because we are all ungodly sinners!
You don't have to be willing to turn away from your sins to be saved, because that would be WORKS! Jonah 3:10, “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.” God spared judgment upon the Ninevites (who were Assyrians) because they turned away from their evil ways, but they didn't get saved. No one has ever been saved by WORKS!!! Romans 4:4, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” As we just read, if salvation had ever been by works, then it would have been by debt instead of by grace. God would have OWED them salvation because they did WORKS to earn it. Salvation has always been only by God's grace!
One hundred years later the decedents of the Ninevites returned to their evil ways, and God sent the prophet Nahum to proclaim imminent destruction upon them. They destruction came in 612 BC when the kingdom of Babylon conquered the Assyrians. No one has ever been saved by their own self-righteous works. Turning away from sinful ways is WORKS!!!
Furthermore, we read in Jonah 3:10 that God Himself “repented.” If repentance means to be willing to turn away from one's sinful ways, then we have a big problem here, because God cannot do evil. James 1:13-14, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.” God cannot sin. God is holy, just, sinless and righteous in every way. I am so thankful that the God of the universe is a good, reasonable, fair and righteous being! Could you imagine if Satan were the highest power in the universe? I thank God for God!!!
Clearly, God did not turn away from His sins in Jonah 3:10. God simply changed His mind, deciding not to destroy the people of the city of Nineveh at that time. Repentance is simply a change of mind toward God (Acts 20:21), where a lost sinner acknowledges THE TRUTH (2nd Timothy 2:25). The truth dear friend is that you are a guilty sinner. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). That includes the second death in Hell (Revelation 21:8, 20:11-15). The GOOD NEWS is that God the Father gave up His only begotten Son, Jesus, as a sacrifice on the cross to die for your sins and mine. Jesus shed His blood for our sins, and ultimately sprinkled that literal blood upon the heavenly Mercy Seat (Hebrews 9:12, 22-24; 12:24). We are saved by faith in the blood of Jesus (1st Peter 1:18-19). Romans 5:9, “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
My only hope for Heaven is Jesus Christ and His righteousness. Philippians 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” There is nothing I have ever done or ever will do that can get me to Heaven. My only hope is in Jesus Christ, because of what He did through Calvary's cross to pay for my sins, and that He was buried and bodily raised up from the dead the third day. It is done! Jesus paid it all!!!
Kindly said, I don't have to turn away from my sinful ways, nor even be willing to turn away from my sinful ways, to be saved. Eternal life is the free gift of God. Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Anyone who thinks that they must turn away from their sins to be saved, is not saved at all. The only proper mindset that can save is faith alone in Christ alone. WORKS has no place in God's simple plan of salvation.
Tragically, Sam Gipp is not saved. To be saved Gipp must repent of his wrong repentance. He must forsake trusting in his self-righteous efforts to turn away from his sins, and instead trust only in God's righteousness which is imparted by faith alone. What saith the Scripture? John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The will of God the Father for salvation is to BELIEVE ON JESUS, plain and simple. What Sam Gipp is preaching is another gospel. Jack Chick preached another gospel.
The heretical idea that you must forsake a sinful lifestyle to be saved came from the Devil, not the Holy Bible. In God's true plan of salvation, Christ came into the world to pay your debt of sin. In God's true plan of salvation, He wants to give you forgiveness of sins and eternal life as a free gift. In God's true plan of salvation, there can be no stipulations or obligations for it to truly remain a free gift. Woe unto wicked preachers who add to the Gospel, perverting God's simple plan of salvation, which is through faith alone without any works.
Also, no where in the inspired Word of God are we taught to invite Christ into our life to be saved, as Gipp requires. Sam Gipp is a false prophet! Shame on anyone who wickedly bids Godspeed to Sam Gipp and his counterfeit plan of salvation. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
If you feel confused dear reader, I humbly challenge you to sit back and just quietly listen to the entire Gospel of John. If you'll do that, I I love doing often, you will see clearly God's simple plan of salvation. Thank you for reading.
