Pastor R. A. Torrey's Damnable Repentance Heresy

Acts 2:38, “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

One of the greatest religious leaders of the early 20th century was Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928). He was commonly known as “R.A. Torrey,” an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. Called by Dwight L. Moody to head Bible institute in Chicago (now Moody Bible Institute). Certainly, Dwight Moody was a mighty man and preacher, and I recognize him as a hero of the Christian faith. My favorite of all the Moody Memorial Church pastors was Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951). Dr. Ironside pastored Moody Memorial Church between 1930-1948. Dr. Torrey joined Dwight L. Moody in his evangelistic work in Chicago in 1889, and became superintendent of the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (now Moody Bible Institute).

Dr. R.A. Torrey was unquestionably sincere, but as all men, he was imperfect in his theology. I have never found one man, neither living or dead, who was without some doctrinal error. Only God's Words are infallible, perfect, inspired, inerrant and divinely preserved. I believe those divinely inspired preserved words to be the King James Bible for the English-speaking world.

Having said that, I must expose what I believe to be doctrinal error in R.A. Torrey's “WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES,” in which he states:

“II. What Is Repentance?

(1) THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD USED: 

The primary thought of the Hebrew word translated 'repent' in the Old Testament is, to pant, to sigh, to groan, and so to lament, to grieve, to grieve about one's doing. ... The Greek word in the New Testament translated 'repent' means 'To change one's mind.'

The same Greek word is used in the LXX for the Hebrew word mentioned above. So its New Testament meaning is to be determined by this Old Testament usage. There is another Greek word used in the New Testament five times and translated 'repent.' This word means, 'it is a care to one afterwards,' —i.e., it 'repents one.' This word is also used in the LXX for the Hebrew word mentioned above. The thought of both sorrow and change of purpose is in the words.”

SOURCE: Pastor R.A. Torrey, “What The Bible Teaches,” p. 353; ©1898, Fleming H. Revell Company

Contrary to what many believers have wrongly been taught, the “Septuagint” is of the Devil. The word “Septuagint” means “70” (or Roman Numeral “LXX”). Between the Old and New Testament, allegedly 70 scholars translated the Old Testament Hebrew into Greek, but this is a myth. The “Septuagint” (LXX) Is A Hoax! Beware Of The Septuagint, Which Is Corrupted Alexandrian Text (it was fabricated in Alexandria, Egypt). The King James Bible is based upon the Masoretic Hebrew text.

Evangelist David W. Daniel's exposes the fraudulent Septuagint:

But do we Christians need the Alexandrian manuscripts? Not at all! For the Old Testament we have the Preserved Words of God in the Hebrew Masoretic text. For the New Testament we have the 5,000-plus manuscripts in Greek, plus the many early translations spread abroad, to witness to the actual words of Christ and His apostles.

So the Septuagint story is a hoax. It was not written before Christ; so it was not used by Jesus or His apostles. It is the only set of manuscripts to include the Apocrypha mixed in with the books of the Bible, so as to justify the Roman Catholic inclusion of them in their Bibles. And it is just those same, perverted Alexandrian codices—the same ones that mess up the New Testament—dressed up in pretty packaging.

Let's stick to our preserved Bible, the King James Bible in English, and leave the Alexandrian perversions alone.

SOURCE: Dr. David W. Daniel's; What Is The Septuagint?

Dr. Torrey gets into hot water doctrinally with the following embellishment of the word “repent”:

“In the usage of the words the thought of regret, and the thought of change of purpose and action, are both found; but the emphasis is upon the change of purpose and action, especially in the first New Testament word mentioned above. In our day there is a danger of underestimating the importance of sorrow for sin. Sorrow for sin is not repentance, but it is an element in repentance. What the repentance or change of mind is about must be determined by the context. Repentance for sin is such a sorrow for sin or abhorrence of sin, such a change of mind about it, as leads the sinner to turn away from it with all his heart.”

SOURCE: Dr. R.A. Torrey; “What The Bible Teaches,” p. 355; ©1898, Fleming H. Revell Company

That is heresy!!! Dr. Torrey is wrong on the subject of repentance. It is a false Gospel to tell unsaved people that they must feel “sorrow” for their sins to be saved. This is the English meaning of the word repent, not the Biblical Greek meaning. Mr. Torrey foolishly attempts to embellish the meaning of repentance from being “a change of mind” to being “a change of life,” by overlaying the New Testament with the Old Testament. That's like comparing green beans to coconuts. The word “repent” in the Old Testament is never used concerning salvation. The word “repent” is mentioned 45 times in the Old Testament. At least 40 of those times, repent refers to God and not man. That fact speaks volumes!!! There is no connection between the word “repent” and salvation in the Old Testament.

The only requirement to BELIEVE THE GOSPEL is to repent (think differently) about whatever has been hindering you from believing the Gospel. A person is born-again the very moment that they BELIEVE. 1st Corinthians 1:21, “For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” The idea of turning away from sins as a prerequisite to placing one's faith in the Gospel is totally unbiblical. You cannot show me even one mention in the Holy Bible that says to “turn from sins” or “repent of sins” to be saved. This includes the Old Testament. In nearly every mention of the word “repent” in the Old Testament, it is God that is God doing the repenting, not man.

Deep Sorrow For Sin, Regret And Hatred Of it, Are Not Requirements To Believe The Gospel

The idea of repentance being a deep sorrow for sin, and regret over past actions, and a purpose to turn away from it, is not a requirement to receive the free gift of God, which is eternal life. The following is heresy taught by Pastor Torrey, the same wrong meaning of repentance as espoused by Roman Catholicism...

“Repentance for sin is such a sorrow for sin or abhorrence of sin, such a change of mind about it, as leads the sinner to turn away from it with all his heart.”

SOURCE: Dr. R.A. Torrey; “What The Bible Teaches,” p. 355; ©1898, Fleming H. Revell Company

I do not agree with the unbiblical use of sacraments in the Episcopal Church. However, the following explanation of metanoia by Episcopal Pastor Eli Brayley is superbly written, with which I agree wholeheartedly:

Simply put, metanoia is a word filled with remarkable meaning by the preaching of Christ and the apostles. It is not a word that comes replete with it's own meaning. The English word "repentance", on the other hand, comes filled with it's own meaning - it needs no supplementation by context. Repentance means to feel remorse or regret for your sins; it's Latin root literally means "pain; suffering in view of being liable to punishment". Metanoia has no such meaning associated with it. The word is Greek, and it is made up of two words: meta & nous. Meta means "after" or "change", and nous is the Greek word for "mind". The word means "after-mind" and signifies a change of mind: thinking one way, but then afterwards thinking another. It is the opposite of pronoia (pro-nous) which means before-mind: the mind or thinking you have before. Interestingly, there is another Greek word we frequently use in English that is related to metanoia: it is paranoia (para-nous). Literally, the word means to be beside-mind, or we would say "out of your mind", or "beside yourself." Paranoia is not being in a right mind, but having a mind that is off center - that is, not where it should be. If you compare metanoia and paranoia together, you get the idea of what the New Testament call for metanoia is: it is a command to change your mind and get it where it should be.

Of course, metanoia, when used as a command ("change your mind") needs supplementation by context; it needs to be filled with more information because we need to know what we are supposed to change our mind about. It can be something small (metanoia about how to spell "judgment"), to something enormously large (metanoia about your religious worldview). The sky is the limit with metanoia, and that is precisely the point of the remarkable function of the word in the New Testament. It is not restricted, like "repentance", to a narrow meaning of pain and sorrow for sin, which we then have to force unnaturally to fit with the gospel. It is a change of mind unto the gospel itself. 

The gospel is what the change of mind is about. The preaching of Jesus and the apostles speaks to the nous and men change or don't change their mind as they hear it. When a man changes his mind at the preaching of the gospel, he has experienced metanoia. Thus, the proclamation of metanoia at the beginning of the New Testament is the doorway into the entire rest of the doctrine of the New Testament: Change your mind! About what? Listen! A radical mindshift in the religious world is about to happen... no, it is happening now... What we thought about God and the law and righteousness and forgiveness is all about to change. Hear! Metanoia and believe the gospel!

New Testament metanoia is a divine call to a radical mind-shift in the way men think about religion. Therefore "repentance" is an entirely unsatisfactory translation of the amazing word "metanoia" which gives a completely different feeling to the preaching of Jesus and His apostles. Was the major proclamation of Jesus and the apostles "Repent! Feel sorry for your sins"? Or was it "Metanoia! Think a new way"! 

Do you see what a difference these two words make? Which one is in keeping with the gospel of grace as we know it from the New Testament? Not the first, but the second. The gospel calls us to a new way of thinking about religion. Whereas men think that they are good, and that obedience to the law is the way of salvation, and that the law only requires partial obedience, and that most people won't perish, Jesus calls us to believe that there is none good, and that no one will be saved by obedience to the law, because the law requires perfect obedience, and that broad is the road that leads to destruction. 

The apostles call us to believe that the cross of Christ is the power and the wisdom of God, the only way whereby we are saved, and live, through faith, while the world thinks that the cross is foolishness. Which word best summarizes this kind of preaching: "repent", or "metanoia"? Certainly not the first, but the second.

SOURCE: The Great Meaning Of Metanoia

Amen, that is 100% accurate and biblical.

In sharp contrast, Pastor R.A. Torrey does what false prophets typically do. That is, he begins by making a true statement, but then subtly builds from that truthfully statement an entire system of falsehood and heresy. False prophets will come at you with a word salad. Dr. Torrey begins by defining repentance correctly as “a change of mind,” but then he makes the following heretical exaggerated false claim:

“In the usage of the words the thought of regret, and the thought of change of purpose and action, are both found; but the emphasis is upon the change of purpose and action, especially in the first New Testament word mentioned above. In our day there is a danger of underestimating the importance of sorrow for sin. Sorrow for sin is not repentance, but it is an element in repentance. What the repentance or change of mind is about must be determined by the context. Repentance for sin is such a sorrow for sin or abhorrence of sin, such a change of mind about it, as leads the sinner to turn away from it with all his heart.”

SOURCE: Dr. R.A. Torrey; “What The Bible Teaches,” p. 355; ©1898, Fleming H. Revell Company

Dr. Torrey wrongly assumes that repentance is a change of mind about sinful bad habits. That is the English understanding of what it means to “repent,” not the Greek word “metanoia.” Effectively, R.A. Torrey is teaching the heresy of Lordship Salvation.

We Are Saved By God's Imputed Righteousness

But we do read in Genesis 15:6 that Abraham's faith was imputed (counted) for righteousness. Genesis 15:6, “And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” This is the Gospel. The Gospel is not predicated by turning away from sinful behavior as Dr. Torrey errantly teaches. I mean no unkindness to Dr. Torrey, but the Gospel as defined in the Bible does not require forsaking the world, ceasing from sinful bad habits, nor following Jesus as the “Lord” of one's life. None of these constitute the Gospel.

As appealing as R.A. Torrey's teachings on repentance may be, the Biblical doctrine of IMPUTATION exposes Mr. Torrey as a false prophet. Romans 4:5-6, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.” The word “counted” in Romans 4:5 comes from the same exact Greek word, logizomai, as “impute” in verse 6. A man's faith is IMPUTED for righteousness!!! This totally leaves out the concept of turning away from sins to be saved.

Granted, the entire reason for God saving a man is to liberate him from the chains of sin, and the power of darkness. Colossians 1:13, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” God saves believers UNTO GOOD WORKS, not BY GOOD WORKS. Ephesians 2:10, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

Please don't get the wrong idea that I think Christians have God's permission to live in habitual sin, because we don't (Romans 3:31); but if a believer does choose to live in deliberate sin, their eternal security is not in jeopardy (as Evangelists Ray Comfort and Paul Washer falsely teach). This is why there are two separate judgments: one for believers (2nd Corinthians 5:9-11) and another for unbelievers (Revelation 20:11-15). Jesus died for our sins on the cross. 

We've been bought with a price, and 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.” If you are a born-again believer, you completely belong to God. We ought to live for the Lord as believers. However, regardless of how we choose to live our life, eternal life is a free gift. The two are not related. Salvation and Discipleship are two separate matters.

It is gross theological incompetence for Bible teachers to turn Romans 10:9 into a requirement to be saved. Of all the hundreds of references in the New Testament to believing the Gospel to be saved, only once in Romans 10:9 do we read anything about “confession” being related to salvation. I have found umpteen websites which require “confessing 'Jesus is Lord'” to be saved. This is a false Gospel. Whereas the King James Bible correctly says, “That if though shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,” the corrupted New International Version (NIV) says, “That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord'.” This is the corrupted Alexandrian text of Satan. The Bible does not require declaring Jesus as one's Lord to be saved. This is works. Many of today's preachers are caught between grace and works.

The Bible gives us clear evidence that it is possible to BELIEVE THE GOSPEL and still refuse to confess Christ. This plainly teaches us that salvation does not require confession. Romans 10:9 is often taken out of context. It is improper Bible exegesis to lift a Bible verse out of context and base a doctrine of just one passage of Scripture.

John 12:42-43, “Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” Anybody who teaches that a person must “confess Jesus” to be saved is teaching heresy. The chief rulers who believed were saved, but “THEY DID NOT CONFESS HIM” (John 12:42-43).

Beware Of The False Doctrine Of Zionism

Luke 21:24, “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”

Israel could be attacked and nuked tomorrow and it would be biblical. The inspired Holy Bible does not guarantee any special divine protection from God during the Times Of The Gentiles, as our text Scripture passage plainly teaches from the book of Luke. The Times Of The Gentiles will be fulfilled at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (which will happen after the 7-year Tribulation period), the stone cut out of the mountain in king Nebuchadnezzar's image which he saw in a dream (Daniel 2:45).

As a born again Christian, and as an independent fundamentalist Baptist, I stand against present-day manmade Israel. I am sick and tired of hearing brainwashed Zionists in churches misinterpreting Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” This promise was exclusively for Abraham alone. This very does NOT apply to all Jews of all time.

We know this to be true because of passages such as Exodus 19:5-6, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.  These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.” Please don't miss that all-important preposition “if,” meaning that God's promises to bless the Jews have always been CONDITIONAL upon their continued faith and obedience. God's promises have always followed a line of faith.

That is why I reject the modern teaching of Replacement Theology, because there was never anything to replace. From the very beginning, God cursed disobedient Jews, He did not bless them (cf. Deuteronomy chapter 28). Israel is Israel and the Church is the Church. That is what I humbly believe. "THE CHOSEN" today include all (and only) born again believers, comprised of Jews and Gentiles alike (Galatians 3:26-29). No unsaved Jew who rejects Jesus as the Messiah will ever enter into The Promised Land, nor into Heaven. Only a born again Jew is of the seed of Abraham in God's sight (Romans 2:28-29).

When the arrogant self-righteous Pharisees boasted of their Jewish ancestry, John the Baptist told them "big deal," God could raise up stones as the children of Abraham if He wanted to do so. Matthew 3:9, “And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” The fact they were Jewish meant absolutely NOTHING to God. The LORD is not a respecter of persons (Romans 10:12). Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God, and that includes every human being, regardless of one's ancestry, heritage or ethnicity. The United States is falling apart today on many levels. We certainly have NOT been blessed for supporting the manmade farce called" Israel" in Palestine.

Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980) did NOT think that present-day Israel is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, and neither do I. And neither did Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988). Israel today is no different than any other heathen nation. According to Hosea 3:4-5, the true nation of Israel won't be restored until the Jews repent toward God when Jesus Christ returns. The legitimate nation of Israel has not existed since 586 BC when Jerusalem was annihilated, enslaved and conquered by Babylon. Since 70 AD, due to Roman persecution and annihilation, the Jews have been scattered throughout the world.

And although 7 million Jews have returned to Palestine since 1948, they have not yet returned unto the LORD. When the Man of Sin (Antichrist, or “in place of Christ”) comes, the Jews and Arabs alike will embrace him as their False Messiah. The future Antichrist (aka, the Beast) will deceive the whole world according to Revelation 12:9. If it were possible, he would even deceive God's children, the elect (Matthew 24:24).

Beware of the deceptive evils of Zionist propaganda which have crept into most churches today. Our focus as believers in these last day should be upon preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to the world, and not upon the future Kingdom of Israel. It is idolatry to idolize the nation of Israel and the Jews. Since God has rejected and cursed the Jews (Romans 11:23-24), we ought not bid them Godspeed (2nd John 1:11). God in His mercy has made a way back to the Olive Tree (the promises of God) for any Jews, which is only through faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:26-29). Thank you for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!!!

What About The New IFB Teaching That You Must Pray To Be Saved?

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Kindly, I respectfully disagree with Pastor Steven L. Anderson that prayer is the Bible method to be saved, but he has a right to his own opinion as a fundamentalist Bible preacher, which I respect. I love Brother Anderson and he is a ministry friend. It is not damnable heresy as some try to make it. Brother Onorato Diamante on YouTube is also my ministry friend, and I support his soul-winning ministry. In this theological debate, I side with Onorato.

Pastor Jack Hyles taught us to use a Sinner's Prayer at Hyles-Anderson College, which is how I was taught. But Dr. Hyles also made it clear that you don't have to pray to be saved.

Furthermore, Evangelist Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968), or simply “Dr. Bob” as friends and students called him, rightly taught that you don't have to pray to get to Heaven...

“'Pray to be saved. Ask the Lord to save you.' This is what I heard a minister say to a convicted sinner who came forward for prayer at the close of an evangelistic service. Nowhere in the Bible are men told to pray to be saved. There are examples where men did pray and were saved. Men are told to repent, to believe, to obey the Gospel, but the Bible never says to pray for salvation. It does say that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, but nowhere does the Bible command men to pray to be saved. I think I know why, God, who made the human heart, knew that it was not necessary to tell convicted sinners to pray. If a sinner can see Jesus Christ on the cross, it is as natural for him to pray as it is for birds to sing or flowers to bloom. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.'” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr., “Comments On Here And Hereafter,” chapter titled: 'Prayer And Praise,' p. 163; Bob Jones University Press, Inc., © 1942

Bravo Dr. Bob!

Furthermore, several years ago I heard Pastor Anderson say in a sermon that if anyone says he doesn't believe you can be saved by faith alone without prayer, they are a liar. He simply believes that calling upon the name of the Lord in prayer is the Bible method of winning souls. This does not in any way negate the saving power of the Gospel.

That being said, I am concerned that using a Sinner's Prayer might confuse some people, but that is only my personal experience and opinion. When I got saved at age 12, I needlessly struggled with the assurance of my salvation for the next 10 years, because no one had ever showed me from the Bible that I could be saved by simply believing the Gospel. I kept worrying what I had prayed, and since I couldn't remember, it drove me crazy.

And even though I prayed at least 50 times over those years for God to save me, I still couldn't find any peace in the matter because no one had ever shown me the true simple Gospel, which is salvation by faith in Jesus' death on the cross, burial and His bodily resurrection, apart from all human effort. But it wasn't until I read Pastor Max Younce's helpful book, "Salvation And The Public Invitation" that I finally found the sweet peace that I am saved. Dr. Younce's book SOLIDIFIED my salvation beliefs.

Faithful Word Baptist Church won 10,121 lost souls to Christ over the past year (Pastor Anderson personally led 182 sinners to faith in Christ). Amen and amen! It would be folly to say that none of those people got saved because they were led in a Sinner's Prayer. I led many people to Christ using a Sinner's Prayer in my early ministry days. But I stopped using it many years ago for the aforementioned reasons.

I will say this, it is VERY normal for a person to want to pray a Sinner's Prayer to accompany their faith. I did at age 12. I silently called out to God in my heart to save me, and He graciously did at age 12. I believe people are saved before they ever open their mouth to pray, or walk down a church aisle, because it is the heart's faith that saves a sinner, and not their behavioral responses (Romans 10:9-10). I believe that 95% of sinners instinctively pray a Sinner's Prayer at the time of conversion. This is fine and not wrong to do.

That all being said, I think it is paramount that Bible preachers emphasis that we are saved by faith alone without having to pray, call or ask to be saved. I once heard Pastor Bob Gray Sr. rightly say that Jesus doesn't forgive sin. Jesus has already paid for everyone's sins with His precious blood. I love that! So, all someone needs to do to be saved is to simply by faith (taking God at His written Word) accept Christ's sacrifice on the cross as full payment for their sins, believing that Christ was buried but is now risen, to be saved. It's that easy to go to Heaven.

You don't have to ask to receive a gift that is freely being offered to you, you simply just take it. Eternal life is a "free gift" according to Romans 5:15-18, 6:23 and Ephesians 2:8-9. JESUS PAID IT ALL, all I have to do to receive God's free gift is BELIEVE that Jesus did it all for me through Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago.

One final word, I am aware that some New IFB pastors (e.g., Jonathan Shelley in Texas) insist that you must pray to be saved, which is blatant heresy! Yet, as I mentioned in this blog, Pastor Steven Anderson does not teach that. He has plainly said that it is possible for someone to be saved by faith alone without saying a Sinner's Prayer, but he simply chooses to always use a Sinner's Prayer in his church's soul-winning efforts. Each pastor is different.

Salvation Heresies Of Pastor J. Harold Smith

Galatians 1:6-8, “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.”

Dr. J. Harold Smith (1910–2001) was a dynamic Southern Baptist evangelist and pastor. He was the founder of the 'Radio Bible Hour' in 1935. Here is a short bizarre excerpt from Pastor J. Harold Smith's (1910-2001) sermon, “God's Three Deadlines.” There are numerous Scriptural problems with Dr. Smith's preaching:

1. You don't get saved by “giving your heart to Jesus.” That is simply not the Gospel. The inspired Word of God plainly defines “the gospel” for us in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.” In his sermon, Dr. Smith never even mentions Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. I am so sick and tired of these incompetent pastors who leave off the Gospel, embellishing it with a bunch of garbage not found in the Holy Bible. The false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 gave their heart to Jesus, devoutly following and serving Christ, calling Him: “Lord, Lord,” but Jesus denied knowing them as His redeemed sheep. You may give your heart to Jesus, follow and serve Him, do many wonderful works in Jesus' name, call Him your “Lord,” and yet still die in your sins and go to Hell for eternity to burn in fire (Revelation 14:11). The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again.
2. Not one verse in the inspired Holy Bible teaches that the Devil comes to get an unsaved sinner at death. It is God who controls Hell, not Satan. There are no demons torturing sinners in Hell. The Devil does not torture anyone in Hell. Some demons are already imprisoned in a special place in Hell (Greek noun: Tartarus), but they do not hurt lost sinners. God punishes the wicked. Jesus told a true story in Luke 16:19-31 about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. Jesus never used proper names when telling a parable. The rich man died in his sleep and woke up in Hell. There were no devils.
3. You don't have to give up sinning to be saved. Dr. Smith repeats a story told to him by the pastor who allegedly led him to Christ. Smith says in the story that the wealthy man refused to get saved because he was about to partake in a shady deal for $25,000, and he knew that if he got saved he couldn't do the deal. That is false teaching! Dear reader, you can get saved by God's free grace on Sunday, go to the brothel by sundown, divorce your wife on Monday, rob a bank on Tuesday, murder a man on Wednesday and get drunk on Thursday, but you cannot lose your salvation once you've been born again; and forsaking one's sinful ways is NOT required to receive God's free gift of eternal life. Being willing to forsake your sinful ways is absolutely not a part of God's simple plan of salvation. How could it be, since eternal life is being offered by God to all mankind as a free gift, paid for in full by Jesus' precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19). Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
4. If this story is true, the dying man was have delusions, because none of it is biblical. Dr. Smith says the man cried out, “Don't let him (the Devil) have me!” Smith says the Devil wrapped chains around his ankles. Smith sounds like that nutcase Bill Wiese and his “21 Minutes In Hell” circus show. What nonsense! As I mentioned, not one verse in the inspired Holy Bible supports this heresy. I cannot find one place in Scripture where Satan came to get someone when they died. We read in 1st Peter 5:8 that Satan roams the earth as a roaring lion to kill, steal and destroy his victims (John 10:10). We read in Isaiah 14:9, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” I did some research concerning this passage. Check out Bible Hub. In our earthly manmade prisons, whenever a new inmate arrives it is the talk of the prisonhouse! I humbly believe the same holds true in Hell. Although there are no parties in Hell, you will burn alive with your wicked unsaved peers if you go there by your own choice. It is clear from the inspired Scripture that eternally condemned sinners in Hell are fully conscious, gnashing their teeth in excruciating regrets (Luke 13:28).
5. Avoid superstitious preachers! I hate when preachers try to scare people with bizarre stories that are obviously fake. I have heard numerous preachers, including my hero of the faith Pastor Jack Hyles, use the fake story of drillers in Soviet Russia who dropped a microphone down the Kola Superdeep Borehole in the Pechengsky District and allegedly heard victims screaming in Hell. If that were true, why didn't the microphone burn up? There is a fine line between faith and foolishness. Dr. Smith's strange story of a man screaming for the Devil not to take him on his death bed, while having his hair ripped out on the headboard of his bed from struggling against Satan, is simply not biblical. As a born-again believer, and a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, I don't believe in using bizarre stories to scare people to come to Jesus Christ. The biblical truth of an everlasting burning Hell for all Christ-rejecters is horrifying enough!

Pastor J. Harold Smith was a well known Southern Baptist preacher whose ministry spanned over half a century. At best he was sloppy with God's simple plan of salvation, at worst he was a damnable false prophet. For example: In his sermon titled, Simply Salvation, Dr. Smith preaches the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation...

“You just say: 'Jesus, this preacher says that you'll have mercy upon me tonight. Have mercy on me Lord. Forgive me of my sins. I'll trust you. I'll open the door of my heart that's been closed to you for all these years. And right now, I'll open the door. I'll let Jesus Christ come in, and the best I know how I'll live for you the rest of my life.'” —Evangelist J. Harold Smith (1910-2001), 'Simply Salvation' (hear MP3 excerpt)

Tragically, this is the kind of theological dung that is being preached in 99% of churches today! Sadly, Dr. Smith never even mentions the Gospel. Warning Will Robinson!!! Danger! Danger! There's nothing in the Bible about doing your best to live for Christ the rest of your earthly life. THAT IS WORKS! Avoid Pastor J. Harold Smith! If a man is wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, you simply cannot trust his theology. It's like buttoning a dress shirt, if you get the first button wrong then all the other buttons will also be wrong.

Dr. Don Boyd (1947-2009) thankfully gets Bible repentance right. Don Boyd was the faithful principal of Hammond Baptist High School for the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, from 1991 until 2008. I heard him preach at Hyles-Anderson College when I was a student (1985-1993). Don was blind in one eye. He wore a patch to cover his glass eye. There is nothing in the inspired King James Bible about repenting of your sins to get to Heaven. Yet, 99% of churches today (including all the pseudo-Christian cults like Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Seventh-Day Adventism and Roman Catholic) get repentance WRONG! Those false religions all teach that repentance means to turn away from your sinning to get to Heaven. Whereas the inspired Word of God teaches that repentance is a change of mind from unbelief to faith in Jesus Christ.

We can only judge a man's theology based upon what he actually says, not what he might hopefully believe. As far as I can tell, Dr. Smith is wrong on the Gospel. I've listened to his sermons and he is wrong on how to be saved. You don't have to “give your heart to Jesus” to be saved. No such teaching is found in the inspired Holy Bible. It is so important that we do not stray away from the simplicity that is in Christ, which is the Gospel of free grace (Romans 1:16). The Gospel is threefold:

1. Jesus DIED on a cross for our sins.
2. Jesus was BURIED.
3. Jesus physically RESURRECTED from the dead three days later.

So, what's this garbage talk from Harold Smith about “I'll let Jesus Christ come in and the best I know how I'll live for you the rest of my life” nonsense? I triple-dog dare you to show me that heresy in the inspired Scripture!!! I humbly think Pastor Harry Ironside (1876-1951) said it very well...

“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.”

SOURCE: Pastor Harry A. Ironside, from the tract: 'What Is The Gospel?'

Dear reader, we need a revival in our Bible colleges, missions and churches of presenting the Gospel as clear, unadulterated and simple as possible. I love what Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold said...

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

Amen and amen! Do you know how to present the Gospel clearly and accurately?

Dear friend, preachers everywhere over the past few centuries have been careless in how they handle the inspired Word of Truth. I hear fools like Ray Comfort and John MacArthur (1939-2025) touting the doctrinal soundness of the old-time preachers from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, but the truth is that in every generation there have been true and false prophets. The so-called “doctrinally sound preachers” that heretics' Ray Comfort and John MacArthur endorse were the damnable false teachers of their generation.

Even in the New Testament the inspired writer of 1st John 2:18 said, “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.” False prophets have always existed. Please “Search the scripture” as Jesus commanded in John 5:39, so that you won't be woefully deceived and end up in Hell with those lying preachers (Matthew 7:13-15; Luke 13:23-24). Remember, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions (Proverbs 16:25).

RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!

An Ordained Baptist Preacher Who Doesn't Believe Jesus Resurrected From The Dead

1st Corinthians 15:17, “And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”

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

Dear reader, do you know that there are actually preachers who don't believe Jesus raised up from the dead? I'm talking about ordained Baptist ministers! What a tragedy!

Clearly they have never been born again. I will tell you at the end of this article about whom I am speaking, and you will likely be surprised who it is when I name him. This fella was and still is one of the most famous preachers in history. Yet, he didn't believe the inspired Holy Bible. ...

Matthew 28:7, “And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.”

Mark 16:6, “And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.”

Luke 24:1, “Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.”

What a fool! Jesus calls him a fool in Luke 24:25-26, “Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?” Only a fool denies the Gospel.

I'm talking about a Baptist minister who had tens of thousands of loyal followers, who all became his victims. This ordained Baptist minister spent his life preaching a social gospel of equality and justice, but not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Clearly, he used his position as an ordained Baptist preacher as a deceptive front to deceive his victims. He was a clever charlatan. Since he masqueraded as a minister of righteousness, it gave credence to his communist social message of hobnobbing with homosexual associates and other wicked groups in society, turning the opinion of the masses toward ungodliness instead of righteousness, a modern-day Baalam.

It shouldn't come as too big a surprise that Satan would have ordained Baptist preachers working for him in lieu of 2nd Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” Truly, truth is stranger than fiction!

Do you know who this ungodly man was? It was Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. was an ordained Baptist preacher, and a child of the Devil until his untimely death, assassinated in 1968 by a gunman. This just proves that we live in a world of heathen liars, con artists and deceivers who are inspired by Satan.

Right doctrine matters!

Damnable False Prophet, Pastor A.W. Tozer

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.”

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) was a long-time pastor on Chicago's southside at the Southside Alliance Church from 1928 to 1959. Tragically, Pastor Tozer was a damnable FALSE PROPHET who emphasized that spiritual regeneration requires moral reformation, meaning that true change in one's life and intentions must occur before one can experience the new birth. Tozer foolishly argued against the inspired Scripture that the idea of being pardoned without a commitment to change contradicts biblical teachings. In reality, it was Aiden Tozer who contradicted the Word of God. Right doctrine matters!!!

Here are the accursed words of a darn fool, an unlearned man who interpreted the Holy Scriptures from his own flawed human reasoning, mixing works with grace...

No Regeneration Without Reformation
In the Bible the offer of pardon on the part of God is conditioned upon intention to reform on the part of man. There can be no spiritual regeneration till there has been a moral Reformation. That this statement requires defense only proves how far from the truth we have strayed.

In our current popular theology pardon depends upon faith alone. The very word reform has been banished from among the sons of the Reformation! We often hear the declaration, ” I do not preach Reformation; I preach regeneration.” Now we recognize this as being the expression of a commendable revolt against the insipid and unscriptural doctrine of salvation by human effort. But the declaration as it stands contains real error, for it opposes Reformation to regeneration. 

Actually the two are never opposed to each other in sound Bible theology. The not – Reformation – but – regeneration doctrine incorrectly presents us with an either – or; either you take Reformation or you take regeneration. This is inaccurate. The fact is that on this subject we are presented not with an either - or, but with a both - and. The converted man is both reformed and regenerated. And unless the sinner is willing to reform his way of living he will never know the inward experience of regeneration. This is the vital truth which has gotten lost under the leaves in popular evangelical theology.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living. [emphasis added] —Pastor Aiden Tozer, “The Root Of The Righteous” (1955)

BLASPHEMY! The old adage is very true: To the man with a hammer in his hand, everything starts looking like a nail sticking up. And to Pastor Aiden Tozer who hated sin so much that it corrupted his theology, somewhere along the way he lost his way concerning the Gospel of free grace, which is without works. Galatians 2:21, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” By wickedly requiring reformation (behavior modification) as a prerequisite for regeneration (being born again), Aiden Tozer frustrates the grace of God.

The Greek word for “frustrate” in Galatians 2:21 is atheteo, which means: “to set aside, that is, (by implication) to disesteem, neutralize or violate.” When any corrupt preacher confuses service with salvation, he neutralizes the Gospel. He has unintentionally set aside the truth of the Gospel, so that lost sinners cannot be saved. The Devil is not fighting religion. He is too smart for that. Satan has produced a counterfeit Christianity today, so much like the real one, that true Christians are either too inept or too afraid to speak out against it.

Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again, a term that is rarely heard from church pulpits anymore. The last thing in the world that the Devil wants is for anyone to be born again. He wants you to spend eternity with him burning in the Lake of Fire forever, which is where all Christ-rejecters will spend eternity. No one ever went to Hell except those who chose to go there by rejecting God's free offer of salvation through faith alone in His only begotten Son, apart from all human effort.

John 3:20, 21 And Repentance

The dear LORD Himself said in John 3:20-21, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” Lost people who love sinning won't come to the Savior, lest their sin be reproved (spoken evil against). This is why Jesus said in John 5:40, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Jesus did not say “ye cannot come,” He said “ye will not come.”

So, regarding people who intend to continue sinning getting saved, the problem takes care of itself. Jesus said those who love their sins won't get saved. But perverting the Gospel by tampering with it, adding an unbiblical requirement to turn from your sinning is wrong and evil. Being willing to turn from your sins is not a part of God's simple plan of salvation, and you cannot disprove me with the inspired King James Bible.

Anyone who comes to God by faith as an admitted guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20), believing that Christ died for their sins on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago, and was buried, and then resurrected three days later, is saved. This is THE GOSPEL which has the power to save those who believe it (1st Corinthians 15:1-6; Romans 1:16). You do not have to be willing to give up your sinning to be saved, you simply need to come to Christ as a needy sinner. It is not my job nor yours to judge sinners, to interrogate them to see if they are willing to stop sinning. To do so is a perversion of God's grace. If someone wants to be saved, that is good enough.

I have never met anybody who rejoiced that they could continue sinning and still go to Heaven. The whole terrible idea of telling someone that God won't save them unless they are willing to “repent of their sins” is very unscriptural. If someone desires to be saved, regardless of what you may foolishly think or perceive, they CAN be saved just as they are.

Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come. SOURCE

Furthermore, John 3:21 doesn't say “he that turns from his sins” cometh to the light; but rather, it says “he that doeth truth” cometh to the light, to be saved. Jesus said that! 2nd Timothy 2:25, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” Bible repentance regarding salvation is a matter of changing your mind to acknowledge THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER, and Jesus is the only SAVIOR. In the simplest essence this is what the Holy Bible is—Old and New Testaments; or, respectively, Law and Christ. The Old Testament shows humanity our sinnership (Romans 3:19-20); and then brings us to Christ in the New Testament to be saved by grace through faith in Jesus (Galatians 3:24-26).

Pastor Aiden Tozer's Damnable Counterfeit Gospel

Tragically, Pastor Aiden Tozer undoubtedly is in Hell this moment, regretting his misunderstanding of the Scripture. I do not see how anyone could go to Heaven who is so wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, that they think your must first be willing to forsake a lifestyle of sinning and reform your behavior to please a holy God.

Folks, that is pure works, not grace! Jesus died for your sins on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago, paying a debt so massive that neither you nor I could pay for it. If God were to require us to pay for our own sins, we'd have to burn in hell forever and ever and ever without hope, without rest day or night, suffering in misery and pain and loneliness, gnashing our teeth with regrets in knowing that FOR FREE we could have enjoyed the blessings and splendor of Heaven for all eternity with joy. The choice is yours alone to make.

I was thinking recently about the sad final fate of AC/DC's original band members, all of whom have rejected Jesus as the Christ. Some fans literally consider AC/DC their religion. The band openly mocks the reality of Hell with such wicked songs as, “Highway To Hell,” spitting in God's face. Woe unto Angus Young, Phil Rudd, Cliff Williams and Brian Johnson when they join Bon Scott and Malcolm Young in the everlasting fires of Hell, the horrifying place that they've made billions of dollars mocking for filthy lucre and entertainment. Woe unto the wicked! Their time is running out quickly on earth (Hebrews 4:13, 9:27; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).

Pastor Aiden Tozer was sincere, no doubt (Proverbs 16:25); but so was Judas Iscariot who reformed his life after throwing Jesus under the bus. Judas repented of his sins (Matthew 27:3). Judas was truly sorry for betraying an innocent man to death, Jesus. Judas frantically returned the 30 pieces of silver, but the wicked Pharisees rejected the money (Matthew 27:3-5). It was highly hypocritical of the same ungodly Pharisees who wickedly paid Judas the 30 pieces of silver in the first place to betray Jesus, to now after the fact (in their self righteousness) refuse to take back their own money, hypocritically calling it “blood money.” It sure was blood money, and the Pharisee's hands were covered with it!

Please dear reader, “search the Scriptures” as Jesus commanded in John 5:29, and please do not listen to some idiot unlearned preacher who has no idea what he is talking about. Aiden Tozer has it all backwards. He says there can be no regeneration without reformation, but the exact opposite is biblical and true. There can be no reformation (a change of behavior) without regeneration (the new birth). What Pastor Tozer and so many neo-evangelical fools like him fail to understand is that it is God's Holy Spirit who changes a man, that is, the “fruit” of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and not we ourselves (Galatians 5:22-25).

Mr. Tozer errantly requires that a lost sinner reform them self of sinful behavior first (in their own weak human strength), before God will be willing to pardon their iniquities to save them. Tozer has it all backwards. God saves a man, and then the Holy Spirit begins to change him. That being said, the world is full of carnal Christians who live open lives of sin and debauchery. The Gospel of free grace (aka, “easy believism”) is not the problem. The problem is today's lazy, ungodly and incompetent pastors who refuse to preach the truth, refuse to contend for the faith, refuse to cry aloud against sin, refuse to unconditionally love people, and refuse to obey God in other matters as well. Today's churches and Bible colleges are pathetic!

Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

If Christians Will Judge Angels In The Future, Why Do Roman Catholics Pray To Them?

1st Corinthians 6:1-3, “Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”

In my humble opinion, humans are not worth more than the angels. I believe God loves the angels too, but you are correct that only sinful humans have been redeemed by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross. Mankind is the object of God's great love. I do not claim to understand it all, and I humbly don't think any human being can claim to have it all figured out either.

Nowhere does the inspired Holy Bible teaches that men should worship angels. In fact, we read in Colossians 2:18, “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...” This Scripture passage clearly indicts the wicked religion of Roman Catholicism, the Whore of Rome. Catholics are so arrogant and wilfully blind that they have even removed the 2nd Commandment not to bow to to graven images and idols. ...

Catholics have changed God's Word into a lie (Romans 1:25), but they still haven't changed THE TRUTH. The Bible says in Psalms 8:5b that God created man “a little lower than the angels,” so at present the angels outrank us. I cannot even grasp the idea that we woefully sinful humans will judge angels. It could be that we will only judge the fallen angels, demons. This raises a good question. Do the good angels sin? If they don't, why would humans judge them? We know that the fallen angels sin, and we will judge them. It makes no sense to us

According to BibleHub.com...

“Believers will judge angels as part of their future role in God's kingdom, reflecting their authority and identity in Christ. This judgment primarily pertains to fallen angels, emphasizing the believers' union with Christ and their participation in His ultimate justice.”

I tend to agree with that exegesis. I see no reason why Christians would judge the faithful angels who haven't sinned. I think we would be wise not to be dogmatic in these unlearned matters in which we can only speculate at best. We know that it is sinful to worship anything or anyone other than God (which includes Jesus, our Creator and Savior, who is also almighty God; and the indwelling Holy Spirit, who is God with us). Someone has said that we pray to the Father in the name of the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. That being said, we can indeed pray to Jesus and the Holy Spirit too, knowing that we are praying to the ONE true and living God (Deuteronomy 6:4).

I just think it's important that we understand that without Jesus, we have no access to the Father. 1st Timothy 2:5-6, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” As a side note, please notice that Jesus gave Himself a ransom for "ALL," not just for "some" as ungodly Calvinists errantly teach. Jesus Christ is the ONLY mediator between God and man. This is why praying to Mary, angels or other saints is futile, because they have no power to help us, nor to relate messages to God. Catholics foolishly teach that since Mary is Jesus' mother, she has a special power to manipulate her Son. But this teaching blatantly contradicts 1st Timothy 2:5, which says that Jesus is the ONLY mediator.

I wish far more Bible preachers would expose the Whore of Rome! It's a rare thing nowadays to hear a preacher exposing the evils of Roman Catholicism, Catholics are everywhere in American society. Our own U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance is a devout hellbound Catholic, as is Governor Ron Desantis in Florida. He's a great governor, but is sadly still in his sins without Christ. NO ONE is saved who trusts in Sacramental Salvation, which fools include heretics like Martin Luther (1483-1546).

In his Large and Small Catechisms written in 1529 (12 years after his alleged conversion to Christianity in 1517), Martin Luther requires “Holy Baptism” and “Holy Communion” (neither of which are biblical terms) to get to Heaven. Sacraments are 100% foreign to the inspired Word of God. Sadly, other than myself and Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023), I am not aware of any preachers who expose Martin Luther as a wolf in sheep's clothing, a hellbound reprobate.

Dear reader, you should NEVER bow down nor pray to Catholic statues, nor pray to Mother Mary, nor worship The Image of Divine Mercy. For to do so is the woeful sin of IDOLATRY!  Just because the hellbound wicked Vatican has removed the Second Commandment from the Ten Commandments, doesn't mean that it's not still there in the true inspired Holy Bible. Psalms 119:89, “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”

RUN from bastardized Roman and Orthodox (Russian) Catholic churches, and Lutheran churches too! These are deadly manmade false religions who trust in sacraments, and not in biblical salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. Jesus said in no uncertain terms in John 3:3b that if you want to enter into the Kingdom of God, “Ye must be born again.” Have you been born again yet? If not, now is the time to get saved.

You get saved dear reader by coming to God as a guilty sinner (Romans 3:19-20), and by faith (taking God at His written Word) accepting Christ's sacrifice on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago as full payment for your sins, believing that Jesus was buried, but then bodily resurrected three days later. This is the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. There is no other way of salvation for humanity, than through faith in the precious name of Jesus (Acts 4:10-12; John 14:6; Galatians 3:26).

God's redeemed children (saints) will someday judge the world and the angels. Do not then make the grave error of elevating them, which is the sin of idolatry. Revelation 22:8-9, “And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”