By God's grace, I made this Blog to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3b). I marvel at the false teachings I hear from most pulpits today regarding repentance and how to get to Heaven. I am a humble VOICE to expose these lies and other popular heresies in churches and on social media today. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!
Colossians 1:25, “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;”
The word “dispensation” appears four times in the inspired Holy Bible. A “dispensation” may be defined as “stewardship, administration, oversight, or management of another's property.” For example: In 1st Corinthians 9:16 the Apostle Paul said, “๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ผ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐น ๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ป๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฒ.” Paul is simply saying that God entrusted him with stewardship of the Gospel.
There is nothing in the four Scripture passages in which the word “dispensation” appears, that justifies the Dispensational system invented by John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), the leader of the Plymouth Brethren, which makes SEVEN DIVISIONS of the Word of God. Dispensationalism is a manmade doctrine!
As Dr. Mauro rightly explains (a rebuttal of C.I. Scofield's Dispensational teachings), God has already made TWO great divisions to His inspired Word of OLD and NEW Testaments; or respectively, LAW and THE GOSPEL. The emphasis is upon preaching the Gospel to win the lost.
Whereas in manmade Dispensationalism, SEVEN divisions are made to God's Word, so that the emphasis is switched from the Gospel to the future Kingdom of Israel instead. For these reasons I reject Dispensational teaching and I encourage you to do the same. We don't need the help of crafty men to tell us how to study God's Word. God said what He meant, and He meant what He said. I am leery of theology, because much of it is not based on the Scriptures.
John exhorts all men in John 5:36, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” The dear Lord didn't command us to go buy a bunch of theology books, learn Dispensationalism, attend a theological seminary (cemetery); but rather, Jesus simply told us to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!!!
Titus 1:13-14, “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.”
Someone sent me a link to this video today and asked me if it is okay. I almost fell out of my chair while watching it, because it is so full of lies and false teaching.
8 Signs You're A Fake Christ (THIS VIDEO IS HERESY!!!)
Kindly said, this video is terrible! He is teaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965) rightly said:
"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do. Here is a helpful book that explains God's simple plan of salvation.
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.”
Mark 3:28-30, “Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.”
Someone today asked me if an unsaved person can blaspheme the Holy Spirit without speaking a word. I humbly believe, yes, it is possible, because our human vocal box (larynx) and mouth are merely biological tools to convert the thoughts of our heart into audible sounds.
I am firmly convinced that “blaspheming” the Holy Spirit refers to knowingly rejecting Jesus Christ. In the case of the Apostle Peter, he audibly denied knowing Christ due to fear of prosecution, torture and even death. But Peter in his heart of hearts would never deny Christ, he loved the Lord. So, to me blaspheming the Holy Spirit means to reject Jesus in the solitude of one's soul, a bonafide rejection of the Savior.
Rebellious wives blaspheme the Word of God. ๐ง๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ:๐ฑ, “๐ง๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐, ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ, ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ, ๐ด๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ, ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐ต๐๐๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐, ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฏ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ.” When professed Christians commit open sin, we give the Devil's crowd opportunity to SPEAK EVIL (blaspheme) the Word of God. That is why a pastor with a tarnished testimony is discouraged in the Bible from being a pastor, lest he fall into the condemnation of the Devil.
A pastor's name (reputation) must be above reproach, even though no believer can live above sinning. We are all sinners. So, to answer the question, I think YES, it is possible to blaspheme the Holy Spirit without opening one's mouth. Years ago in 1987 there was a famous liberal arts lunatic who displayed a crucifix of Jesus submerged in a jar of piss. Without speaking a single word, we could definitely say that the artist Andres Serrano blasphemed the Holy Spirit. The world hates Jesus (John 7:7).
By the way, that is why I believe those who receive the Mark of the Beast in the future will be damned to Hell. Without speaking a word, by just receiving the MARK, it will be equivalent to rejecting Christ.
I also believe that is why Revelation 22:19 warns that if any man take away from the Word of God, the Lord will also remove his name from the Lamb's Book of Life. Intentionally corrupting the Word of God is the same as rejecting Jesus, who is THE WORD OF GOD (Revelation 19:13). To tamper with the Holy Bible is to blaspheme Jesus, and I believe also the Holy Spirit.
Since we know that salvation is a free gift that cannot be lost, returned or forfeited, we can logically conclude that everyone's name then must be recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life from eternity past. Even before birth, everyone's name must be recorded in the Book of Life. When a man rejects Christ, his name is removed. Corrupting the Bible is essentially a rejection of Christ. Taking the Mark of the Beast is essentially a rejection of Christ. That is why all babies automatically go to Heaven, because their names are all recorded in the Book of Life. This is all speculation, of course, but this interpretation seems to fit well with the puzzle of the Scriptures. I hope that helps a bit.
I humbly believe to reject Jesus as one's Savior is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Just as I suspected, those Catholic false prophets are greedy charlatans. There's always a "Cha-ching" (cash register sound) that comes along with everything they promote and offer. I signed up for their free "Hallow" prayers just to follow it through and see where it leads. Sure enough, it ended up with them demanding payment for Hallow (which I refused to give them).
They falsely claim that it is totally FREE for 90 days, but then you cannot download Hallow without giving them your credit card or PayPal account. THAT IS NOT FREE! That's just like the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation—they falsely claim salvation is FREE while also saying that you cannot have it unless you sacrifice your sinful bad habits and selfish lifestyle. That is NOT free, because you are required to make a payment to obtain it. True salvation is FREE without any stipulations or obligations. You simply TAKE IT by faith!
Anyway, with "Hallow," after 90 days of the so-called FREE trial, they charge you $69.99 for a year. I saved this screenshot of the webpage that I saw...
What wicked phonies! Mark Wahlberg has a net worth of $400,000,000 but I guess that's not enough money for him. I hate the whole idea of prewritten "guided" prayers, which is formal religion, not true Christianity. They've reduced God to a vending machine; that is, you put in a quarter and get what you want. Unreal.
It's March 5th, my birthday. I turned 58 years old today after 5 am. I thank God for the opportunity and privilege to live to see age 58. I arbitrarily picked the number 42 the other day, to see how many famous people died at age 42. The website listed 434 famous people, beginning with Elvis Presley, who died at age 42. Life is so fragile! Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
I like watching the YouTube channel, "Tragedy Tales."
I saw one of his videos today, showing a woman (a mother) in India just walking down the street, minding her own business. Without warning a large sinkhole opened up and swallowed her 27 feet down into an open leaking sewer pipe that sucked her in and she vanished into the sewer system, never to be seen or heard from again. The local authorities dug up the whole street for a city block in an attempt to find her, but they never did and after several weeks they notified the family that they'd given up. They searched for one more week to give the family time to adjust to the bad news. So sad. Death can come at any time for anyone. I am thankful to God that I have lived to see age 58 today. God is so good!
It bothers me that Baptists today have all but given up on exposing Roman Catholicism as the biggest cult in the world. The problem is that pastors have stopped loving the truth. That is why they feel no compulsion to contend for the faith (Jude 1:3-4). Roman Catholicism is of the Devil. Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion. From the cradle to the casket, Catholicism has a demonic religious package for you! Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. Religion never saved anybody from the fires of Hell, but it did send billions of people there. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
Lent is totally unbiblical and no born again believer should partake of this pagan ritual. The same is true of Ash Wednesday that traditionally follows a sordid day of debauchery on Mardi Gras (aka, “Fat Tuesday”). The general idea is that you indulge in gross immorality on Tuesday, and then get right with God on Wednesday. This is heathendom! Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
I cannot warn you enough dear reader to RUN from the Satanic Catholic church, which is really a dangerous religious cult. The Bible plainly forbids calling Catholic priests “Father” (Matthew 23:9). The inspired Holy Bible plainly commands us not to make graven images nor bow to them (Exodus 20:4-5). The Bible plainly warns against fall prophets who would come forbidding marriage (e.g., celibacy for priests), and also forbid eating meats (e.g., lent on Fridays). The Roman and Orthodox Catholic churches violate these clear Scriptural prohibitions. How much more obvious proof do you need that Catholicism is of the Devil. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
Umpteen teachings in Catholicism are merely THE TRADITIONS OF MEN, not found anywhere in the inspired Holy Bible. I am astonished that over one billion people foolishly follow this manmade cult, which teaches things totally foreign and contrary to the inspired Holy Scripture. RUN from Catholicism if you value your life! Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
I once witnessed to a dying woman, whose father later angrily gabbed me by the shirt collar and cursed in the Lord's name. He was angry that I told his dying daughter the truth, that she was a sinner and needed to trust Jesus alone to be saved. Thankfully, she did get saved, but neither her Catholic mother or father would trust Christ alone to be saved. Instead, they foolishly clung to the damnable traditions of men fed to them by their Satanic lying Catholic priest. Billions of victims will someday cry aloud from the depths of Hell, fire and brimstone, regretting that instead of obeying the Gospel, they followed their lying Catholic priests. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”
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.”
Renee Roland is making a lot of money on her toxic YouTube channel. She presently has about 18,800 subscribers. Renee wrongly divides the Word of Truth, perverting the inspired Word of God. Among other false doctrines, she errantly teaches that angels had sex with human women in Genesis 6. She also foolishly denies that lost sinners who die without Christ will burn in Hell fire forever. Renee instead teaches annihilation (the same heresy taught by Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists). RUN from this false prophetess!!!
Worst of all, Renee denies the ETERNAL SONSHIP of Jesus, claiming that He was only the Son of God while upon the earth. The following Scripture plainly disproves Renee Roland's lie that Jesus is not the eternal Son of God. In this verse we clearly see that after Jesus resurrected from the dead, He was still called: “THE SON OF GOD”...
Revelation 2:18, “And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;”
Jesus has always been THE SON OF GOD, from eternity past to eternity future.
I fully agree with this man, who faithfully exposes Renee Roland as a deadly false prophet...
Renee Roland Misrepresents Eternal Sonship!
In the following video you can hear Renee herself explain her doctrinal position...
Eternal Sonship of Jesus Issue - My Position On This and Why
Jesus has always been THE SON OF GOD, from eternity past to eternity future.
A big problem with the Incarnational Sonship of Christ HERESY that Renee Roland preaches is that this teaching confuses (or destroys) the internal relationships that exist within the Godhead (Trinity), because if there is no Son prior to the incarnation (John 1:1-3, 14), then there is no Father either; and yet throughout the Old Testament we see God being referred to as the Father of Israel. For example: Isaiah 63:16, “Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.” Without the preincarnate Son there couldn't have been God the Father.
Also, Jesus is referred to as the Father. Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Without the preincarnate Son there couldn't have been God the Father.
Instead of having a triune God eternally existing in three distinct Persons with three distinct names; namely: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, those who hold to the doctrine of incarnational Sonship end up with a nameless Godhead (Trinity) prior to Christ's incarnation.
This is dangerously close to modalism and could easily lead to false teachings about the nature of God. Renee makes the mistake of leaning upon her human understanding. In her numerous videos on the topic, she admits that she is confused. Renee often uses double speak, contradicting herself. She often claims that her critics are misrepresenting her (she has personally accused me of taking her teachings about Hell out of context). Renee plainly teaches that lost sinners who die without Christ will not burn in fire forever. I haven't taken her words out of context! She is a theological liar.
The truth is that Renee is woefully ignorant and unlearned of the Scriptures and has no business teaching Bible doctrine. I humbly spent eight years in Bible college (Hyles-Anderson College, 1985-1993) preparing to be a pastor, but Renee has zero theological training. In this video Renee claims to believe in the eternal Sonship of Jesus, yet in this video made a year later she denies His eternal Sonship. Renee assumes that being the “Son” of God makes Jesus inferior and subserviently to God the Father. Therefore, in her flawed reasoning she limits Jesus' Sonship only to His time on earth in His fleshly mortal body. She states:
“I believe He became the Son.” —Renee Roland (video time, 3:45)
If that were true what Renee is teaching, then God the Father could not have become “the Father” until Jesus (God the Son) became “the Son” on earth. This is strange doctrine!
Prior to His earthly incarnation, Renee teaches that Jesus was “the Word,” but not the Son. This is strange doctrine and blatant heresy! Renee keeps saying that it doesn't matter what you believe on the matter, but dear reader, RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Jesus is the eternal Son of God. The Godhead always existed, it didn't begin with Jesus' earthly incarnation. Renee further states:
“I don't believe He was the Son until His incarnation.” —Renee Roland (video time, 7:42)
Renee talks foolishly, essentially insisting that right doctrine doesn't matter. She insists that the eternal Sonship of Jesus is not a fundamental Bible doctrine. She is wrong! She insists that no one has a right to criticize with her for having her own differing position, even though she is teaching contrary to orthodox Bible theology. Jesus has always been the Son of God, and He always will be! Renee makes the mistake of assuming that the word “Son” is synonymous with inferiority to the Father. She errantly reasons that to be the “Son,” infers that Jesus was created in time after the Father (i.e., a derivative of the Father, she says) which detracts from His deity.
As I showed you earlier, the Bible says in Revelation 2:18, “And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;” Even after being resurrected from the dead, Jesus was called, “the Son of God.” Renee affirms that Jesus is God, almighty, omnipotent, and made Old Testament appearances, et cetera, but she denies that He is the eternal Son of God. She is very wrong! If Jesus didn't become the Son until His incarnation, then there was no Godhead until Jesus' conception in Mary's womb.
Renee Roland Agrees With Edwardpf123 In Rejecting Eternal Sonship
Renee keeps saying that she is deliberately being misrepresented, but I understand her just fine, and she is a false teacher. She denies that Jesus was “the Son” before He came to earth. She foolishly claims that whatever you believe concerning Jesus' Sonship is acceptable, but that is not true. 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.” Is she not denying the Son?
I cannot warn everyone enough to avoid this corrupt woman on YouTube. Renee is making lots of PayPal money, which is blood money. She denies eternal damnation in a burning Hell for unbelievers. She denies that Jesus was the Son of God before He came to earth.
She sadly reminds me of today's corrupt Bible colleges, like Pensacola Christian College and Bob Jones University, who both claim that the King James Bible is the best, preserved and trustworthy Bible, but then they deny that we have an inspired perfect Holy Bible today. What a contradiction! For Renee to say that Jesus is God, eternal and the Word, but not the Son of God before or after he walked this earth, is blasphemy!
I reject Renee's damnable heresy! Colossians 2:2 calls the Godhead (Trinity) “a mystery.” I cannot explain the intricacies of the Godhead and neither can anyone else. But we do know that God exists as a triune Godhead; namely, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” How can we baptize converts in the name of “the Son” if the Son no longer exists? Renee is a deceiver!
She says the Son of God exists, but he is not the eternal Son, talking gibberish out of both sides of her mouth. I am sick and tired of hearing her downplay her heresies as if it is no big deal. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!
RUN from this false prophetess! Renee says ridiculous stuff, like at the end of this video: “I'm not teaching heresy I'm just sharing my personal opinion.” Huh? What a joke! She gets angry when people challenge her false teachings. Renee denies an everlasting burning Hell for Christ rejecters. Her partners in spiritual crime on YouTube are Matthew Gordon Correll (aka, JackSmack77) and Edwardpf123. JackSmack77 and Renee Roland both have PayPal accounts and links on every YouTube video, incessantly begging for donations from their victims. These are greedy false teachers!
I encourage you to read this excellent helpful book by Pastor George W. Zeller and Dr. Ronald E. Showers (1935-2019)...
I have read the sordid comments by Renee's tens of thousands of followers on YouTube. Hundreds of sickening comments applaud Renee for denying the reality of a burning Hell, calling the Lake of Fire “a myth.” This is not a woman of God! I have had fools by the dozens email to scold me for criticizing “a daughter of God.” What lunatics! Something is very wrong with a woman preacher in the first place. Furthermore, something is very wrong with a professed Christian who denies the reality of a burning Hell for unbelievers. Add to that Renee's strange doctrine that Jesus is not the eternal Son of God and you've got a theological monster! If you want to follow a blind person, the blind leading the blind, then you are the fool.
“Christians ought not to give Christian recognition to those who are not Christians. They ought not to call those 'brethren' who are not really spiritual brethren. One who does not hold the historic Christian faith, does not accept the deity of Christ, the infallible inspiration of the Bible and has not trusted Christ personally as Saviour, is not a Christian and ought not to be called a Christian. The yoke is unequal when born-again people and unconverted cultists or liberals and modernists are in the same organization, calling each other brethren.” —Dr. John R. Rice, “A Grand Success of the Christian Life,” p. 155
Don't tell me that Renee is saved when she denies that Jesus is the eternal Son of God. She talks out of both sides of her mouth, dismissing the issue as being trifle and not a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith. This is a monumental matter! Jesus has always been the eternal Son of God, and He always will be the eternal Son of God.
Renee Roland is subtle and suave, slick with her words. She tries to convince everyone that she is Miss Innocent, since she believes that Jesus is God, eternal and existed with the Father always. Yet, there is no misunderstanding that Renee denies Jesus' eternal Sonship. How are we mispresenting her? Please don't buy into her suave rhetoric. She is a false prophetess! It is heretical to deny that Jesus was the Son of God before He came to earth incarnate.
Here is a helpful edifying video showing 11 CONTRASTS between Eternal Sonship versus Incarnational Sonship. This information is provided by the Middletown Baptist Church to help you settle the matter, if you're still undecided...
Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
I saw this heretical meme on Facebook today and refuted it. Of course, the original poster laughed at my truthful comments. Jesus admonished all of us in our text passage of Scripture to BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS!!! I properly added the cancellation circle as a warning.
Kindly said, that is blatant heresy! There is not one place in the Bible which teaches that just because you are saved you will sin less. Now, the Bible teaches that you “should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world...” (Titus 2:12b).
Dr. Jack Hyles gets the Bible right...
“The wickedness of a life has not one thing in this world to do with where you go when you die; not one thing!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Religion Or Christ?”
Also, here is a helpful quote from Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold...
“If you have to look at your life to prove that you are saved, it proves that you're not!” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation is WRONG!”
The Bible is full of real life examples of saints who lived horrible lives of sin—from the trail of collateral damage left by the sordid lifestyles of Samson and Solomon, to Demas forsaking Paul on their missionary journey, “having loved this present world” (2nd Timothy 4:12b).
1st Corinthians 3:15, “If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”This born again man was so selfish and sinful that he received no rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ; yet he was safely saved.
In the carnal church at Corinth, there was a Christian couple openly living in fornication (1st Corinthians 5:1-5). The Apostle Paul heard rumors while evangelizing in another city and he was disturbed by them. So, Paul writes his first Epistle to the church elders to rebuke them for not dealing with the matter. Please notice that nowhere does the Bible teach in 1st Corinthians 5:1-5 to KICK SINNERS OUT OF CHURCH. Sadly, this is the popular interpretation that is often attributed to this passage. What saith the Scripture? How should a local church deal with a member who chooses to commit open sin and refuses to repent? 1st Corinthians 5:5, “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
Sexual sins have historically led to Sexually Transmitted Diseases(STD's). In fact, entire societies have been ruined because of outbreaks of syphilis. I humbly believe that is what Paul is referring in 1st Corinthians 5:5. The loose woman with whom the man was sleeping had formerly been his father's wife. That means she was shacking-up with multiple partners and inviting STD's, just like the tens of millions of fornicators in American society today.
By the way, the controlled media has sinfully ignored the truth concerning the murder of Gabby Petito by her boyfriend Brian Laundrie in 2021. She was shacking-up with her boyfriend in the back of a van while driving around the country for several months. That is wickedness! It's not young love. It's not cute or sweet. They were unlawfully living together like husband and wife, butt naked in Gabby's van sleeping together, living in fornication. It doesn't surprise me one bit that it all ended in disaster! Hebrews 3:13, “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”
The inspired King James Bible elaborates on how to treat a church members who lives in open wickedness in 2nd Thessalonians 3:14-15, “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.” The Greek word for “company” in verse 14 is sunanamignumi, which means “to mix up.” The Bible is telling us not to become closely associated with professed Christians who choose to live sinful lives.
That doesn't mean to avoid someone because they watch 'The Simpsons' on television; but rather, a saint who (for example) is a drunkard, an adulterer or a known thief (i.e., they are choosing to commit open sin, which is evil). They should feel ashamed if they are living in open sin. I do believe that homosexuals can be Christians, but the Bible commands us to avoid closely associating with them so that they may be ashamed. It is never okay for a redeemed child of God to continue living an open lifestyle of sinning.
The Epistle of 1st John is often misunderstood. ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ป ๐ฏ:๐ฎ๐ฐ, “๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐ถ๐ป ๐ต๐ถ๐บ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ต๐ถ๐บ. ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐, ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐.” The evidence of the new birth is the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
I agree that if a person can sin without any conviction whatsoever from the Holy Spirit, then that person is not saved. God is not an absent parent, He does lovingly scourge and chastise His children (Hebrews 12:6-8). The Epistle of 1st John was not authored by God to determine if others are saved; but rather, if we are saved (1st John 5:13).
The test is not if we have departed from sin. NO ONE has ever been able to live above sin (Romans 7:14-25), we can only try to live above reproach (1st Timothy 5:24).
One of the GO-TO Scripture passages that the Lordship Salvation crowd use is 1st John 3:8-9, “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”1st John 3:9 is not teaching that believers won't sin. The Bible is saying that the indwelling Holy Spirit within us cannot sin. When we sin, we do so because we choose to walk in the flesh, but we are commanded as believers to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25).
There is an old adage: Where there is fire there is smoke. I heard Pastor R.A. Torrey use that adage to teach that if you are saved there will be some evidence of it in your life. However, I don't like that adage at all in that illustration. Candles do not produce any smoke. Smoke is caused by a lack of oxygen. Any firemen can tell you that a fire can still be active without showing any signs of it. A fire can smolder for hours inside a wall without producing any smoke. Likewise, just because you have the blessed Holy Spirit living inside you, doesn't mean that there will be visible evidence for others to see. That is why Jesus said in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Jesus wouldn't have told us to let out light shine to glorify God, unless it were possible for us not to do so.
Dear reader, just because you are a born again child of God, doesn't guarantee that you will sin less from now on. Many believers choose to live sordid lives of sin and wickedness. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) gets it exactly right in this helpful sermon titled, “YOUR SALVATION DID NOT CHANGE YOU A BIT.” Every new convert must be mentored by a local Bible-believing church. After all, this is the second part of The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
The first part of The Great Commission is to preach the Gospel to lost sinners, leading them to place their faith in Jesus Christ. The second part is to indoctrinate new converts with the truths of God's Word after they get saved, so that they can go win more people to Christ. The idea is to perpetuate the Gospel of free grace. It is a bad thing when we hear Baptist preachers bragging about the 200,000 people which they allegedly led to Christ (which is what I heard missionary Steven Heidenreich arrogantly claim).
Kindly said, Mr. Heidenreich didn't bother to mention how many of those alleged “converts” are serving Christ today, if any. The fact is that I do not know how many of those people were actually saved, but it is obvious that he didn't bother to follow-up with those supposed converts. I have never boasted of how many people my ministry has led to Christ over the past 23 years, since I humbly started my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry in 2002.
My point here is that fulfilling The Great Commission requires more than just preaching the Gospel. Our blessed Savior said that we should also be, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...” The reason why millions of believers today are not attending church and living carnal lives, is simply because today's backslidden horrible pastors don't care enough about people to go knock on their door to invite them to church, and to have the courage to preach from the pulpit against sin, and to earnestly contend for the faith. The average Baptist pastor today merely cares about his next paycheck! I can name a handful of pastors who are pathetic and have no business being clergy. They don't care!
Beware of the Devil's deceived Lordship Salvation gang, who insist that you cannot be saved and continue living in sin. The truth is that everyone still lives in sin. I don't care how good you may think you are friend, you are still a dirty sinner, and so am I. We all deserve to go directly to Hell to burn forever! Thankfully God has made a way of escape, through faith in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:9).
1st Timothy 6:20-21, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.”
Our text passage of inspired Scripture warns that some foolish people have erred from the Christian faith because of 'SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED.'
Some obvious examples of FALSE SCIENCE would include the fallacy of Evolution, flat earth fraud, the lie that the earth is stationary and doesn't move through space, the Global Warming hoax, the mythical 'chemical imbalance of the brain' medical scam, Young Earth Creationism fallacy (which includes the lie that dinosaurs lived 5,000 years ago), et cetera.
Dear reader, it matters what we believe! I recently posted a meme on Facebook about the foolishness of a flat earth. One of my regular visitors commented that the Gospel is all that matters. I kindly rebuked him for saying that, because what he said is untrue. The Gospel is not all that matters. It matters how you live. Lost people won't listen to you if you're a lying thief and a dishonest person. So, your character matters doesn't it? Also, if you think that dinosaurs lived 5,000 years ago, an intelligent person very likely won't respect your opinion enough to listen to you share the saving Gospel of grace.
I humbly disagree that the Gospel is all that matters. I learned from Pastor Max Younce (1935-2023) the danger of fools who teach Young Earth Creationism, which requires that such a person also believe dinosaurs lived 5,000 years ago. Intelligent unsaved people may go to Hell forever, because they refused to listen to someone share the Gospel who was foolish enough to think that dinosaurs roamed the earth 5,000 years ago! The same principle is true for those fools who think that the earth is flat, or that the earth is stationary and doesn't move through space. It matters what we believe!
There is strong biblical support for a 'Gap Principle' between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. As Pastor Max D. Younce often said regarding an Old Earth: “It's not a 'theory,' it's a biblical principle.” In his helpful book titled, 'The Truth About Evolution; Or, Don't Let Satan Make A Monkey Out Of You,' Dr. Younce explains 'The Remodeling' in chapter 11. The Bible outright tells us that the earth is old. Psalms 102:25, “Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.” The psalmist David specifically distinguishes that age of the earth. David penned these words approximately 1,000 BC.
As God's children everything matters! Our testimony matters. The way we dress and talk matters. It matters if we honestly pay our bills on time, and if we labor honestly at work. The unsaved world is always watching. The lost world sees the infighting, hatred and bickering among professed Christians today. I speak this to our shame as Baptists! I have never seen such a woeful lack of love and compassion, as I have over the past 20 years in Baptist churches and the toxic religious colleges that train their incompetent pastors.
Sadly, Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is a prime example of a horribly toxic religious school that operates more like a Satanic cult than a Christian organization. I had attended their Campus Church for a few months in 2021, but was compelled to leave after being repeatedly abused, mistreated and condemned by their ungodly senior pastor, Jeff Redlin. PCC's leaders have huge egos, falling all over themselves like wicked Hollywood with self-praise, self-glorification and self-honor which they neither deserve nor have earned. At terrible superficial religious places like PCC, the cult system always comes first but individual people do not matter. There is no godly love at PCC, just a prisonhouse of strict rules and policies. PCC is driving lost people further away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ by their formalism and lack of compassion for sinners. Religious snobbery never won anybody to the meek and lowly Savior.
Although sharing the Gospel is the most important thing in a believer's life (Luke 8:15), it certainly is not all that matters. Let us all be careful about adopting the statements of others who are unlearned and ignorant of the inspired Holy Scriptures. I encourage you dear reader to always think objectively, to question everything with the inspired Word of God (1st John 4:1; John 5:39; Acts 17:10-11). Thank you for reading my humble blog. Jesus is precious!!!
