I Am A Fundamentalist And A Nut

2nd Timothy 2:2, “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” Revelation 3:1-2, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”

Many years ago I purchased a great book from Larry Harrison's Bookstore titled: “I AM A FUNDAMNETALIST NOT A NOT” by Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980). Back when I bought the book, I was attending Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993) in Crownpoint, Indiana. Brother Harrison owned a little bookstore on U.S. Highway 30 in Schererville, Indiana. I stopped by often to glean through his collection of thousands of Christian books and was one of his best customers. I bought the entire umpteen volume collection of sermons preached by Pastor Charles Sprugeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. I LOVE BOOKS!!! 

I Am A Fundamentalist Not A Nut

I have always been captivated by that great title! In the book Dr. Rice address one-issue believers who criticize him for not joining them to rally at abortion clinics, et cetera. I don't like being around one-issue people! I have met political Christians who see everything as either red or blue. Jesus never got involved in politics! The answer is not in the White House, it is in the churches all across America. Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) made this great statement:

“Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible preaching! It is the hope of the church! It is the hope of the nation! It is the hope of the world!” —Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001 — 20th century's greatest friend, man of god and preacher!)

In Dr. Rice's book he defends Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort, with which I 100% disagree. I wrote an article refuting Brother Rice on this matter. I titled my intriguing article: “I am A Fundamentalist And A Nut.” If I'm a nut for exposing Westcott and Hort as being influenced by Satan to corrupt the Word of God, then I'll gladly be that nut! Listen to Pastor Max D. Younce expose just how wicked and corrupt Westcott and Hort were! Westcott and Hort were Modernists who denied many of the fundamental doctrines of God's Word; including, the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, Christ's bodily resurrection and the infallibility of God's Word.

Yes dear reader, you read it right—I AM A FUNDAMENTALIST AND A NUT!!! The Jews called Jesus crazy! Some people said Jesus was crazy and demon possessed! Mark 3:21-22, “And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.” Wow! Can you imagine? The sinless only begotten Son of God was accused of being crazy and having a devil in Him. So if the heathen world did that to Christ, what do you think they will do to us?

Yes, according to the ungodly world, we are nutty as Christians! Sadly, I have even been called a nut by the corrupt Bob Jones University camp. Since they have opened the door for the Devil to come into the church with another gospel called “Lordship” salvation, anybody like me who refutes their heresy is consider a nut. The truth is that they are the nuts! You'd have to be crazy to believe another gospel. Galatians 3:1, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” The Apostle Paul said the churches of Galatia had been BEWITCHED!!! Paul called them “foolish.”

God saved us, wanting to separate unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works:

Titus 2:11-15, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”

God didn't just save us to provide fire insurance! God didn't save us so we could merely fill 18 inches of pew every Sunday with our fat posterior. God saves us because He has plans for us. We see this plan in Luke 8:11-15 in The Parable Of The Sower And The Seed. Verse 11 says that the “seed” is the Word of God. The parable is not about getting saved, it is about MATURING in the faith to bear fruit. We see this confirmed in verse 15, “But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.” This last group of seeds are God's desire and goal for every born-again believer, to bear fruit as a soulwinner!

I am excited and glad to be zealous for the dear Savior about preaching the Gospel. I attended Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) for a few months in 2021. Sadly, there is no burning passion for soulwinning. The place is dry, dull and awash with academic types, not soulwinning Christians. Campus Church does have a small group of men who meet weekly to pass out flyers in public to invite people to church, but that is a joke. It is tragic that PCC doesn't have a burden for the city of Pensacola! With all the thousands of students they have, PCC could easily make a big impact for God if they wanted.

Sadly, they are only concerned about making more money. While I attended the church, they required people to pay $10 if you wanted to learn how to witness the Gospel. How pathetic!!! Pastor Jeff Redlin ought to be ashamed of himself!!! I am so disgusted with Campus Church and Jeff Redlin. They need to fire Redlin and bring in a genuine man of God who cares about people. When I met Redlin, he mistreated me, making me feel like garbage. Pastor Redlin is incompetent as a pastor, cold-hearted toward hurting people, a coward and a disgrace to the cause of Jesus Christ! Shame on Campus Church for charging people money to learn how to share the Gospel. That is sickening! The church took in $3,500,000 in 2020. No wonder Jesus warned in Luke 16:13 that NO MAN can serve God and mammon. Jeff Redlin only serves his belly, not the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 16:17-18).

I have been called a lot of things over the years of my online ministry since 2002, but I have been FAITHFUL to God, truth and the people whom I loved enough to tell THE TRUTH. If standing for the purity of the inspired King James Bible makes me a nut, then so be it! If taking a biblical stand against the Devil's lies of Calvinism makes me a nut, then I'm cocoa for 'Cocoa Puffs'! ...

I love this truthful quote from Pastor Jack Hyles:

Folks, here's what's happening in America. The old-time preachers that built this country believed that this Book right here had the words of God in it! Your grandpa and grandma, that built this country, shed their tears on this Book, thinking they had the very words of God in their hands. And fundamentalists ALL believed what I'm preaching tonight, until we got our own Bible colleges, and seminaries, and sent our professors off to train at the feet of Karl Barth, and Reinhold Neuber, Emil Brunner, and others, who said that the Bible does not have the “words” of God, it is the Word of God, and that all the Bible is not inspired word-for-word. So we did not want to be considered “unintellectual” by the intellectual community; we're not willing to be called “nuts” and “fools”—just chalk me up as a nut! Chalk me up as a fool! Yea! Chalk me up as an uneducated illiterate if you want to, but I guarantee Ya—I'd rather study my A-B-C's in Heaven, then Greek and Hebrew in Hell! Whosoever shall be ashamed of “ME AND MY WORDS”; it didn't say His “WORD,” it says His “WORDS”! [emphasis added] —Pastor Jack Hyles, “There Are Too Many Smiths In The Land”

Amen and amen! I'm 100% with Brother Hyles! If believing that God has kept His promise in Psalms 12:6-7 to preserve His inspired Words in the inspired and infallible King James Bible makes me a nut, then chalk me up as a wacko! If believing that the Gospel of John teaches a simple free grace Gospel, and that you don't have to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved, makes me a nut, then chalk me up as being beside myself! If exposing the rotten, corrupt and arrogant Bob Jones University cult makes me a nut, then I'm glad to be looney for the Lord!!!