Preaching With Authority
By
David J. Stewart | December 2014
Acts 4:13,
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived
that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they
took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”
Brother
Lester Roloff (1914-1982) is 100% correct, “The world has lost
respect for the Church because she has lost her authority” (from the MP3
sermon, “Running Short On Authority”).
Today's pulpits are DEAD. The average pastor doesn't preach! The problem is
not people sleeping in our church pews, but sleeping preachers in the
pulpit!!! GET RIGHT WITH GOD!
With the exception of perhaps a few
individuals, a church congregation never rises above the spirituality of the
pastor. The man behind the pulpit determines the man in the pew. Our
churches are dead because preachers don't preach anymore. CHURCHES HAVE LOST
THEIR AUTHORITY!!!
The preacher's only authority is the inspired
Word of God in the beloved King James Bible! Folks we don't need any more
average preachers, we've got enough of them!!! The average independent
Baptist church today is shameful. You won't hear any preaching about Hell,
fire or eternal punishment from the pulpit.
You likely won't hear any
hard-preaching against sin, including the sin of women wearing pants. You
certainly won't hear it at Bob Jones University, because their 2013-2014
student handbook permits female students to wear pants, even to church. It
is wickedness!!! I say that kindly. Our churches and Bible colleges have
lost their authority, which is the inspired Word of God.
Brother Roloff rightly states (by the way, this
describes nearly all churches these days in 2014)...
“We've got too many Baptist
people who are woefully ignorant of the Word today. It's awful quiet when I
preach like that, did you notice that? Listen, all you've got to do is turn
your television set off and kick out your newspaper, and spend that time
memorizing the Bible, [and I] reckon you'd be a walking authority. That's
all you've got to do! Preachers you'll never preach worth ten cents 'til you
get to memorizing the Word of God. It's got to be a part of you. You've got
to literally think and talk and dream and sleep the Word of God. You'll
never be worth ten cents! We've got an authorityless generation. I mean the
average preacher never speaks with authority. His deacons don't respect him.
His church don't respect him. The world doesn't respect him. Why? He's lost
his authority!!! It's not a matter of trying to make 'em recognize your
authority, Brother. When you speak the Word of God, God will make 'em
respect you!”
SOURCE: Brother Lester Roloff, from
the classic MP3 sermon, “Running
Short On Authority”
Brother
Roloff further states, “The world is sick and tired of a bunch of
Caspar Milquetoasts climbing around in the pulpits today.” What or who is Caspar Milquetoast?
The term originated from a comic strip character in the 1920's named Caspar
Milquetoast. The term has come to define someone
unassertive and timid. Brother, this describes most Baptist pastors today.
Today's pastors are pansies! Is your pastor a Casper Milquetoast character?
Today we'd call such shallow pastors
“Yellowbelly” from the Canadian comedy
show Second City TV. A pastor who won't preach on Hell, fire and
damnation from the pulpit is a yellowbellied coward. We need some preachers
once again with backbone, not a wishbone! God has been faithful. I wish I
could influence some men of God to get worked up! I'm trying and praying
brother. The Lord is still able. God deserves our best as Christians! I'm
tired of pastors who dress in fancy new clothes and have that gleam in their
eye, but they avoid preaching on anything offensive and the alters are
always empty at invitation time. Of course the alters are empty, there is
no preaching that
produces repentance! The baptistry gets used once every 6 months.
Soul-winning is not taught. There is no organized time for the church to go
witnessing in public. There is no bus ministry.
Brother Roloff says, “There's only one way to speak with authority
and that's to saturate your soul and your mind with the Word of God.” The
reason why pastors today are dead is because they are listening to dead
ministers instead of the authoritative Word of God. I'm not trying to pick
on Bob Jones University, but their primary focus today is to educate
students in the “Liberal
Arts.” That's like a Christian automotive-repair school. We need Bible
Colleges to train Christian workers. I'm sick and tired of these wet
noodles, spineless preachers, who come in from the Jell-O seminary with
their tapioca message of the power of positive thinking.
Modern Corrupt Bible Versions Have No
Authority
One of the main reasons why many of today's
pastors are spineless and speak without authority is because they don't have
an authoritative Bible. God is an authoritative God. It is His way or the
highway. If you have a problem with that, you have a sinful heart and are
not right with God. Our Creator has every right to make the rules and demand
that we obey them without question.
The Holy Bible couldn't possibly have been
authored by men, due to the miraculous manner in which it came into man's
possession. Forty different men, from various backgrounds, separated by
centuries, who spoke different languages, and lived in different countries,
were used by God's Holy Spirit to pen the Bible into earthly existence. No
other book in the world can claim such a supernatural history. And if that's
not compelling evidence enough that it is inspired by God, all 66 books of
the Holy Bible harmonize in doctrinal agreement with each other. That's not
only astronomically improbable, but absolutely impossible!
All of today's Bible versions are corrupt,
having been translated from the small percentage of stray dog manuscripts
(the Alexandrian texts) which disagreed with the majority texts (from which
our believed Textus Receptus, or Received Text, was translated). If you'd
like to know more, please read about “Occult
Roots Of The Modern Bible Versions.”
Also, please listen to the informative video,
NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS (1:23 hour MP3 interview with
Dr. Gail Riplinger; you've got
to hear this!). YouTube contains much information from Dr. Riplinger. To get
an idea of the contents of her books, here's some available audiobooks
online: HAZARDOUS MATERIALS—INTRO
| CHAP 3 |
CHAP 7 (by Dr. Gail Riplinger).
Bible
Version Fraud.
The trustworthy King James Bible is the last
Bible that will ever be translated into the English-speaking language.
There's no money to be made from it. God certainly knew what He was talking
about in 1st Timothy 6:10 when He indicted THE LOVE OF MONEY as the root of
all evil. Only by substantially changing the content of a work can it be
legally copyrighted. All modern Bible versions are copyrighted and are cash
cows for the owners thereof. God is the sole owner of His Word, which is
another precious reason why you can trust your beautifully antiquated King
James Bible. God's Word never changes! God never changes! Men change from
one generation to the next, continually moving their moral standards farther
away from God's holy commandments. As men move further-and-further distant
from God's Holy Word, social conflict between the righteous and the wicked
is inevitable. Proverbs 29:27, “An unjust man is an abomination to the
just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.”
Today's PERverted Bible versions are an
abomination in God's eyes, leading the churches into utter apostasy. The
genuine man of God preaches with AUTHORITY, because he preaches from an
AUTHORITATIVE Book, authored by an AUTHORITATIVE God!!! This wicked
generation is AUTHORITYLESS, refusing to tolerate sound Biblical teaching!
That's why the Devil is slowly changing the Bible. Case in point, the
contents of the New International Version (2011 NIV) of the Bible
has been changed 38.8% just since
the 1984 NIV. Biblica got smart, instead of continually
publishing a new Bible, they decided to simply update the contents of the
NIV every several years. This makes it much less obvious to the average
naive churchgoer who doesn't know what's really happening. The truth is that
Satan is corrupting the Word of God, changing its contents to reflect the
decreasing morality in American society. Once homosexual rights are
solidified within the next decade as the law of the land, the NIV will be
changed to accommodate them. You watch and see!
I plead with you to get you a King James Bible
(not the New King James Bible, which is corrupt). Praise God in Heaven for
keeping His promise to preserve His inspired Words unto every generation
(Psalms 12:6-7). If you have an NIV, Psalms 12:6-7 has been corrupted to
refer to God preservation the saints, not His Words. It doesn't come as a
surprise that a gang of Bible-butchers would change this passage of
Scripture, which exposes them.
The Word of God is authoritative, which is why
liberals, leftists, feminists and queers hate it so much. That's a sign that
we've got the right Bible, because the world hates it. Everyone is attacking
the King James Bible and the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church these
days. Choose ye this day whom ye will serve, as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15).
We Need Above Average Preachers Who Actually
Preach
The great need of the hour is PREACHING
PREACHERS!!! A pastor cannot kowtow to his congregation and be the man of
God that he ought to be. You've got to say it like it is, even at the risk
of losing members. A preacher is supposed to say what God lays upon his
heart. As Brother Roloff says, “My preaching is none of my business!” See, “TEACHING
ON PREACHING!”
People are becoming desperate for help. My
heart breaks often, wishing that I could personally help many of my web
visitors who are struggling. I have heard so many heart-wrenching stories
over the years, from dear people who are hurting. My friend, God needs you.
There is a place in God's choir that only you can fill. If you are absent,
no one else can replace your unique personality.
God
Needs Your Personality (by Dr. Jack Hyles). I need you. Without you my
ministry has no purpose. I am hear to help you know the Lord Jesus Christ,
and then to grow in grace and faith as a born-again Christian. “For we
walk by faith, not by sight” (2nd Corinthians 5:7).
Brother Lester Roloff rightly states...
Folks, the end time's
come. The field is white, the laborers are few. We have the greatest
opportunity of any generation, that ever lived, to reach desperate souls for
the Lord Jesus Christ!
SOURCE: Brother Lester
Roloff, from the classic MP3 sermon, “JESUS
IS LORD!!!”
By God's grace I'm doing my part to reach
others. If every Christian believer did their part, we could reach America
for Jesus Christ. The biggest mistake that any Christian could ever make is
to think that the efforts of one person couldn't make a significant
difference in the world. One Christian plus God equals a majority! The
homosexual community are going totally against the Word of God. They are
trying to intimidate and silence Christians around the Country, but we have
God on our side, because we are on God's side. There is no controversy if
you believe the Holy Bible!
Homosexuals have been trying to force their
sickening wicked lifestyle upon our children and the churches for the past
50 years. They're digging their way into the fires of Hell. The wicked
liberal newsmedia always tries to play the race card, associate Christians
with the Ku Klux Klan, demonize us as hatemongers and bigots; but they won't
dare say that God is wrong! Don't make God angry by saying that
homosexuality is OK, because it's really not! God hates all sin, including
homosexuality, which is a perversion of nature, sex and courtship. God
doesn't make mistakes. Two men cannot naturally produce a child via carnal
knowledge, nor can two women. The sinful world continually misinterprets
God's Word, changing it into a lie as Romans 1:25 said they would, in an
attempt to justify their wickedness.
America has gone to hell. Patriots are now now
strongly labeled as “terrorists” in hundreds of Hollywood movies; such as,
“DeJavu” with actor Denzel Washington. Few people realize that the fascist
CIA (who started Homeland Security after 911) have a liaison working
in Hollywood to incorporate brainwashing propaganda into movies. Literally,
Americans are being turned against themselves and will be destroyed by their
own stupid ignorance. The real terrorists are the criminals who've hi-jacked
The White House since John F. Kennedy's assassination and are now
controlling the entire federal government. Congress has soul their souls to
the Devil. Apart from divine intervention, our nation is effectively already
doomed. America never was a truly free nation, evidenced by the Masonic
control of the United States since its inception in 1776. The trick is to
con people into thinking they are free while enslaving them further.
Brother Roloff, speaking concerning the
churches sinfully bowing to Baal (unconstitutional state authority)...
I wish I could wake
America up! Brother, God's got to rule. Jesus is Lord! The Holy Spirit is
our administrator!
SOURCE: Brother Lester
Roloff, from the classic MP3 sermon, “JESUS
IS LORD!!!”
In his awesome MP3 sermon titled, “Jesus
is Lord,” Brother Roloff gives three reasons why America faces end-time
destruction:
- Licensed liquor spells doom for any nation!
- Killing babies (abortion)
- Homosexuality
Do you realize what has taken place? We've lost
a whole generation in America! The fields are white, but the laborers are
few. There's only two problems in America: the PREACHER and the PAPA! You
get those two fellas straightened out and we'll be on our way to revival.
Oh, how we need unapologetic preachers who proclaim the inspired Word of
God!
Our ONLY authority as Christians is the Word of
God. If the state goes against the Holy Bible, the state is wrong! When king
Nebuchadnezzar ordered three young Christian boys to bow to a
Masonic obelisk, they
refused on the grounds of their Biblical faith. But you say, aren't we
commanded to obey the higher powers in Romans 13? Yes, but the government is
the lower powers. The U.S. Constitution is a higher power than the
government. And God is the highest power of ALL!!! END
