I love the people at Harvest Baptist Church more than they'll ever know, and
I miss the friends I made while there. Many of them have gone their own way,
moved back to the states, and I doubt if I'd even recognize the church
today. I don't like change, I never have, but sometimes change is good. If
there is something wrong that needs to be made right, then things should
change. Pastor Jack Hyles used to wisely say that we should always be
willing to move to the right, but never to the left (i.e., the wrong way).
Change is painful but sometimes necessary. All in all, I like for things to
stay just as they are (and don't yank my dog chain until it's time for
dinner...lol). I
long for a family in Heaven that will never go away. My heart hurts daily,
longing to be loved as much as I love. 2nd Corinthians 12:15, “And I will
very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love
you, the less I be loved.” It hurts to tell the truth and be outcast for
it, wanting to be accepted and loved. I sometimes hate being a preacher, but
I cannot betray my roots in the Christian faith. And then my constant
chronic neck pain overshadows everything, making my life difficult.
I know the pain of not having companionship. One man wrote to me and said
that his wife left him two weeks earlier, and he didn't know if he could
stand the temptation without her. I wrote back and told him to try being
without wife for 13 years like I have since 2006! I would travel to the ends
of the world, and spend every penny I have, and give all my earthly
possessions, just to find a godly wife with a tender and caring heart, but
that doesn't appear to be God's will for me. Scams abound in the internet.
I've been watching YouTube videos about finding a foreign wife through
dating agencies, and it is discouraging stuff. I wish I could find an
average plain Jane country gal, a white girl, raised in a Christian family,
who just wants to make a life for each other in the Lord. Moving to Guam has
been a curse for me, painting myself into a corner. There is no pain of soul
like that of loneliness, but God is making lemonade with the lemons in my
life, using my inexplicable pain of soul to compel me to work even harder to
get people saved! I'm now 52. If the Lord tarries, and I don't get run over
by someone in a hurry to get to McDonalds, I'll be 70 before I know it,
which I dread. I want to go home to be with Jesus!
I am doing the best that I know how, with what God has given me, with a
broken heart, having lost my marriage and home, trying to make a difference
for eternity. One of the greatest truths I have ever heard was by the former
school principle of Harvest Baptist Academy on Guam at Harvest Baptist
Church. The guy was a jerk sometimes, but I loved him as my Christian
brother, and looked up to him. I was compelled to write an article about
what he preached one particular Sunday night at church, titled, “Debt
Leveraging For An Eternal Lifestyle.” What an awesome truth!!! Thus, I
re-channel my emotional and physical pain into soul-winning! Psalms
142:4, “I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.”
I have been struggling with my emotions lately, tired in my soul and feeling
overwhelmed by life. That comes easy when you're in constant bodily pain of
some sort, and the discomfort of burning nerves. It is hard to be spiritual
when you're in pain! One of my favorite Bible verses is Proverbs 4:23,
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
It is very important that we all abide daily in the Scriptures, to stay
focused on eternal things, and not become choked by the cares, riches and
pleasures of this temporary life (Luke 8:14). I love everyone, and wish I
could give a thousand lifetimes to help the destitute, brokenhearted,
imprisoned, poor and lonely. One of the most frustrating things about being
human is to be limited in every way, not being able to help others as much
as I desire. I remember Mrs. Beverly
Hyles (1929-2017) saying that her husband,
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001),
felt the same way before he went to Heaven.
Berated for Speaking the Truth
One shameful Pensacola Christian College intern on Guam
(who thankfully left and went back to PCC in Florida), berated me by
reminding me that I am “not an apostle,” and said I have no right to
criticize churches. May I say, kindly, neither was Jude an apostle, but look
what the Bible says in
Jude 1:3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you
that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints.”
Contending for the faith is every believer's duty. John the Baptist wasn't
very ethical either! The Apostle Paul offended the churches.
Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the
truth?”
Where in the Word of God does it teach that Christians ought not speak out
against bad preachers and heresy in the churches?
Telling THE TRUTH is dirty business, because
people get offended quickly, don't want to hear it, and they want you to
SHUT UP and go away! Bob Jones University (BJU) just wants the money, so
they drive in the middle of the road, where you'll find a bunch of dead
skunks!
BJU deceitfully tries to give the impression that they use only the
King James Bible, while simultaneously sanctioning the Devil's
counterfeit Bible versions to appease theological critics (and boost
student enrollment from wishy-washy churches). They cannot have it both
ways. You're never going to make everybody happy, nor should we try.
What saith the Scripture? Zechariah 8:16, “These are the things that
ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the
judgment of truth and peace in your gates.”
I agree with Pastor Steven
Anderson (one of my favorite preachers), who said:
“We need to
understand that Elders are to be respected by default, but when they start
teaching lies and wickedness and perversion and filth, at that point they've
just lost respect right there. They've lost their right to be respected!”
—Pastor Steven Anderson, a quote from the needful sermon, “The
Baby Boomer Generation.”
I am a born-again Christian and a preacher, just
like Paul was. I am concerned about heresy which has crept into the
churches. I care! That is my horrible crime at Harvest Baptist Church, for
which I have been berated, shunned and banned by the church, for simply
telling THE TRUTH for their sakes...
2nd Corinthians 11:1-4, “Would to God ye
could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you
to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is
in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not
received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well
bear with him.”
Paul had led the believers at Corinth to the Lord,
starting the local church there, and they were as his children begotten by
Paul unto Jesus Christ. This is why Paul addressed the church of Galatia as
his “children.” Galatians 4:19, “My little children, of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you.” After 17 years of my online
ministry, I gratefully have hundreds of web visitors who look up to me as
their parent in the Lord, as Paul's converts did him, and I am humbled. I
always tell people to “HEAR
YE HIM!” Look to the One Who has the nail-scared hands, I am just a
voice crying in the wilderness of cyberspace, as did John the Baptist (after
whom I am gladly named, my middle name). I thank God for using me as His
servant, even if in some small way, to
make a difference for eternity!
In fact, I consider myself a “prisoner” for
Christ! Paul said the same thing in Ephesians 3:1, “For this cause I
Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.” You see, a
servant can quit any time he wants, but a prisoner cannot. The
prophet Jeremiah quit preaching in his discouragement, knowing that Israel
was about to be destroyed, but God's Word burned in his soul as a fire, and
Jeremiah had to PREACH THE TRUTH! Jeremiah 20:9, “Then I said, I will not
make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in
mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with
forbearing, and I could not stay.” I get discouraged all the time, but
God's Word always burns in my heart and I cannot forbear... I MUST PREACH
THE TRUTH!!!
Sometimes the Hero Has to Become the Villain
I
feel like Batman in the 2008 superhero film, “The
Dark Knight,” who took the blame for Harvey Dent, so that good would
prevail over evil. I've been labeled as “the enemy” by many churches, for
simply mashing on toes with THE TRUTH! Kindly, if the shoe fits, wear it!
Harvest Baptist Church is Harvey Dent (aka, “Harvey Two-Face” Dent), who've
been corrupted by evil. I'm Batman, trying to rescue them from the grip of
darkness, the real hero who has been made out to be the villain. Pardon my
illustration, but I think it is pretty good.
They claim to desire the truth at Harvest Baptist
Church, but flat out rejected the truth when I handed it to them! That is
two-faced, like Harvey Dent. They have two different plans of salvation
circulating in the church, both Lordship Salvation and the free grace
Gospel. Anything goes at Harvest, except THE TRUTH! When I gave their
pastors the truth in a book titled, “I
NEVER KNEW YOU,” by Michael P. Bowen, they rejected it. When I handed
them the truth about the Devil's New International Version, in a book by
Pastor Al Lacy titled, “NIV: THE
ANTICHRIST'S BIBLE,” they rejected it! Do they really want the truth as
they claim? No, they don't, which is why we have conflict.
If making enemies with churches makes me out to be
the bad guy, because I care and want to help them see the truth, as a friend
does, then I am glad to be the troublemaker that nobody likes or wants. I
will continue to preach the truth until circumstances prevent me from doing
so, or the Lord takes me home to Heaven (I was ready to go yesterday). Even
so, come, Lord Jesus! God knows my sincerity in the matter, and knows that I
love Him and want to stand for what is true and right. I am a big sinner
just like anybody else. I don't have a single fault, I have MANY faults! The
only difference between myself and the worst sinner on the planet, is the
precious redeeming blood of the precious Lord Jesus Christ!!! I deserve to
burn in Hell forever, and so do you! We cannot understand the idea of
eternal damnation in the Lake of Fire, simply because God is so holy and
righteous that we cannot grasp it. If we were to receive, what we truly
deserve, the ground would immediately open beneath us and swallow us alive
into Hell forever and ever. You better believe I make a fuss over the
accuracy of the Gospel! You better believe I make an issue over the purity
of the inspired Word of God!
Genesis 50:20, “But as for you, ye thought evil
against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day,
to save much people alive.” The hurt against me inflicted by Harvest
Baptist Church is being used by God to save many people alive, to shed light
upon the curse of Calvinism which has crept into thousands of Baptist
churches, including Harvest.
Calvinism is NOT the Gospel! John MacArthur, Ray Comfort, Paul Washer,
R.C. Sproul... all Satanic Calvinists! Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995)
refutes all 5 points of Calvinism! Truth Matters!!! The emerging church
is apostate, emphasizing entertainment over Bible-truth! Bob Jones
University majors on music and minors on truth! Today's Bible colleges are
producing nurses instead of godly wives and mothers! To Hell with them all!
The prophet Jeremiah said with a broken heart,
overlooking the ruins of Jerusalem in 586 BC after Babylon destroyed it with
fire, “Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by?” (Lamentations 1:5).
Is it nothing to you dear reader that hundreds of counterfeit Bible versions
have crept into the churches? Sadly, that especially includes Baptist
churches today! Is it nothing to you dear friend that the Satanic lie of
Calvinism has crept into most of the churches? Why doesn't truth matter
anymore to the churches? I don't know why God has chosen me for this task,
but I think it is simply because I am a willing servant. God knows that I
have a tender heart, and I care, and little things are important to me, and
I have a fire burning in my soul for THE TRUTH! If that makes me the bad
guy, the troublemaker, the fool, then so be it in the Lord! I love you all
in the Lord, whoever you may be, and I plead with you to heed the truth.
I have written at length about my fallout with the Harvest Baptist Church
(HBC) on Guam since 2014, which makes me sad. I am not a troublemaker, God
knows my heart. Unfortunately, all you have to do to cause trouble is stand
your ground when you are right. The famous motto of the Texas Rangers is:
“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and
keeps on acomin'!” All I have ever done is be true to my faith as a
born-again believer. 
