by David J. Stewart
May 2016 | Updated June 2018
Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
You've likely heard the above text passage of Scripture quoted at some time in your life by a preacher. But let me show you something you probably haven't heard. Carefully notice that this lack of knowledge wasn't innocent ignorance; but rather, it was a deliberate rejection of the truth... “THOU HAST REJECTED KNOWLEDGE”! But wait, it gets worse, look at who rejected the knowledge. That's right, THE PASTORS!!... “THOU SHALT BE NO PRIEST TO ME”!!! America's churches are being destroyed today by wicked pastors (including independent Baptists), who have deliberately rejected the truth, who've been repeatedly warned about the modern corrupt Bible revisions, BUT THEY COULDN'T CARE LESS!!! What shameful cowards!!! Their earthly paycheck is the only reward they will ever receive!!! God doesn't reward fools!
I am saddened and upset when I think about how dangerous many pastors are to their congregations. People trust their pastor. People oftentimes place their complete trust in their pastor. I know good people, who attend an Independent Baptist Church, and enroll their children into the church's Christian school; but unfortunately, they are misled by their pastors to use satanic Bible versions and follow a false plan of Lordship Salvation salvation. I'm talking about the apostate Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, who deny the inspiration of the King James Bible (which is the official Bob Jones University position, of whom they are all alumni). Such pastors are a threat to their congregation, and are harming people spiritually. Please don't misunderstand, I'm an Independent Baptist myself. Every non-denominational church that I know of uses and promotes the satanic Bible revisions. That is so wrong! My friend, if you don't have a King James Bible, you don't have a Holy Bible! Shame on Harvest Baptist Church for supporting satanic Bible versions, and for promoting Dr. John MacArthur and his demonic Lordship Salvation heresy! GET RIGHT WITH GOD!!!
When you go to see a doctor, you trust him. We all need to go see a doctor from time-to-time. Last September I woke up with horrible pain in my stomach, and a sharp pain in the center of the spine, half way up my back. I went online to read what it might be and found a few possibilities, including an infected gallbladder. So I went to the hospital. Sure enough, that's what it turned out to be the next day, which an ultrasound found. So the surgeon removed my gallbladder a couple days later. I have a 5-inch scar on my right side. I feel fine now, praise God!
Yet, unfortunately, the third leading cause of death in the U.S. is doctors! Every year 225,000 Americans are killed by doctors! 27,000 deaths are due to errors in medications and hospitals. 106,000 deaths are caused by the negative side-effects from prescription drugs. 80,000 deaths are caused by infections in hospitals (that's why good hospitals are so cold, to prevent infection). Another 12,000 deaths each year are from unnecessary surgeries. Thank God for doctors, but doctors are not God; They make mistakes.
Having said
that, it disturbs me when I see a group of several hundred people submitting
their souls to a false teacher in the pulpit. They trust their pastors, but
their pastors cannot be trusted!!! This is a sore evil across America. The
lie of Lordship Salvation originates mainly from the plethora of counterfeit
Bible revisions, which errantly redefine “repentance” to mean “a change of
actions” or “a change of life.” Biblically, repent simply means to change
your mind.
It is the Greek word metanoia (noun) or metanoeo (verb). It means “to think differently” or “to change one's mind,” no more. Since the word “metanoia” doesn't tell us what to think differently about, supplemental (additional) information is required. So the Holy Bible tells us to “repent ye, and believe the Gospel” (Mark 1:15). The change of mind is toward the Gospel itself. You must repent (think differently) toward God, as verses whatever has been hindering you from believing the Gospel to be saved. The truth is so simple.
It is utter heresy to teach people that they must receive Jesus as their “Savior and Lord” to be saved. Biblically, you only need to receive Jesus as your Savior to be saved (John 1:12). Jesus will never be the complete Lord of your life as long as you are in the flesh. It won't be until we see Jesus in eternity that we can truly say He is absolute “Lord” of our life. For now, the best we can expect is to gradually yield to Christ as our Lord, growing in grace in the milk and meat of the Word of God, as the indwelling Holy Spirit conforms us further each day into the image of Jesus Christ. We are saved in a moment by trusting Christ, but becoming Christlike takes a lifetime. To require a person to “surrender all” to Christ as “Lord” to be saved is to frontload the Gospel, expecting everything of the Christian life upfront. Salvation doesn't work that way. Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 6:23).
NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS (1:23 hour MP3 interview with Dr. Gail Riplinger; you've got to hear this!)
Greek Grammars And Lexicons Don't Teach Greek; They Teach Unbelief! (Dr. Gail Riplinger).
King James Bible Seminar by Dr. Al Lacy (taught in 1992).
I was thinking and praying for a man today that I knew a couple years ago. He is a good man, a commercial copilot. He and his wife, and their children, faithfully attend a local Independent Baptist church. They are financially well to do, and have their kids enrolled in a Christian school. I feel sorry for the family, especially the man, because he wants to do the right thing, but his pastors DON'T CARE about the purity of God's Word. He'll never hear the truth from his pastors that Satan is behind all these modern revisions of the Bible. If pastors don't WARN layman and trusting church members about the Devil creeping into the churches, then pray tell me who will??? Our churches are in trouble folks. We must baton down the hatches, get the storm cellar ready, and tough it out for the Lord in our churches. WE ARE AT WAR!!!
I don't care how big your church is, or how pleasing you may think you are to the Lord, you are an ENEMY of God if you promote the corruptible revisions of the Bible!!!!!!! THE BATTLE OF THE AGES (an awesome King James Bible only MP3 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles).
Literally, the Baptist church in question uses two Bible versions (one corruptible and the other incorruptible). The church tolerates two plans of salvation in their church. They promote a variety of preachers who teach a variety of Gospels. It is sickening. They are lukewarm and have no backbone to choose sides. By standing in the middle of the road they are letting everyone know that they are serving mammon (money) and not God. The men who truly serve God are willing to stand for the truth regardless of the consequences. God deliver us from religious men who don't care about THE TRUTH. God always takes the side of those who stand with THE TRUTH. I am standing with THE TRUTH, with God!!!!!!!
Furthermore, I'm tired of hearing corrupt pastors make the excuse that they don't approve of “all” the new Bibles, as if they actually stand against something! That's what I dislike about Bob Jones University. They'll tell you that they don't agree with all the new Bible revisions, but as far as I've been able to determine, they don't warn anybody about which one's to avoid. It pains me to see good people following bad pastors. People trust their pastors. Let me say it again . . . PEOPLE TRUST THEIR PASTORS!!! Oh, what a responsibility pastors have, as shepherds of the flock.
