Lean Not Unto Thine Own Understanding

Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”

I am as guilty as anyone of questioning God, becoming frustrated, wondering why He doesn't seem to answer my prayers. I was pondering this popular passage of inspired Scripture today and something caught my attention. The Bible teaches us, “LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.” We have all done that, unfortunately.

It is our human nature to try to figure things out, to understanding why things are the way that they are. That is quite normal. But with God, things don't work that way. It wasn't meant for mankind to figure out and understand God. What saith the Scripture? Isaiah 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” This Scripture passage is so vital to understand.

Many people become frustrated, angry and even bitter toward God because they don't understand Him. They can't figure out their life. They don't know why bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. Nothing seems to make sense to them, and their human rationale suggests that God must be a cruel being. We've all been there at some time in our life.

The Lord fully knew that we would feel this way. Psalms 103:14, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” That Bible verse was Pastor Jack Hyles' mother's favorite Scripture passage. Her name was Coystal Mattie Hyles (1887-1984). She was a remarkable woman, who raised a remarkable boy.

The Lord knew that we would feel frustrated and left in the dark, so He put Proverbs 3:5-7 in the Bible. Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.” The Bible commands you and me NOT to lean unto our own understanding. The Hebrew word for “lean” is shaan which means: “to support one's self.” The word “rest” in the Old Testament is also translated from this Hebrew root word. Thus, we ought not rest in our own wisdom.

The word “Trust” in Proverbs 3:5 is the Hebrew word batach which means: “to hie for refuge.” The word “hie” means “to step on.” Hence, to trust the Lord is to step on Him for safety. That is, to trust Him for salvation. You've simply got to believe that Jesus did it all for you.

When nothing in life seems to make sense, and we cannot figure out why God won't help us, and He seems to have ignored all of our prayers; we should just lean (rest) upon the promises of God in the Scripture. We should “fear the LORD, and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:7).

The Counterfeit Gospel Of Evangelist Alistair Begg

Galatians 3:1-3, “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? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”

For years, I thought Alistair Begg was a great preacher​ back in the 1990s. Today, I recognize him clearly as a False Teacher. Actually, he is listed as the head of the Lordship Salvation (False Gospel) Association! Shows you what a blind idiot I can be! Begg is a great radio speaker​, has a captivating accent, and he says many wonderful things, but there is always that hard demand ​for the ​letter of the Law​, which killeth.

A “real Christian,” a saved person, is one who simply believes ​the GOOD NEWS about Jesus​ crucified, buried and risen ​the third day (John 6:47​; 1st Corinthians 15:1-6).​ In Romans 16:30-31, Paul and Silas simply told the Roman jailer to "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." On the Day of Pentecost when 3,000 souls were saved, they simply "gladly received" the gospel truth which Peter preached unto them.

Repentance is certainly necessary for salvation, but to "repent" simply means to change one's mind, nothing more. So, we need supplemental information to know what to change our mind about. In Acts 20:21 we are directed to repent "toward God." In 2nd Timothy 2:25 we are taught to repent to acknowledge "the truth." But nowhere in the Scripture (unless using a corrupt modern perversion of the Bible) do we find a command to repent of our sins to be saved. Sincere but unlearned men added those words to the Holy Bible (Proverbs 30:5-6).

Someone who seems very dedicated in his faith and in righteousness and kindness may be “Christlike,” but it is faith in Jesus *alone and only* that makes him a believing Christian. I say “alone and only” because Martin Luther ​as an example was a False Teacher also; who said, “Faith Alone,” and then added all of the following things as conditions of salvation: repentance from your sins, commitment to Christ (the same as False Prophets Billy Graham and John MacArthur and MANY others today), water baptism, Lord’s Supper, regular church attendance, lifelong commitment and performance of good works, and no big sins. No wonder so many people in the Lutheran denomination are unsure whether they are saved!

Alistair Begg teaches ​a two step plan of salvation which requires, first, turning away from your sinning; and second, trusting Christ. In the preceding sermon he calls getting saved a "commitment." NOWHERE does the inspired King James Bible require turning from sinful ways to be saved, nor that it is a commitment of some sort. I have been exposing these damnable heresies for decades! Contrariwise, Christ died for the sins of the whole world (1st Peter 2:2). If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

In the Gospel of John, which is God's gospel tract according to John 20:31, we are taught to "believe" 85 times without any mention of turning from sins, repenting, confessing, praying or anything else to get to Heaven. Men complicate God's simple plan of salvation, embellishing it with a bunch of extra junk. Repentance is automatic. That is, the man who trusts Christ has turned from his unbelief. The only thing that we contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

Pastor Begg preaches a salvation through repentance ​from sins and through lifelong works of discipleship. Salvation, for Begg, is a business deal. The phrase he uses puts it all in a nutshell. Begg says ​in this 1986 sermon titled, ​“Believing Means Behaving​,” ​that ​w​e must demonstrate our faith by the life we live (and that is a works based type of false salvation). ​Begg couldn't be more wrong! "Believing​" ​doesn’t​ mean doing good works. It doesn't mean BEHAVING!!! That is works! That is the Devil's deception of Lordship Salvation!

Believing means trusting Jesus alone for what HE did in His perfect life,​ and His sacrificial death on the cross for all our sins (past, present and future),​ His burial and ​bodily resurrection three days later. ​This is "the gospel" (1st Corinthians 15:1-6). Anyone who get​s the way of salvation wrong​ is a False Teacher​!

T​hat is my humble opinion of Alistair Begg. There are so many false teachers today who misunderstand Bible repentance. They are followed the herd in the corrupt clergy, wresting the Bible to say what it doesn't say. Like the Apostle Paul, we all need to be set for the defense of the gospel (Jude 1:3).

I cherish these helpful quotes that I've collected over the years...

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.

If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

The Beauty Of God's Simple Plan Of Salvation

Mark 4:31, "It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth."

Dear reader, the beauty of God's simple plan of salvation is that in the Scripture we're never given a level of faith that has to be reached in order to go to Heaven. Isn't that wonderful?

In fact, Jesus said all we needed is the smallest amount of faith, using a mustard seed as an example. A mustard seed is the tiniest seed in the world. I thank God that He thought about me and made salvation simple, easy and free, unlike men who seem to always try to get people to doubt their salvation. I have enough faith that I believe Jesus' word, even when my mind doesn't understand or can't fathom it.

Here is the gospel: God says that we are sinners and that no amount of good works or behavioral changes on our part could ever make us holy enough to enter Heaven. God sent His only begotten Son to pay for all of our sins on Calvary's cross 3,000 years ago. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for us all. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus arose from the dead. The instant you believe this, God knows it and He saves you. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” The free gift is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you and has nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you.

A Deadly Counterfeit Gospel Is Being Preached From Nearly Every Pulpit Today

Galatians 2:16, “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

Three times in our text Scripture passage we read the simple truth that we are saved by the faith of Jesus Christ, by believing in Jesus Christ, that we are justified by the faith of Christ. And yet, a counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today that requires MORE than faith in Christ.

Case in point, I did a simple internet search today for: “How to go to Heaven?,” and this is what came up from The Orchard Church, which organization has several physical locations throughout the Chicagoland area in Illinois...

Through His death on the cross and resurrection, Jesus provided the way for humanity to be reconciled with God. Salvation is not earned through good works or personal merit but is received by grace through faith. This faith involves trusting in Jesus' sacrificial death for the forgiveness of sins and accepting Him as Lord and Savior....

Repentance, on the other hand, is the sincere turning away from sin and turning towards God. It involves a heartfelt acknowledgment of one's sins, a genuine sorrow for them, and a commitment to change. Acts 3:19 urges, "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord." Emphasizing that repentance is not just about feeling remorse but also involves a decisive shift in one's life direction.

Faith without repentance is incomplete, as true faith naturally leads to a transformed life marked by a desire to follow God's will. Similarly, repentance without faith lacks the foundation needed for true spiritual renewal. Together, they form the core of the Christian response to the Gospel, opening the way to forgiveness, reconciliation with God, and a new life in Christ. [emphasis added] SOURCE

Dear reader, what you've just read is typical of the hypocritical, doublespeak, tommyrot, theological garbage, that is so commonly taught from today's Bible colleges, missions, churches, televangelists and religious institutions. Like I said, a counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today.

The FALSE plan of salvation you just read goes totally contrary to the inspired Holy Bible. What saith the Scripture? Again, here is our wonderful text passage of Scripture from Galatians 2:16, “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

1. Do you see anything in this passage about making a commitment to change? No, you don't. 
2. Do you see anything that requires having a sincere desire to turn away from your sinning? No, you don't. 
3. Do you see anything about feeling remorse to be saved? No, you don't.
4. Do you see anything about repentance involving a decisive shift in one's life direction? No, you don't.
5. Do you see anything that requires that your life be transformed to prove you are really saved? No, you don't.
6. Do you see anything that says by getting saved you will automatically desire to do God's will? No, you don't.

So, why are those liars at The Orchard in Illinois adding all these additional requirements to God's simple plan of salvation? Proverbs 30:5-6, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.” 

Three times in our text Scripture passage we read the simple truth that we are saved by the faith of Jesus Christ, by believing in Jesus Christ, that we are justified by the faith of Christ. And yet, a counterfeit gospel is being preached from nearly every pulpit today that requires MORE than faith in Christ. I cannot say it enough!!!

What you believe dear friend will determine where you spend eternity. So, it is critically important that we interpret the inspired Word of God correctly, or else we could spend eternity burning in Hell. The plain truth is that nowhere in the inspired King James Bible (which is the only Bible translation in the English language that you can trust today) will you find any of the aforementioned additions to God's simple plan of salvation.

Here Is The Gospel

God says that we are guilty hell-deserving sinners and that no amount of good works, or behavioral changes on our part, could ever make us holy enough to enter Heaven. God sent His only begotten Son Jesus to pay for all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for us all. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus physically resurrected from the dead. The instant you believe (rely upon, trust) this, God knows it and He saves you. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life”(John 6:47). That's it, nothing else is required or allowed to be saved.

This free gift of eternal life is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you through Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago, and it has absolutely nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

Simply come to God as a needy sinner, and by faith (taking God as His written Word) accept Christ's sacrificial death on the cross as full payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then bodily raised up three days later. This is “the Gospel” (Good News) by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved instantly, irrevocably and permanently (Romans 1:16).

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.

The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

We Must Keep Sanctification Separate From Justification

Romans 6:4, “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Romans 7:6, “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”

It is amazing to me that the Lordship Salvationist (non-Christians) cannot distinguish between salvation and sanctification. By failing to do so they corrupt God's Word. If they are ~not~ separate, then all you have is salvation by works. Lordship Salvationists believe in salvation by works, even though they'll vehemently deny it. If you separate sanctification from justification, then you have salvation in Christ; and the outgrowth of salvation, which is sanctification.

I humbly think Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan said it best:

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)

That is my favorite preacher's quote!

Please carefully notice in both of our text passages of inspired Scripture that the Bible says we “should” walk in holiness and serve God; not “will” as the hellbound Calvinist preaches, nor “must” as the hellbound Roman Catholic is errantly taught. The inspired Word of God teaches that God's redeemed saints SHOULD walk in holiness in newness of life, and we SHOULD serve God as His children; but to say that we WILL or MUST is to pervert the free grace gospel. For God's salvation to truly remain a “free gift,” there can be no additions, stipulations nor obligations to receive and keep it. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do!

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.

If salvation is truly by grace, then you don't need to start or stop anything to be saved. Eternal life is a free gift from God (Romans 6:23).

One is saved by God's grace through faith in the finished Work of His Son on the Cross as payment in full as our pardon for sin.

Contrary to what many false teachers are saying in Bible colleges and churches today, a changed life is ~not~ the result of genuine repentance to be saved. A Changed life is in fact the “fruit” of the indwelling Holy Spirit, which truth is confirmed in Galatians 2:20-21, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” It is no mere coincidence that the Apostle Paul warns the reader in verse 21 that we cannot be saved by works, which is exactly what you are doing if you attribute a changed life to your own turning from sin.

In the damnable heresy of Lordship Salvation, the focus is upon YOU as a sinner to turn away from your sinful ways; whereas in the true free grace gospel, the focus is only upon CHRIST and what He did to pay for your sins on Calvary's cruel cross 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

I hope you see the drastic difference between telling a sinner that he must be willing to forsake his sinful bad habits to get to Heaven (which is self reformation); versus just coming to Jesus as a guilty sinner (in your wretched condition) to trust Christ, and then the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Christ - Romans 8:9) will live the Christian life through you, if you walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). The former is Lordship Salvation; the latter is true salvation.

It is imperative dear reader that we always keep sanctification (service) completely separate from justification (salvation). We must keep discipleship entirely separate from sonship.

Here are some words of wisdom from Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965):

"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)

Yes, that is exactly right! Bravo Pastor DeHaan! We must keep service and salvation separate, because we don't want to combine works with grace. Here's a helpful sermon...

Caught Between Grace And Works! | MP3 | MORE

(by Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold)

BEWARE of Satan's minions today, whom the Bible calls “ministers of unrighteousness” (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15). Anyone who mixes works with grace is a monster in the eyes of Heaven. To the carnal man, it makes perfect sense that you must forsake your sinful ways and pursue holiness to inherit Heaven, but such thinking goes totally contrary to the plain teaching of the Scripture. The whole reason why Christ died on a cross 2,000 years ago, to pay our debt of sin, is simply because there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. The only thing that you and I contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

Salvation is of the LORD (Jonah 2:9). You don't have to “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven; but rather, Christ died to pay for your sins so that you could go to Heaven.

Getting Saved Does Not Change Your Heart

2nd Corinthians 5:14-17, “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

A man on Facebook has been debating with me concerning repentance. I don't like to debate, but I will go far enough to try to open the eyes of someone. When I am convinced that they are subverted of them self and I'm not getting through to them with the truth, I am done. We ought not waste our time arguing with naysayers who are already indoctrinated with their own ideas.

The man keeps saying that salvation is by grace without works, but emphasizes the point that when you repent from unbelief to be saved, God gives you a new heart that leads to a change of behavior. This was my biblical response to him...

I agree with most of what you said, but if you are implying in any way that the crap Pensacola Christian College teaches today is biblical, you are woefully mistaken. PCC teaches in their official Campus Church foundation's class that, quote: “Repentance is a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior.” That is damnable heresy and a counterfeit gospel!

Damnable Heresy At Pensacola Christian College!

I fully agree with Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold about Lordship Salvation. ...

“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, “Jesus Versus John MacArthur”

That is 100% biblical. Getting saved does not change a person one bit. The only thing that we receive at the time of salvation is God's gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He alone begins to renovate that individual saint, which is sanctification. But if that believer is not attending a good church, still hangs around worldly friends, and does not wean on the sincere milk of the Word, they will languish and not grow in grace. They will remain carnal, so that the world may never know that they have become a Christian at all.

What I told this man is the truth of God's Word. Just because you get saved doesn't guarantee that your life will change for the better. Being born again doesn't assure that your behavior will automatically improve. The second part of The Great Commission is to mentor new believers by indoctrinating them with the teachings of Christ.

I am all for numbers when getting people saved, that is, soulwinning. Someone has rightly said: “God may not be interested in numbers, but He sure ain't interested in empty pews!” In the biblical parable of the lord's son who was getting married, the lord said to his servants that he wanted his “house full.” Luke 14:23, “And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.” If all soulwinning churches do is brag about all the number of people that they led to Jesus Christ, but they fail to follow up to mentor those converts as the Bible commands, those new babes in Christ will remain carnal; they will be stunted in their spiritual growth.

Getting saved does NOT change anything. It does not change your heart, desires nor behavior! You just get the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and then He begins to work to renovate that individual, but as Pastor Jack Hyles teaches in his book titled, 'Salvation Is More Than Being Saved,' in chapter three, 'Conversion And Salvation'...

Redemption is a work of God the Son. Regeneration is the work of God the Holy Spirit. Justification is the work of God the Father as He declares the sinner righteous in the Son. Conversion then becomes the work of the church as we change the use and purpose of a life. [emphasis added] SOURCE

So, you see, there is nothing taught in the inspired King James Bible that says someone's heart changes at the time of salvation. You just get the Holy Spirit and He begins to tech and guide you as a child of God. The “new creature” mentioned in 2nd Corinthians 5:17 is the Holy Spirit united with your human spirit, so that now you are a child of God. You have been born anew by the Spirit of God into His heavenly family, now able to discern spiritual things that the unsaved man cannot understand (1st Corinthians 2:14-16).

BEWARE of false prophets who subtly try to convince you that repentance is not a work, but it does result in a change of heart that will produce a change of behavior. It is just another subtle backdoor form of Lordship Salvation. Pastor Jack Hyles preached a helpful sermon in 1989 on this topic called, 'Your Salvation Did Not Change You A Bit.' I encourage you to listen to it. Getting saved does not instantly change your wicked and deceitful heart (Jeremiah 17:9), it just means that you now have the blessed indwelling Holy Spirit who will change your heart as you grow in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (2nd Peter 3:18).

The Tragic Life And Death Of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Psalm 53:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.  Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.”

The inspired Word of God teaches in Romans 1:20 that there is no such thing as a true atheist, only wicked sinners who refuse to glorify their Creator, who pretend that there is no God. ...

Romans 1:20-22, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

I love this passage of Scripture! Every child KNOWS that God exists. Madalyn claimed that after reading the Holy Bible from cover to cover at 13, she decided to become an atheist. She sued the Baltimore public school system in 1963 to have prayer and the Bible removed from public schools. Sadly, the incompetent U.S. Supreme court ruled in her favor and still 63 years later the Bible and prayer are banned in all public schools nationwide. So tragic! We see the results of that fateful decision 63 years ago in the news day after day.

I encourage you dear friend to read the bizarre details of Madalyn's mother. She was an adulterous harlot who got pregnant by numerous different wicked men.

Madalyn Mays was born in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 13, 1919, the daughter of Lena Christina (née Scholle) and John Irwin Mays. She had an older brother, John Irwin Jr. (known as "Irv"). Their father was of Scots-Irish ethnicity and their mother was of German ancestry. At the age of four, Madalyn was baptized into her father's Presbyterian church; her mother was a Lutheran. The family moved to Ohio, and in 1936, Mays graduated from Rossford High School in Rossford.

In 1941, Mays married John Henry Roths, a steelworker. They separated when they both enlisted for World War II service, he in the United States Marine Corps, and she in the Women's Army Corps. In April 1945, while posted to a cryptography position in Italy, she began a relationship with officer William J. Murray Jr., a married Roman Catholic. He refused to divorce his wife. Mays divorced Roths and adopted the name Madalyn Murray. She gave birth to her son with officer Murray after returning to Ohio, and named the boy William J. Murray III (nicknamed "Bill"). SOURCE

That is so bizarre. Growing up in such a divided, wicked and troublesome home, with Jezebel for a role model as her mother, I can see why Madalyn went down a wrong path in life. Regardless, Madalyn is accountable for her own decisions and actions in life.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair was killed along with her son Jon Garth Murray (1954-1995) and her granddaughter Robin Eileen Murray (1965-1995). They were murdered in 1995, and their bodies were not discovered until 2001. We can only hope that in her darkest hours, while kidnapped and being tortured by their captors, and seeing her loved ones tortured and killed, that Madalyn repented of her unbelief to believe the Gospel. We simply do not know. Madalyn hated the righteous, and so she instead surrounded herself with wicked men, who ultimately murdered and dismembered her and her family's bodies. Proverbs 13:20, “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”

Tragically, Miss Madalyn O'Hair is almost assuredly burning in the fires of Hell forever without rest or hope, day and night, suffering in excruciating torment of both body and soul. Matthew 10:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” There is no sleep in Hell. If you go to Hell, there is no time. You will be filly awake, with a special body given to you by God that can withstand the smoldering burning sulfur, and you will suffer in unimaginable physical pain every moment with no breaks or rest. Please make sure you've been born again.

Who Remembers Madalyn Murray O’Hair?

By Ricky Swindle | June 1, 2021 

I watched one this past Sunday named “The Most Hated Woman In America.” It was a docudrama about a woman named Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

She sued the school system in Baltimore to ban Bible reading from school way back in 1960. The Supreme Court sided with her in 1963 and it was deemed the law of the land.

Now with her being hated so badly by the folks in Baltimore, she moved her family several places and eventually ended up in Austin, Texas.

She founded the group American Atheist in 1963 and went on to carry on her God hating cause along with pocketing huge sums of money in the process.

She was a guest on Johnny Carson and Phil Donahue among many other celebrity talk shows.

O’Hair cut off all ties with her eldest son William Murray III after he suffered from alcoholism, left her and her organization, and gave his life to The Lord.

When she was made aware of her firstborn’s decision to give his life to Christ, she stated and I quote, “One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times … he is beyond human forgiveness.” End quote.

In August of 1995, O’Hair, her son Garth, and her granddaughter Robin disappeared from their home.

No one seemed concerned about the missing trio other than a worker at her American Atheist organization and a reporter.

Her son William at first was not surprised because it seemed O’Hair enjoyed just taking off to different places and spending the money she received from her donors.

The Austin Police were not very interested in the case because of who she was I suppose.

They were being held hostage by a disgruntled worker David Waters, a convicted murderer who had been fired for stealing money from the organization.

After holding them for over a month, with basically no one looking for them, Garth took delivery of $400,000 in gold coins from an Austin jeweler as part of the ransom.

Waters and his two accomplices then murdered, dismembered and burned the bodies of all three family members and also murdered and dismembered one of the accomplices, Danny Fry, because it was believed he could not be trusted.

The murderous pair put the coins in a storage facility securing their treasure with a $5 lock. Upon returning to the location, they found that their lock was broken and they, too, had been robbed. Ironic to say the least.

Investigators from the FBI and IRS solved the case and completed the investigation. The Austin Police received much criticism for their negligence of interest in the case of The American Atheist.

Gary Karr was sentenced to two life sentences while Waters was only sentenced to 20 years because he worked with law enforcement to find the bodies.

David Waters died of lung cancer in federal prison in 2003.

William Murray remains a Baptist minister even today.

What a violent and horrible way to leave this world. She relished in the thought of being the most hated woman in America, but even after all that, no human being in my opinion should be taken out in such a manner.

It makes you wonder if she had a minute to say, “Lord, please forgive me.”

After all she had done in her life she could have put it all behind her with a dying breath.

Only her and The Lord know that now.

Take care of yourself folks. Maybe I will find a happier movie to review for you on my next NetFlix binge. READ MORE

The life of Madalyn Murray O'Hair is so sad and tragic. Her hatred of God ultimately got her son and granddaughter killed.