Matthew 3:7, “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” Matthew 23:33, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Titus 1:13-14, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.” 2nd Corinthians 11:6, “But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.”
Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980) was known for having a sharp tongue. I love brother Rice and thank God for him. As a man of God he spoke his mind! Dr. Rice would offend people with his bold truthfulness and voice against sin, but then just minutes later speak with the sweetest words of kindness. Once a person came to know Dr. Rice, they realized that he was a genuine man of God, and that is just the way he was. I learned that fact from Pastor Jack Hyles, who also admits that in his younger days, Brother Hyles was sharp in his words and offended some people. These Fundamentalist preachers were quick and bold to speak the truth, which is what a Bible preacher ought to do.
In sharp contrast, the Neo-evangelical crowd today are full of smiles, kind and friendly, while the world perishes into Hell. The Bob Jones University crowd in 2020 are as the Titanic ship sinking into an icy ocean of modern Bible perversions, after striking an iceberg of Lordship Salvation. I am speaking the truth! I am calling them out for having moved away from the hope of the Gospel. Something is very wrong when our Bible colleges are training tomorrow's preachers to follow Mormon theology! Lordship Salvation is a counterfeit plan of salvation, not the Gospel of free grace. False prophets will always claim to still believe in salvation by free grace, but then corrupt the Gospel by adding “turn from sins” to it. Anyone who says that you must “repent of your sins” to be saved is inspired by demons! Eternal life is a free gift. You repent toward God (Acts 20:21). You repent by acknowledging the truth (2nd Timothy 2:25).
While I'm at it, let me speak my mind some more. Pastor Joel Osteen is no friend to the cause of Jesus Christ! Look at this disgusting 2019 screen capture of singer Kanye West rap dancing at 'Lakewood Church' in Houston, Texas, where Joel Osteen is the apostate minister. . . .
ABOVE: Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, where Joel Osteen is the ungodly pastor. Carefully notice the big All Seeing Eye (the occult symbol for Lucifer, the god of this world).
ABOVE: Lakewood Church in Houston is Americans largest church, with an average weekly attendance of 75,000 apostates! They come with itching ears, ready to be entertained by religious phonies, worldly singers and even had a surprise visit from new age diva Oprah Winfrey. Woe unto America!
As a Fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher, I am not trying to avoid offending people. If the shoe fits, wear it! It may be Godzilla's shoe, but if it fits then wear it! I am a big sinner like anybody else. I don't claim to be a good Christian, but I want to be. I don't have any patience with false doctrines, false teachers, false gospels, false Bibles and false Christs, and neither should you. Psalms 119:104, “Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”
Psalms 19:7, “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.” Did you read that? The law of the Lord is perfect, not the “best” man could translated, but “perfect”! I am tired of hearing preachers correct the King James Bible, calling people like me “stupid” for believing that we have a perfect and inspired King James Bible! Well then I'm proud to be stupid for believing that our omnipotent God can do anything, including give us a perfect Bible! I believe that the King James Bible is inerrant, infallible, holy, perfect, very pure, preserved and verbally and plenary inspired!!!
A popular wrong attitude has always been that we cannot win lost people, or help theologically corrupt people, unless we are kind, sweet, friendly and understanding toward their errant opinions. If that is your sentiment, please get right with God! What saith the Scripture? Galatians 2:4-5, “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.” The Apostle Paul, Barnabas and Titus went to Jerusalem together to preach the Gospel. There they were pressured by unsaved Judaizers, false brethren who had crept into the churches, to be circumcised to get to Heaven. Paul said they didn't tolerate that doctrinal garbage for even one hour!
I recently had a cantankerous religious woman come to my Facebook page. She was a former disgruntled member of a Baptist church in Tennessee. She left the church when her pastor refuted the heresy of Calvinism from the pulpit. She posted some comments on Facebook that she disagreed with my preaching against Calvinism, and she criticized her former pastors. I responded with a comment that referred to Calvinists as “reprobates.” She accused me of “stooping low.” I told her to take her “Calvinist garbage” and get out! So she went and got her henpecked husband to defend her. I threw him out too, blocking them! I have zero tolerance for false teachers! I am patient with curious deceived people, until I see that they are already indoctrinated and want to argue and defend their position. I won't debate the truth!
Say what you will, I call a spade a spade! If you are wrong doctrinally, and I know it, I won't entertain your effort to convert me or my web visitors to your corrupt position. Go to Hell if you want, but I am not going to allow you to take my web visitors with you! Trying not to offend people is totally unbiblical. I say offend them!!! If you think I'm bad, look at what Jesus said in Matthew 23:33, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Jesus didn't try to hobnob, kiss up to people, hide his true intentions, and go along to get along, in an effort to win over people to His views. No, Jesus was brutally honest, and it offended many people. John 6:65-66, “And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” The Lord didn't babysit, burp and coddle His disciples! Jesus preached the truth, come what may!
I am not saying to be intentionally mean, rude or offensive; but we ought not trim our message, lower our sails, sinfully compromise or hobnob with Neo-evangelists, Calvinists or any other heretics to avoid offending someone. All across the United States (and the world) you've got churches with ungodly pulpit committees, controlling what a pastor can or cannot preach. It will be a cold day in Hell, as long as I am free and sane, before anyone ever dictates what I can or cannot preach! Only God tells me what to preach! I am as narrow-minded as the King James Bible!
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