“And unto the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans write... I know thy works, that
thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then
because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth.” —Revelation 3:14-16
The Devil is sly and he uses the arrogance, greed and ignorance of religious
men to blind them from the truth. Today's evangelical circles are
complacently apostate, completely silent regarding the evils plaguing
America. It is tragic. All across America ministers are selling books and
hosting pastor's conventions, but they are virtually silent concerning the
wickednesses of our society. It is apostasy. Every church in America ought to
be crying aloud publicly against the evils of abortion, homosexuality,
pornography, et cetera.
I'm not endorsing
Fred Phelps, but
his methods come MUCH closer to being right than most pastors in America who
hide behind closed doors in their pompous arrogance. America needs more
Billy Sundays, John the Baptists, George Whitefields and Jonathan Edwards.
The Damnable World of Joel Osteen
God pity false
prophets like Joel Osteen who never take a stand against sin. Mr. Osteen is
nothing more than a greedy businessman and motivation speaker, and a
disgrace to the name of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist could have trimmed
his sermons, turned a blind eye to Herod's adultery, avoided telling people
they needed to repent; but he told the truth. In sharp contrast, Joel Osteen
makes one nauseous. He doesn't mention the word "repent" until after his
sermonette is over, as to avoid offending anyone.
2nd Timothy 4:3 perfectly
describes Joel Osteen and his congregation...
“For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their
own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”
Joel Osteen is a greedy televangelist who's afraid to tell the truth of
God's Word, lest he lose money.
Judgment Day is coming... “And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose
judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth
not.” Joel Osteen deceitfully brags of not taking a salary from his
church, while making tens-of-millions of dollars from apostate book sales.
Woe unto Joel and Victoria Osteen.
Would to God that Joel Osteen would tell people
the truth, i.e., that they're a bunch of dirty, rotten, hell-deserving
sinners bound for hellfire in their sins. They're GUILTY! Osteen alleges
that people already know this; but they do not want to deal with the issue
of sin, which is why they come to hear Osteen's apostate sermons.
In sharp contrast to Osteen's milquetoast
sermons, please read this brief excerpt from Jonathan
Edward's famous sermon, SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD...
“The God that holds you
over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome
insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath
towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing
else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to
have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his
eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have
offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince;
and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the
fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did
not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in
this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other
reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose
in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other
reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat
here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked
manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that
is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down
into hell.”
SOURCE:
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD! by Jonathan Edwards;
preached in Enfield, Connecticut;
July 8, 1741
If Joel Osteen preached a sermon like that,
he'd lose half his congregation overnight. Today's superior, arrogant,
thin-skinned, pompous, selfish, spoiled rotten America is INTOLERANT to the
truth. Woe unto America!
Souls are Dying
Joel.
America's Dead Churches
It was Billy Sunday, who nearly 100 years ago
said...
"It would be a
godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't
suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging
behind. Going back."
~Billy Sunday, The Need
for Revivals, From "Billy Sunday: The Man and His Message",
by William T. Ellis, Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1914
Evangelical Christianity today is more
resemblant of the 1,200 lb. pig I saw at the Wisconsin State Fair
many years ago. It seems that most pastors are only interested in obtaining
more money... gimme, gimme, gimme. It is not fair for a church congregation
to have to finance the escapades of a pastor's selfish interests. And then
that pastor heads over to The Holy Land on vacation, while most of his
church members can barely afford to drive to the next town. It is apostasy!
"Nevertheless among the chief rulers
also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they
loved the praise of men more than the praise of God" (John
12:42,43).
There were Pharisees who believed on Jesus; but
were unwilling to take a stand for God for fear of losing the praise of men.
This same cowardliness saturates evangelical circles today in America. The
average Christian minister in America is afraid of losing the praise of men,
which equates to loss of revenues. Shame on them! God must come first and
His Word must be preached to the world.
At Ease On Zion
It is sinful how so many ministry leaders today
make frequent trips to Hawaii and the Holyland; while they do little to fight against sin, contend for the Christian faith by exposing
false doctrines, and cry aloud against the wickednesses of our time. Sadly,
the few pastors who do preach the truth are cowards, afraid to publicly take
a stand, and the message never leaves the
comfort of
their church walls. It is apostasy!
Here is
a lengthy list of compromised, apostate, milquetoast, ecumenical, prophets
of Baal that I wouldn't give you a dime for...
Bob Bell, Doug Sager, J. Harold Smith,
James Dobson, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley, Alistair Begg, Dennis
Rainey, Ron Stewart, Chip Ingram, Mart DeHann, Steve Brown, John
MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Steve Arterburn, Sam Polson, Dan Corner, Adrian Rogers,
Andrew Wommack, Chuck Bentley, Bil Gephardt, Fredrick Brabson Sr., RC Sproul, June Hunt,
Hank Hanegraaff, Joni Eareckson Tada, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Ray
Comfort, Kirk Cameron, Paul Washer, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, and
hundreds of others.
These ministers are what's wrong with the
church in America today!!! They are wishy-washy and never
stick-their-neck-out for God. They don't dare offend anyone, especially
their peers in the ministry. They write scores of worthless books to
inoculate people from receiving genuine Christianity. They all look and act
like a bunch of spoiled elites. They're all in the ministry to make a buck.
We need some John the Baptists in America to
cry aloud against Herod's adultery (Mark 6:18)! We need some Billy Sundays
to cry aloud against booze, dancing and gambling! Rise up oh Christian!
Where are the men of God who hate sin and love the sinner? Where are the men
of God who walk with God, and get ANGRY over the wickednesses of our society
in which we live? Where are the men of God who are willing to be counted as
a fool for the cause of Christ?
All I see are these Shirley Temple,
milquetoast, girly-boy types, like Joel Osteen who
didn't
have enough gonads on the Larry King Show to say that Christ-rejecting
Jews weren't going to Heaven. Truly the love of money is the root of all
evil as 1st Timothy 6:10 warns. Joel Osteen couldn't preach his way out of a
paper bag. It makes God vomit... "I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth"
(Revelation 3:15,16). Joel Osteen is lukewarm.
Apostate RBC Ministries
I was recently looking at different
contemporary ministries online, including RBC
Ministries whose President is Mart DeHaan (Martin DeHaan's grandson).
Sadly, they promote the New International Version [NIV] of the Bible on their website. By looking at their ministries'
webpage, you'd never get the impression that they take a stand for anything.
They're just collecting donations. It makes me sick that hardly any
Christians nowadays have anything negative to say about anything. What is
wrong with Christians today? We are engrossed in a raging battle in America
today against evil and all I see are covetous believers who want to make
money.
It seems that everyone's got a "new" book to sell.
They're no better than the "den of thieves" Jesus condemned in Matthew
21:13. It's a shame. RBC Ministries didn't forget the "donate" button
though. Don't any believers care that homosexuals are trying to force
their sick culture upon our children? Why doesn't Mart DeHaan
publicly speak out
against this rot in America? What about abortion? What about pornography? It
is apostasy. They drive their new cars, and live in their big homes, and eat
the best of foods, and sit idle while their brothers are on the
frontlines fighting the Devil... "Shall your brethren go to war, and
shall ye sit here?" (Numbers 32:6). Repent!
Apostate Moody Ministries
Moody
Bible Institute is about as pathetic as you can get nowadays,
honoring heretics like John
MacArthur at their annual Founder's Week and teaching the heresy
of Lordship Salvation to their students. Their female students dress
immodestly, wearing tight pants and halter tops, their bookstore sells
so-called Christian Rock 'N' Roll music (i.e., the Devil's music) to the
students, et cetera. This is apostasy! Moody today is a spiritual toilet
bowl.
Whatever
happened to the horses and carriages that Dwight L. Moody used to use to bring poor
families to church in the Chicagoland area? Why no bus ministry today? Why
has the Moody Memorial Church abandoned soulwinning? God deliver us
from church-pew Christianity! The early believers in the Book of Acts DIDN'T
have a church building. Their ministry was in the public streets of
Jerusalem. They made people very angry with the truth of God's Word. People
either repented towards God or picked up stones to hurl at Jesus' disciples.
How does this compare to the sissy-pants type ministers today who
dare not rock-the-boat or offend anyone?
Offend Them!
If you're a believer, and you're sitting idle
on the sidelines during the raging battle today in America against sin, then
you ought to be ashamed. Matthew 20:6, "And about the eleventh
hour he [Jesus] went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto
them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?"
Believers today need to
Make Some Noise!
Lukewarm Christianity (which is no
Christianity at all)
There is something very wrong with America's
Christians today, who are eerily silent concerning the evils which saturate
American society. God hates LUKEWARM Christianity (Revelation 3:14-16).
Homosexuals are everywhere and we ought to
expose them for the Bible-hating, abnormal, mentally ill and spiritually
rebellious sinners they are. Pastor Lon Solomon
says homosexuality and abortion are only "minor concerns" in his church of
10,000. Youth Pastor, Tony Jones, says
that he believes homosexuals can still live a Biblical lifestyle pleasing to
God. Jones is an unsaved heretic. I don't believe in condemning people,
because the Bible condemns ALL OF US; but we need to protect our children
from the evils of homosexuality and take an uncompromising stand against
immorality! Homosexuality is immoral. No one has a right
to teach children that it's ok to
be IMMORAL.
In 1998, Ellen DeGeneres exploited the murder
of a University of Wyoming homosexual student named Matthew Shepard,
using the boy's death to demonize Bible-believing Christians. Read some of
the hateful and malicious statement Ellen made publicly about Christians...
Ellen
DeGeneres declares war
October 23, 1998
Ellen DeGeneres came to Washington last
week, joined a bipartisan demonstration led by congressmen and senators
on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and declared, "This is a war." Who is
she fighting and why? She is fighting you because of what you believe...
The "war" that
Ellen DeGeneres talked about was a war
against Jewish and Christian belief itself.
Listen to what
she said to a crowd of several thousand as
the beautiful dome of the U.S. Capitol
loomed brightly above her on a crisp autumn
evening.
"This is what I
was trying to stop. This is exactly why I
did what I did," DeGeneres told the cheering
throng, referring to the canceled prime-time
television show in which she tried to
normalize the practice of homosexuality.
She made it
clear that her principal enemy in this cause
is the "religious right," Christianity in
general, and people who raise their children
to think that homosexual activity is wrong.
First, she
attacked a series of newspaper ads published
last summer by the Christian Coalition, the
Family Research Council, the American Family
Association and a dozen other Christian
organizations-ads that promoted the idea
that those who have fallen into a homosexual
lifestyle can rise out of it and change for
the better.
"I don't see
full-page ads saying `Stop the Hate, Stop
the Violence." said DeGeneres. "These
same evil, idiotic, so-called God-loving
people who use the Bible to justify their
hate I'm sure still feel deep down
that blacks aren't equal to whites because
the Bible was also used to justify slavery."
She then compared such people to Hitler
and those who were complicit in the
Holocaust. "When Hitler was killing all the
Jews," she said, "the church was silent,
they did nothing."
Then she made
her fundamental point:
Children should be taught that the
homosexual lifestyle is a good thing.
"Please raise your children with love and
not judgment," she said. "Tell them that
everybody has the right to love whom they
want to love."
DeGeneres
stomped off to the wings to hug and kiss
Hollywood actress Ann Heche. Heche mounted
the stage and shouted, "I am so glad to be
Ellen DeGeneres's wife." [emphasis added]
SOURCE:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199810/ai_n8815714
Ellen DeGeneres is an evil woman who hates the
Bible, hates the God of the Bible and hates Bible-believing Christians.
Consider the following two horrible statements made by Ellen DeGeneres from
the preceding article quote...
- “These same evil, idiotic,
so-called God-loving people who use the Bible to justify their hate...”
- “Children should be taught
that the homosexual lifestyle is a good thing.”
Such deranged statements coming from one of
America's most influential lesbians ought to upset every born-again
Christian in America. Ellen DeGeneres (or degenerate) calls God-fearing
Christians “evil, idiotic and hateful.” She's the evil idiot. Only a
complete fool would spit in God's face by condemning Bible-believing
Christians for preaching against sin. Homosexuality is a horrible sin which
guarantees the judgment of God (Romans 1:24-32).
Children ought to be taught that homosexuality
is sick, abnormal, shameful, unnatural, morally reprehensible and most of
all... a SIN. What DeGeneres labels as “hate” is obedience to God. Ephesians
5:11 commands all believers to refute (Greek: elencho, which means
“to expose”) all works of darkness... “And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” This means
we are to expose homosexuality for the vile, disgusting, shameful, unhealthy
sin that it is. Ellen DeGeneres errantly calls this idiotic and evil. No
Ellen, you are a God-hating rebel who chooses to live in unrepentant sin.
Proverb 29:27 proclaims, “An unjust man is an abomination to the just:
and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.”
This is the root of the matter. Christians are evil in the eyes of
homosexuals, and homosexuals are evil in the eyes of Christians. There can
be NO harmony between sodomites and born-again Christians who love the Word
of God.
Sadly, America's churches are virtually silent
concerning the evils of homosexuality. Ellen DeGeneres needs to be exposed
as a threat to America's children. Several Fortune 500 companies have
embraced Miss DeGeneres, featuring her in commercials. This is wickedness.
Proverb 26:1 states, “As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so
honour is not seemly for a fool.” Ellen DeGeneres is a fool
undeserving of any honor; yet Godless heathens who hate Jesus Christ
sinfully promote and honor her. Ellen DeGeneres is a disgrace to America and
to the name of decency. It's not about love and acceptance; it's about
obeying God's morally perfect Law.
God wants His children to rise out of
complacency, and not be lukewarm concerning sin. We must not be afraid to
speak our opinion in public concerning the awfulness of sin. I complain
frequently when I see smut and offensive things in public. I let people know
where I stand. Of course, we need to discern each situation and use wisdom
accordingly.
The Sad Conclusion
It appears that most believers today have given up on the war against sin and evil.
Even America's Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches (my camp)
have become a sorry bunch, increasingly focusing upon making money rather
than preaching the truth at all cost. You CAN'T have both!...
“No man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to
the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon
[money].”
Pastor's are either going to preach the truth
and end up struggling financially (like the Apostle Paul did) or else
they're going to sellout, compromise their message, suppress the truth, and
appeal to the apostate, thin-skinned, woefully ignorant, carnal believer
which saturate our churches today. God is sick of vacationing pastors and
church-pew Christianity! If your pastor vacations often, while 95% of his
church cannot afford to do so, find another church! A pastor is supposed to
be a servant, which is what the word “minister” means. Most pastors
today selfishly hound their congregation for more money, but the pastor and
his family always seem to come out on top financially in the end. It's
called manipulating people and it's wrong. God deliver us from shady
car-salesman pastors.
Some pastors and evangelists teach bizarre
unbiblical ideas concerning money... whatever it takes to brainwash naive
people into surrendering their money to finance his own personal ministry
agendas. Too many pastors today are enslaved to their own carnal ego,
saturated with selfish pride and covetousness; but spiritually in denial,
evidenced by their intense desire for financial success and unwillingness to
humble themselves to preach the WHOLE truth. Money shouldn't be an issue in
one's ministry; but sadly, it has become the MAIN ISSUE in most churches
today (at the tragic expense of preaching the truth)! It is God's ministry;
not ours! Somewhere along the way believers have forgotten that it's our
duty to seek out, teach and defend THE TRUTH... "And ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). God expects
every believer to contend for the Christian faith (Jude 1:3).
There is a direct correlation between a
pastor's LOVE FOR MONEY versus the AMOUNT OF TRUTH HE PREACHES!
Tragically, most of today's evangelical ministers love money more than
truth, which is why they're so publicly silent concerning sin, the moral
meltdown of America and the blatant evils being committed by our government
leaders.
"On moral matters
where right and wrong are involved, and where the Bible clearly
speaks, many preachers have so compromised and sold out, and are so
afraid of their congregations, that they cannot give the clear Word
of God. God pity the preacher who is afraid to preach against sin
just because somebody will cry 'politics'! "
SOURCE: Dr. Rice...
Here Are More Questions; Question: Should politics
and religion be mixed?; by Dr. John R. Rice, pg. 250, Sword
of the Lord Publishers; 1973, ISBN: 0-87398-157-X
A believer's love for the Lord Jesus Christ can only truly be measured by
one's hatred for sin and evil... “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil...”
Evangelical
Christianity today
