LORDSHIP SALVATION

HEREIN LIES A FIERCE DEBATE IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY...CAN YOU HAVE JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOUR AND NOT AS LORD? CAN A MAN OR WOMAN BE SAVED AND STILL LIVE IN OPEN REBELLION TO THE GOD THEY CLAIM TO LOVE AND BELONG TO? CAN A MAN LIVE HIS ENTIRE LIFE WITHOUT ANY THOUGHT FOR HOLY LIVING, SACRIFICIAL SERVICE OR COMMUNION WITH GOD ALMIGHTY AND STILL GO TO HEAVEN TO LIVE FOREVER WITH CHRIST AND THE SAINTS? WHY DON'T WE LET THE LORD JESUS ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR US: "IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS". JOHN MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN HIS FIRST EPISTLE "IN THIS ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. HE THAT DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD." 1 JOHN 3:10 KJV
THE ANSWER EMPHATICALLY IS NO! THE SAME GRACE THAT SAVES A SINNER WILL KEEP HIM SECURE AND ENABLE HIM TO WALK HOLY BEFORE GOD ALMIGHTY. NO CHRISTIAN HAS EVER, OR EVER WILL BE PERFECT IN THE SENSE OF SINLESS PERFECTION, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOD IN HIS PROVIDENCE ALLOWS US TO FAIL (BY OUR OWN DECEITFUL HEARTS), IN ORDER TO CAUSE US TO FURTHER LEAN ON HIM AND HIM ALONE, BUT TO LIVE IN HABITUAL AND OPEN REBELLION TO GOD IS TO PROVE WHERE YOUR ALLEGIANCE LIES, ie THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL. SINNERS DO WHAT THEY DO BECAUSE THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE. THEY SIN BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY KNOW HOW TO DO. IT IS NOT UNTIL GOD BY HIS GRACE PLANTS FAITH IN THEIR WICKED HEARTS THAT THEY RECEIVE CHRIST'S NATURE AND ARE THEREBY ENABLED TO LIVE RIGHT. THIS IS NOT WORKS SALVATION AS SOME WOULD CLAIM, BUT SIMPLY THE BIBLE AND THE LORDSHIP SALVATION TAUGHT THEREIN.

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION

THE OPENING VERSES OF 1 KINGS 17 INTRODUCE TO US ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE CHARACTERS IN ALL THE BIBLE, ELIJAH. A MAN OF GOD WHO APPEARS ON THE SCENE OF ACTION READY TO DO BATTLE WITH ANY WHO OPPOSE HIS GOD. I IMAGINE THAT IN TODAY'S RELIGIOUS WORLD ELIJAH WOULD BE LABELLED HATEFUL AND INTOLERANT, MAYBE EVEN A HERETIC! BUT WITH THESE OPENING VERSES WE HAVE THE GREATEST OF ALL STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MAN ELIJAH; HE SAID TO AHAB " I HAVE BEEN VERY JEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS"! YOU MEAN HE ACTUALLY CARES MORE ABOUT GOD THAN THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS!!! HOW AWFUL! HOW RUDE! HOW HATEFUL FOR HIM TO DEFY THE LAW AND SPEAK TO THE KING THAT WAY! WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS! AND WHY DOES HE THINK HE REPRESENTS THE WHOLE OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD, RINGS THE SO FAMILIAR CRIES OF THOSE WHO WOULD ADVOCATE DOING NOTHING WHILE ISRAEL CONTINUED TO RUSH HEADLONG INTO SIN! IN THIS MODERN DAY IT IS NO DIFFERENT, I PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED BY FRIENDS, FORSAKEN BY FAMILY AND CHURCHES FOR BEING JEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. I STAND ON THE STREETS OF THIS NATION TO WARN SINNERS TO FLEE THE WRATH TO COME AND TO BE A VOICE FOR GOD'S HOLINESS IN THIS EVIL NATION. SCORN ME IF YOU WILL, LET ANOTHER FRIEND WAVE GOODBYE AND MOCK ALL WHO WOULD. STILL CHRIST IS EXALTED AS LORD OF ALL AND I AM HUMBLY THANKFUL TO BE USED OF GOD. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO REACH THIS WORLD IN THE BEST WAY YOU KNOW HOW, I COMMEND YOU HOWEVER IF YOU ARE TO ASHAMED OR LAZY TO EVEN PRAY, WITNESS OR BE FAITHFUL TO A BIBLE PREACHING CHURCH.......GET BUSY BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE OTHERS.

FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP TO VILE AFFECTIONS.........

SATURDAY THE 31ST FOUND A SMALL GROUP OF FAITHFUL MEN ONCE AGAIN PREACHING AGAINST THE WRETCHED SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY. AS WE ARRIVED I OVERHEARD ONE OF THE SODOMITES , WITH A SIGH , SAY "THEY ARE HERE EVERY YEAR!". MY HEART LEAPED FOR JOY THAT ,IF NOTHING ELSE, THE PERSEVERANCE OF GOD'S SERVANTS WAS BEING WITNESSED. HOWEVER I COULD NOT HELP TO FEEL THAT THE MAIN REASON THAT GOD HAD LEAD THE PREACHERS HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR WAS TO SIMPLY ANNOUNCE JUDGMENT ON A SICK AND PERVERTED AMERICA. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS NATION! IN GOD'S NAME HAVE WE LOST OUR MINDS! TO HAVE CITIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HOLDING CELEBRATIONS FOR SODOMY! THE LEVEL OF DELUSION IS FRIGHTENING AND IT IS GETTING FAR WORSE. WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT THESE DAYS AS IF THEY WOULD NEVER COME-AND NOW HERE WE ARE. WITH NEW HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION PASSED BY THE MOST SODOMITE FRIENDLY PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME, WE NOW GET TO SEE WHO IS REAL AND WHO IS FAKE. ARE WE REALLY WILLING TO RISK JAIL OR PRISON TO GLORIFY GOD WITH OUR STREET PREACHING MINISTRIES...........YES WE ARE! NO LAW OR PUNISHMENT CAN QUENCH THE WORD OF OUR GOD, AND GOD HELP US TO STAND THE TEST OF PERSECUTION. IF YOU SKEPTICS AND THOSE WHO CALL US HATEFUL AND INTOLERANT, COULD HAVE BEEN IN ATLANTA ON SATURDAY YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A REAL IDEA OF WHO IS REALLY HATEFUL! VULGARITY AND PERVERSION OF THE UNTHINKABLE SORT SPEWED FORTH FROM ALL AROUND THOSE WOULD WOULD DARE TO PREACH GOD'S WORD! WE WERE ASSAULTED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD DID NOT RENDER EVIL FOR EVIL. THE VIDEOS AND PICTURES DO NOT LIE- http://www.warningsofwrath.com/ MY THANKS TO PASTOR RANDY BRYSON AND PASTOR BILLY BALL FOR THE INVITE TO PREACH WITH THEM IN ATLANTA.

God's gift to my family.

I write this newest post with the joyful news of the birth of our new baby boy! In addition to Gabrielle 8, Lilian 4 and Samuel 2, we now have Jeremiah Owen! Children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward.-Psalm 128:

THE GREATEST NEED OF THE CHURCH

THROUGHOUT THE 2000 YEARS OF THE CHURCHES EXISTENCE MANY GREAT CHURCHES HAVE STOOD OUT AS THOUGH THEY WERE PERFECTLY IN TUNE WITH THE HEART OF CHRIST. MANY HAVE WROUGHT WONDERFUL WORKS AND SEEN THE POWER OF REAL REVIVAL. THEY HAD DIFFERENT PASTORS WITH DIFFERENT STYLES OF PREACHING, DIFFERENT MUSIC AND SONGS, DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS BUT THEY ALL HAD ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR- A PASSIONATE BURDEN FOR THE LOST! THE CHURCH WHO IS FOLLOWING CHRIST CLOSELY ENOUGH WILL FEEL THE WARMTH OF HIS BEATING HEART, AND THE HEART OF CHRIST IS TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO THOSE WHO NEED IT. PROSPERITY AND POLLUTION HAVE DESTROYED THE FOCUS OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOUR AND THE GREATEST NEED WE HAVE IS TO BEAR UP UNDER THE LOAD OF THE BURDEN OF THE LORD AND " WAFT IT ON THE ROLLING TIDE...JESUS SAVES, JESUS SAVES! TELL TO SINNERS FAR AND WIDE...JESUS SAVES,JESUS SAVES!

The Wicked of Noah's day.......still in HELL.

Hell......it's a word that is synonymous with torment and pain. Hell is the dwelling place of all lost souls who know not God and obeyed not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many things could be said about the horrors of Hell, fire, smoke, screaming, wailing, gnashing of teeth, darkness and far worse, the hopelessness of knowing that it is all ETERNAL! Yes dear sinner, the wicked of Noah's day still grope and claw at the wall of an ark that no longer exists. In their mind, their rejection of God's way of Salvation is fresh and very real. God said to get in the ark, and they would be saved, God now says, repent and believe the Gospel and you can be saved. Will you go God's way....or will you go to HELL.

STREET PREACHING IN HAYWOOD COUNTY,NC

I WAS HONORED TO HAVE BEEN ALLOWED BY GOD TO TAKE TO THE STREETS OF HAYWOOD COUNTY, NC TODAY. GOD PAVED THE WAY FOR THE GOSPEL AND MANY HEARTS WERE TOUCHED. IN THE PICTURES TO THE RIGHT ARE MYSELF AND BRO. JOSHUA MCELRATH IN TWO DIFFERENT CITIES(WAYNESVILLE AND CANTON). WE RAN INTO OPPOSITION EARLY IN THE TRIP WHEN THE MANAGER OF BEST BUY TRIED TO VIOLATE OUR 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO PREACH AND HOLD SCRIPTURE SIGNS ON A PUBLIC SIDE WALK. HE WAS ANGRY, COWARDLY AND OBVIOUSLY CONVICTED BY WHAT WE WERE DOING SO HE THEN CALLED THE POLICE. GOD BE THANKED,THE WAYNESVILLE PD UPHELD OUR RIGHTS AS AMERICANS AND CHRISTIANS! THE MANAGER THEN TRIED TO HAVE OUR TRUCK TOWED AND WE WERE FORCED TO MOVE IT , BUT WE STAYED TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL UNTIL GOD SAID TO LEAVE. MY THANKS TO WPD FOR THEIR COOPERATION AND SUPPORT AS WE TRY TO REACH THE LOST IN OUR TOWNS AND IN OTHERS. MY SINCEREST THANKS ALSO TO BRO. MCELRATH FOR HIS WILLINGNESS TO GET OUT ON THE STREETS AND FULFIL THE GREAT COMMISSION.

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED......COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME!

SO MANY ARE CONFUSED AS TO THE WAY OF SALVATION. THIS FACTION SAYS YOU MUST BE BAPTIZED(AND BY ONE OF THEIR OWN), TO BE SAVED. ANOTHER SAYS YOU MUST CONFESS YOUR SINS TO THE CLERGY OF THEIR CHOOSING. WHILE THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF THE HOUR SAYS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS : SIGN A CARD, SHAKE A HAND, JOIN A CHURCH AND "DECIDE" TO FOLLOW JESUS. HOWEVER ,I'M WRITING TO YOU PRECIOUS SINNER, A LINE OF TRUTH CAN BE DRAWN THROUGH THE AGES ,EVEN BACK TO THE LORD HIMSELF, WHICH SAYS" REPENT YE ,AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL" -MK 1:15. IT IS NOT 2 SEPARATE WAYS TO HEAVEN AS SOME BELIEVE, BUT 2 SIDES OF THE COIN OF SALVATION! REPENTANCE IS THE HEART FELT HATRED OF SIN AND SELF, TAKINGS SIDES WITH GOD AGAINST YOURSELF AND TRULY MOURNING OVER SIN WITH THE HEART. THUS IT PREPARES THE HEART TO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL-THAT CHRIST JESUS CAME TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST! YOU SEE GOD ONLY SAVES SINNERS! UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO TAKE YOUR RIGHTFUL PLACE AS A CONDEMNED MAN AT THE FEET OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, GOD WILL NOT SAVE YOU! BUT PRAISE BE TO GOD, IF YOU REALLY GET SERIOUS ABOUT FINDING GOD, HE WILL BE FOUND! Deuteronomy 4:29 (KJV) 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

CONVERSION vs. PERVERSION

IN ACTS 3:19 WHEN PETER DECLARES TO SINFUL MEN THAT THEY SHOULD "REPENT AND BE CONVERTED", HE HAD A CONCEPT OF WHAT TRUE REPENTANCE PRODUCES IN THE LIVES OF SINNERS. THE IDEA OF ONE HAVING BEEN SAVED AND YET REMAINING A REBEL TO GOD WAS UTTERLY FOREIGN TO PETER AND TO ALL THE OTHER APOSTLES. IN II COR 5:17 PAUL DECLARED EMPHATICALLY THAT SALVATION PRODUCES A NEW CREATION! THE MODERN DAY RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY SAYS THAT SINNERS CAN "DECIDE" THAT THEY WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN AND CONDUCT THEMSELVES LIKE THEY LIVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HELL! NOTHING COULD BE MORE ANTI-BIBLE, ANTI-GOD AND ANTI-CONVERSION! THE JACK HYLES WAY OF "SOUL WINNING" HAS PRODUCED A GENERATION OF BAPTIST BASTARDS THAT HAVE NO REAL LIFE IN THEIR SOUL! WE CAN APOLOGIZE FOR THEM AND SAY "THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER" ALL WE WANT TO, BUT THE TRUTH IS THEY DO KNOW BETTER! THEY HAVE A BIBLE THAT TEACHES BETTER! IF THEY ARE SAVED THEMSELVES THEY HAVE A HOLY GHOST THAT TEACHES THEM BETTER! THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU MUST FORSAKE SIN IN ORDER FOR GOD TO SAVE YOU. WELL THAT IS LEGALISM THEY SAY, NOT SO! IT IS GRACE THAT GIVE US STRENGTH TO REPENT! IT IS A WORK OF GRACE, FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST! THAT'S CALVINISM THEY SAY, NO IT IS THE SALVATION OF THE BIBLE! IT IS THE SALVATION THAT I HAVE, THAT I PREACH, THAT CHRIST PREACHED! WHAT OF THE COUNTLESS MULTITUDES THAT CLAIM THE NAME OF JESUS AND LIVE IN HABITUAL INIQUITY........MY FRIEND THEY ARE LOST. THAT IS NOT JUDGMENT, BUT DISCERNMENT. GOD HELP US TO REALLY EVANGELIZE THE LOST! NOT TO PAD STATISTICS, BUT TO SEE THEIR LIVE CHANGED FOR THE GLORY OF OUR LORD!

THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE

SOME HOW IN THE REALM OF FUNDAMENTALISM THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE WHO WOULD RISE UP AND CLAIM THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE HAS NO APPLICATION DURING THIS PRESENT DISPENSATION. THEY CLAIM THAT BECAUSE "GRACE" HAS "RAINED TO LIFE" THAT REPENTANCE HAS BECOME A "WORK" AND THEREFORE HAS NO PLACE IN THE SALVATION OF SINNERS. NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! THE WORD REPENT MEANS TO "TURN AWAY" OR TO "FORSAKE "THE PATH THAT ONE IS ON. THE OPPOSERS OF THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE WOULD SAY THAT ALL ONE MUST DO IS "COME " TO CHRIST TO BE SAVED, BUT THE SAD REALITY IS THAT SINFUL MAN DOES NOT WANT TO COME NOR CAN HE COME UNTIL HE HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON SIN! THE FIRST MESSAGE CHRIST PREACHED WAS "REPENT", AND NOT JUST TO ISRAEL AS AN OFFER OF THE EARTHLY KINGDOM, BUT THAT MESSAGE CONTINUED THROUGHOUT HIS ENTIRE MINISTRY( REMEMBER THE RICH YOUNG RULER). THE APOSTLES PREACHED IT, THE EARLY CHURCH PREACHED IT AND I PREACH IT. " REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD AND FAITH TOWARD THE LORD JESUS CHRIST".

NUM 14:22- AMERICA'S KILLING BLOW

4800 ABORTIONS PER DAY, 70 PERCENT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE BORN ARE BORN OUT OF WED-LOCK, RISING CRIME RATES, A MUSLIM PRESIDENT, LITTLE OR NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY ON EVERY HAND. ALL THIS AND STILL AMERICA IS NOT AS WICKED AS MOST OF THE CITIES OF THE WORLD. WHY THEN WILL GOD DEAL SO HARSHLY WITH HER IN THE YEARS TO COME.....NOT BECAUSE WE ARE ANY MORE WICKED THAN OTHERS, BUT THAT WE HAVE HAD MORE LIGHT THAN ALL THE OTHER NATIONS COMBINED! GOD SAID BECAUSE THOSE MEN HAVE SEEN MY GLORY AND MY MIRACLES! THE FORMING OF THIS NATION WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MIRACLES EVER TO GRACE THE EARTH! ALL WERE OPPOSED BUT GOD CONSENTED AND PUT UPON HER HIS DIVINE BLESSING. SHE HAS BEEN USED NOW FOR THREE HUNDRED YEARS AS THE TOOL OF WORLD EVANGELIZATION, BUT HOW LONG CAN GOD WITH HOLD HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT. AMERICA YOUR DOOM LIES IN THE FACT THAT THEIR IS A CHURCH EVERY HALF MILE ON MOST CITIES. THAT GREAT MEN LIKE A.W. PINK, H.A. IRONSIDE, SUNDAY, MOODY, EDWARDS, BRAINARD AND SO MANY MORE HAVE PREACHED THE GOSPEL IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND YET SHE HAS FORGOTTEN THE ONE WHO ESTABLISHED HER! ISRAEL IS CAST OFF FOR A SEASON AND AMERICA THE SEAT OF GREAT BLESSING, BUT NOW LIKE THE CHILDREN OF JACOB WE HAVE TURNED TO OUR IDOLS. AMERICA TURN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, REPENT AND DO THE FIRST WORKS! THE CANDLESTICK SHALL SOON BE REMOVED AND WHEN GOD SHUTS A DOOR, NO MAN, ORGANIZATION OR NATION SHALL OPEN IT.

NEW MERCIES.

I AM AMAZED AT THE WAY GOD UNCEASINGLY GIVES OF HIMSELF TO HIS CHILDREN. HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING! BREATH, STRENGTH, SOUND MIND AND A WONDERFUL FAMILY. WE HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR! IT IS OUR CHRISTIAN DUTY, AS WELL AS OUR PLEASURE , TO GIVE GOD GLORY FOR ALL THAT HE HAS DONE FOR US, IN US AND ABOUT US. CHRISTIAN, WHO ELSE WILL PRAISE OUR GOD.....THE HEATHEN, I THINK NOT. SO LET US THIS DAY GIVE GOD THE HONOR AND THE PRAISE DUE TO HIS NAME. PSALM 71 DESCRIBES THE PLACE OF REFUGE WHERE WE MAY "CONTINUALLY RESORT", IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY HAD TO HIDE IN SHADOW OF HIS WINGS, TAKE THE TIME TODAY TO PRAISE GOD! HE IS WORTHY!

LIKE PRECIOUS FAITH.

WHAT A BLESSING TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE TO THE STREETS WITH PASTOR RANDY BRYSON, THE PREACHERS AND THE MEN OF THE OPEN DOOR BAPTIST CHURCH IN EASLY,SC. I LOVE TO LABOR WITH THOSE OF LIKE PRECIOUS FAITH. MEN OF CHARACTER, DISCIPLINE AND DEDICATION TO THE CAUSE OF CHRIST. DESPITE THE OPINION OF MOST PEOPLE, I'VE SCARCELY EVER PREACHED WITH MEN SO DRIVEN BY LOVE FOR THE SINNERS OF THIS WORLD. OF COURSE ANY ONE WHO REALLY LOVES THEM WILL LOVE THEM ENOUGH TO TELL THEM TRUTH OF THEIR CONDITION, ie LOST AND HOPELESS WITH OUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE PICS ON THE RIGHT ARE JUST A SAMPLE OF THE CROWD THAT GOD BROUGHT BEFORE US THAT FRIDAY NIGHT TO HEAR THE GOSPEL. MANY MOCKED, BUT SOME LISTENED INTENTLY, WHILE GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT DEALT HARSHLY WITH THEIR SIN SICK SOULS. I CAN SAY WITH PAUL "WOE UNTO ME IF I PREACH NOT THE GOSPEL"!

THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING.

ALL ACROSS THE PROFESSING CHRISTIAN WORLD THERE HAS BEEN AN ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE THE ONE METHOD THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL TO DYING HUMANITY. GOD CHOSE THE METHOD OF PREACHING AS THE MEANS OF PROCLAIMING THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE WORLD (AND THE FLESH OF MAN) HATES THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. EVERY TIME A PREACHER STANDS ON A STREET CORNER AND THUNDERS FORTH THE BLESSED STORY OF A CRUCIFIED SAVIOUR THE POWERS OF HELL ITSELF ARE SHAKEN WITH A MIGHTY WIND! THIS BLOG IS INTENDED TO STRENGTHEN THOSE WHO ARE STANDING IN THE OLD PATHS AND TELLING THE OLD STORY OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND HIS WRATH SOON TO COME. MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU ALL.