Thursday, April 22, 2010

PREACH REPORT- ROD RUN 2010

IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO PREACH AGAIN WITH THE MEN FROM WARNINGS OF WRATH AND THE OPEN DOOR BAPTIST CHURCH AT THIS YEAR'S ROD RUN ON PIGEON FORGE TENN. GOD ALLOWED US TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO BETWEEN 75 AND 100 THOUSAND DURING THE EVENT WHO WOULD NOT OTHER WISE BE FACED WITH THE TRUTH OF GOD'S HOLINESS AND MAN'S SINFULNESS. THANK YOU TO THE PF POLICE DEPT FOR UPHOLDING OUR 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND FOR THEIR COURTESY TOWARD US. THE CROWD WAS VERY RECEPTIVE TO GOD'S WORD(MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER EVENT IN A LONG TIME) AND MAY GOD BLESS OUR LABORS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT AS WE CONTINUE TO PREACH THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE WRATH TO COME. J.R.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

PREACH REPORT 3/7/10

PAUL ADMONISHED YOUNG TIMOTHY TO PREACH THE WORD, THIS SUNDAY BY HIS GRACE THREE MEN FROM FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH DID JUST THAT. MYSELF, PASTOR ANTHONY GREENE AND PREACHER JOSHUA MCELRATH TOOK TO THE STREETS WITH GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. I FELT STRANGELY LEAD TO PREACH VERY STRONGLY ON THE LOVE OF GOD TOWARD MANKIND, MUCH TO OUR CRITICS DISMAY SEEING THAT WE ARE "UNLOVING AND HATEFUL" BY THEIR ESTIMATION. REMEMBER THAT THE MOST LOVING THING THAT YOU COULD EVER DO IS TO TELL SOMEONE WHERE THEY STAND WITH ALMIGHTY GOD. UPON SETTING UP IN THE TOWN OF CANTON, NC, WE HELD UP SIGNS AND BANNERS WITH SCRIPTURE ON THEM AND A NEW BANNER TYPE SIGN THAT WE CONSTRUCTED LAST WEEK WITH VERY GOOD RESPONSE FROM THE CROWDS. ONE ELDERLY LADY OFFERED US MONEY , HOWEVER WE TOLD HER THAT WE DON'T DO THIS FOR MONEY BUT FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE SALVATION OF SINNERS. AS I BEGAN TO PREACH THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE ROAD CAME OUT OF THE SHOPS TO LISTEN ,AS THE BULL HORN CARRIES VERY WELL, AND FOR LONG MINUTES THEY HEARD THAT GOD LOVED MANKIND ENOUGH TO OPEN A DOOR AT CALVARY FOR ALL WHO WILL COME TO HIM IN REPENTANCE AND FAITH. TWO CARS EVEN PULLED OVER TO LISTEN AS THOUGH SOME WORD HAD PRICKED THEIR STONY HEARTS AND I PRAY THAT IT DID! GOD BE THANKED THAT WE WERE NOT HARASSED BY THE POLICE, THOUGH ONE MAN SEEMED TO TRY TO RUN US OVER AGAIN(SECOND TIME IN AS MANY WEEKS) GOD PROTECTED US THOUGH THE PRECIOUS DAY. ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU CAN FOR THE GLORY OF GOD? IF NOT I SAY TIME IS SHORT...DO IT NOW, FOR YOU MAY NOT HAVE TOMORROW. J.R.

Monday, February 22, 2010

PREACH REPORT

THE LORD WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO ALLOW US TO TAKE THE GOSPEL OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH AGAIN ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THREE MEN FROM FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH STOOD ON THE STREETS OF WAYNESVILLE NC TO AGAIN PREACH THE EXCEEDING SINFULNESS OF SIN AND THE MERCY OF GOD TO THE REPENTANT. ON THE FIRST STOP WE WERE MET WITH CRITICISM AS ALWAYS, HOWEVER WE HAD A LONG CONVERSATION WITH A LOCAL "CHRISTIAN" (YEAH RIGHT) LESBIAN COUPLE. WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE HATEFUL AND INTOLERANT, YET IN ALMOST THE SAME BREATH SHE STATED THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PREACH PUBLICLY.....HMMM, SOUNDS LIKE INTOLERANCE TO ME. WE WERE THEN TOLD THAT WE WERE PREACHING A MESSAGE OF HATE, TO WHICH I AGREED FOR GOD HATES SIN AND SO DOES HIS PEOPLE. AT LENGTH THE COUPLE LEFT SHOUTING ANGRY AND "HATEFUL" THINGS BUT I REJOICE IN THE FACT THAT THEY HEARD THE TRUTH MAYBE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. WE THEN MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION WHICH ALSO PROVED TO BE VERY HIGH TRAFFIC FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND MANY GAVE SHOUTS OF "AMEN" AND "KEEP PREACHING" TO ENCOURAGE US AND SO IT DID. ONE YOUNG MAN DROVE HIS CAR UP ON THE SIDEWALK THAT WE WERE PREACHING ON, REMINDING US OF THE VERY REAL DANGER OF PREACHING OUTSIDE THE CHURCH AND REMINDING US OF THE PROVIDENTIAL HAND OF GOD WHICH SHELTERS US UNTIL OUR WORK IS FINISHED. THANK YOU TO THE CHURCH AND THOSE WHO PRAYED FOR US, AND ESPECIALLY TO BRO. JOSH MCELRATH AND BRO. DAVID HARVERSON WHO STOOD WITH ME IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE TRUTH. MAY GOD ADD HIS BLESSING TO OUR LABOR. J.R.

Friday, January 22, 2010

PROFESSION OR POSSESION?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? IN A NATION WHERE OVER TWO THIRDS OF THE POPULATION CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIAN AND OVER HALF OF THAT NUMBER BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, ARE WE TO ACCEPT THEIR PROFESSION AT FACE VALUE? ARE WE TO GO ON LIKE THE REST OF OUR POOR BLIND FUNDAMENTAL BRETHREN AND BELIEVE THAT WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW GREAT AWAKENING? LET'S JUST BE HONEST PEOPLE IF THE NUMBER OF CONVERSIONS COMING OUT OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA IS TRUE, THEN WE ARE ALREADY IN THE NEW GREAT AWAKENING! JONATHON EDWARDS DIDN'T SEE THE NUMBERS THAT ARE REPORTED MONTHLY OUT OF THE "BUSS MINISTRIES" AND "TEEN" CHURCHES IN THIS COUNTRY! AND WHAT OF THEIR FRUITS- LOOSE DRESS, LOOSER LIPS AND SEXUAL IMMORALITY SUCH HAS NEVER BEEN! IS IT JUST BAD "DISCIPLESHIP" ON THE PART OF THE CHURCH? GOD HELP US FOR BEING THIS GULLIBLE! THE SAD REALITY IS THAT WE ARE ON THE VERY THRESHOLD OF THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE APOSTASY THAT WAS PREDICTED IN THE BIBLE IS AND HAS BEEN COMING TO FRUITION! PASTORS, YOUTH PASTORS, YOUTH LEADERS AND PRAISE LEADERS(WHATEVER THAT IS) ARE LEADING THOUSANDS TO SO CALLED CHRISTIANITY IN THE SAME WAY THAT THEY GOT THERE, OR SHOULD I SAY DIDN'T GET THERE! THEY HAVE BYPASSED REPENTANCE AND LORDSHIP SALVATION AND NOW! I SAID NOW WE ARE DEALING WITH THE FRUITS OF THE GENERATION OF COMPRIMISERS BEFORE US AND THEY NOW FILL PULPITS ALL ACROSS THE NATION! I KNOW...I AM "LEGALISTIC", WELL CALL ME WHAT YOU WILL BUT " BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM"-MATT 7:16. WE HAVE COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE LOST ARE "EVANGELIZING" THE LOST! AND "IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND BOTH SHALL FALL INTO THE DITCH"-MATT 15:14. IF YOU DEAR READER ARE TRULY SAVED, TAKE MY ADVICE AND KEEP YOUR FAMILY FAR AWAY FROM THESE FALSE TEACHERS. CAN YOU JUST SAY YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND GET INTO HEAVEN ON THAT? JUST BECAUSE YOU WENT TO THE ALTAR AND REPEATED A PRAYER? BECAUSE YOU GOT BAPTIZED? THE GREATEST QUESTION I CAN ASK YOU NOW IS....... DO YOU POSSESS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? J.R.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

"WE ARE IMMORTAL UNTIL OUR WORK IS DONE".

THE TITLE QUOTE IS FROM PROBABLY THE GREATEST EVANGELIST SINCE PAUL THE APOSTLE, THE GREAT GEORGE WHITEFIELD. I HAVE TAKEN GREAT PLEASURE IN STUDYING THE LIFE OF MR. WHITEFIELD, NOT TO LIFT HIM UP BUT TO LIFT UP THE GOD THAT WAS IN HIM. IN THE MID TO LATE 1700S THIS MAN ALONG WITH OTHERS OF THE STRICT METHODIST DISCIPLINE WERE ABLE TO SHAKE THE WORLD FOR THE GLORY OF GOD ALMIGHTY! OF THOSE MEN ONLY WHITEFIELD HELD TRUE TO THE GREAT DOCTRINE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD. CALVINISTS, AS THEY ARE CALLED, WHO BELIEVED THAT A GOD BIG ENOUGH TO SAVE WAS ALSO BIG ENOUGH TO SEAL. HE BELIEVED THAT A GOD THAT COULD CLEANSE SUCH A VILE SINNER AS HE WAS GREAT ENOUGH TO ENSURE THAT HE BE KEPT FROM APOSTASY AND FAILURE BY THE POWER OF HIS RIGHT HAND! THIS ALLOWED WHITEFIELD TO BOLDLY TAKE THE GOSPEL OUTSIDE OF THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH, AND EVEN WHEN FACED WITH CERTAIN DEATH HE CONTINUED TO PREACH WITH STAGGERING POWER AND ALL ACROSS ENGLAND AND AMERICA SINNERS WERE CONVERTED BY THE HOLY GHOST THROUGH THE GOSPEL MESSAGE THAT HE BOLDLY PREACHED. THERE ARE RECORDED INSTANCES WHERE HE WAS BEATEN, ASSAULTED, URINATED ON AND BLUDGEONED WITH DEAD ANIMALS! YET WHITEFIELD PREACHED ON. CONTRARY TO MODERN THOUGHT, SINNERS WHO REALLY DESIRE GOD WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY BY BEING TOLD THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THINGS, RATHER THEY WILL REJOICE AND CALL ON HIM WHO IS ABUNDANTLY ABLE TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST! SO WHILE THOSE WHO RESTED ON THEIR OWN POWER SPENT SLEEPLESS NIGHTS TOSSING AND TURNING WITH WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE GEORGE WHITEFIELD SAID " WE ARE IMMORTAL UNTIL OUR WORK IS DONE"!