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Being God's Pastor is NEVER About Popularity

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It's very, very disturbing to have people respect certain pastors as men of God just because they are popular and wealthy.  It really, really gets me angry every time I see a book by Joel Osteen on the bookshelves of the Christian bookstores, to how some churches still bother to endorse Billy Graham even if he's obviously a Jesuit puppet, how the late Martin Luther King Jr. gets a national holiday while Martin Luther doesn't and the list can go on.  In fact, I am heckled to say that when I choose the path of becoming a preacher and choosing to follow in the footsteps of dead fundamentalists like George Whitfield, Billy Sunday, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan and Jonathan Edwards that I am never going to experience popularity.  John 15:18-19 is clear that the Christian is not of this world.  In fact, I am so glad that we still have preachers like Pastor Paul David Washer, Pastor John F. Macarthur and Pastor Robert Charles Sproul does even mention things like, "Well so

Legalized Prostitution and Same Sex Marriage is Returning Sodom to the World

One fact that can't be denied- watching the news the world is so messed up I believe Christ may come any time soon.  And why is that?  The spirit of Sodom has returned and for one thing prostitution is now legalized and two, same sex marriage is reinstated in California then it will hit the world.  I really got very disgusted and people will still continue to insist that same sex marriage is okay despite the evidence that sodomy spreads 46% of the AIDS virus.  Immoral heterosexuality is just as bad as homosexuality.  Any form of sexual perversion is completely against God's rule for sex.  God barred sinful activities to protect people, not to oppress them yet the world rejects God.  Again Romans 1:22 is right in saying that such people profess to be wise but they became FOOLS. What is legal is NOT necessary ethical.  They call me a homophobic because I really hate the fact that same sex marriage has been legalized here and there and then those who are for legalizing prost

Turning to God or Just Getting Religious?

It's a problem these days in the soulwinning business that we are facing people who say, "Well I've turned to God." but however they are just getting religious.  It's very, very tragic whenever I face the reality that people seem to be turn to God but are actually only religious, not godly.  So they say you can be godly without Christ which is total baloney as these so-called conversions.  What's the evidence of them just getting religious?  I would like to raise the fact that when these people think that they need God, for them He just an add on not a startover.  Instead of coming to Christ as broken sinners in need of forgiveness, pleading guilty for sin out of the realization that they CANNOT save themselves they instead take another wayward path of works salvation which the person instead just does a pseudo-repentance of rituals rather than a real repentance that results to authentic works.  As said, you can have works without faith but never faith withou

Charles Spurgeon on Good Works

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Charles Spurgeon was a proponent of the good works brought forth by faith.  In fact, as a person who believes that though salvation is by faith alone but it is never by a faith that is devoid of good works as a result.  The Bible is clear in Ephesians 2:8-10 and Titus 2:11-14 that God's Gospel is a life changing one. There is the problem of doing good works if there's a much different motive.  So in answer to Roman Catholic apologists who tried to argue against my stand that good works is rather a proof of salvation than the cause of salvation.  So they say, "Well what about the atheist."  Good question.  Pretty much I would like to show the motives of doing "dead works" vs. doing good works. The situation can be like this- an unbeliever does the correct thing (but is in reality a dead work not a good one) out of a different motive a spirit.  He or she may give money for "good for goodness sake" which is rather self-glorifying like

False Preachers are God's Judgment on People Who Hate the Gospel Truth!

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While I was listening to Paul Washer berating against the false teachings of Joel Osteen or should I say Jolly Ostensible or John F. MacArthur berating Rob Bell or should I say Rob Hell, well it's pretty clear to me now that false prophets are really God's judgment on people who follow them. Bell was trying to say there is no Hell but it wouldn't be long before Hell is his eternal home unless he repents. For one, I really used to stress myself arguing with all these false prophets like how my encounter with them I thought that these people are better off not minded if they continue to reject the truth that is shared. After all, God is using them to judge people. So far here's what while reading Jeremiah 5:31, it is no surprise people following these false prophets are on their way to destruction otherwise known as the blind leading the blind. They will fall into the ditch and God will allow false preachers to progress for this reason- to judge the hard-necked people

Atheists and the Contradictory Arguments They Make

It just can get amusing at the same time tragic to how foolish atheists are.  In their attempt to disprove the Bible, they have actually shown how Psalm 14:1 is right in calling them a fool.  So how do atheists contradict themselves?  Here are some ways they do as far as it can be observed with their contradictions: 1.) While they say there is no God, then why do I hear them babbling and whining about how much they hate God?  In Romans 1:21-22 records the sad fact these atheists actually knew God but they were not thankful and therefore they become foolish.  They know God exists but they lie in their hearts that He doesn't.  If they believe God does not exist, I really end up reading in a lot and I mean a lot of atheist blogs on how cruel and unjust God is. 2.) They say that God is cruel and Christians are wrong yet they also believe in Richard Dawkins' statement that there is no right and no wrong but only pitiless indifference .  This is where it gets screwed up, if

Learning More About Expository Preaching

After further investigating the allegations against Pastor John F. MacArthur by some Independent Fundamental Baptists who go with the "easy message", I was thinking about verse by verse preaching especially when I had visited the Spurgeon Archive. So what would be expository preaching be defined as to today's reader? Expository preaching is defined as exposition or comprehensive explanation of the Scripture, that is, presenting the meaning or intent of the Biblical text. It seeks to expose the meaning of the Bible verse by verse. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an expository preacher who explored the Bible with up to 3,000 sermons verse by verse before he joined the Heavenly Father in glory. Today we have Grace to You Ministries with Pastor John F. Macarthur who has done some verse by verse preaching in exploring the meaning of each one but sadly he can be taken out of context. I am yet to read John MacArthur's book "Expository Preaching" but I have observe

Evolution is Impossible by Dr. Richard Kent, MD

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If there's any type of Christian who should talk about evolution as impossible, it would be Christians in the field of science.  Most atheists would normally object saying that Christians are "subhumans" who are in need for "extermination" yet some will say "yet they are surprisingly educated".  The problem is also almost every religion in the world has little or no problem embracing Darwin's stupid theory because of their pagan foundations believing that man came from animals!  Well, either you believe it or not but evolution is a cruel sick joke that is not scientific.  Christian education MUST teach why evolution is impossible than just skip that chapter altogether.  Teach them what evolution is and why it is impossible.  Also note Charles Darwin is not an atheist.

Some Lies that the Conditional Security Crowd Preach

For one, I am an opponent of Antinomianism and I am also an opponent to conditional security.  I for one believe in the eternal security of the believer which is better defined as "the perseverance of the saints" as defined by John Calvin that the Christian will certainly endure to the very end.  I am going to tackle on some lies and misrepresentations of the conditionals security crowd against the belief that Christians cannot lose their salvation.  Of course, I would also dare put a huge question mark on somebody who claims to have eternal security but has no change in life either.   1.) We don't teach works salvation This is really the top one lie that I am sick of hearing from them.  By looking at it, they say they do not teach works salvation and are relying upon the perfect work of Christ.  However it goes like this, "We are initially saved by faith then... if a Christian commits a sin, they have lost their salvation."  If that were the case, the C

The Liberation of the Philippines from Three Centuries as a Papal State!

Okay I would say that many of the Founding Fathers of the Philippines were not Christians and some were Roman Catholic but one thing good had happened, the Philippines was set freed from Spanish colonization in 1898 which had freed the Philippines from the three hundred years of direct Papal oppression. During the Spanish rule, here was what was really happening: The Pope became the true sovereign ruler over the Philippines as well as every territory that Spain conquers for him because the Roman Catholic institution set the fact that she rules over government and kings with the incumbent Pope as the alleged ruler of the world which makes him an antichrist. With the Pope being the true ruler of the Spanish colonies, thus only Roman Catholicism was the allowed religion. This made the Great Whore of Revelation the ultimate power not Spain. Spain was justa puppet. With Roman Catholicism allowed as the only religion, it's no surprise that the Bible was banned from the public. F

A Response to Roman Catholic Apologists Who Make Fun of Born Again Christians' Giving Practices

Based on my experience, as a former Roman Catholic who had become a born again Christian who is a non-denominational fundamental Baptist for giving their tithes and offerings, or their first fruits.  It's pretty stupid how some Roman Catholic faithful could think that Christians who give their money to the offering liberally (but please DO NOT give insensibly) or giving their 10% out of their free will and love for God are also calling the pastors as "money making hogs" while they cite examples like Billy Graham, Jim Bakker, Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn BUT what is not mentioned by them that many of the money making hogs they are mentioning actually are Jesuit coadjutors working for the Vatican or two, the Pope is indeed far wealthier than even the richest businessman in the world.  So far, here's the reality- I give my tithes, I give my offerings and I give my first fruits because I love the L ORD and I do not want to be materialistic.  Of course while I need to be c

The Need to Excommunicate Wayward Members in the Christian Churches

Here's the truth I can uphold, "One can be physically a member of a local church but they are not part of the true Church."  That can be very true.  Jesus had warned in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves."  In 1 Corinthians 5 we read the possibility of a false conversion.  First, let me be clear that I believe Christians can fall into the state of carnality but there are NO carnal Christians in the sense that they continually live to be carnal like there are no adulterous Christians in the sense that there are no Christians who are habitually adulterous.  In fact 1 Corinthians 5:1 we read the incident of fornication and nominal incest (with one's stepmother) which was brazenly immoral.  Looking at it, you might consider the reality that such a person may not be saved because of the statement "But them that are without God's judgeth.  Therefore put away from among y

Pope Alexander IV's Decree Against Lay Persons

Bro. Gerry Soliman of Solutions Finder Apologetics revealed this statement by the late Alexander IV: We furthermore forbid any lay person to engage in dispute, either private or public, concerning the Catholic Faith. Whosoever shall act contrary to this decree, let him be bound in the fetters of excommunication. By looking at this,  this may have been the ground of the Inquisition later on and two, this has managed to keep the critics against the Roman Catholic institution "silenced" and later Popes to have their grounds to condemn the Reformation brought forth by pre-Reformation heroes like John Huss and Girolamo Savonarola (who was executed by Pope Alexander VI of the corrupt Borgia family) as well as the condemnation of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, John Calvin's persecution and the deaths of many Baptists before and after the Reformation.  But as said, God's Word is not bound (2 Timothy 2:9) and the Council of Trent members are no better than the

What Happens When Christian Education Uses Carnal Means to Get Students?

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It has come to my mind when a fellow Baptist pastor was criticizing another Baptist pastor for being "too strict". What was being pointed out that the latter was criticized by the former for being "too military" like disallowing children to run around and shout, prohibiting stuff like Harry Potter to the students, not allowing women to dress up like the rest of the world, etc. Another bad situation was that when a supposedly Baptist family ended up fighting a Baptist school's administration for being "harsh" towards answering back to authority, not allowing boyfriend-girlfriend relationships and stuff like that. With those things in mind, I could dare question them saying, "I wonder if you people are really saved." As said, true conversion does not permit a Christian to sin all they please. Christians will fall into sin and do not lose their salvation. However the real proof of eternal security is in the perseverance of the saints or co