TRUE CHRISTIANITY vs ROMAN CATHOLICISM

THE EARLY DAYS OF PAUL www.gracegospel.eu by Dov Avnon

2012-01-22T11:31:00.000-05:00

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This is an AWESOME read! I pray you will!

THE EARLY DAYS OF PAUL

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11 by Dov Avnon

2012-01-22T11:22:00.003-05:00

Ephesians 6:11 – “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” The idea here has to do with the fact that we are to stand. We are to stand in the position that we have in Christ. We are to stand in body truth. We are to stand in the truth of the word rightly divided – in what is operative today.

Here is the issue. Ephesians 6:12-14 – “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of his world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore.”

The issue is standing in your warfare with the Adversary. The issue is not taking a bazooka and blowing his head off or taking some M-88s and mowing him down. The issue is just standing in the truth that God has for the body of Christ – the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery. You are to take your stand there and hold the ground that God has given you.

You are standing and you are withstanding. And when the satanic attack comes, you do not give any ground to him. You hold all the ground that God has given you, all the blessings that God has given you in Christ, all the completeness that he has given you. You hold on to that, and you do not let any of it slip. And you are not moving away from it, but you are strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. You are not made strong by the Lord, rather you are strong in the Lord. You are standing in him and the complete position that he has given you in Christ.

You are taking those things, and you are putting those doctrines on as armour. There is a spiritual armour of doctrine that you encase your life in, and your soul in, so that you can withstand and so that you can stand in the position God has given you.

Now, in verse 12, he says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood. I think I already said to you that “wrestling”, in this verse, is a very special term. It is a unique term that is used by Paul to describe the combat that we have with the Adversary. Our combat with the Adversary is described as a personal, hand-to-hand combat that is a struggle. We, personally, are grappling and struggling. It says, “wrestle”.

This is not fun and games. This is “wrestling”, and in the context here, it is hand-to-hand combat to the death. It is not just an athletic game, or a promotional thing to raise millions of dollars. It is a struggle, a hand-to-hand combat between two soldiers who are in hand-to-hand combat intent upon destroying one another. It is a serious issue.

And that is the reason he uses the term here. These are soldiers wrestling together. It is a serious matter, and somebody is going to be destroyed. The Adversary wants it to be you.

Not only is it a serious matter, but it is a personal struggle. And that is the reason he says it. This is not a corporate struggle that can be done way off at a distance. This is struggle that you, as an individual believer, are engaged in day in and day out in your life. And there is a satanic policy of evil directed at you individually, and you need to understand it.

And it doesn't have anything to do with seeing demons behind the lamp stand and that kind of thing. It has to do with some doctrine in the word of God. And Satan wants to trick you with his wiles, and his schemes, to move away from focusing on the doctrine and the truth. He wants to cause you to move away from the spiritual realities that are operative today. He wants you to focus on the physical, the circumstantial, and all the rest, and not focus on that thing that God is doing today.

Today, God is forming the church, the body of Christ. He is forming a spiritual body of believers where he takes Jew and Gentile and places them into one spiritual body on an absolute total equal basis. Everybody is blessed just alike, completely and fully in Christ, by faith in the gospel.

And that gospel is that Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried and was raised again the third day according to the scriptures, and that he ascended up unto the right hand of God the Father in heaven. And there we are seated with him in the heavenly places.

By faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, you and I are made a part of this spiritual body that God is forming because we rightly divided the word. We do not go back to the legalism of the former dispensation and try to think that is what God is doing. And we are not distracted by the societal and governmental perfection of a future age, of trying to bring in that kind of a social order. But, rather we understand what God is doing today. We understand that it is a forming of a new creation, a new creature – the one new man of whom we are a part.

And Satan wants to take our focus away from that – the wiles, the tricks.

The essence of a trick is to take something that is real and make it appear like it isn’t real, and to take something that isn’t real and make it appear like it is real.

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David Garibaldi.... What an artist!

2012-01-20T09:56:00.000-05:00

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This is simply awesome!

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The Gospel Of Salvation In The Tribulation by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2012-01-19T20:00:00.000-05:00

The Gospel Of Salvation In The Tribulation

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship

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SUN 09/12/2010

180+ downloads | 55 min

Sermon Details:

In this sermon we will look at the gospel which will be preached during the coming "time of Jacob's trouble" mentioned in Jeremiah 30:7.

We also examine some of the beliefs of Orthodox Judaism, and why God will be sending Moses and Elijah to the earth during the coming 7 year time of Jacob's trouble.

AWESOME SERMON! I do pray you will hear it!
It truly helps dispel the many heresies told, even by pastors, who know not to divide the word of God!

Works plus Faith and "the Kingdom is coming" is preached during the days of Jacob's troubles, the Tribulation days!

The same is not for today! Today, in the Church age of Grace, WE CANNOT LOSE OUR SALVATION! We are sealed with the Holy Spirit UNTIL the day of redemption!

To learn more watch this:

Sealed with the Spirit by Dov Avnon

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THOSE WHO WOULD FOLLOW CHRIST TODAY, MUST FOLLOW PAUL!

2012-01-13T20:19:00.000-05:00

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Text: 1 Cor 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

1 Cor 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

Introduction: Paul was a rabble rouser! Paul was disobedient to the Lord! Paul was a renegade! Be careful when you read Paul you can’t believe everything he says. Paul was a loose cannon everybody knows that.

THESE are just a few of the accusations I hear in increasing frequency. However, if you read the Pauline epistles these accusations begin to make some sense. Paul was “unorthodox” in his message and methods. His teachings do “contradict” the teachings, in great measure, of the then established “apostleship” of his day. Was Paul a loose cannon? Was he a rabble rouser?

THE answer to these questions is a resounding NO!

Before we accuse the man we need to learn some little known seldom taught bible facts.

FACT ONE: Israel and the ministry to her was being diminished by God. Israel had rejected God the father in the Old Testament when they chose Saul to be their king over God. (strike one) Israel rejected God the son by refusing the king and the kingdom when they crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. (strike two) Israel rejected God the holy spirit in Acts with the stoning of Stephen. (strike three) Consequently, and in accordance to God’s eternal plan and purpose he set Israel aside.

Notice: Rom 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? Israel fell and the world got rich – HOW? The Gentiles would now get salvation – not through Israel – but in spite of them.

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

The reason Paul’s message sounds different than the “four gospels” is because it is different. Paul is not a rabble rouser he has been given a new and distinct ministry and commission – apart from Israel and her 12 apostles!

FACT TWO: Paul had an “unorthodox” gospel! This is a very easy point to establish but does not get very much pulpit time in contemporary religious establishments. Please notice what Peter – the Christ appointed leader of the 12 (Mat 16:18-19) taught about eternal life.

PETER taught – Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Question: Peter how do I get my sins remitted? Answer: Repent (change your mind about who the Lord Jesus Christ said he was – the King Of Israel) And be water baptized in accordance to John’s baptism. (Mark 1:4, Mark 16, Luke 7:30 etc., etc., etc.,) Peter did not preach the blood of the cross for salvation to Israel!! Notice again: In Luke 9 the apostles are out preaching the gospel…. Luke 9:6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. What gospel are they preaching? It is NOT 1 Cor.15:3 & 4 which we will look at in just a moment. But observe what the 12 did not know. Luke 18:31 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. 32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

Sounds like they have been out preaching the death, burial and resurrection of Christ all over the nation doesn’t it? Sounds a lot like 1 Corinthians 15 doesn’t it?… But they haven’t been and it isn’t! – Read the next verse: Luke 18:34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

There is no way on God’s green earth that you can go and preach a gospel that you 1. Do not understand – 2. Is hid from you and 3. You know nothing about.

FACT THREE: So either the bible itself is corrupt (and it isn’t) or when Paul comes on the scene something new and different is happening.

Blind orthodoxy will mix the two – Bible believers will believe their bible “rightly divided”!

Those who would follow the Lord today will have to follow Paul…

Paul writes to the Corinthians and says: 1 Cor 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

Do you know the ways of Paul? If you are in a denominational church I doubt very seriously that you do – otherwise you would not be there.

Do you follow Paul? He is our (the Gentiles) apostle today, in the dispensation of the grace of God. He writes in 1 Tim 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

If you would follow the Lord Jesus Christ you must follow Paul. 1 Cor 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

The things Paul wrote were not the suggestions of the Lord. They are the commandments of the Lord.

1 Cor 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Paul got his information directly from the risen Lord Jesus Christ. If you would follow Christ today you must follow Paul.

Phil 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Paul commands the Philippians to follow him that he was the ensample.

1 Th 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

The Thessalonians followed Paul and in doing so became ensamples to others.

Be careful to note in this verse the condition of the Jews! They have been set aside along with their program. One day they will be God’s people again and will carry his message again. But not today. Today in the dispensation of the grace of God, Paul is our apostle and pattern. I didn’t say that – God said that!!

Doung Dodd

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Why Christ saved Paul? and the Dispensation of Grace by Pastor Dov Avnon

2012-01-13T17:54:00.002-05:00

acts 9: 1-16 Why Christ saved Paul?

Uploaded by dov310757 on Nov 15, 2011

The Lord Jesus Christ saved Paul why ?

acts 9: 18- 20 Paul and the dispensation of Grace

Uploaded by dov310757 on Nov 25, 2011

acts 9: 20-43

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acts 10 Peter and Cornelius

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Peter and Cornelius
The book of acts in the light of the dispensation of grace

act chapter 11 - the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Uploaded by dov310757 on Dec 31, 2011

And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

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The Coming Underground House Church by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2012-01-08T20:28:00.000-05:00

The Coming Underground House Church

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship

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SUN 01/08/2012

Sunday Service | 70 min

Sermon Details:

With the recent push for "gay rights" and the signing of the NDAA Bill into law, the possibility for Bible-believing Christian persecution is FAST approaching! IF this time comes before the rapture, how will Christians be able to survive?

In today's sermon we look at the practice of worshiping the Lord in secret. Many Christians have done this in the past, and many more do today in countries like North Korea, China, and Pakistan.

You will see the two choices from scripture when persecution comes. You will need to decide between martyrdom or hiding from the evil.

This sermon is NOT about paranoia or bringing fear, but rather about making preparations for what could be coming soon to the English speaking Christians!

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God's Promises to Christians by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2012-01-08T10:39:00.001-05:00

God's Promises to Christians

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship

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SUN 10/25/2009

In this sermon we look at 5 promises that God has made to Christians. The bible says in Titus 1:2 that 'God cannot lie', so we know that what God has promised WILL come to pass.

My Comment left on this sermon:

“ What a great and comforting sermon! ”

Indeed! Today I cannot comprehend how it is that dividing the word is not spoken of by the majority of pastors, I would say! I feel so very blessed that you "harp" on it all the time! What comfort to KNOW exactly what is what in the word of God!

So-called "Christian" broadcasting stations are so very bogus! They are anything but Christian, filled with apostate preachers! I am so very impatient for His coming, but at the same time, am so very happy that he did not come when I was not as yet saved. Statistics show that one is seldom saved in their fifties and over! Praise God, as usual, I just don't fit the mold, again! I was 52 when saved, but went some 10 years from church to church, never hearing the "right" message until it was I learned of the King James Bible! Then all understanding came cascading into place! What a wonderful feeling!

Yes, just about an hour ago I answered someone who said "if we just got together with others," etc., etc.. How blind these are!

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians 15:33

The opposite does not happen! We need to "keep separate" for our God is a holy God and does not accept leaven!

Thank you, Pastor Bryan, for another great sermon!

It would be good to also hear these related sermons:

Does God Love Lost Sinners? by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

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God's Love For His Children by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Felloship

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I'd rather have Jesus (AV Church in Goa, India)

2012-01-07T10:22:00.002-05:00

I'd rather have Jesus

(AV Church in Goa, India)

Uploaded by lordsonroch on Sep 27, 2011

A short testimony of what the Lord is doing here in Goa India. Yes The Lord is at work here. Thank you Lord!!! Grace and Truth Baptist Church sings the hymn ' I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold!

WOW! What a hard-working church!
What an example and a blessing you are to everyone!
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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2012-01-07T09:46:00.002-05:00

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship

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SUN 05/24/2009

100+ downloads | 54 min

Sermon Details:

When times get rough, where can a Christian go for protection? Where can you find safety when things are going wrong?

In this sermon we look at the many promises that God gives to those who fear Him. We also look at the great hymn written by Martin Luther almost 500 years ago.

A high quality cd of this sermon is available at:
www.kingjamesvideoministries.com

Awesome, Pastor Bryan! I just love it how it is that you NEVER fail to put the verse read in the PROPER context, CHOOSING NOT to let any be misled thinking that it is meant for those who are NOT saved! It is not, and you are sure to set the record straight!

Yesterday, I heard a most diluted sermon by a Dr. Phil Stringer who seems to have those manure-laden titles to his name, and was utterly disgusted by it! Out of the 42 minutes he preached I could not derive more than a minute worth hearing, and that was the READING of the Scripture verse, so laden it was with nonsensical personal anecdotes serving as "filler" material! A SERMON THAT HAD ABSOLUTELY NO STUDYING DONE BEFOREHAND! No, these who Pile it higher and Deeper (PhD!) have their spiels down pat for the UNDISCERNING sheeple to gobble down!

And he said unto them,
Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of:
for necessity is laid upon me;
yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
1 Corinthians 9:16

Preach the gospel! I must say, without a doubt, never have I heard a "pastor" live up to this other than you! WOW! How blessed are we who can learn every week about His word!

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17

Praise God, Pastor Bryan, you drill the word of God into your listeners!

Thank you, with all my heart!
May God always bless you!

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What is God Doing in India?

2012-01-06T15:47:00.004-05:00

What is God Doing in India?

Uploaded by BereanBeacon on Jan 6, 2012

GRACE AND TRUTH BAPTIST CHURCH
GOA, INDIA
Pastor Lordson Roch
Worship service on Sunday
Timings: 9:00 am ( English ) 4:00 pm ( Hindi )
Contact Pastor Lordson Roch
Mobile :+91-9923653124
Email: lordsonroch@live.com

Time for Truth
http://www.timefortruth.co.uk

This Was Your Life
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp
http://www.chick.com/cartoons/twyl.html
Last Rites
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0082/0082_01.asp
Hindi
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0619/0619_01.asp
Chick Publications
P.O. Box 3500
Ontario, CA 91761
(909) 987-0771 Ph.
http://www.chick.com

I'd rather have Jesus (AV Chruch in Goa, India)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UvHTZ88As
God's Story - Hindi Language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ0rZhO5daw
Rom Balasing - Converted Hindu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQpITxafrM
Dr. Tatagiri Gurappa MD - Converted Hindu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3EVOcalRY
An Email From Nepal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3AvIpnO_8

Pastor Lordson Roch's YouTube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/lordsonroch?feature=watch
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Lordson Roch: Pastor of Grace and Truth Baptist Church in Goa, India

2012-01-06T15:24:00.003-05:00

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I am Lordson Roch. I Pastor the Grace and Truth Baptist Church in Goa India. I was born & brought up in a Roman Catholic family in a below poverty line but a staunch & religious family. Right from my childhood days I wanted to be a Roman Catholic priest. Due to poverty at home my parents couldn’t afford to educate me & send me to school. I was taught A-Z & 1-100 at home & then I was put in the orphanage run by the Franciscan Order & there I was given free education & I completed my high school.

Mean while in the orphanage, the superior watched me closely & was encouraging me to join the seminary & to join their orders! Three times I received calling letters from three seminaries from three different states in India. Some situations & circumstances stopped me from joining. When I was 12 years old my daddy passed away which was a big blow to me & my family. After high school the orphanage sent all the students home.

I started working at a very minor age & left education & instead enjoyed the fashions and courses of this world. Then a year later I dreamed of becoming a lawyer & joined the government higher secondary school. It was here in my 12th standard before my board exams one man came to my home with the Gospel & was sharing it to my family members. I heard as he read John 14v6. This verse came alive to me that day. I felt the smell of my sins & I cried like a baby & cried to The Lord to forgive me & asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart & save me & be the Lord of my life- that was on the 21st Jan 2000.

I became active in the church & started to witness to people about the Lord Jesus Christ & in the process; the Lord put a burden in my heart to work among my people. I never wanted to be a pastor & I tried to run away from the calling. One day I came home from an interview & took my Bible & God spoke to me through the scripture as I read Eph 4v1 & then Rom 8v28-30... I knew now what God was telling me!

I joined the Bible College & completed my Bth & BD. In the college the Lord met my needs & I graduated. I learnt God's word at the same time & I started preaching during holidays & I led few people to the Lord. But it was only after my graduation that I believed the AV 1611. In the college they are always correcting the AV Bible but God was good to me & sent few people in my life where I studied and believed the infallible word of God THE AUTHORIZED VERSION BIBLE! Despite attending a Bible College that attacks the words of the living God, the Lord opens mine eyes to come to know the preserved, pure, perfect, inerrant and inspired words of God in the King James Bible for the English speaking world. Preaching from the KJV is a great blessing and there is power in it. Ecclesiastes 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: When I read my KJV God speaks to me and when I pray I speak to the God the KING!

In the year 2006 when I came back to my state from the Bible College, I came trusting the Lord that He will lead me & I would follow. As I went around for two months sharing the Gospel nobody got saved & was discouraged only to see one day one Hindu boy came to me & said " I want to know more about Christ!" I shared the Gospel & the Lord saved him there & then. Regular Bible study began with this young brother & then three more joined us.

On May 6th 2007 we gathered in my home: altogether five people for Sunday worship service. Slowly the Lord saved a few more & by the end of the year we were 20 in number.

The Devil also was busy working to split us & he did use some people & some people did leave. But the Lord blessed us again & now we are up to 30 people attending the English service and 25 in the Hindi service. & the Wednesday Bible study & Friday prayer meeting. I also give free tuition to 38 children in the slum every day & Sunday I teach them Bible stories & songs hoping to see some children coming to Christ soon. They are all from Hindu and Muslim families.

Tracts distribution is done widely & we have seen some trusting Christ and a few have come to our church. The Lord has also allowed me to preach in other states of India in the youth meetings and revival meetings and has seen great fruits in this work too.

There are ups and downs in the work but the Lord is faithful to me. There are a lot of adversaries but I enjoy it because it is a part & a blessing of the Christian life. Difficulties keep me on my knees and keep me humble and totally dependent upon the Lord. I stay with my mom & my elder brother’s family & we have all our church services in my mom's living room. God has been good to us always. I appreciate your prayers for me and the ministry!!

Fellow Servant
Lordson Roch.

''A ministry that is committed to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ, to magnify the Word of God AV 1611, edify the saints and evangelize the sinners.''

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I am hoping to subsequently post a wonderful video for which slides were sent to Dave Flang (BereanBeacon on YouTube) which will have an audio testimony by Pastor Lordson Roch.

I happened to have seen a comment by this wonderful brother to which I responded several months ago, and am ever so grateful our paths crossed at the time! He is working wonders in Goa, which holds wonderful memories for me for it is where I was born, when it used to be Portuguese India!

It also happens to be the site where Joao Ferreira de Almeida was imprisoned and put to death during the Catholic Inquisition for attempting to translate the Textus Receptus into Portuguese!

I have dubbed him the Portuguese King James!

Pastor Lordson Roch's work in Goa with the King James Bible,
in what used to be a Roman Catholic venue,
is awesome vindication for the memory of Joao Ferreira de Almeida.

Speak of poetic justice, not to mention God's!

To me belongeth vengeance and recompence;

their foot shall slide in due time:
for the day of their calamity is at hand,

and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Deuteronomy 32:35 (King James Bible)

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PHIL STRINGER, of Ravenswood Baptist Church, in Chicago, IL: A MOST FALSE TEACHER!!

2012-01-05T10:20:00.005-05:00

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He "preaches" at Ravenswood Baptist Church, in Chicago, Illinois.

This morning [January 4, 2012] I sent him an innocuous message that has culminated with him UNfriending me! You people, especially those who are part of the congregation where he "preaches," decide on the merits of his action! As for me, I truly want to throw up! Disgusting that such propose to "guide" any when it is they be so very misguided themselves! Here I copy and paste our exchange:

Helga Hickman
3 hours ago
Helga Hickman

Hello, Pastor Phil,

Why does your info page not specify EXACTLY in what it is you believe? I find some members of your congregation a bit conflicted as to Rapture, Dispensations, Grace, etc., who promote heresies on their pages. Looking up your page, I see not where you stand with these, either. Quite disappointing and very unsettling! One would think anyone in your position to make such very clear to any and all!

In Christ,

Helga

Phil Stringer
about an hour ago
Phil Stringer

Our website gives our doctrinal statement. Name one member of our church who is promoting any heresy.

Helga Hickman
about an hour ago
Helga Hickman

Goodness gracious! And your website is????

Why would I name anyone if I don't know that he is simply repeating what he hears from you?

Helga Hickman
about an hour ago
Helga Hickman

I would think that TRANSPARENCY would be in first order.

As you see, not even your website is easily found on your page!

Helga Hickman
10 minutes ago
Helga Hickman

HOW DISGUSTING! Rather than providing the website, you UNfriend me!

How very SCRIPTURAL! Now I see why there be some in your congregation to be very lost!

I shall make this your behavior public in the most productive way!

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Here I googled and found the "website" for Ravenswood.
Anyone see in it a response to any of the questions I asked Phil Stringer, please point them out to me!

www.ravenswoodbaptist.com

The site claims “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8), but its "shepherd" seems to feel otherwise!

I can see this to be a very weak church! Phil Stringer, obviously, to be very ashamed of what he believes, since he is NOT willing to disclose it in any manner! What a shame!

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[The following morning, Jan 5, 2012]

- Helga Hickman How interesting!
  Not a single comment in defense of this deceitful creature!
  Very telling this is!
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- Thomas Morris I am confused here is their Articles of Faith http://ravenswoodbaptist.com/about.html
  
  Articles of Faith
  www.ravenswoodbaptist.com
  
  The Inner-City Church with the World-Wide Outreach
  
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- Helga Hickman Yes, and do you see anywhere addressed the questions I posed to him?
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- Helga Hickman The "scripture" this church seems to teach is quite "watered down!" Look at what it says of the King James Bible: absolutely no conviction expressed about it!
  20 minutes ago ·
- Helga Hickman Their Articles of Faith also stress:
  "The ultimate ethical responsibility of each Christian is to live a life characterized by love."
  
  Where would you find such in scripture? It is one heck of a POLITICALLY CORRECT statement!
  
  TRUTH is what a Christian's life should be characterized!
  SIMPLE TRUTH as given us in the word of God!
  
  31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
  If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
  
  32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  John 8:31-32 (King James Bible)
  
  Christ himself told us what the "ethical responsibility of each Christian is!" One could quote no better than Jesus' words!
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- Helga Hickman By the way, their "Article of Faith" that a Christian's life be "characterized by love" is very much is keeping with Joel Olsteen's preaching!
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Helga Hickman Well, Mr. Stringer, you are now in perpetual display on my blog:

http://rainhadocanto10-evangelicalchristian.blogspot.com/2012/01/phil-stringer-of-ravenswood-baptist.html

TRUE CHRISTIANITY vs ROMAN CATHOLICISM: PHIL STRINGER, of Ravenswood Baptist Church, in Chicago, I
rainhadocanto10-evangelicalchristian.blogspot.com

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Helga Hickman ‎.
I am now listening to Phil Stringer's sermon: Saved By Grace Or Works
MY COMMENT IS WRITTEN AS I HEAR IT IN REAL TIME, and right from the start, he DOES NOT specify exactly why and when it is that Grace is in effect! He actually doesn't even mention the Price paid at Calvary by Jesus! Doesn't even mention the name of Jesus! My goodness! It makes me cringe! He goes completely off topic!

Finally in the seventh minute he names Jesus and the price paid, YET not specifying when was/is Grace in effect!

Praise God that listening to Pastor Bryan Denlinger I and any have learned and can learn so very much!
100% Scripture is all he teaches and preaches!

Our spiritual life depends on how much we put into it, says he. Well, if one puts garbage in, garbage is all one will get out! GIGO!

And here I surmise this to be another "father and son" business!
Stringer Jr. seems to work there, too!

Goodness gracious! Can he go on blabbing totally OFF TOPIC!
Incredible! But it seems this is ANOTHER 501c3 "government church!"

WOW! Here comes the end of the sermon, and worth nothing it is!
42 minutes out of which one can squeeze no more than a couple to be of any worth, and still not having learned anything!
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Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 (King James Bible)

This is something that Phil Stringer ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT DO!
Perhaps he knows not how to divide the word of God, and therefore cannot teach it! Grace to be an issue about which his congregation has not a clue. Grace the very issue that prompted I contact Phil Stringer, after a discussion with one member here on Facebook.

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermonsspeaker.asp?keyword=bryan+denlinger

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Here the site as seen today, Jan. 5, 2012.
Who knows, they may "revamp" it!

Articles of Faith

Articles of Faith
(Short Form)

At Ravenswood Baptist Church we believe the historic fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith.

We believe in:

The absolute inspiration, authority, infallibility, and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures.

The Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—three independent persons and yet one person, the one true God.

The incarnation, virgin birth, sinless life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Salvation by faith, based upon Christ’s atoning work on the cross of Calvary.

The second coming of Jesus Christ.

At Ravenswood Baptist Church we believe the Bible doctrines normally referred to as the Baptist Distinctives.

The Bible is the sole authority for faith and practice.

Each local congregation should be independent and self governing.

Local church membership should be composed of born-again, baptized believers; who assemble together for worship, Bible study, fellowship, and to carry out the Great Commission.

Separation of church and state.

There are two ordinances for the local church: baptism by immersion of believers only, and the Lord’s Supper.

Each believer is a priest before the Lord.

Each believer is responsible before the Lord for their own personal understanding of the Scripture and for obedience to the Bible.

The ultimate ethical responsibility of each Christian is to live a life characterized by love.

We use only the King James Version of the Bible in our English services and programs.

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VETERAN'S DAY!

2011-11-11T15:59:00.000-05:00

Thank you, VETERAN, past, present and future!
Thank you for showing the world what a VOLUNTARY military is all about!
Thank you to your most sacrificing families, whose grand moments you miss because you are doing something more important to you and them:
providing us with continued freedom!
May God ever bless you and yours!
Our gratitude is eternal!

Tony Deyjahvoo Strickland

A very powerful cartoon.....please keep it going.
This should be posted in every school in the " USA ."

Only 31 words -- Think about it!

Isn't life strange? I never met one Veteran who enlisted to fight for Socialism!

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Tell me, again, whose country is this?

Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having 'In God! We Trust' on our money and having 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance. It is our heritage and how our country was built upon.

I believe it's time we stand up for what we believe, so many brave soldiers fought & died for and for what this great country was founded on...freedom and democracy!

If you agree, pass this on.

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MORE Common Scripture Misconceptions by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2011-10-31T13:46:00.000-04:00

MORE Common Scripture Misconceptions

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship
SUN 10/30/2011

More Sermon Details:

In this sermon we cover the following 5 things. 
1. "That's a lie straight out of Hell!"
2. The lost go to Hell because Christians don't warn
them.
3. When in Rome do as the Romans do!
4. Animals go to heaven/ heaven will be what I like!
5. You can't pray wearing a hat?

Related post:

Common Scripture Misconceptions by Bryan Denlinger

Common Scripture Misconceptions

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship
SUN 08/14/2011

More Sermon Details:

Are there words in your vocabulary that have no basis
in scripture? What is the importance of words and
language?

In this sermon we first look at some of the words
used by people today, and see if these words appear
in the King James Bible. Of special note is the word
"human". What are the origins of this word? Why is it
that even Noah Webster admitted in his 1828
dictionary, that the roots of the word "human" are
somewhat unknown? Why is the Bible word "man" being
changed to "human"? You will be shocked to learn the
reason!

In the second part of this sermon we cover 5 popular
things believed by many Christians today, and then
examine the scriptures to see if these things are
really true. These five beliefs are:

1. Praying without repetition.
2. Call no man a "fool".
3. Turn the other cheek.
4. "Freely ye have received, freely give".
5. Call no man "father".

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The Devil And Music by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2011-10-28T21:38:00.000-04:00

The Devil And Music Part 1

Bryan Denlinger | The History of Rock and Roll Bible Believers Fellowship

More Sermon Details:

In this special study we will read quotes from some of the top names in the rock and roll industry, which prove the satanic source of rock music! You will hear these musicians admit that the term "rock and roll" was originally a euphemism for fornication!

I will prove that there is a SCIENTIFIC difference between music that is primarily based on melody and harmony, as opposed to music with a primary emphasis on rhythm.

I will also show proof that the rock and roll movement was about demon possession and sex, dating the whole way back into the early 1930's! You will see that the supposed "contemporary" music is in reality very old and VERY pagan!

This is an extremely important study!

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IS LOVE CONTRARY TO JUDGING? by David Cloud

2011-10-26T10:38:00.002-04:00

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How very appropriate that I should have gotten this today, after yesterday having had to UNfriend someone on Facebook most "unlovingly" by her standards! This is one who idolizes the likes of Jack Schaap whose sermons I have had the displeasure to hear for the lack of Scripture in them, the preaching of the Social Gospel to ooze out of every breath he took! In effect, my ex-friend was rebuked several times for the LACK of Christ in her posts SUBSTITUTED for "LOVE" which, according to Julian Lennon's "artwork," and several of the midget minds who "liked" the post, is the SOLUTION! Small wonder that Christ be nowhere on the horizon for these!

As, praise God, one friend opined:

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten:
be zealous therefore, and repent.

Revelation 3:19 (King James Bible)

Nothing can be truer, as I responded, that although I have not ceased to love her, I will not be associated with anyone who presumes to be a Christian, but promotes UNbelievers' ridiculous views! There is nothing with which the word of God does not offer us the proper solution, no pun intended, which is but there to be used!

IS LOVE CONTRARY TO JUDGING?

October 26, 2011

(first published March 2, 2003) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143 , fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -

I receive many e-mails from people who tell me that I have no love because I judge other professing Christians and I warn plainly of sin and error. The following is typical of these:

“And to question the faith of both Jim Cymbala and Billy Graham? Do you not know God? Do you not know how He works? You can spend your whole life debating over issues as such, but until you receive the gift of genuine love in your heart, you’ll never understand or gain anything” (Letter from a student at Cedarville Christian College, Oct. 7, 2002).

(Note: I have NOT questioned these men’s faith; I have questioned their doctrine and practice. There is a significant difference.)

The writer is convinced that my preaching against the errors of men such as Cymbala and Graham is evidence that I have no love in my heart. By this philosophy, which is popular and dominant today, one who loves will not judge doctrine or rebuke those who are perceived to be false.

Those who write in this manner will quote verses such as John 13:34-35: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, If ye have love one to another.”

They are convinced that such verses refute the fundamentalist position out of hand.

When Jack Van Impe turned his back in the mid-1980s on the fundamentalism that he had been a part of for decades, he wrote a book titled “Heart Disease in Christ’s Body,” whereby he severely condemned fundamentalists. He labeled them hate-mongers and said that it is unloving to mark and avoid error. He explained that he was going to dedicate the rest of his life to “loving” every type of Christian, and that he was never again going to judge anyone. Following are his words:

“Let’s forget our [denominational and doctrinal] labels--over 20,000 of them--and come together in love and the pope has called for that, as we’re going to see in a moment. But, Rexella [Van Impe’s wife], the fruit of the Spirit is love (Gal. 5:22). ... Till I die I will proclaim nothing but love for all my brothers and sisters in Christ, my Catholic brothers and sisters, Protestant ... Christian Reformed, Lutherans, I don’t care what label you are...” (Jack Van Impe Presents, July 23, 1995).

We see that Van Impe, following the popular line, equates Christian love with ecumenical unity and with not judging doctrine and practice. According to the ecumenical thinking, Christian love means tolerance of other doctrines and practices.

THE CHRISTIAN ROCK CROWD holds the same philosophy. They despise those who judge sin and error plainly. They consider them unloving and narrow-minded and hypocritical. For example, one Christian rocker wrote to say:

“Wow, reading your statements have truly disgusted me. I am revolted. I say with complete sarcasm, thank you for that excellent display of the Love of Christ. Sin has been defined as ‘missing the mark,’ and never has one missed the mark as soundly and completely as you have.”

That is typical of hundreds of e-mails and letters I have received from those who defend Christian rock music. Notice that the writer sarcastically rebukes me for being unloving. He assumes that because I preach against certain styles of music and certain lifestyles that I do not have the love of Christ. To him, it is impossible to love and also to be a fundamentalist in position.

By the way, we see here that Contemporary Christian Music is not merely about music; it is a philosophy of Christianity that features a non-judgmental, tolerance position.

So we see that this philosophy has permeated Christianity today. Multitudes of professing believers are being taught by the popular radio preachers and by the best-selling authors and from the pulpits of their own churches that it is unloving to judge sin and error in a plain manner and that the tiny minority that are still involved in such things are mean-spirited people who need to learn the love of Christ so they will stop being so hateful and narrow-minded.

Is this a scriptural position? Certainly not. Since it is God Himself, the very God of love, who has commanded the believer to judge doctrine and to exercise discernment between truth and error and to separate from false teaching and to discipline sin, it could not possibly be contrary to love to do these things!

LOVE EXPOSES ERROR AND WARNS OF ITS DANGER

The loving God commands believers to expose error. There is only one right doctrine, and that is the doctrine of the apostles as we have it in the New Testament Scriptures, and every doctrine that is contrary to that is false and is to be exposed. The Lord’s apostles did this repeatedly. The loving apostle Paul, for example, in his epistles to the preacher Timothy, warned about false teachers and compromises BY NAME 10 different times (1 Tim. 1:20; 2 Tim. 1:15; 2:17; 3:8; 4:12, 14). He said:

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some” (2 Tim. 2:15-18).

Notice how the loving apostle Paul instructed Timothy, another loving and faithful preacher of that day. He told him to study the Word of God that he might know sound doctrine, but he did not stop there. Timothy was not merely to know the truth for himself and be content with that; he was not merely to be “positive” for the truth; he was to go beyond that to expose and warn about those who taught false things. To illustrate how Timothy was to deal with error, the loving Paul used the specific example of two preachers of his day, Hymenaeus and Philetus. They had erred from the truth in spiritualizing a prophetic event and Paul said they were dangerous. He used very strong language to condemn them.

We must understand that these two men were professing Christians of that day, and yet Paul did not hesitate to expose and warn of them. Can you imagine how Hymenaeus and Philetus felt about Paul’s warning? Surely they were angry with him for saying that their doctrine was not sound. “Who does that Paul think he is, anyway!” And think of how their followers must have felt toward Paul. Doubtless they attacked Paul as unloving and mean-spirited and as puffed up in his own sense of importance. Doubtless, Hymenaeus and Philetus and their followers treated the Pauls and Timothys and Tituses of that day precisely as the ecumenists today treat fundamentalists who are striving against error.

What if Timothy himself had replied to Paul: “Paul, I don’t think I will follow that pattern. It doesn’t seem to be very loving to run around exposing other believers as false. You are too harsh, Paul. You need to live and let live. Are we not all the body of Christ? Don’t you love Hymenaeus and Philetus? Don’t they love Jesus, too? Why are you so mean-spirited and narrow-minded? Leave judgment to the Lord. Your business is simply to love, and love doesn’t judge”? Would Timothy have thereby been accepted in his ministry? Would God have rewarded him for taking such a position?

In fact, Paul was not being unloving when he exposed Hymenaeus and Philetus as false teachers. He was being very loving. In so doing, Paul revealed his love for Jesus, who is the Truth; and he revealed his love for the church, which is the pillar and ground of the truth; and he revealed his love for the Lord’s sheep, because he was willing to protect them from dangerous wolves. Furthermore, he thereby revealed his love for Hymenaeus and Philetus themselves, because if we love someone we will speak plainly about things that will destroy them, and probably nothing is more destructive than false teaching.

True Christian love exposes error and warns of its danger.

LOVE PREACHES HOLY LIVING AND DISCIPLINES SIN

Love also demands holy living and disciplines sin. In almost every epistle to the churches, we see that the apostles demanded strict holy living and reproved those who were sinning. When the loving apostle Paul wrote to the preacher Titus to instruct him in how to conduct his ministry, he said:

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee” (Titus 2:11-15).

Notice what Titus, in Christian love, was instructed to do. He was told that the true grace of God saves men freely through faith in the sacrifice of Christ (Eph. 2:8-9), but that same grace also teaches believers to live godly, separated lives. True grace does not teach believers that they can live as they please. That is not grace but license. It is a misuse of grace. It is the old error of antinomianism, which taught that believers, because they are forgiven, are free to live pretty much howsoever they will. Paul rebuked that wicked error and taught Titus that he was to preach strict holy living. He was to SPEAK, AND EXHORT, AND REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY.” That sounds like strong, fundamentalist preaching to me!

What if Titus had said to Paul, “Paul, I don’t want to be so harsh-sounding in my preaching. I don’t think it is loving to be so judgmental about how the Lord’s people live. I think I will tone down the preaching so it sounds more loving”? Would Titus have thereby been accepted in his ministry? Would God have rewarded him for taking such a position?

Furthermore, when believers ignore this strong preaching on holy living and they openly sin, they are to be disciplined. The church at Corinth was instructed in this fashion. There was a believer in Corinth who was living in fornication; and instead of judging him the church was “puffed up.” This carnal church had the philosophy of tolerance toward sin and error, and they were proud of their spirit of non-judgmentalism! The loving apostle Paul twice rebuked them for this great error (1 Cor. 5:1-6; 2 Cor. 11:1-4). He instructed them to repent of their broadmindedness and to judge sin and to judge error.

What if the church at Corinth had replied to Paul, “We don’t accept what you are saying. Who are we to judge others? Are we not sinners ourselves? Do we not have our own problems to take care of? We say that judgment should be left up to God, and for ourselves we will just love and be loved.” Would the church at Corinth have thereby been accepted? Would God have rewarded them for such a thing?

Of course not. True Christian love preaches holy living and it rebukes and disciplines sin. It is not the love of God that causes professing saints to overlook sin and error; it is carnality and a spirit of disobedience to God’s Word.

To preach strongly against sin is to love people, because sin defiles and destroys. To rebuke sin is to love the church of God, because sin defiles His church. Paul warned the church at Corinth that they must deal with sin because, “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” (1 Cor. 5:6). To preach boldly and plainly against sin is also to love God, because sin is against the holy God and because God has commanded us to rebuke it.

True Christian love preaches strict holy living and disciplines sin.

LOVE CONTENDS FOR THE FAITH

Furthermore, it is a very loving thing to contend for the faith. The loving Jude demanded this:

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort YOU THAT YE SHOULD EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO THE SAINTS” (Jude 3).

Notice how this responsibility is described. The loving Holy Spirit uses the Greek word epagonizomai. It is a very strong word and is well translated in our Authorized Version by the English words “earnestly contend.” It means to strive for, to fight for, to defend against, but also to do that in a vigorous, earnest manner.

And this is not a responsibility that is given only to preachers. Jude is addressing believers in general. It is every Christian’s duty to engage in this battle.

And notice more carefully exactly what we are to fight for -- “the faith once delivered to the saints.” This tells us that the Christian faith was completed in the days of the apostles. It was not left for some Catholic church council hundreds of years later to decide what the faith was. The Christian faith was delivered to the apostles by the Holy Spirit, and it was completed in their day. That “faith once delivered” is the one absolute and complete standard by which doctrine and practice is to be judged. From that day until the Lord returns, the job of every true believer is to fight to defend that one true faith against every false doctrine. Timothy was instructed not to allow “ANY other doctrine” (1 Tim. 1:3). That is a very, very narrow view of doctrinal purity. If a preacher seeks to obey Paul’s command in 1 Timothy 1:3 and Jude 3, he will not be able to hold hands with those who have a different doctrine. How could he? His task is to hold the one true faith and to earnestly contend against every false thing! It is absolutely impossible to be ecumenical in any sense while seeking to obey 1 Timothy 1:3 and Jude 3 and other such obligations of the Scriptures.

And in fact, it is a very loving thing to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints, because the truth sets men free, while error corrupts and destroys. Thus, those who earnestly contend for the faith love men and want to see them walk in the truth; and they love God and want to be faithful to His Word; and they love the Lord’s church and want to see it shine in its purity; and they love the Holy Spirit, who is “the Spirit of TRUTH”; and they love the truth itself. The faithful soldier loves those for whom and that for which he fights.

True Christian love earnestly contends for the faith.

LOVE SEPARATES FROM FALSE AND SINFUL THINGS

Finally, true Christian love not only preaches holy living and rebukes and disciplines sin and exposes error and earnestly contends for the faith, but true Christian love goes even further and separates from false and sinful things.

The loving Paul taught the believers at Ephesus that it was not enough for them to live pure moral lives for themselves; they were to separate from and even rebuke sinful things.

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, BUT RATHER REPROVE THEM” (Eph. 5:11).

Notice the command that the loving Holy Spirit gives through the loving preacher Paul. Believers are not to have fellowship with evil things, and not only that, but they are to reprove evil things. This is what has gotten the saints into trouble through the ages. Ordinarily, the world doesn’t mind if a Christian lives a holy life to himself and his family, as long as he “minds his own business” and doesn’t rebuke others for how they live. But as soon as the Christian starts telling other people how they are to live and rebuking sin in them, he finds himself in “hot water.” John the Baptist is an example. He did not preach against sin merely in generalities. He was very plain. And when he rebuked Herod for taking his brother’s wife contrary to the law of God, he made an implacable enemy of Herod’s new wife and her animosity toward him resulted in his death (Matt. 14:1-12).

Furthermore, Christians are not only to separate from and rebuke sinful things but also to separate from false doctrine and those who teach it. The following is only one of many commandments to this end. Notice what the loving apostle Paul taught the believers at Rome:

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them” (Rom. 16:17).

There are two obligations here. First, the loving brethren are to mark those who teach false things, which means they are to plainly identify them as to whom they are; and secondly, they are to avoid those who teach false things. “Avoid” is a term referring to separation.

And how are we to know what is false? Ecumenists today argue that it is not reasonable to think that a believer can know the truth in such a fashion that he can say that others are wrong. That is not what the Bible teaches, though. The standard for truth is the teaching of the apostles, and that which is contrary to their teaching is false. It is that simple. Where had the believers at Rome learned their doctrine? From the Apostle Paul. Thus, he is instructing them that if they find doctrine that is different from that which he had taught them, they were to reject it and avoid it. The child of God is commanded to study the Word of God and to rightly divide it (2 Tim. 2:15) and then to judge everything by that standard. If is it not possible to know the rightly divide the Scriptures, why does God command us to do it?

And, in fact, it is a very loving thing to mark and avoid false teachers. To do so is to love those who are in danger of being deceived by the false teachers. To pretend that the false teachers are not teaching error and to associate with them as if nothing were wrong is an unloving act toward those who will be deceived by their error. To separate from those who are teaching error is also an act of love toward the sound churches, because in marking and avoiding those who err, we protect the churches from their corrupting ministries.

True Christian love separates from false and sinful things.

BUT I KNOW A TRULY UNLOVING FUNDAMENTALIST

Do I hear someone protest, “What you say is true and there is no doubt that we have an obligation to do these things, but I know some fundamentalists who are genuinely unloving and truly mean-spirited.”

My reply is that it is always wrong to be mean-spirited and carnal. If I am fighting for the truth in an ungodly manner, that is wrong; and the soldier must continually guard his spirit, because the flesh is weak and it is easy to fall into the trap of fighting the Lord’s battles in the old ugly flesh.

But such failures are personal problems and are not something that reflects on the ministry of fighting for the faith in general. It is unwise to reject biblical fundamentalism as defined as obedience to the scriptural obligations we have cited in this article, because of the shortcomings of certain fundamentalists.

I can show you many fundamentalists, myself including, who have grown in spiritual grace as they have progressed in their Christian sanctification, and who are capable of expressing more graciousness in their dealings after 40 years in the ministry than they could after five!

Further, I can show you just as many unloving and carnal new evangelicals as you can show me unloving and carnal fundamentalists. That is a serious problem, but it is a personal problem.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, judging and separating from sin and error is not contrary to Christian love. True Christian love is not a mushy tolerance of error. This is a false definition of Christian love.

The loving apostle John taught us the true definition:

“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous” (1 Jn. 5:3).

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WHAT WOULD JESUS DO AT HALLOWEEN?

2011-10-02T12:26:00.001-04:00

If the Lord Jesus knew that one night each year a steady stream of unsaved children would come to His door asking for a treat, would He...

Run off to church and ignore them so He could fellowship with other believers?

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Are All Religions The Same? Do All Religions of the World Lead To God? - Chris White

2011-09-28T13:07:00.002-04:00

Some so-called "True Christians" will vociferously say such is not true, nevertheless, are quite happy to walk hand-in-hand with pagans, in "fellowship!"

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14 (King James Bible)

Just how can one give a good example, when such is contaminated with leaven?

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The Collapse of "Separatism" Among Fundamental Baptists by David Cloud

2011-09-28T11:13:00.003-04:00

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This is a very personal issue with me! Even before being a Christian, I had difficulty seeing the color gray! Today, as a Christian, it has become imperative that I exercise so in every part of my life! This leads not to having people very happy with me! Well, I sincerely say, too bad! I wish more would join me!

¹⁰³How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

¹⁰⁷I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

¹⁰⁸Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

¹⁰⁹My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Psalm 105:103-110 (King James Bible)

The Collapse of "Separatism"

Among Fundamental Baptists

September 28, 2011

(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article)

We are witnessing a widespread collapse of separatism in Independent Baptist churches.

Since the old fundamentalist movement was captured by New Evangelicalism in the 1950s, biblical separatism has largely been an Independent Baptist phenomenon. Some Presbyterian and Bible and Brethren churches have maintained a separatist stance, but the number is very, very small compared to those of Independent Baptists. Thousands of IBaptist churches were planted during the last half of the twentieth century, and many others came out of Southern Baptist, Conservative Baptist, etc., to fly the flag of separatism.

A dramatic change is taking place, though. The scenario that existed when I was saved in the early 1970s and joined an Independent Baptist church by personal conviction is radically different from the one that exists today.

What is happening now among fundamental Baptist churches is nearly a mirror image of what happened in the 1950s within fundamentalism-evangelicalism (the terms were synonymous when New Evangelicalism exploded on the scene). At its heart, it is the rejection of “separatism.”

When I was saved nearly 40 years ago, the major thing that distinguished fundamental Baptists from Southern Baptists was biblical separation, but that distinction is disappearing and there is a merging of philosophy. Since the early 1990s a rapidly growing number of Independent Baptist churches are no different in character than Southern Baptist, meaning they have given up on biblical separation, in practice if not in profession, and this change is reflected in the area of music, dress, Bible versions, associations, the character of the youth ministries, the type of literature that is used, and other things.

From its inception, the hallmark of New Evangelicalism was the rejection of separation. Harold Ockenga, who claimed to have coined the term “neo-evangelicalism” in 1948, defined it as “A REJECTION OF SEPARATISM” (foreword to Harold Lindsell’s The Battle for the Bible).

The New Evangelicalism aimed at a more positive and pragmatic philosophy as opposed to the “negativism” and “isolation” of fundamentalism.

In a 1947 speech at the founding of Fuller Theological Seminary, Ockenga said:

“We repudiate the ‘Come-outist’ movement ... We expect to be positive in our emphasis, except where error so exists that it is necessary for us to point it out in order to declare the truth” (Garth Rosell, The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism, 2008, p. 176).

Ockenga’s philosophy was to be positive except in very “major” matters. The definition of major and minor, essential and non-essential, has changed dramatically since he made that statement, and as we will see, many of Ockenga’s sons in the faith have reduced in value doctrines that he considered “essentials.” This always happens.

Ockenga represented the changing mood of the sons of the old fundamentalists. The children were tired of exposing error and separating from compromised denominations and churches. They were tired of fighting. They were tired of being unpopular, tired of being outsiders, tired of not having enough “fun”! They wanted to broaden their associations and let their hair down a bit.

Since then New Evangelicalism has swept the globe. Today it is no exaggeration to say that those who call themselves evangelicals are New Evangelicals; the terms have become synonymous. Old-line evangelicals, with rare exceptions, either have aligned with the fundamentalist movement or have adopted the New Evangelical philosophy. The evangelical movement today is the New Evangelical movement.

Ernest Pickering observed:

“Part of the current confusion regarding New Evangelicalism stems from the fact that there is now little difference between evangelicalism and New Evangelicalism. The principles of the original New Evangelicalism have become so universally accepted by those who refer to themselves as evangelicals that any distinctions which might have been made years ago are all but lost. It is no doubt true to state that ‘Ockenga’s designation of the new movement as New or Neo-Evangelical was abbreviated to Evangelical. ... Thus today we speak of this branch of conservative Christianity simply as the Evangelical movement’” (The Tragedy of Compromise, p. 96).

What happened to evangelical churches in the 1950s is happening to fundamental Baptist churches today.

The doctrine of biblical separatism is being rejected at breathtaking speed. Consider some examples:

General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) was staunchly separatist when I was saved in 1973. The first church I joined was pastored by the dean of one of their colleges. They were very conservative and separatistic. They had high standards of separation from the world with a biblical emphasis on genuine holiness rather than mere external conformity. They were dead set against New Evangelicalism. Some of the GARBC writings on separation, such as “A Limited Fellowship or a Limited Message” by David Nettleton, helped me greatly as a young Christian.

By the 1990s, though, the GARBC was gazing with affection on the New Evangelical path. Many GARBC preachers, such as Bill Rudd and Eric Strattan of Calvary Baptist Church, Muskegon, Michigan, participated enthusiastically in the radically ecumenical Promise Keepers, which yoked together with Roman Catholic priests. Rudd was chairman of the GARBC’s Council of Eighteen leadership committee.

By the 1990s the GARBC-approved Cornerstone College was partnering with New Evangelical and charismatic organizations through its Mission Network News. These organizations included Baptist World Alliance, Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, Evangelism Explosion, the Jesus Film Project, Luis Palau Evangelistic Association, Lutheran Bible Translators, and Youth for Christ International, which had long worked with Roman Catholics.

Richard Christen, who was elected speaker of the GARBC in 1996, said, “... instead of a wall around the GARBC, let’s build a picket fence.” That was a rejection of the old standard of separation, and the spaces within the GARBC’s picket fence approach to separatism have grown ever wider.

Association of Baptists for World Evangelism

The Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) moved in the New Evangelical direction in the 1980s. Dr. Ralph Colas and Dr. Ernest Pickering resigned from the board of ABWE in the late 1980s because of its compromise. ABWE’s well-known work in Bangladesh, led by the medical doctor Viggo Olson, traded biblical separatism for pragmatism and popularity and compromised the truth by yoking together with organizations such as Wheaton College and the wretchedly apostate United Bible Societies. In the 1990s Charles Ware, prominent ABWE board member, spoke at an ecumenical conference in Indianapolis with men representing Promise Keepers and Campus Crusade. William Commons, ABWE Director of Enlistment, praised Choices for Tomorrow’s Mission by David Hesselgrave of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. This book endorsed Billy Graham-style ecumenical evangelism.

Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty Baptist College

Founded in 1954, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, pastored by Jerry Falwell, was an “old fashioned” fundamental Baptist church, but radical changes were observed in the 1980s.

It was then that Falwell started supporting contemporary Christian music. Speaking at Word of Life in New York Falwell said: “Other than Heavy Metal and vulgar lyrics, it’s all a matter of taste and has nothing to do with Christianity.”

It was in the 1980s that Falwell formed the Moral Majority political action group, which was eventually composed of at least 30% Roman Catholics. In his 1987 autobiography, Strength for the Journey, Falwell called them “my Catholic brothers and sisters” (p. 371).

In 1987, Falwell took over the leadership of the sleazy charismatic PTL ministry, claiming that it was “certainly worth saving” (Strength for the Journey, p. 442).

In 1992, Falwell endorsed Chuck Colson’s book The Body, which urged evangelicals to join forces with Roman Catholics and charismatics and which considered the Roman Catholic Church as a part of the “body of Christ.”

In 1995, Falwell hosted a Promise Keepers (PK) conference. That same year a Catholic priest spoke at a PK meeting in Plainview, Texas. One of the PK directors was a Roman Catholic.

In October 1995, Falwell praised Billy Graham for his “long and faithful ministry” and did not have one word of warning for Graham’s great compromise, his yoking together with Rome, his turning over of “converts” to Roman Catholic and modernistic Protestant churches, his praise of blaspheming modernists, etc. In 1997, Billy Graham was the commencement speaker at Liberty University.

In April 1996, hard rocking dc Talk drew the largest concert crowd in the history of Falwell’s Liberty University.

In 1996, Falwell joined the SBC, and in 1999 Liberty University was formally approved as an SBC school.

By 1997, Falwell was yoked with the charismatic Integrity Music to train contemporary worship leaders at Liberty.

When Catholic Cardinal John O’Conner died in May 2000, Falwell praised him: “I am grateful that John O’Connor--a man of courageous faith--had such a profound influence on the Catholic Church through his fifty-five years of ministry. I pray that another pro-life, pro-family minister can be found to fill his significant and substantial shoes.” Falwell said nothing about the fact that O’Conner’s false gospel has sent multitudes to eternal hell. When the Apostle Paul was asked what he thought of those who preach a false gospel, his reply was quite different from Falwell’s. Paul said, “Let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9).

In 2001 Falwell identified himself as a “contemporary fundamentalist,” defined as “conservative in doctrine, moderate in attitude, progressive in methodology, and liberal in spirit.”

Baptist Bible Fellowship International

The Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) capitulated to the New Evangelical philosophy in the 1990s and the men with separatist convictions left the fellowship.

I first became aware of the rejection of separatism on the part of BBFI men when I wrote reports warning about Promise Keeper’s ecumenism and received scathing rebukes from some BBFI preachers and Bible college students.

The writing was on the wall by 2002, when the BBFI annual conference was held at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Fairfax, Virginia. The music was led by a contemporary “worship team” composed of four women. Around that time the church dropped the “King James Only” clause from the by-laws and the New Living Translation and other corrupt versions are now used from the pulpit. The pastor sent out a letter to members saying, “With regard to dress and modesty issues, we enforce NO RULE on our folks. … apparel issues are really of no concern to us.” The church’s Skate Night, which was sponsored by secular skateboarding companies, featured “throbbing Christian rock.” The church’s youth pastor had an earring and promoted the rock band P.O.D.

In 2003, the BBFI in the Philippines invited the country’s Roman Catholic president to speak at an evangelism conference. This is the new non-separatist BBFI.

Landmark Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio

Landmark Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, used to be an “old-fashioned” Baptist church with high standards of music and dress and stance against the modern versions.

In the 1990s the church took a turn away from its roots and at the heart of this change was music. In 1996, the church brought in a Campus Crusade band playing “high energy ‘50s and ‘60s rock and roll.”

In 2001, Mat Holman became the pastor. The church’s web site said, “Being a firm believer that church should be fun and on the edge, Matt puts all his energy into making Landmark a place where everyone belongs.”

The church now features a teen ministry called EnterRuption. “The purpose of EnterRuption is to create a relevant environment for students to bring their friends. We utilize a live band (secular and Christian music), dramas, skits and a relevant message.”

The pop group Jump5 performed at Landmark Baptist on Dec. 6, 2003. “The music of the Nashville-based group is thoroughly modern pop, high-spirited and 100% fun.”

Akron Baptist Temple, Akron, Ohio

Akron Baptist Temple was founded in 1935 by Dallas Billington. From the 1940s to the 1960s it had one of the largest Sunday morning crowds in the nation. In September 1960, during a Sunday School campaign, it averaged 6,000 in attendance, and was dubbed “the World’s Largest Sunday School” by Elmer Towns. In those days it was a typical Independent Baptist church, very conservative in music and dress, committed to the King James Bible, and aggressive in evangelism.

Upon the death of Dallas Billington in 1972, his son Charles assumed the pastorate. In 1996, Dallas’ grandson Dallas R. Billington became pastor, and took the church in a contemporary direction.

Today, Akron Baptist Temple is an emerging church with a “traditional service” called The Temple and a raunchy contemporary service called The Bridge. The church offers a smorgasbord of worship “experiences.” It’s all about my tastes and my choices. In The Bridge a loud rock & roll band plays 7/11 (seven words sung 11 times) contemporary worship music in a darkened auditorium. The service is advertised as “creating an environment where people who are seeking God, can do so in a non-threatening, comfortable way.” It is oriented toward “experiencing God.”

It’s amazing how all of these “non-traditional, think outside the box” churches use exactly the same language and exactly the same type of music and exactly the same philosophy and exactly the same clothing and tattoos and piercings. There is, in fact, less difference between them than there is between “traditional” churches. They aren’t thinking outside the box. They are merely fitting into the contemporary box, which someone else invented and into which they gleefully stuff themselves. They think of themselves as following the beat of a different drummer, but they are actually walking lockstep to the rhythm of this world and the end-time spirit.

New Testament Baptist Church,
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

New Testament Baptist Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, used to be a fundamental Baptist church. Pastor Dino Pedrone was a regular speaker at Highland Park Baptist Church when I was a student at Tennessee Temple in the 1970s, and he was a regular speaker at Southwide Baptist Fellowship conferences. In those days the church believed in biblical separatism, used only the King James Bible and sacred music, had dress standards, stood against rock & roll. But everything’s changed now.

Along the way the church was renamed The Gathering Place. Today it promotes the watching of R-rated movies, recommends books by emerging church leaders who reject the infallibility of the Bible, such as Chris Seay, and feeds its youth a steady diet of rock & roll entertainment. The church’s youth program, called YouthForce Dade, describes itself on the church web site as follows:

“Rock the Universe, All-Niters, Ski Trips, Summer Camps, Chubby Bunny, Water Balloons, Break dancing, WWE Wrestling, The Book Of Ross, Worship, Bible Study, Community, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, Madden, X-Box 360, LEE ADMIRAL MAJORS!, Eating Dog Food, Samurai Swords, Paintball, Skillet, Shipwrecked, Videos, Ultimate Frisbee, Man Hunt, And Much More!”

Notice that they even have a dab of Bible teaching in the midst of the carnal fun.

The church’s 2011 Imagine Women of Faith conference featured ecumenical charismatic rockers such as Amy Grant, Mary Mary, Sandi Patty, and Sheila Walsh.

Jeff Royal, who lives in south Florida, says, “NTBC was once a fundamental church, but obviously it has changed. In my view the change began about ten years ago by allowing CCM to be integrated into the services. I’ve watched it over the years. It’s sad because that’s two churches I’ve personally known to have taken this dangerous path” (e-mail, January 19, 2010).

Temple Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan

Another example of the collapse of separatism is Temple Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan. This church was pastored by J. Frank Norris from 1935 to 1950 and by G. Beauchamp Vick from 1950 to 1975. In past days, it was a conservative fundamental Baptist church that eschewed ecumenism, preached strong Bible doctrine, and promoted holy living and separation from the world. It used only the King James Bible. Preaching in 1975 at the 25th anniversary of the founding of the BBFI, G.B. Vick said:

“It’s become fashionable to use many different versions of the Bible today. ... Listen! This King James Version, our English Bible, the Bible of our fathers and mothers, is the one that has come floating down to us upon the blood of Christian martyrs, our forefathers. It has been, I say, the one text of the Baptist Bible College, and it will be as long as I have anything to do with this school! [loud amens and applause] ... Let’s stick to the old Book.”

In those days at Temple Baptist Church it was the old Book and the old Paths, but that changed in the 1990s when the church got a cool new pastor named Brad Powell.

The church’s music today is described at its web site as follows: “The Praise Bands consist of the piano, synthesizer, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums.”

The church began having CCM concerts in the early 1990s, starting out with the softer rock groups. In September 1993, for example, they had Steve Camp. By October 1996, they featured Michael Card, who is radically ecumenical and works closely with Roman Catholic John Michael Talbot (who prays to Mary).

In February 2000, Temple Baptist changed its name to Northridge Church of Plymouth, Michigan.

The music style of the CCM groups at Northridge has gotten progressively harder. In September 2003, the church hosted Sonic Flood. Then they brought in Darlene Zschech (pronounced “check”), a female pastor who promotes radical ecumenism even with the Roman Catholic Church and unscriptural charismatic doctrines and practices.

Brad Powell associates with and recommends Rick Warren and Bill Hybels.

Southside Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina

This church was founded in September 1946. From 1965 to 1996 it was pastored by Walt Handford. His wife Elizabeth is one of the daughters of the famous fundamentalist preacher John R. Rice, founder of the Sword of the Lord, and it was an old-fashioned fundamental Baptist church until the 1990s.

That is when Joyful Woman magazine, for which Elizabeth Rice Handford was editorial consultant, began to feature ecumenical personalities such as James Dobson and Elisabeth Elliot, both of whom have close affiliations with the Roman Catholic Church.

In September 1993, the church hosted Ray Boltz for a CCM concert.

That same year Southside gave up the King James Bible in favor of the NIV. In support of this move, the speaker at Southside for the Sunday evening service, September 12, 1993, was Kenneth Barker, chairman of the New International Version translation committee.

By 1994, the church had a staff member who was also employed by the extremely ecumenical Campus Crusade for Christ. In an interview with Charisma magazine in 2001, Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright described his philosophy: “I have felt that God led me many years ago to build bridges. I’m a Presbyterian . . . and yet I work with everybody who loves Jesus, whether they be charismatic or Catholic, Orthodox or mainliners. ... I’m not an evangelical. I’m not a fundamentalist.”

In 1996, Charles Boyd became pastor of Southside. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, both of which are New Evangelical to the core. Under his direction, Southside changed its name to Southside Fellowship.

Highland Park Baptist Church and

Tennessee Temple

Highland Park Baptist Church, home of Tennessee Temple University, which came out of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1940s and was a prominent fundamental Baptist institution for half a century, was rocking out by the first decade of the 21st century.

In April of 2005 the church and school hosted a Christian rock concert featuring Bebo Norman, Fernando Ortega, and Sara Groves. It was held in Highland Park’s main auditorium. All three of these mainstream CCM musicians are enemies of biblical separatism. Ortega, for example, is an Episcopalian who has appeared at Billy Graham Crusades and Promise Keepers conferences. Bebo Norman has toured with Amy Grant.

The October 29, 2005, issue of the Chattanooga Times Free Press featured a picture of Tennessee Temple University students “worshipping” to contemporary rock music during a Wednesday evening service. TTU president Danny Lovett said, “Each generation has different styles of music, and what churches have to realize is that we’ve got to meet those younger generations’ needs.”

In April 2006, the school’s College Days, when prospective students visit the campus, featured two Christian rockers, Toddiefunk and the Electric Church and Warren Barfield. Toddiefunk is the bass player for Toby Mac, formerly with DC Talk. Electric Church’s album Ready or Not featured “Holy Ghost Thang,” “Dance Floor,” “Naked,” and “Crazay.”

Tennessee Temple was one of the sponsors of the “Winter Jam Tour 2007,” which featured Christian rockers such as Jeremy Camp, Steven Curtis Chapman, Sanctus Real, and Hawk Nelson. Sanctus Real lead guitarist Chris Rohman says: “On the tours we’ve been lucky to be part of, the kids are really into the rockin’ songs ... every night on that tour kids were just screaming along to every word of every song.” Can you imagine the apostle Paul promoting this type of worldly thing? Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real participated in the 2003 tour of the !Hero rock opera, which depicts Jesus as a cool black man. In !Hero, the Last Supper is a barbecue party and ‘Jesus’ is crucified on a city street sign. Sanctus Real and Steven Curtis Chapman played a concert in 2003 at St. Mary Seminary sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. Retired Catholic bishop Anthony Pilla celebrated Mass at the event. Chapman told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that it’s “a good thing” that “the Catholic Church is showing a greater openness to contemporary Christian music” (Plain Dealer, Aug. 7, 2006).

By 2008, Highland Park Baptist Church had gone back into the Southern Baptist Convention.

A couple of years earlier Tennessee Temple brought in emerging church leader Dallas Willard for the Spring Lecture Series. Willard believes that “it is possible for someone who does not know Jesus to be saved” (“Apologetics in Action, “Cutting Edge magazine, Winter 2001). He says, “Jesus and his words have never belonged to the categories of dogma or law, and to read them as if they did is simply to miss the point” (The Divine Conspiracy, p. xiii). Willard is confused about salvation. He says, “Why is it that we look upon salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God” (The Spirit of the Disciplines). He rejects the gospel of Christ’s blood atonement (The Divine Conspiracy, pp. 44, 49). In his book The Spirit of the Disciplines, which promotes Roman Catholic-style contemplative mysticism, Willard includes the endorsement of Sue Monk Kidd, a New Age “goddess.” (See “From Southern Baptist to Goddess Worship” at the Way of Life web site.) Willard promotes the Catholic-Buddhist Thomas Merton and an assortment of heresy-laden mystic “saints.” Willard claims that God is not concerned about doctrinal purity. In fact, he says that God loves theologians of all types.

Southwide Baptist Fellowship

Southwide Baptist Fellowship, one of the largest independent Baptist networks, was also rocking out by the mid-2000s and had begun to capitulate to the New Evangelical philosophy. Many of the speakers who preached at Southwide in October 2003 were from churches with contemporary rock worship services. Bo Moore, the moderator of Southwide that year, is the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church of Kentwood, Michigan, which advertised itself at that time as “a progressive independent Baptist church” with a “High Impact” Sunday evening service consisting of “praise and worship choruses led by our worship leader, praise team and band.” Another Southwide speaker that year, Johnny Hunt, is pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Georgia, a rocking Southern Baptist congregation that decidedly rejects “separatism.” A man wrote to me in 2003 and testified, “I visited there [Hunt’s church] and got up and left because of the wild, party-like atmosphere in their ‘worship’ service.”

By 2007, the number of Southern Baptist speakers at Southwide equaled the number of Independent Baptists, and two contemporary musicians provided music, including one who had appeared on the Crystal Cathedral television program with Robert Schuller (Don Boys, “Rise and Fall of Southwide,” CSTNews.com, May 16, 2007).

Cedarville University

Cedarville University (formerly Cedarville Baptist College) capitulated to the New Evangelical philosophy in the 1990s. In January 2001 the ecumenical charismatic Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle was a featured speaker. When I warned about this in O Timothy magazine, I received a deluge of angry, mocking correspondence from Cedarville students. Many espoused the ecumenical doctrine. Consider a couple of examples:

“I agree that the charismatic movement is wrong in some large doctrinal issues, but we are still responsible to be unified in the Body of Christ.”

“What all Christianity lacks today is UNITY. … I believe that if people want to believe or not believe something that is their judgment. … [signed] Proud to be a Cedarville student.”

Many Cedarville students reproved me for speaking against Christian rock. For example, one student wrote,

“The fact that the choir at his [Cymbala’s] church sings what you would call ‘contemporary and jazzy’ music proves my theory that you must be a narrow-minded, brain-washed backwoods Baptist. It ------ me off [the Cedarville student used a profanity here] whenever anybody condemns a style of music simply because it is anything other than 18th century hymns or classical. There is no such thing as bad ‘music.’”

Another wrote,

“You can spend your whole life debating over issues as such, but until you receive the gift of genuine love in your heart, you’ll never understand or gain anything.”

(The communications I received in 2011 from students at West Coast Baptist College in response to my warnings about that school’s adaptation of CCM reminded me of those I had received a decade earlier from Cedarville students.)

In 2002, Cedarville was approved by the Southern Baptist Convention. The Baptist Press (Jan. 3, 2002) said that “Cedarville is one of the top feeder schools for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.” Cedarville President Paul Dixon “voiced excitement” for a “growing relationship with Southern Baptists.” Jack Kwok, executive director of the Baptist Convention of Ohio praised Cedarville and recommended the school to “all Southern Baptists,” observing that they “embrace our theology, our polity and our missiology.”

In October 2002, CCM musician Michael Card performed at Cedarville. Card has produced an album jointly with Roman Catholic John Michael Talbot, who prays to Mary and practices yoga. Card and Talbot perform ecumenical concerts together at Catholic and Protestant churches. Card led the “worship” for “an Evening of Friendship” with Mormons in Salt Lake City in March 2011. On that occasion he said that he “doesn’t see Mormonism and evangelical Christianity as opposed to each other; they are more like the two ends of a long thread -- part of the same thing” (Deseret Morning News, Nov. 16, 2004). He also said, “The older I get, I guess the more I want to integrate everything. I think it’s more important to be faithful than right.” Michael Card represents the new non-separatist Cedarville.

Joyful Woman magazine

Joyful Woman, a magazine for women published by the daughters of the late fundamentalist evangelist John R. Rice, adopted the New Evangelical philosophy in the 1990s. Joy Rice Martin is the editor; two other Rice daughters, Jessie Sandberg and Joanna Rice, are contributing editors; and Elizabeth Rice Handford is the editorial consultant.

The July-August 1991 issue contained a full-page ad for Campus Crusade’s Here’s Life Publishers, including the offer of a book entitled Freeing Your Mind from Memories That Bind. Campus Crusade was radically ecumenical since its inception and has had Roman Catholic staff members.

The Jan.-Feb. 1992 issue of Joyful Woman contained a full page ad for the ecumenical World Vision, as well as an advertisement for the New International Version. World Vision works closely with the Roman Catholic Church in many parts of the world.

The May-June 1994 issue of Joyful Woman featured James and Shirley Dobson on the front cover. Fifteen years earlier, Focus on the Family’s vice president Rolf Zettersten said he and his co-workers “cast their theological distinctives aside in order to achieve a common objective--to help families” (Focus on the Family, December 1989). Dobson has had a close and uncritical relationship with Roman Catholicism. The November 1989 issue of Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse magazine featured Mother Teresa. In November 2000, Dobson participated in a conference in Rome hosted by the pope’s Pontifical Council for the Family and by the Acton Institute, a Roman Catholic organization. Dobson also met with Pope John Paul II. The September 1990 issue of New Covenant, a Catholic charismatic magazine, praised Focus on the Family and featured a smiling Dobson on the cover, while another of the articles promoted prayers to Mary.

The Joyful Woman Jubilee in October 1994 featured the ecumenical Elisabeth Elliot as a speaker. In July 1989 Elliot spoke at the Roman Catholic Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, a hotbed of Roman Catholic-Charismatic confusion. Franciscan University holds an annual conference to exalt the blasphemous Catholic dogmas that Mary is the immaculately conceived Queen of Heaven and advocate of God’s people. In 1998, Elliot spoke at Notre Dame (Our Mother) University. When her brother converted to the Roman Catholic Church, Elliot said it is acceptable to be a Catholic and to celebrate the Catholic mass. She said this during a question-answer session at a gathering at the Wisconsin Expo Center on September 6, 1997, sponsored by WVCY radio in Milwaukee.

Other Examples

Northland Bible College, Central Baptist Seminary of Minnesota, and Calvary Baptist Seminary of Pennsylvania are also moving into the evangelical orb. They have bought into the New Evangelical “in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty” philosophy. Southern Baptist professor Bruce Ware was invited to teach courses at Northland. Calvary Baptist Seminary invited Southern Baptist leader Mark Dever to speak at their National Leadership Conference. Kevin Bauder of Central Baptist uses his blog to praise “conservative evangelicals” such as Southern Baptist Seminary head Al Mohler, John Piper, D.A. Carson, and R. C. Sproul.

Other examples could be given. In fact, this rejection of “separatism” is sweeping through fundamental Baptist churches like a hurricane.

Obviously the fundamental Baptist movement today is radically different in character from what it was when I was saved in 1973, and I am deeply concerned.

Separation is not a non-essential or an optional part of Biblical Christianity. It is not something that can tossed overboard without grave consequences, not the least of which are the displeasure of the God who has commanded separation from sin and error. Separation is not a dirty word; it is not a path of hatred and bigotry; it is the wise path of protection from devouring wolves and end-time apostasy and enticing compromisers.

Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 2:16-17 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Even among those fundamental Baptist churches that still claim to believe in separatism, there is commonly a downplaying of it. There is a mood of neutralism. How many churches teach courses on biblical separation and host conferences on this important theme? How many provide solid separatist materials for the people? How many so well educate their people that they can mark and avoid the popular compromisers and heretics whose books fill the typical Christian bookstores? How many plainly identify and warn of the independent Baptist compromisers who are at the forefront of the breakdown in separatism?

Instead of lifting the voice of plain and loud and sustained warning against the compromise that has permeated fundamental Baptist churches, which we have documented in this report, the biggest IB colleges are busy promoting “Independent Baptist friendship” and urging the brethren to “stand together” and are blacklisting the few voices of warning that remain.

I am convinced that unless there is a dramatic change, most fundamental Baptist churches will be well down the New Evangelical-emerging path within 10-20 years.

In light of what we have witnessed in a mere two decades, we fundamental Baptist preachers need to ask ourselves some questions. What is to keep our churches from going the same direction as GARBC, BBFI, Southwide, Highland Park? What are we doing that these churches did not do? What are we not doing that these churches did do? If ever there was a time to learn from recent history, to refuse to follow “business as usual,” and to seriously batten down the hatches, it is now.

Pastor, is your church doing everything that is necessary to hold the line against the onslaught of the compromise that is leading to end-time apostasy?

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My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee 2 Corinthians 12:5 thru 10

2011-09-22T12:00:00.002-04:00

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Here is proof that there are many who volunteer things that "are in the Bible" THAT ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE! Such can never quote from the Bible!

Fact is that people are so very eager to see their own "middle of the road" beliefs be observed, which only PROVES that they do not know the word of God!

Shamefully, the church buildings today are pastored with apostate pastors who do not preach from the word of God, nor do they know it!

Praise God there are pastors who PREACH RIGHT OUT OF THE BIBLE, and in context!! Not just by sorting out a word of two from verses to "adapt" to the views of the wolf in sheep's clothing meant to deceive the sheep! This leaves no doubt that there is no addition or subtraction done to the word of God, in this manner!

My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

2 Corinthians 12:5-10

Uploaded by bbbfohio on Sep 22, 2011

http://www.kjvbiblebelievers.com

Paul refutes the prosperity heresy and shows us that true spiritually is demonstrated when we accept our "thorn in the flesh" when God does not will to heal us, but assures us saying, "My grace is sufficient for thee."

http://www.eleventhhournews.com

⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

⁶For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

⁷And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

⁸For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁹And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

¹⁰Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:5-10 (King James Bible)

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Bryan Denlinger's Testimony by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2011-09-21T21:00:00.001-04:00

This is a very heart-warming testimony of one of the first people to whom I owe having learned so much about the word of God, to whom I am so very grateful!

Congratulations, Brother Bryan! I am looking forward to listening to the next 100 sermons, unless Christ comes to take us home before then!

May God bless you, always! You are a tremendous example to so many!

Bryan Denlinger's Testimony

Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship TUE 09/20/2011
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Иисус не Бог, грешил, не сохранил свои слова? by David Daniels

2011-09-20T19:30:00.002-04:00

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My dear Brother in Christ, Vadim, who translates these videos into the Ukrainian language says: the following video is a compilation of four videos of David Daniels:

"A missing brush stroke removes the deity of Christ!" and
"3 Missing Words That Made Jesus a Sinner" and
"They Took Out Jesus' Words!" and
"Some Bibles create FAITH - others DOUBT"

For God's glory!

Иисус не Бог, грешил,

не сохранил свои слова?

Uploaded by MrPrecaution on Aug 25, 2011

Неужели Иисус не Бог? Неужели Он грешил? Он не смог сохранить свои слова для нас? Каков плод Библии короля Иакова и каков-Вескота и Хорта? Большинство современных переводов-это неполноценные уроды, а где же безошибочное Слово Божие? Где же книга, в которой не надо ставить под сомнение ни единого слова? Читая какую книгу не должно возникать вопроса:"А может всё-таки здесь другой СИНОНИМ лучше применить из перевода гереческого?" Если это не библия короля Иакова, то какая? Я хочу, чтобы с первого слова в Бытие до последнего в Откровении не сомневаться, а верить! Я уверен, что это-Библия Короля Иакова.

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Браян Денлингер - Библия короля Иакова/Bryan Denlinger - KJV Bible

2011-09-20T18:15:00.002-04:00

Браян Денлингер - Библия короля Иакова/Bryan Denlinger - KJV Bible

Uploaded by tyanov on Aug 19, 2011

Итак в прошлом я читал только Библию короля Иакова, однако сейчас...

I used to be King James Only,

but now...

Uploaded by husky394xp on Jun 2, 2011

I am NOT quiting on the King James Bible! Don't worry!

I made this video for new believers in the KJB, to address some of the main attacks which they will face from the Alexandrian, new version supporters.

Go to www.chick.com for answers to most of the Bible version issue questions that you will come across.

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"Is the Bible the Word of God?" by Ron Comfort

2011-09-11T21:22:00.001-04:00

The Sermon Depository - Ron Comfort

www.sermondepository.com

In the above link you may find many preachers, but I want to draw your attention to RON COMFORT (NOT to be confused with Ray Comfort, who is a heretic!), and the sermon:

"Is the Bible the Word of God?"

It is an awesome sermon which provides any self-respecting Christian with the ammunition he/she needs to contend for the truth of God's word!
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Satan's Wicked Emergent Church by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

2011-09-09T11:39:00.002-04:00

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WOW! I am listening to this for the second time right now! It is one heck of a study!
Please listen to this, and view the file link given! It gives one the chills!
This will wake you up to the vile ways the Devil seeks to attack God's word!

I will worship toward thy holy temple,

and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth:

for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Psalm 138:2 (King James Bible)

Satan's Wicked Emergent Church
Bryan Denlinger Bible Believers Fellowship TUE 09/06/2011

More Sermon Details:

PLEASE NOTE! The PDF file size ended up being too large for Sermonaudio, so I moved it to Kingjamesvideoministries.com.

You can go there and find the file in the "Free Downloads" section, or by following this link;

Please click on the following to view the PDF file:

http://www.kingjamesvideoministries.com//Satan%27s%20Emergent%20Movement.pdf

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For some hilarity:

The Emergent Church says:
"The Journey is What Counts, Not the Destination. Right?"

Really? The 4-year-old in the back seat, crying, knows better:

Are we there yet??

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TRUE CHRISTIANITY vs ROMAN CATHOLICISM

THE EARLY DAYS OF PAUL www.gracegospel.eu by Dov Avnon

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Ephesians 6:11 by Dov Avnon

David Garibaldi.... What an artist!

The Gospel Of Salvation In The Tribulation by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

Works plus Faith and "the Kingdom is coming" is preached during the days of Jacob's troubles, the Tribulation days!

The same is not for today! Today, in the Church age of Grace, WE CANNOT LOSE OUR SALVATION! We are sealed with the Holy Spirit UNTIL the day of redemption!

To learn more watch this:

Sealed with the Spirit by Dov Avnon

THOSE WHO WOULD FOLLOW CHRIST TODAY, MUST FOLLOW PAUL!

Why Christ saved Paul? and the Dispensation of Grace by Pastor Dov Avnon

acts 9: 1-16 Why Christ saved Paul?

acts 9: 18- 20 Paul and the dispensation of Grace

acts 9: 20-43

acts 10 Peter and Cornelius

act chapter 11 - the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

The Coming Underground House Church by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

God's Promises to Christians by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

I'd rather have Jesus (AV Church in Goa, India)

I'd rather have Jesus

(AV Church in Goa, India)

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

What is God Doing in India?

What is God Doing in India?

Lordson Roch: Pastor of Grace and Truth Baptist Church in Goa, India

PHIL STRINGER, of Ravenswood Baptist Church, in Chicago, IL: A MOST FALSE TEACHER!!

Articles of Faith

VETERAN'S DAY!

MORE Common Scripture Misconceptions by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

The Devil And Music by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

IS LOVE CONTRARY TO JUDGING? by David Cloud

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO AT HALLOWEEN?

Here's why so many Christians use Chick Tracts on Halloween.

It's fun to hear what they say when they get Chick tracts.

Parents will get the gospel, too.

Kids grow up, and are replaced by more kids.

Don't let this be you!

What are we teaching our kids?

Do you have room in your life for a blessing?

Halloween Chick Tract usage ideas.

Are All Religions The Same? Do All Religions of the World Lead To God? - Chris White

Are All Religions The Same?

Do All Religions of the World

Lead To God? - Chris White

The Collapse of "Separatism" Among Fundamental Baptists by David Cloud

My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee 2 Corinthians 12:5 thru 10

My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

2 Corinthians 12:5-10

Bryan Denlinger's Testimony by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

This is a very heart-warming testimony of one of the first people to whom I owe having learned so much about the word of God, to whom I am so very grateful!Congratulations, Brother Bryan! I am looking forward to listening to the next 100 sermons, unless Christ comes to take us home before then!

May God bless you, always! You are a tremendous example to so many!

Иисус не Бог, грешил, не сохранил свои слова? by David Daniels

Иисус не Бог, грешил,

не сохранил свои слова?

Браян Денлингер - Библия короля Иакова/Bryan Denlinger - KJV Bible

Браян Денлингер - Библия короля Иакова/Bryan Denlinger - KJV Bible

I used to be King James Only,

but now...

"Is the Bible the Word of God?" by Ron Comfort

Satan's Wicked Emergent Church by Bryan Denlinger of Bible Believers Fellowship

This is a very heart-warming testimony of one of the first people to whom I owe having learned so much about the word of God, to whom I am so very grateful!

Congratulations, Brother Bryan! I am looking forward to listening to the next 100 sermons, unless Christ comes to take us home before then!