“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost…?  (Luke 14)

“He that loveth father or mother more than [M]e is not worthy of [M]e: and he that loveth son or daughter more than [M]e is not worthy of [M]e. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after [M]e, is not worthy of [M]e.”  (Matthew 10)

 

Reader, These are very serious Words…the Scriptures call Worde like these, “hard [W]ords.  Many have read these Words, heard these Words, and evem preached these [W]ords and have wondered what the Speaker of these Words really meant when He spoke them two (2) thousands years ago and speaks them still today and will speak them until He returns to prove them. The Speaker of these Words is The Lord Jesus Christ, Who is King over and above all kings before, today and forever.  We do not live under a true Sovereign or a true KIng or a true Potentate.  Neither does England.  A kings word is sovereign and is as a roaring lion.  A kings word is the messanger of death.  We in America do not understand an oppresive or repressive king. We in America are blest with the government structure and and even SPOILED!!! ROTTEN!!!

The above is another reason Christ-ians today and even ministers today do not give Christ His Rightful Title of Lord.  In ancient Japan, you would be headless and in hell if you did not show respect to a japanese lord.  If you made a face that disrespected him, you would be headless and in hell.  This is why God would tell His own to sugject themselves to earthly sovereigns.  This is why we are told to pray for earthly leaders, so we might have peace and live. Many Americans, if they had lived in the past or even currently lived in a country with Royalty…. a true royalty or a despot, they would be headless and in Hell or soon headless and in Hell. Persons in foreign lands under true royalty or despotic leadser and dictatots would nor DREAM of not giving their lords and masters the titles they demanded.  My goodness, call your doctor Mr. or Mrs. and see if you are not corrected…I triple dog dare you REader, try it and see if your doctor isn’t offended.

The Christ-ian that does not address or speak of Christ with His rightful Title is an affront, is an offense to Christ AND myself.  How many of you call your pastor or religious leader by his first name. I would be embarrassed to call the pastor of Bible Bapstist, “Kipp” or the Pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, “Ron”….HIS OWN WIFE doesn’t call him “Ron” in public. Very few persons outside of family and a small circle of intimates call me Brian or Keith!!! YET many of you call your Lord and MASTER, “JESUS.”

Reader, whether you be a rank and file believer or a pastor, YOU DISRESPECT CHRIST when you call Him “Jesus.”  None of HIs followers ever called Him Jesus to HIs face…ONLY…ONLY…ONlY HIS ENEMIES DID!!! including DEMONS!!!  Reader, this is not a person pet peeve of mine, THIS IS SCRIPTURE…FOR CHRIST”S HOLY SAKE!!!  “Ye call [M]e Lord and Master, and in saying so, ye do {WELL].  In other words if you do NOT YOU ARE NOT DOING WELL!!!.  Reader, pastor do NOT EVER call me pastor ever again, lest ye submit yourself to sound doctrine, to Scripture and to Christ, HIMSELF.  David and the GODHEAD called CHRIST Lord, and you don’t or WON’T?  WHO DO YOU PERCEIVE YOURSELF TO BE!!!??? Christ-ian, this is unacceptable!!!  Paul tells us it is a gift and a right to call Him Lord, (1 Corinthians 12:3).

Reader, to be a Christ-ian is different than being a CHURCHIAN or being a Church member. There are multitudes and multitudes, innumerable, uncountable, persons that are CHURCH-IANS and follow CHURCH-IANITY. and are not Christ-followers. They are great church member, but terrible and false Christ followers.  When I hear a person say, “I just love my church” and speak nothing of Christ, I am skeptical before they get the words out of their mouths.  When I hear someone speaknabout their love for “Jesus” I am skeptical before they finish their utterance.  Reader, we are to boast upon Christ’s LOVE FOR US…FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!!  We are to speak about WHAT CHRIST has DONE for US and not what we have done for HIM.  The Scripture tell you that you are an UNPROFITABLE SERVANT to CHRIST yet YOU BOAST.  There is a man that has said, “if there is no work in Heaven, I don’t want to go.”  MY GOD IN HEAVEN, If this fool has not repented, he need not worry about going to HEAVEN!!!

YOU PEOPLE that put service above worship…I fear, yeah!!! I doubt your SALVATION. Christ came seeking WORSHIPERS!!!, have ye not read the WORD of GOD? or are you enemic or Scripturally illiterate or Spiritually blind, deaf, and lame? are you a mere parrot, simply speaking or spewing the doctrinal hype you have heard and ingested?  MY GOD IN HEAVEN, GET IN THE BOOK.  Do you love the Church above the HEAD of the church?  An Analogy:  Reader, when you go to the zoo and you only see the body of an animal, do you feel like you’ve seen the animal or only part?  Only part….if you do not see the head of the snake or the head of a  lion or of a bear, you feel deprived and so you should.  Reader, some CHURCH-IANS go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, and NEVER SEE THE HEAD OF THE FAITH OR THE CHURCH and they are fine with it.  If I attend a service and see not the HEAD, WHICH IS CHRIST, my time has been wasted.  I do not say my time fellowshipping with other believers have been wasted but my time, listening to the pulpit has wasted. I do not say my singing and worship of Christ has been wasted but my time listening to the tripe coming from the pulpit has been wasted.

I know of a pastor, a godly man that is seeing a number of families and persons leaving the church he pastors.  I know this is easier said than believed, but it is my argument that a new pastor should lose about sixty (60) percent of the member of a church he is called by God to pastor. Reader, I mean that.

Through out Scripture, professing believers are constantly falling away. When Christ, in John 6, preached the great part of the multitude, departed and followed [H]im no more.”  John in his first (1st) epistle said many left the church, “they went out from us because they were not of us…”  “If they were of us they would have remained…” In Revelation two (2) Christ honours the church for running false apostles out of the church.  Moses had many leave or rather killed by God for their split  and hardened hearts.

Pastor(s)…it is your duty to run many off.  I can usually pick out the ones (1’s) that will depart and …follow no more.  These are the persons and families that love the praise of men more than the praise of God.  These are they that love the front rows, these are they that “just love my church” and “just love Jesus so much.”

Remember John bragged about Christ’s love for him and not his love for Christ. Peter boasted of his love for Christ and he betrayed Christ three (3) times.  The boasters are usually the first (1st) to go or the first (1st) to cause the most trouble behind the scenes. These have the biggest smiles and the farthest out stretched hands. They are usually the person that does the most and will have you know it. Judas carried the money bag and he was a great influence of the others.

Reader, if you think I am being mean, just wait until He returns.  I am a baby ewe lamb to HIS LION.  Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, these are loving words of a loving pastor…The shepherd would break the legs of his own sheep!!!  The shepherd would do this to teach the precious lamb not to wander off for “I am prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.”  Remember it is the rod and the staff that comforts.

Reader, I am not angry, so much as I am contending, at this moment, for your soul.  If you are a pretender of the faith, know that a pastor will seek you out as he seek out God’s elect and he will, with the same energy, cast you out of the field and away from the sheep. Reader, this is not tough talk, this is pastoral love. All pastors have been called to find Christ’s sheep and to destroy those that seek to steal, kill, and destroy.  The pastor that does not find this spirit…this same warrior like spirit in his shepherd’s heart. I charge thee before my readers and the Godhead, resign your post for you are the wolf in sheeps clothing !!!

In political years past, some have spoken about a mama bear’s protective passion for her young… The young shepherd, David, killed the great bear and the lion that seeks to destroy his flock. The mama bear has no-thing on the shepherd called and empowered by God, Who tells Peter and all that follow, “Feed [M]y sheep/lamb,” hidden in that Word is, kill the wolf; a shepherd cannot feed a dead sheep/lamb.

Reader, Christ was ever chasing the pretenders out of His Sight.  When men, on their own volition, came to Him and wanted to follow Him, He, in every case, sent them a way…every case…every case.  He never asked for raised hands…He called His own Openly…OPENLY…OPENLY!!!  He said, if you look back to your old life, you are not worthy of Him. If you put anything…anything…ANYTHING before Him you were not worthy.  He taught that all should understand the cost.

Reader, when Christ tells you that you must hate…all…everyone….these things…anything, He means it!!! When pastors, preachers, ministers water this down, they demonstrate their service and love for (s)atan!!!  What did Christ mean when He said hate?  He meant HATE!!!  He meant vehemently oppose, go against, set in array against.  When God said He hated Esau, He defined that hate in Malachai.  He said, Edom, Esau’s descendants, would build and He would destroy, they would build again and He would destroy again.  When Christ said we are to love our enemies, He meant to support them and have their best interest at heart regardless of their hatred and ill intent. These are the meanings behind Biblical love AND HATE.  We are to hate God’s enemies collectively, but love them individually and independently!!!

When Christ tells us to hate everything and everybody, His lesson is to oppose, go against anyone and everyone, anything and every thing that stands between you and your love, trust, obedience, faithfulness, loyalty and HIM!!! PERIOD!!! END OF THE STORY.  What did Christ call Peter when Peter, with the best intentions, told Christ not to obey His Heavenly Father?  Did Christ not call him (s)atan to his face?  He did. Christ was calling Peter an opposition to His obedience to God the Father. Peter’s love was (s)atanic in nature and Christ spoke openly and directly to that opposition.

Reader, when someone seeks to stop you from obeying Christ, even in the most loving and sincere way, that someone is speaking for (s)atan and that person is to be opposed openly. Certainly, explain what you mean in a most loving way, but make it known, it is (s)atanic in origin and nature to try and stop a follower of Christ from following his Lord faithfully, loyaly, and lovingly… If  a japanese person in old Japan did this, he would be be- headed and in Hell within in seconds.  In fact, that person may even have been killed by the one (1) he loved!!!

Let me be painfully and offensively clear: a wife, a parent, a family member, a close friend, a fellow Christ-ian, a minister of Christ that seeks to oppose you and a direct command or call of Christ, is at that moment, standing in the stead of (s)atan himself and that person and their (probably) well meaning “advice” is your enemy and the enemy of Christ’s will for your life.  Let me be clear, however.  If someone questions YOU and not the CALL from Christ that is a different matter.  I have questioned person’s on what they thought to be Christ’s call.  Many, if not most, have proven my inquireries fully justified and validated.  The call of God upon a man’s life will have certain tell tale signs. Undoubtable signs,  if these are not present, it is obvious.  Even if many of the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 are very present, that does not mean that person is called to be a pastor, associate pastor or a youth pastor.

I do not write this to be mean spirited in any way…and those that know me will understand that.  If a person can not read or write well, they cannot be a pastor.  If a person cannot reasonably speak well they cannot be a pastor, I know, I know, Moses didn’t speak well and Paul didn’t speak well.  God gave Moses, Aaron and God helped Moses speak.  And as for Paul, i’m not sure he couldn’t articulate well… some of what he said about his abilty very well could have been sarcastic and he was also comparing himself with “great orators” that were lost and pretending to be apostles.  Look at Paul’s background and tell me he couldn’t speak well.

Also, let me say this, I have heard some persons with atrocious speaking skills speak of Christ and the Spirit’s Presence made up for that.  I have heard persons with speaking difficulties and or challenges speak and you would have thought Apollos was in the room.  I have heard old men with quackey and quivering voices stand in the pulpit and the power of God sets in and they speak as Whitefield. I have been very ill an in a hospital bed and yet God would remove all impediments and let me speak with strength and authority, Reader, i lie not.

But, in today’s age, a man who cannot speak reasonable well, lest God moves upon a congregation, will not find a church that will have them.  I’m sorry….I’m not saying it is right.  It just is how and what it is.  I can remember many years ago, when we were looking for a pastor to lead a church I was a member of.  A man of God came on a Sunday and he had a fake leg from the knee down.  Reader, I confess before God, that mattered  not to me, IN THE VERY LEAST.  The church did not vote him in and we did bring him before the church for a vote. The church did note vote him in.

Later we received a letter and the man of God accused us of rejecting him because of his false leg. This may have been true of other churches, I know not, but it was not true of our church and this was unworthy of a man of God to charge us with.  The reason he was not voted in was due to his style of preaching. This man’s style was the exact same as the pastor that had just left.  The congregation wanted to see someone else, that’s all.

I was told years ago that due to my shaved head, goatee-beard, and my Korean wife, many churches would not accept me as pastoral material…I’m not kidding.  My wife, who wears pants would also be a deterrent to a pastorate in some churches….I’m not joking.  Throw 1 Timothy 3 out of the Church.  If a man does not speak perfectly, dress “appropriately,”  marry the right race of woman with the right style of hair and right lengthed dress he has no chance.  If the man does not use the right version of the Bible, or attend the “right” Bible school, he stands no chance.  If a man of God attends a movie, he stands no chance…..he can rent videos from shops that have a porn section but cannot see a movie in a theatre.

Reader, if this is you I doubt your sincerity and faith and Scriptural acumen.  Pastor, if you are not preaching the “old old story” but are preaching old, old tired and recycled sermons, I doubt the validity of your call….I doubt not that you attended a Bible School or were called or forced into a church… NO, I doubt that not at all, I doubt whether you have been called by God or even know His Son.  If you, preacher, are still preaching what you were told to believe and have not thrown those old stinking grave clothes off…I charge you as a charleton…as a false and deceived prophet. I call you a serpent. a wolfe in sheeps clothing, a thief, and a scatterer of the flock. I call you an idol shephered, which is another name for anti-christ. I call you a minister of (s)atan, that has been transformed into an angel of light. I denounce you, I condemn you, I turn you over to (s)atan for the destruction of your flesh that your soul may yet be saved.

Let me be clear on another point…With the above I am speaking of no pastor I fellowship with.  I have inspected other churches over the years and have heard others preachers over the years and it is to some of them I speak. I do not hide behind a keyboard, Reader, I have written to some of these angels of light and ministers of (s)atan with a return address.  I have left my address with all of the “churches” I attended, hoping for a Saturday afternoon visit. Only one (1) church sent representatives and I was tactful and gracious at the same time.

Pastors, it is your duty to cast the pretending (Those who know what they are doing) believers from Christ’s church….it is not your church, it is Christ’s!!!  If you were house-sitting for a friend, would you allow thieves to enter in and kill, steal and destory without a fight?  OF COURSE NOT.  But you feel bad chasing obvious false disciples.  You are not being loving to your enemy, you are hating the flock God has entrusted to you!!!  John Calvin heard that Servetus was coming to Geneva. Calvin’s words in reply?  Servetus will not leave Geneva.  Today’s church and weak hearted and yellow blooded “pastors” speak ill of Calvin.  Hear me clearly….YOU ARE NO PASTOR OF CHRIST IF YOU FIND FAULT WITH CALVIN.  I do not exalt Calvin, Calvin was human and therefore Calvin was a sinner, BUT Calvin was a pastor’s pastor.  In his day, blasphemy and  false doctrine were equal to, if not worse, than murder. Blaspheme and false doctrine was the murderer of the soul…this is how Calvin and Christ-ians saw it…the Puritans were likewise, prepared to hang a false prophet.

Reader, Reader, Reader, I am not telling you to kill false believers or to burn or behead the prosperity preachers.  No!!! NO!!! NO!!! NOT AT ALL.  However, I am saying kill their reputation and ministries. Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, those in Paul Crouches likeness, Those in Oral Roberts likeness, Creflo Dollar (Let the dollars flow), Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Most, if not all, of TBN Reachers (Reachers and not preachers because they are reaching for your money and your immortal soul and to call them Christ-ian is Reaching).

Robert Tilton should be thrown in prison, where he would be raped like he has raped his willfully igorant, lost, false, Biblically illiterate self centered followers. The women reachers, not preachers, are enemies of the Cross of Christ as well.  (Call me soft, but Joyce Meyer has some good stuff and mehopes she is real. She is a little leaven I know and if I could take away her Biblically illiterate followers and only leave her with Sound believers I would….take the meat and throw away the bones principle). Paula White, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantiss (Christ’s Father did not plant-tiss).

Reader, if you can sit and watch this blasphemey and not feel the Spirit tugging and pulling at your heart strings, I mistrust your salvation and I know you are not a Bible reader. If you can sit AND SUPPORT this vile vomit of (s)atan and do not hear the Spirit screamimg FALSE WITNESS!!! FALSE WITNESS!!! FALSE WITNESSSIII and then if you are not warning others with the fervency of, Robot warning Will Robinson…Danger…danger…danger, you are guilty after the attack upon God’s people.

When these false witnesses REACH (not preach) to the lost and the Biblically illiterate it is an attack of the devil.  (s)atan blinds those that believe not Christ. When these deceivers deceive, they are waging war upon Christ, Christ’s Body, and Christ’s Church, and Christ’s bride.

The Godhead: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit pointed out and condemned the false prophets time after time. The Scriptures are replete with warnings against the false prophet.  The false prophet, according to the law, would be killed. The false prophet and the witch were both the subjects of righteous killings. God, in His economy equates the false prophet and the witch as the same thing.  Both are from (s)atan. Both hate the Godhead, both hate the people and individual persons of God. Both are enemies of all things good and godly, clean and pure, true and right.

Reader, we are not at play, we are at war. When Christ drew you to Himself, He was enlisting you into His army.  Does not Paul tell you to endure all hardships as a chosen and good soldier of Christ? Does he not?  Yes! He does. Do you think all the wars ended with the Old Testament, No! No! No! the wars in the O.T. were our examples (Roman 5).  Did not Paul say, ” I have fought the good fight?” Did he not charge Timothy AND…YOU! YOU! YOU and i to do the SAME? Does God not call Himself, “A [M]an of war???   Is Christ not called the Captain of our Salvation?