Galatians
3:1-3, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey
the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,
crucified among you? This
only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Galatians 6:6-8, “Let him
that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good
things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the
Spirit reap life everlasting.”
The entire purpose of the Epistle of Galatians is to rebuke and warn the churches of Galatia that they had been infiltrated and corrupted by a religious cult concerning the Gospel. Our text verse from Galatians 3:1 is very plain. The apostle called the churches of Galatia “foolish,” because they had adopted a perverted plan of salvation that required keeping the law in addition to faith in Jesus Christ. This was very similar to the popular heresy of Lordship Salvation today, which requires that people surrender all to Christ, turn away from sinful bad habits, faithfully run the race (live the Christian life), exchange all that you are for all that Christ is, count the cost and pay the price and follow Jesus no matter what the cost, to be saved.
The method of salvation is frequently different, but the core basis is always the same—the focus is upon YOU instead of only upon JESUS CHRIST to be saved. I love what Paul said in Galatians 3:2-3, “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Paul said that he only wanted to know ONE THING—were they indwelt by the Holy Spirit (i.e., born-again) by doing the works of the law, OR by simply believing the Gospel they heard preached? Here we see the childlike simplicity of salvation.
Notice that this is how 3,000 people were wonderfully saved on the Day of Pentecost. Acts 2:41, “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” Several thousand tourists to the city of Jerusalem heard the Apostle Peter preach the Gospel. The 3,000 people who gladly received the truth of the Gospel being preached were instantly saved. As a public profession of their salvation they were water baptized. In the Bible, NO ONE ever got water baptized before or as a requirement to be saved. Believer's baptism always followed salvation.
There was no probationary period. The disciples didn't require that those 3,000 people be monitored, scrutinized and followed up for time to come, to determine if they really got saved. I am so sick and tired of hearing Pacific Garden Mission (i.e., 'UNSHACKLED' radio), the Bob Jones University crowd, Evangelist Ray Comfort and other false teachers, saying that we must watch someone's life who has professed faith in Christ, to see if they really got saved. If you have to live the Christian life to prove the genuineness of the reality of your faith, you are not saved. That is exactly why Paul is rebuking the churches of Galatia, for teaching that unless a person keeps the law they're faith is insufficient to save them. The Bible teaches FAITH IN CHRIST, PERIOD; not FAITH IN CHRIST, PLUS something more to be saved.
All false religions require some degree of works to get to Heaven. Many pseudo-Christian religions (i.e., false Christian religions) are caught between grace and works. They'll say deceitful things like—“We're saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, but we must do works to prove that our faith is genuine.” This is what the Bob Jones crowd (Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Gary Walton, Chuck and Daniel Phelps, et cetera) heretically teach. Please keep in mind that all false gospels include faith in Jesus Christ! All of your pseudo-Christian cults include faith in Jesus, but they also require MORE. This is why Paul is upset at the churches of Galatia, for adding the works of the flesh to faith alone. Galatians 3:3, “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Paul is rebuking and exposing the false idea that you get saved by faith, and then you need to prove you're saved by the works of the law. Effectively this is adding works to grace.
Turning away from one's sinful ways to be saved is a work of the flesh. Nowhere in the Scripture are we taught to turn or repent of sin to be saved. Repentance is required for salvation, but to “repent” simply means to change one's mind. 2nd Timothy 2:25 speaks of “repentance to the acknowledging OF THE TRUTH.” It doesn't say “OF YOUR SINS,” does it. Repentance is simply the realization that you are a guilty needy sinner (Romans 3:19-20), so that you will BELIEVE ON JESUS to be saved (Galatians 3:24-26). Salvation is not partial faith in Christ plus turning from your sin, or surrendering all to Christ as Lord. Salvation is simply receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, resting in the risen Savior for forgiveness of sins and eternal life (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; John 6:47).
Evangelist Paul Washer is a devout Calvinist, who heretically says:
“No, no, if you don't have works, you're going to Hell!”
SOURCE: Evangelist Paul Washer's Garbage Theology
What saith the Scripture? Romans 4:4-7, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.” I don't know about you, but I am going to believe God, and not Paul Washer (Romans 3:4). The Bible says we are saved WITHOUT WORKS (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). Yet, Paul Washer says if you don't have works, you're going to Hell. The Bible teaches the exact opposite, that your “many wonderful works” will send you to Hell (Matthew 7:21-23).
You don't go to Heaven by doing GOOD WORKS, nor by giving up your BAD WORKS! Hebrews 6:1 in the inspired King James Bible speaks of repentance from DEAD WORKS. That is, ceasing from trusting in any and all works to be saved. What saith the Scripture? Hebrews 4:10-11, “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” Oh how I love this Scripture passage! God set the eternal example for us on the seventh day of creation, when He ceased from all His works, and RESTED.
The blessed Sabbath Day represents Jesus Christ, in Whom we completely REST for salvation. It is alarming that tens of thousands of pastors today have bought into the Devil's lie of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation (two excellent articles by Pastor Jack Hyles), two separate but often related heresies. The shameful new executive vice president of Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, Dr. Marty Herron is guilty of these evil teachings! This man is a shameful opportunist, following the money wherever it leads, serving his own belly instead of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 16:17-18; Titus 1:10-13). When I literally handed THE TRUTH to him in 2014 at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, Pastor Herron rejected it!
Consequently, HBC still today is a cesspool of iniquity, a rotting corpse in Christendom. Bob Jones University today is not the same college that it was 75 years ago while Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968) was still alive and at the helm. Tragically, for the past 40 years the university has taken a dangerous shift of course into new-evangelism, adopting the satanic lies of Misunderstood Repentance and Lordship Salvation.
According to our text Bible passage from
Galatians 6:7-8, God PROMISES to punish them for hobnobbing with the Devil's
crowd. The churches in Galatia had allowed a suave, likable and trendy
religious cult into their midst, which required keeping the Old Testament
law to get to Heaven. In a word, WORKS! This is the SAME evil false doctrine
being taught by sinister ministers' John MacArthur, Steve Pettit and Marty
Herron today (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15), requiring people to “REPENT
AND TURN AWAY FROM THEIR SIN” to
get to Heaven. In a word, WORKS! No such teaching is found in the Word of
God, unless you have one of the corrupted modern Bible's Bible revisions,
like the English
Standard Version (ESV).
I Want God To Avenge Me Of The Utterly Wicked Bob Jones Crowd
The biggest problem (and it is wickedness) that I see today going on in churches, especially in the United States, is that pastors and congregations alike just don't give a damn! As long as their 6-digit paychecks clears, Marty Herron and Steve Pettit don't give a damn. Well I do! By God's grace, I intend to preach against these wicked men for the rest of my earthly life. Marty Herron played God with my life between 2014 to 2018, and Kristen Hurlburt as well as her boss, costing her as my wife. I love Kristen and always will. I deeply miss and love her. I KNOW as sure as I am saved that Kris would have married me, if her pastors hadn't ostracized me as an evildoers for TELLING THE TRUTH.
I humbly want God to avenge me of Kristen, and I have that biblical right (Romans 12:19-21). Those wicked pastors must pay for the evil they have done. They must be held accountable by God almighty for rejecting THE TRUTH of a free grace Gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). They must be held accountable by God almighty for perverting the Word of God, for adding words to the Bible that God did not say (Proverbs 30:5-6; Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:19). I want God to speedily avenge me of Harvest's ungodly corrupt pastors, who all insisted that Martin Luther (1483-1546) is a born-again Christian in Heaven, even after I proved to them with Luther's own writings that he taught the heresy of Baptismal Regeneration until his death.
I want God to bring Herron's blood upon his own head, for all the souls he has deceived and damned to the Lake of Fire with his fake Bibles, Misunderstood Repentance, Lordship Salvation and for booting me from Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014, and banning me from returning. I begged in 2017 three times for Harvest's pastors to please let me return, so I could court Kristen Hurlburt (their school nurse). Oh how I love her so! There hasn't been a day since 2013 that I haven't thought about her, wanting to marry her.
What kind of pastors refuse to allow a broken, humble and hurting man to even sit in church? A monster like Marty Herron, who is a rotten phony Christian, that's who! The man dresses for success, a member of the elite white shoe boy's club, an arrogant snob who thinks he is better than people like me. That is not a true man of God. That is a secular businessman, a wolf in sheep's clothing, preying upon complicity apostate churches! I am not just a peeved man with a blog. Dear reader, I am upset with the Bob Jones crowd for very legitimate reasons. I am a thankful graduate of Hyles-Anderson College in Crownpoint, Indiana. I have never regretted my time and money spent to attend HAC, it was a privilege for which I will always be grateful to God, my parents (who encouraged my choice to attend HAC), and my hero of the faith Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001).
I attended Bible college for 8 years, between 1985 to 1993, when I graduated on the Dean's List. I worked hard to finish what I started, and by God's grace I did. Many of my Bible professors are alumni of Bob Jones University. So I am speaking out as someone with an inside view of my own independent fundamentalist Baptist group. The Bob Jones crowd have a sordid history of racism, prejudice, hatred, authoritarian intolerance, lack of compassion for hurting people, lack of mercy, abuse, and even abuse toward victims (literally blaming rape victims and telling them to repent). Don't take my word for it, read the story for yourself:
CONCORD, New Hampshire — A woman says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and that the pastor of her church told her to forgive and forget instead of doing what the law required: report it to authorities.
The woman commented after a recent trial during which a New Hampshire prosecutor suggested that the same pastor, the Rev. Chuck Phelps, did not do enough to help another young church member, a rape victim.
Phelps, former pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord and now a pastor at a Baptist church in Indianapolis, has not returned messages seeking comment.
