by David J. Stewart | April 2014
Jeremiah 6:16, “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
Praise the Lord! I love all my web visitors in the Lord, whosoever you may
be, even my enemies. If you are a faithful web visitor, then you know that
my Jesus-is-Savior.com website was down all last week. The website was
terminated, the first time since 2002 when I started my online ministry. I
had to find another VPS web hosting company, and did, after much prayer.
YOU'RE NEVER WASTING YOUR TIME WHEN YOU PRAY!
What happened is that one of the false prophets whom I expose in the Philippines complained about copyright infringement. I am not vindictive and that's not the purpose of my ministry, nor will I seek vengeance by exposing this cult more than others, but my web visitors need to know about this fake ministry because it influences millions of people worldwide for Satan, who are being led into the Lake of Fire. This group doesn't want to be exposed, understandably. But as Christians we must REBUKE THEM SHARPLY who subvert whole households (Titus 1:10-14). First they complained about a photo, and I removed it.
Then they complained about some quotes, which is my right to use under Fair Use Law, but I removed them anyway just to comply. There was absolutely nothing on my webpage that belonged to them, not even quotes. The legal department at I-Power web hosting terminated my website over mere religious opinion. Ecclesiastes 9:18, “Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.” It was a personal vendetta by one person in my opinion. I 100% offered to remove the article and gave them permission to remove the article if it was going to result in a suspension or termination, but the Devil has his followers everywhere, so they beheaded me like John the Baptist.
Can you imagine when they all stand before God and realize that they were oh so wrong and evil? I pray for their salvation. The Bible teaches that we are at war, a spiritual war against satanic forces (Ephesians 6:12-17). I'll keep going and going and going, despite being attacked, knocked down and wearied by the fights. THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S! We are already on the winning side in Jesus Christ, Who is ALMIGHTY GOD!!! (Revelation 1:8).
The false group in the Philippines teaches that Jesus is a god, but not almighty God. This is the satanic garbage that Jehovah's Witnesses teach. He also teaches that you cannot be saved by faith alone; but rather, that a person must keep all of God's commandments to be saved. May I say, Biblically, JESUS IS ALMIGHTY GOD AND IS EQUAL WITH GOD THE FATHER, BECAUSE JESUS, THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE FATHER ARE ONE IN THE GODHEAD!!!
It is heartbreaking to see thousands of people being indoctrinated with the lies of Satan, drawn away from the Lord Jesus Christ. Filipino people are sweet, hardworking and trusting, and are easily deceived. There are thousands of wayward religious groups and spiritual false prophets at work in the Philippines. As a God-fearing Christian, I have a Biblical obligation to refute (Greek: elencho, “to expose”) all works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
Titus 1:10-11,13, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers ... Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake ... Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.”
The Bible plainly teaches in Titus 1:10-13 for Christians to sharply rebuke false prophets, who destroy men's lives and families. This is why I expose so many false teachers who corrupt the gospel and teach falsehoods. So many people are caught in the Devil's snare trap, like a rabbit whose neck is crushed in a snare trap, which closes even tighter as the rabbit desperately tries to escape but cannot, slowly dying. 2nd Timothy 2:26, “And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” I contend for the Christian faith because it is my duty as a Christian, a soldier of Jesus Christ. I am on the front lines for God. And by God's grace, please don't forget about some of my other ministry and music websites:
We are losing our First Amendment protected freedoms of religion, speech and press in the United States! All it takes is one wicked person to take down my website. I make no money, never have and never will from my online website ministries, nor for serving God. That's just me, but I don't have any problem with other preachers who do, because the Bible teaches that the labourer is worthy of his reward, and that includes ministers. But I made a vow to myself never to receive a dime for my ministry. This is God's ministry and I do what I do to glorify the God of the holy Bible and true Israel.
Every web hosting company pretty much has the same terms of service, which says they can take down your website for any reason, even if they just want to, because it's their web hosting company. So I am at their mercy, but God is greater than men and I trust the Lord to keep the door open to preach THE TRUTH!!! Amen! Pray for God to continue giving this ministry an open door of utterance to contend for the Christian faith, expose evil, proclaim the gospel as it is supposed to be, and fight the Devil. Someone who doesn't fear God with a personal grudge terminated my website, but they can never terminate my ministry. As long as I have a heart, a dime, a computer, a hosting company that will tolerate my ministry for the Lord and another day to continue my labors for Jesus Christ, and most of all fervent prayers day and night, this ministry will continue!
I and this needful internet ministry very much need your continual prayers. 2nd Thessalonians 3:1-2, “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.” Jesus said in John 7:7 that the world cannot hate us, because we serve Christ. When people attack my ministry, they are attacking the truth of God's Word and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is almighty God, Whom I proclaim and serve. John 7:7, “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.” All week that my website was down I was singing a wonderful song that Dr. Jack Hyles used to always teach and sing with us, which goes (Windows Media). . .
Everything’s all right in my Father’s house,
In my Father’s house, in my Father’s house,
Everything’s all right in my Father’s house,
Where there’s joy, joy, joy.
(Can also sing the joy, joy, joy as an echo.)
1. Come and go with me to my…
2. Jesus is the way to my…
3. There’ll be no darkness there in my…
4. Jesus is the Light in my…
5. Will you bring a friend to my…
6. The devil won’t be there in my…
Here's a bunch more of Sunday School songs. Jesus is precious!!!
Sadly, some fellow ministries like the Christian Law Association don't believe in what I'm doing, who recently totally ignored me when I contacted them for advice concerning the wrongful termination of my website. They began to help me when my website was suspended last year, but then blew me off last year too once they saw my website, but I still ethically sent them $1,000 voluntary because I support and believe in what they're doing. It is discouraging, but the Lord sustains me. They're lawyers, not preachers, and they don't understand. I am a faithful member of an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church and my ministry is rooted in the New Testament Church. I'm really getting tired of staying quite about such matters, and I'm going to start being more vocal (is that possible?) like John the Baptist. Paul said Alexander the coppersmith did him much evil. 2nd Timothy 4:14, “Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works.”
John the Baptist wasn't beheaded for preaching the gospel; but rather, for publicly speaking out against Herod's adulterous relationship with his brother's wife, Herodias. I suppose John lacked a Christlike spirit, huh? No, John was a man of God! Herodias maliciously conspired and had John murdered, just as my website was just martyred for Christ! My reward is in Heaven. I've been uploading all week. It takes 24 hours to upload 90% of my website, and 4 days to upload the 10% of sermons. Everything's uploaded! Whew, Amen! It all finished tonight when I got home from church, and then I wrote this article from my heart, despite my horrible neck pain.
By the way, I am now a grandfather of two precious children, BOTH born on Valentine's Day 2014 by different daughters if you can believe that! Wow, I'm starting to feel old. Amen, I'm just that much closer to Heaven. Proverbs 4:18, “But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” God is good!!! Psalms 145:9, “The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.” We learned in church today about the original “SILVER LINING” in a cloud in Exodus 16:10, “And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.” In the midst of tribulations, sorrows and hardships, God always gives a silver lining to those who fear and obey Him.
My stenosis, radiculopathy and peripheral neuropathy have been horrible lately, which subdues my greatly, preventing me from getting as much done as I'd like. It is difficult even to get to church 3 times a week, but I have been making myself go, specially to Wednesday night prayer meeting. My body won't let me take as much pain medication as I'd like to take, because of dehydration. So I've had to cut back and it has caused more pain. I hurt from head-to-toe all the time, in varying degrees. I have razorblade pain in my arms and legs, mostly the right side, intermittently throughout the day. My neck hurts with toothache-like pain 24 hours a day, with chronic tension, and the pain radiates into my gums, face and eyes. Only chronic pain can radiate like that from the neck. I am not complaining; but rather, ask for your fervent prayers and appreciate your understanding why I cannot handle e-mails and do more than I do. I don't want any donations, and don't need them, but I encourage you to give generously, joyfully, consistently and prayerfully to Baptist missionaries, and I recommend Baptist International Missions Incorporated (BIMI).
As I have said before, and so say I again, suspensions and terminations are part of having a controversial ministry. False prophets and the Devil's crowd don't like being exposed and preached against. They killed all the Old Testament prophets. They killed all the apostles, except John who was exiled to the isle of Patmos. They murdered Jesus, God's only begotten Son. And the servant is not greater than his Master, which is the precious Lord Jesus Christ, my God, Savior and friend. I am on the Lord's side!
So don't panic, worry or feel discouraged if you see my website(s) suspended, gone or terminated, because I'm not going anywhere until God takes me home, Jesus comes back (hopefully soon), or the law banishes websites like mine, or I am unable due to reasons beyond my control to continue fighting the good fight of faith for the Lord. 2nd Timothy 2:3, “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” I am an active veteran in God's army!
There is so much that you can do for God, and I encourage you. I have been giving away copies of Alexander Scourby reading the King James Bible on one DVD to fellow church members. They're about $20-$25 each, but people are worth it, don't you think? I'm not rich, but I budget my money and conserve electricity, cook at home and spend sparingly so I can give to missions, and help others hear the Word of God. It's all a matter of priorities. When you give to a group of people, you love them more, and can pray for them more passionately, and it's easier to cry for them, because you have invested in them. Luke 12:34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” You (all my web visitors) are my treasure.
We should always pray and pray always for OTHERS, which doesn't cost us any money; yet any businessman will tell you that time is money and money is time. God says the same thing when He promises to recompense us for our labours, which consume our time (1st Corinthians 3:8). You can hand out Gospel tracts and booklets to others. You can share books with them, or helpful websites and links, which doesn't cost anything. You'd be surprised how just taking pictures at church activities and e-mailing fellow members pictures that you took of them with other Christians will encourage them. A digital camera is your only cost, the pictures are free to take and send to people. I say, don't just go to church and sit there; but rather, get involved and do something. You can prepare gift packages with cookies, cards, gifts, sermons, Bibles, and all sorts of good things to missionaries on the mission field.
I love God. God created mankind in His own image. Men tend to go into tirades and rants when they get angry. God is the same way! I was listening to Alexander Scourby reading Deuteronomy 32:34 today, where God goes on a rant in anger against the Hebrews, telling them that He's going to send animals to sink their teeth into them! You don't want to mess with God (Hebrews 10:31). Our God is still on His throne and cannot be overcome by anyone in this universe, man or angelic creature. Isaiah 45:9, “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?”
May I say, everything's alright in my Father's house. God never worries, never panics, never feels threatened; but He does get mad, real mad, slowly but certainly toward those who disobey Him (Psalms 7:11). Thank God for the cross of Jesus Christ, where Christ shed His precious blood that He took to Heaven and sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat in the presence of God the Father to make propitiation (appease God the Father's wrath) against man's sins. God is plenteous in mercy and longsuffering toward usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all men should come to repentance (2nd Peter 3:9). The gospel message is that Christ died upon the cross for our sins, He was buried, and then He was resurrected from the dead three days later. Anyone who receives the gospel as full payment for their sins is saved.
I was thinking this week about how we are going to be feasting in Heaven on all our favourite foods. Did you know that angels eat? When the two angels came to Lots house in Genesis 19:3, they feasted! Amen! Psalms 78:25 says that the Hebrews ate angel's food, that is, the manna from Heaven which God gave them each morning. Angels eat. Jesus ate and drank in His resurrected body, and so will we as Christians. Albeit, everyone who goes to Hell will NOT eat anything except flames and sulfur, being tormented day and night without rest forever (Revelation 14:12; 2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9) and ever and ever in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:13-15). Please don't go to Hell. Please don't miss out on all the blessings which God has promised to each and every born-again believer (Romans 8:32). Eternal life is completely free, if you'll receive it freely by faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 10:43).
