I believe that the greatest sin of all is INDIFFERENCE, which is the opposite of love. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it is INDIFFERENCE! When a person genuinely cares, everything else will follow; and contrawise, if a person doesn't care, everything else in their life will follow. Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
What is “indifference”? It is not
apathy. The main difference is that if you don't care, you're apathetic; but
if you don't have an opinion either way, you're indifferent.
The Tragic Indifference Today Over Inspiration of the Holy Bible
Tragically, most church pastors today are indifferent toward the Holy Bible. They only superficially care about the Word of God, but they are indifferent concerning the ongoing battle over the purity, preservation and inspiration of God's Word. Many preachers will tell you how important the Scriptures are, while at the same time being totally indifferent regarding the battle over the inspiration and purity of the Bible. Such pastors hypocritically claim that the Word of God is critically important, while simultaneously using and promoting dozens of conflicting modern Bible versions. That is insanity! If the Bible is so important to them, then why are they indifferent about all the horrible changes which have been made to the Bible?
Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is so right,
who in his classic MP3 sermon titled, “THE REAL BATTLE,”
asks the all-important question: “What good is inspiration without
preservation?” That is exactly right! What good would it have been for God
almighty to inspire his words only in the original autographs, and then
not preserve those same INSPIRED words for future generations? Oh, but you
say, “I believe the originals were inspired, and yes, God has preserved those
inspired words for today, BUT TODAY'S BIBLES ARE NOT INSPIRED?” Huh? That is
exactly what Hyles-Anderson College teaches today! That is exactly what Bob
Jones University, Pensacola Christian College, Ambassador Bible College, Moody
Bible Institute, Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary, Crown
College, and other so-called “Bible colleges” teach today, that is, that only
the “originals” were inspired. Well, I am here to tell you with all truth and
confidence, as a born-again child of God and Baptist preacher: EVERY WORD IN
THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS INSPIRED BY GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!!!! My friend, if the
Bible is not inspired today, then it is not a Holy Bible, which means it
cannot be God's Word.
Is it Nothing to You, All Ye That Pass By?
After Nebuchadnezzar's army invaded and conquered Israel in 586 BC, killing multitudes of citizens and burning their homes to the ground, ravishing the women, torturing and killing the men, and taking thousands of young Jews into captivity as slaves to Babylon, the prophet Jeremiah wept, bewildered that the remaining people didn't seem to care what had just happened. Lamentations 1:12a, “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?...” Likewise, I ask the same exact question to today's pastors, Bible college professors and evangelists: “Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?...” Is it nothing to you that Satan is attacking the deity of Jesus Christ in the modern Bible versions? Is it nothing to you that Satan has completely removed the word “godhead” from the modern Bible versions? Is it nothing to you that Satan has completely removed Acts 8:37, about Jesus being “the Son of God,” from the modern Bible revisions? Are you okay with that? I'm certainly not okay with that gross corruption of the Scriptures!!!
The question is do you care? DO YOU CARE ABOUT TRUTH??? Well, you should!
The reason why pastors and Bible
colleges don't care is because they are reluctant to go against the common
religious consensus of the day, which has been set by evangelical “scholars,”
intellectuals, over the past century (Brooke Westcott, Fenton Hort, Joseph
Thayer, James Strong, Gerhard Kittel, William Vine, John MacArthur; to name
but a few yardbirds). Today's average pastor is a coward, afraid to dare go
against the alleged “100 scholars” who were involved in translating the New
International Version (NIV or H.I.V.).
The 'Wizard of Oz' Gave An Honorary Degree to a Brainless Scarecrow
The truth is that many of those men who profess to be theological “scholars” are no more qualified to be “scholars” than “Captain Crunch” on your favorite cereal box. For example: Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) received multiple honorary doctorates degrees, which means he DIDN'T work to earn them...
In 1865 he took his B.D., and in 1870 his D.D. He received in later years the honorary degrees of D.C.L. from Oxford (1881) and of D.D. from Edinburgh (1883). [emphasis added]
Scholar?
Now, I am not against giving someone an honorary degree (to “honor” them),
like the Wizard gave to the brainless Scarecrow in the famous 1939 film, “The
Wizard of Oz.” However, an honorary doctorates degree ought NEVER be used as a
credible source to cite or recognize someone as a “scholar”!!! I mean, just
because a man is awarded the, “Citizen Of The Year Award,” doesn't mean that
he knows how to be the mayor of the town or run the country! Brooke Westcott
is no more of a “scholar” than the average pastor (more than half) who has no
formal theological training. Yet, foolish pastors continue to be intimidated
by these psuedo-scholars, who oppress the churches into submission to embrace
counterfeit Bible versions, the false gospel of Calvinism and other poisons
ruining the churches today.
My dear reader, the only scholar that any Christian believer needs is the
indwelling Holy Spirit. John 16:13, “Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come.” Remember, just as the Wizard gave a
honorary degree to the brainless Scarecrow, so also does the Devil give
honorary doctorates degrees to his brainless ministers of unrighteousness to
deceive you! Any idiot can honor an idiot and dub him a “scholar”! Don't you
be an idiot too!
The Great Need of the Hour is Caring Believers!
CARING is the hallmark quality of walking in the Holy Spirit, Who indwells every born-again believer. God CARES, and if we walk in His Holy Spirit, then God's love and concern will flow THROUGH us as His children. 1st Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” GOD CARES!!! No Christian who lacks genuine love and concern for others walks with the Lord. GOD IS LOVE!!! This doesn't mean that everyone who has a smile on their face has love. The Devil comes to us with a big smile on his face, to deceive us, appearing as “an angel of light” (2nd Corinthians 11:13-15).
True biblical love means CARING about others, and treating them the way we would like to be treated (Matthew 7:12). Love never seeks its own, selfishly, doing what is best for me, myself and I. The Christian life can be summed up in one word, which is “LOVE.” The two greatest commandments is to LOVE GOD, and to LOVE ONE'S NEIGHBOUR. ...
Matthew 22:36-40, “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Hence, the greatest sin then must be NOT TO LOVE! Indifference is the opposite of love. I care, because God cares and He loves me, and I love God, and God loves others through me. CARING and LOVE are the “fruit” of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). The reason why ecumenical pastors and churches nowadays are woefully today toward the hundreds of English Bible versions (which are obviously intended by Satan to confuse the masses), is because they don't love their neighbour as themselves, nor do they love God as they ought. Anyone who loves God CARES about the Word of God. Pastors care about money (mammon) more than they do the things of God!!! It is that simple. They have calloused hearts layered with fat. You cannot talk sense to them, because they are so engrossed in their deeper-life theology and spiritually sedentary ways. A lackadaisical pastor is an indifferent pastor!!!
Today's American pastors are dull of hearing and spiritually blind...
Isaiah 42:20, “Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.”
Jeremiah 5:21, “Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.”
Revelation 3:15-16, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
Something that greatly frustrates me is when I see professed Christians who work on a church staff, who hypocritically talk about Bible passages they are studying, and I hear them pray publicly, and I see them coming to a lukewarm church regularly; but then they are openly ungrateful, proud, mean, cliquish, arrogant, harsh, using satanic corrupt Bible versions, promoting the false gospel of Calvinism, praising devil preachers like John MacArthur and Ray Comfort. That all tells me that their faith is phony, merely superficial, going through the motions because THEY HAVE TO as part of their job description while working for the church. It is disgusting! I'm talking about the Bob Jones crowd on Guam at “Harvest Baptist Church.” I get discouraged every time I think about them and how phony they were the whole time I knew them, and the total vacuum of God's Holy Spirit presence in their church. What a shame to the cause of Christ! Only God can make somebody care. WELL I CARE!!!
Having
said that, it is so important to have one's family in church that I often
recommend for web visitors to attend messed-up churches, just so long as the
King James Bible is present and the true Gospel of free grace is present
(these two things MUST be present). The church may be drifting into wild
country, enemy territory, but it is not healthy for a family not to attend any
church. We all need Christian fellowship. Being in church gives us focus. When
a man and his family quit church, they often lose focus and disaster results.
I am NOT endorsing bad churches; I am simply saying that believers need
fellowship with other believers, encouragement, Bible preaching and a place to
serve God. We need each other! 