As Usual, Preachers not Helpful

The more exposure I get to Christians who hear truth from God, the angrier I get about the garbage I was taught in the past.

I have to forgive, so I do. I can’t hold the anger. I say I forgive bad preachers in the name of Jesus, and I ask God to forgive their sins against me. That’s mandatory. But I have to say, I marvel at the load of excrement people have handed me over the years. It’s like a dumptruck load of poop containing a few tiny diamonds.

I hate to use his name again, because I don’t want people to think a man has the answers to their problems, but today I watched another Tom Fischer video, and once again, he said something God had also told me, which no preacher had ever said to me: the principle of unequal yoking doesn’t just apply to marriage. He told some kids they needed to stay away from people who were negative about God.

Here is the context: he was healing someone at an amusement park, and her friend dragged her away, so she didn’t get what God wanted her to receive.

I’m looking at the pertinent Bible passage, to quote it, and I’m startled to see how ignorant I have been, even today. I’m so used to hearing this passage cited with regard to marriage, I think of it as a marriage teaching. That’s wrong. It’s very general. It applies to friendships, businesses…everything.

Here is what Paul said in the first book of Corinthians:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

No mention of marriage! I’m very familiar with the Bible, but it’s a big book, and my memory is flawed. I was surprised to read this.

The fourth psalm says, “But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.” Notice how it connects separation with having your prayers heard.

I am torn when I think about this. I’m thrilled to get confirmation, but it also makes me think about my dad. He is like a traveling zone of permanent dusk; a little area in which it’s always dark. A cloud seems to surround him. And I live with him and take care of him. That’s serious proximity.

One of the annoying things about Trinity Church, where I worked as a volunteer, is that the family that runs the church doesn’t teach people to separate themselves from the world. They’re against it, because they are ignorant about God and the Bible, and because they love money. They want to be as inclusive as possible. They try to make Jesus cool. While I was there, they played dirty secular songs at services. They showed a filthy Tyler Perry movie in which people discussed VD at the dinner table.

Greedy preachers are very pushy about forcing excessive contact with the children of darkness. After all, some children of darkness go to church and tithe. The preachers want us to rub elbows with the lost. They want us to immerse ourselves in them, and the rationale is that we will reach more people that way. They remind is that Jesus associated with drinkers.

The big difference has to do with leadership. Greedy preachers are followers, not leaders. Rich Wilkerson, Sr. (Trinity’s pastor) is a huge follower. He adopts whatever seems to work in rich megachurches. He doesn’t hear from God, and he doesn’t appear to care what God thinks. He has gotten old, his megachurch and TV ministry dreams still haven’t come true, and he appears to be looking frantically for a quick fix.

He’s like Saul, the cursed king who couldn’t hear from God and turned to a medium instead.

When Jesus associated with drinkers, he was a leader. He didn’t play beer pong and learn how to pick up women. He offered people a way out, while retaining his own righteousness. He rejected the ways of the people around him. He never told them what they were doing was okay. He spoke the truth at all times.

When you’re around unbelievers, you will evangelize them, and they will evangelize you, even if no one makes a conscious effort. In other words, you will be a pro-God force among them, and they will proselytize you for Satan. If you’re not a leader, you will lose.

When the Wilkersons play Kanye West songs and put Kim Kardashian in a VIP seat, they’re followers. They’re like whimpering dogs, rolling over to show Satan their bellies, hoping for a quick rub. They have no dignity and no power. They are doing what the crowd wants, and the crowd is controlled by Satan and the flesh.

Satan controls the crowd. The crowd controls the Wilkersons. Satan controls the Wilkersons. This is the danger a preacher faces when he kneels and grovels before the unsaved world.

I remember going upstairs to Richie Wilkerson’s office once. Richie is Wilkerson’s son. I was amazed to see Oprah Winfrey’s magazine displayed proudly on the table in the waiting room. Winfrey is an enemy of Christianity. She openly admits she’s not a Christian. She promoted Eckhart Tolle’s non-Christian cult. Her materials should not be in churches.

Winfrey says she rejected God when she read the Bible passage in which he said he was a jealous God. She chose to believe in something else. She judged God, believing herself to be morally superior to him.

I wasn’t a preacher, and I knew Winfrey was toxic. Every American Christian should know this. Winfrey is poisonous bait for the uninformed. She’s a huge promoter of homosexuality, leftism, racism, idolatry, and female rebellion. But here were a preacher and his wife, displaying her infectious pus in a church. The congregation was something like 80% black, so you may have some ideas as to why the magazine was placed there.

A leader would have told his flock to get away from Winfrey and West, but when West dropped by the church, Wilkerson tweeted about it, calling him a “great friend.” I don’t know what he did for the church. Maybe he gave Wilkerson money.

Megachurch preachers woo rich people because of mathematics. They teach the unscriptural law of tithing (an obligation that never applied to Gentiles). The tithe is 10%. A greedy preacher knows that if West nets $100 million in a year, the tithe would be $10 million. I believe that it was for this reason that the armorbearers at Trinity were required to pamper people like West, Kardashian, and various professional and even college athletes.

You’re not supposed to tithe. The tithe is law, it never applied to Gentiles, it was for the temple (not churches), and in any case, we are above the law.

Preachers like Wilkerson love to tell people they’re not under the law, because it helps them attract insincere Christians who want to keep sinning. But there’s one law they support with all their hearts and souls: the law of the tithe.

I saw a tithe-hungry preacher say Gentiles had to tithe because Abraham tithed on a single occasion before the law was written. What Abraham gave was a freewill offering. He did it because the Holy Spirit told him to. We know of no other example of Abraham tithing. In any case, Abraham was a patriarch of the Jews: the only people who would ever be commanded to tithe.

The worship of Mammon has ruined a lot of churches. One nice thing about one-on-one ministry is that no money is needed. You can talk to your friends without incurring any overhead at all. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s efficient. And it keeps you out from under the iron hands of blind preachers who tell their flocks what to do.

Preachers block God all the time. A preacher told me not to tell people they could lay hands on each other. Can you believe that? He said if the wrong person laid hands on someone, a demon could go into the person being healed. So if your son has been hit by a car, and the pastor hasn’t approved you to lay hands, you can’t do anything but pray.

I don’t think believers can send demons into unsuspecting people. Jesus said the things that come out of our own hearts defile us. We do a fine job pulling demons into ourselves. I have no reason to believe other people can shove them in when we don’t open the door.

The preacher also said you should never lay hands on a person’s head. Something about bad stuff going into their minds. If I have the power to inject demons into people’s skulls, why would you let me come to your church?

Paul told Timothy not to lay hands on people suddenly, but he didn’t say only certain people could lay hands. Here is what Jesus said:

And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

As I have said many times, God showed me that getting the toxic people out of my lives was much more important than bringing good people in. The principle of unequal yoking is very important and very powerful. You shouldn’t have a spouse or lover who is against God. You shouldn’t have lovers, period. You shouldn’t have friends who are against God. You shouldn’t go to a workplace where the atmosphere is anti-Christian. If you have problems like this, you should seek to be loosed. Ask God to provide better alternatives. I still have one or two connections I don’t want, and I am going to look for God’s help in getting free.

It’s very, very good to have a Christian spouse, children, or friends, but you can survive without them. It’s crucial to get rid of the God-haters in your life.

Anyone who is not led by the Holy Spirit is led by demons and fallen angels, at least part of the time. Demons and fallen angels hate me so much it can’t be described. My suffering is like crack to them. They pursue it without resting. It should be obvious to me that I have to keep cutting ties, and that I should reject new friends who are potential problems.

I use Internet forums, even though one of their main functions is to facilitate communications of baseless malice. I have a lot of hobbies, and forums can be helpful. I went to a forum to get advice on hunting and shooting. Some guy from my county started telling me I could only shoot on pieces of land that exceeded a certain minimum size, and he claimed the county limited shooting hours. He could not shut up about it, and he was rude and aggressive. In Florida, only the state can pass laws regulating firearms. He wasn’t even close to right, and he refused to check. Anyway, he ruined one of my threads, and he came to another and started in. Oddly, he also sent me a private message, inviting me to a place where people shoot skeet and trap.

It’s not unusual for abusive people to try to make friends while they’re abusing you. They have to do things like that in order to establish control. They’re asking permission to put a leash on you.

I would love to shoot skeet and trap, but I’m not going near this obnoxious, arrogant guy. Satan sent him to provoke me. Why would I enable him? He’s full of anger and poison. I told him never to hijack one of my threads again, and I used the forums “ignore” feature so I would not see any more of his material. I deleted his messages.

That’s how I should have acted all my life. Pray for people and forgive them, but…cut…them…loose. Fast. Instead, I attached myself to a lot of people who kissed up to me at first and then started running me down and trying to control me.

Try that today. You have no chance. I am utterly ruthless about cutting people off, and I do it instantly, without warning. Then I literally forget about it. There aren’t a lot of people I miss.

If you’re abusive, you know it. When I set you free, I’m not going to insult my own intelligence by explaining it to you. The explanation would just prolong my exposure to you.

The more people you expose yourself to carelessly, the more shots Satan has at the target. He will shoot all sorts of missiles, hoping one sticks.

I wonder if this is why I’ve always hated joining things, and why I’ve limited my friendships. Maybe God put those tendencies in me to limit the harm people could do.

The world is hell’s roof, and people are very, very messed up. They are dangerous, even when they seem nice. Anyone who doesn’t hear from God has the potential to be programmed to hurt you. If you want to win, you have to get authority and call the shots. You have to be the head and not the tail. If you’re around an unsaved person, there should be a very good reason.

While I was writing this, I deleted my Facebook account again. I only created it so people could find me and so I would have access to the Facebook pages of companies I wanted to deal with. It became a source of vexation to me. I kept getting “friend suggestions” featuring cheap-looking women wearing sleazy, provocative attire. No one I know used Facebook to contact me.

Sometimes I looked at friends’ pages, and I saw silly, disturbing posts supporting gun control and BLM or slandering President Trump. I don’t need that in my life. Those people are not really my brothers and sisters. They are half-Christians who don’t hear from God and hate correction.

I thought I might need Facebook to contact a company or something, but that hasn’t happened. Maybe the last time I deleted my account, I should never have returned, even in a limited way.