The 1602 Valera Purified New Testament now Available

We now have the Valera 1602 Purified in Spanish available online via Amazon.com at a price of $16.02.  (Price is intended to honor the year of Valera's work of 1602).

It can be ordered by visiting:

https://www.createspace.com/3676224

We are practicing and learning how to use P.O.D. (print on demand), so we have taken the .pdf file of the Valera 1602 Purified New Testament and cut and copied it page by page to make the New Testament of this translation available, as they are hard to get today. 

Thankfully, though, more whole Bibles shall be printed soon, as the plan is to print the newest, updated version in December.  I hope we can find a way to make these available online as well.

Sincerely,

Robert Breaker

Southern Values

Like the old saying goes, "I'm Southern by the Grace of God!"

I've always counted myself blessed to have been born in the South.  The main reason is, SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY.  The South is known world-wide as being probably the friendliest place on earth.  Why is this?

The reason is simple.  It's because it's the BIBLE BELT.  You see the South for ages has been the place where there has been more GOSPEL WITNESS than probably any place on earth.  Settlers to the South were usually true Bible Believing Christians.  If they weren't, they at least believed in and read the Bible on a daily basis.  Immigrants who came to the South were usually quickly converted, or at least learned that the SOUTHERN WAY was to go to Church on Sunday, so they went. 

In the South, people readily ask each other, "What Church do you go to?"  And, no one seems offended by this question.  (You ask that of people of up North and see what kind of response you'll get.  They'll usually get offended that you would ask them such a question!)

The plain simple truth is the Old South has been gospel saturated for hundreds of years.  And that saturation of the Bible and Bible Teaching is what lead to the SOUTHERN VALUES, or the moral living, politeness, and hospitality of the Southern folk.  In other words, the more people read and believe the Bible, the more moral, upstanding, pleasant, and kind they are, PERIOD!

I've always liked this.  I've travelled a lot.  I've been to New York City six times in my life, and I've been to 49 of the 50 states, and I'm telling you there's nothing like the South.  Dixie is the greatest place on earth!

It's hard to find those Southern Values in any other place.  Up North they just don't smile, and say, "How you doing?" or blurt out just a simple "Hi!" as you walk pass someone on the street.  No, up there they ignore one another on purpose!

The other thing about the South is how people will wave to you when you drive by them.  That just doesn't happen up North around "city-folk."  But down South you can drive for hours without seeing another human being or another car, and you are so glad you do when you see one, you can't help but lift a few fingers from off the steering wheel to wave to oncoming traffic when they get close.  That's the South!  They're so nice, they'll not only talk to you, they'll wave to you when you are passing them at 65 miles an hour!

So back to why the South is so nice and friendly.  It's because of the values of its forefathers, people who were usually religious, church-going, and God-fearing. 

I believe this is what's missing today in society and even in America.  For moral people make for good people. 

Sadly, even the once great South isn't what it used to be.  I remember even as a child (and I'm only 37 years old), that you could drive up to Winn-Dixie or Piggly Wiggly (Grocery Stores in the South), and you could leave your keys in the ignition of your car with the windows open.  (Just try that today, anywhere!  Your car will be gone before you know it!).

I also remember leaving the front door of your house unlocked.  Folks from a generation or two back used to tell me that they would do one better then that.  They'd always leave their front and back doors OPEN in order to get a breeze through the house (as that was before air conditioning).  Can you imagine doing that today?

My how times have changed!

But with the changing of times have come the changing of values.  People not only in the South but world-wide are growing even more immoral every day. It's common to hear of people getting into fist fights, gangs to engage in gun-fights, etc.  Crime is everywhere! 

And even though the South is catching up with the times, it's still not as bad as the rest of the country, or the rest of the world.  Southern Values are still in our blood, even though our youngins (a southern term) don't seem to be as dogmatic about it as we were.

To many Southern folk, fornication is still a sin.  Adultery is something that is not only not right, but something that should have the death penalty on it! 

I'll never forget the time I was speaking with an old Southern woman and she told me that she had never heard about or known about what "homosexuality" was.  She said it wasn't until she was about 75 years old that her husband explained it to her.  After he did, she just about fell off her chair, and then said, "What?  There's people that do that?  Why?  That's just plum gross!"  

Yep, we Southerners still know right from wrong.  Or at least we haven't been "edumucated" (Southern slang for educated) into accepting certain modern things that the world says we should tolerate.

Sadly, however, many of the next generation Southerners are chosing evil rather than the light.

I think the reason that the South was once so moral, in comparison to the rest of the world, is that it not only was a BIBLE Society, and the Bible breeds morality, while Evolution and higher Education breed immorality, but because the South in the most part is an agragarian society.  That is, there are many people in the South who have learned how to live off the land. 

When you plant crops, you have to pray a lot.  That is, you have to ask God to let them grow and to keep off the pestilence, hurricanes, etc.  That's your livelihood, and if you don't get to harvest that years crops, you won't have anything to sell to the market.

Compare this with the city-folk up North.  What do they do that's ever outside their control?  They usually don't have to rely on God at all.  Instead, they learn from an early age what people call "Street smarts."  In other words they learn how to fend for themselves and get what they want.  Usually, this leads to them becoming immoral in later years, as they get accostumed to getting what they want in any means necessary.

So maybe this is a strong reason why there's a difference between Northerners and Southerners. 

And if you've ever lived down South you'd know why the Southerners are so nice, friendly, and giving towards others.  It's cause they have it to give.

I've got a neighbor in Alabama that's a good example.  He plants watermelons every year.  He gets so many there is no way he can eat them all.  So he puts them in the back of his pickup and just takes them all around to the neighbors and gives them away.  (Boy are they good!)  He also gives them away at Church. 

Why does he do this?  Cause if he didn't, they'd just sit on the vine and rot.  This way he feels good, as he's helping others.  But in return, people don't forget his kindness, and often they'll stop by his house and bring him some tomaters (Southern term for Tomatoes), squash, turnip greens, etc, as they too planted more than they could eat so they decided to pass on the blessing to someone else. 

To Southerners, what God gives them really is a blessing from God.  But up North, everything a guy gets he usually brags about getting by his own means.  See the difference?  One gives God the glory, the other steals the glory for himself.  (And up North people usually are quick to get welfare, and they get used to getting something for nothing.  It's no longer a gift from one individual to another, it's an entitlement they feel like they deserve, and they get angry if they don't get it!)

Anyway, it's not just the watermelons that make me glad to be a Southerner.  It's much more.  It's my heritage.  I can say I've come from other Southerners who were nice, godly, people who loved others and gave what they could to help them out.   I've also learned a lot from others who are not only willing to pass on their blessings, but to teach me hands-on how to do things in order to prosper myself.  Their attitude isn't to look at me as a "Mark" (A Northern term for people you can try to milk for something), rather to someone they can impart knowledge to in order for me to pass it along to someone else.  And they've instilled in me the desire to teach as much as I can to others so they can do the same.

In the South it's about being self-supporting, and independent, and teaching others how to be the same.

Yep, I enjoy being a Southerner.  And I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.  I feel blessed to be who I am.

But sadly, I wish I wasn't alone.  I wish my SOUTHERN VALUES would not just be mine, and not just be regional.  I wish they would be national.  I wish they were AMERICAN VALUES.  I wish they were even more, I wish they were AMERICA'S POLITICAL VALUES.  In fact, I wish they were even more than that.  I wish they were GLOBAL VALUES!

I wish the whole world would just be cordial, hospitable, and righteous.  But I doubt that will ever happen.

So, I guess I'll just have to be content knowing I'm part of an elite group known world-wide as the "friendliest" most "hospitable" group of people on the planet.

My Books Available Online

I've been going through the last couple of weeks and trying to figure out how to get my books available online and I've finally be able to do so.  I'm still working on it, but I have a bookstore now.  Anyone interested can go to the following link to see my books.

http://www.rrb3.com/bookstore/bookstore_index.htm

Liberty vs. Liberation

LIBERTY

The Bible tells us much about liberty, and in almost every reference, it speaks of it as something God gives.  The first occurance of the word is found in Leviticus 25:10.  There we read: 

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Notice God is speaking, and He is the one granting liberty to others through His law.  Notice also in the context of something being "hallow" or "holy."  We know God is a holy God, and it is He who grants liberty to sinful man.  That liberty is so that man to might live holy in doing what He says.  In other words, God gives man freedom to freely serve Him.  This is known as free will.  God gives man the freedom to chose between right and wrong.  But man is supposed to choose right, especially when he's been given God's law, which tells him what he's supposed to do to please God.

In Psalm. 119:45, we read of King David saying:

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

Here we find David saying he will walk at liberty, and he will seek out God's precepts.  In other words, he will follow God's law and obey, because it was God who granted him the liberty to do so.

Through many other passages in scripture, we find clearly that God is He who grants liberty, and He has given us His precepts (the Bible) for us to follow.  We then are to obey Him and do what he says.  This is our duty and is why we have been given liberty.  Liberty, or freedom, is therefore a gift from God, and is granted us for us to do right and live right, not for us to do wrong. 

LIBERATION

The word "liberation" comes from the same root word as "liberty."  But liberation is not always a good thing.  And, interestingly enough, the word "liberation" is not in the Bible, while the word "liberty" is.

When I hear of the word "liberty," I immediately think of America, the land of the free.  We in the United States were founded as a government of freedom for all.  And, we started by our founding fathers acknowledging God as the great granter of freedom.

On the other hand, when I hear the word "liberation," I automatically think of something entirely different, as the word is mostly used today in the context of the modernistic teaching of "liberation theology."  This ideology teaches certain people are "oppressed" and they should "struggle" against their "oppressors."  But this type of teaching leaves God out entirely!  Further, it seeks bloodshed, violence, and civil unrest, rather than peace, goodwill, and Jesus' teaching of forgiveness. 

There is, then, a difference between liberty and liberation.  Biblically, God gives man liberty, not so he can do evil, but rather good.  However, man is inheritantly evil, and subject to sin.  Because of this, man must be redeemed.  But God took care of this, as Jesus Christ paid for the sins of mankind on the cross of Calvary.  Man can be "liberated" from his sins, but not by their own merit, rather only by trusting Jesus Christ's finished work.

Sadly, man has twisted this sound, Bible teaching.  Many modernist preachers today don't believe in man's right to be free.  Nor do they recieve God's liberation at Calvary as sufficient.  Instead, they believe governments should have power over men, and those governments should be active now in "liberating" certain groups, classes, races and genders of people. 

If this be the case, then where is God in their system?  He's entirely left out.  The government then becomes the "liberator" rather than God, and it makes its own laws.  Eventually, the government takes the place of God, and it's laws supercede those of the Bible.  And, instead of following God and His laws that are "just," man through "social justice" declares it's his duty (instead of God's) to right all wrongs.  And he does so through lobbying the government to forward his cause.  What is his cause?  It is simply stated, "vengance" or "punishment" towards others he feels have mistreated someone else in some way. 
Not liking the way the world is, he tries to turn the world upside down and hopes by so doing, he can give men freedom.  This then leads to him becoming his own god, who plays God in declaring himself powerful enough to grant freedom to others.  He thinks He's "the liberator" rather than God.  And by so doing, he takes away man's liberty in Christ.

The Bible warns us of those who try to take away one's liberty in Christ Jesus.  We read it in Galatians:

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:  (Gal. 2:4)

 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.  (Gal. 5:1)

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  (Gal. 5:13)

Here we are warned of others who try to spy out our liberty in Christ, and they seek to entangle us in a yoke of bondage, while they use their liberty for an occasion of the flesh.  Rather than loving one another, they try to "enslave" people, for you can't free one group without enslaving another.

But in the Bible, we find that these type of people are not consistent.  They don't want freedom for all, rather only freedom for some (the only ones they support), and this freedom is usually so they can sin, not so they can do right.  These liberators are not free themselves, for they have become servants of corruption, rather than servants of God.

Today we see these modern day "liberators" are really only trying to liberate themselves from God and his laws (the Bible).  They might claim to be religious, or even do-gooders, who seek only to liberate others from oppression.  But the truth is they only trying to liberate people from God and his truth.  In short, they are trying to free people from God in order to enslave them to sin and Satan. 
A few more Bible verses about liberty are as follows:

 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.  (2 Cor. 3:17)

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.  (James 1:12)

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.  (James 1:25)

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. (1 Pet. 2:16)

True liberty is freedom to serve God of a free conscience.  It is not freeing people from oppression, for often those who seek to "liberate" others don't do so of a pure heart, but rather with their own agenda, oftentimes enslaving those who they liberate in order to take advantage of them.

In the Bible, God gives liberty for men to do right, while liberation theology is an excuse for men to rebel against God and sin.

America used to be the land of Liberty.  But with the modern day teachings of anti-colonialism, communism, social justice, radicalism, and revolution, we find that American is now the land of Liberation.  And as it seeks to "liberate" others it is turning even farther away from God.  Progressives are leading the pack in liberation.  They don't believe in God, the Bible, or even the founding fathers.  They don't look at liberty as a way to serve God of a free conscience willingly serving him.  Instead, they believe that their job is to liberate others whom they feel are oppressed.  But what if they feel the greatest opressor is GOD?  Then they are actually trying to liberate people from the Creator, and by so doing they are turning people against God.  They are nothing more than rebels, Luciferians, who like one of their radical founders Saul Alinsky praised. 

Pensacola Florida the Start of the Civil War?

Recently, the news brought out the fact that we are nearing the 150th anniversary of the start of "The War of Northern Agression" (What some call the "Civil War).   And, they brought up the fact that I've heard very seldom mentioned, that the Civil War might have started in Pensacola, and not in South Carolina.

Growing up just across the bay from Pensacola, Florida, I feel privileged to be so close to such a historical place. Pensacola (once called Panzacola by the Spaniards) is the oldest city in America, being the first colony of Spain on American soil.  In fact, I was raised very close to the first Spanish Mission on American Soil over here on what is now known as Garcon Point.

The Spanish History in this area is amazing, as the Spanish sailed all throughout this area. In fact, just about three miles across the bay from where I live on Bayou Chico I believe it is (maybe it’s Bayou Texar), they discovered a 1600 century Spanish sailing ship. You can see a replica of it today at the T. T. Wentworth museum downtown.

And, if you were to go downtown, you would see a small fort on a hill which represents the battle fought there between the British and the Spanish. There is a small bust there to a man named Galvez, of whom Escambia Bay was once named. It was called “La Bahia de Santa Maria de Galvez.” I’m with you. It’s just much easier to say Escambia Bay!

The rich Spanish heritage of the Pensacola area is everywhere. But after the Americans took over Florida, that heritage quickly faded. But they are still discovering Spanish artifacts today.

http://uwf.edu/jworth/escambe.htm

Pensacola is known as “The City of Five Flags,” for the five countries that once ruled this area. They include: Spanish, French, British, American, and Confederate.

So the Pensacola area in rich in culture and diverse in its heritage.

This brings us to the Civil War. Not only does Pensacola hold claim to being the first founded colony in the new World, but it also holds claim to being the site of where the Civil War started. Many believe it started in South Carolina and Fort Sumter. But they conveniently omit what really happened down here in Pensacola several months earlier.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/so-where-did-the-civil-war-start-move-over-sc-one-town-says-florida/

With the 150^th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, it’s about time we look at what really happened. Hopefully, Pensacola will receive it’s rightful honor and place in history as the site of the start of this dreadful and bloody war.

150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE "UN"CIVIL WAR

Last week was the the 150th anniversary of the start of what some call the "Civil War."  (There was nothing civil about it!)  I remember being taught the truth about that war in a public school in the South.  They rightly gave me the facts about the engagement and not the feelings.  Simply put, the war was another war of Independence against a tyrannical government in which state's rights was the determining factor.  Slavery had very little to do with the war.  However, it would be wrong to say it didn't play a role.  It did.  The North hated slavery, but the constitution (and even the Bible) allowed it.  Northerners didn't seem to care about the Constitution, and because they had a higher population, they passed laws against the South, especially the collection of high tarrifs (ever heard of the Morrill Tarrif? You should really look that up.  What an injustice!).  The South only wanted to be left alone.  Just as the colonies separated from England crying, "No taxation without representation!" So to, the South desired relief from economic slavery to the North which they found in leaving the Union.  But the American colonies were praised for their Independence from England, while the South was villified for it's secession from the North.  How can this be?  So much for being consistent.

Many say the South started the war.  This is a fallacy.  It was Mr. Lincoln who sent warships to South Carolina.  This is an act of agression, which justifies self-defense.  And, most people won't even look at the fact that the Southern General cordially gave those in Ft. Sumter 30 days to leave.  When he learned they had no food left, every morning Southerners took a boat full of food for the Union troops to eat.  Just a little thing called, "Southern Hospitality!"  But that's conviently forgotten by modern historians who vehemently villify and ridicule the South, making them out to be the evil rebels, while exalting the North as the great emancipator.

The truth is, when you study history (which most people don't do), the greatest injustices were those of the North against the South.  Sherman burned, raped, and plundered the South in actions that were not only immoral but against the rules of war.  Lincoln did away with the writ of habeus corpus and many other legal rights of the individual, often times locking citizens up indefinetly without trial only upon suspicion with no evidence whatsoever.  Soldiers were drafted by the North and forced to fight against their will, which caused riots in the streets in New York.  (What you never heard about that?  You should really study your history).

But probably the saddest thing about the "Un" Civil war was the bloody carnage.  Hundreds of thousands of people died butcherous deaths from huge led bullets which ripped through their bodies.  Those who survived had to have limbs cut off, the modern medical practice of the day to save lives. 

But have you ever stopped to ask, "Why did all this happen?" 

The Victors claim it was all because of slavery and they were only protecting a certain group of people, fighting for their freedom.  But what about the freedom of others?  Is it right to take away one man's freedom to give it to another?  It is right to kill your neighbor so you can free his neighbor? 

Even though the Civil War ended in 1865, for a lot of people in the South, it's still not over.  They view the war differently than the North.  They feel their rights were trampled upon.  For the constititution gave them the right to seceed from the union when they so desired.  When they did so, they were attacked by an invading force.  Their goods were then stolen by invaders and their homes burned and their women ravished.  And, if that wasn't bad enough, their good names were tarnished by those who claimed they were rebellious.  (Most of the South were moral, erect, God-fearing, Bible Believing Christians).  And, after the war, they were subjugated in the most cruel manner as carpet baggers entered their land and kept them under subjection to a government that went against it's own constitiution in order to subjugate its populace.

Was the South right?  That's for you to decide.  But don't decide based on feeling, rather on the facts.  For it's easy to villify a people you know nothing about and label them something because they practice something you feel is wrong.  But whether slavery was right or wrong is not the issue.  In fact, slavery is still practiced today all throughout the world (it's still around in Muslim communities).  Why then isn't their a Civil War to stamp that out?  Where's the consistency?

As we look at the fruit of the Civil War, we see that it got rid of slavery, and it eventually unified the country once more.  But at what cost?  There is still no writ of habeus corpus.  If fact, most people don't even know what this is!  It's only a fundamental right of a freely governed society in which citizens are viewed as innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!  Sadly, in our day and age, it's the exact opposite.  You are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent in a court of law.

We have only Lincoln and the corrupt politicians of the North to thank for our loss of freedoms in America.  In fact, if you really want to place blame on someone, then why not blame the North for everything, as it was NORTHERN and BRITISH ships that brought slaves to America in the first place and sold them to the South!  How are they held innocent for this, but the South villified for owning slaves?

The Civil War was a horrible, bloody event.  One that we would do well to forget.  But it's hard to let it go.  Three groups still remember that war, and they all remember it differently.  

Northerners love to look at themselves as the great emancipators.  Blacks still look back at their years of slavery, and demand recompense for it, even though they've been freed.  And Southerners look at themselves as the victims who were attacked by an invading force which stripped them of their freedoms.

Which was right?  Political Scholars state that Constitutionally it was the South.  Moral Historians agree it was the North, which did man a favor in abolishing slavery. 

In short, there is still much debate over the issue, and much mistrust and anger still found in the hearts of men.  Northerners still look at Southerners as dumb hicks and rednecks who should never have owned blacks.  Southerners still view Northerners as city slickers who don't have a clue and shouldn't stick their noses into other people's business.  And many blacks still look at whites as the evil Master bent only upon subdueing them and keeping down.

In short, one has to wonder if the Civil War really is over.  For anger still lingers in the hearts of men.  Racial, political, and moral tension abound now probably more than ever, dividing America rather than healing it.

So happy 150th anniversary America!  You started a war years ago that might have led to the union of the nation of states, but it hasn't healed the hearts of men.  And it is seldom forgotten by many.

I only pray that there are no more Civil Wars, as it would destroy our country even more, as the hatred in men's hearts would lead to unfathomable travesties, and unwanted destruction. 

As we commemorate 150 years ago the beginning of this war, and we ponder what caused it, and what the fruit of it is today, let's also make it a point to forgive one another.  I'm a Southerner.  I was born in the South.  I forgive the North.  Are you a Northerner?  Can you forgive me? 
I'm also white.  I never owned slaves.  If you are black, can you forgive my ancestors that might of owned slaves and not hold it against me?

The Bible says, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."  If America continues to be divided, it will eventually fall.  It's time it unites, but not on a false premise and not under a corrupt system of government.  What America needs is FREEDOM FOR ALL, and JUSTICE TO EVERY CITIZEN ALIKE.  Only this will erase the memory of the horrible and bloody Civil War.

The Forgotten Doctrine of Today

I've been studying a lot about the Reformation lately, and I’m seeing some correlations between the time of the Protestants and our time period of Apostasy today. 

As most of you know, Martin Luther saw much corruption and abuse in those who were supposed to be “spiritual leaders,” who were using their positions for financial gain.  He willingly chose to stand up against them and their practices in courageously exposing the entire apostate church full of corruption and false doctrine, knowing full well his opposition would bring him conflict, bodily harm, and possibly even death (being burned at the stake as a heretic).  Yet he did it anyway, knowing he was right. 

Today, we remember him for starting the Protestant Reformation, and for the sound, Biblical teaching that he resurrected from the scriptures, that of JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.  That is, that a Sinner is saved by grace through faith alone, without any mixture of works (Eph. 2:8,9).

But how on earth could something like that have been forgotten?  How could a church that claims to be the one that Christ founded (the Roman church makes this claim) have forgotten the most important doctrine of all time, that of salvation?  How could it take 1500 years to pass from the time of Jesus and the apostles, until someone rediscovered this sound, doctrinal truth, and began preaching it again?

The proof that it is true is the fact that it spread like wild-fire, and revival quickly ensued, with countless millions of souls coming to Jesus through faith alone.  But it did not come without a price, as many were mercilessly captured and brutally tortured and burned at the stake by the Roman church, for their belief in this doctrine.  What a cost, sound doctrine.  What a cost, salvation.

As I pondered this, I thought about our age today.  Here we are some 500 years later, and it appears the church of today has also forgotten the most important doctrine of all, that of salvation.  There are still millions of people in the world today in countless religious organizations and denominations that teach faith alone is not sufficient to obtain salvation.  For them it is through works, or a mixture of faith and works.  But, why do they preach this, when the Bible is so clear that it's only through faith alone?

I believe the answer is because we are in a time of which the Scriptures speak of great apostasy in the world, and there are many scoffers, which are following fables instead of the word of God.  History has repeated itself, and gone full circle, and just as the world was in the Dark Ages before the Reformation, so too, is our world in an age of spiritual darkness, in which many have turned from the truth. 

Could it be that the world today needs another Martin Luther?  Someone who will stand up against the corruption, apostasy, liberalization, and apathy of modern Christianity and preach against it, while defending the sound doctrine of salvation?

As I look at my own denomination, I can't help but see much darkness and a political system of corruption that leads to certain groups wanting to attack and ridicule others within their ranks.  I also see the issue of control as many ministers have set up their own little kingdoms in which they Lord over their people and make them subservient to them.  It's almost like it's become another Rome, in which little Popes rule with rods of iron. (Not all churches are like this, but there are many which are).

And as the Roman church of old, many ministers are no longer preaching the doctrine of salvation like their forefathers (through faith in the blood alone), rather they are guilty of turning salvation into a ritualistic program in which Sinners are instructed to DO something, rather than simply BELIEVE in what Jesus Christ DID for them for the salvation of their souls.

Martin Luther stood up against the corruption of his day in his church.  Where are those who are standing up against the apostasy and corruption in our churches today? 

We remember Luther for his teaching of justification by faith.  But faith in what? 

According to the Bible, it is FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.  Romans 3:25-28 states this clearly:

"25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

 Verse 26 says God justifies the Sinner, not by works, but by faith (vs27), without the deeds of the law (vs 28).  But faith in what exactly?  Verse 25 says our faith should be in HIS BLOOD!

This is a simple, but important doctrine!  Yet it seems forgotten by the modern church of today, which preaches many different BLOODLESS GOSPELS, such as:

Make your commitment to Christ

Turn over a new leaf and simply follow Jesus

Confess your Sins and beg God to forgive you

Ask Jesus into your heart

Ask God to forgive you your sins and forgive you 

Repeat the Sinner’s Prayer

All of these have one thing in common, THEY ALL LEAVE OUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST!  For all of these can be done without faith!  And all of these are usually done without faith in the blood.

So where is the new Martin Luther who will stand up courageously and preach the truth amid a world of apostasy?  Sadly, he is not here.  Instead, most ministers choose to simply go along with the crowd in order not to suffer persecution or ridicule.  They choose not to rock the boat, so they simply continue doing what everyone else does, and they seem to forget the fact that SALVATION by FAITH IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST is the most important doctrine of all time!  For without it, souls are destined to an eternal lake of fire!  

I don’t know about you, but I’m determined to preach the BLOOD even though others will not.  Will you join me?  Will you be another Martin Luther?  Or will you let apostasy abound, cowering down to silence like most others, in order not to make waves?