Across the country and from many overseas, we consistently hear from folks that have 'seen the light' based on Acts 26:18 - To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

These folks have seen the joys of the Risen Saviour by rightly dividing their King James Bible and believing all the Epistles written by Paul are written TO us today and that the rest of the KJB is written FOR us. We do not negate or throw out any of the KJB; however, we know that Romans to Philemon is TO us as Gentiles and to follow the risen Saviour we must follow what Paul teaches.  Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.  Philippians 4:9

These are people who have had "Paul and his writings about the Risen Saviour" 'enter' into their lives.  In other words, their lives have changed on the 'outside' so folks truly see a 'real and sincere' Christian.  I Thessalonians 1:9,10 - For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

My favorite verse is II Cor 1:12  for our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the GRACE of God , we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. The key to living in this world is the GRACE OF GOD, God's grace gives us the strength to live right and to do right in this world.

In EPHESIANS 5:7-8 Paul tells us not to be partakers, and to walk as children of light. In EPHESIANS 5:15-16 Paul tells us to walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. In Philippians 2:14-15 Paul tells us do all things without murmurings and disputings, that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the MIDST of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. In 2 TIMOTHY 2:3-4 Paul tells us to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. TITUS 2:11-12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. In COLOSSIANS 4:5 Paul also tells us to walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

On the other hand the trib saints will have to keep themselves UNSPOTTED from the world  JAMES 1:27. In 2 Peter 1:4 the trib saints will have to escape the corruption that is in the world during the tribulation. Also in 2 Peter 2:20they will also have to escape the pollutions of the world. So called christians in the baptist crowd think they can live a life unspotted from the world, if they get dirty from the world they will confess their sins, or if they are living a holy and sinless life they expect God's blessings. In the tribulation their salvation will depend upon them to be unspotted from the world.  Again the key is God's grace, we as biblical christians abound in his grace.

Gods will for us today is to follow the risen Saviour according to paul, and to study Paul's doctrine and learn how to please GOD in the midst of an evil and perverse world. Paul really cared for his people and was concerned about their walk and testimony in this world.

    Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.  -  Galatians 4:28,29
    You're preaching in grandma's church which is no longer Baptist.  The members likely bear no resemblance to the members of old.  The grievous wolves are biding their time and speaking perverse things to lead disciples away after themselves.  They've followed men most of their spiritual lives and, in spite of your excellent teaching, their roots in the Bible have no depth.  They oppose themselves.  They loved to have their ears tickled and were delighted to hear something new
    Some of the wolves are out here on the internet, and undoubtedly they have made inroads into some of the members.
    The NW is populated with slow bellies needing sharp rebuke.  Their the wine tasting, Starbuck's loving part of the country second only to the capitol of San Francisco.  If you take that road you'll not have long before you're run out of town.  I know whereof I speak.  I preached a hard message to a bunch of Baptist preachers at one of their conferences.  At lunch none sat within 10 feet of my wife and I, and haven't spoken to us since.  Some impudent man saw what Paul said and tried to teach the "old pastors" about how missions work ought to be done.

• If what Paul says is correct, then, the GC as given by Matthew 28, then it’s already fulfilled.
• Colossians 1.23 - “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which of the gospel, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.”
• Colossians 1.5,6a - “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world;…"
• So, according to Paul, the GC has been fulfilled.
• So, at best, the “regular” Evangelical and Fundamental churches are trying to earn approval of God over and above what Christ has accomplished in their stead. At worst, it’s the greed for personal accomplishment, accolades, recognition and mammon.
• The Sunday School message from 08/09 that I’m listening to at the moment is great stuff.  You just said “in Ohio, they are deceived by religion… you’ve got that right!

• 1. God's truth is truth no matter what anyone thinks about it or believes it.
• 2. Tradition, philosophy, religions, denominations and man often oppose God’s truth.
• 3. RD, Paul and Risen Saviour refutes and corrects the so called confusing and commonly held theological positions. Such as how can a liar or a murderer receive Eternal Life. It would be easy to show through not RD that anyone can lose salvation and become unquickened.
• 4. People will never really grow and be able to live a proper and Godly manner of life until they get a hold of Bible salvation. It is the crux of it all and the starting point. If they are not quickened then all the teaching and preaching in the world means NOTHING.
• 5. People, religious people need to see the folly of heir dead denominationalism and religion. The tradition and family ties are all so strong on many. Most are born into a certain religion, no matter what the denomination.
• 6. People must understand salvation before learning anything else.
• 7. Look at the years of teaching in Touchet to folks, many of whom seemed and pretended, yet were only playing the religion game, playing church putting on a church face as they talked about church faces.
• 8. Could those men be quickened and act like they do knowing the truth that they have been exposed to? I submit that they are not, although they could be; but their actions speak louder than their pretended words. Imitators only imitate and they can not produce good fruit in the home in the long run; that is just the way it all plays out.
• 9. Of course, you can only preach the truth, but you can NEVER make them believe and live it within their home.

• Hey, I was on the street Saturday and a guy from another church was there.  He preached on not drinking and doing drugs.
• Okay, good for people not to do those things.
• He then told me he was called to preach.
• I said, "Like where?"
• "Here on the streets," he said. "God did not tell him where else yet."
• He asked me was I called to preach. I said, "Yes! in II Timothy 4:2."
• He gave me the strangest look.
• I started to ask him about rightly dividing and His pastor grabbed him.

• I was pleased to read of the change from Touchet Baptist Church to King James Bible Church.  And I say, “It’s about time.”
• Since I have been saved (16 years now), I have gone to nothing but independent, “fundamental” Baptist churches (some great and some not so good), and I can say that the Baptists left people like you and I behind long ago.
• They seem to have their own agenda, and it is not Christ’s agenda, and surely not Paul’s.
• Although much that is in the four Gospels is repeated in Paul’s epistles; Paul seems to act as a filter for us today—filtering out what is for us and what is not for us as Christians.  Funny how God has these things all planned out from the beginning.
• And although I, like you, read the Gospels, I realize that God was talking primarily to a Jewish audience, and I am not Jewish.
• As for those that will oppose you and label you as “hypers”: there were a few times in Acts when Paul said that he was clean of their blood and had nothing more to do with them, not because he was an angry rabble-rouser, but because he had better things to do than spend time arguing with those who had already decided they were not going to listen.
• He knew there were too many people out there that would receive his message to bother with those who had already made the decision not to. You will probably receive that same opposition and will have to make the same decision.
• I, myself, have frittered away valuable time—not to mention heartache and pain—on people who were not going to change their minds.  They were sold on their false religions and false beliefs, and nothing I said was going to change their minds.
• Fine.  I don’t want to see anyone go to Hell, least of all family members and people I care about, but if that is the decision they have willfully made, so be it.
• There are people out there waiting for someone to tell them about Christ, and time cannot be wasted on people who have already made their decision to deny and reject Him.
• Though you and I are separated by many many miles, I have felt closer to you at many times than my own father and brother, and I think of, and pray for, you often.  Please keep up the wonderful work you are doing.  I only wish there was someone closer to home like you.

• I was just thinking about you...
• I am into your new sermons ,the one on the curse was very educational.
• I say this for my road to Christ started in Genesis and to go back and learn from that book again is a blessing.
• I did not realize your move to celina meant a home church, that is very inspiring to me.
• I have mentioned that the churches locally are lacking in proper scriptural doctrine.
• Learning about Paul as our apostle makes one take a hard look at what is taught and what is needed to be learned.
• So keep up the fight ,you have shown the world that the church can truly be where the spirit of the Lord is being preached.  It is not the building but the believer.

• My intention was to study to show that we can no longer attempt to apply to our church Scripture which is to Israel.  We have unknowingly and ignorantly entered almost into replacement theology without even realizing it.  Looking into my sermon filing cabinet, would you be surprised that I have much much more sermons from OT and Jewish NT writers than I do from Paul.  (Does this surprise me, not now!  I know why that is.  We have been duped by the devil!)
• If we apply Israel's promises to the church we have essentially done away with the Jew (replacement theology and liberation theology, and we might as well be singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot", then maybe some of our underground railroad friends from the north can come and rescue us off of the plantation); and we also have done away with the Jew's kingdom restoration (post and a-millenialism) and we might as well throw away our King James Bibles because with all the spiritualizing of literal Words (not thoughts), we make the Bible meaningless.
• And then no one knows what anything means, and then they have to get a "man of their god" to teach them what the "originals" says (which they have never seen, so how would they know, anyway, what nonsense and gullabillity in the people to believe that "original" baloney).  True the "Message" so-called bible is written in the mess age!
• So, me and my family looked at some of our Heaven hymns, and what did we find.  We found what most people think, that when you die you go to Heaven and get your harp and crown and that's it, for all eternity! (No Jew, No Kingdom, No White Throne, No Tribulation, No new Heavens and New Earth)  And that's what we've been singing.
• We sing about things that are fairy tales, and then we preach about things that don't apply to us.
• I am praying that The Lord will show His rightly divided Truth as Paul told us to study in 2 Tim 2:15.

• I have been taught that the Philadelphia church age was supposed to be the great commission soul winning church age of the great awakenings, the great missionary churches.
• If that was true then why do many now call this the Laodecian church age, if they are still doing what they say belongs to the Philadelphia church age which they say is gone?
• I think we have (me included) used this Laodecian, luke warm, not hot nor cold, spew you out of my mouth, stuff to scare people into doing what we want them to do!  But they didn't do it, did they?  Hmmmm
• Boy, I have tried to get people to make decisions, and decisions are good, but I have went about it the wrong way.  My way, and not The Bible way.  I've done that old paths thing and tried to get people to fulfill the great commission and all the scare tactics and didn't even realize it.
• I'm glad for the Grace of The Risen Jesus and though I might have been knocked down, stumbled, tripped up (down actually), I'm gonna just get up and LIVE!
• We have tried to be Jews, I guess I have been a messenger of deceit following the god of this world!
• Remarkable, and God didn't kill me in His chastening wrath, as I had been taught that He will do to preachers who fall into false doctrine.
• I'm glad He lets me learn the truth.  I'm glad He teaches me the truth.

• We are seeing more clearly today than we did before rightly dividing the King James Bible, and through the apostle Paul.
• The children went to the youth conference and came back with a new discernment on what went on there (music and emotional stuff and OT stuff for today and gimmicks and skits and fun, fun, fun, and many decisions being made, etc.).
• We went to Texas to preach and came back with a new discernment of some of the things they did there (foot washing and some emotional music stuff).  They didn't do this while we were there but they told us about how good it was.  Huh?
• I've been preaching Paul's gospel for living our risen lives and it sure is so much easier than preachin' for decisions.  I don't feel much like a failure any more because folks haven't come down to the altar.
• (altar?, the place of death). Huh?
• What was I thinking?  So, we come to church to die?  What is that?
• Some folks still have the sour faces, but most are really coming around and they look like they are enjoying coming to church.  They're even laughing a little now!

• Your sermon "Already Gone" was good stuff and right on time for me.
• I've been asking our own folks personally why they thought their children went bad, after they raised them in church.
• I don't want my children to go bad.
• I'm glad you preached this message before I could get sidetracked by this wrongly divided and even non-King James book by Ham. (So it really isn't even divided at all if it's not KJB)
• Thanks

• This is great!
• What a life changer!
• I had tried to keep all the rules, and boy was I very self righteous! (My whole family)
• I guess we all were, Paul is straightening all that out for me and my family.  (2 Tim 3:16 reproof and correction)
• (We were always told that God would do bad things to us if we did not DO the Truth,  WE WEREN'T EVEN  TAUGHT THE TRUTH!!!!)
• I hope the church catches the gospel of grace, God's imputed righteousness.
• It makes everything so much better, the more excellent way!
• And we now have a foundation upon which to build.  Amazing.
• I heard that from 1 Cor 3 so many times, and I heard and read Galatians, so many times and it never clicked, because it was always preached from the wrong vantage point of earning righteousness!  It was law!!!!!
• WOW!

1. Pastors are more concerned with what the "brethren" in their camp think, rather than what God has written.
2. 99% of teaching is on tithing, bringing people to church and following the Pastor. Not rightly dividing, not how to understand the Bible, how to lead your home or how to live to please God.
3. The church building is considered a "temple", not a place for the church to assemble. where we are to hear from God.
4. Music started out as hymns alone and four years later ends up hillbilly and canned CCM.
5. Used as a place to draw strength through the music and preaching that stirs the emotions instead of the Bible, thus causing you to have to rely on the pastor for your spiritual strength instead of knowing God's Word and drawing strength from the security you find there.
6. You are discouraged from learning the Bible yourself, everything had to come from  the pastor.
7. I realized that all that was expected from anyone was to "play" your part and don't get too "serious" about it.
8.  It all boils down to .....The main concern is the growth in numbers instead of growth in the members.

I quit attending "church" from 1993-2008 for the following top ten reasons;

10. Tired of being told if I wasn't street preaching every Friday night I wasn't spiritual enough.
9. Pastor wanted unlimited authority over my house and unlimited submission from me.
8.  Pastor spent more time trying to lead people to Christ with his "salvation" sermons on Sunday than feeding the people.
7.  Pastor spent more time on teaching what the various cult denominations taught than he spent teaching the bible.
6.  Cliques
5.  Gossipy women (and men but only during corporate prayer).
4.  501 (C) 3 entanglements
3.  Church is inferior to the US Government in the fact that it (US Government) has replaced the church by tending to widows, orphans, and elderly, thereby becoming insignificant and creating an atmosphere of tolerance for the lazy and welfare state nullifying Paul's commandments .
2.  Pastor's focus was on numbers with the visitation, bus, and outreach ministries while the people were dying in record numbers.
And the number one reason why I left the church and chose to live without that essential institution;
1.  I am tired of hearing what Peter S Ruckman thinks.

Paulson response:
     II Peter 3:9?  Not a problem, even during the Trib, God is not willing that any should perish.   And in the trib, repentance will finally mean what preachers today want it to mean – stop doing wrong!  Read verse 10. Also, verse 9 is a statement FOR all time, but that is not being spoken to us.  It is a fact about God.  Like Hebrews  4:12 – not written to us, but we still learn from it.  We can NOT take II Peter 3:9 and say to folks that is TO us and then say the rest of that chapter / book, etc. is not.

His follow up email response:
        That is when they call me a hyper divider,  I was told either all scripture is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness or it is not, so what it is it - all scripture or some of it, I said I in the context of that verse it means all. Then we were interrupted and never got back into again.  Trying to change the minds of the people / Pastor at our church scares me, they will say they study the KJB, they say they rightly divide but when I bring up Paul only WOW should have said I wanted to do infant baptism while I’m at it. they think I’m a hyper divider. It gets tough.