WesleyGospel Ministries

²⁰ Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: ²¹ “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. ²³ Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
–Colossians 2:20-23 (NIV)–

The strict ascetic nature of the heresy is seen here. These prohibitions seem to carry OLD TESTAMENT CEREMONIAL LAWS to the extreme…a harsh ascetism that brutally misused the body. Paul’s analysis is that such practices are worthless because they totally fail to control sinful desires. —NIV Study Bible

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Elizabeth Rice Handford, Your Clothes Say It for You (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

Stanley Gundry, ed. Five Views on Sanctification (Zondervan, 1987), chs. 1-3.

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).

Christcore in effect ya know what I’m sayin’
I’m straight up slave to Christ and man I’m not playin’
I’m hatin’ the devil to the end of this age
I’m preachin’ the Gospel boldly in the last days
I take tha bass and blast it out ‘cho speakas
We take them eardrums and we make ’em a little weaka
Screaming truth, raging compassion

Dark
Darkness surrounds you cold
Lose your head, save your soul

Apocalyptic vibes I’m sendin’ out
The times so close at hand without a doubt
Flood waters rushing in, you’re suffocated
Don’t know what’s goin’ on, your soul emaciated

Dark
Darkness surrounds you cold
Lose your head, save your soul

His destruction will overwhelm you
Like a hunter over the hunted

You’ve got numbers on your head and numbers on your hand
There’s no escape for you to the Promised Land
As I said before, the time is close at hand
Your life is washed away like the sand

–Travail, “Darkness”–

I’m touching the void
I seek and destroy
To be reborn

I’m touching the void
The ghost of Troy
Burned and destroyed

I’m touching the void
Bleed and destroy
The sacrifice of war

I’m touching the void
I creep and destroy
The paradise lost

I’m touching the void
I breed and destroy
No more idols to burn

I’m touching the void
I scream and destroy
I follow the storm

I’m touching the void
I’ve killed them before
I’ll kill them again

Void
The return of the wicked
Void
The revenge of the sickest
Void

I’m touching the void
From stone and crust
To ashes and dust

I’m touching the void
The sycophants will fall
In the doom of it all

–Soulfly, “Touching the Void”–

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In the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; 
it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
and it shall stand forever.
–Daniel 2:44 (NKJV)–

The kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, 
and He shall reign forever and ever!
–Revelation 11:15 (NKJV)–

Top of the mind for Rev. Wilkerson on the subject of preaching against sin—adultery, pornography, drug addiction, and alcoholism. –J.B.

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David Wilkerson, “Wild Donkeys.”

—. Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth (World Challenge, 1985), ch. 2.

—. Racing Toward Judgment (Spire Books, 1976).

—.  Hope for Homosexuals (Teen Challenge, 1964).

Dr. John R. Rice, Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord, 1978).

—. Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1985).

—. What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938).

—. The Double Curse of Booze (Sword of the Lord, 1960).

—. Tobacco: Is Its Use Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 2000).

Dr. Jeff Amsbaugh, Pay-Per-View: The Double Cost of Pornography (Sword, 2008).

Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (Banner of Truth Trust, 1965), 2.7.

Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory, “Directions Against Fornication” (1.5).

I dreamed that I was speaking with a Pentecostal pastor. He said that while he has deep respect for Paul Washer, there’s no way that he could preach against sin the way he does. He’s aware that lots of Pentecostal pastors criticize Washer because of this. I thought, Man, these guys are such cowards. And I was glad that I hadn’t been deceived by such a false ministry concept. Then I thought about that timeless pamphlet Why Preach Against Sin? by Dr. John R. Rice, and I woke up. –J.B.

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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
–Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)–

⁴ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: ⁵ But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ⁸ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
–Genesis 4:4-8 (KJV)–

Tim gets born again at a Christian summer camp during high school, but when he comes back to his public high school, he realizes that Jesus has become more important to him than anything else in his life. He doesn’t want to hang out with his worldly non-Christian friends anymore. He wants to make new friends with the youth group at his church. Eventually he starts to date a popular girl from the youth group, but finds out that she’s shallow, vain, prideful, and doesn’t really care about living for God; she’s just into the youth group for the social aspect and the safety it provides. His dad, who’s a rich secular humanist, gives his son a hard time about his faith, and keeps insisting that he’s joined a “cult,” even though he’s just a Bible believing Christian with a new desire to live right. His dad constantly pressures him to backslide, to try and have a “normal” social life, and party with his worldly non-Christian friends. His former friends persecute him for becoming a Christian; and get into trouble with drugs, fornication, crime, and the police. The friendship evangelism concept confuses him (Psalm 1:1; James 4:4). This reinforces Tim’s decision to mainly stick with Christian friends and walk on the straight and narrow path. But he finds out his so-called Christian girlfriend has no heart for the lost; and that the other youth group kids feel the same way. They have no heart for evangelism: they’re just into themselves. His former best friend, who was a non-Christian, goes through some family trouble as his parents get divorced. He slowly and reluctantly expresses a desire to go to the youth group. Tim reaches out to him and invites him to go on a camping trip with the youth group. But while on the trip, his friend gets lost on whitewater rapids; and Tim goes after him, risking his life to save his friend. This moves his friend so much that he also gives his heart to Jesus. There’s three Keith Green songs in this film. –J.B.

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WesleyGospel, “The Evils of the Public School System.”

AiG, “Christian Education vs. Public School.”

J. Gresham Machen, Education, Christianity, and the State (Trinity Foundation, 2004).

Jeff Farnham, The Octopus of Humanism (Sword of the Lord, 2009).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946).

—. Evolution or the Bible–Which? (Sword of the Lord, 1963).

John Stamper, Conflicted (Master Books, 2023).

IndoctriNation (Gunn Productions, 2011).

Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in sheep’s clothing
but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
–Matthew 7:15 (ESV)–

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Dr. Norman Geisler, Signs and Wonders (Tyndale House, 1988), ch. 5: “Miracle or Magic? Learning to Discern Human Fraud.”

Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020), ch. 22.

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022), ch. 15.

Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century (Thomas Nelson, 2009), chs. 21-24.

Kathryn Kuhlman, Captain LeVrier Believes in Miracles (Dimension Books, 1973).