(Matthew 10:32-33)TUESDAY NIGHT, I WAS PART OF AN HOUR-LONG TV PROGRAM THAT AIRS ON
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (TAMPA, FL) COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION. ON THE PROGRAM
WITH ME WAS THE INFAMOUS TAMPA STRIP CLUB OWNER AND AVOWED ATHEIST JOE
REDNER AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TAMPA CHAPTER OF CAIR, AHMED
BEDIER. BEDIER WAS THE MAN LEADING THE CHARGE TO INTIMIDATE CBS INTO
CANCELING THE LONG RUNNING LIVEPRAYER LATE NIGHT PROGRAM TO SILENCE ME FROM
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FALSE RELIGION OF ISLAM.
MANY ASKED WHAT WOULD BE GAINED BY GOING ON A COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION
PROGRAM THAT ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WATCH WITH TWO MEN WHO DESPISE ME AND
LIVE THEIR LIVES REJECTING THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE AND FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
IN ADDITION TO PLANTING SEEDS IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO WOULD BE WATCHING,
IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A STAND FOR GOD'S TRUTH IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
THAT MOST CHRISTIANS HAVE ABANDONED AND CONFRONT THE FALSE AND EVIL BELIEFS
OF REDNER AND BEDIER. YOU CAN WATCH THE COMPLETE HOUR PROGRAM AT:
www.liveprayer.com/tbt1.cfm
In 2007, the Christian faith is now seen by most to be "extreme" and a faith
that is "against" everything. When I preach in churches or at events,
people love that my messages are rarely longer than 20-30 minutes. I have
one key topic, I hone in on it, hit it hard, and than challenge the
listeners. However, today's topic is an issue I could pull a Paul and
preach about all night long. In this nation, the Christian faith is now
seen as "extreme." We are best known for being a faith that is "against"
everything. This has been an effective way the non-believing world has
found to intimidate Believers into silence and keep them out of the
marketplace. Sadly it has worked!
Why are we called extreme? We believe the Bible to be God's inspired,
inerrant Word representing Absolute Truth and our final authority in all
matters. Based on God's Word that it is the ONLY Truth, it makes all of the
other religions, belief systems and philosophies false. Based on God's
Word, it means those who deny faith in Jesus Christ will go to hell. I'm
not the one who calls all of the other religions and philosophies in the
world false, God is! I'm not the one who has determined who will go to
Heaven and hell, God already did!
I get so sick and tired of hearing nonbelievers, and INFURIATED when I hear
Believers say, "Who are you to call someone's religion false? Who are you
to tell someone that they will be going to hell?" I DIDN'T, GOD DID! IT IS
IN THE BIBLE! EITHER WHAT GOD SAID IS TRUE OR IT ISN'T. THE BIBLE SAYS
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH, GOD'S! THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO BE
SAVED, FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST! THAT MEANS THE OTHER RELIGIONS AND
PHILOSOPHIES ARE A LIE AND THAT ANYONE WHO DOES NOT ACCEPT CHRIST BY FAITH
WILL DIE AND GO TO HELL! GOD SAID IT, NOT BILL KELLER!
We are also seen by the nonbelieving world around us as the faith who is
against everything. We are against homosexuality. We are against people
living together outside of marriage. We are against a woman being able to
choose to kill her baby. We are against this and against that. Again, it
is not us that is against these things, it is God! We didn't dream up a
list of things to be against, they come from the pages of the Bible! We are
simply taking a stand against the things God is against and calls sin in the
Bible.
Because this world we live in has rejected God, the Truth of the Bible, and
faith in Jesus Christ, they have been successful in labeling Christians as
extreme. In the United States just 50 years ago, Christianity was
considered mainstream. In a single generation it has gone from being
mainstream to extreme. It is a faith that has gone from being loved to
reviled, accepted to ridiculed. How did that happen? Gutless and
compromised spiritual leaders! The flock is only as good as their shepherd.
There are too many pastors and those God called to spiritual leadership who
have compromised their calling by denying the Truth of the Bible or by
getting caught up in building their own kingdom instead of God's Kingdom.
The liberal theology that has crept into the church over the past 40 years
is why you now have so-called churches condoning and glorifying gross sins
like homosexuality and abortion. That can only happen when you deny the
Truth of the Bible like so many churches now do. The heart of the church is
God's Word, and when you deny what the Bible truly is, that church is no
better than the local strip club! You also have too many pastors and
leaders who are more worried about the temporal pleasures of this world than
the eternal work of the Kingdom. Gutless pastors who proudly proclaim on
nationwide television they don't preach about sin. Supposed men of God who
are more worried about selling books than saving souls. Men and women of
God who rather than taking the Gospel to the world that needs it, hide in
the "Christian trough" preaching to the choir so they can buy a new private
jet, a 5th mansion, build bigger buildings!
So it is no wonder why so many men and women who know the Lord go to work,
go to school, play sports, are involved in different hobbies, face people
every day out in the marketplace, and will NEVER even admit to being a
Christian, let alone take a stand for Christ and the Truth of the Bible!
They are petrified at being called intolerant, hateful, extreme, a bigot,
and ridiculed, scorned, and abused for being a follower of Christ and
standing up for the Truth of God's Word in a group of non-believers. So
they simply shut up, INTIMIDATED INTO SILENCE! Why are sinners who serve
satan so bold and vocal in declaring their lies while the children of God
who possess the only Truth there is sit back in silence???
Is there a price to pay for speaking up for Christ? Absolutely!!! The cold
hard reality is that few pastors and very few Christians are willing to pay
that price. So why are we surprised we now live in a nation that mocks our
faith, ridicules us for our beliefs, and continues to do everything they can
to eliminate God, the Bible, and our Lord from even being mentioned in the
public square! Look at what happened to Paul for taking his stand for the
Lord. He was nearly killed many times before being martyred. Thrown in
jail. Despised and hated everywhere he went. HE DIDN'T CARE! HE
UNDERSTOOD IT WASN'T HIM THEY HATED, IT WAS CHRIST. Look at the Old
Testament prophets. Same thing. The people hated them because of the
message they delivered from God. Look at Steven in Acts 7. Literally
stoned to death for simply declaring the Gospel. How many countless men and
women over the ages have literally died for their faith!
Is there a price to pay for speaking up? Yes and the simple fact is, most
won't pay it even though Jesus paid it all for them!!!
That was what the program Tuesday night was about. Speaking up for the
Truth. As I sat between Redner and Bedier, separated by only a few inches,
I made this observation. On my left was Redner, simply an empty shell. His
life is tied up in being Joe Redner, the owner of a popular Tampa strip club
and a self-professed anarchist and atheist. He is truly a sad man who has
adopted these lies from hell to justify selling women and in the process,
has literally sold his soul to satan. An empty shell with a hard heart that
will die and burn in hell unless that granite-hard heart is softened and he
turns to Jesus.
There is really nothing more to say about Redner. As you will hear on the
program, he is simply a typical fool who says there is no God, of course has
rejected the Bible, and does not believe in Jesus as his Savior. We have
dealt with atheism often. All I can do is ask you to pray for Joe. Jesus
died for his sins just like he died for yours and mine. I pray daily and I
know many in this area do, that Joe will come to know Jesus. With God, all
things are possible.
On my right was Bedier, a man who is the epitome of pure evil. I can say
without any hesitation that if this man could get away with it, he would
take a sword, cut off my head, never even blink or think twice about it, and
go eat dinner. I do pray for Bedier each day. Even though I have no doubt
this man would like to see me dead, God loves him and wants to see him
repent and turn from this false religion and to faith in Christ. The Bible
says we are to pray for our enemies, to love them, and while that is not
possible in the flesh it is possible in the strength God can give us. So
please pray for this man to come to know Jesus as his personal savior.
Ahmed Bedier is an advocate for a false religion of hate and death that is
empowered by satan himself. He calls me a bigot and what I say hate speech
because I have the audacity to tell people the truth about the false
religion of Islam. He takes great offense to the fact I cite from the very
writings of Islam that Mohammed was a murdering pedophile. When I asked him
numerous times to deny that he wasn't, he went into a long diatribe about
how he was the head of state and in that capacity he did kill people He
admitted it! He also admitted he took a wife at the age of 6, but added
that she may have been 18. The writings of Islam say that this girl was 6
when he married her and 9 when he had sex with her to consummate the
marriage.
You will see as the program continues, Bedier's personal attacks on me
became more intense. Saying often I was a convicted felon, which of course
I pointed out was a great 20-year old story of God's grace that over 30
million people worldwide have heard over the past 2 decades. He of course
used the same tired stereotypes that I only do this for money. He said I
was not only Islamophobic, but an anti-Semite for telling Jews they will go
to hell without Jesus, and anti-Mormon for telling Mormons they are part of
a satanic cult. He is the typical bully who is used to people being
intimidated and backing down, not fighting back!
That is my message to you today! Don't let these bullies of the world, the
homosexuals, the Muslims, the Mormons, the atheists, or anyone else,
intimidate you into silence! FIGHT BACK! Why are they allowed to speak and
we aren't? Why do you think you have airports every day adding footbaths to
accommodate Muslims who can't wash their feet and pray at home, but have to
do that at the airport now! Why do you think we will be having many school
NOT celebrating Christmas because it offends Muslims and other false
religions and those who deny God even exists? GUTLESS PASTORS, GUTLESS
CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE BEEN BULLIED AND INTIMIDATED INTO SILENCE!!!
I love you an care about you so much. They took a few live calls on the
program and you will hear one that epitomized why I was there and what I am
sharing with you today. The woman clamed to be a Christian and was
lambasting me for being such a poor representative of Christ. She said she
had many friends who where Muslims. I asked her if she had loved her friend
enough to tell them they would die and go to hell without Jesus. She said
that was not for her to decide. She is right, it isn't up to her or me or
you, it is up to God. This just in, HE ALREADY DID! IT IS IN THE BOOK!
YOU EITHER BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR YOU DON'T! IF YOU ARE A FOLLOWER OF JESUS
CHRIST, YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY A FOLLOWER OF THE BIBLE!!!
The other comment I hear often and it was brought up over and over on the
program, is that I am not acting like Jesus. They say Jesus would never
tell people they were gong to hell. Really? I LOVE people who have
rejected Jesus, don't even believe Jesus is who He is, but love to use Jesus
as their example. I reminded them of the fact it was for telling the Truth
about who He was that Jesus was put to death. It was Jesus who said, "I am
the way, the truth, and the life, and NOBODY comes to the Father but through
me." That pretty much eliminates all of the false religions and cults in
the world and means the ONLY way to be saved is through faith in Jesus
Christ, if you believe what Jesus said! I also believe Jesus in speaking to
Nicodemus in John Chapter 3 talked about people NOT PERISHING but have
everlasting life if they believed in Him!
JESUS LOVED PEOPLE ENOUGH TO TELL THEM THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR ETERNAL SOULS,
AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS, YOU WILL LOVE PEOPLE ENOUGH TO TELL
THEM THE TRUTH THAT THEY WILL DIE AND GO TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY UNLESS
THEY ACCEPT HIM INTO THEIR HEARTS AND LIVES BY FAITH!
I want to challenge you and encourage you today to take some time and pray.
Pray and ask God how you can be more bold in sharing your faith with others.
Pray and ask God to give you the opportunities to take a real stand for Him
and for His Truth in the midst of this unbelieving world. The reason we see
unbridled sin loose in our world today is that those who know the Lord and
His Truth have been intimidated into silence and WE have allowed sin to take
over. Over the course of one generation in this country, we have went from
being right to wrong in the eyes of the masses. People no longer hold the
Bible to be what it is, God's Truth for men to live by, and people like
myself who go into the public arena to share that Truth now look like the
extremists while those who hold to other beliefs look normal. THE TRUTH HAS
BEEN EXCHANGED FOR THE LIE EXACTLY AS THE BIBLE SAID WOULD HAPPEN IN THE
LAST DAYS!
I know that every day men plot to destroy Liveprayer.com. We have two
full-time employees whose full time job is to deal with all of the targeted
attacks on our Internet infrastructure designed to wipe us off the Internet.
Tools of satan like Bedier have been working tirelessly since day one to
eliminate the Liveprayer TV program, and those attempts have only become
more focused as the years have gone on. Based on the number of death
threats I receive each month, I know there are people out there who want to
permanently silence my voice. I have been telling you for over 8 years now
that simply sharing the Truth of God's Word in the public square will one
day soon be against the law. This is why I am so passionate about what I do
each day. Every day I am alive, every day Liveprayer.com is online, every
day we do a TV program, the Truth of the Word is being heard by this lost
and hurting generation around the world and people are finding everlasting
life through faith in Jesus Christ.
For those who still haven't figured it out yet, this is not about Bill
Keller, it is about Jesus Christ. I don't do this for money or fame or I
would be doing what most the high profile ministers do. I live month to
month depending on God to move on people's hearts to support His work here
and my fame is amongst those who hate the Truth and want to see me dead.
But that is OK since I know God will watch over me just like He watched over
Paul, the Old Testament prophets, and so many others over the years. He
will not let anything happen to me until my work here is complete. So my
only job each day is to be obedient and faithful to that work. Part of that
work is to challenge and motivate you to rise up and take your stand for
Christ and let your voice be heard. Jesus said, "Whosoever therefore shall
confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in
heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before
my Father which is in heaven."
