Since receiving so many emails from brothers and sisters in Christ who are “churchless,” I have been posting “A Sermon for Sunday” at the end of my articles. I really just began doing this, and the preaching I have been sharing is that of Dr. Adrian Rogers.

Pastor Adrian went home to be with his beloved Jesus in 2005. There is no other pastor who touches my soul, or stirs me and causes me to feel closer to Jesus than Pastor Adrian.

He has been walking with the Lord in heaven for 13 years, yet his sermons continue to nourish and bless the brethren. These sermons are still instrumental in bringing the lost to Christ.

This is the last video just hours before Pastor Adrian was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia from which he died and came face to face with the One he loved.

Last Message From Pastor Adrian  <click to watch

His love for Israel

Pastor Adrian was very vocal about his love for Israel and the Jewish people:

Sermon on Pastor Adrian’s Love for Israel  <Click to watch

Dr. Adrian Rogers’ Memorial Service

Pastor Adrian’s Memorial Service  <Click to watch

I have often said that when I get to heaven, I know that first I will see Jesus. I don’t know if I will be able to stand. The thought of seeing the One who knows me best, yet loves me most, and gave His life for me – well, it takes my breath away just thinking of it.

Secondly, I long to see my father, whom the Lord allowed me the privilege of leading to Him so many years ago.

Thirdly, I wish to meet Dr. Adrian Rogers. I just want to hug him and thank him for loving the Lord and His Word, and sharing that love with the world.

I believe that Pastor Adrian Rogers was the last well-known Baptist minister to teach about the Rapture of the church. He preached boldly from the book of Revelation. Oh, how we need that today!

From bpnews.net

November 16th, 2005

In his final days, Adrian Rogers told those gathered around him, ‘I am at perfect peace.’

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)–Even in the face of death, friends say, Adrian Rogers exemplified the Christian faith he spent a lifetime sharing.

The longtime pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis and the three-time Southern Baptist Convention president died Nov. 15 at the age of 74 following a battle with pneumonia and cancer.

But days earlier — before he slipped into unconsciousness — Rogers delivered a message to those gathered in his hospital room that won’t soon be forgotten. At the time, doctors were preparing to place Rogers on a ventilator, which would prevent him from speaking.

Steve Gaines, Rogers’ successor at Bellevue, was in the room.

“The last thing I heard him say was, ‘I am at perfect peace,'” Gaines, who succeeded Rogers this year, told Baptist Press.

Gaines and others then left the room, but Gaines decided to go back in to see Rogers “one more time.” By then, Rogers was on the ventilator, unable to talk, surrounded by doctors and nurses.

“His eyes and my eyes caught one another,” Gaines said. “He looked right at me and he gave me a thumbs up. That’s just him — he was Mr. Positive. He was an awesome guy.”

Rogers died just five weeks after leading a one-day preaching conference in Naples, Fla., as part of his newly founded Pastor Training Institute. It was the first time he had led such a conference. In hindsight, it also was the last.

“I can’t believe [he’s dead],” Gaines said. “It just happened so quickly…. I believed with all my heart that when he went into the hospital just a little over a week ago, that he would be coming home, that this was just sort of a temporary setback, that they would hook him up with some oxygen and he would be OK. And that’s just not what happened.”

Yet in the few short weeks that Gaines was Rogers’ pastor (Rogers kept his membership at Bellevue), Rogers provided a shining example of both leadership and humility.

Immediately before Gaines preached his first sermon as Bellevue pastor Sept. 11, Rogers washed Gaines’ feet on the Bellevue platform, using a basin of water and a towel as Gaines sat in the pastor’s chair. It was all Rogers’ idea.

“At first we were going to do it in a private time, in just a simple way,” Gaines said. “He did not do that for a show or anything like that. But he and I both prayed about it, and we both felt like it would really be a wonderful thing for the church to experience.”

Rogers also placed a cloth mantle on Gaines to symbolize the passing of the torch.

“After the foot washing, Dr. Rogers … called my wife up and his wife up, and they laid hands on us and prayed for us,” Gaines said.

Foot washing, Gaines said, “symbolizes the heart of a servant” and is modeled after Jesus’ washing of his disciples’ feet.

Rogers, Gaines said, epitomized humility.

“He was never impressed with himself. He never was one to brag about himself,” Gaines said. “The Bible says, ‘Let another person’s lips praise you and not your own.’ He never, ever brought attention to himself in any way. I believe that one of the reasons that God exalted him is because he humbled himself. That’s just the way he lived.

“He was aware, obviously, that God had done great things through him. But he always gave Jesus the glory.”

Paul Pressler, the retired judge who was a leader in the Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence, said Rogers “was always a reluctant candidate” for SBC president.

“He loved preaching more than leading the convention, which spoke to his humility,” Pressler said.

Amazingly, Rogers’ first great-grandchild was born the day before he died, in a hospital across town. The family, Gaines said, had prayed that the birth would not take place the same day Rogers died.

“And the Lord honored that,” he said.

In addition to his great-grandchild, Rogers is survived by nine grandchildren, four children, and his wife, Joyce Rogers, whom Rogers often referred to as his “grade school sweetheart.” Bellevue Baptist church members were known to look up to the Rogers as the model Christian couple. Joyce Rogers still has a love note that her then-future husband dropped on her desk in sixth grade.

They met in fourth grade and married in college.

“She’s the only person he’s ever dated, and vice versa,” Gaines said. “I just talked to her. She’s doing well, but it’s hard.”

Gaines’ sermon Nov. 20 will be on heaven, but not because the church’s former pastor died.

“That was just the way the sermons fell,” he said. ” … I had planned this sermon series back in August, and had no idea at that time he would be … in heaven. That’s just the way the Lord arranged it.” — Michael Foust, Baptist Press.

He ran the race and certainly finished well!

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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Try as you may, Marxist/Leftist ideologies are NOT compatible with Biblical Christianity.

Those who attempt to mix the two are actually rewriting Scripture to fit their world view. In essence, you have become your own god.  If you once held a Biblical world view but were seduced by the warm and fuzzy Social Justice gospel (yes –small g), then you do need to examine your “walk” with God.

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). (Emphasis added)

True Bible-believing Christians are Hated by this world.

Did you expect to be embraced by a lost world because you call yourself a Christian?

Let me rephrase that:

Did you expect to be loved and accepted by an unbelieving world if you call yourself a Bible-Believing Evangelical Israel-loving Christian?  Did you join a movement of people who use “Christian” in the description of their “church” but deny God-breathed Scripture as inerrant and infallible?

Are you telling others that the literal interpretation of the Word of God borders on idol worship?

“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,  and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:12-17). (Emphasis added)

You have been Deluded by the Enemy of our Souls.

Have you not read this from God’s Word?:

“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?” (James 4:4-5).

Those who pervert the Word of God are His Enemies.

So, you don’t agree with the Creator of the Universe. You feel that Scripture should change and keep up with the times to be relevant, right?

Oh, you are SO wrong.

God and His Word NEVER change.  

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19).

The hundreds of Messianic prophecies which have already been fulfilled are proof of the Scripture above.

Your Heart is NOT to be trusted.

You want so much to be called a “Christian” but your heart is telling you that perhaps God was a bit harsh when speaking of homosexuality and sexual sin.

In your desire to show love to the homosexual community, you follow those movements who use the terminology “All inclusive” and “Gay affirming.” Even “Gay empowerment.”

Do you not understand that you are harming these people by NOT telling them the truth from the Word of God?  You are not loving them enough to tell them the truth which will save their souls from hell.

Abortion

Do you understand that abortion is murder? If you march with Pro-death groups – do you actually think that the Lord is okay with the slaughter of babies? Can you not see the slippery slope of turning against God’s Word and joining hands with the world? That is what you are doing if you do not believe that God’s Word is ABSOLUTE TRUTH and is never to be challenged.

Hating Israel is almost always found in the aberrant “churches”

It’s no coincidence that those who do not adhere to the Word of God (literally) also fall into the “Christian Palestinian Syndrome” which I call it.

You see, if you begin to pick and choose which Scriptures you like, yet ignore others which do not support your new world view, then you are on dangerous turf.

Could this Scripture not be more clear about Israel?

“I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3).

But since you are choosing only Scripture which “fits” with your new thoughts and views, then your heart is telling you that Israel is the villain and the so-called Palestinians are to be pitied.

Funny, when I hear my Red Alert going off each time a missile is launched by the Palestinians against Israel (one fell on a Kindergarten blacktop), nary a word is spoken by your new-found leaders. Very telling.

Sorry to say this, but if you are fully trusting these apostate teachers/preachers, I have to wonder if you were ever born-again. Actually, I don’t think that you were.

And About Your Heart

“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).

The Scripture asks about the heart, “Who can know it?” God knows your heart. Run from Him as you may, He knows you and he knows your heart.

He also knows who belong to Him and who do not.

“Jesus answered them, ‘I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one” (John 10:25-30). (Emphasis added)

I pray that many who have aligned themselves with cults and apostate churches have read this article. I pray that your eyes will be opened to the truth of God’s Holy Word.

How Can I Be Saved?  < Click

A Sermon For Sunday  < Click to watch

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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