December 4, 2003 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) –

From time to time, I publish some of the goodies from my interesting mailbox, and many people have told me that they enjoy reading these things. Following are some items from the last couple of months:

THEY LIKE MY PREACHING

“I have to write to tell you thank you. I am very grateful for the ministry to the saints via email. … I have taken many of the articles you have written and filed them away. I will use them as reference tools as I educate myself in the Word and ways of the world. … What I like most about your ministry is that you simply state and believe what the Bible teaches. You are not afraid to say what needs to be said.”

“I praise and thank the Lord daily for your ministry and would like to encourage you to continue to faithfully defend the Word of God.”

“Your work has been of tremendous use to me over the past years since I was saved. I stumbled on your site one day while searching for information, and now count your work as an invaluable resource.”

“What gracious and powerful Bible study tools God has supplied through you!! I thank God for you and the service you are rendering to all those in the trenches. What a pleasant thing Biblical truth is, even when it is hard truth! Perhaps especially when it is hard truth.”

“I would like to first of all thank you for your website and tell you that I found Jesus Christ and was saved through what I found on your website two years ago. I would also like to thank you for the directory of Churches around the world I found my Church in Moscow, Russia. I work in the airline industry and have been in Russia for four years.”

“Sir, your e-mailings and the O Timothy newsletter are a blessing to me and contain just the sort of information we need to help us stay separated from the world and from ecumenism. Though I am 39 now, I am certain that God has called me to the ministry. I am very much looking forward to serving our Lord soon. Having information like yours at wayoflife.org is very helpful in coming up to speed.”

“I want to let you know how much I enjoy O Timothy magazine. It is refreshing. I appreciate that you have the courage to take a stand on the issues we face today.”

“God bless you and continue preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know thousands are being blessed, because of you I am one of them.”

“I appreciate your Friday Church News Notes, even though I am an avowed sovereign grace, covenantal, paedobaptistic Calvinist and an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.”

“I want to thank you for your ongoing stand for fundamentalism and the Word of God. Your website and writings continue to bless and help me as I continue to try and take a stand as a pastor in these confusing days.”

“I appreciate your web site and all that you do. You have helped me to grow more in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I was saved years ago in the Evangelical Free Church, then gradually changed over to a Fundamental Baptist. I witnessed many of the compromises and ecumenism that you reveal in your articles. These writings helped me and confirmed all my convictions and suspicions as to what was not corresponding with my own Bible study. Again I thank you and please keep up the fight. Your stand on these issues is an inspiration and encouragement.”

“EXCELLENT INFORMATION! Thank you for your newsletters daily ... Keep up with the great ‘stuff’!”

“I truly appreciate your ministry and the right stand that you take on mostly all things. Yours is one of my favourite websites. God bless you.”

“Often my readers ask me where to find trustworthy preaching. I'm putting you at the top of my list. Thanks for your courageous, straight-forward handling of the Word and the Truth.”

“FANTASTIC RESOURCE! Wow! I recently purchased your Fundamental Baptist CD-Rom Library, and I can't put it down/turn it off.”

“I want to thank you for all the help and encouragement you have been to me in the past. I cannot count the amount of times your material has helped me to stay away from groups I would not have otherwise know were wrong because of the information we do not get in the regular media.”

“Preach Brother! Thank you for all you do!”

“I continually thank our mighty God and precious Savior for the special work he is doing through you.”

“I must say your ministry has been a real blessing to me and has enhanced my desire for discernment.”

“Thank you for your hard work. It may seem you are not appreciated at times, but there are those like me, who are very grateful for one who still holds out the Lifeline in this crazy mixed-up hour we live in. God bless you.”

“Thanks for all your work and determination for our Lord. Keep fighting the good fight and don't listen to men....we appreciate your work.”

“God bless you Bro. Cloud and thank you for the information you put out to us on a daily basis.”

“Thank you so much for all your work. I have only been receiving your information for a short time, but it has already been a big help.”

“Thank you brother Cloud for your plain teaching and preaching concerning salvation and evangelism. You have taught me more than you will ever know. God has used you even in the conversion of this young lady for God has used your materials to help educate me concerning giving the Gospel and seeing souls saved. You have had a part in making me a New Testament witness and evangelist as opposed to the man-made, manipulative, methodological mess that others have presented to me in the past. By the way, I am teaching others also and they are learning. Praise the Lord!!! Keep up the good work! God is using you and the ministry He has put you in!”

“Thank you for standing strong. I do pray for you and your ministry.”

“Brother Cloud, I hope this email finds you doing well. You have been a major blessing in our life, thank you very much.”

“I want to thank you for the marvellous article on Neoevangelicalism in light of quotes from Charles Spurgeon. I especially appreciated your clear definition of a New Evangelical. Your ministry is appreciated.”

“Bro. Cloud, I don_t think I got to thank you the last time for the things you have written and spoken about on your website and in your sermons. They have ministered to me and helped me form my convictions that I can confidently say are from the Word of GOD! Though I struggle much in tough times, I know who I believe in, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank you Bro. Cloud.”

“Excellent Information!!!”

“This is to say thanks for the excellent work you're doing at 'O Timothy'. Every month I look forward to my copy of the magazine. It never fails to fire up my determination to serve our Lord more and more.”

“Thank you for your recent e-mail concerning Rush Limbaugh. I used to be a ‘Ditto-head.’ I no longer go out of my way to listen to him.”

“Thanks for this well written article [‘Fishing and Soulwinning’]. I'm going to pass this along to a bivocational pastor with whom I work. I'm sure that he will put it to good use.”

“I thank the Lord for your stand on God's Word. I pray that ministries like Way of Life will continue and will continue as a blessing to more people's lives.”

“Thank YOU for this word of encouragement to our president! You and your stand for biblical correctness rather than political correctness are a blessing in my life.”

“Great response brother. Too many of our brethren are seeking political answers to the spiritual lethargy in our nation. They expect too much of our leaders. Most of them can't even run their churches let alone a country of almost 300 million people. We need less criticism of our leaders and more prayer for them!”

“I agreed with your original letter, and I agree with your follow-up. How arrogant of them to write to you like you are some kind of simpleton. I'm quite sure you have forgotten more than they will ever know. If they have such weighty and important opinions, why don't they put out their own ‘enlightened’ newsletter! Peace.”

“I have read your writings now for a number of years and I would agree with you that you are ‘extremely well informed,’ both spiritually and politically. Far more so than 90% of any Christians I know. God has given you an extremely keen sense of discernment. We have you on our prayer list and I pray that God will pour out great big buckets of blessing on you and your wife and upon ‘Way of Life’ ministries.”

“Thank you for both well-balanced articles about George Bush Jr. They are appreciated more than you realize. May the Lord keep blessing you and your ministry of discernment and exhortation in these last days!”

“Brother, I would also like to take a moment to also thank you for doing the Lord's work here on the internet. The Lord has truly blessed your online ministry and I can tell you that the fruits do show. ... Thank you for all the you have written. It is my prayer that you will continue to ‘contend for the faith’ and rebuke and reprove all before the Word of God, as you have.”

“Thank you for your regular papers on the issues important to those who still believe in separation from evil. May the Lord give you continued discernment and continued courage to speak out against compromise in Christian essentials.”

UNLESS I AM MISTAKEN, THEY DON’T LIKE MY PREACHING

“God can work through anything He desires. If it is through Christian rock music who are you to judge (Gen. 18:25)? He decides what He wants to work through, not you. ... what you’ve done with this article on the Rock n Roll Worship Circus clearly demonstrates your lack of knowledge, hypocrisy and tendency to be like the Pharisees...”

“How can someone ‘worry’ about the ‘rules of religion’ when PK has one intention , to bring men into the family of JESUS? I don't know if you can or will, but please don't knock PK until you have tried it.”

“I do not appreciate the way that you represent the Orthodox Church on your website, www.wayoflife.org. I have no idea where you got your information from, but it is completely bogus. First thing, the Orthodox Church DID NOT break off from the Catholics, THEY BROKE FROM US. Second, The Virgin Mary IS the Mother of GOD. ... Also, a side note... where you do think you got the Bible from? It didn't just fall out of the sky in the Garden of Eden in it's entirety. You got that Bible that you are so fervently trying to use against FROM us and OUR councils. ... The Baptist Church is just another heresy. --Oh, and by the way, just as a pet-peeve of mine, get your "missionaries" out of OUR countries that have been CHRISTIAN for 2000 years!!! I support organizations like the Greek government in shutting you DOWN. Take your trickery and leave us be. We have no need for you.”

“You have placed such great judgment upon City Harvest. But who are we to judge? Perhaps some of us think that we are more righteous than another?”

“If you seek the truth, you will find it and it can be found in the Roman Catholic Church if you have questions about the Roman Catholic Church maybe I can help to answer them.”

“I thought you were supposed to lead people to the lord by loving them and showing them the way with care and compassion for their soul. You even start out a paragraph calling the unsaved ‘sinner’ instead of something better like ‘friend.’ You can help people understand that they’re sinners without cramming hell down their throat.”

“I think you have a form of godliness, but that you deny the power thereof. Hence, I turn away from you, but in the hope you will seek for Jesus of Nazareth, and allow Him to upend your theology.”

“Let me just say that I am a strong Christian and I was totally offended by your article on the band P.O.D. ... I am also VERY disturbed, even more disturbed by your portrayal of C.S. Lewis as someone who was not a strong Bible believer! I am writing this to you, because I believe that you are just misled. I am very worried that you may be taking your own human opinions and misleading people by saying they are from God.”

“Do not send me this kind of disgusting material again. Mr. Cloud, it is precisely this kind ‘thinking’ that has resulted in the moral collapse of America. ... You claim that repentance and revival is the answer, but even that never comes. You can't beat something with nothing, Mr. Cloud. Gay marriage was approved today in Massachusetts today. How many Baptist pastors will speak out and condemn this unrighteousness from the pulpits? They won't because they worship at the altar of their tax exemption and besides, Jesus is coming back soon, so who cares about gay marriage? Enough of this. ... Shame on you and every other ‘fundamentalist like you’.”

“You need to wake about Bush! This was a publicity stunt and that is all it was. ... Bush is bringing more judgment on this nation than the pervert, mass murdering Clinton could ever dream of doing. Well, sir, that’s it. (sorry for the ‘attitude,’ but my patience grows thin these last days).”

“You have been saved? You are like the hypocrites that Jesus said he would vomit out of his mouth because you take comfort in hate instead of love, negativism instead of positive commentary, fascism instead of freedom.”

“It is you and the likes of you that are the greatest sources of moral and intellectual pollution in American society. The days of the poison of fundamentalism are numbered. The poison you preach is a slap in the face of Jesus. When your venomous world view is a dirty footnote of history, we will all sigh in relief!”

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