Hello everybody, it's MinisterToll23 back with another video. In this video I
want to discuss the topic of why I am an independent fundamental Baptist and why
I believe that you also should be an independent fundamental Baptist and
forsake other false types of churches etc and go to an independent fundamental
Baptist Church, why I believe that is the right way to go. Some people might look
at all the different churches these days and how there's many different
denominations and groups and types of churches out there and be confused and
think well which one is the right religion how do I know which one is
right and which one is actually following Christ which one is actually
following Jesus and which one is actually the truth you know if there's
all these different churches then why do you say that you're the right one and
that your beliefs are right how do you know that these other guys aren't right
you know how do you know that there's not truth in these other religions or
these other groups and then there's also all these ecumenical people out there
who also want all the different denominations and churches to all unify
and come together and put aside their differences etc so I want to explain in
this video why it's right to be an independent fundamental Baptist over
other churches and denominations and why I don't go to a Methodist Church why I
don't go to a Catholic Church why I don't go to a Lutheran Church or a
Mormon Church or you name it why I go to a Baptist Church why I attend Faithful
Word Baptist Church for example that's the name of my church and why I hold to
beliefs which would be considered as Baptists and more particularly
independent fundamental Baptists so I want to present a logical and very clear
answer to the question of why there's all these different groups out there and
why it's right to be a Baptist and to not go to a Methodist Church or a
Catholic Church or all these other different groups and denominations and
etc so first we want to just establish that establish what all these groups
have in common what all denominations and churches and groups and sects and
cults or whatever you want to call them all have in common and that's that every
single group that claims to be Christian or would fall under the category of
Christianity or Christendom they all of course claim to believe in Jesus Christ
hence the name Christian so whether it's Catholic or Eastern Orthodox or
Oriental Orthodox or Lutheran or Church of England or Episcopalian or Reformed
or Methodist or Presbyterian or Pentecostal or Church of Christ or
Church of the Nazarene or Mormons or Seventh-day Adventists or Jehovah's
Witnesses or Christ Adelphians or this or that all of these groups that I just
named and many others there's many denominations out there all of them
claim to believe in Jesus Christ and they claim to believe in the God of the
Bible and they also claim to believe the Bible that they believe that the Bible
is the Word of God okay with the exception of maybe a very very few
amount of people out there who might not believe the Bible or who might question
the Bible but still claim to be Christian for whatever reason 99.9% of
people in this world who claim to be Christian and every church and
denomination that will fall under the category of Christianity or Christendom
will claim that the that the Bible is the Word of God is inspired by God and
is true okay because of course this is where we learn about Jesus okay we would
not know about who Jesus is and what Jesus did when he was on this earth if
it wasn't for the Gospels and if it wasn't for the New Testament which is
part of the Bible okay the Bible is the foundation for Christianity and for
Christian beliefs and practices okay so all of these different groups that
exist all claim to believe the Bible and I will you know also make that claim I
believe that the Bible is the Word of God I believe in Jesus Christ I believe
in the God of the Bible and if you ask a Roman Catholic or an Orthodox Christian
or a Lutheran or a Methodist or Pentecostal or whoever they will say
the same thing they will claim to believe the Bible they will claim to
believe in Jesus and claim to follow Jesus okay so all these different groups
all claim the same thing about the Bible and about Jesus right so how do we know
again which one is right and which one is telling the truth if we all are
believing in Jesus and believing in the Bible why are there so many differences
okay because the fact of the matter is that all these groups that I named you
know Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Catholics, Methodists, Pentecostals, Mormons,
Baptists, whatever all have different beliefs and practices and many of these
beliefs and practices even contradict the ones in the other churches or other
denominations so that their beliefs and practices are very different from one
another so you can't say that they're all believing the Bible or all following
the Bible because they all believe radically different things for example
there are some groups out there who deny the Trinity like Jehovah's Witnesses and
Mormons and some other groups out there they don't believe in the Trinity they
don't believe that Jesus is God versus most Christians do believe that okay now
Jesus can't be both God and not God at the same time okay one of them is right
and one of them is wrong there are people who believe that you have to work
your way to heaven then you have to be a good person keep God's commandments to
get to heaven and there are others such as myself who believe that it's just by
faith that all you have to do is just believe in Jesus and you cannot trust in
your works to get you to heaven those are again two entirely different things
they're opposites of one another I believe that if you trust in your works
you will go to hell okay well these other churches believe that you have to
do good works to go to heaven okay so those are two radically different things
okay so the question is well which one is right how do I know which is the
right religion what's the right church to go to what denomination to belong to
or whatever the answer is well who is following what the Bible says who
believes what the Bible says who practices what the Bible says who
preaches what the Bible says and the answer to that the very simple answer to
that is that in general what would be considered the independent fundamental
Baptist movement are those who are believing practicing and preaching what
the Bible says in this day and age now I'm not saying I endorse every
independent fundamental Baptist Church because all these churches are
independent meaning they're different from one of one another they're not part
of a denomination or group but they are independent from one another so there
are some that are good and some that are bad most are good but there have been
false prophets that have crept in and there are some bad independent
fundamental Baptist churches out there who or who would give themselves that
name but should not really have that name but basically all these different
denominations and groups that I listed you know the Roman Catholic Church the
Methodists the Presbyterians Anglicans Lutherans churches Christ etc although
all claiming to believe the Bible is their authority when you look at their
beliefs and their practices they do not line up with the Bible they do not line
up with the teachings of Scripture okay so every single Christian in the world
will start with the foundation of claiming to believe that the Bible is
the Word of God and believing in Jesus but the problem is that most so-called
Christians out there do not actually believe the words of Jesus or maybe
don't even know the words of Jesus and they're just following their man-made
religion which is not based on what the Bible says let me give you a few
examples and of course I can't go through every single different group in
this video for sake of time but just as a quick example you know like the Roman
Catholic Church for example they call every single one of their priests father
and then their head of their church the Pope that word also means father whereas
Jesus said to call no man father upon your earth so they claim to be following
Jesus yet Jesus said to not call any man father upon the earth yet they call
every single one of their priests father okay Jesus taught that salvation was
just by believing in him okay he said that many times in the book of John I
have many videos on that so again I'm not gonna go in-depth into that doctrine
in this video watch my other videos for proof of that from the Bible but the
Roman Catholic Church teaches that you have to be baptized and confess your
sins to the priest and keep God's commandments and take the Eucharist and
do all the sacraments in order to be saved and to go to heaven okay so they
are not teaching what Jesus taught the Roman Catholic Church they claim that
the Pope is the head of the church while the Bible says that Christ is the head
of the church in Ephesians chapter 1 the Roman Catholic Church baptizes babies in
the Bible it says that if thou believeth with all thine heart thou mayest
referring to baptism in Acts chapter 8 verse 37 okay so somebody needs to
believe with all their heart before they can get baptized that's what the Bible
says acts 837 so any church that practice infants baptism is not
following what the Word of God says so that includes the Roman Catholic Church
that includes the Church of England that includes the Orthodox churches that
includes Presbyterians that includes Methodists and that includes many other
churches as well that baptize babies okay and then also any church that
teaches you have to work your way to heaven again is not following what the
Bible says because it says not by works of righteousness which we have
done but according to his mercy he saved us okay it says to him that worketh not
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for
righteousness any church that is not going out and preaching the gospel is
also not following the teachings of Jesus because Jesus commanded his
disciples go ye into all the world and preach the gospel at every creature so
even if there are other churches and groups out there which might not fall
into this independent fundamental Baptist movement which might believe the
right gospel and maybe the congregants they are saved and the leadership in
that church is saved but any church that is not going out and preaching the
gospel is again not following the teachings of Jesus they're not obeying
Jesus and again I could go on and on but there's many examples and I make videos
about different groups and sects and cults all the time in this on this
channel basically showing that these groups which teach false doctrines on
hell or false doctrines on salvation or baptism or on the way that we should
live on different Commandments things like that there's all kinds of different
groups out there that simply do not follow and believe what the Bible says
so the reason why I'm a Baptist is simply because Baptist churches believe
teach and practice what the Bible says okay I've heard a term or a phrase
before which I completely agree with when the Bible is your boss you're a
Baptist okay now again every single one of these groups will claim that the
Bible is their boss but when you look at their beliefs and you line it up with
Scripture they don't match okay when you look at what Jesus said and then what
these churches teach they do not match so how can they claim to be following
Jesus when they're teaching things which are opposite of what Jesus said
okay because the Bible teaches very plainly that salvation is just by grace
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and once you believe you have eternal
life so any church which teaches that you can lose your salvation or that you
have to repent of your sins or live a certain way or get baptized or go to
church to be saved from hell and to go to heaven which includes the Roman
Catholic Church the Orthodox Church many Lutherans many Presbyterians the
Methodist Church the Pentecostals the Church of Christ the Mormons the
Jehovah's Witnesses the Seventh-day Adventists all these groups teach that
you have to do more than just believe on Jesus and you have to endure to the end
to be saved because they're not teaching what the Bible clearly says that means
they're not following the teachings of Jesus they don't believe what Jesus
clearly said on those things so they're not of Jesus they're not of God okay
the Bible teaches that baptism is by immersion in the name of the Father the
Son and the Holy Ghost and it's only for those that believe so again as I
mentioned before anybody that practice infant baptism is not following Jesus
anybody that practice it practices sprinkling baptism like the Roman
Catholic Church they don't dunk people they sprinkle on their head is not
following Jesus anybody who baptizes in any other name than the name of the
Father the Son the Holy Ghost is not following Jesus so like the oneness
Pentecostals and the apostolics who baptized only in Jesus name because they
deny the Trinity and again anybody who denies the Trinity is not believing the
teachings of the Bible because the Bible teaches the Trinity so that includes the
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons and the Christ Adelphians and some other
cults and small groups out there any group that does not believe in an
eternal hell is not following and believing what the Bible says any group
that believes that let's see that the church is universal which is many
churches nowadays they believe in this universal church that every Christian is
just part of this invisible body and that the church is just every Christian
again that's not what the Bible says the Bible teaches that a church is a local
assembly is a group and it should be independent and that kind of leads me to
my next point of why you should be an independent fundamental Baptist is that
all these different churches they have a man as their head or they have a man
as their founder versus independent fundamental Baptist churches the final
authority is Jesus Christ which we know what Jesus Christ wants for us again
based on the Word of God the Holy Bible because the Bible says that Jesus is the
Word made flesh and as I mentioned before the Bible says that Jesus is the
head of the church so the Roman Catholic Church has the Pope as their
head so Jesus Christ is not the head of their church the Pope is okay the
Seventh-day Adventist Church their leader their founder is Ellen G white
and they you know use her teachings in her writings as a replacement for
scripture now they might claim that they believe the Bible and they believe
scripture is their final authority but they will change scripture to match with
the teachings of Ellen G white same thing with the watchtower society which
is the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses okay they're not submitting to Jehovah
they're submitting to the watchtower society and they get all their beliefs
from the watchtower society and not only from the Bible okay the southern
Baptist even you know they have their head they have their organization they
have a president of their convention any other church that has presidents or that
has leaders or that have people in authority where each of the churches
are not independent but rather they have some kind of board or some kind of
leader that oversees what they preach and teach and what they believe that
church is not of God because the Bible says that the church should be run by
Jesus Christ okay that means that the pastor although he is does have
authority he is not the final authority the final authorities the Bible and
everything done within the church should be based on the Word of God but
many of these churches as I just mentioned do not follow the Word of God
they follow either you know a man teaching like the Pope or some false
preacher or false prophet of the past or they follow their feelings like a lot of
these Pentecostal churches you know they just it's all emotional it's all just
based on you know what they feel and all their experiences and again anything
that's not based on the Bible is not based on the rock because the Bible is
the rock you know they're based on shifting sands they're not Jesus Christ
is not their rock so another thing of why you should be Baptist and why I
believe that independent fundamental Baptists are the movement that exists today which is of
God is because it's really the only group that's actually persecuted by the
world okay this is something that's so clear in the Bible that it's it's kind
of mind-boggling that people don't see this all these people like oh which one's the
right religion why are there so many different sects of Christianity why are
there so many different denominations and groups how do I know which is the
right one well first of all again point number one is that despite every single
church and denomination group claiming to believe the Bible when you compare
what the Bible teaches to the beliefs of all these other churches they don't line
up okay rather we should go back to the Word of God and base our beliefs on the
Word of God instead of the other way around instead of forming a religion
where this is what we believe and just let you know saying well we believe this
and this and this and then trying to fit the Bible to our beliefs rather we
should change our beliefs to fit the Bible and that's basically the
difference between a Baptist and all these other groups that they try to
either ignore or twist the Bible to fit their false beliefs instead of changing
their false beliefs to fit what God said okay now point number two as I mentioned
is that all these churches were either founded by a man you know John Wesley
was the founder of Methodism John Knox of the Presbyterians you know what's his
name Alexander Campbell for the Church of Christ Joseph Smith for the Mormons
you name it they all have a founder of the religion or in the modern day they
have some kind of leader that is not the Bible they're not an independent church
they're part of an organization or denomination they have some kind of
president or some kind of board of directors or convention or something
that they answer to instead of only answering to God and point number three
is that none of these churches are hated by the world but rather many of them are
actually loved by the world now Jesus said in John chapter 15 if the world
hates you you know that it hated me before it hated you if you were of the
world the world would love his own but because you're not of the world but I
have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you remember
the word that I said unto you the servant is not greater than his Lord if
they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my
saying they will keep yours also but all these things will they do unto you for
my name's sake because they know not him that sent me if I had not come and
spoken unto them they had not had sinned but now they have no cloak for their sin
he that hateth me hateth my father also and there's several other verses about
this like 1st John 3 13 where it says Marvel not my brethren if the world
hates you 2nd Timothy 3 12 where the Bible says yay and all that will live
godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution so who is living godly in
Christ Jesus nowadays well those who are suffering persecution now all of these
different churches they live persecution free in the United States of America
because they're on the side of the devil and so the devil is not going to
persecute them because they're not teaching the right gospel they're not
getting people saved they're not changing people's lives they're doing
nothing for God they're on the devil's side they're damning people to hell with
all their false prophets of the Roman Catholic Church and all these other
churches so the independent fundamental Baptists who are actually you know
standing on the Word of God preaching hard against sin and going soul-winning
are the ones who face the persecution nowadays and I believe that there is no
group that is greater persecuted even in the Western world and of course they'll
give some example of like oh well in some Muslim country you know all these
Catholics are being persecuted well Muslims hate everybody I mean they're
just they kill everybody that doesn't agree with their religion they persecute
Buddhists too that doesn't mean that Buddhists are of God but the point is
that the Bible says that the world will hate us okay that's not just one you
know violent religion like Islam that's people in general who are not of God you
know society in general when we live in a society that claims to be Christian
that claims to base its beliefs on Christian values that was historically
Christian that isn't you know a violent you know it doesn't follow a violent
religion like Islam you know a place like the United States of America and
yet they persecute us for preaching the Bible yeah my church faithful word
Baptist Church has been protested we've had our bank accounts shut down people
are have been arrested for going out soloing and preaching the gospel
churches that are associated with ours like steadfast Baptist Church over and
in Fort Worth Texas or that that general area the Dallas Fort Worth area they've
been evicted from their buildings they've had you know bricks and rocks
thrown through their windows they've had death threats our church has had death
threats and hateful emails and voicemails etc people have tried to to
hurt people within our church and the pastor and other churches as well
there's been like I said it's been in all kinds of protests another church
we're friends with First World Baptist Church in LA area has been they've had
their building bombed my pastor has been banned from dozens and dozens of
countries all over the world he was in Botswana deported sent back they're
persecuted over in Botswana and the list goes on and on the fact of the matter
is that the independent fundamental Baptist more particularly the new IFB
the new independent fundamental Baptist those who are on fire for God and going
soul-winning and you know preach against Zionism and all these false doctrines
that have crept into what would be called the old I be are the most
heavily persecuted churches in this world today and that really fits the
description of what Jesus said about his disciples that the world would hate them
now you look at all these other churches when was the last time you heard about
you know persecution against the Methodists or against the local Church
of Christ or Pentecostals or or the Catholic Church here in America here in
a place that would be considered the world right you know like I said you
know they might be persecuted in some you know place in the Middle East or
something but in general throughout the world they're not facing much
persecution okay and when I say persecution I actually mean you know
where the world hates them where they're actually persecuted them trying to hurt
them trying to you know shut them down shut down their message that's what
people are doing to us as independent fundamental Baptists they're trying to
shut us up because we're preaching what the Bible says because we're preaching
what Jesus said we're doing what Jesus said so therefore the world hates us
they're trying to shut us down they're trying to shut us up they're trying to
censor us they were vile us there's just constant persecution against my church
and against other churches associated with ours so those are some reasons why
I believe that the independent fundamental Baptist movement is the way
to go and I believe that you should also go to an independent fundamental Baptist
Church now if you're not saved yet if you have not believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ I will put a link actually in the description of how you can know for sure
you're going to heaven someday because you're not really going to understand
these things if you haven't received the Holy Ghost in your heart if you can't
understand the word of God by reading the Bible on your own if you need some
man to interpret it for you then that probably means that you don't have the
Holy Spirit if you just can't understand the Bible on your own because these
things are very clear to those who have trusted Christ as Savior and that's why
the majority of saved people the majority of those who are only trusting
in Christ go to Baptist churches okay many people who are say don't go to
church at all some people just go to non-denominational churches but 90% of
those who are saved and do go to churches go to Baptist churches and
that's just a fact of how it is because unfortunately nowadays the the churches
which are Baptists are the only ones that are actually you know preaching the
gospel going soul winning and teaching the right doctrine on many different
issues while all these other groups and denominations they're not of God Christ
is not their head they're founded by men they're not believing and practicing and
preaching the things that the Bible teaches and they're loved by the world
and the reason why they're loved by the world is because of what Jesus said in
John chapter 15 because they are of the world okay if you're of the world then
the world's gonna love you because you're the world's own but if you're not
in the world then the world will hate you if you're living a Christianity
where nobody hates you and nobody's against you and you're friends with the
world which the Bible says is enmity with God in James chapter 4 then you
should probably rethink whether you're actually following Jesus or not because
Jesus said that the world's gonna hate you so why do people hate me and people
definitely hate me I have all kinds of hateful comments on YouTube and when I
go soul winning people definitely show a lot of hatred toward me a lot of people
hate my church and hate my pastor why is that because again we're following Jesus
just like they called him Beelzebub and they rejected him and crucified him
that's exactly what they do to Jesus as followers so definitely consider these
words I try to explain it as easy as I can a lot of these kind of thoughts are
kind of just floating around in my heads I didn't really have much preparation
for this video so hopefully it made sense but again just as a quick recap
the reason why I am a Baptist and why I believe that you should be a Baptist
besides just the fact of being saved because obviously somebody can saved is
not going to join a church that teaches Danville heresy but once you get saved
once you believe on Jesus Christ as your Savior and you might ask yourself which
is the right church to go to first of all exclude all the churches that teach
you have to work your way to heaven or don't teach faith alone that's pretty
easy that's most churches and groups out there but then of the ones that do which
ones are the right ones all the ones that are following Jesus like for
example going soul winning preaching the gospel is Jesus commanded to do maybe
singing Psalms hymns and spiritual songs in the congregation like the Bible
commands us to do churches where there's not selling things within the church
because Jesus said make not my father's house the house and merchandise things
like that you know there's some things that are pretty obvious that the Bible
clearly teaches and yet there's so many churches and denominations that don't
follow those things so that's number one because for the most part ifb churches
are the only ones that fall into this category of churches that preach and
teach and believe the Bible number two why I'm a Baptist is because it's not
founded by a man and our head is Jesus Christ you know constantly where we're
changing things and improving things based on what the Bible says if the
pastor does something that is against the Word of God he tells us even in his
preaching if I say something and you see something in the Bible that's different
go with what the Bible says because we're not just blindly following men you
know like the Pope he supposedly speaks ex cathedra where the Catholics just
have to believe everything he says because they think he's the representative
of God on earth that is not the case at all for a biblical church a biblical
church the pastor is just supposed to be an overseer of the flock but he is not
the the king of the flock Jesus is our King and the Bible is our final
authority and then number three because we're hated by the world so hopefully
those things make sense and if not then I don't really know what to do for you
maybe just keep watching the videos on my channel and maybe you'll be convinced
and leave all those false religions and leave all those false churches that are
not following Jesus and are not doing what Jesus said to do so thank you ready
for watching God bless you and goodbye