Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Search in Tempe, Arizona.
And I just wanted to make a quick video exposing this fraud known as Afshin Yagtin.
Now this guy came on the scene probably about a year or so ago and when he first came on the scene
he was all over Facebook and YouTube,
really active on social media and he was just my biggest fan and he was promoting all my
sermons and everything and he was also preaching his own little videos that he would upload
where he would basically just say the exact stuff that I was saying, which of course
I have no problem with, you know, people saying the same stuff that I say. That's great, you know, if I'm saying the truth.
But anyway, he did that for a while and then basically what happened was a lot of people were telling him
hey, you need to get in church, you know, you need to go to church and
he refused to go to church and instead he ended up just
declaring himself a pastor and
starting his own church, quote-unquote, even though he wasn't coming out of any existing church.
So he hadn't shown himself faithful or been approved of, you know,
his fellow church members or been ordained or anything like that.
He just kind of went out and started his own church and then he just started preaching
doctrine that was just
directed at attacking our church.
So he went from just being in lockstep and oh, this is great, preaching the truth, getting all of my Facebook friends,
you know, to be his friends, getting my YouTube subscribers subscribed to his channel
so that he could then turn around and basically like one half or a third of his videos now are
directed at attacking doctrines that I preach. Okay, but here's the funny thing about this.
He claims that he's qualified to be a pastor because he's been saved for 20 years,
he says. So, you know, he's he's been a member of many churches and everything. He's totally qualified.
But here's the funny thing about that. I've got in my hand here a blog post that he wrote back in
2011 where he teaches a hardcore
works-based salvation.
Hardcore. I mean this isn't like he got a little of the terminology wrong.
I mean, he's laying it on pretty thick in this article. There is no way
that he was saved when he wrote this article. And so if he claims he's been saved for 20 years,
it's like when did this guy even get saved? And what I'd like to know is before he popped up a year ago,
you know, show me evidence that this guy ever had had changed his ways and
started believing that salvation was by faith alone and started to teach against this kind of repent of your sins.
Lordship salvation. You know, yeah, you'll find him
teaching against lordship salvation and against repent of your sins after he started listening to my sermons a year ago.
Okay, but five years ago for sure, this guy was preaching a hardcore
works-based salvation. Now the guy that this afshin loves to attack more than anyone else is
Pastor Donnie Romero, who is my friend who was ordained and sent out of
Faithful Word Baptist Church to start a church in Fort Worth, Texas. And here's the thing about that. He physically went to our church for years.
We saw him Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. We were out soul winning with him.
You know, that's how you know that people are real. That's how you know what people are like by actually spending time with them.
Not just some internet video that you see. There's so many people who say, well, I know that this guy afshin is legit.
Really? Have you even really met him or known him or spent time with him?
I know that Brother Romero
was at our church for years. He was a blessing. He was an asset to the church.
He's been saved since 2002. So he's been saved for 14 years.
Okay, even before he'd even joined our church, he'd already read the Bible
16 times cover to cover before he even got to Faithful Word.
Okay, but this afshin loves to attack him and call him a novice and say, oh you guys sent out this novice to pastor.
Well, here's the thing about that. You know, a novice is someone who's new. That's what the word novice means.
So a guy who got saved back in 2002 and has read the Bible more than 20 times,
that's not a novice by anybody's definition. However, a guy who was preaching hardcore work salvation back in 2011 and
started preaching it right about a year ago,
that would be a novice. Now personally, I don't even believe that this afshin is even saved.
I believe that he's an infiltrator like a Judas Iscariot or a
Korah. And the reason that I say that is simply because of the fact that he's like a textbook
false prophet where he uses a lot of flattery. You know, anybody who goes on his channel and comments
positively, it's like he's just falling all over himself to just praise them and just gush all over them.
Just ooze all over them with just flattery and praise.
Okay, so and that's always a bad sign when people are flatterers. Okay, not only that but just it's it's obviously
premeditated the way he came in. He's in lockstep. He's promoting all my preaching.
Gets all the followers, gets all the subscribers, gets all the Facebook, and then just turns on me and his whole ministry,
literally his ministry is pretty much characterized by preaching against stuff that I preach.
But even if you were to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, let's say you're sitting at home and saying,
no, I think he saved. You know, I still think that Afton saved. Okay, well,
when did he get saved then? Because he clearly wasn't saved when he wrote this.
So what did he get saved the next day? And this was on the internet for years and years after that.
How do you think I even read it? Because he only took it down
recently. That's why. Because he just started, you know, jumping on this bandwagon like a year ago.
But then he tries to claim he saved for 20 years. You tell me, friend at home,
you tell me if this sounds like the gospel according to someone who's saved.
This is a blog post posted by Afshin Yagten on February 18th, 2011, and it's called, Prayer to Be Born Again.
And down at the bottom, he finally gets to how to be born again. There's plenty in this
article leading up to that that is alluding to and insinuating that you have to do a lot more than just believe to be saved.
It's a daily effort. But
he spells it out explicitly at the bottom in the section called how to be born again. Okay, I'll read you the whole section.
How to be born again. It is simple. You must ask God to become the forgiveness of your sins and
repent and change your ways.
We've all sinned. There's not one perfect human being on the planet.
That's why Jesus Christ was sacrificed on the cross to save us from eternal damnation.
Simply ask Jesus to forgive you genuinely and
surrender your life in its fullness to him. Are you willing to die for the truth?
Salvation is not about going to church on Sundays or listening to a pastor preach. It's about actively giving your life over to Jesus Christ forever.
Okay, that's the the whole
paragraph. Okay, I'm not cherry-picking it. He says that to be born again,
you have to actively
give your life over to Christ forever. Here's another word for active.
Works. Working. You're working. Okay.
Actively. You have to turn from your evil ways. You have to surrender your life to Christ.
You have to be willing to die for Jesus Christ, according to Afshin Yagtin, in order to be saved.
Okay, now I understand that sometimes people who are saved will use the wrong terminology.
I've heard saved preachers say hey, you know repent of your sins, and then you you question them on it
and they just meant oh, I just meant you have to be sorry for your sins.
You know, they're kind of just a little mixed up.
These are not the words of a guy that's a little mixed up.
This isn't a guy who oh, I guess I was a poor choice of words. He goes on and on and on
teaching both
repeatedly that you have to turn from your sinful ways and
how you have to give your life to Christ. It's actively,
forever, it's this ongoing thing.
I mean look, no one in their right mind who believes the gospel thinks that that is the
wording that any saved person would ever use. So look, it's a fact and facts are stubborn things.
It's a fact that this guy was teaching
heresy, lies, false stories. He didn't just believe wrong about the gospel.
He was actively preaching a false gospel, actively to use his word, in
February of 2011. The only evidence we have of him shifting on that is from
2015 when he started jumping on my channel and jumping on my Facebook and
praising me and praising my sermons in order to draw away follows after himself.
So that he could speak perverse things under them. These are the facts my friend and let me also say this,
you know in his recent sermon attacking us, he says that you know, well anyone will agree that
you know calling these people queers is a filthy communication. It's a corrupt communication.
No, actually there are about 6,000 independent fundamental Baptist pastors in America
and I've never met one that was offended by the word queer ever and
I've been to a lot of churches and I'd be shocked if you could count on two hands the number of
pastors who would be offended by the term queer. That's a pretty mild term. They even use that term about themselves.
LGBTQ. This guy said, oh, that's a filthy communication. Well, God called them a lot worse in the Bible my friend.
But honestly, you say why do you call him a friend?
Well, Jesus even called Judas friend. But the bottom line is that this guy is a
textbook infiltrator. If you want to just do a case study on a Judas, an infiltrator, this guy's textbook.
The flattery, the modus operandi. It's perfect. But here's my message to you Afshin Yaagten.
Thank you for helping me to purge some of the softies and some of the infiltrators out of my church.
I appreciate that because it turns out I had some infiltrators in my church.
Thank you for helping me expose them because you're like this magnet for for false teachers
and rejects from churches. They all flock to you.
So thank you for doing that. And to those who don't know much about this guy, just don't be deceived by this guy.
Here's the evidence right here in black and white. God bless you. Have a great day.