G. Craige Lewis Blog

10 Signs of a Carnal Church

2009-11-30T10:10:00.021-06:00

Finding a worldliness free church these days can be disheartening. There are so many crooks and devils pastoring churches these days, it can be a chore finding a service that will meet your needs rather than tickle your fancy. The bible tells us that the Devil can transform himself into an angel of light and his ministers into ministers of unrighteousness. Why in the world would a person desire to be in a church that is full of unrighteousness and carnality? Why not just club, party, and hang out in the world where that stuff belongs? I don't understand why people even involve the church of God in their wickedness. What is the point? If you are in sin, then why practice sin and claim him?

But we see the church morally declining because of the leaders that are put up by carnal people. It's not just the Pastors fault, but it's the people that heap upon themselves these teachers, desiring to live worldly and carnal while claiming the God of our salvation. Let's explore the 10 signs of a carnal church so that those of you that are really searching for a worship house will not have to sit through multiple takes of foolishness to make a decision. You do not want to expose your family to the umbrella of foolishness that many of these churches are operating under. So, here are the 10 signs of a carnal church:

10. Cash Money Evangelists - When you find out that preachers like the "money cometh man" has visited this church or they are under them in any way, make that your first and last visit! Pastors that want money will bring these thieves in or set themselves under them to be in position to get rich. They will use the pulpit like an Amway presentation and bring in these money stealing evangelist to generate income. This is a trick because while the Pastor gets richer, the people in the church get dumb and poor. Some will prosper because they were already prosperous, but the average person will never get any more than they would have already gotten had they not financed foolishness. Beware, it's a spiritual pyramid scheme!

9. Financial focus - When you hear about offering and tithes before the offering period, beware. When you keep hearing about blessings, season, harvest, destiny, purpose, breakthrough, and especially FAVOR, then know you are being set up. All these things should pertain to soul winning, but when they are used as financial buzz words, then you know the pastor needs cash. The bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil and anytime money is overly emphasized in a ministry, there is evil following it. So, if they have a space on the visitors card to state your income bracket, proceed to the nearest exit!

8. Bad language - Any pastor that will use profanity in his pulpit is childish! That is one of the most carnal things you will ever see and it speaks volumes of the pastors lifestyle outside of the church. The bible says that if the tongue is out of order, the rest of the body is as well, so, you just got your sign on whether or not this is the person to bring your family under. And if the word for every Sunday is "SEX" then you know something is going on. PG-13 is too high a rating for Sunday morning worship. Why in the world would anyone tolerate a cussing pastor? Are we that desperate for a man to be over us that we would allow him to do what many of us don't do in front of our own families? What a shame and yet it is happening at an alarming rate.

7. Divorce rate - You can learn a lot about a ministry and what kind of attacks it is experiencing by the number of divorces that are occurring. When people in leadership of a ministry divorce, it's not the same as lay members divorcing. God hates divorce because it essentially says that people are giving up and not giving him a chance to reconcile them. Don't get me wrong, sometimes, the circumstances may call for divorce based on abuse, or one party not being willing to work it out, but when people just mutually agree that they don't want each other anymore, then that is what displeases God. And a church that is full of divorced couples is dangerous. Especially when it's in the leadership and they can't seem to work out their differences. And you never want to put yourself under a pastor that struggles with marital issues. When a man's focus is his church rather than his family, beware. He is a hound dog on the prowl, seeking gratification outside his own home! Believe That!!!

6. Sinful Alliances - When the Bishop or Leader of the parent organization of your church is brought in by the pastor, check him out. If he has a bunch of homosexuals flying around with him or he is carnal and devilish, then expect the same from your pastor. A man cannot sit under wickedness long, without being affected by it. Psalms tells us that the wicked walk around freely when the vilest of men are exalted. When men come under foul leaders, they are essentially saying that they would rather position themselves for a position in the organization than protect their church from sinfulness. After all, isn't being apart of a wicked organization saying that you are in essence in favor of wickedness? Be careful of this double standard. It's not about the organization in God's eyes, but it's about the people that the Pastor is suppose to be caring for.

5. Homosexuals and Lesbians - If you walk into the building and they are everywhere, leave! Any man that attracts homosexuals is a homosexual. Any pastor that allows homosexuals to roam freely in his ministry is probably a homosexual. Any man that defends the gay lifestyle is most likely gay. Any man that has a tolerance for the lifestyle is probably gay. Any man that doesn't get squeamish when they are surrounded by homosexuals likes the attention. People, why are we playing around with this? Why are we making this a non issue? It's an obvious problem. Homosexuals will not thrive in a ministry that does not condone them. They will repent and be delivered if the power of God is truly in a ministry. If the leader tolerates their lifestyles and uses their talents without delivering their souls, then he is a pimp and should be avoided. This one should be a no brainer.

4. Club Attire - If the Pastor wears an earring, don't get out the car! How can you ever have standards in your home and amongst your sons when the very pastor of the church is modeling vanity and showing he is a playa? Also, if people are walking around sexy in church and no one cares, then you know that church is not practicing holiness. I'm not saying that folks have to have crusty lips and nappy hair, but what I'm saying is that, butt cracks, cleavage, and belly buttons should not be outfit accessories! And please, let's not get on the women and not touch on the men. We see that too often where the women have to look like national geographic natives, but the men can prance around dressed like Superfly! Let's balance this out and just say, the church is not the club. We must not be intentionally sexy in the house of God. Tight fitting clothes and such just don't belong in God's house. God is the focus, so hide your meat!

3. Secular Remakes - If you visit a ministry and they welcome all the single people with Beyonce's song "single ladies" or they sing "reasons" to the married couples, then you know you are in a den of debauchery. If they had a memerial service for MJ, then you are in punkdom and need to leave! Any church that has to resort to old and new school secular jams to keep people interested is nothing but a bootleg club and they need to start stamping hands. What happened to the "NEW SONG" that David spoke of? Why are people singing the worlds songs in church? The secular artists that wrote them are complaining and they want their songs back on the radio and in the world where they can get paid for them, not in the church. What a shame.

2. Obamania - If you hear about the president every week and your pastor has gone off the deep end trying to weave him into every sermon on a weekly basis, then you know it's time to go! Our president stands for everything that Christ is against. How in the world do we make him a favorable topic for the church? Shouldn't we as a church stand against his policy if it conflicts with the Word of God? But we have pastors that have jumped on his band wagon and are using his fame and popularity to generate income and membership. They feel if they keep him the focus, people that support him will support them! And they will always say "now, i don't agree with all of his policies, but……..praise the Lord for blessing us with a black president!" That's like saying "I know he is a satanist, but praise God I finally got a date!" I'm telling you, this is a true sign of the times when the president gets more time than Jesus in our pulpits.

1. God said stay! - This is not for the visitors, but this is for those that have seen a moral decline in the church you have been attending. You have seen the pastor embrace the world, carnality, television and movie stars. You have begun to hear more about money than about Jesus. You hear more about the pastors wants and desires than the desires of Jesus! You see the youth partying and hip hopping during the service and it just does not agree with your spirit. Homosexuals are everywhere and no one cares anymore. You are being abused spiritually because you are not giving as much as you are told by the pastor or you are not with the new stuff that's going on. So, what do you do? You attempt to exercise your GOD GIVEN DOMINION AND RIGHT TO LEAVE. But when you meet with the pastor, he tells you that God said you can't???? He says that God has told him something that he won't tell you? In other words, you can't leave because something bad is going to happen.

Well, this is witchcraft manipulation in the highest degree. When you are afraid to leave, then you know it's not God. He has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love and………..a sound mind. If the place you are worshiping is not spiritually sound, then that's the part that is not God and the fear to leave must be rebuked.

Listen people of God. We are in a bad state of the church right now. It's like the dark ages all over again. People think church is for the sinner and it's not. Church is the collective body of believers assembling together in a unified manner. Those that practice and condone sinfulness are excluded! Sure many are weak and need strength, but you can't draw strength from weak leaders! And for this cause many are not going to church anymore and would rather stay home. But God is faithful and I pray that you will make 2010 the year that you step away from that carnal headship and make a move of faith! Step out and seek the face of God for clarity. He will lead you to a wonderful place where the Spirit of God resides and the carnality of men is not. But you must take the step of faith first. Once you move, God will move on your behalf.

2Cor. 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Jer. 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

2Tim. 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Matt. 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Jer. 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

In His Name,

G. Craige Lewis

Same Sex Salvation?

2009-10-05T09:32:00.017-05:00

What about Tonex persuaded you to assume he was NOT homosexual? What about him tricked you into believing that he did not desire the penis of a man? What about his appearance, swagger, or just all around desire for self worship confused you into thinking that this man was straight? Well, I know what it was, it was our inherit desire for gospel superstars that gave Tonex the wink and a gun to proceed with his music ministry. As I stated in Part One of the Truth Behind Hip Hop, Tonex was force fed to the Gospel Music Industry and there has always been a homosexual agenda pushing him into the lives of your young people.

You see, I cannot express to you how many emails, phone calls, death threats, and lawsuits came from us exposing Tonex. We tried to warn the body of Christ 10 years ago, when he first appeared on the scene, just as we did with Hip Hop. People shunned us, tried to destroy us and even tried to sue us because of our stand against this homosexual brother and his so called "ministry". What is up church?

It didn't take rocket science to see that this man liked man loving rather than a woman and it didn't take a brain surgeon to decode his lyrics and music to find a hidden agenda to celebrate his flesh and cause even more young people to become sexually deviant.

In his interview, he made the statement that "I have been like this and people still liked my music". That is the same statement Carlton Pearson and others make. But I got news for all of them. I have NEVER accepted his music nor have I ever welcomed the appearance of a man impersonating a women. I love God and his perfect plan of a man and woman coming together. I despise the thought of a man accepting anal and oral penetration from a man and I feel that if God would destroy Sodom for this act, He must detest this particular sin! There is not a scripture in the bible that shows where God EVER used a man that practiced this lifestyle to do anything for Him in his Kingdom. This was the act that was practiced by those that went after false gods!

Tonex's whole interview was biblically inconsistent as well. I can end his campaign with one simple phrase and that is "fornication of any kind is a sin!" Therefore, if he doesn't believe in same sex marriage because the bible doesn't condone it, then all of his perverse sexual actions are defiant because it's fornication anyway!! How insane he is to consider himself worthy of ministry and he is practicing sexual defiance. And not just sin, but desiring same sex loving? Should we allow pediphiles and rapists to preach and pastor now? Should we desire for murderers and cross dressers to lead our Christian congregations? Homosexuality is a natural as well as spiritual sin that destroys the life of the person committing the act and the community in which he belongs. Read our previous blog on this issue here.

The devil is trying his best to blur the lines of righteousness and sin. When a homosexual will be bold enough to declare that he is going to continue to practice anal and oral same sex intercourse and keep preaching and singing, he has an agenda. Watch him people of God. You see, he is not afraid to come out and let people know what he is because he knows that the preachers, bishops, pastors, and performers that he has been sexually intimate with cannot deny him access to their audiences or he will bust them out! You see, Tonex must have sheets and he probably has a long list of preachers that he can call and demand access to their pulpits and stages or he will threaten to expose them.

This is why you see churches on his itinerary even now. There are pastors, probably in your area, that will continue to support him because many of them have been intimate with him. You see, their sin has left them no legs to stand on and they cannot stand against this demonic agenda of unholiness because they themselves have gotten a piece of this brother. Watch out for those that call themselves his prayer partners, spiritual coverings, or spiritual fathers. These are the men that protect him and will continue to get him bookings and record deals because they owe him!

I'm telling you people of God, we are in the last days. People won't hear the warnings, they won't heed the voice of truth, and they shun the very Gospel of peace that the prophet speaks and prefer to listen to hollering, screaming, screeching Korybantes that are feminine and seduce young boys in the dark. I know several young boys that listened to Tonex and began having sexual desires for men just because of the spirit behind his music. This is an outrage, but have the radio stations pulled his songs? NO WAY. They still play Carlton Pearson and some even play Kanye West as Gospel music. With men like Coco Brother selling out the gospel on BET, the church is going to keep moving farther away from God and right into the lap of sin that the devil has devised.

What must our children feel and think now? Many of them listened to Tonex and the like because their youth pastors, pastors, and parents promoted him in their churches. What must they feel now that this flamboyant Liberace styled Gospel Artist has finally told the truth about wanting the seed of a man inside his body?

Where are the true men and women of God that will heed the truth? Where are the people of God that will stand against this perverted agenda? You see, Tonex is not out, he is BACK! He knows that he can get a strong group of followers that support the gay agenda in church and with all the homosexual Gospel singers out there, not 1 will put their mouth on him (well, maybe in other ways)! This is why God kicked Lucifer out of heaven. He knew that the desire to be great would cause Lucifer to do any and everything he can for the applause of the crowd. And Gospel Artists these days will do any and everything to get on the stage and will do a concert in Hell if the devil offered them safe passage back home! So, we have a conundrum here and what are we to do?

Well, as for me and my house, we will serve God and all of his bible. We will continue to stand against the homosexual agenda and the music of ravenous dogs that sleep with each other when they are not singing. I do not believe God will ever honor a same sex union and I will not honor it either, with my pulpit or my applause. Something has got to be done for our children's sake and it starts with us. And if you are homosexual, deliverance needs to begin for you TODAY before you become "turned over" like this brother. If you need help in this area, my good friend can help you by clicking here.

1Cor. 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

Eph. 5:3 But immorality (sexual vice) and all impurity [aof lustful, rich, wasteful living] or greediness must not even be named among you, as is fitting and proper among saints (God’s consecrated people). ">

Lev. 18:22 You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. ">

Lev. 20:13 If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ">

Deut. 23:17 There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute (a sodomite) among the sons of Israel. You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the price of a dog (a sodomite) into the house of the Lord your God as payment of a vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Rom. 1:27 And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another—men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper

Disappointed with leadership, but trusting God for change,

G. Craige Lewis

The Fat Lady Sings

2009-08-28T10:06:00.015-05:00

I tried to tell them. I put it in 4 parts of the Truth Behind Hip Hop DVDs, and I preached it in every major city in this nation. I traveled around the world and spoke it in major cities in foreign countries. It's been played on military bases from Greenland to Australia. We sold millions of DVD's on this subject, trying to warn the body of Christ. Yes, you guessed it. Hip Hop, the religion!

The Cross Movement, DA TRUTH, KIrk Franklin, and other popular Holy Hip Hop groups fought me and said that I was lying. They said Hip Hop was not a religion and they argued with the very founders of this demonic sub culture and claimed that they were redeeming it and making it Holy. They said my research was wrong and that Hip Hop was not considered a religion by it's founders and that I was just trying to make some money. I'm not a student of people's opinion of me and frankly could care less as you can tell. But I just wanted to let the world know that the fat lady has sang.

That's right, here comes the bible for this religion. Here is the 600 page exegeses of the teacha, KRS-ONE and his dissertation of how Christianity and all other religions must bow down to and acknowledge Hip Hop as the true religion! He has finally put this work out and is now ready to indoctrinate your youth and your youth pastors if he has not already. You see, when the youth pastors and leaders accepted Hip Hop, they accepted KRS-ONE's philosophy because he is a board member on it's definitions committee! He and his counterparts define this subculture and they dictate where and how it will be used. So, when they said it would be used as a ministry tool, the Holy Hip Hoppers were blessed by them to take it into the church and use it. And because most pastors think rap and hip hop are the same, they could just ignore our information on the basis that I am coming against rap music, not really knowing that I have NEVER fought rap music, just the religious sub culture of HIp Hop!

What they failed to realize was the hidden danger of accepting something that was created in the streets, by men with god-complexes, and trying to use it for a tool of ministry alongside the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. They brought in the spirit of this thing and now they have given KRS the keys to the hearts and minds of their youth. They have handed them our children on a silver platter to be infused with their corrupt, antichrist doctrine. Pastors all over the nation have accepted Hip Hop into their churches and have inadvertently welcomed this religion in the hearts of their young. They did it, with knowledge of the truth, so they will all be held accountable.

KRS-ONE says about his new book: "It explores the spirituality of Hip-Hop, the divinity of Hip-Hop. I’m suggesting that in 100 years, this book will be a new religion on the earth,” KRS-One told AllHipHop.com. “Now you talk about controversy, there’s some Christian ministries if you go online, look up some ministers, they dissing right now. 'Who the hell does he think he is?' Well, I think I have the authority to approach God directly, I don’t have to go through any religion [or] train of thought. I can approach God directly myself and so I wrote a book called The Gospel of Hip Hop to free from all this nonsense garbage right now. respect the Christianity, the Islam, the Judaism but their time is up.”

The Truth Behind Hip Hop has been here and has warned them, yet many denied the truth and accepted the lie in the very presence of truth. God took a little guy from Fort Worth and spread a message globally to warn and protect the children from this occurrence and yet, selfish pastors denied and continue to deny their members access to the truth. Thank God many grabbed it online for themselves. But because wayward church leaders turned their followers away from it, the truth was denied. And many are now reaping the turmoil that comes when you infect your children with this demonic spiritual music movement.

Look at the products. Teen pregnancy in their churches (many times by the preachers), homosexuality, lesbianism, gang affiliation, STD's, abortion, rape, incest, drop outs, prison, you name it, it's plaguing the youth departments in these churches. Even the gospel recording artists that are up before these youth flaunting HIp Hop and street culture are messed up. Having babies out of wedlock, getting folks pregnant, sleeping around, being straight up gay and lesbian, all while promoting Hip Hop and claiming that God is with it?

This is a travesty and yet, the churches have submitted to the doctrine of Hip Hop and with the very truth of God before them, have denied it and penalized their young people. When will this end? We are shooting a brand new chapter of The Truth Behind Hip Hop September 18th, and we are going to deal with all of this to sort out the truth of this matter. If you can come, please come. Click Here for location information. It's important that we get a hold of this thing, unite and fight this agenda of Hip Hop and keep it out of our churches. This religion will turn our youth away from the truth of Christ and give them lies instead. KRS-ONE and HIp Hop is on a mission and if we as the church stay divided on this issue, they will conquer the mindset of the next generation.

Our book, The Truth Behind Hip Hop is now available on our website, and you can order it by clicking here. It's no coincidence that I have been writing this book for 9 years and it is released the same month as HIp Hop's Bible. God is always a step ahead of the enemy!

We are getting on the line to fight for our youth and stop this madness. Hip Hop is bold and feels that it can just take our youth. The Holy Hip Hoppers are ignorant and in the process of promoting themselves, they have become enablers for KRS-ONE and his agenda. They work for him and don't even know it. He claims to be the true founder of Holy Hip Hop and has released a CD that is currently in Christian Book Stores called Spiritually Minded! My book has been rejected by many Christian book stores but they dare to stock KRS instead? Come on people. Wake up and listen. The Fat Lady is Singing!!!!!

Galatians 1:6-9 I can’t believe your fickleness—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.

Persecuted, yet determined,

G. Craige Lewis

June 2010

2009-07-23T20:21:00.023-05:00

When we first heard that a black man may become president of the United States for the first time, many were sold at that moment. His voting record didn't matter. His agenda wasn't even considered. "Does he go to church?" That would answer the only question that most black Americans would pose. If he goes to church and is black, then he should win because it's about time we had some representation on that level right? It did not matter what he voted for or against in the Senate. As long as he is dark skinned rather than white, he was the only choice for many.

If you are engaged to be married, and your spouse-to-be hits you everytime they are angry, do you expect wedding vows to change them? Or if they are in debt because they make bad financial decisions, will a wedding ceremony change that? In spite of these signs, people marry everyday expecting change once the ceremony is over. Even though their future spouses have shown them a pattern of behavior over time, people still want what they want, so they will take a chance on a marriage that they know, had little chance of working to begin with. Their philosophy is to marry and then pray to God for change, rather than seeing God in the signs and avoiding marriage all together. I guess to them, God is only needed after they have what they wanted.

This is very selfish and yet this is what the American people have done with the office of the President. We have voted in a president because we wanted a black man, or a different man, and we felt that once he is in, our prayers will change him. But the bottom line here is that he is the same as he was before the election and will not change because of your prayers. His purpose is to do what he is doing. He is in office because the powers that be needed someone to look different as a poster boy for "change". Who better to strip America of it's morality than a representative of the most immoral group of people in the nation? Don't get mad at me, the numbers show that Blacks are the most immoral group in America and that we could care less about morality when it comes to looking good. The statistics on this matter show that we have the highest HIV rate, incarceration rate, drop out rate, STD rate, Abortion rate, murder rate, teen pregnancy rate, single parent rate, homosexual and lesbian rate, etc. This is why as Christians, black people still ignored his immoral agenda for what they wanted. I know pastors that lost members for warning them about this man. We at EX Ministries lost a bunch of engagements and DVD sales because we took a moral position during the election. Not to vote for McCain because I didn't vote for him either, but just to stand for morality and truth. We as a people are in trouble because Barack Obama was able to bring our inconsistent spiritual behavior to the forefront and show the world what a Carnal Christian that doesn't honor his God looks like.

This is a man on a mission. What's his mission? To free the homosexuals and lesbians in America and make their lifestyles accepted by all with no moral code of conduct from God interfering with it. He wants to silence the church and make them accept an antichrist agenda. In spite of this always being in his plan, pastors and preachers marched for him and voted him in. They led their congregations into the voting booths and even the ones that had reservations about him and God given visions of his sinful agenda, were too afraid to stand against a man that could cause their offerings to dwindle down if they didn't support him.

This is a serious matter because if you haven't heard already, our president has named the month of June "Gay, Lesbian, BiSexual, and Transgender month" in America. For the first time in history a president has deemed sexually deviant behavior as normal and given them a month to celebrate. No president in history would have ever done this because this is something that is detrimental to the very fabric of our society. Bill Clinton, or even Hilary Clinton, who are both very liberal, would have never done anything like this because who wants to go down in the history books as the one who condoned transexuals and gave sexual deviants a month to celebrate? This was the greatest setup of all times and of course, the black man was the pawn. No matter how evil you may feel Bush and others were, they would have NEVER been responsible for something this wild. This is an outrage and yet, no one is talking about it.

What does an open sexuality month do for our country? Well, expect in the coming month of June 2010 to see public displays of kissing, hugging, and all kinds of sexual celebrations. Expect your children to be taught in there schools about accepting the LGBT agenda because their president said to. Expect every park, amusement center, you name it, to be crowded as they offer special discounts to LGBT couples. Gay men parading around proudly, lesbian women, bi sexual couples consisting of 3 or 4 partners and transgender people that have created an ambiguous image which cannot be put in a male or female category. I don't know if Jesus will crack the sky before June 2010 but I know that if he doesn't, it will be soon after because this is the worst thing to happen in American history and it happened at the hands of a man that has voted in favor of this agenda since he was in the senate. This was not a secret, yet it was overlooked and ignored by those that wanted him in office no matter what!

Also expect to see a lot of pastors, business owners, etc. arrested for trying to stop these celebrations from entering their places of business or worship. Expect lawsuits and public outcrys from those that want this agenda in places where they are not wanted. You see, when the office of the president gives the approval, you must comply! We won't be able to stop it now because it's a done deal. And during this month, any teacher or educator can proudly teach the LGBT agenda without parental consent just like they can teach black history in February. Expect pictures on the walls of the schools, television shows and talk shows being flooded with this celebration. Just like black history month, immorality now has a month and they will demand to be allowed any and everywhere to celebrate this great accomplishment. WOW. What have you done people? (Those of you that voted for him! I didn't.)

His wife said she would do this and she also said Obama would do it before he was ever elected. I posted the video for many to see and yet many that saw the video still voted for him. Michelle Obama said the church will be silenced by her husband and yet, Bishops, pastors, and black leaders that are suppose to be saved ignored it and now our children must endure it. How selfish are our preachers today that they would back a man with a homosexual agenda? What must God think of these bishops and pastors that call themselves our leaders? This is a shame before God and yet our world is ignoring it and paying more attention to the death of a transgender performer than they are the greatest tragedy on paper to strike the American people.

All I have to say at this point is, when you see the gay couples and when you see the public acceptance of these behaviors right in your face, just remember that YOU voted for this change and you got what you voted for. May God have mercy on America. This is truly the beginning of the end for us. PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENT BELOW SO YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON!

Come Quickly Lord,

G. Craige Lewis

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release June 1, 2009

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride Month, we commemorate the events of June 1969 and commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans.

LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are many well-respected LGBT leaders in all professional fields, including the arts and business communities. LGBT Americans also mobilized the Nation to respond to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic and have played a vital role in broadening this country's response to the HIV pandemic.

Due in no small part to the determination and dedication of the LGBT rights movement, more LGBT Americans are living their lives openly today than ever before. I am proud to be the first President to appoint openly LGBT candidates to Senate-confirmed positions in the first 100 days of an Administration. These individuals embody the best qualities we seek in public servants, and across my Administration -- in both the White House and the Federal agencies -- openly LGBT employees are doing their jobs with distinction and professionalism.

The LGBT rights movement has achieved great progress, but there is more work to be done. LGBT youth should feel safe to learn without the fear of harassment, and LGBT families and seniors should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect.

My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures include enhancing hate crimes laws, supporting civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security. We must also commit ourselves to fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic by both reducing the number of HIV infections and providing care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS across the United States.

These issues affect not only the LGBT community, but also our entire Nation. As long as the promise of equality for all remains unfulfilled, all Americans are affected. If we can work together to advance the principles upon which our Nation was founded, every American will benefit. During LGBT Pride Month, I call upon the LGBT community, the Congress, and the American people to work together to promote equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

BARACK OBAMA 
The White House
 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW  
Washington, DC 20500

The People's Preachers

2009-06-17T10:15:00.018-05:00

From booty shaking youth groups, to secular love song singing shepherds. From old school concerts to homosexual Gospel performers, where has our church gone?

What happened to church being a house of prayer? What happened to church being a place where people came to change? Our churches are going south and it's the fault of secularized, insecure, affirmation seeking pastors.

Remember when divorce took off in the 1960's and the American family was challenged by the hippie movement, baby boomers, and feminist agenda? Homosexuality, infidelity, promiscuity, and drug use swept across America and began to undo the moral fabric that held our marriages together. The divorce and wedlock child bearing rates soared and an insecure nation of young people began to emerge. What began to happen was that the children of the broken home began to grow up with deficits.

The lack of strong fathers in the home birthed children that needed constant affirmation from their peers and social groups to replace the validation they lacked in their homes. They needed constant approval and validation because they felt that at least 1 of their parents didn't want them. Drugs, porn, gay lifestyles, etc. began to plague that generation of youth that sought to plug the missing parent hole in their hearts with the approval of their peers. And if their peers were gang members, then so be it. If their peers where alcoholics, drug users, promiscuous, you name it, they had to do it to fit in and get the approval that was missing in their homes.

Whether we want to face the fact or not, children deal with the death of a parent better than the divorce of a parent. You see, divorce usually leads the child to believe that they are not wanted by the parent that doesn't get full custody of them. No matter how you slice it, it gets sliced, and that has a negative affect on the child either way. This is a proven fact and yet homes are breaking up like never before. Ok, back to my original point. What happens when these young people, the children in need of validation at any cost, grow up? Well, they became our pastors and leaders, and, unless God fixes them, that hole that they have always sought to plug will continue to get bigger because the older they get, the more they will need attention and approval.

What happens when an insecure man is put in position to lead? He uses that position to get security and validation. He uses that platform to be a "star" in the eyes of the people so they can feed his need for validation. What happens when a homosexual man, which is the highest form of insecurity, is put before people? He will use the people's applause and accolades to validate his lifestyle and existence since God and nature will not. This is where we are people of God. We have full grown insecure men leading our churches and they are using their platforms to promote themselves so they can overcome their insecurities and lack of validation. They surround themselves with armor bearers and male cheerleaders. They fill their pews with people that deem them human gods and follow their every word. They lift themselves up and lord over their audiences. They do what they feel and want, not regarding the spiritual ramifications of it.

They do not lead, but instead, they appease and give the people what their flesh is desiring in order to be loved and adored by their congregations. These pastors are full of it and they make a mockery of God and his standard of holiness that he is calling for. They mix secular music into their gospel music. They mix secular themes and worldly fun into their preaching and teaching. They basically put the stamp of Jesus on the ghetto club mentality and promote the very lifestyles that are destroying God's people. Yet, for the sake of fame, notoriety, accolades, and validation by applause, they sell God out and do whatever the people desire. All of this has happened before, and Christ dealt with it all in his messages to the 7 churches of Asia. We have been covering these churches on our radio program and you can download these sermons for free here.

These same, insecure pastors build large buildings and live lavish lifestyles that require them to keep the people coming so they can pay the bills. They live like this to overcome the opinions of those that said they would fail or they wouldn't amount to anything. So, instead of taking small steps and establishing themselves gradually, they live to prove people wrong and build, buy, and floss, without establishing foundation and following God's leading. When you raise your standard of living and the churches financial responsibility up high, then you must keep the people coming to sustain it. This is a trap that the modern day, ambitious pastor, falls into. He sees what other men have and desires to grow to that status. But it comes with a price because if the people stop giving or coming, you are stuck with bills you cannot pay. So, the focus of the ministry has to be tithes and offerings and you have to keep entertaining the people so they will keep coming. Truth cannot be preached for fear of losing people, so, compromise becomes the spirit that resides in that house. And the people take on that same spirit and begin to live sinfully and in a spiritual state of compromise all because the pastor was overly ambitious and has selfish motives.

Then, they go for hollywood and get some movie stars, athletes, and money makers to attend services so they can help pay the large notes on these properties. This means that you have to accept the agenda of these people and not preach against them in order to keep them coming and giving. Now, our churches are coming apart at the seams because these carnal idolatrous pastors are leading them straight to HELL. They won't preach against sin and they accept any trend that is popular and will draw a crowd.

They welcome garbage into the house of God at any cost just to keep driving the cars, living in the big houses, and paying the bills of these lavish sanctuaries. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying there is anything wrong with having a large sanctuary and audience, but if you build it around your personality, then you my friend will have to sustain it with your ideas and concepts. If God builds it, then that would mean that the truth will sustain it. But if you have to resort to entertainment, lies, and extortion to keep the bills paid, then it wasn't God to begin with.

We are at a crisis people of God. Our singers and performers have sold out. Our pastors are selling out. The church as a whole is in trouble and the home church is fast becoming the norm because people do not want to subject their families and children to the foolishness of these insecure pastors. Only insecure, un-affirmed men would use the house of God to show themselves and gain approval of people. These products from the broken homes of the 60's are grown up and running our churches into the ground because of their own private agendas. Only God can deliver us and set us free from our own agendas and heal us from our deficits. Whether it was divorce, molestation, abandonment, abuse, or being born out of wedlock, we must be healed by God before we can ever truly deny our plight to get the approval of men! And God forbid we put ourselves in a church where the leader is struggling with validation issues himself.

God is not pleased people! Look around you. If you are at a church where the youth are hip hoppers, the young adults are club goers, and the seasoned saints are singing Franky Beverly and Maze at the church picnic, then you my friends are under a selfish, insecure, carnal leader and the spirit of compromise will rule your house and family. Don't believe me? Look at the state of your children and you will see, because this is where the compromise takes it's toll......on the next generation. What the adults do in moderation, the youth will do in excess!

Jeremiah 12:10-13 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Hear me church,
G. Craige Lewis

The Gay Agenda in the Church?

2009-05-04T15:28:00.025-05:00

Straight men do not befriend homosexual men. It just doesn't happen. A man that is straight is in direct opposition to a man that desires men. I feel, we as real men need to stand up and fight for our rights. We have the right to be the creation God has established and we have the right to recognize the global agenda of homosexuals. We should preach the truth in love, but never tolerate the lifestyle. This is why:

Homosexuals have now created their own bible (click here to see it), and they are bending the rules in an attempt to make their lifestyle the norm, even though nature itself says that it's not. They are creeping into every venue and place that they can be recognized and they don't even have the backing of nature or God! Doctors will tell you that there is a danger to practicing a homosexual lifestyle. 10 to 20 partners a week, ingesting and handling disease infested fecal matter, as well as, polluting body cavities with foreign protein is no way to live for any man. These actions make the lifestyle very damaging to their health, even without the biblical mandate of God to not indulge in this sort of behavior. Honestly, anyone that endorses or approves of the damaging and roulette type lifestyle of a homosexual is uncaring, because they are not at all considering the safety of the persons involved, only the plight of man to pursue pleasure at any cost.

This is tragic people of God. It's tragic because the devil has set men up in our churches to condone this behavior as well as participate in it. These men rule over large amounts of people and they slowly but surely promote themselves to the forefront of ministry only to progressively gain the approval of their audiences before injecting them with their homosexual acceptance agenda. Yes, that's right, they were patient enough to get the folks full of them before they began launching their gay subliminal agendas and now, people are hooked on them and can't seem to shake free from them in spite of their heresy and homosexual advocacy. Who am I talking about? Let's go down the list and you will see that these guys can take born again believers and make them condone the gay agenda with little resistance.

Rick Warren - I was boarding a plane one day and I saw a lesbian couple sitting together on the plane. They joined hands and prayed, and then proceeded to open and read "The Purpose Driven Life" together. I knew then that the book was godless and had no power to change them from pursuing their lesbian lifestyle. Yet churches all over the world adopted this book as a manuscript to get the folks seeking God for "purpose" rather than seeking God for "GOD". This changed the world's perception of the church and made God famous because of his ability to give you things rather than saving your soul. The book basically challenges people to stamp God on their progress, and call all success, God's purpose! When Oprah read the book in her book club, it was over for me. I knew then that Ricky had some issues. Then, when the lady said that she escaped the kidnapping ordeal by reading the purpose driven life to her assailant, I knew something was weird about that. And just a few years later, the truth surfaced. The lady admitted that she gave the guy crystal meth, an illegal drug substance that she was hooked on, while being purpose driven of course,. This is crazy and yet, it didn't make too much news because the devil needs folks purpose driven! This makes people seek purpose rather than God and it distorts salvation and God's plan for us as believers. It's new age philosophy, yet it is embraced by even Holy Ghost believing pentecostals? Now, Slick Rick has come out and openly condoned the gay lifestyle and even admits that he has gay friends that he doesn't want to offend. Webster's defines friend as (• a person who is not an enemy or who is on the same side). Wanna know how many folks have left his church since his "coming out" declaration? Not many! The folks have already been indoctrinated and put to sleep. The most comfortable way to die is to die in your sleep and the purpose driven life is nothing but a spiritual lullaby.

TD Jakes - There has never been a doubt in my mind about this man and his agenda. He has always lisped his way into coercing believers to accept the gay agenda. He even said that he would "NEVER" allow a homosexual to work for him, yet his own son, who is an out of the closet homosexual, arrested for exposing himself to an undercover officer, was a paid staff member, over youth activities? TD Jakes has suggested that Naomi and Ruth's relationship bordered a lesbian affair and even mentioned Jonathan and David in the same declaration! He has said that men have monthly cycles, like women, and that they should tap into their feminine side? He has preached that women should be leading ladies and men should be he-motional? The opposite of what should be, yet his following is still great and no one speaks against him on a large platform because HE controls the platforms. We don't even want to mention the gay preachers he endorses, the earring he sports, the drag queen he is best friends with, and all the gay singers and performers he has promoted. If it was a poisonous snake, you would be dead from all the biting it has done down through the years. We all know what the obvious conclusion to this matter is, yet his church is still growing and his platform is still great. You think the folks at his church don't know this stuff? They know, they just simply could care less. They are in it for the wrong reasons, so wrong doesn't bother any of them. This was a master plan by the devil and has worked like a charm. Click here to read more.

Ted Haggard - My grandmother used to say, "if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck". Well, when I first saw this man, the duck quacked! His mannerisms were just like Paul Lynn from Hollywood Squares. His gestures were like Liberace and he just came across as homosexual to me. Isn't it funny how Homosexuals can have an eye for each other and spot the gestures of another and when they let it be known, there is no problem. But when heterosexuals spot homosexuals and see their mannerisms as being gay, we get dogged out like we are "judging". Now, we know that we should always give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it comes to preachers, we must hold them at a higher standard just because of the influence that they have. We cannot allow them to slip through the cracks because that crack will eventually open up and swallow us all up! This man is now profiting greatly from his coming out party. He has an HBO special that is making a mockery of the judgements that the church has passed on him. He is winning the battle of sympathy over sin and making the church look like a joke. All these Holy Ghost filled Evangelicals being led by a man that doesn't even know what flavor of sex he likes? I'm sorry, but this made us look really powerless as a church. Now, I am good friends with many Evangelical believers that knew of his lifestyle years before this ordeal, and many tried to stand up against it, but the people wanted TED and they fought to keep him there. I understand a person having issues and needing help, but I don't understand a person that takes their issues before the world and mocks the biblical healing process by selling their story for personal gain. This is a shame before God. Sure, the church may have missed this one, but the world is not missing it at all. They now see that the church is full of homosexuals that preach against the sin and enjoy it at the same time!

Eddie Long - When women come in church wearing very tight blouses and showing cleavage, they are looked upon as being flirty or loose right? Well, what happens when a man wears shirts as tight as a leotard? Is that not considered sensual or sexual? Well, what if that same preacher constantly makes passages in the Word of God sexual? Making statements like "God's word is his sperm and he is trying to impregnate you?" That is just nasty. This man also makes very homosexual and gay friendly statements like "God did not take the rib from Adam to make woman, he took the uterus from Adam?" So, according to him, Adam was a hermaphrodite? GROSS! And last but not least, he said "It's natural for a man to have affections for another man because when God made man, woman was inside of him?" That's the opposite of scripture and heresy. The bible calls men that have affections for other men "unnatural", so what is this man trying to accomplish? You guessed it. It may be wrapped up in muscles and look like Almighty Thor minus the hammer, but it's still the gay agenda. Yet, his church stays full of folks and the money keeps pouring in because the people are asleep. Click here to listen for yourself if you can stomach this heresy.

I am naming these men because they have done what the devil wanted them to do. They have gathered the people of God together and turned their affections from the truth to a lie. Yes, that's right. A LIE! Many of you that are reading this are upset because I'm talking about your heroes, yet, you have no basis for your anger. All that I have stated in this blog is truthful and it's a shame that the body of Christ is not in position to even see the heresies and agendas of these men. The general church still looks at these men as prominent, but they are heretics and should be stopped. The bible said this would happen and it's no surprise to me that Rick Warren will continue to flourish as a minister to his audience and Jakes will continue to flourish with his audience. Ted Haggard will be back and Eddie Long will buy more tight shirts. They were selected to do this because they can do it well but the bottom line is, who are you gonna believe?

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

2Tim. 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2Th. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

With God's Authority,
G. Craige Lewis

Holy Hip Hop: Bad Idea

2009-03-10T20:45:00.025-05:00

"Don't judge a book by it's cover" is an old saying that we have heard all of our lives and to back it up, the bible says that "God judges the heart" of man. We read this in the account of David being anointed King and how he didn't appear as good as Saul did for the job. But There are many instances in our lives where the outer appearance of a person is vital!

One can judge a lot about what is really going on inside of a person by what the outside is looking like. Homosexuals and Lesbians have used outer signals to relay messages to each other for years. 2 earrings on a man has always been a sign of bisexuality. One earring on a man has always meant "player" or "stud". A nose piercing on a man means gay as well as lip or tongue piercing. An eyebrow piercing on a woman means lesbian, and so forth. Outer appearances can signify behaviors as well. Gang members wear rags to show allegiance. Prisoners wear cornrows and sag their pants to show homosexual behaviors.
Prostitutes show their body parts in an explicit manner to flag Johns for potential tricks. It's all over. People respond to the appearance of others when they are signaling through their outer appearances.

God has ALWAYS been concerned about his people's outer appearances because men have to interact with other men and must represent God to others to get his will accomplished. If we read the old testament of the scriptures we will see that the outer appearance of God's people was very important to him and he had rules and laws that governed their style and appearance. God was very particular about the garments and even the mixing and matching of certain materials that made up the garments because he wanted strict differences between his people and the false god worshippers. He wanted explicit differences between the men and the women so their appearances could aid in their identity. God wanted differences in his people's behaviors, rituals, and even music, so that a person could never be confused as to what was sacred and what was profane! These things cannot be ignored today and we must understand that God wants there to be a noticeable difference between men and women, and between the church and the world!

The Hip Hop subculture says that people can look, act, and feel anyway they want. And because this demonic movement has bled over into our churches, the general flavor of most youth ministries nowadays is to "come as you are" and wear what you feel. And many take this to mean that they should be able to look and appear any way they want in church. This is not the case. There are a few things I would like to explain to you so you can see why it is not a good idea to have an "anything goes" type ministry just to welcome all people in.

1st, this is not a real world approach to the real world. In the real world, people are judged based on appearance and they are selected for things based on first impressions. With this stickler in place, we must prepare our young people to succeed and have success in life by first guiding their appearances and have them conform to the images that we deem positive. We must keep our young boys, first, looking like MALES! I cannot tell you how many young boys I see in our churches that you cannot tell are boys. They come to the alter and in some cases, I have to ask the Holy Spirit what gender they are! They have long braids, sometimes with beads or just plain old cornrows and because their voices have not changed and they have a soft demeanor, you will be inclined to believe that they are girls. This is sad because when I approach young boys that have had these issues, they usually are saddened by people receiving them as the opposite sex. In many cases, they will accept the label of being a girl and begin to respond with girl like tendencies. This leads to a life of not knowing who they are and experimenting with both sexes. This is what the scripture in Deuteronomy was explaining. It was an abomination for a women to wear men's garments and men to put on women's garment. This is not necessarily talking about women wearing pants because women didn't wear pants in this time, both men and women were draped with garments. But the material and the positioning of the garments were different to denote male or female. God did not want the wrong label put on the wrong gender. He wanted a difference made that was definite and everyone could see by their outer garments who they were.

We now have grown men with female hairstyles and effeminate appearances. Earrings, cornrows, and the like are all things that were once considered no no's in our churches and communities. Only pimps, homosexuals, and prisoners used to look this way but now, it's popular for preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to pierce their ears, wear braids, and even cornrows in the pulpit. Gospel recording artists now exemplify the worlds styles by men wearing piercing and long braids, even ponytails and buns with the braids? This is something that real men should stand against, but because we have so many flaming homosexuals in the pulpits and the Gospel Music industry, these men are now welcomed to come in our churches and show our kids how to fashion themselves after the world and still serve the living God. This is sending the wrong message, but who cares, it's the way it is, right? WRONG! If a person is not concerned about how they are perceived by others when it comes to their appearance, then this person is not concerned about the people! They are more concerned about how they look than how IT looks, and these are not true men of God because God was concerned about the perception of his Gospel to the point where he laid down rules for his representatives to follow when it came to fashion. Sure we have liberty, but come on people, there is line, and we must make it visible or we will have no proper way of appearing!

2nd - In Hip Hop, everything can be questioned! I cannot tell you how many folks I get emails and comments from that want to take the time to tell me "I disagree with you!" My answer? SO WHAT!!!! (I had one HHH rapper that I said so what to, get so upset that he called all the pastors of my engagement itinerary to try to get them cancelled.) I cannot believe that this new culture of youth feel that their opinion of what God has given me really matters. But the major problem in our churches today is the positions that people take against the pastors and leaders. You see, in the myspace era, people create identities that they feel are unique and important. They feel that their personal wants and desires are so important that the whole world needs to hear about them. Their zodiac sign, their favorite song, their pictures and images, their thoughts and ideas are all so important to them, that they will put it up on a space and try to connect with others so they can be received and made to feel validated. They want the validation of the world to replace what they didn't get from mom and dad. Well, what this does is promote people that feel their opinion and personal feelings dictate what is right and what is wrong. This makes it hard for them to receive discipline or rebuke! So, it makes it almost impossible for them to read or receive the bible because they may or may not agree with what it says. And because of this, we have tons of religious organizations that take parts of the bible and reject the parts they don't want.

This has created a generation of those that heap upon themselves teachers that will teach the parts they want to hear. The bible is now being picked apart by people's opinions and personal feelings rather than being preached in season and out of season. It is now "radical" to preach the whole bible and because people can pick and choose, they now can decide what is right or wrong based on their own ideology rather than the absoluteness of the world of God. It's hard to do youth ministry these days because Hip Hop has infused our youth with the idea that their opinion matters and their personal feelings are more important than truth. This means that if we allow them to be validated by their opinions then their opinions will be their guide! Because of Holy Hip Hoppers pushing their agenda and opinions in the church, It has really created youth that were once receptive young people desiring to be changed but are now opinionated youth that desire to be seen.

3rd - Hip Hop has created hybrid Christians that looks like thugs but serve God? You see, my grandmother taught me, that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's a DUCK. How can you look like a gang member, talk like one, act like one, carry a swagger like one, and be a Christian? Well, the world says it can't be done. Hip Hop is about realness and real hip hoppers say that there can be no Holy version of Hip Hop. The founders of Hip Hop say that it is already Holy the way it is. So, why are the Holy Hip Hoppers saying they are a redeemed version? That's simple. They don't believe in Holy Hip Hop themselves and I will prove it to you. When Ambassador, Da Truth, and others Holy Hip Hoppers refer to what they are doing in their music, they don't refer to it as Holy, they just call it Hip Hop. The reason is that they know Holy Hip Hop is a counterfeit of Hip Hop and they don't want to be representatives of it. They know if they go to the ghettos and in the streets saying "Holy Hip Hop", they will be ridiculed and laughed at.
They know if Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc heard them say "Christian" Hip Hop, they would get ejected from the sub culture and labeled foolish because there is only 1 kind of Hip Hop and that's Hip Hop. This is why in all their music, they say Hip Hop and not Holy Hip Hop. So, if this is true, then why are churches and pastors buying into something that the rappers themselves don't promote? Easy answer here folks: If they look gangster, swagger like a gangster, promote gangster music, then what are they? We have a set of DVD's that will help you answer that question! Get them here.

We have a problem in the church and this problem is that we don't consider the cost until it's time to pay! If we let our youth dress and look any way they want, then we can't train them to look good and presentable. If we let our youth listen to any kind of music they want, then we can't teach them that some music is corrupt. If we allow our youth to express themselves and walk with swagger, then we cannot teach them self denial and walking by the Spirit. If we allow our youth to accept Holy Hip Hop, then we cannot teach them the evils of Hip Hop itself because it's all the same thing. Holy Hip Hop is Hip Hop!

1Sam. 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Deut. 22:5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Ex. 32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

2Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Titus 2:15 AMP Tell [them all] these things. Urge (advise, encourage, warn) and rebuke with full authority. Let no one despise or disregard or think little of you [conduct yourself and your teaching so as to command respect]. Titus 3:1 REMIND PEOPLE to be submissive to [their] magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be prepared and willing to do any upright and honorable work,

With God's Authority,
G. Craige Lewis

Back to basics

2009-02-03T08:24:00.019-06:00

1 Thessolonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

We know by the change in the spiritual climate of America that our time here is growing short and the Lord's return is drawing near. So, why then are so many Sunday sermons more about Barack than THE ROCK? Why are preachers more concerned about the black cause than the sin clause? Well, it's the sign of the times people. Wake up and smell the coffee! The devil has planted selfish, compromising, wolves over the sheep in many of our churches and now, because we are in a time of financial crisis, their empires are threatened, so they must turn to tricks and gimmicks to keep the doors open. You see, when you build big monumental buildings based on attendance and not on God's plan, then when money gets tight, these churches have to conjure up ways to keep people coming and paying. Instead of our churches keeping things in God's perspective, they have followed the leading of men with selfish motives that led them to build when they should not have, and have so called "faith" that God would fill the buildings up. Well, church attendance is down all over the country and millions are now skipping church services because they are just not getting answers from the pulpit that they are seeking. Folks are tired of hearing from pastors that cannot control their own houses and children. Folks are tired of giving to a spiritual money pit that only prospers the leader. People are tired of hearing about Obama and giving so much so, that church attendance is down to it's lowest point in history! Sure there are many preachers still preaching the true Gospel of Jesus, but there are many that have become jokers in their own sanctuaries. Though Black America is excited to have a black president, to use his popularity to appease people and coax them into coming and giving to your services makes a mockery of God's power and Spirit. It's hard to even turn on a black preacher's television or radio broadcast without hearing them use the president as a tool for gain. What a shame!

Why are their so many churches and still so many sinners? The church buildings have gone up but the call for righteous living has decreased. There are churches on every street corner in most cities, yet we have the highest immoral statistics our nation has ever seen. And with the bad economy, people are looking for answers but many pastors are looking for members and money to sustain the monuments they constructed! Instead of storing up money and keeping things modest for bad economic times, they have lived lavishly, employing too many people and overspending to appear grand, while all along, people under their own noses were failing in life and getting corrupted. Now, we have the big buildings, the grand production services, the fancy cars and homes, but in our own homes, pastors marriages are failing, their children are corrupt, and their Sunday morning services are selfish and self centered. Instead of Jesus and the End Times being preached, money and Obama is the subject of choice. Even preachers that fought against the democratic agenda and those that totally opposed Obama's policies have shifted gears to keep folks coming and giving. They have weaved Obama into their own plan and are using it to make a name for themselves rather than preaching the Word! We have lost focus in these trying times and we all must go back and seek the face of God. We are experiencing God's hand, his judgement, and his anger right now. America has turned their back on Him and he is seeking justice. The only way out of this is justification, but that only comes with a true acceptance of Jesus and his Word.

You see, we can talk all day about salvation and what it means, but until we pull the plug on these gimmicks and Sunday morning schemes to get members and money, we will not experience God in our midst. Aren't you tired of wishy washy sermons about sex and money every weekend? Aren't you tired of preachers and pastors following the mood of the people instead of the voice of God? Barack Obama is our president, but he is not our savior. Jesus is and should be the focus of every service and every sermon! God is not pleased that we have made worldly politics and church politics our focus. We need to refocus! We cannot allow tough times to bring fear into our minds and hearts. And we definitely cannot allow the large buildings and high dollar payrolls of the mega churches to dictate what will be preached from the pulpit.

In tough economic times like these there should be one focus in the body of Christ and that is PLEASING GOD! Sure we should pray for the president, give tithes and offerings, and we should definitely go to church somewhere. But the bottom line in this time is to please God. When God is pleased, he will bless. I know you have heard the popular preachers continue to tell you that PRAISE is the answer, but they are lying. Praise has not even helped them in their own marriages, with their own children, or with the mortgages on these monuments they built. Praise is good, but does not move God. He said if you "WAYS" please him, not "Praise" please him! He said he would give you all that you need if your ways please him. This does not mean you will not make mistakes. It means that your focus is Christ centered and your objective in this life is to be on track with him. To be right-aligned with his plan for you is righteousness! And this is where your job, finances, family, etc. is. It's in his plan for you but you must line up with him to get it. You can't compromise, you can't do your own thing, and you can't seek to please your flesh, and be aligned with him.

People of God, hear G. Craige Lewis right now! We must please God! We must not seek our own anymore. We must seek him in this last hour. Pastors, preachers, ministers, leaders, parents, it's time to make God happy! He is angry and this offering driven mentality is not making a difference. Stop preaching about Barack Obama and the miracle of him winning the election. Pray for him and let's give the man time to prove himself and then we will know if he is the man for the job. Stop seeking offerings and tithes and allow God to fill the storehouse. Stop chasing gimmicks and ways to prosper and seek to please God. If what you have came from God, he will take care of it. But if it was a mistake, let your congregation know, downsize, suck it up and repent! Don't play games with God's people and never try to make something that was not God's plan look right. We all get caught up at times, make a bad judgement call, or do things that we shouldn't have done. We have regrets and feel ashamed, but we must remember that ministry is God's not ours. What he does through us, only he can get the glory for. That's why we strive to be good people in this life and allow God to be the anointing on us. You see, we can have success in ministry, but God does not measure us on that scale and neither should people. We should be measured in this life by how we treat others, take care of our families and those that we are responsible for, as well as the success of those we mentor. These are things that can measure true success in this life. Money does not equal success or blessings. God wants us all focused on being perfect in his sight and upstanding with his ministry. That basically means, do what is right and deny your own flesh. If we do these things we will please him and if God is pleased with us, he will bless us and take care of us.

Like the prodigal son returned after his folly, so should we all, in this time, return to God on bended knees, asking for forgiveness, and turning from our wicked ways. Only then will we begin to see a difference. Let's get it right people of God. Leaders, let's lead with God's authority. Parents, let's strive to be examples and mentors to our children. Ministers, let's put our personal agendas away and do what needs to be done according to God's plan. Let's get it together before He returns and please him at all costs. We will then see the true heart of God and be blessed as a people.

Prov. 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Rom. 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Gal. 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Until He returns,
G. Craige Lewis

No Compromise in 2009!

2009-01-06T06:46:00.009-06:00

There is a blessing that comes from God that is not preached about enough in our pulpits. This message of blessings and prosperity is almost ignored and shunned in many of our mega churches. It's a prosperity message indeed and it has to do with your finances, but this message is not popular because so many have gone the other way and desire to take what you have without this principle being established. I'm talking about the blessing in not compromising!

What is compromise? Well, we called it in the world, selling out! It's when you do not take a stand for convenience sake. It's when you desire to get something or somewhere so badly that you hide your stand and put your conviction on the back burner until you get what you want or where you want to be! Compromise is leading many of our church leaders nowadays. The mega church pastors and superstar Gospel singers and performers have filled their choirs, groups, pews, and lives with people that compromise daily and don't really stand for anything righteous. The singers will sing anywhere for anyone, with anyone. Preachers are preaching feel good and get your blessing messages, but embracing people that promote sinfulness and welcoming it into the house of God.

It started with the Megafest conferences where Pastors decided to defy the very bible that we believe, and mix secular, sinful performers with Gospel preachers and teachers. It was the dawning of a new era in the black church and many young pastors have followed suit. Now, on any given Sunday you will hear preachers bragging about their earthly gain, promoting secular sinful actors and Hollywood, as well as promoting folks that don't even follow after the truth of the Word. It's not strange to turn on the television and see a Gospel recording musician dancing the latest club dances, singing the latest club songs, and mimicking the latest pop cultural fads. It's not weird anymore to pick up a Gospel music CD and see a picture of a seductive whore on the front or read the credits and find names of artists that promote Satan and sinfulness in their performances. It's nothing to see a Bishop in a movie that promotes sin, seduction, or other worldly images for the sake of popularity and gain. What has happened to our churches and where is the power of God? Well, I have news for you. God's presence does not flow in compromise so his presence is not with this stuff.

This is an epidemic in the black church. It's about entertainment and fun vs. the consequences of sin and compromise. People are now more concerned about their feelings rather than God's feelings. It's about how a person can feel better vs. God feeling better about us! The general consensus now is for the adults to find their blessing and breakthrough in church while the youth find hope in their sub-cultural identity and peer inspired philosophies. God is now a novelty to many and salvation has become all inclusive. How many New Year's Eve services consisted of entertainment rather than end times sermons? How did we as a church prepare for 09? Are we looking to evangelize and win souls and reverse curses or are we focused on our finances and how to beat the bad economy? What is going on?

The saddest part about people that compromise is that most of them have earthly successes financially and they get their egos stroked by accolades, but their homes are in turmoil as a result of keeping their desires their main focus. Their children's lives are wrecks and their marriages are parses. You see, the penalty for compromise is the compromising of your own home. Your home will suffer for your selling out. That's right. That's the part we never hear about from the celebrities, but it's evident in their public disgraces and reputations. When you go your way and get the fame, money, and power, you lose God's peace and a curse will follow you. You may get the goods you desire, but your children, marriage, and legacy will be a wreck. You don't get away with anything in this life, and you will pay and suffer grave consequences when you compromise.

But there is a great blessing in not compromising. Let me tell you first hand, that when you do it the way God wants and you don't sell out, you will be blessed. God will bless your marriage, your children, and your finances. God will take the little money you make and stretch it farther than you can imagine when you stand for him. Sure, folks aren't gonna like you and they will fight against you because when you do not compromise and you get blessed and favored by God for it, you make the sell outs looks bad. How would you feel if you gave up your convictions and sold out to make it, only to find out that God's true blessing is on those that held their ground and stood for him at all cost? You would be upset about that and that's why Jesus said that the world hates him.The world doesn't know Jesus well enough to truly hate him, they just hate the fact that his goodness makes their sinfulness look bad! That's why they fight his truth.

I watch the earthly success of these people that are famed and revered by many for being stars, actors, performers, and celebrities. They have limousines and big houses, they have their name in lights and sign autographs everywhere they go. But in their private lives, they are wrecks. They have multiple divorces or open marriages. Their children are gay, on drugs, or both! Their homes are full of despair and no peace whatsoever. Sure, in public, they look the part, but in reality, they themselves are drug addicts, drunkards, etc. to escape the pain they feel for selling out their own principles and convictions for the sake of fame and self glorification. I'm not talking about Hollywood, I'm talking about the CHURCH!

The church as a whole is in this same predicament that Hollywood stars have been in for years. We have gone after the gold and the fame. The church has embraced actors and performers from Hollywood's method of stardom and has turned the church of God into an arena of entertainment. The true Gospel is being lost and the false doctrine of men is being forwarded. This has caused the personal lives of our preachers and singers to be plagued with sin and unrighteousness. This has cause our youth departments and youth as a whole in the church to be lost. More teen pregnancies, aids, STD's, you name it, it's in our churches! All of this because we decided that we needed to compromise the Gospel to reach this generation when it was just the fame, money, and power, that our church leaders and recording artists desired. They pretended to desire to reach the world when it was really their desire to be of the world that drove them. And now, look at where we are. Folks have stopped giving and lost confidence in the church process. Mega churches are falling and mega church pastors homes are dividing.

But there is a blessing for you if you decide to stand for truth no matter what. Let me assure you, that if you stand up for God and not bow down to the idols of men, you will be blessed. IF you want a financial blessing from God, then you better do what he says! If you want peace in your home, your children saved and set free, your marriage saved and strengthened, then you better do what God says. He is the answer and the only way of having true success in the this life! God is the way and his truth endures forever, so don't compromise for anything! Don't sell out and don't sit under or look up to sell outs. This is the year of no tolerance and no compromise. When it's not God, say it's not. When it's of God, follow it. When it doesn't line up with scripture, don't be silent about it, but let it be known. We must call it like it is this year and warn those that are mixing God's truth with lies. It doesn't matter who it is, whether it's a Bishop, pastor, performer, or actor, the same rules apply. If they are not lining up with scripture we must not be silent. Many times for respect purposes, you don't have to say anything, but your actions will be your voice. Don't follow what is not of God.

No compromise in 2009. There is a blessing from God that comes when you stand for him. I am a living witness and I'm typing from a debt free home right now! The true blessing of God comes from doing things his way. Sure, no one is perfect and we all make mistakes. I'm not talking about being perfect in the sense of doing everything right and never missing the mark, but I'm saying that when it comes to compromising the Gospel, we must not tolerate it on any level. You must stand for what is right regardless of the circumstance. What will our children have if we mix up the message and merge the world with the church? They are watching us and what we do, they will do. If we stand, they will stand. If we compromise, they will take compromise to another level! Come on people of God, make this the year that you tell compromise good bye. Stand up, declare your God, and walk in his ways, and you will be blessed and your home will have peace.

Deut. 28:7 ¶ “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
Deut. 28:8 “The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deut. 28:9 “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Deut. 28:10 “So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
Deut. 28:11 “The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Deut. 28:12 “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Deut. 28:13 “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,
Deut. 28:14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

In Love,
G. Craige Lewis

Don't Forget Jesus

2008-12-23T09:32:00.010-06:00

This holiday season, please do not forget Jesus. He is not like Santa and he is not like Rudolph! He is not a figment of one's imagination and he is not a swear word. He is the son of the most High God. He is the name that gives clarity to the God you serve. There are so many that say they have God or claim to have accepted God, but without Jesus, we have no reference to which god it is that they are talking about. Keep Jesus in everything you do, whether you are praying, shopping, or just witnessing it needs to be understood who you are doing it for. Jesus is the reason, not just for this season, but for salvation period.

Throughout history, pagans have tried to discredit the birth of Jesus. Each form of paganism from the Mayans to Egyptians, from the Incas to the Zodiac predicted a child born of a virgin in their own culture. They ran a christ-like theory parallel with God's word to make it look like Jesus' birth was just another son of a god born of a virgin. But we that believe in the true God know that the devil may counterfeit the birth be he cannot counterfeit the power of the life and death! We know that by faith we believe in the son of God, Jesus. He is the only way and even though many pagans selected Jesus birth to celebrate their false gods, we celebrate the birth of our savior regardless. It's not a commandment of God but a privilege of those of us that love him.

I love my family and though they do not command me to celebrate them on their birthdays, I do it because I believe that they should be honored on that day in my eyes. I want to celebrate the fact that they are here. I feel the same way about Jesus. And though there are a lot of pagan themes used in our cultures celebration of Jesus' birth, the fact still remains that HE WAS BORN! And with that fact, I choose to celebrate him and my family. But pagans would rather we associate this day with their gods and find reason to ignore the day. I choose to take the stand that I will celebrate Jesus birth with my family and celebrate my love for them by giving gifts to them in honor of Christ. I know this doesn't sit well with many because they have pulled up the history of pagans but the pagans targeted the birth of Jesus to stop all future celebrations of him. This is the day that the world would call his name and recognize his coming. But pagans knew that if they could counter the date, they could make even some Christians choose to fight the celebrating of Christ's birth.

The wise men brought gifts to celebrate Jesus and that is a fact. Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding celebration, that is a fact. So, though many feel that celebrating events and dates is wrong, my bible shows me different. So, I will continue to celebrate birthdays including the birth of my savior without conviction. And though we should forsake the pagan gods we should never deny the fact that a real savior was born and the date we select to celebrate it is our choice.

Don't let the pagans, the astrologers, and the Wiccans discredit the obvious. Jesus was born, and he is worthy of recognition on the day we choose. And though December 25th may not be the exact date, on a linear calendar it's impossible to celebrate an exact date for anything. Come on folks, don't lose Christ this season and don't let the pagans erase a day that did occur and that warrants our celebrating and remembering.

Sure the world wants Christ out of Christmas. Sure they want to allow every other god and religion to freely express themselves, except for Christians and those that believe in Christ. Sure department stores are taking Merry Christmas off their ads and just saying "Happy Holidays". This world hates JESUS and if you love him, they will hate you. We must stop being politically correct and trying to fit in with the in-crowd by not saying his name or claiming him in public. We must stand up for Jesus if we love Jesus. Say his name if he is who you are talking about!

It's time for those that really love him to defend his name and preach his gospel. It's time for those that really love him to sound the alarm and warn this wicked world that he is coming back! It's time for those that have denied their own flesh to promote him, and let the world know that he is the ONLY way to God! This holiday season, don't forget the reason we celebrate it. Don't forget Jesus

Is. 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

In Love,
G. Craige Lewis

Silent Screams

2008-11-12T06:55:00.017-06:00

*Note* - Please pray for us. Those that support our efforts, pray for EX Ministries. Many have stopped supporting us and are taking stands to no longer financially back our ministry because of the information we are sharing concerning Barack Obama. This information is important and we feel very necessary for the future of our church and families, yet many have decided to no longer stand with us. If you are blessed by our ministry, we would like to ask that you pray for us and continue to stand in this last and evil day. Time is almost up and Jesus will return any day now. Stay prayerful. We are in it to win it all and will not back down because of lack of support, product sales, or speaking engagements. We trust God and he always takes care of us. Now, he that has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying through this particular blog. Let it convict, heal, and open your heart for the truth. In Jesus name. READ CAREFULLY:

Have you ever created something as a gift for someone only to have them tear it apart or express their unwillingness to keep it? After all your hard work, that gift is precious to you, especially when it comes from your heart and you put all that you are into it. When a person does not treasure it like you do, it upsets you. That's just human nature and that's how we are wired. We are wired to treasure our creations when we put everything we have into it, and we hope that those we give it to will understand all that it took to make it and how much it means to us right?

Well, this is how God feels about life. You see, life is God's creation and he treats every life as his own gift to us. When you are pregnant, it is a gift. A child is conceived and you have no idea what God has planned for that life because you didn't create it, you only came together with the opposite sex and God did the creating. Your body becomes a host for God's project and you could be carrying a person that could change life as we know it. I believe that when we as a people don't understand this process, we tend to take it for granted. When we aren't raised to see and know what the killing of the unborn really is, we take it lightly and we don't really consider the detriment of it.

The black community alone is responsible for over 1500 deaths a day through abortion. We are killing more than we are birthing and our numbers prove it. When the devil devised the plan of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, he understood that the only way to keep us unwanted black folks committing abortions is to make it something that is never discussed openly. And so, for the last 20 years, our black leaders as a whole have been silent on this issue. And because we see so many deaths by abortion in our communities, we are used to it and it just doesn't carry weight in our minds and hearts the way it should. This is why the black church could vote in a President in spite of his thrust to kill the unborn without giving it a second thought. "That's not important" or "Abortion is happening now under republicans so it doesn't matter!" This was the general consensus during the election and this is still the feelings of our people as a whole. What most do not know is that partial birth abortion was overturned by congress under Bush as well as various legislature implemented under Bush to slow down the onslaught of the unborn. All of this is about to be overturned by our new president elect in just a short while. But many of us didn't know this or we just don't know what abortion is all about, therefore we are in the dark about God's feelings toward it. But if you research the bible, you will see that God says he hates "hands that shed innocent blood" and it's much deeper than you can imagine.

I believe our new president elect is just like the majority of blacks in America on this issue. He doesn't understand human life and how precious it is to God. If he did, he would not be an advocate for Planned Parenthood and he would not be vowing to overturn EVERY law that is in place to slow down the slaughter of innocent lives. Yet his administration promised a few days ago that one of his first moves in office will be to overturn all the laws protecting the unborn. He even voted in favor of "infanticide" which is destroying a life after it survives an abortion. When asked by Rick Warren, "when does life begin" our president elect stated that he "did not know". Do you know what that means? That makes every advocation of this process even more murderous for him because he is voting to blindly kill without even knowing if it's a good idea or not! After all, if he doesn't know when life begins then why is he siding with death? People of God, wake up. Black folks open your eyes! We are being destroyed for the lack of our knowledge on this subject. The enemy has kept the black church and community in the dark about this process for so long that we don't even feel for it. We want it to be bad in our eyes, but when it's our own daughters and sons, we look the other way and pray for the best. God is not happy with us right now people and we can pray all we want, but when we chose leaders that carry out these policies, the blood of the innocent children are on our hands.

White evangelical churches and movements usually make abortion an issue. They protest and fight legislation that kills the unborn even as teenagers. They are taught when life begins at a very young age and are taught that it's precious. I know this because I started out in youth ministry in an all white church when I was in training for youth ministry. But in contrast, the black churches I have been employed by would say abortion is wrong, but would never really push the issue. And just as Margaret Sanger hired black pastors and leaders to silence the voice of reason on this issue, we as a people don't rally for the unborn. And it's hard for us to put things into perspective when it comes to this issue because it is not something that we have heard enough of or really been taught about. That's a part of the enemies plan for the black community and it's working. We have a very powerful video that will give you all the information you need on this subject. The truth behind Abortion is available by clicking here.

Why is it that almost every time a strong voice against abortion in the black community rises up, the enemy comes and silences it? This is why there are no major crusades against abortion in the black community or black church. There is no major push for the right to life in our sermons and conferences. Our youth are none the wiser and most of their parents are in the dark as well because there aren't major voices speaking out on this issue to our people! The devil has worked hard to keep black folks from thinking about abortion and now it has taken a toll on us for real. Now, we have voted without counting the lives. We voted without considering the blood on our hands. We have pushed and pushed until we now have an administration that will complete the task of killing us off as a people. Where is God's voice in this? Where are the people that will stand up for the rights of the unborn? Where is pastor that will not take death for an answer? Where is the preacher that will cry out for the cries of the maimed babies. Do we believe in killing the unborn for the black cause? Then why aren't we fighting for God's creation? We as a church have pushed the devils plan for the shedding of innocent blood right into office because we did not consider the creation of the creator and God is angry towards us. People, please, get educated on this issue and pray that God intervenes. He can work a miracle against the coming administration and tie up their hands, but only if we fight to make it happen. Please watch this video:

Deut. 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Deut. 19:9 if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and a bloodguiltiness be on you.

Sincerely,
G. Craige Lewis

Progression

2008-11-06T07:01:00.010-06:00

What a wonderful day to see and behold. Election day, a black man crowned executive chief of the United States. Whether you are for his policies or against his policies, if you are black, you can't deny that there was a sense of accomplishment that we all could share in. It makes us feel that no level in this land is unreachable because of color. It proves to many that if we desire it, we can achieve it. It all looks and feels very good to any black person and it should. But there is much to be considered that comes with an accomplishment like this. When the celebration stops, we still have to deal with us and the mess that we have created in our communities.

Have we progressed as a people or did we just progress in the eyes of people? This landmark election event may have put us at the top for a minute, but the fact still remains, we have a long way to go. Now, we as a people must stand on our own 2 feet and make it regardless of racial barriers because Barack is proof that if you have what people want, your skin color doesn't matter. But I want us to examine this and understand that this election may have put one of us in office, but our families are still being destroyed because of immorality. We can chant blackness, throw up Barack hand signs, and be proud as we wanna be, but after the party is over, we are still 11 percent of the population and have the highest HIV death rate, murder rate, high school drop out rate, teen pregnancy rate, incarceration rate, abortion rate, etc. We have issues in our communities that many are looking for Barack to fix, but Barack is for some of the very things that are destroying us as a people. 1400 abortions everyday among blacks. Black women can't find good men because of homosexuality in the black community. We don't have the numbers that whites have so when our men turn gay, we lose fathers and husbands at an alarming rate. Add 1 million black men in the prison system and you have a lesbian firestorm in our communities because of the lack of good black men! And remember, Barack went to a church for 20 years that is gay friendly and even traveled with a gay pastor during his campaign earlier this year. This is why we should never look to the President for those kinds of things to be fixed. He is not God, he is a man. God is the only one that can intervene and fix this mess that we are in as a people.

Please people, do me a favor. Study the bible and get a good understanding of God's men. Understand who God supported in the bible and who he denounced. Understand who he was for and who he was against. You will see a pattern that is undeniable. When men killed the unborn or promoted homosexuality, did God use them? Has he ever? Why do we think that God is moving upon us as a people because we have a black president? Now understand, I'm proud of us as a race too, but I don't want us to jump in and drown just because we are in the big house now. I want you to take a good look at the bible and a good look at Obama's policies. Do they line up and should we put our faith in him?

We can be happy, but we still have an obligation to do better as a people. I see folks with grillz in their mouths chanting Obama. I see women with 6 kids by 7 different men, looking for their next baby daddy chanting Obama. I see preachers that are gay in secret and married in public chanting Obama. I see pastors that are sexually active with their own members chanting Obama! I see a nation of folks that are making very bad decisions in life walking around chanting Obama. The only thing these folks I'm talking about have in common with Barack is skin color and I'm sorry, but that's not enough to heal our communities. The bible says that "If my people, which are called by my name would humble themselves, pray, seek and then turn from their wicked ways...." He was not talking about an election people, that is a command to turn from your wicked ways. We can have an all Black White House and it will not stop the consequences of immorality! There is a price to be paid for sin and we cannot sit back and wait for Obama to pay it for us. Our people are perishing and we must do something quick or we will have a black president, but no black citizens!

Wake up America. Obama may look like the answer, but he is not. We don't need a person in position to point at and say "look what we did" We need our churches to stand up and say no to the gay agenda. We need pastors to say no to abortion and same sex unions. We need our men of God to stop standing behind Obama and start standing in front of him. He may be a leader in the natural, but in the spirit realm, God has the final say. This man is a President, not our daddy. He is not the missing father in your home. He is not the answer to your problems. He is not the savior for your sins. He is a man that was elected to public office and he needs leadership of strong men of God that can put racial prejudice behind them and show him God's way. But because many pastors backed him in spite of his immoral stances, so many of them have lost their opportunity to really be a light for him. So many just wanted to see him in office, that we forgot our greater obligation and that is to stand for righteousness at all costs. And as a people, we don't need to use this president as our trump card. We don't need to hold him up as our savior and answer. We don't need to feel like we are better now because we are not. We have a long way to go and if we don't turn from our wicked ways, and seek the face of God, we will yet be a slave to the system and be lost with a Black president in office.

Please people of God, pray. Not just for Obama, but for the mentality of our people of this nation. Obama could end up being the worst thing to ever happen to the black race if we continue on this path of unity in public but division in private. And though I don't agree with his stand on morals, I do hope he does a good job. But my confidence is not in man it is in Jesus. I urge believers to pray because America is sitting on a ticking time bomb. We are about to endure the rule of a very liberal congress and we as true Christians are going to have to fight like never before. And though we celebrate a black man in office, we must continue to fight his immoral policies and stand against the agenda of the antichrist.

2Chr. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Rev. 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Rev. 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev. 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev. 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Until He Comes,
G. Craige Lewis

Vote Black?

2008-11-06T06:35:00.009-06:00

The 2008 Hip Hop Awards came on the other day and it proved one thing to me. Some black folks will be dumb until Jesus comes back! How can anyone look at pimps, thugs, and gangsters as a good thing that needs to be celebrated? How did Hip Hop become the voice of our youth to the point that the black church is bending over backwards for it's acceptance? This is a shame. But one thing that they did on this show that really got me going was the push for a "black" vote in the election. Not knowing the issues at hand, but yet and still, they constantly pushed the young folks and HIp Hop fans to "vote black" this election.

How embarrassing! These folks undid everything that Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed of in one dumb hour! They took apart his dream and the civil rights movement by pointing to the black candidate as the mandatory vote of black people. This is sad. Martin Luther King said that he dreamed of the day when people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character! How can you say, "vote black" and not go against that dream? Just because an african man mixed with white is running does not mean he is the right choice or the only choice for black people. We are moving to the back of the bus again and we don't even see it. As far as straight politics goes, Blacks are the only race of people that are not bipartisan. We have been conditioned to be on one side and never split our vote. Other races and ethnic groups including, hispanics, catholics, and jews put people on both sides of the ticket for leverage and a voice no matter how the pendulum swings. But blacks stay at the back of the bus and don't spread out so when we lose, we lose our voice and power. That's slave mentality.

Our freedom to vote is our right to vote that was fought for by many civil rights leaders in the past. This is the right to vote either way, republican or democrat, and most importantly, it is our right to NOT vote at all if we don't feel that either candidate deserves our support. We have corrupted the freedom of voting so much these days that people don't even know the issues at hand and they are just voting the color of their skin or what pop culture is dictating to them. I'm sorry folks, but we can't stay on this road. This is the road that leads to the accepting of the mark of the beast. This is the road that hides the truth and promotes the lie. This road will get you voting for economics rather than morality. And that's the road that will lead to the antichrist! The bible said that in the end, you will not be able to buy or sell unless you pledge your allegiance to the beast! Buy or sell? That's economics. Thats money! And if you are voting for economic reasons and not considering morality or your own convictions, then you are essentially doing exactly what the bible predicts will happen in the end. People will begin to vote in the man that will lead us to the antichrist and the end. They will vote this man in based on economic issues and popularity. He will be voted in because of the financial crisis of the government and people will not even consider his true moral ethics. Black Christian leaders have totally abandoned the bible in this election. They have chosen culture over Christ and have accepted the 3 things that the antichrist will implement in his rule. Abortion, Homosexuality, and the silencing of the truth! These things are on the table and being ignored because of the color of a man's skin?

Muhammad Ali faced the challenge of not fighting in an American war because it went against his religious convictions. He became an African American hero because of it. With that said, if you do not feel that either candidate in this race fits your conviction, then you are obligated to NOT vote at all. I know black people go crazy when you talk like this and they bring up all the slaves that died and the folks that fought for your right to vote. Yet in that same breath, they don't think of the millions that have died of AIDS through homosexual activity, the millions of lives that are not here because of abortion, nor do they consider the millions that are deceived because the church is silent on moral issues!

Sure many fought and died for the right to vote. But that fight was not just for a right to vote, but a right to chose to vote. After all, if we are forced to vote, we didn't have a right to not vote and thus we are still bound and not free. And if you don't have a choice that is comfortable or in line with your convictions, then what do you do? Pick the lesser of 2 evils? Or pick the black man because you are black? God forbid! I will not be guilty of ushering in the antichrists policies because a man is of color! I am not practicing to receive the mark of the beast. And if you are voting against your own beliefs and bible for the sake of money, color, or party biases, then you have just passed the mark of the beast test. You have just proven that socialistic reasons supersede your spiritual convictions! And this is exactly what the antichrist will do. He will exalt himself above God and make his immoral beliefs acceptable by all. And without question we see that Barack Obama has caused preachers and pastors, great and small, to follow him in spite of his antichrist morals. Abortion, homosexuality, and the silencing of the church are on his ticket and yet black church folks don't care. The very things that are killing us as a people are the very things that we are in favor of. The scariest part is that this is just rehearsal for the coming rule of the antichrist and the black church has lined up on the wrong side! I'm not saying that McCain is the answer, but I'm saying that if you are voting, your convictions as a believer in the bible should out weigh every thing else.

How did we get here? Why are we ignoring the obvious here? The money problems America is having is just a prelude to the coming of the one world government and the rule of the antichrist. That's why his policies are being tested here in America. I'm not calling Obama the antichrist, but I'm saying his policy is in line with the morality of the King of the East that will rise up and rule. Barack Obama plans to go into churches and demand that they accept the homosexual agenda. Michelle Obama even bragged at the gay and lesbian counsel of the Democratic National Convention about going into a black church and telling them to stop being homophobic and accept the gay agenda. You can hear it for yourself below.

Yet, the black church is so full of homosexual activity, it was a plan all along by the enemy to get these homosexual leaders of the black churches in power so that when this agenda comes through the White House, they would lead their flocks directly into it. God showed me 15 years ago that every major black pentecostal denomination would be lead by a homosexual before Jesus returns. And now, they are all in place and leading this nations black churches into the arms of the antichrist by pushing an agenda that is not of God. Barack even hired a gay pastor to travel with him and Donnie McClurkin to black churches and was welcomed with open arms. What is this? Isn't AIDS the number 1 killer of black people? Isn't abortion black genecide with 1400 performed every day in the black community? Wasn't the black church once the pillar of our community and the moral guide for our youth? Now, all of these things are being undone and reversed because of the antichrist agenda that is working behind the scenes. What a perfect setup!

Don't get me wrong. White people are as much to blame for the "vote black" mindset as blacks are. You see, if the white leaders of this nation had stood up for blacks in America and confessed their wrong treatment of us and repented openly about it, then healing could have taken place. They should have put our history in the white history books and they should have repented openly and made real atonement for the unjust treatment of our people a long time ago. You can't sweep 400 years of oppression under a rug and expect it to vanish. It's still there and it requires effort to correct more than just 1 month of the year. You see, racism is at the forefront of American politics now because it's been ignored and hidden for so many years. Don't get me wrong, I do feel that we have progressed some as a people, yet we have so many issues because we have not had proper healing from what happened to us. With that said, when the black man that was pushed to the back of the bus sees Obama, he sees justice. When the black woman that was called Nigger all her young life sees Obama, she sees justice. When the preachers that saw the White churches prosper and the black churches shunned see Obama, they see justice. White people that are reading this will never understand what it feels like to be discriminated against because of color. They don't know what it feels like to be called an animal or less than human and treated like a reject! But blacks have experienced that and it's caused us to want justice on a grand scale. And to many, Barack Obama represents progress, justice, and atonement for our people.

But, if his policy and his morality does not line up with the God we serve as true believers, then is it justice or is it a setup? Those of us that have been discriminated against and treated unfairly by whites because of our race need healing. And because this nation has not offered us a just version of healing or payed us just due, we are still hurting as a race of people. But isn't that what Jesus is all about? Wasn't he the savior of Israel when they were in bondage? Didn't he show himself mighty in their time of turmoil and unjust treatment? Isn't that when the power of God comes into play? Don't miss it people of God. Jesus, not Obama, is the real answer here and we must push him instead of a political system! We must stand on the word of God and not waver in this coming election. If you cast your vote for a man that is for the agenda of the antichrist, you have just passed the mark of the beast test and proven that you will accept the mark, even if it goes against your convictions as a believer and your bible that you read. Come on saints of God, stand up. Don't let anyone sway you here. It's late in the hour and Jesus is taking notes on where you stand. Your vote is your stand. And it would be better to not vote at all than to cast a vote for the very agenda that the antichrist will promote.

Rev. 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev. 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev. 3:13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev. 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Looking for the rapture,
G. Craige Lewis

Also, check out our Podcast on this issue with Bishop Ira Combs by clicking here

Secure, Sow, and Save

2008-10-05T07:30:00.013-05:00

I decided to take the month of September off as a vacation so I could get geared up for the coming shift in this country's leadership and economy. I had been preaching that things would take a turn for the worse, so I took time off to get refocused and prepare for the coming storm in America. My job as a minister of the Gospel can't be jeopardized by hard times since preaching should only really require a voice and a message, but many in America are suffering, and I must stay sensitive to God and his people's needs. I thank God for his impeccable timing of my vacation and the woes of this nation. It gave me time to really take a good look at what is happening and spend time securing my own family financially and spiritually.

You may not like some of the things that EX Ministries has said and done over the years, and I have no problem with that. There are many things I don't like that I have had to say down through the years, but the truth is hard to swallow sometimes, even for the messenger. Yet, if it's the truth, we must not run from it, but we must accept it and run with it! So, I understand the anger, frustration, and dislikes that many have for the message we preach, but it's just the way truth sounds in a time where sin abounds. I ask that you as you are reading this that you would soften your heart up a bit and receive what I'm saying here.

We are in a crisis in America and it goes much deeper than the eyes and ears can see and hear. The media is steering and guiding you to make you believe certain things that are not true because they don't want a panic and they don't want you to stop shopping, purchasing or banking. If you stop those things, you will bring the piece of economy we have now to a screeching halt and the billionaire CEO's will not be able to sustain their lavish lifestyles. This is happening in the church as well. When you raise your lifestyle to the level of a rich and famous pastor or even recording artists, and then people get scared and thrifty with their money, it causes many to use lies and deceit to keep the machine going and sustain their lifestyles. But hear me people of God. I have no hidden agenda. I have no multi million dollar church building to sustain, I have no army of employees to keep paid, I have no big debts to pay. I am financially secure and live debt free, so there is no financial agenda at all to make me proclaim what I am about to say to you. And I speak now, as a prophet of God.

There is no money in America. We have printed paper but we don't have the gold to back it up. We are in debt to other countries and we are over populated without enough domestic jobs to go around. The bottom has come out of America and because we have allowed the deaths of the unborn and homosexuality to flourish, we have upset God and He has taken his hand off our nation. We are seeing the beginning of the end people, and the answer to solving our woes as a nation, in our leader's sight, is a one world government! It's perfect timing for everything to merge and we all get on the same page to get us out of what we are in as a nation! Our banks are merging to give the power to go cashless to a few rather than fighting many small banking conglomerates. Our government is lying, lending money to Wall street that will in turn give more power to government and make us more in debt to them. And then, enters the first black presidential candidate that is taking our attention off what's really going on and creating racial division in this nation.

Saints of God, there are 3 things I hear in my spirit for the believers of this nation and I feel they are very, very important to consider at this time. All of these things that are happening are the prelude to the Antichrist and the end of all things as we know it. Don't miss it people of God. The end is not near, it's HERE. And while we are sleeping, the Lord will return. Wake up and take note of these 3 things God has spoken in my spirit.

1. Secure - It's time to secure your relationship with Jesus Christ and know what the truth of the Word says rather than what people are saying. If you have backslidden, it's time to come home. If you have been frolicking or flirting with the devil, it's time to leave him alone. If you have been living in sin or with sin, it's time to end that relationship! It's time to come to Jesus, and prepare for his return.

It's time to secure your marriage and family as well. Get them on the same page and build your love and support each other as a family. Invest in strengthening the bond of your spouse, children, or whatever family you have. The number 1 cause of families breaking up in America is financial problems and given the current economic state of America, if we don't secure our families, this crisis could rip them apart. We shot the video Strengthening the Bond for that very purpose. I cannot admonish you anymore than I already have about purchasing this DVD to invest in your family's security. We have got to tighten up in this area as a people if we are going to make it through this coming storm. Too much divorce, too many fatherless families, and too many bad leaders is what's plaguing us and we must change this quick if we plan to survive as a people

2. Sow - It's not the time to stop giving to the cause of Christ! Please do not make the mistake of keeping offerings and tithes from your church. You must give! You see, when people lose jobs and money, they lose hope. And that's when the church of God should be able to step in and restore hope by giving them Jesus. But ministries cannot function without your financial support. You must not stop giving to ministries, missions, and church fellowships. Now, if you are a member of a crazy church and you know that foolishness is going on there, then by all means, stop giving it there! Yep, I said it. Don't invest in foolishness and forward the devil's deceptive agenda. But if you know the ministry you are a part of or support is genuine and standing for God in this final hour, then you must support it with your finances. It can't continue without your help. The bible is clear and in times of famine, the people of God will flourish if they exercise the principle of giving. I'm telling you people of the most high God, in this time of financial meltdown, we must be the ones that are positioned to offer answers and relief to families that don't have any hope left to sustain them. Therefore, we must gear up and continue to support ministries that are blessing us and teaching us so that we can bless and teach others and bring them into God's safe haven.

3. Save - That new car can wait, drive the older one. That new hat can wait, wear the others you have. Turn movie night into scrabble night and instead of going out every night of the week to eat, cook at home and maybe invite friends or family over and have a potluck. There are many ways you can save money, but the bottom line is that it's time to save! The extra's need to be trimmed off your agenda and we need to stick to basic living for a while. It's time to put money back and build up some resources because everything is shaky at this point. I'm not saying abandon all spending, but I am saying that God has spoken to me and things are not going to get better any time soon. We need to be smart and put back as much as we can. Now, don't put back God's money! Continue to give to his Kingdom (when it's really his Kingdom, I can't stress that enough). But cut back on needless spending and save. Even if things start getting better and you have cut back and saved some, it was still a smart thing to do!

Remember people of God, do not be afraid. Find the secret place of the most high and abide in his shadow. Let him secure you, your family, and your money. Give all to God at this time. Fast, pray, believe. God is going to see his people through this time. You will continue to see large ministries fold and celebrity preachers will continue to be exposed. You will see the church hemorrhage and many lose hope in the church because they followed a lie for so long that when it ends, it will crush them. But those things must happen because there are many mega ministries that should have never been followed in the first place. The local church is going to rise up again. The smaller, hands on type ministries are going to start flourishing in this last hour. Family based ministries will start appearing and catering to strengthening each other in this time rather than raising up a king-type leader in their midst. God is always in control of his true church and his true followers are still his priority. So, get close to him and you will make it through the coming storm in America.

2Chr. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Matt. 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Psa. 91:1 ¶ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Until He Returns,
G. Craige Lewis

Image is something.....

2008-09-18T07:22:00.017-05:00

The bible teaches us that man judges the outside of a person, but God judges the heart of a person. And as much as we would love for this to be about God's judgement only, there is a very important principle in this statement that cannot be denied. That is the fact that man judges the outside or outer appearance of other men. When it's time to get a job, we dress appropriately and look presentable. That is a rule of thumb! Why? Because when you don't know a person, their first appearance will tell of their lifestyle and behavior. This is the way of the world right? In our world, appearance matters.

Where am I going with all this? Well, I just happen to turn on MTV the other day and I saw something that shocked me. There is a show that they have called "From G's to Gents". This is a reality show that features 14 "gangsters" that are willing to change their lives and become gentlemen. The winner get $100,000 and a membership into a the Gentlemen's Club. WHAT?

Yes, they are paying these guys to clean up and become clean cut, working class citizens that are presentable and sensibly dressed. They comb the guys hair, pull up the guys pants, cover the guys tattoos, remove the guys piercings, take out the grillz, undo the braids, de-bead them, remove the doo-rags, and then teach them charm school styled manners (appropriate behavior) and remake them from the ground up. They reassemble these brothers from head to toe and turn them into.......guess what.......MEN! Yep, they remove the women's influence and take the momma's boy garb off, and fix these guys appearance so they can get a job, get respect, and look presentable in society. This in turn, changes their label of being a menace to society, to becoming a man of distinction that can present himself as a regular person instead of a street or prison thug.

I was amazed at the comments of these guys as they turned from gangster to gentlemen. Some of them cried because this was what they always wanted (what man doesn't desire to be accepted as a real man rather than a street deviant?) They were making comments like "thank you, I feel like a man now" or other comments like "I've always wanted this and now I feel like my girl will respect me more". It's amazing what looking like a real man can do for these guys. But there is a very sad point about this whole thing that I must bring up. Why is the world doing what the church used to do?

The black church has taken a back seat to the thug image. Our young boys come in church with their hair braided up, in buns and ponytails, with beads and bowrettes, earrings, doo rags, saggin, skull shirts, grillz, and gang insignia. They come like G's and they leave like G's. Not only that, but now we have Hip Hop Churches with Hip Hop pastors that wear this stuff and look like this while ministering the Gospel of Jesus? The Holy Hip Hoppers that attempt to preach the Gospel through these images are condoning the look that is destroying our boys images. If man judges the outside then why are we allowing our young boys and men to dress in a manner that keeps them socially impotent in society? I will never understand a pastor allowing a thug or gangster for Christ to rap and entertain their youth with images that destroy their youth's progress in life. Why would you promote the very image that will stop the upward progression of your young men? Yet selfish recording artists and singers, that are only concerned about their sales and relevance will promote these looks and cause youth to be labeled as deviants while they make money from cd sales? I remember talking to the crossmovements leader Ambassador and Truth, and trying to reason with them about this. They kept saying how they didn't think it was anything wrong with people dressing in this manner, but what I couldn't make them see was that many parents don't desire this, so you should not promote this in public settings by conforming your image to these secular ideals! But of course, we are talking about a guys well into their 30's still saggin and promoting the street subculture of HIP HOP! Wake up folks!!!

What happened to the day when the gangster would come to church and leave as a gentlemen? Where are the "new creations" that Jesus is known for making when you come to him? Why are we allowing Holy Thugs and Gangsters to rap to our youth groups while modeling the images that our youth should be avoiding? We have an 80% drop out rate among black teen boys in our nation. And yet, we have 30 and 40 year old Holy Hip Hoppers standing before them in the image of a gangster or thug, promoting the street subculture of Hip Hop and giving these broken boys no hope of ever becoming a first class citizen. When they see their own pastor approve of these negative stereotypical images, they lose hope in change. Our young boys don't need to see a gangster for God in the church, they need to see young men their age that have overcome the street look and outgrown the childish desire to be relevant to the streets instead of the workplace!

Let me put it this way. If man judges the outside, then why not change the outside and promote the standard of the American society. I'm not saying everyone has to dress and look the same, but I am saying that you are classified in the eyes of people by the way your appear. If you dress like a deadbeat, people will think you are one. If you look like a gang member, a street thug, a prisoner, or a pimp, then people will prejudge you in this life. Sure God judges the heart instead of the outer appearance, but in this world, God does not do the hiring and firing on the jobs. Men are the ones that will pay you for your work and hire you on a job, not God. So, the Holy Hip Hoppers and Hip Hop church pastors better understand that, the following they have is handicapped by their appearances. If they seek to model the Holy Gangster for Christ or their "G" Pastor, then they will be judged accordingly by the real managers and supervisors in the workforce.

It's a shame that MTV has sense enough to label which is the gangster and which is the gentlemen and we as a church don't want to. I thank God for the strong pastors I have met down through the years. I go to their churches to speak and I see young black men that look to have a future. These young men are clean cut, nicely dressed, walking with their head upright, speaking good english and looking like young men I wouldn't mind introducing my daughter to in the future. And every one of these churches I'm speaking of maintains a strict policy. And that policy is, keep the Holy Hip Hopper out and keep the images that entertain their young men looking the way they want their young men to look! Because they know, from a position of authority as a Pastor, that whomever they allow to come in and speak or entertain their youth will influence the appearance of their youth. I have seen churches that bring in long braids wearing male singers and dancers and in a manner of days, many of their young boys are wearing long braids. They bring in sagging pants wearing rappers and singers sporting earrings and in a manner of days, all the young boys are modeling these looks. What does this do? It reduces the chances of these young boys to excel in the work place and education system. When you are making a subcultural statement with your looks, you are wearing your esteem instead of containing it. This means that your worth is superficial and this makes you insecure and socially impotent. And, their subcultural appeal does not transcend into the culture of the American workplace. Then these young men become an outcast and labeled a failure because they are not rewarded for their expression but rather shunned since it doesn't fit into the workplace agenda of America!

MTV gets most things wrong and I'm not condoning their programming at all, but they got this one right! I just pray that the pastors of our churches would see this and make a stand. We must keep our young boys growing into men. We cannot allow them to propagate the childish, street image into their adulthood. When it's time to grow up, it's time to clean up your image. There is a real world out there that will judge your son harshly for conforming to a negative stereotypical image. It will cripple him and hurt his resolve. He will feel inferior and feel he never really measures up. You must start when he is young. Clean him up and show him what a real gentlemen can look like.

1Sam. 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

2Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!

Rom. 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

1Cor. 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.

In his name,
G. Craige Lewis

I need your help!

2008-08-27T09:17:00.009-05:00

I mean that from the bottom of my heart. We have dedicated our lives to telling the truth and hiding nothing beneficial to your growth or spiritual makeup from you. That's why I am making a plea to you for something. Those of you that have experienced our ministry know that I pull no punches and I shoot straight to the point. There is no need of me withholding anything from the people of God that can bless them so I don't do that. I don't take advantage of people nor do I attempt to entertain for gain. I just preach the Gospel, against the sins of the people, against pop culture, and against the plan of the enemy. That's my job and should be the job of every preacher that is truly called by God. We encourage and strengthen the body so the body of Christ can be empowered to reach the world. You are the light of the world and I'm just an extension cord, plugged in to God as the power source. You can plug in and be recharged and informed on how to get more power from the source. I can't generate power, but I can only extend power to you from the source. Understand people of God, we need to get empowered because the coming days for the church are not looking good. Even though many preachers are preaching what folks want to hear, we will continue to preach what God wants you to hear.

But this seems to have caused an uproar in the black church. Pastors and Bishops have taken it upon themselves to keep our message from their people! They have assembled in secret to figure out plans and strategies to keep EX Ministries from coming to their cities. I have had about 90% of the pastors that have brought me in tell me that there were meetings going on to stop it. I have even had pastors bring in musical guests and entertainment to their churches on the same evening of our event to stop their youth from hearing the TRuth Behind Hip Hop! I have had protestors, Holy Hip Hoppers, assemble outside of our events with picket signs (with misspelled words of course) walking around trying to keep people from hearing the message! What is going on people? What are they trying to stop?

Sure, I give statistics on the black race, the black family, and the black community. I preach the 100% Gospel truth of the bible. I don't raise offerings or pervert prosperity. I don't use foul language or deny Christ. I do exactly what the Apostles did. Signs and wonders follow, and people are set free by the thousands. Thousand of youth are delivered and changed every week with no music or entertainment whatsoever. Gang members and hard core killers come to Christ, without being "reached" by images that they can "relate to". And yet, pastors and bishops are fighting us! I know you wanna say "you must be doing something right" but that gets old people. I know I'm doing something right because I'm doing exactly what Paul, Peter, John, and Jesus did! Yet, it is frustrating to see black people reject truth that can save them and embrace foolishness that is destroying them.

The very pastors that fight our message are supporting antichrist ideals. They support legislation that supports the most prevalent killers of our people; abortion and same sex relations. They uplift homosexual singers and performers. They embrace Hollywood actors and Godless movie makers. They promote cross-dressing drag queens and foul language usage. They put Holy gangsters and Preaching Thugs in their pulpits for the youth and allow the youth to dance lasciviously. They bring in flesh promoting entertainers to give the youth some fun, but hide the real truth of the matter from them. They have high teen pregnancy rates in their churches and in their own homes! They are failing at pastoring their own homes and churches, yet people flock to them. Where is this going people? Where will we be 20 years from now when these youth that know nothing about holiness, righteousness, and sanctification grow up and take over the church?

You don't have to wait 20 years, you can look at the 100's of Hip Hop churches in America and see that the thug has already started pastoring. You can see that the majority of leaders of major black Pentecostal denominations have bought into the homosexual agenda and most are lead by homosexual inclusionists. What their fathers built, they are tearing down. Jesus is being lost in their politics and the black church is travailing! Come quickly Lord Jesus. Come QUICKLY!

I need you people of God. I need your prayers and your fight! I need your strength and your allegiance. We must stop this madness. Get on the internet and research everything! Look up what is being done and said. Before you allow your youth to attend concerts and youth services, look up the musical artists and their allegiances. Don't just listen to what they say, but look at what and who they are connected to! Examine everything that comes your way with the Word and a Godly understanding. And most importantly, stand up for what you know is right! We have a collection of DVD's that will help you. BUY SOME! I don't ask for your offerings although we need them to continue. But we try to offer you information in exchange for your contributions. So, we offer DVD's that will help and bless you for years to come. They will inform you and give you ammunition to fight with! Don't bootleg or copy them, but purchase them and give them away. We need your support and encouragement and that's the best way to do it. The more of the DVD's that get out, the more truth will be revealed. And those secret meetings and foolish leaders will be powerless because the message will have already been heard and the truth will already be established. That will disable their attempts to stop their people from hearing the truth.

Pray with your children and for your schools and teachers. Pray for the Black community. Pray that the spirit of Hip Hop and sins of the fathers will be rebuked and we can have peace once again in our churches and our homes. Don't you want your children back? Don't you want that young boy and girl you started raising back in position to receive from you? Don't you want your children saved and following Christ? Let's fight together and uphold truth no matter what it costs. I will not live my life and leave nothing when I'm gone. I plan to leave a Godly legacy. I'm not talking about EX Ministries, but I'm talking about my own home. My children will know Jesus and will fight for him and his truth just like I have. And I refuse to support men that don't fight for their own children. If they won't fight for their own wives and families, what makes you think they will fight for yours? Wake up people. The battle is on and you have no choice. Arm yourselves with the truth and fight for the faith!

Jude 3 ¶ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. or certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ut these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

In the only name that saves men, JESUS!

G. Craige Lewis

Jezebel's Finest Hour Part 2 - Effiminate Nation

2008-07-08T21:05:00.009-05:00

The Jezebel spirit is a strong spirit when operating through a woman. You have seen the examples of Juanita Bynum and Paula White, all poised to dilute the gospel of peace and wreak havoc upon the body of Christ. This spirit tears up churches, emasculates and seduces men of god into webs of deceit and sexual bondage. I'm sure you have noticed how these women confessed of their early life molestations and rapes, and entered the scene looking modest and submissive. They all seemed to start out humble and spiritual. But then, once the money poured in and their influence grew, they went for the gold. Makeup galore, face lifts, body toning and plastic surgery. Getting fit and trim enough to leave their husbands only to begin showing off their new (offering and tithe purchased) bodies, showing the world their independent sexiness. The modest look no longer was necessary because thousands of women were hooked. Now they could weave their web of deceit even thicker by moving from God's girls to worldly women.

But what happens when the Jezebel spirit occupies a man? What happens when this seducing spirit entices men through a man? I know that sounds crazy, but we have this happening right now before our eyes. Yes, Bishop TD Jakes is the dawning of a new era of men that possess a seducing spirit meant to entice men of God into a web of deceit and sexual submission. How, you may ask? Well, unless you are from Mars you had to have picked up on a serious "effeminate friendly" spirit on this man. And unless you just flew in from Pluto, you know that he has most black preachers and pastors that wanna be something in his world submitting to his money and power. He has single handedly turned the act of preaching into the art of pimping. Preaching damnable heresies and false doctrine, while bumping elbows with the Luciferian elite and Hollywood's iconic celebrity stars.

Now, preachers are seeking what Jakes has. They want the money, the fame, the access to the stars, the television, the movies, the parties and elite celebrations. They want access to Oprah and Dr. Phil. They want mega churches and super conferences. They want secular and sacred mixtures to draw the masses and water down the message. They want a television audience without even drawing their own communities to their churches. They have been seduced, but the bitter end is coming early for many of them. They are falling like flies. They are getting caught with their pants down literally! They are being set up to fall and the Devil is laughing while he preserves his "queen" and keeps her spirit safe in the body of a cunning leader. While his family is tormented by internet rumors, while his spiritual children are tormented by divorce and immoral exposures, and while his church congregation is plagued with homosexual and lesbian spirits, he continues to lift himself up and use every avenue possible for a financial exchange. Even TD Jakes bibles studies in his churches are costly. Everything is for sale and nothing is free. Charging upwards of 50,000 dollars to come to your event and then charging admission at the door as well as several offerings tells us that this is a money thing. But even further investigations tells us of a spirit that lies deep within. A sexually seducing spirit that comes to seduce men into allegiances with him for gain and earthly glory.

Shouldn't a bishop be an example of a Godly leader to the church and the world? Then why is the very world that TD Jakes is suppose to be winning, outing him all over the internet for having an earring removed from his own pictures after he wore it at his daughters wedding? Here are the before and after pictures from his blog:

Yes, the world is wondering why his sons are wearing dreads and earrings and his daughter is sporting a tattoo on her back? You see, even the secular media feels that a Bishop should be a role model and have a family that reflects his teaching and morality. From Media Takeout to the Hick Town Press, the secular online media is eating this up and exposing these things at random. But at least we can give the world credit for believing in the bible's definition of a Bishop more than most modern day church folks..

According to scripture a Bishop should have his children under all gravity of his words and he himself should be blameless right? Well, an earring wearing bishop that is close friends with a drag queen doesn't sound like a blame free situation! What kind of straight man hangs around drag queens? Tyler Perry is a drag queen just like Rue Paul. There is no difference. They both wear women's clothes and entertain as women. That is the definition of a drag queen. What is a bishop doing being very close friends with a man that cross dresses?

Now, if you are not pentecostal or do not believe in holiness or hell, then this article might upset you or even cause you to see this as touching God's anointed. But you that believe holiness is a way of living and that God is not pleased with the mixture of the world and the church will understand why this blog is necessary. It's about time someone said what the Holy people of God need to hear! That's the way I feel. I am just a man of God expressing his true love for holiness and righteousness. Sure, no one is perfect and we all have sinned. Sure some preachers have difficulty with their children and many have made errors in judgment. But I'm not talking about those things. I'm talking about a man who is high and lifted up as the example for the modern day black Bishop! The man that has defended piercing his ears and mixing with the world. The man that has encouraged pastors to seek money, fame, and power at the expense of Holiness and God's way! The man that has made it okay to deny the savior for a greater audience. The man that has captivated many former holiness believers and turned them into carnal crusaders!

Okay, now for the history of the earring on a male. In the bible days, it was a symbol of slavery. Slaves were tagged on their ears for identification and ownership. Later, in the Egyptian culture, the mark of 2 earrings or multiple piercings on a male represented bi-sexuality and whoreish behavior. And all the great kings and leaders of Godless civilizations that were lascivious in behavior wore them as this symbol. In the early 70's pimps started wearing 1 earring in the black community as a symbol of slavery to sex. It meant that you were a player and enjoyed multiple sex partners. It was called Macho from the term Machismo which means excessive male or extreme male. This is what the single earring meant and still means. 2 earrings on a man was, and in most cases still is, a symbol of bi-sexuality. And now, since our young black boys are emasculated and becoming very effeminate because of the lack of fathers in the home, the 2 earrings are taking their age old meaning once again. How dare a pentecostal Bishop wear a symbol of macho or "slave to sex"? He is the model and now the weak pastors that have embraced his beliefs will begin to wear these things. God forbid! Don't forget the spirit of these things are still following these ritualistic acts of defiance. Did we forget about the spirit realm?

As if the black race needs another bad role model. And his sons and now son in law wear 2 earrings?? Lord help us! But Jakes can get away with this. He has gotten away with false teachings before and all the folks that left their pastors that they could touch for a man they will never meet have bought into this. He can teach whatever and they will listen!

For example, He has accused Naomi and Ruth in book of Esther of having a relationship that "bordered lesbianism". He has said it's "understandable" for a man to have affections for other men because when God made man, women was inside of him?" He has promoted every homosexual gospel singer in the industry and has even presented a lifetime achievement award to Bobby Jones?

Every since the very first Megafest conference, I have been warning the body of Christ of where this was going. Any man that will invite false god worshipers like India Arie or Will Smith to take the stage at a pentecostal type conference is not God lead. Let's not even mention what went on in the men's restrooms and the alley ways of Hot-lanta, the mecca for homosexual church goers! Let's call it what it is people. No more games. No more closed eyes. No more foolishness. Jakes has lead an effeminate movement and cause sexually confused men to be labeled "hemotional" rather than homosexual! Through basic semantics, he has turned the men into the weaker vessel and made the women the "leading ladies". He preaches to women in 3rd person using the words "we" and "us" when speaking of women in distress or women with purpose. And yet pastors have sent their members to his conferences with their blessing and they have campaigned to be on his platform no matter what it costs them. He is looked upon by the church as an icon, but looked upon by the world as a money making worldly partner. Jakes has also began denying that Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven by stating that the “Other sheep that are not of this fold” are other religions or beliefs and saying that he cannot rule out an inclusive rapture of the saints of God, leaving it open for others that may not believe in Jesus?

His exact quote to a Muslim's question as to whether only Christians go to Heaven:

"When it comes to Heaven, I try to leave that up to God. I certainly believe that Christianity is right, but when it comes down to the final test--who goes and who doesn't go--Jesus said, Other sheep have I who are not of this fold. Them also must I bring. I'll let Him identify who those sheep are and I stay out of the conversation."

Here is the audio clip of him refusing to take an opportunity to preach the gospel to the muslim that calls, but rather leaving it wide open for confusion. Click the video play button.

John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold” [Jesus was speaking to the Jews, who had been frequently spoken of in Scripture as God’s flock. The other sheep were Gentiles. They are spoken of as scattered sheep, and not as flocks, because with them there was no unity. WHEN THE APOSTLE PAUL WROTE TO THE CHRISTIANS IN THE CITY OF EPHESUS HE GAVE WITNESS TO WHAT CHRIST HAD SAID BY STATING

“Eph. 2:16 And [He designed] to reconcile to God both [Jew and Gentile, united] in a single body by means of His cross, thereby killing the mutual enmity and bringing the feud to an end.

This is truly the finest hour for the spirit of Jezebel. This time she has promoted a man that allows her to seduce other men to follow his way and ignore God's law of holiness and righteousness. A man that can buy a 5000 seat building in Texas and fill it up the first Sunday with no evangelism whatsoever, has a spirit on him and it's not the spirit of God. Those people that filled that church were from other churches and drawn by the spirit of Jezebel and seduced into an emotional temple that is now plagued with homosexuals and perverts. As the television drew the crowds and the star struck people were lead in blindly, the spirit of Jezebel had an agenda all along. To make the gospel second to the show and to cause people to not hear but to feel. Now, what do we have people of God? A nation of carnal believers lead by the spirit of a women, working through a man.

I can now understand how Tyler Perry is one of his closest friends because they are one in the same. There is a woman's role that Jakes loves to play and that is the role of Jezebel.

1Cor. 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1Tim. 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Til He Comes,
G. Craige Lewis

Flags

2008-06-16T13:39:00.007-05:00

Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

What a wonderful promise! But many that read this scripture feel like "WHERE ARE THEY LORD??" Where are the men that will care more for God's truth than the dollar? Where are the men that will lead God's people against the world instead of INTO the world? Where are the men that don't have a church full homo's and lesbo's faking the funk and turning out the next generation? Where is the man that doesn't have to bring in big name entertainers to have a big name or bring in big name celebrity preachers to boost his own platform? WHERE or Lord, WHERE?

Well, the answer is simple. EVERYWHERE! There are pastors like this everywhere. In every city and every state. I travel and preach in churches like these almost every weekend of the year and I can honestly say, they are out there! There are thousands of pastors that haven't bought into the politics of being seen and known. There are many that will not bow down and grovel in the presence of a celebrity sodomite Bishop! There are many that don't need the affirmation of bringing a sell out musical artists to make them feel like they are "in". There are good men out there and God knows where they are. They have to be sought out and the first rule in seeking for pastors like this is to first die of your own carnality! In other words, you must allow God to deal with your own heart and mind before you can expect him to lead you and guide you. I know many are saying, "but i need a church where I can get help now!" And I understand that request very well, but you must learn that help is there for you in the Word and the bible says in1 John 2:27 that "no man has to instruct you" once you have the unction of the Holy Ghost which is what will lead you to the right place. If you are not spiritually sound, then you are taking a big chance on getting to the wrong place and under the wrong person.

You must seek out God for yourself in order to even know when you are in a place that is wicked and against what God has planned for you. So, in essence, there is a level of maturity that all believers must maintain to know the truth from the lie. If you are naive and totally dependent upon the words of others, then you will be misled! So, you must learn the word and get a good understanding of what God is requiring of you before you can effectively judge whether you are on the right track. I am not saying stay out of church until you hear from God, but what I'm saying is to keep your eyes and ears open! Always seek God for guidance and never believe that just because a person is a pastor with a large or small church, that they have God's best interest at heart. And always, spot the flags! The flags will always warn you of impending danger. You will not be totally in the dark, but God will always provide flags to warn you and protect you from harm. The problem is, that many will accept a flag or two for the sake of comfort or familiarity. But you must read the signs and when you get the flags, know that where there is usually one flag, there will be several!

What flags? Some stuff is easy and doesn't even require a bunch of evaluating. If your church has a bunch of happy homosexuals and lesbians, then that's a flag! Something is wrong with your leadership. If your church is always bringing in recording artists that promote themselves and not God, then that is a flag. No man of God will allow a bunch of BET dancing, wild antics and foolishness in his pulpit! There is something internally wrong with a man like that! If you hear about blessings more than you hear about sin then you better know that something is wrong! The bible tells the preacher in 2Tim. 4:2 to preach against the sins of the people in season and out of season! And of course, if a man has his ears pierced, dreadlocks, apart of a fraternity (or sorority), freemason, black panther, hip hop culture, gothic, inclusion, player, pimp, gangsta, a ho, getting girls pregnant in the congregation, divorcing his wife, smoking, partying, clubbing, effeminate, lustful, prideful, always name dropping, yoked up with corrupt men, preaching false doctine, changing the bible, always talking about his accomplishments, or just plain, UNSAVED, then no flags should be needed. After all, how can a man love God and the world or the things of this world. All these things I named are attached to some kind of fleshly desire that will hinder spiritual growth and a man's ability to hear God. A pastor is basically a leader by example. Remember, sheep follow a shepherd and that's what a pastor is, a leader of sheep. So, if the pastor has no proof of his messages, examples of the results of following God, or power over his own flesh, then where can he lead you? You can do bad all by yourself and don't need a fleshly pastor to lead you into more mess.

It doesn't take rocket science in most cases to figure out when a man is for God or when he's for himself! The thing that works as a blinder for people to miss these flags is usually their own desire to be carnal. When you are evaluating with a carnal mentality, then you won't see truth! And this is why men of these types of corruptions prosper and flourish in our communities. The people that follow them want what is being offered. When a person wants the truth, the bible said that they will find it! But when you want the lie, it's readily available. So, the bottom line is, check your motives and your desires to see if they are causing you to chase after something that is damaging you and your future in Christ. Even though corrupt men will have to give an answer before God, it will not excuse those that chose to follow after them. The bible says that YOU must give an account also, so that means that you cannot get comfortable surrounded by foolishness. You must seek God and the Godly man for yourself!

Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

2 Timothy 4:2 Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching. AMP

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

1 John 2:27 But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [apermanently] in you; [so] then you have no need that anyone should instruct you. But just as His anointing teaches you concerning everything and is true and is no falsehood, so you must abide in (live in, never depart from) Him [being brooted in Him, knit to Him], just as [His anointing] has taught you [to do]. AMP

In his name always,
G. Craige Lewis
http://www.exministries.com

Judged Unaware

2008-05-19T06:16:00.008-05:00

With all the preachers falling in public view, and all the scandals breaking out in the body of Christ, it's safe to say that judgement has begun in the house of the Lord. The Word says it would and now we see the ends of it. Famous preacher after famous preacher getting caught and their personal lives are coming to the forefront of their national ministries. They sought fame and fortune, yet didn't count the cost of it all. When you are high and lifted up, the fall back to earth is long and hard! I'm telling you, I've never seen this many mega ministries, and definitely have never seen as many famed preachers fall. But the bible speaks about a falling away in the last days and it seems like this is the only way the blind folks that follow these guys will see the truth. But it's a shame to have to give all your money and support to these folks for years and NEVER really see that they were jokers from the beginning. That kind of blindness is costly and time consuming.

But the real truth of the matter is that judgment for most of these wayward preachers and church leaders had already begun before most people realized it. I hear people saying all the time that they are praying that God "exposes" this person because of their spiritual shadiness, or that God will "bust out" this preacher because of their antics. But you don't have to pray for exposure. Men that take advantage of God's people are judged already! You may not realize it and they may not even see it, but judgment has come. God's judgment usually doesn't come in the form of a sexual scandal or a nationally publicized immoral deed. But God's judgment in the scripture was different when it came to his people acting up. Usually, God would strike the home of the people that did wayward deeds while they held leadership roles in God's camp. He would punish them by affecting their seed and lineage.

When David killed a man to take his wife, God punished him by taking the child of that union and cursing his children so the sword would continue in his home. In other words, David had success in the natural realm as far as being King, but he was a failure in his home as a father because his children paid the price for his sins. We hear preacher after preacher justify their behavior by using David as the example. How, even though he was a man after God's own heart, he sinned and repented and all was well. But is that the end of the story? NO! Although God forgave David, God judged him swiftly! His family was a wreck and he hid for years from his own sons sword! His house was a mess and he felt like a failure because of it. Though he had successful battles, his personal life was in turmoil and he cried out in agony to God continuously because of it.

I'm telling you people, OPEN YOUR EYES. Judgment has come. These Bishops that are homosexual in private and lift themselves up as gods in public are already judged by God. These Gospel Music Icons that are merging the sacred and the profane have already begun paying the price for it. Their children are messed up to the highest degree. Homosexual children, teen pregnancy, divorce, AIDS, jail, and the like are plaguing their homes. These false prophets and prophetesses that proclaim lies for gain are already judged by God. Their marriages are torn up, and their own words are reversed on them because they took advantage of God's people and must pay the price. Sure, they consistently seek fame and fortune, even after public scandals but the truth is, their marriages have failed and that speaks volumes! You will not get away with doing God's people wrong or deceiving them for selfish gain. The price of it is expensive and though you see them flossing their money, power, and wealth in public, they are poor in spirit because they have no one to share it with and no one to pass it down too. In the real world, which is the home, they are failures and judged by God. Now, I'm not saying that every preacher that has home issues is being punished because there are things that happen to all of us that may just be circumstantial, but when you are in a leadership role or very visible, you must maintain the integrity God requires to function in that capacity. To whom much is given, much is required right?

Don't think for one moment that these famous bishops and celebrity gospel stars are not hurting in private because they are secret failures in their homes. This is God's hand of rebuke and it is a terrible price to pay. No matter how much money you have and how many fans follow you, your private life as a regular human being is what measures real success. And when your own children don't want to have anything to do with you or your spouse no longer believes in you, then you are punished! You can fake the funk in public as much as you want but it will never take the place of that child or spouse believing in you and supporting you. The worse punishment you could give a person in the Old Testament was to cut them off from their people or destroy their lineage. And that's the same thing that's happening to these preachers and recording artists that desire gain over godliness.

So, people of God, don't despair. Never worry about God dealing with wolves that steal and rob in the name of the Lord and take advantage of the hurting to be lifted up. They have already fallen in God's eyes and if we would see it as God does, we will see that real success is not measured by money and fame. But if your home is a wreck you have failed in this life. If your children don't heed your own message, then you are not qualified to lead as a Bishop or Pastor according to the bible. These folks have failed in this life and it doesn't take a media scandal to break out on them to prove it. Look at their homes and you will see God's judgment in full effect.

1Pet. 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

1Tim. 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

1Tim. 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

In his name,
G. Craige Lewis

Beast Markings

2008-03-25T09:31:00.006-05:00

When I was a child, my father would tell me stories of the end times. He would tell me how things would be in a world where people would rather take the mark of the beast to survive in this world, rather than stand up for Jesus Christ. He would tell me that in the end, you would not be able to buy or sell unless you took the mark and once you took the mark, you would be doomed for a burning hell and lose all hope of going to heaven. That sounds like a kids story now, but it is a true story according to the bible. (scriptures below) We don't hear those stories much anymore. Why not? BECAUSE WE ARE HERE! Yes, the mark of allegiance to the beast has already been accepted. People are choosing money and wealth over the cause of Christ everyday, right before our very eyes, and people just aren't talking about it. People are beginning to seek their own self pleasure and empowerment through a godless system of this world rather than staying the course of Christ and following his Word. I'm not knocking success but success at the expense of compromise is failure in God's Kingdom.(Luke 9:62) Look around you people, don't you see? The mark is here!

Many pastors have accepted this mark. They want to drive the fancy cars, live in the big houses, and fill up the mega church buildings by hiding the truth from their members and being silent on holiness issues. They want to be around the Hollywood crowd and fit in rather than preaching the true rules of Christ and being separate like the Word teaches. I even heard the false prophetess Juanita Bynum say "Hollywood doesn't want to hear a bunch of bible stories and scriptures, they wanna hear what you been through" That is demonic but to be expected from a woman that is chasing her own fame and using witchcraft to get it. This is the general consensus of the black church; Let's get the movie stars and secular performers to draw a crowd and let's stop preaching holiness. And then, in most denominations where holiness is preached, let's get a bunch of gay bishops to rule over it and get each others tail to get a cross around their necks! This is the mark people! When your desire to have gain supersedes your desire to stand for truth, you have taken the mark of the beast! Like the bible says, you will not be able to buy or sell (basically that is saying that you will not be able to do business or play in the "industry" unless you take the mark or be "silent" and not stand for truth. This is what we have.

You have to be silent about the bishop's sexual appetite for young boys if you wanna move up the ladder in your denomination. You have to be silent about your pastors sexual perversions if you wanna get that position in the church. You have to be silent about the musicians homosexuality if you wanna get the lead in the choir or sing the solo. You have to ignore Bobby Jones flamboyancy to get on his stage. You have to allow Tonex to use foul language if you want to interview him to boost your ratings. You have to accept Oprah's god to be on her show. You have to accept same sex civil unions to support Barack Obama. You have to be silent to move forward in this world and this is the way the mark of the beast works. If you wanna buy or sell, you have to take the mark of silence, and silence is consent in God's eyes.

I was watching a portion of the Stellar Awards the other day and my 12 year old son walked in. He looked at the screen and saw Ricky Dillard doing his Ru Paul impersonating dance. The whole choir was dropping it like it was hot and the lesbians/gays in the choir were walking it out! My son looked perplexed and I asked him what he thought. He said, How can the people in the audience cheer and clap at that? Don't they know that's not right? The Lord spoke in my spirit and said, that is a beast marking! I told my son, those people in the audience want fame and awards so bad, that they will sit and clap for something so bad! They will stand and applaud Satan if it will get them an award or on TV. They will not speak anything against that or any other performance that was demonic because they wanna be something in this life. Have they taken the mark?

Think about it, how can you stand against the very industry that made you famous? How can you rebuke that performance without rebuking the system that put it up there? You can't! And yet these same recording artists that were apart of that hoopla will be at your church or conference preaching, singing, and laying hands on the next generation to mute them and pass this mark on. The devil has orchestrated it so strategically that these very artists that won't stand up for truth are the ones that are ministering to the next generation, setting the stage for the antichrist and the mark of the beast. Kirk Franklin, Tye Tribbett, J Moss, DA Truth, and all the other youth ministers that were there clapping, laughing and applauding these antics will be the ones having alter calls at youth conferences all over because many pastors and youth leaders want the names instead of the anointing. But in the spirit realm what they are really doing is inviting the mark of the beast into their youth and teaching the young to be silent for gain and compromise when it's convenient.

Why would our youth stand against Allah, Buddha, New Agers, Mormon's, or any other false religion when so called Christian artists that are in the forefront of the media won't stand against homosexuality? You can't expect our youth to stand up for Christ if the ones that are invited to their churches and church functions to perform and sing won't stand up for Christ in public. What message does a person that doesn't stand against sin have for your youth? They may have good words to say, but is it your words that determine your fate when it comes to taking the mark? NO! It's your actions.

Taking the mark is an action. You won't be able to take it and believe in your heart that you didn't really take it! You won't be able to say "I'll just take it outwardly, but inwardly I will still believe in Christ". (Like sitting in the audience of the awards, but saying in your heart you are not with what is going on) NO. Your actions will determine your fate! You can preach all the good words you want and fill up the alter with people that want to be near you. But the bottom line and determining factor is, were you silent when you should have spoken? Where you sitting down clapping when you should have been getting up and leaving? Where you quite to keep fame rather than crying aloud and sparing not even your own desire to advance? People of God, please hear me. The end is here. The Mark is on many, and your actions determine your fate. Will you sit silently and allow those that promote themselves and deny truth flourish in the body of Christ? Will you, for the sake of gain, sit back and not challenge the homosexual preacher, the compromising singer, or the foul lifestyle promoting actor? Let me put it in simple bible terms. Will you, for the sake of buying and selling, take the mark of the beast?

Rev. 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Rev. 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Rev. 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

The end is here,
G. Craige Lewis

Compromising Positions

2008-02-22T14:10:00.008-06:00

Compromising for the sake of money, fame, or notoriety is never a good thing. In the body of Christ we have a serious epidemic of people selling out for the sake of selfish gain. Some that desire record deals will close their eyes to sin, turn away truth, or do sinful things to get in a certain place. Many that desire large ministries will sell out their youth by adopting fleshly and carnal vehicles to reach them at the expense of their spiritual condition. They will also in most cases preach untruths, half truths, and do all kinds of tricks to gain large memberships and keep the mega church rolling along. I know Gospel singers that have slept with folks to get record deals or production for their music! I know pastors that invite false prophets and preachers that they know are no good, for the sake of being connected with the system! Folks turned their heads away when Megafest happened and even paid money to see this major compromise of the church. I know pastors that paid thousands of dollars to preach at megafest to boost their ministries! Yes, paid Jakes to preach! This is getting sad people. How can that preacher ever feel right about anything that was gained from that?

There is an aspect of compromising for gain that people in the body of Christ need to remember. When you use compromise to get things, you forfeit God's blessing on your progress. In other words, when you don't use God's way to get it, you don't get God's blessing over it. God won't bless your mess and he won't condone devilish or selfish methods that are used even when it's for a greater good. There is no greater good that requires a small compromise to receive. If compromise got it for you, then it wasn't from God. In the bible, Song 2:15, it talks about the little foxes that destroy the vine! A person that will compromise even a little to get something is a person that will eventually sell out totally for more. If you will do it on a small scale when you are small, then you will do it on a larger scale when you blow up big! That's the way it is and many are falling prey to this situation and going so far from truth that they can't find their way back.

I remember talking to a friend of mine who was working with a so called "minister" of Gospel Music. This minister was living with his girlfriend, sleeping with other women on the side, and still making church music. This person was using people to gain fame and fortune and yet pretending to be spiritual in the process. As I spoke with my friend I wondered how they could stay with this person and still claim to be a strong believer. Their response was "God knows my heart!" But my question is, what about your heart does God know and how does that change your actions in his eyes? If you will compromise for the sake of money or an opportunity to break into the music business, then when you do "blow up" and there is an opportunity to get bigger if you do something else underhanded, will you not do it? If you will do it on a small scale, that means that when the stakes are higher, you will do it! And how do you ever think that the money gained from compromising is a blessing to you? Aren't your hands dirty and isn't the money received, bad money? That's like robbing a bank and paying tithes from it.

This is why Lucifer was not allowed back into heaven after he was kicked out. God knew that his desire to be like a god was not going away. When he said he wanted to be like a God, that desire in him destroyed God's trust in him. You see, you can't trust a person that is trying to make it big because they will sell you out in a heartbeat for fame and fortune. They will do whatever they have to do to make it because they feel that making it makes them. The desire to be famous is not from God, but an antichrist desire because Jesus said to come to him you must deny yourself. Jesus did not come to make a name or reputation for himself. Yet the works God performed through him made him famous. He even asked people not to tell of him, or spread his works abroad, but he got famous anyway because he did what God lead him to do! He never promoted or marketed himself because that would have been pride and vanity. Those are 2 characteristics of Satan, not Jesus. Satan is proud, Jesus is humble. Satan promoted himself to be famous but Jesus denied himself and became famous.

God knew that Lucifer could not be trusted and never let him back into heaven. And now what do we have? We have a nation full of musicians and entertainers that will do anything for the applause of the crowd. They sleep around, perform all kinds of immoral acts just to get roles and sales. They sell their souls to the devil for a sale of their product. They leave their spouses and children for the sake of selfish gain. This came from Lucifer and has now entered our churches and gospel music industry. Singers will ignore a persons homosexuality for the sake of performing. They will look the other way for the sake of fame. They will sing anywhere, any time, for any reason just to be on stage and like Lucifer, they desire fame at any cost. These are industry whores. They don't care what you live like, or whether God is even with you, as long as you can get them a platform to perform and sell themselves!

But the saddest part is, that if you are in a compromised position, you can't pray! God is not listening to you praying from a state of compromise. Just like he refused Lucifer reentry into heaven, he will refuse to hear what you are saying about why you did what you did. If you sell God out for some money or fame, how can you pray and make that gain Godly? If you had to give up your booty to get it, blackmail someone to get it, lie, cheat, or steal to get it, or use any underhanded method to get it, you can't pray about it! If you had to ignore sin, or keep quiet to get along for the greater good, then you sold out! If you were placed there by sin, you are a slave to sin. God is not going to intervene and bless your mess. Your mess is your own creation. You must walk uprightly and allow God to open doors for you, not you open doors and then get God's blessing afterwards.

Most famous Gospel singers now will sing on the stage with anyone! They will share the stage with ungodly people that sing ungodly music. They will sit in the audience to get an award while ungodliness is happening right before them onstage. But for the sake of being something and positioning themselves for gain and glory, they stay quiet. Most Gospel artists will partner with anyone that can get them somewhere. They will sing with anyone that can help them be famous. Just look at their friends on myspace. They will embrace anyone that can make them look legit or with the in crowd no matter how much it promotes the other side. They will stay quiet about what they know for the sake of fame and fortune and yet, try to pray to God and believe he is with them? This is ridiculous. You can't believe that God is with you when you used an ungodly method to get where you are. If you are singing behind a person that is molesting young boys and homosexual, do you really believe God is using that person to help get you where he wants you to go? If you are recording with folks that are denouncing God's way in their music, do you really believe God is gonna use that to bless someone? How can you pray to a righteous God when you are using unrighteous ways to prosper? How can you believe that God has called you to do what you are doing, but you used ungodly methods to get where you are? don't you realize you can NEVER thank God for your place when you didn't use him to get there?

We must make sure that everything we do is pleasing unto God. Our job, our call, our methods, and everything should be on the up and up in God's eyes. We can't stand praying before him if we have used the devil for gain. If we are hurting anyone at all with our decisions or actions, then we are not being God driven. God is not going to sacrifice the well being of his people for your gain! He will sacrifice YOU for the well being of his people. And the saddest part of all of this is, that once a person goes down a compromising road, they need the applause of people to affirm them constantly because they have no Godly affirmation. You see, if you didn't use God's way then God's not affirming you. If you can't find your method in the word of God, then you feel insecure and need the approval of man to validate what you are doing! Seeking fame and fortune was never a thing that God's men did in the bible. The only person that sought fame and fortune and promoted himself high and lifted up was Lucifer. So if your only example in the word is what the devil did, then you are spiritually insecure and must seek the applause and affirmation of men to feel validated. God didn't validate Lucifer and he's not going to validate your desire for fame and fortune either. So, this is why most famous and rich folks struggle with immorality, drugs, and suicide because they don't have God's validation in many cases and because they can't find themselves in the word, they seek the approval of men. But at the end of the day, the applauses stop, the accolades are silenced, and you are left to who you really are. And that's when you miss what you could have had. The true hand of God moving in your life.

So whether you are doing something crooked to get a better job, tax return, or promotion. Whether you are a minister seeking a larger audience or more members. Whether you are a singer that is wanting your music to get "out there" and you have opportunities that require a little compromise, don't do it! If you can't do it God's way, then it's not God's way! If you can't hold it up to truth, then it's not true! If it's not the right thing to do then it's not the right thing to do! Come on people, don't sell out God, sell out for God! Delight yourself in him and he will change your desires into his! Die to yourself and your desire to be known and famous. If you seek God, you won't desire fame, but if you seek fame, you won't desire God.

Prov. 1:30 “They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. “So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, And be satiated with their own devices. “For the waywardness of the naive shall kill them, And the complacency of fools shall destroy them. “But he who listens to me shall live securely, And shall be at ease from the dread of evil.”

Heb. 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

1Tim. 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain.

In Jesus Name,
G. Craige Lewis

Exposed

2008-01-09T06:27:00.000-06:00

WARNING - Everything I mention in this article is public knowledge and was done in public view. All the names that I used are names of people that have done these things I mention for the world to know and embrace. We dare not be the bearers of personal gossip or slander, but will only hold men's public actions up to the Word.

2007 had to be a year of exposing in the body of Christ. I'm not necessarily talking about secret sins becoming public knowledge, but I'm talking about those that have been using the people of God to position themselves to be rich and famous showing their true motives in what they do publicly. That is what is plaguing the black church more than anything nowadays. Man's desire to be great among men and rich beyond their own imaginations has become so prevalent, that people are publicly doing things that contradict their own words and sermons for the sake of gain. And because people are in love with images and celebrity statuses of these folks, they accept their mess and never question anything! This has created a powerless church that has pastors with as few as 20 members seeking fame, buying television time, and wearing headphone mics to appear great and powerful. No one wants to build a ministry from the ground up through evangelism and the power of God anymore. Why do that when TD Jakes can show you how he filled a 5000 seat auditorium instantly without any evangelism at all. Joel Olsteen can show you how to build the worlds largest church without ever preaching against sin, sinful lifestyles, or even going to Hell. And now, those that are starting churches want to model them after the television folks and your children's spiritual growth, your personal battles, and your salvation is no longer important. What's important now is filling up the pews with bodies. Bodies equal money and that is how we grow a mega church without God.

2007 exposed a lot of people without even exposing their personal lives. Their hearts were exposed and yet the people missed it! No one questioned it or even cared really. But I believe God was trying to show us many things that we needed to see so we would not be fooled by the acts anymore. Let's look at some of these things and use our Godly street smarts to decode the hidden motives and agenda's. Most of us don't even recognize the spirit of the antichrist anymore because we are being pastored by it, encouraged by it, and many are emotionally profiting from an antichrist agenda that allows us to be who we want, do what we want, and live like we want and yet claim Christ's salvation! Watch this:

Carlton Pearson gets on National TV and says that he will always be Church of God in Christ (even sings the COGIC anthem) and yet he is an inclusionist which is an antichrist movement that says all men are saved whether they accept Christ or not. Then, his good friend that he grew up with Charles Blake is put into the position of Presiding Bishop of the whole COGIC movement! Carlton is ordained by a lesbian bishop. Charles Blake has a homosexual activist speak at his church. You paying attention yet? Galatians 1:9

Kirk Franklin comes out and says that he has been addicted to porn for 20 years. He gets on Oprah to tell his story. But in his concerts, he thrusts his pelvis while he dances and does sexual gestures during his gospel performance? Then, he shoots a video wearing no shirt and having a greased up body? Yes, a preacher, minister to youth, and a Christian takes his shirt off in public to show his body in a video. Once hooked on porn? You paying attention? James 1:14-15

Juanita Bynum marries a man and it is televised as the Wedding of the Century. The videos are sold to her followers. Then, she starts a marriage ministry and they talk nasty to folks and misuse the bible to get more money. Then the marriage fails and they began to lie and lie, and lie and then lie some more while still traveling, speaking, and appearing on tv? No period of sitting down from ministry. No period of reconciliation to the body. No period of prayer and consecration. But churches are still booking them to come? The saddest part is that most of their following are still following them! You still here right? Revelations 2:20

Donnie McClurkin, who claims deliverance from Homosexuality, gets on the ticket with Barrack Obama, who supports homosexuality and attends a church that supports homosexual marriages. This upsets the homosexual following of Barrack because they don't believe in deliverance from homosexuality, so Obama decides to get a gay pastor to travel with him and Donnie so they can share the stage and balance it out. Does Donnie quit? NO. In spite of being so called "delivered" he remains on the ticket? Now, if I was an ex crack addict, would I hang out with a crack dealer after I was delivered? Would I visit crack houses? People, wake up! Ephesians 5:11

Paula White and her husband divorce. They get up in front of the church and end their marriage. But she travels with Luciferian real-estate mogul, Donald Trump, then appears on her Christian Show scantly clad in leotards with a brand new face lift and a hunk she calls her personal trainer and yet the way his hands are on her body just doesn't look holy! But her money messages, power messages and thievery never ceases. No time to heal from a broken marriage, we got TV shows to record right? 1Timothy. 3:4

TD Jakes reopens Megafest and now it's going to Africa. Away from the Homosexual infested city of Atlanta to AIDS infested South Africa. This is a Jim Jones move at best and yet, watch the money pour in. TD Jakes pierces his ear and now, when he's not preaching, sports a very large diamond earring (which I saw myself in his ear) but, do you think that has affected his following? Do you really think black folks care about their youth enough to be outraged that the Bishop of the whole world is wearing an earring now? Heck no! No one cares anymore. Whatever he does, we are suppose to do right? He has pastors conferences to teach pastors how to be like him and do what he does remember? So now, get ready to see all the Jakes-ites get their ears pierced and our pulpits will now be flooded with gangsters, pimps, and players. Isn't that what a man wearing an earring represents? Isn't that a sign of macho, player, or pimp-daddy? Are you hearing this? Zechariah 11:16

The black church is imploding. It's blowing up from the inside out. No terrorist bomb needed, no plan of the devil needed, no assistance from hell needed. We are allowing those that lead the church to tear it apart for their own selfish gain and we are saying nothing. We won't call names when we should. We won't stand up when we should. And we are following what we know to be wrong as if it was right! We are too afraid to read the signs. We don't want to add this up and come up with a figure in the end. We don't want to know what's really happening because it's too scary. We want to sit in the pews and clap, sing, and give offering without questioning motives, intent, or what is right before our eyes.

I'm not questioning their lifestyles in secret, I'm telling you that what they are doing in the public eye will always expose their their hidden agenda. When a person does things in the public eye that are contrary to the Word or Holiness, they are sending a message that they don't care what you think or what the bible says about it because they want to shift public opinion in their favor. What these folks are doing in plain view and don't mind you knowing, is the nail in the coffin. This means they feel they are right and you better get with them or get crushed. Wow. 2007 exposed a bunch of folks motives and 2008 will be even worse. Pray for the church people. Pray. And after you have prayed and fasted, ask God to show you what is real!

2Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2Tim. 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, raitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

1John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

In Jesus Name,
G. Craige Lewis

To blog or not to blog, that is the question!

2007-12-02T10:17:00.000-06:00

As we plow through the internet looking, searching, researching, or just being nosey, we are able to find all kinds of information. Some of it good and some not so good, but the info is out there. Cyberspace is crazy place. There are online resources for just about anything you are looking for. Even in our Christian walk, there are many tools that are valuable. Folks have done years and years of research and posted it up free of charge to equip the body of Christ and help us in our daily walk. We at EX Ministries have done the same, by offering full web access to most of our materials free of charge and giving you blogs and daily words as well, without any kind of partnership involved. We are not knocking partnerships, but we do feel that some stuff ought to just be free.

But then, there is the dark side of the net. The perverted side that seeks to suck people into an underground movement that will ultimately destroy their faith in God and their faith in God's system. I'm not talking about porn sites or myspace. I'm not talking about adult chat rooms or webcams. I'm talking about church folks being exposed before the world by so called believers! I'm talking about folks outing Pastors, Ministers, Ministries, and Leaders by way of blogs, emails, and gossipy attachments. It's gotten to the point where lay people are many times rushing to their email every morning to see what preacher got caught with his pants down, or what Gospel artist is gay, or whatever. Now, I know there are folks reading this and saying, "how can G. Craige Lewis say this and he is always outing folks!" Well, anyone that says that, has not read what I have written nor watched the videos that I have produced. They have just "heard" about them after folks have put their own spin on it. If you know EX Ministries and what I preach, you know that I do call names and mention things people do, but only after they have exposed it to the public. Only after it's in the news, on tv, or something they put out for the world to see. But we do not out folks personal lifestyles and issues on our platform because God forbids that.

You see, God never intended for his people to become celebrities and seek after fame. There is a price to pay for fame and most famous church folks are finding out the hard way that the price is expensive . When you are a celebrity, your career, fame, money, and the like are not controlled by God, but by public opinion. When the public loves you, you are rich, but when they have finished enjoying you or finished with you period, you are poor. This is why so many of our prominent television church leaders and entertainers are on drugs, have sexual addictions, alternative lifestyles, etc., because they cannot deal with the fact that one day, they may no longer be famous and may resort to coming up with ways to stay in the public's view. Jesus avoided this by telling people to not lift him up or glorify him in the flesh, but rather keep quiet about the things he was doing that they deemed great. (Luke 8:56) Jesus never considered his workings as great, but rather said he was only mimicking what God was doing in heaven. (Luke 18:19) This was to avoid fame and the consequences of being steered by public opinion.

Nowadays, you can log on to google and type in a name and get all kinds of info, gossip, lies, slander, and even hard core truth without responsibility. Who got caught with who, who is sleeping with who, who is doing this and that. Could be true, could be a lie, but whichever it is, it is a shame before God for this kind of information to be given without responsibility or the clergy actually dealing with it first. Let me explain.

God has a plan for his prophets, and ministers exposure if they fall into sin. You see, God has men set up in a 5 fold ministry to hold each leader accountable for his actions. Men that are of the cloth so to speak, are apart of God's system of checks and balances. But the reason all these things are happening now is because men have surrounded themselves with evil men that will not hold them accountable. They are super apostles and untouchable by the clergy. Men that have become bigger than life cannot be subject to any authority because they have chosen to put men around them that covet their money and power. And by keeping each other's immoral indiscretions between each other silent, they each have something on the other and can hold it against the other if they decide to tell on them. This is mafia style behavior, but it is common among celebrity church leaders because they cannot afford to let anyone get close enough to see their wickedness without having some wickedness to throw around on them if they tell. So, there is no headship or accountability when the people you have surrounded yourself are wicked and hiding their own sin. They will serve you and do whatever you want because they want to escape judgment too! This is the dilemma and why the black church especially, is suffering from the lack of true revival, because men are blocking the move of God by being immoral and surrounding themselves with immoral men that won't judge their actions. In these cases, especially to those that have been hurt by these folks, you should just sit back and turn the hour glass over. In a matter of time God is gonna get them for you and you don't have to take action outside of God's system to do it. I"m not saying you shouldn't go to someone about being hurt by clergy (you should definitely go to leadership), but if they don't do anything, the web is not the place for it. When they won't hear the church, the secular media is waiting to judge them!

God is allowing the very machine that made them famous to turn on them and expose them before the world. The very media many of them sold their souls to for fame has turned on them and is publishing their private garbage to out them. This is terrible for the body of Christ and our witness to the world. By the world probing our leaderships spending habits, sexual appetites, and lack of integrity, they are finding no differences in our leaders and their political leaders. This is silencing the voice of the true God to the world and causing them to seek after other gods and other religion's leaders because the Christians leaders are falling. This is the spirit of antichrist at its best; Make them all rich and famous, lift them up above everyone, attach countless ministries to them and let them be their "coverings," then snatch the cover off of them all!!! You bust out the leaders for being immoral and the churches under them die because their pastors should have seen this coming and because of their lack of leadership, discernment, and protection, they lose their churches too. After all, who wants to be under a person that was chasing after an immoral platform? The church hemorrhages and almost dies and God's small remnant has to rebuild it. This is a dreadful day people of God, but this is our present day reality.

The bible deals with things differently and rumors, gossip, slander, and the like should be dealt with inside the body of Christ, and never exposed to the world. The bible shows us how to deal with these things in a manner where the church stays responsible and the world keeps out of it so they will not be dismayed or lose their faith in the power and authority of God's people. But these bigger than the church leaders have erased the lines that separated the church from the world and now the world knows all our business! Paul, in the bible dealt with things this way to keep the church intact and the world at bay:

When there was a rumor going around in 1 Corinthians 5, Paul said he judged it for the church. He told the members of the church that he had "already" judged the common report, or rumor that was going around and he dealt with it from a leadership perspective. He told them, after he had judged the situation, to put the person out. He didn't pass it around the room and ask their opinions about it. They were already talking about it and it was made common in the church, so he dealt with it from a leadership standpoint. The word even tells us that if we find our brother in a sin, we should go to them and restore them, not spread it around. Sure we talk and confide in those that are in leadership or those that are our colleagues. But we don't spread it around the net or lend our websites and comment pages to it before the world. That is not God's way. We must stick to God's plan.

Now, when Peter got out of line in his doctrine and behavior as a leader, Paul rebuked him before everyone. Why? Because what he was doing was before everyone. He was bending the rules and twisting his doctrine to suit his desires and actions and everyone was privy to it. So, since it was going on in the public's view, he was rebuked openly in the public's view so that everyone could see he was in error and if anyone was deceived by it, they could be restored by knowing the truth about it. This is God's way of handling open rebuke. When people preach, teach, or allow certain things to go on publicly that are not lining up with scripture, then it should be made public by those that are chosen by God to deal with it. But when a person is caught up in a private issue or sin, they should be dealt with privately by those in leadership and if they refuse to hear and repent, then it should be made public according to the Word of God.

Don't let blogs, emails, chats, etc, deceive you. God is not please with the way things are looking for the church. We have so many folks falling right now, we don't have to assist it. God is bringing folks down and using the secular media that they crave to do it. You don't have to spread anything around but rather pray for these folks that they will hear the prophets that are calling on them to repent. If they refuse, they will pay the price of fame. You don't have to take a secret video around to expose them, you don't have to post their personal info on youtube or write a book against them, and you don't have to send it around via email. All we as the church have to do is sit back and watch the great falling away passover! If you don't have the blood of the Lamb covering your house, you will be affected by it. God is rooting out the darkness before his return and he wants us that are of him to behave according to scripture in the way we handle things. Let's stop the gossip via the web and start praying for mercy. You see, when these great pompous leaders fall, and they shall, it's not a victory for any of us in the household of faith, but only a fearful day of judgement for everyone. We should all be on our knees and faces before God lest we be exposed or found doing something that is not Godly. Pray for our church people. Every email you see, every blog you read, and every video clip you watch that is exposing the church, is a fierce blow to the Kingdom of God. And though leaders that are corrupt and refuse to repent should be punished and exposed, there is a biblical way to do it so the loss in the body is minimized.

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

1Timothy 5:19 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses. Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

1Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

1Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. ...............For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, n heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.

In His Name,
G. Craige Lewis

Alternatives

2007-10-29T08:29:00.001-05:00

During the Halloween season, we begin to see a lot of Halloween Alternatives in churches and among our youth. People scramble to find ways to duplicate the experience and fun of the devil's celebration without it being devilish! They want the fun for the children and the excitement of the holiday without giving in to the enemy's celebration. Kinda like sweet n low. They want it to taste the same, but be better for you! This is a common problem among our churches and ministries of the day. From Hip Hop to Christian Nite Clubs, our people have a problem with totally letting go of their pasts and becoming new.

We have become such a selfish church that we don't want to part ways with our old man completely. We would rather mimic the things that used to give us pleasure and hold on to them so we can some how have God and our flesh satisfied. But there is a problem with this whole scenario that bugs God like you wouldn't believe. It's the fact that it makes him appear as a knockoff of what you had before him. It turns God into a knockoff, which makes him a substitute of the original and in many ways, only leads us back to what we had originally because there is no real satisfaction in a substitute. Kinda like a substitute sugar or filler that is created to work in place of a thing, but never really tastes like the real thing. We usually don't think this deep about it, but we should! The old man, once we are saved, is suppose to be dead, and we should not be looking for ways to substitute what the old man desired. Our desire should be Christ and not how to continue the sinful things that we once found pleasure in.

Is there an alternative to drugs? What about alcohol? When a person that was a sex addict comes to Christ, but still desires promiscuous sex, what do we give them? What about the person that was a gangsta or thug and comes to the Lord? Well, I know, we make them Holy Thugs and Gospel Gangstas right? We now have Christian Clubs, that people are starting. We have Holy Hip Hop, Christian Dances, Youth Proms and Hip Hop Dance ministries. We have alternative after alternative, but what is it all for? Is it to get people closer to God or to make them more familiar with their old wants and desires? Of course we know that people on large platforms do it for money and fame, but where does it lead the people? Are their youth growing stronger in the Lord because they can now mimic BET dances in church? Are the singles getting more spiritual because they can haphazardly date from a buffet of single's profiles? Are the children gonna feel that God is better than Halloween if we give them an alternative that all their peers reject? Their school, their favorite recording artists, the WORLD is celebrating Halloween, so how do you go against that and come up with a celebration that will counter something that huge? You can't! You can't compete with the fleshes desire to be fulfilled. You cannot make something Christian outplay something that is carnal. You can't compare the two because one feeds the flesh and the other feeds the spirit. The answer is to deal with the fleshly desire and challenge the flesh to be denied! The whole point in coming to Christ is self denial, so then why are so many seeking self fulfillment these days? Why are we seeking to be rich and seeking to be popular?? Why are we seeking online friendships and virtual relationships so much? Why are most TBN and national platform preachers talking about money, self fulfillment, and self promotion? What is going on?

Have we considered these things? Take a look at these comparisons and you will see that we are on a fast track to being as self centered as the world in some cases.

Show: Sunday's Best on BET (Alternative to American Idol)
Allows sinner, saint, homosexual, lesbian, and whomever else sing the gospel as a competition rather than as praise to God. For what purpose? So Kirk Franklin can have a job? So BE BE and Mary Mary can show that they are above them and can judge their fate? So the world can see that ANYONE can sing gospel no matter what kind of lifestyle you live?

The main problem with a show like this is that those that win are not ministered to and are put in positions to become ministers of music without even being held accountable for living right or being saved. Many of them have confessed to partying, getting drunk, and whoring right before the competition, but because BET is the machine backing it and Kirk Franklin got his success while being hooked on porn, it's ok. You don't have to be in Christ to sing for Christ! You don't have to live for God to work for God. You don't have obey his commandments to love him right? WRONG!

Show: Exalted on BET (Alternative to VH1 Behind the Music)
This show exalts men and women that preach. It's a platform for celebrity preachers to shine and show how they got famous. It shows their money, their success, and people exalting them and lifting them up before men to look like God's anointed ones. But come on folks, if BET lifts them up, are they preaching the truth? If BET, the most exploitative, degrading, sin promoting station on cable "exalts" them, does God approve of them? Can they please BET and God at the same time? If they preached against the sin that BET promotes, and preached against the people that BET promotes, and preached against the degradation that BET promotes, would BET really "exalt" them? NO, because if they preached against the people that BET promotes, they'd be calling their own name!!!

The saddest part of this is that the preachers that BET have decided to "exalt" are doing exactly what God said don't do! He said if a man exalts himself, he would abase him. But if a man humbles himself, he would exalt him. So, why are men being "exalted" in the first place? Shouldn't Christ and the truth be exalted? Shouldn't the bible and the message against sin be our focus? And why in the world would BET promote the very thing that is dead set against it? Well, they would never do that. BET is a business and that business knows that if they present a message against their programming they would go under, so they strategically looked for some effeminate preachers that would love being "exalted" and won't hurt their agenda. They picked men that are friends of the world and enemies of God. They picked people that hide truth for the sake of actors, performers, and celebrities attending their churches. These men and women they are exalting are not of God, but of themselves because they hide truth for the sake of fame and large followings!

The church has become so self oriented that now we seek to put our fleshly desires before God. Now we want to keep the old man alive instead of rejecting him. Now we want entertainment in place of ministry. We want man's books instead of God's book. We want superstars instead of the bright and morning star! We want to shine instead of allowing the light of God to shine. And now we want God to be the alternative to what is worldly or what is popular. We want to pitch God and fix him up in a way that he can compete with television, movies, music, and dances. We want God to be like the world's gods, but with heaven to put us in! But God said to be in the world not of the world. If the love of the world is in us, then the love of God is not! When Christians seek to make an alternative to something that should not even exist, then you know we are following the flesh. When Christians want to use what we desire in the flesh as a tool of ministry, just so we can keep it, then you know we are in the flesh. When the preachers seek large churches, fancy cars, movies, television, and stardom more than they seek to preach the truth, then you know God is only a substitute for their real desire. They really want mammon! And if this is what they are doing, then they have chosen their god! God is not an alternative. He is not a substitute or filler. He is the WAY.

Lev. 18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Eph. 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

In Love,
G. Craige Lewis

Church House Negro

2007-10-15T06:14:00.000-05:00

When God gave me the Jezebel's Finest Hour blog to write, I knew it was gonna make some folks upset. I knew leaving it up for almost 2 months was gonna really tick some church folks off. I wanted to take it down the day after I wrote it, but God would not allow me to edit it or remove it. It was a message from God, speaking to our times and showing us that there are many wolves disguised as sheep that are manipulating people for their own sorted gain. I know it was heavy but what's even heavier is the people that are hurt by these hollywood chasing, money stealing, false prophets that have crept in unaware. And yet the more they deceive, the less they are called out and recognized by the black church. It's like, the world has declared their words null and void, and labeled them motivational speakers that are on the level of a Dr. Phil or Les Brown, but most church folks consider them to be genuine articles that represent Christ even though, in the face of the world, they never mention Christ.

What is going on?

Remember during slavery, there was a mentality on the plantation called the "House Negro Mentality" This was when a slave was so happy to be in the house, rather than in the field, that he would make being in the house a form of freedom. Even though he was still a slave, he could live in the big house and eat the food, sleep in a bed, and feel the comforts of home. He would even convince himself that the house was his too, if he just continued to do what massah said and never try to leave. He was convinced that he was better off being a slave in the house than in the field. But the bottom line was that he was deceived! He was still a slave and he was still getting beat, raped, and cheated out of his hard earned money.

Well, that sounds like the black church of today. Many of our church folks have become spiritual house negroes! They are slaves to these so called Bishop's and Prophets that are all in cahoots with each other to rob them of their money.

These false prophets have begun their shift. They have used the church to get rich and famous. They have stolen their money for enough years to set-up huge financial empires and now it's time to transition. Now, they are all making their move into the world because there, they can preach a Christ-less gospel and live out the pleasures of the flesh without being judged. They can divorce and remarry, be homosexual, party with the world, get drunk with the elite, and never be questioned about their motives or intent because, without Christ in the picture, it really doesn't matter why you do what you do. All along, the church is clapping, praising, and shouting them along without even realizing that they have been robbed, cheated, and lied to the whole time they were sending money to these crooks.

To turn on Dr. Phil and see TD Jakes preach the gospel without mentioning, offering, or giving those poor hurting people Christ is a slap in the face to every believer that has followed him. To preach Christ in church, but hide Christ from the world's largest audience is beyond me. I could never do that. Dr. Phil promotes new age doctrine, homosexuality, abortion, and divorce without biblical regulations, and yet he preached at Jakes church and Jakes is now on his show?? But don't worry, the church house negroes will still go to his conferences, defend him, and get mad at those that say anything against him, because they like what's in the house! They like having the trappings of freedom and imagining that it is them out there meeting stars and celebrities, not realizing that they are nothing more than slaves in the house!

To see Paula White leave her church and husband, to follow Donald Trump around who is not a Christian by any means and do her motivational messages without the mention of Christ is an outrage! To hear Juanita Bynum, Jezebel's finest, say that she is leaving the church to take her place in the world, is totally against scripture, but that's just what a church house negro wants to hear. Even Creflo Dollars is ready to transition and get out of the church biz and his following will cry, and shed a tear, because they want him to keep going because he keeps the big house looking like something they can obtain even though it was built upon the backs of their hard labor while they were being robbed of their wages.

What's going on people? Can't you see what has happened? These thieves in the temple have taken all the money. The loot is gone and now that you are getting wiser and the internet is getting popular, the jig is up! They are all moving into the world and deleting Christ from their messages. Christ was never their focus or he would still be their focus. Money was the focus and Christ is in the way. Truth is coming, exposure is coming, punishment is coming, and they are all fleeing! They are running from what God is about to do. They are packing their bags of money up and heading for the hills where they can use what Christ has spoken to make real cash while deleting his name from his words. Can't you see?

Don't be a church house negro. Stop following pastors that following these thieves and stand up for yourself. You are not a slave, you are a child of the most high. What these false prophets have, they stole from you! They made you think they were with us, but when they get on secular tv, who's name are they calling? Are they preaching Christ? Are they saving souls? Who got saved on Oprah when they were there? Who got changed on Dr. Phil when they were there? Did Larry King accept Christ when they were on his show? Nightline? Good Morning America? BET? ARe people being saved and changed because of the media exposure? The world is not buying it, but the church house negroes will cuss you out for talking against their "massahz". They don't want freedom, just better slavery standards. They don't want the freedom Christ offers us all, they want a form of freedom that is yet slavery.

1John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

1John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

In His Name,
G. Craige Lewis