July - August 2012

5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying…. 6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues... (1 Corinthians 14:5,6, & 18a)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

In July, I turned 38 years old physically and 20 years old spiritually! What a blessing to have two birthdays in the same month. And how great to be able to say I’ve been saved longer than I have been lost! It’s great to know the Lord and know for sure that you are on your way to heaven!

God’s kept me busy the last two months and by the above verses you can kind of get the idea that I’ve been busy using my Spanish for the Lord. So here’s what the Lord has done with us these last couple of months.

SPANISH CHILDREN’S VIDEO ABOUT CREATION

 

Creation Science Evangelism in Pensacola, Florida contacted me about finishing their bi-lingual Children’s video. You know, the one we recorded in Honduras way back in 2005. They needed me to finish translating the slides into the Spanish tongue, and I took a few weeks to do so, making sure I got it right as I put on the finishing touches. The video is now done, and we look forward to it going out far and wide and reaching many children with the truth of Creation and the lies about Evolution.

 

MORE TRANSLATION WORK

 

I’ve been asked to do some more work for Creation Science Evangelism as I go through their workbooks and make sure they are translated correctly in Spanish. I’m also working on several other of their Spanish language videos. My job is to make sure the slides are correct in Spanish, and boy is there a lot of work to do, as there are well over 700 slides! (And that’s just part A. I haven’t had a chance to look at part B yet!) Please pray for me as I go through this tedious process, that it might turn out well and be greatly used by God.

 

HELPING TRANSLATE PAPERS FOR A MISSIONARY TO SPAIN

God sent along my path a Missionary to Spain out of a good Bible Believing church in New York. He asked me to help him translate his paperwork into Spanish to help him obtain his Visa to enter into Spain. It took us many days working together, but we finally got it all finished before he took the papers to the Spanish Consulate in Miami. Sadly, they would not accept it, because it wasn’t “certified.” (They demand a special stamp from someone who’s been certified by the state to translate). So it appeared we did all that work for nothing! So now he’s looking for a person who’s certified by the state to stamp the translated work in order for them to accept it. Please pray for him that he could find someone so that he could quickly gain entrance into Spain and start his ministry there. Also pray we might have the opportunity to go and visit him there someday. Paul went to Spain in his ministry, and I’ve always wished I could do the same!

 

TEACHING SPANISH

 

A young man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin contacted me a while back asking me to teach him Spanish via Skype. So twice a week I do so. He just doesn’t want to learn slang Spanish, but he wants to learn the old Castilian tongue, especially as it was used and written in the old Spanish Bibles. So I am enjoying having a pupil who is interested in learning about that. We are also going through many of the old Spanish Bibles together as well.

 

GOD TAKES CARE OF US AS WE CONTINUALLY SERVE HIM

 

A few prayer letters back I told about our dwindling support and great need for something to happen, as we aren’t really receiving enough to live on, much less do the ministry as we’d like. But God is good, and has given me some odds and ends jobs to get by, as well as allowed us to sell some things on Craigslist and at a local flea market. (Where we’ve found a lot of Hispanic people to talk to! We’ve also been able to pass out a lot of tracts there as well!)

Most of the translation work I’ve mentioned we were blessed to receive an offering for, so that really helped. We’ve also received some special offerings, and we thank God for that. It’s great to know you are doing something for the Lord and he’s taking care of you for doing it. We also rejoice in being able to continue in the Lord’s service.

 

Thanks so much for all your prayers and support. We appreciate you so much! And we count it an honor to work with you as we serve the Lord together and try to get the Gospel out in both English and Spanish. 

Because Jesus shed His precious blood for a Sinner like me,

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24

 

 

The Following is something I wrote that accompanied this prayer letter...

 

 

HOW MUCH DOES A PERSON NEED TO KNOW TO GET SAVED? 

A few years before he died, my Dad told me that the above question was hotly debated back in the seventies and eighties among many Pastors, Evangelists, Missionaries, and Laymen. And often their discussions on this topic led to bitterness, anger, and even division as men continually claimed they were right and others were wrong on the subject. Some said a person didn’t need to know anything. Others said they have to know everything about Jesus and the Gospel, or they aren’t saved at all. And their constant debate and bickering went on for years. In fact, I’ve recently found it’s even going on today and it’s more heated than ever! And, it’s still a divisive issue.

 

My Dad said he used to go to these guys in his day and answer them according to their folly. He would say, “I can tell you in one word how much a person needs to know to be saved!” Intrigued, they would ask, “Really? Then what’s that one word?” My Dad would respond, “ENOUGH!” Usually that left them speechless. But the truth is a Sinner does need to know some things before he gets saved. How much? Just ENOUGH.

 

People erroneously go to completely opposite extremes on this issue. Some claim a Sinner needs know nothing, while others say they must know everything. But what if the answer is a happy medium between the two? What if all a Sinner really must know is enough in order to get saved?

Why do I bring this up? Well, as most of you know, I just can’t bring myself to remain silent when I see something that needs to be mentioned, especially when I see how such a thing can cause not only division but also great harm as well. That’s why I’ve written in my prayer letter about such topics as “Faith Promise,” “Shallow Soul Winning,” etc. And, in this prayer letter, I feel I’ve got to mention this topic also, as I’ve been seeing a lot of it lately, that is, the false teaching about what a Sinner must know (or more specifically what he doesn’t need to know) to be saved.

 

You see, there are many today among Christendom who claim to be “Christians” and even “Bible Believers” who are now saying that a person doesn’t have to know anything to be saved. They claim, “A person doesn’t have to know anything at all about God, the Bible, the Bloody Gospel, etc.” But is this so? Is this a Biblical teaching, or a man-made doctrine?

Some even go so far as to say, “A person doesn’t even have to hear the Gospel to get saved!”

(That’s silly! Why would the Bible instruct someone to preach the gospel if Sinners don’t need to hear it in order to get saved?). Further, I’ve even heard them say things like, “A Sinner can get saved by coming to God the best way he knows how!” This infers that he doesn’t know how biblically, yet God will accept him anyway. But is this scriptural?

Let’s look at the Scriptures. First we read in Mark 16:15, “

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” These are the words of Jesus. So if a man doesn’t need to know “anything” to be saved, then why did Jesus command his followers to preach to him the Gospel at all? Isn’t it because a person does need to hear that first before he can be saved?

The Gospel is found in 1 Cor. 15:1-4, and speaking of the Gospel in verse three, the apostle Paul says to those Christians in Corinth, “For I delivered unto you FIRST OF ALL that which I also received...” Notice he’s telling them the Gospel, and he says that it was the very first thing that he delivered unto them! This really goes against this anti-biblical modern teaching that a person doesn’t even have to hear the Gospel to be saved, doesn’t it? It should be the very first thing a Sinner hears!

And then in 1 Cor. 15:3, the very next word we find is the little word: “How.” Look at it in context…

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, HOW that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Here we see the Gospel of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. But notice that Paul didn’t just tell them that it happened. He told them of “HOW” it was done. (My wife pointed this simple truth out to me. She’s so cool!) So it’s not just that Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, it’s HOW he did it. And, a person needs to know HOW he did it to get saved. How did he do it? Through a bloody manner, as a substitutionary sacrifice!

This is the Gospel. This is what a Sinner should be delivered “first.” They should hear HOW Jesus died for them in their place as their bleeding substitute! That’s what the Bible says about salvation, as it clearly tells us how much a Sinner needs to know to be saved!

Now, for the gainsayers and the doubters, let’s look back again to the words of Jesus. In Mark 4:12, he tells us that two things must happen before a man can be “converted” (i.e. saved!) I quote the verse: “That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may HEAR, and not UNDERSTAND; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.”

Here Jesus says that a person must first “hear” and then “understand” before he can be converted (i.e. saved!). So there is something that must happen before a Sinner can get saved. He must hear the Gospel, and he must understand what Jesus did for him. In other words, without a Sinner hearing the Gospel, he can’t believe it for salvation. For how can a person believe in something they’ve never heard??? Clearly a Sinner needs to know something before he can be saved. And, he must understand what he hears. This is just logical, basic, sound Bible doctrine.

Why then are there so many today saying the exact opposite? Why are they so adamant in insisting something silly like, “A Sinner doesn’t have to know anything to get saved,” or “A Sinner doesn’t need to hear the Gospel before he gets saved!”

This teaching, that a Sinner doesn’t need to hear the Gospel to be saved, nor even understand it, is quite foreign to the Scriptures. Why then do many so called Christians today teach the opposite? Why are they so adamant in propagating this clearly anti-biblical principle? Jesus didn’t teach this. So why do they?

Then you have those who go to the opposite extreme, claiming a person has to know everything there is about the Gospel, as well as all the details about the virgin birth, the crucifixion, his bodily resurrection, etc. They take the opposite extreme claiming a person has to know it all, before they can believe. This is an extreme position and also very foreign to the Scriptures. The simple fact is, like my Daddy used to say, all a person needs to know is “enough” to get saved. So how much is enough?

I believe it’s so simple. And it’s sad that many people try to make it either too shallow or too complicated. The truth is a person really only needs to know three things before he can get saved. They are:

1. They are a Sinner. (Rom. 3:10:23)

2. Jesus Christ (God) died for them in their place. (1 Peter. 3:18)

3. To get to heaven, they must TRUST the finished work (the shed blood) of Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:8,9, Rom. 3:25)

That’s it! Now that’s not just my opinion. That’s sound Biblical doctrine! For how can a person need a Saviour unless they first see themselves as a Sinner? Jesus died for Sinners. If someone doesn’t view himself as a Sinner, then he wouldn’t view what Jesus did as something he needs. To see yourself as a Sinner is to understand you need to be saved!

How can a man be saved unless he comes to Jesus alone, through what Jesus DID for him, (i.e. He shed His precious blood on behalf of the Sinner for his sins). Jesus is our blood sacrifice who died in our place for our sins. A person who comes to Jesus any other way apart from the finished work at the cross cannot be saved! So if a person doesn’t know about this, how can he come to Christ the right way?

The question then becomes how does a Sinner receive what Jesus did for him? The answer is by FAITH! But faith in what? Many Sinners have faith, but their faith is in their church, their priest, their baptism, their works, etc. If their faith is in these things, then they are lost. Their faith can’t be in what they have DONE, rather what Jesus DID. A Sinner must, therefore, trust in Christ’s finished work, i.e. trust His blood (Rom. 3:25). It’s that simple! How can a man be saved if he hasn’t heard or doesn’t know or understand this?

So in closing, there are those who say you have to know nothing, while there are others who say you have to know everything. They are both wrong! You simply need to know enough to get saved! Watch out for those on both extremes for they are both wrong on this subject! If a person says that a Sinner doesn’t need to know anything, he’s denied the words of Christ and the apostle Paul. He’s teaching an anti-scriptural doctrine, one which might just end up in the damnation of souls by preaching another gospel, a Bloodless Gospel.

If a man goes to the opposite extreme, he might just be guilty of trying to start an argument, one in which he wants to be right and he demands others to follow what he says in teaching a Sinner must know everything he says they must know before they can be saved. And unless you agree with him, you won’t be accepted by him. This often leads to anger, debate, and ultimately division among those who claim to be Christians.

So why not just follow the Bible? The truth is a Sinner needs to know something to be saved. What’s he need to know? He needs to know enough.

A Sinner needs to know the blessed Gospel of Christ’s substitutionary blood atonement! He must know he’s a Sinner but Jesus died for him, in his place. HOW did Jesus die? That’s the most important part. He shed his precious blood, God’s blood! For it’s only through blood that man’s sins can be forgiven (Heb. 9:22). And if a man will accept that blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ by faith in it, then and only then can he be saved!

 

 

May - June 2012

For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

(1 Cor. 16:9)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Years ago my Dad told me something that I didn’t necessarily agree with at the time. (Being a good Independent Baptist who was taught never to question anything, I just followed traditional teachings). But my Dad said something that really made me think, when he dogmatically told me, “God doesn’t do missions like the Catholics do, in which they send ONE man to ONE place for the rest of his life to reach only a select few and then he lords over them for the rest of their lives. Rather, God wants one man to reach as many people as possible as often as he can in any means he can, wherever he goes.” He then showed me the Apostle Paul as an example, questioning, “Where was he a Missionary too?” I could not answer, for Paul wasn’t a Missionary to only one place. He was a Missionary everywhere he went, and he went a lot of places! And, because of this, he turned the entire world upside down.

I now agree with my Dad. A missionary isn’t just to one place but rather to people. And, in our day and age of “globalism” and the passing of knowledge through many international boundaries and borders through the internet, it’s now possible to reach more people in a much quicker way than just traveling to them (something that’s usually very expensive). Now, you can reach others without ever leaving home. You can be a missionary in many countries and many cultures and languages without actually going there. Rather you can get the Gospel and the truth to them through more cost effective mediums, like the internet, the printed page, radio, audio tapes, Digital video, and more.

Most of you know the current situation we are in and how we are now stationary and unable to travel like before. But this hasn’t hindered our ministry as much as you’d think. Rather, it’s opened up many doors and ways to reach even more people than we did before, and we are seeing God work in not only one country, but many different ones. I constantly get letters, emails, and phone calls all the time from such exotic locations as Chile, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Guatemala, Germany, Spain, England, and more. People all over the world are looking for the truth, but they don’t seem to find it until they look online. And that’s where they often tell me they found my website.

But with the countless people who are looking for the truth, we also find our “adversaries” who are against it and us. And we find we have to battle them as well as we try to take the Gospel to the lost and dying world.

In this prayer letter, I’ll give just a brief sample of what God’s doing with us, as we continue to serve him.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTHS OF MAY AND JUNE 2012

I’ve been so busy in June and July it’s hard to know where to begin. I’m continually getting inquires from people wanting more information about the Spanish Bible, the Blood-stained Gospel, and the importance of living a Spirit-filled life. I’m also busy working on translating articles, books, sound doctrinal material, and more from English to Spanish, in order to reach more in both English and Spanish. And, I’ve been busy updating my website. We are getting a lot more feedback from it and this is very encouraging!

In May I got a phone call from a Hispanic person who was a Seventh Day Adventist. We talked for several hours in Spanish, and it became immediately apparent that he wasn’t saved. He thought salvation was by faith and works, and he believed that unless someone continued to work for it, he could lose it. He, like so many people I’ve met over the years, had no idea how to “rightly divide” the word of truth. This made me think about the importance of making more videos in both English and Spanish to help people see the many different “dispensations” in the scriptures and how we are now in the age of the Church, an age of Grace, where salvation is by faith alone in the FINISHED WORK (i.e. the shed blood) of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Please pray that God would open the door to be able to make some videos which would help people like this man see the light. Also, please pray for this man’s salvation. It’s so sad to see people lost and confused with a false gospel.

In May, I also got a phone call from a man who wants me to teach him Spanish. And not just any Spanish, but old Biblical Spanish from the Protestant Reformation. He’ll pay me to teach him, as he really wants to learn about the old Spanish Bibles and be able to read them. So we will have classes once or twice a week via Skype. Thank God for Skype!

There’s a poor Pastor in a desert border town of Honduras named Florentino Aguilar, who calls me from time to time. Usually he calls asking for money. But lately he’s been calling asking Bible questions. I’ve preached for him on several occasions, (he’s the pastor I preached for when I was stung by a scorpion and my tongue later went numb for a whole day). The latest questions he’s had are quite interesting. I answered them all with scripture, and he was very thankful for the references. It’s great to be able to still teach the Bible, even though I’m not physically in the same location as the Pastor, nor even in the same country. Thank God for telephones!

Much of our support goes for postage, especially for sending out Spanish Bibles all over Latin America. We are also busy printing up tracts and doctrinal booklets and distributing them far and wide. Thank God for the printed page!

In June, I also was contacted and asked to finish the Kent Hovind slides for his Children’s video. You’ll remember in Honduras several years ago we invited him to come and preach while we taped him in both English and Spanish. And although we translated some of his slides into Spanish, we never finished. Well, now they want to get his Children’s video out in Spanish and I’ve been contacted to finish the translation work on the slides for that. It took me a while, but they are now done and in July, I go to their office in Pensacola, and turn them in. We hope to have this video done and available soon. There are many Spanish-speakers in countries world-wide already asking for it. Thank God for Digital Video!

I also got a phone call from a family in California in June who wanted me to help them find someone to go and visit their dying Hispanic family member in the hospital. I was able to eventually get them in touch with someone. They said, “We know you have the right Spanish Bible and the right Gospel, and we want both of those things when dealing with our loved one!” It was great they thought of me! Here I am in Florida, but I was able to get them in contact with someone in California. My how God works!

In closing, I still sometimes struggle with being discouraged. I’ll be honest, I greatly miss being able to travel so much. And, sometimes I feel so useless and that God is finished with me because I’m not always going somewhere new. But then comes time to write a prayer letter, and I look back on what God’s done with me in the situation I’m in here, and it’s hard not to get excited seeing that God is still using me! So I’ll continue on steadfast trusting him to open more doors.

Because Jesus shed His oh so precious blood for a sinner like me,

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24!

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. (Hebrews 2:1)

The above verse is so powerful and pertinent for us today. We should indeed give even more earnest heed to the truth, and be careful not to let it slip!

Since I’ve been a Christian things have changed so much. (Maybe it’s the Obama doctrine of “hope and change”). But one thing is for sure, Christianity is so different from what it used to be. I’ve stated it before that when I left and went to Honduras I knew who I was working with and what they believed. But when I came back, I felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone, for many of the same men I once knew and preached for had changed their beliefs and compromised. This bothered me so much. Why would they change what they used to preach, especially when what they used to preach was sound Bible doctrine?

Seeing so much change in Fundamentalist circles, I’ve found I had to make a choice, either: 1) change myself in order to get along with it, or 2) preach against the lies, deception, and abuse in it, and be persecuted by them for doing so. That’s been my struggle. Finally, I chose to do the latter, and I’ve paid for it ever since. Loss of support, loss of friends, loss of fellowship, etc. In other words: “MANY ADVERSARIES!” But my conscience tells me I did the right thing!

But still there are some who don’t understand what I’m talking about. There are Christians who don’t see what I do. I don’t know if it’s cause they are in their own little world with their own little group and that’s why they don’t see what’s happening. But the truth is, there is much blatant deception and false doctrine in today’s Churches, especially when it comes to the three most important Christian doctrines: Salvation, Sanctification, and the Scriptures.

I’ve reported on it time and again, and I hate to sound like a broken record, but I’m meeting people all the time who tell me they too have seen what we see, and were encouraged by our stand for the truth. They, like us, are looking for other like-minded believers, and it’s great to meet them and fellowship with them. We truly are a remnant.

SALVATION

Rather than preach the Biblical means of salvation by “faith in the blood” of Jesus Christ, many today are preaching things like, “make your commitment to Christ,” or “Ask Jesus into your heart,” or “Beg God to forgive you.” What’s wrong with these? They aren’t found in the Bible! They are all things you can do in and of yourself (i.e. works), and they all by-pass “the finished work” of Jesus and faith in his blood atonement. I get so tired of people preaching these “Bloodless Gospels.” Yet you hear them being preached everywhere from the pulpits to the street corner. Why are those who claim to be Christians leaving out the Blood??? It appears someone let it “slip” when it comes to preaching the correct Gospel of salvation. Who could it have been?

SANCTIFICATION

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked other Christians about Brother or Sister so and so and heard stories of them falling headlong into sin. As much as it pains me to say it, the truth is our Churches are full of fornicators, adulterers, thieves, and liars. I’ve seen it time and again and heard story after story and it makes me so sick to my stomach to hear some of the things that are done by people who claim the name of Christ. They claim to be “Christians” but the sure don’t live like such. The word “Christian” means “Christ-like” but they are anything but. If you look at their lives they are full of sin, and completely eaten up with worldliness, bitterness, anger, hate, etc. And I’m just talking about many Ministers, Evangelists, Missionaries, etc., that I’ve known! I haven’t even gotten to those who are sitting in the church pew!

My wife tells me all the time how little preaching we hear against sin. I remember when I was newly saved, that men would preach so hard against sin they would spit when they spoke. Some even walked the pews and pointed fingers and named names. But where are these men today? One old Preacher said, “The thing the Pastor doesn’t preach against is usually the thing that will get into the church and destroy it!” How true.

But one thing I’ve learned in the ministry is the harder you preach against sin today, the less invitations you’ll get to preach in pulpits, and the less friends you’ll have. Maybe this is why we are in the mess we are in. Someone let it “slip” when it comes to preaching on Sanctification. I wonder who it was?

THE SCRIPTURES

Finally, I find that I can’t get along with modern Christianity because they usually use another version of the Scriptures. I’m not talking about English, as those who I work with are King James only, just like me. However, in Spanish it’s a completely different story. There are those who use the 1960, the 1909, the 1865, and others, and they all are perverted Bibles with many doctrinal errors and problems. Yet, they don’t care. And what’s worse, they won’t work with you unless you use their perverted Bible version.

I’ve tried to explain this for years and point people to the best Spanish Bible—The Valera 1602 Purified. And, in my last prayer letter I sent a DVD about the whole Spanish Bible issue, telling as clearly as possible the problems with modern versions and where they come from. I hope it was a real eye opener, as most Fundamentalist Missionaries use a perverted Bible in Spanish. Why? Because someone let the truth “slip” about where those versions come from. I wonder who that could have been?

With all this stated, I must say that I often find that I feel like I’m just kicking against the pricks. That is, I’m trying to live right, do right, and preach right, but by doing so, I’m going against mainstream Christianity! And, by my not joining them in their folly, they think I must not be right with God, for I don’t do what they do. So, they turn against me the more. But I don’t want to change, nor do I want to live a perverse lifestyle, nor use a watered down Bible!

Thus, I find I’m at another cross-roads in my ministry: Do I even continue trying? Do I just quit and forget about the whole thing or do I continue with what I’m doing? It would be so easy to just give up. But to do so I find would be to go against the Bible, the truth, and my own conscience. Thus, I decided to just continue steadfast with the minimal support I receive. (I’m getting about 800 a month in support now, all of which goes to the ministry, and none of which goes to us). But something has eventually got to give. Either I have to get a part-time job to help pay bills, or I need more support and I’ll have to do deputation over again. (Something that will be hard, knowing what modern Christians preach about those three main things).

Please pray for me as I have to decide what to do. In the current situation we are in, we can’t travel much, so we are doing all we can where we are. And one thing I’ve found is that God’s given me almost more to do than I can handle Yet we get little support to do it. Please pray for this. I know God will supply our need. But I do ask for your prayers. I’ve seen too many preachers compromise the truth for fame and fortune. I would rather die than do so.

Time is short and I truly want to give “more earnest heed…” One thing I don’t want to do is let the important doctrines of the faith “slip.” Nor do I want to turn my back on God to get in good with the Pharisees and Laodiceans. I want to be a “true Christian” and not a “religious” groupie. For they willfully let things “slip” to augment their numbers. And this has made it so very hard for so many to find the truth.

That’s why we appreciate you all and your stand for the truth! God is good, and even though we live in the latter days where apostasy abounds, it’s still good to know there are others out there like you who also make it a point to “earnestly” stand for the truth.

For truth and right,

Robert Breaker
1 Sam. 12:24!