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!

 

　

March - April 2012

And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.  

(1 Cor. 8:2 )

Hello again from the Breakers,

The above verse my wife wrote on the white board in our office. I’ve looked at it long and hard for the last two months, and it makes a lot of sense. There are some things that all Christians ought to know. But I’m finding that so many don’t know certain things. And, all too often Christians take for granted that other Christians already know what they think they should. But they seldom question them to find out. This has always bothered me. For I’m finding there are many Christians who don’t know what they should. Either they’ve been mislead or they have never been told. And this is something that has led to the current state of apostasy in which we live today.

This has always made it hard for me in the ministry as so many others aren’t on the same page. They often have another Bible (in Spanish) or another Gospel. And they never even think that they could be wrong. I’ve found it very hard to work with such people. For they don’t desire to receive instruction. That’s why I’ve always felt alone and out on my own. And that led to my often being discouraged. But now I look at it as a blessing. John the Baptist was in the wilderness in his ministry. Jesus had to go out by himself in his ministry, and he had to take some men and train them himself. Why? They were instructed wrongly by the religious powers that be. The apostle Paul even had to teach others the true Gospel, and salvation by grace through faith alone. Why? Because Peter was adding an element of works to it. (See the book of Galatians). So we see that the history of the Church age is people claiming to be religious who were wrong. And God sends them someone to show them the error of their ways and instruct them to believe correctly.

I’m finding in the last days, that this is the biggest part of the ministry. For there are countless millions of lost religious people who aren’t believing right. And, it’s often because they have never heard. (For an example see the enclosed email testimony I received from a man who’s struggled for years with his salvation, but just recently learned the truth of salvation).

HEALTH PROBLEMS

The months of March and April of 2012 I’ve been overcome with much sickness. In March I had a cold that wouldn’t go away for several weeks. It then affected my stomach and I wasn’t able to eat much. Afterwards, I had a gallbladder attack in April that was so bad it left me on the floor rolled up in a ball night after night almost to the point of tears, which lead to an eventual trip to the Emergency Room (where they charged me a whole lot of money for doing absolutely nothing!)  I went two weeks without eating, and I lost about 20 pounds. I’m still dealing with this, and might have to have it removed via surgery, something I don’t look forward to!  

Still, I believe God gave me a gallbladder for a reason, and I’ve studied the side effects of having it removed (they aren’t good). So I’m trying to use herbs, supplements, vitamins, and healthy eating to fix the problem. Please pray for me, as I go through this struggle, that God would heal me so I don’t have to have surgery.

MAKING A SPANISH BIBLE HISTORY DVD!

As you all know, part of my ministry has been trying to point people to the best Spanish Bible, which

is the Valera 1602 Purified. But most modern day Pharisees don’t want to hear about it. They’ve already chosen to defend their own corrupt versions at all costs. So in March, I made a trip to a Church in Texas to tape a teaching DVD in both English and Spanish on exactly why the Valera 1602 P is the best Spanish Bible, and how all other Spanish translations are corrupt versions put out by compromising so-called Protestant Bible Societies (many of which are in league with Rome in making new versions of the Bible based upon the Critical Texts rather than the Reformation Texts). I’m enclosing a copy of my unedited DVD in this prayer letter. (I hope to have a more professional edited version available later on). I believe you will find the information shocking to say the least. For either Catholics, liberal Christians, or Communists have been the main hindering factors towards getting the pure words of God to the Spanish Speaking People. I ask you to share this DVD with others, so they too can know the truth. I’m also enclosing an edited audio CD in English of the same teaching. I pray God will use this information to help people make informed decisions on why they should choose the best Spanish Bible to reach the Hispanic people.

FINDING OUT I’M PART HISPANIC!

Speaking of Hispanic people, I talked to my Mom in March and she told me something I did not know. She said my great-great grandmother was from Spain. That means I too have Spanish blood in me! I’m Hispanic! This is something I never knew. No wonder I love the Hispanic people and Hispanic things so much!

WITNESSING TO OTHERS

Not only have I been busy passing out tracts, but I’ve been witnessing to others as well these past two months. I’ll briefly mention a few people I’ve spoken to. But first, let me mention something I’ve noticed a lot lately. When I see Hispanic people, I love to go up to them and ask them in Spanish, “¿Habla español?” (“Do you speak Spanish?”). Oftentimes the people I meet are illegal aliens who enjoy speaking their native tongue with others while here in a foreign land. But lately, I’ve been finding that there are a lot of Hispanic people here in the U.S. who don’t speak Spanish. They are the second generation, and they’ve grown up speaking English their whole lives. This is both disappointing and encouraging. For they can be dealt with in English and pointed to the King James Bible! That means you can reach them in English when you come across them!

In Texas, I went to a barber shop and had the chance to speak with a woman from Iran. Farsi was her first language, but she also spoke some English. It was interesting to see things through her perspective. She fled Iran because of religious persecution from Muslims and she viewed the U.S. as a place of religious freedom.

I also spoke with a Hispanic man whose wife was a Jehovah Witness. Because he would not join that corrupt organization, the elders of that group counseled his wife to divorce him, and now he’s going through a bitter struggle trying to keep his children. How sad that a religious organization could be so cruel and heartless in dividing families.

Probably the best place to find Hispanic people is at Flea Markets. And my wife and I enjoy going there on the week-ends and passing out Spanish tracts. I always enjoy asking them where they are from. Oftentimes they are from either Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. Those seem to be the most exited countries by illegals to the U.S.

Most Hispanics I deal with all claim to be Catholic. Thus, I find I always have to talk them out of their religious beliefs before I can explain to them the truth of the Gospel. Religion is such a horrible thing! It brain-washes people into thinking they must DO ENOUGH to make it to heaven. While salvation is such a wonderful thing if they can just see it. For it’s realizing GOD DID ENOUGH to take you heaven! You must simply trust his finished blood atonement as sufficient to forgiven you your sins.

So that’s about it. That’s the news from March and April 2012. In spite of sickness, God’s been good to allow me some small victories. I pray that what’s been done will be used of God to reach others with the truth of the Gospel and the truth about the Spanish Bible.

As always, thanks for your continued prayers and support. We appreciate you all so much!

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

Robert Breaker

1 Sam. 12:24!

P.S. Sorry in taking so long to get this out. It took us longer than expected to get the DVD’s burned. Also a special thanks to Bro. Jeff Johnson for helping with recording the DVD and editing the CD.

EMAIL FROM A MAN WHO THANKS ME FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL CORRECTLY:

“Robert,

I really enjoyed your website. I am 31 years old and I have been a member of an Independent Baptist Church for 15 years. I have went to the altar and asked Jesus to save me, begged God for salvation, [and] asked Jesus into my heart. I never had assurance of salvation and I would talk to my preacher about it and we would go through the sinners prayer again to "make sure" I was saved. Needless to say to no avail. I have lived the past 15 years miserable because I had no assurance. I bet I have asked Jesus to save me 500 times in the past 15 years. Just recently through another preacher’s website on the internet. I have learned that the sinners prayer and begging for salvation is not the gospel. It is faith in the finished work of Christ. With all that being said I have never quite heard the gospel as you presented it. I had no idea the BLOOD was as important as it is. I would like some more info on the blood and its relation to the gospel if you have more. I am trusting completely in Christ and his precious blood to save me. I still deal with some doubts but I know I will be completely free before too long. My doubts deal mainly with issues such as "Did I believe enough or in the right way? Or "am I trusting him enough". After all the years of the false gospel I have to rid my head of it and quit looking at me and completely focus on the Savior. Any help from you would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for your stand on the Gospel!”

January - February 2012

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech you,  brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;  And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

(1 Thes. 5:11-15 )

Greetings again from the Breakers,

Well, the above verse says it all. This is how we as Christians are supposed to treat one another. We should show forth the Spirit of Christ and manifest the fruits of the Spirit on a continual basis. We should be active in edification and exhortation. We should admonish others to esteem others better than themselves. We should also comfort and support each other in Christ, while being patient towards one another. At least that’s what the Bible instructs us to do. But my how different the real world really is!

We live in a day and age of “road rage.” I’m so surprised at how quickly people become angry and how constantly they vent their frustrations out on others, especially when you do nothing but simply present to them the Gospel and/or tell them the truth. Some say it’s just the sign of the times, others say it’s the government poisoning our water system and making us paranoid and antagonistic, while others say it’s just the manifestation of the attitude of the world in these last days (i.e. the love of many shall wax cold). I don’t know. But everywhere I look, I see tempers flaring and people mercilessly attacking each other.

It’s not just in the world and secular politics, but also in the Church, and it’s sad to see those who claim to be Christians treating each other in such an un-Christian manner. I report this, as we’ve recently been slandered online by a Christian brother who desires to belittle us and destroy our ministry. (And it was awful.  I mean outright slander!) 

I didn’t want to even bring this up. But I feel it’s important as it’s helped me to change for the better. I love him and pray for him, but he sure doesn’t want anything to do with me. That’s why I desire to go to the opposite extreme and try even harder to be more cheerful, happy, grateful, and joyful. (Something I’ve been missing for some time). We’ve been hurt so much and so often, I’ve found I’ve become numb. I’m tired of not feeling anymore. So I’m trying to make an about face and just try to feel true Christian joy, no matter what comes my way. One of my favorite verses to quote now is: “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts...and be ye thankful!” (Col. 3:15).

Sadly, this anti-Christian attitude of malice towards others has become more rampant in these last days, and I’m seeing it grow more and more. What it is? I believe I’ve figured it out. It’s the spirit of Phariseeism.

I’ve been studying the Pharisees a lot in the Bible, and it’s scary what they were really like. They were their own little group of manipulative men with a secret society mentality who promoted and protected each other and even covered up one another’s sins. Further, they ran in groups and patted each other on the back and preached for one another, while crying aloud against others who weren’t part of their movement. They delighted in attacking others who didn’t agree with them, and even going so far as to ridicule, mock, and even crucify and kill those (like Jesus) who had the audacity to point out their evil and pernicious ways. Even though they appeared clean and righteous outwardly, their sins abounded inwardly. These were unseen by man, but clearly viewed by God. Thus, they were self-righteous and this made them think they were better than others. Anyone who wouldn’t give them the glory they felt they so rightly deserved they held in great disdain. Their pride led them to thinking they were authorities and this led to them becoming divisive. Thus, you either joined them and agreed with them, or you faced intimidation, wrath, ridicule, and almost certain death!

Now, does this sound like anyone you know of? I think it accurately portrays quite a few religious leaders I’ve known over the years. I still see a lot of spiritual Pharisees today, and they aren’t hard to spot. They always brag upon themselves and their group. They always stick together and praise one another. And they all seem to ridicule others who don’t do things exactly like they do. Quite frankly, I’m tried of these guys, and I certainly don’t want to be a part of them.

Over the last several years I’ve been serving the Lord away from the groupies, and it’s been wonderful to serve God of a pure heart with liberty, without being under bondage to the Pharisees. But there’s one thing I’ve found that I lacked: CHRISTIAN JOY! So now I’m finding that the key to happiness is learning to enjoy persecution. This is a hard truth to get a hold of, and something a Pharisee will never understand. Why? They don’t get persecuted! It’s because their collective won’t allow it. They will always march in mass against someone who speaks against anyone of their number. They aren’t persecuted, because they themselves are the Persecutors.

But when you are truly free of such people, then you understand why they are the way they are. (You almost feel sorry for them and their critical and bitter attitudes). You also understand the power of intimidation, for the Pharisees use it quite frequently to keep their members in chains. To be a Pharisee, one must compromise and submit to go along with the pack, no matter what. But what happens if the Pharisees as a whole become corrupt? What if they begin to head in the wrong direction and believe a lie? And what happens if you even dare to speak up about it and question their practices? The answer is: instant excommunication! But it doesn’t end there. Because they want so badly for others to know they don’t identify with you, they must continually ridicule you for the rest of your life.

So this is what I’m going through. I used to be ashamed, but now I embrace it. I’ve always been “that guy.” You know that guy, don’t you? He’s the one who sees something that’s wrong and he can’t be quiet about it. He has to say something. That’s me! And it’s gotten me in trouble time and again. But I find I don’t want to compromise and become a Pharisee. So I’ve come to terms with the fact that my lot in life is to just stand for the truth and let them crucify me like they did Jesus.

Pharisees reward their own graciously. But if you leave their fold, you’ll find they seek to utterly destroy all those who have left their numbers. In other words, they aren’t so interested in STANDING FOR something, rather they enjoy STANDING AGAINST things. It’s like they are just looking for someone or something to pick on and start a fight. Sometimes I think they actually delight in the pain and misery of others. I don’t desire to be a part of anything like that. No matter how adamantly they try to tell you they are “Christian,” to me such people are not Christian at all.

With that said, I’ve determined to continue serving the Lord of a pure heart, but with something I haven’t had much of lately: HAPPINESS. Paul said it best with, “If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.” (2 Cor. 11:30).

The Pharisees glory in themselves while Paul gloried in the Lord and in his suffering for his name’s sake. I’m tired of living in the dumps and always worrying about what others say about me. My pitty-party is officially over. I’m learning to glory in their attacks, and wear it as a badge of honor for the truth’s sake. But one thing I’ve noticed, is that the Pharisees don’t stick with the FACTS. They can’t, because deep down they know they’re wrong. So that’s why they are so quick to engage in personal ATTACKS, and NAME-CALLING. Like little second graders they must resort to mud-slinging, because dealing with the issue only exposes them for what they really are. And their constant use of dirty words, truly shows they have a dirty heart. (Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh).

That’s why I’m focusing more now on the fruits of the Spirit and speaking the truth in such a manner that won’t turn people away, but will make them want to learn more. I like Ephesians 4:15: “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.”

Notice what this verse says. We are to speak the truth in love. Why? That we “may GROW UP into him in all things!” Does that mean if a man doesn’t do this, he’s not grown up?

Maybe that’s why modern day Pharisees seem to be acting like a bunch of children with their name-calling rather than simply dealing with the issues and seeking an answer from the scriptures. Could it be they are just children, and/or babes in Christ? Maybe Paul said the following in 1 Cor. 14:20, speaking of this very thing: “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” As for me, I’m tired of the malice, hate, anger, spite, name-calling, jealousy, and intimidation from the Pharisees. And I’m making it a point to do all I can to simply preach the TRUTH no matter what the cost. I’ve determined to deal with the ISSUES and the FACTS, and not focus on the MAN behind the issue. (Which the Pharisees are so good at doing). For I’ve lately come across so many people who’ve been hurt by other Christians and turned away from the truth by the negative spirits of the uncompassionate Pharisees. These wounded souls need Christ as well. And if they are saved, they need comfort and exhortation. It’s for this reason I want to make it known publicly, that I’m not a modern-day Pharisee! Nor do I want to be. I’m not interested in fame, money, glory, the praise of men, etc. I’m just a guy plodding along and planting seeds. And I want to make sure I’m doing so of a joyful heart, a spirit of meekness, and being lead by God’s Spirit. For Pharisees frequently do the opposite, being oftentimes in the flesh with their carnal attacks.

I’ve found over the years that the ministry isn’t always fun. I’m tired of it being like this. I want to actually ENJOY serving Jesus, and live for him because I enjoy doing so, not just because I know I have to because it’s the right thing to do. I don’t want to be a modern-day Jonah. I pray others will take heed and strive to do the same.

Time is short, Christ is coming soon! We don’t need the Pharisees, for quite often they do more harm to the cause of Christ than good! All we need is Jesus. Let’s try to get more people won to him, and get more people pointed to the scriptures. That’s my desire and what I’m trying to do.

Sincerely,

Robert Breaker

HIGHLIGHTS, NEWS, AND UPCOMING PLANS

This month I’ve been very busy. I taped some DVDs in Spanish on the teaching of the Seven Mysteries in the Bible, and we hope to have those available soon. I also spent a lot of time preparing a slide show for when I go to Dallas in March. A Christian brother wants me to make a professional DVD about the History of the Spanish Bible and the various versions of it available today to a church who desires to start a Spanish Ministry. I hope to be able to send this DVD out to you all in my next prayer letter.

Also in March I will meet with my Pastor and several others, as we discuss printing the latest edition of our Valera 1602 Purified Spanish Bible, and, we hope to eventually get a bilingual KJV/Spanish Bible done. I’m enclosing with this prayer letter a page from the book of Philippians. Our desire is an old Castilian Spanish text (Castilian Spanish is by law the type of Spanish in which all official documents in Spanish should be kept), which is as close as possible to those old Reformation, Protestant versions, and which also is as close to the KJV as possible without losing the language and flavor of the old Reina-Valera Bibles. I ask for your prayers as we work on this project. For all that’s available today is either a corrupt 1865, 1909, and/or 1960 American Bible Society versions. There is also the modern Gomez, but it took as it’s basis the corrupt 1909 and 1960 and corrected those with the texts underlying our King James. (A good name for that version would be The 1960 Purified, as it reads so closely with the word choice of that revision). On my website is a comparison chart of over 207 verses which show that the Gomez isn’t what it claims to be. I would encourage you to go to my site for that information and much more. See: www.rrb3.com.

I’ve also been witnessing, and boy is it odd what you come across nowadays! The other day I witnessed to a man who had a tattoo on him that looked like a satanic symbol. When I asked him about it, he tried to convince me that he was a Christian, and that it was a “Christian symbol.” He was also into “Christian Rock Music” and tried to tell me how much he loved Jesus. What is this world coming to? It’s so weird. How can you have the world and God too? The lines are being blurred so often, it’s hard to tell who really is or isn’t a Christian anymore. That’s why I ask people their testimony and then ask them to tell me if that lines up with the Bible or not. Often times it doesn’t. If they don’t claim to be Christians (which is so rare, as many people today claim to be), I find I have to deal with so much before I can even get to the point of presenting the Gospel to them. It’s almost like you have to do a deprogramming session with people and talk them out of their belief in Evolution, Science, Religion, etc., before they will acknowledge the fact that the Bible is the word of God, Jesus is God, and He died in their place for their sins. (Sadly, many of them won’t even say they are a Sinner!) Thus, we press on, preaching to everyone we meet, and desiring to point them to Christ crucified, and faith in his blood atonement alone for salvation.

We’ve gotten a lot of good feedback the last two months from people. God is really getting out a lot of info from our website about the Spanish Bible Issue, while the Pharisees are more active than ever in trying to cover it up. The latest thing is them adamantly defending the Catholic Spanish word “Verbo” for Jesus in John 1:1. They even try to run to the corrupt Latin Vulgate and prove Verbum is the oldest extant reading. This, however, is not true, as 100 years after Jesus the early church used Sermo rather than Verbum, just like the old Protestants used Palabra before the reading of Verbo came along in Spanish. Someone has changed the old Latin word and the old Spanish word. Who would do such a thing? It’s the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH! And I personally feel that we shouldn’t allow that church to dictate to us which words we should use in our Spanish Bibles. That’s why we don’t desire “Verbo.” Even Erasmus in the 1500’s wrote a treatise on why Verbum is wrong! Verbo also has connections with the Jewish Kabbalah, which is nothing short of witchcraft. How sad that modern Christians choose a version in Spanish that has more in common with witchcraft than with the Protestants of old who stood against the Catholic Church and their Bloody Inquisition which prohibited the word of God translated into other languages.

Our Spanish Bible further is the only one available today which follows the KJV in using “LORD” (SEÑOR) in the Old Testament instead of “Jehovah” (in all but six places like the KJV). This is important as many Jehovah Witnesses use this to their advantage and prey upon unsuspecting Hispanics with their false doctrines and teachings that Jesus is not God. Yet, modern day Pharisees are defending the word Jehovah in the Spanish Bible. Why go against the King James Bible? And why choose a reading that helps cults deceive people? I just don’t understand it.

God bless and thanks again for all your prayers and support. We appreciate you all for not going the way of the Pharisees, but for loving the truth and standing for it and for standing with us as we preach it and present it in as many ways as possible to others!

November - December 2011

For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.    (Acts 17:21)

            Greetings from the Breakers,

            The above verse speaks of the Athenians and how they sought only after those things which were “new.” Because of this, I used to think all things “new” were always bad.  I’m “old school” and don’t like modern things at all. That’s why I’m so tired of the “NEWS.”  It’s always bad news, and hardly ever good!  (Like my grandfather used to say, “All the news media is for is to scare old ladies!”  That’s about it).

            But over the years, I’ve learned that not everything “new” is bad.  Sometimes there really are some new things that are good.  And these last two months I’ve been blessed with some of them.  So here’s the NEWS from the Breakers.

NEW YEAR

            Well, happy New Year everybody!  It’s hard to believe it’s 2012 already, the year the ancient Mayans said would be our last.  (Like a friend said to me jokingly, “Happy New Year in the last year of your life!”)  But who knows what this year will truly hold.  Hopefully, it will bring peace, righteousness, and the salvation of many souls to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  All I know is that last year (2011) brought a lot of violence (with the Muslim uprisings), a lot of wickedness (with the Occupy crowd and their defecating on police cars), and a lot of people turning away from the truth of the Gospel.  Yet, we did see some blessings last year.

NEW DAUGHTER

            The 18th of November, God blessed us with a new baby girl.  Yep, another girl!  We named her Elyse Lillian Trapp Breaker.  She was a little late, but she came when God wanted her to.  We feel so blessed with our new child, and thank God for his blessing us with such a healthy baby.  Thanks again for all your prayers for Laura during her pregnancy!

NEW COMPUTER

            Sometimes something bad happens just so that something good can come out of it.  At least that’s what happened to me.  In November, my old computer burnt up.  I was devastated!  My whole life and ministry is on that thing.  Luckily, we were able to retrieve everything.  (I highly recommend Carbonite.com!).  And because it happened before Thanksgiving, I took advantage of Black Friday and was able to get a new laptop at a very low price!  I’ve since got it up and running and have been busy writing new tracts, new articles, new books, etc. 

NEW TRACT

            I’m enclosing my new Gospel tract with this prayer letter entitled, “Got Forgiveness?”  (It’s a play on words from the old ad: “Got Milk?”)  I hope it will be a blessing to you.  Every religion on earth claims to be the only one that can grant people the forgiveness of their sins (Except Satanism, of course, which encourages people to sin even more).  However, RELIGION can’t offer anyone forgiveness.  In fact, religion is the enemy of the Gospel.  It was the religious crowd that killed Jesus Christ!  So forgiveness does not come from a church, a priest, a ritual, or a vain religious prayer.  It comes only through the Lord Jesus Christ, and faith alone in his blood atonement!

NEW BOOK

            My book “What the BIBLE SAYS About Marriage Divorce, and Remarriage,” is now available on my online bookstore.  I’m supposed to get 100% of the royalties on each copy sold, so buying a copy is a good way to help support our ministry.   We hope more people we get a hold of the great truth of Marriage being a type of Christ and the Church, which is what I portray in my book.  We’ve already seen many marriages fixed among Hispanics who’ve read it in Spanish, and we hope for the same in this English edition.

NEW WEBSITE

            My Dad’s old website needed to be renewed.  I decided I’d do so and redo it in order to remember Dad, and to keep his writings online.  Also, I figured I’d use it for myself as well.  If you desire to see it, it is:  www.robertbreaker.com.  My old website is still www.rrb3.com and with my new computer, I’ve been able to update it as well, and also add a lot of stuff about the Spanish Bible.  I’m getting a lot of readers and a lot of good feedback.   More and more are learning that the Valera 1602 Purified is indeed the best Spanish Bible.

NEW BLOG

            My wife is so frugal and so good with coupons and ways to save money.  With the many tricks I learned from her, I decided to make a new blog.  It can be found at:  www.savemulah.blogspot.com.  There you’ll find many ways to save money, and who doesn’t want to save, especially in this horrible economy?  Besides, the more money you save, the more money you can send to Missionaries, Amen?

NEW REFERENCE TOOL

            In December I heard about a two volume set of a work by a man named Stephen Hite.  He took eight different Spanish New Testaments and put them together in book form verse by verse, making it easy to study those translations and see what they say.  His work is an invaluable tool for those seeking to study the truth about the Spanish Bible Issue, for some of those versions he included are not available today and haven’t been for over 400 years.  To obtain a copy of his work, go to Octapla.com.  It’s rather pricey, but it’s worth it to have access to those Older Protestant texts, many of which were the basis for our Valera 1602 Purified.

NEWS FROM A FRIEND OF MINE

            Friends are few and far between nowadays.  Even with things like Facebook, Email, Magicjack, and Skype, it’s still hard to get together with fellow Christians.  So we keep in contact through the internet. 

            A friend of mine sent me an email about something that bothered him a lot, and I’m going to include it at the end of this prayer letter.  I believe it’s an important issue.  I hope after you read it, you will agree.

NEW STRUGGLES

            With the new year brings new struggles, new problems, and new difficulties to overcome.  But we welcome them and trust God to help us through them all.  We greatly desire your prayers as well, as our desire is to continue serving the Lord and do as much as for him as possible.  As always, our desire is to preach the blood, the book, and the blessed hope.  In other words, stand dogmatically on the three great pillars of the Christian faith:  Salvation, Sanctification, and the Scriptures.  In short, preach the RIGHT GOSPEL, the RIGHT BIBLE, and the RIGHT WAY OF LIVING.  What is the right way of living you might ask?  That is living a sanctified, Spirit-filled life for the honor and glory of God.   I’ll close with 2 Timothy 2:19:  “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.  And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

            Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support.  We love you and are praying for you as well. 

           

            Robert, Laura, Emma and Elyse Breaker

            1 Sam. 12:24!

CHILDHOOD EVANGELIZATION WITHOUT CHRISTIAN PARENT’S CONSENT?

      My wife and I continually see the changing things within the Fundamentalist movement, and we are greatly perturbed by it.  It’s almost like modern tradition is taking the place of true Bible preaching and practices. 

      We also have done a lot of questioning of many of the practices we see. (Prove all things, hold fast that which is good, Amen?)  One of these is the custom of churches separating parents from their children in Sunday Schools and Church Services.  My wife and I don’t like this.  Our kids stay with us, period!  (For we don’t know those people who want to take them and teach them in Sunday School and Children’s Church, nor do we know what they are teaching!)

      It didn’t used to be like this.  In the old days, families always stayed together in the congregation.  But now they are pressured to separate from their children.  Why is this?  Could this be a problem? 

      We also are leery of childhood professions.  It bothers us to hear people say things like, “I got saved at three years old!”  That sounds very far fetched!  Especially when we’ve seen so many pressure children to repeat a prayer, then they proclaim them saved because of it.

      With this in mind, a preacher friend of mine wrote an article about this very subject, and how the modern Bloodless Gospel has infiltrated our churches, and is even being targeted at our children.  I felt I needed to include his work in my prayer letter this time.  I hope it is an illuminating article... 

     “The day I dreaded arrived today, when some Sunday School staff/Children’s Church worker came up to me and informed me that my 7 year-old son had gotten “saved”.  He then put him on the spot in asking him to describe this life changing event to me, at which point my son looked at me with a “dazed and confused” look.  To some people, this might have been a joyous occasion to hear of their son's salvation.  But to me, it was one of my worst nightmares.  Here is why.

      The arrogance in our evangelism is alarming!  Isn’t it God’s design for Dad and Mom to instruct, read the Bible to, and discuss biblical matters with their children? Yes it is!  But all of the sudden, in Children’s Church or Sunday school, workers get this thing in their head that the children are there for them to push for a decision on spiritual matters and eternal salvation without even discussing these matters with the parents.  (As if they know the child, or have anything to do with him aside from asking him questions and prompting him to raise his hand).  They view it as “God brought them to me.”  It’s a twisted view on the providence of God.

     I asked the young zealous man how the salvation of my son came about.  He gave me the spiel, which consisted of something along the lines of: “asking the children if they lie,” (they said, “Yes”), then he asked them if they, “believed Jesus died for them because of their sins,” to which most 7 year-old church kids also said, “Yes!”  A show of hands was requested, and my son and another answered that they didn’t know if they would go to heaven.  So, they were taken out of the class into a segregated room with this young man, who I do not know anything about.  So then, he asked them to “Repeat this prayer,” which is to say, “Ask Jesus into your heart.”  I was mortified!  

     I saw the youth in this young man, and tried to have some grace so I held my tongue.  My initial thought was to quiz him as to what he actually covered with my son, and how long it took to do so.  But nooo, Mr. nice guy that I am, I held my tongue.  I mean after all, this young man is just doing what he is trained to do.  He is just doing what is expected of an upstanding young Fundamentalist.  This brings up a much larger problem that covers the whole scope of Independent Baptist Fundamentalism. 

     That man was simply wrong to do what he did, and he was simply wrong in his overall presentation of it.  When we got home and discussed it with our son, we learned that he in fact, as I suspected, had NO IDEA of what was going on.  He was basically following along and joining in the club.  

     Children are so impressionable and easy to manipulate which is precisely the reason they have parents!  

     I rang the assistant Pastor of the church, who is a close friend of mine, and explained to him what had happened.  He understood completely, and my distress resonated with him but he never really offered a solution.  I don’t really know a solution either.  I mean it was an honest mistake by a young, well-intended, sincere man, but it just goes to show what I have been afraid of.  It was later reported that a special meeting was called with the staff, and from now on, it will be with the parent’s involvement if there seems to be an interest in salvation by the child.  But even with that, you understand, my continued apprehension and hesitation.

     We are so presupposed to have the ministries and services like the next guy in the church down the street, so we start doing Sunday school, because it is just simply expected in today's religious society.  We encourage young men and women to get involved in these various and assorted “gospel” ministries because it is expected. We have the segregated youth services and bus ministries, and if what happened to my son is what happens to any random child in the church, what are they doing to the bus kids year in and year out?  These children do not have parents who ask questions, and they may well grow up with a false sense of security because they prayed a prayer without any understanding!  Oh, the horror of it all!!!

     How long have we been operating like this?

     We separate the families.  We separate the children from mom and dad and leave it up to Joe blow Fundamentalist to lead them to Christ without the parents.  It’s just not right.  I have been uneasy about it since I have had children.  I never saw the danger until then.  You trust these guys to instruct them properly on the gospel and eternal salvation, and instead you get coercion, urging for a decision to have a number to report, and all this one-two-three-pray-after-me garbage with a little bit of ask Jesus into your heart, which means what anyway?!?  It is absolutely out of order and a total misrepresentation of what the gospel is.

     The reality is my kid was just probably thrown into bus kid status, led away to some room, given some watered down gospel mumbo jumbo by some pubescent 17 or 18 year old with an itch to impress the pastor or the overbearing strict legalistic parents who also want to impress the pastor.  My son was pressured into being honest.  Then, he was pressured to not be left out when it was time to pray.  

     Later that night, I asked my son if he could recall any of the message to which he replied, “No.”  He remembered talking with his friends before Children's Church, but not the message that supposedly led him to Christ.  Again, it hits home when people take your kids and use coercion while they say it’s “conviction.”  It’s all very cultic in principle.

     This is not Bible salvation, or even a figment of it.  I was so disturbed.  Not angry, just disturbed that it has come to this.  Well, who am I kidding, I was angry… to be more accurate.  Judge me all you want.  That’s my child you are perverting with your heresy.  I’m disturbed that we have become so manufactured and transparent that we would target 7 year-olds as our converts.  

     Many church members and people like my self that feel it necessary to have a Church home, so to have that fellowship and times of worship, we are forced at every hand to assimilate to bogus traditions that we do not hold to within that church home.  Whether it is being forced to go to church every Sunday if your kid goes to the Christian School associated with the church, or the deacons reminding you to send your kids to the Sunday School classes or your baby to nursery..., etc.  

     My son's salvation is too precious of a thing to have corrupted and distorted, no matter how well intended the people are!  First time, shame on them, second time, shame on me.  How can I ever just send my son to a Sunday school class or children’s church when they are separated from me, and they could be given very damaging instructions at any time?

    …Shame on us, those for not ever saying anything, and those for acting like it doesn't exist.  We are going to have hell to pay for all of this one day.  We will be illuminated in the spirit of his mind.  And we will know.  To what extent, and the particulars, it is open for debate, but God will straighten ALL of us out at the judgment seat of Christ!”

*Disclaimer:  I’m not against bus ministries, church Sunday Schools, evangelism, etc.  I’m only questioning the way in which they are done.  Further, I’m not telling church parents they must not send their children to Children’s Church, nursery, Sunday School, etc.  That is the parent’s choice.  However, I believe they should KNOW exactly who their kids are being taught by and what they are being told.  Finally, I’m not saying that children cannot be saved.  They most certainly can.  However, they must be saved the same way adults are, by FAITH in the BLOOD ATONEMENT of Jesus Christ!

MY NEW TRACT:

Got Forgiveness?

      Nearly all religions have one thing in common; they all seek the forgiveness of their sins.  However, they all have another thing in common as well; they all disagree as to exactly how a person obtains that forgiveness.
     Most religions teach their followers that they must do certain rituals and practices in order to find forgiveness and justify themselves before God.
     But will God accept a Sinner and grant him forgiveness based upon something he does? What does the Bible say about this?
     In the Bible, God does not grant forgiveness to anyone based upon what they do.  For all that a man can do will never be good enough in God’s eyes.  It is the work of a Sinner. 
     Romans 3:23 tells us, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”  When the Bible says, “all,” it means A-L-L! 
     Every human being is a Sinner.  And they can never please God, nor gain God’s forgiveness by their own merit. They cannot save themselves.  This is why they need God to save them from their sins and forgive them.  For without God, they are found unclean.
     Isaiah 64:6 clearly tells us: “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
     No matter how “righteous” a man thinks that he is or has become by his many good works, he will never be righteous in God’s eyes.  Why?  Because the Bible tells us that salvation, or forgiveness, does not come by “works” rather by “faith.” 
     Romans 4:5 makes this very clear:  “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”
     And again in Ephesians 2:8,9 we read: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
     If it were possible for a man to gain God’s forgiveness through his own works, then that man would always brag upon himself and boast about how good he is, and not on God, and how great HE is. 
     Thus, God’s plan of salvation is not to grant man forgiveness of his sins based upon something man does, rather based upon what God did for man.
     What did God do for man?  The Bible tells us that he sent his son Jesus to die for the sins of man.  John 3:16 states:  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life [i.e. forgiveness].”
     Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, came to this earth to suffer, bleed, and die as he paid for your sins in your place on Calvary.  And God the Father accepted that payment for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).  Now, all those who come to Jesus through faith alone can be born again, and receive complete forgiveness of their sins.  For only he can forgive you.
     Speaking of Jesus, the apostle Paul said, “Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man [Jesus] is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.”
     And in Acts 26:18, God the Holy Spirit commands Paul in his ministry to, “...open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me [Jesus].
     Again, we see that salvation or the forgiveness of sins is by FAITH.  Faith in what?  Faith in Jesus Christ.  But it’s more than that.  It’s faith in Jesus’ bloody sacrifice for our sins. 
     God has always demanded blood sacrifice for sin.  In the Old Testament, it was the blood of a lamb.  But Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God who died for the sins of the world (John 1:29).  He shed his precious blood as an atonement for the sins of all mankind.  And to receive God’s forgiveness, a Sinner must “trust the blood” of Jesus (Rom. 3:25) by Faith.  For it is only the blood that gives us forgiveness of sins.
     We see this clearly in Colossians 1:14, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
     God’s Forgiveness is only found through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  And according to 1 John 1:7, only the shed blood of Jesus can cleanse a Sinner of all his sins, as it states: “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
     Romans 4:7 further says, “...Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.”
     So how about you?  Are you one of those “blessed ones” which this verse speaks about?  Are you forgiven?  Are your sins covered in the blood of Jesus?
     If not, why not?  The Bible speaks in Colossians 2:13 of those who once were lost but now are saved, and tells us of the contrast from before salvation to after:  

“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.”

  
     You too can be one of those who now has been FORGIVEN of all your trespasses.  But it’s not by something you do to try to justify yourself to God.  Rather, it’s by what you do with what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross of Calvary. 
     Got forgiveness?  Or are you still trusting you are good enough to get to heaven by yourself?

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