Exposing Reg Kelly (Part 2) - More and Worse Examples of Kelly's Dangerous Errors and Heresy

At least two parts are required to sufficiently address the errors of Kelly. There is WAY to much error and heresies that has been left unexposed. The first part can be found here.

More on Kelly's Gospel Perversion

➡ Kelly's "gospel" is a mirror of Jack Hyles false gospel (who hated the doctrine of repentance and Christ's Lordship with a satanic rage) which is further substantiated by his yoke with David Gibbs (IFB Lawyer and close friend and confidante of corrupt IFB wolves such as Jack Hyles, Jack Schaap, etc) and Larry Brown (exposed in the previous report), both of which embrace the same diluted and perverted gospel of Hyles the easy-believism/quick-prayerism 1-2-3 pray after me, no/false repentance, erroneous teaching on evidence of salvation with no-fruit and no-change necessary, silly carnival atmosphere, turning evangelism into a type of salesmanship, false and perverted gospel warned of in Gal 1:6-9. These men are "accursed" (Gal 1:6-9), but Kelly has no issues associating with them and funding their ministries, which is tell-tale (cf. Am 3:3).

➡ Promoting a false gospel in "Hebrews" sermon (Sept 21, 2025, evening service). In this sermon that took place the day of Charlie Kirks memorial, Kelly asks the congregation (time 13:00) to take the time to indulge in six hours of worldly filth and false worship of Charlie Kirk's online memorial, proclaiming the gospel presentations that occured at this memorial to be good. Were they good? The most obvious example is "Charlie's pastor" Rob McCoy, who presented a massage with an invitation to salvation, but it wasn't the true gospel, it was "another gospel" (Gal 1:6-9; 2 Cor 11:4), a false gospel of easy believism and quick prayerism void of genuine Biblical repentance and true faith, while presenting "another Jesus" (2 Cor 11:4). While McCoy was given his false "salvation" invitation (stand if you want to recieve "Jesus"), the easy going, emotion-appealing elevator music was playing in the background, manipulating the masses further. Adding to the emotional manipulation was the recurrent allusion to "Charlie Kirks" name, a further reflection of the massive man-centredness of this new false harlot religion of spiritul adultery.

Though McCoy didn't go to the quick prayer language of '1-2-3 pray with me'--he said "stand"--the motive of the methodology remains the same. McCoy attempted to correlate "profess me before man, I’ll profess you before my father in heaven" with the action of "standing," the sinner apparently demonstrating his profession of Jesus before men by standing. So the act of standing is in essence saying "you confess Jesus" which then correlates to being saved, since the Apostle Paul stated, confess Jesus as Lord and you’re saved. That is certainly not what Paul meant! Neither the Lord Jesus nor the Apostles ever dealt with anyone like this anywhere in the entire cannon of scripture. After he finished with his false gospel of easy believism and quick prayerism, he provided a QR code on the big screen so those who "stood" and got "saved" could talk to counsellors to help them now with their Christian living, how to conform into the mould. 100% man-centred from start to finish, a hideous and most deceptive perversion of the gospel, which from hereon we should refer to as, "The Man-Centred Gospel of Lasciviousness," after Ju 1:4. McCoy then goes on to give a false assurance of salvation to whosoever "stood" and thus was not ashamed of Jesus. I would venture to say that nobody was actually saved that "stood." They weren't actually confessing Jesus Christ as Lord from a truly repentant and surrendered heart to Jesus Christ as Lord, because they do not know what repentance is, or their awful sinful and wicked nature before God, or their eternal condemnation to hell, or why they actually even need to be saved, or who Jesus is. There is not even close enough gospel for someone to get saved. Very few in that audience likely had a clue about these things, and probably none that stood. Their "standing" was a false, emotional and fleshly charade to the event before them, their offence and grief towards the unjust assassination of Charlie Kirk, and now seeking to identify with him in any shape or form, and NOT the true Lord Jesus Christ from the Bible, while willingly having the wool pulled before their eyes, and marched down the broad path to destruction and damnation.

This, along with all the ungodly worldly music, spiritual adultery, paganism, and more, is what Kelly was promoting when he encourged his congregation to indulge in the memorial. Though we appreciate various elements of Kirks work, there were many issues and unscriptural teachings and practice, categorically spiritual adultery, which we have exposed here: Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA: Morally Good but Biblically Dangerous and Destructive, with an Inevitable Paradoxical Effect.

➡ Corruption of the Gospel and no clue about Abraham's salvation in "Faith of Abraham" sermon (Feb 8, 2026). In a sermon on Abraham's faith, another sermon with lots of screaming and long winded preaching, a sermon where he gives a live example with a member of the congregation where he is Satan and then pretends to punch the member, we hear antaganostic and scorn on Abraham and his faith. Statements made such as, "How could God possibly talk about this man that way in the NT?" (that is, in a positive and godly manner) and "This is funny. I mean you got this ‘great hero’ of the faith right? I mean God’s been in his life?" and "I want to show you how 'super spiritual' this guy is.” The ignorance and scorn is mind boggling and frightful. He proceeded to reveal a serious absence of understanding on what salvation entails and when Abraham was actually saved. This is really the cherry on the top for proof of Kelly's likely unregenerate nature and thus inability to understand Scripture. He rejects salvation scripture and twists them into something post-salvation, appearing as one that does not seem to understand salvation.

It gets worse. Kelly proceeds to mock Abram and his faith (time 59:00). In the context of the issues with Abraham after he left Ur, specifically Gen 12, Kelly mocks and scorns Abraham (and what God says of him in Heb 11) with that type of voice, stating “This is funny. I mean you got this ‘great hero’ of the faith right? I mean God’s been in his life? Lets look at Genesis chapter 12 verse number 10” and then immediately after once again claims Abram to be saved at this point, where he called his wife his sister, mockingly screaming “A SAVED MAN, A CALLED MAN.”

Abraham was UNSAVED at this point, COMPLETELY missed by Kelly. Abram was not saved in Gen 12 or 13 or 14, but in Gen 15:1-6, as Rom 4 and Gal 3 make abundantly clear, as Gen 15 does itself. We have written a report on The Salvation of Abraham, which illustrates it very clearly that he was unsaved at this point in his life.

Kelly consistently takes terrible liberty with Gods Word. He claims Abraham had it pretty good at Ur before he obeyed God and left Ur of the Chaldees, but how does he know that? We know nothing about Abrams life in Ur of the Chaldees, a God-less, wicked and pagan city.

In the sermon he compares his call to peach to Abraham’s call to leave Ur (time 57:40). This is a good example what happens when a man corrupts Gods Word and twists it to his own liking, while not understanding simple but critical Biblical truths like salvation— the when, how and why it occurs. Abram was unsaved when God called him out of Ur. Was Kelly also unsaved when God "called" him to preach? And where in Scripture does God call men today to preach, a zealously parrotted cliche? In our report The Enigmatic “Call” to Office of Pastor or Missionary we expose this man-made man-centred doctrine that opposes the Biblical teaching of who is a preacher and who can pastor.

The gospel of Reg Kelly could be best summarized as an emotional false repentant-less gospel of easy believism. This is what he preaches week after week, including in his written material. We have never heard or read a solid, true gospel presentation by him. A repentant-less and Lord-less gospel is “pervert[ing] the gospel of Christ.” (Gal. 1:6). Paul warns that men who corrupt the gospel by eliminating critical elements are “accursed” (Gal 1:6-9), “false brethren” (Gal 2:4-5) and “enemies of the cross of Christ” (Phil 3:18-19) and we are to flee from them (Eph 5:11; 2 Jn 1:9-11).

➡ Kelly claims saved people can be either fruitful or fruitless. This is stated and repreated in almost every sermon that deals with the gospel or salvation, which is majority. Illustrations are given by Kelly of individuals who are clearly not saved, yet treated as though they are. The Bible teaches that every truly regenerate saved person is fruitful, from the moment of their salvation (Ezk. 36:25-27; Jer. 23:3; Ps. 1:1-3; 92:12-15; Pr. 11:30; 12:12b; Matt. 3:1-12; 7:15-20; 13:8-23; 21:28-32, 41-44; Mk. 4:20-29; Lk. 8:15-16; Jn. 4:35-38; 15:1-16; Rom. 11:16; 2 Cor. 5:18-20; 9:10; Col. 1:4-6; Jam. 1:18; 2:14-26; 3:17). We are born again by the will of God (cf. Jn. 1:12-13) through the word of truth (1 Pet. 1:23-25), for “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” (Jam. 1:18). The truly converted,

“Shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. . . . For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” (Ps. 1:3, 6)

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;” (Pr. 11:30a), “The root of the righteous yieldeth fruit” (Pr. 12:12), “and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” (Rom. 11:16). Jesus Christ is that Root (Rom. 15:12; Rev. 22) and the Gentile believer being a branch of the “wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;” (Rom. 11:17); so it shall be an absolute guarantee that every born again believer will be holy and fruitful from the moment of salvation (e.g. Col. 1:4-6; Matt. 13:23), for the Holy Spirit indwells all born again believers (Gal. 2:20; Eph. 1:13-14; 1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19-20). The Lord of the harvest saves those who “shall render him the fruits in their season . . . bringing forth fruits thereof.” (Matt. 21:41-43). The truly saved, the fruitful good tree, their light shines before men (Matt. 5),

“And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” (Mk 4:21-22)

The false pretender on the other hand professes to be Christian but doesn’t bear “good fruit” (Matt. 3:10) because he is not a “good tree” (Matt. 7:15-20) since his soul is not “good ground” where the seed could grow into a good tree (Matt. 13:13, 23), being without the life-giving Root (Matt. 15:13).

“But [Jesus] answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” (Matt. 15:13)

“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” (Matt. 3:10)

All of that, and so much more (see also our reports: A Profession of Faith that Doesn't Produce Immediate and Perpetual Biblical Fruit is False and Does John 15 Teach that Saved People May Not Abide in the Vine, in the Lord Jesus Christ?), is missed, or neglected or simply not known by Reg Kelly.

➡ Salvation requires surrendering to Jesus Christ as Lord, not after as Kelly teaches. In his heretical sermon "Faith of Abraham," he puts surrender and following Christ some point after salvation (since that is allegedly what occured with Abraham, but its not true, Kelly does not understand when Abraham was saved), and not even necessarily together (though both are required for salvation, see here and here):

“Surrender first, follow Him later.”

This is two (or three) tiered "Christianity" which isn't Christianity at all. No man can be saved without surrendering to Jesus Christ as Lord, God and King, as the boss of their life. The call to follow Christ in the Bible is 100% of the time a call to salvation. Surrender and folliowing Christ are inseparable, and both are inseparable from the act of salvation. We are very concerned over people who do not believe in Christ’s Lordship while professing to be Christians. Very. Kelly denies true salvation and what occurs at the new birth, by denying His Lordship. He thinks that one can be saved by just receiving Jesus Christ as Saviour but not as Lord, surrendering sometime after and then following him after that, though this is nonsensical in the very idea. You cannot surrender without following Him. Both Kelly's Jesus and gospel are "another" (2 Cor 11:4). This heresy of Kelly's is a damnable heresy, that damns a soul to hell because we cannot believe and receive a Jesus that isn’t the Jesus of the Bible and be saved. This are the things Paul was warning of in 2 Cor 11:4, “another Jesus” and "another gospel." There is NOT one example anywhere in Scripture of that type of “salvation.” Everyone that was genuinely born again was surrendered to Christ and following Him, which in the day of Christ's earthly ministry meant following Him physically. It is not a noble or virtuous deed to reject who Jesus Christ is. There is only one salvation in the Bible and that is Lordship, which involves true Biblical repentance and surrender. There is no other, regardless how man corrupts and twists scripture and then ignores a mass of other scripture. Repentance, turning from all our sins, self and stuff to God and surrendering to Christ’s Lordship is the only salvation presented anywhere in Scripture. Lordship salvation is what all Bible believing churches for the last nearly two thousand years have believed, which is obvious from their writings and confessions of faith. This perverted gospel that Reg Kelly preaches damns souls to hell, and inoculates false professors from seeing their lost estate, making them two-fold children of hell. He, like many many others, is cause of it.

Jesus taught that saving faith involves commitment or surrender (as seen in a number of Scripture such as Matt. 10:32-39; 16:24-26; Mk. 8:34-38; Lk. 9:23-26, 57-62; 13:23-30; 14:15–15:32; 17:7-33; 18:9-32; 19:1-10, 12-27; Jn. 12:24-25) as did Paul (Ac. 14:15-16; Phil. 2:10-11), and also described by Jesus in the necessity for sinners to humble themselves before God as little children (Lk. 18:17) which connotes submission, as seen for example with Paul himself (Ac. 9:4-8; Phil. 3:3-10) and the publican (Lk. 18:10-14) and the Ninevites who surrendered to God and humbled themselves before Him in sackcloth and ashes (Jon. 3:5-10; Matt. 12:41) at Jonahs preaching of Gods impending judgment, and Zacchaeus (Lk. 19:1-10) and the list goes on (more examples further below). It’s repentance and submission to God, what the rich young ruler wasn’t willing to do (Matt. 19; Mk. 10; Lk. 18). All this reflects Lordship salvation.

We know that salvation requires surrendering to Jesus Christ as Lord by the Biblical evidence clearly identified throughout the Bible: Because of the word believe and faith; Because of who Jesus is; Because surrender requires submission and salvation requires submission (Ps. 2:11-12; Phil. 2:10-11; Is. 45:22-23; Lk. 14:15–15:32); Because what repentance means and entails; Because surrender is seen in the believer's relationship to Jesus as a “slave,” —a servant, same word (“doulos”) and we become slaves to Christ at conversion (Lk. 16:13; Matt. 6:24; 1 Cor. 7:22-23), Because surrender involves discipleship and we become disciples of Christ (followers and students of Christ) at conversion NOT after; Because surrender is noted in all the examples of true salvation in the N.T., Because this is the historical belief of true Bible believing churches over the last millennia at least (in the years we have record of).

In many of the cases in Scripture where Christ is called upon and received as Lord, we have almost no sense of their doctrinal belief. But we know they received Jesus as Lord and we know they surrendered and submitted themselves to God the Son in repentance. The emphasis is consistently and intentionally on receiving Him as Lord. Theologically speaking, in order for Jesus to be someones true Saviour, He must be received as Lord. No Lord, no Saviour. So for most who only “accept Jesus as their Saviour” have likely received “another Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4). Its no coincidence that these same people will also reject Biblical repentance and true immediate and consistent fruit (such as holiness, godliness, righteousness) at salvation, not years down the road, not even months or weeks or days. Immediately! And that brings us to the other side of the spectrum; why are men apostates? 2 Pet. 2:1 tells us that they deny “the Lord that bought them.” They don't like lordship, they don't want a boss. "Lord" translates the Greek word “despotes,” from which we get the English, "despot." In the English, a “despotes" is a boss. The apostates, false teachers, of 2 Pet. 2 don't want a boss. They deny Jesus Christ because they don't want someone ordering them what to do. Thats what we see likewise with the false teachers in Rom. 16:17-18 & Phil. 3:18-19. People want to do what they want to do. They're glad to have a Jesus Who will save them and yet not require any subordination. And thats precisely what Jesus says of those who reject His Authority, even though they profess to work for Him in Lk. 19:11-27, “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” (vv. 14, 27). They don’t want Jesus to reign over their lives. The word “reign” means “to rule either literally or figuratively, as king.” This is exactly what these people reject, the Lordship of Jesus Christ. He is the King preaching the kingdom of God. This is referring to salvation, that is the spiritual lesson here (“He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.” — v. 12). They reject Christ’s rule and authority over them, and will not receive Him and surrender to Him as King (and Lord). They profess to believe, but are actually lost, like the false teachers in 2 Pet 2:1-22, illustrating the stony or thorny soils in the parable of the sower and seed. I'm not saying that we shouldn't recognize Him as Saviour, but for Him to become your Saviour, you must receive Him for Who He is, and He is Lord. That means surrender and submission. And thats where Biblical repentance dovetails. When Jesus preached the gospel, He preached, "Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand." They needed to receive Jesus as the Messiah, the fulfilment of the OT prophecies, while turning with godly compunction from their sins, self, stuff, people to Jesus as Lord. Jesus talked about this at the end of His ministry, when He told the story of the Master who sent His Son to the wicked tenant farmers (Lk. 20:9-18). Their lack of acknowledgement of His authority and power was what had them in trouble. “I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.” (v. 13). How does Jesus end this parable? “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” (v. 18). That is speaking of salvation and the Authority of Christ: of repentance and of submitting in humility and brokenness and contrite heart to Jesus Christ as Lord, to His Authority. If you won’t, He will clobber you into powder, like braying a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle. You’ll just be grounded pepper by the time He is done. That was the last public message to the lost recorded that He preached before His death. There is so much of this, all over. Especially in Luke. “Accepting” or “Asking Jesus Christ to be our Saviour” is unBiblical language. Denial of the Lordship of Christ is a false gospel directly actually related to Roman Catholicism false doctrine. 

People today are more messed up about the true gospel than ever. The Bible reveals a faith that cannot and will not save (Ac. 8, 1 Jn. 2, Jam. 2), “another gospel” and “another Jesus” that cannot and will not save (2 Cor. 11:4), in large part due to men like Kelly. The two biggest ways that both "believe" and "Jesus Christ" are perverted or corrupted today are related to one other. The gospel is corrupted when "believe" does not include true repentance and "Jesus Christ" does not include Him as Lord. Jesus is the way to the Father (Jn. 14:6). You can't get there going your way, and your way happens to be idolatrous until then (see Rom. 1:19-32). Jesus said that if you did not repent, you would perish (Lk 13:1-9). He said if you believe, you won't perish (Jn. 3:15-16). Both true repentance and faith are required and true repentance is the catalyst to true faith (e.g. Matt 21:28-32; Ac. 3:19 & 4:4). They are two entirely separated doctrines, but they dovetail in salvation. Very often the incomplete and, therefore false message exempt of Lordship perverts the teaching of Scripture even more so by also twisting the doctrine of sanctification, as noted throughout practically all sermons of Kelly. Professors of faith go on serving themselves, thinking they are saved, understanding that their disobedience is somehow justified by reality of some future date of dedication and “discipleship” or "surrender" or commitment to "following Him." They're saved, just not “dedicated” or “discipled” or "serious." Jesus is Saviour to them, but not quite Lord. They want the job but not the boss. At some later date, they might bump themselves up to that higher plateau of spiritual existence, perhaps when they get "revival" or "surrender to preach" (such as the case with Kelly, detailed in "Love Makes a Way" time 1:24:25). "Lordship" is just one of the steps of Christian growth. 'Surrender and follow Jesus some time after your profession.' This also is evil.

➡ Corruption of the gospel through allegoricalism in "Love Makes a Way" (Feb 15, 2026) sermon. He loves to allegoricalize the book of Ruth. He says Ruth is a picture of gentile believers, Boaz is a picture of Jesus Christ, boaz’s servant is picture of the Holy Ghost (says never saw it before), “servant in the Bible is always the unnamed unseen unspoken of person, won’t speak of himself, he’ll speak of Christ.” Naomi is a picture of Israel.His explanation of the process of how Ruth came to salvation is backwards and contrary to what Ruth teaches. Ruth is saved in the first chapter, NOT when she is “bought” by Boaz in chapter 4. He claims that first she came to repentance and faith and then Christ sought her after in chapter 2, and then in chapter 4 she was bought. This is serious corruption of the gospel, of salvation and of Ruth itself.

“Chapter 2 shows Ruth being sought. Oh He came to seek and to save the lost amen. She was being sought.”

“Chapter 3. You see God is wroughting a work of repentance and faith in you. Then He seeks you ought, He sought her out, out there in that pagan world, brings her in, seeking her and bringing her to Himself and then He teaches her and that’s in chapter 3, Naomi starts teaching her about the ways of God and the Word of God, and then in chapter 4 Ruth is bought [laughs strangely when he said this]. You and I are purchased possessions of Jesus Christ, you are not your own you are bought with a price."

We agree that Ruth was genuinely saved in Ruth chapter 1, but everything he says afterwards is a perversion of the gospel and what occurs at the new birth. We don’t seek for the Lord after we are saved, nor are we bought at some point after. Seeking and drawing occurs prior to salvation, NOT after. We are bought at salvation, NOT after (1 Cor 6:20; 7:23). But he is a man of great confusion who has difficulty believing the literal words of God, and must bend and twist His words in order to support his own false teachings and gain some fulfillment from them, to appeal emotionally to the crowd. Only a few short minutes later, as he is speaking about Ruth sitting at the feet of Boaz (spiritualized ) he says, “Theres a question there, okay was she saved.” Wow, talk about confusion. Was she saved or was she not, Reggie?? You say she way but then she wasn’t, because suddenly it doesn’t fit your allegorical gymnastics anymore? What a circus and reproach to Christ!

➡ More false gospel in the sermon "Love Makes a Way." What he says at time 1:23:30 is very very problematic, describing salvation (according to Scripture) but teaching it as post-salvation. Everything he describes here is what happens at salvation, the expected requirements for conversion as clearly laid out in scripture, and self-implication of a false salvation:

"I pretty well don't have a problem with going to the feet of Jesus. I know He is God, He is God Almighty, I am nothing apart from Him. But I've always had a problem with this: Laying my life down at the feet of Jesus [which he demonstrates by laying down physically on the floor in the right recumbent position]. If we try to save our lives, what happens to us? We lose them. But if we lose our life for his purposes, we save it. Do you know why America is going to hell? Its because God's people are not laying their life down for the cause of Christ. We just don't want to do that."

He then goes on to describe what occured when he "surrendered to the call to preach," which once again is describing salvation yet taught as post-salvation surrender to preach:

"Now I have a little taste of it, because as I remember surrendering to preach, remembering literally come to grips to the fact that my whole could now be changed. And every dream, and evert hope, and every aspiration that I had ever had could be coming to an end tonight. But brother Michael, often times between then and now, I've wanted to get up and live my own life. And heres the difference between Biblical Christianity and just church life. I am asking this morning is there anybody in this building, that the Holy Spirit of God has spoken to you or is wooing you to lay your life down and all of your dreams and apsirations and what you might could have done and  lay your life down at the feet of Jesus." (time 1:24:25)

He would go on to allegoricalize Ruth laying down at the feet of Boaz, claiming this (above) is what was being taught. "It is never said that Boaz would tell her what to do until she had laid her life before him."

Dying to self, laying down ones life, surrendering to Christ, forsaking ones dreams and ambitions and aspirations, ALL occur in repentance for true salvation. They do not occur at some point after one is saved, when maybe one wants to become a preacher. These are all presented as soteriological passages in Scripture, e.g., Matt 10:32-39; 16:24-26; Mk 8:34-38; Lk 9:23-26, 57-62; 14:25-15:32; 17:Jn 12:24-25; etc). Without surrendering to Jesus Christ as Lord, without giving up ones life for a new life, without exchanging masters (Matt 6:14), without giving up ones rights and will for God’s right and will, one cannot be saved.

When someone corrupts salvation and salvation passages in the Bible, the leaven quickly spreads to many other doctrines and scripture passages. Twisting, wresting, misusing and abusing Scripture becomes second hand, and its continual. Everything Kelly is teaching in this excerpt reflects the false gospel and corruption of salvation rampant in his preaching, in a nutshell.

There is lots in the Bible on this, which we have explored here: In Mark 8:34-38, Is Jesus Teaching How to be Saved or How to be A Better Christian? and a number of other reports. To have life, we must lose our life. In other words, we can't hang on to our life, if we are to have eternal life. We fully surrender our lives to Him. Salvation is about Lordship. There is no such thing as non-Lordship salvation. People need to stop rejecting the Lordship of Christ like its some kind of virtue, and in so doing, confuse people in such a way as to make their converts twice the children of hell they once were. That’s what statistics such as: 66% very likely lost over 30 years of preaching, produce (never mind the ones still lost in the current group). I get that some are ignorant, but by pushing people away from the Lordship of Christ, they still ravage lost souls. I do not believe Kelly is ignorant. The things he says are very intentional, and he intentionally teaches a false repentant-less and Lord-less “gospel” which has a form of easy-believism, which he more than likely has deceived himself in thinking is true.

➡ It doesn't take faith and obedience to present what Kelly is doing, it requires no godly wisdom, and yet it is given credit as being faithful. It really is a bait and switch. Someone is offered something said to be salvation, but it's actually a placebo. The whole system glorifies man, is man-centred and makes false professors two-fold children of hell. For someone to be truly saved, he must truly believe which requires repentance (actual true repentance, which is three-fold: intellectual, volitional and emotional) and then believe in the true Jesus, which requires receiving Jesus Christ Who is Lord, Saviour and God. You aren't receiving one or two selective attributes of Jesus and still receiving Him. If He isn't Lord, then He isn't Jesus. Leaving out Lordship is turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. Leaving out repentance results in a false faith, a dead faith, an imposter faith that is of the intellect only. Yes this is a false gospel. It’s a grace and a faith that doesn’t save.

More on Kelly's Heretical Sermon "How a Sinner Gets Saved"

(Also titled "Prepare ye the way of the Lord" on Sermon Audio, preached Feb 23, 2014).

➡ There is some good preaching here in the last half (first half is a destructive tsunami), preaching on sin, which is good, and God working on the soul of the lost to bring them to repentance, also good. The word repent or repentance is mentioned around 10x but never explained as to what he actually means besides once he speaks of repentance as turning from sin. I’m happy he said that. But what or who was referring to? Was he only referring to saved people turning from their sin? It appears as such, as almost every single mention of repentance was specifically post-salvation (while the very opposite is found in scripture), directed to the congregation whom he would call Christian’s, imploring them to “get right with God” with little to no explanation as to what he actually means. The sermon is loaded with this confusion as to who he is preaching to, saved or lost people. This is continual uncertainty as to who he is really referring to (due to his continual bouncing back and forth between saved and unsaved), and there is a massive difference in scripture and practicality between saved and unsaved. These kind of sermons are so unbiblical with their utter confusion and error.

➡ Essentially every mention of repentance in this sermon is referring to the saved person. The one decent somewhat Biblical mention of repentance, is kiboshed by what he says shorty after (confusing whether its salvation or post-salvation) and the rest of the sermon where majority of the references to repentance are post-salvation and without any explanation of what he means by it. That combined with statements about salvation being easy and not hard, and allegedly just having to admit you’re a sinner and at that very second you’re saved, and then to add to all that unscriptural teachings and confusion was the constant, confusing, unscriptural and contradictory bouncing back and forth between saved and lost (the interaction between Jospeh and his brethren), and not even once in the entire sermon quoted any passages on repentance (which is a massive red flag as well, especially considering that he mentioned the word a number of times) reflects serious problematic issues with his repentance and the “gospel” of this sermon. Very. I put “gospel” in quotes because the “gospel” he presents here is apparently the same for either saved or lost people, hence the dozens of contradictory bouncing back and forth between them being saved and then lost, saved and then lost, etc, to ad nauseam, like a yo-yo, and as it fit his agenda, which is very convenient. What all that represented was the heretical eisegesis of scripture, which is putting in what you want it to mean, reading into scripture what you want it to say. The Holy Spirit does not teach like this, at all. The true gospel in God’s Word is for lost people and has no inclines towards any confusion, unlike Reggies. He speaks sometimes of people not being “corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Cor 11:3), even an entire sermon preached on it, but if there ever was any corruption to God’s gospel and Christ’s simplicity, this would surely be it. And such corruption is brought about by “another gospel” and “another Jesus” and “another spirit,” (2 Cor. 11:4), and he is certainly guilty of the first two. So with that said, and based upon the evidence that now follows, nothing in this sermon convinces me to any degree that he believes in Biblical repentance. There are a lot of false definitions out there on repentance, especially among the IFB’s, so it could really mean anything or nothing.

➡ At time 53:05 he said:

“God puts away sin and He does it through one thing: repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.” 

That sounds petty good, right, like he is referring to salvation, right, like he is talking about lost people being forgiven through conversion, right? That would be the obvious and logical conclusion since language like this is ONLY ever speaking about and to lost people (which correlates to passages such as Acts 20:21 although he never quoted any repentance passages in this entire sermon). But then in convoluted Reggie style, he brings in a passage to tie to what he had just said, a passage that is referring only to saved people and had absolutely nothing to do with “repentance and faith,” and that was Lk 17:4 which is all about forgiving a brother who trespasses against you 7x in day which, again, has zero reference to a lost person and only concerns sin between two professing brethren. What?? So from that sentence on repentance and faith he said, “Thats why the Bible says in Luke…[and then quotes the passage in Lk 17:4 in part]” which obviously ties to what he had just said, and then says, “You never hear preachers quote that verse when they preach on forgiveness anymore.” He then continues giving examples about Christians forgiving one another, based upon Lk 17:4 and the statement on repentance and faith (which makes absolutely no sense in the context) finally finishing this part on the forgiveness between professing Christians (we say "professing" because most are not) with an example of himself getting right with another man he had been rude to on the phone, and with that he claims, concerning Christians and specifically himself:

“Things weren’t right. God’s Word is truth. God wants us to die to self-righteousness, He wants sin brought out of the dungeon and brought into the light and dealt with. He wants repentance and faith.” (time stamp 56:20)

Again, we see him tying all these statements about brethren dealing with issues into his initial statement about God putting away sin by repentance and faith, and then finishing it off with a very similar statement. Yikes. He literally has no clue what salvation is and does or the incredible difference between saved and unsaved, especially concerning Scripture that confuses this not. We note that at time 53:05 (beginning of this context) he spoke of salvation (seemingly, but clearly not what he meant by it) for a second, and then spent 3 mins and 15 seconds tying forgiveness between brethren to that salvation phrase, and then concludes with a similar phrase of salvation but one directed to himself and other so-called Christians. Okay. Just. Wow. This is so bad and contradictory to scripture. Massive confusion!

Forgiveness of sins through repentance and faith in scripture is only ever referring to the new birth. Only. We only repentant and believe once for conversion (Ps. 2:12; Pr 1:20-31; Is. 55:1-7; Matt. 21:28-32; Mk 1:15; Ac 20:21) and our sins are only put away once forever (Ps. 103:2-3b, 10-12; Is. 1:18; 44:22; Ac. 13:37-39; Rom. 4:7; I Cor. 6:11; Eph. 1:7; 4:32; Col. 1:12-14; 2:13-14; Heb. 1:2-3; 10:14-18; 1 Jn. 2:12; Rev. 1:5); its at conversion we die to self-righteousness (Rom. 10:1-3; Lk. 5:31-32; Ezk. 3:21-22; 18:24-32—if you did not, then you’re yet unsaved); its only at conversion that sin is brought into the light from out of darkness (e.g. Jn 3:19-21; Eph. 5:11-13) for saved people do NOT walk in darkness but in the light (read these references: Matt 6:22-23; Jn 8:12; 11:9-10; 12:35-36, 46; 2 Cor 6:14; 1 Th. 5:4-8) — yet he uses all this salvation language towards professing Christians. How bad can salvation be confused? God is not the author of this confusion. Serious convoluted confusion and admixture of scripture and doctrine that doesn’t jive even one bit. Constant contradictions that don’t exist in scripture, and illogical statements. His repentance means absolutely nothing and its very evident why he speaks so freely about repentance in this sermon (versus any other sermon), because he applies it to saved people only, while using salvation lingual. It’s just a disaster, earthquake style hiting 8.0 on the richter scale.

➡ Kelly almost confesses to his own false gospel and fruit thereof, while lamenting over “the church in America” and the need for revival. He laments over the pitiful state of “the church” (the unscriptural heresy of the universal church, another heresy he believes in and promotes) in America and all the false believers in the churches, including his own, but he has no one to blame except himself. It’s because of the very anemic and corrupted gospel that he propagates. In fact, he even gives staggering frightful statistics of the false professors from under his ministries, but still doesn’t see the cause of it. And thats the saddest part.

“Let me tell you something, if 1/3 of the people in this church in the last 30 years who made professions of faith had stayed with it, we’d be in the gymnasium instead of this building right here. Ultimately you find out there was nothing to make them stay. There is a doctrine of perseverance and the reason we are not seeing perseverance is because we are not letting the Holy Ghost do a through work of repentance in the life of that person, we are making it humanistically easily for them to get inside, get in the church and then we wonder why they blow up and blow out.”  (time stamp 20:40)

Wow, talk about self-condemnation, but he is blind as to who and what the cause is. According to what he says here, according to the horses mouth, thats about 66% of professions over 30 years were false. Hmmmmm, I wonder why. Could it have anything to do with the false repentant-less and Lord-less corrupted gospel He’s been pounding from the pulpit for those 30 years?? This really isn’t rocket science. At all. What he preaches and what the apostles and Christ preached are a night and day difference. He denies and rejects what God the Son Himself calls the gospel, over and over. It is unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize that it could have to do with his preaching and not lining what he believes and teaches with what Scripture says. Of course these sort of statistics will happen when he only preaches a repentant-less and Lord-less “gospel,” as noted in other sermons on the gospel (e.g. "Simplicity in Christ," "Crucified with Christ," "Being Born Again") and the false gospel tract, etc. What else would you or could you expect? Even in the very sermon where he acknowledges this, he does not teach repentance as Scripture does but massively confuses this critical doctrine along with what post-salvation occurs and the difference between the saved and the lost, and how Scripture always differentiates these entirely different natures. His views on evidence of salvation is also corrupt, which adds to the corruption. He speaks about “repentance," but he doesn’t actually teach it because he actually denies. And places where he should have taught it, he twists it into something post-salvation. Reg Kelly is the man completely guilty of making it “humanistically easily for them to get inside, get in the church,” and he is just one of thousands like him among fundamentalists today.

More on Kelly's Sanctification Perversion and Inability to Understand Difference Between Saved and Unsaved

➡ "Faith of Abraham" (Feb 8, 2026) Sermon

1. At time stamp 40:00 he begins talking about how he gets worse as he gets older:

“I wish I could tell you the older I get the cleaner I live. It’s not true. The older I get, the worse I am. My mom told me that about 25 years ago and I just couldn’t believe it. . . . I found it to be true. I feel like I had this meant well, as I get older it’ll get better and I’ll be able to live closer to God and I’ll be a better Christian blah blah blah blah, well it’s not true. And I believe there is a reason for that, so we don’t rest in any performance that we may do and our only rest in the fact that He died for us.”

There is so much perversion here it’s difficult to know where to start. He speaks as a fool. No saved person goes back or even remains stagnant. This is not what the new birth brings, not what the indwelling Spirit of God does,

2. Continuing on,

“How could God possibly talk about this man that way in the NT? Because what he was in the OT, how could God possibly say these things about this man in the NT having read his story in the OT?”

3. This sermon had a bit of everything, even containing elements of Calvinism. How does God choose to save? The Scriptures are crystal clear on it, but Kelly doesn't seem to have a clue, and his answer parallels striking similarities with Calvinism. Kelly's confusion about something as simple as "chosen" in Scripture is much more inline with Calvinism than anything, which he allegedly rejects:

“This will help you if you are serious about your walk with God. First of all God chose him, you like it or lump it. Don’t ask me to explain it, God just does it . . .” (time stamp 50:00)

What is this but Calvinism, where Calvinism's "God" arbritarily chooses some to eternal life and some to eternal damnation. This is also total heresy since God details how He saves people, all of which is wrapped up in His gospel, which Kelly can't wrap his head around. It is excessively concerning that this so-called preacher does not know how God calls sinners! The horrible perversion and corruption of scripture practiced habitually and consistently is a major cause of it, including the diabolical allegoricalism. He doesn’t know if he is coming or going. 2 Th 2:13, "...God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"  Through being set apart by the Spirit of God and believing the truth, man is regenerated and converted. Unsaved people that end up in eternal hell fire, "received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Th 2:10). They did not embrace the light of the truth shining into the darkness of their souls (Jn 3:19-21), they did not like how the Sword of the Spirit wounded the soul so the Great Physician may heal it (Lk 5:31-32; Heb 4:12), for a "bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory." (Matt 12:20). God the Spirit convicts, reproves, draws and grants the truth-seeking and truth-believing and God-fearing sinner repentance unto life (Pr 1:20-32; Jn 12:32; 16:7-11; Is 55:6-7; Rom 2:1-5; Ac 11:18; 13:26; etc). This is how, Mr. Kelly, God chooses sinners and saves them. Why do you not know that?! Does he not know this because he cannot know it (cf. Mk 4:13; 1 Cor 2:14)?

4. In this context he compares his call to peach to Abraham’s call to leave Ur (time 57:40). This is in fact a good example what happens when a heretic corrupts Gods Word (which occurs so consistently and so much, its practically without end) and twists it to his own liking, and doesn’t understand simple Bible truths like salvation and when it occurs. Abraham was unsaved when God called him out of Ur. Was Kelly also unsaved?

5. More on his confusion:

“Three times Abraham is called a friend of God . . . I’d like to be a friend of God.”

Every single true born again Christian is a "friend of God." If you are not, like Kelly, then you are not truly born again. When we embrace the same faith as Abraham, we are born again just like Abraham (Rom 4:2-25; Gal 3). The way this is presented by Kelly, it appears God is merely an abstract idea and not Someone known on a personal level. The truth is, God is not only a friend to His children, but much more than that. Kelly with his false humility is indicting himself to be unsaved in making such statements.

6. It gets worse. Kelly proceeds to mock Abraham and his faith (time 59:00). In the context of the issues with Abraham after he left Ur, specifically Gen 12, Kelly mocks and scorns Abraham (and what God says of him in Heb 11) with that type of voice, stating

“This is funny. I mean you got this great hero of the faith right? I mean God’s been in his life? Lets look at Genesis chapter 12 verse number 10.”

Shortly after, in the context of Abram coining his wife as his sister, he mockingly screams “A SAVED MAN, A CALLED MAN.”

Abraham was unsaved at this point, COMPLETELY missed by Kelly.

➡ False teachings on sanctification with major confusion in “How A Sinner Gets Saved” Sermon.

“Even as Christian people, if we think we are living good, our wearing my clothes right, and I got my haircut right and I don’t drink and I don’t do that, I’m a pretty good person, Lord that oughta count for something. Did you know that all don’t count for anything. You oughta do that because He said so, not to get you up somewhere with God. You know what God wants of you, stripped off all your self righteousness, stripped off all your supposed goodness, He wants all that junk out of your heart, soul and spirit, for now and forever.” (time 17:45)

Again, a massively loaded statement with so many errors and false arguments that it’s difficult to know where to start. Most of what he says here is the common parroting heard among IFB churches, but its plain heresy.

1. Firstly, he blatantly lies that our good works, godly living as Christians “all don’t count for anything,” which is obviously in complete opposition to what Scripture teaches. Good works are commanded and result in eternal rewards: Ps. 1:1-3; 92:12-15; Pr. 11:30; 12:12; Jer. 17:7-8; Matt 6:19-20; 7:16-19; 13:23; Lk. 8:15-16; Jn. 4:35-38; 1 Cor. 15:58; 2 Cor. 9:10; Heb. 11:26; Jam. 1:18; 2:14-26; 3:17; etc.

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor. 15:58)

Those that don’t have good works have a dead faith (Jam. 2:14-19) and the good works of Abraham and Rahab both were counted of such great value, the works proved their justification by faith (Jam. 2:20-26). And that is the case in every true born again believer. This heresy by Kelly throws the entire Bible into confusion.

2. Secondly, although it is true that we oughta do these things simply because He said so, that doesn’t mean that it don’t count for anything! He is twisting truth here by creating a logical fallacy, which is just another form of bearing false witness (the 9th commandment) — attributing to others (God in this case) something which they didn't say. It’s another form of lying.

3. Thirdly, we do gain favour with God the more we work for Him as believers. We gain favour with Him by conversion, becoming His children and servants, “His workmanship” (Eph. 2:10). That truth is found throughout Scripture. "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." (Pr 8:17). In Matt. 21:28-32 only one of the sons found favour in his fathers eyes, the one who did the will of the father. David “found favour before God” (Ac 7:46), as did Jospeh (Ac 7:10), and Mary the mother of Jesus (Lk 1:30), and Daniel (Dan 1:9), etc. Ac 11:24 calls Barnabas “a good man.” Jospeh of Arimathea is called “just” (justified, righteous, thus saved) and “a good man.” (Lk. 23:50). Jesus Christ says all saved people are called “a good man” e.g. “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good;” (Lk 6:45a; Matt 12:35). Pr. 12:2, one of dozens of Proverbs that contrast the saved and the lost, declares: “A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.” Other passages that speak of “a good man” include Ps. 112:5 and Pr. 14:14b (a comparison also being made here, ironically, with the lost, “The backslider in heart”). There are many more examples of finding favour with God but my favourite is that of Mary, the sister of Martha, also one of my favourite characters in the Bible. What she did for Christ was so great in His eyes, that He proclaimed “Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.” (Mk.14:7). Think about that for a second. What is greater than God’s incredible and most amazing and powerful and everlasting gospel? Nothing. But Jesus says here, wherever my gospel is preached, this what Mary has done “shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.” That is incredible but hillbilly Kelly don't like it because it is good. But there is reason for Mary's favouritism by the Lord. While all the apostles and disciples were trying to prevent Him from going to His death, she prepared Him for it, by taking “an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head” to which Jesus said, “She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.” (Mk. 4:3-9). Yes, Mary most certainly found favour in God’s eyes because of her faith, to such a degree that wheresoever the gospel is preached, this great memorial of Mary should be mentioned. What Kelly presents as we being nothing before God after conversion is absolute heresy. Its actually Keswick heresy, not surprising, and fits his ungodly teachings and perversion of Gal 2:20 of the “Christ-life,” exposed in our report on Kelly and his sermon "Crucifed with Christ." Of course someone that thinks the Christian doesn’t labour for the Lord, or do anything but passively abide while Christ and the Holy Spirit do all the work through him, will teach this kind of heresy. He is being a false witness.

4. Fourthly, he corrupts salvation here again. It’s at salvation we are “stripped off all your self righteousness, stripped off all your supposed goodness, He wants all that junk out of your heart, soul and spirit, for now and forever,” not after! Yes God wants that of people, of LOST people! The lost do this when they come to true repentance and faith, exercising “repentance from dead works” that Heb. 6:1 speaks of and “turn from these vanities” and walk in Gods ways Ac. 14:15-16 speaks of, and “turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;” 1 Th. 1:9 speaks of and “repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance“ Ac. 26:20 speaks of, which those in Rev. 9:20-21 will not do, they “repent not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” He is claiming that saved people have these characteristics but that is utter confusion and a heretical lie. Saved people are not self-righteous anymore. Period! They are righteous. Justified and imputed with Christ’s righteousness and never imputed with sin again (Rom 4:1-8). NOT one place in Scripture calls a saved person self-righteous. ONLY lost people are self-righteous, as Ezk. 3:21-22; 18:24-32; Lk. 5:31-32; and Rom. 10:1-3 make abundantly and very plainly clear. It’s at salvation we are stripped of our “supposed goodness“ (Is 64:6), acknowledging that “there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecc. 7:20), but then God makes us good and our works good and valuable upon regenerating us, as succinctly detailed above. If a man with an alleged testimony of justification doesn’t have good works, he is not saved. He has a “faith” but it’s dead (Jam. 2:14-26). All saved people have godly and righteous good works. This again denies what God does so dramatically and supernaturally at conversion, with ongoing results perpetually. Kelly denies this, he blatantly denies salvation and perverts very important truths of scripture.

He also denies Biblical sanctification which is by faith and works (Ac. 20:32; Rom 6:22; 1 Th 5:21-23; Gal 5:24: Heb 12:14; Eph 4:17-24). You've got to do something and keep doing things to be sanctified. When you don't do those things, that is not being sanctified. This is biblical and historical teaching. The justified mortify their members upon the earth: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth.“ (Col. 3:1-5). The first half of v. 1 describes the reality of justification or salvation, if you will: “ye then be risen with Christ." It is a first class condition, so it is a condition of reality. If someone is really justified, he will do things. He will do good works. That is how he is sanctified. And they are all commands:  seek (v. 1), set (v. 2), mortify (v. 5). People who are truly justified are commanded to do good works. Saved people have their affections set on things above, because they are risen with Christ and they are dead and their life is hid with Christ in God. The saved are entirely different people than those who Reggie is describing as allegedly “saved,” but haven’t turned from their “self righteousness” and haven’t gotten “all that junk out of your heart, soul and spirit.” He is very very confused, but I see the heretical keswick “theology” in all this. This is a denial of what happens at salvation where we “are washed . . . sanctified [and] . . . justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:11), and “though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Is. 1:18). The picture the Bible paints of the saved person is one entirely different than what Reggie does.

5. I wonder if the reason for his preaching of “wearing my clothes right . . . don’t count for anything” is there because his own family: daughters, daughters in laws, and their children, who dress immodestly and with non-gender distinctive clothing (which is an abomination to God — De 22:5)?

Once again we see the horrendous confusion about the position and works of the regenerate and between the saved and the lost, a line that the Bible draws very very clearly. Reg’s preaching is so unclear, it’s beyond foggy. Worst, it’s unscriptural and heretical.

➡ Backsliding heresy in “How A Sinner Gets Saved” Sermon. He claimed that the interaction between Joseph and his brothers refers to both the lost and “that of a saved person that is in a backslidden condition.” So both saved and unsaved, only the saved are in some "backsliding condition." That is a lie, they were unsaved people and backsliding is never referenced to saved saints. It is true however that they were backslidden, because backsliding refers to lost people, but thats NOT what Kelly meant. Nowhere does he apply backsliding to unsaved people, like the Bible always does.

Multiple times in this sermon he referred to the backslidden condition of these men, and others outside of the Bible, including, for example at time 47:15:

“The backslid person, the devil will remind him of how much they serve and how much they’ve given to escape getting right with God.”

At another time of the sermon in reference to the interaction between Joseph and his brothers in Gen 42:

“But there is a third layer here, and that is of a saved person that is in a backslidden condition, the extent they will go to keep from getting right with God. Its a picture of broken fellowship between a saved person and their Lord.”

Where does the bible say that the devil reminds the “backslid person” about these things “to escape getting right with God”? Does the Holy Spirit not work in this person? (see Heb. 12:5-11; Pr. 3:11-12; Rom. 8:14; Phil. 2:12-12). There is a reason why statements like this, which are made quite frequently by Kelly, are always stated without any Biblical support. Again, the backslidden person is only a lost person in the Bible, which we will conclusively prove below, you don't even need to click on another link. The backsliding heresy applied to saved people also fits with all the false professions in their church. People living in sin, but “saved” apparently. “Get right with God” is the call (and yes the mantra heard from majority IFB pulpits) rather than get saved. He even said it himself that over a period of 30 years, only about 33% of people have been truly saved. I doubt that its even that high. There is a reason for that, and this backsliding heresy plays a part in it.

Practically every single sermon has the heresy of backsliding in it. Out of the dozens we have heard, none have been exempt. Unbelievably, in his Esther Series of sermons he claims that all Christians are backslidden, and that he himself believes and practices backsliding and lives in a perpetual backslidden state. In the context of Christians losing their burden over the lost, he stated:

“Yeaaa, [laughing], that makes all of us backslidden. But that doesn’t make you lost. I have had guys tell me, you believe in eternal life so you don’t believe in backsliding. Backsliding? I live backslidden. I believe in it and practice it. Don’t want to but I do.” (Esther Series — Secrets to Soul-Winning, June 17, 2018)

Wow. That is so utterly ridiculous, it’s absolutely nuts. What a terribly ignorant and unscriptural statement to make. It does indeed make you lost, if you are backslidden. He is effectively condemning himself as a lost apostate. He lives backslidden. He believes in it and practices it. In essence what he is actually saying is that he is an apostate, and that we’re all apostates, and that he believes in and practices apostasy. Of course that is not what he meant, but that is what is meant affording to the truth of God's Word. Temporarily losing our burden over lost people wouldn’t necessarily mean we are lost, Scripturally, but if you’re backslidden, that would.

Even if backsliding actually meant what he wrongfully believes it means (that is, a true born again Christian that lives in and after sin, living in rebellion against God, as a liar, a murderer, a hater, envious, jealous, a false accuser, a deceiver—like the “saved” brothers of Jospeh as he described them, etc), this would still be an utterly gross, unscriptural and heretical statement for an alleged saved person and only, I mean ONLY, aligns with that of the lost. NO saved person lives in a backward state and no person lives in sin or after sin, or is a liar, a murderer, a hater, envious, jealous, a false accuser, a deceiver, etc (the following passages make that clear: 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Gal. 5:19-21; Ti. 3:3-7; Col. 3:1-10; Eph. 5:6-11. Only lost people live like that or do that and there are so many passages that support this, I could practically quote from any chapter of any book of the Bible and refute this absolute heresy exploding from the lips of Kelly. Here is a few to rest my case:

“And you hath he quickened, who WERE dead in trespasses and sins; WHEREIN TIME PAST YE WALKED according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: AMONG WHOM ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and WERE by nature the children of wrath, EVEN AS OTHERS. BUT GOD, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even WHEN WE WERE DEAD IN SINS, HATH quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” (Eph. 2:1-5)

“For we ourselves also WERE sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. BUT AFTER THAT the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Ti. 3:3-7)

“KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU, BUT YE ARE washed, BUT YE ARE sanctified, BUT YE ARE justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor. 6:9-11)

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” (Gal. 5:19-21)

“If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. . . . Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (Jn. 8:34-36)

These passages are entirely opposed to what Kelly is preaching. He actually fits into the verses that speak of the lost, according to his very own words. Saved people are going forward. NO saved person lives, believes and practices sin (although they can still sin on occasion—Rom 13:14; 1 Jn. 2:1), besides Reg apparently. The truly saved are “dead to sin” (Rom. 6:1-2) and permanently and eternally freed from the dominion and power of sin (Rom 6:14). The truly saved live characteristically and faithfully in righteousness and holiness and godliness, not in sin and unrighteousness, like the heretics that Kelly is describing. They live and walk in the light, not in darkness (e.g. 1 Jn. 1:5-10; 2:3-6, 29; 3:1-10; Jn. 8:12, 31-36; Ps. 11:7; 23:3; 97:10; Pr. 4:14-18; 8:20-21; 14:2; 16:17; Is. 26:7; Eph. 2:1-10; Col. 3:1-10; Eph. 5:6-13; etc

This backsliding heresy surely plays a part as to why he so terribly wrests and corrupts passages like Gal 5:19-21 (as he did in Crucified with Christ), applying those who live after the “works of the flesh,” which are them who do “not inherit the kingdom of God” to Christians. What does Rom 6:1-2 say? “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” Same chapter: “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” (vv. 14-15). Saved people are dead to sin. They no longer live in it. Period.

“Backsliding” or even his principles behind it, applied to Christians is propagating a false teaching that goes against Gods Word in more than one way. It lends support to a subtle form of false religion rampant today that associates easy believism and quick prayerism, with its subsequent Christian imitation and deception, with true conversion. They’re just pretenders and imitators (like Judas, Balaam, Simon the sorcerer, Demas, Jewish believers and disciples in Jn. 2 and 6, majority Jews in the wilderness and their entire history, etc), just like “worldly and nominal Christians” who are merely “Christian” by name. Men like Kelly never speak of this and its for a reason, and does do an eternally tragic disservice and disfavour to these people in giving credence to their false profession, but then again, he is the cause of it with his repentant-less and Lord-less easy “salvation.” The lost keep staying lost, happily. The “pastors” keep claiming them saved, happily. One big “happy” (but mostly lost) family. They won't be happy in the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell.

Backsliding is NOT characteristic of true believers and is NEVER ascribed to true believers in the Bible, not even saved people that sinned after the similitude of King David (no mention of the term or even the principle or concept behind it anywhere in 2 Sam. 11-12 or Ps. 51, or anywhere else in any Scripture reference to David). Backsliding is not a term ever used to describe a true born again believer. It is a Keswick currency (like lukewarm and carnal and unbelief) describing people that are unsaved.

Here is some sound Biblical proof that we know “backsliding” refers ONLY to unsaved people:

1. In Scripture, none of the sixteen occasions the word or its derivates show up does it ever refer to saved people but rather always to lost people and almost entirely (if not completely) to Israel as a lost nation: Pr. 14:14; Jer. 2:19; 3:6, 8, 11-12, 14, 22; 5:6; 8:5; 14:7; 31:22; 49:4; Hos. 4:16; 11:7; 14:1-4. The NT is completely silent on the term itself and the principles behind it. For such a “prominent” subject to be preached from the pulpit by Reggie (and majority of other IFB preachers today) so frequently, practically every sermon, you would think that the NT would have something to say about it. But nada. Not even one mention, including by the Lord Jesus. And of course there is a very important reason for that: it’s a teaching only applicable to the lost nation of Israel. Their backslidden state comes officially to an end in the Great Tribulation, the 70th week of Daniel.

2. As noted in its very definition, which means to apostatize, “An apostate; one who falls from the faith and practice of religion” (Webster’s 1828), and we know no apostate is ever saved (e.g. 2 Pet. 2:17-22; Heb. 3:7-4:11; 10:38-39; 1 Jn. 2:19; Jn. 6:66).

3. The term refers to lost Israel who did not believe what the prophets and priests preached and did not repent, just like those in the wilderness and historically after (2 Cor. 3:6-18; Ac. 7:51-53). They always had the Word of God close by, even in their mouth, God always working with them and very nigh to them, and they had great advantage and opportunity to always be converted, God sending them prophets and priests and kings, as noted by the fact that all things spiritual came through them (Rom. 3:1-2; 9:3-5) — but they wouldn’t (Matt. 23:33-39; Rom. 9:6-33; 10:1-8, 18-21; 11:1-25; etc). They, as a nation and as individual Jews (besides a remnant), backslid, apostatized from the truth that had been revealed to them and was being revealed to them, and the light that had been given, and the grace that was already present (read Rom. 10:1-8; De. 30:11-20), just like we see in the Bible in Heb. 6:4-6 and Heb. 3:7–4:11, and with false teachers: 2 Pet. 2:19-22.

4. Some use Pr. 14:14 as alleged support for saved backsliders, which reads that “the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,” but that is also not referencing saved people. Note that it’s in his heart that he is filled with his own ways thus not the ways of God. This is the condition of his heart which is why he is filled with his own ways. The word “filled” refers to the fullness of the backslider, to be made full. He is full of himself, not God, which is why he is an apostate, turning from the truth, the precise definition of backslider. He denies the Lord who bought Him because he is a false prophet or false teacher (2 Pet. 2:1; Ju. 1:4). The person that is “filled with his own ways” does that “which [is] right in his own eyes” (Jdg. 17:6; 21:25) and that is always referring to lost people as well (read the passages and context, even the words itself give that away). Pr. 12:15 says that “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [God’s Word] is wise.” The backslider is not filled with God’s ways but his own, and we know that those who don’t do the will of God aren’t saved (Matt. 7:21; Lk. 6:46; 1 Jn. 2:17; Matt. 12:50; Heb. 10:36; 1 Pet. 4:1-2).

5. “Backsliding” completely contradicts the actual Biblical pattern of true salvation and then practical sanctification, of true born again believers, who do not backslide, they do not go backwards, but always moving forward (e.g. Ac. 7:39-53; Jn. 6:60-69) and upward (e.g. Col. 3:1-17). The affections of the truly saved are in heaven, not in earth (Col. 3:1-3). Yes, sadly, they can lust after the flesh and sin (e.g. Rom. 13:14; Eph. 4:20-32), but they live in the spirit which has been quickened (Eph. 2:1-5), they are spiritually minded and not carnally (fleshly) minded ever again (Rom. 8:1-14), for they “have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16), and they live after the Spirit Who indwells them, and live not after their flesh or the world (1 Pet. 4:1-2; 1 Cor. 2:12; 6:19-20), for their flesh has been circumcised from the heart/spirit which has been quickened, “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;” (Col. 2:13; cf. Rom. 2:28-29; De. 30:6) and therefore they characteristically walk in the Spirit, for their flesh, the carnal nature and mind, the old man, is crucified with Christ (Gal. 2:20; Rom. 6:6; 8:1-16) and dead (Rom. 6:6-11). Henceforth, sin has no power or dominion over the saint anymore (Rom. 6:1-23), nor is the desire for it there any longer (Rom. 6:1-2, 11-18, 22-23; Ti. 2:11-14). They are freed from the power and penalty of sin starting immediately at salvation (Rom. 5:21–8:39). The position and practice (which aren’t divorced from one another) of the true believer is always that of increasing holiness, godliness, and righteousness (e.g. Ti 2:11-14; 3:3-9)—unlike the heretic who wilfully chooses false doctrine “Knowing that he that is such is subverted [twisted, warped, corrupted], and sinneth, being condemned of himself” (Ti. 3:10-11)—and obedience to God’s Word (Jn. 14:15-24; 1 Jn. 2:3-5) since God dwells in the inner man of His saints, putting in them love for Him (De. 30:6; Rom. 5:5) and love for their brethren (1 Th. 4:9) and fear of Him (Jer. 32:40), since He has made “an everlasting covenant with them,” wherein God promises “that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.” (Jer. 32:40). They will not depart. They will not fall alway. They will not backslide. God never stops working in His children nor does He leave any of them to themselves 1 Cor. 1:6-9; Phil. 1:6; 2:12-13; 1 Th. 2:13; 5:23-24; 2 Th. 2:12-17; 3:2-3; 2 Tim. 1:12; 4:18; 1 Pet. 1:5; Heb. 13:20-21; Jer. 32:37-41). Since God dwells in the inner man of His saints, He consistently “worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Phil. 2:13b). “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” (Phil. 1:6). When the saint sins he is immediately chastened by God (Heb. 12:5-11; 1 Cor. 11:28-32). If he doesn’t respond to the chastisement, he may suffer and even die (1 Cor. 11:26-32; see 2 Sam. 12:13), but that doesn’t mean he is going backward/backsliding. That’s just God dealing with a child whom He loves (Pr. 3:11-12; Heb. 12:5-11).

6. The real backsliders are lost people, apostates, false teachers (2 Pet. 2:1-22; Rom. 16:17-18; 2 Jn. 1:9-11; 3 Jn. 1:9-11), heretics (Ti. 3:10-11; 1 Tim. 6:3-5), wolves in sheep clothing (Matt. 7:15-20; Ac. 20:28-31), false pretenders with feigned faith (Ac 8:13-24), hypocrites (Matt. 23; 7:1-5), professors but not possessors (Ti. 1:10-16), seed that fell on wayward or thorny or stony ground (Matt. 13:19-22) who are left to themselves like bastards (Heb. 12:6-8; cf. Jn. 2:23-25; 6:60-66; 1 Jn. 2:19), that go backwards as we see both in the NT and OT.

Here in the N.T.

“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (Heb. 10:38-39)

And here in the O.T.

“But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.” (Jer. 7:23-24)

7. The biggest issue with using the word “backsliding” is not even with the use of the term itself (although obviously it is a critical issue to misuse and abuse a Bible word when it means something entirely different in Scripture, a behaviour more in line with the wicked who wrest God’s Word—2 Pet. 3:16-17) but with the actual philosophy behind the word. The term is Keswick currency, just like “lukewarm” (Rev. 3:16-18) and “carnal,” (Rom. 8:5-9), terms used to describe people that are actually unsaved and may likely never be saved (cf. Pr. 1:20-31; Phil. 3:18-19; Rom. 16:17-18; Gal. 2:4-5; Heb. 12:16-17) but treated as saved. And thats where the greatest destruction and damnation comes in. Treating lost people like if they’re saved. It is derived from a reasoning that people can be saved while living in sin and after the flesh and after the world and after the devil or after error and following false teachers/teachings and still be considered saved people. That philosophy is found nowhere in Scripture but was concocted by Keswick “theologians” in the 1800’s and popularized by the heretic L.S. Chaffer, whom Kelly quotes at times.

➡ In the sermon "The Struggle of the Pride of Repentance" (May 24, 2020), we note serious confusion illustrated by Kelly between those saved and those lost (time 09:45). What is the moral character of a virgin founded upon? He leaves out a lot of very important info here in the example of the newly married virgin and newly married non-virgin, producing terrible confusion undoubtedly in the minds of his listeners. He is amalgamating the natures of the saved and the unsaved to confuse the clear and critical distinctions, which appeases many undoubtedly in his congregation.

➡ In his sermon "The Devils Favourite Verse" (Feb 7, 2021), he corrupts 1 Cor 2:15 claiming the “spiritual” man is a certain type of Christian, one that knows the Bible and thus can judge vs the Christian that doesn't know the Bible and thus cannot judge ("the carnal Christian"), but that is serious corruption because the passage doesn't even hint at such heresy. What it's teaching is plainly obvious when you read 1 Cor 2:9-16, in that every saved person is the “spiritual man” and thus "judges all things." Paul is contrasting saved people (spiritual man) and lost people (natural/carnal man) in this entire context from 1 Cor 2:12–3:3. The “spiritual man” is every saved person which then means every saved person is to judge, and not just a certain class of Christians what Kelly said. By saying this he is actually creating two-tiered Christianity which is really bad and perversion of salvation, giving credence to unregenerate people as saved.

In the sermon he also corrupted the meaning of the words “doubtful disputations” (Rom 14:1), a favourite go-to verse for advancing error, sin and heresies (as he did in his recent sermon, "Woman in Culture"). It does not mean something not clearly put forth in scripture. It does not give liberty to “dip scoal amen” like he encouraged his audience because of his utterly ridiculous argument that “nowhere in the Bible does it say, Thou shalt not dip scoal.” It also doesn’t say anywhere we shouldn’t do drugs. Or look at porn. Or murder your unborn baby. This is either ridiculous ignorance to scripture and foolish reasoning or purposeful manipulation of scripture for the compromised reason that people are chewing in that church. He based this on not having “doubtful disputations” towards skoal out of Rom 14:1, but that is manipulating and corrupting that verse. Rom 14:1 like the other passages in that chapter on judging, is referring to something specifically not mentioned in scripture, like food and holidays, things that are innocent and we have liberty with but not erroneous or sinful. Skoal like smoking is a violation of Scripture, such as 1 Th 5:21-22. Again, he is encourging, even promoting sin, and that is ALWAYS the work of a wicked false teacher:

"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." (2 Pet 2:19)

Lots of screaming and hollering and emotional appeals, but none of it boostered his position or increased the power of the message. The power in a message is in passages exegetically interpreted, meaning they are carefully taught in detail by exactly and precisely what they mean, what the Bible says it means, not in misusing or misinterpreting the verse and not in screaming a sermon or formulation of a sermon that doesn't communicate what a passage says. Listening to preaching like this will destroy you and your understanding of the truth. It’s not exegesis, which is Biblical preaching. This is "preaching" warned of in 2 Pet 3:16-17.

Nor is it normal to fight with your spouse using a gun, as Kelly appeared to suggest. It’s wrong for Kelly to even mention this. This is just of control, unBiblical "preaching."

➡ Kelly does not understand salvation and what it produces. In his sermon, "Another Jesus, Another Spirit, Another Gospel" (Apr 5, 2020), he claimed:

“You tell people, ‘oh ya you gotta get saved, but you gotta live it.’ Let me tell you whose living it. He’s living it, in us. That’s it. Without that you have no hope. You don’t live it. You do not live up, you’ll come short of the glory of God.” (time 35:45)

Besides the corruption and abuse of Rom 3:21 ("all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"), which applies ONLY to unsaved people, this is a serious perversion of the gospel. Christ does NOT live the Christian life for us. He teaches what is the traditional possession doctrine of Keswick in which you are fundamentally possessed and controlled by Jesus, supported by proof-texting passages such as Gal 2:20, Col 1:27, 3:4, and 2 Cor 4:10-11. This occurs allegedly by the restoration of the God life into human experience. This is the false teaching that the Christ-life is Christ Himself living the Christian life for the Christian. It’s deeply entrenched in Keswick theology and evangelicalism (and among revivalist-type Baptists and others such as Kelly) but it’s absolutely unscriptural and nonsense and its ALWAYS the corrupt fruit of a false believer, of a hypocrite, someone who is pretending to be a Christian while yet lost, such as Reg Kelly.

Imagine a Christian life you don't actually live or have to live. Jesus lives it for you. You can't please Him yourself. Rather, you just access the very life of Jesus and the life that Jesus lived by faith (or even do simply nothing, quietism, since Jesus is living the life) or by preaching the gospel fluently to yourself repeatedly (part of the lingo). This is the bread and butter of Keswick preachers such as the Van Gelderens at Baptist College of Ministry and Falls Baptist Church and the revivalist “evangelist” Rick Flanders, Larry Brown (Kelly's hero) and many, many more across the IFB world, in fact the majority of them are of the Revivalist flavour.

We cover this Keswick theological heresy in detail here: Does Christ Live the Christians Life? Keswick Theology and Other Heresies of Charles Price.

More on Kelly's Bible Presvervation and the KJB Perversion

➡ False teachings on the KJV and hatred towards the Greek and Hebrew. Kelly posted on social media (Aug 11, 2021) a descending list of things that are false, ending with:

"The AV-KJV is the preserved infallible Word of God. Read 1Peter 1:23,25; Psalms 12:6,7; Matthew 7:15,20,21-23.

And before you unbelieving false brethren start your Hebrew and Greek garbage, don’t be a hypocrite; use only Hebrew and Greek in your comments, no English. You won’t because you can’t, and no one would understand a word you type. Let God be true and every man a liar !-rgk. PS-All false information in comments from false “believers “ will be deleted. Not allowing you false teachers to lie on this platform. Use your own page so you get a lot of readers 🤣"

Laughing emoji original. He also laughs and mocks in his sermons on Bible inspiration and preservation, which he claims is the King James Bible, not the Greek Textus Receptus and the Hebrew Masoretic Text. He laughes at those who believe that God inspired and preserved His words in the very fashion He said He would, Hebrew OT and Greek NT. He calls them "garbage." In true Gentile high-minded pompous fashion, he places his feeble "wisdom" above that of God in proceeding to laugh at and mock the clear Biblical doctrine of verbal plenary preservation of Scripture, which sermon he posted on social media. But we have a good feeling he won't be laughing before God one day when the Lord holds him accountable for his fanatical blaspheming of the very words that He inspired, that He breathed out. Kelly should believe what the Bible says instead of loony cuckoo frothing-at-the-mouth men like Peter Ruckman and Mike Hoggard, whom he imitates in his own preaching. What words was God referring to when He promised preservation of His inspired Word in “1Peter 1:23,25; Psalms 12:6,7”, verses he twists to favour his false position? God has promised to preserve every word He inspired (Ps 12:6-7; Matt 5:18; 24:35, etc), and keep each of them available to every generation of believers until the end of the world (Matt 4:4; 28:20; Is 59:21) and this promise was obviously in the language they were written, Hebrew and some Aramaic for he OT and Greek for the NT, but he does not appear to believe the Bible. If he believes that God has preserved His Word in the English language, then he does not believe the biblical or historical position of our forefathers, including the KJV translators. They would soundly and harshly reject his position. He doesn't even believe in divine, perfect preservation. There is no way that he could. He denies preservation. He denies the biblical doctrine. He takes a strange, new doctrine not even passed down by His people in true churches. Preservation entails preserving something. It entails preserving something that already existed. If it wasn't there, it isn't preservation. Translation itself is not preservation. What is preserved existed already. The English language didn't even exist in the first century. The reason we believe, rely on and love the King James Bible is because of the doctrine of divine, perfect preservation of the text of scripture in the language in which it was written. The Bible teaches its own perfect preservation, including how it was to be and is preserved by God. This is also the historical view, the only view of believers for centuries. The KJV is translated from that text of scripture, in a literal word for word manner. There is no other English translation from that text and majority utilize the evil dynamic equivalency, not formal equivelence as all literature does. 

The above truth was commented to Kelly's post, and then we stood by as to whether he would delete this obvious Biblical truth (like he said he would) or he will be like the evil loony lefty crowd who censor and delete and hide the truth, refusing to recieve any form of correction or reproof. We didn't have to standby long. Almost as fast as the comment was posted, it was deleted. In true man-centred fashion, in likeness to the evil leftist cancel culture crowd who hate the truth, Kelly censored and deleted the truth. Hirelings never like the truth. If it was true in Christ’s day, it certainly is true today. It’s not the absolute truth of Scripture that determines the beliefs of people like Reg but his own lusts and philosophies based upon other men’s lusts and philosophies. We see that here with his utter blasphemy of God’s Word, maligning and denigrating the very words that God inspired, calling it “garbage,” and all other sermons on the KJV and Preservation (e.g., The Devils Favourite Verse, Don't Sell Your Vineyard, etc).

Reg, you need to “listen up” — a favourite phrase of his. The Bible likens individuals such as yourself to reprobates, “resist[ing] the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.” (2 Tim 3:8). You reject the truth because you are a spiritual reprobate of a corrupt mind. And what do we do with these reprobates? “But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.” (2 Tim 3:9). You exercise lordship like lost Gentiles and hate to be challenged on your misguided beliefs. You are simply a lord over the flock who needs to be marked and avoided (Rom 16:17).

More Samples (Which are Practically Endless) of Scripture Perversion and Unsound Doctrine by Kelly, Whose Sermons are Masterpieces of Eisegesis

➡ Sexual Perversion and Corruption of Scripture in "Love Makes a Way." Disgusting sexual implications towards Ruth and Boaz in the sermon "Love Makes a Way" (Feb 15, 2026). You know its not going to be Biblical when he warns the women in the congregation,

“Now ladies there is a set of ear plugs behind your seats, going to preach to the men for a while" (while laughing, time 58:40)

He goes on for some time at 1:04:00 and then at 1:11:55 on Boaz and Ruth lying together, hinting to immorality, though he never indicated that this was the case (referring to what occured in Ruth chapter 3), but the passage is certainly not what he is implying, concerning this godly and chaste man who promised fidelity to her before the LORD, "as the LORD liveth" (Ru 3:13), nor would Ruth the "virtuous woman" (Ru 3:11), fall into this depravity. Why would Kelly suggest this, without saying it in so many words? He is an immoral man?

Shortly before going into this perversion of Boaz and Ruth, Kelly had appealed to the congregation about having some fun as a preacher in this sermon,

"We’re going to look at some things and have some fun okay, would you just mind if I just had some preacher fun today and I hope you get something out of it.” (followed by wierd laughing, again)

😳 Has he forgotten to take his meds?

At the same time of his entertaining the alleged sexual nature of Boaz and Ruth's meeting in the threshingfloor, he went to Boaz's father Salman and mother Rehab on how they met, implying potentially immoral beginnings:

"This is not in your bible, I'm just going to put you out bit of a deal. Boaz is seven years old and there's a wedding in town . . . he looks at Salman, his daddy, how did you and momma get to know each other [with a smirk on his face, and some laughter from the crowd]? How you and momma meet? how you wind up getten married? [smirk continues] Whats the story? Salman has to say, I was a spy for the nation of Israel and I was sent to spy in the city of Jericho, and to avoid getting captured we had to go into a harlots house..." (1:11:55)

He went on about Rehab being a harlot, really harping on that this is who she was, almost as if he was glorifying in it. Rehab was a harlot. WAS. There is no indication she was still a harlot but rather that she was a saved and transformed woman, hence giving refuge to the Israelite spies (while no one else would in Jericho), whom she would have loved since they are the chosen people of God. That is actually what the Bible teaches, versus this carnal fable that implies something of a sexual nature by Kelly to the congregation. When a wicked and unlearned false teacher wrests the Word of God (2 Pet 3:16-17), he will twist almost anything out of scripture, treating God's words like play-dough, often bringing sexual immorality into God's holy writ (just like Hyles and Schaap over at First Baptist Church of Hammond, IN). Jam 2:25 makes it clear that Rehab was a saved woman and that her hiding the spies proved her justified nature:

"Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?"

It gets worse. A young man and woman in the church are getting married. Here is Kelly's advice to them:

“Why won’t you have some fun and pretend you are Boaz and Ruth . . . I’m so happy back here for brother Leonard and sister Stanford getting married . . . I look at ya and think you’re a wonderful example. And I tell you if I was you guys I’d have a little fun in the book of Ruth and I’d pretend I was Boaz, she was Ruth.”

Women in the congregation laugh. Remember that this is stated immediately after perverting what happened between Boaz and Ruth in the barn.

This is perverse and digusting! And Kelly wonders why America is under God's judgment!

Sermons such as this give excuse to ungodly and sinful behaviour. They justify the sinful thoughts and actions of men and women in the congregation, since, after all, “we’re not perfect,” the consistently repeated cliche of Kelly (including in this context), excusing and giving way to ungodly and unregenerate behaviour.

Concerning other strange and diverse doctrine in this sermon, Kelly claims,

“I'm not a theologian. I hardly believe in theologians." (time 46:00)

Paul the Apostle was a theologian. Does he not believe in the Apostle Paul? Paul said to follow him, both in his teachings and ways (1 Cor 4:16-17; 11:1; Phil 3:17). Not following Paul would make sense for Kelly.

In this sermon he claimed that the entire Bible is about Christ getting His bride, the church, including the relationship between Adam and Eve. This is not true and forcing a belief upon Scripture, again, likely founded upon a high view of Gentiles. If anything, it would be about God and His bride Israel, His plan from the beginning. The church was the consequence of Israel denying Christ. Israel is the centrepiece in the Bible, not Gentiles. Everything about the heavenly city of God concerning man is in celebration of the Jewish people, the "twelve gates" in heaven, the New Jerusalem, are named after "the twelve tribes of the children of Israel" (Rev 21:12), "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb" (Rev 21:14) all of which were Jews. Israel is the main subject of the Bible, not the Church or the Gentiles.

Towards the end of the sermon he claimed,

“You can go to every university and every library in America and go through all their educational programs and never get what God gave you this morning. Now what you do with it may be another matter.”

They might also not be slammed with heresy or false teachings or corruption of Scripture or disrespect of God's Word or sexual perversion of God's Word.

Other Errors and Dangers of Kelly

➡ Revival Meeting Preached by Kelly (2019)

1. Led three people in prayer for “salvation,” (easy believism and quick prayerism) but all three were false professions. No, its not just because of the unsaved people but because of the false teacher leading them in prayer and teaching them a false gospel. Never preached on repentance or included it in the gospel, and only mentioned the word once, never the principles.

2. Kelly claimed that curses can exist in the true born again Christians life. He taught the generational curses error. Lost people are under the curse of sin, NOT born again believers. Ever. Period. Pr. 3:33 is all the proof one needs, where Solomon contrasts the unsaved with the saved:

"The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just."

3. Kelly placed way too much emphasis on the flesh of the believer. The believer is not in the flesh but in the Spirit (Rom. 7:5; 8:1-14). His flesh is crucified (Rom. 6). The carnally (fleshly) minded/walking person is unsaved (Rom. 8:1-14) but such teaching has never escaped from Kelly’s lips though the Bible is full of it. E.g., Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 15:50; Ephesians 5:5-8, and the Flesh. Why this unBiblical focus on the flesh for the believer? Could it be because most people under his care are unsaved, including himself? Almost undoubedtly. False teachers create three types of people, two of which are "Christians." Apparently there are two types of Christians in Kelly's world. Ah, no there's not. There are Only Two Classes or Categories of People in God’s Word, Not Three and Misinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 to Produce the Erroneous Teaching of "Carnal Christianity"

4. Kelly once again terribly undermined God’s inspired and preserved Word in Hebrew and Greek, mocking and denigrating these inspired Holy Texts of God, which is a very normal practice for him, due in part to his allegiance to Peter Ruckman and Mike Hoggard.

5. Kelly seriously misinterpreted and corrupted the phrase “born of water” in Jn. 3:5, a very simple to understand phrase stated by Christ, explained in the very context.

6. Bad mouthed the two and half tribes that desired land on the other side of the Jordan, which is blatantly false (see Jos. 22:1-6).

7. Kelly mocked and scoffed at a woman’s question during one sermon, answering extremely rudely and disprespectfully. Though she was out of place in asking a question during a sermon, or the fact that she was a woman asking the preacher when she should be asking her husband (1 Cor 14:33-35), his response was far removed from a godly man easy to be entreated (Jam 3:14-18).

Conclusion to this Expose of Reg Kelly

Much more could be written, and maybe will be, but this will have to suffice for now. The errors, problems, sins, heresies and blasphemies of Reg Kelly are many, which is why he is being exposed (Rom 16:17-18).

We know people proclaim sermons like Kelly's to be preaching, even good preaching, but what is preaching? If he delivers a false message or one that is of little to no value, but because it was communicated in the affected style, preaching allegedly occurred, and the message is accepted. This is the devastating effect of not exercising true spiritual discernment. Some of what I'm portraying here at its best is bad preaching. Much of it isn't preaching and yet its hearers not only think it is, but it is good. The noun "preacher" (kerux) is a herald, that is, he speaks on behalf of someone in authority, a king. "Preaching" is heralding or proclaiming the king's message. That’s anyway what it’s supposed to be. “Preaching" relates to the content. It must be the king's message. If it isn't the king's message, no heralding, no preaching actually took place. Listening through sermons that Kelly “preaches,” are different messages than what God said. The message doesn’t represent God (according to His Word), but misrepresents Him. Lots of his preaching is counted as good preaching because of the style, even because of his non-politically correct position, but not because of the message. People like screaming, finger snapping, snorting snot. They call it passionate preaching. True preaching must be what God's Word says. It must come from the Bible and it must reveal, unfold, expose what God said in His Word. Preaching is the content, not the style. Using all sorts of emotionalism and other verbal techniques and instrumentation to sway the hearers and calling that preaching the Word with some kind of Holy Spirit unction (a very common but entirely unscriptural prayer of Kelly’s, asking for unction and anointing of the Holy Spirit), is not scriptural heralding. Screaming does not authenticate his message. It does not indicate that he is filled with the Holy Spirit, and now the Holy Spirit is working in some special way as signalled by the affected style of speech. A man can holler and pound all he wants, but if he corrupts the meaning of scripture and purveys false doctrine, it is in vain and meaningless. People think that the Holy Spirit is working and doing something through someone and that it is good preaching but it’s not true. It’s deception. The standard for whether his speech is preaching is Gods Word. A person must consider whether what the man is saying is in fact from the Word of God. He may open the Bible and he may even use words from the Bible, but that does not mean he has preached the Bible. What we heard in this sermon, is not preaching the Bible. Kelly is credited with having said something authoritative, as if it were from God without it having been said in the Bible or even in the text he used. It doesn't matter to many in his audience or listeners on sermonaudio, because the style transcends the substance of the speech. I would doubt if anyone in his church ever challenges him on the confusion, contradictions and error pounded from the pulpit. Maybe the odd person, but they wouldn't last long under him. People fear the man but not God. That is bad, very bad. Man becomes the authority, not God. None of this is noted anywhere in the Bible, where, rather, we are commanded to judge the preaching (1 Cor. 10:15; Lk. 12:57; 1 Cor. 2:15; 14:29) and prove all things (Ac. 17:11; 1 Th. 5:21) and to reprove and rebuke error (Rom. 15:14; 2 Tim. 4:2) and reject the man and his message in he doesn’t turn from the doctrinal error which is offensive and divisive (Rom. 16:17).

1 Cor. 7:35,

“And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”

This is done for your profit. There are a lot of distractions here and issues, very very serious issues with this man. Nothing nit pickiness happening here or fault finding. No semantics either. Simply contending for the faith (Ju. 1:3) and spiritually judging as commanded (1 Cor. 2:15), comparing what he is teaching with what God’s Word teaches (1 Cor. 2:13; Ac 17:11; 1 Th. 5:21) and finding some very serious discrepancies. The horrible confusion and errors and contradictions, with the scripture manipulation, misinterpretation, misuse and abuse, and then the false repentant-less and Lord-less gospel and salvation he is presenting in his sermons is heresy. It’s not truth. He certainly does teach some truth, but its mixed together with a whole lot of error, and that means we’ve got error and a whole lot of it, and that makes him a false teacher. Extremely dangerous error, confusion, heresy and even blasphemy in his sermons. Utter, outright blasphemy. More than ever now I think he is doing exactly what we labelled him in our first report: peddling a false gospel and false Jesus and wresting scripture.

We need to be about Gods business and actually believe what the Bible says. Words have meanings. All the words of God have actual meaning and must be rightly divided. Scripture means something. The gospel means something. Their is truth and their is error. For someone to come along and twist those things out their meaning and teach false doctrine, that must not be tolerated even for an hour (Gal. 2:4-5). If someone preaches the Bible but preaches something other than what it says, it's not going to work in a powerful way in people's lives. What usually happens instead is leaven and destruction, as warned of in Gods Word. When it involves the gospel/salvation and Jesus, eternal damnation is the rippling effect. False teachers corrupt the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. They are "accursed" according to Gal 1:6-9, which would include Reg Kelly.

Do you love the truth? Truth by nature is antithetical. You can't love truth and error simultaneously. Loving health mandates hating disease. Loving truth requires hating error, which then requires rejecting and reproving error. Loving sound doctrine means hating false doctrine. You can't both love and hate false doctrine at the same time. To get rid of false doctrine and practice, you must treat them like they matter to someone, at least to God, and hopefully you. The opposition of truth with error, is noted through Scripture.

The Bible is not a Book to be trivialized. It is God’s inspired and inerrant Word. To misrepresent or change the meaning of the words inspired by the Holy Spirit in any way is a serious matter even if it is done with the best of intentions. It is not necessary to embellish Scripture with fiction to increase the impact of the message. The simple literal interpretation of God’s Word, when preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, will have more impact than any spiritualizing drama. It is the Holy Spirit’s work to convince of sin, righteousness and judgment, and lead and edify His people in the truth, and since He chose the words of Scripture we should expect that His words literally interpreted will be the most convicting and helpful.

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” (2 Tim 3:16-17).

Reg Kelly must be exposed and avoided:

"Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."