Part III — Beware of Pastor Michael Sullivant and Pembina Valley Baptist Church / CBBC

Part 3 of 4 — This was meant to be the final report on Michael Sullivant and Pembina Valley Baptist Church, but due to its volume, we decided to split it and include a fourth part to effectively cover everything as planned, and cut back on length of the individual reports. Here we set to cover the following:

4. Sullivant, and PVBC Staff, Teach Other False Doctrine and Practice Hypocrisy.

5. Sullivant’s Corruption and Twisting of Scripture.

6. Sullivant’s Unscriptural Associations.

Part 4 will be published by the end of this month, which will cover:

7. Sullivant’s Man-Centeredness, Duplicity, Ruling Over the Flock Like a Lord and Tyrant, and Pastoral Disqualifying Actions.

You can read Part 1a and Part 1b and Part 2 by clicking on those links, where we cover the subjects of Sullivant's and PVBC's perversion of the gospel/salvation and sanctification. We also did an early feedback report based upon the first two parts, titled: The State of Independent Baptists in Canada, Based Upon Feedback from the Michael Sullivant Report.

4. Sullivant, and PVBC Staff, Teach Other False Doctrines and Practice Hypocrisy.

Continuing on the trajectory of exposing error and false doctrine, here are further errors coming forth from PVBC, though in totality, all combined, these number merely as the tip of an iceberg.

(a) False Doctrine on the Devil.

He gives lots of credence and power to the devil in the Christians life while the Bible doesn’t, which is really a form of fear mongering and bondage production, which is very concerning since he should know better if he is truly saved (we highlight "if" because of the false gospel he is purveying, perversion of Scripture, among other reasons). The amount of control and access Sullivant gives to the devil over the Christian is entirely unscriptural and frightening. He almost makes it appear as if the devil can possess a Christian. Here are some examples from his sermons:

“The devil wants to bring us back into bondage. You could be free one day but if you're not careful you’ll give ground to the devil and then you can be in bondage the next day.” (Learning To Live Like A Winner, Dec 14, 2016, time 1:20).

This is categorically untrue. Whetehr the devils wants to or not is not even the question. The devil cannot bring a true born again believer back into bondage. The child of God is never in bondage again; not to heresies, false teachings, sins or the devil (Gal. 4:21-5:1; Heb. 2:15; 2 Pet. 2:19). When Christ makes the sinner free, he is free indeed (Jn 8:31-36). This false teaching fits into the man-centred religion that Sullivant is pounding from the pulpit. It is heresy and reflective of a false teacher.

The Devil is God's greatest enemy, but all unsaved people are his enemy as well, reflective of their position "according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience"(Eph 2:2). Jam 4:4 makes that clear, but Sullivant corrupts this important passage in this same sermon, using the text as an example of Christians not always loving the Lord. That passage has nothing to do with true Christians; they are NOT the enemies of God! He also corrupts and twists Gal 5:19-21 something horrible, proclaiming that those who are under the works of the flesh are Christians, yet no language could be clearer than what Paul uses here, declaring that these people will “not inherit the kingdom of God.” This is how man-centered heretics corrupt the scriptures with ease, conforming them to their own false religion made-up in the imagination of their minds.

In another sermon, Which Son are You (time 42:30), he claims the devil has a lot of mental influence over the true believer. Scripture says otherwise:

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them ["antichrists," referring to the devil]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 Jn. 4:4)

The sermon Resist the Devil, is entirely on a wrong basis. Sullivant claims Martin Luther’s devil was so powerful in his room, he would throw ink at the wall. Whether this is true or not, he doesn't understand or acknowledge why Luther was demonically influenced. Martin Luther was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, one that embraced a works gospel and needed men's works to complete the process of regeneration (noted throughout his large and small catechism, a false baptismal and sacramental “gospel”), a Jew hater, a baby sprinkler, a false gospel enabler, a baptismal regenerationist, and Christ denier in words or actions, so he was very likely demon possessed (and certainly not a saved man), a consideration given further credibility when we examine his likely demonic end as a drunkard who hung himself, and had Michael Sullivant lived in the days of Luther, he would have been absolutely despised and hated by Luther, as was done to all the Anabaptists/Baptists in that day, by the "great" reformers. At time 26:20 he gives lots of credence and power to the devil in the Christians life. He’s going “to getcha,” like the monster under the bed.

This sermon is one on 'How to Live the Perpetually Defeated Christian Life 101' by Michael W. Sullivant and could have been included under the second part, "Sullivant’s Confusing, Unscriptural, and Heretical Keswick/ Deeper Life/ Revivalist-Type Sanctification, which Dovetails with the Corrupted Gospel." Very strangely, not once ever does he reference Rom 6 about the victorious Christian life entered AT salvation and thus continually after, or of the fact that many are not saved that profess to be, noted in passages such as Rom 8:1-16 or other passages. Neither does one ever hear about the evidence of salvation and what it means for those who live perpetually in disobedience (they are unsaved!). These are all very important things in Scripture, found absolutely everywhere. In Scripture salvation is rarely presented without the context speaking of evidence and fruit to follow, along with a contrast between saved and unsaved/false pretenders. This is fairly normal in the Bible but very abnormal in Sullivant's teaching. Although the Bible consistently testifies to this, it's largely absent in Sullivant's sermons. For example at time 30:00 of this said sermon, he warns of secret sins that people in the congregation are living in (e.g. Immodest harlot clothing, Smoking, Drinking, Porn). But not one word of warning to these that they need to examine themselves whether they be truly in the faith. He speaks much on accountability before man, but what about before God? Absolutely nothing ever is heard about the fear of God, which is a major evidence of salvation and then continuation in the Christian life, for no one can be saved without it (they won’t Biblically repent) and nothing about obedience to Gods Word being a major evidence of salvation. These things are foundational to true salvation and a true church, but rarely if ever escape the lips of Sullivant, who rather says, “I mean we’ve gotta quit this holier than thou I don’t have a problem kinda Christianity.” (time 33:25). Thats not the problem Sullivant — the problem is your corrupted gospel that is producing counterfeit "Christians." Thats the massive issue. There's irony in his statement. It’s this very type of teaching and preaching that is the cause of all the sin and worldliness and error, because lost people (false pretending “believers”) are treated as saved Christians because they made some kind of profession of faith or prayed a prayer, who then go on to exercise imitation Christianity, develop a complex of self-righteousness and then play the card of false pretence of holiness in spite of their actual unregeneracy, and its all because of the perversion of salvation and sanctification by the church leaders. You are the man Sullivant. You enable this environment. There is no critical reproof or criticism or examination occurring of those with questionable testimonies and "Christian" lives, because the church leaders themselves are actually responsible for it. In of itself, there is nothing wrong with a “holier than thou”attitude, if its present in the right person. A person born again is “holier than thou,” that is, holier than an unsaved person. “The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.” (Pr. 12:26). In this sermon, he also completely distorted and wrested the very important verses of Ac. 19:13-19, which speak of salvation (time 36:00-40:00). This is very common in his preaching.

The entire sermon is unscriptural. What he is saying about the devil having power over the Christian life is not true, but it does flow from his wrong views on salvation and sanctification. The Bible tells us quite clearly the true born again Christian has overcome the devil. It happened at salvation, when the Holy Spirit moved in: 1 Jn. 4:3-4; 2:13-14; 5:18. 1 Jn. 5:18 also contradicts Sullivant’s teaching:

“We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.”

Every born again believer is an overcomer of the devil, and its salvation where that victory is won:

"I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. . . . I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." (1 Jn 2:13-14)

(b) Looking for God to Speak and "Being Called."

In his sermon on Church Leadership preached at Hyles-Anderson College (which they have scrubbed from the internet since our first report on Sullivant, in fact all his sermons have been scrubbed, verified here, perfectly on par with what man-centred charlatans do), he speaks about looking for God to speak to you. Keep reading the Bible until God speaks to you:

“Probably if you’re honest, one of the greatest struggles I had for many a years was carving out quality time to spend with God. . . . it’s a matter of maybe just saying ‘God speak to me.’ And it could be one phrase of one verse and God will feed your soul. It could also mean that you read 10 to 12 chapters before God speaks to you.” (time 31:00).

If he wasn't so busy building his earthly kingdom and empire, he just might have "quality time to spend with God." This ties into the "listening for God's still voice" heard in sermons frequently, and the whole nauseating cliche of "being called" into a higher life of service for the now attained "disciple," essentially heard every sermon. For many Baptists, "the call" is the most important thing for a pastor or missionary. If he goes to the field, and he hasn’t been called, then he may doubt that he should be there and then take off eventually. If he has been called, then he stays there until he gets another call. It’s very convenient to wait for a voice in your head, telling you that you need to go and do something. It can’t be questioned. For these who see it with such great importance, this is what causes someone to serve with determination. If you’ve been called, even if people don’t want to hear, you’ve got to stay, and that’s what keeps you from “quitting." The same process is applied to starting a ministry from the church, it can never be stopped or the fear of failure or a question on the "calling" comes in.

These “callings” cannot be reconciled with Scripture. In what form does this call come in? What does the “call” sound like? How do they know it’s God talking? What is the basis for believing it is God? I am convinced it's often more an expectation rather than a calling. Something this significant would certainly be clearly mentioned in Scripture, but it’s not. Its found absolutely nowhere, and for anyone to claim it does, they have to twist, bend, wrest the Scriptures to get their experience “validated” by Scripture. The correlation to this "call" most often comes from the Macedonian call to Paul, which is making Pauls calling in Acts normative, which churches such as PVBC do as well. It isn’t normative however. It was unique to Paul. It was unique to that day and age before the completion of the Word of God.

I don’t believe people who say they’ve gotten a call. They think they got something, because they are expecting to get something. They are supposed to get something, so they want it, very much like someone who wants to speak in tongues, and then he “does,” because he expects it and wants it. He really doesn’t, but he says he does and others authenticate it. People do the same thing with this call thing. They just take it as true, and if you questioned it, you’re unloving, like someone who questions tongues. For further reading on this subject, see The Enigmatic “Call” to Office of Pastor or Missionary.

(c) The Church for those “Not perfect”?

In the sermon What does Repentance Look Like? he claims that “the local church is for those not perfect” (time 19:50), which is a frequently heard made-up fable, a blatant lie, a convenient excuse to give allowance for acceptable or permissible sin and error. It is a pathetic concession and allowance so as to not have to deal with error and sin, or erring, sinning, and unregenerate people in the church (risking the loss of pew warmers), and warning and separating from ungodly false teachers like "pastor" Jason Yellowknee, a graduate of Pembina Valley's Bible College, Canadian Bible Baptist College (CBBC), who pastors an IFB Church in Cold Lake, Alberta, while under suspicions of fraud, adultery, and inability to rule over his own house, all of which invalidated his office (and actually clearly condemn him as an unregenerate counterfeit) but he continues pastoring to this day (source by video) -- of course no word of warning from Sullivant, but rather quite the opposite, giving him a place to go to school, teach at times in the college, and then pastor multiple different churches after attending at PVBC/CBBC with Sullivant's recommendation. This is where fables such as “the local church is for those not perfect” get there moorings.

The local church is in fact only for the perfect. It is only for saved, born again believers, and God describes them as perfect, repeatedly in Scripture. The concept of having a perfect heart before God is everywhere in Scripture, including the OT. "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." (Gen 6:9). God called Abraham to walk in perfection before Him (Gen 17:1), which he did, climaxing with the offering of his own son, perfecting his faith, "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?" (Jam 2:21-22). King David sang, "God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect." (2 Sam 22:33). The same charge did David commit to his son, "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind:" (1 Ch 28:9). It was also Davids prayer to his heavenly Father concerning Solomon, "And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes..." (1 Ch 29:19). Though "the high places were not removed" during Asa's reign over Judah, "nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days." (1 Ki 15:14). One's servitude is done "in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart." (2 Ch 19:9). To the church at Sardis, Christ had "not found thy works perfect before God." (Rev 3:2). Peter confirms that God's grace produces perfection, the same grace that saves (Ti 2:11-14), "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." (1 Pet 5:2). These sort of examples could be multiplied, with this subject of a perfect heart found 100x minus 1 in the Bible. If God speaks of the perfect heart in the OT saint, who never had the Holy Spirit indwelling them, how much the more is it true in our age of the local church where we do have the indwelling Spirit of God! Perfect means perfect, God is the author, and any pathetic excuses and twisting of words to fit an agenda, does not change the meaning of God's words.

(d) Hypocrisy of Hypocrites.

The hypocrisy at PVBC is mind numbing and unending. The examples are practically endless, and though we have provided a number of examples already, here are some more.

👉🏻 To enter as a student into CBBC, like most other Bible schools, requires satisfactory completion of a pastoral reference form. CBBC has specific rules, and they must be met. We know of three men who attended the school and had their form completed by a pastor who pastored a non-Baptist denominational church. Yet the completed form was approved (it had to be, or they wouldn’t have been accepted), while at the same time the immersion baptism that had been completed by that same pastor was not accepted. They had to be immersed again, unnecessarily, by Sullivant at PVBC, which then automatically made them members at PVBC, which was the ultimate goal (for numbers, tithing and control purposes). The pastor was “recognized” where necessary and convenient, but not recognized when it came to something that hindered Sullivant's increase in numbers, or ability to exercise his own control and power. This is the very definition of control and hypocrisy, the behaviour of a man-centred charlatan!

There is only one reason why someone is "re-baptized" by immersion in spite of nothing else changing (i.e., not because they weren't saved or performed by an illegitimate "pastor" in their eyes), and that is to confer membership upon the individual into that pastors church. Essentially he is stealing members of local churches, for a program that has zero Biblical support (i.e., a college of physical attendance). Nowhere in Scripture does it say that these men required a re-baptism, or that only a pastor from an IFB church can legitimately baptize someone. Who can even say it's only the job of a pastor?

👉🏻 Many of the people at PVBC are totally fine with unscriptural, ungodly, neo-evangelical movies, such as Fireproof, Faith like Potatoes, Courageous, while the church caries the image of being anti-neo evangelicalism. Also you will find that in many of these people, the women and girls will wear pants at home and then wear dresses at Church, confusing the genders and rebelling against God's authority (again, hypocrisy).

👉🏻 PVBC are repulsive masters of hypocrisy, especially exposed during the whole covid scamdemic fiasco. They sucked it in, hook line and sinker, kowtowing to the government, refusing to suffer and be persecuted for obedience to God's Word, refusing to meet as God has instructed, etc, while at the same time claiming allegiance to God and his Word (as demonstrated below). Rather—and in obedience to Caesar—they met by car in the church parking lot, while the pastor (or representative) preached from behind a bullet-proof/virus-proof glass, and the (mostly) goats in the cars would gleefully honk their horns in their acclamations of "Amen!" You can't make this dystopian stuff up.

👉🏻 And hypocrites beget hypocrites. You have novice brown-nosing hypocrites like Ryan Doerksen who are quick to step up to the plate and go on the defence for their pastor. In a misnomer and hypocritical sermon titled "Church is Essential" (May 19, 2021) in the midst of the genocidal covid scam/plandemic, Doerksen went to bat for the leadership, hypocritically, while safely located behind his bullet-proof virus-proof plexiglass cubicle, and the "congregation" safely sat in their cars and honked their horns in affirmation, what we have coined, "the amen of the apostates." The government said, 'shut your doors,' 'no fellowship,' 'you can't preach in the open air,' 'no singing,' and Michael Sullivant and his obedient lap dogs replied, 'yes sir; whatever you say sir.' Including Doerksen, who preached in his cubicle:

“We ought to always aim for what God has laid out in the Scriptures [i.e., concerning being in church during the covid fiasco — so where is the aim here, as they gather in their cars in the church parking lot? Wow, hypocrite!]. I am thankful for our church leadership and I agree with them 100% [thats a good puppy dog — you better agree or you'd be out of the camp] in how they have handled these restrictions [even though they are blatantly disobeying God’s Word], even though we have to meet out here [as hypocrites].”

How utterly repulsive and nauseating 🤮. Typical allegiance to man over God noted repeatedly in these man-centered institutions, who have zero spine, zero boldness, zero desire to suffer at all for Christ, all of which exposes who they really are: counterfeits and imposters. Whatever happened to obedience to God’s Word, the absolute evidence of true salvation, the absolute nature of the true believer? Everyone with a profession of faith is tested and tried, but only those that are truly regenerate pass the faith test of God (De. 8:1-2; 13:3-4; Pr. 17:3; Jn. 10:1-5; Jud 3:22; Matt 13:20-23; Lk. 3:9; 9:57-62; Mk. 4:13-20; 2 Cor. 2:9; 2 Tim. 2:19; Jam. 2:14-26; 1 Pet. 1:7). "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire." (Lk 3:9). True born again believers are tested and proven in the moments where it really matters, in those moments of sticking out ones neck (which starts long before government or other persecution comes along, and with such critical and non-trivial things as contending for the faith and warning and exposing and refusing to be quiet in the face of compromise or blatant error or false gospel preaching, etc), and refusing to compromise regardless of who it is and the consequence, but this does not happen in false believers, in the counterfeits and imposters—they will excuse, ignore, justify, rationalize, palliate, minimize, whitewash, sugarcoat, and downplay the bad teaching or bad practice or whatever it is that is being compromised. This disgusting, nauseating, man-centred, man-fearing, evil behaviour is perfectly representative of false teachers, heretics and other imposters, and its completely normal in the environment of Pembina Valley Baptist Church, where everyone is taught this repulsive behaviour by their Chief Führer, including those coming through their College, but likewise in vast majority of IFB churches today, especially those of the revivalist brand. By their unscriptural actions and habitual repulsive compromise, they reveal an utter rejection of Scripture, including passages such as 2 Tim 3:12:

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

Even though what they are doing is 100% wrong and anti-Scriptural, kowtowing to the mandates of an evil and demonic "government," Doerksen is 100% on board the sinking Titanic shipwreck captained by a heretic whose allegiance is to man (actually his own belly - Rom 16:18), and NOT God, while they are busy rearranging the chairs on the shipdeck. This is no pillar and ground of the truth, but a man-centred institution that excels in empty platitudes and fake piety and man-exaltation. The man-centred man-worship from Sullivant and the other leaders, and this brown-nosed novice, doesn’t surprise us even for a moment -- everything this church does is man-centered to the core, a company of man pleasers, so of course obedience to Caesar over God will naturally be the response to Government dictates and decrees. This is what they have they have practiced all their life, and when the government comes a knocking, nothing else would be expected from this government registered charity. The false gospel begets boldless, spineless, cowardice hypocrites that are vipers fit for the fire.

Ryan speaks to the need for church fellowship in opposition to what the government is saying:

“God has designed us with the need for fellowship with the need to gather together, that is Gods plan, we just need to simply work His plan.”

Then why didn't they?!? Why didn't PVBC follow God’s plan and fellowship together? Why segregate in their cars? And why hide behind bullet proof glass, separating the preacher and the congregants? Why not just go into the building and have church as normal? This is the blatant hypocrisy of hypocrites. If Doerksen was attempting to send a subtle message to Sullivant, it surely didn't work with these sugar coated words and compromise. Grow a spine and just speak the truth.

The disgusting man-centeredness that reeked out of this sermon, preached from literally a position of horrible man-centred compromise, was sickeningly evident in further statements made by this novice:

“Now a local church, by definition, now I am not using Websters 1828 dictionary here, I am using the 2021 Sullivant version thats backed up by the Bible.”

“I would like to thank pastor Sullivant for the opportunity to stand behind HIS pulpit tonight, it is a great privilege and honour. . . . folks how is your heart for missions?”

Cringe. The novice brown-noser is pushing missions when he has never done that in his entire life, not even basic obedience such as door-to-door evangelism. By all appearances, the greatness of Sullivant wasn't over-emphasized. It's "his" "church" and "his" pulpit, and "his" building. Yes we know, it is purely a work of man, and Doerksen is a proper Sullivanite. Hear ye gainsayers the word of the Lord:

"Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things? Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Ac 7:48-51)

Doerksen shares how he conveniently (and thankfully 😥) got his "call to preach," to the ministry, right in the nick of time,

“I believe God called me to preach, in the missions conference in Feb 2019, pastor Bill Wall was preaching out of Ezra chapter 1 on the commission to build a house, so God very distinctively called me there, and I have often wondered as college progressed, how that would pan out, how that transition would happen.”

The fake piety is downright repulsive. We are choking back the puke. Using whatever means they can to exalt the "call," when it's just an enigma of their imagination. No man is "called" how they use the word "called," and certainly no man is "called to preach" that hasn't been called to salvation, the actual true calling found in Scripture, and every man that is genuinely saved, has been called to preach, it comes part and parcel with the new birth (2 Cor 5:17-21; Matt 28:18-19; Mk 16:15).

The entire sermon was an exercise of puffed up, fake, "bold,""confident," brown-nosed "preaching," sprinkled generously with a variety of superlatives, a show of ingratiation, an attempt to show what a great orator he was, and that he was ready for the Big Camp and to play with the Big Boys. Even Dr. Big Shot and Dr. Bottlestopper would have been dazzled. It was cringey, utterly embarrassing. His loud and emotional appeals were plainly embarrassing and sick grovelling. Preaching for a long time without taking a breath, that is "good preaching." Highly emotional preaching to satisfy itching man-centred ears,  that is "good preaching." Doerksen was really trying to prove himself to be a Big Boy made and ready for the Big Camp. He was ready to move on from s'mores to hot dogs. At time 19:30 the emotions ramp up, hammering it home on “missions.” “I know, I realize we are a missions-minded church, but we can always do more, amen?!” Ahhh, what a sweet guy. Give your every penny to Sullivant's "church," so his pedestal can be raised even higher, and "broad[en] [his] phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of [his] garments," even further (Matt 23:5). Like the wicked Pharisees, Sullivant loves the chief seat, and uppermost room (Matt 23:6), and this is no exaggeration, principles stated even himself, in a sermon (“Church of Laodicea”) mentioned in our previous report (Part II), where he plainly expresses that its all about the fame, the glory and the popularity (in his hypothetical illustration of the Prime Minister coming to visit in his sleazy limo, he would contact all the big newspapers and TV stations to tell them know how great he, Sullivant, was, “boy I’m someone," “hey look see what’s happening to me,” he would want his pictures taken because he's really someone now, “we’d be eaten it up” with popularity he says -- he never spoke anything against this worldly and carnal mentality but gloried in this hypothetical spotlight). This has always been our argument concerning this false teacher and false teachers in general, for Scripture tells us is the motivation of false teachers (Rom 16:18; Phil 3:18), as is the love of money, which is a serious problem with Sullivant likewise.

There is no doubt that this rising star in the Big Camp will get a Big Church, just like his Führer, something he is working on as we speak. He'll never forget the immortal words of Sir John R. Rice: “It is not a sin for a church to start small. It is a sin for a church to stay small.” He has certainly taken our words to heart, penned in our report, The State of Independent Baptists in Canada, Based Upon Feedback from the Michael Sullivant Report. He is working hard on being the best water boy he can possibly be. He is shooting for the moon. He's not settling for meager leftovers, he is going for the gold. He is jumping when he says jump and running when he says run, and exalting his Führer at every opportunity. He never, and I mean never ever questions anything that the dear Führer says. That would be tantamount to anathema, and he knows that. That is only what "Satans little puppet" does, a "fool of fools" and a "sad pathetic individual" whose "life so must be hell on earth" and his "mind so twisted and deranged," as one of the Führer's main henchmen and brown shirts, one SS Mister Jake Friesen, nicely reminded us. That is the tactic of his "father the Devil," so Ryan surely wouldn't want those kind of stains on his precious name above all names, would he. He's a bridge builder, not a bridge burner!

Other corruption of Scripture and false doctrine preached in the sermon:

• Corruption of Israel's spiritual nature and confusing saved and unsaved. He speaks of Israel being quick to depart from God, likening the people in front of him to this same problem. Ryan clearly doesn’t understand or discern a very important and obvious truth concerning the Jews in the OT: they were almost all unsaved, for most of their entire history. Many passages of Scripture plainly tell us this: e.g., Ps 78; 106; 2 Cor 3:13-16; Ju 1:5. But that doesn’t fit the PVBC man-centred agenda and propaganda, where they can tie unsaved Israel's ungodly behaviour to the NT "believer," specifically the "carnal Christian" and "backsliding Christian" and "lukewarm Christian" and the one in "unbelief," and thus not have to remove them from the membership roll because they are actually unsaved. It also squarely ties to their false gospel, which produces these false believers, and then leads to further corruption of Scripture, in this case, OT Israel. It's the leaven leavening the whole lump ( Gal 5:9).

• Perversion of the doctrine of preservation. Doerksen claims: “‘as he loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,’ that is the good ole King James wash water, that is what that verse is referring to…” As much as we love the King James Bible, this last sentence is plainly not true. Someone might think we are making a big deal out of nothing. Not true. It is a big deal. Since God inspired and thus preserved His word in Hebrew and Greek, it is those Scriptures that are being referenced in Eph 5, not the King James Bible, which didn't even exist in that day. Indirectly, via translation, we can apply it to the King James Bible, but the passage itself does not refer to the King James bible, but to the Hebrew Masoretic Text and Greek Textus Receptus. That is the interpretation, though by application it could be applied. But that is clearly not what Ryan meant.

• Most and almost entire sermons like this could be pulled apart and exposed for the heresy that they really are. They are a dime a dozen.

👉🏻 Unfortunately repentance and penitence has never occurred of any hypocrisy or wrong doing in this church, and there is truckloads. We are not surprised, for hypocrites do not typically repent, especially not in the manner they should. It would be utterly shocking and dismay if a IFB revivalist preacher would actually take responsibility for his errors, sin and heresies that he pounds from the pulpit or to the students in the school. That would’ve been a real shocker, but there are some important reasons why that didn’t occur and why it doesn’t occur and why it will likely never occur.

(e) Tithing and Faith Promise Missions Giving -- Man-Centred Twins to Build an Empire

What about Sullivant and other men that preach for PVBC, when they go on their circuit to other churches, selling PVBC and CBBC ? Their common theme is filthy lucre: hammering the Tithe and the Faith Promise Missions Giving. They do their rounds from coast to coast in their Dr. Big Shot circuit to recruit into the PVBC/CBBC fold, and to increase the flow of mammon and empire building. Nearly everyone of these preaching exploits is to hammer the people of these "sister" IFB churches with tithing, faith promise mission giving, and to support PVBC/CBBC by sending students for their College and missionaries for their missions program (CanAmera). Hear ye peasants, they piously remind the wallets before them, "You don’t have to participate" in Faith Promise Mission Giving, "You get to!" (emphasis original, taken from Sullivant's notes preached in various churches).

In Sullivant's powerpoint slides from his sermons on the money-hungry cliche of Tithing and Faith Promise Missions Giving (FPMG)—helping pastors secure their future endowments (not even a secular job comes with this type of security!)— he sells his man-centred pogram with lies, half truths, deceptions, and nauseating fake piety. He calls it “(Grace Giving)” and the main text he uses is out of 2 Cor 8, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with either Faith Promise Missions Giving or Tithing, though he forces those two false doctrines into the text, a perfect example of the horrendous and heretical methodology of interpretation called eisegesis, which derives from Rome, who invented this hideous interpretation methodology of the unregenerate, and more, the apostate. A subjective approach, eisegesis, allows someone to make a text mean whatever he wants, and that is exactly what Führer Sullivant does with 2 Cor 8:1-15 (and really most of Scripture). Of course the main slide for the presentation made sure to address Sullivant as "Dr. Michael W. Sullivant." Let’s consider a few examples:

• As noted, his usage of 2 Cor 8:1-15 is foundationally and fundamentally corrupt, wresting these easy to understand passages of Scripture out of their actual meaning, and forcing his pogroms of Tithing and FPMG upon them. And its all soaked in as good Christian fodder.

• His claim that “This has nothing to do with economic conditions (verse 1)” is a straw man argument. It does have to do whether someone is able to give or not, which is tied to economics. You can’t give what you don’t have. But thats part of his and their hideous argument: give even if you don’t have it. That is walking in “faith” and “promise,” but according to the bible it is sinful and foolish.

• Nowhere in these passages did “the opportunity” of Tithing and FPMG “present itself,” and therefore the Corinthians “would not be denied (verse 4).” This is all made up out of thin air. They were giving gifts as an act of “fellowship of the ministering to the saints.” (v. 4).

• Nothing in v. 6 has to do with Paul “giving them an opportunity to participate (verse 6)” in Tithing and FPMG. Forcing a passage to say what he wants it to say is eisegetical wickedness.

• “Total surrender” to God” occurs at salvation, NOT at some point after, as Sullivant twists the Corinthian’s testimony into his perverted Keswick/revivalism view of sanctification, which he claims they did (v. 5) before they participated in Sullivant's Tithing and FPMG pogrom. The born again heart is a surrendered heart, and what Paul is referring to in v. 5 is what he wrote in Rom 12:1-2.

• He ratchets it up a notch in his perversion, claiming that 2 Cor 8:10 refers to a ”proving takes place“ among FPMG participants at Corinth, “From week to week for the next year.” The actual passage says: “And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.” Paul is referring to something a year ago, not a year in advance!

• When he comes to v. 12, the passage that completely rejects the heretical man-centred program of FPMG, he has no choice but to state the obvious, which clearly contradicts what he was saying prior to this and FPMG. He says, “It is based on what you have, not what you do not have (verse 12).” This is true because that is what the passage says. Yet the entire FPMG program is based upon “faith” and “promise” related to a future that you do not know, not even tomorrow!! It is based entirely upon something that you do not have with any certainty, but here Sullivant attempts to sound pious and claim what the passage actually says, which he VERY clearly does not actually mean. The whole principle behind FPMG, which is found nowhere in 2 Cor 8, and actually the very opposite as v. 12 indicates, is based upon “what you do not have”! There is not even one chance that you know what you will have one year from now, or even one month or one week. James says, "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. . . . But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil." (Jam 4:14, 16). No amount of backtracking changes the heresy that he is preaching here.

• He says “You give the tithe (it is commanded), then the faith promise (God's work comes first, it is your commitment) and then your other obligations.” The tithe is NOT commanded! You are not a Levite! So your commitments of paying bills, feeding your family, etc, does not come before feeding the false man-centred FPMG pogrom. His rejoicing is evil.

• He attempts to justify his evil boasting, "It is not wrong to let others know what the church is doing from year to year. It can encourage other churches by what you give as a whole (9:2-4)." Paul was boasting about churches that were giving, NOT how much they were giving, or to how many.

• He claims that Tithing and FPMG is to "understand the law of sowing and reaping (verse 6)." The law of sowing and reaping is based on GIVING, not Tithing or the FMPG. "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver" (2 Cor 9:7) -- Tithing and FMPG is precisely giving "grudgingly" and "of necessity."

• And then the pious, "You do not have to participate (verse 7). You get to!" Wow. How exciting and how very rich. Like we've said, he is a slick snake-oil salesman.

This just sickens us. Everything in these man-centred, mammon-driven empires is driven by money and pressuring the pew warmers to give, tithe, give, tithe, so Sullivant can build his earthly empire and legacy. A narcissist does not think he does anything wrong. And he does it on the back of corrupting the truth and perverting Scripture. Whereas the first century Christians only spoke to giving (tithing is wholly absent from NT doctrine) when brethren were starving, couldn't get jobs, were homeless, etc, due to their conversion to Christ, or economic hard times -- the movers and shakers of majority Christendom today, including IFB, are professional beggars of filthy lucre to build their earthly empires.

(f) Practically Every Sermon Contains Error, Corruption of the Gospel, Man-Centeredness, Twisting of Scripture and Truth.

Jake Friesen, Sullivant's head cheese for their missions program (CanAmera), a deeply disturbed and angry man, spoke recently at a newly joined church to PVBC's invisible denomination, a new member in their well-traveled Big Camp circuit. He preached three sermons for this churches Missions Conference, purveying many of the same errors heard on a regular basis at PVBC and under Sullivant.

In the three sermons he spoke of the gospel repeatedly, even giving his own testimony, but not a single word or principle related to repentance or any depth to the gospel whatsoever. Very, very typical, as has been our concern all along here, and for decades. In all that is parroted, the only thing one hears, is “trust Christ [or Jesus] as your Saviour,” the stand alone call to salvation, naturally denying biblical repentance and Christ’s Lordship. In every mention of the gospel/salvation in all three sermons, not even once the idea of repentance even suggested, nor the word itself, even though Scripture says it is the very foundation of salvation (Matt 4:17; Mk 6:12; Lk 5:31-32; 24:48; 2 Pet 3:9; etc). In this he follows the pattern and footsteps of his master, who has taught him well, how to make it more palatable to the listeners, to fill the pews with dead, lukewarm “Christians,” carnal “Christians,” backslidden “Christians,” all people they claim to be “Christian,” which is how Sullivant's end up with a membership of 700 who mostly get "saved" while still in their pampers; mostly goats under the heel of a dictator. What value does “trust Christ as your Saviour” even hold in their compromised world of repentance rejection, Lordship rejection? Christ means Lord essentially, but they reject the Lordship of Christ, so what “Christ”? It’s certainly not the one who is also Lord, His chief title, since they reject that part of Jesus. All the Bible education he has had and so-called missions work in Mexico and now a big cheese with the Chief Furher's missions program, you would think that the gospel was known to him. But no. The same ole unscriptural Hyles-mantra is preached, and the only thing heard concerning the reception of the gospel, to the poor listeners that are brainwashed into this heresy of easy believism and perversion of the gospel. Specifically we expose this error here, Is “Accept Jesus as Your Saviour” Biblical Salvation Language? Everything we have written about PVBC’s false gospel is proven to be true consistently. Do they imagine that the gospel is somehow magnified, or God is somehow glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply "accepting Christ as their Saviour," while they are wedded to their idols and their hearts are still in love with sin? They are telling them a lie, perverting the gospel, insulting Christ, and turning the grace of God into lasciviousness.

Friesen spoke highly of the book “Understanding the Wounded Heart” which he studied in unison with the pastors at PVBC, authored by a committed ecumenical, neo-evangelical heretic and teacher for the psychoheretical Focus on the Family heretical organization founded by the psychoheretic James Dobson. Wow. As it turns out, it wasn't the Word of God by the Spirit of God that would end up convicting him of his unforgiven attitude towards his father who physically abused him as a child, but this pscyhoheretical book tainted by the culture and philosophies of the world. Friesen said through the book he was able to "release him," and the bitterness was gone. So it wasn't Scripture that brought forgiveness, but a neo-evangelical heretic and his book. You can't make this stuff up.

He perverts Scripture, a very normal practice at PVBC, where they, with their mostly heretical and man-centred "Bible" education, do not know how to exegete Scripture (e.g. applies Jer 17:9 to professing believers). He corrupts the Biblical doctrine of salvation by corrupting the biblical doctrine of evidence of salvation, which is really inseparable from salvation itself. The primary and most crucial evidence of salvation is obedience to the Lord Jesus Chris which comes by obeying His Word. This starts in fact with salvation itself, we are saved by obeying the Gospel (Rom 10:16; 2 Th 1:8; 1 Pet 4:17). This also happens to be the definition of love, clearly stated in many passages of Scripture, e.g., Jn 14:15-24; 15:9-15; 1 Jn 2:3-5; 4:19; 5:1-3; 2 Jn 1:6; One example: “BY THIS WE KNOW that we love the children of God, WHEN we love God, and KEEP his commandments…” (1 Jn 5:2). The ONLY way a person can love God is by obeying His commandments, words, decrees, judgements, etc, as documented in his Word. The ONLY way, and ONLY a true born again believer can actually do that, in truth, in devotion, in sincerity, without hypocrisy. Friesen preached practically an entire sermon, and more, on love, and yet the Biblical definition of love was never even mentioned once!!! Not even ONCE does he tell the audience how a person actually loves God, the ONLY way that a person loves God. That is extremely troubling, and very bizarre and strange. It is ridiculous and nonsensical. Why not speak the truth? What would compel someone to leave out literally the most important truth in scripture, for the two greatest commandments are love for God and love for neighbour (in that order, and all other commandments and words fall under these two), but you can’t say you love God unless you obey His Word, and you cannot love God and obey His Word without being supernaturally regenerated/born again. Is he blind to the truth? He could well be, but for sure we know he is severely perverting the truth. So when he gave an example of a couple in his Mexico church who stated they did not love one another, did not express love toward one another, wouldn’t show affection to each other, it was unsurprising to hear him treating them as if they were true Christians, and never question their salvation at all, since his foundational understanding of love is distorted, which is tied to the corrupted gospel and sanctification that is being embraced and believed at PVBC, and further, maybe even the greater reason, they really don’t understand the love of Christ at all, substituted with a love for man-worship and man-made organizations (1 Cor 16:22; 1 Jn 2:3-5). This is one of the massive problems wth the man-centred religion of PVBC. They would rather treat someone as a “Christian” than risk offending them, that is, if they actually know what salvation is to begin with. That brings us to this last point. In describing his journey (after allegedly becoming a Christian) of falling into the depths of wickedness, and sin, into the pig pen of depravity with the husks, all the while attending PVBC, he was alluding to the prodigal son out of Luke 15, but this is a great perversion of this passage, as is this testimony. Both the prodigal son and the religious son of Luke 15 were unsaved men, but the prodigal is converted after he turns from his wicked and sinful ways in the hog pen of the world, in humble contrition and repentance with a poor broken spirit, submitting to the Father, NOT after he is saved. He was in the pig pen before he was saved. Like his Führer, Friesen completely destroys this crucial and wonderful chapter of salvation and truth being taught there, which starts actually back in Luke 14:15 contextually, because it fits into their perverted view of the gospel/salvation, and their false system of Keswick/revivalist/deeper life sanctification. It is in fact a “damnable heresy” (2 Pet 2:1) to twist and wrest these critical passages into something post-salvation, whereby perverting the very doctrine of salvation itself. Because of this, one has no idea whether Friesen is even a true believer to begin with, in a man-centred camp that cares more about numbers than actual true converts. I think true converts scare them. They cannot be controlled and moulded into Sullivant's image so easily by the power-hungry Führer.

My biblical knowledge of Jesus and doctrine itself clashes with bad preaching, false doctrine, perversion of Scripture, perversion of the gospel, unBiblical and ungodly argumentation, rejection of Biblical reproof, sappiness, man-centeredness, in relation to Jesus. Real love does beat sentimentalism.

Many, many more examples could be given, but this should suffice.

5. Sullivant’s Corruption and Wresting of Scripture.

Corruption and wresting of Scripture dovetails with false doctrine, and its a daily business with Sullivant. They go hand in hand, feeding off of each other. Nearly every single passage that he attempts to "exegete" is an exercise of eisegesis, the interpretation methodology of the apostate. The reasons for that is because he really doesn't care what God says, but rather what Mike Sullivant says, and in this manner once again he is just like his diabolical master Jack Hyles. Pastor Sullivant interprets Scripture to fit his personal ideas, presuppositions, and agendas, twisting and gouging as he seems fit, with no seemingly remorse or recanting (many examples given throughout this report, even a separate section on it here and under #3 (f), specifically there concerning Keswick/ Deeper Life/ Revivalist-Type Sanctification). It’s despicable and not of God. It’s worse than pragmatism, and exposes an underlying absence of fear of God. It all disrespects God, His Word, the perspicuity of His Word, the authority of His Word. That is what he is doing and has taught many other men to do the same. 

There is a lot of exegetical gymnastics happening in Sullivant's world (if you can even call it exegesis), based upon non-exegetical presuppositions. In reality it is eisegesis that he specializes in.

There is no greater importance for a preacher than clear expositing by accurate exegesis the Word of God. To teach and preach EXACTLY what the Word of God is saying, and it's not difficult--for the child of God. In Proverbs 8, the Son of God declares, "All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge." (Pr 8:8-9). The one that understands and has found knowledge is the one that has been born again. And these plain and excellent words of truth are certain and understandable by the child of God: "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?" (Pr 22:20-21).

So how can it be that someone corrupts and twists and wrests the Scriptures with such ease, considering the absolute truth of God's Word being plain and perspicuous, especially to the saved, and its every word is important since we are to live by every word (Matt. 4:4)? If the meaning of Scripture is mangled, is the Holy Spirit in it? God doesn’t work in ways that circumvents the Bible.

The corruption and twisting is of course to be expected in this environment, dovetailing with the accommodation and of false doctrine and false teachers. Here is small sample among many: 2 Ch. 7:14; Ps. 28; Pr. 23:23; Jer. 17:9; Ezk. 44:49; Matt. 5:1-10; 23:23; 7:23, 24-27; 10:32-39; 16:24-26; 23:3-30; Mk. 8:34-38; Lk. 9:23-26; 13:23; 14:25-35; 15:1-32; Jn. 6:60-66; 12:24-26; Ac. 19:13-19; Rom. 1:28-32; 6:23; 7:25; 8:1-5; 1 Cor. 2:14–3:1; 2:15; 15:31; Gal. 5:19-21; Phil. 3:3-10, 18-19; 2 Tim. 4:7; Heb. 3:7-4:10; 12:1; Jam. 4:4; 1 Jn. 1:5-10; 2:15-17; Rev. 3:14-19; etc. The list goes on and on. Practically every sermon, a TOTAL disregard for and callous misrepresentation and misinterpretation of God's Holy Word. Besides the many examples already given, here are some further illustrations, which apply not only to Sullivant but to all preachers at PVBC.

You don’t get to treat God’s Word like tomatoes falling off the back of a produce truck, and expect to get a way with it. But that’s how men like Michael Sullivant think. They build up their trenches and pseudo “army” and think they become invincible to testing and reproof.

👉🏻 He corrupts the teaching of dying to self, using 1 Cor 15:31 where Paul says, “I die daily.” Every born again believer is already dead in Christ (Rom. 6:1-23; Matt. 10:38-39; 14:24-25; Mk. 8:34-35; Lk. 9:23-24; Jn. 12:24-25), which puts that doctrine to rest very nicely (Rom. 6 for example repeats this truth so often, one could say its almost redundant: e.g. “dead to sin,” “baptized into his death,” “buried with him by baptism into death,” “planted together in the likeness of his death,” “old man is crucified with him,” “he that is dead is freed from sin,” “we be dead with Christ,” “dead indeed unto sin,” “alive from the dead,”—ALL of which are in the Greek perfect tense, delineating a perfected action in the past but continues on into the present and future). When Paul said "I die daily" in 1 Cor. 15:31, Sullivant should interpret the Bible like the Holy Spirit teaches, and take into context the verse before when he says "And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?" literally talking about DEATH, and then the verse that follows, “If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.” Nothing about the death to self. Sullivant uses this corruption to buttress all his other wresting of salvation passages that speak about dying to self, denying self and taking up the cross for salvation: Matt. 10:32-39; 16:24-26; Mk. 8:34-38; Lk. 9:23-26, 57-62; Jn. 12:24-25. We have already mentioned why these passages are CLEARLY referring to salvation only, and even just one passage is all the proof we actually need: Mk 10:21. Read also more here: In Mark 8:34-38, Is Jesus Teaching How to be Saved or How to be A Better Christian?

👉🏻 In the sermon Living Like a Winner, he corrupts the Bible teaching on the flesh claiming Gal. 5:19-21 is referring to the works of the flesh in in the Christian life whereas this passage is ONLY applicable to lost people, people who do “not inherit the kingdom of God.” Do saved people not inherit the kingdom of God? Oh, so they lose their salvation? Has the Mennonite theology of losing salvation rubbed off on Sullivant? This false interpretation dovetails with his false soteriology and sanctification and his a horrible and grievous error of wresting God's Word (2 Pet 3:16-17).

👉🏻 In the sermon What does Repentance Look Like?, he again corrupts the meaning of Gal. 5:19-21, besides his utter corruption and denial of true Biblical repentance. He says those (referring to Christians) living in fornication (“shacked up”) “they’re not right with God.” (13:50). They aren't saved, they've never been saved, that is the actual problem, but that is certainly not what he meant. Being "not right with God" according to the beliefs and philosophy of Mike Sullivant means they haven't walked the sawdust trail to the alter, and laid it all there, including their money, they haven't "surrendered" fully to God, which really means they haven't fully surrendered to their Master and Führer Sullivant. When you tithe 10%, participate in FPMG, and then give on top of that, this is a fully "surrendered" Christian to Sullivant, regardless of the error embraced, or sins tolerated, or worldliness lived. He applied the sins of Rom 1:28-32 (the unrighteous, immoral, evil, murderous reprobate who "Being filled with all" 23 sins listed in that text who is not only not saved but very close to not being able to be saved) to professing Christians under the chastisement of God, those specifically “disobedient to parents.” He says those that wilfully rebel against their parents are saved people asking for Gods chastisement (time 12:00-13:00). This is horrible heresy, for Rom 1:28-32, again, is the immoral reprobate, a very, very lost person who may well never get saved. Understanding the only interpretation of Rom 1:28-32 is very straightforward for a true born again believer, but Sullivant does not understand it because he is not a true born again believer. He is an imposter, a counterfeit, a false teacher.

This scripture perversion is evil.

👉🏻 In the sermon God’s Desire — My Holiness, he horribly perverts Ezk. 44:49, a passage that is clearly referring to salvation. Being uncircumcised of heart refers ONLY to lost people (cf. De. 30:6; Rom. 2:28-29; Col. 2:10-15). He corrupts Jam 4:4 frequently, including in this sermon, claiming that Christians don’t always love the Lord and they can be God’s enemy. Is this what this passage is actually teaching? Not even close, but what he is saying fits into the whole Keswick heresy basis. The devil is the archenemy of God (and so his children) and there isn’t even one passage anywhere in scripture that hints of God’s children being His enemies. They are His friends. Rather we consistently see lost people referred to as God’s enemies which are under His wrath (Nah. 1:2; Lk. 19:27; Matt. 5:43-45; Pr. 24:17-18; 27:6; Ac. 13:10; Rom. 5:9-10; 11:28; Col. 1:21; Heb. 1:13; 10:13). The word “enemy” is actually a very strong repudiation of someone that God actually hates. It's one whom God has reserved His wrath for: "God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies." (Nah. 1:2). We read the same in the NT, that before conversion “we are enemies” of God and under His wrath (Rom. 5:9-10; Jn. 3:36; I Th. 1:9-10). The very definition of “enemy” translated from the Greek "echthros" which is not a friendly word, further reveals this to be true: “hateful (passively odious or actively hostile); usually as a noun an adversary (especially Satan): - enemy foe.” (Strong’s). Jam. 4:4 has nothing to do with Christians (but false “Christians”) — they are NOT the enemies of God but the beloved friends of God!

The biggest issue is the underlying philosophy Sullivant’s interpretation projects. As such, where does this philosophy derive from. It’s a Keswick/revivalist/higher life related philosophy, one that is interrelated with his perversion of salvation. There is almost an expectation that people might “fall” back into the world, back into their old nature, not just a stumble either but full fledge return “to Egypt” for some significant period of time. That is what’s being meant when someone applies Jam. 4:4 egregiously to a true Christian. Those who believe that people can be saved and love the world at the same time also typically either deny or pervert the doctrine of repentance and the Lordship of Christ. The perversion goes together like peas and carrots. The perverted view of sanctification and wresting of salvation passages that lends itself to manipulating and distorting passages such as Jam. 4:4 and Lk. 14:25-35 and 1 Jn. 2:15-17 and 1 Cor 3:1-3, etc, will almost without exception revert back to a perverted view of the gospel, one that corrupts everything repentance is and who Jesus is. And how he separates repentance from the gospel and undermines its importance and how he perverts repentance itself and how he views Hyles and Hutson and others like them (not seeing their corrupted bad gospel) and refusing to separate from them, all of which ties into the corrupted sanctification and twisting of scripture, speaks, I believe, absolute volumes.

👉🏻 In the sermon Are You a True Disciple (time 14:45), he twists the last half of Matt. 7:23 (“depart from me, ye that work iniquity”) claiming “iniquity” is false religion trying to substitute their good works for the Son of God. I have come to understand Sullivant hates the word sin or simply doesn’t understand it. Instead of understanding and then teaching what iniquity is, he changes the meaning to what he wants it to mean, so it ties into his false repentance and gospel and false sanctification, because he does not like the whole idea of having to repent of his sins, turning from his sins, and God dealing with his sins.

👉🏻 In the sermon The Basis of Faith Promise Giving (Mar 3, 2019). In this sermon he quotes dollar figures, counting numbers, how much they have given this year and previous years, really how great they have been with their money, to support an unscriptural man-centred philosophy. In the millions. That is Biblical bragging and making it public knowledge how much money comes through the coffers. It's very Hyles like. He also falsely claimed that in 1 Corinthians the church was “worldly” and “condemned” by Paul, “reeking with sin” while in 2 Corinthians they were a “world missions church” and “commended” by Paul, all of which is seriously twisting the Scriptures (eisegetically) and half truths (which are actual lies) to support his heresy on faith praise giving. 2 Corinthians they were hardly different than the 1st. In this second epistle he deals multiple chapters with their attack on him, and ends it with questioning their salvation, again (2 Cor 12:12-13:5). The lost church of Laodicea was worldly (Rev. 3:15-17) NOT the Corinth church. Everything he preaches in this sermon on “being called” to missions and “being called to preach” is unscriptural. It’s found nowhere in Scripture. Its a figment of the man-worshipping man-controlling heretic. What happened with the apostles and some of the others while the apostles lived (i.e. the Macedonian call), does not happen today. What happens today, and started in that day already, is 1 Tim. 3:1; 5:12; 2 Tim. 4:5; and Ti. 1:5. This heresy on being called by God to preach is another symptom of these man-centred institutions. First of all, every born again Christian is “called to preach” and “called to missions"! I mean every single one, which is something that Sullivant and the rest of the Old Boys Club would never admit, because it doesn’t fit the man-centred man-worship and man-exaltation of the extremely man-centred pragmatic “Old Fundamental Big Boys Club,” but God’s Word however is VERY clear on it! (see for example: 2 Cor. 5:12-6:1; 1 Cor. 3:5-9). Hence the responsibility of the pastors and teachers in the church: Eph. 4:11-16. Secondly, although every person is called to preach, not every person can be a pastor. Notice we didn’t say, “called to be a pastor.” There is no such “calling” in the Bible, contrary to what a lot of people lie about. It's wishful thinking. The only calling we read of in scripture is the one unto salvation (see Matt. 22:14; 1 Cor. 1:24-31; 2 Th. 1:11; 2 Tim. 1:9 for example) which automatically extends to the call to preach the gospel to every creature (Lk. 24:44-48; Mk. 16:15; Matt. 28:18-19; 2 Cor 5:17-20). And truly saved people WILL have a desire for this, without being coerced or forced.

So who then can fill the office of pastor? The position of pastor (I.e. elder, bishop, overseer) or deacon for that matter (“Likewise must the deacons...” 1 Tim. 3:8), requires four specific stipulations, and all four must be met in its entirety: (1) Must be a male (1 Tim. 3:1-7 — “a man,” “husband,” “his,” “he”) that is married (“husband of one wife… having his children…”). (2) Must have the desire (to aspire after, to give one’s self up to), for the office (1 Tim. 3:1). Although I’m sure influenced by the Lord, that desire, as you read in these passages, comes from the man himself. (3) Must meet all the qualifications as presented in 1 Tim. 3:2-7; Tit. 1:6-9, 13-14, which he will anyway if he is truly born again (they are evidences of salvation as well). (4) Must be ordained by elders of that local church (1 Tim. 5:21-22; Tit. 1:5), who are responsible to confirm prayerfully and practically all the qualifications are met (Tit. 1:5-9). So any man who is truly born again and has a desire for the office and meets all the qualifications, all of which is confirmed by the elders of the church, can be a pastor (or deacon). NO man needs to wait to hear the enigmatic and ambiguous call that never comes, which only nests in the figment of some poor imagination, a manner (more often than not) .

👉🏻 2 Ch. 7:14 is maybe one of the most mentioned passages by big camp revivalists like Sullivant. It is referenced innumerably, in practically every sermon and continually misused, and never exegetically interpreted even once according to what it says and its contextual meaning. It's just thrown out there and hope that it sticks, a form of proof-texting. This passage is not referring to Gentiles in any shape or form but Jews alone, and not referring to saved people in any way but the unsaved alone. It’s rare to hear anyone interpreting this passage correctly today, predominately because of the phrase “If my people, which are called by my name,” which is corrupted by these self-serving leeches. Some times they are simply repeating from the pulpit what they have been taught, and not have enough love for the Word to study it out themselves. The Jews have always been God’s people called by His name, whether saved or lost makes no difference (cf. Matt 1:21 & Jn 1:11; see also De 4:23-40; 9:4-29; 27:9-10; 32:36 [vv. 15-43]; 1 Sam 12:22 [vv. 1-22]; 2 Sam 7:8, 10-11, 23-24; Is 63:15-19; Rom 9:3-9; 11:27-28). 1 Ki 8:33-40, 44-53 is an exact parallel to this passage, with lots more detail, and is clearly referring to a lost nation of Israel, though 2 Ch 7:14 does this on its own. The remainder of that passage in 2 Ch. 7:14 is very clear that this is the LORD calling the lost nation of Israel to salvation, for saved people have repented unto salvation (they humbled themselves, sought after the Lord, turned from their wicked ways and God heard them and forgave them of all their sins and healed them — many hundreds of passages of Scripture refer to these things that must occur for salvation to be true (note also the connection clause of “and” in this passage), e.g., in the order of the verse: Lk. 18:9-17; Is. 55:6-7; Jn. 9:31; Col. 1:12-14; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Is. 1:18; Rom. 4:5-8; 1 Jn. 3:1-10; 5:18; 1 Pet. 2:24; etc). True born again believers have humbled themselves before God and have found the Lord and have turned from their wicked ways (they are never referred to as wicked anywhere in Scripture, a title, along with “fool,” and “simple,” and”evil,” and “scorner,” reserved for the lost alone) and have been forgiven of all their sins forever and healed, though the healing of the land applies to the Jews alone (the second reason why we know this is applicable to only Israel, though the principles of the remainder fof that passage applies to all). When these things are applied to the Christian life, it turns the Bible into a mass of confusion and renders true supernatural salvation nigh futile, ineffectual and inefficacious. That’s not the salvation of God’s Word, but it is the salvation of unregenerate false teachers and tyrants. Keep reading here: Does God's Promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 Apply to Saved, Gentile People?

👉🏻 Ps. 12:6-7 is frequently perverted out of its meaning, which is a passage on God's promise of preservation of Scripture. This passage is referring to the text that God inspired His Word in: Hebrew and Greek. God didn’t inspire His Word in the English language, as Sullivant and other preachers teach, just like Hyles did (who learned it from Peter Ruckman), but in Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT). So the preservation passages in Scripture are referring to what God inspired, to what already existed. You can’t preserve something that doesn’t exist. The Bible was never given in English. English wasn't even a language when we received God's Word, and it didn’t exist in any formal manner until around the 15th century. God gave us His Word in Hebrew, Greek, and small portions in Aramaic, and so when God’s Word promises preservation of His Word, it has to refer to that what He gave. The English Bible is a translation. It wasn't given by inspiration of God in English although we can call it the inspired Word of God because it is a faithful and God-honouring translation. Some people think those texts don’t exist anymore. They would have to, otherwise God’s promise of preservation wouldn’t be true. We're not closed off from the original language of scripture. We’ve had the Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek Textus Receptus since they were inspired by God (2 Tim. 3:16). The Hebrews have always kept the OT Scriptures preserved, as did the churches the NT Scriptures. And men understood it to translate it into English or we wouldn't have an English translation. It even says that in our KJV, “Translated from the Original Languages.” The original languages are even brought into the NT, when Jesus says, jot and tittle, which are Hebrew letters in Matt. 5. There is also a number of Hebrew and Greek words left in the OT and NT not having been translated into English but just left in their original (e.g. Matt. 27:46; Mk. 7:34). But this is not to say that everyone has to learn the Hebrew and Greek. Translations can be depended upon, indeed I love the very dependable and accurate KJV (and there are other equally good ones in other languages such as Martin Luther German Bible, the Syrian Peshitta Bible, the Dutch Statenvertaling, the 1602 Reina-Valera Spanish Bible, etc), even as seen in the quotations of the OT in the NT, using a different language. However, we must study and work, be a workman not ashamed, in rightly dividing the word of truth.

👉🏻 All the salvation passages in the four gospels, where Christ is preaching His own gospel, are twisted and wrested into something post-salvation. For instance: Matt 10:32-39; 16:24-26; Mk 8:34-38; Lk 9:23-26, 57-62; 14:25-35; 15:1-32; Jn 12:24-26; etc. We have given examples of these passages being twisted, misused and abused over the first two parts of this report. Many of the passages they use to support their repentant-less and Lord-less sandy position are “proof texts,” influenced greatly by pragmatism and unsaved people, but the Scriptural view on the other hand of the gospel/salvation of true repentance and the Lordship of Christ is a contextual, grammatical, and historical view. Their position "proof texts" but the Biblical position doesn’t.

They seem to have a particular perspective of free, freedom, or grace, coming as it has out of a position of pragmatism that likely arose out of a wrong view of man's nature and of salvation, and then everything else has to fit into that. All the passages have to fit into that, even if they have to be forced to do so. True interpretation doesn't work like that. Everything in the Bible fits naturally. There is one God, who doesn't deny Himself, and so the harmony of scripture is not forced. Rather than finding the message of the whole NT, this other position of PVBC finds verses that might teach what it wants the Bible to teach, then adjusts the rest of the NT to fit it, proof texting the Bible. It is no different than the Mennonite cult that we grew up in, who use a similar method of finding a few verses that allegedly purports the teaching of baptismal regeneration and losing salvation then make the rest of the NT conform to them. Yet they say they're just trying to teach what the Bible teaches. Its hog wash. What they are doing is called wresting of Scripture (2 Pet 3:16-17) and its always the mark of a false teacher (2 Pet 2:1-22), an “error of the wicked” (v. 17). The worst forms of wickedness exist in perversions of the truth. Sullivant certainly does “err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.” (Matt 22:29).

👉🏻 Everyone that comes into contact with this church and school walks away with an education on how to corrupt and twist scripture, eisegetical masters, how to preach a false gospel, mutilate the doctrine of sanctification and conform it to false believers, and how to be a dictator thats above reproof and on a pedestal somewhere above God, or at least equal with Him. This sadly includes John Wipf, the guy who was forced out of PVBC in 2015. In his video and book where he exposes Mike Sullivant and other IFB pastors connected to Sullivant, has sadly been tainted by the many dangerous errors of Sullivant and PVBC (not the gospel so much, that appears sound in his book) but misusing and twisting scripture such as Rev 3:14-18 (the Laodicean pastor and church were UNSAVED, they were not true Christians, blind, naked, sinful, worldly, wretched, and miserable that God pukes out of His mouth!) and 2 Ch 7:14 (though the principle of salvation found in this passage applies to all, the verse itself is not applicable to non-Israelites!). He also misuses Rom 2:1-5, which ONLY applies to an unsaved person. The next point below covers further detail into two passages that he misuses and corrupts, Matt 23:15 and 2 Pet 2:22.

👉🏻 In his book Blight of Denominationalism where he exposes the tyrannical ways of Mike Sullivant, John Wipf makes reference to Matt 23:15. He, like everyone else that has darkened the doors of this church and school, has been taught that you can make a passage say pretty much whatsoever you would like it to say. But this is wickedness to the absolute utmost, for nothing is greater than Gods Word, not even God’s name (Ps 138:2). There is reason for the greatness and awesomeness of scripture, including the truth there is no life or truth outside of Gods Word. It is absolute truth and the perfect revelation of the Triune God. It is the single most important thing in the world, that tells us the way of salvation, who God is, who we are, what we’re doing and where we going. It is the historical Book, the science Book, the life Book, the everything Book. It’s every last word is important to the extreme, down to the jot and tittle. To trivialize with it, mess with it, undermine it, change it (including the meaning of words and passages), add to it or take away from it, is a crime without parallel (cf. 2 Pet 3:16-17; 2 Cor 2:17; Rev 22:18-19). We cannot hammer home this fact hard enough. The Holy Spirit of God cannot teach someone the truth when His Word is mangled, misused, butchered, abused, or wrested in any fashion. Careful attention must be given to its every word, and reverence with trembling for its holiness, inerrancy and infallibility, a truth noted throughout Scripture, especially in that great chapter on God's Word of Psalm 119, and by the prophet Isaiah, "Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word..." (Is 66:5a).

But this is exactly what is being taught in almost every single pulpit today, including the IFB, including PVBC, often subtly, maybe at times unwittingly (which would point to unregeneracy). This wicked practice produces such results as Wipf writing that the “child of hell” comment in Matt 23:15 by the Lord (Pharisees and scribes making unsaved people twofold children of hell more than themselves through their hypocrisy and false religion) was in his heart when he left PVBC and to return to it would have made him “twice as miserable than I was as a Baptist before if I would have heeded him and gone back to that manmade organization.” (Blight of Denominationalism, 2021, p. 72). He was referring back to Matt 23:15, which he had just quoted. The word “hell” in Matt 23:15 does NOT mean miserable. There is no resemblance. Nor is this passage EVER applied to a saved person. It is 100% applicable ONLY to false professing “believers,” religious hypocrites, which happens to be most of apostate Christendom today, including at PVBC. The entire chapter of Matt 23 is a warning to false “believers,” dead religious people that proclaim faith in God, even in Christ but are in fact unregenerate and unsaved hypocrites, counterfeits and fakes (which we know by their unbiblical fruit and lack of biblical evidence), and God the Son is sharply reproving them and warning them of the eternal hellfire that awaits their accursed souls. That is the interpretation and application of these passages. You cannot just make a passage say what you want it to say, a diabolical and evil practice taught by Sullivant and his henchmen to all his disciples. In the very next sentence Wipf does it again, continuing with the subject at hand, stating “It would be like a pig going back to the mud pit after it was washed cleaned.” (Ibid). He got that from 2 Pet 2:22, which says, “But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” Again he is confusing unsaved people with saved people, a VERY common practice in these type of churches, something we have exposed repeatedly in this Sullivant Report, especially the first two parts. There is however no such confusion in Gods Word. None. The pig and dog in 2 Pet 2 are false teachers (the subject of the entire chapter) who have never been redeemed from their sin, never been cleansed and washed by the blood of the Lamb, so in their false pretence and with time they expose themselves for who they really are: pigs and dogs, neither of which are EVER saved people in scripture (see also Matt 7:6; Is 56:10-11 [where the false teacher/“pastor” is described to perfection]; Phil 3:2; Rev 22:15).

Thanks to false teachers like Mike Sullivant, people are penning down or preaching the misuse and corruption of scripture, because that is what they’ve been taught. This is a great shame and disgrace.

Concluding this point, these are only a fraction of the many passages of Scriptures that are corrupted, perverted and twisted into the PVBC IFB mold of theology and doing church, and their corrupt gospel and false sanctification, and throughout this report we have addressed various passages that are misused, abused and wrested by Sullivant and Co. Sullivant’s interpretation and explanation of Scripture is destructive and disenchanting, and many, many more examples could be given. This is merely the tip of the iceberg. It’s a method to force his personal ideas, presuppositions, and agendas, twisting and gouging as he seems fit. But it's despicable and not of God. It’s worse than pragmatism, and exposes an underlying lack of fear of God, which is a very serious problem in these churches (cf. Ps 111:10). It is not okay for someone to stand at the pulpit and intentionally misuse and abuse Gods Word, twisting God’s Word and creating new doctrine that doesn’t exist anywhere in Gods Word but in the philosophies of men. That is what pastor Mike Sullivant has done. His teachings on salvation and especially sanctification on the back of misused Scripture are way off the mark. They are contrary to apostolic doctrine. They are false and egregious and his gospel of easy believism void of repentance and the true Son of God is perverted (Gal. 1:6-7; 2 Cor. 11:4) and the man behind such is condemned as accursed according to Gal. 1:8-9. God's Word is plain and perspicuous, specifically to the saved, and its every word is important since we are to live by every word (Matt 4:4), so where is the Holy Spirit in all this when His Word is being corrupted? If the meaning of Scripture is mangled, is the Holy Spirit in it? God doesn’t work in a way that circumvents the Bible. All this disrespects God, His Word, the perspicuity of His Word, the authority of His Word. That is what he is doing.

2 Pet 3:16-17 describes wresting of Scripture as an error of the wicked (obviously unsaved),

"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness."

Sullivant's errors on doctrine, scripture twisting, false gospel, is enough reason to separate from him. There would really be no need to expose anything else. But as is typically the case, there's always more issues when scripture is habitually perverted and treated like tomatoes falling off the back of a produce truck, and a false gospel and bad doctrine leads to bad practices and sinful behaviour and man-centred, man-controlling tyranny.

6. Sullivant’s Unscriptural and Heretical Associations.

Jack Hyles and Hyles-Anderson College.

Though he be dead already for many years, his evil and heretical influence rages on. Although covered already, including the intimate ties of Sullivant to Hyles, First Baptist Church and Hyles-Anderson College, here is a brief recap and some further notes on Hyles influence at PVBC.

The biggest issue with Hyles and then Jack Schaap (his son-in-law and successor, who in Aug of 2022 finished serving a 12 year prison term for grooming and molesting a child) and ongoing with Hyles-Anderson and First Baptist, are:

1. The sexual immorality and sexual predator coverups including Jacks own son Dave, and even through “First Baptist and the College staff members were aware of his reprehensible conduct for years" they "remained silent” about it (“Class Action Sex Abuse Case,” Ministry Watch, Dec. 7, 2020), and besides this there have been dozens of sexual adultery cases by Dave and even suspicion of murder after the suspicious death of a child in his care.

2. The blatant false doctrine and corruption of God's Word and love of money and control that drove the damnable heretical practices of big-numberism and biggism and bigmanism, and the horrible and evil man-centred Diotrephesism (blind, unquestioning loyalty to a pastor). His preaching at best was bad theatrics and did nothing to convert the heart of a lost man, for it's not the Word that was preached but cheap theatrics and unscriptural story telling.

3. The false gospel and damnable heresies they preached and continue to preach, false evangelism, producing a church mostly of goats that lack any spiritual discernment, the intended goal of dictators and sexual predators. They are duped to believe a lie because of the flattery, good words and fair speeches of these false teachers who serve their belly and not Christ (Rom 16:17-18). Hyles, Schaap and Co., preach(ed) a gospel that purposefully excluded true Biblical repentance and the Lordship of Christ, and the little of the gospel they did present was very watered-down, shallow, and corrupt (Gal 1:6-9; 2 Cor 11:4). This sort of perversion would result in a Teenage Soul Winning program which reported (unbelievably) 100,000 salvation "decisions" in six years, though the youth Sunday School averaged only 2,500, using tactics of worldly or fleshly means by these wolves in sheep's clothing to lure them in.

4. Abusive tyrant, authoritarian and autocratic dictator. He was a womanizer, yet hated women, and on a regular basis would belittle, and degrade them from the pulpit. Here he berates a woman from the pulpit, and in this case pinpoints a girl and embarrasses her in front of thousands, while here he gains cult control by stopping a baby. The women in Hyle's life testified to what kind of depraved man he was; for instance his daughter: "He hated my mom. Hated her. Treated her terribly. Abused her. And even turned his own children against their mother. We hated her. He told us she was crazy. We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. Our home was so full of turmoil, hatred, stress, strife, and as a little girl, it was isolating, it was intense, and it was frightening. He had affairs. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. You could see their family from our back door. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another." (ibid). If you dare go against Jack, God's wrath would be invoked against you according to Jack, and God would kill you. He would brag that his deacons and staff would drink the kool-aid for him.

Everything about this cultic tyrant is demonic, and perfectly fits the description of Satans "ministers of righteousness" (2 Cor 11:12-15). He was a pathological liar, and we know "all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." (Rev 21:8).

Hyles books are also endorsed and sold at PVBC. That is evil. Very evil. They literally drip with "damnable heresies" (2 Pet 2:1) and corruption of God's Word (2 Cor 2:17), but that doesn't stop hireling Sullivant from promoting them to his congregation, whom he hates. A "shepherd," whose number one job is to protect his sheep, who then throws his sheep to the wolves, hates his sheep. Sullivant is a "100% for Hyles" guy, and had he been in America when they were being worn by treasonous IFB pastors and others in IFB churches after the Hyles scandal started unravelling, he surely would've been one of them.

Everybody associated with Hyles rejects true Biblical repentance and thus the true gospel, such as Curtis Hutson, Bob Gray Sr., Clarence Sexton, all of which are highly regarded by Sullivant and in his social orbit. He has high affection and devotion for these men, which reflects on the false gospel presented by him. Steven Anderson, a former student of Hyles-Anderson, also rejects true Biblical repentance. I’m not sure anyone would attend either FBC of Hammond or Hyles-Anderson College if they didn’t already embrace a corrupted gospel.

Clarence Sexton and Crown College/Temple Baptist Church.

Sullivant is also a graduate of Crown College and continues to remain closely associated and tied to the college and Clarence Sexton (before he passed away in 2023). Some of his assistant pastors have attended that school while pastoring at PVBC and his own son attended there by recommendation of his father. In 2025 Sullivant preached alongside evangelist Scott Pauley at the terribly compromised Keswick-based, Keswick-laced Niagara Bible Conference.

What’s wrong with Clarence Sexton and Crown College ? Consider a few things among many:

1. He embraces and purveys the same false gospel (easy-believism/quick-prayerism 1-2-3 pray after me, no/false repentance, false teaching on evidence of salvation, silly carnival atmosphere, turns evangelism into a type of salesmanship, false worship in tolerating and embracing CCM music, etc, all of which is a perverted and corrupted gospel — Gal. 1:6-9) and adored the two Jacks of FBC;

2. His irreverence to God and His Word (e.g. noted in his plentiful scripture twisting and carnival atmosphere and disregard for the truth);

3. Superficial and heretical theology, all over the course, including corrupting salvation passages and turning them into sanctification to feed the Keswick/higher life theology that runs deep in the veins of heretical revivalists IFB churches like Temple;

4. Yoked with heretics such as Jack Hyles, Jack Schaap, Jack Trieber, Tony Hudson, First Baptist Church of Hammond, and all the rest of the fragmented and unrepentant remains of the Hyles coalition, and Reformed Calvinists, Neo-Evangelicals, heretical southern Baptists (SBC), etc;

5. Extreme man-centeredness and hero worship along with rank pragmatism of the highest order, which is a mark of a false teacher (Rom. 16:17-18, pay attention to v. 18);

6. Close in fellowship with wolves in sheep’s clothing and even preaching in their churches (e.g. Jack Hyles and Jack Schaap —even embraced and praised these wolves in 2011 after Schaap’s blasphemous teaching on communion was brought to the public spotlight [see Clarence Sexton Praises Jack Schaap and Clarence Sexton Lies Again For Jack Hyles and Clarence Sexton Continues Praising Jack Hyles, Schaap, and John Stancil]; up until Schaap’s statutory rape was made public Sexton highly promoted Schaap by print and video on Baptist Friends group websites, founded and led by Sexton; but then they all disappeared without a trace or explanation);

7. No church discipline (another proof of man-centred man-worshipping belly-servers);

8. Terribly compromised and ecumenical like most IFB preachers today — he doesn’t actually separate: “not draw the line clearly and consistently enough from Independent Baptists who are not true separatists, from those who are associating with the SBC, who are using CCM, and who are moving rapidly in the contemporary, wishy-washy direction.” ("An Open Letter to Clarence Sexton about the Friendship Conference," Mar 3, 2010, David Cloud);

9. He is a two-faced, duplicitous hypocrite, claiming to want nothing to do with SBC but then inviting men to participate in his Friends Conference that have close associations with the SBC (e.g. Ralph Sexton, Steve Roberson, Ball Brothers, Daybreak Quartet, Andrew Phipps);

10. He refuses to receive or give any warnings about other IFB’s, no matter how egregious their errors, which is also a mark of a false teacher/believer (blatantly rejecting this critical truth and work of the ministry: e.g. Ac 17:11: Rom 16:17-18; 1 Th 5:21; 2 Tim 3:16-17; Pr. 10:17; 12:1, 15; 13:1; 15:10, 31-32; 17:10); etc. With this behaviour, these false teachers completely disregard the justice of God.

11. There's more, which hopefully we will soon publish in a report on Sexton.

Bob Gray Sr.

He really loves this absolute heretic, evident by his “Likes” on LinkedIn. Not sure who was worse with the false "conversions" and numbers racket: Gray or Hyles. The heretic with his false 1-2-3-repeat-after-me, pray-the-sinners-prayer, easy-believism false-repentance of just-changing-from-unbelief-to-belief perverted “gospel” claims to have led 1,116,887 people to Christ in a town with less than 82,000 people that is located in a county with less than 124,000 people 🤣 Okay. Just. W😳W. Right down to the number as well. Not around 1,116,900 people but 1,116,887 to be sure! Over a million people in a county with a population tenth of that. Hmm 🧐, I wonder how this works. Vast majority of these poor people have been made two-fold children of hell. But he is a bald-faced liar. Comparing the attendance at his religious organization with the numbers of people he claims to have won to Christ, less than 0.2% of the "converts" attend his church even on Sunday mornings. The region of Texas with his church is not by anyone's wildest dream changed the way it would be if there had been over a million people who were converted the Bible way to the Biblical God, by means of the Biblical gospel that was preached by the old Baptists. In the same link as the above, you will note Gray's nauseating bragging about how many walked the aisle, got baptized, and millions given to missions and other things.

But Sullivant really likes this heretic and that should tell you a lot about who Sullivant really is.

Rick Flanders.

Appropriate for Sullivant, he is closely yoked with “evangelist” revivalist, Keswick master and true-gospel denier Rick Flanders, who is invited to the church rather frequently (even just last year again). In the beginning of his sermon What Son are You Sullivant mentions Flander’s preaching scheduled that coming weekend and his unscriptural and heretical Back to Normal book, which is exalted before the people, and mentioned it was to be given to all the men in the church, even though it pushes a false gospel and soteriology. Flanders lies in the book claiming there is only “one” Greek word behind repentance (“metanoia”) and that this word means “to change one’s mind” (p. 34), which is is a false repentance. He writes, “The Greek word for repent in the New Testament means to change one’s mind.” This is false. We don’t know the meaning of a word by its etymology but by its contextual meaning, and there are four Greek words translated and described as repentance and true Biblical repentance is way, way more than that just a “change of mind.” Flanders rejects the Biblical notion that repentance is a turning from sin/self/stuff/people. He heretically claims that “the inspection of fruits is about detecting ‘false prophets’ (v. 15) and not about judging people's salvation.” (p. 34). Hog wash. He either doesn't understand the Word of God, or just simply rejects it.

Flanders is a repentance rejector just like Sullivant, who never teaches it and denies its necessity for salvation and completely and totally destroys it when he does mention it (when he's forced to), bastardizing it into turning from unbelief to belief, which fits his heretical Keswick/higher life/revivalism heresy which he is completely steeped in. He rejects true Biblical repentance for salvation and teaches a corrupted version of it where repentance is synonymous with faith, fruit of repentance and the immediate and ongoing evidence of salvation is rejected and no salvation “invitation” ever has repentance mentioned —the only repentance he believes in, along with majority of other Keswick purveyors, is repentance as believers, which is still heretical for them. Flanders is not only a dangerous heretic because of the false gospel he propagates but also because he is a revivalist which is heresy, for it contradicts true Biblical salvation and teaches a heretical version of sanctification, and he also teaches the continuation of sign-gifts today, perverting Mk. 16:17-18 in support. He teaches and promotes that 1 John does not give evidences of salvation, but only of “abiding,” which allegedly is characteristic of only some believers (Rick Flanders, “Ought,” elec. acc.). This is heresy but it's the same heresy Sullivant embraces and teaches. He, like Sullivant, manipulates and butchers a lot of Scripture (e.g., Matt 11:28-30; Jn 13:10-11; 15:1-11; Epistle of 1 John) to support his false sanctification and false gospel.

We expose this heretic here: Rick Flanders and His False Gospel and False Sanctification, Revivalism, and Deception.

FirstBible International.

The Canadian branch is run out of PVBC and Sullivant is on its ministerial staff, which is headed by Charles Keen, a heretic who embraces the extremely heretical “essentials and non-essentials” doctrinal philosophy, recommends a lot of false teachers, etc. Brent Marrowelli is the organizations Canadian representation based out of PVBC, who is even worse for a heretic than Keen. Marrowelli’s preaching, which we have personally heard, promoting firstBible, is more in line with Joel Osteen than anything Biblical. He preached a terribly compromised, superficial and heretical 'feel-good' sermon meant to tickle the ears of the unsuspecting simple-minded, with practically no Scripture referenced (the few he did, were wrested and corrupted out of their meaning, such as Rom 16:17), lots of stories, and humanistic and unscriptural ideas about God and the Bible, and zero spiritual discernment. He told multiple lies such as without the Bible, the lost can never know that God exists, that Jesus exists, that heaven and hell exist, which is patently false and unbelievable to hear from the mouth of someone who not only professes to be a believer, but also in a high position of a Bible ministry. The Bible tells us something different, declaring that ALL mankind knows that God exists by His creation and conscience (Rom 1), that the Godhead exists (Rom 1), that the light of Jesus—although not enough to be saved—is present in ALL (Jn. 1:4), and that the moral law is written in EVERY heart (Rom 2).

Let's consider some examples of Keen’s heresies. (a) In his book Thinking Outside the Box (the title on its own already raises red flags considering that this is a heretical philosophy of neo-evangelicals, who like to think outside of the Bible) Keen divides doctrines into essentials and non-essentials, which is huge error and mark of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, certainly one "Thinking Outside the Bible":

“I’m a slow learner, but I finally realized that not all truth is of equal value. Some truths I differ from others and divide over even die for (as least I should). With others, I might be uncomfortable with how they are handled by my brethren, but I can still fellowship with them either personally or in some cases, ecclesiastically. We need to develop some ‘ecumenicalism within the parameters of fundamentalism.’ . . . Let’s decide who the enemies of the cross are and divide from them. Then let’s decide who the friends of grace are and tolerate them. We don’t have to unite but we do need unity” (p. 81).

This is complete and utter heresy and double-speak. He actually rejects Biblical separation with this (e.g. Rom. 16:17-18; Eph. 5:11; 1 Tim. 6:3-5; 2 Jn. 1:9-11; 2 Th. 3:6; Gal. 2:4-5; etc) and he rejects true unity of God’s Word (e.g. Rom. 15:6; 1 Cor. 1:10; Ac. 2:42, 45; 4:32-33; Eph. 4:1-16; Phil. 1:27; 2:1-4; 3:15-19; 4:1-2; etc). Obedience is the major mark of salvation. This heretical idea that unity and world evangelism is more important than “non-essential” doctrinal differences is not from the Spirit of God. People that believe like this believe in a different truth than found everywhere in God’s Word. Obedience is the major mark of true conversion, and one who not only openly disobeys but also propagates that evil, is not of God. (b) Not only does this make Keen a heretic, but also the Recommended Reading section of his aforementioned book sounds a loud alarm in that direction. This is said to have been “prepared and furnished by David Parker of Milford, Ohio,” but it's his list. The list includes a biography of the neo-orthodox wolf in sheep’s clothing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, three books by the charismatic ecumenist apostate Jim Cymbala, eight books by the hedonistic Calvinist and worldly apostate John Piper, two by the extremely and radically wicked and ecumenical and ungodly World Vision (see one example of their evil amongst truckloads: New Evidence: U.N. Connected to World Vision Terror Finance Scandal, six by George Verwer, the heretical ecumenical founder of Operation Mobilization, an organization shot right through with charismatic error, and six books published by InterVarsity Press (IVP), which is at the forefront of the diabolical and evil emerging church. IVP and Zondervan sponsor the annual extremely heretical, ungodly and dangerous National Pastor’s Conferences that push the emerging church agenda. Keen gives absolutely no warning about these dangerous books and rather reads them and then endorses them. Unbelievable! ZRI discernment. (c) Keen’s unpublished Word Journal through firstBible is heretical. The issue from Spring 2013, on p. 9, contains a list of "Suggested Readings on Missions" which includes books by John Piper, Herb Hodges, Jerry Rankin, Ed Stetzer, John Stott, Don Richardson, Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne. These heretical men are woke, wicked, true servants of Satan (2 Cor 11:12-15), and should be marked and avoided (Rom. 16:17-18), but rather they are endorsed by this ungodly heretic who apparently has a love for the Bible. In another one (summer 2013) Keen writes an article titled "Co-operation for the commissions sake" which could easily be retitled to "Compromise for the commissions sake.” As in his book Thinking Outside the Box, he promotes ecumenicalism for the purpose of the Great Commission at the expense of doctrine (i.e. truth), but even his Great Commission is utterly perverted due to his corrupted gospel of easy believism and no repentance/Lordship. In this article he laments that he has been labeled as a neo-evangelical because he promotes "ecumenicalism among fundamentalism" but it goes much deeper than that, as clearly documented in this article. He promotes the heretical philosophy of "essentials and non-essentials,” which is spawned in the depths of hell by spiritual reprobates with corrupt minds who reject the truth (2 Tim 3:8-9). Also in the same newsletter, Jerry Rockwell writes an article on the canonization of the OT (pp. 17-19), where he positively quotes F.F. Bruce, a rank liberal ungodly and apostate rationalist who denies both the inspiration and preservation of Gods' Word, denies the Biblical account of Hell, and denies a plethora of other Biblical doctrines. And we haven’t even considered the content of these publications, which is loaded with error and heresy and unscriptural teachings and false interpretation.

Marowelli, the Canada branch director who Facebook “Likes” Tom Farrell Evangelistic Team and Ray Young from Hyles infamy (both of which are 100% devoted Jack Hyles guys). Young the “bus kid” served as an assistant pastor for 33 years, 32 of those years have been at the heretical and ungodly First Baptist Church of Hammond, once pastored by the wolf Jack Hyles. Marowelli likes Young but Young was instrumental in the false gospel and massive numberism of false "converts" at First Baptist Church. For 11 years he was the executive vice president of Hyles-Anderson College, working in unison with Hyles, and then at least 8 years president when Jack Schaap was pastor and chancellor. Both Jack Hyles and Jack Schaap were ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing, ungodly apostates, discerned by anyone who was any level of spiritual discernment, and Young was neck deep in with these wolves, but thats no problem for heretics like Marowelli. To associate with them on an intimate level, as Young does, means you also love Hyles terribly corrupt and perverted gospel (Gal 1:6-9), among hundreds of other false doctrines and practices and evil sins, and that speaks volumes.

With the hiring of Marowelli we see a bit more into the close and continual connection between Sullivant and Hyles-Anderson College/FBC of Hammond. Instead of exposing and separating from Keen and firstBible and from Marowelli as the Bible commands (Rom. 16:17; Gal. 2:4-5; 1 Tim. 6:3-5), pastor Sullivant yokes very very closely together with them, running the ministry right out of the church. Am. 3:3 tells us why that is. As does Rom 16:17-18 and 2 Tim 3:8-9.

Other Sword of the Lord Men.

Such as Curtis Hutson. Exaltation of heretical purveyors of a false gospel and false sanctification, such as Curtis Hutson, who is highly exalted and publicly promoted by Sullivant, whose perverted gospel is found on PVBC missionaries salvation pages. Curtis Hutson taught the same damnable heresies as Hyles about repentance. He also continued standing with Hyles in the midst of absolute knowledge of his wicked disqualifying sin that also exposed him as a fraud, if all the other heresies, errors and sins hadn't already. He preached the same false teachings about repentance and Christ's Lordship. Despite this, many continue to tie themselves to Curtis Hutson and Hyles’ false gospel, including Sullivant.

See our reports on the Sword of the Lord:

• The Sword of the Lord, Part 1: Man-Centred Revivalist Ministry that Peddles a Perverted Gospel and False Doctrine, Exemplified by Tom Wallace, Michael Sullivant, and Most Revivalist IFB Churches

• The Sword of the Lord, Part 2: Man-Centred Revivalist Ministry that Peddles a Perverted Gospel and False Doctrine, Exemplified by Tom Wallace, Michael Sullivant, and Most Revivalist IFB Churches

Other IFB Compromisers (at best) in Fellowship With and Preaching Alongside, or Name-Drops from the Pulpit.

👉🏻 At the 2025 Niagara Bible Conference this included Johnny Pope, Derrick Morlan, Scott Pauley, Ed Loney, Tom Odom. These are all big man-centered men in the big man-centered camp, smooth talking snake oil salesmen, especially Pope and Pauley and Loney. They are all cut out of the same cloth, with he same heretical tendencies.

👉🏻 John Van Gelderen. In a PVBC sermon God's Desire - My Holiness, Sullivant quotes John Van Gelderen (time 7:25) who is a utter heretic and wolf in sheep’s clothing, one loaded to the brim with heretical Keswick theology and a completely false non-repentance easy-believism Hyles-type of gospel. Unbelievable. This man completely and openly denies and rejects true and biblical repentance, and the true gospel. He is a master of false evangelism and false "converts."

👉🏻 Sullivant and PVBC associates with men that live in ungodly sin, such as pastor Jerome Pittman of Victory Baptist Church in Winnipeg, MB (a church they are associated with), who is married to a divorced woman, one that was put away, which is adultery, continual adultery. The Bible repeatedly tells us this: Matt 5:31-32; 19:3-9; Mk 10:2-12; Lk 16:18; 1 Cor 7:10-11, 39; and Rom 7:1-3, but men like Sullivant and Pittman think they know better than God, and reject these plain and perspicuous truths. We wouldn't be the least surprised if there were members at PVBC living in adultery, since this is the unfortunate and disgraceful case in vast majority of IFB churches. We cover this critical subject here: Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage.

👉🏻 Not only associates with ungodly heretics, but also invites them into the school to teach. One such example, though undoubtedly there would be more, is Jason Yellowknee (already briefly mentioned) who has serious anger issues, adultery allegations, meets next to no qualifications for the office of pastor (Ti; 1 Tim 2), yet “pastors” a church in Cold Lake, Alberta after graduating from Sullivant's CBBC. He is most definitely to be blamed (anger, adultery, not ruling house biblically, etc), pursuing after other men’s wives, not vigilant, poor behaviour, hospitality likely motivated by adulterous thoughts, striker and brawler (boasts to students at CBBC of striking and knocking down the president of a Bible college in Ontario), accused of fraud which is pursuing filthy lucre, not ruling his own house or having his children in all subjection (forcing children to submit out of rage is not biblical subjection; at least one grandchild born out of fornication, one child into drugs, and who knows what else by now) — ALL failed pastoral qualifications, and further, failed evidences of salvation, which means he is an unregenerate wolf in sheep’s clothing, a “grievous wol[f] enter[ing] in among you, not sparing the flock.” (Ac 20:29). Undoubtedly, this wicked “shepherds” testimony of salvation is spurious at best, but here he is destroying homes and lives spiritually, and should’ve never been allowed behind a pulpit. It’s because of men like this, people blaspheme the name of God.

Let’s not forget, Michael Sullivant is the man to blame who has given him the platform, the education, and the opportunity for this destructive course and of course could never now warn about him, in his depraved way of thinking, because it would put the spotlight on him as to why he was ever allowed to attend CBBC and how he found favour in the eyes of the Chief Führer. Regardless of this, he would never warn about anyone among the IFB. But he is the man that allowed Yellowknee to attend CBBC, repeatedly demonstrating he doesn’t give a rip (or just simply lacks any discernment because he is in the same spiritual boat as him) whether they are actually truly born again or not and have true evidence of genuine conversion (his history at the other Bible school should’ve been enough to not allow him to attend, never mind a spurious profession of “salvation”). He is not the only guy that has been allowed into the school that was very likely unsaved. I personally know of one individual who was unsaved and they desperately wanted him to attend. He didn’t and now he is in an adulterous marriage and the father of another man’s children, further proving the fact he never had true regeneration.

Freshly Yoked with a Heretical Man-Centered Baptist-Pretending Church.

Victory Faith "Baptist Church" pastored by Tim Krahn is a new cultish church brought on board the PVBC / Mike Sullivant train wreck, a church that was once (or maybe still is) a Reg Kellyite / Ruckmanite church, and now has joined the ranks of this cultic toxic false-gospel preaching PVBC invisible denomination. Though this pastor is living in unrepentant sin and gross doctrinal errors, he is eagerly welcomed into the fold, and within a very short period of time, Sullivant's water boys from PVBC are pushing their missions agenda at this church, specifically to support PVBC's CanAmera missions program and send (more) students to the CBBC school. They really don’t care how far out into left field doctrine or practice is, as long as they wear suit and tie, carry the title “Baptist,” join the bandwagon, use the KJV and hold it high at the waist, give to their coffers (which includes giving to their missionaries), and most importantly, kowtow to the Denomination Führer.

This church does not align with NT doctrine on the pillar and ground of the truth church, and its certainly not a “Baptist” church even if they have adopted that title, unless Baptist includes doctrinal corruption, Scripture perversion incl. eisegesis, unsound doctrine, non-literal allegorical Scripture interpretation rampantly (the entire OT and much of the NT), corruption of the gospel, easy believism and rejection of Biblical repentance and Christ’s Lordship, universal church, heretical and blasphemous beliefs on the KJV while rejecting the doctrine of preservation, man-centeredness, not practicing the church ordinances (e.g., Lord’s Table), rejecting the priesthood of believers, rejecting church membership, corrupting sanctification and the critical doctrine of evidence of salvation, ruling as a autocratic tyrant who claims to have authority over everyone that graces the church-door (yes, incl. visitors), and more. Krahn rules VFC as “pastor Krahn’s church” — he doesn’t address error, sin or issues with Scripture but with a closed Bible and then his own opinions, desires, and lusts, running the “church” as Diotrephes (3 Jn 1:9-11), as the ungodly Gentiles do as lords (fitting again well into PVBC Big Camp), and entirely by partiality and respect of persons to disgusting levels. In other words he zealously defends his own opinions and VFC at the expense of truth, regardless of what the Scriptures say, doing his own thing, walking after his own lusts, and though there are way to many examples that could be given, consider a few: not hosting the Lords Supper for 3+ years, rejecting church membership, embracing unsaved people as saved, not following church discipline according to Matt 18, casting those out who “threaten” his “leadership,” not dealing with extremely abusive men and criminal behaviour in the church (harbouring a criminal for at least three years who would regularly severely abuse his wife and children), doing nearly everything by partiality and respect of persons, creating serious division in the church, etc. Some of the errors of this Diotrephes impersonator are covered here: The Case of Diotrephes (3 John) - An Exemplar of Heresy, Sowing Seeds of Apostasy.

In spite of all these issues, which they should have been aware of, Sullivant and PVBC swoon them into becoming “sister churches” in their invisible autocratic denomination. Whats a bit of error and sin eh mate, when you have a big rug you can sweep it under, something classically and consistently practiced by Sullivant and his tailcoats, who likewise learnt the church growing technique from his favourite bestie, the wolf Jack Hyles. If the Bible was their actual guide and not the dictates of Führer Sullivant, they would have rather admonished him to repent and get his doctrine right, and reconcile with those he has wronged, being condemned by Scripture such as Matt 5:23-24, “Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” He has never left his gift at the alter and reconciled with those he has wronged; does God then hear his prayers and petitions? The problem is, Krahn and Sullivant are like two peas in a pod, the same heretical doctrines and perversion of Scripture, and the same unscriptural manner of Lording and ruling over the congregation. Churches like VFC need to be separated from, not entertained or yoked with. But that would require obeying Scripture over personal ambitions and earthly kingdom building, and that would never happen in Sullivant’s world (cf. (Rom 16:17-18).

Roy Hession.

Roy Hession’s heretical book “Calvary Road,” a terribly corrupted and perverted revivalist/Keswick book is quoted positively from the pulpit and sold in the church/school bookstore. This book is positively mentioned in Sullivant's The Crucified Life sermon (Jan 25, 2015),

“I read LE Maxwells book ‘Born Crucified’ and Roy Hession, we have his book in the book store on the ‘Calvary Road.’ A lot of these books talk about the crucified life."

The book is thoroughly and extremely heretical, exposed here: Exposing the unBiblical Book “The Calvary Road” by Roy Hession. Both these books and authors are heretical, especially the latter, Hession not understanding Scripture, nor the gospel, perverting the gospel of Christ and wresting the Word of God, an “error of the wicked” (2 Pet. 3:16-17). Even the sermon itself is terribly heretical, loaded with Keswick theological heresy, which we expose in Part II of this report.

Neo-Evangelical Heretics, etc.

👉🏻 Sullivant’s LinkedIn account consistently shows a pattern of reading of and “liking” committed new evangelicals and parachurch organizations and worse, heretics and their posts, many of which locate in close geographical proximity to PVBC. For example, Gregg Johnson who is lead pastor of The Mission Church; Randy Smart senior pastor of Bethel Bergthaler Mennonite Church in Winkler; the Hyles-worshipper and heretic Bob Gray Sr. who posts pictures and quotes of Jack Hyles; etc.

👉🏻 Concerning Randy Smart specifically (a graduate of the terribly heretical Briercrest Bible College and Seminary), pastor of Bethel Bergthaler Mennonite Church by Winkler, Manitoba, Sullivant “likes” a pastor’s podcast (this one specifically: https://globalmissionspodcast.com/096/) by this pastor of a heretical neo-evangelical church (at best) that loves and embraces “conservative evangelicals,” many of which are wolves in sheep's clothing. It is Biblically dangerous to be positively- and favourably- liking another church and thereby indirectly recommending the preaching of another church that is committed to error and worldliness. The podcast speaks favourably of ungodly ecumenicalism but the further reason Sullivant “likes” the podcast has to do with the fact that Smart exalts Sullivant’s short term Ministry work into “a closed country” in the podcast (without naming the ministry). Wow, selfish and narcissistic glory could you say, at the expense of what? What does it say for association? A lot. Ecumenicalism. Compromise. Etc. As far as anyone is aware, this is what he is spending his time listening to, at least propagating the guys ministry, and Amos 3:3 asks, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Sullivant preaches separation but his separation is not Biblical separation, but a hypocrisy. Instead of liking the guys posts, he should have reproved him for his blatant error, ungodliness and worldliness (Eph. 5:5-11; Rom. 16:17) and unscriptural ecumenicalism (cf. 2 Cor 6:14-18; Eph 5:5-11). But that would diminish his popularity and create conflict, and we know that Sullivant is a belly-serving man-pleaser which then means he is not a God-pleaser (Gal. 1:10). He is not interested in actually sticking his neck out for God but rather form approvals, unions, coalitions that are forbidden.

👉🏻 Other heretics recommended from the pulpit include the Keswick heretics LE Maxwell and Louis Sperry Chaffer.

Sullivant practices double standards and hypocrisy. He claims to be a separatist (you have claimed the same about him) some (watered down) preaching and seriously compromised practice of it (only to a degree), but then not actually separating from people over false doctrine and teachings, especially those preaching a seriously perverted false gospel such as Jack Hyles, Jack Schaap, Bob Gray, Curtis Hutson, Clarence Sexton, Brent Marowelli and “evangelist” Jacob Giesbrecht and Rick Flanders, and “liking” deeply compromised individuals and new evangelicals through his LinkedIn account. The church has come to separate from Giesbrecht but it wasn’t over his false gospel which he was allowed to freely preach for years there without batting an eye. Of course, since it was taught to him by Sullivant. This is the man-centred corruption of the IB boys club. Terrible compromise. Friendships and relationships with man are of much greater value than friendship with God. Jesus said “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” (Jn. 15:14). Sullivant is not being a friend of Jesus. At all. Sullivant is at best a soft separatist which is no separatist at all.

The people that Sullivant likes, admires, embraces, promotes, and so on, paint a picture of who Sullivant really is. It removes the cloak, and the wool from before one's eyes. Most of these men are warned of by Jesus (Matt 7:15) and by Paul who declared, “grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock” (Ac. 20:29), but Sullivant does not have the discernment to tell otherwise.

These big-camp, big-man, big-numbers, tyrannical leaders would never dare dream of and be so brave to actually expose a heretic, or a wolf in sheep's clothing, and their errors and heresies and sinful compromised ways. Rather, their energy is engaged into shaping stories for the least amount of damage, or better, no damage at all. At the same time they are shaping their stories for their personal benefit, they are busy working on digging up evil to discredit the source, and thus wonder no more where the left has learned their wicked ways, and why our government is thoroughly evil, pushing their censorship on people, and destroying the lives of dissenters. The churches are leading by example, and the pulse of a nation is determined by the conscience and obedience of the churches.

Part IV to Come...