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

Part 1 focused on the editors of Sword of the Lord (SOTL) with an honorary mention of a few others associated with the organization. This second part is about exposing Tom Wallace, an old-time SOTL preacher, who at one time was vice-president at SOTL.

Tom Wallace, an Original SOTL Preacher Still Preaching

Tom Wallace is a SOTL guy, 100%, one of the last remaining mega-IFB preachers of the 1970's. He was also 100% for Jack Hyles, which should tell you everything about him, his beliefs, his doctrines, his "gospel,"his manner of "soul-winning" and so forth. Wallace was right on board with the SOTL, John R. Rice and Jack Hyles Train.

Oops, I really should call him “Dr.” Tom Wallace, my bad, since he has three doctorates hanging on the walls of his home after all!! Wouldn’t want to hurt the feelings of the pedestal-driven big camper, considering the fact he had to remind his wife of his great achievements hanging on his wall, his greatly acclaimed awards x3, when she wanted him to work around the home. (About them three doctorates, not four as he mistakingly said, they were awarded, not earned, wrongfully given I would add). But nah, we aren't much for cheap accolades so we'll skip the whole man-exalting "Dr." title that ought to be reserved for medical doctors.

Who is Tom Wallace? Wallace was born in 1930, and currently at age 95 continues on in ministerial work, which is certainly impressive, but age doesn't qualify truth or sound doctrine. Old age does not automatically indicate true teacher of the gospel and the truth. He is one of the “mega preachers” of the 1970s, rubbing shoulders and closely associating with heretics such as Jack Hyles, Curtis Hutson, Bob Gray Sr., etc. He served on the staff of Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga pastored by Lee Roberson (1953-1954), pastored Baptist Bible Church, Elkton, Maryland (1954-1971), Beth Haven Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky (1971-1986), and Franklin Road Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (1991-2000). Wallace was also second from the top dog at the SOTL at one time. Most of these churches are virtually apostatized in our present day, or very close and well on their way, the gates of hell prevailed against them. Why? They were terribly compromised with leaven to begin with, to the point of heretical (just the gospel issue on its own renders this charge), and the unchecked and tolerated leaven kept doing its destructive work of leavening until the whole lump was leavened (cf. 1 Cor 5:6; Gal 5:9).

Of course not everything is bad about Wallace, as is the case many times among the IFB or other false teachers for that matter, but we do not weigh the bad with the good. That is not how Biblical reproof of dangerous false teachings and teachers works, which produces a false and unjust balance (De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 10:23). Nowhere is this demanded in Scripture. They are weighed in the balance, and if found wanting, that is the focus, not on any alleged good they may do or preach. Sugar coating false teachers is extremely dangerous, alleviating the cautionary warning that ought to be highlighted and heeded. I understand that in God's address of the seven real churches of Rev 2 and 3, there was both positive and negative presented, but none of the pastors of these churches was being exposed as a false teacher preaching a false gospel, besides Laodicea, and that church does prove our point: there was nothing positive stated about it, and this church embraced a false prosperity, neo-orthodox "gospel" that led to almost an entire church full of unregenerate false "believers" including the pastor (Rev 3:14-18). God exposed them and said He would vomit them out of His mouth lest they repent.

Early this spring (2025), Mr Wallace was invited to Calvary Baptist Church in Tabor, AB, Canada, at the invitation of Pastor Brad Friesen, to preach their annual Missions Conference. This report will reference and be limited (mostly) to the five sermons that Wallace preached at that conference. Shame on IFB pastors like Friesen who invite an ardent and loyal Hyles-follower, easy believist, quick prayerist, false gospel preaching anti-repentance, anti-Lordship revivalist with his faux invitations and psychological manipulations, into his pulpit, exposing the people to a man that preaches a different gospel than the one found in Scripture, amongst a host of other false doctrine, scripture misuse and wresting and perversion galore, and man-centred theology (big numberism, big campism and big manism, boasting excessively and subtly, biblically shallow preaching, mostly unregenerate church membership, no serious discipleship, focused on externalism, neglect of church discipline, church as an evangelistic preaching station rather than a spiritual body, massive amounts of blatant disobedience, hatred for reproof and admonishment, etc) corrupting the hearts and minds of the congregation, helping to advance the destruction of the Independent Baptists (IB, IFB, used interchangeably) and the souls of those who have become two-fold children of hell through the false gospel and the new religion. In spite of all these serious and dangerous issues, Wallace is referred to as a “prince among us.” Wow, you can't make this stuff up. The attraction is for a church to invite this old man of great age, one who has preached with the "greatest" of them and experienced many "great" and "mountaintop" things "for God," a bandwagon type of propaganda to invite the people, and it worked, people coming from hundreds of miles away. Greater shame to pastor Michael Sullivant for his ongoing relationship with SOTL-Hyles men like Wallace and many others, bringing this kind of meeting to fruition (Friesen was sent out by Pembina Valley Baptist Church of Winkler, MB, Canada). The most important job of an under-shepherd is to protect the sheep from the wild beasts, including wolves, including those predators dressed as sheep, but Mr. Friesen was not so much interested in protecting the sheep than celebrating a a big man from the big camp. A preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is held to the standard of blamelessness. Vines says, "It implies not merely acquittal, but the absence of even a charge or accusation against a person. This is to be the case with elders." It is not mere judicial innocence required of a Gospel minister, it is much more. Are these men blameless? Could a teacher be blameless for preaching a perverted gospel?

That is why we expose him and them, why we must, and all those involved in this dastardly unjust travesty that costs the souls of man. Men must prove all things. It is a loving and caring thing to point out doctrinal error. Nothing is more important to every human than the gospel, the true gospel. We can be saved only through the gospel, but it must be the one and only, actual true gospel. Nothing is more important than a true gospel from whence flows true conversions and sound doctrine, so when men publicly and unrepentantly preach a perverted version of God's life-saving, life-giving, glorious gospel that rescues the sinner out of the iron clutches of hell, they will be reaping the rage of the warrior for Christ and categorically exposed if we can help it. Though they ferociously hate the trumpet blower, it does not stop us from obeying the Word of God.

"Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets." (Lk 6:22-23)

To God be the glory!

Tom Wallace, like SOTL, is a Jack Hyles-Promoter and Major Purveyor of Gospel Perversion Among the IFB

Wallace boasts that he's been "Preaching the Gospel for 70 years!" He didn't say by God's grace, or by the will of God; he just said the above, and he says it often, sometimes even implying that this amount of time in the ministry qualifies what he is saying as truth and above reproof (for instance, towards the end of "Little is Much" sermon at his response to a critic). That he should know, boasting is incongruous with true believers, and longevity of preaching does not qualify his words as truth, but the worse of it, he's been preaching a false gospel, one that has almost entirely produced false converts, leading who knows how many thousands (or "millions" as he boosts) into the unquenchable fires of hell. In my life I have found that most churches, even though they might give some truth, don’t preach a true biblical gospel. They mess it up. They continue to mess it up because it's a message that has “worked” for them, but it falls short, mostly way far short, of the true gospel.

Wallace's messed up gospel presentations reflect a rejection of Biblical repentance and Christ' Lordship, and propagation of unscriptural elements, and it falls way, way short. He is an ardent proponent of quick prayerism and easy believism, faux invitations and utilizing psychological manipulations in a form of salesmanship. God's Word warns, "Beware of evil workers" (Gal 3:2) and "deceitful workers" (2 Cor 11:13), and, I have found no better way to identify evil workers than to examine their gospel and detail their methodology. To develop a better understanding of easy believism, see Does the Bible Describe Salvation as Easy?

Throughout his life Wallace has glowingly associated with ungodly men like Jack Hyles (who died in 2001), who more than enough proved himself to be nothing less than a wolf in sheep’s clothing through his false gospel and massive amounts of false doctrine and methods and scripture perversion. Wallace has never disassociated himself from this wicked and immoral false teacher who said, "Now close your Bibles and listen to me," a so-called "pastor" who hated reading the bible and praying, stating to the college students, "I hate to read the Bible, I hate to Pray, why do I do it Duty!” He also claimed from the pulpit, “for every man that’s in jail for rape, there should be the half dressed girl in the cell beside him,” projecting the rape of a woman unto the woman, and not the animal who committed the crime, in the same vein as Islam, which does make sense seeing that this man and Islam both serve the same god, the devil (Jn 8:44; Eph 2:1-2). As much as we stand for modesty and gender distinctive dressing, this unjust wicked statement by Hyles reveals an underlying wicked wolf who hates justice, and that is exactly what he turned out to be. Wallace not only did not disassociate, he kept on associating and praising. This hater of God's Word while masquerading as a "minister of righteousness" (2 Cor 11:12-15) led millions of people, either directly or indirectly, into the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell, with the church and college that he started continuing in that tradition, his influence marching on. Wallace has been a huge part of that as well, and glorifies in it on his self-promoting narcissistic website that is full of all the great and mighty things that he has done, including his tremendous "mountain top experiences." To this day he is enamoured with the wolf Jack Hyles, though he is a bit more careful to his environment when he is exalting him. The truck loads of false doctrine, heresies, damnable heresies, the false gospel and false evangelism methodologies, or the immoral and adulterous deceptive life that Hyles led for almost his entire career as a pastor, and then all the blatant bald-faced lies about that and many other things, has never stopped Tom Wallace from adoring and pledging his allegiance to Hyles.

“Can two walk together lest they be agreed?” (Am 3:3)

The compromised and corrupted gospel that Wallace promotes is indeed right along the same lines as Hyles and Hutson, neither of which men obeyed the Bible or demonstrated genuine fruit of the spirit, which is testable, Jam 3:13-18; Ps 119:165. No repentance, definitely not what the Bible teaches on repentance, which is critical and alone exposes him as a false teacher, since for a sinner to be “converted, that your sins may be blotted out,” he must “repent” (Ac 3:19) and to repent is a whole lot more than a simple change of mind about something, nor is it synonymous with faith. Jesus and the apostles always preached repentance because repentance is the foundation of salvation. True repentance involves all three faculties of man: intellect, emotions, and volition, the latter one the greater and primary reason why sinners won’t be genuinely converted (see Jn 3:19-21). Sinful man must with his will turn from his sins/self/stuff/people, but they kick against it, while holding the truth in unrighteousness (Rom 1). This is what the Bible clearly teaches but Wallace rejects the truth by every appearance.

In the sermon “Heaven and Happiness” (Mar 7, 2025), he summarizes the gospel with those two words: “Heaven and Happiness.” He shows his 8 minute “soul winning” video (titled Rethinking Eternity) posted to his website and viewed by "many" according to him, a presentation he appears to be proud of, but what he presents in the video as the "gospel" is extremely anemic and corrupted, falling way short of the true gospel of Jesus Christ as found in God's Word. What he is presenting is a false gospel, missing critical elements necessary for salvation. Not a word about sin, or repentance or about who Jesus is. The principles of repentance are not even hinted at (I.e. the mind, the will and the emotion; cumulating into sinful man turning from their sin, self, stuff and people, in surrender to Jesus Christ as Lord). There is no way on earth that God the Spirit can convict (Jn 16:7-11), draw (Jn 6:44; 12:42), or reprove (Pr 1:20-25) a sinner with this perverted presentation of the gospel. Perverted because it leaves out majorly important components of the gospel and it creates a false and superficial finish line, producing an unregenerate people with a false sense of security, many inoculated to the truth of their unconverted nature.

Wallace really represents the worst of gospel perverts, reducing the "gospel" to something excessively anemic, with repeating words or "praying a prayer" and the end, getting a “ticket to heaven.” Other people have called this "1-2-3 pray-with-me." Wallace does not believe that repentance is a prerequisite to justification and salvation. I don’t think he even believes it’s a post-justification work, for the word or principle seems to never exits his lips. The rare time he might mention it, he might claims that repentance is merely repenting of unbelief or that repentance is a mere change of mind, synonymous with faith. The Wallace repentance does not expect any necessary result in changing, at least not immediate and maybe not for a long time. None of this is a biblical response to gospel truth, but these are the versions of the gospel that fall short and pervert the gospel, accompanying the wrong methodology and further, the distorted and corrupted sanctification (Keswick/revivalism type), a necessary extension of the false gospel, and a necessary means to keep the unconverted false pretenders in the pews.

Immediately after the video was done, Wallace says,

“We’re starting to get reports already, it’s a brand new presentation, . . . of people able to win their loved ones and friends to Christ. I’m praying the Lord lets the next few years be very fruitful and productive through this, so pray with me about that.”

God forbid! It is not possible for someone to be saved through a false, repentant-less, gospel. It is however able to make false "believers" and false teachers, and that it has done how many thousands of times or more, only the Lord knows. This video must be rejected and exposed, shutting the mouth of the false teacher:

"Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." (Ti 1:11-14)

What the circus master (Wallace in this case) is helping to build is a false religion. Paul says let him be accursed:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” (Gal 1:8-9)

All of the SOTL editors have been corrupters of the gospel, not only Curtis Hutson and Shelton Smith (current and third editor), but also its founder, John R. Rice, and likewise Tom Wallace, who, again, at one time was vice-president at SOTL. All have been in bed with Jack Hyles, and all refused to warn about this wolf in sheep's clothing, even after his fans from coast to coast in the early 1990's donned buttons that proudly displayed “100% for Hyles” (after a mass of evidence was published exposing Hyles’ adulterous relationship with his secretary and the rampant immorality in at FBC that had been covered up and undisciplined, including the adulteries of Hyles’ son Dave when he was on staff), to which Hyles spoke not a word against this idolatrous practice and even joyfully allowed the buttons to be distributed at Hyles-Anderson College, all of which proved he was nothing less than a wolf in sheep's clothing and cult leader, certainly not a biblical pastor (and this is without even considering his truck loads of false doctrines, heresies, damnable heresies, horrendous scripture perversion, false gospel, and so on). No one at SOTL spoke out against Hyles then, or before, or any point after, even when it was obvious he was preaching an anemic and perverted gospel, filling the church with empty professions. Therefore it is of no surprise that all the SOTL editors opposed true Biblical repentance and Christ’s Lordship, and embraced easy believism and quick prayerism. All are or were neck deep into biggism galore, big churches, big camp, big men, big money, big books. Their gospel position is largely the same as Jack Hyles perverted gospel.

It continues to matter because the same false gospel and heresies and cover-ups continue to this day, in hundreds and thousands of churches, and not only among the IFB. Many other neo-evangelical, reformed calvinist, protestant, and other churches, have been influenced by Hyles, these other men and by SOTL, and individuals such as Tom Wallace continue that influence.

Here are some of the various ways that Tom Wallace corrupts the true and pure gospel of God.

Wallace's False and Anemic Gospel Aborts Repentance and Christ's Lordship, and Purveys Easy Believism and Quick Prayerism

As noted, Wallace's gospel presentations reveal a denial and rejection of Biblical repentance and the Lordship of Jesus Christ, while ardently advancing quick prayerism and easy believism, faux invitations and psychological manipulations. His gospel comes way short of the truth and is perverted in how it is given.

To this day, for 70 years, Wallace has been going strong on his easy believism and quick prayerism false gospel program which he has embraced from the very beginning of his professed Christian life, as noted above in the video presented on his personal website. On the same webpage ("Heaven") he presents the Wallace Gospel, “Five Basic Steps to Heaven,”

"(1) Recognize that God Loves You (John 3:16); (2) Understand that All Men are Sinners (Romans 3:23); (3) The Bible Says that Sin Must be Paid for (Romans 6:23); (4) Now, the Good News, Christ Paid for our sin Debt (Romans 5:8); (5) We Must Respond by Receiving Christ (Romans 10:13)."

Though the things he has here in his gospel are true--the standard run of the mill "salvation plan" amongst the IFB almost to verbatim--it is not even close to being enough. What is missing makes it a false gospel, but also what he says about each point lends to corruption additionally. There is not even the barest hint about repentance. There is not even a definition or description of what receiving Christ means. That super-shallow presentation with elevator music playing in the background (the video that goes with it), was once called the Romans Road by Wallace, but it's anything but. Since then he has gone for the catchier “Five Basic Steps to Heaven.” The real Romans Road can be found in Rom 1-3, and it is heavy, long and deep on the bad news before getting to the good news of justification by grace through repentant faith in Christ. The Biblical Romans Road lays the foundation of mans sinful and wicked nature, of man's depravity and destructive ways, of mans wilful embrace of unrighteousness while holding the truth, of mans spiral into apostasy and most awful moral reprobatism, ending with man laden with every kind of sin and evil imaginable, while God's goodness offers the cure for this awful sickness of sin by granting repentance, but man rejects it in his false judgmental nature, storing up futile wrath for the day of wrath (Rom 1:16-2:5). Death cannot come quick enough for these (Rom 1:32). Wallace does not present the gospel in any shape or form comparable to the Romans Road.

All men essentially understand they are sinners (and all should be told they are sinners), so what Wallace writes here (point 2) is not convicting to any degree and not enough. Of the thousands of people to whom I’ve preached the gospel, very, very few have ever told me that they never sinned. I can count them on a few fingers. I haven’t found people won’t admit they are sinners, even though they will claim on the same hand that they are good people.

After presenting his "gospel," Wallace will attempt to lead someone in a sinner’s prayer. While the rare person may actually get saved by this faux and anemic program, the percentage of empty professions by far outweighs the regenerations. It inflates the membership with meaningless numbers and creates a mixed multitude congregation composed of mostly unregenerate people mixed in with a few regenerate.

The compromised and corrupted gospel that Wallace promotes runs along the same lines as Hyles. No repentance, definitely not what the Bible teaches on repentance (he never preaches repentance; of the five sermons heard, the word or principle wasn't mentioned even once), which is critical and alone exposes him as a false teacher, since for a sinner to be “converted, that your sins may be blotted out,” he must “repent” (Ac 3:19), and Biblical repentance is not just a change of mind, nor is it synonymous with faith, nor is it from unbelief (besides for the Jew, who is in unbelief and hypocrisy, while the Gentile is an immoral sinner who holds the truth in unrighteousness - Rom 1). Jesus and the apostles always preached repentance because repentance is the foundation of salvation. True repentance involves all three faculties of man: intellect, emotions, and volition, the latter one the greater and the number one reason why sinners won’t be genuinely converted. Man must with his will turn from his sins/self/stuff/people. This is what the Bible teaches but Wallace rejects the truth by every appearance.

Not a single one of the five sermons had even one mention of repentance, or even its principles, and that as per normal for Wallace. The following are examples of his gospel preaching in the sermon "Little is Much:"

1. Towards the end of the sermon, he gives a brief salvation run down, no repentance anywhere to be found. He quotes Jn 3:16 and 36 and says “it is all believing,” and though those passages are all about believing, they are not the end of the gospel. When we rightly divide the word of truth, we know that repentance is mandatory for salvation, lest you perish, and belief without true repentance is not true belief but feigned, dead faith (Jam 2:14-19).

2. At the very end of the sermon, in his prayer and then salvation invitation, he presents a typical false gospel without any repentance, mention of sin, Christs Lordship, while once again speaking only to God's love and the lie that those who believe his corrupted gospel are going to heaven, all of which is easy believism and quick prayerism at very best, but it was very bad, like Joel Osteen bad. It was the numbers game of manipulation: raise hands if you prayed that prayer which follows with another “salvation” rehearsal with the scripted invitation, but this time the pastor of the church deleted the airing of his salvation invitation, likely because it was so corrupt and twisted, and replaced it with their own slides of “How can I know I will go to heaven?” Yet this has been Wallace’s method of soul winning for 70 years, nothing new, which was abruptly cut off in the now edited version by Friesen (we listened to the original unedited immediately after it had been live, and Wallace’s gospel was horribly corrupt and perverted, not even close to the true gospel). Friesen has learned his man-centred and duplicitous tactics and damage control well from his master Michael Sullivant, editing Wallaces horrendously false gospel out of the sermon and replacing the remainder with the following slides that also come short in scripted fashion of the true gospel, and have the same punch line of going to heaven, something never found anywhere in any gospel/salvation presentation in the Bible. But it's all about damage control committed by the big man with his millions of man-preaching and his uncountable “conversions.” This is what the slides read:

Slide 1: “How can I know I will go to heaven?”

Slide 2: “You must realize you are a sinner” quotes Rom 3:10.

Slide 3: “You must realize there is a penalty for sin.” Quoting Rom 6:23.

Slide 4: “You must believe God sent His Son Jesus to pay the penalty for your sin.” Rom 5:8.

Slide 5: “You must repent and believe the gospel.” Quoting Mk 1:15.

Slide 6: “You must trust in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour.” Jn 3:16.  Rom 10:13

Well though it be anemic and watered-down, and only slides 5 and 6 really different than Wallaces, it is nevertheless better than the anemic placebo Wallace was offering (at least it contains the word "repent," but we know Friesen believes in something different than the repentance of the Bible, a severely corrupted version thereof, resembling Sullivants), but one does wonder if it ever occurred to pastor Friesen that if he needs to correct a preachers “gospel,” which is being preached from his pulpit, that there may well be something wrong with that man's “gospel” and with the “preacher” himself and that they probably shouldn’t have been preaching to a flock that God has entrusted to him in the first place? Oops. Also, why wouldn't he have put up a slide correcting the horrendous errors and damnable heresies that Wallace was preaching, making it very clear as to what was wrong, and the purpose for the slides? Is God and his truth is not worthy to take a stand for? Are the souls of man not worthy? So why not? Is it because they love power and control and keeping people in the dark? They certainly are WAY too man-centred, and man-appeasing, and man-worshipping, to do something that God actually requires and demands of them, and that He loves. The truth is, through these actions we can see Friesen and his Führer over in Manitoba, Sullivant, don’t really give a rip over the so-called sheep in their assembly. They are there to serve their belly, not the Lord (Rom 16:18). That is why they cast out critics from their structured and robotic religion that requires compromise and decisions. These wicked shepherds have no issue with exposing their flock to a wolf in sheep’s clothing who did eternal damage to the souls of the ones listening to his man-centred, boastful, corrupted, and false gospel sermons, revealing they care more for the wolf than the sheep. These men are the VERY opposite of what the Apostle Paul was, polar opposites of passage such as Gal 1:10,

"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."

In another sermon“Heaven and Happiness” and towards its end, Wallace tells his attentive audience some of his many great "soul winning" escapades and adventures in his travels, and how they also can—quickly and before they hardly know it—be “won to heaven.” Every single example, from the guy on the plane to the lady at the hotel reception to the cleaning lady at the same hotel, is 100% reflective of easy believism and quick prayerism--at best. What a great soul winner Sir Wallace is. Someone knight the man. Wallace would’ve given Hyles and Gray a great run in capturing the gold.

Many professions of faith will be gotten by means of the SOTL type of gospel, and that is the testimony of men like Wallace. People are willing to get salvation for intellectual assent. They are very fine with that. So what happens? They present this less than saving gospel and get a decision. They call the decision salvation. Getting more professions validates the work and message of these false preachers. They think they're more spiritual and more obedient because they get more decisions. For the leaders, it is easier to get workers, because it reduces preaching to a human effort. You can have an unsaved person present the false gospel. It doesn't take faith to present it, and yet it is given credit as being faithful. It really is a bait and switch. Someone is offered something said to be salvation, but it's actually a placebo, for man cannot get saved when the gospel is perverted and corrupted. The whole system glorifies man and is worse than someone committing mass genocide on a scale of bad.

Wallace's False Gospel Puts All the Emphasis on "Going to Heaven When You Die" and Then Living After "Happiness"

The corrupted gospel that Wallace promotes puts a major emphasis on “going to heaven when you die.” His "Heaven and Happiness" "salvation plan" that he presented during his sermon at the missions conference by the same name (where he played his salvation video, also found on his website here), puts all the emphasis on “going to heaven when you die,” which was the heart and soul of Jack Hyles’ "soul winning" program, and where Wallace undoubtedly mastered it, especially in his annual pastors school. Like Hyles, Wallace puts the emphasis on you could know right now and beyond any shadow of a doubt that you can go to heaven when you die, as illustrated in his presentation, both in rehearsing his own testimony and in presenting his salvation plan, "Did you know that the Bible teaches that you can know; would you really like to know?" That is,"if you have an interest in going to heaven."

The climactic portion of the call to salvation in his Rethinking Eternity video:

"So if you have an interest in going to heaven, and you can believe what God says to you in the Bible and you will act on it, you can become a child of God, and He'll put your name in the Lambs Book of Life and sign you up and make a reservation for ya in heaven. Now whosoever is not found in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire; now you don't want that and I don't either. And so if you haven't done so, I hope you'll take time to open your heart and receive Christ as your personal Saviour, and turn it all over to Him and let Him take care of every bit of it, and He'll come into your heart . . . first of all, get Jesus into the picture, get Him into your heart..."

Every unsaved person has an interest in going to heaven. Thats not the issue. The issue is man's rebellion, holding the truth in righteousness, refusing to repent, as Rom 1:18-20 and 2:1-5 make explicitly clear, and Jn 3:19-21 among many other passages, and who Christ is, not only Saviour but Lord (and in salvation, it is Lord that is the issue; no one has a problem with Christ wanting to save them and that He loves them), both of which are completely absent from any of his salvation presentations. This means he is teaching a false faith and a false Jesus, who is not being recieved for who He is.

Pointing to the graphic slide behind him during the “Heaven and Happiness” sermon, he says,

“2 Cor 5:21, He comes into our heart, therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. A brand new creation. Never had that before. Now I have him in here [pointing to his heart]. Now that gets me into heaven. I haven’t done anything, haven’t been baptized, haven’t joined a church, haven’t stopped doing bad things, haven’t started doing good things, I’ve just received Christ. . . . Now we get Christ in the picture and that brings salvation . . . And now we’re on the way to heaven. John 14:3. [chuckles weirdly] I’m going to come and take ya to heaven in the rapture, what a beautiful thought. Now the question is, how I’m going to be happy.”

The theme once again is getting into heaven, mentioned three times in this short excerpt. This is what easy believism is, illustrated. Besides the superficiality, it is so bad on so many levels. "Haven't stopped doing bad things"? Well there you go. Without saying it, he utterly rejects repentance. When someone truly, Biblically repents, they are actually turning from their sin and self and anything else. That means they stop whatever sin it is that they are doing. Period x 5. When the drunkard repents, he stops drinking. The murder repents, he stops murdering. The adulterer repents, he stops his remarriage or fornicating with another woman while married. Should we keep going... I think you get the picture, but Wallace doesn't on the other hand because he rejects the picture, the doctrine, and the gospel that contains the doctrine.

It’s also not "creation" but "creature" in 2 Cor 5:21. He is obviously not reading from the KJV but using the graphics of someone that is pro-modern perversion, likely the NKJV.

Of course none of this is any different than Jack Hyles damnable heresy:

“Do you see what I’m trying to say? It is good to get him committed that he will do it; then you have gone a long way toward getting him saved before you ever present the plan. So these three questions: (1) ‘Do you know that if you died today you would go to Heaven?’ (2) ‘Would you like to know?’ (3) ‘If I could show you how you could know, would you do it?’” (Hyles, Let’s Go Soul Winning, Sword of the Lord Publishers)

Not once in the book of Acts do we find a preacher saying, “Do you want to go to heaven when you die? If so, you need to do this...” There is not a hint of that type of thing in Scripture. The truly saved saint certainly goes to heaven when they die, but this approach in evangelism is never seen in Scripture, not even hinted at. Nowhere. Jesus did not use this with the Samaritan woman in Jn 4 or with the multitudes of unconverted Jews following Him in Lk 14:25-15:32; 9:23-26; Matt 16:24-26; Mk 8:34-35, nor did He tell His apostles to use that as an evangelistic strategy when He instructed them in Matt 10:32-39. Peter did not use this on Pentecost in Acts 2. Paul did not use this in Athens on Mars Hill in Lk 17. The emphasis is on repenting and believing or perishing (Lk 13:1-5; Jn 3:15-16; Ac 17:30), on forsaking your sins and wickedness and seeking the Lord (Is 55:6-7), on buying on Christ's return and coming judgment (Ac 17:31), on ones sinful and lost condition (Lk 19:1-10), on being saved (Ac 16:30-31), on the remission of sins (Lk 24:47-48; Ac 10:43), on drinking the living water and never thirsting again (Jn 4:10-14), on finding rest for one’s soul (Matt 11:28-30), on becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus at the moment of the new birth and entering the new regenerated relationship with the Triune God (2 Cor 5:17-18; Jn 17:3), on obtaining the righteousness of God (Rom 1).

The idea of preaching the true gospel that brings conviction, reproof, and repentance is to break up the fallow ground and prick the heart of the truth-seeking and God-fearing sinner, allowing the seed of God's Word to do its work by its Bearer, the Spirit of God (Jer 4:3-4; Hos 10:12; Ac 13:26; Is 55:6-7; Jn 16:7-11; Heb 4:12; Pr 1:20-25; Matt 13:3-23; 1 Pet 1:23), and though there may be a different approach to every individual (which we can attest to as we do house-to-house evangelism and street preaching), every gospel presentation relates to repentance and faith, for that is how we are born again, "repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mk 1:15), "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever" (1 Pet 1:23). NT preachers preached on the promise of eternal life through the Lord Jesus Christ, but never did they take the “do you want to go to heaven” approach in evangelism.

Wallace False Gospel Involves "Asking Jesus to Come into Your Heart"

Wallaces' "salvation plan" involves "asking Jesus to come into your heart and save your soul," presented in both in his personal testimony and in the "Heaven and Happiness" video presentation on how to be saved, and frequently otherwise mentioned when giving "salvation" invitations.

This is a false gospel, which dovetails with quick prayerism and easy believism. It is not Biblical language. Well intentions and hoping for someone to be saved does not excuse the deluded gospel. Someone can ask Jesus into their heart a hundred times but still not be saved. They are however according to Wallace, and with this he has made a lost sinner bound for hell a two-fold child of hell who deceptively thinks he is on his way to heaven.

Some invite Jesus into their hearts as little children because they are taught that in their church (i.e., Wallace), and keep coming to church because their Christian parents enforce godly habits in their home. They continue to embrace Christianity through imitation and conformity, because of what must have happened when they were younger. They are told they asked Jesus into their heart, therefore it must be true. Jesus must be in their heart. They outwardly imitate true Christians and perhaps even go to Bible college and/or end up in the ministry, where they teach others to ask Jesus into their hearts just like they did—but having never themselves personally repented, surrendered to God and trusted in the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross, they are just as lost as were the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. There is not one gospel for adults—repentant faith in Christ for salvation—and a different one for children, inviting Jesus to come into their hearts, and sadly some continue teaching this for adults, as was the case in Wallace's soul-winner. A person who invites Jesus into his heart is fearfully likely to always think they are saved because they did what their church leaders or parents told them. The fear of man compels them to continue to embrace their false and self-deluded hope. Unless he rejects his false profession and realizes that he is yet a hell-bound sinner who must come to the Lord Jesus for forgiveness by true Biblical repentance and surrender, he will be eternally damned (Lk. 5:31-32; 13:1-5; Ac. 26:20; 19:17-19; Matt. 3:1-12; 21:28-32). Neither children nor adults grow into salvation—they must repent and believe the gospel after first understanding the true gospel thoroughly, and conversion happens in one instantaneous moment of time only (2 Cor. 6:2). Those who ask Jesus to come into their hearts may be sincere, but God warns:

"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Pr. 14:12)

Continue reading on this dangerous error: Is it Biblical to Ask Jesus into Your Heart to be Saved?

Wallace's False Gospel Provides False Assurance

Wallace's false gospel program of easy believism and quick prayerism gives security to those who follow through with his counterfeit invitational. I wouldn't be surprised if Wallace distributed "Spiritual Birth Certificates" to the "millions" he led to the Lord, extra ammunition for the soon coming day of doom and doubt (they should read Pr 1:20-32). In the sermon "Heaven and Happiness" he states, “The first step to happiness is assurance of salvation. 1 Jn 5:13 . . ." In typical IFB fashion (and most other professing Bible believing churches), assurance of salvation is corrupted into something more in line with the Word Faith movement, faith in faith. It isn't Biblical assurance of salvation.

Of course the Bible clearly and abundantly teaches that the born again believer has eternal life and eternal security of that eternal life, but it is the Spirit of God that gives that assurance alone. No man can give assurance to another man of any certainty, since we don’t know the heart. There were 12 apostles and one was a devil. Among men, no one knew. Judas did absolutely everything the other apostles did: preach, teach, sacrifice, follow Christ, heal, exorcise demons, and so forth, but NO one knew he was a fake, a counterfeit, the betrayer of the Son of man, except the Son of man. But that doesn't stop man-centred numbers-driven men like Wallace, who scurry over to 1 Jn 5:13 and say, 'see, here it says you have eternal life if you believe.' Just like what happened in Wallaces own profession of salvation, and what he has counted on for 70 years since, and what this writer has heard and witnessed countless times from the pulpit, articles, conversations, etc. Well, how convenient. That means every single person that professes to believe, has eternal life. It says so in 1 Jn 5:13. That includes the devils, since they "believe" (Jam 2:19). I think not! This is cheapened grace, corruption of the gospel, perversion of 1 Jn 5:13. It wasn't written for that purpose. It is to give assurance of eternal life to those who believe and have the Witness in themselves, which is the Spirit of God, but what is that assurance of faith based upon? Faith in facts? Biblical assurance of salvation is obtained 100% by the evidence of salvation, what John had just presented across 4 and 1/2 chapters, 90 verses, and a few more after this text — 12 major markers of true conversion, a dozen proofs of the evidence of salvation, all of which comes through the fruit of regeneration and the Spirit, which you can read about here: Evidence of Salvation in John's Epistle’s. It is no accident that 1 John was given in the manner it was. Assurance of salvation is 100% based upon the evidence of salvation, not upon feelings, and not upon faith in faith or facts.

Those that are indwelt, borne witness with, and led by the Spirit of God are the children of God (Rom 8:14-16), and the indwelling Spirit of God always leads in the paths of righteousness for His name sake, in the ways of godliness, holiness and Christ-conforming glory by God's grace (Ps 23; Ti 2:11-14), while denying the ways of the flesh (Rom 6), the world (1 Jn 2:15-17) and the stranger (Jn 10:1-5), all of which create unmistakable godly fruit and Biblical evidence of the new birth. Paul establishes the truth all true born again believers are fruitful from the very day of their new birth, since the day they knew the grace of God in truth here:

"We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:"  (Col 1:4-6)

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" (Rom 8:14-16)

It is by the fruit and evidence of salvation, God testing the faith of the professor, that the Spirit of God confirms, or bears witness to me that I am a child of God. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."  Leading of the Holy Spirit produces very clear and undeniable marks, just like being led of the flesh/world does, and this leading bears witness of my spirit with God's Spirit that I am a child of God. This is how assurance of salvation works, not based upon your feelings or even what you believe about the Bible.

On a side note, Wallace also corrupts the word "hope" in the context concerning 1 Jn 5:13 and assurance, saying, “it doesn’t say, "like," or "hope," or "maybe," but "know.” Right, it says "know" but why put "hope" into that list? Really? Is hope contrary to God's promise of eternal life? There are other passages of scripture that speak about the hope of eternal life in salvation; what about that hope Mr Wallace? E.g., "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; . . . That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (Ti 1:2; 3:7).

In the same sermon “Heaven and Happiness” he preaches on the many problems of people that have come to him over the years, as a pastor and after as an evangelist, they come crying to him and he and they don’t know what’s wrong, so where does he put the blame? Sins of omission. This implies that they weren't committing any sins (sins of commission), only not doing that which God has commanded them to do as born again believers. But are they actually born again? He doesn't address that, nor would he ever. God forbid he would be so harsh and question someone's profession of faith and "Christian" life. He just assumes, gullibly, naively, without discernment, that everyone that comes to him professing the name of Christ is a true believer, especially when they prayed the prayer and walked the sawdust trail, and got wet in the waters of a church he pastored, while Scripture paints a completely different picture. Why not dig deep into the wells of a man's heart and see whether sin itself is the cause of their problems, which is very likely the case, and again could be for the same reason just mentioned: unregenerate and natural people attempting to live the Christian life. It doesn't actually work very well, and sin will trouble them and plaque them continually, until they become masters at imitation and conformity and deception.

The very real fact is that they are very likely unsaved, the product of Wallace’s false gospel, and now they have problems. Time to pull out the "carnal Christian," "backsliding" and "lukewarm" card. In one sermon he claims, “Before you know it, we’ve become backslidden.” Unregenerate people indeed backslide, they apostatize, not saved people. Only unsaved people can be apostates. We cover this wrongheaded teaching here: Saved People Don't Backslide - They Are Not Apostates. Furthermore, and unbelievably, Wallace states about the people in his churches that some are 10% spiritual and 90% carnal, some are 20% carnal, some 30%, some 70%, some even 100% ("How To Get 100% of Your Prayers Answered"). But these are all still “believers” according to Wallace, the products of Wallace's "gospel." Unbelievable. This is our very point concerning these heretical revivalistic IFB churches. They believe, teach and purvey a false gospel that inoculates many to the real truth and the actual condition of their nature. The pogrom is scripted to detail. It's actually a "new" religion that ties the person to the said church; a "new" form of bondage and ensnarement, where externally they are "Christians" and "indeed appear beautiful outward," while internally they are "full of dead men's bones." (Matt 23:27). In reality it is not a "new" religion" but the same old self-righteous religion of the Pharisees, and brings the same death and damnation." Carnal Christians" are false, fake, never-been-saved "Christians," exposed here, here, and here.

Wallace's "Gospel" Leaves a Person Unchanged and Unable to Differentiate and Discern Between Saved and Unsaved

The person that receives the gospel of the Wallace's will almost always remain unchanged and unaffected to any obvious level. They might remain like that for days, weeks, months or years. This once again is only a reflection of a perverted and twisted gospel that has no bearing to the truth of Scripture. It 100% contradicts what God's Word says about salvation and the effects of salvation. Even one text of Scripture alone refutes this damnable heresy:

"But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it , and bring forth fruit with patience. No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light." (Lk 8:15-16)

A refusal to, or inability to, differentiate between the truly saved and the false pretenders is yet another serious heresy that lives in these camps, the byproduct of the perverted and watered-down gospel and the false sanctification that follows. Men like Wallace essentially never (actually never) give the contrast between the flesh and the spirit, I.e. saved vs unsaved, inheriting the kingdom of God vs not, etc, a two-fold contrast that exist everywhere in Scripture, practically in every place where salvation is being preached (which is everywhere in the four gospels). It is so common in Scripture, it should literally flow off the tongue. These heretical churches are not giving people the juxtaposition that they desperately need to hear, distinctions that exist absolutely everywhere in scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. We show this briefly in the following report, the continual and consistent contrast between only two natures, not three: There are Only Two Classes or Categories of People in God’s Word, Not Three. This is the standard. People need to hear it and see it to know whether they are saved or not. The conscience is trained by the law to know where the boundaries are.

Why would so-called pastors like Tom Wallace not teach this clear and critical Biblical truth, in spite of it being everywhere in scripture? For one of two reasons:

1. First reason, and likely the most common: because they are blind to it. They cannot see it and worse, they don't want to see it, for it would bring conviction of their own unconverted nature. Well now we can't have that, can we. A "pastor" wouldn't want to admit all of sudden that they are lost and have been deceiving themselves and many, many others their entire life. This would also mean they must humble themselves before God and man, in the fear of the Lord and admit almost to the worst thing that could happen in their life -- they've lived the life of a fake, of a pretender, of an actor, i.e., the hypocrite. Most would rather take their chances and end in hell than having to exercise genuine humility, fear of God and admit their hypocrisy (which is tied inseparably to repentance). This happens to be the sad tale of majority of religious people, also noted in Scripture (e.g., Matt 23) and why God laughs in their face and mocks them when calamities, fears, desolations and destructions come, the door having shut a long time ago when they rejected the fear of the Lord and true Biblical knowledge (which includes the true gospel), refusing to respond to the calling, reproof and admonishment of God (Pr 1:20-25). The knowledge and understanding they have will be taken away from them (Matt 13:12), though they continue on status quo (Matt 7:22-23). "Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." (Lk 8:18).

2. Second reason, which could in fact extend from the first reason, or possibly from someone that is genuinely converted but more interested in building a big church then ensuring the "Christians" in his church are actually truly converted, or to account for the many professions that seem fruitless and lack evidence of salvation. These are placed into another category in the two-tiered system of Christianity, where someone can be saved, but demonstrate very little life of the born again believer. These are "carnal Christians," "backsliders," and "lukewarm Christians" that need the second blessing of Keswick theology, which involves rededication, a crisis moment typically, making Jesus Lord by surrendering to Him, becoming a disciple and follower of Jesus, gaining victory over the power of sin, and so forth, all of which actually describes the qualifiations of salvation or what occurs at that moment, which these unsaved Keswick-followers do not have, but they are treated as saved, only missing some important things in their Christian life. We have a real hard time believing someone to be saved that teaches this heresy and rubbish, and for the most part they are not. See our reports on Keswick Currency of “Unbelief,”“Lukewarm,” “Backsliding,” and “Carnal,” Describe False Professing “Christians,” Not True Born Again Believers. The Keswick currency fits the system of the false gospel and false sanctification, twisting many of the salvation passages, turning those biblical texts that teach the gospel into something post-salvation, Christian living, or practical sanctification.

In the same vein, Wallace doesn't understand the overcomer, which is caused by a lack of knowing and understanding the true gospel. He corrupts the meaning of overcomer in an article about overcoming (article, "You Can Be An Overcomer,”), which points to a Keswick/Revivalist type of theological position, the title itself giving it away, which is heresy. Though this was never mentioned in the five sermons, it comes from an article he wrote and worth mentioning here, adding to the misunderstanding Wallace has about salvation and its effects, and an inability to discern between the truly saved and the fakes, and thus unable to effectually help these people. The entire article is unscriptural and heretical, completely missing the point of the overcomer. But by design it fits into the heretical system of the perverted man-centred Gospel, Revivalism and Keswick Theology/Second Blessing Theology, which is literally found everywhere in Wallaces, teaching, horribly corrupting the doctrines of sanctification and salvation by distorting and fabricating rest, power over sin, discipleship, overcoming, Lordship, Spirit-filled, etc.

No true born again believer is "saved" and then continues to be held in bondage to the world, to the flesh or to the devil. That person is not an overcomer, while true Biblical conversion ALWAYS results in overcoming the flesh/sin (e.g., Rom 6:1-22), the world (1 Jn 5:4-5); and the devil (1 Jn. 2:13-14; 4:4-6; 5:18). The victory happens at the very moment of salvation, even as these scripture references tell us, and then plays out on a day to day basis for the remainder of their lives. That does not mean the saint will never again sin or be influenced by the world or the devil. It does mean that none of these things will ever have any more power or dominion over the saint again (Rom 6:1-23; Jn 8:31-36; 1 Jn 5:4-5; 3:1-10; etc), who is regenerated, redeemed, justified, imputed with God's righteousness and never to be imputed with sin again.

So when someone is not an overcomer, that person is not genuinely converted. They are a fake and a counterfeit, while heretics like Wallace coin them as saved, only "carnal," or "backsliding," or "lukewarm," further sowing seeds of apostasy, and doing great damage to these terms as well.

Wallaces "Gospel" Has Produced Thousands or Millions of Empty, False Professions

Any church that adopts this corrupted gospel that denies the foundational element which is repentance, that ignores Christ's Lordship, that exchanges the true gospel as found in Scripture with one that engages in easy believism and quick prayerism, along with the unscriptural methods of evangelism, will produce mostly false professions and provide a false hope to the same multitude. In Wallace's case it could be "millions." Wallace had three of the top ten growing Sunday Schools in America, and he lets everyone know when given the opportune (in this interview it is literally the very first thing he states, bragging and boasting about it gleefully, "all three of the churches I pastored are in that book, which I thought was just really something else," in spite of the interviewer already telling him he read the Elmer Towns book and about Wallace in the book -- this interviewer by the way believes in the same perverted, unBiblical, false gospel of easy believism and quick prayerism as Wallace, and corrupts Scripture and doctrine to enable the false profession by falsifying rest and unbelief in Heb 3 & 4, etc). That doesn't happen through the true gospel but through a placebo. These people aren't entering the sheepfold through the door, but another way (Jn 10:1-5).

Here are some examples of his braggadocios boasting of numbers, numbers, and more numbers that Wallace salivated after, which is "success" to him:

• 722 "saved," and 526 baptisms in a Thursday night church service in a Mexico City IFB church, run by a man (Kevin Wynn) made of the same cloth as Wallace and Hyles.

• 17 out of 17 junior boys "saved." They were rounded up in Wallace's small car and brought to a tent meeting with Dr. Bill Rice on the campus of Tennessee Temple University (how do you fit 17 people into a small car??). Wallace says, "All of them responded to the invitation to accept Christ as their Savior that evening."

• 234 "saved" at a revival meeting at his church which was was averaging 125 per Sunday, and just like that, the church doubled in size.

• 9 out of 9 "saved." Don Paisley and his family (four children and their mates), were seated around the dining room table when Wallace "[won] all of them to Christ!" This occurred around the time he conducted the funeral service for Don's wife. Wallace says, prior to this, "None of them were saved, including Don," and I would say, extremely likely none of them were saved after Wallace was done presenting his false gospel and easy/quick prayer upon them. To Wallace, it was all about the"great experience...!"

• 89 souls "saved" in one month, the month of his 89th birthday! I wonder what happened in all of the other years of his birthday? Must've not panned out, eh. Miraculously he won the 89th on the last day of the fair and four days before his birthday!

• Hundreds, or thousands? Concerning Elkton, MD, the "whole town was touched" after Wallace "hosted a five-week tent revival meeting in the early ’60’s with Evangelist Oliver B. Greene." We don't know the population of Elkton in the 60's but based upon its present population (>15,000), it would have been in the thousands for sure. While we also don't exactly know what "touched" refers to, we can assume it had something to do with professions, and quite likely at one point Wallace would have included some monstrosity of a number attached to this great highlight of his.

• Preached to 22,275 on a Sunday morning for Jack Hyles when he wanted to break their Sunday school record. The goal for its-all-about-the-numbers-Jackie was 20,000 and he hired, Lester Roloff, Jack Van Impe, Jimmy Dickens and Wallace (who preached in the main service) to break the record, so as to have bragging rights and boast about how great he was. Wallace is continuing the tradition. This all worked on Hyles satanic pride, so he could one day proclaim that the future of America doesn’t rest in God’s hands, but “upon these shoulders” (pointing to his own shoulders).

• Many (at least 4-5 every Sunday, and more other days) at Lee Roberson's Highland Park Baptist Church. Every Sunday it was required for the church workers to bring people forward at invitation, people invited to church during the week, which Wallace did religiously, at least 4/service. Wallace says, "The Lord gave me many souls and helped me enlist many people into the family of our church," which, combined with "running a bus route," was referred to as the Lord working "supernatural miracles" through him (source). Inflated, unconverted, false professions, thats what they were. This is where he was grounded in the corrupted gospel of easy believism and quick prayerism techniques by Lee Roberson and Tennessee Temple University.

• 60-70 waitresses at Cracker Barrel.

• Et cetra, Et cetra, Et cetra, Et cetra.

This is sick. Literally, who can write or say these things with a straight face? I find it hard to believe that a single person would've been genuinely converted in that "722," "17," "234," "9," "89," "60-70," hundreds or thousands, and more.

If someone was to take the time and add up all the numbers of SOTL editors and preachers and the numbers they have reported of people allegedly won to Jesus, we wouldn't be surprised if vast majority of the southern USA would be considered saved. Hence is the ridiculousness of these inflated numbers and empty professions. The churches of the Wallace, Hyles, Hutson, Rice, Gray Sr., Gray in Florida, Graham and so forth, can show only handfuls of people among thousands that resemble anything close to fruit and evidence of salvation, but even among these, many will turn out to be false converts, either stony or thorny soils, both of which continue in their profession, but lack Biblical fruit and true regeneration, one racked with turmoil and troubles, for "evil pursueth sinners" and not the saint (Matt 13:3-23; Pr 13:21; 2 Tim 3:5-9).

We will consider one example that Wallace himself illustrated in the sermon "Heaven and Happiness," an example that could undoubtedly be multiplied by the thousands and more. Wallace tells the story of a very young boy they had in his church that allegedly got “saved,” and at some point after was coerced into getting baptized (yes, coerced), something he knew nothing about, and was certainly not led by the Spirit of God and the Word of God to undergo, which we know not only because of his age which in all likelihood came with a spurious testimony (especially upon considering what happened here) but also what transpired after, the reason for the story: he came up to the podium after a service and accidentally asked to be “advertised” (he meant “baptized”), which was apparently too funny and everybody laughed raucously, but it’s actually tragic and truly reflective of the damnable heresy these clowns in empty suits are pounding from the pulpit, making many two fold children of hell even more than themselves. Very sad. The boy didn’t even know how to say the word, but lets gettem wet and added to the tithing row. This is making a mockery of the things of God and an embarrassment to the young lad. The clown show is ridiculous! It speaks volumes to the fact it has never convicted old Wallace, and rather in his old age, a comedy worthy to be retold.

In all this, Wallace is merely following in the footsteps of his spiritual hero's, the "giants" of fake and empty professions, of easy believism and quick prayerism, men such as Jack Hyles, Bob Gray Sr., Curtis Hutson, John R. Rice, Billy Graham. Or maybe it was vice versa.

Jack Hyles, might have been the king of numbers, easy believism and quick prayerism. He claimed that 750,000 people were saved at Hammond under his ministry, but strangely these numbers do not reflect reality in the active church attendance or the reality of the community, region or the city down the road (Chicago). All these would have been  dramatically affected but nothing of the sort. If anything, things only got worse.

Dave Hyles, the adulterous and evil son of Jack (like father, like son), organizer of the Teenage Soul Winning program at FBC of Hammond, claimed to have won 1,000's of souls while yet a teenager (“I won thousands of souls before I finished my teen years” -- The Fundamental Man, p. 271), and then within the first six years of becoming "youth pastor" (whatever that is, strangely absent from Scripture) at age 19, the teens reported 100,000 "salvation" decisions. Elmer Towns describes in his book World’s Largest Sunday School, an experience on a Saturday in 1974 with FBC youth soul winning program led by Dave. More than 200 teens showed up, and Dave told them, “Last week we won over 1,000 souls to Jesus Christ; let’s do it again tonight.” Towns accompanied 31 young men on a bus to an inner city area of Chicago. The young men told him that they had 21 out the week before and had “won over 200 to the Lord.” That week they aimed for more than 300. Here is an example of that, one that could be written for Hyles, Hutson, Gray and Wallace, and many, many more like them:

“Joe stopped at the first home; nine played on the porch. ‘Hey, would you like to ride a bus to church tomorrow morning?’ He began talking about God. The kids didn’t know much about Him. Within minutes the group swelled to 15 curious Spanish kids. He talked about creation and the message of Calvary. ‘If you were to die tonight, would you go to heaven?’ Joe asked and pointed his finger at each one of the kids. All shook their heads negatively. ‘I want you to bow your heads right here and pray to receive Jesus Christ.’ He did not ask if they wanted to be saved, or if they were ready; he just told them to pray so they would go to heaven. . . . Most of them repeated the simple prayer after him. . . . As each boy jumps on the bus, he reports how many had been won to the Lord. Twenty-six is the highest number; one is the smallest--total of 261 for the evening. All the guys cheer” (Towns, World’s Largest Sunday School, pp. 177, 179)

A man who pastored a church near FBC of Hammond did a diligent followup on roughly 1,000 decision cards from FBC's visitation ministry and found that not even one person was interested in anything to do with Christ. Not one. Every last one of them so-called "professions "were completely void of any spiritual reality. Unbelievable. This is the dangerous and duplicitous "evangelism" Hyles perfected and Wallace by extension. Empty, useless, dead professions of faith, and two-fold children of hell. God's wrath must be fiery hot when He sees this wickedness and travesty of truth being propelled in the name of His Son.

In a meeting in 2022 between David Cloud/Courtney Lewis and John Wilkerson current pastor of FBC in Hammond, Lewis shared his experience of Hylescost, which took place on May 3, 1998, an event Jack Hyles boasted led to more people saved at FBC that day than at Pentecost, claiming 15,000 salvations and 5,112 baptisms (more can be read about that in Cloud's report “Pentecost vs. Hylescost”). "At the time, Lewis was a student at Fairhaven Baptist College in Chesterton, IN, about 25 miles east of Hammond. He was involved with Fairhaven’s bus ministry and spent Saturdays and Sundays working with street kids in Chicago. He found out that First Baptist bus workers had contacted some of the kids he was working with and that they were going to participate in the big day, so he got permission to observe some of the proceedings. He told Pastor Wilkerson the following testimony:"

“First Baptist rented out satellite buildings in the area, and one of those was in Chicago, close to where we were ministering. They had rented out a Seventh-day Adventist church and were holding this rally for the kids. ... So we went to that meeting. We sat in the back, and a bus pulled up and unloaded about 50 or 60 kids. We saw the kids that we were ministering to on normal Sundays get off the bus. They brought all of the kids into a classroom. They sat the kids down, and a worker came up and led the kids in one verse of ‘Amazing Grace.’ He sat down and another man came up and gave a five- or seven-minute presentation of the gospel to a these children--street kids, who had [for the most part] never heard the gospel. I was a street kid; I know what is going on in Chicago. There was no mention of repentance. It was just a basic Romans Road survey. Very weak. He said, ‘Bow your heads and close your eyes. Every one who wants to be sure that you are going to heaven, raise your hand.’ Several kids raised their hands, including one or two of the kids that we knew. As they raised their hands, there were workers that sat down with them there in that room. They pulled up a chair next to a kid and opened up the Bible. The worker that I was watching in particular was saying to the kid, ‘If you want to know for sure that you are going to heaven, here are the things that you have to know.’ While talking, the worker was continually looking around the room, totally disinterested in the kid, but telling him, ‘Number 1, you are a sinner; number 2, Jesus died on the cross for your sins; number 3 you have to accept Him as your Saviour. Would you like to do that?’ The kid said yes, so the worker said, ‘Let’s bow our heads and pray this prayer.’ Several of the kids in that room did that. When that was done, they took the kids that prayed that prayer out of the classroom and they had set the auditorium up so that there was a baptismal tank with a curtain on one side for the girls and a curtain on the other side for the guys. There was a worker standing right by the baptismal tank with a clipboard. The kids changed behind the curtain and were brought one by one into the baptistry. As they did, the worker with the clipboard put a check mark for each baptism. He was nonchalantly making check marks: check, check, check, check, check. The kids were then taken out of that room and lined up at the door where they had entered, given a hotdog, put on the bus, the bus pulled away, and another bus pulled up, and the whole circuit started all over again. I saw it with my own eyes. ... I say, that is wicked! ... At least one of the kids that we had been working with was baptized that day. The next Sunday he was back at our church, and we said to him, ‘You were there last week and you got baptized. Why did you get baptized?’ He just shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘I don’t know.’ That was my experience.” (David Cloud, David Cloud Has Coffee With John Wilkerson)

Preposterous! Absolutely, and unequivocally wicked! Poor souls dealt with so pathetically and flippantly! And children at that! The broad gates of hell must have been slammed wide open for the welcome reception of this evil beast, and it couldn't have come fast enough. Some valiant man of God should have tied a large millstone about this devils neck and dropped him into the depths of Lake Michigan (Lk 17:2).

Amidst the details in the doctrine of devils, let us not forget that Tom Wallace was a big champion and defender of Jack Hyles, and to this day is boastfully proud of his ties and allegiance to Hyles and the furtherance of Hyles perverted gospel and damnable heresies. Yes, Tom Wallace is a large part of the problem, for he did the same as Hyles, only on a lesser scale.

This was the Jack Hyles easy believism and quick prayerism assembly line, and it was the pattern of "soul winning" that spread worldwide. The truth is, all of the numbers of Wallace, Hyles, Gray and many others like them, most SOTL men, are nothing but empty, useless professions, and worst yet, inoculating the millions to the truth of their unregenerate and hypocritical nature, and the reality of eternal damnation coming down the broad road.

Bob Gray Sr. of Longview Baptist Temple claimed more than one million people were won to Christ in 25 years, juat over 1.1 million (source). Yet an average Wednesday evening service, which is the truest reflection of an American church’s true membership numbers, you will find only a few hundred people in attendance. Literally over a million people have been “won” but are nowhere to be found. This is utterly wicked and disgraceful. Consider the following amazing statement in an advertisement for a Bible conference in April 2012 featuring Bob Gray, Sr. at Faith Baptist Church, Oak Creek, WI, which is pastored by Dean Noonon, an honorary undergrad from Hyles-Anderson College. The flyer reads as follows:

“There is not a man alive who has personally won more souls to Christ than Dr. Bob Gray Sr. He has been in the ministry for 39 years and daily wins souls. Last year he personally led 404 folks to Christ with 107 of those following the Lord in baptism. He has been used of God to see 1,116,887 souls come to Christ while pastoring the Longview Baptist Temple of Longview, Texas. It grew from a low of 159 to averaging 2,047 the last year he pastored, with his high days of 10,000. They ran 40 bus routes and had a large Sunday school program. He led the church to give $9,328,835.69 to missions.”

Numbers, numbers, numbers and more numbers. Boasting, bragging, vaunting, man-centred heretics who serve their belly and not the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 16:17-18).

Almost every single person that these false teachers and wolves in sheep's clothing report as "saved" are very likelyunsaved. It would be purely the miraculous working of God against all odds for someone to get genuinely converted under this corrupted gospel preaching and evil "soul-winning" methodology. And then they gave them false assurance and false security, inoculating them to the true nature of their souls, and to true biblical salvation, sowing massive confusion in the minds of millions of people.

Wallaces Unscriptural Testimony of "Salvation," is Status Quo with Many SOTL Churches, and Most of the IFB

The testimony that he presents as his “salvation” at the start of his “Heaven and Happiness” roughly 8 minute video, does not correspond with Biblical salvation. It was an episode of quick prayerism, easy believism, and asking Jesus to come into his heart, the same corrupted gospel he has continued to advance by pulpit and pen (and all other means). There was no changed life, no new birth, no super-dramatic conversion. Nothing changed, while EVERY single true born again believer goes through the greatest and most colossal and mammoth dramatic change possible with mankind, and it is tremendous beyond expression. God the Son says it is more dramatic than physical birth. Every born again believer becomes a brand new creature in Christ Jesus, old things are all passed away and all things become new: a new song, a new life, new heart, opened eyes, declared righteous, recipient of eternal life, indwelling of God the Spirit, all sins forgiven, justified, redeemed, sanctified, imputed with God's righteousness, etc, and yet he didn't know whether he was saved or not?!? Wallace’s knowledge of his alleged “conversion” was based purely on what another man told him, a form of faith in facts. And from there it evolved into faith in faith, having faith in the words of his faith, which is unscriptural and akin to the heresy of the Word-Faith Movement. There was also NO repentance, no Biblical understanding of his sinfulness, depravity, no fear of the Lord, no broken and contrite heart (repentance requires fear of the Lord and brokenness and godly sorrow, period), and so on. Thus we can see why his entire life he's been preaching a false, perverted, repentant-less, Lord-less, change-less, easy-believist, quick-prayerist, “gospel,” and aligning with big men that do the same, producing “millions” of unsaved “Christians” and two-fold children of hell.

In the video (also found on his website under "Heaven") he says he got saved when a co-worker shared with him at work that he could know he was going to heaven when he died. It was the typical questionnaire about whether he was going to heaven if he died, followed by 'can I show you from the bible where it says that we can know we will be going to heaven when we die.' So the man took him to 1 Jn 5:14 Wallace says, but he actually quoted v. 13. After this brief exchange, and end of work day,

“I went home and got into bed and covered up my head cause I slept in a room with three brothers and I didn’t want them to see what I was doing, cause I knew they’d laugh, mock and make fun of me. And I asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart and save my soul and give me the benefit of what He did for me on the cross of calvary. Then I turned over and went to sleep. The next day I told . . . the young man who been talking to me that I did what he wanted me to do. He said ‘what did you do?’ I said, ‘I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me.’ He said, ‘Did he do it?’ I said, ‘you said He would.’ ‘Oh no, I didn’t say he would, I said the Bible says he would.’ And he showed me that verse again, and I decided if God told me that, I believe that I am going to believe God. And then I found out it was a matter of believing and not doing or not doing. He explained to me the law. . . .”

According to his video, this is when he was saved, when he got under his bed covers and "asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart and save my soul and give me the benefit of what He did for me on the cross of calvary." This was confirmed the next day, when Wallace believed what 1 Jn 5:13 said, so it had to be true what had occurred the night before. But none of this is salvation according to God's Word. It is not true faith, because true faith is repentant faith, and this is not it. Nor are we saved by asking Jesus into our heart, as we have already discussed, nor are we saved by believing facts from the Bible. Facts from the Bible bring us to a point of conviction, reproof and drawing of God's Spirit, which leads to repentance and faith, which brings conversion. That is how we are saved by God's Word, how "faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God," (Rom 10:17), being born again by the incorruptible seed of God's Word (1 Pet 1:23-25). This is not the testimony of Wallace.

But later in the sermon, towards the end, he backtracks on what he had said on the video, when he was actually "saved," which is the strangest of things. For how many years has he preached that he was saved under the bed covers, upon asking Jesus into his heart, even spending the time in making a video where that testimony is present, 70+ years after he was allegedly converted, only to change his own testimony after releasing the video. Now the story suddenly changes. What?!? Apparently it wasn’t when he prayed that he got saved but the next day on the assembly line (“I got saved when I believed the next day on the assembly line.”) This is what he says about his alleged testimony towards the end of the sermon, which is completely different than what he stated in the video:

“I went and told him [the guy that had witnessed to him] the next day and he showed me the Bible says thou was saved and I realized (I didn’t know it before) I didn’t get saved when I prayed, I was saved the next day when I believed on the assembly line. And you can get saved when you pray. I know it says call on the Lord and I’ll show great and mighty things and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, but its the believing, not the memorized prayer, trusting, believing, depending on, trust the Lord will all thine heart, lean not on thine own understanding….”

He's all over the place, a bit confused as to what he really believes. But apparently he was saved at this point because the bible says “thou was saved”?!? Yikes. This is wacko. So every person that reads that line in the Bible is automatically saved through some form of osmosis? Like we’ve been saying, practically no difference with the Word Faith heresies. I don’t think Wallace has a clue when he got “saved” because he never actually did get saved, but this is what he’s been going with (the video) until someone pointed out to him that we aren’t saved through a prayer, so he changed his tune so not to be called out for a false gospel and false testimony. Actually, it only makes it worse and paints him even further as an unregenerate false teacher. So he changes his story from praying a prayer under the bed cover (which is the only story that he told about his testimony in the video, that apparently many people are watching) to him actually being “saved” the next day on the assembly line. Wow, how incredibly convenient. What would the point of the story be if it wasn’t centralized around him praying under a bed cover.

But is that what he actually said in the video? No he didn’t. He said he got saved when he prayed the prayer that night under his bed coverers. What exactly was it that he had said earlier (in the video) occurred that night under his bed cover and then on the assembly line the next day?

“I went home and got into bed and covered up my head cause I slept in a room with three brothers and I didn’t want them to see what I was doing, cause I knew they’d laugh, mock and make fun of me. And I asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart and save my soul and give me the benefit of what He did for me on the cross of calvary. Then I turned over and went to sleep. The next day I told . . . the young man who been talking to me that I did what he wanted me to do. He said ‘what did you do?’ I said, ‘I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me.’ He said, ‘Did he do it?’ I said, ‘you said He would.’ ‘Oh no, I didn’t say he would, I said the Bible says he would.’ And he showed me that verse again, and I decided if God told me that, I believe that I am going to believe God. And then I found out it was a matter of believing and not doing or not doing. He explained to me the law. . . .”

This is serious confusion. I don't think Wallace has a clue what he is talking about. Nowhere in the video does he say that he got saved this next day when his co-worker was explaining the law and so forth to him. So when was he actually “saved”? It wasn’t under his bed cover he says, because apparently we aren’t saved by a prayer anymore (in contrast to the video), and it wasn’t the next day, though he claims that here but its different than what he stated in the actual video where he gives his testimony. One would have no reason to believe that his alleged “salvation” took place at any point besides under his bed cover, the main point of his testimony. I believe this is what he has always believed, which is why he says that in the video about how to get to heaven, reiterating his own testimony on how he's getting to heaven. There is absolutely no reason to believe that he meant he was "saved" anywhere beside then that evening. Yet, he has changed his story, like a guilty criminal.

It's not actual Biblical salvation and because he is afraid he will be labeled with quick prayerism (or might have already), he changes his tune to his salvation taking place the following day. Not at any point does he clarify the matter, and my guess is in reality he probably gives more accounts of when he got saved, because he really doesn’t know, his story changing, even within the story. And the reason for that is because he is not really saved. If he was, he would know without a doubt the very moment when the greatest supernatural and superdramatic event took place that could ever be known by mankind. But he doesn’t. He would also know because of the change that would have taken place in his life. He doesn’t know however and there is only one reason, only one.

He keeps finding out more and more about the gospel as the years goes on, which he adds to the story, yet there is never a clear time that it evolves into the new birth. What he is classifying as “saved” is NOT the new birth described in the Word of God. What he had was just pure mental and intellectual so-called “faith” without any repentance, without any involvement of his volition or emotion, and there is no true repentance or salvation without these elements. This is not actual salvation but a hideous placebo. No man is saved through faith in his faith. We are saved by true repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in His gospel, not by some kind of intellectual “belief” on what Scripture says. Salvation involves the mind, the emotion, and the will, but this counterfeit that Wallace embraced and is EXTREMELY COMMON today, does not involve anything besides a small portion of the brain. Wallace rejects repentance, which on its own brings his alleged profession of faith to rejection, for man has no hope of being genuinely converted without true repentance.

I really wish that Wallace was saved when he says he got saved. I always hope that I am wrong on this, but Scripture tells us very specifically how we are saved, and we aren't saved any other way. I would really want him to be genuinely converted, but a man cannot get saved with such little understanding and missing key elements of the gospel at that time. I find this to be an artificial finish line for someone that is very likely not saved, and may never get saved (Pr 1:20-32).

Wallace Spreading His Damnable Heresy to Young Impressionable Minds, and Pastors

Tom Wallace is on the faculty at Independent Baptist Online College (IBOC), which is headed by the king of big numbers and false professions, the great heretic Bob Gray Sr., and employs dozens of extremely Hyles-loyal, Hutson-loyal biggism numbers-crazy SOTL individuals, including Wallace, Wendall Evans, etc, and every one of them is committed to the same distorted and corrupt gospel. It is no surprise that Wallace is tied to this online school. In his bio on their website we once again read of the great things Wallace has accomplished for the IFB movement, the cereal box full of accolades. Among the rewards bestowed upon this great man we find a honorary Doctor of Divinity from Canadian Baptist Bible College, given way back in 2003, which is totally unsurprising. Unfortunate to any poor soul who simple-mindedly wonders onto this online institution and ends up taking his courses. Wallace is regrettably responsible for teaching “Soul-Willing,” “Book of Romans,” and “Preparing for Your Calling” at IBOC, courses that he shouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. One can only imagine how utterly corrupt Wallace’s “exposition” of Romans must be and “the perfect Plan of Salvation, which we know as the Gospel.”

The “Soul-winning” course that Wallace teaches is briefly described as follows:

“Dr. Wallace brings his years of soul-winning experiences with Jack Hyles, John R. Rice, Lee Roberson, Carl Hatch and more and puts a practical application on how these men were able to reach countless lives with the Gospel.”

He shouldn't be touching anything to do with "soul-winning." We have covered Hyles, Rice and Roberson here or in Part 1, or in other reports at 20/20, but Carl Hatch hasn't had much coverage. Who was he? Well as "great" as the SOTL men Hyles and Hutson (President and Editor prior to his death) were in obtaining vast empty numbers and false professions, Hatch outdid them any day of the week. Both these men even said of Hatch that he was "the greatest soul-winner in the world" This was Hatch's "soul-winning" strategy in his own words taught at his soul winning seminar at Texas Baptist University:

"I don’t ask anybody if they want to be saved. If you want a positive answer you must ask a positive question. If you want a no answer ask a no question. If you want a yes answer ask a yes question. Soul winning is positive. And in soul winning you use a lot of reverse psychology and psychology."

This is wicked heresy and cheap salesmanship, usually further involving a shoulder squeeze (famously called the "Carl Hatch Squeeze"). There is not even a hint of such a thing in Scripture. We can’t imagine the Lord Jesus or the apostles doing such a dastardly thing, actually manipulating people and pulling the wool over their eyes, leading them into a 1-2-3 repeat after me prayer, at the expense of the true gospel that involves Biblical repentance and Christ's Lordship, all to gain another notch on the belt and boasting rights, and of course coffer-fillers. When Jesus dealt with the woman at the well, He didn’t ask a bunch of leading questions to keep the subject positive and manipulative. He is the one who brought up the woman’s immoral and adulterous lifestyle (Jn 4), and yes divorce and remarriage is ALWAYS adultery and continual adultery (Matt 5:32; 19:2-9; Mk 10:3-11; Rom 7:1-3; 1 Cor 7:10-11, 39; Mal 2; Gen 2:42), further proven by this example. When He dealt with Nicodemus, He confronted the man with his need of the new birth, which Nicodemus didn’t find positive at all (Jn 3). Christ told the rich young ruler to sell everything he had and follow Him, which was quite negative to the ruler and he went away sorrowful (Mk 10). Jesus told people if they didn’t repent they would perish (Lk 13:1-5), which is a very negative approach. He proclaimed that only those who continue in His Word are true disciples and freed from their sin, and thus truly converted (Jn 8:30-36). The Lord Jesus, apostles and the evangelists in the early churches knew absolutely nothing about these manipulative, duplicitous and deceitful manners of "soul-winning."

Wallace adapted his own version of Hatch's false gospel (which involved a squeeze on the trap/shoulder area to help the praying sinner get quickly "saved," referred to as the "Carl Hatch Squeeze.") Wallace's adapted "soul-winning" program was called “Circles and Steps,”  which involved taking the persons hand (maybe even giving the hand bit of a soft squeeze), mentioned by Pastor Ovid Need, Jr., in his instructive essay, "The Other Jesus: The Gospel Perverted" (p. 12), which can be read here. It would go something like,“If you are willing to trust Christ as your Saviour, take my hand.” Though Wallace might still be using this technique in personal "soul-winning," while conveniently leaving it out of his church presentations due to the perceived backlash, it appears his focus in "soul-winning" has come full circle (no pun intended), going from “If you are willing to trust Christ as your Saviour, take my hand” to “Jesus, come into my heart, and save me.” Maybe it was the covid plandemic that led to the change of technique.

Conclusion to Wallace's Gospel Perversion and Hyles Promotion.

Though each point here on its own reflects a corrupted gospel; in totality they truly reveal how far off the mark Wallace really is when it comes to the true and pure gospel of Jesus Christ. What he presents is a duplicitous counterfeit that doesn't genuinely save a person. Unbelievably, this guy with his perverted gospel is acclaimed as a “prince among us,” undoubtedly by people of the same ilk, with the same perverted gospel. This is how far gone people really are from the sound truth of God's Word, when they proceed to call a false teacher leading millions down the broad path, a “prince among us.”

In the sermon "Little is Much" Wallace states that the repetition of anything in scripture reveals how important it is, which was in reference to the 5,000 men fed with the lads fish and bread, the only miracle to be repeated in all four gospels. “To repeat something second time, makes it really double important.” We would then ask -- if he maintains the same standard for all doctrine and words in Scripture -- what about repentance? Lk 13:1-5 we have an immediate repetition of, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Twice Christ says it to the same audience. Is that not important, even "double important”? Wallace selectively chooses what he believes and embraces in Scripture, while rejecting other things, such as repentance and Christ's Lordship, purposely denying these critical elements of the gospel so he can continue advancing the non-offensive and corrupted version of the common "gospel" where everybody gets "saved."

Men like Wallace make a conscious and purposeful effort to eliminate repentance and Lordship in their presentation of the Gospel (which they do by either ignoring the doctrine or redefining "repentance," or by erecting strawman arguments to attack those who hold the historical and Biblical understanding of it). They do this because they very likely do not believe or know the true gospel, since they, by all appearances, have never received it. They also likely do it to protect an aberrant theology or a means of adding numbers, or maybe because of their philosophical mindset that seeks to make the offence of the cross to cease, compromising the truth to appease the ears of their listeners. Regardless of reason, they have apostatized from the truth, strayed from what the Bible means for purposes of style and effect and experience, and are promoting a perverted gospel, which makes them accursed (Gal 1:6-9). They have fully embraced the modern redefinition of faith as being nothing more than an intellectual assent, which is refuted in many places in Scripture. They reject the poor, contrite, repentant heart submitting and surrendering to Jesus Christ as Lord, which is glaringly absent in a huge percentage of their achieved so-called professions. 2 Peter 2 makes it clear that mark of the unregenerate false teacher is their denial or disavowing of the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

If it’s not the Biblical Jesus, it’s not the true Christ, and that won’t save. This is the problem with these anti-Lordship, anti-true gospel easy believest that pervert how to be saved and who Jesus is. IFB heretics like Wallace breed confusion and heresy and false professions. He, like so many others, get both sides of the equation wrong. He does not understand who Jesus is, and thus what it means to believe in Him. They separate Christ’s Lordship from His Saviourship, a very popular tactic of easy believism for the purpose of inflating numbers in the church. At a certain point either one of these elements can dip below a saving knowledge, reception and substance.

The two biggest corruptions about “believe” and “Jesus Christ” relate to one another. The false teacher perverts the true gospel with the belief that excludes or misdefines repentance, and a Jesus Christ that is not Lord. Again, these two points relate. How can one become sanctified without Biblical repentance, and how can one repent without submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ? Jesus is the only way to the Father. One cannot get there by their own way, which is idolatrous. Jesus said lest you repent you will perish (Lk 13:1-5). He also said, lest you believe, you will perish (Jn 3:14-16, 36). Thus part of what true saving faith requires is true saving repentance, which we cover in some detail here: Repentance — The Foundation of Salvation and Repentance is a Major Element of the Gospel and Must Always Be Preached, Including Its Description. Many people reject the call to repent, which is why their faith is false, purely intellectual. Many also refuse to believe because of self-righteousness and pride. They are rebels against the truth. Not believing that Jesus is Lord and must be surrendered to, is not true faith, and will not result in immediate following after Jesus. Hence, in the very same camp and unsurprisingly, you have many that make a profession but have no real and permanent evidence of true salvation. But that is considered normal, and merely requires the Keswick currency of “carnal Christian,” “backsliding,” “lukewarm,” and “unbelief,” to enter the picture.

Tom Wallace, like SOTL, is a Narcissistic Champion of Biggism and Man-Centred Ministry, Hero Worship and Idolatry

Big Men in the Big Camp rejoice in flattering titles and accolades, in man-worship, in man-centred "Christianity." They, including Wallace, demonstrate blinded loyalty to big wigs such as Roberson, Hutch, Hutson, Hyles, Rice, Clarence Sexton, and many more.

Flattering titles and accolades, narcissism.

Tom Wallace is 95 years of age and continues to minister. That means he is still alive. He is alive and has an actual ministry foundation named after himself "The Wallace Legacy Foundation," to which he had no objections, and partakes in the ministry. Now if that isn't the very textbook definition of narcissism, not sure what would be. The "The Wallace Legacy Foundation" was set up by Mike Van Horn who named it after Wallace who "pastored three of the greatest soul-winning churches in America . . . Because of his faithfulness, I could not think of another man of God to honor than Dr. Tom Wallace. So henceforth, The Wallace Legacy Foundation was founded to keep his legacy alive . . ." (Website).

"Faithful[ness]" to what? Advancing a perverted gospel that leads to hell? Corrupting the truth of God's Word repeatedly, always, countless times? Perverting the meaning of Scripture? Worshipping man? Inspired by men and not by Christ?

As noted at the start, Tom Wallace is a “Doctor,” but not a title that he has earned (awarded 3x by IFB colleges). That doesn't hold him back from weaponizing the great pieces of paper hanging on the walls of his house. He's not afraid to even remind his wife that they exist. We aren't against letters, for we also have letters, but you would never know that, for they are "vanity and vexation of spirit," like the wisest preacher that has ever lived reminds us repeatedly in the Book of The Preacher (Eccl 1:14, 17; 2:11, 17, 22, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9). At one point in a sermon he says they are just pieces of paper, yet he keeps on talking about them. He wants people to know what he has and what has been awarded him. He wants people to know his value in the eyes of other men.

It is man-centred man-worshipping lords and false teachers who love titles, a form of "broad[ing] their phylacteries, and enlarg[ing] the borders of their garments . . . to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." (Matt 23:5b). The title of "Rabbi" in that day was held to higher esteem than "Doctor." Jesus said in Matt. 23 that religious hypocrites seek attention from others and honourable titles:

“But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.” (vv. 5-10).

Titles is a form of flattery, which God hates:

“Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.” (Job 32:21-22)

The qualifications for pastors are given in 1 Timothy and Titus, and we don’t find anything there about the necessity of having a Th.D. or even an M.Div or other fanciful titles. Great titles should be reserved for God, even as Ps 111:9 reminds us:

“He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.”

It is most interesting that the adjective “reverend” is used only this once in the entire KJV. And there it applies to God, not to man! Yet we have many men calling themselves "Reverend."

It is of no coincidence that the same men who love flattering titles will also habitually and characteristically exercise partiality and respect of persons. These issues are malignant amongst the IFB, and Wallace leads by example, as does the man who likely recommended Wallace's preaching to Pastor Brad Friesen, Michael Sullivant (one of Wallaces doctorate donors). In a sermon from some years back, titled "Church of Laodicea (Rev. 3)," Sullivant expressed his love for titles, positions, popularity, and glory, giving a hypothetical scenario where the Prime Minister of Canada calls you and then takes you off to lunch in his sleazy limo, which would allegedly result in you calling all the big newspapers and TV stations to tell them how great you are. His words: “boy I’m someone,” “hey look see what’s happening to me,” you want "your pictures taken because you’re someone now," “we’d be eaten it up.” He not only didn't rhetorically criticize what he was saying, but gleefully relished in this possibility, which on its own was bad and unscriptural and sinful enough, but to make matters worse, this was stated during the time Canada's PM was the very evil and genocidal, communist, marxist, Christ-hating Justin Castro. This is the very characteristic of a man who loves fame and glory, and flattering titles goes right with that. As one who has personally been at the service of many of the "great men of the world," they are but men. You give respect and honour to them "of reputation," (Gal 2:2), but there is nothing more special about them than the lowest peasant in the world. "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." (Eccl 1:14).

"To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress." (Pr 28:21)

Boasts about preaching for 70 years and to millions, of pastoring three great churches with some of the biggest Sunday schools, and Winning Many to the Lord

As noted in the beginning, Wallace boasts that he's been "Preaching the Gospel for 70 years!" He says it often, and uses it as a qualifier. Boasting however is incongruous with true believers.

1. Wallace says he has preached to “millions of people.” Impressive. But boastful and dishonest and duplicitous. Most of these have heard a false gospel and heresies from him. Most, of those he claims to have "won" to Jesus, are false professors because of him. He can't help himself but boast. Statements from his sermons:

“I get invited to conferences because of my three churches.”

“Now in my three churches, all of them grew real large”

“I heard Dr. Lee Roberson the most inspirational, I worked for him in Chattanooga for two years and we had 10,000 people come to Sunday school. . . . I’d always have 4 or 5 people walk down the aisle every Sunday that I’d been able to win to the Lord..."

It is really all about numbers, numbers, numbers and more numbers, and positions of power and greatness = "success." You also see that in his "Some Of The Other Accomplishments Are Listed Below" that boasts about all the things he has founded and presided over, and the numbers, great big numbers. Here are some:

• Founder and past president of Elk ton Christian Schools, Elkton, Maryland, (K-12)

• Founder and past president of Beth Haven Christian Schools, Louisville, Kentucky, (K-12)

• President of Franklin Road Christian School, Murfreesboro, TN, (K-12) 1991-2000

• Established a Bus Ministry in Elkton, MD, grew to 18 routes (in an interview he says 15)

• Expanded Bus Ministry at Beth Haven Baptist Church, Louisville, KY, to 42 routes

• Tripled attendance at Louisville church in first 2 years, High of 5450

• Led the Baptist Bible Church, Elkton, Maryland, through eight major building programs

• Led the Beth Haven Baptist Church, Louisville, KT, in building a 3300 seat auditorium

• Led Franklin Road Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, TN, in building a new educational building, and purchase of three other buildings and two additional properties

• Past president of International Fellowship of Fundamentalists

• Served as president of Board of Directors of BIMI for 8 years

• Vice-president of the “Sword of the Lord,” Murfreesboro, Tennessee

• Vice-president of Beacon World Missions

• Executive Board of Frontline Fellowship

• Board of Directors of Bible Open Air Mission, Fanwood, NJ, founder / president

• Visited and served in all 50 states and 54 foreign countries

2. In his boasting about knowing one of the top cheese' of Cracker Barrel, Uncle Herschel, he explains how he would tell the waitresses at the restaurant about knowing Uncle and then from there go into some form of a gospel presentation. He claims he won 60 or 70 of them to the Lord over the years, but he didn't tell us whether they were actually genuinely converted, with the sure evidence and fruit of salvation present in their life, immediately and perpetually. He didn't tell us because he doesn't look for that. Everyone goes to "heaven" that bows the head and prays the prayer. Oh I'm sure he did "win" them vulnerable and easily intimidated waitresses to the Lord (whom had just been told that he knew Uncle Herschel), with his perverted repentant-less “gospel” of easy believism and quick prayerism. He can’t but help himself in boasting of his imaginary numbers of empty professions. He likely marks everyone as a convert that shows any "interest" in what he has to say and/or bowed their head to pray a prayer with him, regardless of any fruit or evidence, along the same lines as his own testimony.

3. In the same sermon, "Heaven and Happiness," he boasts about his massive Sunday school classes and the secret to his success. According to the book of Elmer Towns (IFB and co-founder of the ecumenical and heretical Liberty University), of the top ten growing Sunday schools America, Wallace pastored three. That doesn’t surprise me seeing the coercion of the vulnerable, and false gospel that he purveys. Anyone can build a "church" like that, the slew of neo-evangelical heretics today prove that point. He follows that right away with, “don’t get me wrong” I wasn’t really bragging and boasting, but maybe just a little bit.

“Please understand I’m not trying to draw attention to me or my ministry but I get all kinds of invitations, pastors fellowships, 120, 130, went to one 177 preachers in Atlanta and they all ask me, ‘tell us how to do it.’ [he starts laughing and chuckling while saying], ah, I’m not very good at it, well I gotta tell ya, what you gotta do is reach and teach. . . . You get out there and get’em, you bring em in, and get ‘em saved. Reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, reach, , reach, reach, reach, . . . you’ve got a SDA in, church of Christ in, Mormon in, you get a Buddhist in, first thing you know your crowding them in, what do ya gonna do, you just keep reaching and putting them on buses and sending people out in visitation, and after a bit they are squabbling and carrying on, ‘I don’t believe that,’ ‘I believe differently than you do,’ ‘you are different than I am,’ you know what’s wrong? They are not following the other part of the greatest commission, they are not teaching.”

No, whats wrong is that they are unsaved, thats it, like Wallace. In the very act of attempting to portray humility and wanting understanding of his "non-boastful" spirit, he boasts. There are so many things wrong with what he says here but it further explains the cause of the unregenerate mega churches amongst the IFB (while neo-evangelical and other contemporary churches are regenerate and apostate and have been for decades—this is not about them).

4. From his website, "Highlights And Mountain Top Experiences"some examples (more can be found in other sections of this report):

"Preached to 7,820 people at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in 2019 in Mexico City for missionary, Kevin Wynn and had 722 professions and 526 baptisms in a Thursday night service.  This was a mountain peak experience for me!"

"In 1984, Wallace "spoke to a crowd of 20,000 plus at the “Fundamentalism ’84 conference at the convention center in Washington, DC."

"During a tent meeting with Dr. Bill Rice on the campus of Tennessee Temple University in 1952, I gathered up 17 junior boys in my small car and brought them to the meeting.  All of them responded to the invitation to accept Christ as their Savior that evening."

Name droppings, number droppings (“millions of peoples preached to”), biggism, jumboism, which is unBiblical and heretical.

Boasts About His Relationship with John R. Rice

Wallace loves name dropping, an important element of his ministry of boasting. “John Rice, a real good friend of mine,” and in other times, “Dr Rice...” this and “Dr Rice...” that. Wouldn't be complete without him adding that grand ole important qualifier, "Dr." Most of these men's "Doctorates" were obtained freely (honorary doctorates) or through some "PhD mill." Bear also in mind, Wallace was once vice-president at the SOTL for some years.

Wallace gets giddy over Rice:

"I can still picture two of my small children sitting on the lap of Dr. John Rice and the other two snuggled up next to him in our home in Elkton, Maryland, when he had come to have supper with us." (Website)

Strangely and ironically, an elderly pastor of an IB church we once attended for a number of years, relayed a similar type of story, describing how John R. Rice held his eldest son when he was yet a child, and he got real emotional when describing this event, almost as if Rice held some special God-like power that blessed the little children upon touching or holding them on his lap.

While discussing whether Paul wrote Hebrews ("Heaven and Happiness" sermon), which Wallace thinks he did (he didn't; Paul says he didn't, 2 Th 3:17), he states, while laughing, "maybe John R. Rice wrote it." This is the mentality of Wallace. But who would think like that, never mind even say it? Man-centred men that worship men.

Boasts About His Relationship with Lee Roberson

Multiple times during the five sermons was the name of Lee Roberson mentioned, in a boastful, hero-worship and simply ungodly and idolatrous manner. For example:

“Dr. Lee Roberson was the most inspirational, I worked for him in Chattanooga for two years and we had 10,000 people come to Sunday school. My job was to go out and visit all the people that come to visit us and I’d go visit everyone of them and see if they were possible candidates for our church, and then I’d go out soul winning and I’d always have 4 or 5 people walk down the aisle every Sunday that I’d been able to win to the Lord and he’d preach about 15-20 minutes and man he’d have you eatin out of his hand and when he’d say let’s stand together, fooooph the folks would flood down there and you talk about he inspired me and I thought he was born inspired and I thought he was born inspired. I thought when Mrs Roberson gave birth to him I thought boy he just came out of there hollering “hallelujah, glory to God.” [stated with much laughter and enthusiasm, and a few nervous laughs and coughs from the audience]. One day I heard him say ‘I am constantly looking for somebody to inspire me.’ I thought, doc has to have someone else inspire him, I couldn’t believe it. This guy gave me that lesson, he inspired me.” (Sermon: Little is Much)

Did the Lord Jesus Christ not inspire Lee Roberson? Not according to what he said here. He certainly wasn't enough. How about Wallace? He was massively inspired by Roberson, even "eatin out of his hand " and his exaltation of a mere man here is sickening, but what about Christ. The numbers game, hero-worship, man-exaltation, and cultish attitude is absolutely nauseating. It is obvious that Lee Roberson inspired Tom Wallace more than the Lord Jesus Christ ever has. That would also make sense in light of everything else in this report.

The hero-worship is noted in “Lee Roberson Day At Hyles-Anderson College,” which is completely of the world and as bad as a ringside circus. I wouldn't be surprised if Wallace was present at this clown show.

But Lee Roberson was a heretic in his own right, not only because he was associated with and honoured by the wolf Jack Hyles. In Curtis Hutson's secret letter (that he said he would deny if ever made public), he stated:

"Yes, Dr. Roberson knows of Hyles’ sin; I have talked to him about it."

Roberson knew all about Hyles wickedness, yet did absolutely nothing about it, because Christ was not who Roberson served but his own belly (Rom 16:17-18). He did not dissociate himself from Hyles, did not reprove Hyles, did not warn his church about the wolf in sheep's clothing. What an utter shame and disgrace. And he was a "pastor"? The first and foremost job of an under-shepherd is protection of the (professing) sheep. Protection, for instance, from wolves. What did men like Roberson, Rice, Hutson, Wallace and so many others do? Kept on exposing the sheep to the wolf, giving the wolf grazing grounds. Preposterous!

Roberson was a purveyor of the same false gospel of easy believism and quick prayerism and numbers-orientated evangelistic methodology as Hyles, Hutson and Wallace, which is why he was so closely associated with these men. He was mostly interested in warm bodies filling the pews, though they be dead and ready for the oven. Roberson actually required that someone be brought down the aisle for salvation and baptized in every service (Wigton, Lee Roberson, pp. 125, 183, 270), which is what Wallace refers to in the sermon (quote above, "My job was to go out and visit all the people that come to visit us . . . and see if they were possible candidates for our church, and then I’d go out soul winning and I’d always have 4 or 5 people walk down the aisle every Sunday that I’d been able to win to the Lord"), but that is an impossible goal except by human manipulation. We cannot create converts, regardless of the amount of time invested in preaching and evangelistic efforts. The farmer can and should work hard, but only the Lord of the harvest can bring forth real fruit. God giveth increase; real, true increase, and not this pseudo, corrupt fruit that Rice, Roberson, Wallace, etc, produce. I think of a man who laboured in ministry in Saudi Arabia for multiple decades and was not shy about preaching the gospel. He was active in evangelism there, but in all those years he had one convert, and that convert lived for one week as a believer and was killed because he was an apostate from Islam (evil and satanic Islam!). This missionary would be an utter failure in the eyes of men like John R. Rice and Lee Roberson. Thankfully these men are not our examples of Biblical obedience. The ambassador of Christ' job is to preach the gospel to every creature, and to look for the supernatural work of the Spirit in enlightenment, conviction, and conversion. Salvation is God’s work, not man’s. Man preaches and prays, but God saves, and until God saves, there is absolutely nothing more we can do.

Boasts About His Relationship with Jerry Falwell.

Wallace doesn't hide his affection and association with Jerry Falwell, a co-founder of Liberty University and founder of the Moral Majority political lobbying group, and deeply compromised and heretical false teacher, a groundbreaking ecumenist who helped pave the way for the creation of the end-time, one-world harlot “church.” At times he mentions Falwell by name in his speeches, and among his highlights of great and mighty things he hath done, Wallace boasts,

"Spoke at the Super Conference in the mid ’70’s for Dr. Jerry Falwell at Thomas Road Baptist Church."

Who exactly was Jerry Falwell and was he a man a Bible-believing professing Christian would want to associate with? Falwell was an ecumenical heretic and apostate, massively compromised on every hand to grow his coalition, power and popularity. More than that, he was wolf in sheep's clothing that served his own belly and not the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 16:17-18). He was a corrupt tree that produced corrupt fruit (Matt 7:15-20), and we need to look no further than his own home, at his own degenerate son that ran Liberty University until his recent collapse by scandal after scandal. He called himself an Independent Fundamental Baptist, but Catholics were his largest audience, whom he referred to as "brothers and sisters." He formed the Moral Majority in the 70's and by 1986 Catholics were making up the largest constituency (30% -- which he told the extremely heretical and apostate Christianity Today). In his autobiography, Falwell referred to the “Catholic brothers and sisters in the Moral Majority” (Strength for the Journey, p. 371). In 1980, Falwell was one of the speakers at the “Washington for Jesus” Rally. He shared the stage with at least three Catholic priests, the extremely apostate self-esteem guru and psychoheretic Robert Schuller, and a host of radical Charismatics (incl., Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson and Demos Shakarian). His apostasy and ecumenicalism got so bad so quickly--exposing his true wolf in sheep's clothing nature--that in 1982 Falwell stated in an interview that the Pope John Paul II was one of the two “greatest men in my lifetime.” (National Catholic Register, May 9, 1982). The Pope is an antichrist, laden with every doctrine of devils and seducing spirits, who has the blood of hundreds of millions of people on his hand (and that is only those the Catholic church has murdered, never mind the billions that will end up in hell for all eternity thanks to the horribly perverted gospel of Rome), etc, but Falwell claimed him as one of the two “greatest men in my lifetime.” Wow, that is what you would call spiritual blindness and a fulfillment of 2 Pet 2, the false teacher that turns back to his vomit and mire, like the dog and pig. It gets even worse. Falwell even made the amazing and ridiculous statement that Catholics accept “the new birth experience,” except he is to blind and dull of hearing to know that Rome merely adapted Biblical language, and their definition of the new birth is very different than the Biblical definition. It seemed that Falwell had especially an affinity for Catholics, considering these facts along with his endorsement of Chuck Colson’s 1992 book, The Body, which urged evangelicals to join forces with Roman Catholics and charismatics, of which Colson stated in an interview, “...the body of Christ, in all its diversity, is created with Baptist feet, charismatic hands, and Catholic ears--all with their eyes on Jesus” (World, Nov. 14, 1992).

Billy Graham, another heretic and apostate along the same lines as Falwell (and always been one, just like Falwell), has made numerous appearances at Falwell’s Liberty University, including commencement speaker in 1997. Falwell also heaped praise on Graham for his “long and faithful ministry.” (National Liberty Journal, Oct 1995). How "faithful" is a man who accepted degrees from Catholic colleges, claimed the Catholic gospel to be the same as his own, turned thousands of converts over to apostate churches, claimed Pope John Paul II to be a great evangelist, preached in a Catholic church, embraced infant baptism as a special power, rejected eternal hell fire, invited Catholic bishops onto his platform to bless those who come forward at invitation, praised Christ-denying Modernists, promoted essentially every Bible perversion to appear in the last five decades (many blasphemous and under the condemnation of Rev 22:18-19)?

These are only very few examples of the truck loads of errors, sins, heresies, and damnable heresies that Falwell embraced and promoted, but its enough to question why Wallace is proud to be an association with, boasting and bragging about his association with Falwell, and preaching at Falwell’s conference? Sure, Wallace's preaching invitation occurred "mid ’70’s " (Wallace was sure to not only put "70's" in there, but also "mid," clearly separating himself from the Falwell of the late 70's and 80's and forward, as if it really makes that big of a difference). But it is really a red herring, because everyone knows by now how terribly heretical and apostate Falwell became, and actually always was, because an apostate and heretic doesn't become one, he always is one (its only time that awaits his exposure and downward spiral, as one notes throughout Scripture, including 2 Pet 2, the progression of the false teacher as the chapter goes on). So a man that actually obeys the Scriptures will in no way be proud or boastful of his allegiance with an absolute heretic and apostate, and worse, wolf in sheep's clothing, even if the wolf was still hiding in the woods or behind the attire of a sheep. You would never even mention it, ashamed and repentant of your association and lack of discernment (for all the proofs would have already been present of Falwell's true nature, only not so dramatic yet, such as his corrupted gospel, his doctrines, his handling of Scripture, his personality [Jam 3:13-18], etc). But not Wallace, he is proud of his fellowship with Falwell, likely claiming him as a true believer since he easy-believed and prayed a prayer somewhere down the line, and then became "backslidden" into "carnal Christianity." The truth is, Wallace is no different than Falwell as to his true spiritual nature, only more religious, and that is according to Scripture — a man truly is who he associates with: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Am 3:3)

Boasts About Knowing Famous and Rich People and Preaching with the Popular

Here are some example from his Highlights And Mountain Top Experiences (website):

"Shook hands and had my picture taken with President Ronald Reagan in 1984"

"Spoke at the Super Conference in the mid ’70’s for Dr. Jerry Falwell at Thomas Road Baptist Church."

"Hosted Governor Lester Maddox for a Sunday at Baptist Bible Church in Elkton, Maryland, when he was running for President."

"On several occasions while having lunch with my pastor friend, Don Strange, at the Colonel’s Lady restaurant in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Colonel Harlan Sanders would come by and chat with us. Later he came to our big meeting with 22 churches at the convention center in Louisville, KT, and gave a clear-cut testimony of his faith in Christ."

"Was I surprised when a man who worked for Lester Roloff showed up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with a tractor and trailer load of oranges as a gift for me from Bro. Roloff!"

"My cousin, Don Paisley, who was the purchasing agent for the University of Delaware, called and asked me if I would conduct the funeral service for his wife, Betty..."

In "Heaven and Happiness" he proudly boasts about knowing one of the top cheese' of Cracker Barrel, Uncle Herschel, how he would visit at his table when he was dining there, or come to the church and give him many Cracker Barrel gold cards (free eaten).

In his Highlights And Mountain Top Experiences he also makes sure to mention by name every single whos-who of "great" preachers of the IFB mega-church golden years: John R. Rice, Lester Roloff, Jack Hyles, Curtis Hutson, Jerry Falwell, Oliver B. Green, Bill Rice, Tennessee Temple University, Evangelist Jack Thompson and Joe Potts and Ken Bowen (layman from Dr. J. Harold Smith), Lee Roberson, Jack Van Impe, Jimmy Dickens.

An important element of the Big Camp membership is name dropping while preaching. Wallace does this in practically every single sermon and interview, men of reputation, status and rank. Naming names does serve a well intended purpose; that of acknowledging the hierarchy in the club, and the legacy you are seeking after, puffing up self-importance, or just simply man-worship because God-worship requires "worship[ping] him in spirit and in truth" (Jn 4:23-24), neither of which Wallace had.

In the Midst of All His Boastings and Name Droppings, He Preaches Humility

Giving praise to men is a very subtle form of hero worship and idolatry. It reflects man-centeredness, pragmatism, and its ungodly. More often than not, it reflects the heart of a heretic. God has spoken ever so clearly on the subject of who alone is worthy to be worshipped. This man-centeredness is derived from the world's culture that thrives on the praise of men. Name dropping is the name of the game, in the world and in man-centred, not God-centred, churches.

When the name dropping happens, one gets the impression that everyone is expected to say, “Oh! Do you know him?” and “Wow!, did you get to preach there?” Is the gospel enhanced by someone who has attained to celebrity status in our stagnant little cultural puddle? Does God need the endorsement of a megachurch guru or a snake oil supersalesman soul-winner? Will it count for eternity and for the glory of God that you were feted by the ringmaster of a religious circus? It's all idolatrous and an abomination in the sight of God. It's all an impediment to faith. They need to read and be warned, Jn 5:44, “How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?”

In all of Wallace's name droppings during the sermons, why not drop the name of Jack Hyles? We have no doubt he would've loved to, but that might've been a stretch to much for his listeners, who know better not to mention the name of Hyles publicly, which comes with a negative stigma, even if you absolutely adore the man privately.

In the sermon "Little is Much," he speaks about the lowliness and humility of the lad with the 5 fishes and 2 loaves,

“A lesson from a lad. One of the lessons is, until I learn that I am a nobody, I'm going to accomplish nothing. And im not going to be able to be used in the hands of God. The first step is humility…”

But it's all hocus pocus smoke and mirrors, complete fabrication made out of sheer cloth, when we look at the bigger picture, at the many boastings about the greatness of his three churches, of his three massive and growing Sunday Schools (applying the same ungodly "evangelistic" methods as Hyles), of his three great doctorates, of all the great people he's preached with or met (many of which have been heretics and apostates), and so forth, and the above reproof attitude -- what you are left with is not humility but pure idolatry, pride, vaunting and hypocrisy.

In the same sermon and context, Wallace details how the young lad was not some great person or “pastor of a big church somewhere” or a country leader or ambassador but just a lad. “A nobody. . . . Just a lad. That is significant.” He wasn’t a prime minster or president of a university, “He has no degrees.” He didn’t have any degrees like Wallace does and reminds his audience, by reminding his wife: “He has no degrees. I've got a bunch of degrees but what good are they." Then why speak of them at every opportunity? What's the point, besides boasting and self-promotion? And how does Wallace know all this about the lad, that we know nothing about? Conjecture preached as truth is heresy, especially if it contradicts Scripture. He continues,

"I've got four of them around our house, we’re gettin something done and my wife will say something to me, and I’ll say ‘do I have to remind you I’ve got four doctor degrees.’ And she’ll say, ‘yea, I know I know, now take the garbage out will ya [he laughs, audience laughs]. . . . A lesson from a lad. One of the lessons is, until I learn that I am a nobody, I'm going to accomplish nothing. And I'm not going to be able to be used in the hands of God. The first step is humility . . . ”

All these words by Wallace on humility are very ironic and hypocritical in the light of all the boasting of big churches, biggest Sunday schools, many degrees, preaching to millions, which fits with his website which is loaded with boasting and bragging, some of which was done in the very context (as quoted above), and this, literally stated in almost the same breath, “I’ve been at this for 74 years, 3 large congregations…” Where is the humility in this boasting of the years of service or how many and how great your churches were? Boasting and vaunting while laughing, an attempt to downgrade the conceit, doesn’t fly over with people interested in the truth, and know the truth. But it seems to be okay with Brad Friesen and the people of Calvary Baptist Church.

The following report had men like him also in mind, with a section dedicated to "Boasting of Greatness Among Religious but Lost Churches and Professors": Boasting is Sin, the Opposite of Godly Love and Humility, a Reflection of Unregeneracy.

Wallace is Thoroughly Man-Centred Noted in His Responses to Personal Criticism and Criticism of His Old Time Buddies, Which He Absolutely Hates.

Throw him in the trash can! Consider an example of how low and hateful an IFB reproof-hater can really get. In his last sermon, Little is Much, towards the end Wallace says this:

“Just before I came into the auditorium I got a text. I read a couple p-p-p-paragraphs of it, I’ve been listening to you and you’ve been saying this and that, and he was cussing and rippen and tearing on me, and he was cussing everyone that I quoted from the pulpit here and I erased this here [“laughing” nervously, while putting his phone back into his coat pocket]. Well he didn’t inspire me. He tried to pour cold water over me. Well I know not to pay him a bit of attention to that [stated with a sneer]. Now throw him in the trash can. He don’t know some things that I see and found out. Maybe he’s sitten in here [while pointing to the crowd]. If you are, good for ya, I’m glad that you’re here. [and loads of chuckles and laughter]. I’m at the place of 95, I could care less what you say.” [the congregation is making jeering and sneering sounds]

He couldn't "care less what you say" but apparently he cared enough to mention it from the pulpit. Why mention it at all, if he doesn’t care. The stammering, and flight of ideas and then the rehashing of someone criticizing him tells me he did care about whatever he had received for a message. What about the little lad in the fish miracle. He says this little lad is one of the greatest preachers in the Bible! Wow! The lad didn't even say anything and it was Andrew who mentioned the lad with the fish and bread, which story/miracle Wallace completely twists on its head. If that little lad, of the greatest preachers in the Bible, reproved Wallace for his compromise and heresy, what would Wallace say then? What about Christ or the apostles? Paul the apostle would have, and repeatedly, charged him with being a false teacher and “accursed” because of the false gospel he pushes from the pulpit and the masses of false professions that he orchestrates (Gal 1:6-9). I would hate to be in his shoes on judgment day.

This is the behaviour of one Diotrephes, a man-centred exemplar of heresy, sowing seeds of apostasy. You can tell that a man is a Diotrephes when he forbids “criticism” and when he prats against his “critics” with malicious words and pretends that those who speak against him are actually speaking against God, and when he charges them with pride and jealousy. He also lies. The man never cussed, ripped or tore anything. Wallace is painting this man as bad and evil by lying and exaggerating what the man had written. Its not true however. Wallace is lying because we have seen the text. Wallace proves our point that a man cannot critique or criticize without being assaulted. It is a knee jerk thing that has been engrained in ungodly man-centred men. And then in their inflammatory invectives they cannot ever disprove our statements and facts, and that is tell-tale. The man merely criticized Jack Hyles, who by vast public opinion was considered an immoral wolf in sheep's clothing, and this is the type of response he got. What would've happened if he had criticized Wallace's golden calf Lee Roberson?!

Once he got his laughter under control, he followed the above with:

“Now the point is, every passage in the Bible has that kind of teaching and truth underneath it, which is why we’ve been emphasizing meditate, soak, saturate, get scriptural, get past saying I think I believe this is the way I look so it, this is the way I’ve always been taught, no let’s get into the Bible, and we’ll let God tell us what He is saying to us and let’s believe it and cash in on it!”

Wow, the irony escapes him. The hypocrisy is blinding. What happens when someone “gets into the Bible, and [he] lets God tell us what He is saying to us” and then that persons says, “let’s believe it and cash in on it!” And that he does, for instance the dozens, or actually hundreds, of passages that command the born again believer to reprove, rebuke, admonish, correct, test, judge, warn, expose and so forth, because Gods truth and obedience is more important than the feelings and stature of man-centred lords? What about that person? Like Paul the apostle did over and over repeatedly, the most popular subject in the entire NT? God loves it but when someone actually does "believe it and cash in on it!" Tom Wallace's response is, “Throw him in the trash can!” The truth is, every try born again believer exhibits this type of character, because that is how the Holy Spirit works, noted in the Book of Acts and with all the Apostles and Bible writers, some only more aggressive than others. Jude wrote an entire epistle on it. We see the messages to the seven churches from Christ had this as a prominent theme. Here we Answer False Accusations of Warring Spiritual Warfare.

That is pure Diotrephes in action and this is really how they are when someone challenges them on their doctrines or relationships or criticizes them. It speaks absolute volumes to the wicked man-centred man-worship “Christianity” that he and his pack of wolves have embraced.

What we would say, better a trash can than being thrown into the eternal fires of hell, which is the end of all those who reject Biblical repentance and thus the true gospel, and all who have never been converted and leading thousands into the eternal fires of hell with them.

Wallace says people that oppose him are Scribes and Pharisees, a game he doesn't want to play, but according to Scripture this is in fact exactly who he is, so Christ's warning is very fitting:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." (Matt 23:15)

God’s Word has something to say about all this, and exposes it for the evil that it is — proud, totalitarian, authoritarian, and narcissistic men lording over the people, exercising lordship over not only congregants but others as well, quite the opposite of what Christ taught about the true minister of God:

“But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” (Mk 10:42-45)

Wallaces diatribe against the unnamed critic reminds one of Lk 6:45,

"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."

There are specific reasons why Biblical criticism, admonishment and reproof is rejected amongst man-centred Big Camp heretics like Wallace:

1. They have something to hide, which reflects the importance of dealing with them boldly, courageously, and earnestly, in accordance with Rom 16:17-18, 2 Jn 1:9-11 and 3 Jn 1:9-11; Ju 1:3; etc. They are not transparent individuals but manipulators and deceivers, and we are not afraid of man but expose those that must be exposed.

   
   

2. They put themselves above reproof, which is sadly what most pastors/leaders in the IFB churches do. They do so by claiming one is “interfering with the local church,” a concept which has no biblical basis as applied to critiquing preachers who have a public ministry. No non-pastor or person outside their inner circle has the authority to reprove them. This is wicked, since they are Biblically under more scrutiny than anyone (Jam. 2:1; 1 Cor. 14:29). Such behaviour is reflective of pastor Diotrephes, the lost and evil church leader that John exposed in 3 Jn. 1:9-11. Wallace has put himself on a man-made pedestal that doesn’t exist, hard to be intreated and certainly not "without partiality, and without hypocrisy" (Jam 3:13-17), his manner of ministry in contradiction to God’s Word (e.g. 1 Cor. 9:3).

3. They hate to be judged. The prevailing philosophy is that its wrong to critique IFB leaders, especially the big fish, and then the anger that is generated when such critiques are made. Paul the apostle however demanded to be judged: “I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say“ (1 Cor 10:15). Paul loved being proved (Ac 17:11) and called them “more noble” that did so (Ac 17:11). The greatest missionary that ever lived, the human penman of half the NT, loved being tested and proven (Ac. 17:11; 1 Cor. 10:15; 1 Th. 5:21; Gal. 1:8), and thus the pattern and characteristic of true born again believer’s, especially those in leadership positions. Jesus commanded it: “Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?” (Lk. 12:57). That godly attitude is vastly different and a world apart from what we and many others have witnessed and experienced in the Big Camp of the IFB, where Wallace and many other man-worshipping IFB preachers reside. Their ministries are ruled by man-centeredness, heresies, scandals, authoritarianism, and narcissism.

4. They think they are "the Lord's Anointed." Wallace is of the man-centred and Hyles philosophy that he cannot be reproved because he is of the Lord’s anointed. He is a King that has been anointed by God and above reproof. This myth implies that Christians in leadership are the "Anointed,” especially those who seem to be very successful and builders of mega-churches and big empires, and thus must never be reproved by us lesser mortals. This myth and red herring meant to shield influential preachers from public reproof is lifted from the OT situation in which David refused to touch King Saul who was hunting his life, though he could have killed him at that moment in the cave (1 Sam 24:6, 10). Other verses used to support this myth are 1 Ch 16:22 and Ps 105:15. Time and again we hear this cry parroted as a counter to those who attempt to alert the unsuspecting of the dangerous, unbiblical teachings of a particular man or ministry. Using this misused label, Wallace and his Big Camp fall into a category that is apparently safe from scriptural examination. Since he and they influence many people, they must be God's anointed — thus, don't you dare "touch" them! Don’t you dare speak against them! Don’t you dare reprove them! This also is wicked.

5. Instead of dealing with issues, they more often than not falsely accuse (i.e., pride or jealousy) or dig for some kind of evil on the person by deception and bearing false witness, so they can undermine the reprover with some smear campaign and logical fallacy (typically ad hominem), following by ostracizing and slanderous berating the individual which then justifies their position as to why they don’t have to respond to the accusations. It is evil and it is illustrated above by Tom Wallace himself with his hatred for a man criticizing his perverted gospel and ungodly alliances, proclaiming such people should just be "thrown in the trash!" Further to that, they educate the people involved in the issue to do the same. It’s terribly unscriptural and vicious behaviour reminiscent only of lost gentiles who love to exercise lordship over people (Matt. 10:42-45) and it's certainly the MO of wolves among the sheep (Ac. 21:28-30).

The Bible emphasizes the importance of the ministry of reproof. The terms “reprove, reproof, rebuke, exhort” are found nearly 60x in the NT alone. We are to “reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine” (2 Tim 4:2). The preacher is to “speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority” (Ti 2:15). We recently published a report that covers the importance of this subject: A Reproof of Haters of Reproof and Myths of Reproof.

Our warning to those trapped and ensnared in these cultish environments: flee! Lest Pr. 21:16 happens to you:

“The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”

The type of individuals that this above-reproof, man-centred, man-worshipping culture and tradition produces, is the Jack Hyles and the Larry Smiths, and Tom Wallace supports them. The following video clip shows Larry Smith preaching at First Baptist Church and yelling at a member of the congregation in a seriously embarrassing and ungodly manner, telling him he “loves” him, as he oozes hate. Smith saying "love you" with a smirk is like a henchman telling you "love you" just before slipping the noose around your neck.

Though most among the IFB will boast, “the Bible is our final authority in all matters of faith and practice!” including SOTL and Tom Wallace, it is sadly a misrepresentation of reality, an untruth, simply a lie. And they are not ignorant either. The weight of opinion among the IFB has already swung decisively against the spirit of Ps 119:128 and Rom 16:17. Godly hating and exposing is not welcome. It is maligned. It is mischaracterized as touching the Lord's anointed and other such nonsense. This has long been the climate within the SBC, and the IFB movement in general is rapidly moving in that direction. Most IFB churches are already there. Do they actually like the truth? Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged. Most that advance errors and heresies, are not ignorant.

Tom Wallace, Purveyor of Other False Doctrine and Scripture Corruption

False Teachings on Salvation Truth, and Adding to Scripture. Wallace on the lad with the fish and the bread, whom he called "one of the greatest preachers in our Bible without opening his mouth.”

“That little boy at his age is not the only boy of his age. There might have been 500 around and maybe 10 or 12 in that area but he is the only one that felt anything. He’s the only one that heard anything. These people are talking about the need, ‘what are we going to do about it,’ and this little guy is listening . . . he heard something. A lot of people come to church and hear a sermon but they don’t hear that sermon. Isaiah said they have ears to hear but don’'t hear. They have eyes to see, but don’t see. If we’re not careful we can fall into that category real quick now.” (Little is Much)

YIKES. Just. Wow. Maybe one of the clearest and simplest teachings in all the NT, dull ears and blinded eyes, which conjoin with an unconverted and unable to understand heart, equates an unsaved person, clearly, obviously, plainly, but Wallace says saved people. This terribly egregious teaching enforces the fact that Tom Wallace is very likely an unconverted man, and thus a false teacher, since he cannot understand something so basic. Jesus said those who don't understand Scripture have dull ears that don’t hear, closed eyes that cannot see and a gross heart that is absent of understanding, which is an “unconverted” heart. NO truly saved person ever again has this condition of unregeneracy.

“For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” (Matt 13:15)

But even more so, his inability to understand this critical explanation by Christ as to why people could or could not understand the parable of all parables, the sower and the seed (Matt 13; Mk 4; Lk 8), is revealed to us by Christ at the end of Mark's account of the said parable, which is unregeneracy:

"And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" (Mk 4:13)

Were Adam and Eve God? In the sermon "Heaven and Happiness," in the video of his gospel he makes the following preposterous claim about Adam and Eve,

“Adam and Eve . . . were in a state of perpetual perfection, just like God and just like Jesus. They knew everything, they had everything God has and then sinned against God and lost every bit of it.”

One wonders whether Wallace believes that Jesus is God, since he separates the two here in a rather odd manner? Thought they were perfectly sinless, Adam and Eve were not all wise and all knowing. They did NOT know everything, which would've made them God. That is a blatant lie pulled out of thin air, which is very normal in Wallace’s teaching, even this sermon. They did not even know the difference between right and wrong (Gen 3:5), never mind "everything." They also did not have everything that God has. There are MANY, MANY things that God has, that they did not have. They were NOT gods, or God, as Wallace implies here. Adam and Eve were not omnipresent, or omniscient, or omnipotent. They did not have the capability to speak creation into existence. They were NOT God but a creation of God. As mentioned, they also did not even “know good and evil.” (Gen 3:5). Their eyes were closed (Gen 3:5). Is this an innocent mistake? How could it be? He's preached for "70 years!!" And "pastored three big churches!!"

Twisting God's Word to Further his "Heaven and Happiness" Philosophy. He goes into this conjecture about how all many of the books and commandments of the Bible have this many chapters dealing with how to go to “heaven” and then this many with “happiness.”

“For those whom the Lord loves He chastens. He’s trying to get me back on the pathway of victory, because that’s where we’ll find happiness and he wants me to be happy. With that in mind, if you read the book of Roman’s, the first 11 chapters deal with how to go to heaven, and then from chapter 12 through chapter 16 how to be happy. If you’ll study the book of Philippians, the first 3 chapters deal with how to go to heaven, and the last 3 how to be happy. If you’ll read the book of Colossians, the first 2 chapters deal with how to go to heaven, 3 and 4, the last 2 how to be happy. If you check the 10 commandments, 4 chapters are going to heaven and 6 chapters are, ah, 6 commandments.”

Most of what he says here is absolutely not true. It is pure fiction. The first 11 chapters of Romans do not deal with getting to heaven, nor do 12-16 deal with how to be happy. The same error is made about Philippians, Colossians and the Ten Commandments. Pure fabrication. He has likely gotten this from someone who didn't know what they were talking about, and then messes up on Ten Commandment's, they aren't chapters, nor are they divided like he says they are. The first four relate to God and the last six relate to man.

Is Wallace Using Religion to Produce Health, Wealth, and Happiness? Wallace's preaching on health, wealth and happiness further reflects his man-centered religion, and not God-centered. Sin and error is no longer the enemy; sorrow or unhappiness is. The number one priority is to feel good about yourself. To be happy. Happiness. God wants you to be happy. This is the culture we are part of and it’s the adopted culture of big boys club grand master Wallace.

Consider an example from one of the sermons:

“He loves us far above all our capacity to understand. He wants the best of everything. He wants us to be 100% healthy, he wants us to have a great retirement plan, he wants a good health and a nice car to drive and a lovely family, He doesn’t want us to have any troubles at all, and if He could get us to work with him, he’d give it to all of us. But when we resist and have our own ways and become our own god.”

Not far removed from the prosperity gospel. Did God not want Paul to have the thorn in the flesh? What about the sufferings, trials and tribulations saints are promised? What about 2 Tim 3:12, "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Tom is speaking lies.

The Unscriptural Program of Tithing and Faith Promise Missions Giving. After his anemic gospel presentation on how to get to heaven, which ironically will not get many, if any, to heaven, but rather and sadly to the darkness and torment of eternal damnation, he goes on to what God wants for you after you’ve secured your trip to heaven: happiness. God wants you to be happy he says, not far removed from Pipers hedonistic “Christianity,” or from the happy philosophies of other heretical men such as Augustine, and CS Lewis. He wants you to be happy, have a big house, a new car, and a good job, a wonderful family, and yes he said that. God wants all that for you. How do you get happy according to Wallace? First water Baptism,

“…and then comes the matter of tithing and giving. Now the bible says if you’ll just believe me about this I’ll open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings on you, you’ll won’t be able to receive. You can’t be happy without enough money, you be concerned about keeping the bills all paid, keeping the sheriff from taking you to jail [mumbled, chuckled], you know all that, if you’ll just only follow the Bible and God will do exactly what He says, now this is a faith missions promise program that we’ll talk about a little bit as we go maybe tomorrow or Sunday…”

Tithing is an OT ordinance under the law and given for a sole and single purpose: to feed and provide for the Levites who God did not bequeath any parcel of land but gave the responsibility of the priesthood. The Levitical Priesthood does not exist today. It was abolished by the High Priest after the order of Melchisedec, the Lord Jesus Christ (Heb 7:5, 9-12). The priesthood has changed, thus the “commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law,” has changed (Heb 7). NT saints have become the “royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;” (1 Pet 2:9a). No, that doesn't mean God is finished with Israel or the Jews; far from it. The Bible 's major subject is Israel and the Jew, and yes, that has continued to this period we live in. What it means is He was done with the Old Covenant that required the Levitical Priesthood. With the change of the law came a change of the priesthood thus no more tithe, as Heb 7 makes abundantly clear, and the rest of the NT likewise, as the tithe is never mentioned again, only the matter of giving and there is a big difference between tithing an giving, the former giving out of necessity and could result be grudgingly, and the latter as a cheerful giver. “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart,” should “give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (2 Cor 9:7). We cannot find NT support for the Biblical practice of tithing. Under the Mosaic Law as a member of Temple, you didn’t have a choice in the matter. The tithe was commanded. The tithe was administered for the Levitical priesthood since they had no inheritance in the land or paying jobs like the other tribes (Num 18:20, 24; Heb 7), thus the the children of Israel were commanded to tithe (Num 18:21). It was an obligation incumbent on every Jew, and there were repercussions when you missed a payment. Lev 27 and Num 18:20-32 speak to this. The scriptural tithe involved all increase including from agriculture and animals. When have NT saints practiced this as Gods Word decrees? I have never seen grains, fruits, vegetables, oil, calves, pigs, sheep, etc, being brought into the storehouse of the church, nor have I personally obeyed this. When have we tithed in NT churches of all our “increase the third year, which is the year of tithing” (De 26:12)? If you want to establish the tithe, then at the very least do it according to Scripture (see Num 18:20-32; Lev 27:30-34; De 14:22, 28; 26:12; 2 Ch 31:5). But I believe even in so doing, you are transgressing Gods Word, because the tithe was commanded and given by the LORD to the “children of Levi” (Num 18:21) and not to the NT local church. Keep reading for Biblical arguments against NT churches establishing the tithe: Are New Testament Believers Obligated to Pay the Tithe?

In his "Little is Much" sermon, he says:

“I am thrilled with the idea that you have accepted the faith promise giving program in your church, and I promise you, God will bless your church financially, and I promise you on the authority of what I know about the Bible that He’ll bless you individually if you cooperate with Him in whatever He has asked you to do, because the Lord works through us to accomplish His purpose rather than having us to do it for Him.”

Faith promise mission giving is not found in Scripture, which we prove in our report here. When we read about giving, this is not what God meant, even though Wallace attempts to force that meaning, in an eisegetically manner, doing damage to the passage.

Not paying faith promise missions is robbing God of His tithes says Wallace, after he quoted Mal 3:10 and 8 (though he called it as Matt 3:10 and 8, which we can forgive considering his age;),

“But Matt 3:8 says ‘you’ve robbed God.’ And those people rose up in protest and said ‘wherein have we robbed God?’ He said ‘in tithes AND [emphasized] in offerings.’ ‘Offerings?’ ‘Yea faith promise offerings.’ ‘Robbed God?’ Yea He says if you don’t do it. I don’t know how to read that in any other way. I can rob God by not giving my tithe but I can rob God to by not giving offerings. Now the Jews had six kinds all kings of feasts and a bunch of offerings so this is a big thing to them. But by application of scripture, all the OT truths comes over to the NT and is for OUR explanation and understanding.”

This is rubbish. Twisting and wresting scripture to fit his pogrom and agenda. He even admits that offerings are referring to the Jewish offerings, but that doesn’t change his agenda. A little truth and facts doesn’t lead to any penitence for IFB Big Camp Men. Demanding the tithe for NT believers is falsely dividing the word of truth. But it gets worse. In another sermon (“Holy Ground”), when Moses said “here am I Lord” at the burning bush, he was actually speaking to the Lord about “that little white piece of paper we’ve been talking about all week,” i.e., the faith promise missions giving form!

“Moses answered, here am I. You know what that is? It’s that little white piece of paper we’ve been talking about all week. Here am I Lord, just put my name on it [while imitating writing action].”

He said Moses, Paul, Samuel, etc, all would haves said “Speak Lord, thy servant heareth; that’s here am I, I’d sign the paper.” This cultish perversion of scripture and manipulation of God’s Word to push a man-centred and unBiblical agenda, or any agenda for that matter, is wicked and blasphemous.

He goes on to give a story (and he gives many) about the guy who promised to give to the “faith missions promise program” $5/week even though he didn’t have 5 cents, and then gets robbed at gun point while looking for money in the worst neighbourhood in Louisville, KY, but the robber ends up giving him $5 after he explains his dilemma, is exactly one of our points as we expose this unbiblical man-centred IFB program. Rather than having a guilty conscience of taking money that actually didn’t belong to him (it didn’t belong to the thief either, but some dude down the street that had been robbed by this man), and responding in righteousness, he willingly took the money so he could just meet his “faith missions promise” unscriptural commitment, which was then willingly accepted by this money-grubber unscriptural church that has cast aside any resemblance of justice, while God says you give, “if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.” (2 Cor 8:12). They do the very opposite, and they all laugh about it in the end, Wallace proclaiming “Well praise the Lord!” Let me rephrase what happened there: 'Praise the Lord for the robber that robbed a man to feed our faith promise missions giving program. God had the robber rob a man so he could give to another man, so the church could give to some missionary in another country, so we can tick off another box and add another name to our missions list, showing everyone how great we are as we collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from our people who are strapped for cash and finding it hard to make ends meet, for some unknown missionary whose name we can now add to our great list of missionaries online, so that everyone will know how great we really are and blessed and let’s not forget happy.'

Happy happy happy, everybody's happy, said the late Phil Robertson from Ducks Dynasty, except he believed in a false gospel and neo-evangelical heresies (he couldn't even obey hair length, what nature even teaches us), so he couldn't have been very happy (cf. Jn 13:17), but I wonder if the guy that got robbed is “happy” or how “happy” really is the new attendee of the church who rashly decided after coercion and intimidation and manipulation to give $5/week that he didn’t have, to then have a gun pressed to his temple in a crime ridden 'hood with his life flashing before his eyes, all to his exploitation by Wallace's church, so that they may glory in his flesh? I guess they must be happy because Wallace says God wants you to be happy, and if you are tithing and promising to give money that you don’t actually have, you must be happy.

Tithing does help build big churches. I am sure Wallace never forget these 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.” Time to get the tithing program rolling full steam ahead and bring in the dog and pony show, whatever it takes. Mediocre pastors have no place on the platform of the Big Camp. Neither do mediocre churches that don't have at the very least a short thesis of missionaries they support through the ever so popular Faith Promise Mission Giving.

Rice had a big church, so he lead by example, and establishing the same church-growth gospel program and evangelism strategy, it didn't take long for Wallace to have a big church of his own, which he duplicated x 3 (impressive!), and so he is well aware how important tithing is to that process. Without that guaranteed monthly income, it'll be hard to build the mega-church, the christian school, the christian college, the encyclopedia length of supported missionaries list, the empire, and the chance to write many books. Keep pounding "tithing" and "faith promise missions giving" and keep putting on conferences that pound these things into the heads of the lowly pew warmers.

Michael Sullivant, SOTL Promoter

Tom Wallace would have likely ended up at Calvary Baptist Church in Tabor, AB at the recommendation of Michael Sullivant, pastor of Pembina Valley Baptist Church (PVBC) and President of Canadian Bible Baptist College (CBBC), which bestowed an honorary doctorate on Wallace back in 2003, though I have no doubt that Brad Friesen, pastor of this church, would have been familiar with Tom Wallace, since PVBC regularly hosts SOTL men and many of the worse compromised and heretical men from amongst the IFB. We warn about Sullivant in the following four reports, with another one coming shortly, and he represents the same heresies as Wallace.

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

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

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

• The State of Independent Baptists in Canada, Based Upon Feedback from the Michael Sullivant Report (Some of the problems with the false gospel being lavished upon the unsuspecting among the IFB in Canada is exposed here, though it be applicable to most IFB churches anywhere today).

Conclusion

What Wallace, and all the other SOTL men, especially the Big Camp Big Men, are doing is horrible, and leading to false professing "believers" being made two-fold children of hell. Though acclaimed as a “prince among us” by some (which is actually blasphemous considering the title is used in the NT in the positive only for the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Ac 3:15; 5:31; Rev 1:5, whereas the negative is a reference to the devil, the "prince of this world" found multiple times) and a doer of many good things, he was an ardent and loyal Hyles-follower, easy believist, quick prayerist, false gospel preaching anti-repentance, anti-Lordship revivalist with his faux invitations and psychological manipulations and salesmanship, amongst a host of other false doctrine, scripture perversion, and man-centred theology (big numberism, big campism and big manism, boasting excessively and subtly, biblically shallow preaching, Scripture perversion galore, mostly unregenerate church membership, no serious discipleship, focused on externalism and empire building, neglect of church discipline, church as an evangelistic preaching station rather than a spiritual body, massive amounts of blatant disobedience, a hatred for reproof and admonishment, etc, in totality means he is an accursed false teacher, making the lost two fold children of hell. Eternity is indeed a very long time to be wrong, and what Wallace and many others like him are promoting and propagating is wrong, unbiblical and heretical.

But people don't want to be told that they are wrong or their pastor is wrong or that the visiting preacher is wrong. Unfortunately, these people (and the preachers, such as Wallace) who are grounded in their false position are seldom willing to hear reproof or the contextual interpretation of the Bible that opposes their false teaching. Where’s the spiritual discernment? Wheres the alleged love for God’s Word and gospel? At best what is happening is sentimentalism on the back of flesh-driven emotionalism.

Mr. Wallace, I am glad that the Lord has given you so many years on earth and prosperous health. He makes it to rain on the just and the unjust. Being so active at 96 is impressive! What I am not so glad about however is what you are doing to and with God's precious life-giving and life-saving gospel, and then the consequences to the vulnerable and undiscerning ears that hear your anemic and corrupted gospel that is creating more false professions than it ever has true. This is what you are doing. The distorted and counterfeit message you are feeding people is insufficient to save, and is creating a false and artificial finish line, which is dangerous beyond imagination. It makes you a false teacher and a dangerous man that must be exposed and warned about, hence this report. All the supposed good you might've done is of no value if you are in fact unsaved.

Pr 16:31 tells us,

"The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness."

The "way of righteousness" is obviously the pathway of the one who is imputed with God's righteousness at the miraculous, superdramatic and supernatural event of the new birth (Rom 4:1-8; 2 Cor 5:21), imputed righteousness which then produces practical righteousness, and the one who is found on that path and has the old aging head of grey hair (meaning of "hoary head" is grey hair and old age, from the Hebrew "seybah"), has a crown of glory on his head. Sadly, we do not believe this is true of Wallace, though he has grey hair and is of great age. How could we, considering the unsound doctrine, corruption of doctrine, the deadly serious perversion of the gospel and unscriptural evangelistic methodologies, to which Paul says "let him be accursed" Gal 1:6-9), the twisting and misuse and abuse of Scripture to push a position, These things are not "found in the way of righteousness" but rather, "the way of [UN]righteousness." There is no greater condemnation by God in the Word of God than towards those who corrupt His gospel, towards those that He labels as false teachers (cf. Rom 16:17-18; Phil 3:18-19; 2 Jn 1:9-11). He says, "let them be accursed." (Gal 1:6-9)

Rom 16:17-18,

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

We believe if Wallace does not genuinely repent and be converted before he takes his last breath, these words of Christ in Matt 7:22-23 will come to pass:

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."