Pickers and Choosers

As I have come unto the full understanding of Mid Acts Dispensational Pauline right division of the authorized King James Bible over the last 5 years or so, I have been accused of or called many things. Folks have poked fun at the fact I actually have a final authority, the authorized King James Bible and reject the perverted versions which utilize the corrupted Westcott and Hort manuscripts. People have said things to me such as "You worship Paul" or "You make too much out of Paul because we are to follow Jesus". People will actually pluck one verse from anywhere in the Bible to attempt to throw a stick in the spokes of your Bible understanding and say things like "See, what do you think about that" never considering the context of the passage or the audience to whom it is directed and at the same time accuse you of picking and choosing which scriptures you accept as doctrine. Let's take a quick look at some verses used by the "pickers and choosers" and see if we can discern the thoughts and intents of their heart.

Have you ever been to a "missionary conference" or have a missionary speak in your assembly in which the verse In Isaiah 6:8 was not referenced to get folks to give funding for a missionary or recruit new missionaries to the field?

• Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Bless God Hallelujah, Is there anyone here who has heard the voice of the Lord speaking to your heart? Which one of you can say "Here I am, send me"? You need to obey the voice of the Lord , He has spoken to your heart and is calling you right now to go the uttermost parts of outer Smackdabbastan, answer that call right now while God is speaking to you, come down front, we have alter workers ready to pray with you. For the rest of you here, God is speaking to your hearts about giving to this missionary so he can go and spread the good news to those afar off, get out those checkbooks and obey the voice of the Lord as the choir sings 3 choruses of I surrender all. .......Did that sound the slight bit familiar? I bet it did. I cannot count the number of times I heard the same sort of thing to get folks to go to the mission field and more importantly, to get you to reach for your wallet and give. Let me get one thing straight right now, I am all for missionaries and all for giving to support them, it is the method used to get the job done that is dishonest. what do I mean by that? Well, just look at the passage in Isaiah 6 and then you tell me if that mission is the same mission your church is sending missionaries on today. Let's see what the sending was to accomplish is Isaiah 6 and then you tell me if that is what missionaries are sent to do today.

• Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.


• Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

How many missionaries today claiming to have received the call from Isaiah 6:8 are doing as instructed in verses 9 and 10? You cannot name one doing that and rightfully so. The verse was used to force a response, either to go or to give. The preacher or evangelist or missionary picked a verse to promote an agenda without regard to the context of the passage or the audience to whom it was directed primarily to get the money honey. Should people go to the mission field? Yes!, Should people give to the work of the ministry? Yes! Should pastors, preachers and missionaries wrest the scriptures to force a response from people to give or go? NO! What can you discern from a minister that does such a thing? Is the preacher dishonest? how about ignorant? Can you think of any other choices? What does the preacher do when this passage shows up again in....

• Matthew 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:


• Matthew 13:15 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.

Is your church sending missionaries in order that folks WILL NOT understand the gospel? I think not. What happens when the passage turns up again in....

• Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.


• Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

And you thought parables were to make it understandable, when Luke 8:10 proclaims that parables were to NOT make it understandable but were spoken so that folks would NOT understand. What does that do to your exegesis of Luke 15 and the parable of the prodigal son? Again, Isaiah 6:9 and 10 is repeated in....

• John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,


• John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Clearly, the passage of Isaiah 6 is not a command to preach the Gospel of the Grace of God whereby God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth as stated in 1st Timothy 2:4, but just the opposite.

• 1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Clearly, It is not the role of an ambassador for Christ with the word of reconciliation to make people NOT see and NOT understand as the passage in Isaiah states.

• 2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.


• 2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

We are instructed by our Apostle Paul to make people see, not to make people NOT see or understand.

• Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

But many, and by that I mean practically every missionary, preacher and pastor uses Isaiah 6 to garner a response in order to promote an agenda in going and giving. Their motive might be right, their agenda might be right, but to go about it by "picking and choosing" a passage out of it's context is either being ignorant of the message in the passage or being dishonest with the passage. Either choice is not a favorable one and demonstrates a willingness to wrest the scriptures to promote a particular agenda. Did you get it? If not, I have a few more when I continue this discussion on "Pickers and Choosers" Grace and Peace!