Greg Laurie assured us that Pastor Jarrid Wilson, who committed suicide, went directly to Heaven. By his turn, Wilson had assured us that the communist terrorist Nelson Mandela was a good example
By
Julio
Severo
Jarrid
Wilson, who committed suicide on September 9, 2019, after officiating at the
funeral of a woman who had also killed herself, was a minister at Harvest
Christian Fellowship, where Greg Laurie is the senior minister. His church is a
member of Southern Baptists.
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| Jarrid Wilson, wife and sons |
On
September 23, Brazilian pastor Lisandro Canes also committed suicide, after
complaining of “burn-out and tiredness” and sharing the news about Wilson’s
suicide. A bad example, glamourized by others, led to bad consequences.
The
reasoning behind these suicides seems very simple: Heaven is good and if
suicide, now glamourized by famous pastors, is a shortcut to Heaven, then let
us kill ourselves if God refuses to take us home soon.
Instead
of imitating men of God in the Bible who through Christ defeated depression and
suicide, today leaders exalt men who are defeated by depression and suicide.
I have no doubt that Wilson suffered
mental health issues. In his article titled “Top 10 Nelson Mandela Quotes” published
in 2013, Wilson wrote: “In his honor, here is a list of the Top 10 Nelson
Mandela Quotes.” If you publish one quote of some man it is because you admire
him. But if you publish an article with 10 quotes, it is a solid admiration.
Ronald
Reagan, a pro-life evangelical president, deserved to have 10 quotes or more
from American pastors.
But
did Mandela deserve such solid admiration from Christians, especially pastors?
Mandela
and his African National Congress were about to turn South Africa into a
violent Marxist, communist country in the Soviet or Cuban model, “when they
were bought off by the [socialist] American Democratic Party and big
multi-national business who showered the new black rulers with wealth and
power, and, above all, with favorable international media coverage,” according
to Rodney Atkinson. They were bought off by the Western Left. The result? They
became a violent socialist nation in the Western model.
Under
the spell of this socialist model, South Africa has been implementing moral
decadence as no other African nation has done. For Mr. Atkinson, Mandela has a
murderous legacy. In 1996, Mandela endorsed one of world’s most liberal
abortion laws.
The
same year, Mandela’s new constitution made, according to LifeSiteNews,
South Africa the first country in the world to place “sexual orientation”
alongside race and religion as a restricted grounds for discrimination —
something that was instrumental for the legalization of homosexual “marriage” a
decade later.
Yet,
Jarrid Wilson did not see any problem in Mandela, in his violent communist history
and in his violent legacy. South Africa is now a champion of rapes and murders.
If
mental health issues hinder a mental sick from seeing a communist the way he
is, then Wilson did suffer mental health issues.
Dr.
Lyle Rossiter, a psychiatrist and author of the acclaimed book “The Liberal
Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness,” explains that only a sick
mind makes people support communist leaders. If Wilson had not killed himself,
he should read Rossiter’s book.
Even
though Wilson did not point accusatory fingers at Mandela, who was a nominal
Methodist (just as pro-abortion Hillary Clinton is), he pointed a lot of accusatory
fingers at American Christians for their alleged lack of love and compassion to
sinners, especially homosexuals. Yet, who said that Mandela’s communist
activities, history and legacy actually represented Christ’s love?
In his article titled “Why ‘Hate the Sin,
Not the Sinner’ Isn’t Working” published in 2014, Wilson said,
“The ideology of, ‘hate the sin, not
the sinner’ has NOT converted well in today’s culture. If you take a moment to
look around, you’ll notice that we are very good at showing hate to the people
whom God has called us to love.”
In his article titled “Christians Are
Failing at Showing Love to the LGBT Community” published in 2015, Wilson said,
“It
hurts my heart to see how many pastors and leaders are wrongfully handling the
LGBT conversation, and I believe that coming back to heart of compassion is
what’s needed most. There are so many people who are handling this conversation
correctly, and I wish more people would follow suit in the name of Jesus. Regardless
of what side of the conversation you find yourself landing on, your commandment
to love people and share truth in a loving way remains the same. Love well.”
In his article titled “Gay Straight
Or Purple” published in 2013 — in the same year he praised Mandela —, Wilson
said,
“I know a handful of people who are
gay, go to church, and in fact show the presence of Jesus’ love more than most
self-proclaimed ‘straight’ Christians do.”
Progressive Christians love
socialism, socialists and twist the word “love” for the sake of their
progressive religion.
I
wonder what Jarrid thought of the two witnesses in Revelation 11. Certainly,
they did not preach a love message. Their message was prophetic. The Bible says
that when these two witnesses were killed “The inhabitants of the earth will
gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these
two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.” (Revelation 11:10 NIV)
It
hurts my heart to see pastors using Mandela and other communists as good
examples.
Do
you know what else hurts my heart and God’s heart? To see a minister lecturing
the church about love and killing himself, leaving his young sons completely
abandoned when God’s Word says,
“If
anyone doesn’t take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family,
he has denied the Christian faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” (1 Timothy
5:8 GWV)
Do
you know what else hurts my heart and God’s heart? Jarrid Wilson was not
prepared to be a minister at Harvest Christian Fellowship. Even so, he was
ordained to lead in this mega-church.
Do
you know what else hurts my heart and God’s heart? That Wilson treated the
church with excessive harshness and Mandela with excessive love, when Mandela
was the perfect representative of a rotten church.
Do
you know what else hurts my heart and God’s heart? That Greg Laurie has been
soft with Wilson’s suicide and his irresponsibility to his young sons. That
Laurie has used his suicide to encourage evangelicals to treat people with
suicidal thoughts as people with mental health issues not to blame for their
bad decisions against themselves and their innocent families.
The
bad news is that this soft stance to suicide has nothing to do with the Gospel,
which has nothing to do with demons who whisper suicidal thoughts in the heads
of people. This has to do with socialism, which wants no one taking
responsibility for their own bad actions.
So
the criminal raped children because he has mental health issues. So says the socialist
argument. Or the criminal robbed and killed because society led him to do these
horrible things, according to socialism.
In
socialist ideology, no one takes responsibility for his own actions. The criminal
stole, raped and killed because of society. And now does the pastor kill
himself and irresponsibly abandon his small children because of “mental illness”?
Socialized
gospel follows the same pattern by making ministers who chose to commit suicide
and abandon their young children not responsible for their bad decisions and irresponsibility.
You
cannot forget that Jarrid Wilson was a champion of the campaign to convince the
evangelical community that suicidal thoughts should considered just a medical
issue. So he lived constantly under medical treatment and recommending this
treatment to others. He lived under antidepressants and other pharmaceutical
drugs. If anything, his example shows clearly the uselessness of psychology and
psychiatry to treat as a medical issue demonic whisperings of suicide in the
head of a minister. What happened to the deliverance ministry?
Why
so much dependence on psychology and psychiatry for soul issues that God has
solved for centuries? I understand why the antidepressants Jarrid used did not
help him. A Telegraph report headline said, “Most common antidepressant barely
helps improve depression symptoms, ‘shocking’ trial finds.”
I just do not understand how, being a minister, Jarrid did not let God take
care of him.
Very
regrettable that he saw psychologists and psychiatrists as answers for problems
not impossible for the Holy Spirit to solve. In fact, psychologists and
psychiatrists can offer the “perfect” drugs for everything. A DailyMail report
headline said, “Jeffrey Epstein’s victims claim he
paid doctors and psychiatrists to prescribe Xanax and lithium to medicate his
‘sex slaves’ while they were being trafficked.”
Epstein was the pedophile billionaire who preyed and raped teen girls. Then he
referred his victims to psychologists and psychiatrists to help them cope with
the sexual abuses he inflicted on the poor girls.
Do
not accuse me of being judgmental about Jarrid’s stances, because he was
constantly judgmental about the church, eternally accusing that the church had
no love and compassion. If the church had no love, what did communist
Protestant Mandela have? Just love for socialism.
I
am very sorry for the innocent young sons of Jarrid whom he chose to abandon.
And I am indignant at ministers who are excusing his irresponsibility to his
sons.
You
are not to blame if demons whisper murder, abortion, adultery, homosexuality
and suicide in your head. But you are to blame if you implement demons’ orders.
I
wonder what Mandela-loving Jarrid thought about the promised anointing of Elijah
for the last days, our days. Elijah’s ministry was not about love, but
condemning prophetically the evils in this world. Would not Christians with
such anointing today condemn Christians who use Mandela as a good example?
Sadly,
Greg Laurie used Elijah and other biblical characters as people with mental
health issues to justify Jarrid’s suicide. Even though in some point, because
of extreme persecution, they thought about departing from this world, no one of
them contemplated the idea of killing themselves. So they are a good example
against suicide.
The
only example fitting the case of those who killed themselves was Jude, who
committed suicide for remorse.
Nevertheless,
Greg Laurie is reinforcing the bad idea that Jarrid’s suicide is an example
that pastors should seek psychological and psychiatric treatment, just as Jarrid
did, to address demonic attacks. What has happened to the church that was
originally empowered to expel every kind of demons?
If
I published 10 quotes of communist Nelson Mandela, I would be showing to the
world and God how carnal Christian I am. What is the problem with a carnal
Christian using antidepressants, psychologists, psychiatrists, admiring
communist Mandela and, in the end, killing himself?
Suicide
among God’s people in the Bible was not normal. It was a sure sign of carnality
and rebellion against God. Jude is just a famous example. Why should suicide be
today normal when there is the sure promise of the Comforter for those who believe
in Christ? How can a pastor who says that the Comforter lives in him give heed
to demons who whisper suicide thoughts in his head?
Those
who replace the Comforter and his powerful spiritual resources with
psychologists, psychiatrists and their useless pharmaceutical drugs will have a
very hard time to deal with suicide demons. Not to mention that it is
impossible to follow the Holy Spirit and love communist Mandela at the same
time. Should it be any surprise if a pastor who admires a communist terrorist has
suicidal thoughts?
Any Christian compromising the true
Gospel for the sake of socialists and homosexualists have mental and spiritual troubles.
Yet,
in the case of Jarrid Wilson, who was put in the pastoral staff of the
mega-church Harvest Christian Fellowship, he denounced in many articles that
the church lacked love. But his words did not match his actions. He abandoned
two innocent young children. He lacked love for his children and wife.
When
a man abandons his young children, you call him a cowardly, selfish,
irresponsible and even criminal man. Why should be different regarding a pastor
who abandons his little children through suicide? Greg Laurie was extremely
irresponsible for putting such a man in his pastoral staff knowing very well
that he had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts. Jarrid should never
have had any pastoral post or any other post in any church. I hope that Greg’s
denomination may apply to him some discipline for his irresponsibility.
Portuguese
version of this article: Greg Laurie nos garantiu que o pastor Jarrid Wilson,
que cometeu suicídio, foi diretamente para o céu. Por sua vez, Wilson havia nos
garantido que o terrorista comunista Nelson Mandela era um bom exemplo
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