The 501c3 Heresy: A Call to Repentance for America’s Pastors
Sunday, 08/09/26 at 18:11
Sandra West
I never take lightly a vision or word from the Lord given to me. However, the following word from the Lord weighs even more heavily upon me than usual with its importance, and directness. It brought me to tears. It is the lengthiest word I have ever received from the Lord, and likely one of the most important. It reflects the heart of God, His earnestness for His Church, and an immense love for His People. He is grieved by what has happened to His Church in America, and issues an indictment to the Pastors of America.
May they heed the Lord’s Call to Repentance, before it is too late.
On 6/18/26 at 11:11am, I heard in the spirit, “The Heresy of 501c3.” Then the Lord began to speak to me the following. I am now prompted to release it:
My Beloved, you wonder why most churches in America lack power, and lack zeal. You wonder why when you enter through their doors or listen to their sermons, that the term “dry bones” comes to mind. You wonder why spiritual darkness is invading America. I tell you that it is the result of the heresy of 501c3. Most churches and their Pastors in the US have submitted themselves to their government. They have signed agreements with the government, doing what was right in their own eyes. This is grievous unto Me. Such an agreement with government limits what can be preached, although that has not been enforced…YET. Such an agreement puts an oppressive, spiritual covering upon My Church stifling its power, and stifling its ability to know Me, and to hear Me. This contract was never of Me, for it made My Church a corporation. Where in My Word do such agreements exist? Why would those Pastors do such a thing? The answer for most is rooted in ignorance, pride, and a lack of faith. The Church has authority to exist on its own by Me, but their ignorance, pride, and lack of faith yoked them to an unbelieving government, in which they are now in lockstep. A government which can then “call the shots” when they so choose. Did the events in 2020 not open the eyes of many? It did, and that is why some of Mine have left these government church corporations, and sought instead Me.
There are exceptions, My Beloved, but they are few and far between. If these exceptions are also under the government 501c3, then why the difference? Why do some Pastors preach the Word, and also warn My flock to what is happening, to what is coming that will fulfill My Word? Why do they not hesitate to preach the weightier matters? I tell you now, it is because they have come to the love of the knowledge of the truth. A truth no matter the cost. A Truth that is Me, but also the love of the knowledge of the truth. Like the children of Issachar, they have a fervent passion to understand the days and times in which you live. They seek to be not ignorant of Satan’s devices, so he will not get an advantage of My People. They seek this truth to shepherd and warn My flock, no matter how unpopular it may be; no matter how unconventional, or taboo the subject matter. For these are the weightier matters that require a diet of meat, rather than of milk. Most of My People remain on milk because their Pastors are more concerned with attendance and tithes, rather than truth. They preach to tickle ears, rather than preaching through the power and conviction of the Holy Spirit. Their failure will lead many to be deceived. Their failure will allow America to be conquered; first within, and then without her borders. These Pastors, who are the exception to this, are few in number. I choose to use them in their calling to reach more of My Own, even though they are yoked unequally to their evil government. I choose to use them because they are fearless in My eyes. I choose to use these exceptions for My good.
The majority of America’s Pastors are failing to warn. I AM calling these Pastors to repentance. Lest they repent and separate from the government, they will continue to be blinded by the 501c3 heresy. They get offended, and will defend to their dying breath this shameful heresy. Much like the scribes and Pharisees were offended unto Me. Is this the hill in which you prefer to die, oh Pastors of America? Oh, Laodicean church! They are stiffnecked, and filled with much pride. They think they are in need of nothing. Their blindness and pride are reasons I AM sending dreams, visions, Watchmen, and My Messengers to warn My People. It is to fill the gap of such a failure. Of such blindness. Of such pride. Of such unrepentance. Their heresy and defense of the 501c3 has stifled My Church, and quenched the Holy Spirit. Their salt has lost its savor. As it is written, to whom much is given, much is required. These Pastors have miserably failed, for which I will judge them harshly. Woe to them! For where is their godly burden to protect, and warn My flock? Woe to them! For where it their godly burden to ignite the power of the Holy Spirit in My People? Woe to them! For doing what is right in their own eyes, rather than Mine. Woe to them! For where is their fasting, sackcloth and ashes?
As time quickly moves forward under My hand, I will cause My People to choose. The heresy of the 501c3 will become more and more evident when they are enticed, and encouraged to bow down at its feet. Did you not see glimmers of it in 2020? I AM already calling some out of her, but it will be then that many more will come out of her, and finally be set free from her bondage. Them, I will gladly receive unto Me. I AM already setting up house churches for those with eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to receive the truth. The Truth of Me, and the love of the knowledge of the truth. For those that separate from the 501c3 heresy, be not discouraged. I AM separating the wheat from the tares. I AM opening My Door so that you may fellowship, and worship Me with like-minded believers. Believers in unity. Believers in one accord. Believers that love Me, and have love of the knowledge of the truth. Be not discouraged. If there is no pastor to lead you, I AM the Good Shepherd, and will lead you in truth and in spirit. For My People know My voice and will follow Me.
My Beloved, do not tarry when I stir up discontent, and discomfort within you regarding your 501c3 government church corporation. Do not be dismayed. I AM doing so to call you out of its bondage, and blindness. It is for your protection, for the enemy has laid many snares within that you know not of. I have called you to trust in Me, rather than man. Will you trust Me, and heed My calling? Will you answer unto Me in faith? It will be wise to separate upon My call, for some of these 501c3 government church corporations are not what they seem.
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Insights:
After I finished typing the Lord’s message, I went online to look for an article to further explain 501c3.
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, I found an article with the exact wording, “The 501c3 Heresy”, in its title. Its inclusion does not imply a blanket endorsement of the site.
The 501c3 Heresy is Destroying the Church and America
On May 4, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to exercise enforcement lenience regarding religious speech, and political expression. Since the rule is a federal statute enacted by Congress, an executive order cannot legally erase it. The Johnson Amendment is still on the books, and able to be legally enforced. The Lord warned in the above message, that at some point enforcement will occur.
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Scripture References:
Jeremiah 23:1-4: 1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! Saith the Lord. 2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord. 3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.
Jonah 3:4-10: 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Ninevah shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Ninevah believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the King of Ninevah, and he rose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Ninevah by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them feed, not drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Psalm 11:3: If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
2 Corinthians 2:11: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17: 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
Judges 17:6: In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Matthew 16:18: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
1 Thessalonians 5:19: Quench not the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:18: Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Titus 1:16: They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abdominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Matthew 5:13: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Hebrews 11:6: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jeremiah 29:13: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all of your heart.
1 Timothy 2:4: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 3:5-7: 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power therefore: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Chronicles 12:32: And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred: and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Revelation 3:14-19: 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Matthew 23:23: Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not leave the other undone.
I Corinthians 3:1-2: 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Hebrews 5:11-14: 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
2 Timothy 4:1-5: 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Matthew 23:27-28: 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Luke 12:48: But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke 14:34: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Joshua 24:15: And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Matthew 13:30: Let both grow together unto the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Acts 2:1-4: 1 And when the day of the Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from the heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
John 10:1-5: 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Acts 20:29: For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Jeremiah 17:5: Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
