PASTOR JOHN-PAUL MILLER, HUSBAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD MICA MILLER, HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER THE FBI RAIDED HIS HOUSE
pictured: John-Paul’s wife Mica Miller committed suicide in April, and her passing drew national attention as scrutiny fell on her husband’s behavior in the weeks after her death
A pastor husband who came under suspicion after his wife’s high-profile suicide in the spring has been arrested days after an FBI raid on his South Carolina home.
John-Paul Miller, 45, was arrested Wednesday and charged with third-degree assault and battery. The arrest was unrelated to the raid on his home on Friday, reports WMBF.
A witness captured footage of the incident, showing a woman chasing John-Paul in a parking lot and harassing him. The woman is believed to be a ‘Justice for Mica’ protestor, alleging the pastor was involved in his wife Mica Miller’s death in April.
John-Paul was initially seen running away from the woman, Sandra Karon, as she screamed at him. He then turns back and confronts her, shouting back: ‘What did you say? You walked right up to me.’
Karon told WMBF that Miller squared up to her and tapped her on her hat with his phone, resulting in the assault charges.
John-Paul previously raised eyebrows when he delivered a bizarre sermon after his wife’s apparent suicide in April, which triggered a wave of allegations of ‘abuse’ in their marriage and his alleged ‘sexual encounters’ with underage girls.
Police have not indicated that they believe John-Paul was involved in his wife’s death.
Following his arrest, John-Paul will be in court Thursday for a bond hearing, and will be hauled before a judge again on December 10.
The assault and battery charges are reportedly unrelated to an FBI raid on his home on Friday, the nature of which is still a mystery.
Neighbors said at the time they’d been told agents were there to execute a search warrant, with Miller not believed to be at home when law enforcement arrived.
Karon said her clash with Miller on Wednesday began when she and other locals went to Miller’s church, the Market Common Church, after hearing rumors it was being emptied of its contents.
Believing the emptying of the church to be related to the FBI raid, Karon said she then saw Miller at the church, leading her to chase after him and call him a number of expletives.
Karon admitted that she could ‘see why (people) would say it was antagonistic’ for her to approach John-Paul in the way that she did, but justified her actions and said he should not have touched her.
Explaining her side of the encounter, Karon said after John-Paul turned around and approached her, ‘he stood right up in my face and said ‘what are you gonna do?”
‘He had his phone up in my face, and tapped my hat twice while he was saying it,’ she continued. ‘That triggered me to immediately scream ‘don’t touch me.’
‘I could see why they might say it was antagonistic, but to antagonize someone into doing something illegal, am I responsible for him doing that?’
Myrtle Beach police said the incident is still under investigation.
Mica shot herself dead in Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, South Carolina, in April.
Haunting surveillance footage showed her buying a gun at a pawn shop shortly before her death, then driving into the remote area where she ended her life.
There’s no suggestion Miller was directly involved in his wife’s death.
But allegations of abuse and infidelity began to swirl shortly after he announced Mica’s passing at Market Common Church.
In May this year, DailyMail.com revealed how Miller’s church has a property portfolio worth at least $5.59 million, and a four-seat plane worth $430,000.
Scrutiny has been mounting on Solid Rock Ministries after it was revealed that church leaders plan to allow John-Paul Miller back to the pulpit following allegations of ‘sexual encounters’ with underage girls.
Last month it emerged that Miller had filed court documents to set up a new religious movement Living Water Church at Market Common, Newsweek reports.
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THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III
This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.
“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.
Not “Trying” But “Trusting”
“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!
What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!
May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!
One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.
If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
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