ART THOU HE THAT TROUBLETH ISRAEL

 

“AND  IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN AHAB SAW ELIJAH, THAT AHAB SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU HE THAT TROUBLETH ISRAEL?” 1 KINGS 18/17.

 

This ministry has many detractors and antagonists, (Ahabs,) “foaming out their own shame,” Jude 13, “as they speak great swelling words of vanity,” 2 Pet. 2/18, in their discourse to us, both orally and written.

 

The following are a few of the more brazenly memorable:

 

“YOU`RE DOING MORE HARM TO THE BODY OF CHRIST THAN GOOD:”

 

“YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LIKE? YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN THE BALI BOMBERS:”

 

What about this puffed up pontificating piece of purulent putrescent puke from the most venerable, right honourable, very reverend reverend Dr. David Logan of Armidale Community Church 68a Markham St. Armidale?

 

“I WILL MAKE A POINT OF PRAYING FOR YOU, ASKING MY MOST GRACIOUS AND LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER TO FORGIVE YOU FOR THE MISCHIEF AND DISCORD THAT YOUR LETTERS APPARENTLY SEEK TO CREATE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST:”….. “I CALL YOU TO REPENT OF YOUR MISCHIEVOUS, MALICIOUS AND NEGATIVE GRAPHOLOGY:”… “STOP PRODUCING THIS VOCIFEROUS BARRAGE OF VERBAL DIARRHOEA,” (remember these words penned by you David?)

 

And this, startlingly articulate, tepid, dissertation of man pleasing wisdom from Don Gall, Ballarat City Church, 65 Albert St. Sebastopol?

 

“YOU ARE PAINTING AN UGLY PICTURE WITH A VERY BROAD BRUSH AND, IN FACT, DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD;”

 

(“Ahab, Jezebel, Saul and Jeroboam, by their fruits, you will know-em;”)

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:……….. WHAT THEY ARE ALL SAYING IS…………………………………………………………………………………….

 

            “ART THOU HE THAT TROUBLETH ISRAEL?” (THE CHURCH)

 

I have been told on numerous occasions that I  am a fool, hurt, bitter and twisted, in unforgiveness, and you know what? I seem to still be able to have fellowship with, and articulate what Loving Father Son and Holy Ghost say to me, in spite of the fact that Jesus said that anyone in unforgiveness is delivered into the hands of the tormentors: Math. 18/34:…..IT`S NOT ME THAT HAS THE PROBLEM WITH YOU, IT`S THE LORD HIMSELF, AND HE CHOOSES ME TO “PARTAKE OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS:”

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL:

 

“HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS, THE LORD`S CONTROVERSY, AND YE STRONG FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH: FOR THE LORD HATH A CONTROVERSY WITH HIS PEOPLE, AND HE WILL PLEAD WITH ISRAEL.” MICAH 6/2.

 

And of course,…….. this is my favourite:

 

“YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH REJECTION, YOU DON`T HANDLE REJECTION TOO WELL:”

 

YOU KNOW WHAT?.............LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST HAS A PROBLEM WITH REJECTION TOO, HE DOESN`T HANDLE IT WELL EITHER:

 

“BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION,” HEB. 10/27.

 

FIERY, MEANING HOT, ZEALOUS, FERVENT: INDIGNATION, MEANING, STRONG DISPLEASURE AT SOMETHING THOUGHT TO BE UNWORTHY, UNJUST, OR WRONG.

 

DID YOU ALL KNOW, THAT WHEN YOU ARGUE, CONTEND, FIGHT, REJECT, REBEL,….DISOBEY….STOP YOUR EARS TO THE TRUTH……..AS DELIVERED TO YOU IN OBEDIENCE BY LOVING FATHERS` SERVANTS….

 

THAT YOU………HURL AN INSULT OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS…………..

AT LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST?????HEB.10/28-29.

 

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT HIS RESPONSE IS GOING TO BE TO THIS??????

 

DO YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO SEND YOU FLOWERS AND CANDY????HEB.10/30.

 

IT`S AGAPE LOVE THAT CHASTENS, NOT SELFISH LOVE, IT IS DONE FOR OUR OWN GOOD, HAVING ONLY US IN MIND FOR OUR BETTERMENT: HEB. 12/10.

 

HAVE A THINK, HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN TAKES NO NOTICE, DISREGARDS, DISOBEYS, ARGUES, CONTENDS,

 

……..TREATS WITH UTTER CONTEMPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

YOUR LOVING EDICTS, GIVEN FOR THEIR WELL BEING?......................

 

JESUS SAID “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE:” JOHN 14/6.

 

HE…IS…THE TRUTH…………………………………………………………….

 

 

WHEN YOU REJECT, CONTEST, CONTEND, ABNEGATE, STOP YOURS EARS, ARGUE, FIGHT, REBEL, DISOBEY, TREAT WITH CONTEMPT,  REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE….. TRUTH,………..HOLY SCRIPTURE……….AS DELIVERED TO YOU BY THE LORDS` OBEDIENT SERVANTS,………..YOU REJECT CHRIST HIMSELF, JUST AS THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES DID, “DELIVERING HIM FOR ENVY,” TO BE CRUCIFIED,………..THUS YOU PARTAKE OF THEIR SINS,……….BECOMING GUILTY OF THE “BODY AND BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:”

 

MATH. 21/33-44.

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:

 

“WHEN THE LORD THEREFORE OF THE VINEYARD COMETH, WHAT WILL HE DO UNTO THOSE HUSBANDMEN?

 

THEY SAY UNTO HIM, HE WILL MISERABLY DESTROY THOSE WICKED MEN, AND WILL LET OUT HIS VINEYARD UNTO OTHER HUSBANDMEN, WHICH SHALL RENDER HIM THE FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS.

 

THEREFORE SAY I UNTO YOU, THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL BE TAKEN FROM YOU, AND GIVEN TO A NATION BRINGING FORTH THE FRUITS THEREOF.”

 

 

Bevan Kluver

Ph/Fax 07 55452874,

Website www.straighttalkmin.org   bevan.kluver@bigpond.com

 

 

 

“speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith;”

 

REMEMBER, A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH:

HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH: