CONTENTIONS LIKE THE BARS OF A CASTLE:

To Whom It May Concern:

Thus saith the Lord God:

Pro. 18/9. “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.”

Math. 5/23-24. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother has ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift.”

Current pentacostal leadership comes in contact with many “bleating sheep” these days. The countryside is littered with battered, bruised and starving wounded sheep, and “their contentions are like the bars of a castle.” But do you listen to them as they try to be obedient to Christ, Math. 18/15-17, so as to see the relationship restored???? NOOOOOO……not a chance, it`s not in your vernacular to humble yourself and say “SORRY;” you`d rather pout your own self importance by telling the wounded “you`ve been hurt by leadership, it`s your problem, you`re the one with the problem, you need healing and need to get back into fellowship, you`re in unforgiveness, repent and forgive; (does this mean when we don`t repent and say sorry toThe Lord, that we are then unforgiven, THE LORD IS IN UNFORGIVENESS WITH US BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN OFFENDED BY OUR SIN???? WHOOPS!) You expect the sheep to just carte blanche have an attitude to forgive you, (just as Christ`s example to us on the cross,) but you won`t humble yourself, repent, and say sorry! YOU HAVEN`T LED BY EXAMPLE! YOU HYPOCRITES!!! WHAT DID JESUS SAY??? “TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES: IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HIM; AND IF HE REPENT, FORGIVE HIM.” Luke 17/3. You don`t seem to comprehend that the repatriation and restoration of these bleating sheep starts with YOU SAYING I`M SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME: You thereby giving them the chance to be obedient to Christ by FORGIVING YOU: What did Paul say? “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Eph. 4/4.

CAN YOU BLAME THEM FOR NOT BEING IN A FELLOWSHIP???? You expect them to change, lead with their chin, get back into fellowship with you hirelings robbers and wolves so they can get punched out again, but you won`t admit to being wrong will you???? You talk behind their back, slandering and degrading them to others, murmuring, (read the book of Jude again, He`s talking about you:) expelling them from your fellowships when they question the heresy that your teaching, calling them unteachable, not able to submit to authority, HEY, HAVEN`T YOU HEARD, “A STRANGER THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW, BUT WILL FLEE FROM HIM: FOR THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF STRANGERS????” John 10/5. Then you get in your little huddle of “pastor sauces” phoning and faxing one another, justifying your attitude of pride and arrogance, protecting, hedging up “your ministry,” fencing off your position, discussing the sheep and their problems, naming them, falsely accusing them, making all sorts of assumptions, whispering about them, BEHIND THEIR BACKS!!!!! YOU WEAK BUNCH OF SISSEYS, PUSSEYS, JUST LIKE A BUNCH OF OLD WOMEN: YOU HAVEN`T EVEN GOT THE WISDOM OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT THAT THE MANAGEMENT OF CORPORATE MAMMON IN THE WORLD HAS:

WHY DON`T YOU GO AND SAY THOSE THINGS TO THEIR FACE AND HAVE IT OUT WITH THEM EYEBALL TO EYEBALL LIKE JESUS AND PAUL DID? Nooooo….you can`t do that can you, you`re just a bunch of spineless self pleasing cowards: Not once in thirty years have I experienced any leadership humbling themselves in this manner, NOT ONCE!!!! All I have ever heard is what you have been saying about me behind my back; SHAME ON YOU!!!! (At least the Pharisees FACED JESUS, AND THE APOSTLES:) And if it`s happened to me on countless occasions, THEN IT`S HAPPENED TO MANY MANY MORE ACROSS THIS NATION: I used to be astonished when pastor sauce would start talking to me about certain members of the congregation, about their faults, weaknesses, problems, defaming the brethren to me, sowing seeds of mistrust and illusion, spreading rumours that snowball into these grotesque lies about people: EVEN DOCTORS AND SOLICITORS IN THE WORLD HAVE A CODE OF CONFIDENTIALITY; WHY DON`T YOU???? (“and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: FOR CHARITY SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS.” 1 Pet. 4/8.) The reason that you do this is to show how “super spiritual” you are, elevating yourself in the ears of the listener at the expense of others: SHAME ON YOU, YOUR NOT MEN AT ALL, YOU`RE TOO WEAK TO BE MEN, NO WONDER YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH JEZEBEL IN YOUR LIVES:

I know that offences are a big part of our lives, Jesus said it: “For it must needs be that offences come:” But listen to the rest of that scripture, “BUT WOE TO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE OFFENCE COMETH!” Math. 18/7.

“BUT WHOSO SHALL OFFEND ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES WHICH BELIEVE IN ME, IT WERE BETTER FOR HIM THAT A MILLSTONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK, AND THAT HE WERE DROWNED IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEA.” Math. 18/6. If you have bruised, trodden on, wounded, OFFENDED, any of His precious possession, THEN YOU CAN EXPECT THAT JESUS WILL WAN`T TO HAVE A STRONG CHAT WITH YOU:

“THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO THE SHEPHERDS; WOE BE TO THE SHEPHERDS OF ISRAEL THAT DO FEED THEMSELVES! SHOULD NOT THE SHEPHERDS FEED THE FLOCKS? YE EAT THE FAT, AND YE CLOTHE YOU WITH THE WOOL, YE KILL THEM THAT ARE FED: BUT YE FEED NOT THE FLOCK. THE DISEASED HAVE YE NOT STRENGTHENED, NEITHER HAVE YE HEALED THAT WHICH WAS SICK, NEITHER HAVE YE BOUND UP THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN, NEITHER HAVE YE BROUGHT AGAIN THAT WHICH WAS DRIVEN AWAY, NEITHER HAVE YE SOUGHT THAT WHICH WAS LOST; BUT WITH FORCE AND WITH CRUELTY HAVE YE RULED THEM. AND THEY WERE SCATTERED, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHEPHERD: AND THEY BECAME MEAT TO ALL THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD, WHEN THEY WERE SCATTERED. MY SHEEP WANDERED THROUGH ALL THE MOUNTAINS, AND UPON EVERY HIGH HILL: YEA, MY FLOCK WAS SCATTERED UPON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND NONE DID SEARCH OR SEEK AFTER THEM. THEREFORE, YE SHEPHERDS, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD; AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD GOD, SURELY BECAUSE MY FLOCK BECAME A PREY, AND MY FLOCK BECAME MEAT TO EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SHEPHERD, NEITHER DID MY SHEPHERDS SEARCH FOR MY FLOCK, BUT THE SHEPHERDS FED THEMSELVES, AND FED NOT MY FLOCK; THEREFORE, O YE SHEPHERDS, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD; THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS; AND I WILL REQUIRE MY FLOCK AT THEIR HAND, AND CAUSE THEM TO CEASE FROM FEEDING THE FLOCK; NEITHER SHALL THE SHEPHERDS FEED THEMSELVES ANY MORE; FOR I WILL DELIVER MY FLOCK FROM THEIR MOUTH, THAT THEY MAY NOT BE MEAT FOR THEM.” Ez. 34/2-10.

“Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE, but of a ready mind; NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD`S HERITAGE, BUT BEING ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK.” 1 PET. 5/2-3.

How many times have any of you, before you pray or go to fellowship “remembered that THY BROTHER HAS OUGHT AGAINST THEE” and “left therefore thy gift before the altar, and go thy way,” and “first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift?” Math. 5/23-24. How many times have any of you “left the ninety and nine and gone into the mountains and sought that which is gone astray?” Math. 18/12. Don`t you realize that “it`s not the will of your Father which is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish?” Math. 18/14.

Oh yes, as many of you can attest, you are coming into contact with numerous people hurt by leadership;…..GUESS WHAT?...... YOU`RE REAPING WHAT YOU`VE SOWN!!! Unpleasant isn`t it? The fruit of your labour is producing thorns, briers and thistles: I know what it is like, I built wood, hay, stubble on a foundation once, and paid for it big time, it still bothers me to-day. It chastened me severely, now all I want to do is build gold, silver, precious stones, doing all things HIS WAY, and not mine, “sowing into the Spirit, not sowing into the flesh.” 1 Cor. 3/11-15 and Gal. 6/7-8.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep`s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS. DO MEN GATHER GRAPES OF THORNS, OR FIGS OF THISTLES?” Math. 7/15-16.

There is an old saying, if you want to know what sort of man the King is, just take a look at his subjects; I don`t have to be in your fellowships to find out what you are, I ENCOUNTER THE FRUITS OF IT EVERYDAY IN THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY!!!!

When you wound one of these “little one`s which believeth in me,” YOU WOUND CHRIST!!! “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME.” How fooled and deluded you are to think that Jesus wouldn`t haul you over the coals about this issue: “Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: FOR THE LORD WILL PLEAD THEIR CAUSE, AND SPOIL THE SOUL OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM.” Pro. 22/22-23. Yes the book “How Dare You” and this website are full of “contentions like bars of a castle,” BUT GUESS WHOSE CONTENTIONS THEY ARE!!!!! GUESS WHO IS TRYING TO WARN YOU TO “FLEE FROM THE WRATH THAT IS TO COME!!!!”

GUESS WHOSE COMING TO DINNER…AND HE AIN`T HAPPY!!!! Luke 14/16-24.

NOT……HAPPY……PRESBYTERY:

Yep, the halt, the maimed, the lamed, the blind, the deaf, the bruised, the wounded are bleating all over this land, “AND THEIR CONTENTIONS ARE LIKE THE BARS OF A CASTLE:”

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT???????

“see that ye refuse not Him that speaketh;”

Bevan Kluver,

Straight Talk Ministries,

Ph/Fax 07 55452874,

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

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

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