RECONCILIATION

 

Bevan Kluver and Straight Talk Ministries have been accused of many things over the years, least of all are the following:

 

Straight Talk Ministries is too CRITICAL, EXUDES TOO MUCH CRITICISM:

Straight Talk Ministries is DESTRUCTIVE, PULLS YOU DOWN:

Straight Talk Ministries is too NEGATIVE:

 

And,…..how about this latest one: Straight Talk Ministries is “PUGILISTIC MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN CONCILIATORY”: 

 

ALLOW ME TO HELP YOU ALL OUT HERE A LITTLE BIT:

 

HOW ABOUT STRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES IS TOO….. TRANSPARENT,… TOO BOLD,…CURT,…FRANK,…BLUNT,……. CONFRONTATIONAL:………

 

ACTS 9/27,29, 14/3, 18/26, 19/8. (boldly, “parresiazomai” freedom or frankness in speaking, to speak openly, boldly, and without constraint.) Acts 4/13,29,31, 2 Cor. 7/4, Eph. 3/12, Phil. 1/20, 1 Tim. 3/13, Heb. 10/19, 1 John 4/17. (boldness, “parresia” freedom or frankness in speaking, speaking all that one thinks or pleases, confidence, plainness or exactness of speech. [parresia is possible as the result of guilt having been removed by the blood of Jesus and manifests itself in confident praying and witnessing.])

 

DO YOU THINK THAT BETTER DESCRIBES STRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES?..... APTLY FITS JUST WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT?............. I DO:……….PRO. 28/1.

 

PROBABLY THE MOST PUTRID, TEPID, SICKLY DOCTRINAL PUKE THAT IS IN PENTECOSTALISM IN THIS COUNTRY TO DATE,…..IS THE PERVERSION OF LOVE, THAT PRETEND LOVE, WHICH BAULKS, DODGES, EVADES, SIDESTEPS REPROOF, REBUKE, CHASTENING, SHAKING, CHALLENGING, THREATENING THE STATUS QUO FULL OF SIN AND ERROR, HERESY, AND THE EXPRESSION OF IT DOES NOTHING BUT MAKE THE CHURCH LOOK WEAK, FULL OF JELLY-KNEED WHIMPS, COWARDS,…… SICKLY, WOUSERISH, UNMANLY, SOFT, ACCOMODATING, MODERATING, COMPROMISING TO THE WORLD OUTSIDE AND WITH IT: (no wonder sinners don`t for the most part want anything to do with church:)

 

LISTEN,…………..THE DOCTRINE OF RECONCILIATION, CONCILIATION STARTS WITH CONFRONTATION, FIGHTING WORDS,…. STARTS WITH REBUKE,….. STARTS WITH WARNING, STARTS WITH THE OFFENDEE CHALLENGING THE OFFENDOR WITH HIS/HER OFFENCES! MATH. 18/15.

 

ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST WHO IS THE OFFENDEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOUNDS LIKE WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED TO ME, AND CONFRONTATION:… A PUGILISTIC, AGGRESSIVE, CONFRONTATIONAL EXPRESSION IS NECESSARY TO ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID COMPLETE TRAGEDY:

 

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH YOU GENTS? YOUR BIBLE IS FULL OF,…. CONFRONTATION!!!!!!!!! FIGHTING WORDS, JUDGMENT:  LOVING FATHER CONFRONTING MEN ABOUT THEIR WICKED, SINFUL WAYS, CALLING THEM TO REPENTANCE, ESPECIALLY WITH HERESY, DOCTRINAL ERROR, PERVERSION OF HOLY WRIT, DISOBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD:

 

THE SCRIPTURES ARE DOMINATED WITH,……….REPENT,…..TURN FROM YOUR WICKED WAYS:

 

THE HOLY WRITINGS ARE DOMINATED WITH THE COMMAND FROM LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST TO,……….HUMBLE YOURSELF,…..CONFESS YOUR SINS,……AND REPENT:……………………

 

THE SCRIPTURES ARE FULL OF LOVING FATHER`S JUDGEMENTS, CONFRONTATION,……….. EXPOSING THE SIN OF MAN,…..AND CALLING MAN TO REPENTANCE,…. AND HIS WARNINGS,…. THREATS OF DIRE CONSEQUENCES IF YOU DON`T:…AND HAVING DONE THAT, REPENTED, CONFESSED YOUR SINS, ….THEN YOU WILL EXPERIENCE “MERCY AND FAITH”, MATH. 23/23, FORGIVNESS, RECONCILIATION, CONCILIATION, ACCEPTANCE, FAVOUR, GRACE, BEING “ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED”: EPH. 1/6:

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD:

 

“GOD RESISTETH (“antitasso”, to set an army in array against, to arrange in battle order, to set oneself in opposition too;) THE PROUD, BUT GIVETH GRACE TO THE HUMBLE:” JA. 4/6, 1 PET. 5/5.

 

“REPENT; OR ELSE I WILL COME UNTO THEE QUICKLY, AND WILL FIGHT (“polemeo”, to war, make war, fight, contend, quarrel) AGAINST THEM WITH THE SWORD OF MY MOUTH.” REV. 2/16.

 

YOU ARE NOT OBEDIENT TO CHRIST WHEN YOU DENY THE ABOVE IN YOUR SUPPOSED WALK, (RELIGIOSITY), PUTTING ON THE FRONT OF OOGEY GOOEY MILK SOP FROTH AND BUBBLE LOVE,…….PRETEND CHURCH, WHICH IS NOTHING BUT LUKEWARM, WATERED DOWN, TEPID, SICKLY PENTECOSTAL HERESY AND PUKE, AN INERT, POWERLESS, PERVERTED WITNESS OF THE CHRIST BY WEAK MAN PLEASING HERETICS AND HYPOCRITES, WHO HAVE BECOME “TRUCE BREAKERS, TRAITORS TO THE TRUTH, WHO ARE “LOVERS OF THEIR OWN SELVES, INCONTINENT, FIERCE, DESPISERS OF THOSE THAT ARE GOOD, HEADY, HIGHMINDED, LOVERS OF PLEASURES, (their own comfort by avoiding confrontation), MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD;” 2 TIM 3/1-4. IN SO DOING, YOU BECOME NOTHING BUT HERESY PURVEYING HERETICS AND HYPOCRITES: EAR TICKLING FAKES, IMPOSTERS JUST PLAYING CHURCH: (Of course, you must realize that it is because of compromise, heresy, “loving the things of this world”, becoming “entangled” again in “the affairs” of this world,….SIN,…..the Pentecostal Church has lost its “aggressive”, warrior, “pugilistic” stance, has been conned, duped into expressing the Gospel in an inert, weak, unthreatening, unconvicting, unchallenging spiritual condition, AND REJECTS ANY REBUKE OR REPROOF WITH THE TRUTH TO CHANGE!!!!

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:

 

“NO MAN THAT WARRETH (“strateuomai”, to lead an army, wage war, be a soldier, warrior, fight, BE PUGILISTIC, AGGRESSIVE) ENTANGLETH HIMSELF WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE; THAT HE MAY PLEASE HIM WHO HATH CHOSEN HIM TO BE A SOLDIER.” 2 TIM. 2/4.

As has been demonstrated by Steve Penny, by the words of his own mouth, he and his church, (THE AOG) HAVE LOST THEIR EDGE, THEIR SHARPNESS, THEIR EFFECTIVENESS FOR THE KINGDOM,…. “THE BELLS AND WHISTLES ARE NECESSARY TO KEEP THE CHURCH ALIVE”: Quote, unquote:

 

THAT WEAK, LUKEWARM, SICKLY EXPRESSION OF LOVE DEMONSTRATED TOWARD, THOSE IN ERROR, ….. SIN,………. ESPECIALLY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST IS NOT LOVE, AGAPE!!

 

IT IS NOT “LOVING THY NEIGHBOUR AS THY SELF:” MATH. 19/19, 22/39, MK. 12/31, 33, LUKE 10/27.

 

IS STRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES PUGILISTIC?...........YOU BETCHA:………

 

JUST AS JESUS CHIDED, REBUKED, BERATED, FOUGHT, WARRED AGAINST THE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES,………… SO HE STILL IS TODAY, AND SO DO WE,………IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM:

 

THEM`S FIGHTING WORDS FOR SURE: BE REMINDED WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROPHETS AS THEY CONFRONTED, CHALLENGED, CONVICTED, THREW DOWN THE GAUNTLET, WARRED AGAINST THE DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: “AND OTHERS HAD TRIAL OF CRUEL MOCKINGS AND SCOURGINGS, YEA, MOREOVER OF BONDS AND IMPRISONMENT: THEY WERE STONED, THEY WERE SAWN ASUNDER, WERE TEMPTED, WERE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD: THEY WANDERED ABOUT IN SHEEPSKINS AND GOATSKINS; BEING DESTITUTE, AFFLICTED, TORMENTED”; HEB. 11/36-37.

 

SOUNDS LIKE WAR TO ME:…THOSE CHALLENGED, STUMBLING, TAKING OFFENCE, RESPONDING, REACTING, STRIKING BACK OUT OF THEIR HURT PRIDE, OUT OF THEIR BEING EXPOSED BY THE LIGHT, THE TRUTH, (1 PET. 2/6-8),…DECLARING,……..WAR,………ON LOVING FATHER`S HOLY MEN,……..BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO,……… “WALK IN THE LIGHT AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT”, BE TRANSPARENT, HUMBLE THEMSELVES, CONFESS THEIR SINS, BE RECONCILED, FIRST TO THEIR BROTHER, THEN TO CHRIST JESUS: 1 PET. 1/7.

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD: “HE THAT DESPISED MOSES` LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES: OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?” HEB. 10/28-29.

 

ARE WE AGGRESSIVE, PUGILISTIC? ………….YOU BETCHA: THEM`S FIGHTING WORDS ALRIGHT,……..AND IF YOU DON`T TAKE HEED,….. YOU WILL FIND OUT JUST HOW MUCH AS LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST EXECUTES HIS JUDGEMENTS ON YOU:

 

Of course the real problem here is that most of you in leadership refuse to see, are too proud, stiff necked to admit to your compromised, idolatrous, covetous vacillating, lukewarm spiritual condition, TO YOUR TRANSGRESSION OF THE WORD OF GOD: You are just plain deaf and blind (Math. 13/15) to the fact that over the years you have put your hobnailed boots on, and taken a stroll over the hearts and lives of Jesus little lambs,…..amongst a myriad of other sins, abandonment and desertion of Holy Creed, compromising, indifferent and permissive demeanor concerning Holy Writ:  And until you humble yourself and repent,………YOU ARE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM, STUMBLE, TAKE OFFENCE AT THE TRUTH, THE WORD OF THE LORD, JESUS THE CHRIST: 1 PET. 2/6-8. YOU ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE, ……………AT WAR WITH HIM,……..AND THE PROPHETS WISEMEN AND SCRIBES HE SENDS TO WARN YOU: MATH. 23/34.

 

WHEN YOU DELETE, DENY, ABNEGATE “THE LAW, JUDGEMENT” OUT OF MATH. 23/23, WHEN YOU FORSAKE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, “WARNING TO FLEE THE WRATH THAT IS TO COME”, WHEN YOU DELETE “SHARP REBUKE”, “REPROOF”, WHEN YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON THIS ASPECT OF THE “GOSPEL OF RECONCILIATION”,... BECAUSE IT IS TOO UNCOMFORTABLE AND UNFAIR TO BEAR, AND YOU ARE TOO WEAK TO DISPENSE IT,…….. (when did Jesus say anything about being comfortable or fair???) THEN YOU DENY THE CHRIST, AND YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE, A PRETENDER AND A LIAR:

“FOR THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGEMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD: AND IF IT…….FIRST……..BEGIN AT US, WHAT SHALL THE END BE OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD? 1 PET. 4/17.

 

ARE YOU YET TIRED OF HEARING STRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES SING THE SAME OLD CURT, BLUNT, PUGILISTIC SONG TO YOU?.......................

 

THEN DO AS HE SAYS,……… “REPENT YE THEREFORE, AND BE CONVERTED, THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE BLOTTED OUT, WHEN THE TIMES OF REFRESHING SHALL COME FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD:” ACTS 3/19. AMEN.  (notice here in the above scripture, Peter is preaching to,…the children of Israel, Loving Father`s covenant people?... NOT PAGANS:

 

Just as we are speaking to Loving Father`s covenant people to day,…THE CHURCH:

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:

 

“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.” MIC. 6/2. (plead, “yakach”, [yaw-kahh], means, to argue, quarrel, fight, contend, convict, chasten, convince, correct, dispute, judge, rebuke, reprove and reason.)

 

DO WE DEMONSTRATE ALL THE CHARACTISTICS OF LOVING FATHER`S FAITHFUL WARRIORS,….BOLD, TERSE, BLUNT, CURT, ASSERTIVE,…. “PUGILISTIC,….AGRESSIVE”?.................................................

 

YOU BETCHA YOUR BOOTS WE DO: AND PRAY WE NEVER LOOSE IT:

DO WE “IN RIGHTEOUSNESS JUDGE AND MAKE WAR”, REV. 19/11, IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM? …..YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT:………BECAUSE WE DESIRE TO SEE YOU STRONG, BOLD, DOING EXPLOITS FOR OUR GOD, WINNING SOULS, VICTORIOUS, CONFIDENT, OVERCOMERS, MORE THAN CONQUERORS, FREE, PERFECTED, UNIFIED IN THE SPIRIT “WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH READY FOR HIS RETURN”.

 

THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:

 

“FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWOEDGE SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART.” HEB. 4/12.

 

“FOR WE WRESTLE (“pale” “wrestle, struggle, hand to hand combat,”) NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITITES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.” EPH. 6/12.

 

And if you are part of the Pentecostal lukewarmness, idolatry, adultery, in this country, duped by religious spirits, conned by devils into compromise, disobedience to THE TRUTH,…………….. THEN YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE OUR WARFARE, OUR “PUGILISTIC AND AGGRESSIVE” STANCE AGAINST SUCH, AS WE, IN OBEDIENCE TO LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST “ROOT OUT, PULL DOWN, DESTROY, AND THROW DOWN”, BUILD AND PLANT, (JER. 1/10) WAR AGAINST THE HERESIES, COMPROMISE, HYPOCRISIES, THE LIES, THE FALSE DOCTRINES OF THE NICOLAITANES, “WHICH THING I HATE SAITH THE LORD,”…….THE SIN,……. THAT THE CHURCH HAS GIVEN ITSELF OVER TOO SERVE, BEEN COERCED, CONNED, DUPED, ENTICED, SUCKERRED, DECEIVED BY SATAN TO DO:

 

“BLESSED BE THE LORD MY STRENGTH, WHICH TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR, AND MY FINGERS TO FIGHT:” PS. 144/1. AMEN.

 

Bevan Kluver,

Straight Talk Ministries,

Ph/Fax 07 55452874,

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

 

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

 

HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE:

HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:

 

P. S. It`s only the guilty who take offence, STUMBLE at the material of Straight Talk Ministries, 1 Pet. 2/7/8. THOSE WHO ARE INNOCENT, BLAMELESS, PURE IN HEART,   “REJOICE IN TRUTH” 1 COR. 13/6 WHEN THEY SEE, HEAR AND READ IT: