THE DOOR

THUS SAITH THE LORD:

“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.” JOHN 10/1.

“I AM THE WAY,……….THE TRUTH , AND THE LIFE: NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME. JOHN 14/6.

JESUS IS THE DOOR, THE WAY TO LEADERSHIP, (APOSTLE, PROPHET, PASTOR, TEACHER, EVANGELIST, DEACON) IN THE FOLD, THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE, THE VINEYARD, THE FEW, THE HOLY REMNANT. JOHN 10/7,9.

THE TRUE SHEPHERDS, (PASTORS,) OF THE BRIDE HAVE ENTERED THE FOLD THROUGH JESUS, THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED, PREPARED, APPROVED AND UNCTIONED BY THE LORD HIMSELF, 2 COR. 10/18, ACTS 13/1-4, AND THEY SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD, 1 PET. 3/11, THE VOICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD IS HEARD THROUGH THEM, THEY ARE TOTALLY CONSECRATED, TOTALLY OBEDIENT, “LOVING NOT THEIR OWN LIVES UNTO DEATH.” REV. 12/11, THEY ARE “HATED OF ALL MEN FOR MY NAME`S SAKE,” MATH. 10/22, REJECTED, OUTCAST, HEB. 13/13, PERSECUTED, 2 TIM. 3/12, MOCKED, THEY ARE NOT COMELY TO LOOK UPON, BUT THEY ARE CLOTHED IN “THE ARMOUR OF GOD,” EPH. 6/13-18, THEY ARE NATURAL IN THEIR DEMEANOUR, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PUT ON THE STINKING RELIGIOUS PRETENCE OF THE HYPOCRITES, THEY HAVE NO SELFISH AMBITIONS, ARE NOT COVETOUS, THEY ONLY WANT TO PLEASE HIM, AND SERVE HIM IN ALL THINGS,…… AND…THEY….DO…NOT…WANT…

TO………..SHARE……….OR………PARTAKE……….OF………..HIS……….. GLORY………….THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE SEEN OF MEN, MATH. 23/5, AS JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, “HE MUST INCREASE, BUT I MUST DECREASE,” JOHN 3/30, THEY TRULY TAKE UP THE CROSS AND DENY SELF, MATH. 16/24, MK. 8/34, LUKE 9/23, AND WHEN THEY SPEAK, THE FEW, THE REMNANT, THE BRIDE ARE HUNGRY, THIRSTY, WANT MORE, THEY CAN`T GET ENOUGH OF JESUS: JOHN 10/3,4,14,16,27, “AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY FATHER`S HAND.” JOHN 10/29, AND AGAIN JOHN 10/27. “AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT;” MATH. 16/18.

TRUE SHEPHERDS HAVE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR, (JESUS) THAT HE HAS OPENED FOR THEM, REV. 3/8, “AND NO MAN CAN SHUT IT:”

THEY HAVE NOT “CLIMBED UP SOME OTHER WAY,” BIBLE COLLEGES, TERTIARY DEGREES, “MAKING BROAD THEIR PHYLACTERIES,” MATH. 23/5, (STUDYING TO GAIN HEAD KNOWLEDGE ONLY,) THEY HAVE NOT EMBARKED UPON A CORPORATE CAREER, CLIMBING THE LADDER OF A MAN MADE INSTITUTIONALISED ABOMINATION, (RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS,) BEING APPOINTED BY MEN WHO WERE APPOINTED BY OTHER MEN, THEY DO NOT SPEND THEIR SOJURN IN CHURCH PUTTING ON A PRETENCE OF A MAN OF GOD, SHOWING OFF HOW SPIRITUAL THEY ARE, DRUMMING INTO THEIR CHILDREN THAT THEY HAVE TO BE GOOD KIDS, NOT PLAY UP, THEY HAVE TO BE AN EXAMPLE (NOT FOR THE KIDS SAKE, BUT FOR THEIR SAKE,) SO EVERYONE CAN LOOK AT THEM AND SAY THAT THEY LINE UP WITH THE SCRIPTURES ABOUT A BISHOP IN TIMOTHY AND TITUS;THEY DO NOT HANG AROUND LEADERSHIP, BROWN NOSING TO GAIN FAVOUR SO AS TO GAIN ELEVATION IN THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE BY SAME LEADERSHIP, LOOKING TO, GAIN A MAN APPOINTED PROMOTION, WAITING TO BE ASKED TO,……… PASTOR A CHURCH, HEAD UP A HOME GROUP, CELL GROUP, HOUSE CHURCH,……….. “CLIMB UP SOME OTHER WAY,” INTO THE FOLD: THEY DO NOT GO AROUND SELF PROMOTING THEIR OWN CHURCH THEY ARE TRYING TO GET STARTED, BLOWING THEIR OWN TRUMPET, TELLING FOLK WHAT A GOOD FELLA THEY ARE, TRYING TO DRAW UNSTABLE SOULS AWAY TO THEMSELVES, 2 PET. 2/14, “CLIMBLING UP INTO THE FOLD SOME OTHER WAY:” THEY DO NOT GRAVITATE FROM CHURCH TO CHURCH, LOOKING TO BE NOTICED, DISCOVERED, JOHN 5/44,….. BY CHURCH LEADERSHIP TRYING TO MANIPULATE SAME LEADERSHIP INTO GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO,…….PREACH, OPEN THE DOOR TO LEADERSHIP, SO THEY CAN “BE SEEN OF MEN:” MATH. 23/5, “CLIMBING UP SOME OTHER WAY INTO THE FOLD:”

THEY ARE NOT THIEVES AND ROBBERS: THEY HAVE ENTERED BY THE DOOR, AND ARE SHEPHERDS OF THE SHEEP: JOHN 10/2.

HOW ABOUT YOU?.......DOES YOUR MINISTRY STACK UP?...........................

ARE YOU A TRUE SHEPHERD?...........APPROVED AND APPOINTED OF JESUS?... ACTS 13/1-4,..HAVE YOU BEEN “SENT FORTH OF THE HOLY GHOST?”

ARE YOU IN HOT PURSUIT OF JESUS,…THE PERFECTING OF THE BRIDE,…THE CONSUMATION OF THE “MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB?

OR,……….ARE YOU IN PURSUIT OF A CAREER PATH, CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER OF THE INSTITUTIONALISED ABOMINATION, LOOKING TO MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF?

HAVE YOU CLIMBED UP INTO THE FOLD SOME OTHER WAY?

ARE YOU A TRUE SHEPHERD?.................................................................................

OR A THIEF AND ROBBER:…………………………………………………………

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NO WONDER YOU ARE EXPERIENCING FOLK LEAVING YOUR CHURCH, AND CAN RECALL SO MANY THAT HAVE DEPARTED IN THE PAST: JOHN 10/5……..REMEMBER,……….FOR THE TRUE CHRUCH,…….. “THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT:”

NO WONDER YOU FIND YOURSELF INSTIGATING PROGRAMMES TO KEEP PEOPLE INTERESTED, EXCITED, SO THEY KEEP COMING TO CHURCH:

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO ENTICE, COAX FOLK TO STAY IN CHURCH, COME TO CHURCH: 2 PET. 2/3,18.

NO WONDER YOU ARE ALWAYS HAVING BREAKFASTS, DINNERS, B.B.QS., OUTINGS:

NO WONDER YOU ARE ALWAYS PROMOTING YOUR CHURCH, AND GETTING YOUR FAMILY TO DO THE SAME:

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO READ, (OR HAVE READ,) AND FOLLOW THE BOOK ON HOW TO MARKET YOUR CHURCH:

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO GET OTHER VISITING MINISTRY TO PREACH, TO TRY TO STIMULATE, KEEP FOLK INTERESTED, STIR UP, EXCITE AND ENTICE:

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO REGULARLY PREACH ON TITHING, GIVING, SO THAT YOU CAN BOLSTER THE INCOME OF YOUR CHURCH:

NO WONDER YOU IMITATE OTHER MINISTRY`S VAIN JANGLING:

(eg “we need a check-up, from the neck-up, to avoid hardening of the attitudes:”)

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO SELL,………BOOKS, TAPES, VIDEOS, CDs:

NO WONDER YOU CLING TO LIES, HERESIES, TRADITIONS OF MEN:

NO WONDER YOU ARE ALWAYS SEEKING THE APPROVAL OF OTHER MEN:

NO WONDER YOU ARE SUBORDINATE TO WOMEN, ALLOWING THEM TO LEAD, PREACH AND TEACH:

NO WONDER YOU HAVE TO TURN CHURCH INTO A NITE CLUB, A FLOORSHOW, A MOVIE THEATRE,……….BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE LEFT IS FALSE BRETHREN, 2 COR. 11/26, PEOPLE THAT WANT TO HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED, PEOPLE THAT ARE COVETOUS, LUKEWARM, IDOLATROUS PRETENDERS, 2 TIM. 4/3-4,………AND THEY ARE A REAL TASK TO KEEP HAPPY, SATISFIED, INTERESTED, EXCITED, AREN`T THEY: THEY ARE JUST LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILT LITTLE KIDS, EASILY OFFENDED, DEMANDING, HARD TO PLEASE, THROWING TANTRUMS WHEN THEY CAN`T GET THEIR OWN WAY, A REAL BUNCH OF DUMMY SPITTERS:

“GOD IS NOT MOCKED, FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.” GAL. 6/7……….. FALSE BRETHREN FOR FALSE APOSTLES, PROPHETS, TEACHERS:………REMEMBER,………. “THE STRANGER WILL THEY NOT FOLLOW, BUT WILL FLEE FROM HIM: FOR THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF STRANGERS.” JOHN 10/5.

“AND GOD SAW EVERY THING THAT HE HAD…. MADE,… AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD.” GEN. 1/31.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?..... ARE YOU A MADE MAN?.... A…….WISE…..GUY?

……………………..A MAN OF TRUE GRIT? 2 TIM. 2/3......................................

OR A MAN MADE MAN: MATH. 23/15,….. A SELF MADE MAN:……………

………………………A THIEF AND A ROBBER:…………………………………

Bevan Kluver,

Straight Talk Ministries,

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;”

HELPING HIM PREPARE A BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE,

HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH:

A MESSENGER

A messenger from Heaven, from God he did come,

To teach me all the gospel, to God would I succumb?

A gospel so intriguing, the mystery slowly unfolding,

Learning His way and not mine, the Lord is now beholding:

The weeks and months did slowly pass, my life turned upside down,

My will was slowly crumbling, a new way to be found;

I hungered for his teachings, more comfortable by the day,

Questions by the hundreds, how I learned to pray:

How could I resist him, His messenger full of praise,

The love this man has for Him, the gospel and His ways;

The tears he sheds in humbling, I`ve never before seen,

This mighty, mighty, man of God, now standing in between:

Seeing this man`s passion, I knew there was a way,

On bended knees I reached out, the times when I did pray;

I wanted what this man had, no longer satisfied without,

All I had to do was ask, no longer filled with doubt:

My life till now was empty, with many ups and downs,

No longer could I do it, without the Lord around;

Yes I finally surrendered and cried out to God above,

Now the Lord was with me, I was filled with all His love:

He came to me in surrender, what a mess of life I`d made,

But it did not matter, now that I was saved;

He took upon His shoulders, a life consumed with sin,

But He cared not for that, for a prize that I would win:

He gave to me that special touch, a gift forever treasured,

On a lonely road in the dark of night, which could not be measured;

No longer could I run away, I was filled with the Holy Spirit,

Driving along that lonely road, I was now committed:

As the months passed quickly by, time not enough to learn,

His loving presence always there, my heart for Him still yearns;

I thank my Father for His love, His forgiveness and acceptance,

And I thank Him for that special man, whom He sent from Heaven:

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled”. Math. 5/6. 25^th May 1998.