UNDERMINING THE CHURCH
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
“I WILL BUILD MY
CHURCH; AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT
PREVAIL AGAINST IT.” MATH. 16/18. “THEREFORE WHOSOEVER HEARETH THESE
SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOETH THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO A WISE MAN, WHICH BUILT
HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK: AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE
WINDS BLEW, AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE; AND
IT FELL NOT; FOR IT WAS FOUNDED UPON A ROCK.” MATH. 7/24-25.
If your
fellowship can be “undermined,” then it hasn`t been planted in Christ and
nurtured of God. If it was, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERMINE. “AND THE GATES
OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.” If you think things are falling apart
around your ears, then it`s because Jesus is not doing the building, you are,
which means you are in sin, BUILDING ON
SAND, and it will collapse like a house of cards. (“WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN:” RO 14/23.)
“EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, THEY LABOUR IN VAIN
THAT BUILD IT:” PS. 127/1. “WHEN THE LORD SHALL BUILD UP
THE
CHURCH IS UNDER SEIGE
AMEN, SO IT IS, BUT NOT FROM THE DEVIL AS YOU THINK;
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
“WHOSE VOICE THEN SHOOK THE EARTH: BUT NOW HE HATH PROMISED, SAYING, YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT THE EARTH ONLY, BUT ALSO HEAVEN. AND THIS WORD, YET ONCE MORE, SIGNIFIETH THE REMOVING OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN, AS OF THINGS THAT ARE MADE, THAT THOSE THINGS WHICH CANNOT BE SHAKEN MAY REMAIN. WHEREFORE WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM WHICH CANNOT BE MOVED, LET US HAVE GRACE, WHEREBY WE MAY SERVE GOD ACCEPTABLY WITH REVERENCE AND GODLY FEAR FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.” HEB.12/26-29.
“EVERY MAN`S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST: FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE; AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN`S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS. IF ANY MAN`S WORK ABIDE WHICH HE HATH BUILT THEREUPON, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD. IF ANY MAN`S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS:” 1 COR. 3/13-15. “WHOSE FAN IS IN HIS HAND, AND HE WILL THROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR, AND GATHER HIS WHEAT INTO THE GARNER; BUT HE WILL BURN UP THE CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE.” MATH. 3/12.
“IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE
LIVING GOD:” HEB. 10/31. “FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.” HEB. 12/29.
A TRUE MAN OF GOD DOES WHAT LOVING FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST COMMAND HIM TO DO, TOTALLY TRUSTING IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO “BUILD HIS CHURCH,” KNOWING ALL HE HAS TO DO, IS DO AS HE IS TOLD: “FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD;” “THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH;” “WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD;” HE DOESN`T WORRY ABOUT PROBLEMS, SOULS, MONEY TO PAY THE BILLS, HE KNOWS JESUS WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING, MATH. 6/25,31,34, HE DOESN`T LIE IN BED OF A NIGHT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW AND WHAT HE CAN DO TO GET THINGS MOVING, AND HE DOESN`T DO THINGS, (TENTS, STREET VANS, VISITING PREACHING TO GET SOULS WON ETC.,) SIMPLY BECAUSE HE SEES EVERYONE ELSE DOING IT, TRYING DIFFERENT THINGS TO SEE IF “GOD WILL BLESS” WHAT HE IS DOING IN THE FLESH, OUT OF HIS REASONING:
GOD`S BLESSING IS NOT ON WHAT YOU THINK ARE GOOD WORKS, THESE WORKS ARE NOTHING BUT,… DEAD WORKS,…SIN, WHICH YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE REPENTED OF, HEB. 6/1, IF GOD HASN`T TOLD YOU TO DO IT, THEN IT`S SIN: “FOR WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN.” RO. 14/23.
LOVING FATHER`S BLESSING IS ON YOUR OBEDIENCE OF WHAT
HE TELLS YOU TO DO, AND THAT IS WHAT PRODUCES FRUIT: WHAT DID THE APOSTLE PAUL
SAY? “I THEREFORE SO RUN, NOT AS UNCERTAINLY; SO FIGHT I, NOT AS ONE THAT
BEATETH THE AIR:” 1 COR. 9/26. IN OTHER WORDS, PAUL IS SAYING THAT HE DOES NOT
TAKE A POKE HERE, HAVE A GO THERE, TRY THIS, TRY THAT, TO SEE WHAT IS GOING TO
WORK, HE DOES WHAT LOVING FATHER TELLS HIM TO DO, AND HE KNOWS IT`S GOING TO
PRODUCE FRUIT BECAUSE JESUS IS THE BUILDER, NOT MAN: “WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO
NOTHING:” JOHN 15/5.
YOU ARE IN DEAD WORKS PAL, NOTHING BUT CHAFF TO BE
BURNED;
YOU NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH AND REPENT:
YOU CAN KEEP KNOCKING YOURSELF OUT, TRYING DIFFERENT
THINGS, NONE OF IT WILL WORK, AND I SHALL KEEP TELLING YOU THE TRUTH, WHICH
WILL EVENTUALLY “GRIND YOU TO POWDER,” MATH. 21/44, LUKE 20/18. ( “grind,” and
“powder,” same greek word for both, “likmao,” meaning, to winnow grain, used symbolically
in these scriptures where it means it shall scatter him to the winds, crush him
in pieces, make chaff of him.)
“IS NOT MY WORD LIKE AS A FIRE? SAITH THE LORD; AND
LIKE A HAMMER THAT BREAKETH THE ROCK IN PIECES? JER. 23/29.
…………………………………………………………………………………………..
“THOU ALSO, SON
OF MAN, TAKE THEE A TILE, AND LAY IT BEFORE THEE, AND PORTRAY UPON IT THE CITY,
EVEN JERUSALEM: AND LAY SIEGE AGAINST IT, AND BUILD A FORT AGAINST IT, AND CAST
A MOUNT AGAINST IT; SET THE CAMP ALSO AGAINST IT, AND SET BATTERING RAMS
AGAINST IT ROUND ABOUT. MOREOVER TAKE THOU UNTO THEE AN IRON PAN, AND SET IT
FOR A WALL OF IRON BETWEEN THEE AND THE CITY: AND SET THY FACE AGAINST IT, AND
IT SHALL BE BESIEGED, AND THOU SHALT LAY SIEGE AGAINST IT. THIS SHALL BE A SIGN
TO THE HOUSE OF
AN IRON SIEGE THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN, “I HAVE SET BEFORE THEE AN OPEN DOOR, AND NO MAN CAN SHUT IT:” REV. 3/8.
“BEHOLD, I HAVE
MADE THY FACE STRONG AGAINST THEIR FACES, AND THY FOREHEAD STRONG AGAINST THEIR
FOREHEADS. AS AN ADAMANT HARDER THAN
SPLITS AND DIVISIONS
THUS SAITH THE
LORD: “FOR THERE MUST BE ALSO HERESIES AMONG YOU, THAT THEY WHICH ARE APPROVED MAY BE MADE MANIFEST AMONG YOU.” If
you are experiencing folk in your fellowship questioning the preaching and
teaching you are dispensing to them, then you see them leave the church, (phew,
that trouble maker is gone;) of course, it wouldn`t be that you are preaching
heresy, lies, would it: JESUS SHEEP KNOW HIS VOICE, JOHN 10/27, THE STRANGER
THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW, FOR THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF STRANGERS: JOHN 10/5. You
should consider yourself fortunate that Loving Father would warn you by way of
obedient servants coming to you, questioning the lies, untruths, preaching not
according to Holy Scripture, that you are guilty of, (“all liars have their
part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone;” Rev. 21/8,) thereby
giving you the chance to recant, repent,
and start preaching “AS THE ORACLES OF GOD,” 1 PET. 4/11, SO THAT THE VOICE OF
THE GOOD SHEPHERD IS HEARD THROUGH YOU: Instead you fight, dig in, tell them
“not to rebuke and elder,” stubbornly, full of pride, cling to your delusion,
and then you see them leave, AND SO THEY SHOULD; THE TRUE ELECT OF GOD, THE
HOLY REMNANT, THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WILL NOT HANG AROUND TO FEED ON EAR TICKLING,
MAN PLEASING, SIN PLACATING, COMPROMISING CHAFF AND PUKE, TRADITION OF MEN, THEY WANT TO BE FED WITH HO LOGOS, CHRIST
THE WORD, THE LIVING BREAD OF HEAVEN:
“AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT:”
SO,…. YOU WILL SEE DIVISIONS,…… HERESIES WILL BE PREACHED,………
SO “THAT THEY WHICH ARE APPROVED MAY BE MADE
MANIFEST AMONG YOU.”
If however, you
are “speaking the truth in love,” “exhorting one another while it is yet day,”
“restoring those that are overtaken with faults,” reproving and rebuking evil,
SIN, THE VOICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD IS HEARD IN YOUR MINISTRY, YOU ARE SPEAKING
AS THE ORACLES OF GOD, PREACHING THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD, BEING ATTENTIVE TO
ALL HOLY SCRIPTURE, CORRECT DOCTRINE, THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE HOLY REMNANT,
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, THE TRUE CHURCH, AND YOU WILL ALSO SEE DIVISIONS
BECAUSE,……..PEOPLE WHO ARE LUKEWARM, IDOLATROUS, HYPOCRITICAL, COMPROMISING,
SIN ACCOMODATING, STUBBORN, PUFFED UP KNOW-IT-ALLS, WILL NOT HANG AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE LIGHT, THE TRUTH TO
EXPOSE THEM: JOHN 3/19-20.
“THEY WENT OUT FROM US, BUT THEY WERE NOT OF US: FOR IF THEY HAD BEEN OF US, THEY WOULD NO DOUBT HAVE CONTINUED WITH US: BUT THEY WENT OUT, THAT THEY MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OF US.” 1 JOHN 2/19.
These ones, will
wind up in a fellowship somewhere where the leadership is weak, man pleasing,
lukewarm compromising, (which just happens to be most Pentecostal churches,)
truth distorting, hypocritical, excuse making, philosophy pouting, vain
jangling, fable purveying, wolves, hirelings, thieves, robbers, false apostles,
false prophets, false teachers, who are nothing but lying perverters of the
truth, who attract SIN LOVING, WORDLY, DOUBLE MINDED, COVETOUS FOLK, WHO DO NOT
WANT TO TOTALLY SELL OUT FOR CHRIST,….AND
THEY LOVE THIS LEADERSHIP, BECAUSE THEY FEEL SAFE,….THEIR SIN IS NOT GOING TO
BE EXPOSED BECAUSE THIS LEADERSHIP IS IN DARKNESS, AND LOVES IT, JUST LIKE THE
PEOPLE IT ATTRACTS (JOHN 3/19-20.) IN THEIR TENS OF THOUSANDS; MATH. 7/13-14,
LUKE 13/24,…….YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING,………BIRDS OF A FEATHER…………………………………………….
“AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT:”
And of course, there will be those who cannot stand the heat of “The whole Counsel of God,” who will follow up to a point, who are conditional in their love for “The Son of God,” then when challenged, will go back and walk no more with Him, John 6/64-66, because they will “not be able to endure that which is commanded:” Heb. 12/20.
And again, you
will encounter false brethren, Acts 5/1-10, that are so deceived, deluded that
they think they are fooling you, don`t
worry, the Holy Spirit will take care of them, as He will do with all false
apostles, prophets, teachers, wolves, hirelings, thieves and robbers etc, who
try to encroach, upon Loving Father Son and Holy Ghost`s Bride: 2 Pet. 2/1,
Acts 5/5,10.
“AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT:”
However, in
these times, “end times,” where apostasy abounds, “the love of many has waxed
cold,” “iniquity abounds,” “the night cometh when no man can work,” AND THIS IN WHAT PEOPLE CALL,….THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST, WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN “THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN:”…….. THE HOLY
REMNANT, THE BRIDE, THE TRUE CHURCH, THE ELECT, THE FEW THAT GO THE NARROW WAY,
HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES, HAVE BECOME LOVING FATHER`S OUTCASTS, PS. 147/2, IS.
16/3-4, 56/8, WHO “GO FORTH THEREFORE UNTO HIM WITHOUT THE CAMP, BEARING HIS
REPROACH, FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY, BUT WE SEEK ONE TO COME.” HEB.
13/13-14. JUST AS CHRIST “SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE.” HEB 13/12.
“AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT:”
And of course there will always be those who “cannot forsake all” to “follow Him,” and will go away “very sorrowful,” Math. 8/19-22, Luke 9/557-62, Math. 19/22, Luke 18/23, as well as those that have had their trust smashed by life, been betrayed, hurt, especially by quack ministry, who struggle to reach out, surrender, and give their trust fully once again, who need much prayer, gentle ministry, coaxing, patience and understanding: Math. 18/6-7, Luke 17/1-2.
And you will encounter those who will only follow for what they can gain for free: John 6/24-26, they too, will eventually drop off when the “well dries up:”
“LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT…THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST,… AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION;” 2 THES. 2/3.
BUT FOR THE HOLY
REMNANT, THE
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 BLEMISH;”
“HATING EVEN THE
GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH;”