God Rebukes a Bullying Pastor

8/3/2019 God Rebukes a Bullying Pastor

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PROPHETIC MESSAGE

God Rebukes a Bullying Pastor

The Lord would say unto a certain caustic-tongued preacher who has failed to grow in the

knowledge of My Love: I warn you not to hurt My precious lambs out in the pews, or overthe air. You have taken liberties with the tender hearts of my beloved children, even those

who cannot discern truth from error. They stand in awe of you, and latch onto your everyword. They are too afraid of you to question anything you say, for many of them are

immature and not yet well-trained in the Word of God.

Brother Bear, you have allowed pride and presumption to enter into your life. You have

even placed yourself as judge over My people who are suffering trials of deep humiliation,although I said in My Word: Who are you to judge another (Romans 14:4)? And, with the

same measure you judge, you shall also be judged (Matthew 7:1-5). Repent of this haughty

attitude, or I shall have to allow you to experience some of the same adversity you despiseothers for enduring.

You condemn as slothful the poor, even those who set their affections on things above and

can truthfully say their inheritance is not of this world. But I said Blessed are ye poor, foryours is the kingdom of God (Luke 6:20).

But you have reviled the poor (James chapter 2), although My Holy Word makes it clear that

I have chosen the poor of this world Who genuinely love Me and rely on Me. These people,so despised by you, have been blessed with an extra measure of faith (verse 5). Though

poor in this worlds goods they are heirs of My eternal Kingdom. Yet you lump them alltogether as leeches on society, worthless bums who produce nothing and are just a drain

on church resources. You even take a grudging attitude toward keeping a church pantry forthe needy and really think feeding the saints ought to be limited to spiritual food, although

Jesus divided the loaves and the fishes for a huge crowd as an object lesson to teach them Icare for the poor and the hungry. Your real concern is that spiritual bread costs less

money to break to your flock than material bread. But James said: What good does it doto speak a blessing over your needy brother or sister, unless you also demonstrate practical

concern for their bodily needs (James 2:15-16)?

Youre being inconsistent, arent you, Brother Bear? You say spiritual food is moreimportant, so preaching the Word to hearts is a much more valuable task to the Kingdom

of God than feeding hungry mouths. Still, you set at nought the spiritual contributions

made by the poorer saints, just because they arent paid for serving the Lord in dollars andcents like you are. But their blessed deeds of devotion are infinitely more precious in My

sight than filthy lucre is to you. My Son gave His all to enable people to render such service

to Me.

I have saints nation-wide and worldwide who are poor in this worlds goods but rich in goodworks, and already have treasure laid up in heaven. They pray for your ministry, among

others. A few of them even fast, and when these humble souls do eat, their food isntnearly so fine as yours. Some of them sing in the choir, or help out in the nursery. Some

teach Sunday School, or visit the sick. And youve got the gall to categorize all poor peopleas worthless bums!


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You lambaste your people for their overindulgence in fine food and other luxuries. Yet youlook down on casually dressed folks and say they dont have enough self-respect to dress

for success to help them focus on becoming prosperous. Just what do you mean by that?

Most likely you would even have despised My appearance, for I was not so smartly deckedout as you. And guess what? I supplied the wine for a very special party, and even

sampled some of it myself. I was accused by ascetic religious leaders of being awinebibber and a glutton. I consorted with harlots and publicans, and, most shocking ofall, I wore a beard and sandals, definitely not in keeping with your code of conservative

values. You would indeed have considered Me, the Son of God, just another lazy hippie

bum because the day came when I quit toiling in My carpenter shop and became anitinerant preacher who went forth to spread the Good News of the Kingdom of God, living

strictly by faith in My Fathers provision. You would call Me irresponsible because I quit Mysecular job before I had saved sufficient funds to finance My ministry for the forthcoming

fiscal year. You would have ridiculed Me for living off the land and picking figs from treesto survive. I didnt look for figs to enjoy as an extra snack. I needed those figs to stave off

hunger pangs till I could get my next square meal!


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And what would you have thought of John the Baptist? With his humble garment andshaggy hair, he was hardly an advertisement for your success gospel, which the church

borrowed from the world to conform the church TO the world! That unpolished prophetwould have been whisked out of your air-conditioned, sanitized sanctuary before he got a

word in edgewise. Rather than preaching the Gospel of Get he said: Let those who havefood or extra clothes share with those who have none. Jesus told the rich young ruler tosell all that you have and give to the poor. THEN, come, follow me. Neither Jesus nor

John ever jetted around in champagne luxury to tourist traps, such as youve done in thepast. Instead of saddling their congregations with a burdensome mortgage in the name of

Christian commitment, they held church under the open sky.


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You roar against the worldliness of the saints, but what is more worldly in My sight than to

Christianize the most lucrative of the worlds values? You worship at the altar of monetaryprosperity. You condemn adultery, pornography, and juvenile delinquency, but what about

covetousness? Dont you covet the firstfruits of other peoples paychecks, and competefor first dibs on what your targeted donor pool sets aside for TV ministries? And then you

turn round and lampoon poor people for living below their privileges. You contemptuously

view such souls as unworthy of My Love. You think just because theyre strugglingfinancially they must be suffering My punishment for sin in their lives. Just what do youdemand of them? What do you think they must do to live on a par with their so-called

privileges? Become just like you, a man whose angry face and angrier tongue belie yourpleasurable circumstances?

People on public assistance are one of your favorite targets. Leeches on society, you callthem. Welfare queens. People looking for an easy ride! But look at yourself, with all your

shameless appeals for money, money, money, and ever more money. Your kind are the

biggest welfare recipients of all, but its respectable because you do it in the name ofGod!!

You commit yourself to exorbitant purchases for the kingdom of God, then go crying and

begging on TV, expecting your partners in ministry to bail you out of a debt you incurredwithout first consulting them. Have you ever once tried the same tonic you prescribe for

others, tightening your belt and being a responsible steward? Must your ministry alwaysrun on the latest technology, or are you just keeping up a prosperous front? Why not just

postpone your next luxury cruise to the Lands of the Bible, or make your old suit do anextra year? How about a little macaroni and cheese instead of all those fancy restaurant

meals? It wont kill you! How about driving a used car to make it easier to catch up on yourbills? Wont a cheaper watch tell you its time to start your service? I am no respecter of


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persons. I think religious opportunists fishing for funds in fancy attire have much more toapologize for than jobless people in faded denims!

Now the shoes on the other foot! How does it feel to be on the receiving end of correction

for a change? If you think youre above being reproved through My humble mouthpiece, youare failing My test of humility and need to seek My forgiveness for pride as well.

How dare you treat My precious children like scavenging dogs! You have never once walkedone mile in the shoes of the people out in the pews! No, not since the days of your youth;

especially not since your rise to nationwide prominence as an expositor of the Word of

God!

What practical use do you make of your Bible? You wave it above your head to show yourunderlings whos boss, then you glare menacingly at them and lay into the laity (a man-

made distinction in My Body). You turn the House of the Lord into one vast woodshed tobeat My poor people who must struggle from paycheck to paycheck so you can skim the

tithes off their gross income, plus offerings. That amounts to bondservice to you, theirrich overlord. Many of them cede to you at least one-seventh or one-eighth of their after-

taxes take-home pay BEFORE they even put food on their own tables to feed their own

families! How does THAT square with My teaching that I would rather have mercy thansacrifice! And even though I never ONCE commanded New Testament saints to tithe onmoney (or anything else after the Cross), you threaten them with My retribution if they

dont!

Have you ever once really gotten to know one of your poorer listeners, either in yourpalatial sanctuary or out in TV Land? Do you even know how ordinary folk live, or has your

affluence blinded you to the way everyday people must struggle to survive? Do you knowwhat it is to set aside your own well-being and carry the sorrows of the afflicted, like the

Good Shepherd does? More than one of your listeners has suffered devastating healthproblems, or is struggling to raise children alone as a single parent. Many a poor woman

cries herself to sleep at night because shes lost her husband to death or divorce, or

perhaps the scoundrel has run away from his responsibilities as husband and father, andhas left her to carry the whole load alone. She dreads the bills the morning mail may bring.

She wonders how shell ever meet her rent and child care expenses, how shell keep herlights on, how shell put food on the table or buy decent school clothes. Her life is a

wearisome treadmill. She wonders how long her stamina will last, until the day comes she istoo sick to work and might become homeless or destitute. Are you going to call such

precious souls lazy just because satan has sent the devourer to sap their physical and

financial health and strength?

Once I heard you bellowing: Theres twelve hours in a working day, six working days, and72 hours in a working week! Get to work! You looked mad, but my, you enjoyed that. But

how hard do YOU work, O privileged one? I dont see YOU slaving at a secular job 72 hoursa week, Brother Bear. And when people do put in very long working hours, you gripe about

how they neglect their marriages and their kids and fail to spend quality time with them.Are you so poor at math that you cant subtract your ideal working week from whats left?

Do YOU have lots of time to be with YOUR family, or are you a slave to the clock; someonewho hates his monotonous way of life but who is expected to drag himself out of bed half-

rested, then work two jobs. Why? Well, it isnt cheap to maintain that image ofprosperity you demand of people. Some NEED an extra paycheck in order to tithe on

the first one and still have enough money to pay spiraling rent on an apartment which isbarely lived in. Its just a spot for the slave to crash for a few short hours before a

screeching alarm clock rings and the same old grind starts again!


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You really think money should come with great difficulty for everybody else except those

in ministry. After all, grueling toil is the price tag for being descended from sinful Adamand Eve. But youre just as sinful as anybody in your congregation, and deep inside you

know it, Brother Bear. Still, you have no qualms about enjoying YOUR fine clothes, YOURperks, YOUR regular jaunts (first-class, of course) to the Holy Land to get closer to Jesus.

But all you want is to go there to get a religious buzz. How can you get to know Jesusbetter if you refuse to see Me in the faces of the poor who fill your pews, or in the achingweariness of the tired grey masses trekking home each night from their very unglamorous

jobs?

No, I dont see YOU swinging a hammer or waiting on cranky customers in restaurants, or

driving a bus. I dont see YOU sitting up all night with a sick child before having to go towork early the next morning. Rather, I see you pleading over the air to prove God by

sending in your best offering, and youll gladly reward the givers with a cheap trinket to saythank you for your love gift to Jesus.

How demanding you are, like Pharaoh. He reached the point where he demanded his slaves

go find their own straw to make bricks with, and doubled their quota too. You wouldnt bebothered by some young mother being so overburdened by long working hours she scarcely

has time to see her children. You dont care if some elderly woman skips a couple of mealsto save your ministry.

People are afraid to say no to you because they say youre so rich and powerful you could

ruin them if you wanted to. Thats not the way My Son was!!! Name just one time My sweetgentle Son ever controlled someone else with wealth. He said it is HARD and nearly

impossible for a rich fellow to squeeze into the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt.19:24; Mark10:25). Jesus called money the UNRIGHTEOUS mammon and said it wasnt even the true

riches (Luke 16:11).


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Well, guess what, Brother Bear? I the LORD am not afraid of all your mighty millions. In

just a few short years Im gonna let the bottom drop out of the U.S. and all the other majorworld economie, despite all the tricks rich chiselers pull to play games with the numbers on

Wall Street. In fact, I will demonstrate My majestic power by making paper currency soworthless it will only be useful as toilet paper. So you can imagine how worthless electronic

dollars will become, there wont be nothin there but a lot of negative numbers incyberspace!

Has it even ONCE occurred to you that the slothfulness you and many other preachers

accuse My people of committing is nothing but sheer exhaustion and its breaking theiremotional, psychological, spiritual and physical health? Oh, but youve got YOUR slice of the

pie and you couldnt care less because its not affecting YOUR well-being! My people aremortgaged to the hilt, and harnessed to the expenses of your ministry. They cant be

everywhere at once, yet I hear you bellowing about their lack of service to the Lord, theirreluctance to get involved in church activities and personal evangelism. I hear you whining

about how the saints are at ease in Zion. Even though so many of My people are barelyfunctioning on AUTOPILOT and barely feel like theyre alive because of their deep-seated

tiredness and perpetual worry about making enough to pay their rising bills.

You accuse them of having a negligent, laid-back attitude toward life. But if anybodys atease, its you and other fat cat shepherds who fleece the flock. You hypocrite! Any wise

shepherd will let his animals wear their own wool in the winter to keep warm, so they wontperish from cold. But you are cold-hearted enough to fleece My flock at all seasons,

regardless of the sad shape theyre in. You couldnt care less about their sorrows. Yourelike one of those Simon Legree slave drivers of the Old South who refused to provide

medical care and proper food for his slaves, reasoning that it was cheaper to wear out aslave and replace him, than to waste resources to care for him. You know that when people

get fed up enough to stop coming to your services, other trusting souls who dont know anybetter will take their place out in the pews!

Your sour face masks the enjoyment you get out of your ministry of meanness. You make areal meal of it, dont you, Brother Bear? Speaking of eating, you made an attack on your

women disciples who arent skinny enough to suit you. Why do you think female fat is adeadlier sin than YOUR fat?


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How dare YOU, of all people, preach on physical fitness, or berate people for not fasting

enough for your ministry? YOUR bank account has gotten so fat from fleecing the poor and

profiteering off peoples ignorance that I think its a far greater sin to be a fat cat than astout woman. I much prefer to see someone raid the fridge to dig into a pint of Haagen-

Dazs and enjoy the guilt than to see the likes of you raiding widows houses and digging

into innocent Christians consciences and pockets, then enjoying all the guilt trips you lay onpeople who genuinely desire a closer walk with Me. People who desperately hope and pray

I am not really like you!

Where, oh where do you ever once read that I hold women to this worlds measurements

of beauty while excusing men from them? SHOW ME THE SCRIPTURE! Have YOUlooked in the mirror lately, and judged YOURSELF against your own narrow definition of

physical fitness? Maybe youve shifted a few pounds in the last couple years, but if you act

proud and mean-spirited toward others who outweigh you, Ill allow you to gain back everylast lost ounce and then some. Remember what I said about first getting rid of the log in

your own eye before picking at the speck in your neighbors eye! You get my drift. Yoursexist double standards wound emotionally vulnerable women who have already been burnt

by the Establishments dieting and slimness manifesto. They dont need to have more of

that demonic drivel crammed down their throats at church. Rather, the fellowship of the

saints is supposed to be a refuge from the oppression of the carnal cultural edicts of a sex-crazed, money-mad world system. A system which manipulates the minds of the massesand profits off the very same insecurities it instills in them. You prefer your pews to be full

of successful-looking saints whose outward appearance advertises the popular Prosperitydoctrine which has served you so well. Trim and businesslike, smart-looking, reassuringly

refined and nice.

Well, the hour on My prophetic clock is precariously late and I dont have time to put upwith your perverse games anymore. Im not going to waste My precious time mincing


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words, either. I have said the things which are highly esteemed in the sight of man are anabomination in My sight (Luke 16:15). That includes the self-aggrandizement and snobbery

of mankind; all its egotistical pride in wealth, social status, or glamor.

I genuinely suspect youd feel frustrated if your parishioners were closer to perfection thanyourself. It delights you to make them squirm as you snarl abuse down at them and rob

them not only of their human dignity but the contents of their wallets. Now Im going toshout back at you, Brother Bear: Before you come back to My table demanding dessert,first let your poor slaves eat!

When you invent new ways to heap condemnation on My people you hinder My own workof healing bruised hearts. At present, Im not getting much help from you. Nothing

frustrates my grace more than some sharp-tongued preacher ripping into sensitive soulswhich really need the Oil of Joy for the spirit of heaviness, the healing balm of the Love of

Christ for emotional bruises, and the Power of the Blood of the Lamb to gain victory overevery assault of the enemy, including nagging feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy.

Dont you dare deny that My people are precious in My sight, or bring them under bondageto condemnation. They are My heritage which I have purchased with My own precious

Blood.

You have used your chastening rod to drive many sheep back out into the wilderness of theworld. With force and with cruelty you have ruled them (Ezekiel 34:4). People just got so

disgusted with your vituperative tongue and continual carping that they left to go look for anew guru. These unstable souls were unable to differentiate between bullies in the pulpit

and Christ, Who is meek and lowly in heart; the gentle, merciful Savior Whose yoke is easyand Whose burden is light.

Your greatest delight has been not to show forth My love, but to give lukewarm Christians

a kick in the pants to spur them on to greater holiness. But that is not My way. I am aloving Father, not a slave driver wielding a whip.


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There were times you actually forgot all about the offering and felt like your motives forperforming your ministry were noble, and no one else could fill your place. In the beginning

people thought your approach was like a breath of fresh air, after all the mealy-mouthed,double-tongued preachers theyd listened to before. Until your words hit home hard and

hurt them too much.

In your misguided zeal you have laid many grievous burdens upon My precious sheep,which I never authorized you to do. Yet you would never touch one of these burdens with aten-foot pole (Matthew 23:4). Just how long could you last, if I placed on your neck just one

of the burdens so many of My people out in the pews are under? Could YOU work a

nurses double shift, or slave on an assembly line all day? How could YOU cope with feelinglike your precious years were going down the toilet and you felt frustrated, and saw yourself

as just another cog in a machine at some factory, living to work, rather than working to live? How would YOU feel if YOUR boss fired YOU for some trivial reason, and YOU spent many

weary weeks searching for a new job? Why should poor people have to suffer your causticcriticisms on top of everything else they have to contend with daily!!!!!

You and most other rich preachers HATE with a passion the discontent behind the Occupy

Wall Street Movement. Yes, its unfortunate and very sad that these people are publicly

grumbling about being robbed of their homes and livelihoods by greedy bankers and otherswindlers in expensive suits. But very seldom will you see smoke without fire. Theresnever an effect without a cause behind it. SOMETHINGS causing those poor folks to gripe

against the monied Establishment which has served you so well. How would YOU feel ifYOUR palatial mansion got foreclosed on and YOU found yourself living in some Slab City,

either in some makeshift shack or a cheap trailer, with several hungry kids depending onyou to keep them alive and well? What if YOU had to huddle under a drippy doorway inside

a cardboard structure, with no plumbing, electricity or cooking facilities? What if YOUR feetwere raw and sore because you couldnt afford new shoes to replace old, leaky, rain-soaked

ones? What if YOU were continually being driven on by merciless cops in the park withnowhere to lay your weary head, roughing it in all sorts of nasty weather? For most folks it

doesnt take slothfulness to get reduced to homelessness. All it takes is just two or three

missed paychecks when workers get laid off from some closed factory.

Youre getting your good things in the here and now. I see your horse ranches, your gatedhomes, your palaces in the ritziest part of town, filled with costly treasures. And youve still

got the gall to criticize the man or woman whose shoes youve NEVER once in yourmiserable lifetime walked in!!!

Brother Bear, youre at it again from your bully pulpit. In times past youve lambasted Mypeople over the head with misapplied Scriptures and vain traditions of men in order to

FORCE them to pay unscriptural tithes on their paychecks and wages. With FORCE andwith CRUELTY many fat, well-fed pharaohs have ruled My people (Ezek.34:4). Brother

Bear, youve even threatened My people with the fires of hell for robbing god (yourself?)and youve sent many hard-working single moms and unemployed parents to bed weeping

that I couldnt give to them unless they shelled out the cash FIRST to PAY for thoseblessings. The riches of My infinite love which I FREELY share with My beloved children have

been substituted for EARTHLY prosperity which I SELL to fearful, cringing, begging slaves inexchange for painful sacrifices!

Even the sorcerer Simon Magus finally repented of the blasphemous notion that the things

of the Holy Spirit can be bought for carnal cash (Acts 8: 9-24). Two thousand years laterthat vital truth still hasnt sunk in to the vast majority of professing believers who have

been deeply, regularly, bizzarely brainwashed by bandits in the pulpit.


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Your LATEST vendetta is against stay-at-home dads who lovingly babysit their own kids

instead of toiling at some secular job. Which planet are you on, anyway? Are you so outof touch with this economic depression that you begrudge some family the extra income a

better-educated and better-qualified wife can bring in? The Virtuous Woman of Proverbs 31was capable of rolling up her sleeves and bringing in the bacon when necessary. And if the

wife DOES go out to work to save the family home from foreclosure, whos gonna stay homeand mind the children? Its a catch-22 situation, Brother Bear. The mans wages wouldBARELY be enough to pay for a substitute baby-sitter. So why would it be far better for him

to leave his own precious children to the care of strangers who may not even be Christian?

Are YOU gonna shell out money for this mans nursery fees out of your own extra fat so hecan afford to go back to work at his low-paid job and actually get to contribute a meaningful

amount to the household budget? When hell freezes over! I suspect it wouldnt REALLY fazeyou much if little Susie or Johnny watched themselves after school and the adults didnt get

home till late in the evening. Theres always TV to babysit the kids and theres always thegood old microwave to heat their frozen meals. All those cheesy family pictures you

preachers distribute at Christmas and Easter time are great photo ops to advertise yourgreat family values, but at least you can AFFORD that kind of a life!

You FOREVER beg the pew Christians for extra offerings and tithes to financesomething the church needs, but they would NEVER, EVER EVEN THINK of showing up onyour own doorstep to ask for help in time of need. Aside from the fact you live in an off-

limits ritzy section of town they wouldnt feel very welcome. Some of them have never evensome within a few feet of you to say hello. What kind of shepherd are you, anyway? A

good shepherd KNOWS his own sheep (John 10:14). Read Ezekiel 34 for a precisedescription of yourself! The Good Shepherd doesnt beat the stuffing out of his sheep when

theyre down, he HEALS them! Now youre telling that poor stay-at-home dad hes going tofry in hell for all eternity in unquenchable fire with satan and his demons while you go to yet

another heaven for yet another easy life. Unless you repent and come to My Son forforgiveness and cleansing, Brother Bear, dont bank on it! Dont you realize My Son warned

that if you called your brother raca (worthless) youd be in danger of My divine judgment

council (Matt.5:22)?


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Why is it that if this same Mr. MOM was being PAID to run a day-care center to babysitOTHER PEOPLES KIDS you wouldnt even think of calling him a lazy bum on his way to

hell, but since hes not earning a solitary cent by keeping his OWN kids, hes committing an

unforgivable sin? I would charge that man with the sin of slothfulness if he laid around on

the couch all day guzzling on a beer watching TV while his kids ran wild. But theres a lot ofGOOD Christian dads out there, Brother Bear, who deal with the REAL world as it is today in

the best way they can. How can YOU possibly relate to the real world, son, where dads area WELCOME extra pair of loving arms to cradle a sick baby while his tired wife takes a well-

earned break? Do YOU ever get tired, Brother Bear? Do YOU have servants in all thosefancy mansions you possess to make your life sweet and easy? Or do you at least own a

dishwasher, to clean the backlog of sour, grime-encrusted dishes generated by a houseful oframbunctious youngsters? What about the yard work that always needs doing, or the

things that get broken around the house which the woman of the house doesnt have theexpertise to fix? Maybe the womans real short and cant even reach that broken electrical

fixture! Maybe the womans way too WEAK to lift heavy furniture or appliances that needtending to. Anybody, whether male or female, who cares for a houseful of kids all day long

and does the job conscientiously and well gets My reward and commendation, not Mycondemnation!

You forget, Brother Bear, that before the Industrial Revolution, it wasnt unusual for men to

work at home. Adam and Eve worked together at similar tasks in the Garden of Eden.Adam didnt grab a sack lunch and hop onto an express bus to Smog City to toil in some

factory. My own earthly foster father Joseph ran his carpentry shop just a few steps awayfrom our living quarters. In an emergency situation Joseph could lay down his tools awhile

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care of. Unless he was away on a special job or had to go get supplies, My foster father didnot commute to his daily employment. Whenever necessary My mother could even come

into the carpenters shop to help hold down a plank while her husband sawed. She couldhelp him clear light debris out of the shop and help make it tidy. On more than one

occasion, Joseph gladly lent a hand to help soothe a newborn son who was crying in painafter being circumcised. While Joseph was alive he did all he could to help lighten Marys

load so she could remain healthy and keep on being an excellent wife and mother. Thatswhat being a family is all about, Brother Bear. Sharing and caring, not accumulating astockpile of money. Each member of the family helps out the other when one of them is

overwhelmed or needs the special expertise of some better qualified member of the family.

I care more about My people sharing and caring and bearing one anothers burdens in love

than I do about sticking to traditional rules about gender division of labor. So long as ahusband does what he can WHEN he can and displays love, tenderness, godliness and

courage in caring for his family, I find no fault in the way he carries out his role.

OR, could it possibly be that you have ulterior motives for questioning the masculinity of thehouse-husbands of your congregation? You know full well that in being a cook, dishwasher,

cleaner, launderer, shopper, meal-planner, baby-sitter, errand-runner, football coach,

secretary, and amateur doctor for his family, that mans services must be worth at least afive-figure sum, though he is FREELY giving these services out of love. Even if the manswife is a qualified university professor making a six-figure salary, you gripe about the fact

that only ONE tithe check will be coming your way from that household instead of two!Ideally, youd love to have TWO slaves out there working their guts out to make life cushier

for you, wouldnt you, Brother Bear? When was the last time you sent a sympathy card tosome Christian family whose primary breadwinner died prematurely because of job-related

stress or poverty? Dont kid yourself, Brother Bear. Deliberate slothfulness IS a sin, butmany long years of overwork and stress can make you ill and can even KILL.

You yell about the breakup of the American family, but who are YOU to point the finger of

accusation? You left the wife of your youth for a younger, fresher face. You committed

adultery against a loving wife who had bore you some lovely children, then remarried theobject of your affections, having a second family with her. I love ALL your children and will

do My utmost to see to it that they all have a fighting chance to make it to heaven, sincethey are ALL precious in My sight. Yet the fact remains that youre continuing in the

ministry, contrary to I Tim.3:2, Titus 1:6 and Mark 10:11, which plainly states that inputting away your first wife without just cause and remarrying another youre living in sin.

John the Baptist warned King Herod that it wasnt lawful for him to have Herodias, yet you

could care less about that Biblical example and think its only for other people. You ignoreMy Word as you pamper your foolish flesh and do what you want. At the same time you

excoriate the members of your congregation for being lazy, unspiritual and selfish withTHEIR money, which they earned by the sweat of THEIR brow!

When was the last time you thanked your people for all their loving support? Without the

support of all those nameless, faceless little people out there in the pews, youd be out of ajob, and youd have to toil for your daily bread like them. It takes far more faith to live

without money than with it. Have you ever once thanked your people for getting up early ontheir one day off (for many of them), getting themselves and their children ready, wolfing

down a hurried breakfast, then braving traffic jams and all kinds of weather on Sunday,which is supposedly a day of rest?

My Love is gentle and meek, but about the only gentleness they ever get from you is the

deceptively mild warmup to your real sermon, which builds into a roaring crescendo of raw,


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rankling bitterness. Finally, your pent-up anger bursts out and you let My people knowwhat you really do think of them. Theyre just lazy hot-tub saints whod be lucky to get the

strip off a tin can as a crown on Judgment Day. But what kind of a crown do YOU expectfor browbeating your fellow-servants in your Masters absence, then making a tidy pile for

being an overbearing bear? (Matthew 24: 48-51).

Even newborn babies fresh from heaven arent spared your bile. I blessed little children andbabies, but you call them little vipers who will grow up to be juvenile delinquents unlesstheyre treated with a firm hand from the youngest age, though all tiny infants want is to be

loved and cherished. My Son told His disciples, who had little patience with small children,

that He longed for them to become more like these little ones (Matt.18:3). I did not adviseMy disciples to act like roaring religious lions.

If anybody enters your church feeling like a special, beloved child of God, you know how to

break him of that habit in a hurry. I am extremely patient with babes in Christ who simplydont know any better than to overzealously pick at each other, especially about issues that

are cultural obsessions of a fallen world, not actual sins. But you, a man who wasconverted a long time ago, have used your power and influence to make the heart of the

righteous sad, whom I have not made sad (Ezekiel 13:22a).

Old hurts you suffered as a young boy are still festering deep in your soul. Othersmisunderstood you and were impatient with you, even your own overstrict dad. So now you

feel driven to perpetuate your unresolved hurt by lashing out at your own congregation andnitpicking at everything which doesnt fit into your confused notion of what a church should

be. Rather than insulting some wounded woman out in the pews and reducing her to tears,you really should bring all your old hurts to me, dear son, and I would do a miracle of

healing and restoration deep in your soul. I would help you to forgive your earthly father,the one youre really angry at; a misguided man who hurt you by always being quick to

discipline you, even before he knew the full story of what had happened. Ask Me to teachyou how to love before its everlastingly too late to undo the damage which has already

been done.

Grow up, or youll be ashamed when you stand before My Judgment Seat. Repent of your

hardheartedness now. Why should you have to stand tongue-tied before the BemaJudgment Seat and watch your work of discouraging the saints go up in smoke?

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