For the Love of Family Against the Father of Lies

I dare not say what I am about to say in a live podcast, unless my words are not complete, my thoughts are not clear, should I leave something out – no, this must be written out carefully, with the greatest clarity of thought and heart. I have been very blessed that God has seen fit to bless my life with seven children – all still alive – the oldest is 43 and the youngest is 30. I now have ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a wife of 40 years, who swears she still loves me as much as the day we met. I am blessed with four sons-in-law and the wife of my oldest grandchild, making the number of my close family members stand at 26, including my wife and me. I am sorry to report that we have had one tragic death in the family due to a hospital treatment error. I had a grandchild pass at a young age, and I am also in the middle of a family split in my youngest daughter’s marriage.

In this article – blog – to keep it straight, I need to report to you the good, the bad and the ugly – it’s so important for me to do this for you, for my family who may read this one day. If you are a person who feels superior, who feels justified by the tragedies of my life, or if you feel put down by the lack and tragedies of your own life, you need to repent. (2Co 10:12) For we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they are measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. But as for me, regardless of all of these things, I make my boast in the Lord, the humble will hear thereof and be glad (Ps. 34:2), having been through all of these things, I am still pretty young at the age of 64, God hasn’t completed my life yet, the story of my life has not yet been written – I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me (Gal. 2:20). I can tell you the things in my life that I value the most, it’s godly wisdom and knowledge that begins with the fear of God, the fact that God has seen to give me the grace to understand deep things, that he has given me the grace to have the living Word of God hid in my heart, showing me the way, so that I would not be ashamed as I put my trust in him, these are the things which cause my head to be upheld, the things that matter to me.

What I am about to speak of is recorded all over scripture – 2Tim 3: Perilous times shall come – the words of Jesus in Matt. 24 and Mark 13 – just to name a few – but if you look into the words spoken in detail in these passages, you would be amiss if you did not see the trouble effecting the family – the personal family and the spiritual family – most call “The Church” (another word with a suspicious etymology). Paul says, “People will be lovers of self – disobedient to parents” Jesus said, “They will call the womb that never had children blessed – And children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death”. We are living in a world that has spiritual forces. What “The Church” has loosed on earth, has been loosed in heaven, the weapons of their warfare have been carnal, they do not live by the faith of the Son of God, they have their right arm, their trust, in the arm of their flesh and there is no fear of God before their eyes. So, there is NO family alive on this earth which cannot be adversely affected by these wicked spiritual forces in high places; these are indeed perilous times of great trouble like nothing that has ever been.

I have been, since my childhood, in one religious circle or another, Pentecostal, Baptist, Jesus Movement, Presbyterian, New Apostolic Reformation – it has all been confusion, the doctrine has been confusion, the judgement has been confusion, relationships have been confusion, authority has been confusion – but God is not the author of confusion, the Devil is, Lucifer is the King of Babylon (Isa. 14), a city set on seven hills, a city of confusion. Many years ago I found myself as a young man seeing this confusion and rebelling, I began getting kicked out of Churches who refused to answer my questions – they couldn’t – they were confused, and now many years later I have settled into a state of contentment in my relatively quiet life, away from religious confusion and yet still today, because of my love for the brethren, I find myself dealing with ignorant people who they are confused. There can be no debate about the truth of a saying taken from Jer. 51: “Let every man deliver his soul from Babylon!”

During my short time in the New Apostolic Reformation, I was attending a home bible study not far from where I live now, a man and his wife came – a stranger I had never met. In our little NAR group, we had many female prophetesses. Upon the entry of this man and his wife, shortly thereafter, two of our most respected prophetesses began prophesying over the man and calling him a wife abuser. I saw no evidence of that; they were, after all, strangers, but what was I supposed to do? These were two of our most respected prophetesses, certainly, they couldn’t be wrong, could they? Later on, one of these prophetesses went up to my wife and prophesied that she was having a baby boy, and we were supposed to name the boy “Habakkuk”. Today, our son “Habakkuk” is in his late 30s and just had a baby. It’s a good thing that we decided to name our son Amy! I have witnessed false judgements, false prophesies, false judgement of the prophesies, so judgment and truth have no weight anymore – it’s just a bundle of lies, confusion, and the most populace feeling or intuition of the prevailing women gossiping ring in whichever, place of confusion you find yourself at any given time. And the women who said I was a wife abuser forty years ago at the beginning of the dicey beginning of our marriage – they are all now divorced from their husbands, but we are not and have been blessed over the years in many ways!

False accusations, bearing false witness against your Neighbour, is a sin, it is the norm in the city of confusion, it is the greatest weapon in the hands of the Devil, the Father of Lies. Godly men are called wife abusers, child abusers, emotional abusers, yes the Man who’s head is Christ are brought down to the ground by the feelings of women laden with iniquity who’s own husbands hide themselves from their flesh, their husbands refuse to correct the sins of their wives – they are afraid of their wives and children, they are a bunch of lazy cowards who refuse to stand for truth, yet the city of confusion celebrate these men and call them godly and great, but I don’t, God doesn’t!

I am here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be this way; this shame can pass, you are not forced to live in the city of confusion anymore, clarity can come. Let me ask you a question: if I falsely accuse you of sin, would you repent even if you were convinced that I was wrong? How can a person ask repentance from another when they cannot, will not, not been given a chance to convince another person of sin? If I falsely accuse you and you worship the ground that I walked on, because I had falsely held myself up as some “great one” – “The Man of God”, would you repent just to show how humble you were out of respect and love for “The Man of God”??? Well let me tell you something, I am a Man who’s head is Christ, no man can falsely accuse me of anything unless he can convince me of my sin, I could care less whether you attempt to bully me, shame me, call me prideful if you will, if you don’t have godly wisdom, why would anyone hear you – honestly??? In the city of confusion, it’s not judgment that they lay to the line, but the feelings of the populace among whom demand the most attention, namely the chief women and their cowardly husbands.

(Isa 28:17) Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

When one submits to the father of lies and falsely accuses the Man who’s head is Christ, they falsely claim “You don’t have the fruit of the Spirit”, which now days means, “I don’t like the way you made me feel”, perhaps they didn’t like the tone of your voice, they thought you raised your voice, you yelled, you got angry – none of which is a sin if done righteously, yet they willingly, lightly, with no fear, accuse you of not having the Spirit of God dwelling within you, badgering you to repent or else! All of these false accusers are delusional in their own lives; they may have one or two children to raise, while you have raised seven, they always treat you as though their experience in life somehow or another trumps yours – it’s delusional to suggest that the elder submit to the younger. Make no mistake, when someone these days make the claim that you don’t have the fruit of the Spirit, they are saying you don’t have the Spirit of God living in you, you are not saved, in fact if you look at it a little deeper, they are calling you a fool! “So just give up old man – take your scriptures and shove it – you aren’t saved – don’t teach us the bible anymore – we will find our own way” – Yet one of the most greatest scriptures of promise are found in these words – “Honor your Father and Mother in the Lord, that your days might be long on the earth.”

Now if you are going to accuse someone, especially your godly father, you better be right, you better have the wisdom, patience and understanding to articulate it, so as to bring about real repentance. Now notice that I always refer to honoring your father and mother “IN THE LORD”? I mean if your father or mother isn’t godly then you really can’t honor them in this way, can you? But if your Father is a man who’s head is Christ, then you got a real problem with God if you falsely tell him that he is a fool, don’t you think so? And bye the way, no matter how old you are, your Father and Mother in the Lord will always be your Father and Mother in the Lord – you don’t turn 40 and all of the sudden you have finally gotten past the command to honor them. I can tell you, and I have notice this – my children who do not honor me are sick, their lives are a mess, you might ask “did God make them sick because they refuse to honor you?” well, I don’t know, but I do know the promise, I don’t sit on the throne, God does, he judges, but it sure is hard not to notice that the children who dishonor their parents are now sick and in trouble.

God does not judge according to the outward appearances like people do, he judges righteously EVERY TIME – and if you are his child, so must you.

(Isa 11:3)  And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:(Isa 11:4)  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

God does not judge according to evil imaginations. The city of confusion, all they have are evil imaginations, that’s why they can’t articulate the sin, to get you to repent of the sin, because these are self-worshippers who judge according to evil imaginations. (2Co 10:5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;(2Co 10:6) And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. (2Co 10:7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

Family – natural Family and Spiritual Family, I don’t speak this to you today simply to shame you, I don’t say this out of some self-interest of mine, I say this out of godly love, don’t want for you the trouble that is coming your way unless you repent, God is not the author of confusion. Of course God is my life, and if you tell me that the Spirit of God does not dwell in me, if that were true, then I should be of all men most miserable, but that isn’t true, the Spirit of God does dwell in me and to say otherwise is not only a false accusation, but a hateful attempt at murder – I mean if I were to truly give up and stop proclaiming truth, because I am a fool as you say, then the conclusion of my entire life is murder, I really have no reason to live any longer. Again, I say this because I love you and I don’t want you to suffer the things that I know are coming your way – fear not me – fear God from where all wisdom and knowledge comes. You need the mercy and grace that can only come from God, but that will never happen outside of the fear of God, make that your great treasure, learn it, live it. If you cannot love the people in your life which you can see, how can you then say that you love God, whom you have not seen? I know the principles of godly judgment – “To whom much is given, much is required” – I have NEVER taught my children ONE false doctrine at any time in their lives, NOT ONE – you don’t suppose that is worth anything do you? Much has been given to you, don’t despise it. Another godly judgment – “If you can’t be faithful in what belongs to another man, why would God give you anything of your own?” Meaning – if you can’t be faithful with the truth that I have taught, and you want to go your own way around me, then why would God give you any truth of your own?

I conclude this article with – perilous times are here – not some future date, but now. Unless these days are shortened, there will be no flesh saved, but God has chosen to hide his truth from those who are wise in this world and yet deliver it unto babes. what I have heard, I have heard from the Lord. I would that we all heard from the Lord – but many of you are not willing to pay the price, to die the death, to be crucified with Christ, to become nothing that he might become everything, you have not entered in at the straight gate, you have not entered into his rest, not built up in the most holy faith, you have submitted to your own counsel and not the counsel of the Lord – you live in and respect the city of confusion, her and her judgments alone do you follow. But the Lord is coming back as a thief in the night, unless you repent, he will come upon you in a day that you are not waiting for, looking for, expecting, and he will come upon you as a thief and not to your joy, unless you repent. Family, I don’t want any of this for you. I love you!