Daily Deprogramming

I write these daily deprogrammings to help myself and my family heal from church abuse , and become free from Ardith Keef’s addictive false teachings.  What is written here is the truth to the best of our ability. It is my hope that others will find a way out of their own abusive church systems  ,and be encouraged to stand up for Truth and Righteousness, instead of cowering down, curled up in a ball and suffering from shunning, slander, and harsh treatment.   We have many readers who  have suffered similar abuses ,we are pleased to give them something solid to believe in,  and a way back to  worshiping the Lord, after being completely undone by  cruel ,  self serving,  authoritarian cult leaders. 

It is also our hope that church leaders who see themselves in these writings might confess , repent,   and turn from their abusive behaviors ,and their false  and deceptive teachings.  That they might know His Love , Grace, Mercy, and Compassion for themselves and extend His Grace, Mercy and Love to others.

Perhaps  Ardith Keef should have entitled  her  Daily Devotional,   “MINE is the Glory” , and tell it like it really is. 

The Lord is not Glorified by false church leaders destroying homes ,and breaking up families.  He is not Glorified by leaders  coveting other peoples wives, children and usurping other peoples families.  The Lord is not Glorified by spiritual leader wannabee’s  conniving secretly to usurp another man’s  pastorate.  The Lord is not Glorified by two married people (married to other spouses)  secretly “praying” together to get rid of their spouses and  do harm to a whole church! 

The Lord is not Glorified by  someone “counseling” a woman then shunning her ,  calling her “possessed” then taking her husband and destroying his family.  The Lord is not Glorified when false leaders  divide  his little children from their parents, grandparents, and each other.  The Lord is not Glorified by dishonoring parents whether young or old. The Lord is not Glorified when leaders instruct young people to divorce mates without proper Biblical reasons.  The Lord is not Glorified when leaders laugh and make fun  of  those who might appear  weaker and different then themselves.

The Lord is not Glorified by taking His people to court instead of reasoning together.  The Lord is not Glorified by a woman taking control of the men in the church, as well as taking control of everything else in the Church. The Lord is not Glorified by yes-men pastors and elders who are not just and true to Him, and do not judge righteously.  The Lord is not Glorified when people cast  out and shun His people because they questioned or criticized them.  He is not Glorified when people slander others because they fear being faced with the Truth.  The Lord is not Glorified by  false shepherds leading his people astray.  The Lord is not Glorified by the spiritual  and emotional abuse of His Saints especially by those who falsely call themselves “His leaders”.  The Lord is not Glorified when we trust in our own wisdom ,and refuse to admit we could be wrong.

The Lord is not Glorified by hypocrites and pretenders who force His people to obey their “laws” while they look for glory for themselves.   He is not Glorified by authoritarian would-be icon’s who want to steal His Glory for themselves and make people bow down to their own image.  “All they want to know is that they are the authority ” with regard to other peoples lives, as they grandiose with their  pious, pompous deeds that attest to their policy, “Mine is the Glory.”   He abhor’s these wicked actions!  And He knows every wicked thought and motive!   May He show up the imposters for who and what exactly they really are.  May He reveal   the source  of where their  feigned  ”glory”  ,and false fire is truly coming from.

The Lord is Glorified by humble hearts who love Him and His people. Those who see themselves as lesser and the others as greater.  He is Glorified by leaders who count themselves as His “servants” by their actions, and not  “authority figures.”  He is Glorified by men and women who stay true to their mates according to His Word, until death seperates them.  He is Glorified by servants who help others to keep their families together, and sacrifice their lives to help another brother or sister.  He is Glorified when the fruit of our lives is Love, Mercy, Kindness, Compassion and reflects Himself.  He is Glorified by humble leaders and those who  truly follow everything in His Word , and don’t pick and choose verses  as the circumstances dictate.  He is Glorified when the leadership and the laity are not divided by  class distinctions,  in word or deed.  He said “We are all brothers.”  He Who donned the towel was ( The King Of Glory)  and  He humbled Himself  to wash His disciples feet  and said to “wash one another’s feet. ”  

Yes , To Thine Be The Glory, High King Of Glory, Lord and Savior Lord Jesus Christ, The True One, The Faithful One, To Thine Be The Glory Forever and Ever Amen!   May You  disclose the secret deceptions,   pretenses, and break down the wicked strongholds of the enemy.  Oh Lord, pull down the high places of arrogance and pride  in the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church, and set your people free!   Forgive me Lord God in Heaven  for my part in it all!  Thank You for setting us free that we might bring comfort and help to others.  May You alone be Glorified!

Brothers and sisters, if we have received Christ as our Savior we have been placed smack in  the middle of the War of the Ages.   It is the war between Good and Evil. It began with the fall of man as in Adam and Eve. The victory was won at Calvary, and we His people continue on bearing His Flag of Truth until He comes for us whether it be through our  death or His Return for all of us.

We can choose to hide behind the real soldiers who are fighting in the front lines, happy simply being saved and hoping for Heaven, or we can stand up front and follow the leadings of the Spirit as He wields his Sword. 

For some of us there are moral issues in our lives we have to “contend” with. Some have lived  immoral lives and have been addicted to such things as pornography, gambling, drugs, alcohol. With some of us, our moral issues are only known to ourselves and God Almighty.  We can be healed by Him  when we are saved by the Blood,  but  continue to “battle” these human issues for many years, if not for a lifetime.  It is still part of the ultimate Battle between  Good and Evil.  satan knows our weaknesses and if we belong to Christ he will do all in his power to cause us to fail in our efforts to be faithful in our weak areas.

There is a spiritual battle being waged for our minds , and if we are sold out to Christ Jesus , we are of first concern for the enemy.  If we are on the front lines, and  have left all to follow Jesus, the battle is fierce.  satan’s recourse is always deception, masquerades, pretense, and every kind of disguise he can think of to pass for God and get us to follow him instead of the True  God.  It works for him because we Christians are so sure of ourselves, so rebellious and stiff-necked.

We have “friendly fire” of sorts to “contend” with.  When  some of the comrades  we have been fighting alongside for many years,  turn out to be on the side of the enemy,  having  been seemingly  conquered by the enemy’s masquerades, then the battle changes a little bit for us.  The stratagy of the war-fare  for a time  turns to rescuing those who have been “captured”  within the ranks.

The good part of this war is that Jesus already won it.  But we are in a battle for souls, our own as well as others.  I for one , desire to be a soldier who is available for anything my Captain needs.   Even in mid-stream if He calls to me, “Go back, take the other way!” ,  I want to be ready for His call and not hesitate.  My listening to His call may mean someone elses  spiritual life , and how they will spend eternity.  I do not want to be so set in my ways, trusting my own  wisdom and understanding  of the circumstances that I miss His orders.  I want to Trust Him implicitly to call the shots!

The Lord Jesus is about Love

The Father Loved us so much He sent His only Son

“In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men”  John 1:4

He poured out His Love into our hearts

We are to Love one another as He has loved us

We are to Love our mates (one mate until death do we part)

We are to Love our children

We are to Love the Truth

In the end how we have treated others will be how we are judged.  How we have treated His own will be of the utmost importance.  Did we give them even a cup of cold water when they were thirsty?  Did we go to the prison’s and seek them out?  Did we go after the one lost sheep? 

We have an enemy who disguises himself to be like Jesus.  Watch out for his wiles and masquerades.  satan’s greatest quest is to keep you from your goal.  he hates the Truth,  he hates the Light, he hates Jesus your Savior.  satan pretends  to be Jesus like such a pro that he can even deceive the Saints of the Most High God!  

In view of satan’s tactics, be careful whose “truth” you listen to!  Be humble. You may have to change direction in mid stream.   Jesus may come at any time, and reveal that you are going the wrong way.  This is His LOVE in action. In this case you just may be the stray sheep!  Be willing to admit you were deceived.  If it’s Jesus that you really and truly care about, who cares if you have been duped into believing the enemy for a little while? Get rid of the pride of having to be right.  Humility is of the utmost importance when it comes to Loving God,  Loving the Truth,   and Loving the Light.

A hint to tell the difference:  If theres NO  LOVE theres NO JESUS!   No Love =no Truth   No Love=no Light   NO LOVE=NO LIFE!     LIFE IS ABOUT LOVE - GOD IS LOVE!

Yes, for sure the Bible is the Lord’s Book.  It is filled with the testimonies of people who have had experiences with God and  tells us of His dealings with men.  It has been used and misused down through the centuries. It has been hidden in the hands of pious religious leaders who thought the common man shouldn’t and couldn’t read it and understand it.

The above title has been changed  a little as Ardith Keef  put “ME ” all in caps in her title of todays Daily Devotional.  I hesitate to put myself or any other human being on the same level as the Word of God.   There are some things that repel me,  and I refuse to put them purposely on my web-site;   This is one of those things.

People have been burned at the stake, put up on crosses, thrown out of churches ,and even murdered because of  holding firm to it’s teachings.. 

Ted Bundy (mass murderer) was brought up by it’s teachings, and he was executed knowing it’s pages were true.  Jim Jones , preacher and kool-aid murderer of 900 plus people , used it and taught it .  Charles Manson, the bazaare cult leader of the 60’s used the Bible to control his followers and the  book of Revelation to kill his victims,  and David Koresh died in a self induced fire, started in several places in his compound,  ”protecting”  his followers  from the outside  world by using the Bible and standing upon it.  These are just a handful of the more notorious examples of  seriously ill , psychopathic people who  have used the scriptures wrongly for their own advantage.

There have been thousands upon thousands of nieve  victims of high and mighty  (now unknown) , hard-nosed, harsh and merciless,  Authoritarian leaders,  who have lorded it over the Church of God ( using the Bible ) during the century’s ever since the Church began.   Many are  dead now,  but there are always more in their place, and we can be sure  God remembers the abuse, the deception, and the harm done to His people.  These false leaders will give an account one day.  

 I can name two such peculiar sect leaders who have lived and died leading the Church astray here in Maine.   One was the charismatic  leader of the “Shiloh” church in Durham, Maine, Fred Sanford, who practically starved his followers to death in the early 1900’s,  and another was the leader of an abusive Christian  sect  that sat right on the same corner as the Anchor Missionary Fellowship church, in Scarborough, Maine in the early 1800’s.    It’s bazaare “spiritual”  leader was Jacob Cochran.   The  “Bible” teachings and behaviors were eerily similar to the teachings of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church and it’s leaders, Bill and Ardith Keef.  

Then there was Carl Stevens ministries known since the 1970’s  for causing divided families, broken marriages and  homes , fractured  churches, and pastors running off with people’s wives.  This is where Ardith Keef got her  “spiritual training ” when she first became a Christian.  All the dysfunction, confusion and chaos at Anchor  makes a lot of sense when you think about  the “connections”.  All of the above used the Bible to gain base advantage and to control and wield power over other Christians.

Yes , the Bible is a controversial book by all accounts and standards. Back in Jesus day people memorized scripture, from the devout common man to the highest order of Pharisee.  The Pharisee’s used the written law  to abuse their power and to control people as well, and Jesus was not afraid to let them know that He abhored their hypocricy and pretenses. 

Today when one is a Christian , he or she knows for instance the Word teaches that God hates divorce, “I hate divorce” , it clearly  say’s of God .  The word gives only one way  that divorce is acceptable to God.  If your mate commits adultery you are free from the marriage.  Why is it then that christians get divorces as often as the world does?    Has the Bible really and truly reached their heart?  I tell you brethren, it is sin and adultery if you leave your mate for another without the grounds provided in scripture! 

There was a time when Ardith believed this herself. Now she is willing to lead young people to sin by divorcing their mates without proper Biblical grounds, without any grounds at all.  She is even willing  to use her profession of Attorney to aid Christians to divorce one another.  ”Irreconcilable Differences” is not an option for Christians who love the Word of God and adhere to it. 

The Word of God also tells us that we are not to take fellow believers to a court of law.  There is a way provided in scripture to settle differences within the church. There has to be two or three witnesses.  The problem is taken to the individual, then to the elders, then to the church to be settled. 

So, a person  such as Ardith Keef, who claims such grandiose knowledge of the B-I-B-L-E , and instructs her followers in  complicated methods of how one should read the Bible cover to cover, do a  systematic study, contexual study, memorize, use the KJV, seek the Person of Jesus had ought to cleave to it’s teachings herself, hadn’t she?

The Bible says, “Honor your father and your mother.”  She left her mother to die without ever even trying  to reconcile the circumstances.  She didn’t know if her mother was even saved.

The Bible says,  “Do not slander”  she has slandered  almost everyone who disagrees with her or questioned her “authority.” She has called them mentally ill, possessed, with alzheimers, reprobate,  with brain tumers, and bi-polar. Every single  one not true.

The Bible says of God , “I hate divorce.”   She has divorced 5 times and teaches others to follow in her footsteps .

The Bible says that we are not to take fellow believers to a court of law.  Ardith Keef has ,rather than obey the teachings on settling differences in scripture, taken three fellow believers to court.  She has cut off all communication when these folks were continually asking to meet and reason together.  

The Bible says, “Love one another as I have loved you.”  Ardith casts out missionary families, others who love the Lord,  lies about them,  separates families with her false teachings,  breaks up churches,  and destroys peoples spiritual lives by her false teachings.

The Bible says, “Let the little children come unto Me.”  Ardith’s teachings and actions divide the little children from their own brothers and  sisters and break up their families.  Her teachings single out certain children to abuse and neglect spiritually.

The Bible says, “Wives, be subject to your husbands in everything.”  Ardith teaches the opposite to young women and her actions in changing husbands 5 times prove she does not submit herself.

The words of the Bible are only as helpful in our walks with the Lord as we allow them to be. We can know it’s the Truth, but unless we follow it’s truths they are simply words on a page .  Unless the Love of God that is contained within it’s covers reaches our hearts, and spirits  as well as our brains , it is just a  good book with good words, two covers, and our hearts remain stone-cold, hard, and closed.

If you have spent years reading the Word ,and still don’t know the basics about Love, Mercy, Faithfulness to your mate, submission to your husband,  honoring your parents, and all you know is that you absolutely know everything there is to know about- HOW TO STUDY IT, you have missed the boat.   In this case you need desperately  to “get to know the Lord.”  You are like the little two-year-old who claps their hands  and sings    ”The B-I-B-L-E , yes that’s the book for me”    without even knowing the first thing about it!  

Only  in this case you are dangerous to other believers because you have the power to cause them shipwreck and to lead them astray as you have been led astray.   As we have noted with Jim Jones, David Koresh, Ted Bundy, and Charles Manson,  a person like this is a very useful tool in the hands of the enemy.

Today is an anniversary of sorts for me. It was on this day two years ago, I began to see that I was in a cult .   Upon the impending birth of my grandson, I saw the pastor of my church doing bazaar things which were out of the realm of being a pastor , invading the space , and usurping the  God-given authority of the  young husband and father of the child.

I was quickly removed when after 20 years of faithful service, I asked questions and criticized the outlandish behavior of the leadership.  For now my daughter in law and two grandchildren have been lost to the ”christian” cult.  It has been a uniquely tormenting and agonizing experience.  The story is on our home page.

I thank the Lord today for allowing the pain, because it took such a horrendous event to finally allow me see in reality , the  visable concrete  embodiment of a  sick condition within the leadership of the church, that I  had sensed existed , but could never  wrap my brain around.  I struggled , in great conflict within my spirit for at least seven years prior to this  bazaare event , knowing  something was wrong in the church,  but just couldn’t see it clearly. 

 I simply would bury my feelings and instincts and tell myself I was  wrong time after time.  We can be blinded by our beliefs even if they seem to be good beliefs,  when they sound like they are the truth ,and  seem to be  coming from God’s Word.

Today Ardith Keef’s Devotional talks about being a “bond servant.”  I was her “bond servant” for many years.  Nearly 20 years. Nearly one third of my life I willingly served her, not for money ,but because in my heart I truly believed she followed the Lord , and I wanted to serve Him.  For almost the whole time I worked nights so I could take care of her needs days.  I bought food for her  and her husband for four years and cooked the food for them.  I even stayed nights with her for nine months while she and her now pastor husband, mutinied her ex-husbands church, causing a  , rupturing breach and destroying the unity  of the members.

I deeply loved her,  and she held me there by speaking of my being “in the reigns with her.”  I  believed her  and wanted to be a bond servant to Christ .   I truly thought  she was following Him.  It was my own fault.  I was gullible.  I was deceived.

So, where did I put the abuses of people in the scheme of things?  I still  can not figure out how I could  have so easily skipped over the mutiny of her  ex husband’s pastorate by she and her new love interest. How a marriage with four young children could be disintegrated  before my eyes in the name of “Jesus” as if it was normal in the Kingdom of Heaven to destroy what God has yoked together, and divorce was acceptable ,when He said, “I hate divorce?”   How could I see the agony and intense mental abuse   of her new husband’s children and ignore it?   How could I accept a clear lack of Love as “the will of God ? ” How  could I shun and treat God’s people with distain, when I knew nothing except Ardith’s  interpretation of “truth” in the situation? How could I accept and accede to dysfunction and chaos ,as  being  God’s  Truth and The Holy Spirit in action?    How could I be so deceived?

Friends, an illusionary ”Christian” cult , that duplicates and simulates the Kingdom of God with it’s false fire, false and twisted doctrines and false leaders, is in  satans mind one of his  greatest achievements!  He is the master deceiver.  He has said, “I will be like God.”  It is his keenest desire to deceive the “church” of Christ Jesus.  If the doctrines of a “church” seem to line up with the Bible, and the leader is charismatic , is able to influence people with a false  spiritual “authority” ,and even believes his or her  own twisted versions of “truth”,  we easily can be deceived by them. 

Our very freedom is based upon whether or not we think we can be deceived. If we are not willing to accept the fact that we can be deceived then we are blinded  to the truth, and  will continue to be food for the roaring lion out to devour us, if indeed we are in a cult.   I can tell you from experience  it can  be very difficult to recognise the  distinction of the false , and the difference between the  Holy Spirit’s Truth ,and  satan’s false truth for a long time.  However, when the fruit is manifest the truth is clearly shown.  But you can miss the truth if you arrogantly think you cannot be deceived.

Now I know what it means that “the wheat and the tares will grow up together until the harvest.”  I always thought it meant the harvest was when Jesus comes again.  Now I know there’s a lesser fullfillment , and it can be a harvest of  the fruit in ones life, or in the life of a church.    Eventually every sowing of seed produces something or it rots in the ground.  There is a “harvest” and by that fruit we can determine the  health of of a person, a  leader , or a church.  

There  can be good fruit, as in leaders and churches that have stood the test of time ,and remain filled with Love, are firm, faithful,  and healthy;  or the fruit can be bad as in churches that are loveless,  full of corruption, secrecy, with no mercy, painful divisions and splits  abounding, divorces,  all coming from the top.  Sometimes you can’t see or smell the rotten  fruit because it is  highly perfumed with smooth spiritual words and teachings.  Until the filth and moral decay  affects  you personally , the “false perfume”  diffuses  and cloaks the stench of the enemy’s workings.  You think you are following God.  It seems so real!

Again today I thank my Lord for opening my eyes, and my  spiritual senses, even though the cost of True sight  and  True smell was great.  I am determined to follow Him.  I am determined to serve Him.  Seeing the Truth, I have had to repent from following a false fire, false doctrines, and false leaders.  I have had to repent from supporting unkindness, and abuse of others ,and looking the other way during  the cruel unchristian conduct toward children and families of a church and leaders who think for all the world they’re following Christ.  

I have seen the beautiful fruit of families being brought back together in true Christian love and unity, after years of being seperated  under Ardith’s control  and teachings.  I have seen mothers and children brought back together as well. This gives me much hope for those I love who have been so deceived ,and caught by satans lies. 

Yes, it even gives me hope for  deceived leaders like Ardith and Bill Keef  as well.  I have great pity and compassion for them and pray for their release from satans strongholds and wiles.  Thinking they are bond-servants of Christ , they are the enemy’s puppets , his servants of sorts,  and are led along , deceived  and held fast  to him  by their strings of pride,  self-aggrandizement, and  their own false and twisted teachings and beliefs!  May the Lord have mercy on them, as well as their poor followers.

The moral of the story is this:  Be careful brethren, if Christ has set you apart for Himself, don’t come under another yoke of slavery.  It can be disastrous!  “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galations 1:5

Today Ardith begins by telling us that according to 1Thessalonians we have, “…all the privileges and rewards of the new life in Christ Jesus the Messiah.”

Then she asks us some rather pointed questions.  “Why then do we insist on living as though it were not true?  Why must we impale ourselves on the day to day drudgeries?  Why must we worry and fret and rehearse our past losses and hurts?  Why are we blinded to the needs of those around us?”

She doesn’t give us any answers, but continues with her  stale and stagnant, contorted  interpretation of scripture, twisting the Truth to keep her followers in tow.  All they continue to have  to lead them is her well used example of being some kind of model or pattern of the “Soldier of the Cross.”   If you follow her folks, are you truly following Him? I don’t think so!  Look  back at at her life!  Ask questions.   She wants you to look forward at all costs.  She doesn’t want people to ask any questions.

Examine the fruit!  Test the spirits!  Take a good look at what is going on in your soul and spirit.  Are you continually troubled ,and  do her teachings seem to be falling flat, even though they “seem” to sound like the truth?   You long to have a relationship with Jesus like she has ,but can’t get there as hard as you try.  Can you never seem to reach the goal she holds out to you?

My answer to Ardith’s questions today  is that perhaps we have not settled old accounts with people and with God.  We have to repent when we have a history of hurting people ,and our sin will keep us from “seeing.”  The Bible says , “Leave your gift at the altar , and make things right with your brother who has something against you. Then proceed.”  Matthew 5:23  Perhaps some people  ”rehearse past losses ” and hurts , and “worry and fret”  over them because they have damaged people including their own families  thinking it was somehow “God’s will for them”  , and they can’t reconcile and justify their behavior even in view of Ardith’s doctrines.

I talk to these broken, damaged  people almost every day.  Good people, destroyed  in spirit and soul by arrogant  religious bullies.   Harmed and wounded by authoritarian church leaders who have cast them out as wicked,  some are children who have been cast aside by their own fathers and mothers  in the name of Jesus.  Shunned and spiritually crippled, emotionally disabled and impaired in many cases.  Religious bullies, afraid of simple questions and criticism , beating them over the head with their version of “The Cross.” 

“Taking up our cross daily “does not mean abusing others  with it, especially our families.  It doesn’t mean leaving our mates and dividing our families to follow someones perverted views!  Ardith Keef’s life and legacy of many marriages, divorces, breaking up of families and churches , dividing children from each other  and from parents and grandparents proves exactly what her version of “the  Cross” is all about.  This is the fruit of her false and hurtful cross beliefs and  teaching! 

 The Truth is brethren  , that “the Cross”  is about humility and Love,  not pride and abuse.   It is about the “death of the flesh” not hurting and crippling your brothers, and praying for them to die.    Hers is a parallel kingdom, that only simulates the truths of the True One.  This makes it a lie!  satan is the father of lies, not God.  satan is the great deceiver!

She lures  us  into oblivion , catching us by our emotions , with all these ”tremendous things!”  about “Heavens economy”, Our “Royal Race”,  the Kingdom of His Dear Son” , and the seal of Promise in our hearts.”   Then she keeps us ensnared  with,    “Can you go back?  Of course not. You must proceed.” 

To this I answer, before we  can enjoy the privileges and rewards of Heaven  here,   before we can even cross “The Line”  we  have to take care of the old business of sin. 

Take for example  one day you were driving a car  to church, got distracted and went through a stop sign.  You hit a man and his wife walking with a stroller. Do you stop and take care of the situation , and take full responsibility for your actions ,  or do you continue on your merry way to church?  Church is important and we are commanded to meet together, but the situation must be taken care of immediately.  There is  only one choice in the matter!

In Ardith’s kingdom, you simply  ”look up and move on.”   It doesn’t matter how much harm you have done.

It  absolutely  isn’t so in the Kingdom of Heaven.   We need to take care of the old business , and make things right with those we have harmed, asking  for forgiveness of both God ,and the ones we have damaged, as best we can.   Reaching out in humility to those  whom we have left  hurting along our highways of life,  we  can  begin  to  freely claim all His Promises.

If we love the Lord, and we are His ,He will do everything He can to convict us and convince us  of our need for repentence. He will chasten us soundly when we need it!  He has invested His life for us ,and He won’t give up on us.  When we just can’t get beyond a tormenting  struggle and conflict in our soul,  perhaps we’re being convicted of sin , and that is why we  can’t get past events out of our minds.  This is a good thing.  It would behoove us to take heed and make haste to right the wrongs we have inflicted upon others,  whether while deceived, unintentionally or purposely!  Then my brethren there will be victory!   Until then blindness and slavery to sin.  False doctrines, false fire, and a false kingdom.

Ardith’s first line today say’s a lot!   She says, “The Lord will take anything and make everything out of it.”  He did take a little boy’s lunch and feed 5000.   However, He used it to feed people, people who were in need of food at the time.  He didn’t do “everything” with it.  He is selective, creative, and is choosy about how He uses things.

Sometimes He takes a  hard circumstance  in our lives and uses it for our  good  as well as for someone else.   For instance, I have been in two cults, I lost my mother at a young age,  I have lost both a child and a grandchild tragically to death, and have lost two grandbabies to a cult, I have been sexually abused throughout my childhood  years ,and  all of these have caused great pain.  The Great Physician has healed my pain and grief ,and now he  can use me  to comfort others who have suffered the same  kinds of injuries and heartaches. 

He didn’t use my sorrow , grief , and pain for just “anything and everything.”  His aim or goal is pointed, and has a particular purpose toward helping others who suffer in the same ways.  It also cements me to Himself through  His Love and caring during such times, because I know how deeply I was healed ,and continue to be healed  by Him and Him Alone.

There are two kinds of “light.”  One is True Light and one is a false fire.    Jesus said , “If your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.  If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is!”   Matthew 6:23 

If you look back at the path you have trod  and see  a wake of , broken churches, divorces,  chaos, destruction, broken homes, hurting children , and wounded souls , all Christians you have hurt,  you can be quite sure you have not been “walking  in the Light.”   “This Little Light Of ” yours, might just be deep darkness, and far away from “Jesus, the Light of the World.”

I took a good look back and found  that I had not been walking in the True Light (Jesus Christ) because I saw that I had supported the abuse of many people.  In my false light, the actions had  ”seemed” right at the time .  But in looking  again with eyes of Love ,I found out I was wrong and had taken the wrong path.  It was simple to get on the right path and  back into the True Light.   Repentence and Forgiveness is the only way back to the True Light!

Moral: Be sure “This Little Light Of Mine” is the True Light! 

Ardith begins her Daily Devotional this way, “There will be no acrid air in Heaven.  Where He is there is sweetness, Glory, Light, healing, and creativity.  when the atmosphere is wrong, you must stand on the Rock of Ages and resist the enemy.”

If you are a Christian and the smell of acrid air is all about you, you most likely are not where Jesus is. The acrid ( bitterly pungent, sharp, biting, sour and caustic) air around you may be the smell of the rotten fruit of your dead works and perhaps the Lord would have you humble yourself and get away from there.

As Christians, we need to be humbly aware that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy. He is the master deceiver of all time. His foremost purpose is to deceive the True Church into believing he is God and get them to follow him.  He already has the world.  satan  depends upon our pride to continue keeping a hold of us.

If satan can get us offcourse and keep us there we will miss the mark entirely and be found unfit. This is his aim.   We don’t live in Heaven, we live in a fallen world. You may think yourself stalwart and determined, and satan may be laughing at you as you march merrily along in the wrong direction. Following him instead of the True God.

He has had centuries to perfect his craft.  He knows everything Christians know and thousands of times more about the truth, Jesus,and  salvation,  and he can emulate a message so close to the real thing as to deceive the saints of the Most High. The Bible tells us this. Don’t be so sure of yourself that he can get you to shut your eyes to the real truth, and listen to him. The fruit doesn’t lie, rotten fruit is acrid and stinks.

When you smell the acrid air around you, wake up to the fact Jesus is not there!  The fruit of the enemy’s work has become manifest! 

It sounds as if some poor soldier is licking his wounds and Ardith doesn’t like it!  Listen to the first line.  “The soldier of the Cross may not howl and carry on about how he has been treated.” 

 All I can say to this is, when you put men  and women around you whom you have emasculated ,  whom you have separated from their families,  whom you have used for your own advantage,  whom you have taught  personally to be wimps and yes men, they have a lot of pain.  You can expect them to lick their wounds.

There is no Bible passage I have ever read that tells us not to  ”lick our wounds.”   Let’s face it folks, Ardith’s version of the cross is about you shutting up, having no feelings, acting dead, having no conscience , and letting  her have control!  She wants you to be just like her.  She sprinkles in a few sweet tidbit’s  about Jesus in order to keep you emotionally and spiritually  her servant and under her “authority,”  and to keep you addicted to “her message”.

By artful manipulation she  deceitfully talks about a “false balance”  , while  at the same  time she skillfully uses her false unbalanced  “Jesus”  teachings to lure  you to lean  (body,soul, and spirit) into her feigned  and tainted  venomous message.  Then you are caught like a fly on her spider-web!  It hurts to be tortured! You wound-lick sometimes!  If you truly love the Lord, ask to be released from her control, leave without looking back.

It’s all about her having and keeping  power and control.  Dear one,  speak up and say something !  It’s OK to show your feelings.  We need to  worship the Lord in “spirit and in Truth.”   Be honest with Him!  Be honest with yourself!  You may be hurting and suffering.  Jesus cares.   Jesus died for you , and He loves you.  Don’t hold it in any more!   

Jesus lives and moves  apart from Ardith Keef and her doctrines!  Her doctrines are twisted and distorted versions ,and her own interpretation of scripture. Examine  the fruit! Test the spirit!  Anchor Missionary Fellowship leaders  fail the test on both counts.  

This morning I would like to tell a brief  story:

There was an engineer who was in charge of a train.  It was a passenger train and would be full of people this particular night.  Everything seemed to be in order for the trip. The conductor yelled , “All aboard!” Everyone climbed aboard and got settled in. It was an all night trip.

The train started out. Some folks were sleeping, some were eating .  There were some couples on board with small children, and some old folks.  All seemed well.  They were all in the dark for the whole night and couldn’t see much except for right inside the train where the lights were dim.

Everything seemed  totally normal.   Everyone couldn’t wait to reach their destination.  They had all boarded the right train.   In the cab of the  the train where the Engineer sat there was an instrument panel  where  on the lower right, a yellow warning  light  soon began  blinking.  He chose to ignore it because everything  was in order and there was no problem.  He had checked everything thoroughly before he had left the station and  he knew for sure all was well. 

Another warning light came on , this time a huge red blinker. It was on the left of the panel.  He chose to ignore it too and continued on, at peace in the darkness, with his precious cargo sitting in the cars  behind him, mostly sleeping, content that the engineer knew exactly what he was doing. They had in essence put their lives into his hands.  The engineer was a Christian man, so he thought about all the wonders of God and  how much he trusted the Savior. How thankful he was for all God had done for him.

As the engineer  drove along  at 60 miles an hour his radio came on blasting , “abort! stop!    He  alone could hear it, but chose to ignore it again.  He was thinking, “I’m so thankful I know this train so well.  I trust my instincts.  I trust the Lord.  But I wonder why the alarms are going off so often?   Well, I will give thanks that I know everything is fine ,and I won’t ask why.”    “I won’t look to the left or to the right, but straight ahead so I will make it to my destination on time.”

The reality was,  he was on the wrong track with a load of people.  An evil villian had arranged a  devious plan to switch the  tracks soon after the train left the station.  He knew the engineer was so sure of himself, and his knowlege of trains that he would fall for his scheme.   The track  now led to a dead end.   At the end of the  tracks this time  was  a  1,000 foot , rocky cliff which  loomed in the darkness.  Just as  the villian had surmised,  the engineer  was so sure he was right about the conditions of the train, and his own understanding of the circumstances,  that he  continued as if there were no danger at all.  The Engineer was racing  for all he was worth to the end of the line , and certain destruction for everyone on board the train! 

What would  the engineer  do?  If he was wise he would listen to the warnings his friend the dispatcher was screaming out to him.  As to how much time remained to abort the run, before sure disaster,  and a devastating train wreck,  no one but God knows. 

 There is no end to this story as yet.   It represents the Anchor Missionary Church and it’s leaders.  They are on the wrong track,  they have been deceived,  and they refuse to heed the  urgent warnings from those who care.  Moral of the story:  Don’t stand around giving thanks when you need to ask why.