Daily Deprogramming

In the past weeks Ardith Keef has had her readers jumping through her hoops to get to God. There has been her “Agreeing with God” doctrine, her “crossing the line” doctrine, “no wound licking” , “setting your face like flint”,  round and round her little box we go!  Now we are at the corner where she first tells us in her  high minded, complicated way as we scratch our head and say, “what?”,  “Maturity is not complimented by complexity” and “Neither is depth the fruit of study of asceticism.”  Lord help us!   Then  finally we hear a little truth,  ”The Riches that are to be found in Christ are profoundly simple.”     Oh! how refreshing to hear some simple truth!  How it stands out even though hidden within all the ”complicated complexities “of all the “you musts”, ” obey her spiritual authority” twistings of scripture, and fabricated do’s and dont’s .

Some of what she says sounds so good today , and so scriptural, if only she could hide the disgusting fruit of the past 14 1/2 years, strewn along the path of the AMF Church;  divorces, broken families, dishonoring of parents, children afflicted and suffering, pastors coveting other mens wives,  people counseling others then taking their husbands, self-appointed authority,  churches broken up,  secret anointings, praying for people to die, throwing whole families and single people out of their homes, no accountability, missionary families severed from their children and siblings, shunning, slander, false witness, blatant cult behaviors, bringing other Christians to Court, rather than sitting down and reasoning together God’s way, “Yes- men” elders who  fear men and will  not budge to take care of the flock.   These abuses  of the flock of God are out in the open and easy to see.  There is no need of a spiritual “revelation” to see the carnage , dysfunction, and chaos!  All one has to do is take the blinders off!

Ardith Keef says, “The issue is Faith. Can He be believed or not?”  There is no doubt in our mind that He Can be believed.  His words to the Pharisees who were very much like cult/abusive  church  leaders, makes Him very clear. If you read Matthew 23 you will get His  whole point but here is one verse, “Woe to you scribes and Pharisee’s, hypocrites!  For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within, full of dead mens bones and all uncleaness.  Even so you outwardly appear righteous before men, but within you are full of hypocricy and iniquity! Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell?”  Matthew 23:27

If “the issue is faith”,  and I don’t see faith as an issue, ( it is a virtue ,and fruit of the spirit )  then the Bible describes Faith as the “assured expectation of things hoped for, realities though not beheld.”  The KJV describes it this way, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” Heb 11:1  The reality of the matters previously disgussed is that when we use,  abuse ,and misuse others,  if we have any faith at all, and have not totally lost our conscience  we know it is wrong , and we must humble ourselves and repent  of the wrongs we have done.  Jesus warned the Pharisees of the grim reality of their continuing on in their sin.  They said a lot of good things too, they taught the Law of God , they tithed, etc. etc.

It is a good thought to go back to basics, but for Christians who have been living in sin, they must begin with humbly repenting before God.  This is the most basic place where we can begin.  His Word is true and  we better believe Him when He brings us up short and disciplines us!  He loves His own enough to stand firm and wait for them to come to Him with a contrite heart!  Then we can get back to basics!

Today Ardith  Keef refers to a certain Bible verse and even gives us the Book and chapter as well.  Lets review it, “Romans 8:6 (Amplified Version) reads:  Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin , both here and hearafter].  But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

Next she uses the verse to promote her “Crossing The Line” doctrine.   She says, “There is a Line that is crossed.”   “A Call has been answered.”  “Crossing the Line means choosing to  follow Him no matter what.”    I will agree that Ardith Keef has crossed many lines, but these were precepts and laws in God’s Word that she has broken time and time again to suit her flesh, perhaps through deception.  (Lets give the benefit of the doubt.)

I am now quoting from a book passed on to me from a friend.  It is called “Overcoming The Adversary” by Mark Bubeck   He says, “There are some practical things to remember as we ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s Truth to us.  First we must know that the Holy Spirit will always lead us into beliefs, actions, and attitudes that are in complete harmony with the Word of Truth, [the Bible] and the Person of Truth, [Jesus Christ] ”

He goes on, “I recently learned of a spiritual leader who stated that the Holy Spirit had revealed to her that she should divorce her husband so she would be free to give her full time to serving the Lord in her meetings. It just does not fit with passages like  Ephesions 5 and Titus 2:4-5. The Holy Spirit does not lead us to violate His inspired Word.” 

“Mr Bubeck goes on, “The Holy Spirit is the Author of the Word of Truth, and He certainly will never tell us to believe or do something contrary to the Word of God, although the subtle deceptions of  Satan might lead us to believe otherwise.  How important it is to ask the Holy Spirit to guide us into truth as we read the Word of God.”

If one begins to get a little light and sight , they  would be wise to step aside from the teachings they are under, in order to check out the fruit and test the spirit.  satan will do anything to keep you from examining the fruit and testing the spirits.  Anyone can be deceived. Check yourself and your actions with a little reality.  Use the Word of God to do it.  (When I left the JW’s I had to put away the Watchtower magazine and all the other books except the Bible, otherwise there is confusion ) Dear friend, the Holy Spirit never led anyone to divorce their mate without a scriptual reason, adultery.   The Holy Spirit never led anyone to make things so difficult for the other person they had no choice ,but to divorce you. This is deception and manipulation ,and the Holy Spirit of Truth would have absolutely no part in it.

The Holy Spirit never led anybody to marry  three Christian husbands and divorce two of them,  who are all still alive, and still lead a Christian church.   The Holy spirit never led a person into leading a church of believers who has been divorced once or twice or three times!  These are all against the Word of God.  The Holy spirit never led anyone to abandon their own aging mother on her deathbed.  The Holy Spirit never led anyone to slander, shunn, and pray for the death of their husband. The Holy Spirit never seperated little children from their own siblings abusively and cruely. 

The Holy spirit never led a leader to covet another mans wife even as his daughter ,and seperate her from her husband.  The Holy Spirit never led anyone to take other believers to a court of Law instead of doing it God’s way.  The Holy Spirit never led anyone to bear false witness.  All of these behaviors cross the line into  serious sin and away from the Word of God and the spirit of God.  They are forbidden by God.  Anyone who engages in  these things are utterly  against The Holy Spirit and  “Oppose His Word.”

Yes, there have been countless  disturbing and frightening abuses, and crossing of Biblical lines,  in the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church leadership.  There is a wake 14 years long with broken marriages, destroyed families,  hurting children, broken churches, shunned and betrayed people. There has been deception and manipulation, and only God Himself knows how far down they have sunk away from the Truth.  If they have heard “The Call”, it never came from the Holy Spirit, or if He ever did call they went in the wrong direction, and followed another spirit.

Anyone who engages in the  above sins thinking it is from the Holy Spirit is in deep trouble with God.  They are deceived at best into following  the mind of the flesh, which brings death, and are beguiled by the craftiness of the enemy, away and opposite from the life of the Spirit.  The Leaders of the AMF Church have had series after series of misery and woe, and  almost nothing ever worked out .   Most everything has been  a dismal failure.  They are now down to a tiny handful of members.  Even the wonderful missionary family who were sent to Siberia  in 1998 have not made many converts, only one by the time I left in 2006 ,and that was after  eight years on the field. 

There is no good fruit in the church!  This is because the Holy Spirit left the AMF Church a long time ago, if He was ever there at all. The Church was conceived in sin, and led by people who had no right to any authority because they were divorced. The church was founded upon abuse of both the leaders mates!  Also abuse of the Pastor Keef’s  young children.  It is sad but true…

However ,no matter what a person has done, and even if they have engaged in abuses no one else knows about but the parties involved and God, there is forgiveness and redemption with Jesus. If something has been hidden for years, Jesus has always known about it.  He is gracious and merciful. He is compassionate and full of love. But the matter has to be addressed ,and taken care of.  The Lord doesn’t let His children cover over and hide our  sin.

We continue to pray that the enemy’s  strongholds in the Anchor Church will be broken and the high places torn down. Satan is a liar and a thief, and Jesus won the war on Calvary!  ”The battle is not with flesh and blood, but with the powers and principalities of darkness. “Eph 6:12  May all the enemy’s plans and schemes come to nothing,  and may the Lord be Glorified!  We pray for God’s intervention , and His best for all involved.   He is still on the Throne and He is Able!  We care!  We fight!  We pray!

Another Thanksgiving Day is fast approaching.  I never celebrated Thanksgiving until I became a Christian, as Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate any holidays. We did eat turkey and all the fixin’s at other times.  There is so much to be thankful for.  First of all,  we have a Wonderful Father in Heaven, A Savior who loves us , and we have the Glorious Hope of  being with Him for all eternity!  And wonder of wonders, we have Him as friend, High Priest, and our Strength and High Tower, right now even in this life!  We have the Holy Spirit, the Along Side One to comfort and guide us as we trod on our pilgrim way.

Ardith Keef always talks about “crossing The Line.”   No, we didn’t cross a line ,we were transferred by God  Himself from one kingdom, (the kingdom of darkness) to  another Kingdom, (the Kingdom of Light!)  Jesus did it all!  Jesus paid it all!  There is no line spoken of in the Bible, there is a Person.  How thankful we are for Him!  Oh how we thank Him for “the very hardest things.”   His help through those  things have made myself able to recognize Him in every dark and difficult hour. I have learned to trust Him through it all.

Those hard things , deaths of children, deaths of grandchildren, the breaking up of my sons family and the hurts inflicted upon all of us by false friends,  pain, sorrow, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, have helped me to understand and have empathy for others sufferings , and to recognize the One to whom I have called out time after time ,and  who has never ,no never left me or forsaken me.  Oh! How I praise Him! Oh! How I love Him!

I am not thankful to my Lord as Ardith Keef demands, “because I must!”  I am thankful because I know Him and He knows me.  I am thankful because I almost lost my First Love , and He did not let that door shut. He promised to set before me  “an open door that no man could shut” , and He kept His word. Rev 3:7 

How thankful I am for the Light  that shines in the darkness, Jesus Christ .   As I grow older my joy is richer and deeper ,and my need for Him is always greater than the day before.  I am Thankful for my children who press on loving and serving Him.

I am thankful for all of my grandchildren. Saturday I spent some hours teaching my 16 year old grandson, Mike , how to drive a standard shift.  We had a blast!    We talked about Jesus and prayer, and life.  It was natural for us as we both love Jesus , and we both pray. He is making Honor Roll and told me he prays about his grades.

Mike was only around six years old  when he helped me lead an elderly woman to Christ, as he placed his arms around her and  we prayed with her to receive the Lord.  Then at seven, one wonderful night,  he told his dad the plan of salvation and led him to Christ as well.  He told his dad about the evildoer who hung on the cross next to Jesus and how he turned to Him for salvation.  His mother has  taught him the Truth since birth , and his dad also for the past eight years.  

Mike has had a few struggles since his world was uprooted , and his whole family was abused ,shunned, and broken up, by the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church, but the Truth was solidly founded into his heart for many years,  and I can still hear Jesus when we converse.  Thank You Lord,  You are so Faithful!  I have no fear for Mike’s spiritual life. He is founded upon the Solid Rock.  Thank You Jesus!

Our  12 year old grandaughter , Nicole volunteered all summer at a Bible Camp.  She is recovering from  the abuse inflicted upon our whole family by Bill and Ardith Keef, and the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church.  Why the abuse?  Because after 20 years of faithful service, her whole  family was shunned and slandered because they asked questions and criticized the leaders behaviors!  Even in her fifth grade class a little friend told her, “Ardith Keef says your grandmother is evil, and is cursing people. “  

Nicole  has been seperated from her  little cousin for most of a year, and has never even seen the 3 month old, because of the lies and abuses  of the Anchor Church leaders.  Rest assured, this little girl , who has been so deeply hurt, loves Jesus and her heart is filled with love for the downtrodden, the hurting,  the helpless and the needy.  I have prayed for her to have this kind of heart since her birth.  God is Faithful! Thank You, Jesus!

I am thankful for the husband God gave to me when I was only 17 years of age, lost and alone, who has loved me literally through thick and thin.  It is a miracle he still loves me after two cults and 45 years. He stands firm  for  his family like a rock , and he is a wonderful example to his grandchildren, as to what a real man, husband, father, grandfather,  uncle , should be.  I thank God for my husband Don and his willingness to lay himself on the line for his family and for what is right.  I feel extremely fortunate to be his wife, and am honored and thankful that he still loves me, after all these years……  He is a man of incredible character and integrity. He is a man who stands a head taller than all the  others even though he is 5′11″ tall.  He is not a “yes man.”  He stands up for what is right , to his own detriment.  The Bible applaudes this kind of man. Psalm 15:4

I can testify to the fact that even though we choose the right path,  and receive Jesus as our Savior, we can become numb, deceived, and be overcome by the enemy’s tactics and wiles. We can become wise in our own eyes. That pride can be our downfall.  There are hidden obstacles to trip us up , and twisting of scripture to lead us astray.  There are false shepherds and pretenders who  become deceived and  feed themselves at our expense.   Jesus  is the Faithful and True One who promised never to forsake His Own.  He can be trusted with everything in our lives , and He will see us  through.  Thank You Lord Jesus!

Thank You ,Lord, for saving my soul,

Thank You, Lord ,for making me whole;

Thank You ,Lord, for giving to me

Thy great salvation, so rich and free.

Seth and Bessie Sykes

First , I would like to address Ardith Keef’s statement today that “God’s Word says that Humility is agreeing with God.”  Although we know it is right to be in agreement with God and His will for us , there is not one verse  in the Bible that says this in the way Ardith Keef uses it to make a doctrine out of it.   Christian Cult leaders love to take  random quotes and statements from the “Word of God” without ever showing anyone where the Book, chapter, and verse are.  

The above is a doctrine manufactured by Ardith Keef to get her followers to believe  that whatever comes  comes from God , and we must agree with it.  It is  simply not so.  This  is a false doctrine that interprets “fate”  as coming from God , and we have to agree with whatever comes,  according to Ardith Keef.  I believe this is a form of idolatry and deifies the gods of destiny. This way she can lead people in a certain direction and convince them God is leading them , and that they must agree with Him.  For instance to divorce ones Christian mate without  scriptural  grounds or taking other believers to court is wrong according to God’s Word, but if you think you are “Agreeing with God” it must be the right way to go.  These falsehoods  lead God’s people into sin,  through heresy, and  false doctrine!  I believe these are doctrines of demons!

There are many  false ways that can deceive us ,and  many choices that have to be made in this life.   We all fall short , and make wrong choices oft times.  God is not controlling each and every choice we make.  We have free will.  This is why He has provided us with the Blood of Jesus Christ for forgiveness.  This is also why we have the Great High Priest, Jesus Christ interceding for us.  We all need to repent many times,  ask for forgiveness, and turn from sin.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest  example of Humility who ever lived.  Philippians 2:5-8 gives us a great word about just what His Perfect humility meant.  It says, “He did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage.  Rather He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant.  He then humbled Himself even further by becoming obedient to death on the Cross.” 

We here at Anchor Abuse.org  tremble at the Word of God,  we abhor pride  in every form and know we are lacking in humility  as well as in every way, and that we are needy ,helpless, and naked without Him. He is our only Righteousness.  We long to be like our humble Lord , and to be made into His image.  We beg for His changes in us that He and His Love  would be revealed in and through us. That being said, we will not fear man or woman  , but will stand up for the Truth and speak out against the abuse of all persons, children, families, mates, churches, friends,  by cult leaders. 

The typical cult/abusive church  leader’s attitude is a far cry from the attitude of Jesus Christ. Most of them have some kind of Psychopathic Personality Disorder in my opinion.  They have a high and lofty opinion of themselves, and do consider their self appointed authority “as something to be used to their own advantage.”  They do not” humble themselves” , but station servants all around themselves  to do their bidding, instead of  being like Jesus, and  ”taking the place of a servant.”

In my opinion , by my 20 years of complying and submitting to someone who lords it over the flock, loves to be the most important, and  must have the pre-eminence in the church, controls everything and everyone, loves to think they know more than anyone else,  takes great pride in their wisdom,  and having been excommunicated along with my whole family,  I feel I must speak out because  the Truth  needs to be told , and the abuse of persons I have witnessed is serious.  I care deeply about the people who have committed these abuses.  I have come to the conclusion that this type of  authoritative  church/cult leader puts people into at least five catagories:

                  CULT LEADERS PUT PEOPLE INTO THESE FIVE CATAGORIES:

1.  The people who will look up to them, and give them praise and honor. Those who will give obeisence, laudation, adoration, and adulation  to the leader and who can be easily controlled and manipulated.  (Jesus the Son of God made Himself as NOTHING.    God’s angel in Revelation would not let John bow down to him.  He said “worship God!”)

2.  These are people who have some prestige, power, authority, a well known  name,  or are important in some way. These can have their authority usurped, and their power and prestige will be used to  the advantage  of the leader and/or  help the leader be more important , or look good in some way.  Charismatic , authoritative leaders will  bend over backwards to flatter these types of people as long as they can gain something from them.  Otherwise they hate to deal with people who know more than themselves, or have power or authority over them.  (Jesus did not use His stature or others to gain advantage)

3.  These are the lowly ones who are a bit crude, uncouth, or have some other strange behavior whom society doesn’t quite accept for some reason. Maybe their face is covered with acne, or they are blind, or awkward.  They might be abrasive or untaught. They might  even be Christians from the other side of the tracks. These  are useless to your Charismatic Cult/ abusive church  leader unless the leader can feign humility by condescending and patronizing them and making a big deal out of being “gracious” to them in front of others. .  Again it is all about the leader and how he or she is perceived.   ( Jesus  genuinely Loved all and Humbled Himself to Death of the Cross. He never used people for his own ends.)

4.  All of the above:  who  ask questions or criticize  the leader or the leaders behaviors are suddenly and violently cut off with no mercy, no kindness, and no compassion.   Any of the above: whether the leader’s husbands, wives, mothers and fathers, children, churches, friends, pastors,  who do not comply, or submit to the leaders doctrines and absolute authority are  spiritually annihilated , emotionally destroyed , and often wounded without remedy.   (Even if the leaders  had such “authority”  which they don’t, they  are the opposite of Jesus Christ, Who would not use His authority even His equality with God, to His own advantage! This is humility! )

There is a 5th. category which consists of people who are ignored from the onset by these leaders for whatever reason.  It may be because they cannot be fooled or deceived , they see right through the pretense, and it is evident to the cult leader.   A friend of mine told me today she has been in Ardith Keef’s presence more than once with Ardith never once even speaking  to her. She said, to me, “Sherry, I never said anything to you because she was your friend, but always  I wondered , who does that woman think she is? She had such a arrogant attitude! She always acted like she was better than everybody else.”   Sorry ,but this kind of behavior is a far cry from the Bible’s view of humility.  It certainly isn’t ”Agreeing with God” either , in any way, shape or form!  In all of the above categories  people are either used,  abused , or ignored completely.   

The truth is ,Christian Abusive church/Cult leaders might talk the talk, but they do not walk the walk when it comes to humility.   If they have a Psychopathic Personality disorder, from all I have read, there is little human help for them.  But with Jesus Christ all things are possible.  It is our hope that some  followers and victims  of these  Bully - Guru types will read this,  and get free from their oppression without the horrible pain and suffering most go through to exit such cults/abusive churches. We know the pain well.   Also that even some cult/abusive church leaders might recognize themselves,  turn to the Lord , and repent.   He is still the God of the impossible!

I spent my first 35 years as a Jehovahs Witness. The verse from Revelation 21:5 was a verse they used to promote their doctrines of everlasting life on earth.  It reads, “And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I shall make All Things New, and he said unto me, Write for these words are faithful and true.”   ”All Things New”  reminds me of  a hymn which they sang and I loved.  I could plink it out with my right hand , on the old  piano we had.  The first verse went something like his: Oh Walk with God and you will find how He can cheer your way;  And lead you with a peaceful mind straight on to perfect day; His joy will strengthen you as dew ,revives the drooping flower, His mercies are each morning new, and fresh at evening hour…. 

 I loved the words then and I still love them. The words are true, but they come from a cult. They come from a cult that doesn’t recognize Jesus Christ as God.  A cult that doesn’t believe when we die we will go to heaven.  A cult that believes that only Jehovahs Witness will survive the battle of Armegeddon and Born Again Christians are evil.  They call themselves, “Christians.” They’re a mixed up bunch for sure but many are sincere. Sincerity and a measure of truth does not a Christian make.

Then we read Ardith Keef’s Daily Devotional this morning. It says a lot of good things, however I believe she is much more responsible before God than the JW’s  because she knows these things.  She claims to know Jesus Christ as her Savior ,and believes that she has His  Authority to teach others  when she has been married 5 or six times and three times to Christians who are still living. This is unscriptural, (why is it ok for Ardith Keef to lead  and teach others after multiple divorces, and not ok for others? )  

Her life  pattern of divorce and remarriage,  over and over,  makes the foundation  of  everything she teaches false and cultish, and her doctrines are twisted with erroneous ideas just like the JW’s , because her teachings are rooted in her lack of respect for the Word of God.  It is a “do as I say, not as I do”, ministry.  She may show all kinds of respect for the Word in what she writes and teaches, but her actions prove otherwise. There is some Truth to what she says, but the mixture is lethel,  and is only a few superficial thoughts, and grandiose ideas,  stirred up with a little truth, much like “some experiment in a pietre dish.”  

The proof is in  tasting  and testing the fruit, brothers and sisters, not in all her smooth and  pretty, godly sounding words. The fruit of the  leadership of the Anchor Church is abysmal, filled with filth and bruises.  Their apples are filled with dead and deadly worms.  The skin is dried up and cracking. Inside it is even more decayed, then outside, but it is now showing through. The rotting fruit of: emotional and spiritual abuse and affliction of innocent people, Broken homes, divorces, shunning missionaries, discarding mates, secret annointings of women, seperating children from siblings, breaking up churches, counseling people then marrying their husband, taking other Christians to court,  lying and bearing false witness, becoming surrigate parents after dishonoring the real  and faithful ones,  abandoning aging and dying mothers….When you mix these with Truth, what do you get?  Hypocricy at it’s worst! Disgusting isn’t it?

All Things are Not New at the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church.  Ardith Keef’s  teachings are simply  a mixture, and  the same old garbage satan has dished out to believers for centuries, trying to deceive them into following something other than the Untainted Truth, Jesus Christ and Him alone.  The deceiver,  has a stench all his own, it is easily recognizable after being cast out of two cults.   The teachings of Ardith Keef are a deadly blend of truth and lies at best.  Her doctrines are  a perfect example of how the devil can stealthily change a group of people from serving the Lord into  obeying something that is his agenda , with a  hidden mixture that is lethel to the Christian.  All it takes is a pride-filled charismatic person who thinks they know everything , wise in their own eyes, and a bunch of gullible religious zealots, and there you have it!  Fruit fit for the devil!!  And a cult in the making!

This is not a new subject for Ardith Keef.   She keeps people going around the same four corners of the same box day after day, year after year.   There have been many issues which have arisen in the Anchor Church over the years and Ardith took care of every one of them. Simply, dump the people in question who have a question, cut them off and throw them away. This is never the way of the Lord Jesus. His way is the way of Love.

She says, “In terms of faith, it simply doesn’t matter what is before you. The issue is His Word.  He cares about the circumstances and He has said He would settle the matter.”    Sure, I can see Jesus suing the people who asked questions, confronted or caused Him difficulty, can’t you?  Can’t you just see Him taking Peter or John to a Court of Law rather than sitting down and disgussing the matters at hand.  No, the Keefs have no idea who Jesus Christ is or what He stands for.  They worship a multitude of doctrines  that are combinations of the teachings of people like Watchman Nee, Tozer, and others who have long died. Ardith takes the so called “deep” portions of all of them and mixes them with her own concoctions and calls that following Jesus. Yes that is where her treasure is, friends, in her own agenda.

If Jesus was Ardith’s treasure she would extend genuine Love. She would be filled to the brim and overflowing with Mercy and Compassion.  She would not be a pretender and truly would allow Jesus to “settle the matter.”  She wouldn’t be taking other Christians to Court rather than “being available to His solution.”  She would not “have to have  her own way,”  if Jesus Christ was indeed her “Treasure.”

She asks, “Is there any other route?”  “His Word is clear and resounds through eternity,”  she says.  There are many false routes ,and many imitate and simulate His Word.  How cleverly His Word is all tangled up in Ardith Keef’s false doctrines and outright lies.  But it is all unraveling ,and the Truth is showing, and the lies are being exposed,  because many who truly Love the Lord ,and to whom He is their treasure, are praying.

The following statement of Ardith Keef tells us a lot about the condition of the leaders of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church:  “There is simply no escape.”  My husband has said more than once “they are like rats in a bathtub.”   They are trying to get out of the mess they are in, but to no avail. For years they have spiritually crippled and  emotionally maimed  all who asked them questions or criticized them. They preach Trusting God, but they take care of themselves any way they can.  They lie, cheat, steal and call it Christian and waiting on God.    When push comes to shove they tell others to live by faith, but they “kill the messenger ” who tries to tell them the truth.  How like the Pharisees they are!

If they are waiting for Jesus Christ to agree with them that it is ok to harm young children, cut off missionaries who Love Him, seperate families, dishonor parents,  be leaders when they have divorced 5 or 6 times, wield absolute authority over God’s flock, help Christians divorce faithful Christian mates, shun and slander innocent brothers and sisters who get in their way, even young children,  bring false witness against people who try to tell them the truth, etc. etc. , they will wait a long time.   These sins do testify to the fact that He is not their treasure!   These things they do ,testify to the fact that they have no regard for the Word of God at all!  They do exactly  what He Hates!   They are being  shown up for just what they are, counterfeits, pretenders, liars, and shams. The Truth is simply not in them.  Bill Keef has prayed for “transparency” for years.   Now it comes to pass ,and he refuses to believe the Truth!

“There is simply no escape”  without humility and repentence.  I know, I too was caught like a rat in a bathtub, until I  repented and humbled myself before the King of Kings, the  One Who “is the Life, the Truth, the Door. “   He is the only way.  “There is no other.”   There is still Hope because He lives!   He is the Treasure and  the Pearl of Great Price:  Many never will find Him because of deception, pride,  and having their own agenda.  My prayer is still that the leaders of Anchor Missionary Fellowship will have their eyes opened, but this cannot come without repentence and humility.

Here is Ardith Keef’s first statement today: “Those who are eager to obey the Lord must have a vision beyond the norm.”   Here is your typical phrase from a “Christian” cult / abusive church  leader to  gain control of someone who is floundering and in pain. You notice there is no mercy or kindness extended, only something “beyond the norm”, way out there someplace  in Golden Carrotville where the poor victim can never reach or attain it.  

Now she does the trick of speaking out of both sides of her mouth. From the side that says ,”Do as I say” she says, ”There is not one verse that supports any wound licking or offense.  In fact He who went to the Cross was quick to ask that the offenders be forgiven. Would you be wasting time being upset at the way you are treated?” It may sound good, but do you find any empathy there?  No, friend it is spiritual manipulation ,and it is what she says, but not what she does.

From  the other side of Ardith Keef’s mouth comes the “Don’t do as I do.”   From someone who has filed charges  three times against an innocent man who has sacrificed for her for 20 years. She would try to lie and rob him of his first amendment rights and his civil liberties.  As she has with three other Christians rather than sit down with them.  (The  multiple lawsuits are in perfect cult style and a  prime symptom of a cult leader in action.)  She says ”Jesus was quick to ask that the offenders be forgiven.”  She has done not one thing to  bring peace to those whom she finds offensive.

Bill and Ardith Keef  have no Christian Character, they are liars and pretenders of the faith.  They have alienated and cut off  as evil everyone who has ever tried to speak up to them or question their actions . The Protection From Harrassment Order Don Dobson received on Thursday evening  is a glaring exposition of their hatred of the truth. 

The simple truth is this. Don has stood in front of their church with 3 signs on his truck.  He has every right to do it.  Ardith has devised and contrived  a multitude of lies and wicked imaginations against him because she wants him off the corner. The Anchor leaders house of cards cannot stand up to the truth , so they have to invent lies to make it stand.  There is no way that lying is EVER  acceptable to the Lord, it is and has always been from the father of lies, the devil.

This is exactly what the infamous Jezebel of 1Kings 21 did.  She was the most evil  woman in the Bible.  It was the same scenario. Her husband ( a pathetic weakling)  King Ahab, wanted something he couldn’t have. She got it for him by using God, using the Kings authority, and bringing false witnesses to the fore to lie against the man.  The  innocent man Naboth, was killed and his property stolen by Jezebel and Ahab.  GOD HATES A FALSE WITNESS.  As in the case of Jezebel we can be assured that the High King of Heaven does not take kindly to the abuse of innocent parties, and it will not end well for such liars and thieves without repentence.

We are in this battle to stand up for the Truth and to expose lies, pretence, and hypocricy. It is a battle with the powers and principalities of darkness.  We are here to tell of our own experiences in order to warn others who are in abusive churches/cults  and help them get away from their oppressors, and find the True God again.   We want nothing from Bill and Ardith Keef.  As a Christian, I have hoped that they would turn around and repent of their abuses of others who are weak, or hurting , of missionary families whom they have divided,  of afflicting young children, of shunning and slandering innocent persons,  of promoting divorce and divisions in families, and all of the other glaring symptoms of a sick and decaying church/cult system  which has gone over the edge.  

The only answer for the Anchor Missionary Fellowship leaders is  stopping their harmful activities and humble repentence. At the root of all Christian Character is the Truth.  If there is Truth in the inner being, I believe the Character  of a  Christian will be clean , faithful and True.  But if there are lies at the root there can be no good character, only feigned, pretended, hypocricy which the Lord hates!  God will not be mocked, “Whatever a man or woman is sowing, such will that man or woman reap!” 

Wisdom is justified of all her children. That means the proof is in the pudding!   When there is Blessing of the Lord  it is easily identified in the fruit of ones life.  In the case of a church leader if  that fruit is: broken churches,  changing their names and multiple times, a wake of deserted, abandoned ,hurting people, children left without fathers,or mothers , grown children abandoning  their dying mothers , families divided,  Christians taking believers to court,  multiple divorces in the leadership,  and on and on, there is no good fruit, neither will there be any blessings.  

When people who have been divorced multiple times become self appointed leaders who rule over God’s flock,  you will not find the Lord’s Blessing, because God forbids it. He also forbids dishonoring parents, He forbids divorce without any spiritual grounds, He forbids taking other believers to court. He does not bless what He forbids and abhors.

Many times in scripture it talks of God’s blessing in terms of “being fruitful.”  What kind of fruit do we find in the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church? Rancid fruit. Decaying fruit. Unhealthy fruit. Fake plastic fruit. Why? Because of all of the above. The affliction and abuse of the people of God who  have been callously cast aside, shunned, and slandered especially since 1994 has produced nothing but a  crop of cursings.

Ardith tells people today what living by faith means.  Listen to her ,but don’t follow her actions. Jesus said this of the Pharisees.  She says, “Those who live by sight can only rely on insecurity, resentment, fear, and blindness.”  If you could take a look at the long list of insecurities, resentment, and fear found in the recent harrassment papers served to my husband Don, you would know Ardith and Bill Keef are exactly in the place she describes as “Living by sight.”  Actually, considering where they are truly at, living by sight would be a step up!

Her poorly documented , halfbaked PFH order is filled with lies. It is not even filled with” human analisis without the Holy Spirit.”   It is filled with Ardith’s fantasy’s, fears, and fueled by a grotesque imagination.  There is  no “human insight” at all.  The “blanks are filled in” with untruth, false witness, and deception.  God knows and sees the extent of it. No one can hide anything from Him.  The Holy Spirit is surely quenched  at AMF and the proof is in the fruit.

Her distorted , fabricated, and untruthful  paperwork against Donald Dobson  proves she has no sight  or insight either human or Godly.  She has no scruples either.   I wonder “Is Ardith Keef  so” (deeply)”ensnarled she is  drowning in her own analysis and fantasy? ”  The fruit of the Anchor Fellowship has become filled with evil and oppression , and even now if they would take hold of “His outstretched hand”, He could help them. Their pride deceives them.  How long The Lord  will keep the door open only He knows. We continue to pray for His Mercy and His best for the Anchor Missionary FEllowship leaders, Bill and Ardith Keef!   He said , Love your enemies, and pray for those who hate you. We do!

This morning I woke up thinking about our Lobstermen here in Maine. They need us to buy Lobster. The price has dropped well below lots of other kinds of seafoods as well as cheap cuts of meat.  Don and I plan on putting some Lobster in our freezer this weekend to help them out just doing our little bit to help. We love lobster so it isn’t any hardship for us!  We who are Christians ought  to  pray for them and their families as well, as the slump in the economy has hit them extremely  hard.

Today Ardith Keef asks the reader five times , “Are you founded on the Rock of Ages?” She asks the reader six times, “Are you eager to live by faith?”

In the Kingdom of God you cannot strattle the fence and have it both ways. You cannot be lukewarm or He will vomit you out of His mouth.  We as Christians cannot live by works of law and by faith.  We might have weak moments when our faith feels insignificant and we are knocked down to our knees, but the Lord is greater than our weakness and He is strong in our weaknesses.

As Ardith Keef says today, “The One who holds the stars in place is in charge of your life. He has said you could and should come to Him.  He has said He will never turn anyone away.”  This is true , however there are conditions that must be met when we come to Him.  Ardith says, “Put your burden down.”  If this burden is sin, the sin of lack of Faith,  or the sin of hurting others, or lording it over the flock, or dividing families, churches and homes, encouraging divorces of Christians, taking believers to a worldly court rather than reasoning together, or cutting off His missionaries, there can only be a true releasing of the burden when one confesses and repents for this sin  before the Lord. As Ardith says,  ”There is One who can be trusted.  He is the Rock of Ages.”   However, He Himself said, “Many will come in My name and say I did this in Your name and that in Your name, but I will say to them, “Get away from Me, I never knew you.”

This economy will put our faith to the test in many ways. Will we only think of ourselves as we try to scrape by, or will we be diligent in prayer for others who are hurting?  Will we physically assist others with staying warm and clothed  and fed this winter?  Will we help others with the high cost of food and give from  out of our need and not from our excess?  I believe  the test of Love in a church is how it helps the elderly, and the poor in it’s community.  The church I attend has a supper for the homeless every third Saturday.  It helps the elderly get wood ,and helps monitarily that they might be warm. It reaches out to the community in countless ways.

One can talk about “being founded on the Rock of Ages,” when he is warm and well fed , but faith trusts Him during the lean times.  We all go through difficulties , both physical and emotional. We go through heartaches and pain in this world, and our Lord understands because He went through these things as well, but without sin. His own pain and suffering , and torture even to death, is what prepared Him to be our Great High Priest who runs to our aid when we call.  Some would break your spirit when you are at a weak moment, but never Jesus. Some would back you in a corner and condemn you, but never Jesus. He is not like Job’s friends. 

However others would yell and scream and do whatever it takes to keep you from blindly walking off a cliff to your destruction!  Jesus spoke out  hard against religious hypocricy, pretense, abuses of the brethren by the Pharisee’s.  He loved them. As True Children of His we need to speak the Truth and warn  our brothers and sisters when it is necessary. Sometimes the truth hurts, but it is just as necessary to snatch a brother or sister out of the fire as it is to warm anothers home and hearth in the cold winter.   It is all by faith if we are truly His. 

And so we live by Faith.  I read a statement that has stuck with me lately.  The words were, “Our Faith and the values of this world are on a collision course.”   They will always collide and  the two will never coincide. In the  Hebrews faith chapter 11  there are a few verses that I  am especially touched by, “  Some were tortured, not accepting deliverence; that they might obtain a better resurrection:  And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn assunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented: Of whom the world was not worthy of them: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” Heb 11:35-38

If we live by faith, we are counted among these who won the prize and we will meet them one day in Heaven!  What a privelige!

Today Ardith again has entitled her devotional, “Zeal.”  She wrote another one with a similar title August 4, 2008. They are similar, but today’s is much shorter.   I wrote a rebuttal also on the 4 August 2008.

Today I would like to  begin with a quote from the writings of Spurgeon, “It is easier to get a sinner out of sin than a self- righteous man out of his self-righteousness.”  

Paul made it very clear that his people Israel  had a zeal for God saying, “For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.  For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law of  righteousness to everyone that believeth. Romans 10:1-4

By necessity cult leaders must create a false, added righteousness, to keep their subjects under their control.  Although a Christian has been set free from the law and  it is sin to be self-righteous, cult/ abusive church  leaders continue to make them believe there is  something more than the Blood of Jesus Christ , and something “deeper”  and more mysterious than  His  Own Righteousness  simply  ,albeit profoundly  having been imputed to the believing sinner. 

 In short the cult leader has to keep their followers under law or risk losing them.  This is  heretical teaching, and a terrible sin. These kinds of leaders will bear a heavy accountability before Almighty God.  The false doctrines they invent are designed to feed the needs of the false shepherds.  The Word talks about the false shepherds, “feeding themselves.”  God  Himself said, “but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not My flock.” Ez 34:8  Matthew 13-36   I always wondered what this meant. Now I realize that  false shepherds have  a lust and covetousness for power over others and feed themselves and their lusts for control  at the expense of the flock of God.

Here is a quote from a Message by Will Pounds,”If you say No, I will not have His Righteousness: I will have a righteousness of my own, You are ignorant of God’s Righteousness, and you will perish.  If you are trying to have a righteousness of your own by being ZEALOUS for God, your church, or denomination, church membership, emotional experiences, good works etc., then you are in competition with Jesus Christ.”

I believe cult/abusive church leaders are in direct competition with Jesus Christ. They want His Lordship over the people for themselves. They become gods with a little g.   They promote a form of idolatry as they demand their followers obey them as their ” spiritual authority.”  These leaders  crave  control at all costs.  They create a false righteousness,  and  add works of law  to the scriptures for their followers to live up to.  This is sin.  It is hypocricy and pretense.  The counterfeit root is hard to spot at times because so much truth is intermingled with lies, and additions to the Word of God go un-noticed, as the Charismatic  perpetrator is extremely knowledgable and appears to know the Bible very well. They appear to know the deeper things which others cannot attain.

As Ardith Keef has done and moreso in recent years, she does today.  She pretends that there is something mysterious  about “Christian zeal.”  She says, You won’t know what it is until you are “faithful in prayer and completely available - that one is going to know what zeal is. He will experience this because he will see the goal clearly.”   But dear friend you will never know what her version is because it is counterfeit to True Christianity,  fanasized and contrived, and designed  as bait to keep you hooked and clinging to her.   It is a classic cult tactic.

She tells the poor eager listener, “Zeal is not energy. Zeal is the “raw”  life of the Lord as He is allowed to Love, through His Own.”  It may sound good , but there is nothing about God’s zeal being  ”raw life” in His Word.  It is cleverly contrived and another lure to something that isn’t real , and another golden carrot held out which is only an illusion.  It is a twisted doctrine.   The truth is that at the end of it all,  the ”zeal” cult leaders have  is the  sinful, unquenchable desire and lust  to control others ,at any cost to the poor zealot who follows them.   God help them and anybody else who gets in the way!