The Liar's Club




	For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. (Ro 3:3-4 av) Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I want to join a group called “The Liar’s Club” and I hope to convince you to join the same group by the end of this post, how about it? You see I think God is changing my heart and mind on some issues and I would like to explain if you will allow it. Today I am going to tell you somethings about me that is going to make my enemies who hate me mock, and somethings that will maybe soften the hearts of some who have misunderstood me over the years. Allow me tell you about somethings that I have been through, I believe it is time to let it all hang out like it or not; well not everything, I know you don’t want my life’s story, but I want to tell you somethings that you probably don’t know, IT IS WHAT IT IS, why should I try to hide? Those who hate what I am and stand for will probably find reason here to continue in their hate and misunderstanding and those who care to understand, will. I was raise up until the sixth grade in the Assembly of God Church, was raise in a poor family, I have six sisters and no brothers, I went many times to the front of the Church as a boy and cried asking God to forgive my sins. My mother was the leader of our family and eventually was offended at some problem in the church we attended, so we became members of a church group which called themselves “The Body”. They believed that Christians needed skills to make it through the great tribulation and so they started farms all over the US and Canada, some having no electricity or running water to prove the “saints” and make them ready for tribulation. All members treated each others children as their own and spanked them at will. After a while my mother took us away from “The Body” and we had no church to attend for awhile. One day as we were playing in our back yard, we heard a noise from down the street where we lived and went to check it out, it was a United Pentecostal Church, whooping and hollering their heads off with their church doors open! My mother was attracted by the noise, why that is just how church used to be when she was a little girl and her daddy was the preacher! So my whole family became Jesus only Pentecostals, and was so until I was well into high school. I used to go down to the church alone, I had a key, I would pray and read the bible for hours, many times early in the morning. I would go door to door in the neighborhood and witness, I turned everyone off at school and made many enemies and had few to no friends. I was instructed by my mother that the bible taught to turn the other cheek, so I would let boys weaker than I, beat on me and mistreat me. In high school I became best friends with another boy who today is a Calvary Chapel pastor and a popular recording artist. We started a bible study on campus at our high school and a Christian rock band, we were OK, but not good enough to make it, we played concerts anywhere we could, including the Camp Pendleton Brigg (prison). However, shortly before all this happened, I was praying and reading the bible and I believed the Lord began to reveal to me that the teachings of the holy roller church I was attending were wrong, in particular the doctrine that made speaking tongues as the proof of receiving the Spirit. So you know what happened next right? Well, the Pastor paid my home a visit, and demanded that I repent of my false teachings in front of both of my parents who sided against me. After threats and warnings were made to me by the Pastor and my parents, I was told that I was not welcome anymore to attend church and I would end up in hell for my sin! After this I became a member of a Southern Baptist Church where some of my high school friends attended, and at 17 years of age I agreed to baptism by immersion number three, baptized in the AOG church, baptized in the UPC church and now baptized in the Baptist church, which they required for membership. Now hang in there with me, we are just getting started, I will explain later on why I am telling you all of this, it is important, if you are going to get the big picture here! After a year or so at the Baptist church, I became discontent with the deadness, lack of zeal for God in the people and I disagreed with the teaching of OSAS (once saved always saved). After a meeting with the Baptist Pastor, we both agreed that it was time for me to leave and I joined the Calvary Chapel movement and became more involved with leading worship. Attended Calvary Chapel for a few years and one Sunday morning, out of the blue, the Calvary Chapel Pastor and his wife, met me out in the parking lot of their recently purchased new building and started accusing me of LOOKING JUDGMENTAL at people when I played the piano! I was so shocked, I did even see it coming, I had said NOTHING AT ALL and again I am kicked out of a church for looking funny?! I then joined the local Four Square Church where I became the music minister and did so for five years. I was 20 years old when I joined this church and 26 years old when I left this church. In this church I got married by the same Pastor, got divorced and got remarried by the same Pastor in this church to the woman I am still married to today, seven children, two grandchildren, at present. In my mid twenties I became very discouraged and just knew that Christianity was not supposed to be this way, I had the key to the building where I worked and would go down there early in the morning and just cry, pray and read my bible. At that time is when the Lord began to open some of the bible prophesies to me, in particular the one about the mystery of spiritual Babylon. Well here we go again! I went to the Foursquare Pastor to share my new revelation and was kicked out of his church! I then became very close friends with a man who was previously with the local Vineyard Church, he claimed to be a gifted prophet and we worked together to start a church, he was the Pastor-Prophet, his name was Jim Berkley and I held a key roll in the music ministry and was a member of a core elder group of people who attended. Jim Berkley and his wife were close friends and were even present at the birth of one of my daughters who is now 20 years old. While ministering with Jim Berkley I met and played piano with Kim Clement, went on ministry trips with “prophet” Larry Randolph, just a few off the top of my head, there were more. After a while my friend, Jim Berkley, began to claim that God wanted him to take more control of our fellowship, he then declared himself the only worthy elder and the core group collapsed, as Jim Berkley began to operate from an extreme Nicolaitan spirit. I prayed about it and became very, what seemed to me at the time, righteously angry, and at the last core group meeting I severely rebuked Jim before everyone and that was the end of our fellowship and the church separated. The next day Jim’s wife, who was pregnant, had a miscarriage and Jim blamed it on me! I went from church to church in our area and made a good many enemies as I tried to convince them that they were in Babylon and needed to come out! The churches started calling each other and warning each other about me, they called the local child protection agency and tried to have our children taken away from us, there was truly quite a ruckus that occurred. I went to a local Vineyard where the Pastor called John Wimber an Apostle, many from the Berkley church now went there. I began to believe that I was called to be an Apostle, I told no one that I was an Apostle, only that I thought that maybe this was my calling, it seemed to match the things the Lord was showing me. I didn’t have any angels appear to me or no significant heavenly vision, it just appeared to me that Christianity was desperately in need of a very straight way, of which way I believed the Lord was revealing to me by his Holy Spirit. Well as you can imagine, this “Apostle” word caused me a bunch of trouble along with my spiritual Babylon teaching, few would hear me out, although I tried! I went to the Vineyard Pastor and told both him and his assistant pastor of my calling and the next Sunday morning they publicly lied about me in front of the entire group and called me a false Apostle. I pulled out the plug on the PA system and started talking, they picked me up and physically threw me out of the building and called the police, I didn’t resist, I waited on the bench out by the street until after church and talked to who ever would talk to me, few would. As I sat on the bench a church deacon came up to me and made a physical threat, he said “if you ever come to this church again, we will carry you out in your own blood!” I said “OK”, and left. The Lord started showing me about false prophets, he showed me that Kim Clement, Jim Berkley and Larry Randolph were all false prophets, many of the women that prophesied in my former church, were clearly mislead false prophetess. I was working for a company owned by a church elder where Kim Clement would show up frequently, Kim Clement showed up at my work one day and got me fired, he heard I was calling him a false prophet. I wondered was anyone saved, at times I had a hard time believing that I was saved, why me? I attended an event put on by the professing missionary - apostle, Cary Goodwin, called the Apostles Gathering, it first took place in Anaheim CA. It was a mess of men who thought they were apostles, when they came together there was all kinds of bad fruit present, I rebuked people, including Cary Goodwin and of course I didn’t make any friends that weekend. They immediately determined that I was not an apostle. One of them who was a Jew and claimed to be an apostle; I heard him prophesy things that were clearly off and I rebuked him sorely and he later prophesied over me that my ministry was a John the Baptist ministry. Of course I don’t believe him, because he clearly prophesied falsely on another occasion. I went home after that weekend and watched as these proclaiming “apostles” went out and completely fell into sin, one guy started teaching that he could have other men’s wives as his own, there was thievery at the gathering, everyone was at each other’s throats, most certainly bad fruit! Well that is where some of the modern apostles movement started. I spent many years alone and still am to this day, but along the way I attended a Church of God for a while and preached there once, it is now completely apostate and the Pastor got kicked out for a new one. I attended a Calvinist home church for a season and was a converted Calvinist, I attended a Presbyterian Church for a season and learned reformed doctrine, I had a group of guys from another home fellowship come and join my home fellowship, they laid hands on me and ordained me and then turned on me when I wouldn’t do what they wanted, I think they are all emergent now. OK these things are all true and that is a snap shot of a little bit of my life as a Christian, whether you believe it or not. I don’t know everything about the people of my past but a few things have become apparent over the years. The UPC pastor that kicked me out is no longer a pastor and divorced his wife, the Baptist pastor is dead, the Calvary Chapel pastor, his church split up and was taken by another and I am pretty sure I heard that he died, the Foursquare church went to the Toronto and Brownsville revival mess, they were barking and growling in church, Jim Berkley, my best friend for a season, was in his new Church he started in Washington on the 27th of Dec. and as he was speaking about the heart of God and the Elijah ministries, the bible forbids this talk about the heart of God, while he was speaking this he died of a heart attack in his church! I found it strange that another web site that I go to every so often, had the link up for two days and I went to the video and saw Jim Berkley die, that was weird and troubling to me. I watched his funeral which was also on the internet, I just couldn’t stomach it, I had to turn it off, it was creepy and disgusting! The Vineyard deacon that threatened me ran into me at a local supermarket one day, he saw me and I saw him, he had a black eye, he had obviously been in a fight. The Vineyard church split and the Pastor rented out a theater and started another church and accidentally called me to get a bid for heating, one of his church members was working for me at that time, that church is gone now. The Calvinist home church ended with some disgusting sins and it is no more, the Presbyterian Church is gone, closed up. So what am I saying? Here it is: Maybe you despise me for what I have done and where I have been, maybe you don’t, but I should tell you this, I don’t consider myself and my experiences as a professing Christian at all inferior to any proclaiming Christian out there. Recently I ran into a guy that admits that he just got saved in 2003 and considers himself so far above me that I am not even worthy to talk to him on his level! Quite frankly I suspect the opposite is true! He claims I am the most arrogant person he has ever met, I also suspect the opposite is true! Now having said that, I believe that the Lord is changing my heart in some areas. I believe that the Lord is causing somethings to occur to me that I hadn’t considered before. I still believe that what I teach about truth is true and Holy Spirit inspired and I believe that those who disagree with me on most things are wrong and I believe that the evidence of scripture is on my side. However, I am beginning to see a way that I can have true fellowship with true brothers that are just mistaken about their beliefs. Now this is NOT a “can’t we just get along speech” nor is this a relationships without truth speech, let me attempt to explain: The way the world and ungodly institutions of Christianity have unity is thru control and compromise. The Republican party in our country considers themselves a “big tent” party, they achieve this through control and compromise. They control who gets to speak and what they get to speak and they compromise what they believe in order to pacify those who disagree to give the public appearance of party unity. That is the way that churches operate today and that is the only thing they can do to keep peace and keep their money and membership up. There are the world’s ways, which you must agree and see are diametrically opposed to God’s ways, right? As it is written “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound those who are wise in it”. Ladies and Gentlemen, I propose that we all join “The Liar’s Club”! I can tell you right now that I am willing to be the first to join, I am willing to become a liar and let God be true! Yes, after everything I have been through in my life, and everything I have suffered wrongly for Christ, I am willing to join! Yea I know some of you think I deserved it; all I can tell you is I have suffered things I am not even talking about here, I certainly do know that I have suffered because of my own sins, but I also have been counted worthy to suffer for Christ as well, whether you can accept that or not. So what shall be the essential doctrine of “The Liar’s Club”? Well of course you have to agree that you are a liar, why else would you join “The Liar’s Club”, we all become liars and let God be true. Next essential doctrine? Faith in Jesus our Lord and Savior who can save us to the uttermost. as the holy scriptures say “The Just shall Live by his faith and what ever is not of Faith is Sin”. Next essential doctrine? Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. (Mt 5:3-12 av) Next essential doctrine? The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. (Ps 34:18 av) For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. (Isa 66:2 av) Now you might be getting confused here, you could be saying, this doesn’t sound like essential doctrine as we have heard the various lists of so called “essential doctrines” of other Christian teachers. Well let me again attempt to explain: All of the above scriptures describe the kind of people that God is saving, no where in scripture does God claim that he is saving the Calvinist or the Pentecostals or the Baptist or the dispensationalists or the believer of any particular doctrine, the Word claims that God is saving the people who fit the above descriptions listed in the above scriptures. It has occurred to me that I don’t need to find people to fellowship with that agree with all or most of my doctrinal teaching, I need to find people who fit the description given in the above scriptures, and minister to them by faith, trusting in the Lord who is able to give the increase and is also able to change me by faith as others voice their doctrinal concerns, honestly, by faith. Recently I have been communicating with another ministry that disagree with some of the things that I have to say and I disagree with some of what they have to say, yet they have linked to me, allowed me to teach and they continue to allow me to give them the burdens of my heart and they do the same, they have received me as a brother and not required any control over what I say in an honest and godly sense! You know how strange that is for me? I have just always assumed that God was going to bring the remnant out of institutional churches as he did me and everyone’s experience would be similar to mine and we all would just come together believing the same things. I would quote the scripture, “how can two walk together except they be agreed” and figured that God’s true people would eventually find common doctrinal ground and be gathered as one people out of Babylon. Now I believe that I am starting to understand that this is beginning to appear completely wrong! Let me give you a few scriptures here you should consider. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; (Eze 34:2-8 av) God’s remnant people are scattered all over the place and they have become meat to all the beast of the field and sick spiritually, with all this that is happening to these people, do you really think that they are going to have the perfect little list of doctrinal ducks in order? I am quite sure that God’s people are going to come from places and back grounds that you think entirely impossible, you sure would have said that all those people were most definitely going to hell! Again, look at those that are blessed in Mat. 5 and the person the Lord will look to in Ps. 34:18 and Isaiah 66:2, none of those things have anything to do with a list of doctrines, but the condition of the heart and soul. How about this scripture? Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. (Isa 52:5-8 av) As you should be able to see, the promise to see eye to eye in the above scripture is a future promise, it is quite clear that God’s remnant Jewish or Gentile will not see eye to eye until this happens. I believe that the final preaching of the gospel all over the world as is recorded in Mat 24 and Rev., will bring in this grace and mercy from the Lord, that we should all see eye to eye, God will give the increase, not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord! Now in “The Liars Club”, how can we all become liars and let God be true? How does God become true? I just know that there are folks that will come in and insist that they are smart and better educated, so their insight into scripture must be accepted for God to be true. If we listen to them, then we might as well break up back into denominations, because in reality God isn’t in charge in such an arrangement, neither is God glorified, but the smart educated man who dictates the meaning of scripture! You know how you get two denominations don’t you? Well of course, you find two smart educated men who control and compromise! But if God is to be true and every man a liar, let those who are burdened to share their burdens by faith, minister, exhort and rebuke by faith and let God give the increase in the hearts of his children! Create an atmosphere where those who believe that they have something to minister, do so without fear of reprisal for saying something others question, trusting in God as their deliverer, so God begins to increase his Word in the upright hearts of the hearers and those who speak in error can be reasoned with by those who are burdened to do so, in love, not attempting to force or dominate the issue, but those that are more spiritual, restoring another in love. How do we know phonies in “The Liar’s Club”? We know phonies because they don’t want to be liars, they want to be true and will use the only methods they know, the methods of the world to accomplish their desires; they will control or compromise for the sake of false peace, right? Do you get that? The bible states that the just shall live by his faith and what ever a person does not do of faith is sin. An unjust person does not operate by faith, he or she uses worldly means at their disposal; control and compromise, shutting off honest descent and making themselves god instead of letting God be true! In “The Liars Club” God is made true when we are liars, dead to self, alive in him and speak each man as the oracles of God by the grace of God; but those who infiltrate “The Liars Club” will come in with laws to control others rather than the ministry of faith that gives life to the hearers. What kinds of good works should “The Liar’s Club” participate in? First, every liar must understand that he is guilty of dead works in his past and repent of those dead works, dead works are those things done outside of Christ in one’s own strength not walking by faith. Also every liar must cleanse his conscience of dead works by the Word of God by faith. What do we mean by this? Well you know that all men want to do what is good, right? But they cannot, men are not capable of good, our works are as filthy rags before God, yet for a person not to do what they believe is right is sin, as the scriptures say, “he that knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin”. So many people believe that they should do certain so called good works outside of Christ, but the Word of God is there, if received by faith, to cleanse the conscience from these dead works, that one may be free to live in Christ and do all things by the power of his strength, rather than the will and effort of the flesh. Those who are not liars will come in unaware and place laws and controls and compromise on “The Liars Club” and insist that their definition of good works be followed, whether it is a homeless shelter or an orphanage or preaching in a certain way at a certain place, those who are not true liars love to glory in the outward appearance of righteousness, but still performs works that are filthy rags to God! So what kind of works should “The Liars Club” engage in? Perfect works of course, that can only come from God! Let me give you a few scriptures: And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. (Zec 3:1-4 av) Joshua had filthy clothes, Joshua is a type of Jesus and the church is the body of Jesus, this prophecy speaks about the clothes, which represent the righteousness of the Saints, as being filthy before they are given clothes of righteousness. The Laodicean church of revelation had no clothes, they were naked. The Saints that were under the alter were given clothes of righteousness in Rev. now don’t ask me why dead Saints need works of righteousness, seems to me that only live saints could have righteous works, I suspect that may be a scripture very misunderstood. However, one thing is for sure, “The Liars Club” would seek the Lord for clean clothes, receiving that which only the Lord can perform in us. OK, NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK? HOW ABOUT IT? WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE LIAR’S CLUB? I WOULD! Sincerely that I might abide in Christ - Robert Begnaud