Dr. Micheal Brown: Not So Fast
- Fred Rochester
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CSA or Clergy Sexual Abuse and sexual immorality among notable and non prominent ministers is a serious issue.
During the Brett Kavanaugh Senate committee hearings for his confirmation to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court, an allegation came up that was a deliberate smear campaign by the Democrats.
It was alleged that during a drinking party during his high school years, he had raped Ms. Christine Blasey Ford. While something may have happened to her, and she may have been a victim but not at the hands of Kavanaugh. The FBI had done background checks on Kavanaugh. The results speaks for iitself.
The Maryland State Police issued a statement that we await the affidavit from Mr. Ford and once we have it, we will investigate the allegations. Everyone knows that when you enter an affidavit, it's a sworn testimony that the allegations occurred and it's under penalty of perjury.
Needless to say, she never issued an affidavit which meant that if the Maryland State Police had investigated, and it's determined that she lied under penalty of perjury, she would be charged with filing a false affidavit.
With Michael Brown, the Firefly report was a damaging discovery by a third party that investigated the sexual sins of Michael Brown. It concluded that the alleged incidents occurred but Michael Brown's accountability board, known as EAT (Elder Accountability Team) allowed Michael Brown to resume his teaching ministry.
It's common practice to return to ministry after a scandal as opposed to disappearing in embarressment.
The acronym EAT sounds like they want to "EAT" anyone that will fight to demand that Michael Brown step away from ministry because they're complicit and engaging, allegedly, in a cover up.
In the world, when you violate the rules of your employer, you're subject to discipline, up to an including dismissal. If the world has such a policy, the church already had one. Read Revelation chapters 2 and 3.
Restoration in a relationship with the Lord is the entire book of 1 John plus Galatians 6:1. But restoration to ministry is not. Once you touch a woman inappropriately or engage in consensual sex, or commit a crime of rape, incest, porn, and child pornography, ministry is over.
Impeached and removed from office.
It appears that "EAT" left out some critical details. In the TRR (The Roy's Report), there were allegations that Michael Brown had porn on his electronic devices in 2017 and 2018.
Having been involved in porn myself from 1998 to 2008, while watching a Houston pastor come clean on CNN in 2008, I knew that if I had not exposed myself like he had done, it would be a matter of time before the Lord would expose me.
When He exposes you, ministry is over.
Many will say that David remained king after watching Bathsheba take a bath (pun intended) and committed adultery with Bathsheba. David initiated a cover up and had Uriah, the Hittite, killed in battle. That's the OT. We know what you're trying to do. Hide behind David to provide an excuse to return to ministry.
David was king. Not a Levitical priest. Yes, David was a prophet (see Acts 2:29-30) but when it comes to NT ministry, 1 Timothy 3:1-7 applies to NT ministers.
So when I was convicted by what this pastor had done on international TV, I put it all on the table. If I told on myself, God had no story to tell on me. When you expose you, God won't expose you. Why? Because you've told on yourself. The Lord has no story to tell.
Psalms 66:18 (NKJV)
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear."
James 5:16 (NKJV)
"Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
1 John 1:9 (NKJV)
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
In my humble opinion, and I could be wrong, i don't think that these were the only times that Michael Brown watched porn.
The world of porn is the strongest stronghold in the world.
No one watches porn and not masturbate or act out sexually in prostitution, adutery, fornication or homosexuality to release sexual tension.
Sexual immorality is a very serious sin before the Lord. The Lord dedicated a lot of sexual prohibitions in Leviticus chapter 18. What Paul wrote in Romans chapter 1 underscores the depravity of sexual immorality and is an addendum to Leviticus chapter 18.
The children of Israel were defeated in the plains of Moab (Mother Of All Battles is a book) by prostitutes and idol worship in Numbers chapters 22 through 24.
After sinning against the Lord, the leaders that joined themselves to commit sexual immorality were all hung. As the Bible tells us, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree." (see Deuteronomy 21:22 and Galatians 3:13).
Notice, the leaders were hung.
If Michael Brown did watch porn, it's only a matter of time before you will take things to the next level.
In the allegations, Michael Brown seemed not to have crossed the line into outright sexual intercourse. But then again, we may never know unless more allegations come to the surface. It's speculative at best because no one tells the entire story unless they want to.
However, the incubator is the sin of lust in the heart that leads to watching porn.
It's a line I've said I would never cross, but I'd crossed it anyway.
And it never stops there.
James 1:14-15 (NKJV)
"But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death."
In Carnes' Cycle of Addiction, and this is not to say that Michael Brown is a sex addict, it always starts with "One: fantasy or thoughts. Two: ritual, Three: acting out, and Four: then remorse." No repentance because repentance is 180 degrees, not 360 degress. You never return to sin. Otherwise you're no different than a dog returning to its vomit.
Proverbs 26:11-12 (NKJV)
"As a dog returns to his own vomit,
So a fool repeats his folly.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him."
You're not saved from the fire to return to the fire (see Romans 6:1-4).
But with sexual immorality, a person never stays on one level.
Sexual sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you're willing to stay, and cost you more than what you're willing to pay.
Pornography is a fantasy. You're pretending to have sex with the person on the screen and then you masturbate to satisfy yourself to release sexual tension. But you're not fully satisfied because you didn't touch him or her.
There comes a point where you will get tired of participating in a fantasy.
So you move from pornography to a hook up. Prostitution in homosexuality, fornication or adultery.
Then you take things to another level.
Voyeurism which is, according to WIKIPEDIA...."the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature."
Like in the Sean Combs (Diddy) racketeering and human sex trafficking trial in NYC.
Then there's Exhibitionism. Exhibitionism is the act of exposing in a public or semi-public context one's intimate parts.
Then there's the criminal element because each of the previous immoral act is just a springboard to the next level.
Rape, incest, child pornography, and murder after a sex act so the victim wouldn't report you to the police.
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a big part of illegal immigration.
Ted Bundy, executed in 1989 for the rape and murder of a 13 year old and others like him, have committed murder as apart of their ritual. It's possible that Ted Bundy was responsible for the murders of 26 to 29 other women and before his execution, the police tried to extract as much information from him to solve any other crimes to uncover any cold cases.
The purpose of murder was to hide the evidence. But in an interview with Dr. James Dobson, Bundy was asked if porn was the root of the murders. With a calculated, cool, "matter of fact" response, he said that porn wasn't the root cause of the murders, but it was an accelerant.
The rule of sexual immorality is that the victims have to be young. Notice how old Diddy was when he began his wickedness with Cassie Ventura. He is 17 years older than her.
MIke Bickel was a young man but he still went after the young ones. It's the same with Robert Morris, now indicted for having sex with a minor.
There was no fear of God before their eyes.
Psalms 36:1 (NKJV) "An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked: there is no fear of God before his eyes."
I wasn't scared of God. The fear of the Lord includes reverence, however, the foundation of the fear of the Lord is His terror. You're absolutely terrified of God.
Luke 12:5 (NKJV)
"But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!"
2 Corinthians 5:9-11 (NKJV)
"Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences."
Hebrews 10:31 (NKJV)
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."
The reason why we and others could sin so easily is because we do not fear or are scared of God. Sin is easy when you don't have a fear of God but when you remember the power of God and you're terrified of the Lord, you will think twice before sinning against Him.
Michael Brown, the EAT (Elder Accountability Team) at Brown's ministry are doing everything that that can to salvage Brown's ministry.
Why?
It's very simple. It's all about the money.
Churches and ministries will go into attack mode to protect their cash flow. Never mind about repentance and walking away from ministry because you're disqualified. Never mind that his wife, family, and the victim(s) are hurt and broken by a man's sexual immorality and infidelity.
Above all else. Never mind that God was offended.
You could read the Julie Roys Report (TRR) here.