Featuring the Smash Single: “I’ve Been Silent for 18 Months (While Posting Daily)”

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Somewhere in the backroom of a borrowed house in California—feet kicked up on someone else’s coffee table, webcam balanced on a stack of worn-out devotionals—Mark Stephens hit record.
What followed was a 39-minute Facebook Live video so soaked in contradiction, spiritual cosplay, and projection that it should come with a warning: Caution—heavy gaslighting ahead.

This wasn’t a sermon.
It was a confession in costume.
And it deserves a proper breakdown.

Mark’s full Facebook post can be seen at the end of this post.

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🎭 The Hypocrisies, Line by Line

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1. “I never wanted to go public with this…”

🤔 This entire Facebook page exists solely to be public.

Mark has:

• Posted videos blasting his wife, ex-wife, kids, pastors, therapists, lawyers, and total strangers.
• Turned his restraining orders into hashtags.
• Used scripture to conduct public character assassinations.

You didn’t want to go public? You are the spokesperson for going public.

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2. “Our covenant was never lawfully broken.”

💥 Does domestic assault, emotional abuse, and a restraining order count as lawful breaking?

Mark:

• Was removed from the home by law enforcement.
• Had multiple CPS reports filed.
• Is under four Restraining/No Contact Orders (two permanent).
• You’ve been arrested and jailed for breaking restraining order. Stalking and caught in the act by Vancouver Police. It was false by the way…

The only covenant Mark honors is the one he made with his ego.

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3. “I invested over $700,000 into our home…”

💸 Mark has claimed since 2014 that he makes $1,200–$1,500/month with $3,500/month in bills.

So:

• Where did the $700k come from?
• If you have that kind of money, why are you dodging child support?
• How did you afford it without paying taxes or disclosing it in court?

Either you lied in court… or you’re lying now. Pick one.

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4. “This false restraining order…”

🚨 Mark has FOUR restraining or no-contact orders.

Let’s repeat:

• Four.
• Two are permanent. One only expired because the child turned 18.
• One was filed after he forced a child to sign a contract denying his diagnosis.

Calling them “false” doesn’t make them go away. Courts don’t issue them for sport.

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5. “Avoid those who cause dissension…” — Romans 16:17

🧠 Mark, your entire feed is a masterclass in dissension.

He:

• Accuses exes of witchcraft
• Attacks churches and therapists
• Smears his children’s caregivers online

You’re the walking embodiment of Romans 16:17—from the wrong side of the verse.

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6. “Talk spreads like gangrene…”

😷 Then stop talking, Mark.

You’ve posted hundreds of times about:

• Gustav
• Tori
• Melissa
• Russ
• “The system”
• “False prophets”
• “Spiritual warfare”
• “Parental Alienation”

You’re not fighting gangrene. You’re infecting the body.

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7. “Gustav abandoned his children…”

🍼 How would you even know?

Also:

• You haven’t seen your own children in how long?
• You’ve refused court-ordered steps for even supervised visitation
• You’ve dodged child support and slandered their care teams

You’re not a father defending family. You’re a ghost with a Facebook account and a vengeance complex.

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8. “Stand on the Word… not on feelings or false authority.”

📣 Mark, who gave you authority?

• Not your church (you left when held accountable)
• Not your family (they left or filed court orders)
• Not the court (they’ve sanctioned you)
• Not your children (who are safer without you)

The only authority you claim is self-appointed victimhood.

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9. “In truth, in clarity, and in love…”

💩 This post is soaked in manipulation, projection, and spiritual gaslighting.

There’s no truth.
There’s no clarity.
And there is certainly no love in using scripture to condemn your ex-wife, her new relationship, and the people trying to clean up the mess you left behind.

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🔄 Every Accusation is a Confession

“He follows my every move!”

So how do you know:

• What they’re doing in the house?
• When they had a spiritual ceremony?
• What courses they offer?
• What name she uses?
• Whether Gustav has children or pays child support?

This isn’t discernment.
It’s obsessive stalking—conducted while under a restraining order designed to protect the very woman you claim to be spiritually fighting for.

You’re not watching over her.
You’re watching her social media with binoculars.

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🏚️ The Final Irony: Living in Another Man’s House

“He’s living in another man’s house!”

Oh really, Mark?

Let’s count the addresses:

1. You lived with Chevalo and his wife before Tori
   • Until, as you put it, you “fell in love quicker than a narcissist who needs a place to live.”
   • The Duckett’s soon moved after your marriage to Tori—likely to Texas or California.
2. Then you lived with your mother and stepfather.
3. And now?
   You’re living with Bryan and Stephanie Bremer.
   • Stephanie—who is your ex-girlfriend.
   • Bryan—whose house you’re now occupying like a spiritual Airbnb with free Wi-Fi and endless excuses.

So let’s get this straight:

You’re accusing Gustav of living in your house…
While you’re living in another man’s house…
With your own ex-girlfriend…
Preaching about purity and covenant…
From a borrowed bedroom.

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Mark’s original Post from his Victory in Marriage Facebook Page.

PUBLIC WARNING: The Truth Must Be Told

“So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?” — Galatians 4:16 (NASB)

I never wanted to go public with this, but the time has come. I must obey God and expose what is false to protect others from deception.

My name is Mark Stephens. I am still legally married in the state of Washington. My wife and I shared a covenant before God — one that was never lawfully broken.

But now, deception, adultery, and spiritual manipulation are being promoted in our home, and the body of Christ needs to be warned.

WHAT HAPPENED:

Gustav Le Roux, a self-proclaimed “mystic pastor,” has moved into my home, sleeping with my wife.

They are not legally married, yet they claim to be “married in the spirit.”

They are hosting church services inside our marital home — a home I rebuilt with over $700,000 invested, still held in a trust of which I am full legal beneficiary.

My wife filed a false restraining order, forcing me out. I have not seen or spoken to her in over 18 months.

All of this while we are still married in the eyes of the law and under God’s Word.

WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS:

“You shall not commit adultery.” — Exodus 20:14 (NASB)

“What therefore God has joined together, no person is to separate.” — Mark 10:9 (NASB)

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery.” — Luke 16:18 (NASB)

There is no such thing as “marriage in the spirit” when a legal covenant still stands. That is lawlessness, not love. That is deception, not discipleship.

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities… For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil.” — Romans 13:1-3 (NASB)

“Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution.” — 1 Peter 2:13 (NASB)

To ignore the law is to defy God.

A WARNING TO THE BODY OF CHRIST:

“Do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.” — Ephesians 5:11 (NASB)

“I urge you, brothers and sisters, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions… and turn away from them.” — Romans 16:17 (NASB)

“Their talk will spread like gangrene… who have gone astray from the truth.” — 2 Timothy 2:17-18 (NASB)

Gustav Le Roux (Facebook Link) is not walking in the Spirit. He has abandoned his own children, moved into another man’s home, and is teaching false doctrines — including that God’s law doesn’t apply and that civil marriage is unnecessary.

This is spiritual manipulation. This is adultery. This is not revival — it is rebellion.

MY PRAYER AND APPEAL:

I forgive my wife. I pray for Gustav’s repentance. But I will not stay silent while people are being led into deception and sin is being normalized in God’s name.

“If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” — 1 John 1:6 (NASB)

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap.” — Galatians 6:7 (NASB)

To all who follow Christ, please hear this clearly:

Do not attend any gatherings at my home.

Warn others who may be confused.

Stand on the Word, not on feelings or false authority.

In truth, in clarity, and in love,

Mark Stephens

#gustavlaroux#sellingmystuff#divorce#adultery#mysticpastor#jezebelspirit#VictoriousMarriage#victoryinmarriage#LiesExposed#marriedinspirit#n

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Transcript of video in the post.

Listen to the audio here.

Mark A. Stephens  00:02.

Steve, hello, everyone. I hope you guys are doing fantastic.

Mark A. Stephens  00:09

It has been a while since I’ve done a video. As you all know that I have a heart for marriage. I have been teaching marriage for years, marriage and purity. And as you know, I always try to give good content. Haven’t been putting a lot of content up lately because I’m finishing up this marriage book. It’s been crazy how when the Holy Spirit speaks, you just can’t stop writing. And so really been focusing on just, not just marriage, but also writing another book,

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which has been inspired by

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quite a few false prophets or people claiming that they’re people of God and wanting to preach another fire. So, you know, my heart is to stay biblical. You know, been very blessed to be trained by the Holy Spirit, but also, just like Erasmus trained Paul in the Bible, I’ve had other people that have, have been a blessing in my life, that have, have helped me with that. But I wanted to do a public statement today. As you know, you guys have been following my journey, I probably been wondering what is going on. And there’s been some lies, and people saying unfollow, you know, our victory marriage group, and the reason why it’s because they don’t want to be exposed to see when, when truth is with darkness. Darkness will say lies to make it look like they’re telling truth, but they’re not. And so this public statement is, I wanted to first kind of start off with this. You’re probably wondering, okay, Mark, are you divorced yet? You know we all know that my wife cheated on me. We know that. You know, that’s basically what happened. And currently, right now, there’s another man living in my home, and I was wondering why everything went so quick. You know, I had a false restraining order put upon me. And, you know, I had a false prophet in my home, a woman that was put in my home that was supposed to stay for a couple days end up staying for a whole entire year. Yup, a whole year. And the reason why is my wife knew that if I knew what she believed,

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that I would not let her in her home,

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because I was a protector. I was always wanted to stay by the word of God, my wife didn’t. She was very she was a hyper, hyper charismatic, but more with cult insides. She was raised in a cult, and so my heart goes out to her. Not only was she raised in a cult, but she kept a lot of those cult ideologies within her mindset. And I would always tell her, you know, honey, you need to stop playing with those new age groups. And I was always wondering why she was getting attacked by demons four times a week, three to four times a week, literally, she’d wake up in the middle night felt like she was going to die. And the reason why was because I said, Babe, get out of those groups. But she didn’t want to let it go. My wife is always been very hyper charismatic, never been really a word person. She doesn’t know the word within the context. She’ll say scriptures that sound good, and then she’ll cover with a bunch of feelings and emotions. And you can’t do that with the great I Am with, with our King, with, with Yeshua. But I wanted to start out with the Scripture, the Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. It says that in Psalm 3418, and there’s many that are going through something like this. I’ve heard many men that have reached out to me, many women that have that are going through this exact same thing. It’s becoming an epidemic, and it talks about this in the last days this is going to happen. And I used to always tell my wife, you know what, we got to stay within the boundaries of Scripture. And she wanted to go with her dreams over the Word of God. And I go, babe, it’s very dangerous, you know. So this is not something that I ever honestly thought I would ever have to share publicly, you know, but in obedience to the Word of God and out of the concern for those being misled right now, I must speak plainly and in truth. My hope is is not to shame, but to warn, to clarify and to honor God in the middle of the steep betrayal. See, when you have one side, there’s always two sides of the coin. There’s always a partial truth in each one, and then twisted. And my heart is to bring truth, but this is the truth behind my silence. So this is kind of a short synopsis of of what’s going on. So my wife and I were legally married. Right? We are legally married right now, currently, right now, she’s going by another last name. There’s a false pastor who she’s been following for for years now. And even as we were married, she was sharing videos of his stuff. And I never really thought nothing of it. I I really didn’t, you know, just didn’t think nothing of it. I just thought some guy with an accent who would talk about Scripture and make things up. So I was just like, whatever, you know, and I didn’t want to tell her, don’t be listening to that guy, because

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she would say, Well, I’m being

Mark A. Stephens  05:43

controlling, you know, but more it’s protecting. And we’re as men, supposed to protect our homes. I know he was false. You know, anyone that says on, on a live saying that Moses told God to repent does not know his word, so we have to be very careful there. And again, I’m not here to shame, but I’m here to expose. It says in the word to expose these false people. You know, we were, we were married for six years. We were planning our six year anniversary. Of course, we had ups and downs, just like any other marriage. The problem was, I wanted to stay biblical. My wife wanted to go into the clouds and add to Scripture. And I’ve never been that way. You know, she thinks she’s a prophet, and she’s not as far as the east is from the west, and that’s another subject. But with that being said, you know, this her and this woman, they put a false restraining order on me and got me kicked out of my house without any proof, saying that I pushed this woman. If I would have pushed her, would have been in jail, guys. But as you and I know that if a woman says it says certain keywords, and then she’s got a backup of another woman, there’s nothing you can do about it. And putting pictures up of me on Facebook showing that I’m upset, well, I was upset. I was telling a woman to get the hell out of my house in the name of Jesus. You know, when you have people that are spreading lies about you, and you know, the courts will most likely go with the woman. I hate to say it just works out that way, you know. And but behind closed doors, you know, she had been sharing videos with Joanne Carper doing this guy named Gustav LaRue. So what would happen? She would share their videos and stuff like that while us being married, living in the same home. What’s very interesting is that while she was doing that, there was a lot of turmoil going on on our home. You know, I had stuff going on with my ex, with my boys, his mother, and my wife was helping me with that. But at the end, my wife end up tag teaming with my my other my the boys, his mother and got my kids taken away under false pretense. My wife did some really bad things and said a bunch of lies, and the court, of course, took her side without actual proof. And so, you know, at the time, I was really upset. I wasn’t, like, heartbroken, like, Oh my gosh. What am I going to do? You know, people like, Oh, poor Mark. Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t really look at his poor mark. I look at it as you know what you mess with my children. Don’t mess with my children. I draw the line there. And what a lot of people don’t know is I was actually praying to the Lord before all this happened, because the Lord was showing me that. So there was a shift going on in my home. I didn’t really know what it was. Hey, how’s it going? Amy, I really didn’t know what it was. But what I do know is that we have to speak truth. We can’t lie and and sometimes lies, God will allow these lies to manifest and to grow and to take place to protect you. And I believe that God was protecting me, as I said, my wife was born in was raised in New Age. You know, she saw her, her, her brother, killed by, you know, family members. And so when you go through this pain, you can’t, I don’t have any hate or remorse, because my heart goes out to her, because there was like three people. There was three different types of people that she would be very nice. Then the next one would be very upset saying I’m doing this, I’m doing that behind closed doors. But I wasn’t always trying to find a way of saying that I was cheating, but I wasn’t, but I didn’t realize that she was already messaging another man. And so with that being said, currently, that man is currently living in our home, and they’re doing church, and he calls himself a past he’s a mystic pastor. Come on, guys, we have to stay biblical,

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you know. Don’t let the funny accent,

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you know, and fool you when you when you see his teachings, and when you listen, you can tell they’re not biblical. They’re not. Biblical. It’s, it’s of another fire. So we have to be careful. But with that being said, you know, her being raised in a cult New Age. And I want to warn you guys, if you guys are in a marriage, and you have people that are dabbling into New Age, another fire that’s, says Jesus, but it’s, it’s bringing another word and it’s very different, and you’ve got to be careful. And so I’m here to warn the church right now, currently, they’re having a church in our home right now. And yes, I am owner, part owner, of that home. And of course, she will lie and say she doesn’t, but when you ask her, say, Hey, are you legally still married? Yep. So she’s with this man named Gustav la rooks, and he is telling everybody, well, we, you know, telling everybody, well, they can’t divorce. Nobody will take their case. That’s a lie. We’re actually in a divorce proceeding currently. Right now, I do have 100% ground she’s sleeping with another man in our home. He’s not paying anything. The home is basically paid off when our home burned down. I put $700,000 into the home for the rebuilding. I have always stayed in God’s word, and will stay in God’s word no matter what, I will not bend the knee. And I just wanted to let you guys know that there are people that are that have gone to the church, that it’s not even a church. Guys Like, nobody goes like and when people go, they get the heck out, because they know that she’s still legally married, but saying that she’s married. So we have to be careful with terms. You know, people will say, well, so my wife is saying that we’ve been divorced for two years. We’ve been separated for 18 months. And you know, in the beginning, I wanted nothing to do with her, and then I said, You know what? What would the Lord do? He would take back, you know, the woman, the harlot. And I was willing to take back her, take her back and to forgive her, but now her moving in, having another man living in our home, sleeping in our marriage bed. Basically, I paid for everything inside that house. You know my wife, she didn’t have to work. She didn’t want to work. She said, God told her that she’s not supposed to work. But I had so much trust that I let her take care of everything she had, all the money she needed to get what she wanted. She wasn’t used to that. She was used to being restricted, not making money. She’d make, like, 1600 bucks a month when I met her, and you know, no pun intended, but when you have a man that’s a good provider and stuff like that, sometimes you’ll get taken advantage of. But I didn’t realize it. She was so deep into new age. And even all the pastors in the Vancouver, Washington area are are aware of what’s going on, and they’re not letting them inside the church, because they know she’s married, you know? So again, you guys want to stay away from that home, from my home, we are in court. It’s not like we’re not. We are in court. We’re we’re we’re we’re getting to the place where we’re going to be dividing the assets, because there’s a lot of assets to be divided, and she doesn’t want to push the divorce because she wants to keep the home. So this is about things she never loved me. And I always kind of sense that, anyways, you know, men aren’t stupid. We might, might look it, but we’re not, you know so and in a way, I see it as a blessing, because a month before this all happened, I said, Father, God, take her away if she’s not going to follow you, if she’s not going to follow your word, my said, Lord, she won’t even she won’t follow me. She’s not I’m following you, and she won’t follow me. And it’s hard when you’re by yourself. So those of you that feel like you’re by yourself, God is there for you. He is for you. He loves you. He wants this intimacy with you. Pray for your husband. Pray for your wife. You do not quit. You gotta understand that when God created man and woman, He created them in the Akkad. And the Akkad is is, is actually super glue in the Hebrew you cannot separate. And when there’s a separation and a tear, and people think that they can just dispose people, they don’t realize that God won’t bless what they’re doing, especially if they’re doing evil behind their back. And so what I wanted to say is that she would try to provoke arguments, and then she would sure she would record me, you know, without my knowledge, and attempt to to paint a false narrative of me. I didn’t realize that she was trying to use that to hurt me later, and I forgave her. You know, I’m. Called a narcissist, but narcissists don’t forgive. Narcissists don’t want to change. I was willing to fight for our marriage, whatever we have to do, and I was ignored for 18 months. So there’s been pure silence. There’s been pure pure silence for 18 months, and now she’s saying she’s married when she says that she means married in another spirit. So they went and had a ceremony, wherever he lives, with a false pastor, and they did a ceremony. And so if you look at her page, she is basically

Mark A. Stephens  15:35

she hasn’t changed her last name.

Mark A. Stephens  15:38

You know why? Because you actually have to have an ID to change your last name, because she’s not legally divorced, but telling everybody that they are, that we are divorced and we’re not, you know, I never cheated in the marriage. I never slept with another woman. Nothing at all. You know, so with that being said, I forgave her. And now there’s this, another guy named Gustav Larus. Be careful. Watch out for this man. He’s got a fancy little accent, but he doesn’t know the word the guy thinks he does when he’s teaching. He’s teaching out of context. Listen carefully, like I said, anyone that tells says that that Moses told God to repent, does not know his word at all. It’s scary. Gustav laruke, you need to give your life to Jesus brother. Give your life to Jesus fully and get away from you know, I care more about your soul brother than anything. I’m not trying to get my wife back, even though a lot of people on here would disagree, I’m not. I have been freed up. She has slept with another man, and they’re living in our home and sleeping in our marriage bed currently, and speaking and doing and trying to make money off of our home right now. So they’re trying to sell courses. They’re trying to make money because they both don’t work. So this is very interesting, so I thought I’d share that with you. I wanted to share a scripture. And by the way, we are legally married, and we do have a trust in the home, so if she thinks that the trust is false, it’s not, and

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it’s legally binding in Vancouver, Washington.

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It says here, but false prophets also appeared among the people, bringing swift destruction upon themselves in second, Peter, two, one. It says in the scriptures that there will be false signs and wonders in these last days, yes, in the name of Jesus, false signs and wonders. This is why we have to be careful. That’s why it says man shall not live by bread alone. But every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. We need to stay biblical. We need to make sure that our doctrine is straight. Yes, our main doctrine should be, should be Jesus, Christ is king, and he rose from the third day. There’s a difference between believing in Jesus, but believing into Jesus. When you believe into Jesus, you have been truly baptized, and you truly go by the word of God. And when the Holy Spirit’s in you, He will cause you to follow Him, and there will be fruit. See, Gustav is. Gustav is a man of charismatic words. He says things about portals, and he tries to make stuff up to get people to buy his courses. You don’t want to buy his courses. Very false teacher.

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With that being said,

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you know, even my wife’s own children, they want nothing to do with her, because of her always going back into colts, and, you know, she got them in a new age, and then she got them out, and she went back in. And it was weird, because when I got kicked out of our home, I called her son, which is I looked at him as my own son. You know, he didn’t have a job, and I gave him a job for five years to run my company, and helped him out immensely. To help him out, he helped, of course, help this out, but I wanted to focus on trying to help him out, because he’s family. And when I told him what happened, he said, Oh no, not again. I go. What do you mean? Not again? And did I miss the memo? He said, Well, before she came back to Jesus, she went into a new age group mark on Facebook. It’s always Facebook, always social media. And she brought a bunch of people in the house to live in the house for a year, and then she kicked them out. So, you know, they don’t want nothing to do with her. But the funny part is, she’ll put on Facebook, she’ll tell stories that happened 1015, years ago, how God brought them back and restored them, and none of them want anything to do with Jesus because of her actions. And it’s sad. It breaks my heart, because I want the best for them, and I love them no matter what was I a perfect step dad? No, of course not. I. Uh, it says here, reject if a a factious person after a first and second warning, knowing that such a person is perverted and is sinning and being self condemned. That’s in Titus 310, through 11. That’s what’s going on right now. How you doing, Bailey, I hope you’re doing great.

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Good to see you guys.

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You know God is good. Doesn’t matter what happens in our lives, but we have a story. We have a story above our head. All of us do, and I believe that our story helps other people out when they’re going through stuff like, wow, I’m going through the same thing. How many people here are going through this? You know, one of the things that that I’m seeing right now is that the church is running rampant right now with these false prophets, these false teachers, people giving themselves names, calling ourselves a prophet, an apostle and stuff like that. And it’s like, what ever come on? Let’s not fall for the banana and the tailpipe. And so this is what’s, what’s going on, you know? You know, I just wanted to get on here and let everybody know that, yes, I am currently still married, and yes, we are going through a divorce, even though she will tell everybody on Facebook she’s been divorced for two years. It’s been 18 months.

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Why would she say that

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and then preaching Jesus in our own home?

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And the reason why they’re preaching Jesus is so they can get money from you guys, and they’re going deeply after the charismatic church because they speak a sliver of truth

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with lies,

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a sliver of truth

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with lies. And we have to be careful. Look at the begin. Look at the beginning with Adam and Eve. Satan started out with twisting, trying to get Eve to twist her words, and She twisted her words. That’s the enemy will do. The first thing the enemy is going to do is attack the marriage, attack the covenant. You see, I wasn’t able to talk for 18 months, and I’m still not able to talk, but I’m putting this out there right now to warn the church to be careful that the Word of God is being perverted, and my home currently, right now is is become a a den of thieves, just like in the Bible, when Jesus went to the temple and he was upset he was flipping the tables. They’re selling merchandise right now. They’re selling Jesus, they’re selling courses and saying they’re married. And if you notice, they never say they’re married. When you’re married to somebody, you want to tell everybody, right? So they had to do it in private. Yep. I Yeah, but going by another last name and then still being legally married and then trying to make money off of a different last name, the IRS isn’t going to like that. The state’s not going to like that. It’s actually illegal.

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How are you doing? Amy, how’s it going? Bailey, what’s going on?

Mark A. Stephens  23:27

Does any of this resonate with you guys? Does this make sense? See, right now is the time to go deep. I

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Deep in this word,

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when it talks about, in the book of Ephesians, when it talks about the man leading, it never talks about following him, if he’s perfect, see, you’re not following your husband. You’re following God. You’re following what God said. We need to focus on following what God says, and not what our emotions are saying. See, God made the man the head. Because guess who’s the head over the man? Our king are Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus. He is the Godhead over the husband, and the husband will make many mistakes, but the woman will follow the husband. Now, if the man is telling the woman to follow the husband against God’s word, no, we’re not going to do that. You’re not going to do that, but it does talk about it. If we were to stay biblical, we were to open our word and see what the Word of God says about it. That’s what we need to do. You know, currently, I’ve been studying in the book of Romans and also Galatians. But when we look at a feast. Here. Let me just check this. Let’s look at this. And actually, didn’t plan this. It’s cool, just to follow what the Holy Spirit wants when we look at when we look at this, in a in Ephesians five, this is therefore, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children. And walk. Walk is meaning walking in a lifestyle of Christ, walking in His presence, walking in His Word. Remember the word became flesh and walked amongst us. That means, if he’s living inside us, as it says in Ezekiel 36 it says, I will cause my people to follow me. It’s a causing. The only way you can be caused is by the Holy Spirit being inside you. He says, I will cause you to walk in me. I will cause you to follow me and do my ordinances and walk in my statutes and obey my law. Because when the Holy Spirit’s in you, the laws inside you, you now have the rest. You know how to have the Sabbath. And it says, you know and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. This is beautiful. He gave His only begotten Son for us, and when he was crushed, he became a fragrance, a rose fragrance of love, and that’s living and walking inside you. When you have the word of God inside you. You want to follow it within the context of Scripture. So many people out there are teaching within the out of the context of Scripture, saying the Scripture, but without the context, without the context, you have nothing.

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He goes.

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He gave Himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God, but sexual immorality and ill and pure, purity and covetousness must not even be named among you, as it is is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolishness, talk nor crude joking, which are out of place. But instead, let there be Thanksgiving for you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure or who is covetousness, that is an idolater. So right now, in my home, idolatry is happening.

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Idolatry is happening

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another man taking another man’s wife. Now,

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did they do it the legal way? No, cuz they don’t believe what the Scripture says, where Jesus says, obey the laws of the land. So let me ask you, do we obey the laws of the land that God’s put to see we are not only a citizen heaven, but we’re also a citizen here on Earth. So while we are a citizen here in heaven and on earth, we are to obey the laws of the land. We are to give to Caesars. What is Caesar’s? And when the laws of land say that you are legally married, you are still legally married. Now, do I want to be married to her? No, I don’t do. I have a choice. Yes, I do. Has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God, and let noone deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience right now. The wrath of God is coming upon them because of what they’re doing. See, they may think, oh, everything’s great. They’re living in our home. Our home’s 5300, square foot, many, many bedrooms, and I was able to help build that home, my dream home, which was Tuscan, you know, I mean, I have, I’m a Grecian, so I have, like 50% Greek, Greek inside me. And then, of course, Jewish, and this is Therefore, do not become partners with them. At one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true. And try to discern what is pleasing in the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful full works of darkness. Right now there is unfruitful works of darkness going on in people’s marriages. Yes, men, keep your eyes poor. Lead your family. Lead in love. Are you going to be perfect? No, but you get up. Look at King David. He fell, but he kept getting up. Now. Look, he sinned against God, and there was consequences, and God took his son. God took his son. Do we think that the God that the great I AM, has changed?

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This still happens today.

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This still happens today.

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Let’s go to verse 22 actually, we’ll go to we’ll go to verse 20. It says giving back thanks always and for everything to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus, Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. This is a very this is very interesting. You know this? This is a Greek word for haptoso, which means under o. Obedience. Are we under obedience in our marriage? Under obedience unto God. See, the man is supposed to be under obedience under God, under him, and when we’re under him, the wife gets under the man. God used the man as the umbrella. And guess who’s at the top of the umbrella? God is and God put the man to be the top, to cover his wife with the Scripture, to cover her with love. Will the man be perfect? No, but there’s many people out there that think the men have to be perfect. We are to go after perfection. It says verse 22 Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. A lot of people don’t like that. See, we didn’t The man didn’t write that. God wrote that there’s a reason for the husband is the head of the wife. So guys, we need to be Jesus to our wives, to our wife, not wives plural, but we have to our wife. As Christ is the head of the church, his body and is himself, his savior. Now is the church submits to Christ. So also wives should submit to everything to their husbands. Interesting. So

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I’m reading to you what the Word says,

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Husbands love your wives. You guys think this is an easy one. Men, we’re to love our wives unconditionally, even when they mess up, quick to forgive, quick to communicate, not quick to put a restraining order on them

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if they’re not willing to get help.

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You pray for them.

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Watch God restore. We have a God of restoration. I believe in restoration. I truly, truly, truly do. And what’s interesting is when it says Love Your Wives in the Greek, it means love continually. In the Greek, to love continually, just like Jesus’s love. Husbands loved your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing and the water of the word men, you pray over your wives every morning when you get up and before you go to bed, and you read the word to them, because you are part of their sanctification, when you’re washing the word over them, the word washes us, the word cleanses the word lives in you. That’s our hiding place, that is our connection to the Lord,

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so that He might present

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the church into himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. Your bodies are not your own men wives, your bodies are not your own. You don’t be you don’t connect with him because, or, you know, be with him physically because he’s being nice or because he’s being good and vice versa. We’re not to hold hold from each other, but we are to be quick to apologize and quick to love and quick to get back together, quick to not let the enemy get into our into our camp. He who loves his wife loves himself, for noone ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it. It is just as Christ does the church, because we are members of His Body. There’s a chain. There’s a chain of command when it comes to marriage and when there’s adultery, you you have a choice to stay with them. You do. You have a choice to stay with him. But we also have a door to get out. You’re probably wondering, Well, Mark, why are you not fighting for your marriage? Well, I’ve been fighting for my marriage. I’ve been praying for restoration, and when I realized the reason why she kept silent was because she was talking to another man,

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and I think he’s still married

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to his other wife,

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because they don’t believe in divorce, meaning they believe more in a spiritual divorce. So New Age, what? What they’re doing right now? They’re they’ll get in front of a bunch of people, they’ll get a false mystic pastor, and they’ll just say, Okay, you’re married in the eyes of God instead, I is the state. And so mysticism, a lot of mystic, mystics, we’ve been warned in the Bible about them, and we need to be very careful. Because they’re in here like ravenous wolves. They don’t like to stay within the boundaries of the word. They like to go out of the boundaries of the word and add to it. So we have to be careful. That’s the time and age that we live in. Well, actually, we’ve been living the time of that age, during the time of Jesus, this was going on. This is nothing new, like it says in the scripture, there’s nothing new under the sun. But

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what I will say, though, those that

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are in the Vancouver, Washington area, stay away. Tell your pastors What, what’s going on. So what they’re doing right now is they’re trying to find new blood to bring people into their church, into my home. So my home is really big. We created it as a sanctuary, and that’s where we did ministry. And now I have another man living, sleeping in my bed, sleeping and touching all my stuff, and he thinks that none of it is that it’s not he’s not realizing he’s living rent free. So basically, I basically pay for his rent. He doesn’t work, like I said. And right now they’re, they’re teaching on consecration. Isn’t that weird? Like, how can you be teaching on consecration being set right when you’re still legally married? Can anybody on here help me out here? I mean, is it just me? But I feel like common sense is a common sense. There’s a spiritual common sense. And if you don’t have the Holy Spirit inside you, you’re not going to hear His voice, and you’re not going to understand the word of God. And so, you know right now, they’re saying that they’re two that I’ve been divorced for two years. I was like, well, that’s the fastest divorce I’ve ever seen my entire life, but we’ve been separated for 18 months, but that’s it. What’s going on? Roman Rivera rivers. Cool. Last Name, man, but, but, yeah, I just wanted to get on here. Tell my, tell my, uh, my truth. Wanted to let everybody know what’s going on. Been working on a marriage book. It’s pretty much finished. I’m pretty excited about it, to see what God’s going to do with it. I know that once I have the book out, we’ll be talking on on marriage. I’m going to be going deep from the beginning of the Old Covenant to the new covenant, and teaching within context of the original Hebrew and Greek scriptures of the meaning of Coven, of the meaning of marriage, and that’s something that we’ve lost so much today. And men out there, I have, we have a men’s Bible study we’ve been doing for about going on eight years. If you’d like to get more information, you can DM me. We have a bunch of men where we get together, we train each other up in the Word of God. We have about five or six pastors that teach, and we go deep, and we carry each other’s burdens like it talks about in Romans 15, to carry each other burdens, to be with each other and to pray for each other. You know, this, this, this situation I’m in has been a major blessing. I had to move to California because I was, like I said, falsely kicked out, and it’s been a blessing. At the same time, it was like a lot of pain, but I was like, wow, I see the blessings. God was protecting me. Um, I never felt, you know, safe in my own home. I always felt like something was off. And so I hope you guys are doing great. I hope this ministers to you. And

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I’ll put,

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oh yeah. And not only that, but her, her false, her fake. Fake has her, her Disneyland husband is following me all over Facebook. And, you know, I don’t know what he’s trying to get on me, but that the woman that he’s living with is still legally married, so he doesn’t believe in the laws of the land. And we need to make sure that my heart’s cries to say, Guys, let’s stay biblical. Let’s stay biblical, biblical, biblical, and stay abiding in God’s word.

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And remember

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Jesus came in the flesh

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and walked amongst us to change us would stay in the love letter of the word of God. I love you all. God. Bless you. We’ll be doing a series. I’ll probably start teaching a series. I’ve been teaching the book of Ephesians, which is beautiful man, and going verse by verse and totally breaking it up within the context of Scripture. And Ephesians is beautiful because it talks about our position in Christ, who we are, what we’re what we’re supposed to think, how we’re supposed to be, and knowing that our position is secure. And it’s a beautiful book that Paul wrote in during 63 ad which is part of the the prison letters and so and then all. Doing a I’ve been doing a teaching once a month on Psalms, going through each letter slowly and thoroughly on on Psalms. Right now we’re in Psalm six, which is beautiful, which Psalm six talks about how when we’re sinning, our body literally gets sick, especially if you’re a believer like you’ll get sick if you’re doing things that are, are not from the Lord, but I love you all and share the video. It’s about getting the word of God out there and making sure that we expose these people go to check out what’s what’s going on with Gustav la rooks. And, you know, let him know that God knows. Let him know, you know, don’t, don’t buy his courses. You’ll get ripped off. It’s hilarious. It really is. It’s like, wow, selling Jesus. But so, you know, he doesn’t work, you know. So they’re trying to floss, the floss, the the floss, the the church, get smart church, I love you. Don’t fall for the banana tilt pipe. I.