AN OPEN DEMAND TO CEASE AND DESIST

Psalm 15:1-4
(A Description of a Citizen of the Heavenly Zion)
O LORD, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill (Heaven)?
He who walks with INTEGRITY, and works righteousness,
And speaks TRUTH in his heart.
He does not SLANDER with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who HONORS those who fear the LORD....
Preface: It is truly a sad commentary on the society mankind has engendered at the dawn of the 21st Century—the Age of Technology and Information—driven as it is by a ubiquitous voracious craving for information about everyone and anyone, more often than not for ignoble purposes, that an open letter such as this must be written and published. In a span of a decade or so, the World Wide Web has morphed into a "Beast" in some ways even more horrific than what apocalyptic preachers on the Beast of Revelation envisioned decades before the invention of the personal computer. It has become a technological Frankenstein, a thoroughly impassionate and impudent monster that fiendishly invades people's private lives, ruthlessly thrusting aside any vestiges of privacy—that ethereal precept once esteemed almost sacrosanct in noble and God-fearing societies—in frenzied search of all the informational dirt that can be scrounged up, void of any semblance of regard for the pain or injury such barbaric intrusion inflicts upon the invaded. But, that is the miserable state of affairs today. Nothing is private anymore.

Nothing is personal or out of bounds to the prying eyes and itching ears of demon-inspired people hell-bent on defaming and maligning everyone who is a "public figure" of any sort or measure. To some twisted and demented people who apparently have nothing better to do with their time, uncovering and publishing the details of the personal tragedy of the private lives of public figures in hopes of adding to their suffering has become their new Technology Age sport, and the Internet, with its ability to anonymously publish libelous websites, has become the modern-day form of public stocks in the town square. There is absolutely nothing right or righteous about any of this kind of ungodly fascination with the realm of darkness, deception, and demonic decimation of the lives of fellow human beings, and anyone who participates in it in any way is no less guilty than the perpetrators themselves. It's all the work and world of Satan, not of our glorious and holy God.

Such has been the scenario for this ministry for the last three years (at the time of this writing) at the hands of one family of demon-possessed deceivers who have set out to do all their demon-inspired minds can conjure up in hopes of bringing harm to this ministry and pain to its principals through scurrilous and completely unfounded allegations and innuendo. God's judgment and the meting out of His fierce vengeance upon those offenders is an absolute certainty, as day-by-day they are "storing up wrath for [themselves] in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds" (Rom. 2:5,6). The wicked and totally false accusations and evil maligning from these few individuals, whose primary motivation is their own covetousness and the age-old root of all evil—the love of money—unfortunately, have made it necessary to publicly address the issues contained in this article. Somehow, in their madness, these enemies of Christ have concluded that their hysterical and obsessive compulsion, driven by their greed and covetousness, to do anything and everything their devious minds can conjure up in an attempt to recover freewill contributions freely made to this completely legitimate and God-appointed ministry by one of their family members gives them a right to conjure up and publish a thoroughly false, unfounded, and devil-inspired smear campaign on the Internet as a means of retaliation.

The very fact that these demonically motivated individuals have chosen to levy this campaign of libel and slander on the Internet instead of through legitimate legal means tells it all—that all of their allegations and innuendo are completely groundless and have no basis in truth or reality. In fact, it is an established fact that can be proven if necessary that the madness of these crazies can be attested to by several attorneys who refused to take on their "case" because of its groundlessness as well as the fact that it was evident that the whole matter was a complete fabrication in their own minds. One such attorney, after dealing with the former husband and the son leading this scurrilous attack for several weeks, during which time she made a thorough investigation of the whole matter, actually finally threw these people out of her office, and felt so personally imperiled by their aggression that she had to threaten to call law enforcement if they did not immediately leave her office in order to get them to leave. (This incident was reported by the woman involved herself immediately following a phone call she received from her attorney in which he reported the incident to her after receiving the report from the attorney representing her former husband.)

The Real Truth
In 2004, a woman who accompanied by her husband had attended one of Dr. Lambert's seminars more than a year previously, and who Dr. Lambert had not been in contact for about a year, contacted him to tell him that she had just received payment of a relatively small inheritance, and that the Lord had told her to make a donation from that money to his ministry. She asked for the account number of the SLM bank account, so that she could deposit the donation directly into the ministry account, which she did. The funds were designated to the general fund which is for paying the bills of the ministry. To give perspective to the matter without violating the right to privacy and confidentiality of the donor, the amount of the donation was equal to the monthly expenses for the normal operations of its ministry offices in Jupiter, Florida for about ten months. Not one dime of the money was ever paid to Dr. Lambert in salary. In fact, the real facts are that in the entire history of SLM, Dr. Lambert has NEVER received ONE PENNY of salary from the ministry. Rather, his personal support has always come from other means than the ministry, which is all documented and proven FACT! In 33 years of laying down his life to minister to thousands of people in a multiplicity of ways, Dr. Lambert has never ever received from the ministry the wages that Jesus Himself declared several times in the Gospels the workman is worthy of receiving. With all the financial abuses and self-aggrandizement taking place today by mega- and high-profile ministers it is important that this fact concerning Dr. Lambert be known by all. 33 years of ministry at his own expense should put to shame anyone who would make false allegations about Dr. Lambert and then spread their demonic defamation over the World Wide Web, especially when one of these accusers has bragged and arrogated for years to whoever will listen about his business accomplishments and that he is a multi-millionaire, and another of the sons makes his living as the manager of a bar/strip-club that he claims is owned by the Mafia.

These unscrupulous perpetrators of these demonic ad hominem attacks have created several websites that exist for one purpose—to slander, malign, and libel this ministry and Dr. Lambert. They also misuse unmoderated forums hosted by sleezy, unscrupulous people and entities for the same wicked, and totally ungodly purposes, who apparantly regard trashing other people and their reputations, especially Christians and Christian ministers, as a sport and a new form of entertainment, for which the Internet is the 21st Century Colliseum. These few individuals have made a number of totally unfounded, false, and scurrilous claims about Dr. Lambert and his ministry, for which they provide absolutely no proof, and cannot provide proof, because such proof simply does not exist.

The chief of their complaints is that Dr. Lambert counseled the woman who was the wife of the man behind all their attacks and who was also the donor mentioned earlier, to divorce him. But, what he and his step-sons do not say, of course, is that this man is a demon-possessed enemy of Christ and His Cross, a high-degree freemason, a business scoundrel, a wife-beater, a minister-hater, a pathological liar, a tax-defrauder, who has openly and repeatedly bragged about being a participant in plots, including some while employed by past high-ranking US government officials, in which people were murdered [and on and on it could go with the long list of ungodly and un-Christian deeds of this man), who, according to the wife's testimony who voluntarily came to Dr. Lambert for counseling, has been physically and psychologically abusive to former wives and his children, and on numerous occasions, did the same to her, in addition to constantly traumatizing her with rants and rages in which he would destroy her personal belongings as well as their family possessions, constantly surveilled her every move while they were married, stalked her for months during their separation, forcing her to call the police for protection on numerous occasions because she feared for her life, and who engaged private detectives to surveil her and report her every move for more than a year following their separation.

These people, who falsely claim to be Born Again Christians, have also added to their demonically-inspired slander and maligning, an inference of an affair between Dr. Lambert and this woman, which is an outright lie, and is proven to be so by the fact that in all the time this man was stalking and having his wife surveilled, not one scintilla of evidence of an affair was ever gathered or reported, nor have these people ever published any such evidence on their websites. Moreover, they themselves have stated on their websites that the wife/mother has consistently refused to talk about the matter to them and has never, not even once, alleged that there was ever any affair or mutual romantic relationship between her and Dr. Lambert, or even so much as there ever being any romantic interest in her on the part of Dr. Lambert. If she ever did make any such allegations she knows she would be under the severest judgment from God for making such a blatantly false allegation that can be disproven and repudiated by a large number of friends and associates of Dr. Lambert who were there and knew everything about him there was to know. In fact, Dr. Lambert met with one of this woman's sons at her bequest in order to minister Christ to him, at which time Dr. Lambert told the son face-to-face at that meeting that there was not, never had been, and never would be any romantic element whatsover in the relationship of Dr. Lambert and the son's mother, and that the only relationship that existed was one of a pastor and christian counselor with a parishioner and counseling client.

The fact that this woman has never come forward to set the record straight, defend Dr. Lambert, and clear his name, and in the process purge her own conscience before God, is something she lives with every day of her life. She knows it's the right thing to do, and without any doubt the Holy Spirit repeatedly and incessantly speaks to her about it, but that is her choice to make. She can continue to be a passive participant in this Satanic scheme to smear the name of a man of God who layed down his life to minister to her and render assistance to her at a time of severe crisis in her life, or she can continue with her cowardly complicity with Satan, and refuse to heed the call of the Holy Spirit and do what is right to her grave and when she must stand before God to give account for her deeds.

The whole notion is thoroughly preposterous and obviously nothing but the invention of these people's imaginations. The fact is, this woman divorced her husband because she was scared to death of the man and possessed absolutely no romantic love for him whatsoever. Her divorcing her husband had absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Lambert, except that he was her counselor, and counseled her in accordance with "the whole counsel of God" predicated entirely upon the Word of God. Anyone who believes that God intends or requires women to remain married to husbands of the nature and character of this wicked man are thoroughly deceived, wrong, and Biblically ignorant, and any counselor who would counsel a woman to remain in this sort of situation and subject herself to this sort of bondage and constant threat of danger to her person, besides being totally decieved themselves, makes themselves responsible for the consequences of their counsel—the blood is upon their hands. Only the most sadistic, misogynistic, and diabolical of counselors would counsel someone to stay in such a scenario and that doing so is the will of God!

Another of the matters these evil slanderers have attempted to use to defame, malign, and libel Dr. Lambert is the extremely painful matter of Dr. Lambert's divorce from his wife of 28 years. Their totally unChrist-like, fallacious, unbiblical, and defamatory characterization and inferences of this tragic matter is shameful and reprehensible. The real truth about the whole matter is recounted in "A Story of Redemption and Restoration," for anyone who feels compelled by some untoward motivation to pry into the private lives of others like sleezy grocery-store tabloids aficionados. Certainly the real truth of the matter is nothing like the innuendo painted by these dastardly low-lifes, who, if they had so much as an ounce of civility or remnant of the Holy Spirit resident within them would be mortally ashamed of themselves for adding more pain to two people's lives who are already suffering the enormous pain of separation after 28 years of companionship.

Another of the scurrilous and completely false charges of these demonic accusers is that Dr. Lambert has engaged in deceptive and illegal practices in his ministry. One of those charges—that because Dr. Lambert is not licensed by the State of Florida, the statements on his website of being a "certified" Christian counselor is untrue and illegal—demonstrates the ignorance and lack of credibility of these people, because, due to the separation of church and state doctrine, there is not now, nor has there ever been, a requirement for Christian ministers to be licensed by the State of Florida to be able to hold themselves out and function as a Christian counselor, which is a synonymous term with "pastoral counseling" that has always been held to be an ecclesiastical function and constitutionally protected right of churches. At no time has Dr. Lambert claimed to be "licensed" by the State of Florida in any capacity. His certification as a Doctoral Diplomate Christian counselor is through an ecclesiastical organization that credientials ministers in pastoral or Christian counseling, which is perfectly legal and widely recognized. Additionally, Dr. Lambert has held ordination credentials with numerous ministerial associations for more than thirty years, as do muliplied thousands of other ministers in the US. These false accusers would do well to ensure that their charges are based upon truth regarding the laws and common ecclesiastical practices, and refrain from misrepresenting the facts, "For even a fool is accounted wise if he keeps his silence."

Another absurd allegation by these ungodly self-appointed judges is that this ministry does not have Federal tax-exempt status, because their research indicated that this ministry has not been issued a Certificate of Tax-Exempt Status by the IRS. Besides the fact that the necessity of such a certificate from the IRS is required to function as a church and receive donations is a myth and that the right to do so is guaranteed under the Constitution, this ministry has had tax-exempt status under a group-ruling through other non-profit church organizations since its inception. In this matter as well, these false accusers do not have their facts right and are engaging in outright lies and deception themselves in their attempts to malign and defame this ministry and its principals.

Again, as stated in the preface, everyone involved in this demonic smear campaign are driven by ulterior motives, none of which are right, just, Biblical, or in any way reflective of Christian character. The motives of the ex-husband are all related to his fomenting rage at finally being exposed as the evil man that he is and has always been and that his former wife finally found the good sense and courage to divorce him and free herself from his Satanic clutches. His further motive is his vile and insatiable craving for revenge, with which he has with lies and deception contaminated his step-sons, in order to elicit their complicity in his diabolical schemes aimed at exacting vengeance. The thing that makes this aspect of it all so obviously demonic is that, according to the testimony of the former wife and biological mother of the step-sons, the relationship between her former husband and her sons has always been contentious, bitter, and filled with hatred. Only a plot for vengeance has coalesced them under a fallacious guise of unanimity.

But, the primary common denominator at the bottom of these conspirators' diabolical actions is nothing meritorious or noble at all, but rather their base greed and covetousness—"the root of all evil"—the love of money. As stated earlier, in their madness, these enemies of Christ have concluded that their hysterical compulsion, driven by their greed and covetousness, to attempt to recover freewill contributions freely made to this ministry by their mother and former husband trumps all necessity for civility, godliness, and Biblical Christian character, and grants them the right to fabricate and publish a thoroughly false and unfounded smear campaign on the Internet as a means of retaliation and revenge.

Any sane, rational, reasoning person, Christian or not, considering these matters would in an instant know that there is absolutely no justification, especially in the light of the facts related here, for the actions and attitudes of these few individuals. In fact, what a reasoning consideration of these matters elicits is that it is the accusers who are the ones who have violated every principle of Christian conduct and attitude enumerated in the Word of God. There simply is no justification for these people's unChrist-like conduct and scurrilous charges. Moreover, the ungodly lifestyles of these false accusers, their record of criminal activity, and their shady business involvements are a matter of public record, and completely undermines their credibility and the credibility of their outlandish, outrageous, and totally unproven allegations against Dr. Lambert and his ministry.

Demand To Cease and Desist
The principals, advisors, supporters, and friends of this ministry are unanimous in their conclusion that five years of enduring the false and unfounded accusations of these people is more than enough. They have been given more than ample time to reassess their schemes, to recognize the error of their ways, and to repent. But, obviously they have no interest in what is right.

Thus, they and the entities who are hosting and publishing their websites are herewith advised with a demand to IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST from these scurrilous schemes of slander, maligning, libel, and public defamation; in particular to forthwith remove and take down all websites, blogs, and forum entries, referring to Dr. Steven Lambert, and any derivation of his name, and Steven Lambert Ministries, and all derivations of its name.

Failure to immediately comply with this demand to CEASE AND DESIST will result in legal action against all participants, including the domain and host providers and all persons and entities who contributed in any way to the false and unproven slander and libel and defamation published in any way and any form on the Internet, or in any and all other forms, forums, and media. It will further result in the revelation of all their names on the SLM website as well as documentation supporting every statement in this article concerning these individuals.

He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets, Therefore do not associate with a GOSSIP. (Prv. 20:19)

A perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate friends. (Prv. 16:28)

Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him. (Psalm 160:11)

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure. (Psalm 101:5)

He who conceals HATRED has lying lips, And he who spreads slander is a FOOL. (Prv. 10:18)

Do not slander a slave to his Master, Or He (his Master) will curse you and YOU will be found GUILTY. (Prv. 30:10)

Everyone who HATES his brother is a MURDERER; and you know that NO MURDERER has eternal life abiding in him. (1 John 3:15)