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Feb. 11, 2015 - Jim Bakker Show
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How to Build a Community
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Building Survival Communities 00:03:34
You keep saying you need for survival, you need community.
And so share with us how to build a preparation team or a community or however you want to call it.
Well, you know, we actually touched on it a while ago when I was sharing how the book of Acts really gives us the example of what we're going to see in the end days.
It was literally the book of Acts was the beginning, and now we're going into the end, and we're going to need the cell groups, literally the home cell, the in-home church.
The church is going to go underground.
We need to understand this.
And people that are prepping for their family, for their little group, there's going to be mean people going door to door, looking for people to have food.
And they're not going to just take your food.
They're going to take your life.
And they're going to, you know, just do things that we don't even want to talk about.
So you need to have a group that each of you can look out for each other.
So we need that community.
In fact, I kind of came up with like three examples here that kind of help spell out how this works.
And what I put down was you have one family where they're strong as gardeners.
You have another family that are strong in preparing, you know, food for health food.
So.
Okay.
And when I've said, know a farmer, find a farmer.
Yes.
Take a farmer to lunch.
So someday you're going to need him.
Don't wait till all hell's breaking to know the farmer.
Be nice to him ahead of time.
Yes.
You've got another family where they're ex-Marines and they're really good for security.
But now here's where the weakness comes in.
You have the farmer that hasn't prepared other than the fact he knows how to grow food.
And what happens is they have a really bad growing season.
And because he didn't have any prep food, his family starves to death.
Well, then you have the prepper who had the prepped food and he didn't have any security to be able to protect his prepped food.
And he didn't know how to garden and he runs out of food and they end up dying.
And then the third guy, you know, he's the Rambo, ex-Marine, and he's got all of the implements of being able to protect himself, but he doesn't know how to garden and he didn't store enough food.
So what happens is, you know, he's going to have to try to go out and forage, but he's going to run out of food because they said during the Great Depression, all the animals disappeared in a couple of months.
So even this ex-Marine's going to end up in trouble.
But the three of them come together.
You've got somebody that had the resources to store food.
He goes and partners with somebody, another family that knows how to garden, and then partners with somebody else that knows how to secure your home.
And this group of three families, they're sharing resources.
One is sharing skills and helping everybody to garden.
The other one, you know, instead of prepping for your family of four, you prep for a family of 12 because you brought in two other families and you created a community and you end up all surviving.
People to Cover the Bases 00:04:00
Because let me tell you, if you don't have a big enough group to watch over 24-7 daylight and dark, you eventually have to sleep.
And if you don't have enough people to cover the bases, you're in trouble.
Now, let's name some of the people that would be good again in your group.
I don't know if you said doctor.
I think you said doctor.
You know, I always say we have a doctor in our ends.
Doctor, nurses, farming.
You talked about that.
Carpenters, boy.
Anything, you need all skills, really.
You need to have a community, a Christian community.
And I always talk about my home church, but that's what they did in the Great Depression.
And they survived so well because they all had a piece of the puzzle.
Is there people you should avoid in your group?
Avoid.
Well, I mean, I don't know if you can pick or not.
Well, you know, one thing we're skipping over is that there are some people that are not going to bring a lot to the table.
We still have to be mindful of them.
You know, I've seen some preppers teach that if the people you're bringing in, if they can't contribute something very meaningful, then uh-uh, you're not in.
But that's not the way Christ would do this.
You have to take care of sick people.
Yes, you've got to look out for the elderly.
You've got to look out for kids.
Kids are not going to be able to do an awful lot.
They might be able to help a little bit.
So you've got widows to consider that don't have husbands to take care of them.
So it's like when you're prepping, if you really want to be used of God, then you need to be preparing on a large enough scale that you would be able to minister to the needs of those that can't put anything on the table.
I read some of the things you've written over the years, and one of the things that you said something about troublemakers.
You don't want troublemakers, but how in the world, you know, some people are just naturally ordinary.
How are you going to keep troublemakers?
You know what I wrote down in my notes is that we have to use wisdom in who we allow to come into our group.
And I listed three little categories, and I'll say a little bit about this.
I listed troublemakers, complainers, and those that are lazy.
Complainers and troublemakers will literally make life miserable for everybody in your group.
They can literally cause a mutiny in your group.
They can all get together and say, you're not feeding us enough, and da-da-da-da.
And you could just have huge problems.
And you want me to tell you something?
But there's an example in the Old Testament where they had a survival group and they had problems in the camp.
And it was Moses.
And it was Korah.
And he was literally causing so much dissension that they were going to literally just ruin the group.
And Moses had such a big heart, they didn't have the heart to kick him out.
So God opened up the earth and swallowed him.
But some people, their heart is too tender to do what you have to do.
That would be my problem.
Yes.
But the truth of the matter is you could just totally ruin your whole group.
So there might be people that might come to you and say, I want to be part of your group.
And if it's already desperate times, the wisest thing you can do is give them a grab and go bag with some food in it and say, you have to grab this and go because you don't belong in our group.
That's tough.
That's tough.
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