Jim Bakker Show - Time to Prepare Is Now
Aired: 2015-04-03
Duration: 04:03


=== Be Prepared (03:36) ===

[00:00:00]  How long have you been preparing your church, would you say?
[00:00:03]  Well, I've been preaching preparedness for a long time, many years, seven or eight years.
[00:00:08]  Really?
[00:00:09]  At least.
[00:00:10]  And longer than me, probably.
[00:00:14]  Maybe.
[00:00:14]  I don't know.
[00:00:14]  It may have started the same time.
[00:00:16]  Because, you know, it was back then when you and I were getting together a lot.
[00:00:20]  I don't know, but I felt like the Lord showed me that.
[00:00:22]  I felt like back then I would encourage our people when you go to a store, just buy a couple of extra cans or a few whatever and set them aside.
[00:00:32]  And you don't have to panic.
[00:00:33]  You don't have to do it all at once.
[00:00:35]  That was years ago.
[00:00:37]  I would step it up as I believe the time is getting shorter.
[00:00:40]  Now buy four cans, six cans, eight cans.
[00:00:44]  And now you can buy these buckets and this food and everything.
[00:00:48]  And I am telling our people, look, you don't have a whole lot more time, I don't think, when many things can happen that can require us to need that kind of preparation.
[00:00:59]  But I think it's valid.
[00:01:01]  And I also think it's wisdom, and I think it is the Lord's will.
[00:01:10]  You know, we often build our theology on the extremes of Scripture, which is a basic conflict with Scripture.
[00:01:19]  And I hear people saying all the time, well, the Lord said he would take care of me.
[00:01:23]  And he does.
[00:01:24]  He will.
[00:01:25]  But how does he do that?
[00:01:26]  I mean, he used Joseph.
[00:01:27]  He took care of Joseph, but he had Joseph do something.
[00:01:30]  And most of the time, he has his people do something.
[00:01:34]  You know, we have a couple of incidents in Scripture where he says, stand and see the salvation of the Lord.
[00:01:39]  You don't have to do anything.
[00:01:40]  I'm going to take care of this.
[00:01:41]  Well, many Christians build their whole theology on that when there are 200 times when he tells his people to fight.
[00:01:48]  Fight to take your land.
[00:01:49]  Fight.
[00:01:49]  I mean, over and over.
[00:01:50]  Most of the time.
[00:01:51]  So you don't base your theology on the extremes, but you're always open to that.
[00:01:57]  If the Lord speaks, that trumps everything.
[00:02:00]  But I'm not going to base that on an idealistic view.
[00:02:05]  I want to hear loud and clear, and on something this important, I want Gabriel to come with a scroll.
[00:02:11]  I'm telling you.
[00:02:12]  You know, I mean, it's really to violate the weight of scripture, you want serious, high-level revelation, not just an impression.
[00:02:21]  That's right.
[00:02:22]  You know, so the weight of scripture tells me, be prepared.
[00:02:27]  Now.
[00:02:30]  And you were very strong telling your congregation.
[00:02:35]  And you've started to have supplies at your ministry.
[00:02:40]  And you're even, I think you said you're putting out a catalog so your people can find things.
[00:02:45]  And, you know, you and I may be the only church preparing, but I think there's thousands of them really.
[00:02:50]  There are.
[00:02:51]  There are many.
[00:02:52]  And on different levels.
[00:02:54]  But I think it is a word that is becoming increasingly well received, and it's important that it is.
[00:03:00]  But, you know, what we also teach is, okay, if you know that power may be out for a while and different things, this is how you would prepare.
[00:03:09]  I think you need to mirror that with spiritual preparation.
[00:03:13]  Amen.
[00:03:14]  We need to have Bibles, Bible studies.
[00:03:17]  Your neighbors, without their television coming on, are going to be ready to read anything you give them.

=== Harvest Time (00:41) ===

[00:03:23]  That's right.
[00:03:24]  You know, to me, this is harvest time.
[00:03:26]  Yes.
[00:03:26]  This is harvest time.
[00:03:32]  It's our time.
[00:03:32]  It's the church time.
[00:03:33]  It's the soul wedding time.
[00:03:35]  Right.
[00:03:35]  And natural food.
[00:03:37]  I want to have enough to, if I know there's a family next door where I can bring them a meal or whatever and say, look, I know you're probably, and bring them material to read.
[00:03:47]  This really is the time we've got to prepare for salvation, for saving souls.
[00:03:53]  Yes.
[00:03:53]  And for discipling them.
[00:03:55]  And I believe it's going to be the best of times we've ever experienced.
[00:03:59]  But we don't want to have we don't want to be the ones that need ministry.