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Aug. 6, 2015 - Jim Bakker Show
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Best of Times & the Worst of Times
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Arise, Shine 00:05:47
Amen.
Bobby, it's so good to have you back.
Tell me what's been happening.
It's been busy, but good.
Give me a good story.
Good.
Come on, give me a miracle.
What a time.
We've been too negative this week sometimes.
We've been going through some mud files.
And you don't want to stay in the month.
No, here it is.
Psalm 16:11.
In his presence, his fullness of joy.
At his right hand are pleasures forevermore.
I'll tell you, God wants us to learn to enjoy Jesus.
I'm telling you, we are facing dark days, but in the midst of it, God says he's going to cause us to rise and shine.
I'm telling you, it's going to be the best of times and the worst of times.
But I read the back of the book.
You and I win.
Oh, I'm telling you.
Wait a minute.
Yeah.
Say it again.
Yeah, I'll say it.
You said best of times and the worst of times.
See, come on.
You don't get it.
You got to get it.
This is it today.
You've got to have this.
Yeah, Bobby.
I'll tell you what.
People go, do you think we might be under judgment?
Absolutely.
We can't flaunt what we're doing in our nation and not have the judgment of God.
But in the midst of judgment, God will remember mercy.
Remember Habakkuk 3?
Oh, Lord, I heard your report and I was fearful.
But Lord, in your judgments, remember mercy.
I'm telling you, God is a God of mercy.
And He's going to have mercy on His people.
Oh, He's going to love His people.
He is going to love His people.
Do you really believe that it's harvest time coming?
I guarantee it's harvest time.
In this book, I wrote about it.
It's harvest time.
You wrote about it in the new shepherd's shepherd's rod.
Let me just explain a little bit about this.
This is our 20th year to do it.
20th year to, on the day of atonement, we have this visitation from Jesus Christ.
He'll come tell me some of the things that's going to happen in the future.
I transcribed it in this book called the Shepherd's Rod.
I'll just read the little back flip.
Okay, here it is.
The Spirit of Truth is awakening and arousing a radical remnant of overcomers ready to contend for the faith, ready to challenge change and the course of the church, thus altering the culture in which we live.
We must function as salt and light in a contaminated culture to light the life of Christ.
And this occurs best when we become who God says we are.
We're called to be sons and daughters of the most high God.
I'm telling you, God is going to show us who he is so we'll know who we are.
There's a word coming from heaven, and the word coming from heaven is going to come across the entire body of Christ and it's going to come like a tsunami.
And it's the word awestruck.
Get ready.
God said, This is the year he reintroduces himself to his people.
He told me, he said, the problem is, I get really loud, but I get so excited I could thread a sewing machine and it run him.
Oh, listen.
No, listen.
This is time to be excited, honestly.
I've never seen such a time as the church needs to rise and shine.
Remember Isaiah 60, verse 1 says, Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Deep, dense darkness will cover the nations, but the Lord's radiant light will be seen upon you.
Yes, it's going to get dark.
Remember, the Bible says it says, Prophet, prophet, watchman, watchman, what do you see?
He said, I see two strange things, night and light.
So we're living in a time when the dark is going to get darker, but the radical remnant is going to get brighter and brighter.
I read the back, listen, you and I are destined to win.
Romans 8:37 says, Yet amid all these things, we're super overcomers, absolutely invincible in Christ.
Isn't that true?
Yes.
I tell you, 1 John 4:4 says, Greater, superior in power and intellect is he that's in you than he that's in the world.
Look at your neighbor and say, We're more than conquerors, we're more than conquerors.
Say it like you mean it.
We're more than conquerors.
We're more than conquerors.
The Bible said, If God be for us, who can be against us?
And we're absolutely sure God is for us.
In this book, the Lord said, I'm going to cause my people to see my goodness in such a way they're awestruck.
He said, Tell my people, prepare to be surprised.
And here it is, Habakkuk 1:5.
It says, God will do a work in our day.
It'll be so marvelous, so magnificent, we barely can believe it.
It said, when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, then were we like them that dreamed?
Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue was singing.
Then said they among the heathen, the Lord has done great things for them.
God is going to do a work in our day in such a magnitude, even the heathen will go, did you see that?
God is up to something.
This is the time.
This is the time God answers the hiss of the heathen.
The heathen have been mocking the church.
The media and the heathen, they're going, ha, where is your God?
Well, this is the year he answers it.
This is Psalms 115, verse 3.
It says, God is going to be mighty in the midst of his people.
So God is going to answer the hiss.
Where is your God?
He's going to be mighty in the midst of his people.
I'm telling you, God is going to rise up in you.
It's time for the eagles of God to soar and the lions of God to roar.
You believe that?
See, soar and roar.
Say it.
Soar and roar.
We're to soar into the heavenlies and we're to roar in this earth.
Amos 3, 8 says, A lion has roared in the streets.
Who can but prophesy?
I'll tell you, yes, Jesus was a lamb, but he's the lion now.
Say the lion.
I'm telling you guys, we're going to find out there's a conflict going on, but we're super victorious.
I'll tell you where we are prophetically.
We're right smack dab in the book of Jude.
We're in the book of Jude.
Remember, Jude said, I picked up my pen to write to you.
I was going to write to you concerning the common salvation, not common in everyday, but common in Hebrews 6:1, the elementary rudimentary principles of Christianity.
Stand Up and Roar 00:01:51
But it says in the Bible, I got possessed.
I was overcome.
I was under compulsion to write to you, the saints of God, that you would earnestly contend for the faith.
This is not a time to roll over and play dead.
This is a time to stand up and roar.
We've got to contend for the faith because it says, Certain men have crept in unawares, teaching the saints of God.
It doesn't matter how you live.
Live however you want to.
I'm here to tell you, it does matter how you live.
Now, I've got a warning for all the preachers.
I got a warning for all the preachers.
Now, listen to me.
The Lord came to me.
He said, the biggest battlefront is going to be for truth.
He gave me Proverbs 23, 23.
Proverbs 23, 23 says, pay the price for truth and don't sell it for anything.
Pay the price for truth.
What are you talking about?
Truth is going to be very costly.
When we start telling the truth about the truth, and we start telling the truth about same-sex marriages, we start telling the truth about ordaining homosexuals to the ministry.
It's going to be costly.
But I'm telling you guys, we better get back into this book.
Our problem is we're way too conscious of trying to be politically correct.
And we're selling out biblical accuracy for political correctness.
And now listen, God's going to hold us accountable for that.
So preachers, pay the price for truth and don't sell it for anything.
Why is truth so costly?
We cannot sanctify the saints of God apart from truth.
John 17, 17 says, sanctify them through the truth.
Thy word is truth.
We can't clean up the saints and set them apart for the services of God if we're devoid of the truth.
And I'm telling you guys, we need to tell the truth about the truth.
It says, you'll know the truth in what?
The truth will set you free.
It says, who the son sets free is free indeed.
Oh, the word indeed is a courtroom term.
It means irrevocable.
When you're free, you're free.
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