Jim Bakker Show - Best of Times & the Worst of Times
Aired: 2015-08-06
Duration: 07:24


=== Arise, Shine (05:47) ===

[00:00:00]  Amen.
[00:00:00]  Bobby, it's so good to have you back.
[00:00:03]  Tell me what's been happening.
[00:00:06]  It's been busy, but good.
[00:00:08]  Give me a good story.
[00:00:09]  Good.
[00:00:09]  Come on, give me a miracle.
[00:00:11]  What a time.
[00:00:11]  We've been too negative this week sometimes.
[00:00:14]  We've been going through some mud files.
[00:00:16]  And you don't want to stay in the month.
[00:00:17]  No, here it is.
[00:00:18]  Psalm 16:11.
[00:00:20]  In his presence, his fullness of joy.
[00:00:22]  At his right hand are pleasures forevermore.
[00:00:24]  I'll tell you, God wants us to learn to enjoy Jesus.
[00:00:27]  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.
[00:00:33]  I'm telling you, it's going to be the best of times and the worst of times.
[00:00:37]  But I read the back of the book.
[00:00:39]  You and I win.
[00:00:40]  Oh, I'm telling you.
[00:00:41]  Wait a minute.
[00:00:42]  Yeah.
[00:00:42]  Say it again.
[00:00:43]  Yeah, I'll say it.
[00:00:44]  You said best of times and the worst of times.
[00:00:46]  See, come on.
[00:00:47]  You don't get it.
[00:00:48]  You got to get it.
[00:00:48]  This is it today.
[00:00:50]  You've got to have this.
[00:00:51]  Yeah, Bobby.
[00:00:52]  I'll tell you what.
[00:00:52]  People go, do you think we might be under judgment?
[00:00:55]  Absolutely.
[00:00:56]  We can't flaunt what we're doing in our nation and not have the judgment of God.
[00:01:00]  But in the midst of judgment, God will remember mercy.
[00:01:03]  Remember Habakkuk 3?
[00:01:04]  Oh, Lord, I heard your report and I was fearful.
[00:01:06]  But Lord, in your judgments, remember mercy.
[00:01:10]  I'm telling you, God is a God of mercy.
[00:01:12]  And He's going to have mercy on His people.
[00:01:14]  Oh, He's going to love His people.
[00:01:16]  He is going to love His people.
[00:01:17]  Do you really believe that it's harvest time coming?
[00:01:20]  I guarantee it's harvest time.
[00:01:22]  In this book, I wrote about it.
[00:01:23]  It's harvest time.
[00:01:24]  You wrote about it in the new shepherd's shepherd's rod.
[00:01:28]  Let me just explain a little bit about this.
[00:01:30]  This is our 20th year to do it.
[00:01:32]  20th year to, on the day of atonement, we have this visitation from Jesus Christ.
[00:01:36]  He'll come tell me some of the things that's going to happen in the future.
[00:01:38]  I transcribed it in this book called the Shepherd's Rod.
[00:01:41]  I'll just read the little back flip.
[00:01:43]  Okay, here it is.
[00:01:44]  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.
[00:01:57]  We must function as salt and light in a contaminated culture to light the life of Christ.
[00:02:04]  And this occurs best when we become who God says we are.
[00:02:07]  We're called to be sons and daughters of the most high God.
[00:02:11]  I'm telling you, God is going to show us who he is so we'll know who we are.
[00:02:16]  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.
[00:02:23]  And it's the word awestruck.
[00:02:26]  Get ready.
[00:02:27]  God said, This is the year he reintroduces himself to his people.
[00:02:31]  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.
[00:02:36]  Oh, listen.
[00:02:38]  No, listen.
[00:02:39]  This is time to be excited, honestly.
[00:02:42]  I've never seen such a time as the church needs to rise and shine.
[00:02:46]  Remember Isaiah 60, verse 1 says, Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
[00:02:53]  Deep, dense darkness will cover the nations, but the Lord's radiant light will be seen upon you.
[00:02:58]  Yes, it's going to get dark.
[00:02:59]  Remember, the Bible says it says, Prophet, prophet, watchman, watchman, what do you see?
[00:03:04]  He said, I see two strange things, night and light.
[00:03:07]  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.
[00:03:13]  I read the back, listen, you and I are destined to win.
[00:03:16]  Romans 8:37 says, Yet amid all these things, we're super overcomers, absolutely invincible in Christ.
[00:03:24]  Isn't that true?
[00:03:25]  Yes.
[00:03:26]  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.
[00:03:32]  Look at your neighbor and say, We're more than conquerors, we're more than conquerors.
[00:03:36]  Say it like you mean it.
[00:03:37]  We're more than conquerors.
[00:03:38]  We're more than conquerors.
[00:03:40]  The Bible said, If God be for us, who can be against us?
[00:03:43]  And we're absolutely sure God is for us.
[00:03:45]  In this book, the Lord said, I'm going to cause my people to see my goodness in such a way they're awestruck.
[00:03:53]  He said, Tell my people, prepare to be surprised.
[00:03:56]  And here it is, Habakkuk 1:5.
[00:03:58]  It says, God will do a work in our day.
[00:04:00]  It'll be so marvelous, so magnificent, we barely can believe it.
[00:04:04]  It said, when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, then were we like them that dreamed?
[00:04:09]  Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue was singing.
[00:04:12]  Then said they among the heathen, the Lord has done great things for them.
[00:04:16]  God is going to do a work in our day in such a magnitude, even the heathen will go, did you see that?
[00:04:22]  God is up to something.
[00:04:24]  This is the time.
[00:04:25]  This is the time God answers the hiss of the heathen.
[00:04:28]  The heathen have been mocking the church.
[00:04:30]  The media and the heathen, they're going, ha, where is your God?
[00:04:34]  Well, this is the year he answers it.
[00:04:36]  This is Psalms 115, verse 3.
[00:04:38]  It says, God is going to be mighty in the midst of his people.
[00:04:42]  So God is going to answer the hiss.
[00:04:43]  Where is your God?
[00:04:44]  He's going to be mighty in the midst of his people.
[00:04:46]  I'm telling you, God is going to rise up in you.
[00:04:49]  It's time for the eagles of God to soar and the lions of God to roar.
[00:04:54]  You believe that?
[00:04:55]  See, soar and roar.
[00:04:56]  Say it.
[00:04:57]  Soar and roar.
[00:04:58]  We're to soar into the heavenlies and we're to roar in this earth.
[00:05:01]  Amos 3, 8 says, A lion has roared in the streets.
[00:05:05]  Who can but prophesy?
[00:05:06]  I'll tell you, yes, Jesus was a lamb, but he's the lion now.
[00:05:11]  Say the lion.
[00:05:12]  I'm telling you guys, we're going to find out there's a conflict going on, but we're super victorious.
[00:05:18]  I'll tell you where we are prophetically.
[00:05:20]  We're right smack dab in the book of Jude.
[00:05:22]  We're in the book of Jude.
[00:05:23]  Remember, Jude said, I picked up my pen to write to you.
[00:05:26]  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 (01:51) ===

[00:05:34]  But it says in the Bible, I got possessed.
[00:05:37]  I was overcome.
[00:05:38]  I was under compulsion to write to you, the saints of God, that you would earnestly contend for the faith.
[00:05:43]  This is not a time to roll over and play dead.
[00:05:46]  This is a time to stand up and roar.
[00:05:48]  We've got to contend for the faith because it says, Certain men have crept in unawares, teaching the saints of God.
[00:05:54]  It doesn't matter how you live.
[00:05:55]  Live however you want to.
[00:05:56]  I'm here to tell you, it does matter how you live.
[00:05:59]  Now, I've got a warning for all the preachers.
[00:06:01]  I got a warning for all the preachers.
[00:06:03]  Now, listen to me.
[00:06:04]  The Lord came to me.
[00:06:05]  He said, the biggest battlefront is going to be for truth.
[00:06:09]  He gave me Proverbs 23, 23.
[00:06:12]  Proverbs 23, 23 says, pay the price for truth and don't sell it for anything.
[00:06:17]  Pay the price for truth.
[00:06:19]  What are you talking about?
[00:06:20]  Truth is going to be very costly.
[00:06:23]  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.
[00:06:32]  It's going to be costly.
[00:06:33]  But I'm telling you guys, we better get back into this book.
[00:06:36]  Our problem is we're way too conscious of trying to be politically correct.
[00:06:43]  And we're selling out biblical accuracy for political correctness.
[00:06:47]  And now listen, God's going to hold us accountable for that.
[00:06:50]  So preachers, pay the price for truth and don't sell it for anything.
[00:06:53]  Why is truth so costly?
[00:06:55]  We cannot sanctify the saints of God apart from truth.
[00:06:59]  John 17, 17 says, sanctify them through the truth.
[00:07:03]  Thy word is truth.
[00:07:04]  We can't clean up the saints and set them apart for the services of God if we're devoid of the truth.
[00:07:09]  And I'm telling you guys, we need to tell the truth about the truth.
[00:07:13]  It says, you'll know the truth in what?
[00:07:14]  The truth will set you free.
[00:07:16]  It says, who the son sets free is free indeed.
[00:07:20]  Oh, the word indeed is a courtroom term.
[00:07:22]  It means irrevocable.
[00:07:23]  When you're free, you're free.