Jim Bakker Show - The Church is not being the Salt or the Light - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn
Aired: 2017-01-17
Duration: 03:34


=== Gospel Pastors Preaching (03:34) ===

[00:00:00]  Rabbi, before we get off this subject of what to vote for, how to vote, what about what's going on in America?
[00:00:08]  I have seen in America the scariest change that I've ever seen.
[00:00:18]  Not just in the sinning America, the church America.
[00:00:25]  And I'm talking about gospel pastors.
[00:00:35]  And when I say gospel, preach what they call the full gospel.
[00:00:39]  People that are Baptists, people who are all different denominations.
[00:00:48]  And they are preaching, you know, you must be born again.
[00:00:53]  They're preaching about Jesus.
[00:00:57]  But they are standing in their pulpits and they are naming the candidates.
[00:01:04]  And this is in elections past as well as now.
[00:01:08]  And they are telling their people from the pulpit to vote for someone who is totally in favor of abortion.
[00:01:24]  This is a time of testing, our testing.
[00:01:27]  When you look at, you know, what did Messiah say?
[00:01:30]  He said, you are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world.
[00:01:32]  Well, what happens if the salt loses its saltiness and the light doesn't shine?
[00:01:36]  Well, the salt doesn't preserve and everything becomes rotten, and if the light doesn't shine, everything becomes dark.
[00:01:43]  Well, you can't have one without the other.
[00:01:45]  If America is going so rapidly to darkness and cultural rottenness, then it must mean that the church as a whole is not being the light and the salt it was called to be.
[00:01:59]  Cannot be any other way.
[00:02:00]  Cannot possibly, it doesn't mean everybody, but it means a large scale.
[00:02:04]  We have witnessed, in our prosperity, we've witnessed the turning of the gospel away from focusing on God to focusing on us.
[00:02:11]  What can God do for us?
[00:02:12]  And in our own confines, the culture's going to hell, but God is here to make you more successful.
[00:02:19]  He's here to be your personal counselor, your trainer.
[00:02:22]  That's not who God is.
[00:02:24]  Yes, God will bless, but God is God.
[00:02:26]  We are his worshipers.
[00:02:28]  So this thing has been, has already, it's kind of, you know, one of the signs of judgment is when the righteous are of no effect.
[00:02:36]  And that's what we are watching.
[00:02:38]  You cannot have the floodgates open if the watchmen were doing their job.
[00:02:42]  Some of it's the culture, but some of it's the church.
[00:02:45]  So that is part.
[00:02:46]  It's not everybody.
[00:02:47]  There are a lot of righteous people.
[00:02:49]  At the same time, there's also a lot of righteous people who are very scared and they don't want to say anything.
[00:02:53]  They don't want to stick their neck out because they don't want a lawsuit.
[00:02:55]  They don't want to be cast again.
[00:02:56]  They don't want to be called a bigot.
[00:02:58]  But it's cowardice.
[00:03:00]  There's no time for being a coward here.
[00:03:02]  We have to stick our neck out or every neck will go off.
[00:03:05]  It's time for courage.
[00:03:06]  God calls us to be courageous.
[00:03:10]  You know, again, the gray is going, and so you're going to be, you're either going all out or all out one way or the other.
[00:03:16]  Might as well go all out for what is good.
[00:03:18]  Might as well go, you know, take the frick at the breaks, go completely out, because that's what the days are requiring.
[00:03:23]  This is our test.
[00:03:24]  And you're going to see who stands.
[00:03:25]  You know, when everything's gray, you don't see it all.
[00:03:27]  When the test comes, that's when you see people where they were really at.
[00:03:32]  So true.
[00:03:33]  And churches as well.