Jim Bakker Show - Not Too Broken for God - Philip Cameron
Aired: 2017-03-01
Duration: 04:16


=== Dad's Obsessive Restore (03:45) ===

[00:00:00]  My dad back in Scotland many years ago bought an old Volvo.
[00:00:04]  It must have been 12 or 15 years old, an old Volvo.
[00:00:08]  It was the 164.
[00:00:10]  It was the rattiest car I've ever seen in my life.
[00:00:13]  And he drove this thing up to our house and I says, what on earth did you buy this junk for?
[00:00:19]  The body had rotted a bit because of the salt air in Scotland.
[00:00:24]  And he says, don't worry, Philip.
[00:00:25]  He says, I'm going to restore this car.
[00:00:28]  So he went and he found this guy that did body work and he spent more money on the body work of the car than the car was worth.
[00:00:38]  And this man says, I'm going to put a Rolls Royce finish on this car.
[00:00:42]  And the car was gone for months.
[00:00:44]  And I was home the day the car was delivered back.
[00:00:47]  The seats were still torn.
[00:00:49]  The interior was like a bomb had gone off in the middle of it.
[00:00:53]  And the car was all shiny.
[00:00:55]  And I says, how much did this cost you, Dad?
[00:00:58]  And I was standing across the roof of the car looking into his face.
[00:01:02]  And he didn't want to tell me.
[00:01:05]  And he dropped his eyes.
[00:01:06]  I says, can you please tell me how much this car cost you to fix?
[00:01:13]  And he told me, and it was worth more than the car was worth.
[00:01:17]  And I got mad at him across the top of the car.
[00:01:20]  And I says, what kind of foolishness is this?
[00:01:23]  That you spent all this money on a wreck of a car.
[00:01:27]  And you've painted the thing up and it looks great, but it's still an old piece of junk.
[00:01:32]  And I'm shouting at him across the roof of the car.
[00:01:36]  And then I noticed a tear running down his cheek.
[00:01:43]  And my voice trailed away.
[00:01:47]  And I said, I'm sorry, Dad.
[00:01:53]  And this is what he said to me.
[00:01:57]  You don't understand the joy I have in taking something that no one else wants.
[00:02:06]  I'm restoring it.
[00:02:08]  Hey, my child.
[00:02:10]  Monday, Roma.
[00:02:16]  I walked up the car and I hugged them.
[00:02:23]  I says, Dad, I am so sorry that I've destroyed a moment of such joy for you.
[00:02:32]  And he says, it's okay.
[00:02:33]  It's okay.
[00:02:35]  Your family hasn't gone so far that the reach of grace can't pull them back.
[00:02:42]  Things aren't so broken that God can't pour in oil and wine to restore.
[00:02:50]  But what you've got to do is identify with it.
[00:02:55]  What you've got to do is say, my God, this is for me.
[00:03:00]  This is my moment.
[00:03:03]  Whatever it is that has been broken, why don't you pull it with you right now to the altar?
[00:03:12]  Let's do something that can change destinies for babies not even born yet.
[00:03:22]  For family members that you don't know.
[00:03:26]  For husbands of your kids and wives of your kids that are alive and living right now that God's going to pull them into your family.

=== Sit Beside the River (00:45) ===

[00:03:37]  That the curse of darkness that's been gripping your family and choking the life out of it is going to be broken in the name of Jesus.
[00:03:48]  But you can sit beside a river.
[00:03:51]  Listen to me.
[00:03:52]  You can sit beside a river and die of thirst.
[00:03:59]  You can sit beside a backwinning table and starve to death.
[00:04:05]  It's only when you involve yourself in the river and involve yourself in the move and the voice and the whisper and the direction of the Holy Spirit.