Jim Bakker Show - A Wardrobe Malfunction - Bobby Conner on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-07-07
Duration: 04:04


=== Church Wardrobe Malfunction (03:50) ===

[00:00:00]  There's a warfare.
[00:00:01]  Yeah, Bobby.
[00:00:02]  And I don't know how in the world the church people are going to understand faith without works, is dead.
[00:00:09]  We've dead upon it.
[00:00:12]  I'll tell you one of the things that's happening, Jim.
[00:00:15]  The church has suffered a wardrobe malfunction.
[00:00:18]  You've heard me write.
[00:00:20]  The church has suffered a wardrobe malfunction.
[00:00:23]  God woke me up with that phrase one morning.
[00:00:25]  I sit straight up in bed.
[00:00:27]  I said, God.
[00:00:29]  I don't understand what you said to me.
[00:00:31]  He said, I want you to start announcing prophetically all over the world, the body of Christ has suffered a wardrobe malfunction.
[00:00:39]  I said, would you please give me some verses for that?
[00:00:41]  And he carried me to Judges 6, verse 34.
[00:00:45]  There's a man there named Gideon.
[00:00:46]  You remember the story?
[00:00:47]  Gideon was fearful.
[00:00:49]  He was inferior.
[00:00:50]  He had this inferiority complex.
[00:00:52]  He didn't have any perception of who he really was.
[00:00:55]  And the people of God were in a horrible situation.
[00:00:58]  The Midianites and the Amorites were coming in stealing.
[00:01:01]  And they were just trying to, God's people were just trying to get by.
[00:01:08]  And there's Gideon down in a wine vat.
[00:01:10]  Remember the story?
[00:01:10]  He's sifting wheat.
[00:01:12]  And the angel of God, Jesus pre-incarnate, says, hello there, you victorious warrior.
[00:01:17]  And Gideon goes, no, you couldn't be talking about me.
[00:01:20]  I'm from Manasseh.
[00:01:21]  Manasseh is the smallest tribe in all Israel.
[00:01:23]  My family is the weakest family in the hall of the tribe.
[00:01:26]  And besides that, I'm the weakest one in my father's family.
[00:01:29]  Wow, wow.
[00:01:30]  He was just told by God, you're strong and mighty.
[00:01:33]  And he said, no.
[00:01:34]  But listen, I'm telling you, here's what happened.
[00:01:36]  Judges 6, 34.
[00:01:38]  Let me read it to you.
[00:01:39]  It's unbelievable.
[00:01:40]  This is out of the Amplified Classic Bible.
[00:01:43]  Verse 34 says, but the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon with himself and took possession of him.
[00:01:51]  What?
[00:01:52]  There's the wardrobe problem.
[00:01:54]  There's too much flesh being exposed.
[00:01:57]  It says God clothed Gideon with himself.
[00:02:01]  You say, well, Bobby, that was Old Testament situation.
[00:02:04]  I read the New Testament.
[00:02:06]  Romans 13, verse 14 says, clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision to fulfill the lustful cravings in your life.
[00:02:17]  So God clothed Gideon with himself, but now we're to be mature enough to clothe ourself with the Lord Jesus.
[00:02:24]  So we've had a wardrobe malfunction, don't you think?
[00:02:27]  We need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:02:29]  Make no provision for justifying the flesh.
[00:02:34]  I want to challenge you and I want to implore you.
[00:02:36]  We have got to hang on to holiness.
[00:02:39]  We cannot.
[00:02:40]  We've got to be pure and clean if we're going to get close to God.
[00:02:44]  Psalms 24, 3 and 4 says, who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
[00:02:49]  He that hath clean hands and a pure heart.
[00:02:52]  You say, no, Bobby, listen, that's old school.
[00:02:55]  That's legalistic.
[00:02:56]  No, the Bible said in the New Testament, pursue peace and holiness, for without holiness, no individual will see God.
[00:03:03]  Holiness is not optional.
[00:03:05]  Here's what I tell these millennials and the young people.
[00:03:07]  I get to preach at some of the largest youth conferences going around.
[00:03:10]  And here it is, 2 Corinthians 7, 1.
[00:03:13]  Having, therefore, these promises, dearly beloved, let us purify ourselves.
[00:03:17]  Let us cleanse ourselves from every bit of the contamination of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the reverential fear of the Lord.
[00:03:26]  Jim, I'm going to tell you a secret.
[00:03:28]  One of the great things God's about to do to the body of Christ, he's about to release the holy fear of God.
[00:03:34]  The awe of God is coming back to the people of God.

=== Reintroduced to Christ (00:28) ===

[00:03:38]  The holy, reverential fear of the Lord is going to come back to the people of God.
[00:03:42]  He said, announce to the church, I'm about to reintroduce myself to my people.
[00:03:47]  You say, I don't understand that.
[00:03:48]  In the book of Revelation, there's a guy named John.
[00:03:51]  It says in the Gospels, he leaned his heart, his head against the very heartbeat of Jesus Christ, but he's about to be reintroduced to Christ in a deeper dimension.
[00:04:00]  He sees him now as king of glory, and he falls at his feet as though he were dead.