Jim Bakker Show - All Things For Good - Rabbi Jonathan Cahn on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-09-15
Duration: 02:30


=== Blessings Without Question (02:30) ===

[00:00:00]  We don't ask God why we were blessed.
[00:00:03]  We don't tend to do that much.
[00:00:05]  We don't question the blessings.
[00:00:07]  We don't ask, but we ask why when it's not.
[00:00:09]  And really, it should be the other way around, meaning we all are worthy of hell, and we've been saved.
[00:00:14]  So everything we got is a blessing.
[00:00:16]  Everything's extra.
[00:00:17]  So we should be asking every day, why'd you bless me, Lord?
[00:00:20]  Why?
[00:00:20]  I don't deserve it, but thank you.
[00:00:24]  But as far as the other things, we always ask God why.
[00:00:29]  And the Bible gives the answer.
[00:00:32]  I mentioned that you brought up that one time when I was here, the very first time is we were in the wake of the hurricane, that harbinger and the hurricane and swept our whole building.
[00:00:41]  But it happened actually on 8.28 is when Hurricane Irene happened.
[00:00:48]  828 struck us.
[00:00:49]  And so people said, 8.28, 828, 828.
[00:00:52]  That's familiar.
[00:00:52]  It's Romans 8.28.
[00:00:54]  Which says God works all things for good.
[00:00:57]  Even that, all things.
[00:00:59]  I don't know if you remember Richard Wirnbrand, and Serena.
[00:01:02]  They're awesome people.
[00:01:04]  And on my shows.
[00:01:05]  Awesome.
[00:01:06]  And they were in the underground church in Romania and they suffered under that.
[00:01:10]  He was in prison for 14 years.
[00:01:11]  Ten years.
[00:01:11]  He was beaten.
[00:01:12]  His feet were hurt.
[00:01:13]  Yeah, and yet he came out rejoicing.
[00:01:15]  He came out.
[00:01:15]  He had the greatest times with the Lord in prison.
[00:01:18]  They were people of joy.
[00:01:20]  And he said that the Lord said to him when he was in prison, he saw in the scripture it said, God works all things for good.
[00:01:29]  He saw that.
[00:01:30]  But he read it wrong.
[00:01:32]  It's really not, God worked all things for good.
[00:01:34]  He learned in prison, God works all things for good.
[00:01:37]  There's nothing that he doesn't work for good.
[00:01:39]  In prison, his life was, his ministry was born.
[00:01:42]  God did all those things.
[00:01:44]  And the other thing is that when he was in prison, he said, God, he was complaining.
[00:01:48]  Why?
[00:01:48]  He said, he was a pastor, and he finds himself chained up.
[00:01:52]  He says, why'd you, why do you, and he heard the Lord say, you're a pastor, but you were running around all the time.
[00:01:57]  I couldn't get you to sit down on my feet, so I had to chain you up.
[00:02:01]  So he said his feet.
[00:02:02]  And then he said, but Lord, Lord, I've been in solitary confinement for four years.
[00:02:05]  I haven't seen the sun rise.
[00:02:06]  And you said it rains on the, but also you caused the sun to rise on the righteous.
[00:02:12]  So even if you don't, and the unrighteous, so even if you don't think I'm righteous, please, why don't I have a sunrise?
[00:02:17]  Why doesn't the sun shine?
[00:02:18]  Why doesn't the sun shine?
[00:02:20]  And he said, the spirit of answers said, you're the light.
[00:02:23]  You shine in the darkness.
[00:02:25]  You're the sunrise.
[00:02:26]  You shine.
[00:02:27]  He ended up shining to his torturers, and he ended up winning them to the Lord.