Jim Bakker Show - The Importance of Prophecy - Perry Stone on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2018-05-31
Duration: 02:43


=== Faithful to God (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  So I think, going back to your question, I think a lot of times in churches, they are so careful not to offend anyone.
[00:00:07]  And that's, in reality, what I think, if they would preach under an anointing, there's always going to be people that don't like it.
[00:00:15]  But God always replaces people who leave you with other people because you're faithful to him.
[00:00:24]  Yes.
[00:00:25]  And that's the key.
[00:00:26]  If you'll be faithful to God, God's going to be faithful to you.
[00:00:30]  And I've learned it's just like with Jesus' ministry.
[00:00:33]  One day, Jesus, Jesus, he's the hero.
[00:00:35]  Next minute, crucify, crucify.
[00:00:37]  You know, one minute you're the hero.
[00:00:38]  Next day, they're trying to put you on a cross.
[00:00:40]  But I think that's it.
[00:00:41]  I think it's the debt issue.
[00:00:41]  But these are the times we're living in that people, you just said it.
[00:00:44]  I like.
[00:00:44]  I want to hear those statistics.
[00:00:46]  You said that women, young people, children are more interested in the prophetic than anybody.
[00:00:54]  And I seem to find that true myself.
[00:00:57]  I mean, I'm so interested in it.
[00:00:59]  I'm so into it.
[00:01:00]  I want to know everything.
[00:01:01]  I think four years ago to five, we didn't see it.
[00:01:04]  But what happened is the teaching got out, and then people would begin to do like you do, begin to see things in the spirit.
[00:01:11]  I would see it.
[00:01:12]  It would happen.
[00:01:12]  So they're saying, maybe we need to pay attention.
[00:01:15]  Maybe we need to pay attention to this guy.
[00:01:17]  And I know in the Baptist churches, they love prophecy more than any other group.
[00:01:21]  The Catholics now who begin to watch Christian TV are very much into the prophetic.
[00:01:26]  And here's the reason prophecy is so important: it proves the Bible is true.
[00:01:32]  It proves that Jesus, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy in the book of Revelation.
[00:01:38]  So when you begin to talk about it and then you begin to show people, here's the evidence, it's specific, here's the Greek and Hebrew word.
[00:01:46]  Here's what's it's like, oh, wow, man.
[00:01:49]  Hey, that's pretty cool.
[00:01:51]  Then they want to study it more to discover because can I tell you all something after 41 years of preaching, writing since I was 18 years of age, I can tell you that even though God has blessed me, I say God's blessed me, I guess the Lord just put up with me doing it.
[00:02:09]  But I have about 170,000 hours of study, and people don't believe that, but that's those two guys right there, what I do all day from the time I get, time I leave, I'm in an office.
[00:02:17]  I don't even know that I've gone to lunch with them one time at lunchtime.
[00:02:20]  I'm in there studying.
[00:02:21]  And I'll just say, give me something to eat.
[00:02:23]  So my point is that in all of this that you do, it doesn't, understanding prophecy doesn't just come because, hey, I think I'm going to understand.
[00:02:33]  Oh, God, that's good.
[00:02:34]  You've got to know what he said.
[00:02:36]  But what's exciting is that people then pay attention when God begins to do something.