Jim Bakker Show - We're in Revival and Don't Know It -  Dr. David Barton on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2018-10-19
Duration: 03:02


=== Biblical Christians? (03:01) ===

[00:00:00]  I don't even use the term Christian anymore.
[00:00:02]  I don't like the term Christian.
[00:00:04]  I use the term biblical because what happens is Christians keep making God in their image.
[00:00:09]  Well, here's what I believe.
[00:00:10]  I'm a Christian.
[00:00:11]  That's what God believes.
[00:00:12]  No, no, no.
[00:00:13]  No.
[00:00:13]  God's got a Bible and that tells you what he believes.
[00:00:16]  And so we call it ABCs.
[00:00:17]  Authentically biblical Christians, authentically biblical churches, authentically biblical colleges.
[00:00:23]  Right now, 50% of Christian kids that go to Christian colleges will renounce their faith while at college.
[00:00:29]  Tell me that's a Christian college if you're driving people away from Christian faith.
[00:00:33]  It's not a biblical college.
[00:00:35]  So we do everything in the name of Christianity.
[00:00:37]  I don't even like the term anymore.
[00:00:38]  And as I pointed out, 72% of pastors said we don't believe the Bible.
[00:00:42]  How can you be a Christian and not believe the Bible tells you how to become a Christian?
[00:00:47]  So, now, but from a historical standpoint, this kind of polarization that's happening now is always indicative of a revival.
[00:00:58]  And I think I can statistically prove we're in a revival right now.
[00:01:02]  But here's the deal: revivals always historically span decades.
[00:01:07]  The first great awakening went from 1730 to 1770.
[00:01:10]  That's 40 years.
[00:01:11]  We think a revival, the Spirit of God's going to come in and turn the nation over on Monday morning at 8 o'clock, we're all going to be fine.
[00:01:17]  It doesn't happen.
[00:01:18]  It's decades of hard work.
[00:01:20]  The second great awakening was 1801 to 1878.
[00:01:23]  It was 77 years long.
[00:01:25]  And here's the deal.
[00:01:26]  In revivals, it is always the church leaders who are the most outspoken advocates of what God's got going on.
[00:01:33]  If you take George Whitfield in the First Great Awakening, one of the reasons he preached outside was none of the pastors would let him preach inside their churches.
[00:01:41]  That's the only place he could go.
[00:01:42]  The pastors actually told their parishioners to go stand in the trees over George Woodfield and pee on him and defecate on him.
[00:01:50]  That's what the pastors were telling their people to do.
[00:01:53]  Usually about three-fourths of the way through a revival is when the church says, oh, we think God's doing something.
[00:01:58]  Let's be the leaders.
[00:02:00]  And so the church will take credit for the revival, but they're usually the last ones to come on board.
[00:02:04]  And that's what I see with a whole lot of our spiritual leaders right now.
[00:02:07]  They're still in that resisting thing.
[00:02:09]  Their people are going around them, which is, again, why we focus on what individuals can do.
[00:02:14]  It's not up to church leaders.
[00:02:15]  I would love to see church leaders be what God wants them to be.
[00:02:18]  That's why we have the sixth section of the book.
[00:02:20]  But historically, I think we're in a really good situation, as polarized as it is.
[00:02:25]  This is part of what helps, as Jesus said, separate the wheat from the tares.
[00:02:30]  We're starting to see who the tares are, which makes it really easier to know what wheat looks like.
[00:02:34]  We talked earlier in the Kavanaugh hearings.
[00:02:36]  With all that nonsense in Kavanaugh hearings, the nation has broken very much in a direction away from what they were trying to accomplish.
[00:02:44]  And so we're looking at picking up several Senate seats.
[00:02:46]  We're looking at keeping the House.
[00:02:48]  The approval ratings for Trump are the highest they've been since he's been elected.
[00:02:53]  That Kavanaugh stuff was part of separating the wheat from the terrors.
[00:02:56]  It's not an easy process.
[00:02:58]  It's not a pleasant process.
[00:02:59]  Revivals never are.
[00:03:00]  They're very messy.