Jim Bakker Show - Why You Want To Be Famous In Hell   Dr RT Kendall
Aired: 2018-12-19
Duration: 02:39


=== Famous In Hell (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  You write here that the Apostle Paul was famous in hell.
[00:00:04]  Yes.
[00:00:05]  Why would a man of God be famous in hell?
[00:00:08]  Oh, because he's given so much trouble to the devil.
[00:00:12]  You see, the devil was threatened by somebody like Paul.
[00:00:17]  And I would love to think that I'm a threat to the devil.
[00:00:21]  I would love to think that.
[00:00:22]  Oh, but you are.
[00:00:24]  I wish, I hope you are.
[00:00:25]  In my case, you were.
[00:00:26]  Well, if I knew I was, it'd probably go to my head.
[00:00:31]  I would love it if I were famous in hell so that I was a threat to the devil.
[00:00:37]  I think one qualification for being famous in hell is to be a soul winner.
[00:00:44]  And there are people that don't even think about winning the lost.
[00:00:48]  And you see, if you win a person to Jesus Christ, that means that one of Satan's has become one of God's.
[00:00:54]  That's right.
[00:00:55]  And then the devil now has your number because you've got one of his.
[00:01:00]  And so I'd urge people, when I first went to Westminster Chapel within a month, I remember asking the question, how many of you out there have never led a soul to Jesus Christ?
[00:01:13]  Well, there was one man, his name was Bob George.
[00:01:17]  He said, here I am, 60 years old, and I've never led a soul to Christ.
[00:01:21]  And I felt so ashamed.
[00:01:23]  Well, to fast forward, we eventually had Arthur Blessett come to Westminster Chapel.
[00:01:29]  Old man's carried a cross around the world.
[00:01:32]  The best decision I made in 25 years is to invite Arthur Blessed to Westminster Chapel.
[00:01:36]  He turned us upside down.
[00:01:38]  He got us out on the streets witnessing.
[00:01:40]  I had never done it in my life.
[00:01:42]  And I thought, if I preach the gospel from the pulpit, that's good enough.
[00:01:46]  And Arthur said, no, you need to talk to people one-to-one.
[00:01:50]  And I had never done it, but I started doing it.
[00:01:53]  And we started our pilot-like ministry.
[00:01:56]  And the first person to join us was that man, Bob George, who was so ashamed that he never led a soul to Christ.
[00:02:03]  And he learned how to present the gospel to people.
[00:02:07]  The last time I talked to him before he died, I said, Mr. George, how many people do you suppose you've led to the Lord?

=== Why Be Popular in Heaven? (00:29) ===

[00:02:15]  He said, well, it's over 500.
[00:02:18]  Over 500.
[00:02:19]  He made up for lost.
[00:02:21]  I would say he got famous in hell.
[00:02:23]  So that's the idea.
[00:02:25]  I want to be popular in heaven because the decisions I make are not to be popular on earth, but to make me popular in heaven.
[00:02:33]  And then you become a candidate to be popular or famous in hell.