Jim Bakker Show - The Secret to Forgiveness - The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-04-03
Duration: 07:01


=== Power Of Forgiveness (06:31) ===

[00:00:00]  Do you know the Bible tells us absolutely we're not going to heaven if we don't forgive?
[00:00:07]  Bible says you've got to forgive other people your sin.
[00:00:09]  You thought God just had to forgive sins.
[00:00:11]  You have to forgive.
[00:00:12]  Are you listening to me?
[00:00:13]  We have to forgive each other sins.
[00:00:16]  It just dawned on me why I couldn't sleep last night.
[00:00:19]  Because last night after I finished talking to you, after the day was over, you mentioned to me, I want to talk about the power of forgiveness, but I want to talk about if you don't forgive, you're not going to be saved.
[00:00:30]  And in the middle of the night, I could not go to sleep, and I kept thinking, who do I need to forgive in my life?
[00:00:37]  And all of a sudden, I went through the whole list of people that I needed to forgive.
[00:00:41]  I didn't realize that I needed to forgive these people, but when I began to search for my heart, right, that's where you started.
[00:00:48]  You have to forgive from your heart.
[00:00:50]  That's right.
[00:00:50]  And thank you for not letting me.
[00:00:54]  But why go to hell over getting even?
[00:00:58]  Exactly.
[00:01:00]  And the Bible is so clear.
[00:01:01]  Matthew 6:14.
[00:01:03]  Do you have your Bibles at home?
[00:01:05]  Always check on the preachers.
[00:01:07]  Make sure we're saying the right scripture.
[00:01:09]  Matthew 6:14, if you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you.
[00:01:17]  People say, I can never forgive them.
[00:01:19]  So what are you doing when you say, I can never forgive them?
[00:01:23]  It says, verse 15, but if you refuse to forgive others, your father will not forgive your sins.
[00:01:34]  Is that powerful?
[00:01:35]  Very.
[00:01:36]  That's scary.
[00:01:38]  And that's in America.
[00:01:39]  We're hating each other in America.
[00:01:41]  America's got to start love.
[00:01:43]  The church must show that we love each other.
[00:01:46]  We have to love our enemies.
[00:01:48]  People say, oh, I'm not going to do it.
[00:01:50]  Well, then you're going to hell and it's your own fault.
[00:01:53]  I remember you always saying to us during the, you know, getting to know Jesus, he said, love covers a multitude of sin.
[00:02:00]  Love doesn't allow the other person to know that they did something wrong to you.
[00:02:05]  That's the key to love.
[00:02:07]  Activating love is the key to understanding true forgiveness from your heart.
[00:02:12]  We're building a prayer chapel.
[00:02:16]  What does God say about praying?
[00:02:18]  Listen to this.
[00:02:19]  Mark 11:25.
[00:02:21]  But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins too.
[00:02:37]  Or also is that powerful?
[00:02:41]  You have to forgive others so God will forgive you.
[00:02:46]  Oh, church, we've gotten too ordinary in the church.
[00:02:50]  I mean, we've gotten too unforgiving.
[00:02:53]  Well, they did this to me, they did that to me.
[00:02:56]  You know, in prison, I would write, I call them the epistles from prison because I was writing them every month.
[00:03:04]  I write a massive letter.
[00:03:06]  I answered everybody who wrote me in prison.
[00:03:08]  I figured out how to write letters to everyone, how to write cards, how to.
[00:03:13]  And I would tell the people they had to forgive.
[00:03:18]  And people would write me back mad.
[00:03:20]  Wow.
[00:03:21]  You never should forgive that person.
[00:03:23]  What that person did to you is unforgivable.
[00:03:26]  That's not according to the scriptures.
[00:03:29]  You know, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
[00:03:31]  We're all sinners.
[00:03:32]  But to get to heaven, we forgive others.
[00:03:35]  And then our sins will be forgiven.
[00:03:38]  Amen.
[00:03:39]  So we got to, in America, we're going to have to, the church must start showing love for all.
[00:03:46]  Would you say amen?
[00:03:48]  Amen.
[00:03:48]  Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
[00:03:55]  Oh, people, what we give out, we get back.
[00:04:00]  Oh, I could preach a whole hour on that.
[00:04:03]  It's powerful.
[00:04:05]  And I'm asking all of you, let's get the prayer chapel going.
[00:04:10]  Let's emphasize prayer.
[00:04:12]  It's so powerful.
[00:04:14]  But God is saying, I mean, this scripture I just read, you know, if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.
[00:04:23]  Do you get this at all, people?
[00:04:24]  Absolutely.
[00:04:25]  This is powerful.
[00:04:28]  And it would change America and change the world if we just love everybody and forgive them.
[00:04:34]  I mean, I find myself the last couple years getting bitter over what the news, getting bitter over the conflict in the political system.
[00:04:46]  And it's really bad.
[00:04:48]  You must not get bitter.
[00:04:50]  We must forgive.
[00:04:52]  We've got to pray not just for our president, but all the other leaders.
[00:04:56]  Amen.
[00:04:56]  Whether you agree with him or not.
[00:04:58]  And the Bible says that first of all, remember who taught us that?
[00:05:02]  Ms. Billy Bram.
[00:05:03]  First of all, pray for the leaders and the kings.
[00:05:07]  We can't forget and just pick and choose who we want to.
[00:05:11]  The Bible says, for whosoever will.
[00:05:14]  That means who?
[00:05:16]  Everybody, right?
[00:05:17]  Love covers everybody.
[00:05:19]  And yesterday where I was trying to sleep, that scripture came into my heart.
[00:05:26]  I wanted to get even and write an email back and tell them my emotions and how I felt, and I have the right to feel this way.
[00:05:32]  So you're ministering to me right now about, you know what, I must forgive that person.
[00:05:38]  They don't know what they're doing.
[00:05:40]  Humble yourselves, right?
[00:05:41]  And I understand, and understanding that the word of God either works or it doesn't work.
[00:05:49]  You know, I don't know if you get what I'm doing, but I am giving the point this month on how to be saved.
[00:06:00]  That's right.
[00:06:01]  How to know you're born again.
[00:06:05]  What was our last week?
[00:06:06]  Does anybody remember?
[00:06:07]  How to be born again?
[00:06:09]  You must confess with your mouth Jesus Christ.
[00:06:12]  He said, if you're ashamed of me, I'm going to be ashamed of you.
[00:06:15]  So we confess with our lips, the Lord Jesus Christ.

=== Forgiving Bitterness (00:44) ===

[00:06:20]  And if he says, if we confess him before men, he's going to confess us before the angels in heaven.
[00:06:26]  And so it's very important.
[00:06:28]  And now today we're talking about forgiving others.
[00:06:32]  You have to forgive them all.
[00:06:34]  Everybody that's hurt you.
[00:06:36]  I've seen people die all gnarled up with disease because they wouldn't forgive.
[00:06:43]  Wow.
[00:06:43]  They wanted to be bitter.
[00:06:44]  They wanted to, they were going to get even.
[00:06:47]  But it's, you know, just like the Lord spoke to me in prison.
[00:06:52]  Jesus got even on the cross.
[00:06:54]  He's not trying to get even with you.
[00:06:57]  He's not trying to get even with me.
[00:06:59]  He's got even on the cross.