Jim Bakker Show - A Friend Loves At All Times - The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-09-24
Duration: 03:39


=== Iron Sharpens Iron (03:38) ===

[00:00:00]  You know Abraham, God called him his friend.
[00:00:04]  That's right.
[00:00:05]  And that's what God, you know, and Noah was a friend of God.
[00:00:10]  Noah walked with God.
[00:00:12]  Yes.
[00:00:12]  And the friendship is a God thing.
[00:00:17]  And iron sharpens iron.
[00:00:20]  It says so.
[00:00:20]  Proverbs 27, verse about 17, I think.
[00:00:25]  And John's iron.
[00:00:28]  You really are, John.
[00:00:30]  You're strong.
[00:00:31]  And you tell me the truth.
[00:00:32]  You'd give me advice.
[00:00:35]  But you're also tenderhearted.
[00:00:37]  Yes.
[00:00:38]  But all the ministries I've been a part of, we started with CBN, and then we started TBN, and then PTL, and then all the other things, and then mornings.
[00:00:48]  And it was young people, just like in this school, they sharpen iron.
[00:00:55]  That's how we learned.
[00:00:57]  That's how things worked.
[00:00:59]  It works.
[00:01:00]  Let me read that again.
[00:01:01]  As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend.
[00:01:07]  Right.
[00:01:07]  And that you don't get mad.
[00:01:10]  You learn.
[00:01:11]  Right.
[00:01:11]  You don't get offended.
[00:01:12]  And so then you tell the, and that's what we, that's how we built a PTL.
[00:01:18]  Literally, with young people, all of us, we were just young.
[00:01:22]  I was a young guy when we opened the first satellite network.
[00:01:25]  Didn't know how to do it.
[00:01:26]  But we did it by working together.
[00:01:29]  Yes.
[00:01:30]  And a friend loveth at all times.
[00:01:34]  And you know, a troublemaker plants seeds of strife.
[00:01:37]  And that's what will get into the church sometimes.
[00:01:39]  It'll get into a family sometimes.
[00:01:42]  But it says, a troublemaker plants seeds of strife.
[00:01:47]  Gossip separates the best of friends.
[00:01:51]  Have you seen it in your lifetime?
[00:01:52]  Oh, yes.
[00:01:53]  Things that you didn't even know, people got mad.
[00:01:56]  You know what I mean?
[00:01:57]  But the Bible says, friends stay with you.
[00:02:01]  And in the last days, what we're going through and what's coming, people, and I've got some messages to bring to you.
[00:02:07]  They're backing up in my brain and my heart right now.
[00:02:09]  But we've got so much coming.
[00:02:12]  We're living in the last days.
[00:02:14]  We're living in perilous times.
[00:02:16]  There is such a shaking coming that it's time for the church to be ready.
[00:02:20]  And God spoke to me decades and decades and decades ago that it's the body of Christ, their relationship, and their friend.
[00:02:30]  And that's how we're going to survive.
[00:02:32]  Amen.
[00:02:32]  He says, I'll build my church.
[00:02:35]  And that's what that friendship is.
[00:02:36]  That's real friendship.
[00:02:37]  You forgive one another.
[00:02:39]  You restore one another.
[00:02:40]  That's what friends do.
[00:02:41]  And so friendship is how you're going to survive in the last days.
[00:02:47]  You love one another.
[00:02:49]  And there's so many scriptures I'd like to read to you today.
[00:02:52]  But it says disregarding another person's faults preserves love.
[00:02:58]  I love the living Bible.
[00:03:00]  You know, love hardly notices when others do it wrong.
[00:03:06]  Right.
[00:03:07]  Ooh, isn't that a good one?
[00:03:09]  But telling a person's fault separates close friends.
[00:03:16]  A heartfelt counsel of a friend, Shar, is as sweet as perfume and incense.
[00:03:22]  Did you know that's in the Bible?
[00:03:24]  That's awesome.
[00:03:24]  That's you, Mom.
[00:03:26]  You are the great wisdom.
[00:03:29]  And everyone has all, my whole entire life has always gone to mom for counsel.
[00:03:35]  Wounds from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.
[00:03:38]  That's what the Bible says.