Jim Bakker Show - Christians and Dominion - Daniel Kolenda
Aired: 2020-10-05
Duration: 02:24


=== Why Dominion Matters (02:18) ===

[00:00:06]  Well, I believe when you when you talk about dominion, you know, there are some people they they criticize certain camps theologically for talking about what they call dominion theology.
[00:00:17]  And I understand that there's something very specific that they mean by that.
[00:00:20]  But the reality is that this entire book is a book about the church taking dominion.
[00:00:27]  And I'll give you proof of that.
[00:00:29]  Well, the first proof you need, just read the Bible.
[00:00:31]  The very first book in the Bible, God makes man and says, take dominion over the earth.
[00:00:37]  So that should be enough evidence for you.
[00:00:39]  But I was talking to one guy recently about the return of the Lord.
[00:00:43]  And I said, why do you think it is that Jesus hasn't returned yet?
[00:00:47]  He died on the cross 2,000 years ago.
[00:00:49]  And listen to what this guy said to me.
[00:00:51]  He said, he hasn't returned because he's busy building our mansions in heaven.
[00:00:57]  Now, I know why he thinks that, because Jesus said, I go to my father's house and all these things.
[00:01:00]  But listen, God created the entire world in six days.
[00:01:06]  He created it with the words of his mouth.
[00:01:08]  Do you really think it takes him 2,000 years to build a house, to build a mansion?
[00:01:12]  And besides that, he is eternal.
[00:01:14]  And he knew the end from the beginning.
[00:01:16]  Why didn't he think ahead and have these mansions prepared by now?
[00:01:19]  There's obviously something else going on here.
[00:01:22]  There is a reason that you and I and the body of Christ, there's a reason that we're in the world.
[00:01:27]  And Jesus told us what it is.
[00:01:29]  He said, you are here as salt and you are here as light.
[00:01:33]  We are here to represent the kingdom of God.
[00:01:36]  We are the conduits through which the power of God and the kingdom of God flows into the world.
[00:01:42]  If we don't influence the world for the glory of God, no one else will.
[00:01:46]  God doesn't just appear and do all of these things himself.
[00:01:49]  He works through his people.
[00:01:51]  In fact, even when Jesus came in the flesh, God himself, he wrapped himself, the Bible says, in the form, in the guise of humanity.
[00:02:01]  He came as a man.
[00:02:02]  He didn't just appear as some celestial being from realms of glory.
[00:02:06]  He came as a man in flesh and blood because the purpose and the assignment of influencing this world has been given to humanity.
[00:02:15]  We have a role to play.
[00:02:17]  And even when it comes to the, you know, the current political climate, all of these other things, we cannot be sitting silently on the sidelines.