Jim Bakker Show - Redeeming The Time
Aired: 2021-03-22
Duration: 04:58


=== Redeeming Time Through Justice (04:58) ===

[00:00:00]  Share a little bit more about redeeming the time of great injustice.
[00:00:07]  You know, Jesus loves to bring justice.
[00:00:11]  He does.
[00:00:11]  And that's a big, huge part of redemption is the Lord King Jesus, he actually brings justice with him.
[00:00:18]  And I want to tell you, number one, I want to tell you, sir, I'm so sorry for all that you've been through this last year.
[00:00:24]  And I'm sorry because there is suffering and there is persecution.
[00:00:28]  And a lot of people that are watching have suffered incredible loss and they've suffered incredible persecution.
[00:00:35]  I have friends all over the world in our teams all over the world, and we have seen incredibly difficult and hard things.
[00:00:44]  And I don't want to make light of any of those things because those things are dark and they are evil and they are terrible.
[00:00:51]  I think that the shift that has to take place has to do with a couple of different things because it reminds me of the book, A Tale of Two Cities.
[00:01:00]  It was the best of times and the worst of times.
[00:01:02]  And I think that the closer that we get to the return of King Jesus, the more extreme things are going to be.
[00:01:09]  That the things that are good and the breakthroughs that we're seeing are incredibly amazing.
[00:01:14]  And also the things that are against us are mounting.
[00:01:17]  And both of those things are going on at the same exact time.
[00:01:20]  So Jesus talked about if your eye is evil, then your entire body is evil.
[00:01:25]  And it has to do with the lens of how we're able to see things.
[00:01:28]  Now, I can be in a terribly, a terrible situation and be experiencing great, great, great pain.
[00:01:36]  And what's real is I can't help but feel that.
[00:01:39]  I can't help but feel the pressure.
[00:01:40]  I mean, it's real.
[00:01:42]  But I'm not alone.
[00:01:44]  And when I say I'm not alone, I say, I mean, I have the ability, the God-given grace to literally invite the presence of Jesus into this situation, not just to bless me from there and send a blessing towards me, but to actually step into this with me.
[00:02:02]  As I know that you have over and over and over again throughout the years, you wouldn't be alive if you didn't have the presence of Jesus within your life.
[00:02:09]  And so we all know that.
[00:02:11]  But there's a way that we can literally, you know, Brother Jim, this great injustice I was talking about of me being thrown out of Bible college when I was a young man.
[00:02:22]  It wasn't until 2015 or 2014 that I literally just stopped, just went, I need to quit.
[00:02:29]  I have been so ashamed of that.
[00:02:30]  And it hurts so bad.
[00:02:32]  And it was such a bad time in my life.
[00:02:34]  And it spun me off a little bit.
[00:02:36]  I need to invite the Lord back into that place, literally into it, not just metaphorically, but ask for the manifest presence of Jesus.
[00:02:46]  And that's the glory of God.
[00:02:48]  And we know that whenever Brother Moses, he said, Lord, I want to see your glory.
[00:02:52]  I want to see your glory.
[00:02:54]  God said, okay, I shall cause my goodness to pass before you.
[00:02:57]  That when God shows up in his glorious way, or what is it?
[00:03:01]  It's his visible awesomeness.
[00:03:03]  It's his tangible presence.
[00:03:05]  Our Hebrew brothers and sisters call it the weighty presence of God.
[00:03:08]  He shows up his goodness.
[00:03:10]  And we know that goodness overcomes evil.
[00:03:14]  The Bible says, do not be overcome with evil, but rather overcome evil with good.
[00:03:18]  And goodness is attached to the manifest presence of Jesus.
[00:03:22]  And so I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, you're not subject to time.
[00:03:25]  You know, it doesn't matter if I invite you into now or into my future or into my past.
[00:03:30]  You're not subject to time in any way whatsoever.
[00:03:32]  Lord God, be with me on that day that that man spoke so shamefully to me.
[00:03:36]  Be with me on that day where my heart was so broken.
[00:03:40]  Be with me on that day, Lord God, and I rely upon you.
[00:03:43]  And then, boom, it changed my now.
[00:03:46]  And all of a sudden, that same exact Bible college began to require its students to read my book.
[00:03:55]  Well, inviting the Lord into that place and asking and believing in the power of redemption is everything for us as believers.
[00:04:04]  To literally see the goodness of God, to taste and see that the Lord is good.
[00:04:10]  Personally experience that.
[00:04:12]  So what's real is we are going to suffer persecution.
[00:04:17]  We are going to suffer hard times.
[00:04:19]  We are going to have things taken away from us.
[00:04:22]  But what's real is this.
[00:04:24]  Where sin does abound, grace does much more abound.
[00:04:29]  And we will not be dismayed.
[00:04:31]  We will not stop.
[00:04:32]  We will not fall back.
[00:04:33]  We will not just decide to, we're going to sit around and rot back and forth and freak out.
[00:04:37]  That's not what we're going to do.
[00:04:39]  Man, we're going to be the people of God and we can and we can have courage because we know that God is with us.
[00:04:46]  And that's what the Lord told Brother Joshua, have courage, have courage, have courage, for I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you.
[00:04:51]  Being able to see the presence of Jesus and view everything from the lens of I'm not alone and God is with me is everything.