Jim Bakker Show - What Is Repentance From Dead Works - Rick Renner
Aired: 2021-05-24
Duration: 03:08


=== Need for Discernment (02:20) ===

[00:00:00]  We need this foundation.
[00:00:04]  Yes.
[00:00:05]  So we can't be shaken.
[00:00:07]  Amen.
[00:00:07]  Amen.
[00:00:08]  And so could I ask you, I don't know if it's a hard question or not, but what is repentance from dead works?
[00:00:18]  What does that mean in the Bible?
[00:00:19]  Can you tell me what that means?
[00:00:22]  Well, a dead work would be trusting in anything except Christ.
[00:00:26]  It's just dead.
[00:00:27]  It's just dead.
[00:00:28]  Yeah, I want to say a word about Hebrews chapter 5, because in Hebrews chapter 5, it says that when you're established in these foundational things, it gives you discernment.
[00:00:39]  Well, we're living in a day when people really need discernment.
[00:00:43]  And Brother Jim, you're talking about all the craziness on TV and the craziness in society.
[00:00:49]  And I hate to harp on these issues, but we are just surrounded these days by nonsensical thinking.
[00:00:56]  Fantasy.
[00:00:58]  And the Holy Spirit prophesied that would happen at the end of the age.
[00:01:01]  He said there would be an invasion of seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
[00:01:06]  And people today are just being bombasted with nonsense.
[00:01:10]  And they're being told that it is the new truth.
[00:01:14]  And a lot of young people who are not taught in the Bible, they don't have discernment.
[00:01:19]  So they're listening to a lot of this nonsense that they're hearing from Hollywood and the courts and education and everywhere else about their gender and new morals and a new way of thinking.
[00:01:30]  And they don't have what they need to discern whether this is nonsense or whether it is truth.
[00:01:38]  And the reason they don't have the ability to discern is because they don't know the Bible.
[00:01:44]  I don't have to question whether things are right or wrong.
[00:01:47]  You know why?
[00:01:48]  Not because I'm so smart, but because I've been exercised by the Word of God.
[00:01:54]  And the Word of God gives you common sense.
[00:01:58]  The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
[00:02:04]  And when you have a fear of the Lord and you have a handle on these real basic foundational truths, it gives you the ability to immediately and quickly say, that's not right.

=== The Word Provides Clarity (01:02) ===

[00:02:17]  Nope.
[00:02:18]  I don't care what they say.
[00:02:20]  That's not right.
[00:02:21]  You don't have to be brilliant to know.
[00:02:23]  But if the word of God is in you, it gives you discernment.
[00:02:26]  Isn't that right, Denise?
[00:02:28]  Absolutely.
[00:02:29]  It is our stability.
[00:02:31]  The word of God is our stability.
[00:02:33]  You know, everything else is shifting and shifting and shifting.
[00:02:37]  But you go to this word.
[00:02:39]  Sometimes I read the word and I say to Rick, Rick, this is so clean.
[00:02:44]  This is so pure.
[00:02:46]  And it just ministers to you because when you read the word of God, it tells you who you are.
[00:02:54]  It tells you who you're not.
[00:02:57]  And it's just given us a path, a clear path that we don't have to be moved from by every kind of wind and every kind of storm,