Jim Bakker Show - Basic Bible Doctrine - Bob Yandian on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2021-12-17
Duration: 06:50


=== Basic Bible Doctrine (06:37) ===

[00:00:00]  Bob, why is it important for believers to have an understanding of basic Bible doctrine?
[00:00:07]  This is what I'm talking about: redemption.
[00:00:10]  That's basic Bible doctrine right there.
[00:00:12]  That's right.
[00:00:13]  Well, the Bible says that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
[00:00:17]  And we have so much lack of knowledge today that Christians don't even know the elementary things.
[00:00:22]  They got saved and thought that's it.
[00:00:24]  And the purpose of being saved is to grow up and become a disciple and lead others to Jesus.
[00:00:30]  If all God's purpose was is just leaving us here or not leaving us here just to save us, then we'd get taken out of here immediately.
[00:00:37]  But he left us here.
[00:00:38]  I heard this said one time that a convert is one that gets to go to heaven, but a disciple is one that takes people with him.
[00:00:45]  And that's why God has left us here.
[00:00:47]  But you have to have some understanding, and the best place to get it is under a pastor who studies this because he has a gift for it.
[00:00:55]  Everyone of us can understand the word of God, but not like it's explained by somebody called, anointed by the Holy Spirit, to open it up.
[00:01:01]  And you go, I never saw that before.
[00:01:03]  It's right in front of my eyes, but I never saw it before.
[00:01:06]  So that's why we need to change it.
[00:01:07]  We need the church.
[00:01:08]  We need good gospel preaching.
[00:01:12]  And you have about seven, eight points of theology there.
[00:01:19]  You start with predestination.
[00:01:22]  Uh-huh.
[00:01:24]  Could you give me the headlines of each one?
[00:01:26]  Yeah.
[00:01:26]  Okay.
[00:01:27]  Well, the headlines on each one is you just stole my book.
[00:01:29]  So I got to look at it.
[00:01:31]  He does that often.
[00:01:32]  He does that too.
[00:01:33]  He does.
[00:01:34]  Yes.
[00:01:34]  I'm constantly watching.
[00:01:35]  Predestination.
[00:01:37]  There's reconciliation, sanctification, glorification, justification.
[00:01:44]  Sanctification.
[00:01:45]  Yes.
[00:01:45]  I won't go to all these because I don't want to just go ahead and get the book.
[00:01:48]  Anyway, but haven't we heard about sanctification?
[00:01:51]  Oh, yes.
[00:01:52]  Any Pentecostals here?
[00:01:54]  Yeah.
[00:01:55]  Sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost.
[00:01:57]  Sanctified, Satan, filled with the Holy Ghost.
[00:02:01]  I think a lot of them still don't even know what sanctification means.
[00:02:03]  Sanctification is really the changing of your lifestyle to where now you become righteous and act like it.
[00:02:11]  It's more than just being righteous, it's where people can see it.
[00:02:14]  And there's three different types of sanctification.
[00:02:17]  The first one is before God.
[00:02:19]  And the next one is walking in sanctification.
[00:02:22]  Some people say, well, I don't need to live it.
[00:02:23]  I've got it.
[00:02:24]  Well, yes, but if you've got it, the world needs to see it.
[00:02:26]  Right.
[00:02:27]  And so, but the third type of sanctification is when you actually get a resurrection body and get to go with be with Jesus.
[00:02:34]  Now, then you talked about glorification.
[00:02:35]  Uh-huh.
[00:02:37]  Justification.
[00:02:38]  Uh-huh.
[00:02:39]  Redemption.
[00:02:40]  What else?
[00:02:41]  Well, my favorite, honestly, is propitiation.
[00:02:44]  These are names that usually, when you mention them to Christians, their eyes roll back in.
[00:02:48]  Exactly.
[00:02:48]  And they just go off over.
[00:02:50]  Right.
[00:02:50]  So, what does that mean?
[00:02:51]  Propitiation is the word for satisfaction.
[00:02:54]  The Rolling Stones saying about I can't get no propitiation.
[00:02:57]  That's right.
[00:02:58]  The word simply meant is that, in fact, the word propitiation means mercy seat.
[00:03:03]  Mercy seat is the correct translation.
[00:03:05]  And mercy seat was the last place the blood was.
[00:03:08]  Wow.
[00:03:08]  It was shed.
[00:03:09]  It was put into bowls.
[00:03:10]  And then the last thing was it was sprinkled on the mercy seat.
[00:03:13]  And the mercy seat is where God looked at it and was satisfied.
[00:03:17]  In the Old Testament, he was not really totally satisfied.
[00:03:20]  He was momentarily appeased.
[00:03:23]  And he had to wait for the next one.
[00:03:25]  And the next one, when Jesus went to the cross and God saw the blood of Jesus, he said, no more sacrifices.
[00:03:30]  This is what I've been waiting for.
[00:03:32]  Every sacrifice kept pointing to the one.
[00:03:34]  And when Jesus died, God was eternally propitiated, eternally satisfied.
[00:03:39]  When I grew up in Pentecost, we used to sing a song, I am satisfied, I am satisfied.
[00:03:44]  Satisfied to know that my Savior loves me so.
[00:03:47]  Well, you may be satisfied, but tomorrow you may not.
[00:03:50]  The best thing is not whether you're satisfied.
[00:03:52]  The best thing is God was satisfied with the work of Jesus on the cross.
[00:03:56]  The last one is election.
[00:03:58]  Election.
[00:03:59]  Well, that goes right with back here with predestination.
[00:04:03]  The first one, the last one go together.
[00:04:05]  And the reason why is they've been so distorted today.
[00:04:09]  And when people talk about predestination, they usually say, well, that just means God chose you to get saved, and he may not choose you to get saved.
[00:04:18]  And that's the full extent of where this thing has gone to.
[00:04:20]  It's actually an over-dramatization of the sovereignty of God.
[00:04:24]  And there are some places where God is sovereign, but the Bible usually tells us he is.
[00:04:28]  But in this case, predestination, both predestination and election have a key word attached to it.
[00:04:34]  It's like this.
[00:04:35]  We often say, well, I'm going to study predestination.
[00:04:38]  No, predestination is a brick built on a foundation.
[00:04:41]  And the foundation is foreknowledge.
[00:04:43]  Whom the Lord did foreknow.
[00:04:46]  Them he did predestine.
[00:04:47]  Why did God predestinate me to get saved?
[00:04:50]  Because he knew I would.
[00:04:51]  He saw me at five years old in vacation Bible school, kneeling at the altar, and the pastor's wife leading me to Jesus.
[00:04:58]  You think that took God by surprise?
[00:05:00]  You think he turned to Jesus and said, We weren't planning on this.
[00:05:03]  No, he knew exactly what was going to happen, but when did he have a plan for my life?
[00:05:08]  Before the foundation of the world.
[00:05:09]  Yes, amen.
[00:05:10]  Because he saw me all the way down there do that.
[00:05:12]  Let's take it to the other extent, like with prophecy.
[00:05:16]  Is there an Antichrist?
[00:05:17]  Yes.
[00:05:19]  Well, I don't know if he's alive right now or not, but you know, people, he's in the Bible.
[00:05:22]  Well, the point of it is God wrote about him thousands of years ago.
[00:05:27]  Did that mean that God created Antichrist?
[00:05:29]  No, Satan did.
[00:05:30]  But God knows what Satan's going to do.
[00:05:32]  He knows what his plans are, and he makes plans around it before the problem ever exists.
[00:05:37]  Amen.
[00:05:38]  You can't walk into a problem today that God didn't know before the foundation of the world and have a plan out of it.
[00:05:44]  Amen.
[00:05:45]  But the point of it was predestination is whom the Lord did foreknow, them he did predestinate.
[00:05:51]  So he knew I would get saved.
[00:05:53]  But he also said in John 6, he knew who would save him or who would get saved and who wouldn't.
[00:05:57]  He knows that ahead of time.
[00:05:59]  But God didn't make you get saved.
[00:06:01]  He knew you would accept him.
[00:06:03]  So it comes back to this.
[00:06:04]  I like to think of it this way.
[00:06:05]  I ask women in congregations, how do you have a serving heart?
[00:06:10]  You love to have meals at your house to invite people over.
[00:06:14]  And a lot of women raised their hand.
[00:06:15]  I said, how do you know how he's going to come?
[00:06:18]  They said, well, I said, you send out invitations, but how do you know they're going to accept the invitation?

=== Exact Number Seats (00:28) ===

[00:06:22]  Four little letters at the bottom, RSVP.
[00:06:26]  And that means, will you come or will you not?
[00:06:28]  And if they say, I'm coming, we have a place for you at the table.
[00:06:32]  If you don't say you're coming, you're falling back on your own plans.
[00:06:35]  You're not going to take up my plans.
[00:06:37]  I'm here to let you know that Jesus will have the exact number of seats at the table at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
[00:06:46]  And when He does, it's because He knew ahead of time.
[00:06:49]  He doesn't need an RSVP.