Jim Bakker Show - A Call for Accountability in the Pulpit | Emma Stark on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2022-01-31
Duration: 03:31


=== Prophets Call for Accountability (03:02) ===

[00:00:00]  Something that I really underlined here was prophets will call for accountability in the pulpit.
[00:00:07]  And I think we have been so used to pandering.
[00:00:11]  You could almost, can I just be really straight talking?
[00:00:15]  You could almost play bingo with the prophets.
[00:00:18]  You know, don't.
[00:00:19]  But you could, you know, and a prophet knows how to play to a crowd.
[00:00:23]  Oh, you're going to advance.
[00:00:25]  Oh, you're going to break through.
[00:00:26]  Oh, you're going to be rich.
[00:00:27]  I see a car.
[00:00:28]  Here comes promotion.
[00:00:30]  Yay!
[00:00:30]  The crowd goes.
[00:00:32]  And the egos all feel massaged in the room.
[00:00:36]  And can I tell you, I have had to do this a couple of times.
[00:00:39]  It is the most shocking, shaking things of my ministry where I've had to publicly say to a man, God did not call you into ministry and he's about to remove your church from you.
[00:00:54]  And I am literally, you know, it was a horrific.
[00:00:57]  It was horrific.
[00:00:58]  And do you know what I said to God at that moment?
[00:01:01]  You better come up with something brilliant right on the eye.
[00:01:04]  Because his wife, I rarely tell this story.
[00:01:08]  His wife jumped up, punched the air and said, Yes, thank you, Jesus.
[00:01:12]  I knew it.
[00:01:13]  And she was my best friend in that.
[00:01:15]  Oh, I believe this.
[00:01:18]  But actually, the Lord then said this, find his son.
[00:01:22]  And I'm like, where's his son?
[00:01:23]  And he was playing the drum kit.
[00:01:25]  I didn't know.
[00:01:26]  And the Lord said this, that man, the son, stole his father's church keys, had a set cut so he could sneak into the church to intercede for it in a way his father was not.
[00:01:41]  And he said, because that man, that young man, his son, prayed through the night, I will give him the church that his father was never supposed to have.
[00:01:50]  Can I tell you, I thought they were going to stone me.
[00:01:55]  And I remember ringing my husband saying, God, may you never ask, you know, saying to David, may God never ask me to do that again.
[00:02:03]  But I actually feel like God is saying, we are going to do that over and over and over again.
[00:02:10]  And there are moments where I've sat in the front row and I have seen adultery in the leader.
[00:02:16]  And I have literally got my head between my knees and prayed, God, would you be merciful to that man?
[00:02:22]  And God is saying, Emma, I'm not going to let you or the prophets bury your head between your knees in the front row and pray for mercy.
[00:02:29]  I'm going to ask you to clean out my house.
[00:02:32]  And I think there is this phrase that we're hearing at the moment.
[00:02:36]  Do not sit at tables that Jesus would have turned over.
[00:02:41]  And do we like it?
[00:02:44]  No.
[00:02:45]  Do we want to hear it?

=== Love Of Kingdom First (00:43) ===

[00:02:47]  No.
[00:02:47]  Can I actually say, do you and I want to be those prophets?
[00:02:50]  Actually, not really.
[00:02:52]  You know, let's be honest.
[00:02:53]  And I think God is purifying his prophets.
[00:02:56]  He exposed their fleshliness through the debacle with some of the political prophecies that went horribly wrong.
[00:03:03]  You know, he exposed their love of their nation that was first when they should have loved his kingdom first.
[00:03:12]  So they heard about their nation in the wrong way because they didn't love the kingdom of God first.
[00:03:18]  And God says, look, the prophets have been shaken and purified.
[00:03:22]  Why?
[00:03:23]  Because I actually now need to use them to clean up my house.
[00:03:27]  So I think that's what came out.
[00:03:28]  Was that that was a long way to answer your question?
[00:03:31]  Wow.