Jim Bakker Show - Let God Clear Your Name
Aired: 2022-09-28
Duration: 03:19


=== Controlled By Scripture (03:19) ===

[00:00:00]  The verse that has, I would like to say, controlled me, not entirely, but a verse that back in 1956, after that experience of the Holy Spirit we talked about yesterday, somebody read to me, an old mentor, John 5, 44, that gripped me and I never could throw it off.
[00:00:26]  It's when Jesus said to the Pharisees who didn't believe in him.
[00:00:32]  Jesus said, well, how can you?
[00:00:34]  How can you believe who receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that comes from God only?
[00:00:40]  You see, it was not on the Pharisees' radar screen to want the honor of God.
[00:00:45]  They just wanted approval from one another.
[00:00:47]  And Jesus said, this is why you don't believe.
[00:00:50]  And that verse became my life verse to this day.
[00:00:54]  Now, I can't say, Jim, Lori, that I've always lived up to it because it's a pretty high standard.
[00:01:00]  But I've sought to.
[00:01:01]  And that means I will not try to clear my name, make myself look good, push myself, open doors, pull strings, let God do it all.
[00:01:15]  And this is the way I've sought to live.
[00:01:18]  And so every church that I've had, whether Palmer, Tennessee, Blue River Baptist Church in Salem, Indiana, Westminster Chapel, all of them, I didn't do a thing.
[00:01:32]  Not a thing.
[00:01:32]  They came to me.
[00:01:34]  And that's it.
[00:01:35]  I didn't try to get on your show, did I?
[00:01:37]  Did I write a letter to say, please have me?
[00:01:39]  No.
[00:01:40]  I couldn't do that.
[00:01:41]  I'm honored.
[00:01:42]  But this is the way I've lived.
[00:01:44]  And then when I saw this about Elisha, he didn't even bother to make Gehazi go back and tell him naming the truth.
[00:01:53]  Just let Damon think it.
[00:01:55]  And I think of myself, there are things people say about me.
[00:01:58]  Yeah.
[00:02:00]  There's something, I hope it's all right to say this.
[00:02:03]  It's so good.
[00:02:04]  There was something on the internet.
[00:02:06]  I don't know if it's still there now or not.
[00:02:09]  Under Wikipedia about me, it's just not true.
[00:02:13]  It's just not true.
[00:02:14]  Yeah, we understand.
[00:02:15]  And a friend of mine said, I know the people in charge of Wikipedia.
[00:02:19]  You can change that, R.T.
[00:02:21]  I said, oh, no, I prefer the anointing.
[00:02:25]  Leave it, leave it, leave it.
[00:02:26]  Let them think it.
[00:02:27]  It says something.
[00:02:28]  It's just not true.
[00:02:30]  It would be nice to rub it out for people to think what they do.
[00:02:35]  I thought, look, it's okay.
[00:02:37]  And this is the thing I admire about Elisha.
[00:02:39]  That's my point.
[00:02:40]  Do you see what I'm saying?
[00:02:41]  It shows he was a real man of God.
[00:02:44]  There are some people that could be prophetic, but they're not men of God.
[00:02:48]  You see, the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
[00:02:52]  And you have people with prophetic gifts who may not live godly lives.
[00:02:57]  And people wonder, how could it be?
[00:03:00]  King Saul had the gift of prophecy.
[00:03:04]  On his way to kill David, prophesied.
[00:03:08]  Figured that out.
[00:03:09]  These are things I don't understand.
[00:03:11]  But the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
[00:03:14]  And so the fact that you can have a gift doesn't mean you're a man of God.