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Oct. 17, 2023 - Jim Bakker Show
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Should We Be Angry | Robert Henderson
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Courts of Heaven Prayer 00:03:02
Robert, in your show, you teach people how to pray and petition the courts of heaven.
Tell me about that.
Well, see, I honestly believe, Jim, that the court of heaven, and all that we've just been saying here, that the court of heaven is a solution, because in Daniel chapter 7, verse 26, it talks about, it actually describes the Antichrist and the Antichrist spirit, that he rises up against God.
He intends to change times and laws, all this kind of stuff.
But this is what it says.
But the court was seated and they took away his dominion.
So I believe our operating in the court of heaven is our only hope of undoing the Antichrist and his agenda that we're presently see operating in the earth today.
And so when I talk about the court of heaven, it is a many people think I teach a method of praying.
I'm not teaching a method of praying.
I'm teaching a spiritual dimension because when you talk about the court of heaven, Jesus actually put prayer in three dimensions, approaching God as father, friend, and judge in the book of Luke.
Okay, so when you approach God as father, according to Matthew 6, 6, you step into a place called the secret place.
We all know what the secret place is.
At least we should.
It's a place where we find deep intimacy with God and commune with him and all that.
But then when we approach him as friend, we step into a place called the counsel of the Lord, which is a place, it's a very powerful dimension.
Moses from the council of the Lord actually convinced God not to destroy Israel when they had sinned against him in Numbers 14.
And there are several others that you can see in scripture that was in the counsel of the Lord.
But then Luke 18 talks about approaching a judicial system when we pray.
And that's when we step into the courts of heaven.
And in that place, we began to remind God.
The Bible says in Isaiah 43, 26, the Bible says, put me in remembrance.
Let us contend together.
State your case that you may be acquitted.
In the courts of heaven, we call God into remembrance of who he is, what he has promised, what he has said.
And we began to say, on the basis of this, God, we're asking for a righteous judgment in our behalf, that you would remember your covenant with us.
You would remember your covenant with Israel.
You would remember your covenant with America that our founding fathers made.
And we began to petition God that he would once again be merciful to us and be merciful to our nation because that's who he is.
See, you're actually presenting a case in the courts of heaven when you do that.
Righteous Anger Stirred 00:06:17
In your recent program, Courts and Culture, you raised the question, should we be angry?
Please explain what you meant by that.
Well, you know, I try to come up with relative themes.
And what I actually talk about is I use the scripture when one of the kings came against Israel.
And he said, if you'll let me put your right eye out, you know, then you can be my servants and I'll treat you well.
I mean, they actually were considering this.
So they sent out a decree.
You know, is there anybody here to save us or should we let this guy put our right eye out?
Well, Saul, the first king of Israel, had already been anointed king by Samuel.
Well, that anointing that was on him, man, it caused him to rise up and say, dude, what?
We're going to let this guy put our run out.
And the Bible says he became angry.
He became angry.
I believe there is a righteous anger that needs to stir in the hearts of God's people that says, And I think that the righteous anger is: we are standing for the cause of God.
We are standing for the word of God.
We're not going to lay down and let you walk all over us.
We're going to stand up and resist you with the very last breath that we have.
And I talk about in that show, I actually talk about how that anger was one of the driving points of the Revolutionary War.
That's true.
It just said, they just said, no, we're not going to live this way.
We're not going to let you taxes and take away all of our money and all of these kind of things.
So I just make the point that it is appropriate to let anger stir.
And that, and this is one of the things I state: every reformer got angry before the Reformation came.
Martin Luther King talks about, talks about, and talked about in one of his writings that he remembered the day that he had went with one of his teachers to this oratory contest that he had won, and how that on the way back, he got on a bus, but then some white people got on the bus and began to mistreat them because they were black and made them move to the back of the bus.
And Martin Luther King said he'd never been so angry.
He'd never been so angry.
Now, you got to realize this is the same man that did not support violence or anything like that, but he got angry.
And see, that anger birthed within him a reformer's heart that said, We're going to change things.
We're not going to let things continue as they are.
So I believe that righteous anger, be ye angry and sin not, is a very appropriate anger.
You think it's time for God's people to get angry?
Righteous anger.
Righteous anger.
I believe, yes.
I believe.
You know, I lived angry.
I am angry with the world.
I'm angry with politics.
I'm angry with what's happening to America.
This is the country that I lived in as a boy and where we honored God.
Yes.
And we don't honor God anymore.
Our country is decadent.
And it's time for the church to rise up.
Jim, some people that watch my show, they tell me when I see them, they tune it on and they say, to see what Robert's mad about today.
Because I can't help it.
It just comes.
Look at him.
There we go.
There's a B-rob.
We're preaching while we're talking.
He's, yeah.
You're getting it there.
You're going after it.
I love it.
Oh, good.
Thank you.
Thank you for standing up and not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and for standing for what's right.
I wish you'd get angry on my show because I'm so angry.
My wife is saying, oh, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
No, I need to do.
I got the solution for you here right now.
Here's what we're going to do.
Okay.
So, you know, make sure you have each other's personal cell phone numbers.
Jim, when you need to, just call Robert and brother, when you need to call.
And you guys can just have.
I'm angry because the church won't get angry.
Right.
Because, you know, talking about two angry men.
We can call it that.
Two angry men.
You guys are bringing a good podcast.
That would be a good idea.
Hey, that's a good idea.
We're angry and sin not.
We're angry at what's going on.
The devil is not supposed to have America.
God blessed America.
God gave us America.
And I am angry that it's being taken away from the church.
Amen.
Amen.
See, and I just, I mean, literally, my whole supposition is that nothing will ever change until that kind of righteous anger is in the people, in the heart of God.
You know, the best way I can characterize this.
Many times when I'm ministering to people, just praying for them, and you'll know what this feels like.
When I'm ministering to them, I'll actually have two emotions simultaneously.
I'll feel an anger at what the enemy's doing in their life, but I'll feel a compassion for them.
And literally, I'll feel both emotions.
I'll feel this compassion, this immense compassion coming out of God's heart for them.
But then out of that, this tremendous anger that is, and I think very similarly, that there has to be that anger that's there, but it has to be born out of a passion for God.
Because I think without that, it can take us off course.
We can become not what God wants us to be.
So I watch some people get angry, and they're just angry because their political agendas are not being fulfilled.
Well, that's not the anger I'm talking about.
I'm talking about something that God has so possessed our hearts that we say, Lord, we've got to see you do something.
And we are angry at what the enemy's been allowed to do.
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