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A Father's Love
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| What is the heart of Pastor Jim Baker? | |
| The heart of Pastor Jim Baker is this: it is that the PTL network would go out and spread the truth, but even deeper than that, it's that he would take a young man who was riddled in the gang world of Los Angeles and say, I'm going to call you my son. | |
| That he would take a woman who was broken and say, I'm going to call you my daughter. | |
| That he would look at a young boy who was four years old, and without even seeing me in person, he would say, You know what? | |
| I want to call that young man my son, and I'm going to raise him as my own. | |
| That's the heart of Pastor Jim Baker. | |
| But I want to tell you right now, in the same capacity I've been able to watch this and walk through, I realize the reason that his heart is so good is because that's the heart of God. | |
| God does that same thing for you. | |
| If you feel like I'm too far gone, there's nothing out there for me. | |
| Jesus says, No, I want to call you my son. | |
| If you say, Well, I've been broken too many times, I'm a vessel that cannot be repaired. | |
| God says, No, no, no, I want to call you my daughter. | |
| I'm going to tell you right now, believer, you are loved and beloved by the Father. | |
| The Son's sacrifice on the cross is still good, it is still active, and it is still ready to redeem and restore you back into your fullness of Christ. | |
| Now, Mondo, one thing I love about dad is that he always wants us, he says, Spread the gospel. | |
| I said, Well, that's what we're here for, it's what we're here to do. | |
| But he always says, You need to tell the people what's happening around the world, too. | |
| Listen, I'm gonna give you two messages from your friend Jim Baker. | |
| Number one, he said, Tell my friends, tell my partners they must forgive. | |
| Amen. | |
| Hasn't yes, I've heard that many times. | |
| That's right. | |
| What are you talking about? | |
| He said, Please tell my partners, my friends, they have to learn to forgive those that have caused a lot of pain in their lives. | |
| Don't stop preaching about forgiveness if we don't forgive. | |
| You know, the scripture, that's right. | |
| Our heavenly father won't forgive us. | |
| Amen. | |
| We have to learn to forgive as I watched this man for the last 26 years forgive everyone from the past that put him in prison, those that came against him, those that stood against him, those that spoke against him. | |
| I have watched them literally. | |
| And sometimes I would say, We've got to get even. | |
| We got it. | |
| You know, he said, No, we can't do vengeance in our way. | |
| We have to do it God's way. | |
| God's way is to forgive. | |
| Amazing. | |
| We have a world that wants to cancel everything. | |
| We're canceled. | |
| Yet, when I hear the news, oh, Jim Baker, someone asked me the other day, tell me something about Jim that we may not know. | |
| I said, Well, I tell you what, if you sit around him, all he wants to talk about is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, the word, the word, the word, and obedience, obedience, obedience. | |
| That's right. | |