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June 18, 2024 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show With Rick Renner Day 1(FULL EPISODE)
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Voices Of The Last Days 00:15:42
Hello and welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show coming to you from the village of Morningside, USA, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today our special guest is Bible teacher, author, founder of the Moscow Good News Church, and president of the largest Russian-speaking Christian satellite network in the world, Pastor Rick Rinner.
Our co-hosts today are Marty Sella Woodall, Mondo de la Vega, and Ricky Baker.
And now, live from Gray Street at Morningside, USA, here are your hosts, Pastor Jim and Lori Baker.
Oh, thank you, Brooke.
That's right.
Your beautiful wife, Ricky.
That's right, Brooke Baker.
Yes.
Thank you.
And this is the little Brooke.
Little Brooke, that's right.
This is Jacqueline Baker.
Hi, Jacqueline, right there.
There we are.
She was going to try to do the announcing, but she'll get it again later.
Yeah.
She's a beautiful girl.
Yeah, she's a funny, funny girl.
She loves Jesus.
That's what matters.
You have to raise a generation of people who love the Lord.
I'll tell you, her personality comes alive.
She's sometimes really mellow.
Sometimes she just a superstar.
My hearing is a little crazy because I lost all hearing about a week ago and I couldn't hear at all either ear.
It was just a tiny fear.
I hear now on this ear.
This ear, I don't hear well.
Right, right.
That's right.
But it's getting better.
It's getting better.
So just a sinus infection and God is healing you.
And thank you all for all of your prayers for Jim.
I just want to straight up right now before we get going with Pastor Rick Renner.
Thank you so much.
We've needed your prayers, desperately needed your prayers.
And as you can see, Jim is restoring and rehabilitating and getting better.
Lori's here today and she's been taking care of me.
And I got her to come with me.
That's right, full-time.
I know.
I miss it.
I miss being here.
Yes.
You need to be on the show.
And Rick Renner is our special guest all the way from Russia.
And I have to say, I have to say, Pastor Rick, I can't wait to talk to you in a few minutes, but you are the reason actually here at the show today.
I was like, I have to come and talk to Pastor Rick Renner about his latest book.
The title of his new book is Signs You'll See Just Before Jesus Comes.
What a timely book.
It's excellent.
That's right.
Tremendous book.
This is a book that is critical for the generation we're living in.
Why?
Because Christ himself said, you see it in Mark 13, Matthew 24, Luke 21.
He said that there will be signs of the times and we need to have it laid out very, very clearly, especially for this generation coming up, that they know these are the signs you'll see right before Jesus comes.
So he couldn't have titled the book better and he couldn't have laid the information out more plainly than he did in this book.
Just before Jesus comes.
That's right.
Signs you'll see.
And you need to know the signs that the day that you're living in.
You have to know the signs.
That's right.
And that's why I want you for sure to get this book.
I mean, I got out of bed because one of the main reasons is I love this book.
And I want people to get it and read it.
And I want you to be ready when Jesus calls you home.
Amen.
Amen.
I'll tell you, this year is going to be an unusual year for God's people.
And I want you to be alert.
I want you to be into the word.
I want you to watch PTL every day.
And we're excited to have Rick with us today.
Rick Renner, yes.
And when you were here last, you told us about your new studio.
Yes.
Now, how is that built?
How's that coming along?
Yes.
Well, here I am.
This is the new studio.
And Brother Jim and Lori, I wish I could bring you here to see it.
It is amazing.
And from here, we're taking the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
And that's what you've given your life for.
And I want to say thank you for what you've done.
I was so excited when I heard the two of you especially were going to be on the program today.
And I just, I said to the Lord, oh, it's going to be like a homecoming.
It's just so good to be with all of you today.
I'm so proud of what you're doing worldwide.
Yeah.
And your network is growing.
I understand in Russia and other places of the world.
Well, actually, Brother Jim, we started a second network, and it's what we call a federal channel, or it's a national channel.
This is in addition to our satellite network.
And this one goes into every home of Russia.
It is really a miracle.
And so with the teaching of the Bible, we're now touching 11 time zones of Russia.
And then with the satellite channel, we're going into 83 nations of the world.
And of course, you know, it's really a miracle.
And thank God for partners and people who help us do the job.
Thank God for your partners who help you do what you're doing.
And partners, if you support the Jim Baker Ministry PTL, I want to tell you you're doing a good thing.
And I want to say thank you.
I'm so thrilled to have you on the show today.
I'm in bed most of the time, but I got out of bed and I can't walk.
I walk with help.
And I have a hard time getting around.
But I have help from my friends and my wife.
She takes good care of me.
And we go into 2024.
What has God been saying to you?
Rick, I just love your ministry so much.
I believe that you were born to be here now.
I believe God wants you to be one of the voices of the last days.
And I'm so thrilled with this new book.
I think it's one of your best.
I know you write a lot of books.
Now, that's pretty, that's a big statement to make, Jim, to Rick Red about one of his greatest books because Pastor Rick.
He's authored some of the best books.
Greatest books of all time.
What do you think, Ricky?
Oh, this is a tremendous book.
You know, one thing that I love about this is he brings the analogy so beautifully where it says, you know, if you're on a journey, we need road signs to let us know where we're going.
You know, I may start my journey off here in Missouri on my way to Chicago, and it may say, hey, Chicago up here to the left, but it doesn't mean the next turn is Chicago.
No, it's just pointing me in the right direction.
That is exactly what this book is laying out.
It is pointing us in the right direction of the signs we're going to see before Jesus returns.
That's right.
Oh, people, you need this.
You need to know where we are.
That's right.
Where we are in the Bible.
And that's why I want you to get this book.
Pastor Rick takes you through.
And it'll come right from Rick's ministry, and he'll ship it right to your house.
So I want you to have a copy of Just Before Jesus Comes, Signs You'll See.
And so I hope you can understand me.
My voice changed a lot, and I've changed a lot.
So, I, but I just wanted to come back today.
We need you back.
You're still a critical voice for the generation we're living in.
There's been so many prophets who have come to the PTL network, so many powerful voices of this generation say, Jim Baker is going to be here until the Lord returns, and we need your voice.
So, it's, I think it's stronger than ever.
You may not feel like it physically, but spiritually, you are a roaring lion.
I'll tell you, Pastor.
Thank you so much.
You two boys, can I call you boys?
Yeah, absolutely.
My boys, but they help me when I come here.
They help me get up the stairs and in the car and all and all.
And Mondo shaves me and gets my beard.
Professional barber.
I had a, I didn't shave for a while.
You had a very long beard, that's right.
But you were looking good.
So, this morning we shaved, we got out of bed, we ate, and got ready to come to the show.
And Ricky and Mondo picked me up, and I'm excited about this book today.
Amen.
It's a critical book.
You know, but your life story is maybe someone's life story who's watching right now, where you may have been feeling like you've been knocked down, you may have been feeling like the devil has pushed you back a few steps.
But I am here to tell you right now that you are the head and not the tail, friend, that you are the victor and not the defeated.
Why?
Because we are not fighting for victory, friend.
We are fighting from a position of victory.
Christ died on the cross so that we could be forgiven of all sins, friend.
Christ died on the cross so that we could be called sons and daughters.
So you may be saying, Hey, you know what?
I'm laying in bed and I may not be all that I used to be, but God is saying you still have a future, you still have a plan, you still have a purpose, and there are still souls to save in 2024 and 2025.
So, your voice, friend, that you're watching right now, your voice is still critical, and your voice is still necessary, just like your voice is.
I appreciate my boys, you two boys.
Amen.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't call you boys.
Mondo's getting big twins, and they're getting to be quite adults.
I think it's an honor that you call us boys.
And I want to tell you something: in the time that we're in right now, you have to be identified with something, with someone, and yet we are living in what this book is talking about today.
I mean, one of the first, the second chapter really blows my mind because as I traveled throughout, you know, different nations the last few weeks, you realize that people are asking this question: What is the end of the world?
And are we there yet?
Yeah, you know, people are asking.
I think this is a timely message.
This is a message that the church needs to really understand.
Study the word more than ever.
We're watching reports that the illiteracy in the Bible is missing in the church today.
Yet, Pastor Rick Renner has been the foundation.
And many people love you, sir.
Pastor Joseph Z loves you.
Todd Caccanado, I mean, Alan Dididio.
So many great preachers today that can lean on the wisdom of Pastor Rick Renner, gives us hope to where we're going and where we are today to help us identify, but also helps us interpret the season that we're in right now and the time that we're in right now.
But we have studied the book of Revelation for the last 26 years, and I can tell you that the words that you have sounded for many years is later than what we think it's right now.
That's right.
I want to ask you, Rick, about the book.
Why did you write this book?
How did it come about?
Because it is, I believe, the book for the hour, very important hour, and we need to know the sign of the times.
This gives you the signs of the time.
Well, you know, for many years, I never taught on anything related to eschatology or the last days because people have different opinions, and I didn't want to offend anybody, and I didn't want to lose anybody that I wanted to help.
And I finally woke up one day.
It's like the Spirit of God just wakened me.
Rick, you need to raise your voice.
It's time for you to begin to teach about the end of the age.
And that's when I began to write that book.
But you know, it's very interesting.
Last October, before the event happened on October the 7th in Israel, before that, I was riding on an airplane.
And I said to the Lord, Lord, what's going to happen in the next months?
What's going to happen in 2024?
And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, you're going to encounter severe turbulence over the next period of time.
But if you'll stay in your seatbelt spiritual, if you'll stay buckled in the Word of God, buckled in love, buckled in faith, buckled in your giving, if you'll stay buckled and stay in place, you're going to make it all the way to the end.
But it's going to be a pretty rough ride for the next season.
And I really believe that we're headed for a rough ride to the end of the age.
You know, Jesus never prophesied that things were going to get better.
In fact, the Bible says things are going to get crazier and crazier as we come closer to the end of the age.
In fact, I just wrote another book called Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters, and the World Before the Flood.
And I've got to tell you guys, that book, it's not out yet, but that book has really awakened me to what we're going to see between now and the coming of Jesus.
We're going to see some really bizarre stuff.
And so it's important that we stay buckled in the word of God, buckled in fellowship, buckled in faith, because we might have a little turbulence, but if we stay seated in the Lord, we're going to make it all the way to the end.
But you know, when you come to Matthew 24, the disciples were very interested about the end of the age.
And so when no one was there except Jesus, they began to ask him privately, Lord, when will these things be?
And what will be the sign of the end of the age?
They asked for one sign.
But Jesus is so good, he tells us many things.
So they asked for a sign that in Matthew 24, he gave them many, many, many, many signs.
And Ricky pointed out so well that that word sign in Greek is the word simeon, and it describes a road sign that you see when you're traveling along the road.
For example, my wife and I, in this studio, is right outside of Moscow.
This is where we live.
This is where we work.
But as we drive into Moscow, there are signs to tell us where we are in our journey to the city.
If there were no signs, we wouldn't know where we were.
But the signs tell us where we are.
The signs tell us how much further we have to go.
And so then you understand what the disciples were really asking was, Lord, what will be the prophetic signs we see along the road to the end of the age to let us know how close we are to the end?
And that's what you have in Matthew chapter 24.
And that's what I have written about in this book.
And I love this book.
I think this book will help people.
You know, the Lord showed me years ago that he never does anything to scare us.
God's not in the business of scaring people.
End Times Signs 00:05:23
But he loves us so much, he does want to prepare us.
And so Jesus enumerated all these signs in Matthew chapter 24 and in Luke chapter 21 and also in the Gospel of Mark.
And when you put them all together, hey guys, we are living in the middle of those signs.
They are blaring to us, welcome to the end of the age.
And, you know, there's never going to be an end of the earth.
You know, sometimes preachers, street preachers stand on the street and they say, the end of the world is coming.
There's never going to be an end of the world.
The world's going to be changed.
But Jesus really was talking about the end of the age.
And we're coming to the very end of this age right now.
And that is the reason why it seems things are just speeding up in terms of tempo.
All this business happening with Israel and all the nonsense in politics and woke and the cancel culture.
And who would have imagined that we would have seen all the nutty stuff we're seeing happen so fast?
And I'm going to tell you, it looks to me like the world is bound and determined.
They're going to drag themselves into World War III.
I mean, we are really headed into a very serious time right in front of us.
And even though these world leaders say they don't want to go there, they're doing everything in their power to go there on many different fronts.
But here's the deal: God chose me and you to live in this season.
That is so amazing.
So prophets wrote about this season.
They prophesied about this season, and we get to live it.
And so now our job is to buckle our seatbelts, to stay seated in faith, seated in love, seated in the Word of God, the promises of God.
Don't move from your place in Christ.
There's going to be turbulence, but we're going to make it all the way to the end.
But I wrote this book and I began to teach on the last days because people really want to know where are we?
What's going to happen next?
And Jesus made it very clear.
We really need to stay in the Word and stay close to Jesus.
And I hope that everybody watching the show, this is a book to give your friends that you want to see, make it.
That's right.
I like signs.
Just before Jesus comes, signs you will see.
That's what's in this book.
And here's what I love about this book is that this is a book I want to have sitting around my home.
I would, just like on the coffee table, on the side table, all around the house, because people will pick it up and they'll start.
And it's written, Rick, you're brilliant.
And you wrote it in, I hate to say sixth grade level, but you wrote it in a level for every single one of us to understand it.
It's so easy to understand and you break it down.
I know years ago when I wrote a book, they said, write it in a sixth grade level so everybody could understand it.
And sure enough, it's true.
But Rick, you did that, Pastor Rick, amazing.
And what he also does is that he gives us at the end of each chapter, he gives us something to think about from that chapter.
And so you do, you think about these things.
But I agree with you, Pastor Rick.
This world has gone crazy and nuts.
And every time we turn, you know, Jim and I are news watchers, probably over-news watchers, but at the same time, you know, we can take it.
It's just, you just can't believe how crazy it is, right, Rick?
It's getting crazier, Lori.
I mean, you just wonder, can it get any crazier?
And the answer is, yes, it can.
And we're not at the end yet.
It's going to get really bizarre before we get to the end.
You know, we're living in a day.
We've all talked about this before when we've been together, when people are questioning whether they're a man or a woman, they're trying to change their gender.
And now because of transhumanism and the goal of transhumanists, and I also write about this in the book, is to merge human beings with AI, with computer technology and machinery to make a new kind of a person.
So now, if you're not happy to be transgender, you can be transhuman.
I mean, we're talking about really nutty stuff.
And nobody knows where all this stuff is going to go.
But that's where we are.
And it's important that we stay in the word of God, that we stay rooted in truth.
We have to stay rooted in truth because truth is the anchor that holds us.
You know, when Noah and his family entered the ark, it was a dark season.
It was a dark season.
And Jesus said, as it was in the days of Noah, so it shall be in the days before the coming of the Son of Man.
So it's going to be dark again.
Rising Above Destruction 00:08:01
But when the flood came and those waters destroyed everything around them, what is amazing, the same waters of destruction caused Noah and his family to rise above it all.
And even if it looks like there's a flood of destruction and craziness all around us, we can float on top of it all.
God's word will cause us to boy above it all if we'll stay seated in Christ and really maintain our position in the word of God.
But we can float on anything in any season.
And friend, if you're listening today, I want to tell you, don't be afraid of the future.
God doesn't want to scare you.
He just wants to prepare you.
That's how much he loves you.
He doesn't want to take anything to take you off guard or to take you by surprise.
He wants you to be fully informed so that when you see all this stuff happening, you're going to say, well, that's exactly what the Bible said.
Yep, we're living in that season.
It's us.
And my friend, God had to play tag with somebody.
When I was growing up, we loved to play tag.
But I didn't like to be tagged.
But when you play tag, eventually everybody gets tagged.
Well, there were people who were tagged by God to do something in their generation.
And God has tagged us.
And he said, tag, you're it.
I've chosen you to live at the end of the age.
And rather than say, oh me, oh my, we need to say hip, hip, hooray, what a privilege that we can rescue the perishing and care for the dying.
We are anointed for this because God chose us for this season.
I believe that should be our attitude.
I want you to call right now and get this book.
It's going to change your life.
It's going to give you a roadmap of the last days.
You literally know where you're going.
And I want you to call 1-888-988-1588 and order that book.
And it'll come right to your house.
It's shipped from the United States Ownership Center.
That's right.
And they have a beautiful center here in America.
And they'll send these books out to you immediately.
That's right.
On page 17, Rick, of your book, I don't know if you have a book there or not, but on page 17, a compilation of end time signs.
You give a few of the signs that Jesus gives, the sign of his return.
I love it.
I love what you do.
I love making it so clear.
Yes, that's right.
And so anybody that will read that, could you read those for me and tell the people a little bit about these signs that are to be in the last days?
Well, Jesus prophesied, I'm reading, that in the final roundup of the age, wrap-up of the age, we will see widespread deception, famines, signs in the heavens.
That's very interesting, by the way, wars, economic instability, persecution, which really is the weaponization of the court system against the church, great seismic activity, pestilence, legal prosecution of Christians, commotions, warring political systems, ethnic conflicts, imprisonment of believers, fearful sites, emergence of false prophets, unknown diseases, the love of many waxing cold.
Boy, are we ever seeing that?
And rumors of wars.
Now, when most people read this list, and this is a compilation of Luke 21 and Matthew chapter 24, most people go right to famines and earthquakes and pestilence, but they miss the most important sign.
So I've got my Bible open.
I want to tell you what is the number one sign that Jesus said.
Now, remember, the disciples said, give us a sign.
So Jesus started with the answer to their question, a sign, the most important sign, but then he added others.
But when you come to Matthew chapter 24, Jesus said in verse 4, take heed that no man deceive you.
And that word take heed in Greek is blepete.
It's the direct form of the word blepo.
But when you make it blepete, it's almost like Jesus is reaching out to grab them by the shirt, to shake them up and say, listen to me, set up straight.
You're asking me what is the sign.
I'm going to give you the number one most visible sign that you come to the end of the age.
Take heed that no one deceive you.
And that word deceive is very special.
It is a Greek word which means to be let off track morally.
And it particularly was used to describe a people or a nation who once walked on a moral path for so long that it was a well-worn path.
You could have blindfolded them.
They still could have walked on that path because it was their traditional path.
But now the word deception, for some reason, describes them deciding, we're going to leave that path and we're going to go a new way.
And now they have left that well-worn, moral, traditional path, and now they're teetering right on the edge of a very dangerous cliff.
And it's describing a moral wandering.
And what else I think is really important is that word deception was used agriculturally to describe an animal that so lost its way that it could not find its way back home.
And so Jesus here was really prophesying.
Here it is, number one, above all else.
I know that people say that Israel is the big sign and Israel is a sign, but Jesus gave this one first.
Jesus said, when you see society as a whole begin to leave common sense, begin to believe things that defy science and defy nature,
and they begin to leave a well-worn moral path that they've walked upon and walked upon and walked upon, and they begin to believe things that are contrary to nature and contrary to science, and they begin to go in a different way and make their own new moral route that's dangerous and treacherous.
Welcome to the end of the age.
And because it also describes an animal that's lost its way and can't find its way back home, Jesus was literally saying, when it looks like society has lost its way and it will never find its way back, here's the big sign, welcome to the end of the age.
And that is what we're seeing.
We're seeing that.
The same word deception is used by the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, where it is translated as the word delusion.
By the way, all of that is in this book.
But it's really talking about delusionary times.
Those are the days we're living in.
People are believing delusionary things.
How can they believe what they believe?
And now they're packaging it and they're promoting it to kids and schools and through Hollywood and through the judicial system.
Bible-Based Preaching Missing 00:09:07
The devil no longer is showing up with a pitchfork and horns on his head.
He's showing up with a well-packaged advertising campaign to sell nonsense.
And because people don't know the Bible anymore, here's the tragedy.
They don't have the ability to discern that what they're listening to is nonsense.
The Bible's nearly been evacuated from the church.
People refer to it, but the real verse-by-verse teaching of the scripture that causes people to be sober and to build their lives on a solid foundation, it's almost gone from the church.
Rod Parsley says that 98% of preaching is not Bible-based.
I think he's probably right.
Now, I have many friends that are pastors, and I believe they want to do a good job.
But a lot of pastors today, they've never really even been taught to teach verse by verse.
They don't even know how to.
And so now we're in this place where unfortunately the church has kind of become an invalid because we don't know what the Bible says.
And if you don't know what the Bible says, then you don't have the ability to judge the stuff that you're listening to.
And so people are just, you know, just eating whatever's being passed along to them.
But that's why your program, I pray my program, is important because our job is to sober people up.
And here's Rod Parson saying that in person.
So let's go to Rod Parsleman right now.
Okay, the American Culture of Faith Institute, highly recognized, surveyed thousands and thousands of churches and their pastors.
They asked very basic doctrinal questions like, do you believe Jesus lived a sinless life?
That's pretty basic.
Yeah.
And is Satan real or imaginary?
Pretty basic.
Absolutely basic.
They asked those questions.
70% of evangelical church pastors answered they do not believe those Bible doctrines.
70%.
Wait a minute.
Get angry.
You got to get one of two things, and I pray you get both.
You got to get angry or you got to get very happy.
And I'm angry at what the devil's doing.
And I'm so happy to watch God's counteract the church of Jesus Christ alive and well.
Listen, 70%.
So that took it down to 100,000.
So then they asked those 100,000 that said they believed that was Bible doctrine.
They asked them, will you preach it in your church?
98,000 of the 100,000 said, no, I will not.
Wow.
They asked why.
Because I don't want to offend my congregants.
Oh, God.
And their blood runs through your fingers.
When they stand before God at the judgment seat, their blood will be running through the fingers of preachers that admit they know better and yet refuse to preach it for fear of men.
God said, Don't you dare fear their faces.
We don't have long.
I'll tell you why.
Pat Robertson and Jim Baker, the originators of gospel programming, the OGs.
They are the OGs, and I respect them both.
The reason they're still here is because this message has to get out and you need to help Jim do it.
You need to help Christian broadcasters get this message out.
Only that means only 2% of American pastors will preach basic doctrine.
Wow.
Only 2%.
Wow.
It's so shocking.
Yeah, it really is.
I had somebody who has been in the gospel for probably 30 years at least.
And he said, I want to talk to you about hell because there is no hell.
I said, what?
No, there is no hell.
And this is former believers, and they really believe the new doctrines.
They've rewritten the Bible.
What we have in these things in the last day, Rick, that you talk about, people were not going to believe the solid word of God anymore.
That's right.
Isn't that right?
That's right.
And actually, you know, Jesus talked about deception in the world, but the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4, verse 1 says, Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times, some in the church shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
And honestly, there's a lot of doctrines of demons being taught today.
People don't even know it.
And what is very unfortunate, and Rod was really correct about everything he said.
Thank God for Rod Parsley.
He's a good friend of mine.
But if you were to give a basic doctrine test to most people in churches today, they could not pass the test.
They couldn't pass the test.
They're not established in even the bare bones of their faith.
We've heard a lot of wonderful things about miracles.
And I mean, we hear a lot of wonderful things, but we have to be established in the bare bones.
We've got to know what is the foundation of our faith.
That is our foundation.
And most people today couldn't pass a doctrine test.
And so I agree with Brother Rod.
People need to support your ministry because you're doing everything you can to help people.
And Brother Jim, just before we came on today, I was looking at some very old Jim Baker programs.
You know, Jim, I love you so much.
And Lori, I love you.
I was really hoping you guys would be on the show today.
I love you with all my heart.
And I was watching you, Jim, talk about the end of the age.
And you said that there was a time when people said you were a prophet of doom and gloom.
Well, you know what?
You were right.
You were really prophesying a lot of right things.
But if you look at the story of Noah, think about this.
Noah built the ark for 100 years.
Every time he hammered a piece of wood, they could hear the sound of that wood as he hit that nail or hit that wood.
They could hear it throughout the whole area.
It was a sermon.
Every time he hit that wood for 100 years, he was warning, a flood is coming, a flood is coming, a flood is coming.
And the people lived nonchalantly in the shadow of the ark.
They didn't take it serious.
And Jesus said it will be that way again at the very end of the age.
Well, we're living in a generation where people have heard about the coming of the Lord.
They've heard about the rapture.
They've heard it and now people are mocking it.
That's what Peter said they would do at the end of the age.
He said, at the end of the age, there will come scoffers scoffing, saying, where is the promise of his coming?
Those were like the people before the flood, living in the shadow of the ark, hearing the sound of that equipment every day, building an ark, warning that a flood was coming.
And whether people want to listen to us or not, God has entrusted to us the responsibility to tell them that things are about to change.
Judgment is coming.
Reprobate Minds Matter 00:15:40
Judgment is not a fantasy.
It is not a myth.
It is coming.
And as I said earlier in the program, God has graciously asked us to rescue the perishing and care for the dying.
This is our opportunity.
Some people are going to jump aboard.
Not everybody.
But we have the assignment to help who we can help.
Has society fallen into a reprobate mind?
A reprobate, people think that word reprobate just describes somebody that's sinful.
No, no, no, not really.
The word reprobate describes a mind which was brilliantly made.
God didn't make anybody reprobate.
Brilliant mind.
That's how God made all of us.
But the mind becomes ill-affected.
It becomes sin-damaged if you subject it to the wrong information.
There is a plasticity to the mind.
And if you submit your mind to wrong images and wrong images and wrong images and wrong information that's bombarding your mind and bombarding your mind and bombarding your mind, it can begin to reform your mind and reform your thinking so that you no longer see things correctly like you once did.
Now your mind has become reprobate.
It's become flawed.
That's really what a reprobate mind is.
For example, one day, Denise and I, my precious wife, she's not here because she's preaching in Siberia today.
But one day we were watching the news and somebody on the news was expressing their opinion about abortion, about the LGBTQ things.
And what they were saying was just insane.
And I said to my wife, that person really believes what they're saying.
They do not understand that they have been through mental modification.
And now they call darkness light and they call light darkness.
They're no longer able to discern the truth from what is not true.
That's a mind that has become reprobate.
And unfortunately, I do cover all this in this book.
There are many Christians, the Holy Spirit lives in them, they're saved, they're going to heaven.
But because they're listening to the wrong information and they're hanging out with the wrong people, they're opening their mind to other ways of thinking, not realizing that while the Holy Spirit lives in them and has the power to quicken them, they're allowing their mind to be mentally modified.
So, what a conflict.
You got a Christian with the Spirit of God, but in some area of their mind, they're thinking they're becoming reprobate because they're beginning to embrace a lie and really believe the lie is the truth.
But if a person is willing to bend their brain to the word of God, and I'm telling you, it takes work.
You've got to bend your brain.
You've got to say, I'm going to force my mind to read the word of God, to think the word of God, to say what the word of God says.
A mind that has been damaged can be restored.
It can be restored.
It can be put back in shape again.
Amen.
You know, we've seen that.
We've said it many times on the PTL television network.
We don't have opinions.
If it lines up with the word of God, friend, then we will teach it and we will cling our very lives to it because that is all we have.
And if the word of God rejects it, friend, then we, as the believers, we as Christians, we as followers of Jesus, we must also reject it.
You know, we see in Matthew chapter 7, verse 21, it says, Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
No, you must be doing the will of the Father.
And then they'll have a counter argument and say, Well, God, didn't we cast out demons in your name?
Didn't we do many great wonders in your name?
Didn't we do miracles in your names?
He goes, Yes, but depart from me because I never knew you.
Friend, if you're wondering, what is the will of the Father?
The will of the Father is intimacy with His Son, Jesus Christ, intimacy with the Holy Spirit, intimacy with Him.
We must know God, and God must know us, friend.
I could believe what He just said.
We absolutely have the ability to have restoration of our mind, friend.
What does restoration of the mind look like?
Like He said, it is a process and it is a journey to say, Every single day, I will put my face in this book and I will cry out to God and say, God, while I may have had disturbing images in my mind at one point, I pray them out right now in the name of Jesus.
God, while I may have had impure thoughts in my mind at one point, I pray them out in the name of Jesus.
And you must actively, every single day, be making sure that you are making the right choice.
You know, when we were younger, we took a trip one time to Florida as a family.
It was like a once-in-a-you know, blue moon trip we took.
But I remember you guys made an itinerary for this trip.
And this itinerary was probably this big of everything that you guys had planned for us to do.
And we had this thing on the very top called a map quest.
If you guys know what a map quest is, we printed off 20 pages of turn-by-turn directions on how to get to Florida.
I thought, man, how silly is that?
There's signs everywhere.
Why do we have to have our own versions of the signs?
Well, I quickly came to realize that there were miles and miles and stretches of land where there were no directions.
But you know what?
Dad knew exactly where he was going.
Why?
Because he had printed off the roadmap.
In the same capacity, this book right here, what Rick Renner has done is he has printed off the map quest for the believer to say, you now have a turn-by-turn direction of what is going to happen.
He pairs this with Matthew 24.
He pairs this with Luke 21 to say, you know what?
The word of God is important.
The signs are important.
And we are on this journey whether you like it or not.
Believer, I truly believe that this is one of the most important books of our generation.
Why?
Because we have to know where we're going.
It says, he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Friend, the journey may be long, but the journey is worth it.
Why?
Because Jesus in eternity is at the end of this.
But we have this available to our partners.
Why?
Because we believe that this is a roadmap.
That's right, Ricky.
And if I can say, Dad, I don't know.
I want to make sure everyone who's watching right now has the opportunity to order the book.
Yes.
So you can call our toll-free number.
That's here at our ministry.
Our amazing team is taking all of the calls.
That's 1-888-988-1588.
You can order the book right now.
It's available.
Signs you'll see just before Jesus comes.
You can also visit our website, of course.
The brand new affiliate with Destiny Image was the publisher.
They are shipping all the books out directly to your home.
So you will receive them.
You can go there and order your book online or call us here at Morningside.
Amen.
You know, Pastor Rick, I have a quick question for you.
And we only have a few minutes left.
Okay.
It's the word deceive.
It talks about not being deceived in Matthew 24, and of course, so many other places.
Could you help break that down for us real quick?
Well, that word deceive, again, it describes a moral wandering.
It's also translated as the word delusion.
And you know what, Lori?
In 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, it says that there's going to come a falling away, and then that man of sin will be revealed.
It's talking about the Antichrist.
So leading up to the revelation of the Antichrist, by the way, in Greek, it's the word apocalypsis, which describes the parting of a veil, which means the Antichrist is already on the stage.
We just can't see him yet because the curtain's closed.
But a moment's going to come and it's going to come in a season of deception when suddenly that curtain is going to be parted and he's going to step forward.
The spotlight's going to fall on him.
And the Bible actually calls him a man of lawlessness.
He's one who has rejected all previous past standards and he's going to lead the world into a new progressive society.
Is that amazing?
I mean, we are living these things, they're right in front of us.
And a lawless world is going to embrace a man of lawlessness.
Think about it.
The Antichrist could not have come to power 50 years ago because the world wasn't ready.
It has to be a lawless world to produce a man of lawlessness.
That's where we're headed.
And it's going to happen in this season of deception and delusion.
You know, I wrote this book because I really believe it will help people.
And if you're listening today and you've got kids or you've got grandchildren, your kids and your grandkids need this book.
And maybe they don't want to listen to you.
Well, just slip them a book.
Let this book be your missionary.
Let it do the talking for you.
Because when people pick this up and they begin to flip through the pages, it's very intriguing.
They're going to want to take a deeper look at this.
And you can help your kids, your grandkids, your family by just getting this book.
And my friend, you should order it today.
Amen.
And I will say, the more and more I listen to the news, the more and more persecution of believers, of Christians are happening all over the world.
And it may look different here, but let me tell you what, it's hardcore in other places of the world.
Double that on social media.
Right.
One, you guys are living one world.
Then there's a separate world on social media that things are magnified at a fast pace because the information that is rapidly coming out of that, it is so deceiving.
If the pressure that you feel when you watch the news is high, it is double when you go through social media and understand the pressure that not only this young generation, but the baby boomer.
We're talking about this on the drive to go get you.
The baby boomer generation is feeling another wave.
And then the next generation, what we're watching is on one side, you're watching a hunger for the things of God, for the supernatural things of God.
On the other hand, you're watching information developing so fast that people can't keep up with it.
I'm going to tell you just one thing.
By Elon Musk delivering a way to have internet on a very remote island, within minutes, that whole region became addicted to pornography.
Wow.
Within minutes, they became addicted.
Listen to what I'm telling you.
We, the church, must re-engage into society.
We, as the church, must re-engage into the conversation because the world is rapidly, rapidly getting there.
Yet, if they get infiltrated with the wrong information, to get to them is going to be even harder.
Yet, God has given us the wisdom to get to people by using social media with the message that we have.
That's why this ministry, and Ricky, I love what you're doing on social media with your team because we're putting information out.
We're literally by the loads, we're delivering information.
And I want you to take that information and share it.
The more you share it, the more you do that, the more we can get there faster to the hearts and the minds of people on social media.
Because if you're feeling the pressure, mom, watching the news, it is double, if not triple, quadruple on social media.
That's right.
And we have to realize tribulation and trials are always going to happen.
We have brothers and sisters in Africa who are believers in Christ Jesus being hunted like sport by terrorist organizations.
We must continue to pray for them.
But America, don't think that we get off scot-free.
There will be trials and there will be tribulations.
We will see persecution here in America.
What is Luke 21, verse 17 says, you will be hated for my name's sake.
It's a non-negotiable.
But, friends, what does it continue to say?
It says, but you won't lose a hair on your head because of your endurance.
You will be saved.
Friend, it is important that we remember our endurance, our faith.
There's going to be trials and tribulations.
There's going to be rocky roads ahead on this journey, but it is important that we stay rooted in the Bible.
If our foundation isn't bibli-based, if your worldview isn't a biblical worldview, friend, there's going to be shutters, there's going to be doors, there's going to be windows blown off of your house.
I'm going to let you know that right now.
You are going to have a very rough road if you do not have a 100% biblical worldview.
Friend, it is no longer that we, time that we ride the fence.
It is no longer time that we sit in a middle ground.
Friend, you must be hot or you must be cold.
There is no longer room for lukewarm in the church.
We must pick a side.
And Pastor Rick, I know you're passionate about that.
Why are we getting to the point where we are no longer allowed to ride the fence?
Well, you know, I don't want to say a word about you.
And Lori brought up persecution.
I want to say something about persecution in America.
I live in Russia.
I'm coming to you from Russia.
And people in America don't realize that the church in the rest of the world are looking at America right now.
And they are in shock because of what's happening with the courts, parents losing parental rights.
Now they're creating transgender refuge cities where if children want to become transgender and their parents don't agree, they can leave their parents and be taken care of by the government.
In Canada, the rights are being taken away from parents.
Persecution has already come to the United States and it's coming through the courts.
And Americans have enjoyed such liberty that they think about persecution as something that happens somewhere else, and they don't even realize everything is in jeopardy right now for them.
And the rest of the world, and I'm speaking from the other side of the world, they are watching the United States with their mouths dropped open, wondering, what in the world are they thinking?
What is happening?
Because the courts have been weaponized.
And in Matthew 24 and in Luke chapter 21, Jesus said at the end of the age, they will drag you into the synagogues and will try you.
Well, guess what?
In Israel, the synagogues, it was the court system of Israel.
Jesus was prophesying the weaponization of the courts and of the legal system at the end of the age.
And so in the United States, they may not cut your head off.
They may not chase you through a jungle, but they're going to come from a different angle, be a little more sophisticated.
It already is.
And this is why we need to know what Jesus says.
The word of God sobers us up.
But that's where we are.
And I really like what Ricky said: that the Lord will protect us.
We'll not lose a hair of our head.
I don't have many to lose.
But Jesus will protect us.
Unbelievable Times 00:03:38
And we know that whenever you stand for the gospel, even if you're in a hard time, there's a quickening power.
The spirit of glory comes on you.
And this is time for us to embrace everything God has to give us so we can be victorious all the way to the end.
I cover these things about persecution in this book.
And again, the purpose is not to scare, it's to prepare.
This helps us.
It really does.
What they did to President Trump is awful.
It's unbelievable what's happening.
People, you've got to vote.
Yes.
This is our, I think, I honestly think this is our last election if we don't vote right.
We are going down the toad so fast.
It's terrible what's happening in the world.
And I'm asking everyone to pray for President Trump.
Yes.
And Melania and his whole entire family and team.
Plead the blood of Jesus over them.
They did the same thing to me that they're doing to Donald Trump.
And they came in and our ministry was valued.
It was a big park.
It was many acres, thousands of acres.
And it was a billion dollars.
Valued at a billion dollars.
A billion dollars.
And that was back in the 80s.
That's right.
The government came in and the government put me on trial and took a billion dollars that we had worked so hard to build.
It was the people's place.
The partners build it.
They were lifetime partners.
They should have had it.
And so I see it today.
They've used the same practice on me that they did on Trump.
And if we don't pray, our country has gone in the wrong direction.
And I urge you to watch some television programs, not my own, but I've watched them.
To find out what's going on.
Is it Life, Liberty, and Levin?
If you don't watch him, Mark Levin.
He's on Monday and Tuesday.
No, Sunday and Saturday.
Saturday and Sunday nights on Fox.
Yes.
Yes, Central Standard Time, 7 o'clock.
I don't understand a lot why he explains it.
And our borders are a sin.
What's that darling?
Outrageous.
That's one of the signs of judgment on a nation, though, as well.
I mean, we have to be just very clear about that.
Let in millions of people that are not vetted, that we don't know who they are.
The hospital in Florida is spending millions of dollars.
Well, they're being broken right now with the amount of absurd people.
566 million the hospital in Florida has spent in the last six months.
That's right.
What are all these things we see that our border issues are national geopolitical issues?
Signs Pointing to Salvation 00:02:18
They are all signs that are for us, believers, to point us back to the word of God, to point us back to fasting, to point us back to prayer.
And that is what we need to be doing as the body of Christ right now.
Come together in unity.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's awful.
That's right.
And we've been lied to.
And if we don't have a change, I believe that God gave us a reprieve.
Somebody that some people don't understand Trump.
But Trump was chosen by God.
I believe this with all my heart.
I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it.
I believe with all my heart.
I'm back on television today to tell you: get out and vote.
I'm not telling you who to vote for, but I'm voting for Trump.
And if we don't have a change in America, we're doomed.
That's right.
We have to have the roadmap for what's happening.
That's why I believe that this book by Pastor Rick Renner, who's doing an amazing work, he's based out of Russia right now.
It's where he's coming from.
Signs You'll See Just Before Jesus Comes.
This is a critical book.
You can go to jimbakershow.com and go to our affiliate program at Destiny Image, or you can give us a call at 1-888-988-1588.
And this is a book that you're going to want to get for your children, your grandchildren.
Make a study group out of this book.
I'm telling you right now, if there was any book, two books that I could recommend to anyone in the world right now, it'd be the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, our Bible, and this book right here, because these are the signs we're living in.
This would be a great book to send to you on Sigratos.
That's right.
That's right.
Have it on your coffee table.
Thank you for watching today.
Remember, God loves you so very much.
He really does.
And Jesus died for you.
Live for him every day.
And you're going to have eternity in heaven.
It's exciting.
When your God loves you, he really does.
Thank you, Pastor Rick.
We love you.
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