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Feb. 19, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Alan Didio
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Submit Fully to God 00:11:31
Hello and welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show coming to you from the village of Morningside, USA, Neza, the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today, our special guest is an author, the pastor of Encounter Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina, and podcast host, Bishop Alan DeDio.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And now, live from Gray Street at Morningside, USA, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Friend, you're watching the PTL Television Network.
It's exciting.
You've tuned in with us today.
Welcome to an uncensored place where you can come hear the gospel in its fullness.
Friends, if there's a prophet that has a prophecy, come and share it on our network.
Friends, if you're a pastor and you have a message and the culture is saying, well, don't share this from your pulpit, you have right here on our 24-hour network.
Mondo, I absolutely love that because you know what?
We've gotten a lot of kickbacks saying, well, you know, you probably shouldn't have this minister of the gospel or this person's a bit too controversial.
Let's not talk about David then.
Let's not talk about Peter or Matthew or Paul.
We're all being in trouble by the time.
I think what's happening in the culture today, and we have to be very careful in the Christian church not to throw everybody away.
It doesn't mean that you can't keep certain people accountable, but if you start throwing everybody away because there's, you see things differently, then you have nobody left.
Absolutely nobody.
Friends, and our job is restoration.
It's what we do.
We are restorers.
It says clearly in the Bible, those who are spiritual restore one another in the spirit of what?
Not pompousness, not arrogance, not ego, not pride.
Restore each other in the spirit of meekness, friends, lest that same temptation come upon you.
Friends, it's important that we restore one another.
I want you to open up your Bible right now.
If you have an iPad, iPhone, Android device, open it up.
We're going to be reading out of Matthew chapter 18, or if you have a physical Bible at your home, it says right here, Mondo, we're going to be dealing with this.
And I know I've been dealing with this issue for a few weeks now, but I know someone needs to get this and really hold on to it.
Cling to it, friend.
Right here, it says, then Peter approached him and asked, Jesus, Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me?
You know, in this moment, Peter's like, you know what?
It's not going to be one time or two times.
I'm going to give an answer that I think will be sufficient for Christ.
I'm going to give a big answer.
And he goes, how about seven times?
Seven times.
Seven's a reasonable number.
Mondo, if someone comes to you and they repeat the same offense, one, two, three, four, five, six, your seventh time forgiving them.
That's a lot of times forgiving someone for the same offense.
It's called having kids.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm telling you, seven times is a lot of times where, you know, forgive someone for the exact same offense.
But the Lord says this beautifully.
I tell you, not as many as seven.
And maybe in that moment, he's like, oh, yeah, not as many as seven.
That's great.
He goes, but seven times 70.
So seven times 70, I'm not a mathematician.
I'm not very good at math.
So I did what any normal human being does.
I went to the calculator.
What's seven times 70?
490 times.
490.
Could you imagine, Mondo, someone coming to you with the same offense and 490 times you're saying, you know what?
I forgive you.
But friends, listen to what I have to say here.
The Lord doesn't expect you to forgive 490 times because the Lord doesn't expect you to keep count.
Friends, imagine if the Lord kept count every time we offended.
Imagine if the Lord kept count every time we fell down.
Friends, we're not supposed to do that to our brothers and sisters.
The Lord doesn't design us to sit there and keep count.
Well, Mondo hurt me 27 times this month and he hurt me 47 times last month.
I don't know why I got more.
He hurt me 67 times a month before.
He's been lessening every time, every month.
He'd begin.
Next month he'd be 10.
Praise God.
Oh, that's good.
But what I'm saying is, we aren't meant to keep count, brothers and sisters, because that's an unnecessary burden that you don't need to carry.
Forgiveness, friends, is so that you can break the chains of oppression off of your life.
There's somebody watching right now you need to forgive, whether it's your mother or father, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, somebody has offended you, somebody has hurt you, maybe physically, spiritually, emotionally.
Friends, you need to let it go.
It doesn't mean that they're right.
It doesn't mean what they did is good.
But friends, it means you're free.
It means that you have freedom in Christ.
And that means you're saying, Jesus, this is yours now.
You can deal with it accordingly.
And friends, he'll deal with it just every single time because he is holy.
He is pure.
He's righteous.
He's just.
He's always on time.
And he's always good, friends.
I want to encourage you with that word today.
Go read that today.
It's Matthew 18.
You can read the whole thing.
I believe in reading before and after.
Get the context of what they're talking about.
But Matthew 18, I just read verse 21 and 22, where Jesus tells us, forgive 70 times seven, 490 times to a brother or a sister who's offended.
You know, one thing is talking about it by faith.
Another is going through it with experience.
Yes.
And what we're talking about is something that we both have experienced, not in the last 10 years, but in the last few months.
It's like consistently finding forgiveness for the people that you think that love you and they do love you.
But how can you say, I love you and hurt you at the same time?
The Bible says, blessed is the man that is not offended immediately.
The blessing is already there, yet the offense appears in the same as the blessing.
Understanding how perspective works would change your attitude.
And I think when you understand that we are living in a culture right now in Christianity where there's a lot of offense happening and yet I got to expose the offense.
I got to get even with the offense.
No, there's correction for offense.
Thank God that God doesn't expose us every single time and immediately feel like he needs to, you know, oust us every single time, friends.
Absolutely.
I couldn't imagine what that would be like.
Yet, if we are people that need to understand what love is in order to understand what forgiveness is, then understand also that you're going to find the presence of the Holy Spirit in the middle of forgiveness.
Amen.
You want more of God than you got to forgive.
Why?
Because he lives in forgiveness.
He dwells in forgiveness.
Yet that is a word that Christianity today doesn't like to deal with because forgiveness doesn't mean you forget what they've done or you allow them to get away with what they've done.
No, it brings correction.
The Bible says whom he loves.
He chastises.
Come on, preacher.
That's right.
He corrects, friends.
And we should invite the Holy Spirit to be able to correct us.
We shouldn't be so hard in heart that the Holy Spirit can't speak to us.
I preached a sermon this Sunday.
We were talking about the wrestling with God from Jacob wrestling with God.
And we were talking about how there is this thing where we have to become submissive.
We have to let ourselves, our will become subservient.
We have to submit fully to God.
And, you know, I noticed a lot of the church people are saying, you know, Jacob here, we see him submit to God.
And, you know, the question kept arising is, well, how is he submitting to God?
He was refusing to let go.
And I wrote here, and I want to read this to you, surrender isn't passive.
That is what I was talking about here.
It's an act of dependence.
This is why I said Jacob's refusal to let go was the ultimate act of surrender because it meant he finally recognized his need for God.
We surrender by holding on, not to our own power, our own will, our own strength, but holding on to God, clinging to God.
And friends, I promise you, when you give a full surrender to Jesus Christ, forgiveness is the easy part because you realize, oh, I've been forgiven greatly.
I want my father in heaven to forgive me.
I'm going to forgive any offense, whether great or small, whether really offensive or slightly offensive.
I'm going to forgive it all and give it back to the cross where it belongs.
And that's where it does belong.
And we have to accept that the culture is going to do whatever it takes to offend Christianity.
And we've seen it since the inception of the world.
I mean, the culture has always been counter, intuitive, counter-culture, what God wants.
But the key is don't react to it.
You know, Dr. Gary Smalley, the late Gary Smalley, one of the greatest counselors in the world, was a friend of mine, my mentor.
Didn't he marry you?
He married you and your wife?
Yeah, he did.
But I got to tell you, he said something so powerful that changed the perspective on how to react when people try to offend you.
And that is, you can't control what they do to you, but you can control what you react to what they do.
Your reaction.
Understanding, it took me back to the scripture that the key about all of this is understanding self-control.
That is one of the fruits of the spirit that nobody wants to talk about because it's not, it doesn't seem godly.
Yet it is the foundation, I believe, to everything else.
Because if you can learn self-control, everything else can flourish.
That's a good way to put it.
And I want to tell you something.
Self-control only happens when you surrender.
That's right.
When you give ultimately surrender to God, everything about you, your emotions, your words.
You know how difficult it is for me to not say something back?
Because I was trained to always be, you know, fighting and saying things back.
But self-control allows you to walk in the spirit of meekness.
That you don't always have to have the last word.
You don't always have to be vindictive.
And no, how about trying forgiveness for once and see what happens to the healing in your body?
Amen.
Full submission, friends.
This story that we see in Genesis chapter 32, it isn't about the fight or the struggle.
It's about full submission, full surrender to Christ Jesus.
Friends, we want you to do that today.
Call our number.
It's 1-888-988-1588.
We want you to pray that salvation prayer.
Friends, if you've been wrestling with the world, let go of the world.
Let go of the things that you think you love and cling on to the one who loves you, who lived a perfect life, who died on a cross bearing all sins, friends.
Why?
Not just for the sake of doing it, but so that you and I can have a relationship, so that you and I can be called brothers and sisters, seed of Abraham, heir to the throne, so that we can spend eternity with him, friends.
I promise you, this would be the best decision you will ever make in your life because it has eternal repercussions.
There, friends, I'm telling you right now, there is a heaven and there is a hell.
Friends, if you believe in Jesus Christ, you've given him your life, you've submitted to him, you walk according to his will, you will spend eternity with Christ Jesus.
But if you reject Christ, you harden your heart towards the message and you say, it's not for me.
Maybe I'll do it someday.
I won't do it today.
Friends, we're not promised tomorrow.
We're not promised our drive home.
We're not promised waking up.
Friends, we care more about your eternal position than we do about your temporary satisfaction while here on this earth.
We want you to be eternally positioned with God the Father in heaven, basking in his glory for eternity.
Call that number, friends.
It's 1-888-988-1588.
Balancing Faith and Politics 00:15:42
You know, Mondo, a lot of the times in the church, there's hard questions and sometimes we can't answer them.
We seek here on the PTL Television Network to be able to bring the guest who can give you the most pertinent information to answer these hard questions.
Well, friends, we're about to be answering some very difficult questions coming up, April 10, 11, and 12.
I want you to watch this and let's see some of the hard questions we're going to be answering.
Is the Antichrist alive right now?
And he is now in the world preparing hearts to receive him when he comes.
Will artificial intelligence control our lives?
With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.
Are aliens real?
And have they already visited our planet?
We're entering a period of great uncertainty where we're dealing with things we've never dealt with before.
The one that controls AI has enormous power over everyone else.
The world is changing at a rapid pace.
Prophecies are unfolding.
Technology is advancing beyond our imagination.
And the biggest questions of our time demand answers.
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Amen.
Wow.
So we're going to be covering those hard topics.
I want to read some of the guests who have confirmed to be here, whether via Skype or in person.
We have Bishop Alan DeDio, Carl Gallups, Dave Robbins, Derek and Sharon Gilbert from Skywatch TV, Donna Howell, Dr. Dennis Lindsay, the CEO, president of Christ for the Nations Institute, Joe Horn, the late, great Tom Horne son of Skywatch TV.
L.A. Marzuli is going to be here all three days.
And we have Vicki Joe Anderson, as well as about a dozen more people that have given us a, yes, we could make it there if our schedules align well.
So friends, this is going to be a power-packed event.
I'm telling you right now, April 10, 11, and 12.
I'm excited.
I know people that have called me the last few hours from Atlanta, Georgia.
They bought tickets, didn't they?
They bought tickets to be here.
They're flying.
They're people that are influencing social media because this is a hot topic that everybody in the church needs to know on how to answer it or look at it through a biblical lens.
There's a lot of things coming around the corner that are going to change the way of life for all of us.
But yet, did the Bible predict it?
What does the Bible have to say about artificial intelligence?
Or the greatest question is something that is going to be one of the most deceptive information.
Yet, very few people are going to understand how deceptive the exposure of UFOs in America and the world.
Yet, I want to tell you something.
Most Christians don't understand when the Antichrist will walk in and how he's going to use all of this event to shape the future that he sees.
Yet, the Bible, I keep saying yet, because the Bible tells us and has prophecy.
But we have to learn what the word has to say.
That's right.
You know, the word of God says that he will seek to deceive even the elect.
That's his goal.
He wants to even deceive the elect friends, the believer who believes in Jesus Christ, who knows the truth.
His goal will be to even deceive you, friend.
We want to ensure that that never happens.
How does that not happen?
Make sure you have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, that you have intimacy with the Holy Spirit, that the Holy Spirit speaks to you daily.
Because, friends, I promise you, if something pops up, the Holy Spirit will check your heart.
The Holy Spirit will give you a prompting, and you will not be deceived through your intimacy with Jesus Christ.
You know, Manda, we have an incredible guest today, exciting a man that we love here at this ministry.
We watch quite a bit of what he does because he is a powerful man of God, a man who loves the truth and speaks the truth.
I want you to watch this from a book called Summoning the Demon.
And we're about to have your friend, Bishop Alan DiDio, here on this broadcast.
If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?
As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries.
Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
He asked me point blank, have you read your Bible lately?
And I said, well, sir, I think I know what it says.
And he said, well, then you would know that these things are demonic.
Oh, my God.
And it turns out that actually, yes, these things have been shut down and crashed, and the U.S. government has the wreckage.
There's just no question that some of the reports seem to tell the sort of thing that you find in Polkadot's phenomenon.
I mean, with artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.
Bishop Alan DiDio is the pastor of the Encounter Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the host of the podcast, Encounter Underground.
He's also the author of the book we're going to be talking about today, Summoning the Demon.
Friend, I want to thank you for being here.
It is so good to be here.
Amen.
Bishop.
I'm surrounded.
Welcome.
Amen.
We're going to tag team on a few questions, but I believe, and Ricky and I believe that this has to be one of the most important subjects that the church needs to be in the front line understanding.
Otherwise, we're going to be deceived.
That's right.
Yeah, and it's all over the news, right?
The whole country, the whole world is talking about it.
The president is required to answer questions.
He's sending out his press secretary talking about the drones in New Jersey.
I'm sure we'll get into all of that in this conversation as well, but we ought to have an answer as the body of Christ.
That's right.
And I believe finally the church is catching up.
That's right.
I want to ask you right away the hard question.
How can we recognize and interpret the times we're living in?
How can we ensure that the headlines aren't just headlines and that they're actually Bible prophecy?
Well, one thing we want to do is we don't want to sensationalize Bible prophecy, and we don't want to always be playing pin the tail on the Antichrist.
That's right.
Where we're always trying to find a way to fit the current news into scripture instead of filtering the current news through the scripture.
And so if we want to interpret what's happening in the world around us, first of all, we've got to have a solid foundation on the word of God.
I'm even returning to doing more verse-by-verse teaching because we need more of that in the body of Christ right now.
Now, in addition to verse-by-verse teaching, we're going to need to make sure that we look at everything that's happening in the natural and recognize that it happens first in the spirit.
So when you see something on a global scale that is affecting the world, affecting the nation, know that there is a spiritual root to that thing.
And if you can begin to discern the spiritual root, you're operating in the prophetic without being pathetic.
Come on.
Does that make sense to everybody?
So we'll make sure that we are looking at things that are happening, saying, okay, what is the spiritual root of that thing?
There's a spiritual battle taking place.
Something is at the root of that.
If we can identify that, then we can address the problem.
And I think for too long, the church has gotten too political in the sense that we're just scratching the surface and seeking political answers.
We need to do all the political things, but we must recognize there is a spiritual root to the thing.
And if we don't address that, it doesn't matter how many of us vote.
It doesn't matter who's in office.
We'll wind up back in the same situation seven times worse than it was before.
Wow.
Did you're saying things right now that since 2016, we saw the church make a move like never before into politics?
Hyper politics, yeah.
How do we keep that balance, Bishop?
Because I think people in the church are concerned, they're passionate, they feel strong about what their beliefs are, but yet there's a very thin line between love and hate.
And that's an old song, by the way.
I want to know how do we balance that thread, Bishop, because I've seen a lot of people in Christianity go overboard, yet we lost vision or it's like a confusing line of what is politics and what is faith.
Yeah, well, we cared more about the White House than we did the pew for a long time.
And friends, the pew is where revival begins.
It's not going to be the White House where revival starts.
It's going to be the lighthouse.
The church sets the culture.
The church sets the temperature.
I want you to answer that question.
Tell us, how can we get back in line of faith?
It's all about where your hope is.
I think we should be involved in politics.
We probably should have been more involved than even in 2016, 2020.
We should have been more involved, but our hope was fixed on that instead of our hope in Jesus Christ.
And that's where it matters.
And so you can always tell if someone's gotten that off balance if they refuse to question the party in power that they supported because they just want to win the election.
We just want to win so you can't ever question or scrutinize what the person in power is doing.
We're in power now.
We have the White House.
We have the Senate.
We have Congress.
Now we need to hold their feet to the fire and make sure they do what we tell them to do because we are the largest special interest group in the country.
Believers, Christians.
If we ever come together in unity, we have the power.
And now it's time to tell them, now do what you promised you were going to do.
And so far, so good.
Amen.
That's right.
If we ever came together in unity, friends, we must continue to unify as the body of Christ.
Bishop, I want to ask you this question.
Are there specific Bible prophecies you can think of off the top of your head that are maybe going along currently that you would say, yes, these are Revelation, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 type events we're seeing right now?
Well, first, Jesus said, beware of deception.
We've never seen a generation arise like this one.
And we talk about this in the book, Summoning the Demon, that they don't know what's real and what's fake.
That's right.
You can see a news story.
You can see actual video.
My son was watching a video the other day.
He's sitting here in the audience right now, and he was watching a news broadcast, and it said that this is AI.
And it took him a second to say, wait a second, I didn't realize that this guy who's talking, give me the news, is a fake artificial intelligence individual.
So we've got to make sure that we recognize how precarious this moment is.
And as a church, say, we've got to get back to the foundations of truth.
You know, when you work at a bank, if they want you to be able to identify fakes, they're not going to show you all the fakes because you can't.
There's too many fakes out there.
They're going to get you accustomed to what the real thing looks like.
And if you get familiar with the real thing, you won't be deceived by a fraud.
So we've got to get back to the word of God again and make sure believers understand the real thing and are so accustomed to it, they can feel it when a fraud comes across their path.
You know, we have a lot of pastors, teachers, elders, people who have home groups.
What would be a word you would encourage them with right now where they're saying, you know what, I see the need for biblical literacy.
I see the need for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but we're just not seeing it in my community.
Where could a man or a woman start to say, I want my community to be biblically literate?
Well, when I look at the Apostle Paul, when he started the church at Corinth, he spent two years there building that church.
When he started the church at Ephesus, he spent five years building that church.
But when he started the church at Thessalonica, he had four weeks.
Amen.
And so, if you want to know how do we build a church very, very quickly that's strong and that is healthy, well, then you look at the Apostle Paul's pattern.
And what did he teach them?
He taught them very deep doctrines.
First of all, we can't be afraid because they're new believers to go deep.
Amen.
They can go deep.
They have the Spirit of God on the inside of them.
Amen.
And secondly, what did he focus on?
Bible prophecy.
Come on.
He had an emphasis on Bible prophecy.
If you'll get a passion for the return of Jesus in people's hearts, if you get a passion for Bible prophecy, something happens within them that makes them strong.
I think the message Bible said, you put steel in your convictions in 1 Thessalonians chapter 1.
And that's what we need in the body of Christ today.
We need believers with steel in their convictions.
Come on.
Amen.
In your teachings that you've done, not just with the book, but in your teachings, I've heard you talk about the urgency to understand and address the rise of false prophets, the counterfeits that arise in the body of Christ.
Teach us.
Oh, great bishop.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
How to discern who's the person in the pulpit that we think, just like artificial intelligence, is getting very difficult to know who's real and who's not real because social media is changing everything.
We have artificial spiritual intelligence.
So we have people in the pulpit who appear to be intelligent, but they're not intelligent.
People in the pulpit who appear to be on our side appear to be real, but they're not real.
So how do we distinguish between what is true and what is not?
Well, the first step is kind of surprising.
Stop following everybody.
You know, you need to find, first of all, you need to find a local church.
Amen.
You need to connect with that local church.
Amen.
Be a vital part of that local church.
And then that's your part of the body.
Then you find out, okay, what are the prophetic voices that this local church is connected to?
And those are the prophetic voices I'll receive from and glean from.
But if you don't do that, then you're just open to every voice that's out there.
And it could be a prophet who is not false.
They're just wrong for you because we're different parts of the body of Christ, and there's the hand and there's the foot.
What happens when the brain sends a message to the hand that was supposed to go to the foot?
You're trying to eat spaghetti with your toes.
It wasn't the wrong message.
It was just to the wrong part of the body.
And so we've got to make sure we're getting the messages we need in our pot of the body.
And then, of course, we need to make sure that the prophetic word or the prophet that's preaching that they are faithful to the word of God.
Amen.
I am not impressed with your ability to predict the future.
I'm not impressed with your ability to tell me my address or what happened in my life.
I am impressed if you're faithful to the word of God.
Amen.
That's what impresses me.
And we stand on the word of God.
We've made that very clear here at the PTL Television Network.
We believe the Word of God is our final authority here on this earth, friends.
I'm telling you right now, we have a more sure word and it sits right here.
If it doesn't line up with the Word of God, reject it.
If it does line up with the Word of God, cling to it with your very life because your very life does depend on it, friends.
We need to fall in love with this right here, the Word of God.
Friends, this is critical.
If you're at home and you don't have a Bible, friends, download it on your phone.
You have the Bible app.
You need to ensure that you get the Word of God in you every single day.
I'm telling you, it's so critical.
It's so critical to having that relationship with Jesus Christ, to know the words that he spoke, to know the teachings that he gave, to know the Pauline doctrine and say, yes, he wrote good words for us to be able to live by.
10,000 Ribbons in This Bible 00:05:10
Why?
Not good because he's that eloquent writer, because he was so wonderful of a man and he's perfect.
And no, no, because they were Holy Spirit inspired.
That is why we can look at this Bible and say, yes, I will believe what is inside of this because it was all written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Period.
Period, friends.
Can I just say, by the way, I'm looking at your Bible and I'm intimidated.
I don't know about that.
The Bible has 10,000 ribbons in it.
There are like 10,000 ribbons in this Bible.
Ricky is serious about Bible study.
That's really funny.
Yeah, it does have a lot of Bible.
I got this rebound.
It's the Bible I love, and the old one has fallen apart.
And the guy, he literally said, he was a man off a website where you can get your Bibles rebound.
He says, you can put as many tassels in it or ribbons as you want.
I said, as many, you say.
Let's cap it out.
Let's max it out.
Let's figure that out.
Let's challenge that.
Amen.
Amen.
We challenge that.
You know, it's important to fall in love with the word of God, friends.
Yes.
You know, I want to just dive right into this book, if you don't mind.
Summoning the demon, AI, aliens, and the antichrist.
Why did you go into topics that really a lot of the church was rejecting?
Well, I went into it because I was one of the ones rejecting it.
And the reason why is because so many people went to extremes.
Yeah.
And I saw so many people going into conspiracy theories.
And they were going so far into conspiracy theories, they were detaching from the word of God.
So I said, okay, I need to make sure we have an ability to take a balanced approach to this.
And what does the Bible actually say about these subjects?
So I approached AI aliens and the Antichrist kind of from a skeptical point of view.
You know, with X-Files, you had Scully and Mulder.
And I wanted to be the skeptic, the scully, and really analyze this and say, does the Word of God really talk about these things?
And I was shocked at how much the Bible actually had to say about these things.
And I think it's a great study for someone who wants to really know what the scripture has to say about antimicrobials.
What you've done in this book, for example, you give an overview of artificial intelligence.
You give an overview or going to understanding UFOs in the Bible.
Project Blue Book.
I mean, that's a major one there.
The Manhattan Project, Birth of a New Era.
You go into the past and bring us all the way up to where we are now.
Why did you reject it?
Let's go into that because the church has always rejected things that change culture.
Right?
So when you study television, what did the Christian world do?
They rejected television, yet it's the medium that has been used for the last, what, 80 years or 60 years to change how we preach the gospel?
So why is it that we reject something that we don't understand?
I think we've listened to the lies of the enemy.
Napoleon, he gathered all of his generals in his war room.
And in that smoke-filled room, he etched his finger across a continent of Asia.
Yes.
And he put his finger to his lips and he said, shh, because this is the most populous region in the world with the most abundant land resources.
If they ever recognize that, they will be unstoppable.
Let's let them sleep.
And I think the enemy, when it comes to subjects like this, that the world is interested in, that people are interested in, he puts his forked finger to his lips and he says, shh, church, just be quiet about that.
Let's let that rest.
Because he doesn't want us addressing the issues that people are actually interested in.
He wants to keep us on the sidelines and the fringes, keep us having, you know, our religious spaghetti dinners and our bingo games over in the congregation and not allow us to influence culture at all.
And I think that's the main reason we've kind of bowed to the deception of the enemy.
These are interesting topics, by the way.
How many of you have fun talking about Nephilim and giants and UFOs and all that stuff?
It's fun.
Why can't the church just be fun?
Come on, let's get back to the word with it.
Amen.
Speaking of the role of the church, considering your prophetic insights about upcoming war, societal unrest, what role should the church play in maybe promoting world peace, promoting unity?
What role should we be playing in that?
Or should we just separate ourselves from what the world's doing?
I think every role that's available, the church should be involved in.
Amen.
But that should not be the primary focus of the church.
The primary focus of the church has to be building up healthy believers.
And if you build up healthy believers, they'll be like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindigo.
They'll fill those roles.
They will fill those roles.
They were recognized by the corrupt leaders that these are the most talented people in the nation.
Let's put them in positions of power.
So we need to raise up believers who are built up in the word of God, and they'll be placed over artificial intelligence and they'll be able to drop gospel algorithms into all of these social media platforms and things like that.
Understanding AI Agents 00:05:46
So we need to focus on that, but the main focus needs to be healthy believers as we've discussed here today, even at the opening of this program, being a healthy, solid disciple of Jesus Christ.
That changes everything, right?
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That's right.
Right.
So understanding that this is something that is changing our daily life as we're speaking right now.
Yet, Bishop, it is developing faster than anybody has expected.
It is changing nations.
America just invested, I think it's over 500 million billion dollars in understanding the future.
Why should we pay attention?
We're at a really interesting moment right now.
Even as we speak, agents are being released is what they're called, AI agents.
Initially, AI was simply a language model.
It's just able to talk like a human would talk and spit out information.
Now they have released what they call agents, which is interesting if you've ever seen the movie The Matrix, where there's this artificial intelligence that is dominating the world.
And in order to impact humanity, they release agents to impact them.
Agents are able to take that AI language model and then go into the internet and do things for you.
They can order things for you.
They can do all kinds of things.
Now the next step, this is kind of breaking news here, is that they have deep research AI models.
That's what they're calling it.
Deep research.
You know that China has recently come out with an AI model that has rivaled ChatGPT.
Well, in response, ChatGPT, I think before they were ready, released deep research.
Now, here's what deep research does.
It goes into the internet and it will research like a PhD would research things and it will learn and will bring that information to you.
Now, why this is so revolutionary is because you have these AI models.
They can now go find information they did not previously have and learn it.
And now they are smarter than they were before.
And they can do this in minutes.
In minutes.
Seconds.
I mean, this is.
And so for the first time, we have AI that is able to improve itself.
If you haven't watched any sci-fi movies, let me give you a hint.
Not a good idea.
Explain it.
Explain it.
I think understanding the agents.
Now, one thing you deal with here, it's something that we've talked about it on this program before, Ricky.
I know I've mentioned it several times that in order for the culture to change values and ethics and worldviews, everything starts with language.
If you take a look at what happened with Great Britain, before they even colonized the Bahamas, for example, what was the number one thing they needed to change if they were going to make an impact on the long run?
It was language.
Language established first before any colony takes over, because with language, you can change the values, you can change morals, you can change religion, you can change perspective.
Yet we're dealing with something that you talk about, language.
How is artificial intelligence connected to the Tower of Babel?
Wow.
Because the language model that you just mentioned is the same language model that Great Britain used in order to colonize and change, for example, the Bahamas.
That's such a deep point.
And there's a whole chapter in here on AI and the Tower of Babel.
Tower of Babel.
You remember Genesis chapter 11?
All the people were of one language.
They were of one speech.
And they were going to build a tower to the heavens, a portal into the spirit realm, if you will.
And God said they are going to be able to accomplish this because they're of one language.
So I'm going to have to stop this.
How did God stop it?
He confounded their languages, divided them over different languages.
What artificial intelligence is doing, it is removing that barrier, that stop gap that was stopping the Antichrist agenda.
Nebuchadnezzar or Nimrod was an Antichrist figure, and he stopped it by dividing languages.
Now that stopgap that's been holding back the Antichrist agenda is being removed.
And now, once again, humanity is able to all speak the same thing.
And we're all speaking from the same script written by AI.
And we also see now the technology and glasses coming out where you can put on a pair of glasses now, Mondo, speak Spanish.
I don't speak Spanish.
We can have a fluent conversation where it's being spoken into my ear, translated instantaneously, and then it tells me or it spits out in Spanish what I'm saying to Mondo.
So that barrier is now, like you said, been broken.
Do you think we'll see another Tower of Babel situation soon?
I think we're already seeing it.
And when you see the developments of the technology with CERN, all of this is connected.
You recall, we've discussed this previously.
Google was created initially to create a godlike mind.
That was the intention behind that company, Alphabet.
And we're supposed to believe that instead they went into the search engine business.
Bishop Dido Unleashed 00:03:52
No, that's not the case.
The search engine business was intended to stretch its tentacles around the globe and to learn your behaviors, your patterns, and then collate all that information together to create a godlike mind.
That's right.
I believe you showed a clip earlier of you've all know a Harari who believes that AI will replace the God of the Bible and will rewrite the Bible.
That's right.
They truly believe this.
But here's good news: the Bible says, Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
And we have the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and we have the name of Jesus.
Amen.
The most powerful name.
Amen.
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Yeah, unleashed.
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And bishop, I want to say thank you publicly.
I've never said this to him because this is the first time we're having this conversation.
Whenever this book came out his book unleashing uh, summoning the demon I said unleashing, unleashing the demon, summoning the demon.
Ai, Aliens And The Antichrist.
I don't know if you remember on the show, I said bishop, we should do a conference.
That's called that, that's right.
And since then I literally couldn't get it out of my mind.
So we, we swapped the name a little bit, but I want to say thank you for inspiring this because really I will say this, bishop Dido is the reason that we're going to be hosting this conference here, because he inspired this conference.
So I want to say thank you.
What a bless we're doing.
I appreciate you for that.
That means you've got to be here in person.
Yeah yeah, he's here via skype and bless the holy spirit.
Guys, start praying right now.
We need a plane.
Start interceding at home.
Right now.
We need hey.
Yeah, let's pray for that.
Come on, he needs that so he can go and do the work of the ministry.
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Why In-Person Discipleship Matters 00:15:40
As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries.
Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
He asked me point blank, have you read your Bible lately?
And I said, well, sir, I think I know what it says.
And he said, well, then you would know that these things are demonic.
And it turns out that actually, yes, these things have been shot down and crashed.
And the U.S. government has the wreckage.
there's just no question that some of the reports seem to tell the sort of thing that you find in poltergeist come on and with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon Amen.
Do you know, bishop?
We're diving into this right now.
You discussed Ai's prophesied role in scripture, so let's talk about that.
How does Ai have a prophesied role in the scriptures?
Well, when you look at Daniel's prophecy in chapter number 12, he predicts that there will be an explosion of knowledge.
Now that can be interpreted several ways.
First, that there will be an explosion of prophetic knowledge, that there would be an explosion of people understanding Bible prophecy.
I think we've seen that, in fact, very few people actually have ever dared to write a commentary on the book of Daniel until the last century, and then, all of a sudden, people started writing commentaries on the book of Daniel.
There's an explosion of information about, about Bible prophecy.
But is Is there an explosion of knowledge as far as mankind is concerned?
You know, you have more technology on your phone than they had on the very first space shuttle.
More technology on your phone than they had on the very first space shuttle.
The one that went to the moon?
The average, yeah, the average Sunday newspaper has more information on it than someone living in the 15th century would get their entire lives.
Wow.
Just the average Sunday newspaper.
So we're seeing it.
What a much better life, huh, guys?
Not having all that information on you.
It sounds like a good life.
What has it done for us?
We have air conditioning.
I guess that's a good thing.
Amen.
Amen.
But we're smarter, but we're not wiser.
We know more, but we understand less.
Wow.
We can build solid, strong houses, but we have weak, sick homes.
We can conquer space, but we can't conquer our own habits.
And so we're living in a society that doesn't even know how to, we're smarter than we've ever been, but we can't navigate interpersonal relationships any longer.
What AI is going to do is it's going to accelerate that.
That's going to be a word that's going to get repeated again and again as we talk about issues.
Acceleration is key and understanding where we are prophetically.
But AI is going to accelerate the needs within humanity.
We're going to become more separated than we ever have been before, which means we're going to need more in-person discipleship than we've ever had before.
I want to talk about where we are.
Because a lot of churches have gotten away.
You know, there was a boom maybe the early 2000s, the late 2010s.
There was a lot of Christian discipleship programs across the countries.
Churches would be hosting these discipleship programs.
I know we were incorporated, not we in the sense of having one here, but we were new churches.
We supported churches that had discipleship programs.
But it seemed to be the late, you know, 2010 and on, they started just trickling away and we stopped doing discipleship programs.
Do you think that's key to the future?
Is the churches reigniting real discipleship programs?
Well, the world's changed.
I remember we used to do door-to-door evangelism as well.
You'd go to people's homes, knock on the door, share with them about Jesus.
And really the idea is you can't do that anymore because people don't want you knocking on their doors.
They just won't answer it.
They just won't answer it all.
When actually what we've seen is if you actually do that, the response is amazing.
If you actually go and do it, they say they don't want it.
They react initially negatively, but ultimately they do want a personal connection.
And so I think, yeah, in-person discipleship is going to be key, which is why I'm so thankful you're doing these conferences here, not only for individuals, but for pastors to come in and be trained and learned.
Amen.
Socially.
Our goal is to raise up a thousand ministers to reach a million people a month.
That's a billion people a month that we reach to the gospel of Jesus Christ by training them how to do social media, how to use technology.
See, there's two camps.
There's one camp who says we need in-person discipleship, so let's avoid all technology.
That's the wrong perspective to have.
And then there's our camp where we need in-person discipleship.
Let's use technology to get people in because 33% of people who will watch a church's video online will show up at that church eventually.
They'll come and show up in person.
So the banks are slippery.
And if we can teach churches to get in front of a million more people than they normally would, they're going to have an opportunity for in-person discipleship like they never had before.
So grandma can attend, grandpa can attend, and not just pastors.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
You know, we believe this, friends.
We believe we're going to see a Joel outpouring on this earth, friends.
We believe that there's going to be a multi-billion soul harvest before the king returns.
Why?
Because it's his heart that every single person turns their life to him, gets to spend eternity with him, friends.
He died for everybody.
He died for the people you don't agree with theologically.
He died for the sinner.
He died for your drunk uncle.
He died for the parent that hurt you.
He died for everyone, friends.
Not just for a few people on the cross, for everyone.
Friends, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
You're not perfect.
And if you were, you'd have been hanging on that cross with Christ.
You just would have been.
We're not.
But friends, I'm telling you right now, we need to love relentlessly in this time right now.
What is it that leads people to repentance?
It's the goodness of God.
It's that good, free gift that he's given us.
It's preaching that message.
And that's what you're doing.
You're saying, by all means, absolutely in any capacity, let's get this message of the gospel out.
And then we can tell them about current issues.
Then we can tell them about the real things that we're facing.
We can tell them why these things pertain to biblical prophecy.
But friends, they must be one with the good message of the gospel.
Because, friends, what you do to get people in church is what you're going to have to keep doing to keep them in church.
So if it's lights, theatrics, games, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I really don't think there's anything wrong with that.
If you have a church with big lights and you guys have fun games for your youth group, by all means, keep doing it.
Bring them into church.
But what you do to get them there is what you're going to have to do to keep them there.
Imagine if they came because there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit at your altar because they knew if they got to that church building, they'd be infilled with the Holy Spirit like they've never been filled before, friends.
That should be the goal of every single church.
I believe we're about to start seeing as many global superstar pastors pop up, and we're about to see a lot more humble teachers pop up.
And through that teaching of the verse by verse, like you said, through that teaching of the verse by verse, you will see lives transformed because they'll have a deeper understanding of the most important text that has ever touched this earth, the word of God.
And Bishop, I want to say thank you.
Thank you for doing this because you are now setting the gold standard for what churches need to be doing across this country.
I believe your church is truly a lighthouse from the Eastern Seaboard.
The rest of the world will look at your church and say, yes, we need to follow that model.
Wow.
So thank you for Morningside Church, the PTL television family.
We love Encounter Charlotte.
And if someone wants to be, let's say they're within a driving distance, they say, I want to be a part of that church.
I didn't know they had a church, a physical body.
Tell them where your new church is.
Tell them, you know, maybe some service times, websites they can go on, social medias.
We want them to be a part of your body.
Yeah, we're wild.
We have church on Saturday nights because we have church on Saturday nights, and we have people drive three hours every week to be a part of our Saturday night service at the Encounter Charlotte.
So we're right outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.
And the Holy Ghost is always present, always moving.
It's amazing what the Lord is doing.
And so thankful for you guys.
Thank you so much.
So it's encountercharlotte.com.
Yep, or encountertoday.com.
Encounter today.
Yeah, both.
Encountertoday.com, you can get all of our information.
You had some great teachers.
You just had the great, unbelievable teacher, Rick Renner, there.
That's right.
I love Rick.
Mario Murillo is coming.
Yeah.
I mean, man, you got the whole hunter.
Can you tell them about what's happening with Mario or is that secret?
No, we are about to put a 5,000-person tent.
We've just acquired 36 acres of land right outside of Charlotte.
We purchased the land.
It's ours.
Hallelujah.
And we're about to put, and the reason why we bought it, the entire reason was to clear it as quickly as possible, put a 5,000-person tent on the land and see souls saved.
You sound like Jim Baker.
Come on.
Amen.
Amen.
Well, he's digging up those old wells there.
I believe that that anointing never died, friends.
The anointing stayed there.
And we have mighty ministers of God like Bishop De Dio who is taking those wells.
The Lord says, hey, the anointing didn't die.
The anointing didn't leave.
The anointing isn't void.
And you're re-sparking those old wells.
And you're about to see a great revival come out.
5,000 people on fire for Jesus can change a state, a nation, a country, a world.
So, man, I'm glad you're doing that.
Thank you so much.
And we encourage everybody to come out.
You know, they get surprised.
Do you have dates yet?
Do you have dates for it yet or no?
What are the dates?
March 23rd through the 26th, I believe, is what it is.
So March 23rd through March 26th.
Yes.
There'll be a tent out there at your property.
If you go out there early, you might see him on a bulldozer dozing the land.
People are shocked when they come into the church and I'm standing at the door greeting everybody.
I want to see you.
I want to see you.
So come on out to the Encounter Charlotte.
It's a great thing.
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People can go there, support this ministry.
I want to tell you, get this book.
If you haven't already, start a Wednesday night Bible study, Summoning the Demon, AI, Aliens, and the Antichrist.
Rick Renner wrote the foreword for this book, actually.
I'm going to talk about some of the people who wrote the endorsements.
Good friends of ours.
Pastor Troy Brewer.
That's right.
Mighty man of God, Mario Murillo, Joseph Z, a good friend to you, as well as all the ministerial things that you're doing.
Tony Merkel as well.
We have Pastor Todd Coconato and Katie Souza.
I know right now this book is probably one of the most important books that people could read because what you're doing is non-sensationalizing the issues.
You're saying these are the issues that need to be dealt with.
And here they are from a biblical perspective.
Now, he's not, well, here's, you know, here's 250 pages of my opinion.
It's not that.
Our team has dived into this book.
I mean, if you can see some copies of this highlighted, marked, written, you have taken this all from a biblical perspective.
You're grounded in the word of God.
And you say, how can we ensure we're not deceived?
If somebody's watching right now and they're saying, you know, I have dealt with the issue of being deceived.
I believed a lie for a long time in my life, whether it be about an issue like this or whether it be about their identity or about a cultural issue.
And they're saying, I just have felt like I've been deceived by the culture.
What can they do to come back into the fullness of Christ?
You know, I have a dear friend.
Her name is Kelly Copeland.
And she said she asked the Lord several questions that always invokes the presence of God.
And number one is, what have I been lied to about?
What lies have I believed?
That's an important question to ask.
And I encourage you to ask that question.
Lord, what lies have I believed about myself, about my family, about my church?
And then ask the Lord, what's the truth about that?
Amen.
And if you'll just ask those two questions, you'll be amazed at what the Lord does in your life.
And I believe he'll fix it.
So whatever lies you've believed right now in the name of Jesus, I'm standing in faith with you right now.
Come on.
That the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ will set you free.
Father, I pray right now that the blinders will be removed off of their eyes.
And whatever they've been blinded to, whatever they've been lied to about, will be broken, removed from their lives, and they will see as you see.
They will believe your word and they will receive your promise in the name of Jesus.
Now just lift your hands and worship God for the truth coming to you.
The truth of your healing, the truth of your deliverance, the truth of your household salvation.
Receive it now in Jesus' name and declare that by faith.
I receive it.
You've got to stand in faith with somebody.
You need to call that number right now.
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This is what I'm believing.
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Let's agree together.
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Let's stand together in these last days.
And I believe we'll see the glory of God.
Amen.
We will see the glory of God.
Friends, we really believe here at this ministry, there will be a multi-billion soul harvest, friends.
We need people to put their spiritual work boots on and get out there.
Evangelize.
Tell everybody you have the opportunity to talk to about Jesus Christ.
Friends, your friends and family who don't know Jesus, make that your priority.
Make a goal today.
Say, I'm going to pick up the phone and I'm going to call my uncle, my aunt, my grandfather, my grandmother, my son, my daughter, who doesn't know Jesus Christ personally, who may have had a relationship at one point, but they've fallen away or have altogether rejected Christ their whole life.
And I'm going to tell them how much I love them.
And friends, start the conversation off with that.
Tell them how much you love them.
Tell them how much you appreciate them.
And friends, make sure to minister to them on how much Jesus loves them.
I promise you, whenever you start the conversation off with not, hey, these are, here's the list of things you're doing wrong, by the way.
Here's the list of things where you could really be fixing.
I'll tell you right now, someone's wall of defense will immediately go up.
The rest of the conversation, they might have it with you, but it'll probably be like throwing a tennis ball against the wall, friend.
Start the conversation off with love.
Start the conversation off with appreciation for maybe something they've done for you or a good memory you guys have had together.
And then hit them with the Holy Spirit and say, I just want to let you know, I called you today, first and foremost, to appreciate our friendship, our relationship, whatever it is.
But I want to let you know how much Jesus loves you, how much Christ loves you so much more than I ever could, so much better than I ever could, so much better than your husband or wife or mother or father ever could.
Christ loves you.
And friends, they might reject the message, but what you're doing is you're planting the seed and you might be breaking some hard ground.
You might have to bust some rocks and throw them off to the side to get that seed into the ground.
But friends, continue to pursue them in all love the same way Christ pursued us, the same way that he hung on that cross for us in all love.
Friends, if it would have just taken one drop of the blood of Jesus, it could have just taken one drop of the blood of Jesus to cover all of us, but he shed it all for us.
Every single drop of blood he had, so that we could be brothers and sisters, so that we can be joint heirs to the throne, so that we can have interpersonal relationship for eternity.
And friends, I want to encourage you, it's the best choice you'll ever make.
It's the most important choice you'll ever make.
Let Jesus into your heart.
Let him rule and reign.
Let him sit on that seat right here and right here, friend.
Because sometimes we let him sit in our heart, but we don't let him sit on our mind, friends.
We don't allow him 18 inches above our heart to influence how we think.
But friends, I promise you, it'll be the best decision you ever make.
I want to read this to you right here in Philippians chapter 4, starting in verse 5, it says this right here: Let your graciousness be known to everyone.
The Lord is near.
Don't worry about anything, but in everything through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding.
It will guard your hearts and mind in Jesus Christ.
Be In Christ Today 00:01:01
There's nothing you can do to guard your heart and mind in this world, friends.
There's not an amount of work you can do.
There's not an amount of riches you can have.
There's not amount of smiles you can give people, friends, if it's not done, if it's done apart from Christ.
The only thing that can guard our hearts and our minds is being in Christ.
Friends, I want to encourage you, be in Christ, be in Christ today.
And Bishop, I want to thank you for being on the broadcast.
Such an honor.
Thank you so much.
Amen.
Good to see you.
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1-888-9881-588 or go to jimbakershow.com and shop that NORI Media affiliate program.
You can get this book.
It goes to support Bishop's wonderful ministry that he's doing in North Carolina, and it supports our ministry to ensure we can tell people King Jesus is returning soon and God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Thanks again, Bishop.
What a blessing.
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