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May 29, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Joseph Z Part 3
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Come Up Higher 00:10:08
Welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show.
Today we discuss breaking the chains, confronting the Antichrist spirit with Joseph Z. Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And now, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Hey, who made this man a reverend?
I love what they say every time we get around.
Who put that there?
Who put that there?
No, he's gay.
He is.
Come on, the man of God.
We should call him Pastor.
He's like a pastor around here, too.
Anyways, I got to pretend like I started the show off right.
Hey, you're watching Jim Baker's ETL television network.
It's good to have you in watching today.
What they used to say back in the old days, don't touch that dial.
There's no dials anymore, Mondo.
Don't swipe off the screen.
Don't go to another social media.
This is going to be a good episode.
You know, you walked into a new generation when I bought a new TV.
My son walked up to it and tried to.
He tried to touch screen that day.
Look at us.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
You want to go with that?
You didn't get the right TV, Dad.
You didn't get the right.
No, I got the remote.
Who uses a remote, Dad?
Oh, my goodness.
That's great.
The man of God has joined us for show number three.
Thank you.
Pastor.
Thank you, Ricky.
I want to say thank you for writing this book, The Spirit of Elijah.
Yes.
I know we've been talking about this.
One of the things we're going to be talking about today is breaking the Antichrist spirit.
Every generation since Christ has had a Antichrist spirit.
Why?
Because their Antichrist spirit moves.
He hates the cause of the Christ.
He hates also the covenant that has been made that we are grafted into, the Abrahamic covenant.
But Arili, I realize now this is so heavy because I think the devil knows my time is so short.
That's true.
And so he's raising up.
Do you think an Antichrist figure, a physical man, woman thing, AI, whatever it'll be?
Do you think they're raising one up right now in this generation?
I think they want to, but I think they tried it with, you know, the Tower of Babel, Nimrod.
He was the anti-Adam.
Yes.
You have all these people that stand up in cultures and generations.
But I firmly believe that ecclesia cannot be overcome by the gates of hell.
So even if the Antichrist stood up, he come walking over, but he'd go limping back because we're here.
Amen.
And so at the end of the day, when I look at the spirit of Antichrist, that's different than, you know, let's give it in Lord of the Rings terms.
Come on.
Since we're all nerds here today, you know, you got Sauron in Lord of the Rings, who he stood up and all the elves and men came together and they killed him and all this.
And then all of a sudden he's wiped out.
His body is gone.
But the spirit of Sauron lived on with the eye in the tower.
That's the spirit of Antichrist.
That spirit of Antichrist is the devil.
It's the spirit of the devil wanting to work in the culture and bring out this wicked malfeasance on the land.
So just because we don't see the man of sin stand up doesn't mean there's not many antichrists in the world and a system that is against God.
So what do we do?
Well, the thing that confronts the spirit of Antichrist is the spirit of faith in you.
Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
And I like to say this all the time.
The antichrist spirit may come walking over, but it will go limping back.
You know, you got to realize something about the devil.
Many people think, oh, the devil's tormenting me.
Oh, the devil's after me.
Well, that's because the devil is tormented.
That's because the devil is confused.
That's because the devil is working in all those things.
He doesn't have peace.
He doesn't have joy.
He doesn't have any of the things that we possess in the fruits of the spirit.
As the body of Christ, if we can ever figure this out and stop fighting, if we could ever come together and unite, and I'm not talking over doctrine, I'm talking over purpose and cause.
That is the spirit of Elijah.
It's that generational reformation.
It's that generational merging, young and old coming together and saying, we're going to stop this for the sake of the children.
That is what drives the spirit of Antichrist back, unification and bringing it back.
You know, I had an encounter.
I was in a meeting some time ago.
Mondo's in this meeting some time ago, and I'm sitting there and people are giving prophetic words.
It's a very calm meeting, very calm.
And I'm sitting in this meeting, and then I stood up and we're just kind of, you know, there enjoying the prophecy that's happening.
And I'll tell you what, suddenly the voice of God roared across the auditorium.
And I'm not somebody that sensationalizes the voice of God or experiences I have.
When I have them, I'm very truthful about them.
And this was a very powerful, palpable moment.
It was an audible sound almost.
It was spiritually audible.
It hit me in my intellect and it hit me in my spirit, knocked me into the chair.
And here's what the voice said.
Come up here.
Come up higher, Joseph.
Come up where I am.
And I was shaken.
I'm in my chair and I'm sitting there.
I thought, what?
What is this all about?
What are you saying to me?
I know Revelation 4.
Come up higher.
What are you saying to me?
Shortly on the heels of that, I live in Colorado Springs.
And the Lord said to me early one morning, get up and drive to the top of Pike's Peak.
Go to the summit.
Now, Pike's Peak is, you know, what is known as America's Mountain.
I didn't really know that at the time.
I just kind of looked at it, thought it was great.
Went up to the top of it.
And the Lord began to speak to me of being a watchman for the nation and other people that he would raise up as watchmen.
And when I heard these words, come up higher, I recognized something about America's Mountain 2, Pike's Peak.
It is the mountain in the song, America the Beautiful, when it says Purple Mountain Majesty.
That is Pike's Peak.
It's literally that in the song.
And I'm there, and the Lord began to say to me, America's going to have one more round.
America's going to live.
There's going to be a lot of shaking.
We're going to go into a time of four years of redemptive instability.
It's going to be shocking and shaking.
And when we get to 28, we're going to decide what we do with the future of the nation one more time.
And as I stood there, then on the heels of that, I went on a journey with Rick Renner over to the seven churches of Revelation.
God kept saying to me, come up higher.
I stood where the Apostle John stood, overlooking the Temple of Artemis.
And then I ended up at the site of Noah's Ark in eastern Turkey, the mountains of Armenia, and in the mountains of Ararat, the foothills of Ararat, looking at the big mountain.
And I'm standing there.
And by the way, they're excavating that.
Suddenly they're getting permission to excavate Noah's Ark.
But as I stood there, the Lord began to speak to me and say, this is the fulfillment of some of that word.
Come up higher.
Come up higher.
Walk in the spirit.
You will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
That's a word for this generation.
And coming up higher means God is setting watchmen in place.
So if we have ears to hear and we unite and not fight as watchmen, looking at what's going on in the culture, we'll begin to break this institutionalized spirit of Antichrist.
And part of that means we need to become sons of Issachar.
And the sons of Issachar, 1 Chronicles chapter 12 and verse 32, it says this.
It said, the sons of Issachar knew the signs of the times.
They knew what to do about it.
This is a watchman anointing.
And there's a third part.
Many people, you got to hear me right now.
Listen to me.
You're watching right now.
Please hear this.
Many people know the signs of the times.
Many people know what to do about it.
That's what the sons of Issachar had.
But there's a third element that's missing in so many people right now.
And that is that the sons of Issachar, they had their chiefs and their brethren at their command.
What do I mean by that?
They could discern the signs of the times.
They knew what to do about it.
That defines a lot of armchair quarterback, YouTube prophets that are in their mom's basement eating hot pockets, right?
They're there and they're just kind of hanging out.
And, you know, they're saying stuff, calling stuff out.
Gifting can work.
But if there's not all three of those elements intact, what's going to happen is a lot of prediction addiction, a lot of good things going on in the culture, a lot of the ability to navigate what's going on in society, but no true effectiveness because the third part's missing.
So if we're really going to be watchmen and we're really going to rise up to what God's called us to do, discern the times, know what to do about it, but then be in your tribe.
God has a place for you to be.
He's called you to be united.
And when you unite and not fight, that is when this watchman anointing begins to drive back the spirit of Antichrist.
We have a lot of people driving home what they know, what they see, what they understand, but they're not submitted to anyone.
They're not in right relationship with anyone because when you know your tribe, you'll find your purpose.
When you're with your people, you're going to find your destiny.
And that is what God wants us to do as this watchman anointing to destroy the spirit of Antichrist.
Amen.
You know, in what ways can we restore righteousness and truth in areas that have been heavily influenced by the Antichrist spirit?
Yeah, well, we got to continue preaching the gospel.
The answer is the same for everything.
You know, it's the word.
Walk in a spirit of faith.
And, you know, I was here just before the programs today.
And, you know, we stayed here on campus and all that.
It's so wonderful.
And I woke up this morning and the Spirit of the Lord began to remind me of the spirit of faith.
You've got to come into the spirit of faith.
Start mixing the word of God with your faith.
No word, no faith.
No love, no faith.
No faith, no love.
And I started to really get on this.
And I saw the Lord saying, this is the secret sauce that's so simple.
The answer is the same.
If we'll preach the gospel, if we'll continue to love our brothers, if we'll continue to rise up in that spirit of faith, then not through pitchforks and torches are we going to take over the institutions.
We're going to go in and influence the institutions.
And something in the mindset of a culture says the way reformation happens is we go invade with pitchforks and torches and we become like the world.
And that is not what God's called us to do.
He's called us to influence through the gospel.
He's called us to be a light in darkness.
And yes, we got to be in every sector of society.
That's how we drive the spirit of Antichrist back.
We stop its legal ability to hold ground.
And that means with the gospel, with our influence, we get in positions where we can legally hold ground.
And whether it's in the education sector, whether it's in entertainment, whether it's in government, we need to legally go hold that ground with the influence of the gospel attached to it.
And when we do that, we can drive the spirit of Antichrist back.
The reason we're losing so much around the world is there is legislative seats of authority that have been taken over by the spirit of Antichrist or this Soros type scenario where they're buying off judges, they're doing all these things to alter the culture.
But if we can just stand up and not fight but unite and we can simply say, hey, for the sake of our children, we're going to influence the culture and we're going to do this and not fight over doctrine, but we keep the main thing the main thing and we will begin to see this Antichrist spirit push back.
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Oh man, we're preaching at each other right here.
We really are.
And I want to tell you something.
You want your faith.
It's all about faith.
This is what the Bible says.
For yet in a very little while, the coming one will come and not delay.
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But my righteous one will live by faith.
That's you and I.
And if he, that's you and I, draws back, I have no pleasure in him.
But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed.
This word is for you.
Write it down.
But those who have faith and are saved.
That's right.
You know, the word of God makes it very clear.
Those who abide in the vine, those who stay connected, that is who's going to be blessed.
Because if not, Jesus was very clear about it.
If you cut yourself off from the vine, at that point, you're firewood, ready to be burned up.
And that's just the reality of it.
Genesis 15, chapter 6, Abraham believed and it was accredited to him as righteousness.
It's the very first time we see we are saved not by works, we're saved by faith.
Come on, Ricky.
And praise God, we are because we could work our whole lives.
You could work 99 years, 199 years, 999 years, and still never be good enough for heaven.
We have the blood that makes us perfect in front of the Father.
And praise God, we do.
And we have the blood, and that's what breaks the Antichrist spirit.
It really is.
It's the blood of Jesus.
It does.
You know, I think about this.
You were talking about this even in the break, Ricky, about faith.
And of course, Mondo and I got all stirred up.
Like, come on now.
When you recognize that it was the devil that came to sift Job in the Old Testament, right?
He came to sift Job.
And I always ask the question, how is it the devil could come and just sift Job the way he did?
You know, it says that the devil appeared before the sons of God, you know, in the presence of God.
It's because he had Adam's authority.
He got it from Adam, and now he had control of all the kingdoms of the earth.
I don't even think he knew what he had.
He shows up and he's like, I've been walking around the earth.
The Lord's like, what have you been doing?
I've been walking around the earth doing this stuff.
And then he recognized the Lord even said to him, have you considered my servant Job?
And the reason was, is because everything that was under the authority of Adam was now in Job's domain.
Job was in that domain.
So the devil had gotten dominion over Job.
So when the Lord said to the devil, he's like, yeah, have you considered him?
He's like, hmm, you got a hedge of protection around him.
He said, no, all he has is already in your hand, but not his life.
That's in his desire, right?
That's in his confession.
Now, when you get to the New Testament, the same thing happened to Peter.
The Job test again.
The Job test again.
But it was different this time.
The great intercessor was there, and that began to happen.
And it said, you know, I've prayed for you that your faith may be strengthened.
I love that you said that, Ricky.
And you recognize that suddenly his faith was strengthened, yes.
But there's something even greater that took place after that.
Jesus said, the prince of this world is coming.
He has nothing in me.
And he's now being driven out.
Where?
From presenting himself before the sons of God, from standing in the courts of the Lord.
So today, if the devil says, I'm going to come and sift you, I'm going to mess you up.
He runs into the bouncer.
He runs into the bouncer in heaven.
And the Lord's going to go, oh, Jesus.
He's at the right hand of the Father.
He's like, you know what?
You come walking over punk and you're going to go limping back.
Come on.
And Jesus is standing there and he's saying, no, you got nothing to say.
I paid the price.
They're in me.
I'm in them.
And they're in me.
My words reside in them.
You can't touch them.
So here's the bottom line.
Today, when we recognize that the devil wants to sift us like wheat and do these things, according to what Mondo just said out of Hebrews 11, Hebrews 10, if my righteous one shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
That's what it says.
My soul, God's mind, his will, his emotions, have no pleasure.
He loves you.
You're still saved.
But if you shrink back on him, you are taking the pleasure away from him of you overcoming the devil on his own turf.
And so when we stand.
Oh, man, Jesus came.
He slapped the devil around and threw him out of his own party.
Come on.
You know, he did that.
He slapped him around, said, get out.
He took the keys.
He took the keys.
Come on.
And we, you know, I think of Pentecost, right?
When we're talking about invading society, we're doing this stuff.
You know, Jesus was one.
He's one.
Used this word earlier, the prototype.
Jesus is the prototype for what we're supposed to be.
He's the firstborn among many brethren.
So now, after Jesus ascended to the Father, he gave gifts to men.
And suddenly, on the very first day, there wasn't one Jesus, Acts chapter 2.
Now there was thousands of Jesus.
And the body of Christ stood up.
As he is, so are we in this world.
1 John 4, 17.
He is manifested through us in this world.
So when the devil goes to work, now he doesn't face one Christ.
He faces the body of Christ globally.
So we're here to burn his playground down.
And when people say, can the Antichrist stand up today?
No way.
I just, I got to tell you, I get a little hot about that one because it's like saying, because you see in Revelation 13, you see all this stuff where, and the beast was given power over the saints.
That ain't us.
That's a different form of saint.
We are the ecclesia.
We're not those saints.
The ecclesia, Matthew 16 says the gates of hell can't overcome us.
So when the gates of hell shows up for the devil and all his cronies and he begins to limber into the field and he's like, I'm going to come and steal what's yours.
The only way that happens is if we shrink back.
But if we lean into it, if we lean into it, this world is ours for the domineering.
This world is ours for the taking.
This world is ours to lead.
And the way the devil decided he would defeat us, he knows he can't beat us head on.
He can't beat you head on.
So the devil, just like he did in the early church, couldn't beat the early church.
So he did the next best thing.
He joined it.
He joined it through people that would give him access through their gossip, through their slander, through their two small fighting.
Yeah, malice.
And so if people give him that access, then we begin to draw back.
But this is the generation I believe.
I have this word, and it's a symbolic word, that the age of the oaks is coming to a close.
Now, I believe the oaks are here, oaks of righteousness who built things, they're standing.
But the oaks are going to transfer into the redwoods movement.
What do I mean by this?
You got oaks of righteousness.
They stood alone.
Older generations didn't have like, you know, unification like we have today.
They'd stand kind of like a silo.
They would do that.
They would stand and build and thank God for the oaks of righteousness.
And I believe many of those oaks will become part of the redwood movement.
What do I mean by redwoods?
They're giant trees that stand as a united front.
They're bigger, they're stronger, and their root systems are connected.
And I believe the Lord is saying the oaks stood alone so the redwoods could rise.
And I believe this is the time where we're going to begin to see a movement where there's united fronts.
If things are too small, men fight.
If it's big enough, we'll unite.
And this is the generation of unification that will push back that spirit of Antichrist, knowing who we are in Christ.
Amen.
The spirit of Elijah, friends, this is incredible.
That's a Holy Spirit word you're given.
Oh man, that's a Holy Spirit word Jesus to stand there.
You said he's our bouncer.
The devil tries to get there.
He didn't bounce off Christ.
Oh, yeah.
Come on.
Step off, punk.
Step off.
There we go.
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This is by Pastor Joseph Z. Mon.
I'm going to go through some of the people who wrote some endorsements for this book.
Is that okay?
Absolutely.
We have Brother Gene Bailey from Flashpoint.
We love him.
Sid Roth.
It's supernatural.
Oh, come on.
I love it.
You've been on there many times, haven't you?
I have, yeah.
I love it.
Incredible.
Pastor Hank Kuneman, Mike Singarelli, Pastor Todd Coconato, Alan DeDio, Bishop, Alan Dadio, Pastor Bob Yandy.
Anything?
He's an amazing faith teacher.
Amen.
Dr. Cheyenne as well.
And then we also have Jenny Donnelly, Clay Clark, Larry Sparks.
Yes.
We have right here, Mondo de la Vega.
Oh, come on.
Wow.
How'd that man of God make it?
How'd that man make just now?
Yeah, come on.
How'd that man make it?
And then we have a forward by Perry Stone and Rick Reynard, both mighty, mighty men of God, who really, I think those two men of our generation are some of the most eloquent at breaking down word for word what it is that the word says.
It's amazing.
From a biblical perspective.
People can do it all day from a world perspective.
We want it from a biblical perspective.
The spirit of Elijah Mondo.
You wrote a forward for this book.
You got to read it freely before anyone else because it comes out on June 3rd.
Listen.
Tell me about it.
Identifying the Antichrist spirit is understanding the tactics.
That's it.
Let's talk about that.
How do we recognize the Antichrist tactics towards the church, towards us personally, towards our family?
Well, we'll start here and I'll just, I'll give one example of it.
The Antichrist spirit works in seduction.
And now, when you think the word seduction automatically, most people think it's a sexual thing, and yes, that can be part of it.
But seduction simply means this, to get you off track from what God called you to do.
So when you're aiming at a target, you know, it's like in archery, they call that when you miss the target sin.
So seduction is you're getting pulled to the side from what God called you to do.
And the Antichrist works in a seducing spirit to get people feeling justified about why they're offended, to be justified in why they can do this, to be justified in these things.
And because of sin abounding, the hearts of many will grow cold.
That's a form of seduction.
In other words, people say, I have a right to feel this way.
I have a right to not do this.
I'm just too hurt.
You don't know what they did.
You don't know what I've been through.
All that stuff or what's going on in the culture, a spirit of fear, is a seduction.
Those kind of things where people look at the future and they get into dread and terror.
That's seduction.
You're being seduced to go towards the system of the age rather than stand in faith and say, no, how about this?
You come walking over.
I think, no, you move.
How about you move?
And you look at the spirit of darkness and say, you move.
I'm not moving.
I'm not moved by what I feel, what I sense.
Even if I'm correct in the way somebody treated me, I'm going to stand up and do what God called me to do.
Even if it's intimidating what's going on in the culture, even if they legislate evil things against us, even if they try to say, you will do this or else, we saw that in 2020.
The spirit of Antichrist was a seducing spirit of fear to kneel to the culture.
And you saw that both when they said, put your face diapers on, get the mark of the beast precursor practice serum, get all these things that are going on in your system and just really obey the culture.
You know, you do what we tell you to do or else, because big brother's going to get you.
Yes, he's going to get you.
And I'm citing authority.
So listen to big brother.
And that is the spirit of Antichrist.
Do what the government says.
Do what the leaders say or else.
That's also a liberal spirit.
The spirit moves with Antichrist where it says, you think you can preach at us?
You think you can do this?
No, you can't.
And we're going to make your life painful.
And the seducing spirit says, just fit in.
Just get along.
Don't stand up.
Don't be too loud.
Don't really push back against this.
But the spirit of faith says, not today, not tomorrow.
And even if it costs me my very life, the children are worth it.
And we're going to stand up and say, step off this generation.
And there's something about boldness that when you rise up in that, the fourth man joins you in the fire.
You begin to rise up and break chains.
You break shackles.
You move forward.
And I believe we can alter a narrative.
I'm looking forward to the next session we get into because I believe we're going to talk about altering time.
That's right.
And God's going to do some mighty things.
But I just got to tell you, the spirit of Antichrist is seducing spirits, and it's a spirit of intimidation.
And it wants you to sit down and shut up.
That's what it wants you to do.
But if the corporate body stands up, we will.
And it's hard when it's from within.
Even when it looks impossible.
Look at faith.
When you're broke, look at faith.
When your darkness is coming towards you, look at faith.
Stay with faith.
I want to tell you something.
By faith, we're still here.
Come on, Monday.
Ricky, if people really, listen, and there's some funny things going on on the internet about us constantly.
I don't pay attention to it.
I went to the bank this morning.
Did you know your guys are all over the internet?
I said, I really don't know, and I don't care.
I said, my mission right now is stay in the faith.
Cock it.
Come on, Monday.
You just said it.
The world wants to seduce you to fall in love with the drunken things that are happening in the internet.
That's right.
When you're sober, you don't have time to be drunk, drinking, and drinking information.
That's right.
Can I say that?
And a lot of you are drunk with information that you don't even know what God is trying to tell you.
Quit drinking information.
Start getting sober in faith and watch what God is about to do in your life.
Oh, man.
That's revelation.
Brother, that's revelation.
I've been in a lot of meetings where I'm preaching like you right now.
I love it when Mondo preaches, you guys.
I've been in a lot of meetings where I say really straight things and I've had people get up and walk out.
And then I tell them, if you're offended, you should be because you need to turn towards what I'm saying, what the Lord is saying to you, because God wants this generation to win.
Amen.
Come on.
Amen.
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That helps us continue to go forward.
One day, Ricky and I are going to sit down and just talk to you about why our faith is still strong, even after people start talking, people want to say things.
We're here by faith, Ricky.
Yep.
Only by faith.
You brought up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the fourth man in the fire.
Daniel chapter three.
We see that they're interacting with the king there.
And the king says, don't you guys fear me?
I can kill you.
And they said, no, we don't.
We're not going to bow.
And he's obviously perplexed.
And they said, we know that our God will provide and rescue us from this.
But we need to have the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego mindset because what do they say?
But even if he doesn't, we're still not going to bow the knee.
That's it.
We're still not going to.
They were tossed into the fire.
As we know, the people who tossed them in, they passed away.
And what happens?
God shows up and shows off.
Not even their clothes smelled like smoke.
That's a word for somebody.
You guys may be walking through the fire, but you're going to come out not smelling.
It's like Paul the Apostle, right?
They said, Paul, if you preach the gospel, we're going to throw you in jail.
He's like, okay, great.
Sounds good.
Chain me to a Roman.
I'll get them saved.
And I'll get you.
I'll start singing.
If you keep preaching the gospel, we're going to whip you.
He's like, I'll count my afflictions up to righteousness.
Sounds good to me.
Paul, you keep preaching the gospel.
We're going to kill you.
And he said, great.
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
Do it.
And they said, you know what?
We can't control you.
We're going to let you go.
He's like, great.
I'll preach the gospel.
At the end of the day, you can't lose for winning with Jesus.
Come on.
You can't lose for winning with Jesus.
Do you have a word for someone right now who's watching right now?
There may be someone watching this broadcast and they've been going through hard times and they're saying, you know what?
I want faith, but it seems so far away from reality for me.
Talk to them.
I'm looking at somebody right now and somebody walked away from you.
They walked away from you and it was unjust and you've been hurt and you've been going through it.
And the Spirit of the Lord is saying, I didn't do that.
That wasn't me.
That was their own free moral agency.
They made decisions based on what they wanted to do with their life.
And the Lord is saying to you, I'm healing that wound.
I'm healing you.
And I've got another path for you.
Now keep your mind out of that and go in faith.
Begin to find the promises of God and stand on those because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
And I want to say to you, even on a bad day, you are anointed by God to be the very best there is because a man or woman with a revelation from God Almighty is not at the mercy of a culture going mad.
God has called you.
He's got great things for you.
And don't you hesitate.
Lean in in faith.
I give you permission to be okay and look at the future with brightness.
Amen.
Friends, never forget this as you go through your day-to-day life.
The Lord loves faith and he loves you.
He sent his son to die on a cross for you.
Why?
So that we don't have to face eternal separation from him, but that we can be unified with him for eternity.
And I don't know if you know this, but eternity lasts a long time.
We're going to be up there for billions and trillions of years and we're going to have the cognitive reasoning ability to understand.
My goodness, a trillion years later, that heaven has just begun with Jesus Christ.
Friends, we want you to have that reality.
If you want someone to pray that prayer with you, call us.
It's 1-888-988-1588, or you can go to our website, ptl.tv, and you can put a form in and we'll call you back.
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We want to pray that prayer with you and we want to say, Hey, welcome to the family.
We want to help you find a good Bible-believing church as well.
We want you to go get baptized, post it on Facebook, talk about all the good things that the Lord has done in your life.
Why?
Because your testimony is going to change somebody else's life.
Don't be shy about what God has done for you because we know it is only because what He has done that we can stand here together.
Friends, we want you to know this: God loves you, He really does.
Brother, we're going to have you back here for another broadcast tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Jesus.
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