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Believe in God's Plan
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| Welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show. | |
| Today, Pastor Troy Brewer tells us how God's messages are embedded in today's news through prophetic numbers. | |
| And now, here is your host, Reverend Mondo de la Vega. | |
| Whoa, welcome back to another episode of the Jim Baker Family Show. | |
| I am your host, Mondo. | |
| Can you believe that? | |
| Listen, I am a miracle, and I wake up every single day believing for a miracle for you. | |
| And if you don't think that God can use you, just look at me just for a few moments and realize that the world told me, lock them up, throw the key away. | |
| My homeboys, meaning my friends growing up, told me, don't make plans past 18 years old because you're not going to live to see that day. | |
| What kind of friends are those? | |
| When society tells you, lock them up and throw the key away, then you're hanging around people that don't have a plan for you. | |
| You know you're messed up then. | |
| But then fast forward to where we are today, God had a different plan. | |
| I believe that God has a different plan for your life. | |
| You got to step out and believe in faith to know that you have been favored by the Lord. | |
| Do you believe that? | |
| Do you believe that God has favored you to be here for this day, in this hour, for this season, for this era, so he can show off? | |
| Don't ever, listen, don't ever for at any moment believe that you're not here for purpose. | |
| I believe that God has protected you, restored you so he can show off with you. | |
| Your mess became the message. | |
| Your test became the testimony. | |
| And if you believe that God has done something in your life, now it's time to do something about it. | |
| You know what? | |
| Go tell somebody about what Jesus has done in your life. | |
| I try to do it every single day. | |
| Everyone I meet, everywhere I go, people ask me about my tattoos. | |
| People ask me about certain things. | |
| And it gives me an opportunity to share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. | |
| Why? | |
| Because I believe that when God gives you favor, God will open the doors. | |
| And today, God is about to open the doors for you when you hear about the kingdom of heaven. | |
| We're going to continue part two with Pastor Troy Brewer. | |
| He's joining us once again today. | |
| I love you. | |
| I love you, brother. | |
| You are an amazing man. | |
| You have been favored by God. | |
| You're an author. | |
| You're a pastor. | |
| You play music. | |
| You write music. | |
| You're a father. | |
| You're a husband. | |
| You're a grandfather. | |
| Are you a grandfather? | |
| I am. | |
| He's a grandfather. | |
| I got eight grandkids. | |
| Listen, when you're favored by the Lord, all you have to do is just sit back and receive the blessing that God has given you. | |
| Pastor Troy, you have been favored by the Lord in an area that very few people only talk about, and that is rescuing children. | |
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Passion for Rescue
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| Where did the passion come from to rescue children? | |
| Well, I've been rescued. | |
| You know, you've been rescued. | |
| And our Redeemer lives. | |
| The very first time that I ever rescued, I want to say this, Mondo. | |
| I never imagined I would be doing that ever. | |
| As soon as I got saved, I joined a Christian rock band, toured the world, playing lead guitar all over planet Earth in the 80s. | |
| But I have a knack for building food banks. | |
| And the Lord started allowing me to build food banks all over the world. | |
| I was in Costa Rica, Central America, and then boom, we were rescuing kids. | |
| I should say we were feeding people in the trash dump. | |
| And this lady walked up to me with these two little Nicaraguan refugee children. | |
| And they were beautiful little girls. | |
| And she walked up to me and she said, would you like to buy these two little girls? | |
| And I was like, what? | |
| And she said, yes, you can make a movie. | |
| And I looked at her and at first I was just like, what? | |
| And then the peace of the Lord came upon me. | |
| I was anointed for the situation. | |
| And I said, yeah, I'll bomb right now. | |
| How much? | |
| And she said, $120. | |
| Wow. | |
| And she didn't care if those kids lived or died. | |
| And all she wanted was $120 for those two little vulnerable children. | |
| I paid her the money. | |
| I took them by the hand. | |
| I walked across that trash dump, went and found my wife. | |
| I said, Look, look what I just found. | |
| And then we got in the car with them and we drove off. | |
| And those became our first two girls. | |
| You know, they're in their 40s now. | |
| Wow. | |
| And those are the first two of more than 11,000 children that we have been able to rescue. | |
| Wow. | |
| Sexual tracking. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Give us an update on the latest rescues. | |
| Yeah, I was in the nation of Belize last week. | |
| And before that, I was in Uganda for three weeks. | |
| And I can tell you that we rescued a 15-year-old child last week, a 15-year-old little girl that has three children. | |
| Oh. | |
| She has three kids. | |
| She's 15 years old. | |
| But we have her, you know, and we have her kids now. | |
| And we also rescued, there's a mama that is 21 years old and she has six kids. | |
| She's 21 years old. | |
| And we have rescued her as well. | |
| What we're seeing, guys, is more rescues than we know what to do with. | |
| And I mean, we're rescuing so many people. | |
| Literally, there's not a week that goes by that we don't rescue two or three kids now. | |
| And the reason being is because, you know, we can. | |
| There's the market for the sexualization of children is so huge. | |
| Pornography has driven this thing. | |
| And the church has been silent on it. | |
| And friends, if we don't show up and if we don't rescue these kids, and if we do not raise them, if we do not raise them, there's nobody else coming. | |
| This is the role of the body of King Jesus. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| They go to Troybrewer.com. | |
| And you know what? | |
| You guys and Pastor Jim have partnered with me many times. | |
| Y'all have been such a big help to me. | |
| I want to say the people that support this network, the people that give here, you are actually in the fight because this network actually partners with me. | |
| And I'd like to publicly say how much I appreciate that. | |
| Listen, I want to do something. | |
| Dad, with your permission, I'm going to do this. | |
| If you're watching right now and the story moved you about rescuing a 15-year-old girl with three children, that makes me think of my daughter. | |
| My daughter is about to be 15 years old. | |
| I cannot imagine her having three kids. | |
| But if that story is one of the stories that of thousands that you can share with us, and if that moved you, I want you to do this. | |
| I want you to partner with Pastor Troy because your decision to support ministries like this is changing the world. | |
| If you can do $10, $50, $100, $1,000, if you can do $100,000, that will go a long way. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| The church is getting beat up because we raise money to help other people. | |
| And I'm willing to stay in that fight because when it comes to helping children, it doesn't matter the type of fight you want to get into. | |
| Children are worth every part of everything that we do. | |
| I spoke to a group of about three to 400 DEA agents a few weeks ago. | |
| And I talked about the disconnection between children and society. | |
| And everything starts at home. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| The church has been disconnected from this issue of rescuing kids. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| We are going to give an account to God one day for it. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| You know, the only time that, you know, I said this on last week's show that Jesus isn't nice. | |
| He's kind. | |
| And if you want an example of Jesus not being nice, he goes straight up mafia boss when he talks about harming children. | |
| He says, I will give you cement shoes and chunk you off the boat, right? | |
| He said, it is better that a millstone be tied around your neck and cast into the sea than if you cause one of these little ones to stumble. | |
| That means never be able to find their path, never be able to walk the walk, never be able to progress from one place to another because they can't get past what you did to them. | |
| Jesus takes that extremely personally, and so should we. | |
| And we should be in this fight. | |
| Every single one of us should be in this fight. | |
| And we should have a bunch of trophies of grace where we can say, look at how much Jesus loves kids. | |
| And we ought to be able to prove that. | |
| Listen, I need to give you a proper introduction. | |
| Okay. | |
| What a terrible host. | |
| Terrible. | |
| You don't have to give you a program. | |
| Pastor Troy Brewer is the pastor of Opendoor Church in Burlington, Texas. | |
| You're an author. | |
| You are a man that loves rescuing people. | |
| You love feeding people, amazing food banks. | |
| If you want to learn how to build a food bank, I suggest go and hang out with Pastor Troy in Burlington, Texas. | |
| And all it's going to take is one Saturday for you to learn on how to do this mission. | |
| You're an author of an unbelievable book, Numbers That Prophesied, Hearing God Through Historic Headlines and Numbers That Preach. | |
| Your program is on this network, and it's unbelievable because people can tune in every Saturday at 5.30 p.m. and on Sundays at 7 p.m. Eastern time and watch Pastor Troy Brewer give unbelievable messages. | |
| And one of the messages that you have been talking about lately is the kingdom. | |
| Can I ask you this? | |
| Today you mentioned is 522. | |
| God gave you an ability or a gift. | |
| You're being favored by God to understand numbers. | |
| I can go hours asking you about how did that happen? | |
| How did you know? | |
| But what is the significance of today, 522? | |
| Well, on the day that we're actually taping this, we woke up to the atrocity of what happened and the Israeli ambassador speaking. | |
| I heard my wife say, oh no, as soon as she turned on the news. | |
| And there were two beautiful young Jewish people that were senselessly murdered by, you know, some pro-Palestinian punk. | |
| And while he's yelling, free Palestine. | |
| And here they are, this beautiful company, this beautiful couple, they have their life ahead of them. | |
| They are about to be engaged in all those things. | |
| And immediately I thought, it's 522. | |
| And I know what 522 means. | |
| 522 is Galatians 5.22. | |
| It's the fruit of the Holy Spirit. | |
| What these monsters hate is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. | |
| What these monsters hate is the prophetic promise that good will overcome evil. | |
| And they're fighting with everything they have. | |
| I was actually looking through just scriptures here today. | |
| And in the book of Proverbs, in Proverbs 5, 22, let me find it here. | |
| In Jeremiah 5, 22, it says, Do you not fear me, says Yahweh? | |
| Won't you tremble at my presence? | |
| Who has placed you and bound you in the sea by perpetual decree? | |
| That will you not fear me, says the Lord. | |
| Like, that is a good word. | |
| One of the things that I like to do, and this is in the book, is I like to look at the numbers that are involved and see how it lines up with the word of God. | |
| And this is a significant event that happens on 522. | |
| So what is the role of the body of Jesus in this? | |
| Galatians 5.22 actually is the role. | |
| This book, Numbers That Prophesy, takes you into a journey of major events, people. | |
| Why did you feel you have to write this book and show God in this moment from Titanic? | |
| to Lincoln, Civil War, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa. | |
| Tell me a little bit about how did this book come about and why is it so important for us to understand that God was involved in all of this, meaning his voice, his presence. | |
| I've learned, Pastor Troy, that when major events begin to take place with historical figures, people that the media just love to put on pedestals, then you have major events that shake nations forever. | |
| Why do those things prophesy? | |
| Because God Almighty likes to put his voice in the midst of the thunder. | |
| And so there are thunderous headlines that have taken place throughout the centuries, even things in modern pop culture that God Almighty hides his word in. | |
| And some only hears the thunder, but some people can actually hear the voice within the thunder. | |
| And so we know the example of that is Jesus was walking and he was like, Lord, I so want to glorify you. | |
| I want you to be glorified. | |
| And all of a sudden, God spoke. | |
| But do you know around him, there were some who said it thundered. | |
| They only heard the thunder. | |
| They only heard the natural, but they didn't hear the voice within it. | |
| There was another really dangerous group of people, Brother Mondo, that they were smart enough to know that there was something spiritual going on, but they didn't know how to discern it. | |
| And so they said, hey, we think an angel just spoke. | |
| No, no. | |
| We have to know the still small voice within the midst of the thunder. | |
| So what I chose was I chose seven epic events that everybody is familiar with. | |
| The assassination of President Lincoln and then the Titanic and then after that the Apollo 11 moon landing. | |
| And then I just keep on going through that. | |
| And then I break it down. | |
| What are the names and what are the numbers and what do they mean? | |
| And if that was a dream, would we be able to interpret it? | |
| And if we live our life just saying, if that was a dream, what would it mean? | |
| You can't even pump gas without hearing God speak. | |
| You become a crazy person. | |
| You're driving down the road. | |
| That billboard has a word from the Lord in it. | |
| That car in front of you has a word from the Lord in it. | |
| And you start living this life knowing that Romans 1.20 is very real. | |
| And Romans chapter 1, verse 20 is a verse that says this. | |
| It says that the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, even his eternal power and Godhead are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. | |
| In other words, there's no excuse for not knowing the character and the heart of God because God speaks through everything in creation. | |
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Portable Power Solutions
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| And this book is an attempt to help us to understand. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| Get ready. | |
| Amen. | |
| Get ready to talk about the kingdom again. | |
| Okay. | |
| Because I believe there's things happening. | |
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| And most of the time, people are not prepared until something happens. | |
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| And I want to tell you something. | |
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| You know, a few days ago in Branson, we lost power. | |
| And in the middle of that power, I got my generator out. | |
| I'm going to show a picture on the screen, but I want to tell you something. | |
| I was prepared. | |
| I was ready. | |
| My kids said, Dad, where's the generator? | |
| And we got into this little one room because we were under a tornado watch. | |
| And we got into this little room. | |
| I set up the generator and plugged in the lights and our phones to keep charged. | |
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Building Faith Not Fear
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| And then we had an amazing family time. | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| Don't fear. | |
| Anytime we talk about Revelation and we talk about getting prepared, it's never about fear. | |
| It's about building your faith. | |
| And when someone teaches you about the book of Revelation, make sure that coming from a point of faith building because it's never about fear. | |
| The kingdom of heaven, sir, is not about fear. | |
| And a lot of people fear the kingdom of heaven. | |
| But how does the kingdom of heaven fit into Bible prophecy in the book of Revelation? | |
| Well, repent for the kingdom and for the kingdom is coming, right? | |
| The kingdom is at hand. | |
| When we see the book of Revelation, what you see is the kingdom fully made manifest upon the planet Earth. | |
| And when Jesus comes back, he's not coming back to be nice. | |
| When Jesus comes back, he's coming back to rule and to reign. | |
| And, you know, the devil offered him all the kingdoms of the world, but Jesus has decided to just take it. | |
| Amen. | |
| And so, no, I'm not afraid of the return of King Jesus. | |
| I look forward to it. | |
| I say, Maranatha. | |
| I say, come quickly. | |
| Come on, King Jesus. | |
| And I'm saying that constantly all the time because I know that the moment, the moment that I get a glimpse of him, every priority that I have ever had changes like that. | |
| Every priority changes. | |
| My good friend Sean Tabbitt has done a book of near-death experiences and people who have died and they come back. | |
| There's not a single person, not a single person that loves Jesus that has ever died that wanted to come back. | |
| They can't find one. | |
| They can't find one person. | |
| They also cannot find a single person that said as soon as they died, they had all kinds of questions. | |
| They had all kinds of objections, even if it was not going well. | |
| No, there are no questions. | |
| There's no objections. | |
| Your priorities change exactly like that. | |
| And then you get with this new program. | |
| But here is the program of Jesus, Brother Mondo. | |
| Like, why are you coming back? | |
| Why are you preparing a place for me? | |
| Jesus says, so that where I am, you may also be. | |
| Man, that's not asking too much. | |
| You know, Jesus just simply wants to be with us. | |
| So I'm going to have to be in the fight in the meantime and in the midst of all kinds of craziness. | |
| Yeah, there's a fight. | |
| We did not sign up for easy. | |
| We signed up for Jesus. | |
| How do we as believers, as citizens of the kingdom of heaven here on earth, understand how to operate in that mentality? | |
| Yeah, the more that we give the king our dominion, and I would like to just, I'd like to just stop for just a second and say this. | |
| We in the Western world, we understand that everything in the kingdom is relational before it is functional. | |
| And I praise God for that because I'm a very, very relational person. | |
| I will not let anybody be on my staff that will not be my best friend. | |
| I tell them, I say, listen, your skill set got you here, but you being my buddy and you being my friend, whether you're a man or a woman, is what's going to keep you here. | |
| Man, church is too hard and church is the easiest thing that I do. | |
| And that kills most people. | |
| So I know we're going to love each other. | |
| We're going to love each other's wives. | |
| We're going to love each other's husbands. | |
| We're going to be friends. | |
| We're going to do this because everything in the kingdom is relational before it is functional. | |
| But in the midst of our relationship, Brother Mondo, we change. | |
| You know, we move from glory to glory. | |
| And so we come in as a servant, right? | |
| And we follow him. | |
| Then we move into friendship and we are no longer servants. | |
| And what is that all about? | |
| It's about now we get to be a part of doing life together in an incredible way. | |
| And he begins to share his secrets with us. | |
| He begins to show us what the outcomes are going to be. | |
| But then we move, and this is so important. | |
| We have to move from friendship into sonship. | |
| And like, why do we have to move into sonship? | |
| Because friends do not receive the inheritance of the kingdom. | |
| It's sons who receive the inheritance of the kingdom. | |
| So as a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ and as one of his sons and as many as are led by the Spirit of the Lord, we know that he gives them power to be called the sons of God. | |
| So it's not a gender bias statement. | |
| It is actually a relational statement and it also gives proximity to where you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. | |
| So as a son of inheritance, God Almighty gives me the keys of the kingdom to literally unlock the kingdom to people everywhere that I go. | |
| So in your case, Jesus came to you, you know, and said, you thought that your idea of family would be a gang. | |
| You thought that your idea because you wanted to belong, Mondo. | |
| Well, the Lord put that within you. | |
| You wanted to sit at the table and you didn't even care what the table even looked like anymore. | |
| There came a time in your life, like, I don't care what it is. | |
| I just, there is some place where I will belong. | |
| And then your identity was shaped and molded by terrible events and even nefarious people. | |
| All of us have gone through that. | |
| But then Jesus himself comes to us and says, I know who you are and I love you and I'm going to and this is who I am to you. | |
| I want you now to sit at this table. | |
| As you and I are seated at that table, we actually bring the kingdom everywhere we go, whether it's at Walmart or whether it is at the bank or whether whatever it is, we bring the kingdom and we literally loose the kingdom to people. | |
| We come in his authority in his name. | |
| We're not there to control people. | |
| We are there to turn people over to Jesus and to turn Jesus over to people. | |
| And that's what the kingdom looks like. | |
| If someone's watching right now, maybe they've been a Christian for a long time and they slipped away. | |
| Or maybe there's someone watching that doesn't understand the kingdom, but they know it's calling them. | |
| Would you pray for those watching right now that they're in that decision-making moment? | |
| And I want to tell you something. | |
| When you find yourself in that moment, whether you're going to choose torment or choose peace, and you're lost, you don't have guidance. | |
| You don't have anybody guiding you. | |
| Well, I'm glad you tuned in today because God guided you to watch this program. | |
| Maybe you tuned in to make fun of us. | |
| And that's okay. | |
| I have no problem with you doing that. | |
| As long as you hear this message loud and clear that he loves you. | |
| He died for you on the cross. | |
| As Pastor Troy prays for you, you're going to start feeling peace that the Bible promises that will surpass all of the understanding of this world. | |
| It's going to unlock the kingdom of heaven, the atmosphere that is going to lead you to walk into the kingdom right where you are right now. | |
| Maybe you're watching me from a garage. | |
| Maybe you're watching me in a restaurant. | |
| Maybe you're watching through social media. | |
| This prayer is for you right now as you hear Pastor Troy receive this message. | |
| I promise you, friends, it's not too late. | |
| And you may think that there's too much water under the bridge. | |
| Too much life has happened. | |
| No, listen, Jesus is life. | |
| And if you invite him and if you make yourself vulnerable to him, he will not abuse you. | |
| He won't make fun of you. | |
| He will not reject you. | |
| So, Father, I pray, God, in the mighty name of King Jesus, sir, that you would bless the person that is watching me right now. | |
| I pray, God, that you'd fill up that house, God, with your holy presence. | |
| I pray, Lord God, sir, that you'd make a way where there is no way. | |
| And I pray, God, that that person would know that this is your child, that you are their father. | |
| I pray, Lord God, almighty, sir, that you'd make that so real. | |
| I bind the devil and I tell him, get out in the name of King Jesus. | |
| And I declare that home, that house, and even that person, the habitation of peace. | |
| Peace in Jesus' name. | |
| Now, Father, release your angels for the performance of your word. | |
| In Jesus' name, amen. | |
| Jeremiah 29, 11 is for you today. | |
| For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. | |
| They are plans for good and not for disaster. | |
| To give you a future and a hope, today is a new day for you. | |
| Just know that God has favored this moment just for you. | |
| No matter what you're going through, no matter what you're facing right now, and no matter what is tormenting you, the Bible says that there is no weapon that is going to be formed against us that is going to prosper. | |
| Believe that today. | |
| And I want you to know something. | |
| If you're watching today, you've enjoyed this message, you love Pastor Troy, and you've enjoyed listening about the kingdom. | |
| Just know this, that God has a place for you in heaven. | |
| And your support every single month, standing with this program, allows us to bring a good message into your home, to preach the gospel around the world, to bring the kingdom to earth. | |
| But we got to do it together. | |
| Pray about standing with us. | |
| Call the number today, 1-888-988-1588, or go to the website, jimbakershow.com and support us today. | |
| Stand with us in this season. | |
| And by the way, when you're there at the website or you're on the phone right now, ask for the book, Numbers That Prophesied, Hearing God Through Historic Headlines and Numbers That Preached by Pastor Troy Brewer. | |
| It's going to bless you. | |
| Order it today. | |
| Make a difference in your own life. | |
| It's time to invest and get back into the word. | |
| Listen, no matter what you're going through today, remember this, God loves you. | |
| He really does. | |
| Bye-bye. | |