Pastor Jim Bakker interprets the recent assassination attempt on President Trump as a spiritual battle where God protected the president against an attacker fueled by hatred for Christians. He connects this chaos to his 18-year-old "Double" sermon, citing fulfilled prophecies about inflation, weather extremes like Hurricane Katrina, and geopolitical threats from Russia, China, and Iran. Highlighting his own financial hardships and unpaid Secret Service salaries, Bakker urges listeners to pray in agreement for double blessings and restoration, warning that suffering for Christ yields rewards while complaining invites judgment. [Automatically generated summary]
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Living in the Last Days00:08:53
We are so glad you're here at PTL Television Network this morning.
We are about to have our morningside church service, but this message is going to be going live as fast as we possibly can to all the nations of the world.
And Pastor Jim Baker is bringing a special message this morning.
Let's pray.
Father, in Jesus' name, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
And we know that means the peace of all human beings because all people are made in God's image.
Bless us.
Bless this nation and let us be people of Jesus Christ, that our words would be like Jesus.
And we pray for peace in Jesus' name.
I am bringing to you a message that God gave to me 18 years ago.
Wow.
Prophetic word that He gave me then that has happened in our days today.
As you know, they tried to assassinate the president again last night.
Yes.
Amen.
And they're not going to stop trying to.
No.
Only God can keep them alive.
Amen.
You understand, the meeting last night was in a hotel, and it's very hard.
To secure a hotel because you have thousands of people able to register.
I mean, people coming to that meeting banquet last night, correspondence dinner, correspondence dinner, but they had to register every few miles on the highway coming there.
That's right.
I mean, they were stopped, had to give their show, had an invitation, and their ID, and all that.
But there were thousands in the hotel registered that didn't have to go through.
Amen.
Regular guests.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Just guests that are registered, yes.
People, only the grace of God and mercy of God, our president, is still alive today.
Yes, amen.
Yes.
That man was determined to kill.
The president, I believe, and his staff that he could kill.
That's right.
If there was a mass murder of all his staff in the president, it would have set you, boys.
No.
Can I call you, boys?
Yes, sir.
That would set America back, wouldn't it?
Oh, absolutely.
Yes, because God's got a plan for this nation, and the devil's going to try to stop it, and we've got to press forward.
The devil is trying to kill the president.
Trying to kill you, trying to kill all God's people.
I don't do this on Sundays, but I have just a little video of last night just in case any of you weren't watching.
Look, you can just look at your monitors.
Go ahead and roll that, please.
Control if you can.
This was the chaotic scene as a man rushed past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night, with shots fired, before
the suspect was tackled to the ground by the Secret Service.
Allegedly armed with several guns and knives.
Now, security footage posted by President Trump shows a man running through the metal detectors and past security, who immediately draw their weapons.
The man is then swarmed by officers.
At this point, investigators say it's unclear who the suspect was targeting, but it appears he was a guest at the hotel.
It is clear, based upon what we know so far, that this individual was intent on doing as much harm and as much damage as he could.
According to law enforcement sources, Allen is allegedly declining to answer questions, but allegedly made some reference to targeting administration officials, but was not specific.
Overnight, the FBI, Secret Service, and local law enforcement launched a massive nationwide investigation into Allen's background.
He was a lone wolf, a whack job.
These are crazy people.
These are crazy people, and they have to be dealt with.
I have a report this morning that most people haven't gotten yet.
But the would be killer has spoken just a few words, but he said he hates all Christians.
It's being reported in his manifesto, a document that he wrote to back up his terrorist act that he is against Christians.
America has gone 71 days without Secret Service being paid.
I am not usually political, but the Democrats have made that decision that we not pay for security and for protection of us in the United States.
Yes.
We are living in the last days.
18 years ago, I preached a sermon I titled at that time Double.
That soon would cost us double to live.
That's right.
Wow.
Inflation.
Look at gas.
I think that's probably has already come to pass.
The killer hates, said he hates Christians.
But yet he got into the very hotel where the president was speaking.
Because, how do you secure a complete hotel of thousands of people?
Yeah, it's very hard to do.
You're a smart man.
Very hard to do, amen?
And thousands of people, and he had guns, he had knives, he had several guns.
People, what would happen if he killed the president and killed all of the board or the Cabinet.
Cabinet.
They were all there.
That's right.
They pennied people.
Yes, it would.
Trying to create fear.
Kennedy, whose many, many relatives were killed.
Yes.
Two of us.
Was there.
Yep.
And the lady whose husband was murdered just a few months ago, Erica Kirk.
Erica Kirk was there.
And it devastated her.
Yes, amen.
Her husband was shot dead.
As a martyr, yes.
I saw it myself.
I saw him shot.
Live on TV.
With the blood gushing from his throat.
And I'm sure she saw the pictures of that.
And so here she was with Secret Service running over the tops of the tables.
Pandemonium.
I know you've seen so much, you're just, oh, that's the way life is.
Work Double to Survive00:03:11
That's not true.
We are in the last days.
Absolutely, yes.
Revelations.
Our president is only alive because God has protected him.
That's right.
The grace of God.
Amen.
Amen.
And the word for 2028 God gave me was devil.
That in the future, many will have to work double to make ends meet.
Amen.
Has that come true?
Oh, there are many cases above double, triple in certain areas, some groceries and gasoline and everything.
In 2008, it was the big economy crash with the housing, and housing prices across the nation not only have doubled, they are almost reaching double plus some.
The Lord spoke to me in the night in the year 2008.
And he said, in the future, we would have to work double to maintain what we experienced in 2028.
It's happening.
In these last 18 years since I preached that sermon, great things have happened in my life.
Yes.
For four years, the government has decided that I cannot receive any salary, so my cost was not just doubled, mine was trebled.
Amen.
Does it cost you more to live today than it did 20 years ago, do you think?
Absolutely.
Amen.
Everybody knows that.
Gas is double.
Electricity is double.
Food prices have doubled.
The cost of eggs is doubled, tripled.
It'd be double the labor, twice as hard to earn what we earned in the past.
That's 20 years.
Jeremiah 16, 17 says, My eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden.
From my face, nor is their iniquity hidden from my eyes.
And first I will repay the devil for their iniquity in their sin, because they have defiled my land.
They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their distaste, detestable, detestable, and abominable idols.
I'm away to the studios right now or to the church.
Cousin George's Final Call00:03:29
I had received a call from my cousin George, and George is probably one of the last of my living relatives that I talked to.
George and I were little boys together.
I have pictures.
My cousin always kissed me.
He said, Why were we holding hands?
Was that about?
Where's your cousin?
Nowadays you wouldn't dare hold hands, but especially if you're boys, you know.
And George is grieving the death this week of his wife, Bobby.
And I just found out a few minutes ago.
So I talked to him and Invited in to come to Morningside for a little visit.
I would just like to talk about when we're little boys.
Is that all right?
Amen.
I don't have hardly any relatives left.
Well, we're your family, Pastor.
Thank God.
You know, Pastor, it says in Revelation 6 4, we've been going through the revelation.
Then another horse.
That was read, was sent forth.
Power was given to him who sat on it to take peace from the earth, causing people to kill one another.
Then a great sword was given to him, and that's what we're seeing now in our nation.
If I'm going to get through with this message, I'm going to have to go much faster than I'm going, but I just want to talk with you and share what God's been talking to me over the years.
Do you fully understand if that killer had gotten through and he had a plan?
Everybody says he was a very brilliant man.
Yes, he was.
Very well educated.
Amen.
They said he was a teacher in California.
But he hated you.
That's right.
He hated Christians.
And he planned, I think, to kill the president of the United States.
And all of our leaders, do you realize what mass confusion if the president was dead and all the cabinet were killed at the same time?
Do you realize what that would do to our country?
We'd have subtly no leadership.
Well, the Democrats could take over, finally, because that's what they want.
I'm sorry, Democrats, if there's anybody here, I used to look at two parties, the Republicans and the Democrats.
And if you're a Democrat, God help you, and I pray that you will come to know truth.
I am a pastor.
And I will die fighting for the right to preach the truth.
Fighting for Truth and Preaching00:07:46
Amen.
Amen.
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded.
Let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed.
Bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.
And that's the title of my sermon Devil.
We have double trouble.
It costs you double to live.
Than it did years ago.
You know that.
Come on.
Do you know my dad and mother?
We are really old people.
I mean, I'm 86 and I'm the son, you know.
And my mom and dad are dead.
They'd be over 100 now, of course.
And they live to almost be 100.
And when our first house.
Cost hundreds of dollars, not thousands of dollars.
Do you remember any of those days?
Oh, yeah.
When you could get a house for a few hundred dollars?
You remember?
Anybody remember that?
Amen.
Raise your hand.
You lived in those days.
Come on.
I need a verification of history.
In 1980, I built a brand new house with an acre of property for $40,000.
Oh.
And that's not so long ago.
Four bedroom.
My grandparents bought their house.
Oh, I thought you really were a.
Good builder.
My grandparents bought their first house for a little under $4,000.
Amen.
And I'm not trying to just make you feel bad that it didn't cost that much to have a house in those days.
But God warned me in the year 2008 that things are going to double soon.
That's what He told me.
He spoke to me in the night.
Double.
Double.
Double feeble.
More drought.
More rain.
That's what he said.
I'm preaching from the notes of 20 years ago, almost.
More heat, more cold.
More earthquakes, more famine.
Yes.
Weather extremes, power grid needs to be watched.
Can you imagine?
I said that many years ago and they still haven't fixed it.
Absolutely.
Is that right?
The prices are going up extravagantly because they're building all these AI data centers that require so much power.
Everybody's going to have to work.
I predicted there would be more terrorism from within and without malls, theaters.
Hmm.
We're seeing it.
I can show you it's going to be hotter and colder.
More rain, more heat, more cold, weather extremes.
Power grid needs to be watched.
Yes.
And I'm telling you, it needs to be watched now more than ever.
Amen.
Our enemies are going to try to attack it soon.
Amen.
You don't have to believe me.
Amen.
I've never prophesied anything that I know of that hasn't come true.
Amen.
That's right.
Amen.
More terrorism from within and without.
Oh, boy.
That just happened last night.
A California teacher attempts an assassination at the dinner at the White House or at the hotel for the correspondence dinner.
That's from within.
That is not another nation.
That is someone in our nation.
Did anybody watch it last night?
Raise your hand if you saw it.
Many hands are up.
Come on, let me see.
I want to see.
Say 30.
You're not dead.
30 or 40 hands are up.
I talked to some of our staff members and said, I didn't know anything happened last night.
Boys, if you're on this team, you better be watching everything because you are God's watchman.
Yes.
You've got to be aware of what's going on out there.
Amen.
Amen.
And I'm going to tell you something.
We are just a little church right now, and we're going to grow.
Amen.
We are, in fact, going to grow so fast, your heads are going to spin.
Hallelujah.
We all need to get trained how to defend ourselves.
I want to tell you something.
I'm not allowed, because there's a lot of nervous people around me, but I'm not.
Miracles are taking place here.
Come on.
Lori's house is going to get bigger than it ever was.
Yes.
Packed with girls having their babies instead of being kicked in the street.
Come on.
Praise God.
Hallelujah.
I've come to the kingdom for such a time as this.
Come on.
One of the great prophets of all times, when I was 19 years old, said I would help usher in the coming of the Lord.
He gave me seven prophetic words.
The night I received the infinity of the Holy Spirit.
Praise God.
Amen.
Bill Haverson.
One of the reasons I've gotten out of bed and back is because Phil Halverson said I would help usher in the coming of the Lord.
That's right.
Thank God.
So I didn't think I should do it from the bed, so I'm here.
Praise God.
God's not finished with you yet.
Amen.
And I plan to stay in this pulpit.
Until I die.
Praise God.
So if I die someday, preach and say praise God, you win to heaven.
I mean, it's serious.
God's real, heaven's real, the Bible's real.
You better hold on to the Word of God because that's all you got, people.
That's right.
No matter what any great literature said, it's not important.
It is what God said.
That's right.
Amen.
It's important.
You hear me?
But this is what God told me 20 years ago more drought, more rain, more heat, more cold, weather extremes.
Power grid needs to be watched.
I keep telling it.
Storms, Earthquakes, and Grid Attacks00:03:32
Within the next few years, you're going to see attacks on our grid system.
Do you think our enemies don't know how to shut us down?
They do.
Yes, amen.
And they hate us.
I prophesied there'd be terrorism worldwide, and surely the world is full of terrorism.
More storms, earthquakes, fires.
Prophesied back then that New Orleans would be underwater, and it was already once, but it will be gone with water floods.
That's New Orleans.
New Orleans is already shortly after I prophesied this.
It had that, do you remember it?
Yes, amen.
Terrible flood.
Katrina.
It almost wiped New Orleans off the map, just about.
LA is going to have an earthquake.
And I said Japan would at that time, but it's already happened in Japan, but it's going to have more.
Yeah, that Japan one came true almost nine points, or was nine points.
You talked about it three weeks before it happened.
Three weeks later, it happened, and we all watched it live.
You predicted, and then three weeks later, Fukushima had the fourth.
I've never professed to be a prophet, but I do prophesy.
And everything God has given to me has come to pass.
This was a prophetic message that I delivered almost 20 years ago.
It would cost double to live in America.
No more there.
And it's already true.
I said more than double.
Keep your eyes on the Mideast.
I said back then, Russia is not asleep.
And Russia is still our enemy.
China is our enemy.
Yes, amen.
And they are helping Iran right now.
That's right.
Do you understand that?
Yes.
Correct, amen.
Behind Iran is China, Russia, and others.
Yes, amen.
Don't trust Slick Willie, whoever he is.
There's just a whole lot of them.
Absolutely.
Do you understand what I mean when I say slick, Willie?
Absolutely.
Deceivers that try to cheat you and steal from you and lie to you.
They're here.
God told me there'd be more storms, more earthquakes, more fires.
Is that not true?
Absolutely.
So true.
And he said, Keep your eyes on the Mideast of Russia.
And this is what he said to me Russia is not asleep.
Trials, Glory, and God's People00:16:08
No.
I don't want you to fear or be afraid.
Just the Bible's being fulfilled.
That's right.
Just be prepared.
Amen.
If you want to go to a church that tells you it's going to get better and better, this is not it.
That's a fact.
Because I'm going to preach what God's word says, whether you like it or not.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's why we're here.
In the world, we will have troubles, but we have overcome the world.
Amen?
That's right.
Amen.
Philippians 4 6 through 7 says, Do not worry about anything.
Instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done.
Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
Oh, hallelujah.
I want to give you a message that God gave me.
When he said, Many who will walk with God, hear his voice, will reverse this double trouble.
Amen.
Come on.
And receive double strength and increase.
Oh, hallelujah.
Thank God.
Yes, amen.
Amen.
You know, I haven't received a salary for 40 years.
Do you know that?
That's not important.
Who cares?
But.
They even took my mother and dad's house.
That's pretty bad, isn't it?
Because I owned the house because I was providing a house part of my plan, you know.
This head never stopped, but I don't have a financial plan anymore.
My financial plan is heaven.
Amen.
Amen.
So you got the best financial plan right here.
But they took my mother and dad's house, the government did, when they raided, they took heritage several thousand acres.
Heritage was said to be worth a billion dollars.
They took it all.
I built what I feel was an amazing place to worship God.
We had at least 50 worship type services.
86 services every week was what the number was.
86 a week.
And I had 3,000 people to run it so I could do that.
I know you're bored by that, but God still does miracles, and God did that.
It was the greatest Christian place, I believe, ever built.
Oh, absolutely.
To this day, still.
Absolutely.
No one's beat it.
There's not been a bigger ministry.
You know, the upper room that we built, the.
I've been there.
Beautiful.
I went to Israel to look at the upper room there.
And I copied it and built it a heritage.
And do you know it's still open?
It's beautiful.
Praise God.
They say it's packed out every week almost.
Miracles are there.
I haven't been there in years.
But we built it just like the one in the Holy Land.
And do you know who owns it?
A boy that was a bad boy.
I always took in bad boys and bad girls.
There you go.
Get them saved, and they're some of the best preachers and teachers in the world.
Amen.
Come on.
Yes, amen.
And he went, that bad boy went and bought the upper room.
Yeah.
Hallelujah.
And he restored it, and it's still going on.
And he's been here.
He's been to Morningstar.
Randy?
Yes.
And thousands go there every year.
And they have Holy Ghost meetings.
That's all.
Hallelujah.
But God told me many who will walk with God and hear his voice will receive this double trouble and receive double strength and increase instead.
Oh, hallelujah.
I believe it, brother.
Amen.
Not a time to give in or give up.
It's time to ask him.
Can I tell you just a little bit?
I was wiped out.
The FBI lied about me and.
Christians lied about you, some of them.
Preachers came in and lied.
Amen.
They said, we got to get rid of Jim Bigger.
He's building a Christian theme park for fun.
No, it was just that I knew people had to do things besides pray.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
With other Christians.
Amen.
They had to shop and eat, buy food.
We had at least five restaurants.
Yeah, and you know, they're staying all week long.
Great restaurants.
They're staying all week long in the heat, so why not a water park?
And do you know how hard it is to make a restaurant work these days?
Oh, absolutely.
Amen.
Very high failure rate.
And you were successful with all five of them?
All five of them.
They were the best in the world, really, I think.
But that's just me.
Can God not, even in the end times, do that again if He wants to?
Yes, He can.
Yes.
Here at Morningside, I'm believing.
I want some of you who have said you'd help me with that rest, with that store.
Do you know, I'm Dutch.
Do you know if Dutch people are known for stubbornness?
Yes, no comment.
But I'm more stubborn because of the Bible.
Amen.
I'm stubborn about God.
And some of you that volunteered to help me open the store, I want you to go and just hang out there.
I don't care what anybody tells you.
If we can't open this store, we must have given up.
That's a little thing, really, guys.
But the government has a lot of rules now.
You have to get a lot of permits and all.
That doesn't stop me!
Nothing has ever stopped me.
Except the devil tried.
Oh, he tries.
But God said, No way.
No way.
Here's what God told me.
You can write it down, and if it doesn't come true, then I'm a false prophet, probably, I guess.
But he said, My latter house would be bigger than my former house.
Amen.
That's what the word says.
And I don't want money for me.
I'm a pauper.
And we're going to see great victory.
Amen.
You little church, you're the teamwork, you're the team that makes the dream work.
Yes, amen.
You're it.
Thank you so much.
So don't start bellyaching.
We want a teamwork that makes the dream work, not a bellyaching team.
Amen.
There's other words I learned in prison, but I don't use them.
I'm serious.
God's people need to not be complainers.
Complainers are remainers.
You need to be on God's side all the way.
We've seen what happened in the wilderness when they complained.
It didn't go so well with them, did it?
Nope.
Would you like to hear a word God gave you years ago at a round table?
In fact, Cindy Jacobs was there and she's the one who gave it.
And here's it, it was Isaiah 41 and 2.
You're going to write it down because you can keep that.
It says, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, for she hath received the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Oh, hallelujah.
God's people can have increases while the world is facing earth shaking events.
Amen.
I think many of us this morning have experienced the troubles that we've gone through in our lives.
We've been faithful and believe God in His Word by faith, and we've seen Him multiply many times.
Get ready because you are the team that God has ordained.
You say, Oh, I'm just getting old.
Some people got to be over a thousand years old in the Bible.
You know, Pastor, you always say what happens in your mind happens in time.
And Romans 8, 6 says, So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death, but letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
That's the key right there.
God spoke to me that it's time to get your house in order.
Absolutely.
Shakings in the church.
Churches built on sand and money will fail and have.
They're failing by the tens of thousands every year.
Every year.
I hate to say that.
Yes, it's a shame.
My denomination that I grew up in, the evil people of the world are prophesying doom for the.
I won't say what it is, but I want you to know what I grew up in.
There's demons.
It's devil power.
God said, I will build my church.
And the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
Yes, hallelujah.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trials, which is to try you as though some strange things happened unto you.
No.
But rejoice in as much as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, that with his glory we shall be revealed.
Ye may be glad also with exceedingly joy.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
You're on the right side.
Stay there.
Amen.
Just hang in there.
There's always trials for people that love God because the devil does it.
Absolutely.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trials which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you.
God said, It's going to happen.
You're going to go through.
But the trial of your faith is more precious than gold.
Yes, absolutely.
Amen.
But rejoice inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad.
Amen.
With exceedingly joy.
Amen.
Exceeding.
That's an important word there.
If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you.
For the Spirit of glory and of God rested upon you on their part.
He is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Oh, thank you, Jesus.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a thief, Or is it an evildoer?
Or is it a busybody in other men's matters?
That's right.
Absolutely.
Don't mock those who love God.
Yes.
Many of us have suffered many times from stupid things that we've done in life.
We reap what we sow.
Amen?
That man that tried to kill the president last night said, I hate Christians.
Those who bow to God will come back double.
Come on.
Double.
Jesus said, I am leaving you with the gift, peace of mind and heart, and the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give, so don't be troubled or afraid.
Come on.
The words of Jesus.
You know, I've talked about this, and I really don't want to dwell on it too much today, but one person should never dominate.
Your time or a pastor's time.
Troublemakers are of the devil, they're not of God.
Oh, yeah.
Yet, if any man that suffered as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glory.
By God, on this behalf, don't tear each other apart.
No.
That's right.
Peace.
A house divided will not stand.
Amen.
Our foundation is Jesus.
Amen.
Remember that.
Amen.
God wants to bless you.
You see, I have no way.
I never received an inheritance from my father, from my grandfathers, from my uncles, or my aunts.
I don't.
I never thought I would add or would.
I mean, my dad was a factory worker and he did, you know, he took care of us.
That's right.
Agree Together to Receive Blessings00:15:26
But he didn't mass a fortune.
It's a hard working blue collar, man.
Making automotive parts.
There's such power in the body of Christ.
Yes.
And you are in that body.
Hallelujah.
We need the church more than ever.
We must have each other's love in time together.
Hebrews 10 19 says, Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil, that is,
his flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an Evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering.
For he who promised is faithful.
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.
Yes, that's important.
As for the manner of some, but exhorting one another, it's so much the more.
As you see that day approach, amen.
We're in that the more you get to the end times, the more you need to be together, amen.
Absolutely right.
That's why actually I built this place for the end times, yes, be a refuge.
And so, we're all to care for each other, we're to be our brothers, amen.
I know most people are worried about that, but it's.
That's how you survive.
It's restoration time.
Though I sent my great army against you, those swarming locusts and hopping locusts and destroying locusts and cutting locusts that ate your crops, I, God, will repay you back for those years of trouble.
Then you will have plenty to eat and be full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God who has done miracles for you.
My people will never again be ashamed.
Oh, hallelujah.
Amen.
You cannot be ashamed.
That's good.
Then you will know that I am among the people.
I am the Lord your God, and there is no other God.
My people will never be ashamed again.
After this, I will pour out my spirit on all kinds of people.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams.
That's me.
Yeah, same.
Your old men will dream dreams.
I'm having great dreams.
I'm still having visions.
I will show you miracles.
He says, I will pour out my spirit also on my male slaves and female slaves.
Yes, he will.
Some of you feel like you're slaves, right?
You're working, volunteering at the ministry many times.
But God says, I will pour out my spirit upon you.
Is that good?
I will show you miracles in the sky and on the earth.
Blood fire and on earth, blood fire and thick smoke.
The sun will become dark, the moon red as blood before the overwhelming and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Then anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved.
Amen, amen, amen.
Because on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, there will be people who will be saved.
Just the Lord said, Those left alive after the day of punishment are the people whom the Lord called.
Keys to restoration and power.
Power is double, he said.
Hallelujah.
Yes, amen.
Matthew 18 19.
Again, I say unto you that if two, if you should agree on earth as touching anything that they ask, it shall be done.
Yes.
For them and my father.
It's time for us to start praying together, agreeing together.
Amen.
Yes, amen.
Hallelujah.
Amen.
Do we have a prayer box anywhere around here yet?
We have the prayer room back there where we put up.
Prayers on the prayer wall?
I used to have a place where people put, you know, right about and drop.
And I'd like to do that again because it's important that we pray for one another.
Absolutely.
Every day.
If you ever need it, I want to pray for it.
My prayer is not as good as anybody else's, but it's, you know, I don't, at least because I'm a preacher, I'm not better than you.
If two agree, that's you, me.
If we agree together, we agree.
God says, I'll answer it.
Again, I say unto you that if two of you should agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Amen.
That's God's word.
You pray together, agree together.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.
It's like I've told the team teamwork makes the dream work.
We've had it all the time.
The power of two.
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor.
That's what the Bible says.
We need each other.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.
But woe unto him that is alone when he falleth.
For he hath.
You know, I have fallen many times during my time of, you know, strokes and all.
And it was terrible.
I fell a couple of times when nobody was around me.
Nobody could pick me up.
But now I can walk.
Praise God.
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor.
We need each other, people.
Amen.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
I've been that way.
I've been that.
Yes, amen.
Double can mean more than double.
And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put 10,000 to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
It's time for the church to be a mighty body, strong.
If we just agree, we have power.
Yes, amen.
We have strength.
Where two or three are gathered together.
Amen.
This is God's math, the church.
God has even promised me trouble.
Yes, we stand on that word, amen, and claim it by faith, amen.
What God has promised is for every one of us.
My time is up, and I'll finish, maybe I'll finish this because I got a lot to say yet.
This is a very important word that God gave me.
But after, the Bible says, after Job prayed for his friends, the Lord gave him a success again.
The Lord gave Job twice as much than he was before.
Absolutely.
Before he was wiped out.
God's will for leaders.
The elders who lead the church will show, should receive double.
You are elders, all of you, especially those who work hard by speaking and teaching, because the scripture says when an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating, and a worker should be given his pay.
God's standards of restoration has always been double.
That's the title of my sermon today.
Amen.
Double your trouble.
Double for your trouble.
Hallelujah.
If the thief is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or a donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.
If a man delivered to his neighbor money or articles to keep and it was stolen out of the man's house, If the thief is found, he shall pay double.
That was in the Bible.
Double.
Amen.
That's the principles that God set forth in His Scripture.
Whoever the judge is condemned shall pay double to his neighbor.
Even Elisha asked for a double portion.
Yes, he did.
So I was trying to preach on double this morning.
It's on God's Word to give you back double for your trouble.
We're not double minded, you know?
That's right.
He has a sound mind.
Well, it all falls back on the principles of sowing and reaping.
You know, if we don't plant anything, you know, it's that season of the year, it's spring, and we've been getting ready to plant some things.
And I think Linda wants to get some flowers this afternoon to plant.
But, you know, whatever we plant, we've already planted some grass seed.
We've seen it come forth, amen.
But, you know, some of us, we want the double portion.
We want what God has for us.
We want to hold His promises, but we're not willing to sow our time.
We're not willing to sow time with the Lord and in His Word and build that relationship between you and the Lord.
And, you know, we will only receive what we have sown into the kingdom.
And if I could read a couple scriptures as we prepare our hearts to sow into God's kingdom financially.
In Luke the 11th chapter, Luke the 6th chapter, 37 verse, Jesus is saying, Judge not that you be not judged, condemn not and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.
So you can see this is all a principle of sowing and reaping.
Amen.
He says, Give and it will be given unto you.
He's talking to individual, every one of us, he was talking to you.
Amen.
So give and it will be given unto you.
How is he going to do that?
Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.
So God will give you favor as we sow into God's kingdom.
Amen.
If we sow.
Into our families, to our children, and we will see our children raised as godly children.
Even though they leave, we are promised that they would return.
If you sow into the church, wherever you sow, that God will bless you, God will anoint you.
And we have to take this word and say, well, it sounds good for someone else, but you take that word and claim it for yourself by faith.
Stand on the promise of God.
Well, Pastor, I've been giving for 20 years and I've been doing this and I've been doing that.
Well, you never give in, you never give up.
You stand by faith on God's word because God's word says that He will.
Good measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.
Now, he could just open the windows of heaven and pour out the manna like he did in the wilderness, but more often than not, God will give you favor with someone.
He might give you a good job, and you might have to put a little elbow grease in to get that good job.
Come on.
But God has promised to bless us, his children.
So, with the measure you use, now here you go.
If you want that double portion, Pastor's been preaching on this morning, it says, For with the measure you use, it will be measured unto you.
Come on.
So, if we want to see souls saved, if we want to see God move mightily, if we want to see God pour out his kingdom, all these things that the Word of God tells us, you know, it's not to put fear in our hearts, but God wants us to be prepared.
Amen.
So, when things happen, that we don't fall apart.
Amen.
Because we're standing united, and united we stand.
Amen.
Amen.
So, as we prepare to sow into the kingdom, as the ushers get ready, let's bow our heads to God.
I want to believe that everybody here is going to become.
A double portion saint of God.
Yes.
Because I didn't finish this message, but it was all about double.
Absolutely.
And God wants to bless you all.
You say, I have no source.
Neither do I.
I don't have any source but God.
But He.
Amen.
But God, I'm being paid a salary to.
Pastor of this church now.
About time.
And for 40 years, it had to go to the government.
So it's like doubling now.
Oh, absolutely.
And also, do you get Social Security?
Anyone raise your hand?
I'm on Social Security.
Yay!
Every month, I get a check from the government.
Amen.
That was your money they took from you in the first place.
Yeah, they did.
But thank God it's a good check.
And I'm praying a double blessing for every one of you right now.
I want this church to be blessed.
I want this to be the most blessed congregation in the world.
Yes.
God's not through blessing you, God has something for you.
So God bless you and have a wonderful week.
Love you.
See you.
This Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, all the nights that we'll be here.