Show #1956 | The Jim Bakker Show

Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker welcome Pastor Cedric Hayes and The Gloryland Pastor’s Choir on The Jim Bakker Show.

Topics

Unity within the Church

Peace vs. Discord

Power of Blessings or Curses

Pastor Jim’s study on the Book of Revelation

Songs

Write the Vision

Narrative

Pastor Jim Bakker teaches about the importance of unity within the church. On the Day of Pentecost, the believers were gathered in the Upper Room and had unity. Unity brings peace to people. “If you teach this, people will come flocking to your churches,” says Pastor Jim Bakker.

“The Bible mentions peace five hundred times, ” Pastor Jim Bakker says. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ blessed the peacemakers and called them the children of God.

Speaking peace includes speaking a blessing over someone. Since the Bible says that power is in the tongue to speak blessing or cursing, Pastor Jim Bakker emphasizes the importance of speaking blessings and peace to people and their homes. It will be up to God to judge if the people deserve the blessing or not. He goes on to teach that if we give a home a blessing and God finds the people undeserving, then our blessing will return to us. If the home is a Godly place and deserves the blessing, then our blessing and peace will remain with the home. False witnesses and people who sow discord are an abomination to the Lord. Pastor Jim Bakker mentions about how the power of blessing influenced his and Lori Bakker’s adoptive daughter to live up to her blessing.

“They said that she was ugly. I told her that she was beautiful. They said that she was stupid and couln’t learn. I told her that she was smart,” says Pastor Jim Bakker. “If you give a child a label, they will live up to it,” Pastor Jim Bakker says.

Pastor Jim Bakker discusses his five-year study of the Book of Revelation and how this book of prophecy promises to be a blessing of peace for those who read it. “Some people are afraid to teach the book of Revelation in our churches today,” he teaches. He says, ” The Greek word interpreted as tribulation is thlipsis, which means pressure.” It does not have to be scary and confusing. Lori Bakker reads the first verse of chapter one in the Revelation and says “It is not only important to read the Word of the Lord, but to live it!”

Scriptures

Psalm 133:1 NLT How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

Acts 2:1 KJV And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Proverbs 6:19 KJV A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Matthew 13:39 NKJV The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

Matthew 5:9 KJV Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:23-24 NCV So when you offer your gift to God at the altar, and you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there at the altar. Go and make peace with that person, and then come and offer your gift.

Mark 3:25 KJV And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

James 2:17 NKJV Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Luke 10:5 NCV Before you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with this house.’

Proverbs 18:21 KJV Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Matthew 7:1 KJV Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Proverbs 6:16 KJV These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Matthew 5:25 KJV Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Luke 10:6 NCV If peace-loving people live there, your blessing of peace will stay with them, but if not, then your blessing will come back to you.

I Peter 5:7 KJV Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Luke 19:38 NCV They said, “God bless the king who comes in the name of the Lord! There is peace in heaven and glory to God!”

Matthew 6:9-10 KJV After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

I John 4:18 KJV There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

I Corinthians 2:9 KJV But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Revelation 1:19 KJV Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

Revelation 1:1 NCV This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show his servants what must soon happen. And Jesus sent his angel to show it to his servant John.

I Corinthians 15:52 KJV In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Matthew 4:4 KJV But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

I Thessalonians 5:1-3 NCV Now, brothers and sisters, we do not need to write you about times and dates. You know very well that the day the Lord comes again will be a surprise, like a thief that comes in the night. While people are saying, “We have peace and we are safe,” they will be destroyed quickly. It is like pains that come quickly to a woman having a baby. Those people will not escape.

II Corinthians 11:4 KJV For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Joel 2:31 KJV The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

I Thessalonians 5:4 NCV But you, brothers and sisters, are not living in darkness, and so that day will not surprise you like a thief.

Luke 21:34 KJV And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

I Thessalonians 5:5-6 NCV You are all people who belong to the light and to the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness. So we should not be like other people who are sleeping, but we should be alert and have self-control.

Revelation 1:4 KJV John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Revelation 1:3 KJV Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Revelation 6:4 KJV And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

I John 3:14 KJV We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.