Pastor Jim & Lori Bakker give Pastor Jim’s Message for 2012: Explosions for Day 3 on The Jim Bakker Show.
Songs
I Know Enough About Tomorrow To Make It Through Today
Quotes
A lot of you think God’s left you and he hasn’t. He’s told you what’s gonna happen in these last days. -Pastor Jim Bakker
Narrative
Pastor Jim Bakker continued his 2012 warning message and the top five words God gave him for the coming year. In previous shows, he covered the words Confusion and Explosions and, in this program, moved on to word three: Deception. He noted that millions are being deceived in their home churches and have come to love worldly things. Pastor Jim admitted how his past “prosperity teaching” had led many astray and placed a heavy emphasis on material things, rather than on serving others. He explained that in his book “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse,” he took each verse he used in past decades in teaching the gospel of prosperity, and placed them in proper context. He then encouraged the “sheep” to do their own study and reading to avoid being led astray.
The Bible states that many false prophets will come in the Last Days preaching another gospel (2 Cor. 11:4), and Pastor Jim noted that messages related to the love of money or prosperity fall into this false gospel category. He recalled a quote from fellow pastor, Chuck Swindoll, who labeled false preaching as “longhorn sermons,” or those which make “a point here, and a point there, and [have] a lot of bull in between.”
Pastor Jim spent much time in 2 Timothy 4 going over verses 1-8, which detail how a time will come when Christians will no longer desire sound doctrine but will seek out teachers who will tickle their ears with fables and myths because they no longer want to hear the truth. This reminded him of the late 1990s when he traveled, with his wife, Lori, to preach at churches across the country. He was often told not to preach from the book of Revelations because pastors did not want him to frighten the flock. “I think we need a little more rebuking from the pulpit,” Pastor Jim observed. He went on to compare some churches to spoiled children who do not know how to behave because they never received discipline or rebuke. Even God, according to His word, chastens those whom he loves, Pastor Jim said, adding that lack of boundaries in America is one thing that has made it the top prison state in the world. “When we don’t have discipline, we have rebellion,” which the Bible says is equivalent to the sin of witchcraft, (1 Sam. 15:23).
He encouraged Christians to begin to follow the word by praying for and bearing one another’s burdens; by putting elders to the use outlined in scripture, and, rather than seek out faith healers, pray for each others’ healing, as the New Testament says. He shared he can no longer teach a prosperity gospel which only contributes to the atmosphere of deception that envelops the church, but instead has learned to put Jesus first in all things. He believes this type of repentance and turning back to God’s way will cause a great revival and harvesting of souls at the end of the age.
Scriptures
II Timothy 3:12-13 KJV Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
II Corinthians 9:11 NCV He will make you rich in every way so that you can always give freely. And your giving through us will cause many to give thanks to God.
Matthew 24:4 KJV And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
1 John 2:15 NCV Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you.
Matthew 6:24 NIV “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 6:24 KJV No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 24:11 NCV Many false prophets will come and cause many people to believe lies.
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.
Revelation 17-18 The Harlot of Revelation
Revelation 18:17 NCV All these riches have been destroyed in one hour!” Every sea captain, every passenger, the sailors, and all those who earn their living from the sea stood far away from Babylon.
II Timothy 4:1-2 KJV I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
Proverbs 13:24 NKJV He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
Hebrews 12:6 NKJV For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.
1 Samuel 15:23 KJV For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Blessings for Obeying God
Deuteronomy 28:15-69 Curses for Disobeying God
1 John 2:15 NCV Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you.
Luke 6:24 KJV But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Matthew 6:24 NIV “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
I Timothy 3:3 KJV Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Psalm 133:1 KJV Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Mark 8:34 KJV And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Isaiah 1:18 KJV Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 9:10 NIV The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.
Isaiah 9:10 NKJV The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars.
Jeremiah 45:4 NKJV Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land.
II Timothy 4:3 KJV For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Galatians 6:2 NKJV Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
James 5:16 KJV Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Matthew 16:18 KJV And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Hebrews 10:25 KJV Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
II Timothy 4:4-7 KJV And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
II Chronicles 20:15 NCV He said, “Listen to me, King Jehoshaphat and all you people living in Judah and Jerusalem. The Lord says this to you: ‘Don’t be afraid or discouraged because of this large army. The battle is not your battle, it is God’s.
II Timothy 4:8 KJV Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Acts 2:21 KJV And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
