September 2015 Evangelist - Jimmy Swaggart Ministries

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SEPTEMBER 2015
FEATURES
ON THE COVER
September 2015 | Vol. 49 | No. 9
6 THE GREAT CONTEST
1987 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
LARGEST JSM CRUSADE
by Jimmy Swaggart
14 VAIN IMAGINATIONS
by Frances Swaggart
18 TO KNOW, TO RECEIVE, TO GIVE
by Donnie Swaggart
20 THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
by Gabriel Swaggart
32 BAPTISM INTO CHRIST
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JIMMY SWAGGART
EDITOR
DONNIE SWAGGART
STAFF WRITER/EDITOR
DESIREE JONES
ART DIRECTOR
by Loren Larson
34 TAKE AWAY THE FILTHY GARMENTS
by Mike Muzzerall
36 FROM ME TO YOU
by Jimmy Swaggart
TOM COLEMAN
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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2 Gabriel Swaggart Rally - Jackson, MS
5 60th Anniversary Celebration
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28 2015 Thanksgiving Campmeeting Schedule
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www.jsm.org THE EVANGELIST SEPTEMBER 2015
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1987
THE LARGEST JSM CRUSADE:
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
CLASSIC CRUSADE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1987
THE JIMMY SWAGGART CRUSADE
that drew the largest audience was
held at the Maracana soccer stadium in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October 1987.
Although modest estimates counted
the crowd the last day of the three-day
crusade at 125,000, photos show a full
Maracana stadium which at that time
seated nearly 200,000.
In a message titled “The Last Days,”
Brother Swaggart preached from Matthew 24:3: “And as He sat upon the
Mount of Olives, the disciples came
unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when
shall these things be? and what shall be
the sign of thy coming, and of the end
of the world?”
Holding his Bible high in the air with one
hand and a microphone in the other,
Brother Swaggart told the massive
crowd that the most dangerous hour
the church had ever known was at hand.
He said, “You must stay anchored in the
Word. If the preacher preaches something that is not in this Bible, don’t listen
to him. Don’t follow him. Do not heed
him. The Word must be paramount.
The Word is the foundation. Hallelujah. He said, ‘On this rock, I’ll build My
church.’ The Rock is Jesus, and Jesus
is the Word. ‘In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God.’ This
will stand. Communism may go down,
but this will stand. Democracy may go
down, but this will stand. It is the Word of
Almighty God. Preach the Word. Preach
the Word. Preach the Word. Preach
the Word. Preach the Word! Your only
anchor today is this Bible.”
A few months later, in his “From Me To
You” column in The Evangelist, Brother
Swaggart wrote this about the crusade
in Brazil:
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart preaching to a full Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1987.
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most
beautiful cities in the world. I walked
into the stadium Friday night for the
opening of service in the midst of a
torrential rain. It had rained all day,
and I’m talking about hard rain. The
Spirit of God more than compensated
for Satan’s efforts to hinder.
Because of a soccer game, the Sunday
service had to be moved from its regular
2:30 p.m. starting time to 9 a.m. When
I gave the altar call that Sunday morning, the people literally ran to the front.
An electrifying move of the Holy Spirit
swept through that stadium as multiple
thousands came to Jesus Christ.
The New York Times ran a picture of
Brother Swaggart preaching this Rio de
Janeiro crusade as part of an article titled,
“In Brazil, Evangelicals Are On Rise.”
The article centered on a spiritual shift
that was taking place in Brazil during
the 1980s.
Reporter Alan Riding wrote:
With 140 million inhabitants, Brazil is
the world’s most populous Catholic
nation. Yet the number of evangelical
communicants here has almost dou-
bled to about 12 million since 1980,
while another 12 or 13 million people
regularly attend evangelical services.
About 2,800 American Protestant
missionaries work in Brazil today, and
dozens of different United Statesbased churches and missions are
represented here. American preachers frequently come through; earlier
this month, the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart
drew a huge crowd at Maracana
soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
The engine behind the growth has
been the aggressive proselytizing of
fundamentalist sects that spread their
message of salvation on special radio
and television broadcasts, in booklets
on street corners, in markets, on buses
and at soccer stadiums.
Their emphasis on personal religious
experiences, such as receiving the
Holy Spirit, prophecies, miracles
and speaking in tongues, has proven
particularly appealing to the innate
spirituality of millions of poor urban
Brazilians. In many barrios, Pentecostal churches now routinely draw
larger congregations than nearby
Catholic churches.
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ONE MINISTRY. ONE MESSAGE. 60 YEARS.
THE GREAT CONTEST
By Jimmy Swaggart
I Kings 18:33-35 — “And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and
laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt
sacrifice, and on the wood.
“And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said,
Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
“And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.”
This states to us
that everything
about the Cross
was and is
according to the
Word of God. This
tells us that the
Word of God is the
foundation and
the criterion for all
that we do.
6 SEPTEMBER 2015 THE EVANGELIST
THE WATER WAS A type of the Word
of God.
THE TIME OF THE
EVENING SACRIFICE
I hope it is obvious here that everything was saturated with water. In
fact, even the trench that had been
dug around the altar was filled.
“And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice” (I Ki. 18:36).
This states to us that everything about
the Cross was and is according to the
Word of God. This tells us that the
Word of God is the foundation and
the criterion for all that we do. Again
it states that what Jesus did at the
Cross was all according to the Word
of God, and according to the Word of
God entirely.
Pouring the water three times over the
sacrifice signifies to us that the Word of
God is backed up by the entirety of the
triune Godhead. It also tells us that the
Word is incumbent upon each member
of the Godhead, even as each member
of the Godhead is incumbent upon the
Word. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Mat. 4:4).
Two sacrifices were to be offered at the
temple each day, the first at 9 a.m., and
the second at 3 p.m., with the latter
referred to as the evening sacrifice. This
was to be done seven days a week. Actually, on the Sabbath, which was Saturday, instead of one lamb being offered in
the morning and one lamb in the afternoon, the number was doubled. Jesus
was put on the Cross at about 9 a.m. He
died at 3 p.m., the time of the evening
sacrifice. So, all of this tells us that what
the Lord did here was a portrayal, a picture if you will, of that which would be
carried out by His Son when He died on
the Cross. Of course, Elijah would have
had no knowledge concerning a Cross,
nor would he have known that Jesus
would die on the Cross at the time of
the evening sacrifice, but, of course, God
most definitely did know all of this.
THE
JIMMY SWAGGART
PRICELESS CORNER
We have set aside this corner of The Evangelist to show God’s
Plan of Salvation. If you are unsure where you will go when you
die, please listen to what God has said in His Word:
The idea is, the Lord was trying to bring Israel back to the altar, i.e., back to the
Cross. In effect, He has always been doing this, even as He is doing such presently.
GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL
Elijah said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel” (I Ki. 18:36).
Why were these three individuals so special that their names would be
linked with Jehovah?
FIRST: GOD LOVES YOU!
“For God so loved the world that he gave His only Begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have Everlasting Life” (Jn. 3:16).
SECOND: MAN IS A SINNER, AND SIN
HAS SEPARATED HIM FROM GOD
“For there is not a just man upon Earth, that doeth good and
sinneth not” (Eccl. 7:20).
“For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God”
(Rom. 3:23).
THIRD: JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY REMEDY FOR SIN
One word explains it: faith.
At the time of these individuals, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel and Jacob
are one and the same), other than these three families at their respective
times, the whole world lay in spiritual darkness. They alone knew God, and
they alone believed God.
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that He might bring us to God ...” (I Pet. 3:18).
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other
name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved” (Acts 4:12).
FOURTH: YOU MUST RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST
AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOUR
First of all, the Lord revealed Himself to Abraham. As to how this was
done, the Scripture is silent. At that time, Shem, one of Noah’s sons, was
still alive and may very well have been serving God. Some believe that
Shem was actually Melchizedek; however, there is no proof of that. At any
rate, at that time, the only ones in the world who knew God were Abraham
and Sarah, very probably some of Abraham’s servants, which definitely
included Eliezer of Damascus (Gen. 14:17-20; 15:2), and a few others such
as Melchizedek.
Jesus calls this experience the new birth. He told Nicodemus:
“... Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom
of God” (Jn. 3:3).
As the revelation had been given to Abraham, it was handed down to Isaac, the
son of Abraham and Sarah, and then to Jacob, the son of Isaac and Rebekah.
»»In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin Birth, in
His Sinless Life, in His Miracles, in His Vicarious and atoning
Death, in His Bodily Resurrection, in His Ascension to the
Right Hand of the Father, in His personal future return to this
Earth in Power and Glory to rule a thousand years (Jn. 1:1-4;
Eph. 2:13-18; Rev., Chpts. 19-20).
At that time, they were the only people in the world who were monotheistic,
meaning they worshipped one God, i.e., Jehovah. The balance of the world was
polytheistic, meaning they worshipped many gods, in actuality, demon spirits.
So, it was faith that caused these individuals to stand out, and to be certain,
faith is the same principle presently (Rom. 5:1-2).
We invite you now to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your
personal Saviour. “But as many as received Him, to them gave
He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on His Name” (Jn. 1:12).
WE BELIEVE:
»»The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative
written Word of God (Ps. 119; Mat. 4:4; Lk. 24:27).
»»There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (I Jn. 5:7).
»»In the Blessed Hope — the Rapture of the Church at Christ’s
Coming (I Thess. 4:13-18).
»»The only means of being cleansed from sin is through
Repentance and Faith in the Precious Blood of Christ (Rom.
5:1; Eph. 2:8-9, 13-18).
»»Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for
personal Salvation (Jn. 3:5-8; Titus 3:5).
»»The Redemptive Work of Christ on the Cross provides Healing
of the human body in answer to believing prayer (Ex. 15:25-26;
James 5:14-15; I Pet. 2:24).
THE FIRE OF THE LORD FELL
At the beginning of this contest, Elijah had said to Ahab, plus all of the
false prophets of Baal, plus the entirety of Israel that was gathered at Mount
Carmel that day, “Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose
one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire
under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
“And you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and
the God who answers by fire, let Him be God. And all the people answered and said,
It is well spoken” (I Ki. 18:23-24).
The fire was a type of the judgment of God that was poured out on the sacrifice instead of that judgment being poured out on Israel. This typified Christ
and what He would suffer at the Cross.
As we’ve already stated, the only thing that stands between mankind and
the judgment of God is the Cross of Christ.
I Kings 18:38 says, “Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that
was in the trench.”
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»»The Baptism with the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4 is
given to Believers who ask for it (Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:1-7).
»»In the Sanctifying Power of the Holy Spirit by Whose
indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life (Rom.
6:3-14; 8:1-2, 11).
»»In the Resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the one
to Everlasting Life and the other to everlasting damnation
(Rev. 20:5-6, 11-15).
Pray this prayer and mean it with all of your heart:
“Dear
“
Lord Jesus, I now realize that I am a sinner. I accept
the fact that You died for me on the rugged Cross of Calvary.
I now open my heart’s door and receive You as Saviour and
Lord of my life. Please take full control of me and help me to
be the kind of Christian You want me to be. Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer in all sincerity, you are now a Child
of God. So that we might rejoice with you, we invite you to fill
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When the fire fell, it consumed everything, in effect, leaving nothing. This
tells us that Calvary paid it all. No
sin was left owing. The judgment was
total, meaning that Christ paid it all.
is in anything other than Christ and
the Cross, then, in essence, what they
have is another Jesus, which fosters
another spirit, and which plays out to
another gospel (II Cor. 11:4).
Unfortunately, far too many in the
modern church hypocritically seek to
punish those who have failed, seemingly never realizing that Jesus has
already suffered such punishment.
For such to be enacted, in essence, says
that what Jesus did at the Cross was
insufficient. This is a gross sin! We
must never forget that the “fire of the
Lord” consumed everything — the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and even
the dust, and “licked up the water that
was in the trench.”
This episode with Elijah and the
people of Israel tells us that God could
be understood only in the sense of the
Cross, i.e., the altar. It is no different
presently (Jn. 3:16)!
Seven is God’s number of perfection;
in other words, the rain that was
coming would be in proportion to God
who was sending it. Even though the
Lord had promised this, we find that
Elijah had to persevere. This should
be a lesson to us; if we ask and we do
not receive, we ought to keep asking
(Lk. 11:6-13).
THE LORD, HE IS THE GOD
Of course, these Israelites, who had
been worshipping Baal for some
years, were now made to realize in
stark reality that Baal was not God,
but rather “the Lord, He is the God.”
The fact that the name God has the
definite article preceding it, making
it read “the God,” tells us that, in
essence, they were saying that there
was no other god. Jehovah alone
was God!
However, it must be understood that
God, i.e., Jehovah, could only be recognized by and through the means of
the Cross, i.e., the altar.
The Apostle Paul addressed this very
thing, but in the New Testament sense,
by stating that if the faith of believers
THE RAIN OF THE SPIRIT
The people had been directed back
to the Cross, of which the altar was
a type, and now the rain of the Spirit
could fall. Before the Holy Spirit can
work, the church must come back to
the Cross; there is no other way!
With all the water being licked up,
this portrays the fact that the Word of
God was fulfilled in totality. As stated,
absolutely nothing was left owing.
Such was and is the Cross of Christ!
When the fire fell, the Scripture says,
“And when all the people saw it, they fell
on their faces: and they said, The Lord,
He is the God; the Lord, He is the God”
(I Ki. 18:39).
especially considering that the majority of the modern church is apostate.
The light always exposes what the
darkness covers. That which the light
exposes must be exterminated, which
the Holy Spirit in one way or the other
will definitely do, at least for those
who truly want to follow the Lord.
If the faith of believers is in anything other than
Christ and the Cross, then, in essence, what they
have is another Jesus, which fosters another
spirit, and which plays out to another gospel.
— The Apostle Paul
THE PROPHETS OF BAAL
“And Elijah said unto them, Take the
prophets of Baal; let not one of them
escape. And they took them: and Elijah
brought them down to the brook Kishon,
and killed them there” (I Ki. 18:40).
This is one of the reasons that the
Cross is so despised. It exposes false
prophets, and not only exposes them,
but puts them out of business.
When the Cross of Christ is held up as
it should be held up, all false doctrine
goes out the window; all false apostles
will stop short; all error is laid aside;
and the Cross exposes it all. That’s the
greatest reason that the Message of the
Cross is not so very much appreciated,
THE SOUND OF AN
ABUNDANCE OF RAIN
When the Word of God becomes preeminent, with Calvary once again
becoming the center point of all that
is done, then the spiritual drought
will end, and there will be an “abundance of rain.”
As we have stated, the great drought in
Israel, which had lasted now for some
three and a half years, was meant to
be a portrayal of the spiritual condition of the nation. The rain falling
in copious amounts was a type of the
Spirit of God being poured out, which
brought the thirsty land back to life
again, as only the Spirit of God can
do. There was not merely rain that
fell, but an abundance of rain.
This meant that the earth soaked
up the rain, which could then once
again grow grass, with the trees doing
the same regarding their leaves. The
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streams that had long since gone dry now gurgled with
water flowing in copious amounts. The drought had broken,
and the rain was falling, all a type of the Holy Spirit.
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The church will not know revival until it comes back to the
Cross. In fact, the people, whomever they might be, will
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What blasphemy is brought forth when men say that
the church needs a new way, a new message, and a new
presentation! No, the church needs to go back to the old
paths. It needs to come back to the Cross.
The church that is truly of God does not function according to the ways of the world. That which makes the world
go has no bearing whatsoever on the church, and actually, if employed, will destroy the church, which is happening presently.
The church functions solely upon the moving and operation of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works totally and
completely within the confines of the finished work of
Christ. So, this means that the believer must place his
faith exclusively in the Cross of Christ and not allow it to
be moved. With that being the case, the rain will fall in
abundant amounts.
As well, this that the Lord did portrays to us the fact that
if some few people will go God’s way, which is the way of
the Cross, beyond the shadow of a doubt, there will be an
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In fact, this experience with
Elijah and the fire falling from heaven should give hope to
any and every individual, irrespective of the difficulties or
the problems.
HUMILITY
The Scripture says of Elijah, “And he cast himself down upon
the earth, and put his face between his knees” (I Ki. 18:42).
Elijah had just seen one of the greatest demonstrations of
power that the world had known up to that time, and it had
humbled him. It was now time for the rain. The Lord had
promised it. He had said some months earlier, “Go, show yourself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth” (I Ki. 18:1).
JIMMY SWAGGART
The answer of Elijah was actually the answer to every
pulpit, every church, every home, and every problem that
plagues our lives. Why is it so hard for us to do this? Why
do we seek everyone’s opinion and not God’s knowledge?
If we do seek His face, too often it is with a haughty attitude, denying all humility. God will not accept our pompous attitude. The church desperately needs revival. This
verse (I Ki. 18:42) tells us how to have it. In essence, we
need to cast ourselves down upon the earth and put our
face between our knees. While the posture is not that
important, what it represents is most definitely very important — it represents humility.
FAITH EXCLUSIVELY IN
CHRIST AND THE CROSS
The Holy Spirit through Simon Peter said, “For God resists the
proud (He sets Himself in array against the proud person),
and gives grace to the humble (one who places his faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross)” (I Pet. 5:5).
As the rain was dependent upon the Cross being held up
as the only solution for mankind, likewise, humility is
addressed in the same capacity. It is impossible for anyone
to know humility unless he properly understands the
Cross. The Cross of Christ is the very epitome of humility.
In fact, there could be no greater example. So, when the
believer begins to place his faith exclusively in Christ and
the Cross, he will begin to understand a little bit about
humility. Otherwise, such isn’t possible!
SEVEN TIMES
“And (Elijah) said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the
sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing.
And he said, Go again seven times” (I Ki. 18:43).
This verse portrays faith. It says, “Go again seven times.”
Regrettably, about the greatest admittance of the modern
church is the admittance of the servant when he states,
“There is nothing.”
We have been compromised in our faith, being led to
believe that if we snap our fingers, God is to do it immediately. If it’s not done, we quit, being taught that it’s not
faith to continue.
That is unbiblical. No, it doesn’t take the Lord long to do
anything, but it takes us awhile to be brought to the place
and position desired by the Holy Spirit.
Elijah was one of the greatest men of God who ever lived,
but the Lord would teach even Elijah something in this
episode. He would be taught a valuable lesson on the
grace of God.
SEVEN TIMES SPEAKS OF A PERFECT WORK
“Seven times” speaks of God’s fulfillment and completion.
It speaks of a perfect work, a work that He desires to do
within our lives.
In other words, if we ask and the answer is not immediately
forthcoming, we must not quit. In fact, faith, that is, if it’s
true, will not quit. What did Jesus say?
“Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at
midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves (a
meager request);
“For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have
nothing to set before him? (We as believers must give the
message of eternal life to all of mankind, but the truth is,
within ourselves, we have nothing to give).
“And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the
door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot
rise and give to you (an obvious denial).
“I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he
is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give
him as many as he needs (the argument of this parable is that
if a sufficiency for daily need can by importunity, i.e., persistence, be obtained from an unwilling source, how much
more from a willing giver, which and who is the Lord).
EVERYONE
“And I say unto you (telling us how to approach the Lord for
whatever we need), Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and
you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (all of this
speaks of persistence and guarantees a positive answer, at
least if it’s in the will of God).
“For every one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and
to him who knocks it shall be opened (he says ‘everyone,’ and
that includes you!).
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you who is a father, will he
give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him
a serpent?
“Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him (an egg containing)
a scorpion?
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children (means that an earthly parent certainly would not give
a child a stone who has asked for bread, etc.): how much more
shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them who ask
Him?” (Lk. 11:5-13).
This refers to God’s goodness and the fact that everything
from the Godhead comes to us through the person and
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agency of the Holy Spirit; and all that He does for us is
based upon the Cross of Christ and our faith in that finished work.
A CLOUD THE SIZE OF A MAN’S HAND
“And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand”
(I Ki. 18:44).
It must ever be said that what looks like only a “little cloud”
to the unbeliever, the doubter, and the skeptic is, in fact,
that which with faith can mean a coming deluge.
My grandmother taught me a most valuable lesson. I can
see the twinkle in her eyes even yet. She said to me, not
once but many times, “Jimmy, God is a big God, so ask big!”
I have never forgotten that. It has helped me touch this
world for Christ.
However, we must remember that that which concludes
“big” many times, if not most of the time, starts out small.
It is only at the beginning, “a cloud the size of a man’s hand.”
True faith knows that it is only the beginning, which, if God
has His way, will ultimately conclude with something great.
The Lord, in fact, does nothing but that which is great. Don’t
quit asking, don’t quit seeking, and don’t quit knocking.
A GREAT RAIN
“And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black
with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain” (I Ki. 18:45).
One can sense the presence of God even as one reads these
words, “a great rain!” Spiritually speaking, our nation desperately needs this
great rain. As well, spiritually speaking, untold millions
of believers, myself included, need this great rain.
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
When the Lord began to open up to me the Message of the
Cross back in 1997, it was like a dream come true. The freedom that this great truth brought to me was unexcelled.
And yet, it’s not something new but that which was given
to the Apostle Paul, which he gave to us in his 14 epistles.
However, after a little bit, negative thoughts began to come
into my mind about the necessity of the message.
The Devil said to me that while some few may need this message, virtually the entirety of the church is doing pretty well.
Looking back, it is so easy to recognize the Evil One, but at the
time, dressed as an angel of light, he seemed to be plausible.
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I did not reveal to anyone what I was feeling in my spirit, but
the Lord was very soon to address it.
Donnie was preaching. It was Sunday night at Family
Worship Center. He wasn’t preaching about Moses and the
deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt, but in the
course of his message, he made the statement uttered by
Moses to Pharaoh, “Let My people go.”
LET MY PEOPLE GO
When he said that word, “Let My people go,” the Spirit of
God came all over me. I began to weep, actually sobbing,
and the Lord spoke to my heart, and what He told me was
not very pleasant to hear.
“My people,” the Lord said, “are in the same condition presently as the children of Israel were in Egyptian bondage.”
To be sure, that’s a powerful statement. To think that the
modern church is in the same shape as Israel of old, respecting Egyptian bondage, is beyond our comprehension. In
other words, it’s about as bad as it could ever be.
The Devil had almost made me believe that while the
Cross was definitely necessary, still, the situation was not
so desperate among God’s people. However, that night,
the Holy Spirit let me know that the church world is in the
same condition, spiritually speaking, as Israel of old as it
regards her terrible condition of so long, long ago. In other
words, they were slaves to an evil taskmaster, and the Lord
demanded, “Let My people go.”
For a few minutes that night, I saw the entirety of the
church world. I saw the bondage, and I saw untold millions who are being held captive by Satan in one way or the
other, and I’m speaking of God’s people. In other words,
as the situation was dire in Egypt at that time, at least as it
regarded the people of God, likewise, it is dire at this time.
In fact, the situation is far worse than even I know.
The only answer is the Cross of Christ. There is no other!
The church desperately needs a great rain of the Spirit.
This message was taken from the Jimmy
Swaggart hardback book, Elijah The Tishbite.
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VAIN IMAGINATIONS by frances swaggart
II Timothy 3:1-5 – “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
Transgenders are
quickly growing
in number and
acceptance as
they take their
places in the
newly defined
'civil rights'
movement
in America,
emboldened
by that power
of example
the president
mentioned.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE U.S. Supreme Court
legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states,
President Obama made this statement in the East
Room of the White House at a reception honoring
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)
Pride Month:
“In just the past year, America has come far in
its acceptance of transgender Americans. And
we’ve got brave folks coming out at the highest
levels of business and government, and in sports
and in Hollywood. We’re seeing television shows
portray transgender characters and families. And
the power of example is slowly but surely changing
people’s hearts.”1
Sadly, the president is right. Acceptance of the
transgender lifestyle — and the LGBT agenda — is
accelerating in America.
POWER OF EXAMPLE
Transgenders (people who live out a gender identity different from the one they were born with)
are quickly growing in number and acceptance as
they take their places in the newly defined “civil
rights” movement in America, emboldened by
that power of example the president mentioned.
In April, more than half of the nation applauded
Bruce Jenner’s public admission as a transgender — a lifelong transformation, he said, from
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a male U.S. Olympic champion to the physical
appearance of a woman. His decision to share this
experience on prime time television was hailed in
the media as courageous and heroic.
According to Nielsen ratings, nearly 17 million
viewers tuned in2 to watch Jenner’s exclusive
interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's 20/20.
“I would say I have always been confused by my
gender identity since I was this big,” Jenner said,
lowering his hand a few feet from the floor.
Then he gave Sawyer the same explanation that
he gave to his own children regarding the struggle
with his gender. He said, “God’s looking down,
making little Bruce, okay? He’s looking down and
He says, ‘Okay, what are we gonna do with this
one? Make him a smart kid, very determined,’ and
He gave me all of these wonderful qualities. And
then at the end, when He’s just finishing, He goes,
‘Wait a second, we gotta give him something;
everybody has stuff in their life they have to deal
with, you know? What are we gonna give him?’
And God looks down and chuckles a little bit and
goes, ‘Hey, let’s give him the soul of a female, and
let’s see how he deals with that.’”3
Jenner’s perception of Almighty God is sad and
sarcastic, but, more importantly, it is untrue. God
is not confused or spiteful, and neither does He
put wrong souls into wrong bodies.
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The Bible says, “God created man in His own
image, in the image of God created He him; male
and female created He them.” (Gen. 1:27)
Still, Jenner’s celebrity status empowered countless others in the transgender community to step
out and use the media to tell the positive sides
of their stories.
One of the most shocking stories I found in different news sources was about a 7-year-old child
who was born a boy, but has been living as a
transgender girl since the age of 4. Think of that.
The following is an excerpt of this story told in this
child's own words on a YouTube video:
When I was born, doctors said I was a boy, but
I knew in my heart I was a girl. So I may have
some boy body parts, but that’s not wrong; that
is okay. When I was in preschool, I could play
dress-up and I loved it because it made me feel
really happy because I got to wear girl dresses
so I could just be happy. Sometimes I play like
I’m an animal or a ninja or a princess, but that
doesn’t mean my mom and dad should treat me
like it; like it’s just make believe. Even though
I was a girl, I was afraid to tell my mom and
dad because I thought they would not love me
anymore and they would throw me out and stop
giving me any food or anything. Finally, I had to
tell my mom and dad I was a girl because it was
just really frustrating that I could not hold it in,
and it was so hard to not be who I really was and
have them treating me like a boy when I really
was a girl. My mom and dad brought me to
doctors and the doctor said it would be all okay
as long as they let me be a girl. When I started
to dress like a girl in preschool, my friends were
cool with it, but their parents weren’t, and they
thought it was contagious like ‘transgender
pox’ or something. I decided to quit preschool
because it was better to be myself and lose all
my friends than keep pretending. I got to pick
new clothes and grow my hair long and my new
friends know me as the girl I am in my heart and
brain. I did trampoline, gymnastics, dance, 4-H,
tae kwon do, Girl Scouts, and more. I’m just
a normal girl and I got to dye my hair—three
times. There’s still some people that don’t
understand and are scared because I’m a little
bit different, but we want to fix that! Some
people say that I don’t get to go in the right
bathroom or go to the right restaurants, but who
cares about my body parts? I don’t ask what’s
in your underwear! Being transgender is a hard
thing, but you can be who you want to be. I’m
proud of who I am because I’m transgender and
I am a girl. I’m just a normal girl — your average
everyday normal transgender girl.
The words of this confused child — and his determination to “fix” the attitudes of those who don’t
understand his decision to live as a girl — show
just how deeply the sin of transgenderism is
rooted in this country, ensnaring even our youngest generation.
Yet however positive the confessions of those who
defend this gender confusion may be, their stories
are in direct conflict with the Word of God.
In Romans 1:21 we read: “Because that, when they
knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither
were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
Yet however
positive the
confessions of
those who defend
this gender
A DIFFERENT STORY
So from a 7-year-old’s point of view, living as a
transgender may seem elementary, harmless, and
easily solved — at that age — by hair dye and girl
clothes. But national statistics on transgender life
tell a different story.
A national survey4 of more than 6,000 transgenders from all 50 states revealed these facts:
confusion may
be, their stories
are in direct
conflict with the
Word of God.
»» Seventy percent of transgenders misuse drugs
and alcohol to cope with mistreatment.
»» Transgenders are twice as likely to be unemployed.
»» Transgenders are twice as likely to be homeless.
»» Transgenders live in extreme poverty and are
more likely to have incomes under $10,000.
»» Forty-one percent of transgenders reported
attempting suicide.
Author and public speaker Walt Heyer confirmed
these statistics as a recent guest of mine on Frances & Friends. Walt spent a good part of his life
struggling as a transgender before he came to
know Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour.
On the program, Walt relayed how, as a very small
boy, his grandmother would secretly dress him in
girl’s clothing. For agreeing to wear girl clothes,
his grandmother rewarded him with affection and
praise. After more than two years of his grandmother
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cross-dressing him, Walt began to enjoy
it and didn’t want to lose the love and
adoration he received from his grandmother while pretending to be a girl.
But the long-term actions of his grandmother, followed by negative reactions
from his family once the secret got out,
threw Walt into a tailspin of gender
identity issues that lasted for years to
come. He continued to cross-dress
in secret and “feed this desire that
Grandma started.”
Walt went on to marry and have two
children, but continued to struggle
with his sexual identity and with alcohol
abuse. In his late 30s, he found a doctor
who specialized in gender issues and
diagnosed Walt with gender dysphoria.
The doctor recommended ongoing hormone therapy and gender reassignment
surgery. That same doctor told Walt, “All
the stress and confusion will go away.
You’ll finally be happy in your own skin
and you’ll be who you really are.”
This proved to be a lie.
When Walt did have gender reassignment surger y, he experienced
temporary euphoria and relief. But
within seven years of his operation,
Walt regretted his decision and began
to seek ways to change back to his
original gender.
“You really don’t change,” Walt said.
“They leave you with a mutilated body.
You never became a female. You acted
out as though you were when you really
weren’t. So the change back isn’t as
dramatic as people think. I’d been living
a false gender role like anyone who
changes gender.”
During his journey back to his original
gender, Walt discovered a church that
received him in love and a pastor who
told him, “My job is to love you. It’s
God’s job to change you.”
Praise the Lord, He is able! The Bible
says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are
become new” (II Cor. 5:17).
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FRANCES & FRIENDS GUEST, AUTHOR, AND PUBLIC SPEAKER WALT HEYER: TODAY, AS A CHILD, AND AS A WOMAN
After a personal encounter with the
Lord Jesus Christ, Walt said the Lord
redeemed and restored him. Today,
he celebrates a stable marriage, has a
great relationship with his children, and
heads a ministry helping others who
struggle with gender identity issues.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
because He hath anointed Me to preach
the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised, to preach the acceptable
year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19).
SENT TO HEAL THE
BROKENHEARTED
Brother Smith went on to say that the
whole idea of identity comes from God.
He said, “There is an answer in Jesus
Christ and we can become who He created us to be.”
There are lot of hurting people out
there and I thank God that Walt Heyer
shared his story with our SBN viewers
and again here for our readers to let
people know that there is forgiveness and that you can make the Lord
Jesus Christ your personal Saviour and
heaven your home. Precious Jesus.
During that show with Walt, I liked
what Dave Smith said about God being
the healer of broken hearts. He said,
“Whether our hearts are broken because
of sins we’ve committed or because of
sins others have committed against us;
God is the healer of broken hearts.”
We see the Lord Jesus confirming this
Himself in the fourth chapter of Luke:
Consider these verses from Psalm 139:
“For You created my inmost being; You
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Last year, Walt posted a video on YouTube
where he said this: “What I am really troubled by is the universities now are teaching
the LGBT multiple gender thing — that
gender is fluid. You know, the LGBT is not
going to redeem your life; Jesus Christ
will. He can redeem yours if you struggle
with gender identity issues just like He did
mine, and you need to know that.”5
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UNLESS AMERICA REPENTS
I would like to close this article with a message
for the church and for this country. It’s a few
paragraphs taken from a book, Rape of a Nation,
which my husband wrote in the mid-1980s but is
even more relevant today. In fact, we will be rereleasing this book shortly. My husband writes:
Satan has always endeavored to take God’s
most cherished creation, mankind, and pervert
him to nothing more than the soulless condition
of the animal kingdom.
Because of their great wickedness, God
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. If necessary, He will destroy our nation if men refuse
to repent and turn from their wicked ways.
But, in a greater sense, Sodom and Gomorrah
were destroyed because of the shortfall in
the number of righteous people. If there had
been just 10 righteous people, God would have
spared these cities.
We, the people of God, can’t ignore the cascade of filth being poured out upon us from
the pit of hell. Sexual immorality, pornography,
sexual abuse of children, and homosexuality
all reflect the depths of depravity to which
America has sunk.
Alexis de Toqueville’s famous words ring with
profound truth: “America is great because she
is good. When America ceases to be good, she
will cease to be great.”
America is being weighed in the balance and
found wanting. The sexual revolution drains
its poisonous consequences across the land
like a pustulant sore. Unless America repents,
the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will surely
overtake us.6
In the book of Malachi, the Lord says that if we
will return to Him, He will return to us. Let this
promise be our prayer for the United States
of America.
1
Barack Obama. “Remarks by the President at LGBT Pride Month Reception.” Washington, D.C. June 24, 2015.
2
Gary Levin, “Bruce Jenner Interview Scores Big Ratings,” USA Today, April 26, 2015, http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/04/25/brucejenner-diane-sawyer-interview-abc-ratings/26361367/.
3
Diane Sawyer, “Bruce Jenner: The Interview,” ABC News, 20/20, April 24, 2015, http://abc.go.com/shows/2020/listing/2015-04/24-bruce-jenner-theinterview.
4
“Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/NTDS_Exec_Summary.pdf.
5
“God Makes Male and Female,” YouTube video, 1:29, posted by Walt Heyer, May 23, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14o23J8A-u8.
6
Jimmy Swaggart, Rape of a Nation, (Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, 1985), 152.
America is being
weighed in the
balance and
found wanting...
Unless America
repents, the fate
of Sodom and
Gomorrah will
surely overtake us.
TO KNOW, TO RECEIVE, TO GIVE by donnie swaggart
Proverbs 1:2-6 – “To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction
of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
discretion. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise
counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.”
The book of
Proverbs is
the wisdom
of God... The
entirety of the
book was from
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS is the wisdom of God.
Though written by Solomon, who was the wisest
man in the world, not one proverb was derived
from his wisdom. The entirety of the book was
from the Holy Spirit.
The Hebrew word proverb is formed from the verb
to rule or to govern. This means that the book of
Proverbs is a wisdom-holder and its purpose is to
rule man’s conduct on earth.
George Williams says of Proverbs:
the Holy Spirit.
The wisdom in this book is not human sagacity or cleverness or ability, but the application
to the smallest details of human life of the
wisdom which build the heavens and earth,
and maintains them in beings. This is grace
indeed that God should place His wisdom at
the disposition of man for happiness, and to his
walking a safe road in the midst of confusion
and evil and danger.
The book contrasts the fear of Jehovah and the
follow of self will. The former is declared to be the
foundation of wisdom and prosperity; the latter
denounced as the cause of suffering and death.
This book deals with God’s moral government
in the earth, and is a sure guide amidst life’s
perplexities. It undertakes to lead men to
safety whether they be princes or peasants;
and to direct them to aright in all their concerns
whether public and private.
Pulpit Commentary says:
We gather from various indications in the book
that wisdom is regarded in a three-fold respect:
1. First, as an essential attribute of Almighty God;
2. Second, as revealed in creation; and
3. Third, as communicated to man.
It is the mind or thought of God; it is that by
which He created the world; it is that which
regulates and informs the moral being of man.
Man’s wisdom is earthly and sinuous and at its root
selfish. Man’s wisdom is rooted in the fall; therefore, man’s wisdom has given this world famine,
genocide, racism, suffering, and war. God’s
wisdom is revealed in His Son, Jesus Christ, and
the greatest example of God’s wisdom is Calvary.
TO KNOW
Proverbs 1:2 says: “To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding.”
To know wisdom is to know the Bible, for the Bible
is wisdom. Everything God desires us to know
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is found in the pages of God’s Word.
The Bible is the story of Jesus Christ
and Him crucified. There is no wisdom
outside of the Cross.
The Word of God brings freedom and
liberty, not only to the individual but to
the nation as well. No Bible — no freedom; little Bible — little freedom; much
Bible — much freedom. Here in America,
we have the freedom we have because of
the Bible. Our nation was founded upon
the precept of God’s Word.
You must know the Bible, and the only
way to know the Bible is to read the
Bible and to ask the Holy Spirit to help
you understand what you are reading.
John 14:26 says: “But the Comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in My name, He shall
teach you all things and bring all things
to your remembrance, whatsoever I
have said unto you.”
This is a great promise; however, what
the Holy Spirit can bring to one’s
remembrance is directly tied to how
much Bible he or she knows. The more
you know, the more He can bring to
remembrance in your time of need.
Believers should also avail themselves
of good study aids to help them understand the Bible. I strongly suggest to
readers to get an Expositor’s Study
Bible and our Bible commentaries.
TO RECEIVE
Proverbs 1:3 says: “To receive the
instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity.”
If you really know God’s Word, then
your heart’s desire will be to receive the
instruction of the Bible. You have many
today who want to receive the instruction of the Bible. The meaning of “to
receive” is to “obey” the Word of God.
It means that we desire the Bible to be
our guide for life and living. It means we
don’t try to force Scripture to fit our belief
system, but instead we let Scripture
establish our belief system. If we receive
God’s Word correctly, then justice, righteous judgment, and equity — that which
is correct and fair — will follow.
TO GIVE
Proverbs 1:4 says: “To give subtilty to
the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
This tells us that if you know the Bible
and if you receive its instruction, then
you will “give,” which refers to the
benefit of giving biblical knowledge
to others.
The word give implies not only our ability to share God’s Word with others,
but it also refers to giving of our time
and our funds to spread the gospel to
others. When we learn to give to those
in need, they in turn receive knowledge
and discretion, which, as it is used here,
means “wisdom.”
CONCLUSION
If we know; if we receive; if we give;
then according to Proverbs 1:5, the Lord
considers us “wise” and He promises
us to increase “learning” through “the
wise counsel of the Lord.”
THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS by gabriel swaggart
THIS ARTICLE IS A PART II OF “THE FRUIT OF SIN” FROM LAST MONTH'S ISSUE OF THE EVANGELIST.
Romans 6:22 – “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to
God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”
IN LAST MONTH’S ARTICLE, we
began to look into what happens to the
believer when they are being controlled
by the sin nature — the nature that is
completely contrary to God — and it
never ends well for anyone who is being
dominated by the sin nature.
For the unbeliever, that life leads to
misery, shame, heartache, and ultimately death — both spiritually and
physically. For the believer, it doesn’t
mean that the individual in question will
lose their soul, but it does mean that
they will not enjoy all of the benefits
that Christ paid for on Calvary’s Cross.
Many in the Christian world only know
what it is to be controlled by something
that causes them to do things that
they do not want to do, and they do
not understand how to stop it. They
struggle to live a holy life, a life pleasing
to the Lord, but they do not know exactly
how that can be done.
Today I have good news: you as a believer
can live a life of complete and total victory
over sin! Once the believer understands
God’s prescribed order of victory, he or
she can experience fruit unto righteousness instead of having fruit unto death.
GOD’S PRESCRIBED
ORDER OF VICTORY
Before we get into what Paul is saying in
verse 22 of Romans, Chapter 6, I want
to briefly explain what God’s prescribed
order of victory is and what it means.
The first thing that we need to know
about God’s prescribed order of victory is that Jesus Christ is the source
of all blessings. He is the source from
whence all blessings flow, and there is
no other avenue that can bring about
blessings. No other person, no other
ideology, no other man-made religion
or philosophy can bring about any
blessings to its followers.
Every good thing that happens to the
believer comes from Jesus Christ; every
one of us would shout over that, and
rightly so. But we need to take it one step
further, for as Christ is the very source of
all blessings, the question remains as to
how we receive these blessings. Christ is
the source and the Cross of Christ is the
means by which we receive all blessings.
In fact, the Cross is the greatest blessing
that could happen to anyone, for it was
at the Cross that all sin, past, present, and
future was atoned.
It was through the Cross of Christ that I
am able to experience salvation, healing,
deliverance, and so forth. The blessings
of God could not be poured out on mankind if it were not for the Cross, for this is
the way that man was brought back into
right relationship with God. Some may
get a little uneasy about this statement,
but the fact is that the Cross of Christ is
the greatest display of the grace of God
that man has ever known. It is because of
the Cross that all — at least those who are
born again — can experience blessings
unparalleled from their heavenly Father.
Christ is the source of all blessing, and
the Cross is the means by which we
receive all blessings.
The third step to this little formula is faith.
We appropriate these blessings through
the avenue of faith, but more importantly,
faith in Christ and Him crucified. Without
faith, Paul would say in Hebrews, it is
impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6). He
didn’t say that it was improbable; he said it
is impossible. God operates on the basis
of faith, but our faith must be anchored
and rooted in Christ and the Cross.
Lastly, once our faith is anchored in
Christ and the Cross, the Holy Spirit
will begin to oversee ever y thing,
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meaning that He will begin to work in
our lives to take out the bad and put
in the good. Just because the Holy
Spirit is God does not mean that His
help is automatic, it’s quite the opposite really.
The Holy Spirit, even though He is God,
will only properly work in our lives if our
faith is anchored in Christ and the Cross
(Rom. 8:2) and will not work outside
of those parameters. This is how the
believer can live a life pleasing to the
Lord — by faith in Christ and the Him
crucified, which gives the Holy Spirit
the ability to work in our lives in the way
that He sees fit, and will bring about the
victory that is needed.
BUT NOW
As Paul brought about what the former
life brought about, he concludes his
statements by saying, “But now…”
meaning that before you accepted
Christ, the path that all were heading
on was leading toward destruction,
but now, since you came to Christ,
things are going to be different! I love
these two words — but now — because
we all, at least all who are saved, can
relate to them. We can remember the
life we used to live, but now things are
different, we are no longer heading in
that direction and we are no longer
experiencing fruit unto death, but since
we have accepted Christ, we are now
experiencing fruit unto righteousness.
HOLINESS
Holiness is simply living a holy life, and
is the total opposite of iniquity. This
direction Paul gives is the same principle as before in the previous verses,
but now it’s going in the opposite
direction. Instead of iniquity leading
to iniquity, which is dragging someone
down, now, due to the Cross of Christ,
they are now going upward. I want
you to understand that. Instead of
going downward, which is where sin
will lead you, you are now heading
ever upward.
»» Upward because of Christ.
»» Upward because of the Cross.
»» Upward because of faith.
And as a result of this change, the
power of the indwelling sin nature has
been broken, and we no longer yield
our members towards unrighteousness,
but now we can yield them to righteousness unto holiness, and the only
requirement is that we follow Christ.
BEING A SERVANT OF GOD
Another aspect of living for the Lord is
that the individual becomes a servant
of God. I know that most would look at
this term in a negative way, but when it
comes to being a Christian, it becomes
such a privilege to be known as a servant of God. A servant speaks of being
a slave but not in a negative way. In
the Old Testament, you will find that a
slave who was given his freedom would
decline that freedom to stay where he
was. He did it for a specific reason; he
did it because he loved his master. In
turn, the slave was granted protection,
safety, security, and was treated so well
that he felt he would have more freedom
in serving his master than he would by
living on his own outside of the master’s
home. To demonstrate commitment to
his master, the freed slave would take
an awl and pierce his ear.
If it was like that then, how much better
we have it now because, as Paul would
say, we have a better covenant based
on better promises. We have protection, safety, and security in Christ. We
will experience more freedom living for
Christ than not, and we do it because of
His love for us and because of our love
for Him. I would much rather be known
as a servant of God than a servant of
the Devil. As they say, our worst day
serving the Lord is 10,000 times better
than an entire lifetime with the Devil.
BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN
This is something that we need to understand, and I speak of living a victorious life
in Christ. Every believer has the potential
This means that if we look to the
Cross daily, meaning that we
place our faith in Christ and Him
crucified, we can be continually
made free from the sin nature.
to live this more abundant life, yet so
many fail to avail themselves of experiencing this more abundant life, and the
reason is a lack of knowledge of the Cross.
There is only one cure for the sinner
and the saint — Christ and Him crucified — and what He did for us was for
the entirety of the world, for with His
death on Calvary’s Cross, the sin debt
was removed.
But thank the Lord that this great blessing did not stop there, for not only did it
remove the sin debt from those would
simply believe, it also broke the grip of
sin in the life of the believer. This means
that if we look to the Cross daily, meaning that we place our faith in Christ and
Him crucified, we can be continually
made free from the sin nature.
Paul said it in verse 14 of this same chapter, that “sin shall not have dominion
over you,” which means exactly what
it says — you can be free now, and you
can daily be made free from the grip of
sin that has plagued your life. However,
we can experience this only if we take
advantage of God’s prescribed order
of victory, which is the Cross.
EVERLASTING LIFE
Last, but not least, living for the Lord
will lead to everlasting life. Paul would
conclude this chapter by saying, “The
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God
is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our
Lord.” The answer for the sin problem in
the world and in the church is the same,
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. We must
begin this salvation life at the Cross, and
we must never leave the Cross; it brings
life and life ever more abundant.
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station and have them sing along with the songs. I will soon
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was born in Baghdad, Iraq.
VIEWER DELIVERED FROM ALCOHOL
CHOOSES GOD TO STAY SOBER OVER AA
DEAR EVANGELIST: I am writing you to let you know I am 29
years old, and I was addicted to alcohol for 10 years. I have
been sober now for 18 months. I was flipping through the
TV on October 18, 2013, and a man who I didn’t know at the
time was preaching. I had my rum on the rocks in my hand,
and he looked at the TV screen and said, “There’s someone
watching who is in bondage of alcohol and said it’s time to
give it to God.” That man was Brother Loren Larson, and that
day — October 18, 2013 — I got saved and I haven’t drank
since. My doctor told me that I needed AA to stay sober, and
I looked at her and said, “I have something better; it’s called
G-O-D!” Praise the Lord above and thank you for having this
network on TV. Because of SBN, I am now a sober child of
God and I serve Him each and every day. I owe my life to you
for spreading the Word of God because it saved a no-good
drunk to a God-fearing, God-loving Christian, and I thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
– Maryland
BORN IN BAGHDAD; BORN AGAIN,
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT WATCHING SBN
DEAR EVANGELIST: I was watching a prerecorded Christmas
2010 service, and I must say it was powerful. As I was watching, I noticed my two granddaughters were sitting, glued on
the couch next to me. As time came for the altar call, I raised
my hands and repeated the prayer. All of sudden, I started
speaking in tongues. It happened just like you say: it started
welling up and I couldn’t stop. I started speaking loud, arms
up in the air, walking in circles, and saying, “Praise God, Hallelujah.” It went on for a few minutes and all of a sudden, I
noticed my two little granddaughters walking in circles right
behind me, arms up in the air saying, “Praise God, Hallelujah.”
I stopped and I started crying, yet smiling at the sight, overwhelmed with the power of the Holy Spirit. I looked at the girls
and I said, “Lord, I know I have planted seeds in their hearts,
and they will never forget this.” I purposely tune in on your
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BIBLE SAYS IT’S SUCH A LOVELY GIFT
DEAR EVANGELIST: I’m including a thank you note I received
today when I sent the Ladies’ Edition Bible I purchased on
June 1: “I am beside myself! Thank you for this thoughtful
gift! Did you know that I’ve been in a women’s Bible study
for about a year? Our group is small, but we love it! We are
currently doing Ruth, so I just opened to this chapter! The way
this Bible is done is going to give me (us) such insights!!! This
is such a lovely gift and very kind of you — sending you hugs!
The maps in the back! Love! I have been using the Bible that
I had in 8th grade for my Lutheran confirmation classes, and it
is so fragile. Part of me liked being able to see the old notes
and underlinings from the past, but I am really going to use
my new one going forward!”
– Florida
BIBLE STUDY MORE MEANINGFUL
USING THE EXPOSITOR’S STUDY BIBLE
DEAR EVANGELIST: This past Christmas I purchased an
Expositor’s Study Bible for my son. He is going to college and
lives with me which is a blessing as I am elderly and need his
help, so it is a win-win situation. We are reading through the
Bible, and we each take turns in picking a book to read. We
read one chapter per day aloud and then discuss it, followed
with a reading from Pastor Swaggart’s The Expositors Word
For Everyday. We then pray for a while. We recently finished
the Song of Solomon which I chose as our book to study. As
we began reading it, I was reading it aloud when I looked up
at my son and said, “I do not get this at all! Why is it here in
the Bible? I was frustrated to not understand it. It has been
the only book in the entire Bible that has totally frustrated
me for many years. I had previously known also that it
is an allegory of Christ’s love for His church, but I could
not see it! So we decided to read Pastor Swaggart’s
comments first, straight through, one chapter at a time.
Upon completing his expositor notes on one chapter,
we would then go back and read the chapter aloud as
well. One chapter a day; I needed to go slow. The
result? I have never been so blessed by any book after
proceeding with this process! It was like opening the
door of a dark room that all of a sudden became lit up
very, very brightly with intense light! At some points, I
found myself crying it was so beautiful as the love that
God has for His chosen, how He sees them, and how
He died for them is made so clear by Pastor Swaggart’s
comments. For the first time in all these years, I totally
understood this beautiful book. I told my son that this
is probably the most beautiful book in the entire Bible
(at least in my opinion)! Upon completion, I asked to
heap blessings on your ministry as I was moved by the
power of God’s plan for His people, as it became clear
through the expositor comments. Thank you so much
for this work. It is a blessing and now I will be ordering
an Expositor’s Bible for myself!
THALIA MARA HALL | JACKSON, MS
September 25, 2015 | 7 PM
October 31, 2015 | 6 PM | Family Worship Center
January 9, 2016 | 6 PM | Family Worship Center
July 20-24, 2016 | Family Worship Center
– Media Church Member
WORD FOR EVERY DAY DEVOTIONAL
POINTS BELIEVER TO THE CROSS
DEAR EVANGELIST: I received the The Expositor’s Word
for Every day devotional as a gift from my mother-in-law,
and I need to testify that it has been a great blessing to
my life. It arrived at the right time, just as God’s manna to
His people in the wilderness. It is amazing how every day
I’m drawn closer and closer to my Lord, by understanding
and acknowledging what He did for me at that Cross.
All I want to do now is to look at that Cross everyday all
day, and try to honor with my life what He did. Thanks,
Brother Jimmy Swaggart, for obeying God’s Word.
– California
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BAPTISM INTO CHRIST by loren larson
II Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away behold, all things are become new.”
THREE BAPTISMS
AS I STUDY THE New Testament, I see
three baptisms that were encountered
by the New Testament believer.
First and foremost, there is a baptism
into the body of Christ. This is accomplished as the Holy Spirit unites and
plants the believing sinner into Christ at
salvation. I Corinthians 12:13 says, “For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body.” This baptism is what is being
referred to in Romans 6:3-5. After this
truly “born again” experience, either one
of the next two baptisms are legitimate.
There is a baptism with water that
witnesses to all that the believer has
accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour
and dedicated his or her heart and
life to Him. This baptism is seen in
Matthew 28:19.
Then there is the baptism with the Holy
Spirit, where Jesus Himself baptizes the
born-again believer into the person
of the Holy Spirit. The initial physical
evidence of this baptism is speaking in
tongues as the Spirit gives the believer
supernatural power. Its purpose is not
to save, but to empower the believer
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for service and enhance the relationship
that believer has already established
with the indwelling Spirit of God.
Only the first baptism — a baptism into
Christ — is necessary for salvation, but
according to the record of the New Testament, all three baptisms are normal Christian experiences and should be pursued
and experienced by all who are saved.
In this article we want to begin looking
at the miracle and benefits of the first
baptism, being “baptized into Christ.”
DEFINING THE NEW CREATION
First, let’s establish that the supernatural construction that is carried out in the
human heart at salvation is done solely
by the Holy Spirit.
In Colossians 2:11 the Bible says, “In
whom also ye are circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands….”
The surgery that is performed by the
Holy Spirit at the moment of redemption is not done with human hands.
The circumcision is one of the heart,
the soul, and the spirit as described by
Paul in Romans 2:28-29 which says “For
he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;
neither is that circumcision, which is
outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew,
which is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not
in the letter; whose praise is not of men,
but of God.”
The heart is made up of two separate
entities: the soul (the part of man that
feels) and the spirit (the part of man that
knows). The Holy Spirit reconstructs the
soul causing the believer to have an
inner love for God and the desire to get
to know Him better. The reconstructed
spirit becomes the receiving center of
revelation and understanding.
The Holy Spirit brings the information
from God, relaying it to and through
the newly installed “receiver” of the
born-again spirit. The Holy Spirit moves
into this newly constructed heart and
immediately begins the process of
teaching, leading, revealing, rebuking,
instructing, guiding, etc. The Holy Spirit
is God dwelling in man. The Holy Spirit
did not come to be a silent partner.
Therefore, we must learn not to grieve
or quench Him.
These miraculous changes were prophesied in Ezekiel 36:25-27. As another
supernatural benefit, the moral code
LOREN LARSON
of God is written into the very heart of
the believer at redemption. Hebrews
10:16 verifies this truth. If we then add
a growing knowledge of the Word with
the presence of the Holy Spirit dwelling
inside the new creation, true life can
now begin. All of this is available only
because of what Christ Jesus did for us
on the Cross.
THE DEFEAT OF SIN
At the core of man’s “sin problem” lies
the sin nature. This nature was received
at the fall of man and passed on to all
human beings born thereafter. The sin
nature, also known as the sin principle
or the Adamic nature, bends the heart
of man toward ungodliness and sin
until the conscience of man is so seared
that sin becomes the norm and not
the exception. This “source” of sin is
continually corrupting the heart (soul
and spirit) working and weaving evil
desires, ungodly thoughts, and self-
ish designs into the framework of the
heart. Romans 6:1-11 teaches us what
every Christian must know — that our
baptism into Christ breaks the power
of the sin nature and separates the new
believer from the impacting influence of
the sin nature.
So our salvation experience frees us
from both the penalty of sin and from
the very source of sinful bents in us.
Next the clean up work commences,
being headed up by the Holy Spirit.
He immediately goes to work to rid
us of every evil desire and design that
has been painted in our souls by the
active sin nature.
Ever y parent will understand this
illustration. A child finds a crayon and
connects that crayon to the walls of
their bedroom creating a masterpiece
of disaster on the wall. If you don’t
remove the crayon from the child’s
hand there is no way to effectively
clean that wall. But after the crayon has
been eliminated and the child “taught”
that that action is unacceptable, then
and only then can the cleanup process
begin. Even so, our salvation frees us
from the “coloring” influences of the
sin nature and the Holy Spirit instantly
descends upon the mess inside us.
With all of His power, He begins to
eliminate the strongholds and sets
out to establish the new man. Thus,
progressive sanctification has begun
(once again, all because of our simple
faith in Christ and the Cross) and the
Holy Spirit is the sanctifier.
Romans 8:2 has become a reality: “For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law of sin
and death.” All of this and more is ours
because of simple faith in Christ. All of
this and more is maintained as we come
to understand what Christ did for us on
Calvary and as we fight to maintain our
faith in what it means to be “baptized
into Christ.”
MIKE
MUZZER ALL
TAKE AWAY THE FILTHY GARMENTS by mike muzzerall
ZECHARIAH 3:4 – “And He answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from
him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.”
THREE BAPTISMS
ONE OF THE GREATEST examples
of justification in the Old Testament is
found in Zechariah, Chapter 3. Let me
set the scene: the prophet Zechariah had
a vision of a divine court room. Joshua,
the high priest (not to be confused with
Joshua who led Israel into the promised
land), stood as the accused. Satan stood
as the prosecutor. Both stood before the
angel of the Lord. The evidence was
self-evident as Joshua stood clothed
in “filthy garments.” Whereas the verdict should clearly have been guilty as
charged, the command given was, “Take
away the filthy garments.”
JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST
The high priest wore a “bonnet” with
“holiness unto the Lord” inscribed on
the front. In contradiction, Joshua stood
before God dressed in filthy garments.
The garment represented his spiritual
condition. And yet, it went further than
that. As the high priest, Joshua also represented the people he ministered to,
on their behalf. Therefore, his garment
also represented the sinful condition of
Judah that warranted the Babylonian
captivity in the first place.
as charged. It is interesting that Satan,
who was present before the throne of
God, was not given the opportunity to
accuse Joshua. In reality, his words were
not necessary. Joshua stood wearing
the exact evidence necessary to prove
his guilt. Joshua as well as Judah was
incapable of dealing with the effect of
sin. Man cannot wash away the filth of
sin. Joshua stood guilty as charged.
THE LORD REBUKE THEE
The decision of the court was one I’m
sure both Joshua, the accused; and
Satan, the silent accuser, did not expect.
Seated as the Judge was the Angel of
the Lord, who is actually the second
person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ.
“And unto him he said, Behold, I have
caused thine iniquity to pass from thee,
and I will clothe thee with change of
raiment. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the
Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: is not this a brand plucked out of
the fire?” (Zec 3:2).
This was no ordinary angel. Only Jesus
could say, “I have caused thine iniquity to
pass from thee.” Only Jesus could say, “I
will clothe thee with change of raiment.”
GUILTY AS CHARGED
JUSTIFICATION
Joshua could not defend himself. Judah
also had no defense. They were guilty
The doctrine of justification by faith is
foundational to the Christian life and yet
so often ignored and misunderstood.
Justification does not disregard the
true condition of man. “For all have
sinned, and fall short of the glory of
God” (Romans 3:23).
Justification by faith realizes that
although clearly guilty of sin, we are
declared righteous by the heavenly
Judge through placing our faith in the
atoning work of Christ at Calvary.
UNWORTHY, YET
DECLARED RIGHTEOUS
The commonly used definition of
grace is “unmerited favor.” The basis
of the Message of the Cross is that
unwor thy man can be acceptable
to God through what Jesus Christ
accomplished through His atoning
sacrifice at Calvary.
Unless we can admit we are dressed
in “filthy garments,” how can we truly
repent and have God remove our
filthy garments?
On Thursday, July 7, 1977, I cried out
to God for mercy and grace. That
day, God said, “Take away the filthy
garments...behold I have caused thine
iniquity to pass from thee and I will
clothe thee with change of raiment.”
As in the example of Joshua I was
likewise justified. Justification by faith!
Dear friend, has God said of you, “Take
away the filthy garment”?
BIBLE MATERIALS
I WANT TO ENCOURAGE each and every one of you to
obtain for yourself all of our commentaries and books,
etc. Anything that will help one learn and understand the
Word of God to a greater degree is valuable indeed. And to
be sure, our commentaries and our books, and, of course,
the Expositor’s Study Bible will help you to do just that.
If you can only get one commentary a month, then take
advantage and do it, especially considering that we have
cut the price in half! You will soon have the entire set of
all 38 volumes. And the same can go for the books. These
books are easy to read and are chock-full of information
concerning the subject at hand. In other words, what we
give you in these volumes will be a blessing to you, and
that we promise.
GABE'S AND DONNIE’S MEETINGS
Of course, when any one of our preachers from Family
Worship Center come close to your city or community for
a meeting, whatever you do, avail yourself of the opportunity of being with them in service. You won’t regret it.
Both Donnie and Gabe are now going into auditoriums in
whatever respective city that the meeting will be held. All
of these are one-night services, but also have our musicians
and singers, which guarantees worship that will bless your
heart. And then of course the preaching of the gospel will
bring people to Christ and will work a work within hearts
and lives.
Again, if you are within driving distance of one of these
meetings, whatever you do, you’ll want to be there. There
is nothing in the world quite like them, and I think you
will agree. So look at the schedule, and make your plans
to be there.
Also, as many of you as can, don’t fail to be with us in the
campmeetings at Family Worship Center. You talk about
church, that’s church!
The next one is our Thanksgiving Campmeeting and the
dates are November 25-29. It’s going to be a little bit of
heaven on earth.
OUR LEADERS AND ISLAM
As I think is fairly obvious, it seems like our political leaders in America don’t understand the religion of Islam.
They look at it as any other religion, which it isn’t.
As a result of their erroneous conclusion, they have surmised that only a few Muslims fall into the category of
being radicals. They conclude all the balance to be a
peace-loving people, etc. Nothing could be further from
the truth.
While all Muslims aren’t murderers, the truth is, all Muslims are in sympathy with the murderers. And to be frank,
they hate Israel, and they hate us. All Muslims go by the
Koran. And when the opportunity presents itself, they
enforce the Koran, which means that every one who does
not convert to Islam, will be made a slave or killed — and
killed on the spot.
The following should be understood: The Muslim world
does not lack the will, they only lack the way. What do I
mean by that? If they had their way, the streets of America would run red with blood. As stated, every one in this
nation would instantly convert to Islam or be beheaded.
The only reason they don’t do it is simply because they
can’t do it.
And here is the rub: Sooner or later one of these radicals is
going to get their hands on a small atomic bomb. They’re
going to detonate it in one of our cities, killing tens of
thousands of people.
I once thought if that horrible thing happened that we
might wake up. However, we are so blind to the truth,
that I’m not sure even that would wake us up.
Our nation desperately needs revival. The church desperately needs to come back to the Cross. That’s the
only hope for America, and the world for that matter.
THANK YOU…
I’m speaking to those of you who pray for us, and who
support this work financially, without which we could
not do what we are doing. I know beyond the shadow
of a doubt that we have the message. I also know what
it will do in the hearts and lives of both the redeemed
and the unredeemed. Thank you for helping to make
it possible.
A few weeks ago, the Holy Spirit spoke at Family Worship Center with a message in tongues and interpretation. In essence it said: “I am going to hold back judgment
for a period of time, and during that time I’m going to pour
out My Spirit,” or words to that effect.
To be sure, America is due judgment, but thank God if
in fact He is going to hold that judgment back. Whatever the Lord is going to do, I want Family Worship
Center, in effect the entirety of this ministry, to be a
part of it. I believe we will!
WEBC&S ONLINE COURSES
Incidentally, the correspondence online Bible college
courses are going like gangbusters. This is an excellent
opportunity for you to go to college without having to
come to Baton Rouge. And thank the Lord that scores of
people are taking advantage of this most excellent offer.
We have cut the price down to the bone, and we have
done so because we want as many of you as is possible
to take advantage of this. You can get credit courses, or
you can get audit courses. The choice is yours.
For more information, you can visit our website: onlinecourses.webc.edu, or you can call (225) 768-3890. But
whatever you do, take advantage of this because it has
been put together just for you.
In the Master’s service, yours,
Jimmy Swaggart
1987
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”Until recently, we didn’t take them too seriously,”
said Bishop Silesio Bohn of Santa Cruz do Sul, who
is responsible for ecumenism in the Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops. ”We saw them as an almost
inevitable product of a society experiencing deep and
chaotic change. But we are now undertaking an honest
review of what we should do.”
Twenty-seven years after the Rio de Janiero crusade,
Evangelist Donnie Swaggart returned to Brazil to preach
meetings at the Assemblies of God Canaan — a church in
Fortaleza that was greatly influenced by Jimmy Swaggart
Ministries in the 1980s. In an article about this trip, Brother
Donnie offered some church history on Brazil. He wrote:
Unknown to most, Brazil is the most Pentecostal
country in the world. It is estimated that 42.3 million
people — 23 percent of the population of the country — call themselves Pentecostal.
The message of Pentecost first came to Brazil in 1911
through two Swedish missionaries — Gunnar Vingrer
and Daniel Berg. Though it was slow going at first in
1930, there was a Pentecostal explosion resulting in
many miracles of divine healings, which led to rapid
expansion of Pentecostal churches being established.
In the 1980s, there was another great wave of growth
across the nation as our telecast began to air across
that land. Literally, multiple thousands of people were
saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. Churches were
built that would hold 5,000–10,000 individuals in order
to handle the great influx of people. Many churches
had to have service every single night of the week to
handle all of the new people coming into the Pentecostal experience. We held two great crusades in Brazil
during the 1980s — Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Of those great crusades, Brother Swaggart wrote, “I have
never seen more opposition. Despite this, I don’t think
I’ve ever enjoyed meetings any more than I did these in
Brazil, nor do I believe we have ever experienced a more
consistent anointing.”
The Rio de Janeiro, Brazil crusade is part of the Jimmy
Swaggart Classic Crusades DVD series and is available
for purchase at shopjsm.org for $20 (17-1190).
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