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Jesse Duplantis, Destrehan televangelist, seeks donations for $54 million jet
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 5-28-2018 | Drew Broach

Posted on 05/29/2018 9:22:56 AM PDT by servo1969

Jesse Duplantis, the Destrehan-based prosperity gospel televangelist with a global reach, is asking disciples for money to buy a jet that costs $54 million "so we can go anywhere in the world in one stop." He seeks the donations in a video posted last week on his ministry's website.

"I really believe that if the Lord Jesus Christ was physically on the Earth today, he wouldn't be riding a donkey," Duplantis says in the video. "He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."

He says his 40-year-old Jesse Duplantis Ministries has paid cash for three private jets and been "just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ." The most recent purchase was in 2006, he says.

Now he has his sights set on a Dassault Falcon 7X, a three-engine jet with a range of 5,950 nautical miles. Its customizable cabins accommodate 12 to 16 passengers. A 2017 write-up on SherpaReport.com, a website focused on private aviation, said the list price for a new Falcon 7X was $54 million.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Religion; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: conman; dassault; dassaultfalcon7x; duplantis; falcon; jesseduplantis; jet
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To: ealgeone

I will pray, but as a result of prayer decide not to contribute.

I haven’t contributed yet to the Clinton foundation.

Heck I haven’t even bought my carbon credits.


21 posted on 05/29/2018 9:47:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: WKUHilltopper

duplantis is a piece of shit. He is no man of God. Someone tell him that I said he should F off.


22 posted on 05/29/2018 9:49:05 AM PDT by guido911 (all)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Heck I haven’t even bought my carbon credits.

AL knows....and he's not happy!

23 posted on 05/29/2018 9:53:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Steve_Seattle

And Kenneth Copeland reminds me of an evil ventriloquist dummy


24 posted on 05/29/2018 9:53:48 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Duplantis has always reminded me of a cartoon character, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Yosemite Sam? Foghorn Leghorn? Bugs Bunny?

I'm thinking Mr. Haney from Green Acres.

25 posted on 05/29/2018 9:55:40 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: servo1969

There is one born every minute and the Lord will lead them to me........Whooo Hoooo!

I got to admit Jesse is actually funny and not the first televangelist to fundraise for a jet. But seriously folks.


26 posted on 05/29/2018 10:04:22 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: woweeitsme

Coach? It’s just a long tube with a bunch of demons.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdH2DGSXjss


27 posted on 05/29/2018 10:05:03 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: C19fan

Jesus could have used a chariot, a litter, ride on a horse or in a carriage. He did none of those as recorded in the Gospels.


Excellent point! And, by the way, I’m guessing a rickshaw type ride in Jesus time, cost not more than the smallest coin of the realm, because today, in the Philippines, such a ride costs almost NOTHING. Most likely, Jesus walked nearly everywhere He went, not because he was too poor to ride, but because He was a) setting an example of servanthood and humility, b) conserving His money for tithing, giving to the poor, and using it to buy food, etc. for those in his ministry. Obviously, he didn’t really need money, because he could miraculously produce any of those things, but he reserved that gift for special occasions, to show the mercy and goodness of God. When he instructed his disciple to catch a fish to get a coin from its mouth, to pay taxes, it wasn’t because he could get money no other way. He was teaching us to depend upon the goodness of God, to provide our needs.
I try never to criticize a person to whom God has given a ministry, (which I believe God did give to DePlantis), but let me just say, though the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, not all recipients of those gifts keep their end of the conditions of its acceptance.


28 posted on 05/29/2018 10:06:25 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: servo1969

WWJF


29 posted on 05/29/2018 10:07:08 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: WKUHilltopper

Hell, ten years ago, I had to make do with a Cessna CJ-2.


30 posted on 05/29/2018 10:07:56 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Snickering Hound
Maybe he can lease one of Oprah's ..


31 posted on 05/29/2018 10:08:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: servo1969

Otherwise Jesus walked everywhere He went.

You willing to do that too?

I guess he figured that if it world for Creflo Dollar and Ken Copeland et al, he might as well cash in on it too.

Those who embrace Christianity for the profit the can skim off of it are going to be paying a high price down the road.


32 posted on 05/29/2018 10:14:01 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: servo1969

LOL!!!


33 posted on 05/29/2018 10:15:46 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: servo1969

It’s been posted elsewhere, but worth repeating:

Jesus drove a Honda, but didn’t talk about it: “For I did not speak of my own Accord” John 12:49 (KJV)


34 posted on 05/29/2018 10:18:57 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: servo1969

Just another phony huckster. Anybody who sends money is an idiot.


35 posted on 05/29/2018 10:25:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Calling all Whites racist, is itself racist.)
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To: servo1969
"He'd be in an airplane flying all over the world."

Sure, and wearing an Armani suit with a Rolex on his wrist.

36 posted on 05/29/2018 10:26:55 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: servo1969

An ass was good enough transport for Jesus.


37 posted on 05/29/2018 10:38:47 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: servo1969

Archeologists discover Jesus’s Gulfstream jet:

“ISRAEL—New historical evidence uncovered in present-day Israel suggests that Jesus and His disciples traveled around the region preaching the good news of Christ’s coming in a luxurious Gulfstream V jet, sources confirmed Thursday.

Archaeologists uncovered the ruins of Jesus’s private airport just outside Nazareth, as well as the rusted-out remains of a luxury jet they now believe He used to fly from sermon to sermon.” ...

More at:

http://babylonbee.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-jesuss-gulfstream-jet/

http://babylonbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gv-696x394.png


38 posted on 05/29/2018 10:40:55 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: NormsRevenge
p07

Vicky? Lease a jet like a peasant?

39 posted on 05/29/2018 10:45:49 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

There’s a special place in hell for these bastards.


40 posted on 05/29/2018 10:53:30 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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