Posted on 05/09/2025 8:53:38 PM PDT by Morgana
Best of luck to you.
Jim Bakker. Well Jim, I gotta write: I always thought God talked through my dog more than He did you. That’s why I never watched your show and listened to my dog.
I can’t think of a better person to be without any money than Jim Baker, he no longer has Tammy Faye to cry crocodile tears on TV anymore
No......Karma. He’s nothing but a SHYSTER!
He must live in Florida.
“My God doesn’t need cash, Mister!”
WHAT?
I don't believe him either.
If God is in his work, God will provide. Otherwise it SHOULD die on the vine.
Whilst perusing this days latest articles, when I came upon this one I immediately thought “Babylon Bee”. There is absolutely no way that Bakker is STILL AT IT, still out there on the airwaves engaging in shyster and flim-flam and and a particularly damaging (if not damning!) type of emotional blackmail that causes a person to feel that if they don’t put that charge on their credit card, God will turn His back on them! Won’t hear their prayers!
But then again, Christ Jesus warned through His Holy Spirit through the Apostle Peter against false teachers during His time on earth and in future:
2 Peter 2:1-22
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
(2) And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
(4) For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
(5) And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(6) And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
(7) And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
(8) (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds);
(9) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
(10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
(11) Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, make to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
(13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
(14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
(16) But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
(17) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest: to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter is worse with them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”
Dear Lord God, that this program of Bakker’s be taken off the air.
When I was a kid and then a teenager I sat and watched The Praise The Lord Club with my mom and dad. My dad commented that there was something wrong with it, and he saw through the deception that was occurring even at the outset of the program. Wasn’t just the begging for monies, but the guests that they were having on the show. It descended into a type of madness. The begging for money got worse. Then Tammy Faye was shown from a bed dressed in the series of frilly dressing gowns as she said that cancer had struck her. Whether it did or not I don’t know, there was so much lying going on. It was like the one of the worst game shows I’d ever seen. Eventually it was switched off and no more viewing.
I think it kind of scared me because I could not see how someone would go on TV and DELIBERATELY deceive people at the same time invoking THE NAME. Even hiding in the caves and rocks won’t keep THE I AM from dragging you from there.
Reminds me of the Scriptural Passage in Revelation 6:15-17—
“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; (16) And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (17) For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
Your sweet mom having a sincere, loving relationship with our Loving, Almighty Lord Jesus, having accepted Him as Lord and Savior, because of her mental illness of Borderline Personality Disorder and accompanying inferiority complex, she was taken advantage of, did not know what she was doing, and the blame lies squarely on PTL, its producers, and the Bakkers.
Jesus said that we cannot serve God and money. When those loads of cash come pouring in, people worship it. It gives them everything they need in material goods, and they believe that this is all they need; it becomes their saviour. If The Lord was even ever in their lives, it wasn’t ever a sold-out, total commitment and in-The-Word, every day, spending time in prayer and just sitting there worshipping in The Spirit for God to speak to you in your heart.
It was just a mere semblance, letting the cameras turn to their faces as they said they loved The Lord Jesus but then did the polar opposite off-camera that anyone that loves Jesus, truly loves Him, would ever do.
I don’t think for a millisecond that The Lord holds your mom responsible because of this. She was lied to.
Bakker needs to drop it, repent, turn back to God, stay off the airwaves. The damage he and Tammy Faye did were phenomenal in so many ways and it needs to end.
Look at it this way though, it opened a lot of eyes, and I mean a lot of them, to other so-called “ministries” that also were on TV that were up to the same exact thing or eventually descended to the same level of monetary and emotional blackmail. One by one well-known names fell like dominoes. And it’s not going to end, more are going to be taken down, as The Lord lays his ax to root of the tree.
Your sweet mom having a sincere, loving relationship with our Loving, Almighty Lord Jesus, having accepted Him as Lord and Savior, because of her mental illness of Borderline Personality Disorder and accompanying inferiority complex, she was taken advantage of, did not know what she was doing, and the blame lies squarely on PTL, its producers, and the Bakkers.
Jesus said that we cannot serve God and money. When those loads of cash come pouring in, people worship it. It gives them everything they need in material goods, and they believe that this is all they need; it becomes their saviour. If The Lord was even ever in their lives, it wasn’t ever a sold-out, total commitment and in-The-Word, every day, spending time in prayer and just sitting there worshipping in The Spirit for God to speak to you in your heart.
It was just a mere semblance, letting the cameras turn to their faces as they said they loved The Lord Jesus but then did the polar opposite off-camera that anyone that loves Jesus, truly loves Him, would ever do.
I don’t think for a millisecond that The Lord holds your mom responsible because of this. She was lied to.
Bakker needs to drop it, repent, turn back to God, stay off the airwaves. The damage he and Tammy Faye did were phenomenal in so many ways and it needs to end.
Look at it this way though, it opened a lot of eyes, and I mean a lot of them, to other so-called “ministries” that also were on TV that were up to the same exact thing or eventually descended to the same level of monetary and emotional blackmail. One by one well-known names fell like dominoes. And it’s not going to end, more are going to be taken down, as The Lord lays his ax to root of the tree.
Guess he could always get a JOB! Paul had no problem making tents and waiting tables to support himself and not be a burden to others. If God is not providing your needs to do what you are doing, maybe He’s telling you it’s not what you’re supposed to be doing. Bakker and his former wife, Tammy Faye, were false prophets and they taught an accursed gospel. They lived a lavish lifestyle at the expense of others who were deceived by their false message.
Time to retire and live humbly, Jim.
He won't. She gave as unto the Lord out of faith. What the crooks did with her money is on them --
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!
Where does it say they went to court? What do you actually know about the original PTL Club and their coercion techniques?
“What do you actually know about the original PTL Club and their coercion techniques?”
Nothing, but I know a little of the law, and I know that pledging money to a TV show is not a legal document.
Nothing
I rest my case.
You might try paying attention to details, rather than making false assumptions and jumping to your conclusions in order to score points in a discussion forum. These people did not live halfway across the country while soaking up PTL televangelism. They lived less than ten miles from PTL HQ in Heritage USA, where they participated with the live audience.
You could buy wailing wall t-shirts in Jerusalem at the wall... it’s all about the $$ with corporate churches.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.