Jim Bakker
Jim Bakker
James Orsen "Jim" Bakkeris an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former hostof The PTL Club, an evangelical Christian television program...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth2 January 1940
CityMuskegon, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
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And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on
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I don't think you ever know, until it was over, until the very last. But near the last months, it was getting more and more strenuous.
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I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
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They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
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The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.
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My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.
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I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
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They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
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I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.
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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.