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For Fast & Easy Ordering Call Toll Free: 1.800.288.8350 (US) | 1.866.269.0109 (CN) or Visit Our Website at www.jsm.org Plus Regular Postage, Shipping, and Handling. | All prices in The Evangelist are valid through May 31, 2017. 2 MAYFor 2017 Fast THE EVANGELIST & Easy Ordering Call Toll Free: 1.800.288.8350 (US) | 1.866.269.0109 (CN) or Visit Our Website at www.jsm.org MAY 2017 ON THE COVER FEATURES MAY 2017 | Vol. 51 | No. 5 4 SIN AGAINST A FELLOW BELIEVER PART III IKC 2017 June 7-10, 2017 by Jimmy Swaggart Baton Rouge, LA 10 ORDAINED BY GOD by Frances Swaggart 14 THAT HE MAY LEARN TO FEAR THE LORD HIS GOD, TO KEEP ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW AND THESE STATUTES TO DO THEM by Donnie Swaggart 18 DEVELOPING A PROPER PRAYER LIFE PART VII by Gabriel Swaggart EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JIMMY SWAGGART 22 A GROWING SENSE OF ANTICIPATION EDITOR by Aaron Parks DONNIE SWAGGART STAFF WRITER/EDITOR 38 CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN AND HER SON DESIREE JONES by Loren Larson GRAPHIC DESIGNER JASON MARK 40 WHY DO THEY HATE? PART II LAYOUT ARTIST by John Rosenstern SHAUN MURPHY 42 IS IT REALLY GOD’S WORD? PHOTOGRAPHY by Mike Muzzerall JASON MARK JAIME TRACY ISAAC BENAVIDEZ 44 FATHERS, PROVOKE NOT YOUR CHILDREN by Dave Smith 46 FROM ME TO YOU by Jimmy Swaggart PRODUCT WARRANTY Jimmy Swaggart Ministries warrants all products for 60 days after the product 7 SonLife Radio Stations & Programming is received. As well, all CDs, DVDs, and other recorded media must be in the original plastic wrap in order to receive a refund. Opened items may 24 SonLife Broadcasting Network only be returned if defective, and then only exchanged for the same product. Programming & TV Stations Jimmy Swaggart Ministries strives to provide the highest quality products and service to our customers. 32 2017 Thanksgiving Campmeeting Schedule 34 Letters From Our Audience Visit our Website at: www.jsm.org or email us, our U.S. office address is: [email protected], our Canada office address is: [email protected]. 50 JSM Ministers’ Schedule Jimmy Swaggart Ministries P.O. Box 262550 | Baton Rouge, LA 70826-2550 PRAYER 225.768.7000 | MAIN 225.768.8300 | ORDERS & DONATIONS 1.800.288.8350 www.jsm.org THE EVANGELIST MAY 2017 3 Sin Against A Fellow Believer PART III By Jimmy Swaggart Leviticus 6:14 — “And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar.” THE LAW OF THE MEAT OFFERING In fact, it was the only sacrifice of the five that was not bloody. It was a thank offering, or as one We are to now study the law of the meat offering, might say, a thanksgiving offering, intended to which, in effect, was a grain or cereal offering, be presented to the Lord in thanksgiving that the which could be constituted as a thank offering. burnt, sin, or trespass offerings had been accepted. The word meat then was used for all types of While the sons of Aaron here did represent food, whereas meat at present refers to the flesh the actual sons of the high priest, the phrase is of animals. In fact, in this offering, there was no intended to comprise his lineal descendants who blood shed because it was a grain offering. It was succeeded to the priestly office. offered along with the peace offering, the latter of which was a blood sacrifice, every time the other offerings were presented to God. AS THE BURNT OFFERING TAUGHT THE TOTALITY OF The meat offering, as the other offerings, was first for God and His glory and then for man and his need. THE ATONEMENT AS EFFECTED BY CHRIST, SO THE As the sin offering and the trespass offering, so was it most holy. Thus, the Holy Spirit testifies to MEAT OFFERING TAUGHT THE RECOGNITION OF GOD’S the sinlessness of Christ as a man at the moment in which He was made sin upon the Cross. SUPREMACY AND SUBMISSION TO THAT SUPREMACY. In the first part of Chapter 2, the people were told of what this offering consisted and what portion belonged to the priests. Now we find that addi- A SWEET SAVOUR tional directions were given to the priests about “And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the the eating of the portions that belonged to them meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frank- and about the treatment of the residue. incense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn As we’ve already stated, this was not a bloody offer- it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial ing, which means it was not an animal sacrifice. of it, unto the LORD” (Lev. 6:15). 4 MAY 2017 THE EVANGELIST 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: As is by now obvious, the meat offering offerings, those prescribed in this was unlike the whole burnt offering in book of Leviticus, to encompass the FIRST: GOD LOVES YOU! that it was not a bloody sacrifice. As Christ symbolism — and even then, “For God so loved the world that he gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but the burnt offering taught the totality the symbols pale into insignificance have Everlasting Life” (Jn. 3:16). of the atonement as effected by Christ, alongside the reality. SECOND: MAN IS A SINNER, AND SIN so the meat offering taught the recog- HAS SEPARATED HIM FROM GOD Likewise, man’s oblation to God could nition of God’s supremacy and sub- “For there is not a just man upon Earth, that doeth good not be symbolized by one offering. It and sinneth not” (Eccl. 7:20). mission to that supremacy. The burnt would take several offerings to encom- “For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God” offering and meat offering taught (Rom. 3:23). pass man’s worship of God. As we these attitudes in two ways: THIRD: JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY REMEDY FOR SIN have just mentioned, the very heart “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for 1. By requiring that a living crea- of this particular offering is thanks- the unjust, that He might bring us to God ...” (I Pet. 3:18). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none ture, one substituting for the giving. Of course, it is obvious that other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we offerer himself, namely Christ, be thanksgiving must be done out of a must be saved” (Acts 4:12). surrendered up. free will (Lev. 2:1). FOURTH: YOU MUST RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOUR 2. By calling for the offerer to also In fact, Israel’s major problem was Jesus calls this experience the new birth. He told hand over to God, as a gift, a the sin of thanklessness or ingrati- Nicodemus: “... Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (Jn. 3:3). portion of some of the good tude. This is illustrated in their con- We invite you now to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as things that he had originally stant murmurings against Moses and your personal Saviour. “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to received from God, in the form against the Lord. them that believe on His Name” (Jn. 1:12). of thanksgiving. “And the people murmured against WE BELIEVE: » The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative The lesson taught to the Jew was that Moses, saying, What shall we drink?” written Word of God (Ps. 119; Mat. 4:4; Lk. 24:27). of the necessity of loyal service to (Ex. 15:24). » There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (I Jn. 5:7). God. By the meat offering, he was Understanding that, is it not possible » In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin Birth, taught thanksgiving. Actually, the in His Sinless Life, in His Miracles, in His Vicarious and that one of the most prevalent sins atoning Death, in His Bodily Resurrection, in His Ascension meat offering was such, as stated, in the body of Christ today is that to the Right Hand of the Father, in His personal future that it could well have been referred return to this Earth in Power and Glory to rule a thousand of thanklessness? Is it not true that years (Jn. 1:1-4; Eph. 2:13-18; Rev., Chpts. 19-20). to as a thanksgiving offering. The we today are mostly unappreciative » In the Blessed Hope — the Rapture of the Church at individual was also taught the need Christ’s Coming (I Thess. 4:13-18). and ungrateful to God, despite all the » The only means of being cleansed from sin is through of purity and incorruption of spirit, good things that He does for us? Repentance and Faith in the Precious Blood of Christ with this quality being symbolized by (Rom.