WATCH! JIMMY SWAGGART IS DEAD. DANIEL WHYTE III SAYS THAT EVEN THOUGH HE IS AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIBLE-BASED, BAPTIST PREACHER, ON A POSITIVE NOTE, HE DID ENJOY THE EARLY DAYS OF JIMMY SWAGGART’S OLD . . .

WATCH! JIMMY SWAGGART IS DEAD. DANIEL WHYTE III SAYS THAT EVEN THOUGH HE IS AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIBLE-BASED, BAPTIST PREACHER, ON A POSITIVE NOTE, HE DID ENJOY THE EARLY DAYS OF JIMMY SWAGGART’S OLD BILLY SUNDAY-STYLE PREACHING AND SINGING, AND HE ENJOYED HIS SINGING EVEN MORE, ALL BEFORE SWAGGART’S DRAMATIC FALL INTO THE ARMS OF A PROSTITUTE.

ON ANOTHER NOTE, DANIEL WHYTE III REPEATS SOMETHING HE HAS OBSERVED AND STATED BEFORE, AND THAT IS WHILE THE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS PREACHERS SEEM TO PREACH WITH MORE POWER AND ENERGY BECAUSE OF THEIR EMPHASIS ON PRAYER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY FAIL BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF EMPHASIS ON “RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD,” PREACHING THE WORD CORRECTLY, AND OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD, WHEREAS, THE MORE ORTHODOX, BAPTIST—BIBLE-TYPE PREACHERS “RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD” AND PREACH THE WORD CORRECTLY, BUT DUE TO A LACK OF PRAYER, THEY FAIL BECAUSE THEY LACK THE POWER AND ENERGY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR PREACHING.

DANIEL WHYTE III CLOSES BY SAYING IT APPEARS THAT DR. BILLY GRAHAM IS THE LAST OF THE RENOWNED EVANGELISTS WHO HAS LEFT THIS WORLD WITHOUT A SCANDAL BY FOLLOWING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AND THE “BILLY GRAHAM RULE,” WHICH IS VERY SIMPLY NEVER BEING ALONE WITH A WOMAN WHO IS NOT YOUR WIFE. WHYTE ENCOURAGES ALL PREACHERS TO “GO AND DO THOU LIKEWISE.” WHYTE ALSO ADDS, SAD TO SAY IN THIS DAY AND TIME THAT A PREACHER SHOULD NOT BE ALONE WITH ANOTHER MAN OR ALONE WITH CHILDREN. WHYTE SAYS HE NEVER SAW THE DAY THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT.

After the Jimmy Swaggart—prostitute scandal, “America’s pastor” Billy Graham weighed in: “If it happened to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart it could happen to me; this holy man of God won thousands of souls for Christ. He is already wounded; let us not finish him, let us heal and lift our soldier.”

 

 

The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation’s biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge headquarters, died Tuesday.

Swaggart, who went into cardiac arrest on Fathers Day, was 90 years old.

Once called “the most charismatic televangelist of the 20th century,” by 1986 he was the country’s top-rated TV preacher.

But two widely publicized incidents involving Swaggart and prostitutes threatened to derail the ministry. His televised confession to the first encounter — “I have sinned” — was seen across the country.

At its peak, his Jimmy Swaggart Telecast was being broadcast by upwards of 200 television stations and watched by two million households. His thriving church complex on Bluebonnet Boulevard consisted of more than a dozen buildings, including dormitories, television production studios and warehouses to handle the bundles of mail that came into the ministry every day.

Four decades later, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries still operates out of Baton Rouge, offering a 24-hour TV network of current services and other programs, a nationwide radio network of 75 stations, the K-12 Family Christian Academy and a Bible college.

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