Baugh to death ten days after the change to her will, which bequeathed nearly one million dollars to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Swaggart fund-raiser Gerald Johnson was involved in selecting Warren as a caretaker. The Swaggart team hired the caretaker on the same day she changed her will. Baugh, who had (according to their son) been pressured into willing $800,000 to JSM. In 1983 Jacklyn Warren was hired by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries to care for an elderly couple, Mr. It would not be the first or last time that the taint of murder would be associated with Jimmy Swaggart. We’ll burn your house down around you…better leave Jimmy alone or you’re dead.” If you say anything about Jimmy – because we’ll burn you in your house. “If you say anything or do anything, you’ll regret it. Kampen’s sworn statement, she began to receive anonymous phone calls threatening her life.
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According to Kampen, he seduced her into believing, as a rich televangelist, he could not only give her free counseling for her emotional issues, but also help her with her dream of opening her own flower shop.ĭuring their many sexcapades that took place at her home while her husband was away at work, he would often, as he had with the prostitute Murphree, albeit unsuccessfully, try to convince her to have her underage daughter participate.Īfter all this hit the news, Jimmy confessed on television to some unspecified sin, hoping that the extent of his philandering would not be uncovered.
I have chased prostitutes in every city where I have conducted revivals or crusades.”īesides prostitutes, Jimmy also had an ongoing adulterous affair with Catherine Kampen, a housewife he picked up at a gas station. Marvin Gorman, “I’ve been doing this for twenty-eight years. The prostitute said they had an ongoing sexual relationship, that Swaggart was “kinky” as he had tried to persuade her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to their sexual encounters.Īccording to court documents, Swaggart told the Assemblies of God that he had a “long standing sexual aberration and that he had consorted with prostitutes for many, many years.” In tears, Swaggart told Rev. He eventually built a large multi-million-dollar real estate empire from donations to his television ministry.Īt the height of his ministry, he was caught on camera coming out of a motel room with prostitute Debra Murphree. Unfortunately, as we shall see, his proclivity for underage girls would not end with his child bride. Jimmy married his 15-year-old girlfriend and entered into ministry as a singing evangelist. No, examining the fruit means rather to reflect upon whether his life is abundant with the fruit of the Spirit, or if it exudes the deeds of the flesh. If having riches, a large following, and great influence, is God’s stamp of approval, then we should all join the Mormon cult. Swaggarites point to this as proof that Jimmy is a true apostle of God. Incidentally, examining the fruit does not mean that we are to consider how much money he has or how successful he is or how big his cult has grown. It is a matter of obedience to scripture. Swaggarites bitterly complain and condemn anyone who examines Swaggart’s life but the fact is Jesus commanded us to examine the fruit in order to confirm someone as a false teacher and we must do so whether anyone likes it or not.
His sins may have been in the sea of forgetfulness, but his own claims to special superior prominence have dredged them back up. His past, if repented of, is forgiven and forgotten and doesn’t need to be brought up.īut for someone who claims to be an end-time apostle with a special revelation greater than the Church has known before, and who condemns other churches as false, then it behooves us to take a close look at his life, both past and present. If he was just a normal Bible teacher or pastor of a church, teaching sound biblical doctrine, then this would not matter. That is why it is important to have a knowledge of Jimmy Swaggart’s past. We must examine the fruit as Jesus taught us. They may look like a sheep, talk like a sheep, and speak like a silver-tongued anointed preacher, but if they are a false prophet or false teacher there will be bad fruit continually evidenced in their life. The teaching of our Lord is that as part of examining a doctrine for its veracity we should include an examination of the life of the teacher. You will know them by their fruits…Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:15) “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. NEW! The author’s latest book, Swaggartism is now released.
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