Inside days of an “unequivocally false and baseless” rumor hitting the web claiming {that a} in style televangelist attended a celebration hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs’ and engaged in inappropriate acts with a minor, Bishop T.D. Jakes got here earlier than his digital congregation of thousands and thousands to relax the chatter on Sunday, Dec. 24.
From his pulpit through a church livestream, Jakes addressed the unknown people who initiated the rumor and in addition those that propagated it and waited for his response through church service livestream.
Calmly, in his deep baritone voice, he started, “A few of you logged in or are available in out of concern a few of you are available in to listen to what I’m going to say. All of you who count on me to handle a lie, you may log out.”
“I can’t use this sacred day and the sacred pulpit to handle a lie when I’ve an opportunity to evangelise the reality,” Jakes mentioned, including, “I’ll stand straight up, head up, again straight, and preach the unadulterated and infallible phrase of God as a result of that’s what the pulpit is for.”
Nonetheless, the Potter’s Home shepherd didn’t enable the gossip to have the final phrase and promised he can be talking out additional, saying, “There will probably be a time.”
Many on social media confirmed their assist for the famend preacher after a clip from his sermon was shared on The Shade Room.
“Yall watch out .. God says don’t contact my anointed and do my prophet’s no hurt.. Unhappy y’all consider every thing yall hear,” one particular person wrote on social media.
T.D. JAKES & DIDDY DID WHAT ??? pic.twitter.com/a2OBJf3PF8
— Poker Face Mister🎭 (@MIAPokerFace) December 21, 2023
Others on-line bashed those that rapidly believed the rumor with none proof.
“It needs to be some sort of restriction with placing out lies about somebody with completely NO PROOF,” one particular person commented.
“Pay attention I’m simply gonna say this, we stay in a time of defamation lawsuits and false allegations however we additionally stay in occasions the place predatory habits is roofed up and swept underneath the rug. Which begs the easy resolution,” one other particular person mentioned.
Including, “PROOF. You want PROOF and EVIDENCE. If there isn’t a proof then unhappy as it’s, shifting on and on to the following. Follow the custom of harmless till confirmed responsible with proof, retains issues easier.”
No proof has come forth, and whereas Jakes mentioned he would later straight reply to the allegations, his workplace has issued an announcement.
“Latest claims circulating on pockets of social media about Bishop T.D. Jakes are unequivocally false and baseless,” Jordan A. Hora, government director of public relations and communications for the T.D. Jakes Group, T.D. Jakes Ministries and The Potter’s Home mentioned through an unique assertion to The Christian Submit Thursday.
The assertion continued, “What has at all times been true, within the phrases of the late Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon, ‘If you would like the reality to go around the world, you should rent an categorical practice to tug it, however if you need a mislead go around the world it should fly; it’s as mild as a feather, and a breath will carry it.’”
