You know of all these
healing evangelists in the 50s, in the 40s, you know
this picture of Oral Roberts is one of my favorite
with him, laying
hands on a guy. He used to sit in a chair
laying hands on people. But there is another guy I
want to talk about today. Another guy who died
when he was 38 years old but he impacted our
nation in a big way. - An healing evangelist
that died at 38? - Who am I talking about? There can only
be one person: Jack Coe. - Jack Coe. Jack Coe began preaching
in World War II... - Uh-huh. - He was ordained by the
Assembly of God and he had a very
short ministry... - Right, but the largest
tent ministry of any evangelist out there. I mean he set records. - Very controversial
though. - Ha! Yes he was. - How was he
controversial? [Laughs]
Well, he didn't just go and lay
hands on somebody, he'd
smack them... - He wouldn't sit
there in a chair. Ha-ha, yea, he
would rip a goiter off of a lady's neck. They were always healed,
In fact, he healed so many that he was
put in jail... - For practicing medicine
without a license. Wouldn't be great
to have him here. - It would be great to
hear what he had to say... - I would love it. - But Greg, I've got
the next best thing. Jack Coe Jr., his son
here in studio today. You're gonna hear more
about what it was like to grow up as
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Revival Radio TV. I'm your host
Gene Bailey and
I'm so glad you're with me today
because you are in
for a treat. You know, we've talked
about people from the 1700s. We've talked about
everything from the great Prayer
Revival to Azusa Street and how all that happened and
what happened with Whitefield. Well today you are in
for a treat because today right here
in front of me, in studio is none other
than Jack Coe Jr.. Jack, thank you for
joining us today. - Thank you. - Now you've heard
that name before, I'm sure. Some of you really know
who I'm talking about. Jack Coe was--Jack Coe's
father was a great great-Uh you would call him a
healer, an healing evangelist in the 50s and he's
got quite a story so today, we're going to take
you through his life story. We are just going to hit
the highlights but there is some things that
you are going to grab today out of the facts of
his life that's going to help you and
you're going to be encouraged, you're going to be
enlightened and listen, this is going to be fun.
I can't wait. I've been looking
for this ever since we talked together
on the phone like "Please come do the programs"
so I'm glad you're here. So let's talk
about your dad. Born march 11th, 1918.
Is that correct? - Yes, in Oklahoma
City, Pennsylvania. Our family came across
on the Mayflower, that's quite a
history and my
father then was put in a children's home in
Tulsa, Oklahoma because my grand-father
was a gambler and lost everything, did not come home and
tell his wife and my grand-mother found out when they were kicked out
of the house. - So help me if I've got
the story right because I've read, I've done
a little research obviously on your dad
and your grand-dad was having a hard time and
parts of the furniture would end up missing because
of the gambling problem and so they left, they
separated one time? - Well he finally
just left, period. - He left... - and gambled all of
his fortune away. He was a very wealthy
man at one time. - So here he is. Your dad's dad had left and he's
on his own with a mother but then he ended up
in an orphanage. How did that happen? - Well my grand-mother
put him in a Tulsa boys children's home because
she could not afford to take care of the
kids any longer and of course my
grand-father was broke because
of gambling. - So here he is, living
in an orphanage. In a lot of ways, he's
lost his parents and he's there even though
they're alive still and he's really dealing
with a lot of rejection at this point
in his life. Is that right? - That's right and he became a
salesman as he grew up and he's worked for Singer
sewing machine company. - Singer sewing... - And was the top salesman
and he went to a tent revival in his young days and he
was standing outside... - Do you know Jack, who was
preaching in that tent revival? - I do not know who was
preaching in that tent revival. - Wouldn't you like
to know that one? It would be great but
it was a Nazarene meeting... - A Nazarene, oh wow! - So my father was
standing outside and he said that he could
hear them singing and shouting and
it's when I guess the Nazarenes were really
on fire for God because he said, they got
so interesting that as he began to watch, he
said to himself, "I've got to have what
they have. He was an alcoholic
because of drinking so much all of his
life, you know. It's been a mess and so he
heard them give the altar-call and he went running from
outside the tent into the tent to
the altar and he didn't know how to
pray because... - How old was he
at this point? - Oh he was in his 20s. - Early 20s, okay. - Yes and he didn't know
how to pray and so he started and says, "God, I
don't know what they've got but whatever
they've got, I've got to have
what they've got." - I love that! I love that! "I've got to have
what they've got." And so "Oh God, gave me what
they've got" and so as he was praying that way, he
said he felt something like somebody pour warm
oil from the top of his head to the soles
of his feet... - Praise God. - And he started hollering
"I've got it, I've got it, hot dog, I've got it." - Hot dog, I've got it! - And he got drunk in the
Spirit, went home that night hollering "Hot
dog, I've got it" and opened up the front door
and my grand-mother said to my step grand-dad, "It sounds
like Jack is drunk again," - Yea... - "You better go and
put him to bed." - Ha! - And so my step
grandfather got up and tried to lay him on the
bed and he'd sit up in the middle of the
bed, hollering "I've got it, hot dog
I've got it". - Hot dog, I've got it. - And he was speaking in
another language and my grand-dad said, "I've
never seen him so drunk so I can't handle him." So the next morning
when he got up, he went to the breakfast
table and he said, "Can we pray over the food?" Well, they've never prayed over
the food in that house before and
he's starting to pray over the food and got
happy at the breakfast table and starts to shout and
praising God and so... - Right there, Jack. What's interesting is
he didn't know all the religious
language to use, that's why he said,
"Hot dog, I've got it"... - That's right. But yet something
happened in him. He knew he wanted to
thank God for his food the very next morning. Isn't that interesting
when you have a revelation of who God--that God
on the inside of him and he knew,
he was thankful. - Well you are when something
like that happens in your life. - Absolutely. - I mean, it was a
complete change and he didn't want
alcohol anymore. He didn't want to cuss
anymore and he just felt so good on the inside
because Jesus has just taken all of his
sins away and made him a new creature. - Okay so now, I want to hurry
up, I don't want to go too fast but I want to
get--He would end up in the armed force
at this point. Is that correct? Or in the service? - He went into the service
after he got saved. - Right. - And they thought he was
crazy and lost his mind. They put him in
the nut ward. - Right. - because he wouldn't
drink, he wouldn't cuss and he wouldn't act like the
other soldiers acted... - Right. And so they said, "There's
something wrong with him". In fact if you ever read
the book, I've got the book, it's "The
Jack Coe I Know"... - Right. - It's one of the books
then the other one is "The Jack Coe Story"
that he wrote. - So what happened next? He started working with
the church... - Well he started to work in it. First him and my mother
started to going to church and my mother told
him and said, "You're gonna have to
learn how to do things" and so the pastor told him
first of all to clean toilets. Well he didn't feel like he's
called to clean toilets but my mother told him, "Well
you need to do--learn whatever he said
to be obedient." Then the second thing
they did is put him over a 2 year old class. - Oh my... - He was home complaining
and she said, "Well, you learn how to
minister to 2 year olds, than you can learn how to
minister to others." And then God just began
to use him and moved him up to
other places, then he felt called to be
an evangelist. - You know the thing
that I think is so interesting
about your dad. When I look at the
old videos and see... In fact, I think that
Oral Roberts called him "Mighty man of faith", - "Reckless man of faith"! - "Reckless man of faith,
that's what it was. "Reckless man of faith"
and he didn't just do like we see so many
people in churches do, go lay hands and
let's believe God and... You take it
and you're healed. No, he would go
and grab-- If there was something on
the side of their head, he'd go grab it and
take it off and he had the faith of giants. - He told me all kinds
of miracles that took place. At that time, you know
I was just probably 8 or 9 years old and I was at
the tent and I'd see things but it didn't
register like it did when somebody
began to talk to him. - Sure. You know, that was
actually my next question. Growing up, what is it? You know when you
think back and I know you have images of the
big tents. What stands out to
you about your dad? - Well just the way that he
operated, did things, I mean... It seemed like he wasn't
afraid of anything. - Right. - And in fact, when he got sick,
it was always a puzzle to me why he got sick
and couldn't overcome it but he just
would tackle anything I mean. I remember one time
this woman that came up. She had a big tumor in
her stomach, all swollen up. It looked like she was
pregnant but she told him, I remember her
telling him, "I have a tumor. It's about the
size of a basketball". He hauled off and hit her in the stomach. - Oh man. - It's like that tumor
popped immediately and her skirt fell up
and she had a slip on but it fell down - Ha-ha!
- Then I remember one time that he was in a tent and they had somebody in
a wheelchair. They rolled him up. He picked him up,
he was a big man. - He was. And he took the
wheelchair with his foot and kicked it out of the
way and hold it them up and said, "Run in the
name of Jesus" and he let go of them and they fell. He picked him back up and
said, "I didn't tell you to fall! I said run." They began to pray and they let
them go again and they fell. 3 times that happened. Well, I would of quit. - Yea. - But he picked them up
on that 4th time and prayed and hollered and
kicked that man in the seat of the britches
with his foot and said, "I said run" and the power of
God hit that man and he began to run all
over that tent. So you know, things like
that...It seemed like it never scared him, - That's right. - when I was a little boy. I'd count on anything. He always had a way of
seeing God work and he just believed God
no matter what. - Amen. You know we need more. I think we need more
reckless men of faith. - Yes. I had lunch with Oral
Roberts I guess about 4 months before he died. - Right. - And he told me, he said,
"Your dad scared me to death and I just knew that he's
going to be suing him" - Right. - He said, "I asked your
dad one time," he said, "How can you that often hit
people like that and break their crutches
before you pray for them and know that it's going
to happen?" He says, "I just
believe God." He said, "God said to do it
so I've got to be obedient." - God said to do it
and he just did it. - Yea. - He didn't
question it. Wow...And I know I
heard Oral saying a
few things as well about
your dad. We are all very
complimentary about. He was a mighty man of faith, a reckless man of
faith that he was. You know, if you watch
enough, there of course, there were great
healings but he also was calling the church
out of being cold. One of my favorite
quotes I heard him saying, "There is snow in the
pew, frost in the choir and a 6 foot
icicle preaching" and you know and I
thought he is going after it. He's not letting
these people off and he was powerful. Powerful man of God
that believed God and wanted to see people walk in the full knowledge
of who He was. - Well he really wanted
to see revival. He wanted the church
to have revival. - You know it seems like
when you look at the news reports back there,
there is one photo when he was in jail in
Florida for preaching without license or what was it? Practicing... - Practicing
without a license. - And he is just standing there and he's got the biggest
smile on his face. He believed God
so much that the harder you came after him,
the bigger the miracles got and the more faith he had. The story I was talking
about was Miami Florida. He went to go and he had
a healing service there and take the story from there.
What happened? - Well, the Church of Christ came against him and
wanted to prove that healing was
not for today. - Isn't not amazing how
many people would fight you to believe
in healing? It's really amazing. People don't want
to believe it. - Yea. - Go ahead, I'm sorry. - And so they said that
they brought a boy through and he told him
to take off the crutches and he had polio. And so they got all of
the story together. In fact I've got all the
articles and found the
transcript--That trial. But they had people lying
to try to put him in jail and the
judge threw it out. Gordon Lindsay, Christ
For the Nations, you know all of the
preachers back in those days came and
got together. Instead of fighting one
another like they do today and talking
bad about each other, preachers worked together
back in those days. - Right. And I like to see
people get along. - Amen. - There was a power in
them coming together and because they all came
together, it filled up the courthouse and
they threw the... they threw the charges
out, he won. And they even made him
a honorary sheriff of Miami after the trial. - Yea. Practicing medicine
without a license... In fact if I remember
right, it was... "There is no law against
divine healing." - That's right. - And you know actually
here in America, believe it or not, many
hospitals, if you're a chaplain will not let you offer
to pray for people... won't let you do that. - I didn't know that. - That's true and they
will not let you do because they feel like
you are giving people fault hope and it's
a sad state of affairs but if we haven't
learned our lesson, [Laughs] as humanity
to figure that out. - Well I think
people need hope. - They do! There is not such
thing as fault hope. - Yea, because if you
don't have hope, you know the people
will perish. - Amen. - And we need to build hope in people you know. It's just amazing that
people don't believe that God can heal today. - And He still. Do you still
believe God heals? - I know He does. I'm living right now
because of the healing miracles of
the power of God. I had cancer in my liver,
my kidney, my colon and doctors gave
me 6 to 8 months to live and it was 33
years ago I believe... - Yea, wow, praise God! He heals and makes whole
and we see it every day. - Yes. - That's good. There is so much more. I mean if there
wasn't enough about your dad with the great healing and
revival ministry that he had. He really had a
heart for kids. - Yes. - And he started
the orphanage. - The way that it was started,
he was in a meeting. I believe it was in
Wichita Falls, Texas and a little boy came
up to him and pulling on his pant leg after service and
looked up at him and said, "Mister, would you
please give me a home?" And that touched my
dad's heart right then and he took the offering
that he had and went and put it down on a piece
of property in Dallas and started a children's
home from that and then moved to
Waxahachie later with children's home. - And that was... Well we hear about
orphanages all the time now. Back then that
really was unusual. Orphanages were not that
prevalent at the time so for him to do
something like that was quite unusual and
quite surprising to a lot of people. - It was but him being
raised in an orphanage and treated bad, he
wanted to do that after that little boy... - Just a heart for
kids and he melt up. Several buildings out
there on the property. - Yes, in fact last night,
one of the girls that was raised in the
children's home. She is 75, I
believe, she said. She called me last night
and was talking to me. She lives in Mississippi and she
was talking about you know, her years at the
children's home and then we have a boy
named Bobby Davidson. He's a veteran of the
war and he's at the veteran's
hospital right now. He called me and he is
77 but he fought for my dad. - Right. - Anybody says anything
bad about my dad, he's ready to fight them. - Yea. - What an investment he
made until this day-- in those lives. - Yea. - Wow, tremendous. I want to know what
happened with you and tell me your ministry
and how did you get to where Jack Coe
Jr. is today? - Well, it's a long story.
[Laughs] I grew up in of course
a house of minister and last thing I wanted
to be was a preacher. - Right. - And began to doing car sales
and just about anything ...worked at
a meat packing house. - Right. - And I was running from
God as fast as I could run and then one day,
God got a hold of me and I felt called to preach and
when I started, it was rough. I found out that people
that said, "If I get saved that they'd help
me, they wouldn't help me... - Right. - And then the ones
that did help me, they wanted to use me and people
would call me to come preach and I didn't
want to go preach. Then I told them anyway
I was going to die. God spoke to me one
day and said, "I will heal you if
you'll preach." - So where were you
when God spoke to you? I was in an
hospital room. Baylor Hospital in
Dallas downtown. - And so were you just
laying there and you had a vision or
God just spoke? - Well it wasn't really
a vision until I had a friend that had been my
friend for a long time, flew in from
Grandview, Missouri and then
another man that he has church here in Dallas. His name is Sam Nix. - Uh-huh. - He came to my hospital
room that day and I was supposed to
die in a day or 2. In fact, they had called
the family together and they both began
to pray for me. - Praise God. - And they prayed different
for many other person. Several pastors in
Dallas came to pray for me but when they had prayed, "Oh
God, raise him up and heal him and if You don't, we
will understand. [Laughs] - Thanks a lot. - Yes, just more or
less, no hope prayers. - Right. - But I remember the
prayers that these 2 prayed. They took authority
over the cancer. They took authority over
my sickness and they said, "In the name of
Jesus, we take authority and Sam Nix went to
Miracle Valley, Arizona for school and
he knew how... - Those of you who don't
know Miracle Valley. Miracle Valley was A.A. Allen. - A.A. Allen. - In fact, a
little history. Help me if I haven't
got this right. A.A. Allen, after your
dad passed away got-- got your dad's tent? - He bought my dad's tent. In fact, he bought my dad's tent
and then he got all the chairs and I've got a chair that
went from my dad's tent to A.A. Allen to Schambach... - Wow... - And Donna Schambach gave
me a chair the other day... - Praise God, that's awesome, - And so I've got the
original chair. Tell me one of the
miracles that stands out to you in your
ministry. Tell me... - Well, I had a woman. I didn't know that she
got healed until later. But her arm was all bent
up, couldn't be moved. It'd stayed like this. And she found my sister
like 20 years later and everything was working. That's one of
the miracles. - Wow. She said, "Because of your
brother praying for me." I was praying for a
deaf person one time. [Laughing] You know
sometimes you believe it and sometimes you don't. My dad told the
story one time. He said he had a
person in his line. He is sending them back
to the line on the back 7 times and then
they get up. Nobody else
is in line... [Laughing] And then he
said, "Oh God, what am I going to do now?" And God said, "You are
not the healer anyway. I am." - Right. - And prayed God and
He healed them. - Well this person got
healed, he was totally deaf and I prayed for him and
they just moved them off and they said,
"She can hear!" And first I
asked, "She can?" [Laughing] - Tell us one before we
go, I want to hear one thing or story
about your dad that probably most
people don't know. What is the one thing
about your dad you wish people knew
about him? - Oh, lot of people think
he was rough because of the way he would
hit people. I've heard a lot of
people say, "He was rough." But he was the kindest
person that there was. He had a heart
of compassion. And I remember you know
when I was a little boy and he would whip me and
he'd say, "It hurts me much more
than it does you." I thought at that
time, "No, it don't!" - Give me the belt,
let me try... - Yea, ha-ha! But you know. I just remember his
compassion and he would go and go and go
because he wanted to see revival and he thought Jesus
was coming so soon that he had to go like he went. And that's really why he
died as a young person, it's because he didn't
feel like there were much time before
the Lord would come. - I just...For a man that
only lived to be 38 and overcame all the
obstacles he did, what a tremendous legacy that
touched not only the people that he was with
but you and you carried on in this generation. Thank you. Thank you for being
faithful to the call. I want you to know more
about...We've only hit some of the highlights
of Jack Coe and the ministry that he had. But I want you to
go to this website. Write this down. JACKCOE.ORG and Jack's
got a lot of books here. The one that is right
here on top is "Classic Collections Of Jack
Coe Sr.". Some of his messages. Here is that story about
"Divine Healing On Trial" and of course,
Jack in his own ministry which we haven't got
into on this program, --has books on
his own as well. All the products here
you get a hold of and see how you can be a
part and partner with Jack Coe so make sure
you do that and be a part. Now before we go, Jack I
want you to pray for the people. Here is what I
want you to pray. I believe today, there
is a special anointing on you. Just sitting here and
talking to you, that you have something to
impart to the people at home that are sick and
need a touch from God. So I want you to look at
this camera right over here and pray for them. Pray
for their healing. - I want you to reach out
toward your TV right now. Father right now, in
the name of Jesus, those that are sick. Cancers! I command you to die. Tumors! I command you
to go down. Arthritis! Healing to flow
through those bodies. Lord, every sickness,
every disease, every worry. Stress...I command it to go
in the name of Jesus. Jesus, let Your hand
be laid upon them right now. Send your angels to minister to
those in their house. Those that are discouraged,
despondent, feel beat down. Lift them up, make them whole in
the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. - Amen, amen, amen. Thank you sir, for
being with me today. - Thank you. - And last week. It has been
such a pleasure. - Thank you, I enjoyed it. - Make sure you go
to the website. REVIVALRADIOTV.COM
because there, all of these things God does
with revivals, they all blend together. This is the cool
thing about God and
what He does when He reaches
His people. So make sure you go to
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that to you. So this is doctor
Gene Bailey. Thank you, thank
you Jack Coe and we will see you next time. ♪ [Music]
