Edited sentence: " This message would explain Jimmy Swaggart's failure and give hope to all who would place their faith in Christ, and his finished work on the cross.==See also==.God gave him another chance.In 1997, God gave him the Message of the Cross which he began to preach.It should be noted that many of the great men of the Bible failed, also.Jimmy Swaggart failed and asked for forgiveness and repented.King David sinned, and repented in Psalm 51.The key verse is Romans 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.This is the same message the the Apostle Paul taught in Romans chapters six, seven, and eight