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James Passes the Mantle
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| You're like the fire and brimstone almost of the old days. | |
| And I know when I was young, I preached up a storm. | |
| You are a preacher. | |
| I love to hear you preach. | |
| You encourage me. | |
| I just pray for more people because you got to hear the word of the Lord. | |
| Amen. | |
| Yes. | |
| Now, James Robinson, I read somewhere. | |
| Is your spiritual father? | |
| Crazy. | |
| I've known James for 100 years almost. | |
| Well, the James story, how many God moments can we share here? | |
| I'm preaching at Robert Morris's Church Gateway. | |
| Yes. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| And James has me preaching for his anniversary. | |
| All of a sudden, I finished preaching. | |
| I'm walking off. | |
| I dropped the mic. | |
| I'm walking off. | |
| James looks at me, approaching the podium, and says, Sam, drop down now. | |
| Now, you got to put this in perspective. | |
| First of all, it's Gateway. | |
| People don't drop down in Gateway. | |
| Second, you know, we're recorded for television. | |
| Right. | |
| And James doesn't say, he just said, Sam, drop down now. | |
| I'm thinking, just a terrorist attack, a bomb? | |
| Drop down now. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So I'm an obedient person, especially to my elders. | |
| What do I do? | |
| I drop down. | |
| I hit the stage. | |
| And I'm going, what's going on? | |
| All of a sudden, I see James hit the floor. | |
| We're both like this in front of thousands of people. | |
| And James begins to do something that he has never done before, his own wording, not mine. | |
| He starts to speak prophetically and say, The anointing God has placed on me, the mantle God gave me, I hereby pass that mantle to you. | |
| My goodness. | |
| And I lost it. | |
| It was done. | |
| It was done. | |
| And God gave him a word that shook me ever since that moment. | |
| He's a spiritual father in my life. | |
| I'm under his covering, and I love him so much. | |
| And his heart, again, for righteousness and justice, that changed my life and it changed my destiny. | |
| Mine. | |