Jim Bakker Show - An Unlikely Spiritual Father - Reverend Samuel Rodriguez on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-06-05
Duration: 02:01


=== James Passes the Mantle (02:01) ===

[00:00:00]  You're like the fire and brimstone almost of the old days.
[00:00:05]  And I know when I was young, I preached up a storm.
[00:00:08]  You are a preacher.
[00:00:10]  I love to hear you preach.
[00:00:12]  You encourage me.
[00:00:13]  I just pray for more people because you got to hear the word of the Lord.
[00:00:18]  Amen.
[00:00:19]  Yes.
[00:00:20]  Now, James Robinson, I read somewhere.
[00:00:23]  Is your spiritual father?
[00:00:25]  Crazy.
[00:00:26]  I've known James for 100 years almost.
[00:00:30]  Well, the James story, how many God moments can we share here?
[00:00:35]  I'm preaching at Robert Morris's Church Gateway.
[00:00:38]  Yes.
[00:00:38]  Oh, yeah.
[00:00:39]  And James has me preaching for his anniversary.
[00:00:43]  All of a sudden, I finished preaching.
[00:00:46]  I'm walking off.
[00:00:47]  I dropped the mic.
[00:00:48]  I'm walking off.
[00:00:50]  James looks at me, approaching the podium, and says, Sam, drop down now.
[00:00:56]  Now, you got to put this in perspective.
[00:00:57]  First of all, it's Gateway.
[00:00:59]  People don't drop down in Gateway.
[00:01:02]  Second, you know, we're recorded for television.
[00:01:05]  Right.
[00:01:05]  And James doesn't say, he just said, Sam, drop down now.
[00:01:09]  I'm thinking, just a terrorist attack, a bomb?
[00:01:12]  Drop down now.
[00:01:13]  Exactly.
[00:01:13]  So I'm an obedient person, especially to my elders.
[00:01:16]  What do I do?
[00:01:16]  I drop down.
[00:01:18]  I hit the stage.
[00:01:20]  And I'm going, what's going on?
[00:01:21]  All of a sudden, I see James hit the floor.
[00:01:24]  We're both like this in front of thousands of people.
[00:01:28]  And James begins to do something that he has never done before, his own wording, not mine.
[00:01:33]  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.
[00:01:40]  My goodness.
[00:01:42]  And I lost it.
[00:01:43]  It was done.
[00:01:44]  It was done.
[00:01:45]  And God gave him a word that shook me ever since that moment.
[00:01:50]  He's a spiritual father in my life.
[00:01:52]  I'm under his covering, and I love him so much.
[00:01:55]  And his heart, again, for righteousness and justice, that changed my life and it changed my destiny.
[00:02:01]  Mine.