Jim Bakker Show - Stop The Car Homie - Mondo De La Vega
Aired: 2024-04-01
Duration: 02:57


=== I Stood Up To Them (02:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Something is about to go wrong.
[00:00:03]  And we passed by the church that my sister had invited me.
[00:00:06]  I looked at the church, and for one second, I felt hope.
[00:00:09]  Wow.
[00:00:10]  And I said, Stop the car, homie.
[00:00:13]  He says, Shut up.
[00:00:14]  We got to go do our business.
[00:00:16]  I said, No, stop the car.
[00:00:17]  I got to go take care of some business.
[00:00:19]  I promised my sister, listen, I was a gangster of all gangsters, but my word was my word.
[00:00:26]  And we got into a scuffle, and he pulled the gun on me and said, You better shut your mouth, homie.
[00:00:31]  And I looked, I said, You can kill me.
[00:00:32]  I said, But I got to go take care of some business.
[00:00:35]  My homeboy next to me vouched for me.
[00:00:37]  He said, Man, let him go, homie.
[00:00:38]  We'll pick him up in 30 minutes.
[00:00:40]  He's a good dude, man.
[00:00:41]  This guy's down for us.
[00:00:44]  You have to understand, I didn't realize where they were ending up the next morning.
[00:00:50]  I didn't know what happened to them.
[00:00:51]  I don't know what happened, but all I know is that the guns were on my chest.
[00:00:55]  And it said, Where were you last night?
[00:00:58]  Wow.
[00:00:59]  The very first time, I felt peace and hope.
[00:01:04]  Two of the most powerful combinations.
[00:01:06]  Wow.
[00:01:08]  I was getting ready to walk out of that church.
[00:01:11]  I didn't feel good enough.
[00:01:13]  I never felt good enough to be spoken nice like Steve did about me or you guys.
[00:01:19]  I was used to being around tables of gangsters, trigger men, cartel members, prostitutes, drug dealers, drug addicts.
[00:01:28]  That's who I felt comfortable.
[00:01:30]  And I told the preacher, I don't feel good enough.
[00:01:32]  I don't think your God can forgive me.
[00:01:34]  Wow.
[00:01:35]  And as I'm walking away and I'm getting ready to leave that church to go meet up, I cannot not cry without hearing this song.
[00:01:47]  En la cruz, en la cruz, yo primero vi la luz.
[00:01:52]  These singers were singing out of tune.
[00:01:55]  The guitar player didn't even have all the strings.
[00:01:59]  And they were singing that old hymn: At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw light.
[00:02:06]  Amen.
[00:02:08]  And a tear came down, another tear came down.
[00:02:13]  What gave me the hope to stand with my homeboys, a shotgun in my back, a pistol in my forehead, and a pistol in my chest.
[00:02:21]  I knew if I said the wrong thing, Ricky, my brains would be on that cold, in that cold concrete floor because I seen it before.
[00:02:29]  I had done it before.
[00:02:33]  But I couldn't deny the love I felt the night before.
[00:02:37]  Wow.
[00:02:38]  And the peace that I was looking for.
[00:02:42]  What made me hopeful is that, and I stood up to my, and you got to read the story because I stood up to them.
[00:02:48]  This is a powerful story.
[00:02:49]  I gave it to them and I said to them, I can't deny what happened to me last night.