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Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 470 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Thank the Lord for that wonderful singing. You know I was thinking back there as they were singing how that every one of us here tonight are unique. We're all different. We have different trials that we go through, different problems. Jesus said. "In this world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." There are things that weight us down, trouble us, problems, things, but the Word of God says, "Come unto me." Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden." Is your burden heavy tonight? Is your problem...are your problems weighting you down tonight? Jesus says, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly... For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Beloved, whatever it is, it's not too big for the Lord. I don't need to know what it is tonight, but I know who's got the answer. The Lord Jesus! He died for my sins and He died for your sins. He paid the supreme sacrifice. My burden was so heavy--burden of sin, shame, all kind of problems. I want you to really look to God tonight in this service, in this week and ask God to help you. Don't you miss a service. The Devil will say, well I ain't going back down there. You resist that, that's from the Devil. You need to be here every night. You need to push everything out of the way. The Lord has something for you. He loves you. He knows your name. He knows who you are. He knows where you live. We have people here from all over the country. I know we've had some families to move here recently. I say recently, maybe a year or so ago. The Woods family from Atlanta moved down. We're so glad to have them. The Burrus family from Kansas moved here. They were listening to Brother Thomas preach on a little station out in Kansas and they just tuned right in and just listened. And it's...something about it was different. It wasn't man's doctrine. It wasn't tradition. It was words of life. Jesus says, "the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life." And when those words come and your soul is thirsty, it's water on dry ground. That's what God's gonna give you this week---water on dry ground. And they heard that ministry. They said we've got to go see. We've got to go see and they did. God made them one with the Church. We're so glad they're here. The Bible says, "There will be one of a city, two of a family. Thy sons and thy daughters will come from afar and be nursed at thy side." We are seeing your preaching, Brother Thomas, come to pass. All those years God gave you those messages to preach. Brother Thomas is not feeling his best tonight. He's very tired. He made a great effort to be here. He's not going to be able to speak tonight but let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord Jesus, I thank you for your servant. I thank you for the labor, the burden of his soul. I thank you for the faithfulness of him to give us the truth--unvarnished, pure truth. I thank you for that, Lord. God, many here tonight could say that you used him to preach the gospel to them. Lord, we thank you so much for him. Lord, touch him tonight. God put your hand upon him. Give him a touch and bless his dear wife, Sister Thomas. Bless her Lord. Lord, nothing is too hard for you. Comfort him, Lord and give him rest and we'll praise you, we'll thank you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I've been conversing with a brother on the phone for about a couple of weeks now. His name is Brother James Driver. He's, I think, originally from California. As he says, I was an Air Force military brat or something like that. I don't remember exactly how he said it, but he traveled a lot. He's been in Florida for quite a few years now. He's in Orlando. He's been getting up early in the morning--4:45 in the morning to hear Brother Thomas on the radio, WSAI out of Cincinnati, Ohio. It covers quite a few states. Beloved, I believe with all my heart that it's no accident that Brother James is here tonight. I believe that God spoke to him. We are going to ask James to come in just a moment to give a testimony, how he came in contact with the ministry and whatever the Lord gives him to say. He's a precious brother in the Lord. James come on up and just share your heart. Brother James Driver from Orlando, Florida. -- Brother James Driver: Oh God is good, isn't He? I wasn't actually really gonna plan to speak tonight and it's kind of funny, because as a musician, I'm not really bashful. It's like somebody would ask me to come up and play. It's like I'm there. But when it comes to speaking, it's a little different. But, I just want to, just kind of lay on what's on my heart. And Brother Jimmy kind of reminded me not to take up much time. So, I'll... ( laughter ). ( laughing ). Oh, oh okay. So I guess I'm supposed to take that liberty in Christ, then. Okay, All right. Basically I'll just kind of start how I got drawn to the Lord and it's kind of a neat situation, how it came about. I was at a music store and there was like doing a series of drum clinics and stuff where people get up and they play and they explain how to play this part and that part or whatever. And so when it was over, I was talking to somebody and I hear this drumming in the background going on. And it's like, it sounds good, but I'm thinking like, okay, it's probably like some guy with some long hair and he's got tattoos and you know kind of a rocker type thing. And so I went back there and I look and there's like this...all I could see was the sticks and a little patch of blond hair. And this guy was like six years old and he was good. He was really good. And so his dad was like standing off to the side a little bit and I turned and I asked him, is this your son? And he didn't want to be boastful and proud. He just kind of looked up and said, yeah, that's my boy. And I said, man, he plays really good. And, my friend's name is Gary and he looked at his son Marcus and he said, well who do you attribute your talent too? And he stops and he just has this big grin on his face and he goes, Jesus. And it just, my heart just melted when he said that. And I just thought that was the most coolest thing that I ever heard anybody say. You know that the Lord had blessed them with such a gift to play at a young age. And so we kind of exchanged phone numbers and really the subject of Jesus Christ never officially came up until two weeks later. And I told him that I was going to be doing a drum clinic of my own. He says, well we'll be there. And so I did it and after that was done we went back into...they had like this room that has a bunch of cymbals in it... And so I go back there and we were just talking. And all of a sudden my friend Gary just reaches out and puts his hand on my shoulder and says, James the spirit of Jesus exudes from you. And that's all he said. He didn't say anything else and I was kind of a little shocked. I didn't know how to respond and all I could think of was well, gee thanks. And so I went back home and I thought about it and meditated about, meditated about what did he mean by that? And I guess like if Gary saw that the Spirit of Jesus Christ was inside me and I didn't really know it at the time and I thought, well maybe it's true. So then a couple of weeks later he invited me to church. And I went there and I was just blown away because I haven't been in church like in years. And a Wednesday night service a couple of weeks later the preacher gave an altar call. And it was kind of like sort of the moment of truth and it was like, you know at that time, you either sink or swim. And I said okay, I'm going to go and dive in the pool so to speak. So I went up to the altar and knelt down, had my face to the floor, I'm asking, you know, God, in prayers, like okay, I'm waiting. I don't know what I'm praying for but I'm waiting. And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting and it seemed like it was just, like, you know like time was just going on and on and on and then finally I just started crying. I just was weeping uncontrollably. And I just knew that God was just cleaning all this garbage that I had been carrying around for years. And it was just like, like taking a shower almost. And I, you know, officially gave my life over to Jesus that night. And so to kind of fast forward...this has been like three years ago and last summer I had a vision problem. I was working on the back of a sanitation truck and all of a sudden I started seeing what they call floaters. And then my eyes started to get even a little bit dimmer and dimmer and dimmer. And it was so bad to the point where I couldn't actually drive home but fortunately the place where I was working was only five minutes from the house. And it was definitely a trial period last summer because God had to show me a couple of things, because I was so used to doing things my own way, like if a problem ever came up, I was going to be the one that was gonna to fix it. But that's not the way God works. And He had to really pull me aside and say okay, you're going to have to depend on me now for everything. I'm taking away your job. I'm taking away your truck. I'm taking away your method of employment. It's like you're going to have to trust me completely. During my recovery process I had a chance to---because I was, I had the radio on, it was kind of my constant companion---and I happen to come across a radio program called the "Midnight Cry Ministries." And the time differences is different here. It's like one hour, like it's in Central Time so it actually came on at 3:45 in the morning. And I'm listening to Brother Thomas preach and I can't actually remember what he was preaching about but it just blew me away because it was like, like the Word of God being preached like I've never heard it before. And I just realized it's like, hey, this brother is speaking the truth. And there is so much deception and so much heresies and it's always been in my heart to, you know...I ask God in prayer all the time in prayer, it's like Lord, show me the truth. Show me what you're trying to say. Show me what you're trying to say to the Body of Christ. And I kept tuning into that program ever since. I think I started listening like in late October or early November of last year. And the thing that touched my heart so much besides Brother Thomas preaching was I could hear in the background the love of Christ in the congregation. And I don't know how to explain it, it's just that when Brother Thomas is preaching, you know he gets the Word out and you know you hear the like, hallelujah and praise God and amen. And it just...but the thing was that I could hear the love of Christ in the congregation over the airwaves. Which is, in this day and age, we're so divided in the Body of Christ. I mean you have these different denominations. You have Baptist here, you have Methodist, Lutheran, and Pentecostal and in Ephesians 4 it says, "one Lord, one faith, one baptism." And that's it. There's none of this divisional doctrines and stuff that we've been kind of been indoctrinated for a while. But praise God, you know that God has called the remnant together that love God, that love the truth and that love each other. And I see that and I hear that in this room. And that's what brought me here. It was kind of an answer in prayer to me also because I was asking God...I said, Lord, somehow I want to be there. I want to...actually I had my sights on actually going to Southern Pines, North Carolina, you know, just to hang out and fellowship and worship and all that. And God did one better. He said well you're going to have fellowship here in Jacksonville, Florida and that's when I got in touch with Brother Jimmy. And he...I can't tell you how much the brothers here that have been so helpful and so kind and so loving. That would not happen if they did not have the mind of Christ. And I just want to say that I'm so glad to be here with you all right now and it's just a blessing that I can. There's just no words that I can describe that ...it's just, you know, it's where we're going to be at in heaven one day. It's like, you know we are all gonna be there. And you know fellowship is such a big part of it. And I can't remember where this is from scripturally, but the very first verse says, "Let us continue in brotherly love." And that's what...and that's what I feel in this place. And I just thank God that I'm here with you all and so I just want to say that Brother Thomas, we will definitely keep you continually in our prayers and just hope that...well we don't hope, we know...God's in the restoration business. He's in the healing business. And the Word says that with men it's impossible but with God all things are possible. So let's just continue to worship and fellowship in the Lord and just praise God for what He's doing. And I love you all, my brothers and sisters. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: I thank God for that testimony. I appreciate James and I know the Lord's working in his life in many ways. We had heard from a lady out in Texas. I can't remember the town -- she can share that with us. But Sister Sharon Brown came all the way from Texas to be here in this meeting. She has a beautiful Christian spirit about her and I just believe that all Christians, we fellowship around Christ. That's the common denominator, is Christ. And I thank God for the love that comes through in her conversation on the phone. And I can't remember all that she told me on the phone, but I know that she said something. I talk to so many people, I trust my memory is correct. But I don't know if you said this or not, but you correct me if you didn't. I think you said something that you just never seen a church where they took care of business and they dealt with sin and then they rebuke...them that sin rebuke before all that others may fear. We love God's people and you know the Lord, He chastens those whom He, what? -- Congregation: He loves. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: And he "scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." "But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons." You know this sweeping the stuff under the rug and just putting a little talcum powder on it and say it's all right for that brother over there to live on the bottle. It's all right for this one over here to just kind of sleep around. No, it's not all right. Let judgment first begin at the house of God. 
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