Episode 27: Perseverance Through Tragedy – Bro. Keith Brown’s Testimony Pt.1

Episode Transcript:

[00:00:00] Luis Urrego: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Ten Thousand Worlds podcast, my name is Luis Urrego, and if this is the first time you’re hearing us, we welcome you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you’re a continuous listener, we also welcome you and we thank you for tuning in today on this episode, number 27 of the podcast. I know that it’s been a little while since we released an episode.

[00:00:20] We are trying our best from now on to release on a more frequent basis. And so you just bear with us. We have so many projects going forward and taking place at the, at the moment, but we are trying to do our best to, get back and upload on a regular basis, to our listeners who do, who are subscribed and are listening, to the podcast on a continual basis.

[00:00:44] So we thank you for being a listener. And we hope that this, little program has blessed you and has helped you in your spiritual walk; has helped feed, those 10,000 worlds within you, which as we describe, usually as we talk about here on this, on this podcast is [00:01:00] your soul. Brother Branham called

[00:01:02] and described your soul as being worth 10,000 worlds. Not that it’s worth that, but that it’s has unlimited value. In other words, it has unlimited value. That’s just how great to God your soul is. So if we feed our soul with the right things, amen, that means you are taking care. You know, that, that is what, what, what matters to you most is to feed your soul.

[00:01:30]more and more and how do we feed our soul? But when we have the Holy spirit within us, amen, the Holy spirit can only feed off the word of God. So if we have the Holy ghost, Holy ghost life, that light that, eternal life living within us. It can only feed off of one thing. And that is the word of God in order for it to grow into the image and the stature and the faith and the knowledge and grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

[00:01:56] So once again, I welcome you to this and [00:02:00] this episode, we want to go ahead and start with an interview that took place here just a few days ago. with brother Keith Brown from st. Augustine, Florida. And brother Keith, he’s a pastor there at victory tabernacle tabernacle in st. Augustine, Florida. And we had a discussion on, with him and an interview with him as he goes in and tells about his, his testimony.

[00:02:24] And I won’t go get into it. He has a very powerful testimony in a very tragic and sad testimony to say the least, but how God has brought him out and put them in the place where he is now. He is an older brother. I believe he is in his mid to late sixties if I’m not mistaken, but, we talk about different, his testimony, several, doctrinal points of discussion that we talk about, including his battle, that he is just now getting over with re with a Corona, with the Corona virus, as well as, a miracle that [00:03:00] just took place.

[00:03:01]just a few weeks ago with his mom. So, and, it was very, it’s very powerful and you don’t want to miss it. So we’re going to play the first part here of the episode or of this interview. I know this is going to be a multi-part, interview or, episode. So this interview is going to be carried out in maybe two or three episodes, but I hope that you enjoy this portion.

[00:03:24] May God bless you as you listen, and I’ll come back with my final thoughts for this episode. God bless you. All right. Well, welcome everybody to, the Ten Thousand Worlds podcast. This is a video, for now, but, this eventually will be a podcast. And we, have here with me, brother, Keith Brown from St.

[00:03:43] Augustine, Florida. He is a pastor there, brother. Keith, can you tell me the name of your church again?

[00:03:50] Keith Brown: [00:03:50] It’s a Victory Tabernacle.

[00:03:51] Luis Urrego: [00:03:51] Victory

[00:03:52] Tabernacle in St. Augustine, Florida. And it’s a pleasure to have brother, Keith here with us. And, I don’t know if you want to greet the people, [00:04:00] brother, Keith, and, and just, tell them God bless and just greet them.

[00:04:04] Keith Brown: [00:04:04] Yes, first of all I’d like to thank you, brother  Luis for allowing me to be able to be on your program here and praying that we say something that will help and inspire the Bride of Christ around the world. And, yes, it’s, it’s just an honor to be here. Thank you. And God bless you so much brother.

[00:04:23] Luis Urrego: [00:04:23] Bro.Keith and I, we, we had talked a few months ago.

[00:04:26] We were at his church and talked about doing something like this. And, finally it came to fruition. So, we thank God, although we had a little bit of technical problems here at the beginning, but thank God we got those resolved. So brother Keith, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and, and, and then maybe after that we can go ahead and, if you can start maybe sharing a little bit of your testimony and, and, and then we’ll go from there.

[00:04:51] However, the Lord leads.

[00:04:53]Keith Brown: [00:04:53] Well I’m 63 years old. And, I am, a product of this message. [00:05:00] I was born in it both naturally and spiritually. And I have been in the message has been a part of my life ever since I can remember. I remember the message having an effect upon me, even as a child. And, I remember my dad.

[00:05:18]used to put on being a reel to reel tapes. If y’all remember, those really were dedicated to want to hear the message and not just popping in a or CD or something. But I remember running into the house and I would hear the voice of brother Branam and I don’t know why that voice I do now, but I, I didn’t know at that time, what that was, had such an effect on me and we’re just dead.

[00:05:42] Stop me. When my dad would, you know, he put the real loan and take it all the way around and he turned it off. The thing I own, you know, and then all of a sudden you just hear brother Brandon’s voice. And it always has, in my life. And, as I said, you know, I’m a, [00:06:00] I’ve been in a part of this message has been a part of me.

[00:06:04] And I just thank God that. I am a part of it,

[00:06:08] Luis Urrego: [00:06:08] brother, Keith, your, your dad’s that was brother Homer, right? Right. But the Homer Brown was his name. He was, he was, I’d never, well, I did get to meet him, but of course he was in his latter part. of, of his life, but, I never got to hear him preach, live and everything, but I heard that he was a little fireball

[00:06:29] Keith Brown: [00:06:29] before need to, he pass away when he get up behind that sacred that he may walk up with that cane when he dropped that cane and brought them in to tell you, you go to preaching and he’s taking a young guy who was up there, minister. My dad, he was a, he was a great part of my life. I’ve been a pastor now for like 23, 24 years.

[00:06:52] And my dad was a great part of my life, just growing up and all that. So, me being under his [00:07:00] ministry and then when he began to fill land to step out and step down from the, pastor office. And I began to slowly move into the ranks of that position as associate pastor and then, to move into the ranks of the pastorial ship.

[00:07:20]he was, he was always such a good man, even behind my ministry. After I was ministering years and years, he was always there in the background, just a powerful prayer warrior. And, his mind was so, good. He could go back in to the dates of time. Right. And, he was, he’s really known for the things of the Catholicism and the Catholic church, what it’s done to the country over the eons of time.

[00:07:51] And. Did you just get him in that discussion and men, and that mom would just open up and wow. It’s like, you know, it was amazing, but I, I miss my dad [00:08:00] very much, but I know he’s in a far, far better place and he don’t have to deal with what he was dealing with just before he passed away.

[00:08:09] Luis Urrego: [00:08:09] Oh, good. Yeah.

[00:08:10] That’s I know that, It’s an, it’s a privilege to be able to, you know, to be able to have met some of these, I’ve got to meet some of these, veterans, you know, of the, of the message and, but I’ve, I’ve heard very good things about your dad and, got to see him preach on a video one time, but never got to see him preach on a, on a love.

[00:08:28] So, and you’re right, brother, Keith, He’s in a much better place right now. And it’s just telling us, probably just pushing us to just keep moving forward, keep moving forward, because I believe as I’m sure that you do too, I believe that the coming of the Lord, as soon as I hand this thing is almost about over.

[00:08:43] What do you think about that?

[00:08:47] Keith Brown: [00:08:47] I truly believe that I know that God has his time and he season for all things, you know, and you know, the prophet of God said that the rapture is a revelation. You know, and the message called the rapture [00:09:00] and a cross. We know that everything is built off of revelation when it comes to the body of Jesus Christ, you know, but I do believe I see the signs or so approaching our country.

[00:09:14] I just don’t know how long he couldn’t even go on anymore because. I think like brother Brandon preached when he ministered the message of spiritual amnesia and our country has come to a place to where their people are in such an amnesia, they can’t recognize who they are or where they came from or what even their purpose is anymore.

[00:09:38] You know? Yes, sir. I do believe that. I believe that. The days are so short and, you know, we just, you know, as, as believers of this message, we just need to be prepared for whatever happens, you know, a situation where this COVID-19 and, [00:10:00] you know, I would have never, in my heart felt that it would have hit me.

[00:10:06] That was the last thing that I was ever even thinking of. I mean, I’m pastoring a church and doing things and stuff like that. And then all of a sudden, I just, I get kind of run down because I’m remodeling our, our home. And I think that’s what really brought it on on me is my body was kind of wore down and I’m telling you what, when that thing hit me, I tell you, they can say what they want to say about code.

[00:10:34] 19, you have the good, you’re gonna have the bad you’re going have the master, no mask or whatever. But let me tell you something. When that thing hits you, when you get it, you did it. You got it. Believe me. You understand what it’s about because I have never in my life had anything hit me to where it literally, it wasn’t attacking you.

[00:10:56] It was suppressing you. And it took me [00:11:00] down for almost two and a half weeks. I, I have not ever had a fever that high. I’ve never been that sick before. And yeah, it was just the grace of God to know that you’ve got the token applied in your life, you know, because, it was, it was quite, it was quite an ordeal.

[00:11:20] And I want to think also just for a moment I’d like to thank my lovely and gracious wife. It’s just a charity. Because she nursed me and my mother back to help. Cause my mother had got hit with this and it hit her a lot more in her lungs. Mine was in the strength and the weakness in my body. It just weakened my body so much.

[00:11:44] I just couldn’t even hardly get out of it bad. It was that, that bad. But my mother, we had an incident happen, but two Saturdays ago we almost lost her. She was, her eyes had done locked up. Her [00:12:00] she’d stopped breathing. She was staring at me, just her eyes were just glazed and she wasn’t breathing. And I was so weak.

[00:12:11] I was so tired. I was just so worn down. And I took my mother by her arm. And I just, I said, Lord, not like this, not like this, please. And I just spoke in the name of Jesus is all it’s in the name of Jesus in her body like that. And she came back and praise be to God. You know, it was really a supernatural miracle, but we did, we did lose my mother.

[00:12:39] She was, she was, if she wasn’t going, I don’t know what was.

[00:12:43] Luis Urrego: [00:12:43] But Keith, about how long do you think she was a, she was gone

[00:12:48] Keith Brown: [00:12:48] probably about three or four minutes because by the time, since the charity come and got and say I was in the bed, I was so weak. I couldn’t even hardly get out of bed. I was at two weeks.

[00:12:59] And, I’m [00:13:00] telling you that, that, that sickness it’s it’s my doctor told me, he said, this is one evil germ. And he said, this germ is a germ. They can’t get a hold of because it can transmute the bloodlines, not just in humans, but in animals. And he said they can’t do it, had a grip on it because this thing keeps jumping and it keeps like transmuting from one to another, you know?

[00:13:30] And, but she was gone probably close to maybe. Three to four minutes

[00:13:37] Luis Urrego: [00:13:37] and it wasn’t her time to go over the case.

[00:13:40] Keith Brown: [00:13:40] God, that brought her back. Hey

[00:13:43] Luis Urrego: [00:13:43] man, I man note now, how are you and her feeling now?

[00:13:48] Keith Brown: [00:13:48] Hello? I’m feeling much better, a lot stronger. I’m still a little bit a weakness in my legs and in my shoulders.

[00:13:58] Cause I was already struggling with [00:14:00] something kind of in my feet anyway. And, it seems like that thing, from what I understand, it attacks everywhere where your body is weak, where your weaknesses are. And, but I’m going to tell you what I had. So, I had some nights were ours, just so I can’t even begin.

[00:14:19] I will, I will was this on my worst enemy? Of what I went through. I know everybody else goes through different things. Now. I never was never had to go to a hospital and never put on the incubator or the, the thing that helps people breathe. It never got that far with me. but the other stages, Oh my goodness.

[00:14:41] They were just no strength. He just literally robs you and suppresses your strength that you just don’t have. But God’s grace. He saw me through and, we’re, we’re actually, we’ve been doing kind of a, a, a streaming services [00:15:00] for the last several weeks, but tomorrow by the grace of God, I’ll be going back to church and we have an Uber’s.

[00:15:07] So, I’m really excited and looking for more, you know, just, you know, when you’re a preacher arts and my attempt at something, they said, give us a chance testimony for about, you know, it was a testimony and, the other person says, Well, if I give you a testimony, he said, it’ll have to be over 30 minutes.

[00:15:24] Cause the preacher came to preach game testify for 30 minutes. You know how you going? Put it in the lesson that you know

[00:15:31] Luis Urrego: [00:15:31] yeah. I’ve heard, I’ve heard brother Keith, that it bless it. I believe his brother, Joe Green they’re in, in, in North Carolina, he said less. It is the preacher who could come and testify and not preach.

[00:15:43] And yeah, that’s, that’s definitely, that’s definitely true. But.

[00:15:48] Keith Brown: [00:15:48] Winter’s just have to be a part of it’s an in season, out of season. Yeah,

[00:15:54] Luis Urrego: [00:15:54] absolutely. Well, brother, Keith, I’m very happy to see that you’re doing much better. I know that, [00:16:00] you know, within the last few weeks you were not doing good and, that’s amazing about your mom, that testimony regarding your mom.

[00:16:07] Obviously the Lord was not through with her. So, and, I know that this a virus, it’s it’s hits, it hits the older ones much stronger. I was tested positive just a few days ago with it. but I’m totally fine now. Thank, thank God, but it didn’t hit me as strong. And so I, I, you know, I am younger, but.

[00:16:29] But I know that it just, it just depends. Some people feel mild symptoms. Some people feel very strong symptoms. And even as you described with your mom at the they’re at the, at the door, the point of death, so we thank God for his healing power.

[00:16:46] Keith Brown: [00:16:46] Yes. Well, my doctor explained to me because when I went in July, there was a lot of forth, believe it or not.

[00:16:55] So I’ve waited three and a half weeks from my result. So I’ve just [00:17:00] been locked up here in the house. Well, they finally, they said their result and everything and, you know, they cleared me now I’m cleared and everything, and we were okay. my doctor, the way he explained it to me is the germ is a transit germs.

[00:17:23] He said, it’s the germ. That’s not satisfied living in the host. The germ has to travel. And that’s when he explained to me, excuse me, about the math. And he was saying, he said, most people don’t understand, but the math is not really for your protection. It’s for the other person. And you don’t understand that, but do you really go through.

[00:17:49] Inexperience what that COVID-19 does because I’m at three and a half weeks. Still didn’t even know what I had, but I mean, it was bad. [00:18:00] I mean, I mean, it can give you, where you hallucinate you you’re you’re raging. I think my fever got up to one Oh four. I believe it was

[00:18:09] Luis Urrego: [00:18:09] that’s very

[00:18:09] Keith Brown: [00:18:09] high. There were a couple of you by the day or so maybe.

[00:18:15] And, my wife was constantly checking on me, making sure you know, that I was taking my medicines and different things like that. And, there’s a wonderful quote, brother Brown who speaks up and at that word. And it really helped me because brother random, someone had asked him, they were sitting at a table and someone asked him and said, brother Brendan was talking about, medicines and things like that.

[00:18:37] And this woman said here, brother, Brandon, take this. And he took it and he looked at it and, and that as a doctor standing next to him and said, whatever, brother Bramble, let me look at that. So he looks at it and he says, brother Brandon. He says, that’s not. I said, ah, that’s not, medicine is that, that’s a vitamin.

[00:18:56] I wrote a Brandon went to say, he said, well, that’s okay. He [00:19:00] said, I’m for anything that can help you. He said anything that can help you is mercy. Boy that opened up a revelation to your heart, that you, you can see that whatever it is, it doesn’t matter if it helps you. If it’s medicine, if it’s vitamins, if it’s a mask, if it’s screw up, it doesn’t matter.

[00:19:22] Whatever it is, it can help you. And that really, really helped me in the Lord real quick. And that to my heart while I was, You know, going through my time and everything. And I, I I’ve read the quote before, but it really didn’t just hit me as a revelation as anything that can help you. Brother Brandon said is mercy and I’m for anything that can help anything can help his mercy.

[00:19:46] That’s very good.

[00:19:48] Luis Urrego: [00:19:48] That’s very interesting brother, Keith, you know, because, you know, sometimes it’s easy for us to, I guess maybe to have a little bit too much pride, you know, within ourselves while I’m not going around wearing a mask. Well, I’m not, [00:20:00] I’m not. But, you know, if you see it this way, if you see it that way, you know, that it it’s God’s mercy, you know, and it may,

[00:20:10] Keith Brown: [00:20:10] it’s a, it’s not just faith.

[00:20:12] Cause a lot of people, Oh, it’s faith. No, it’s not faith. It’s a piece of cloth. It’s got nothing to do with it. It’s what you render to God. It’s like Jesus was standing there and they said, You know, what must we do, you know, for Caesar and all, like he says, well, give me, what do you have? And he said, here’s a penny.

[00:20:31] Well, they gave him a penny. He said, w w w what would we do? He said, Brenda, render unto Caesar. What is Caesar’s? And under gods, what is God? So. What we have to do as believers. It’s what do we render to God? Or are we going to render this? It’s more to God, that’d be no more different and tithing or the time of taxes or anything.

[00:20:56] It’s what you do. What do you render to God? [00:21:00] Because, you know what, what, God knows what you go to render. He knew it before the founder, but now what will you rent? How much will you render? Will this, will you render what they want you to do more or where you render, what guts it’s free, more lazy. That’s what Jesus was showing them at that very moment rendering.

[00:21:22] It sees this. What is seizures? And under God, what his thoughts. So he was showing Fremont agency right there. He was not saying, hello, you God, you got to wear this man. I mean, what if they came up to Jesus with a mask and say, master, what must we do? Caesar says we should wait. No, it’s the same principle.

[00:21:41] It’s the same person. It basically, your faith is magnified to a deeper understanding of mercy. That’s what I see in my own personal, understanding what I’ve gone through. Now I would never tell him right now, you need to do this and you need to know a person has to [00:22:00] do what God reveals to them. But as all myself, I just feel, I know now, as I was saying, I was writing up a little letter to somebody.

[00:22:12] I said, you get it, you get it. When you get it, you get it. You understand how that sickness. Can literally just take down a family and God’s been gracious to my family. My children have done wonderful. You know, they’ve done

[00:22:29] Luis Urrego: [00:22:29] it. Good, good. That is very true

[00:22:35] Keith Brown: [00:22:35] like that, but I’m just excited to know that that God can give you a revelation, even in the worst time of your life.

[00:22:43] You know, when you’re just, you’re just barely hanging on you and your wife. She’s, she’s talking to you and trying to. Shaky and just, you know, get your awake and, you know, at night it’s like, I just couldn’t wait to go to sleep. Cause I didn’t feel no pain, you know, you’re [00:23:00] not, but, but, but God is a good God.

[00:23:02] He cleans yesterday three lemons, a beautiful scripture that I just, it has helped me in my Christian malt. And is in his time, he makes everything beautiful.

[00:23:15] Luis Urrego: [00:23:15] Amen.

[00:23:16] Keith Brown: [00:23:16] We may not understand why we go through the things we go through. And I discovered this too brother, as a minister. Some of the things that you go through in your own experience is not even for you.

[00:23:31] You used those experiences 15, 20 years down the road. I personally can testify on that.

[00:23:40] Luis Urrego: [00:23:40] Absolutely. And then sometimes what I’ve learned to where the Keith is that the experiences that you may go through is for others to learn from them as well. And probably sometimes it’s maybe more for another person than it was for you.

[00:23:55] And so that’s how amazing that God, God, in his word, [00:24:00] he said that all things work together for good. To them that love God. And I include, I include COVID-19 in there,

[00:24:09] Keith Brown: [00:24:09] then say everything was good, said it worked together for the good

[00:24:13] Luis Urrego: [00:24:13] that’s exactly right. That’s exactly right. And, and so by, by us, you know, I, for us as human beings, sometimes we have to experience things in order for our minds to be changed.

[00:24:26] That’s unfortunate and, that, but that’s how God deals with us. Cause God knows us better than we know ourselves. So, my brother, Keith, I appreciate you sharing that with us and just thank God that he’s pulled, he’s pulled you through. And, there’s just so many people to be praying for. I know a lot of, brothers and sisters in different parts of the world who are, who are still right now suffering with it.

[00:24:47] But, but, I believe that God is a healing. God, and he still can heal. If he can heal cancer, he can heal COVID-19 if he’s brought you out and even raised your mom from the dead. There’s nothing that he [00:25:00] can’t do, brother Keith. So brother, Keith, can, you

[00:25:05] Keith Brown: [00:25:05] can, I believe that with all my heart, I’ve seen God many, many miracles in my own life and what he’s done.

[00:25:14] And, you know, my journey to the open book has been a lot of joy, but a lot has been lost in my life. You know, obvious spirits, a lot of loss in my life. And it’s actually me. What I am today to your

[00:25:29] Luis Urrego: [00:25:29] note. That’s where I want to segment two brother Keith, if you could share with us, if you’re comfortable in sharing, I know you’re very excited about sharing with others, your testimony, and you’ve gone through some heartaches in your life.

[00:25:40] And, and maybe somebody would be able to glean from this and, and, be a step in to help helping stepping stone for them. So could you share with us, I guess you can start from the beginning.

[00:25:52] Keith Brown: [00:25:52] Well, I was, when I was 17 years old, let me just start. When the Lord fill me with the baptism of the Holy spirit, I was [00:26:00] 17 years old.

[00:26:01]I was going to a church, Anna and God began to deal with my life because you know what? 17, 18 year old man, you’re fixing this step out in the life and different things like that. I had my own ideas of what I was going to be doing, but in the Lord began to really deal, Oh my heart. And, took me down to the altar one night and I began to write, I really pray.

[00:26:23] Like I’d never prayed in my life and I sought God right there. I mean, there were people all around. We would seven wonderful Tom and the service. And I just, when I got up, I knew there was something different from that moment. Because from that, God gave me something I’d never had before in my life.

[00:26:45] And that was a stability. I believe that when God gives you the baptism of the Holy ghost in your life, I believe he gives you something that is going to stable you and stabilize you for the rest of your life. [00:27:00] I believe the Holy spirit, is just. When it’s in you, it will be there. They lead and guide you, not just into all truth.

[00:27:10] They’re the lead and guide you through all the situations and circumstances. But my first, my first experience with law with loss was, I had, I was married earlier in life and my wife, Chris was stroke with a rare form of leukemia. It was called, well, the doctors called it history, acidic regularity, ridiculousness.

[00:27:36] And, at that time they really didn’t know what it was because there was only about a hundred cases in the world. And, my, my wife, she got struck with S and when it did it shut down, her red blood cells, her white blood cells or platelets. Everything in her blood was shut down completely. She had, and it was just like an [00:28:00] overnight thing.

[00:28:00] This is what’s. So what’s so powerful about this. It’s like, it just happened, overnight, but we had to LifeFlight her to the hospital in Jacksonville and we were there for almost two weeks. And within that two weeks I watched, I watched Chris literally just. Just go down to hardly, really nothing almost, but then God was miraculous and done a supernatural of visitation one night.

[00:28:35] And I mean, she was really bad off her. They had her calories, they were pumping her full of calories to try to suppress because her body was just shaking like this, you know? And it was just so terrible. And I have. yeah, it’s excuse me, a minute. It kind of brings back memories.

[00:28:56] Luis Urrego: [00:28:56] That’s fine.

[00:28:56] Keith Brown: [00:28:56] But, she had a vision at night [00:29:00] from a man that came into her room and the man was dressed in like a priestly garment and she was looking through the steam from coming from her mask.

[00:29:15] And she said she was just afterwards. She was telling me all about it, but I’ll tell you now that changed that young lady that changed my wife. So anyway, he started walking right through her main and he walked right up to her and looked in her face and reached into a pocket and pulled out this bag. And she said he started just throwing this stuff.

[00:29:44] It was like bread falling all over the bed. And she said, all of a sudden, he just turned around. He just walked right back through her bed and turn around just before looked at her, gave a little smile, turn around [00:30:00] and they went right through the wall. The next morning she was healed of that leukemia. It was all over the hospital, even got on the news, the radio, they were talking about it on the gospel radio station and everything cause, my dad and I, we were just constantly in prayer and just, you know, supplication for and everything.

[00:30:26] And God brought her out of that. But then about two years, about two years later, she. Had a little lip here or something it’s slow out. But, when, we took her to the doctor, they told us that her, her blood count was low again at a drop down. And they, they asked me, they said, can we do a chemotherapy treatment that will just kind of help suppress that?

[00:30:59] And [00:31:00] you know, of course, you know, you love your wife, you, you want everything to be right. So I told him, yes, go ahead, go ahead and do it. And when they did it actually knocked down all her bone marrow or her munity system, it just, it just biked it out. So she had no immunity system to fight off. What was just a sexiest civil staff germ.

[00:31:29] It was just a simple staff jerk and, the barrier in a closed casket because of what that germ did that, staph infection. it, it just, I can’t, I can’t explain to you what her body, her face looked like, but it was, Just out of respect for the family and things like that, but we’re not open up the casket because it was just, it was, it was steps.

[00:32:00] [00:31:59] What that, staff, when it got loose, it just, what had done to her tone, her ears, her head, her as her mouth. And, it was not maybe about day. Maybe about a day or two days after that I got a phone call. They told me I needed to come to the hospital because they were losing her. And when I walked in, there’s a certain thing.

[00:32:32] They do, they do truck autonomy or whatever they call it and I’ll walk real loose. I’ll walk right at that moment when they did that. And it was everything I could. To just stay sane in my condition. You know, I’ve seen them a life and everything, and then it was just maybe not even 30 minutes. I remember [00:33:00] her grabbing my finger and I grabbed her finger like this just before she left.

[00:33:08] And I told her, I said, Chris, any I’ve got to go cause they have to work on you. And. I lifted up the sheet and I laid her hand underneath and I put the sheet back down on her and I patted her hand and I walked out and then the doctor came out and told us that she was going to

[00:33:34] Luis Urrego: [00:33:34] brother keyhole. How old were you and her at that

[00:33:37] Keith Brown: [00:33:37] time?

[00:33:41] 20 other elementary, 21, 21 years old. That,

[00:33:48] Luis Urrego: [00:33:48] that that’s something terrible for a 21 year old young man to just have to go through and how all those. She

[00:33:58] Keith Brown: [00:33:58] had two boys. [00:34:00] Wow. My oldest boy, Isaac, or Jarron excuse me, my oldest boy Jaron. And then my second one. From her was Christopher. And, they, I think he was about three years old, maybe three or four years old.

[00:34:17] I think it was. And then Christopher was about 18 months old and, it was, It was a very, very hard time to try to grasp and understand because you know, when you’re yelling and you find somebody you’re in love with, and all I get you think of a role that I knew just in the life, but I would like to share this one thing I was, I was really going through a really, really hard time with it.

[00:34:46] And I worked at a company that was an aircraft corporation and, I was a maintenance mechanic there. So I had rights going anywhere up on the buildings and some of the bills. Those are like 50, 60 feet high. [00:35:00] And I’ll never forget one day I was just so distraught out. Just didn’t care about living no more, you know, and I walked out, read it to the edge.

[00:35:12] And I looked down and I thought in my heart, I said, you know, I said, I could just fall over here and it’ll all be over now, I’m a minister. And I passed it. And if I can honestly say that, I actually heard the voice of God in my life. It was that day. I was standing on the edge of that wind blowing.

[00:35:39] Probably 30, 35 miles an hour. All I do is just let go, you know, and God spoke to me, you know what he said to me? He said, you coward. Hmm. That’s what he called me. He said you coward. And then all of a sudden I just shook myself and I, and [00:36:00] I, and I’ll step back about three or four steps. And I realize what I was fixing to do.

[00:36:05] You know, and all of a sudden, my, my two boys are their pitchers faces came right up in front of me, like, like that, you know?

[00:36:17] And then from then on, I was able to take my steps in life, to, you know, to prepare and what God would have for me and everything, you know? But yeah. If God ever spoke to me that day, if I ever heard the voice of God, he called me to tower room release.

[00:36:36] Luis Urrego: [00:36:36] He saved you by calling you a coward.

[00:36:42] My goodness brother Kesa

[00:36:45] Keith Brown: [00:36:45] after that, about a two and a half years, the Lord laid on my heart, a young lady and, The Lord had began to deal with her too, you know, and it’s really a really beautiful [00:37:00] supernatural. It’s a story about it, but we were married for a little over 20 years and, she, it gave birth to, it was, see it was about Bethany or is Amy of Bethany, Excuse me, brother.

[00:37:17] I’m sorry. It was Amy, Rachel Isaac. And then we had twins, but they passed away the day she passed away. So I lost three in one day. I was preaching at the church and, I had finished, I went outside. My son was going to visit, some family such that they wanted to drop by because, Angie had stayed home that day.

[00:37:51] She wasn’t feeling well. So I kissed her by and I told her when we get back, maybe we can go out and we can grab a meal, but you stay home because it was [00:38:00] raining. It’s just kind of struggling with some of the bronchitis and, it’s, it’s amazing how the Lord, Just brought that day to way he did, because my daughter in law come flying back to the house or go back to the church and I walked outside and she said, she said, Keith, Keith.

[00:38:21] She said, Angie, she’s not breathing. She’s blue. She’s laying on the floor. You gotta come. You gotta come. So I got in the vehicle, we went up there and went in there and, my wife, Angie had passed away that morning. And she had just fixed her an angel food cake and a glass of milk. And she over in front of the refrigerator and that’s where she died.

[00:38:47] And it was a really a supernatural event that took place. Everybody was crying, screaming, it was just, it was turmoil. And then this was [00:39:00] something that helped me through. What I went through, but Lewis, but I watched, she was, she was pregnant. Yeah. With two boys, I watched two full fledged bodies rise up right out of her.

[00:39:21] And I watched her rise out right in front of the refrigerator. I watched one of them take one of her arms. And the other one took the other arm and then just went right through that refrigerator. I mean, it was just like snap and they were gone and that helped me more than so much. There was an experiment, I guess.

[00:39:52] It’s okay to keep just sharing this. I’m hoping to open some.

[00:39:57] Luis Urrego: [00:39:57] No, that’s fine, brother. Keith. Yeah. We’re we have [00:40:00] several people that are watching this love right now, but, it’s it’s just sad. How old were you at the time when you lost your second wife?

[00:40:07] Keith Brown: [00:40:07] 27? I think it was Nope. No, no, no, no. I’m sorry.

[00:40:12] That’s 27 years. No, I’m sorry. Honestly, I was in the forties, forties. And I’m sorry about that. I was just thinking of. When I married a NGO, I was more like 27, 28 years old, right in there somewhere. But I was like 40 something years old, but yeah, it was somewhere up in my mid later forties. but, what was so amazing is that we were really having a struggle there after he had died.

[00:40:44] And, it was right in front of the refrigerator. God, why couldn’t you let her pass away in the living room or in the den or somewhere, but right in right where you have to walk every night after that, you know, [00:41:00] just to get something to eat or something. And one day, I mean, you know, you know, we’re brothers random quotes where he says to overcome the complaint that you have to do the.

[00:41:11] Opposite. Well, my daughters, they were just at each other. We were just having a time, you know, it was just, it was really hard, you know, losing her and then trying to have to go on with life and things like that. And, and I opened the refrigerator and a voice spoke me so sweetly in my spirit and said to overcome the complex, you have to do the opposite.

[00:41:34] So I called my girls over because here’s a place bridge, dreary, weariness, you know, you just, you just, I just don’t like this place right here in the morning, you know? It’s right in front of your refrigerator and over. And I took both of them and I took them both in my arms and I just started talking to him and we went to them and told them how we’re going to overcome this and how this is, you [00:42:00] know, we’re going to be strong, what momma would have wanted.

[00:42:03] And I was just, I didn’t realize it. But what I was doing is I was taking that place. Of dread weariness and, you know, woe and all these things that I was turning this thing around to victory, enjoy and overcoming. So I was able to take that complex. Of what it had become and be able to turn it around and that’s very same place.

[00:42:32] And you know, there might be somebody out there right now, you might have placed somewhere that you dread to go. Maybe one of your loved ones is, has, was lost or they died or, or, or whatever. Okay. You can take that same spot and you could turn it around. And when God done that for me, that. Helped us so much.

[00:42:51] Then we were able to go on and start moving on in the next phase of our life, you know? And, but it [00:43:00] was, to lose three, almost three in one day. Brother.

[00:43:05] Luis Urrego: [00:43:05] Can you, I’m sorry to interrupt. Can you make where the, where the twins were they already born or was she pregnant with

[00:43:13] Keith Brown: [00:43:13] twins? Seven to seven months pregnant.

[00:43:16] Okay. we didn’t seem to have no trouble in her pregnancy or in that thing, you know, but, I’ll never read the night before she passed away. I was a, I’m kind of a Jack of all trades and I do a lot of remodeling and stuff. So I was in our living room and I was down on my knees. I was doing some power.

[00:43:37] All of a sudden I felt this warm arms come across my shoulder like that. And she was saying to me, a kiss on the cheek and she said, I just want to thank you for everything that you’ve done. I know what you’ve gone through and see, I’d had a, fully bypass, open heart surgery too. So I don’t do that. You know?

[00:43:58] And then I was just really [00:44:00] recovering getting my strength back and everything. And, she come up to me and she told me how much they love me and how much she appreciated me. And that was really the last time that I really, you know, it was just really special that moment, you know? Cause I wasn’t thinking the next day she would be called and but I can look back at that now and I say, those are, those are memories, you know?

[00:44:23] And that’s the one good thing. That, parents, you need to do what your kids raising them up in his message is make memories because that’s what your kids are going to come back to later on in life is making memories and that’s something I’ve always tried to do with my children. Even today is try to make a memory, not just have a time with your children, but make a memory and a, because I think it’ll last a whole lot longer.

[00:44:54] It’ll last a whole lot longer, but she, as I said, she, she, [00:45:00] she passed away and they wouldn’t declare the twins gone until they got him to the hospital because about law. They had to make sure that they had expired. They called it, you know? And, it’s, you know, you just, you know, as a, as a man. You, you, you, you can struggle with so many things, you know, not just being a minister, you know, being a minister through all that, you know, but, it’s just being able to, to know that he’s gonna, he’s gonna do something.

[00:45:38] You might not understand it at that moment. You might not. Comprehend Lord. Why, why are you doing these things to me? Why are you putting me through these things? And, but I’m going to say if you’re a son and daughter of God, you will come to a place in your heart that you realize that [00:46:00] God is going to take care of you.

[00:46:05] No matter what, you know, it’s your, your peace that you have, that peace that passes all understanding. You know,

[00:46:14] Luis Urrego: [00:46:14] we trust that you enjoyed this portion of this interview with brother Keith Brown from st. Augustine, Florida. And I certainly enjoyed talking to brother Keith. He’s certainly a pleasure to talk to and very knowledgeable, and, and brings out a lot of wisdom.

[00:46:32]through the experience that he’s had, in his lifetime, very tragic, the way his life, the way, excuse me, the way his life has, has been carried out. But, you know, God will not tempt us more than what we can handle. He knows what we can handle. And I believe that in brother Keith’s, example in brother Keith’s life, God knew that he could handle that.

[00:46:55] And therefore, He knew God knew that brother Keith [00:47:00] could handle this, these tests. So we’re going to continue with this episode a or B on the next episode. So I trust that you would stay tuned with that in the meantime. I want you to be wise. I want you to be mindful to make sure that everything that you do okay.

[00:47:19] The rest of this week, make sure that you feed yourself with God’s word, the message of the hour, the good things. It will help you grow in this stature of our Lord. Jesus Christ. May God bless you until next time, take

[00:47:38] care.