It’s not about “reasons.” It’s about the spiritual confirmation by revelation. The world may mock, but what the Lord hath spoken to us, he hath spoken.
What a noble man-better than some of the rest of us who take offense. Standing firm when you know something is true in spite of opposition is the sign of a nobility and strength. So grateful you shared your testimony.
I love you my brother. Thank you for sharing the story of your super valiant faith! I wept and smiled feeling incredibly strong surges of the spirit. I love you.
Issac is a true pioneer that had to endure his time in the proverbial wilderness until reaching the promise land. His testimony and faith is stronger because of it. Great story!
You have so much faith, and so much love. No matter what, you're love for the gospel pulled you through anything, even by a thread. I can understand that personally. Thank you for sharing your love for the gospel. Thank you for sharing that you held on even when you went through what you went through. It is supportive and assisting to hear this.
Isaac, your faith and courage are so amazing! I love how well you have trusted in God through hard times. This is what we all need to learn how to do in this life! Thanks for sharing your story with such honesty and humility. I am truly inspired and uplifted by people like you.
I cried when that moment happened, because my mom was happy crying. I was eight. My best friend was a young African-American boy who was baptized when I was, but his mother was agonizing over having to tell him he couldn't hold the priesthood. That moment when the priesthood was extended to all worthy men was a really beautiful moment, even for a child.
You are one of the brightest most faithful members I have ever seen. The Lord placed you for the foundation of future saints. Your intelligence is special 🙏
What an amazing man you are Brother. As a white man born in the church I have struggled with this issue. Your faith is inspiring. May Hod bless you and yours. 🙏🏼
God bless you Isaac Thomas worlds without end. I noticed i watched this three years ago and it showed up on my youtube feed this morning so i watched it again. It touched me again this morning so much that i couldnt hold back tears.
I love you Elder Brother Thomas... even though I don't know you personally. What a light and blessing you are! You have no idea how much I needed to hear this! I was sealed in the SLC temple (in the background) 27 years ago and now go to the temple and church alone. My husband and son stopped going to the church in large part because of how blacks were denied the priesthood in earlier times.
God bless you brother. After military I still had rough time. But I eventually refound my faith in the church again and again. I regret so much. But joining the church never. Only church I feel closer to God in. Always was so and always will be. 💪🙏
This affected me deeply. Thank you for sharing and letting me and others see how are you trusted in the Lord. I'm 47 years old and received the Priesthood of God when I was 12. I've tried throughout my life to live worthy and exercise it frequently. It has been a tremendous blessing in my life that I've never taken for granted. Nevertheless, hearing your story and feeling the power of the Spirit while I watched made tears flow freely. I now cherish the privilege I have to be one of God's trusted Priesthood holders even more. Thank you so much for your tremendous example!!!
No doubt you are the reason or at least part of the reason. You proved faithful and I love you. My grandchildren- whose dad is Ugandan is a benefactor of your faithfulness. We don't care what others think say or do. That's between them and God. We work out our salvation with Him whi knows all and loves all.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story and testimony. My heart has been filled to overflowing. Your strength and steadfastness are examples of Christ-like character. Through tears of joy I offer my gratitude to you and our Savior.
I love this! I cried the day they made this announcement! I was so happy for the blacks having this blessing, this authority! I read the book by the first black man to receive the Priesthood; it was awesome!
Isaac, I was at the Young Ambassadors concert in Toronto when you met your wife! I remember the fulfillment of this sacred revelation and I remember the amazing examples of Toronto members, Prince Nurse and Clloyd Burns, who cherished the gift of the priesthood when they were ordained!! Will never forget it!! Will treasure this moment and thank you 🙏 ♥️
Isaac Thomas you are amazing! I havent ever understood why blacks werent able to have the Priesthood & it still bugs me now & then & i wouldnt have stayed in or even joined a religion that supported that, how did you do it? Watching your story made me feel hope...hope that there are beautiful people out there & beautiful people within the church that help people like me keep trying. Youre the man brother, love u heaps xx
The lord knew how much those words hurt you, it hurt me too! I'm grateful he came through to show you how his love is even more powerful, peaceful and kind! So much so, I'm in tears! Beaming with light as soon as there was a breathrough! You are amazing! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🥺🥺💖💕
A wonderful example to is all. That truly was a difficult test for you but you handled it so positively and with maturity and exceeding patience. True to the Faith. God bless you and all your loved ones.❤️😊
Powerful testimony and a wonderful man who is indeed a disciple of Jesus Christ. I'd be more than honored to name my son after him, nothing but love and admiration for this individual.
Thank you so much for your Testimony makes me strong in the gospel for you not giving up,May God continue to Bless You and your Family and Those you contact with 🙏🏼😀
I cannot imagine the strength, the faith, and the humility of Isaac Thomas. “Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.”-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. This man lived it. I just want to say to him, thank you for the inspiration you give.
Brother Thomas, thank you so much for your extraordinary example of faith and courage! This video is likely at least a partial answer to prayer for me. You have definitely been “True to the Faith” as you quoted from that hymn and, even though we don’t know each other, you are now one of my heroes! I am a lifelong White and Caucasian member, now in my late 50s, and as a teenager I struggled to understand and accept why Blacks could not hold the Priesthood. I still struggle with “why it was” but I believe that one day I (and everyone) will understand the answer to that and many other of the questions that are, at least to our mortal eyes and understanding, such injustices. In the meantime, I will try to follow your example of being true to your and my shared faith, however poor my attempts so often are.
What a great example you are, brother Isaac Thomas, of how a saint should be!!! I am so happy that you had the courage to make this video!!!! So happy that you were able to hear the gospel and get baptized in 1972! You are such a beautiful spirit and brother! Thank you for your example and testimony! Do you work for the church? I see the temple in the background… My son is very fortunate to work for the church... thank you again!
I love this man - wish I could see him do those cartwheels he talked about and I wish I could have heard him sing and seen him dance back in the day. ♥️
What A Testimony he had ... I Felt it, i was touched and moved by it ... thank you so much for wonderful and insightful testimony of the Priesthood and of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Brilliant, uplifting, powerful. Isaac I hope I see you in the kingdom of God, I know you will be there, I hope I am too! True to the faith for which martyrs have perished, always!
Thanks for sharing your story! Incredible faith in such challenging times. I thought it was interesting Pres Kimball wrote to you about women needing to go to temple to serve missions. My parents and other relatives joined church in Argentina well before the SP Brazil temple was built. They served missions without receiving endowments.
And a number of missionaries, male and female, who began serving in the early days of the pandemic when the temples were closed also had not yet received their endowments. I imagine that many, maybe even most, have now been able to receive them while in the mission field, but likely not all because not every mission has a temple in its boundaries.
Listening in 2021, your words are still helpful and a source of strength. When you said the Church is true, the gospel is true. Basically, don't look at the people and their issues, focus on what you know Nd believe about the church, wow. Home run Thank you.
This interview is so sad. Take a step back and really listen. 1. They said he couldn't get the priesthood 2. He couldn't go on a mission 3. Have the same blessings 4. And live on the periphery Because he is black... That is so disturbing if you think about it!
God said no blacks in the priesthood? I can’t get my head around an org that wouldn’t let blacks be at the top. I can understand women, but skin color? That said the LDS people are the nicest and kindest people I know.
I have always had in the back of my mind and heart as to how black people are viewed in the church...I am now coming back to the church after being inactive for over 20 years. This was one of the reasons that I initially stepped back and found out that I was considered a decendant of Cane because of my melinated skin. I thought this was so unfair. Our skin gets vilified so much and unfair biased are opposed. It is a choice to be prejudiced or bigoted and I know now the church is not like that and at least the principles they are teaching now and ended up embracing and conveying now are not that at all ok with any of that. I am so glad that all men of the church has the ability to equally and fairly have the preisthood. Those that carry that in their hearts are not followers of Jesus who is not a white man no matter how he gets painted and certainly not of the father our heavenly father who sent him which he is a carbon reflection of. Those that live like that already have their rewardI assure you. Hatred leaves a blemish on the soul and our heavenly father cannot be in the presence of any unclean thing. My grandfather passed away a melchizedek preisthood holder. He is who ushered us into the church. All the times I had been moved from church to chruch as a kid he stayed true to his prayers and finally joined the church and was so faithful. I have to remember this is the man who helped raise us and had never and would never lead me astray. He set a path for my family and I today will gladly step back on it to the finish line. Your testimony is beautiful and helped me make a decision today. Thank you and glory to God in the highest in the name of Jesus the Christ. Amen
Sooooo, God "changed his mind" in 1978? A new "revelation" rather than admitting that MEN, not God, had kept black people down until 1978? Then and only then--with the new revelation--it was OK to be black? Do I have that right? This man seems a good man, and I wish him well, but how he--as a black man--can accept this "church" teaching is way past me, I must say.
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Now that’s faith man. He’s got a lot of reasons to quit, but he has a deep testimony of the wholesomeness of the church
*Brainwashing*
let's not forget the "wholesomeness" of God to change his mind in 1978. Yeah, in THAT year, "God" decided it was ok for a man to be black. Gooooood.
@@jimquantic a merciful God lol
It’s not about “reasons.” It’s about the spiritual confirmation by revelation. The world may mock, but what the Lord hath spoken to us, he hath spoken.
This is such an inspiring story. Talk about being faithful.
Wonderfully inspiring story of faith. I have so much respect for brothers and sisters like him.
What a noble man-better than some of the rest of us who take offense. Standing firm when you know something is true in spite of opposition is the sign of a nobility and strength. So grateful you shared your testimony.
Thank you for your testimony, your courage and steadfastness.
I love you my brother.
Thank you for sharing the
story of your super valiant faith! I wept and smiled feeling incredibly strong surges of the spirit.
I love you.
Issac is a true pioneer that had to endure his time in the proverbial wilderness until reaching the promise land. His testimony and faith is stronger because of it. Great story!
You have so much faith, and so much love. No matter what, you're love for the gospel pulled you through anything, even by a thread. I can understand that personally. Thank you for sharing your love for the gospel. Thank you for sharing that you held on even when you went through what you went through. It is supportive and assisting to hear this.
What a true hero! Love this man! My testimony just increased, thank you brother!
Isaac, your faith and courage are so amazing! I love how well you have trusted in God through hard times. This is what we all need to learn how to do in this life! Thanks for sharing your story with such honesty and humility. I am truly inspired and uplifted by people like you.
What a purely beautiful, and beautifully pure soul. 😊💗
I cried when that moment happened, because my mom was happy crying. I was eight. My best friend was a young African-American boy who was baptized when I was, but his mother was agonizing over having to tell him he couldn't hold the priesthood. That moment when the priesthood was extended to all worthy men was a really beautiful moment, even for a child.
Brother Thomas, my heart burned with the Spirit hearing your story and testimony. Thank you so much for sharing!
WOW! I have been a member since 1967...so this is what Faith looks like!...pretty impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just met brother Thomas last night... Very sweet man and powerful testimony .
You can FEEL his faith! Brought me to tears. He loves God so completely! Wow, thanks for sharing your testimony, so powerful!
Your faith has inspired me.
You are one of the brightest most faithful members I have ever seen. The Lord placed you for the foundation of future saints. Your intelligence is special 🙏
What an amazing man you are Brother. As a white man born in the church I have struggled with this issue. Your faith is inspiring.
May Hod bless you and yours. 🙏🏼
You should still be struggling with this issue.
God bless you Isaac Thomas worlds without end. I noticed i watched this three years ago and it showed up on my youtube feed this morning so i watched it again. It touched me again this morning so much that i couldnt hold back tears.
I love you Elder Brother Thomas... even though I don't know you personally. What a light and blessing you are! You have no idea how much I needed to hear this! I was sealed in the SLC temple (in the background) 27 years ago and now go to the temple and church alone. My husband and son stopped going to the church in large part because of how blacks were denied the priesthood in earlier times.
People fail us but God is always faithful ❤🙏
Brother Thomas. You are one of the great ones, I wish I knew you . Thanks from Brother Neal
God bless you brother. After military I still had rough time. But I eventually refound my faith in the church again and again. I regret so much. But joining the church never. Only church I feel closer to God in. Always was so and always will be. 💪🙏
What a great testimony! Thank you, so much for your faithfulness!
Thank you Issac. It is good to hear your testimony again. You are a wonderful example.
Wow! Reserved and preserved for a remarkable time and place. God bless.
Humility at its finest. What an example and touching story
This affected me deeply. Thank you for sharing and letting me and others see how are you trusted in the Lord. I'm 47 years old and received the Priesthood of God when I was 12. I've tried throughout my life to live worthy and exercise it frequently. It has been a tremendous blessing in my life that I've never taken for granted. Nevertheless, hearing your story and feeling the power of the Spirit while I watched made tears flow freely. I now cherish the privilege I have to be one of God's trusted Priesthood holders even more. Thank you so much for your tremendous example!!!
No doubt you are the reason or at least part of the reason. You proved faithful and I love you. My grandchildren- whose dad is Ugandan is a benefactor of your faithfulness. We don't care what others think say or do. That's between them and God. We work out our salvation with Him whi knows all and loves all.
I like this guy, he does not say "no" for an answer.
Bro. Thomas is a true inspiration and example. No doubt that he will also be a valiant leader among men in the next phase of our eternal existence.
Thank you Mr. Isaac Thomas. God bless you.
Thank you so much for your faithfulness and holding on until you received your endowments and the priesthood.
Incredible and powerful testimony. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your wonderful testimony!
Thank you for your testimony and thank you for sharing your story. You are a great exemplar of faith.
What an inspiring testimony. This is the same way a now Bishop friend of mine felt.
So glad I got to hear this story. Thank you!
The faith of these black members that had the faith to be a member when they were not able to hold the priesthood is just amazing.
*member of African descent
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story and testimony. My heart has been filled to overflowing. Your strength and steadfastness are examples of Christ-like character. Through tears of joy I offer my gratitude to you and our Savior.
Your testimony is beautiful, and I can see your tender and beautiful soul shining all over you thank you for sharing it lifts up my soul.
I love this! I cried the day they made this announcement! I was so happy for the blacks having this blessing, this authority! I read the book by the first black man to receive the Priesthood; it was awesome!
Brother, you are amazing and just strengthened my testimony!
Wonderful testimony. Thank you.
Such extraordinary faith...my heart is full hearing his story
Isaac, I was at the Young Ambassadors concert in Toronto when you met your wife! I remember the fulfillment of this sacred revelation and I remember the amazing examples of Toronto members, Prince Nurse and Clloyd Burns, who cherished the gift of the priesthood when they were ordained!! Will never forget it!! Will treasure this moment and thank you 🙏 ♥️
Isaac Thomas you are amazing! I havent ever understood why blacks werent able to have the Priesthood & it still bugs me now & then & i wouldnt have stayed in or even joined a religion that supported that, how did you do it?
Watching your story made me feel hope...hope that there are beautiful people out there & beautiful people within the church that help people like me keep trying.
Youre the man brother, love u heaps xx
Absolutely a beautiful story! Thank you for sharing. As someone else mentioned, now THAT'S faith!!
This is a great man. Bless you brother.
Just what I needed to hear today; thank you so much for your faith and testimony!!!
Beautiful! What a great soul! Thank you!
The lord knew how much those words hurt you, it hurt me too! I'm grateful he came through to show you how his love is even more powerful, peaceful and kind! So much so, I'm in tears! Beaming with light as soon as there was a breathrough! You are amazing! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🥺🥺💖💕
A wonderful example to is all. That truly was a difficult test for you but you handled it so positively and with maturity and exceeding patience. True to the Faith. God bless you and all your loved ones.❤️😊
You are such a choice soul! Thank you for sharing your wonderful story of faith. 💕
Isaac you are a good man a much better man than me. Thank you for sharing.your story.
Powerful testimony and a wonderful man who is indeed a disciple of Jesus Christ. I'd be more than honored to name my son after him, nothing but love and admiration for this individual.
Thank you so much for your Testimony makes me strong in the gospel for you not giving up,May God continue to Bless You and your Family and Those you contact with 🙏🏼😀
Brother Thomas your faith is so Strong it will never falter hold your head high bear your Testimony often
I cannot imagine the strength, the faith, and the humility of Isaac Thomas. “Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.”-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. This man lived it. I just want to say to him, thank you for the inspiration you give.
Brother Thomas, thank you so much for your extraordinary example of faith and courage! This video is likely at least a partial answer to prayer for me.
You have definitely been “True to the Faith” as you quoted from that hymn and, even though we don’t know each other, you are now one of my heroes! I am a lifelong White and Caucasian member, now in my late 50s, and as a teenager I struggled to understand and accept why Blacks could not hold the Priesthood. I still struggle with “why it was” but I believe that one day I (and everyone) will understand the answer to that and many other of the questions that are, at least to our mortal eyes and understanding, such injustices. In the meantime, I will try to follow your example of being true to your and my shared faith, however poor my attempts so often are.
What a great example you are, brother Isaac Thomas, of how a saint should be!!! I am so happy that you had the courage to make this video!!!! So happy that you were able to hear the gospel and get baptized in 1972! You are such a beautiful spirit and brother! Thank you for your example and testimony! Do you work for the church? I see the temple in the background… My son is very fortunate to work for the church... thank you again!
I love this man - wish I could see him do those cartwheels he talked about and I wish I could have heard him sing and seen him dance back in the day. ♥️
What A Testimony he had ... I Felt it, i was touched and moved by it ... thank you so much for wonderful and insightful testimony of the Priesthood and of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Isaac I saw you when I was on my mission in Tennessee fantastic I served from 1977 to 1979
Wow what a perfect testimony so glad I heard about this!
Wow. What faith❤️. That was beautiful❤️
What a lesson in faith this is to all of us.! Thank you so much for staying strong.
Brilliant, uplifting, powerful. Isaac I hope I see you in the kingdom of God, I know you will be there, I hope I am too! True to the faith for which martyrs have perished, always!
Thanks for sharing your story! Incredible faith in such challenging times. I thought it was interesting Pres Kimball wrote to you about women needing to go to temple to serve missions. My parents and other relatives joined church in Argentina well before the SP Brazil temple was built. They served missions without receiving endowments.
And a number of missionaries, male and female, who began serving in the early days of the pandemic when the temples were closed also had not yet received their endowments. I imagine that many, maybe even most, have now been able to receive them while in the mission field, but likely not all because not every mission has a temple in its boundaries.
Thank you for sharing.
This brought tears to my eyes. What a testimony you have! I'm so happy for you.
The greatest testimony I have heard in a very long time. Thank you brother Isaac Thomas for sharing this with me. Praise God Almighty! 1 Nephi 3:7
Listening in 2021, your words are still helpful and a source of strength. When you said the Church is true, the gospel is true.
Basically, don't look at the people and their issues, focus on what you know Nd believe about the church, wow.
Home run
Thank you.
Thank you for this video. You are amazing!
Wow. Remarkable.
This interview is so sad. Take a step back and really listen.
1. They said he couldn't get the priesthood
2. He couldn't go on a mission
3. Have the same blessings
4. And live on the periphery
Because he is black...
That is so disturbing if you think about it!
It’s hard to find a people who cherish and respect the priesthood as much as a people who couldn’t have it for a time.
I remember jumping for joy when that happened!
WOW. He is a hero.
The limitations of Man does not diminish the Gospel.
Oh my gosh! This is such an amazing story. So inspiring.
God said no blacks in the priesthood? I can’t get my head around an org that wouldn’t let blacks be at the top. I can understand women, but skin color?
That said the LDS people are the nicest and kindest people I know.
What a loving spirt this man is
Amen, Amen And Amen.
I have always had in the back of my mind and heart as to how black people are viewed in the church...I am now coming back to the church after being inactive for over 20 years. This was one of the reasons that I initially stepped back and found out that I was considered a decendant of Cane because of my melinated skin. I thought this was so unfair. Our skin gets vilified so much and unfair biased are opposed. It is a choice to be prejudiced or bigoted and I know now the church is not like that and at least the principles they are teaching now and ended up embracing and conveying now are not that at all ok with any of that. I am so glad that all men of the church has the ability to equally and fairly have the preisthood. Those that carry that in their hearts are not followers of Jesus who is not a white man no matter how he gets painted and certainly not of the father our heavenly father who sent him which he is a carbon reflection of. Those that live like that already have their rewardI assure you. Hatred leaves a blemish on the soul and our heavenly father cannot be in the presence of any unclean thing.
My grandfather passed away a melchizedek preisthood holder. He is who ushered us into the church. All the times I had been moved from church to chruch as a kid he stayed true to his prayers and finally joined the church and was so faithful. I have to remember this is the man who helped raise us and had never and would never lead me astray. He set a path for my family and I today will gladly step back on it to the finish line.
Your testimony is beautiful and helped me make a decision today. Thank you and glory to God in the highest in the name of Jesus the Christ. Amen
Well said.
he looks so young i thought he was like 40
I cry for him. What faith this man has
And with that, I'll wipe the tear from my eye and close my day. We'll done.
So sad people believe it was a revelation. So sad people believe God had anything to do with that doctrine.
WOW!!!
Is this when they fixed Joseph Smiths translation, talking about the nephites from "white and delightsome" to "pure and delightsome" (
Amen!
❤️❤️❤️
Sooooo, God "changed his mind" in 1978? A new "revelation" rather than admitting that MEN, not God, had kept black people down until 1978? Then and only then--with the new revelation--it was OK to be black? Do I have that right? This man seems a good man, and I wish him well, but how he--as a black man--can accept this "church" teaching is way past me, I must say.
😍🥰😭
The book of Mormon said all along that God is no respecter of person finally somebody read it.
The Priesthood ban was an absolute tragedy. So wrong. This is the biggest reason more black Americans will not join the church
Moses had to deal with the same thing about the Priesthood. It's God's power not mine to give.
There is almost no tax for being gullible in the Bible. Child Like Faith is awesome.