We've been having a tremendous blessed time here - 00:00:38.80\00:00:42.51 Amen - in West Frankfort, Illinois, at our Camp Meeting. 00:00:42.54\00:00:46.40 We have a tremendous attendance here 00:00:46.63\00:00:48.80 and everyone's having a wonderful time, Danny. 00:00:49.01\00:00:52.30 We are. And people are being fed physically - yeah - 00:00:52.40\00:00:55.32 because over here we've had free meals all week once again. 00:00:55.52\00:00:57.66 And so we figured then you get fed spiritually 00:00:57.86\00:01:01.16 why not physically too, right? Amen! Right! 00:01:01.26\00:01:03.47 So we're glad that each and every one of you are here. 00:01:03.57\00:01:05.52 And for those of you at home, thank you for joining us 00:01:05.72\00:01:07.88 as you do each and every day. Yes. And thank you for your love 00:01:08.08\00:01:10.81 and your prayers and financial support of 3ABN 00:01:10.91\00:01:13.98 as we endeavor to take this great gospel of the kingdom 00:01:14.08\00:01:16.46 into all the world. Amen. What a privilege to get together, 00:01:16.66\00:01:19.85 and here we've been here for several days. 00:01:20.05\00:01:22.40 We've got all day and all evening 00:01:22.60\00:01:24.43 and much of this is going out live all around the world. 00:01:24.63\00:01:27.26 Isn't that amazing? Amen! Thirty years ago 00:01:27.47\00:01:29.60 this November was just a dream. 00:01:29.80\00:01:31.77 The Lord impressed us to build a television station that would 00:01:31.97\00:01:34.58 reach the world with an undiluted three angels' messages 00:01:34.68\00:01:37.28 one that would counteract the counterfeit. 00:01:37.48\00:01:39.64 And today to say we're on nine satellites 00:01:39.84\00:01:42.30 that people can watch anywhere on planet earth 00:01:42.40\00:01:44.66 if they want to watch 3ABN. 00:01:44.76\00:01:46.51 Not only just our original 3ABN but all the other networks. 00:01:46.81\00:01:51.06 Dare to Dream Network, Latino Network. 00:01:51.26\00:01:53.84 We have our Proclaim! We have our Children's. 00:01:54.04\00:01:56.65 We have our International Network. 00:01:56.85\00:01:58.59 We praise God for that. We couldn't do it without you 00:01:58.79\00:02:01.38 with your love, prayers, and support so thank you so much. 00:02:01.68\00:02:04.20 It's so amazing now, y'all... that when we started this 00:02:04.60\00:02:08.01 Judy and I, we'll talk about it in a minute. We've been 00:02:08.21\00:02:09.95 working together 30-some years. Now we can on our telephones 00:02:10.05\00:02:14.24 anywhere in the world we can watch 3ABN if we want to. 00:02:14.44\00:02:17.38 Isn't that amazing? Amen! The technology 00:02:17.68\00:02:20.12 that has happened. And last events right before Jesus comes 00:02:20.32\00:02:23.56 knowledge shall be increased and what'll happen? Men run 00:02:23.76\00:02:26.07 to and fro. Folks, that's what's happening today. 00:02:26.17\00:02:29.11 Someone said: "Well you Christians are always saying 00:02:29.41\00:02:31.51 Jesus is coming again. You're always saying... 00:02:31.61\00:02:34.02 You've been saying that for 100 years, 200 years, 00:02:34.22\00:02:36.42 every generation. And knowledge has been increased 00:02:36.62\00:02:39.58 and, you know, so what is different about this? " 00:02:39.78\00:02:42.64 I said: "There's a big difference. " Think about this: 00:02:42.84\00:02:46.19 100 years ago how could you get the gospel to all the world? 00:02:46.49\00:02:49.50 That's right. Couldn't, could you? 00:02:49.90\00:02:52.22 Now think about this: when we... Right now we're speaking to you. 00:02:52.52\00:02:56.22 When we say: "Hello and welcome to 3ABN! " 00:02:56.52\00:02:58.57 this signal goes up 22,300 miles to space. 00:02:58.67\00:03:02.55 How much did I say? 00:03:02.86\00:03:04.03 22,300 miles, and it travels at the speed of light. 00:03:04.23\00:03:08.91 Anybody know what the speed of light is? 00:03:09.11\00:03:10.40 186,000... Fast somebody said. 00:03:10.70\00:03:13.16 186,200 miles per second. 00:03:13.36\00:03:16.60 Goes around planet earth in just about three seconds. 00:03:16.80\00:03:20.20 Now, if the Lord tarried 1,000 years, how much 00:03:20.50\00:03:23.14 can you improve on three seconds - right? - 00:03:23.25\00:03:24.97 getting the gospel to the world? Folks, we are there. 00:03:25.28\00:03:27.36 Now we are not waiting on Jesus. 00:03:27.66\00:03:30.38 He's waiting on His people to perfect His character 00:03:30.58\00:03:33.04 within our lives so that He can come back 00:03:33.24\00:03:35.90 for a victorious church, right? Amen! 00:03:36.10\00:03:38.12 Somebody say amen to that? Amen! We're excited today. 00:03:38.22\00:03:40.81 Thank the Lord for His blessings and for the opportunity 00:03:40.94\00:03:45.30 of being Christians in the clos- ing moments of earth's history. 00:03:45.50\00:03:48.77 Oh we really are. And during this Camp Meeting 00:03:48.97\00:03:51.60 one of the great things: the messages have been phenomenal - 00:03:51.80\00:03:54.55 Amen! - but the music has been so inspiring. 00:03:54.85\00:03:58.60 And Danny, you began working on a project 00:03:58.90\00:04:01.18 in the early part of this year on the second coming. 00:04:01.38\00:04:04.60 And some of the songs that are going to be presented today 00:04:04.80\00:04:08.15 are brand new. They were just written. 00:04:08.35\00:04:10.56 Tell us about how the Lord impressed you 00:04:11.06\00:04:13.10 with some of those songs. 00:04:13.30\00:04:15.20 Well we were talking about the second coming. 00:04:15.50\00:04:18.02 Many of you know the Pillars Project we've done. 00:04:18.22\00:04:20.63 The Pillars of our Faith; the Pillars Hymns. 00:04:20.83\00:04:22.51 We wanted to do something similar to that 00:04:22.82\00:04:25.89 that would be a really great production, 00:04:26.09\00:04:27.67 something that anybody would listen to. 00:04:27.87\00:04:30.09 So we said: "Our Camp Meeting's going to be centered around 00:04:30.39\00:04:34.79 the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. " 00:04:34.89\00:04:36.56 So I said: "Why don't we do a project on second 00:04:36.76\00:04:39.57 coming songs? But let's just don't do all originals. 00:04:39.67\00:04:41.90 Maybe we can get some new ones. " 00:04:42.12\00:04:43.82 So the Lord has blessed. We have several new songs. 00:04:44.02\00:04:46.66 And while I'm at it I might as well introduce Bro. Lari Goss. 00:04:47.16\00:04:50.17 Lari Goss has been in gospel music for many many years. 00:04:50.68\00:04:54.56 Jim says and Lari's told this: 00:04:54.96\00:04:57.01 with your family... you were so poor you literally lived on 00:04:57.21\00:04:59.60 dirt floors in Georgia - right? - when growing up. 00:04:59.70\00:05:01.86 So to see Lari go... what God has done with him 00:05:02.16\00:05:05.61 and his family. I think Ron Goss is out here, 00:05:05.81\00:05:07.72 his wife Carolyn. 00:05:07.92\00:05:08.95 To see what they have done because of their determination 00:05:09.13\00:05:11.85 to serve the Lord to put them in a position 00:05:12.05\00:05:14.75 that he's arranging music, writing music 00:05:14.95\00:05:17.03 that's affecting the world. Amen! 00:05:17.23\00:05:19.05 It's changing the world. So Lari, thank you for being a part 00:05:19.25\00:05:21.81 of this. Thank you. We called Lari Goss and said: 00:05:22.01\00:05:23.82 "Is there any way we can get you to do this? " 00:05:24.02\00:05:25.93 And he agreed to say: "Yes, I'll take this music. " 00:05:26.23\00:05:29.45 So I even had one song I wrote and I said: "I don't have any 00:05:29.65\00:05:32.21 music to it. " He said: "I'll write it for you. " 00:05:32.41\00:05:34.29 So the very first song that we're going to do 00:05:34.69\00:05:36.63 called the Sacrifice... I wrote the words 00:05:36.73\00:05:39.11 but Lari wrote the music to this. So we're so thankful. 00:05:39.31\00:05:42.44 He's arranged every note that you hear on all the orchestra, 00:05:42.64\00:05:45.42 the background vocals. I mean it's all in that mind. 00:05:45.72\00:05:48.67 And I don't know how you get it out, but you do beautifully 00:05:48.87\00:05:51.18 on it. Thank you, Lari - thank you - for what you have done. 00:05:51.28\00:05:53.97 I'm going to ask Reggie to come up. 00:05:54.07\00:05:56.14 And Reggie... Anybody know Reggie Smith? 00:05:56.34\00:05:58.38 Amen! I'm going to have... While we're started here 00:05:58.59\00:06:03.06 right before we sing I'm going to have Reggie 00:06:03.26\00:06:04.70 introduce our singers. We have some special guests 00:06:04.91\00:06:07.74 with us today. We do! We do! And Danny, over here... 00:06:07.84\00:06:11.58 Tell us a little bit about them. OK, a little bit about them. 00:06:11.78\00:06:12.93 On the very end is Gene McDonald. All right. 00:06:13.03\00:06:15.59 You might have... Can you stand, Gene? 00:06:15.79\00:06:17.06 Gene here on the end. I've got to tell you first of all 00:06:17.26\00:06:18.59 all these people that I introduce are just wonderful 00:06:18.79\00:06:20.74 friends of mine and Mel... of course, you, Danny. 00:06:20.84\00:06:23.35 Gene McDonald is the premier bass singer 00:06:23.65\00:06:25.85 with the Homecoming Bill Gaither and Gloria Gaither 00:06:26.05\00:06:28.97 Homecoming. You've seen him on many DVDs. All right. 00:06:29.18\00:06:30.99 Make him welcome. All right. Gene McDonald. 00:06:31.19\00:06:33.69 And next to Gene is Terry Blackwood. 00:06:34.09\00:06:36.39 Many of you know Terry Blackwood. He sang with the 00:06:36.59\00:06:38.50 wonderful Imperials group called The Imperials 00:06:38.60\00:06:40.87 that backed Elvis and sang many wonderful, wonderful... 00:06:41.08\00:06:43.84 Some guy named Elvis he used to sing with. Yeah. 00:06:44.04\00:06:46.01 I don't know. He's like saying: "No, we don't need that. " 00:06:46.21\00:06:48.66 This is Terry Blackwood, Danny. 00:06:48.96\00:06:51.77 All right, thank you. But Danny, you might want to say 00:06:52.07\00:06:53.82 Judy. Judy, why don't you stand up? 00:06:53.92\00:06:55.74 Judy and I have been friends for 30-some years. 00:06:55.94\00:06:58.41 In fact, in 1982 Melody's mother was 00:06:58.61\00:07:01.79 in an automobile accident and she lost her life in that. 00:07:01.89\00:07:05.31 And months after that Aaron Wilburn, a friend of ours, 00:07:05.55\00:07:08.02 wrote a song - he and Dave Layman - called Heart Mender. 00:07:08.12\00:07:10.85 So we went to Nashville. We met Bobby Bradley 00:07:11.15\00:07:13.45 who is the engineer. I said: "Bobby, we want to get 00:07:13.65\00:07:16.31 some... " He said: "I'll tell you the best singers 00:07:16.41\00:07:17.88 that I know and we'll get them here. " And Judy 00:07:17.98\00:07:20.22 in the Fall of 1982. So we figured that out 00:07:20.42\00:07:23.52 it's about 32 years. So every project you've ever heard me 00:07:23.72\00:07:26.52 sing on Judy's one of the singers behind it. 00:07:26.62\00:07:28.86 Incredible talent. Judy's also... Not only sings 00:07:29.06\00:07:33.65 back up, she herself writes... we use this term 00:07:33.75\00:07:37.78 lightly because as Christians we know there's only one star 00:07:37.98\00:07:41.20 but in the secular world she was a star herself. 00:07:41.30\00:07:44.03 She's had several songs in the top ten. 00:07:44.23\00:07:46.38 Girls Ride Horses, Too, I think is a #1 hit 00:07:46.58\00:07:48.64 back in the 90's or whatever. 00:07:48.84\00:07:50.83 But she is an incredibly talented person. 00:07:51.03\00:07:53.15 Loves the Lord. She's done jingles; 00:07:53.36\00:07:55.51 she's done it all. But to have Judy here 00:07:55.72\00:07:57.67 to be here working together in a live program like this 00:07:57.87\00:08:00.65 just means the world to me. Thank you for being here, 00:08:00.86\00:08:02.63 consenting to come, Judy. 00:08:02.83\00:08:04.51 So Danny, real quick, I think you all know and love... 00:08:05.01\00:08:08.38 You know this lady, don't you Danny? Melody Dawn. 00:08:08.58\00:08:10.41 Melody Dawn. She was 11 years old when we 00:08:10.51\00:08:13.77 started working with her, right Judy? Isn't it amazing 00:08:13.91\00:08:16.12 you and I haven't aged a bit? 00:08:16.32\00:08:18.12 And she obviously has aged, Melody has. Right? 00:08:18.32\00:08:22.39 She doesn't look like an 11-year-old any more. 00:08:22.69\00:08:24.52 But you look good, Melody. You look good 00:08:24.92\00:08:27.71 for a woman in your... She told me never to say... 00:08:27.94\00:08:31.65 She says: "Dad, I'm old enough now. Please don't tell my age. " 00:08:31.85\00:08:34.98 I said: "If I were your age I'd brag about it. " 00:08:35.18\00:08:37.78 She says: "Please don't tell my age. " 00:08:38.18\00:08:39.97 So I won't. I will not. I made her that promise. 00:08:40.18\00:08:42.47 Melody, I won't tell your age but I'll never forget that 00:08:42.68\00:08:45.57 beautiful sunny morning when I went to the hospital 00:08:45.77\00:08:49.67 in 1971 00:08:49.97\00:08:53.94 and... I didn't tell your age, honey. 00:08:54.24\00:08:59.00 I didn't. I'm sure they're not really thinking... 00:08:59.20\00:09:02.19 adding right now. I see calculators going on. 00:09:02.39\00:09:04.53 Let's see. Danny, it's 81... Not 71, 81. 00:09:04.63\00:09:06.63 Oh no. Nice try, Reggie. 00:09:06.83\00:09:08.61 All right. Why don't you introduce the lady next to... 00:09:08.81\00:09:10.90 OK. Well a lot of you know this lovely lady. 00:09:11.01\00:09:13.41 Her name is Ladye Love and this is my wife. 00:09:13.51\00:09:15.96 So... And we've been married 19 years this year 00:09:17.33\00:09:20.37 so you know her. And this lovely lady here 00:09:20.51\00:09:23.22 is Bonnie Keen, just a dear, dear friend of ours. 00:09:23.52\00:09:26.48 Bonnie has sung on almost every major record 00:09:26.68\00:09:29.31 in the last few years... thirty years. 00:09:29.41\00:09:33.36 No... 25 years. She's a dear friend. 00:09:33.90\00:09:35.94 I've got to tell you all these people, Danny, they first of all 00:09:36.04\00:09:39.84 every one of these people love the Lord with all their 00:09:40.04\00:09:42.44 heart, mind, and soul... every bit of them. 00:09:42.54\00:09:45.49 And they love people. They love you and they love everybody. 00:09:45.69\00:09:48.68 So they were really hand-picked with Danny for this particular 00:09:48.88\00:09:53.07 project. Bonnie Keen sang with a wonderful, award-winning group 00:09:53.17\00:09:57.58 called First Call. And Danny, the reason they were called 00:09:57.68\00:09:59.99 First Call was because in Nashville 00:10:00.09\00:10:02.44 she was a session singer. And truly, the three of them 00:10:02.65\00:10:05.56 were the first call for all the CDs and records. 00:10:05.76\00:10:08.30 What she said, she said "She's not dead yet. 00:10:09.91\00:10:11.99 She's still working... she's still singing. " 00:10:12.19\00:10:14.22 Bonnie Keen. 00:10:14.82\00:10:16.22 So all these folk from Nashville, Tennessee. 00:10:17.64\00:10:19.97 For all you Tennessee hillbillies they're going to 00:10:20.17\00:10:21.98 make you proud today - all right - that's with us. 00:10:22.08\00:10:24.63 Yvonne Lewis. Those of you... You can stand up, Yvonne, 00:10:25.13\00:10:28.55 for those who may not know you. 00:10:28.69\00:10:30.06 Those of you know Yvonne Lewis. She's had a very successful 00:10:30.27\00:10:33.30 career in music for many many years. 00:10:33.41\00:10:35.59 But she says: "You know, I've never been happier 00:10:35.79\00:10:37.72 than right now serving the Lord 00:10:37.92\00:10:40.02 and singing for Him. " And so people have heard about you 00:10:40.22\00:10:43.74 but she's the general manager of Dare to Dream, our 00:10:43.94\00:10:46.47 minority network. And so we're glad that you're here today also 00:10:46.57\00:10:49.97 as guest. Course the rest of our choir... I think you know 00:10:50.08\00:10:52.69 most everybody back here. 00:10:52.79\00:10:54.41 So wave to the folks, and they're 3ABN regulars. 00:10:54.61\00:10:57.84 You've seen them, so you're all welcome too. 00:10:57.87\00:11:00.31 But we just want to make sure that we get our guests here 00:11:00.71\00:11:03.34 from out of town and out of state. 00:11:03.55\00:11:05.19 Amen. Well we're really looking forward to the music. 00:11:05.50\00:11:09.12 So is it that time? Absolutely. 00:11:09.42\00:11:10.82 I'll tell you what: why don't you say a prayer - all right - 00:11:11.03\00:11:13.03 because we really believe this music was given for a purpose, 00:11:13.23\00:11:17.19 and it's to draw us closer to the Lord Jesus Christ 00:11:17.39\00:11:19.86 and it's to bring all attention... 00:11:20.16\00:11:22.07 We like to have fun. 00:11:22.10\00:11:23.13 I've always... I've traveled so much 00:11:23.46\00:11:25.53 I've had people say: "Don't you ever get down? " 00:11:25.73\00:11:28.30 And I said: "No, I've read the back of the book. 00:11:28.40\00:11:29.82 The back of the book says they overcame him by the blood 00:11:30.13\00:11:32.76 of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. " 00:11:32.86\00:11:34.55 But there's also a time to be quiet and come before the Lord 00:11:34.75\00:11:37.65 and listen. And these songs have been dedicated 00:11:37.85\00:11:40.99 and we've asked God to let these be world changers. 00:11:41.19\00:11:43.85 Let people's minds and hearts be drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:11:44.25\00:11:47.85 So before we enter in to the next several songs 00:11:48.05\00:11:50.53 I'm going to ask Jim Gilley to ask God's blessing. 00:11:50.83\00:11:53.33 Shall we bow our heads? 00:11:53.63\00:11:54.67 Father in heaven, we thank you for the blood of the Lamb: 00:11:55.07\00:11:57.83 the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:11:58.91\00:12:01.27 And by our testimony today 00:12:01.47\00:12:04.27 through music and through the spoken word 00:12:04.47\00:12:07.36 Father we tell the world about Him. 00:12:07.66\00:12:11.43 The Bible says we "overcame by the blood of the Lamb 00:12:11.93\00:12:15.88 and the word of their testimony" 00:12:16.08\00:12:17.53 and we will speak and talk about Jesus 00:12:17.93\00:12:22.16 as long as, Lord, You give us the breath to do so. 00:12:22.36\00:12:26.40 We look forward to the coming, the return of our Lord 00:12:26.80\00:12:30.09 and Savior. We look forward to spending eternity 00:12:30.19\00:12:33.46 with Him in Your house. 00:12:33.66\00:12:36.64 Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. 00:12:36.94\00:12:41.42 OK, we want Reggie and Ladye and Yvonne. 00:12:41.75\00:12:44.13 You're going to do the trio. And E.T. Everett is 00:12:44.23\00:12:47.07 our choir director and absolutely a great asset 00:12:47.27\00:12:50.67 to all of us. Thank you, E.T., for being here. 00:12:50.87\00:12:53.69 And we love you and appreciate what you do. 00:12:53.92\00:12:56.43 Reggie and Ladye, why don't you just stay on up here? 00:17:14.68\00:17:17.04 I think you're going to do a song that many of you know 00:17:17.14\00:17:19.84 called We Shall Behold Him. 00:17:19.87\00:17:21.70 Did Dottie Rambo write this? And this song is an incredible 00:17:22.20\00:17:27.09 song, talking about... It paints the picture - 00:17:27.29\00:17:30.23 true picture - of what it will really be like. 00:17:30.43\00:17:33.48 And that's what all of these songs are. 00:17:33.58\00:17:35.16 We just want to paint a picture. The Bible says 00:17:35.26\00:17:37.19 "Now we see through a glass darkly 00:17:37.39\00:17:39.38 but then face to face. " 00:17:39.58\00:17:41.80 So it's in our minds. Ellen White actually says 00:17:42.10\00:17:45.32 we should spend an hour a day contemplating the goodness 00:17:45.52\00:17:48.63 of God. One of those things is: can you imagine a God 00:17:48.73\00:17:52.13 who is big enough to rule this mighty universe 00:17:52.33\00:17:54.66 yet He's small enough to live within our heart. 00:17:54.86\00:17:56.64 That He cared enough about us 00:17:56.84\00:17:59.24 that when literally there was no escape for man 00:17:59.44\00:18:02.81 He made that sacrifice. That He gave His own life 00:18:03.11\00:18:07.11 on the cross of Calvary. 00:18:07.31\00:18:08.75 This song is an incredible song. 00:18:09.05\00:18:11.75 I don't think anybody can do it in my opinion 00:18:11.95\00:18:13.89 'cause I love these folk - what a great talent 00:18:14.09\00:18:16.36 and friends they are and great love for the Lord - 00:18:16.56\00:18:18.82 but We Shall Behold Him. 00:18:19.02\00:18:21.18 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! 00:24:09.90\00:24:13.60 Praise the Lord! 00:24:13.90\00:24:15.80 Thank you. Boy, there's an anointing in here today. 00:24:16.10\00:24:20.39 You feel it? I'm getting little goose bumps over here. 00:24:20.49\00:24:23.36 Little I don't know... They're not chill bumps; 00:24:23.47\00:24:25.29 they're goose bumps I think. 00:24:25.49\00:24:26.87 I think they're Holy Spirit bumps all over me here. 00:24:27.17\00:24:29.63 Wow! Incredible. Lari, thank you again so much. 00:24:29.93\00:24:33.28 What beautiful arrangements! These things are incredible. 00:24:33.48\00:24:36.04 And I talked to one of the most famous arrangers 00:24:36.44\00:24:39.76 in Nashville that does movie scores and a lot of movies. 00:24:39.96\00:24:42.86 Some of you might even recognize, and I said 00:24:43.06\00:24:45.54 something about I was meeting with this person 00:24:45.74\00:24:47.77 one day then I said I was in Nashville and I said 00:24:47.97\00:24:50.17 "I've got to meet with Lari Goss, another arranger. " 00:24:50.27\00:24:52.90 And this person who is so highly respected 00:24:53.20\00:24:55.69 said: "Lari Goss is not just an arranger. 00:24:55.89\00:24:58.93 Lari Goss is what we all would strive to be. " 00:24:59.23\00:25:02.22 She said: "His mind is amazing and the musical abilities 00:25:02.63\00:25:06.08 that this man has is like... " She said: "We're not in his 00:25:06.28\00:25:09.77 league. " So I say that not to uplift you, Lari, 00:25:09.87\00:25:12.51 but you've allowed God to use you. 00:25:12.62\00:25:14.22 Give Him all the glory. 00:25:14.32\00:25:16.71 Praise God for the glory. 00:25:17.09\00:25:18.33 And life's not been a bed of roses for this guy. 00:25:18.83\00:25:22.14 He struggled with health... You've had health problems. 00:25:22.34\00:25:24.11 Struggled with cancer and you had lots of problems. 00:25:24.32\00:25:27.57 Things weren't looking so good but last week you called me. 00:25:27.77\00:25:30.57 Went to the doctor. What'd the doctor tell you? 00:25:30.87\00:25:32.73 I had my last... I've been fighting cancer for 5 years. 00:25:33.03\00:25:36.60 Had a 5-year life span with a 15% chance of survival. 00:25:36.81\00:25:42.17 And so it's been 6 years now 00:25:42.57\00:25:46.40 and last Monday I went for my CAT scan 00:25:46.80\00:25:51.39 and not only is my cancer in remission. 00:25:51.69\00:25:54.85 There's no cancer there... just scar tissue. 00:25:55.15\00:25:59.44 Praise God! 00:25:59.84\00:26:01.31 Well, we all need doctors. I respect them 00:26:03.53\00:26:08.47 greatly but they have their limitations, right? 00:26:08.67\00:26:11.05 That 15% wasn't God's percentage. 00:26:11.39\00:26:13.95 God's percentage said 100%. He's going to be here. 00:26:14.25\00:26:16.87 going to continue. While he's doing this project 00:26:17.07\00:26:19.75 he has five other projects going too. 00:26:19.95\00:26:21.91 So God's not through with you by any means. 00:26:22.21\00:26:24.47 I think you know that now, right? 00:26:24.57\00:26:26.00 Well, you know what Danny? It's such a pleasure 00:26:26.10\00:26:28.13 to be here with you and you so gracefully have 00:26:28.53\00:26:30.98 put these songs together about the second coming... 00:26:31.38\00:26:34.70 And when you came to my home and spent several days with me 00:26:34.90\00:26:37.55 we went through these songs, and before I ever started 00:26:37.85\00:26:40.67 writing the music or the orchestration or the vocals 00:26:40.77\00:26:43.56 I sat down and read the lyrics to all of these songs 00:26:43.76\00:26:47.16 and was so appreciative of what you did 00:26:47.56\00:26:50.14 putting these songs together about the 2nd coming of the Lord 00:26:50.54\00:26:53.39 that it really enlightened me. It lifted my spirit 00:26:53.49\00:26:56.66 and gave me a Blessed Hope for tomorrow 00:26:56.96\00:27:00.07 that I've never had before. Thank you, Danny. 00:27:00.47\00:27:02.82 I appreciate you so much. All right. God bless you. 00:27:03.02\00:27:05.29 Well speaking of that, let's do a song. 00:27:05.49\00:27:07.58 This is a song that I tell you what: if you're not happy 00:27:07.78\00:27:10.00 after this you need to check your pulse, see if you're 00:27:10.20\00:27:12.84 even with us. You may be something wrong with you. 00:27:12.88\00:27:15.49 But this is a great song. Who can't get excited 00:27:15.79\00:27:18.14 about Jesus Is Coming Again? 00:27:18.34\00:27:20.54 Amen. We're going to do this just as a choir, right? 00:27:20.57\00:27:23.57 You sure, Jim Gilley? I wanted Jim to get up here 00:27:24.07\00:27:27.87 and sing this but he he says he'll just sing with the choir. 00:27:28.07\00:27:30.37 I think you ought to get up and sing it, but anyway... 00:27:30.88\00:27:33.73 we'll let him decide. 00:27:33.93\00:27:35.43 Jesus Is Coming Again. 00:27:35.73\00:27:38.21 All right! Amen! 00:31:00.79\00:31:04.09 I hope some of you were singing that with us. 00:31:08.72\00:31:10.74 I saw some of you. Isn't that a beautiful song? 00:31:10.94\00:31:13.41 And just think about Jesus Christ coming back 00:31:13.92\00:31:17.81 in the clouds of glory! Two or three years ago 00:31:18.01\00:31:21.73 I wrote a song. I was home just by myself 00:31:21.83\00:31:24.41 and the thought came to me about heaven 00:31:24.61\00:31:27.42 and I said: "What does heaven really mean to me? " 00:31:27.52\00:31:29.97 And then all of a sudden it hit me: heaven means home 00:31:31.36\00:31:34.55 to me. But the words that I started writing 00:31:34.75\00:31:38.96 probably wouldn't make sense to a lot of folk 00:31:39.16\00:31:41.47 'cause it said: "I'm longing for a place 00:31:41.87\00:31:45.52 I've never been yet it's a place I call home. " 00:31:45.72\00:31:48.27 Now what's wrong with somebody saying that? 00:31:48.68\00:31:50.77 If somebody said: "Man, I'm longing for this place 00:31:50.97\00:31:53.69 and I call it home. " You say: "Have you been there? " 00:31:53.89\00:31:55.42 "No. " "Well how can you possibly 00:31:55.72\00:31:57.96 be longing for a place, Lari, that you've never been? 00:31:58.16\00:32:00.94 I'll tell you how. Every human being... 00:32:01.24\00:32:03.13 Any of you old enough to know about the homing pigeons 00:32:03.53\00:32:06.67 that they use to fly back and forth? 00:32:06.97\00:32:08.12 Every... See, some of them are honest. They raised their 00:32:08.32\00:32:10.83 hands. Others: I know you're old enough to know. 00:32:10.93\00:32:13.43 You're just maybe bashful or your arm's not working 00:32:13.73\00:32:15.87 maybe. Whatever... 00:32:16.07\00:32:17.91 But every human being has a homing device 00:32:18.11\00:32:21.22 in us that God put here, and we're just strangers 00:32:21.52\00:32:24.57 here... sojourners on this earth. 00:32:24.77\00:32:26.70 Right? Because we're really never home till we go home 00:32:26.90\00:32:30.47 with Jesus Christ. Amen. So you can in a Christian sense 00:32:30.57\00:32:34.61 we can be longing for a place we've never been 00:32:34.91\00:32:37.19 yet it's a place that I call home. 00:32:37.49\00:32:39.88 Jim Gilley asked me to do this 00:32:40.18\00:32:42.27 on this project, and so I really wasn't going to sing at all. 00:32:42.30\00:32:45.97 We've got some incredible singers here, but Jim said: 00:32:46.17\00:32:48.56 "No, I want you to do this. Do this for me and Camille. " 00:32:48.76\00:32:50.70 So we're going to do it. I'm going to ask Reggie 00:32:51.40\00:32:53.33 and Ladye to help me and, of course, the whole choir. 00:32:53.43\00:32:55.13 But the song is Heaven Means Home To Me. 00:32:55.43\00:32:58.92 Amen! Beautiful! 00:37:10.35\00:37:13.41 Thank you. 00:37:15.86\00:37:17.46 This next song I just... it's blessed me so much. 00:37:19.73\00:37:24.51 And I say that in a way because I remove myself 00:37:24.71\00:37:27.32 and I say this honestly before God. 00:37:27.93\00:37:30.52 He knows my heart. It's the first song that 00:37:30.72\00:37:33.20 I have ever written that I cried while I wrote the words. 00:37:33.40\00:37:37.24 I literally cried tears while I wrote the words, 00:37:37.64\00:37:40.85 and it's because I felt like they weren't coming from me. 00:37:41.35\00:37:43.97 I felt like they were coming from the Lord. 00:37:44.47\00:37:46.35 And I said: "This is too deep for me. 00:37:46.45\00:37:48.42 You know, this is not something I would think about or write. " 00:37:48.62\00:37:51.78 But I got a picture of the second coming and what it would 00:37:52.18\00:37:55.44 be like right before Jesus comes. 00:37:55.54\00:37:57.67 While we're happy about the second coming 00:37:57.87\00:37:59.36 there's going to be a lot of things happening, right? 00:37:59.47\00:38:01.32 Famines, earthquakes. People will turn... It says 00:38:01.62\00:38:04.53 that the love of many will wax cold. 00:38:04.63\00:38:06.48 Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers turning 00:38:06.78\00:38:09.04 against each other. It's going to be a terrible time 00:38:09.14\00:38:11.63 for planet earth. And that's what makes it so special 00:38:11.73\00:38:14.84 that we have a loving Savior who cared enough to redeem man 00:38:15.14\00:38:19.44 from his fallen nature. And man would self destruct. 00:38:19.64\00:38:22.72 Without God's intervention this earth would destruct. 00:38:23.03\00:38:27.50 And you know what? It wouldn't last very much longer. 00:38:27.70\00:38:29.92 Do you agree with that? All you've got to do as 00:38:30.22\00:38:32.47 we mentioned before: watch the news, watch television, 00:38:32.58\00:38:35.75 listen to the radio. Just talk to people in general 00:38:35.85\00:38:39.19 and it's amazing. Thirty years ago you could go to 00:38:39.49\00:38:42.76 somebody's house and knock on the door to talk to them. 00:38:42.86\00:38:45.49 They may say "Come in. Let's come in and have a drink 00:38:45.59\00:38:47.51 here. Let's sit down, let me give you something. " 00:38:47.61\00:38:49.03 Today they've got bars on there or they call the police. 00:38:49.23\00:38:51.83 And the worst part is you can't blame them. 00:38:52.13\00:38:54.21 Right? You go in the cities. There's no such thing 00:38:54.71\00:38:57.43 as going knocking on doors passing out literature. 00:38:57.63\00:39:00.03 Some of you tried to do that lately? 00:39:00.23\00:39:01.68 I wouldn't suggest you do it. 00:39:02.08\00:39:04.07 But praise God for television, radio, the printed page, 00:39:04.37\00:39:06.88 all of these things because we can get in behind those bars 00:39:07.08\00:39:10.46 and inside these homes that we can't do it. 00:39:10.66\00:39:13.41 This whole world is changed. People are changing 00:39:13.61\00:39:16.14 because we're taking our eyes off of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:39:16.35\00:39:19.52 So what I was thinking about was: "Man, what's this earth 00:39:20.02\00:39:24.65 going to be like? " And then all of a sudden you're seeing 00:39:24.85\00:39:28.20 all these terrible things happen. And the devil's 00:39:28.40\00:39:31.88 talking to you. The devil lies. You know he's a big liar, 00:39:32.08\00:39:33.98 right? So the devil's talking to you 00:39:34.18\00:39:36.11 and he's saying: "You know what? Everything you've done 00:39:36.31\00:39:38.98 is in vain. Where is your God when you need Him? " 00:39:39.01\00:39:41.81 So you get sick, you get down and out. People say: "Where 00:39:42.11\00:39:44.57 is God when I need Him? "Where is your God? " 00:39:44.67\00:39:47.10 the demons cried. It came to me and all of a sudden 00:39:47.40\00:39:50.93 it says: "Your truth has failed; it's all been a lie. " 00:39:51.03\00:39:53.97 And then all of a sudden a voice from heaven 00:39:54.37\00:39:57.10 can now be heard. It came from God - the Living Word. 00:39:57.30\00:40:00.01 And just in time the Savior came. 00:40:00.51\00:40:04.03 Just in time He called my name. 00:40:04.53\00:40:06.98 Your name. It brought it so personal to me. 00:40:07.28\00:40:09.90 Here all of this calamities and disasters going on 00:40:10.21\00:40:13.66 around the world. Suddenly we look up 00:40:13.76\00:40:15.86 and there's this small cloud. And as it draws closer 00:40:16.06\00:40:18.69 and closer the earth begins to get brighter and brighter. 00:40:18.79\00:40:21.61 And all of a sudden for those who are ready 00:40:22.01\00:40:24.03 we're saying: "Lo this is our God whom we have waited for. 00:40:24.23\00:40:27.08 He's come to save us. " 00:40:27.28\00:40:28.31 And those of us that are not are running for the rocks 00:40:28.61\00:40:30.86 and mountains and trying to get away. 00:40:30.96\00:40:32.98 We know it's too late. 00:40:33.18\00:40:34.51 And with all of this going on the Creator of the universe 00:40:35.01\00:40:38.32 knows every one of your names. 00:40:38.52\00:40:40.12 Just In Time The Savior Came. 00:40:40.62\00:40:43.73 I was doing that and I said I check the stories 00:40:44.13\00:40:46.84 when I'm writing the song, so I read the Bible and then I said: 00:40:47.04\00:40:50.03 "I'm going to go to Great Controversy" 'cause I'd read it 00:40:50.13\00:40:52.04 before. I want to hear about page 641, 42, in that area 00:40:52.14\00:40:55.93 Ellen White's description of the second coming. 00:40:56.23\00:40:58.59 And it's like the Lord said: "Just put that in. 00:40:58.89\00:41:00.65 Just put that in this song. " 00:41:00.95\00:41:02.21 So we did it, and I'm so thankful that Sr. Yvonne Lewis 00:41:02.51\00:41:06.61 is going to sing this song and she's also going to do 00:41:06.81\00:41:09.52 the narration that came from the Great Controversy 00:41:09.72\00:41:13.51 entitled Just In Time. 00:41:13.91\00:41:16.30 Soon there appears in the East 00:43:45.08\00:43:46.80 a small black cloud 00:43:46.90\00:43:48.65 half the size of a man's hand. 00:43:48.85\00:43:51.12 It's the cloud which surrounds the Savior 00:43:51.62\00:43:54.10 and which seems in the distance to be shrouded in darkness. 00:43:54.30\00:43:57.78 The people of God know this to be the sign 00:43:58.71\00:44:01.15 of the Son of Man. In solemn silence 00:44:01.25\00:44:04.52 they gaze upon it as it draws nearer the earth 00:44:04.63\00:44:07.24 becoming lighter and more glorious 00:44:07.54\00:44:09.40 until it is a great white cloud: 00:44:09.60\00:44:11.99 it's base a glory like consuming fire 00:44:12.20\00:44:14.79 and above it the rainbow of the covenant. 00:44:14.99\00:44:17.58 Jesus rides forth as a mighty conqueror. 00:44:17.88\00:44:21.43 Not now a "Man of Sorrows" 00:44:21.73\00:44:23.81 to drink the bitter cup of shame and woe. 00:44:23.84\00:44:26.38 He comes victor in heaven and earth 00:44:26.69\00:44:29.16 to judge the living and the dead. 00:44:29.37\00:44:31.65 With anthems of celestial melody the holy angels, 00:44:31.96\00:44:35.79 a vast unnumbered throng, attend Him on His way. 00:44:35.89\00:44:39.25 The firmament seems filled with radiant forms 00:44:39.55\00:44:42.70 "ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. " 00:44:42.90\00:44:47.82 No human pen can portray the scene; 00:44:48.02\00:44:50.80 no mortal mind is adequate to conceive its splendor. 00:44:51.00\00:44:54.59 "His glory covered the heavens 00:44:54.80\00:44:57.30 and the earth was full of His praise. 00:44:57.50\00:44:59.80 And His brightness was like the light. " 00:45:00.00\00:45:02.16 As the living cloud comes still nearer, every eye beholds 00:45:02.56\00:45:05.66 the Prince of life. No crown of thorns 00:45:05.76\00:45:08.52 now mars that sacred head 00:45:08.72\00:45:10.83 but a diadem of glory rests on His holy brow. 00:45:11.13\00:45:14.50 His countenance outshines the dazzling brightness of 00:45:14.80\00:45:17.31 the noonday sun. "And on His robe 00:45:17.42\00:45:20.30 and on His thigh a name written: King of kings 00:45:20.50\00:45:25.25 and Lord of lords. " 00:45:25.45\00:45:27.65 Wow! 00:47:04.53\00:47:06.41 Those bumps haven't gone away! 00:47:09.38\00:47:11.25 They're still on me, those little Holy Spirit goose bumps 00:47:11.55\00:47:13.79 are still on me here. We're about to have church. 00:47:14.10\00:47:15.99 Right? We're about to get noisy. 00:47:16.59\00:47:18.81 Somebody get upset? Well, you're in the wrong building today 00:47:19.01\00:47:21.63 if you don't want to get a little bit noisy 00:47:21.73\00:47:23.96 if you feel like it. But it's praise to God 00:47:24.06\00:47:26.19 not to anybody else - Amen! - right? 00:47:26.29\00:47:28.05 None of this... nothing that we have... 00:47:28.35\00:47:30.45 The Bible says if we could see it we're all as filthy rags 00:47:30.56\00:47:34.20 in the sight of God. 00:47:34.40\00:47:35.43 I mean really that's just nothing. 00:47:35.71\00:47:37.26 That's something terrible. But through God and His love 00:47:37.36\00:47:40.82 for fallen man He made a plan for us. 00:47:41.02\00:47:43.86 Amen! And when the devil is against you... 00:47:44.16\00:47:46.00 I tell... I've told people for years 00:47:46.10\00:47:47.97 I go places and I see so many Christians depressed. 00:47:48.17\00:47:51.78 They'll come up and say: "Well you don't know 00:47:52.02\00:47:53.83 what this person did to me. " 00:47:54.04\00:47:55.95 And some people say: "Oh I haven't been to church 00:47:56.15\00:47:58.18 in years. " I'll meet them on an airplane. 00:47:58.38\00:48:00.27 "Oh I haven't been to church in years. " 00:48:00.47\00:48:01.65 "How come? " "Too many hypocrites in church. " 00:48:01.85\00:48:04.02 They say: "Too many hypocrites in church. " 00:48:04.32\00:48:06.46 And I say: "What happened? " "Well one time when I was only 00:48:06.77\00:48:10.04 18 years old this person said this to me 00:48:10.14\00:48:12.85 and I got offended. " I said: "You got offended? 00:48:12.88\00:48:15.83 You left somebody offend you? Great peace have they which 00:48:16.03\00:48:19.12 love Thy law and nothing shall offend you" 00:48:19.32\00:48:21.29 is what the Bible tells us. 00:48:21.49\00:48:22.98 But being offended is a choice. 00:48:23.28\00:48:25.14 That's a choice. Nobody can offend you. 00:48:25.64\00:48:27.53 Why let somebody that you're not even into offend you, right? 00:48:27.73\00:48:30.48 Amen! Can I talk plainly with you for a minute? 00:48:30.78\00:48:32.65 Talk plainly? Why let somebody the last thing you want them 00:48:32.95\00:48:36.48 to do is offend you, so you don't have to. 00:48:36.58\00:48:38.80 You'll be offended a choice, so let's make a good choice. 00:48:39.00\00:48:42.51 You know what? It's just like this. 00:48:42.81\00:48:44.86 I tell people: "If you read you don't ever have to be 00:48:45.06\00:48:47.41 discouraged. " Let's say that you go into a book store. 00:48:47.51\00:48:50.71 A lot of people buy a book. 00:48:50.81\00:48:52.31 Maybe it's a novel... whatever. 00:48:52.51\00:48:54.12 And so what do you do? You turn to the back 00:48:54.32\00:48:56.32 and it says: "John and Mary rode off into the sunset 00:48:56.52\00:48:58.86 happily ever after. " 00:48:58.96\00:49:00.15 Right? Now, you start reading the book. 00:49:00.45\00:49:02.81 It's 200 pages. So you go 100 pages through the book 00:49:03.01\00:49:06.21 and all of a sudden John and Mary fell off... 00:49:06.61\00:49:09.41 They're hanging on a cliff. It's 2,000 feet below them 00:49:09.61\00:49:13.05 and, Terry, the limb is breaking. 00:49:13.15\00:49:15.31 And now do you go: "Oh no, John and Mary's going to die! " 00:49:15.51\00:49:18.74 What do you do? 00:49:19.24\00:49:21.03 You say: "How's the author going to get them out of this? " 00:49:21.33\00:49:23.36 Why? 'Cause you read the back of the book 00:49:23.56\00:49:25.47 and you know they didn't die. 00:49:25.98\00:49:27.55 So now it becomes exciting. 00:49:27.85\00:49:29.24 In our own personal lives, folks, we have to look 00:49:29.44\00:49:31.59 at it the same way. We've read Daniel; 00:49:31.79\00:49:34.16 we've read Revelation, the back of the book. 00:49:34.37\00:49:36.12 And as I mentioned earlier what does it say? 00:49:36.52\00:49:38.40 "And they overcame him... " the devil... 00:49:38.50\00:49:40.83 "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. " 00:49:41.03\00:49:43.41 Right? So folks, we have nothing to be discouraged about. 00:49:43.91\00:49:48.36 No excuses for being depressed. 00:49:48.66\00:49:50.33 We ought to be the happiest, most excited people 00:49:50.53\00:49:53.04 on planet earth. Amen! 00:49:53.24\00:49:55.53 And it's all because of the old rugged cross. 00:49:55.74\00:49:59.07 And Lari Goss has just done a brand-new project - 00:49:59.27\00:50:01.83 solo project - no other instrument. 00:50:01.93\00:50:04.70 No other instrument... solo. And we asked him to do this. 00:50:04.90\00:50:07.53 "Lari, just do some old hymns. " 00:50:07.73\00:50:09.51 And he said: "I'll do it. " 00:50:09.81\00:50:11.12 I said: "Our people love old hymns. 00:50:11.42\00:50:12.99 Just do some hymns just you playing 00:50:13.20\00:50:15.67 the way that you play and do this. " 00:50:15.87\00:50:18.05 And all because of the old rugged cross. Lari Goss. 00:50:18.25\00:50:21.29 Amen! Reggie, Ladye, Yvonne. 00:52:35.71\00:52:38.44 Reggie, Ladye, and Yvonne. 00:52:38.84\00:52:40.76 Lari, why don't you get that in whatever key you want to 00:52:41.17\00:52:45.08 and let's let Reggie and Ladye and Yvonne lead us in a verse 00:52:45.28\00:52:48.33 of The Old Rugged Cross. And we want to hear from you 00:52:48.53\00:52:50.64 out here. You've been listening all this time. 00:52:50.84\00:52:52.51 Don't you feel like singing? Yes! 00:52:52.61\00:52:54.46 All right. We want to hear you. We want you to sing 00:52:54.66\00:52:56.51 so loud that we can hear you all around the world 00:52:56.71\00:52:59.49 because this is an incredible song. 00:52:59.62\00:53:01.78 The Old Rugged Cross. Praise God for the old rugged cross. 00:53:01.98\00:53:06.96 We do things impromptu here at 3ABN as you can see. 00:53:07.20\00:53:10.02 But I know these folks can do it, all right? 00:53:10.32\00:53:13.12 On a hall... sing it... 00:54:13.20\00:54:14.69 far away 00:54:14.99\00:54:17.25 stood an old rugged cross... 00:54:17.45\00:54:22.75 We're coming down to the end of this hour. 00:55:45.37\00:55:48.91 Jesus IS coming again. Amen! 00:55:49.41\00:55:53.40 We can have the assurance that we're ready to meet Him 00:55:54.51\00:55:57.88 by simply placing everything in His hands. 00:55:58.28\00:56:03.27 There's no way that we're good enough to be saved. 00:56:06.50\00:56:10.37 As Danny quoted a moment ago "All of our righteousness 00:56:11.98\00:56:16.75 is as filthy rags. " 00:56:16.95\00:56:18.47 Not our sins. We know how filthy those are. 00:56:18.77\00:56:20.88 But even our goodness... It's only by the blood of Jesus, 00:56:21.99\00:56:27.52 His cleansing power, being filled with His Holy Spirit 00:56:29.06\00:56:34.93 that we will be ready to meet Him when He comes. 00:56:35.13\00:56:40.31 I'm so thankful for the old rugged cross. 00:56:40.81\00:56:43.89 I'm thankful that Jesus died and He stayed on that cross 00:56:45.23\00:56:49.23 for you and for me. 00:56:49.43\00:56:52.45 Because He did, we'll be able to look up and say 00:56:53.49\00:56:57.43 "Lo, this is our God. 00:56:57.53\00:56:59.72 We prayed for this day. 00:56:59.93\00:57:04.40 We've longed for this day 00:57:04.70\00:57:06.84 and now He is coming. " 00:57:07.15\00:57:09.50 What a day... what a glorious day that will be. 00:57:10.62\00:57:16.24 Father in heaven, we thank you for that assurance. 00:57:16.64\00:57:21.94 We thank you that Jesus went to the cross 00:57:22.28\00:57:24.76 and died for each one of us. 00:57:25.06\00:57:27.79 Help us to claim it and receive it. In Jesus' name, 00:57:28.09\00:57:31.27 Amen. 00:57:31.57\00:57:33.62