Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), Chris Wilkinson, David Huntsinger, Dwight Hall
Series Code: POFCM
Program Code: POFCM000003
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00:39 Live from the 3ABN Worship Center.
00:42 Welcome to the Pillars Of Our Faith event. 00:48 Well, good evening. 00:49 And if you have been joining us for each of the programs, 00:52 then welcome back. 00:54 And if you're joining us for the first time tonight, 00:57 we just are so happy that you are able to be with us. 01:01 And Danny, we've had a wonderful time so far, haven't we. 01:05 Well we have and I think it's just going to get better. 01:07 I do too. 01:08 The messages have been so thrilling and so inspiring. 01:11 And you know, around our office, even those that are working, 01:16 we keep the monitors going. 01:18 If we're not able to be actually in here, then we're watching 01:21 what's going on, on the monitors. 01:23 And we have been blessed by each of the messages. 01:28 And we have such a tremendous group here, the opening night 01:32 last night, and again tonight. 01:34 Even though it's been raining outside just before, 01:37 we still have most of our group inside. 01:40 And we're just so happy that each one could be here. 01:43 Tonight, this first hour is going to be some real 01:47 special music for you and a little discussion, 01:51 talking about the Pillars project and so forth. 01:54 And right now, the first thing that we're going to do 01:58 is listen as Danny sing this for us, All My Praise. 02:04 This is a song that I actually wrote just a few months ago. 02:08 I was coming to the Lord one night and I was by myself 02:12 and I sit down a lot with the guitar. 02:14 And I just started making some chords and I said, 02:18 "Lord, I want to give You something but I don't 02:19 have anything. " 02:21 When you really think about it, what can you give 02:23 God Almighty? 02:24 I said, everything I own or everything I hope to own 02:28 or want to own, it's not really mine. 02:30 It's His, right? 02:31 So Lord, I don't have anything. 02:33 And the Holy Spirit said to me, "All my praise. " 02:36 So all of a sudden I heard myself say, 02:38 "All my praise, that's all I have to offer You. " 02:41 And then the Lord just gave me this song. 02:43 In the second verse, I just tell the Lord I love Him. 02:46 Because we have to be honest with God. 02:48 He knows about us so I just say, "I'm an empty broken vessel 02:52 filled with hurt and pain inside. " 02:54 "Still all my praise," we can't give up when we feel that way. 02:57 "All my praise I offer up to You. " 02:59 The third verse I just say, "Fill me with Your 03:01 Holy Spirit, Lord. 03:02 I long for Your anointing so that I may work for You. " 03:05 And then just go back to, "All my praise, I offer up to You. " 03:10 Well this evening, I was scheduled to do it. 03:12 We have David Huntsinger and Kris Wilkinson. 03:15 They're the writers of the music and they did the entire 03:18 production of the Pillars project CD's. 03:20 They're doing sheet music and all of that. 03:22 We'll talk about it in a few moments. 03:23 But they've never heard this and I sat down and started to do it 03:27 and I said, "Could you guys do this with me?" 03:28 And they are professional musicians and I was 03:31 amazed at just without every hearing this song, 03:33 they didn't ask me for any chords, they sat down and 03:37 started playing it better than I can play it. 03:39 So I'm glad that you all are here tonight. 03:41 And I'll just start out with a little chord. 03:46 All my praise, 03:50 I give You all my praise. 03:58 That's all I have to offer You. 04:08 I now build a sanctuary 04:15 deep within my heart, 04:20 oh and all my praise 04:25 I offer up to You. 04:33 I love You Lord, 04:37 oh how I love You Lord. 04:46 I bear my heart and soul 04:51 to You. 04:57 I'm and empty broken vessel 05:02 filled with hurt and pain inside. 05:09 Still I offer up 05:12 all my praise to You. 05:34 Fill me Lord, 05:38 oh please fill me Lord 05:46 with Your Holy Spirit. 05:52 Fill me now. 05:58 For I long for Your anointing 06:05 that I may work for You. 06:11 Fill me Lord, 06:15 touch me Lord just now. 06:24 And all my praise, 06:28 I give You all my praise. 06:37 Think about it, we have nothing to give God, right? 06:40 But just our praise. 06:43 I want you to sing this with me. 06:45 "I'm an empty broken vessel fill with... " 06:49 I'm an empty broken vessel 06:53 "filled with hurt and pain" 06:54 filled with hurt and pain inside. 06:59 "Still I offer up" 07:01 Still I offer up 07:04 all my praise to You. 07:10 Let's do the first part of it, "All my praise. " 07:12 If you know it, sing it. 07:14 All my praise... 07:18 Beautiful. 07:19 ...I give you all my praise. 07:27 That's all I have to offer You. 07:34 "I now build a sanctuary" 07:38 I now build a sanctuary 07:43 "deep within my heart" 07:45 deep within my heart. 07:50 "And all my praise" 07:52 All my praise, 07:55 I offer up to You. 08:04 And all my praise, 08:07 I offer up to You. 08:19 All my praise. 08:27 Alright. 08:28 We give all praise to Jesus. 08:30 Thank you guys. 08:31 You absolutely are incredible musicians, but we give God 08:35 the honor and the glory and the praise for that. 08:39 We don't want to spend our time lifting up people, 08:43 but I want to tell you something. 08:44 These are some of the most incredible people 08:47 that I've ever met. 08:48 They love Jesus, they're incredible musicians. 08:51 And so I don't want to go on and on about it, but 08:54 you all can hear for yourself. 08:55 But the project, we're going to talk about it 08:57 in just a few minutes, the Pillars project. 08:59 These are the two folk instrumental in this project 09:03 literally going around the world. 09:04 And it's going right now and it's spreading like wildfire. 09:08 They're the reason for the Pillars camp meeting 09:10 because of what the Lord impressed them that they 09:13 wanted to do with beliefs that we as Seventh-day Adventist 09:18 have literally gleaned from the Bible over the years 09:21 and have become the Pillars of our Christian faith. 09:24 And they were so impressed by it, they began 09:26 to study and study. 09:28 And they said these songs of some of the beliefs 09:31 are incredible. 09:32 Not Seventh-day Adventists. 09:34 They knew a few Seventh-day Adventists. 09:36 I've known Kris for 28 years or longer. 09:39 I've known Dave several years. 09:41 But as they began to study the message they said, 09:43 "This is incredible. " 09:44 They said, "We're musicians, we're not really just 09:48 necessarily writers to do books, we're musicians. 09:50 We could put this to music. " 09:51 And they did, and so we'll talk about that a little more. 09:54 So I'm just so thankful and they're going to be here 09:56 for the rest of the camp meeting and they've got sheet music 09:59 and all that ready. 10:00 But next, I have asked someone tonight, special, to come out 10:04 and I'm going to love this shirt he's wearing. 10:07 Come out, Nathan. 10:09 Now you look at this. 10:10 Is that sharp or what? 10:11 I'm going to, this is my buddy Nathan Young. 10:15 Nathan also, you've heard him on the Pillars singing 10:19 all the songs. 10:20 Nathan wasn't planning on singing tonight. 10:23 Can you imagine a guy with this kind of voice not 10:25 planning on singing? 10:26 He came dressed to sit in the crowd. 10:29 And I said, "Nathan, we've got to have you sing. " 10:32 And he said, "I'm not dressed. " 10:33 And I said, "Yes you are. I like that shirt a lot. " 10:37 I like that shirt. Don't you like that shirt? 10:39 I think that's a camp meeting shirt. 10:41 See, they love it. 10:42 So impromptu, again with David and Kris here, 10:46 I asked you to do something. 10:48 And he said, "I'll do one of the great old hymns of the church. " 10:50 And so you only got together just a couple of minutes. 10:53 And what are you going to do for us, Nathan? 10:54 His Eye Is On The Sparrow. 10:56 Alright, thank you. We're looking forward to it. 10:57 Thank you. 11:09 Why should I 11:13 feel discouraged, 11:20 and why should the shadows fall, 11:30 why should my heart 11:36 feel lonely, 11:39 and long for heaven my home, 11:50 when Jesus is my portion? 12:00 A constant friend is He. 12:09 His eye is on the sparrow 12:21 and I know 12:27 He watches me. 12:34 For I sing because I'm, I'm so happy. 12:46 And I sing because I'm free. 12:58 His eye is on the sparrow 13:09 and I know He watches, He watches over me. 13:20 For I sing because I'm happy. 13:30 Oh, I sing because I'm free. 13:40 His eye is on the sparrow 13:51 and I know 13:59 He watches 14:04 over me. 14:18 Amen. 14:24 Nathan, I took a guess you have a little bit of black in you, 14:26 but I didn't know David Huntsinger did. 14:30 I'm very suspicious when you hear him play. 14:32 I'm very suspicious because he's got some soul in there, 14:35 doesn't he. 14:37 He's got some soul in there. 14:38 He does, alright. 14:39 Yes, we need to get him some tanning cream. 14:42 I didn't say that, he did. 14:44 Alright, thank you Nathan. 14:46 Would you love to hear a little behind the scenes 14:48 story about Nathan? 14:49 When we were at Battle Creek, did you all see how high those.. 14:53 The roster must have been up, what was that, 8 or 10 stairs? 14:57 Probably ten. 14:58 Ten, yeah. It felt like ten? 15:00 Nathan, right before the Pillars project, was practicing 15:04 getting ready to go live. 15:05 And he went to step and he somehow missed a step. 15:08 And I think he was trying not to step on a monitor? 15:10 I was trying not to step on the monitor. 15:12 And he did a rolling and he went all the way down those steps. 15:16 Now, talk about a trooper. 15:20 Tell them what you did when you fell. 15:22 I broke my tail bone. 15:23 He broke his tail bone but didn't complain about it, 15:27 he got up and sang. 15:28 That ought to tell us something, you know what I'm saying. 15:30 A lot of us, we'd be home crying, wouldn't we? 15:32 I'd be home with big tears crying. 15:34 That was a few days later. 15:35 Yea, he said a few days later it really got to him. 15:40 And we felt so bad. I said, "Nathan, it's terrible. 15:43 I feel terrible that you've fallen and hurt yourself. " 15:45 He said, "Don't worry about it. I'm a professional faller. " 15:49 And I said, "Really?" 15:50 And he said... 15:51 He went to an ATM, his brother-in-law was driving 15:55 and went to an ATM machine. 15:56 And what happened? 15:57 I fell in front of the car and my brother-in-law, with his 16:00 loving self, rolled down the window and said, 16:02 "I give it a six, you didn't have your legs together 16:04 as you fell through the air. " 16:07 They're grading him on his falls whether it's a six. 16:10 This was a ten in Battle Creek. 16:12 That was a good one. 16:13 They might deduct a point before the tail bone break. 16:17 I'm not sure. 16:18 But this guy is such a trooper. 16:21 Incredible singer, he's a professional musician. 16:23 Does a lot of backup singing. 16:24 You sing with CeCe Winans and number of other folks. 16:27 And so we appreciate you and love you Nathan. 16:30 Thank you for having me. I'm glad to be here. 16:31 Thank you so much. God bless. 16:34 A great guy. 16:38 Nathan sang, I think he said at his aunt's funeral, 16:44 or aunt, however we pronounce it, 16:46 at her funeral, Land of Canaan. 16:51 And he said, as his aunt was dying she said, 16:56 "If heaven is that beautiful, that's where I want to go. " 16:59 And so he said she was listening to that, literally, 17:05 minutes or so before she expired. 17:07 And so he sang it at the funeral. 17:09 Because heaven is that beautiful, right? 17:11 For sure. 17:12 Well, heaven is only assured to us because 17:15 of God's amazing grace. 17:17 So we've asked David Huntsinger and Kris to do Amazing Grace. 19:38 Amen. 19:45 Amen, thank you. It was very beautiful. 19:47 Well we wanted to talk just a little bit while we had time. 19:51 The rest of the camp meeting is literally one program 19:55 after another, and Friday night and all day Sabbath. 19:57 And we really don't have time to talk about it. 19:59 But I came back from Nashville pretty excited 20:02 this past year, didn't I. 20:04 You did. 20:05 And I came back and I had actually met with Dave and Kris. 20:08 I said this once before, but you have to meet somewhere 20:12 so we met in Nashville and we met at a Cheesecake Factory. 20:14 I mean, if you've got to do business somewhere. 20:18 So we met there, ET Everett was there. 20:20 And so we were there talking about another project, 20:23 them doing some music for another project. 20:26 And David started telling me that Margie Rice, 20:30 actually, she had said to us, "I want to do a new project, 20:34 a new album. " 20:35 Older folks call them albums. You know, CD's. 20:38 "I want to do a project, a new album. 20:40 And who could we... I really want some... " 20:42 So we said, "Look, the best folk we know is what we recommend. " 20:46 You know, Kris and David. 20:48 And so anyway, they got with Margie. 20:50 They found out she was a Seventh-day Adventist. 20:52 And Dave, I guess you said she really wanted to do a song 20:55 on the Sabbath so you decided to write one. 20:58 Well, Margie is a great song writer and I loved 21:01 what she wrote. 21:03 But I started studying online the Seventh-day Adventist 21:06 history; the founders Ellen White and William Miller 21:08 and some others. 21:10 And I said, "Margie, where are the Adventist songs?" 21:12 And she said, "Well, write something. " 21:17 So I wrote, Remember The Sabbath. 21:19 And it just opened up a whole area of research and spiritual 21:24 quest on my own part and Pillars kind of came from that. 21:28 So you went from one subject to another. 21:30 Absolutely. 21:31 I discovered Ellen White's writings. 21:32 I had heard of her but knew nothing about her. 21:35 When I came across "the language of Canaan" from her first 21:38 vision of heaven, God just said, "Write this. " 21:43 And I was in shock that the song had not been written yet, 21:46 it was so beautifully poetic and moving. 21:50 So it developed from there. 21:53 And Kris, now you got excited about it also, right? 21:56 Kris has the Nashville String Machine for 22:00 many, many years still. 22:01 That's when she has an orchestra, 22:03 basically string machine. 22:05 And they do backup and you play for all kinds of, you know, 22:09 people in Nashville, recordings. 22:11 Yea, I travel all over the world playing on 22:15 other people's records. 22:16 And we just feel so blessed to get to work on something 22:22 that was given to us. 22:24 This was truly God inspired and we've gotten to use our talents 22:31 for something like this, you know. 22:33 It's just amazing. 22:37 And so David, you say in your own life it's been life changing 22:40 for you, these songs, as you wrote them and 22:42 as you studied more. 22:43 My understanding was, I heard it said that you were almost 22:46 going day and night and couldn't hardly slow down 22:49 because you just kept going from one subject to another. 22:52 It was just so interesting and the reading about the history 22:56 and the pioneers and the sacrifice, 22:58 and just some the beautiful, beautiful beliefs. 23:01 The sanctuary doctrine, what a great thought. 23:06 Christ is interceding for us now, 23:09 He's ministering for us now. 23:10 And know that, in some circles, it's considered to be a 23:14 controversial doctrine, but I just went to the Bible. 23:17 There it is. 23:18 And I'm a Christian, so I had no trouble with that 23:21 and I embraced it fully. 23:22 It's been a real blessing working on this for a year. 23:26 And also, the health message has literally 23:29 saved David's life this year. 23:32 Tell us about how the health message saved your life. 23:34 I'm diabetic and when I was first diagnosed about 23:37 14 year ago at 40, I did okay. 23:39 And then I just sort of lapsed into a lack of discipline 23:43 and the last couple of years I've been out of control. 23:45 I ended up in the hospital last September. 23:48 I had to have a surgery and I was scared to death. 23:51 And God has His ways of dealing with us. 23:55 Kris ran into a gentleman on an elevator who was 23:59 Seventh-day Adventist and he said that he was 24:02 ministering to people in the hospital. 24:03 She sent him my way. 24:05 He came into the room and just started talking to me. 24:08 I was on antibiotics and pain pills and he just 24:12 ministered to me. 24:13 I talked to somebody who called me a few days ago, 24:15 and he said that might have been an angel unaware. 24:17 And I said I would agree with you except that I saw him at 24:20 church, I went to First church, Seventh-day Adventist church 24:24 in Nashville and he was in the choir. 24:26 I almost burst out crying. 24:28 Well all of our churches have angels in the choir. 24:30 I think so. 24:32 But anyway, I've lost some weight. 24:34 I joke, I say that I have 5 pounds to loose and then 24:39 I'll be on maintenance. 24:40 But I've slowly lost weight over these last few months. 24:42 I'm a vegetarian, I've read a lot about the health message 24:46 and it's wonderful. 24:49 Tell them about the insulin, that you're the only 24:51 patient of his doctor that has ever been able to 24:54 get off of insulin. 24:57 Completely off of insulin. 25:00 Just from eating according to Biblical principles, 25:03 which just makes sense. 25:05 Kris, you became a vegetarian a long time ago. 25:09 You know, I remember when Danny, I mean we go so far back. 25:14 that I was only 10 years old when we met, you know. 25:18 That's probably true. I think I was 12. 25:20 Yea, that's right. 25:22 But when you first started telling me about the 25:26 health message, and actually I knew Danny before 25:31 3ABN was even founded. 25:33 And I use to think, "Hmmm, I like this guy but he's got 25:38 some crazy ideas. " 25:39 But look where we are now and it's truly a miracle. 25:44 We will never forget Battle Creek. 25:47 And that's when the music was first played in any 25:51 kind of a public setting. 25:54 So, how many of you here were in Battle Creek? 25:56 I know a number of you were. I see Dr. Walt back there. 25:59 There was not a dry eye in the place. 26:03 Isn't that right JD and Shelley? 26:04 God is using it, He is using it to focus the whole message, 26:11 a spot light on our pillars of our faith; 26:15 the truths that God has given us that He wants us to uphold. 26:20 And He wants us to be strong with them. 26:22 He doesn't want us to be obnoxious with them, 26:25 but He wants us to be firm and He wants us to be steadfast 26:29 in what we believe and cry out to a world that, 26:33 "this is the way, walk ye in it. " 26:36 What really encouraged me with this and when, David, we were 26:40 meeting on another project and then he said, 26:43 "You know, there are just so many doctrines. 26:46 They're so wonderful, they're truths. " 26:48 Be he said, "I started visiting some Adventist churches. " 26:51 And you tell it from there. You didn't hear... 26:55 Well they're wonderful, wonderful churches 26:58 and wonderful people and I enjoyed the worship service. 27:00 But I was not hearing... 27:02 I was excited, I had discovered Adventism 27:05 and all these wonderful doctrines. 27:07 And I know that Adventism is nothing less than Christianity, 27:11 Biblical Christianity. 27:12 And my thinking is like, "I want to hear this proclaimed. 27:17 Tell me about the sanctuary. " 27:19 And anyway, it just encouraged me to, it inspired me to want to 27:22 write some songs that were direct and bold, 27:24 but not obnoxious. 27:26 Yea, so he said he went to a number of different churches 27:29 and people didn't seem excited about all of the messages; 27:32 the spirit of prophecy, the state of the dead, the Sabbath. 27:35 And he told me, he said, "We need to write this music just 27:39 so your people can relook at it again. " 27:41 And I said, "That's the pillars of our faith 27:43 you're talking about. " 27:44 And, you know, we do take for granted so much what we have, 27:47 whatever blessings God gives us. 27:50 And our theology is one of those and sometimes we can 27:53 be lulled to sleep. 27:54 But when you get some folk like these that are literally 27:59 renowned musicians and writers that have such an incredible 28:04 history in music that catch the vision and say, 28:09 "We want to work with this project," and they did. 28:11 And now, just take a minute about this sheet music. 28:13 Everybody's asking questions. 28:16 I just want to say I'm so excited, 28:18 something you just said. 28:20 Here's our song book and inside of that, Danny, is one of our 28:25 individual sheets of music. 28:27 But every day we're getting new inspiration of how to 28:31 get this word out. 28:32 And one thing that I just want to say that David came up with. 28:37 We've written out the piano parts like they are 28:40 on the record, but not everybody can play that. 28:43 But yet they want to play this music. 28:45 So David, tell them what you've done. 28:48 In the book, we have the arrangements just as they 28:52 were recorded by Reggie and Ladye and Nathan 28:55 and the Andrews University Choir. 28:57 But for people that just want to sit down to a piano and organ, 29:00 we have done an arrangement of each song as well 29:03 that looks like a hymnal. 29:05 Because everybody doesn't want a nine page arrangement. 29:08 You just want to sit at home and worship and sing or 29:10 sing with your family, so the book is going to have 29:13 those simple arrangements. 29:14 And then when you want to do special music at church 29:16 or an event, you can play the piano vocal arrangement. 29:19 But a lot of people are going to enjoy that because it's simple. 29:24 Amen. 29:25 I just wanted to say also on each song, what we've done is 29:31 we have a little scripture and a little description 29:36 of what inspired this song, and even a little picture. 29:40 Because a lot of times I think people look at sheet music 29:45 and it's so complex looking to them. 29:48 They want to play it but it's, you know, it's not for 29:54 the layman, it's more for professionals. 29:56 So we want this to be a message that reaches everybody. 30:01 This is an idea. 30:02 I mean, these guys are a lot better marketers than we are. 30:05 We've had this truth for so many years. 30:06 Now look at this, Jim. What do you see right there? 30:09 I see Ellen White. 30:10 The Language of Canaan. 30:11 This will be going in bookstores all over America 30:13 and around the world. 30:14 There's a picture of Ellen White. 30:15 It's "The Language of Canaan" and they put her picture in 30:18 and tell about it. 30:19 "Ellen White's vision of heaven is the source. " 30:21 And some of us are ashamed to say anything about her. 30:23 See what I'm saying. 30:25 Does somebody hear me out there or am I by myself? 30:27 These folk aren't ashamed her, right? 30:29 So they put her picture on there and talk about her. 30:32 "Her vision of heaven is the source of the chord lyric 30:35 to The Language of Canaan. 30:36 The Lord showed young Ellen Gould a beautiful picture 30:41 of heaven when she was 16 years old. " 30:43 Then it says, "Courtesy of the Ellen White Estates. " 30:46 So when the sheet music... 30:47 People who buy it, they're going to say, 30:49 "Well, who is Ellen White?" 30:50 I mean, honestly, is that from the Lord or what. 30:53 And William Miller... 30:54 I think I saw for "I Fixed My Mind" that it was written 30:57 because of William Miller's statement, Jim. 30:59 And so they have a picture of William Miller and 31:01 it tells about him. 31:02 And these songs, it's incredible ideas. 31:04 We want this book, like the entire Pillars of our Faith 31:07 program, not just the music but all the sermons, 31:10 this whole year of celebrating God's faithfulness to 3ABN. 31:13 We want that to be a message to the world. 31:17 We all know without going into a lot of detail that the world 31:19 is in a bad place right now. 31:21 Christ is going to come and we need to get the message out. 31:25 We want this book to be a ministering tool. 31:28 You know, when David wrote these, he brought them to 31:32 CA and John, and he brought them to me. 31:34 And, Danny, we looked at them thinking that we might have to 31:38 make some maybe major adjustments to some of the 31:41 theology that was there. 31:43 We didn't have to do that. 31:44 The Lord had led him. 31:45 He had done his study, done his research. 31:47 The Bible is clear, it is plain. 31:51 If you let the Bible be its own interpreter, 31:54 you will not be confused about what it teaches. 31:57 It's when you let man start telling you what it says 32:00 that you get into trouble. 32:02 That's exactly right. 32:04 And we have talked to prisoners numerous times 32:08 that have written to us, folks incarcerated, 32:11 and they say to us, "We're so thankful that we have somebody 32:15 who agrees with us about the Sabbath. " 32:17 And here's what they say. 32:18 "I was not raised in a Christian home. 32:21 Didn't hear God except when His name was used in vain. 32:24 And I've been in prison... " 32:26 They might be 50 years old. 32:28 "I've been in prison since I was 18 years old. 32:30 So I started reading the Bible several years ago 32:33 and every chaplain that comes in here, I want to talk to him 32:37 about the truths but nobody believes, nobody keeps the 32:41 seventh day Sabbath and we don't know why. " 32:43 They say, "Because it's in the Bible and we can't figure out 32:46 why don't people do what the Bible says. " 32:48 And now, these are people with no background, 32:50 no one said anything or tried to encourage them 32:53 one way or the other. 32:54 And the one guy said to me, "And it's so easy when you read 32:57 all of the scripture to try to weight in the balances 33:00 that when a person dies, he goes to sleep and he doesn't 33:03 go to heaven or hell until after Christ comes back. " 33:05 And he says, "But nobody agrees. 33:07 All of these preachers tell me I don't know 33:08 what I'm talking about. " 33:09 And he said, "I started watching 3ABN when it 33:12 came into our prison and I said that's where I belong. 33:14 They're teaching what this Bible says. " 33:17 He said, "I was a holdout for many years. 33:19 I decided I wasn't going to join a church. " 33:21 But you see, the truth is there but we 33:24 need to be getting it out. 33:25 What David and Kris are doing is incredible. 33:28 God is willing to use anyone willing to be used. 33:31 And He's bringing people like David and Kris. 33:33 And Nathan told me, he said, "I'm singing this," and he said, 33:36 "I thought this was maybe for just this venue with Adventist. 33:39 But its songs are so caught on I'm singing it in 33:42 Methodist churches and Baptist churches. 33:44 And I'm singing it in these churches and the people 33:46 love the music. " 33:47 Well listen, it's an exciting thing. 33:50 It really is. 33:51 And Danny, we're going to get to hear some more music here, 33:54 from some of those that have been singing on these albums. 33:57 We sure are. 33:58 Who do we have coming? 33:59 Alright, I want to thank David and Kris. 34:01 And then we're going to ask Reggie and Ladye Love Smith 34:04 and Melody, I think Melody Dawn is going to be sing with them. 34:07 Right? 34:09 Melody Dawn Shelton-Firestone. 34:10 I'm going to have to give her name because some of you 34:12 are going to say, "Where did she go?" 34:14 Well this is what's left of her. The best part stayed with her. 34:17 See that, the pretty part. 34:20 Melody, I had never noticed how much we look alike until now. 34:24 Isn't she cute, isn't she pretty. 34:26 I'm just kidding her. 34:28 Melody looks like her mother and her mother was beautiful 34:31 and you're beautiful, and I love you very much. 34:33 So you're going to be singing tonight with 34:35 Reggie and Ladye Love Smith. 34:37 Now these folk, how many of you have seen the Gaither videos? 34:40 You ever seen Reggie and Lady Love? 34:41 Be honest now, raise your hands. Alright, now hands are going up. 34:44 There you go. 34:45 And, Reggie, I hear in the last couple of months you've been 34:48 singing some with the Gaither Vocal Band. 34:50 Just filling in for Michael English. 34:53 And that's incredible. 34:54 And we got to know Reggie and Ladye a few years ago 34:58 and fell in love with them. 34:59 Do you know why? Because they love Jesus. 35:01 They love Jesus and it shows. 35:03 When Melody was a little girl, her mother was killed 35:08 in a car wreck, Kay, when Melody was just 11 years old. 35:11 But she and Tommy and I had an old diesel Greyhound bus 35:14 and we travelled for 3 years doing gospel music. 35:17 And I got burned out, literally, of going places 35:21 and meeting people and being disappointed 35:23 in groups that seem so spiritual and then all of a sudden, 35:27 you get to know them and it's like, 35:29 "Why are they even doing this?" 35:30 Some of them didn't even claim to be Christians. 35:33 Well years went by, and it took me a lot of years 35:36 until I began to meet people like you all 35:38 and meet people like David and Kris 35:40 and meet people, you know, Nathan, and started meeting 35:43 wonderful, there's wonderful people out there 35:46 that love Jesus. 35:47 And I said, you know what? 35:48 It's changing my whole view on things. 35:50 And so it's such a privilege to have you guys to be a part of 35:54 this and you've been singing and you've come to 3ABN 35:56 and you're singing our records and Melody's and others. 35:59 And thank you so much for what you do. 36:01 You know we love you. 36:02 Where are you from? 36:03 I'm originally from the southern part of Mississippi, 36:05 Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 36:06 But we live in Nashville, Tennessee now. 36:08 Alright, does he sound like he's from southern Mississippi? 36:10 Nashville. 36:11 Yea. 36:13 Lady Love, what about you? 36:15 I'm from the north... northern Mississippi. 36:20 A little small town called luka, Mississippi close to Tupelo. 36:23 Anybody from Mississippi here? 36:26 We've talked, I know. 36:27 Alright, some of you did. 36:28 We've got a couple over this way, Danny. 36:29 Ok, Mississippi. There you go. 36:32 And where did you guys meet? 36:34 We actually met at the University of Mississippi, 36:36 formerly known as Ole Miss. 36:38 And she was sitting next to my six year long 36:41 girlfriend in the choir. 36:42 Wait, say that again. 36:43 Oh, did I say that? 36:44 She was sitting next to who? 36:45 I had a girlfriend, you know, through high school and 36:48 college for 6 years. 36:49 And I saw this brunette sitting up there and she was just... 36:53 You know, just ready to sing and sang so well. 36:55 And when she opened her mouth to sing? 36:57 I said, "That's the one. " 37:00 You all have been married how long now? 37:02 We've been married 15 years. 37:03 Alright, praise the Lord. 37:05 Now you've got a little boy. 37:06 We do. 37:07 Tell us about Brett. 37:08 Brett is 7 years old and he's running around, 37:12 you'll see him tonight and this weekend. 37:14 Last night he wanted one of those Kid's Time shirts 37:17 so we got him one of the Kid's Time. 37:18 He had it on all day today too. He's worn it 2 days now. 37:21 We'll either wash it or give him another one. 37:24 Okay. 37:25 That's for sure. 37:26 Well you wrote a song, I'm sure you've written many, 37:28 but you wrote a song just recently. 37:30 Tell us about this song. 37:33 Well we just wrote a song, we just started thinking about 37:35 all the wonderful things that God has blessed us with. 37:37 And we tried to just think about some of those things. 37:41 We just wanted to thank Him and praise Him, 37:42 you know, at a time right now when there are lots of 37:46 not good things going on in our world. 37:47 We just need to remember that God is so good to us. 37:52 And to try to remember the things that we are grateful for, 37:55 the things that He's given us and blessed us with. 37:58 And we kind of write this song and Melody's going to 38:01 sing it with us. 38:02 And it just talks about those things. 38:20 For all the countless ways You have blessed me all my days, 38:27 Father, let me pause to say I give You thanks. 38:35 For the life You've given me for my friends, my family, 38:42 for every wonder I have seen, 38:46 I give You thanks, I give You thanks. 38:54 Thank You, Lord. 39:02 Thank You, Lord. 39:09 For all You've done for me 39:17 I thank You, Lord. 39:40 For Your guidance through the years, 39:44 for Your presence through my fears, 39:47 for all the joys and yes, the tears, 39:51 I give You thanks. 39:55 For the faithfulness You've shown 39:59 as I've faced each dark unknown, 40:03 I have never been alone, I give You thanks. 40:09 Lord, I give You thanks. 40:13 Sing it with me. 40:15 Thank You, Lord. 40:22 Thank You, Lord. 40:29 For all You've done for me 40:37 I thank You, Lord. 40:43 We thank You. 40:45 We thank You, Lord. Lord, we thank You. 40:53 Thank You, Lord. 41:00 For all You've done for us 41:07 we thank You, Lord. 41:13 For all You've done. 41:15 For all You've done for us 41:24 we thank You, Lord. 41:39 Amen. 42:09 If I lose it all tomorrow, 42:16 if there's nothing I can do, 42:23 if I have one breath of life in me, 42:32 I will still trust in You. 42:38 If my dearest friends forsake me, 42:45 if my heart is torn in two, 42:53 if I'm left alone to face this world, 43:01 yet I will trust in You. 43:07 Let the mountains crumble, the seas turn to dust, 43:14 let the sun and the stars fade from view, 43:22 let the world say I'm foolish, but still I will trust 43:30 for, Father, You're forever faithful. 43:36 Always and forever faithful and true. 43:42 I will still trust in You. 43:59 When my days on earth have ended 44:06 and my struggle here is through, 44:15 and when I slip into what lies beyond, 44:22 yet I will trust in You. 44:30 I will trust You, I will trust You, 44:38 trust the Lamb that reigns on high. 44:44 Let the mountains crumble, the seas turn to dust, 44:53 let the sun and the stars fade from view, 44:59 let the world say I'm foolish, but still I will trust 45:08 for, Father, You're faithful, 45:11 You're so ever faithful and true. 45:20 I will still trust in You, Lord. 45:28 Father, I'll trust 45:38 in You. 45:53 Amen. 45:56 Thank you. Beautiful, Reggie. 45:58 Alright, God bless. 46:00 Wow, we're having church. 46:02 That's right. That's church. 46:04 That is right. 46:05 You know, one of the great things about 3ABN is the board. 46:10 We've got a wonderful board. 46:11 Our board chairman is here tonight, Dr. Thompson. 46:14 He's always with us. His wife, Avonne, is here. 46:17 Well, we've had some that for one reason or another 46:22 can't continue; health reasons or other reasons. 46:25 But we are so thankful for the contribution that they've made 46:30 with their thoughts, their ideas, their prayers, 46:33 and their leadership. 46:34 Danny, tell us about Merlin Fjarli. 46:37 Merlin and Jo Ann Fjarli. 46:39 How many of you know the Fjarli's? 46:40 I'm sure a lot of folk do. 46:41 Incredible people, wonderful people. 46:43 And I love Merlin, he's soft spoken but he knows 46:47 exactly where he's going and how he's going to get there. 46:49 And you're not going to change his mind when he's looking 46:52 towards truth and doing what he believes is right. 46:55 And I say that in a positive way because Merlin has 46:59 caught the vision of 3ABN's mission and goal to give an 47:03 undiluted three angels messages into all the world. 47:06 One that would counteract the counterfeit. 47:08 And every action about him said, "I believe you, I support you. 47:13 Not only financially, but in every way possible. 47:16 And Jo Ann too. " 47:17 And they've been host to us many times in their beautiful home 47:20 and taking care of us when we're out there. 47:21 Your mother can cook, I mean this woman can cook. 47:25 She knows how to do it. 47:27 And they're wonderful people. 47:29 But your dad's had some health issues. 47:31 In the last year or so especially. 47:34 And he felt that he no longer could travel back and forth. 47:39 And so we have asked Bruce, I said to Bruce, 47:42 "We want you to take your dad's place. " 47:44 That was a mistake. 47:45 He said, "I could never take my dad's place. " 47:47 And I said, "No, I meant fill his shoes. " 47:49 "No," and I knew he'd say, "I could never fill his shoes. " 47:51 "I mean, we want you to sit on our board. " 47:53 So he agreed to do that but he said, "I'm not going to follow, 47:58 you know, I can't follow that with my dad. " 47:59 And what great respect. 48:01 You don't know what that did to me yesterday because he said it 48:04 from the heart and he meant it. 48:05 And I said, "What an incredible family. " 48:07 I mean, how many of us older folk, you know as we are now, 48:12 how many of us want and desire to see our children have 48:16 that much love and respect for what we're doing. 48:19 And so we want to thank you so much. 48:21 And, Jackie, that you for being out here and your support 48:24 and what you all are doing. 48:25 Mollie, you have a plaque. 48:26 Well, I've been with 3ABN now for about 15 years. 48:30 And early on, some people that I got to know that were 48:34 so behind 3ABN, as you mentioned, were the Fjarli's. 48:38 And 5 years ago, we asked Merlin to be on the board 48:41 and he graciously accepted. 48:43 And as Danny said a little earlier that he has had 48:47 some health issues. 48:48 And Bruce, we are so grateful to you that you are supportive of 48:51 this ministry as well. 48:53 But what we would like to do is just offer, just in honor 48:58 of Merlin's 5 years, this 49:00 plaque. It says, "To Merlin Fjarli, in honor of 5 years of 49:03 service on the 3ABN board of directors from 2005 to 2010. " 49:08 So I'd like to give this to you. 49:09 And Merlin, if you're watching, Jo Ann... 49:11 We wish you were here so we could give it to you. 49:13 Amen. 49:14 Let all the people say amen. 49:16 Alright, thank you. 49:25 I'd like to give the glory to God for such godly parents. 49:32 They have presented an example of Christian service 49:40 and giving that I believe is from God. 49:45 And I hope and pray that I can have the same heart 49:49 and the same service for 3ABN and for Christ's service. 49:53 Thank you. 49:54 Thank you, God bless you all so much. Thank you. 50:00 We'd like to introduce Dwight Hall with Remnant. 50:03 How many of you know Dwight? 50:04 Alright, a lot of folk. You've got a lot of friends. 50:06 Dwight, we have about 4 or 5 minutes here. 50:09 Tell us what's happening. 50:10 4 or 5 minutes? 50:11 Yea, that's it. 50:12 How did you get involved in the Pillars project 50:15 and what is Remnant doing? 50:16 Well, one thing I can say is that I was a month in Australia 50:20 and New Zealand, and someone picked me up from the airport 50:22 and they said, "I've got this great tape that you've got to 50:26 listen to, the CD." 50:27 So they put it on and they said, "Do you know what this is?" 50:29 And I said, "Well that's the Pillars. " 50:31 So then from there I went to South Africa 50:34 about a month later. 50:35 And they picked me up at the airport and they said, 50:37 "You've got to hear this great CD." 50:38 They said, "Do you know what it is?" 50:40 And I said, "Yea, that's the Pillars. " 50:44 And so Danny and Jim talked to me and we decided that 50:49 what would be better to marry up the CD with a book 50:55 about the Pillars. 50:56 And that's what we came out with. 50:57 And that's why I'm up here this evening. 50:59 And I don't know if they have a picture, but anyway, 51:03 Danny, you can hold that up. 51:05 But anyway, it's about the Pillars of the Christian faith. 51:09 And I know that one thing that I think is important... 51:13 You know, how many of you have heard of the 51:15 Ten Commandments Twice Removed? 51:17 Yea, most of you. I hope all of you. 51:19 But you know, that book was a timely book 51:22 that needed to get out when it did. 51:24 And there are, I don't know how many churches, 51:27 33 or 34 whole churches that changed. 51:31 And now I believe that this book, with all my heart, 51:34 is a very timely book. 51:37 Yea, from Sunday to Sabbath. 51:39 34 churches, not counting the thousands of people 51:43 that read that book. 51:44 Listen, books are vitally important. 51:47 You know, many of us can talk to friends but books 51:50 will get into places that people can't get to with their mouths. 51:54 And I am such a believer in the literature work. 51:57 I've seen the power of the books and I believe this Pillars book 52:01 is so important. 52:03 David Huntsinger said this evening that time is short. 52:07 As he started reading and studying the scriptures 52:10 with these Pillars on the faith, he started realizing 52:13 more and more, time is short. 52:15 And I believe that we need to get the message out 52:17 and so we have special prices. 52:19 You can see us at our booth or see 3ABN. 52:23 We want to see, like the Ten Commandments Twice Removed, 52:26 to get these out in churches by the pallets, by the cases. 52:30 You ought to have some in your vehicle. 52:32 You know, put them on gas pumps when you get gas. 52:34 I have to ask the question. 52:35 How many of you ever have gotten gas? 52:40 If you're going to get gas, don't say you can't 52:42 take and put a book out. 52:43 About half the people don't drive. 52:45 They didn't raise their hands. 52:47 At least some of you are honest, aren't you. 52:49 No, just kidding. 52:50 But you know, you can put a book on a gas pump. 52:52 We have gotten letters and emails from people that have 52:56 given their heart to the Lord Jesus Christ 52:58 from a book that was in a rest area, 53:00 a book that was on a gas pump. 53:02 Somebody threw a book away in a Laundromat, 53:07 and they threw it away. 53:10 Somebody picked that book up and was baptized, 53:13 gave their heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. 53:15 So God will put the books where the people need them. 53:19 Even if it's in the garbage. 53:20 So I just want to encourage and inspire and energize 53:24 each one of you, if you aren't, get the books out. 53:27 Well, I want to thank Dwight for what you do with 53:30 Remnant Publications and your program you're doing on 3ABN. 53:33 And thank you. 53:34 Dwight has a nose for timing. 53:36 The book that you put out with the movie some time ago, 53:40 and you put out one or two million, many a couple 53:42 of million of those. 53:43 Now what was the name of it? 53:44 The Passion of Love. 53:45 Passion of Love, the movie. 53:47 Then when the Ten Commandment weekends, 53:48 we started having those. 53:50 How many of those have been out to people? 53:52 Well, I know for sure that we've put out about 7 million 53:55 in English, but as I travel it's in the Afrikaans language and 53:58 many other languages all over. 54:00 We just got somebody that wanted it in the Croatian language. 54:03 So we've got it and now to this Pillars book, thank you so much 54:07 for what you're doing. |
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