As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today special program.
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program.
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Thank you for joining us
as you do each and every day.
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And we always like to
say thank you for your love
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and your prayers and
financial support of 3ABN
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as we continue to
take this great gospel
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of the kingdom
into all the world.
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Today is a special program
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and we decided we'd get a bunch
of old folks here together.
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And we'll get together,
we'll talk, we'll reminisce.
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Now, some of us
aren't all that old
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and I was referring to you,
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Tammy, I'm referring to
Tim Parton who is with us.
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But the rest of us, we
can hit the senior citizen,
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but it's my privilege
today to have my Sister Tammy,
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Brother Kenny and
Brother Ronnie with us today.
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And we rarely ever
sing together as a family.
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And I don't know if it's
because we know that that's not
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really our gifts or not,
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but we rarely do it as a family.
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But we said, "Well you
know what, we're not getting any
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younger if
we're going to do it."
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And our mother,
who's resting in Jesus
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she would be happy
if she knew we were all
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singing here together
and having a great time.
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So we want you will maybe sing
some songs that you know today.
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We want you at
home to sing with us.
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And we're just going to be...
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We haven't even talked about
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what we're going
to talk about today.
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But we have
already prayed and asked
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the Holy Spirit to
lead, guide and direct,
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so our goal today
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is that when
this program is over,
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you will have made a decision
to draw closer to the Lord,
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Jesus Christ.
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So once again, it's good to...
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Thank you for all that you do.
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And right now we want
you to join us in our little
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conversation and our music.
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So I'm going to start out here.
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I'm going start
out with Tim Parton.
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Brother Tim,
how you doing today?
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I'm good. I'm good.
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I'm ready for this to happen.
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I've been hearing about it
and I was afraid that you might
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cancel it because you have
that control that authority.
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But I think the other three
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were against that because
they wanted to do this, right?
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That's right.
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Okay, if I had
known that I probably
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wouldn't hand him the mike.
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He just said all of that.
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I thought he's going
to support me in this.
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Well, we thought
about cancelling it,
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but at our age it may be if we
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cancelled it might
be because one of us
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is sick or
something happens you know.
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But honestly, God
is good, isn't He?
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He's so good and so
we're glad to be here.
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And let's go back
and talk a little bit.
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Ronnie, talk about
something your mind sticking up.
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We grew up together, four boys.
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Tommy's not here today,
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but four boys and then
eight years later after me.
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I'm the youngest
boy came a little girl.
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Yeah, I was going to say.
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And if I remember
that mom had had three boys
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and she was wanting the
girl so bad but Danny was born.
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Oh, no.
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And she cried. And she cried.
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Well, yeah, people are
still crying over that.
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People are still crying
but then they didn't stop
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so they tried one more
time and finally got the girl.
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And you were talking
about Danny had the authority
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and I thought,
"Well, I think me and Kenny
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whenever we want to know
something, we go to her."
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Here you go.
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Okay, well tell us
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how you came into
that position, Tammy?
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It seemed after our mom
passed away it just, kind of,
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fell on to my shoulders.
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And they were so...
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what would you...
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They aggravated me so much
when I was little and pulled
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so many stunts that I thought,
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"Now I'm in
charge so I could kind
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of get them back
in different ways."
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Yeah, it says "Old people dream
dreams and have big vision."
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All of that
according to the Bible.
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But, now, don't get too
uptight, we have a good time.
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We do.
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We joke each
other a little bit back
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and forth and we always do that.
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People think something's wrong
with us, probably if we didn't.
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But let's talk a
little bit about...
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Kenny, tell us a little
bit about Shelton household
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growing up
about mom and dad and,
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you know, his health
and that type of thing?
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We'll talk about
that a little bit
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and then we'll do a
little bit of music,
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and music was a big
part of our life growing up.
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Yeah, no, it really was.
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And I was...
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You know, I always loved
being around a musical family.
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I never really
participated too much with it,
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but you could be
sure in the Shelton
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household there was
somebody coming over,
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some group meeting there,
you know, somebody playing
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the piano, somebody
sing or a group at any time.
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It just seemed like that went
on all the time, all the time.
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And I think that's where some
of the good old gospel music,
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kind of, sunk into
our heads and our minds
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and just kind of
by the grace of God,
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it stayed there and
then we go to church
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and sing these things.
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But it was, I think it was...
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The neighbors a lot of times
would say in the summertime,
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especially, you
know, we'd open the windows
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and we'd had a window fan.
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And they would say the next
day, "Oh, I know you guys had
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a good time last night.
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Man, we could hear the music."
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Now if it had been me,
I'd probably shut the window
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and shut that.
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But they said, "We
really enjoy that,"
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because it wasn't something
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that went on in every household.
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It was, and they were singing
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and they knew it was about Jesus
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and the coming of Jesus
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and when there were things that
would happen in the community,
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the neighborhood.
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We could always
expect that mom would get
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a call or something to say,
"Pray for us or pray for a part
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of the family right here,"
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because they knew
we were praying family,
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and that we love Jesus
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and that was good to
have that on the block.
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And I don't know about you.
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I don't know, maybe I'll ask
these folk something out here.
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Every once in a while, I feel
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the need that want
to drive by the house
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that I was born in.
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I don't know if any of
you feel that way or not.
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Several times I have done
that in the last several years.
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Just drive by and
look at that old house...
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Still standing.
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It's still standing
and it had a lot of us
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who did a lot of building on it.
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And I don't know, and we
were 12 and 13 years of age.
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The music room we built for Dad,
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remember the music room we had.
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Ronnie, how old was
you when you wired that?
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Well, I've probably
been early teens, very early.
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Yeah. Around 13, yeah.
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I wired the
house and like I said,
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"Whenever we built an upstairs,"
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because it was just a
basically a four room house
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and we had too many
guys, you know, so...
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We had two bedrooms.
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Yeah, two
bedrooms, that's right.
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So we opened up an attic
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and it was only
six-foot right in the middle.
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So when you walked
you had to walk right down
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the middle and that
was a problem for us.
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And 12 feet wide but
it went down to three feet
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and we pulled downstairs.
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So we just pulled
down the stairs to get up
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and down every night.
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They're not that a
good stairways, but no heat,
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no air out there.
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Really, no designated
heat or air conditioner.
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But an hour or
two before bedtime,
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remember mom would
say, "Pull the curtain back
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so that he can go upstairs."
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And that was it,
but, you know, I read...
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I'm like, Kenny, I
appreciate it, though.
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I mainly remember Friday nights
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when we gathered around
the piano and that's when...
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The only song that
the folks ever taught us
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was gospel music,
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that's the only thing
that they ever taught us.
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And it was so
natural for us because mom
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and dad did a real nice duet.
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She played the piano very well
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and dad always
played the guitar.
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And they played a very
nice duet and singing gospel
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and so each one
of us then as we got
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a little bit
older, Kenny picked up
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a guitar and he was more rhythm.
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And then Danny
picked up the guitar
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and did a little more lead on it
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and then I picked up
the bass, you know and so,
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our brother Tommy was a
grand piano player, you know?
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Yeah.
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And so we began to sing
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and each one of us
picked up an instrument
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and it just seemed
a natural thing to do.
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Amen.
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What happened was
our father was disabled
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at about 36 years
old with a heart attack.
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And so times were pretty
tough then but before that,
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he was a
trucker and had a truck.
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And we used to go...
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We call everything from picking
glasses, busting bottles,
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you know, of
glass and filling up
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the trucks taking to St. Louis.
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Really, he was a recycler.
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Now we can call him
that. Yeah, recycler.
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Absolutely, junk, you know,
metals, iron, steel, brass,
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you know, whatever,
copper, whatever we could get.
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We go to the junkyards and say,
hey down there's an old motor,
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go get that,
it's got some copper
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so we'd bring it
and then we'd sell all
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of that but then later.
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And then we used to
go to Indiana every fall,
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in the fall and pick
tomatoes every summer
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and come back from fall
when we were really young.
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I think my last time
I was 9-10 years old,
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but when dad had a heart attack.
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But I don't think Tammy
ever went, she was young enough.
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She didn't go, but
we'd go live with the Amish.
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And there was times that my
uncle Olin and all his family,
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my Uncle Budd, my
grandma and grandpa,
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Tim and we stayed.
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There was two or three years.
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Tommy remembered it better
than me but we stayed in a barn
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with no running
water, no electricity,
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but he said there
was cardboard in between
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the dividers between families.
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And so it was just a
horse barn that you lived in all
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summer because
you're working for the Amish
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and they didn't have like
electricity or running water.
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So when we lived in
the old Amish's houses,
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we didn't have that either,
but they did have a number nine
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washed up, if some of
you know what that is.
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So right, we'd stand
in that and once a week,
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Kenny said like...
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Whether you needed it or not.
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Yeah, once a week and they
run barefooted most of the time.
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But when after
my dad was disabled
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and my mother worked
hard, and so we all helped
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and we helped the neighbors
mowed yards and painted,
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did whatever we
could do to help,
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you know, support the family.
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But through it all, you know,
my mom and dad stayed faithful.
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My mother became a Christian
the year I was born in '51.
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My dad, he continued to play...
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He played country
music and you know the...
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I don't know what
you call them, bars,
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or mom used to
call them honky-tonks.
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But dad then used to do
it and so for several years
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he had a band
called Tommy Shelton
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and the Melody Kings
and had a radio program.
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But he became a
Christian in 1955, I think.
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And so a few years
later, several things happened.
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He finally
said, "I just give up.
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I know what the
Lord wants me to do."
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But he was faithful after that.
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And so, though we
didn't have much income,
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we did have a lot
of love in the family.
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And we always, it's never...
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Did anyone ever doubt
when Sabbath morning came,
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we were going to church or not?
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No, never.
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You never had
an option, did you?
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No, it's just...
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It's like going to
school, there's no option.
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Yeah,
absolutely. So anyway, so...
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I was thinking
about, you was talking about
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going to school.
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We went to the grade school
that we could walk over just
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three or four blocks to ours.
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Joined our grade school
where we went, you know?
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And, of course, the three
of us was very competitive
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and so we'd like to
play basketball and softball
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and baseball and
whatever else, you know, that...
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There was a lot
of fun in those days.
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When you look back on
those, you think those were some
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of the best times of our life.
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You know, you didn't
have a care in the world about
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anything except
we're going down,
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you know, take the basketball
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and we're going down
to school to play ball.
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That's where we were going.
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And so, to me, it
was a good atmosphere,
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you know, to be growing up.
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And even though
we were very poor...
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We look back now and we say,
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"We were some of the
poorest in the school."
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We just didn't know it.
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We didn't know it
at the time, you know?
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We thought everybody had holes
in the bottom of their shoes.
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And got their
clothes from the goodwill.
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Yeah, who knew?
Yeah, that's true.
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Our homemade shirts.
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Mom made some
nice homemade shirts.
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Tell us about mom's shirts
and then we'll sing a song.
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Tell us about mom's sewing.
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She worked at a
dress factory, right?
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They call it piecework,
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so that means
the more you put out
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the more you're going to make,
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so she learned to
really sew quickly.
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I needed a shirt
one time, you know,
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there were some met holes.
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She had a little older hand
singer with the thumping foot.
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Singer with the thumping
foot or whatever and she said,
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"I'll make you one."
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And made me a shirt in about
15 minutes, she had a shirt.
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And I'm looking at her and
thinking, "Wow, that's good."
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I tried it on and one
collar hung about here
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and the other
one was up to here.
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I said, "Mom, isn't
that little strange.
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I mean, the one
collar is too long.
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Can we reduce?"
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She said, "Kenny,
don't worry about it.
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Nobody is going to
notice it, man, just go ahead.
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You're lucky, you got a shirt."
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Here's what they did notice
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and I look back at some
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of that old pictures
that we had in school.
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But our shirts what happened,
they would give my mother.
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She worked at a dress factory
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so that gave you a hint
what they made, dresses right?
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So they would
give her the remnants.
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So she would come
home and make a shirt
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so we might have a white
shirt with flowers all over,
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you know?
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And now if you're in Hawaii
or somewhere it may be okay,
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but in Southern
Illinois in the wintertime
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so she would just use
whatever dress materials.
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So we had all these
shirts and as Kenny said,
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she didn't
really go by patterns.
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He said she could put together.
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One time he said mom
made the fastest I've seen,
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she made a whole
shirt in eight minutes.
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And the beautiful part
about it is if it didn't fit
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the one she made it for,
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you just hand
it to the next boy.
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That's, Danny, it's
too little for Ronnie.
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Well, Danny, if that fits
you and it's like this on me.
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I was three years
younger, you know, so...
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You couldn't complain.
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If you did, it was
taken away from you
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so if you need a
shirt you just kind of.
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Absolutely, yeah. We
know about hand me downs.
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It's good. Yeah, we do.
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Speaking of that, the hand
me downs that they did always
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give us gospel music,
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you know, because after
they became Christians and,
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of course, that
was the main music.
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My dad, he liked to play
music and had guys come over
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and they do some other
country stuff on Tuesday night
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or whatever.
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But, you know, in
general gospel music
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so we ever and as Ronnie
said that's the only thing
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they ever taught us
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and so one of the first
songs that I remember ever
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singing with my mother's,
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
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Then I think we're going to add
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and make a little
medley because when we look
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back over it all, God is good.
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Turn your eyes upon
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Jesus Look full in
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His wonderful
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face And the things
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Of earth
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Will grow strangely dim
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In the light of His glory
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And grace
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Now we're going to
do, God is so good.
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God is so good
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God is so good
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God is so good
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He's so good to me
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I love him so.
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I love him so
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I love him so
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I love him so
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He's so good to me
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He's coming soon.
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He's coming soon
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He's coming soon
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He's coming soon
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He's so good to me
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Is He good to us?
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He's so good to
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Me Amen.
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Everybody said amen. Amen.
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Okay, let's go ahead and
talk for a little bit more
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and then maybe we'll
get another song going here,
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but I'd like to start out.
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Each of us we were
raised in a Christian home,
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but you can have
Christian parents all you want,
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and grandparents and
everybody around you.
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But at some point,
each and every one of us,
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Tim, have to make a
decision for ourselves that we
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want to serve the Lord.
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You're going to serve the Lord,
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you're going to serve the devil.
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There's no in-between,
you can't do both, right?
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So at some point, we
have to make that decision,
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so I, kind of, want to
go back, maybe, Ronnie,
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we'll start with you.
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Ronnie was the
one, my mother was Rice
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and Rices were very quiet.
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I remember going to
my grandpa Rice's house,
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and my mom would
have us come and sit
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and he was a retired coal miner,
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but we'd sit in the
house and you could hear
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the clock tick tock, tick tock,
because he didn't say much.
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My mom would do all the
talk and then so we were just,
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kind of, quiet there.
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Now, our grandpa
Shelton's we were running wild
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outside doing
all, kinds of stuff,
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but it was more
formal at the Rice's.
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So my grandpa,
he didn't say much,
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Uncle Robert, you
know, Uncle Charlie,
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those didn't talk.
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Now, my mother
did a lot of talking
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and Aunt Lena did quite a bit,
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but most of the
boys and Uncle Ollie,
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he talked quite a bit.
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But, Ronnie, we
always said he's Rice.
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My mother said he
looked like the Rice.
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He's just like my family.
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So we're growing up,
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he was the
quietest one in the house.
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Am I right?
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They always said, you know,
my whole life I heard this.
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"I know Tommy and
Kenny, and Danny and Tammy,
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now which one are you?"
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I said, "I'm the only
one left. I'm Ronnie."
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They say, "We
never hear from you."
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I say, "In our house I
can't get a word in edgewise."
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But you know what talker is.
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Well, some of our family is,
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you know, and our mom could
talk too as well, you know?
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It may have come down from
her but she was a big talker.
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And you know,
Danny I said, "One day
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when we all get to heaven,
it's going to be so wonderful.
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When I see my
mom and my dad there,
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and they said Ronnie did what?
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He became a pastor.
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You know, Ronnie who
never talks pastor the church?"
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And I did you know,
as God worked in my life.
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I was in my mid 50s.
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You were mechanic
for many, many years.
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So you started preaching when,
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when the Lord
called you to preach.
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Actually, you know,
the call actually came
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considerably earlier,
but I chose to ignore it.
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Okay.
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When Rick Cortell, you
know, our brother Rick,
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whenever he used to
come in to my garage,
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and he and I
would talk all the time.
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And I'll tell
you about Rick first
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and then I'll get to this.
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I always had a box
of literature there
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and Rick was what sort of?
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Assembly of God.
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Assembly of God pastor. Yeah.
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But he went to school with us
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and so he knew
the Shelton family.
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You and him singing, you
know. Oh, yeah, great guy.
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Great guy, exactly.
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But I would witness to Rick
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when he'd come into the garage
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and I always had a
box of literature there.
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And when he come in, he'd
start rummaging through there
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and picking out, you know,
literature from our church.
00:20:05.20\00:20:08.74
And anyway, I
witnessed to him and finally,
00:20:08.77\00:20:14.54
one day he had
picked all through the box.
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And I said, "Rick,
have you got this one?"
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He said, "Yes, I got
that." I said, "How about this?"
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He said, "I got that."
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And he said, in fact, he said,
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"I've got
everything in the box."
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He said, "I just
notified your conference
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and said send me
one of everything."
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So that's what he did.
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But anyway, during
that time, once in a while,
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I would fill in one
of the local churches,
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you know.
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And I really
felt God's call then
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but I wasn't ready to handle it.
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I wasn't ready to
do it for 15 years,
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maybe later, you know.
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I think I was like 57 or
something whenever I finally
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took a call to become a
pastor in first in Arkansas,
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and then in Oklahoma.
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And so anyway, one day
as I was going with this,
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one day when we get to
heaven, and mom's going to say,
00:20:58.22\00:21:01.29
"Well, I knew these boys were
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preachers because they
could talk, they had a way
00:21:03.36\00:21:05.73
a gift of God..."
00:21:05.76\00:21:07.10
She's going to
say, "But who are you?"
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Yeah, exactly, she'll say,
00:21:08.50\00:21:10.13
"What happened to my Ronnie?
00:21:10.17\00:21:11.63
Yeah, my Ronnie didn't talk."
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.70
It'd be wonderful
whenever we get there.
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And so God did work in my
life and He loosened my tongue
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if you will where I could talk.
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All right.
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This may be a good time
to bring it out because we
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want to get everything
out in the open today.
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I think it's a
good time to get it out.
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When we were younger,
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Ronnie from the time we
can remember he literally
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loved anything that had
to do with auto mechanics
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or electrical or wiring.
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And Ken and I particularly,
we love sports so no matter
00:21:39.93\00:21:42.83
what sports was there,
00:21:42.86\00:21:44.20
that's exactly
what we wanted to do,
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and that's all we were
all about was the sports.
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But we all learned to work with
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our hands
because when you're poor
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and you don't have a
lot of income coming in,
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you learn to do things.
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But since Ronnie was
three years older than me,
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like we get an old bicycle.
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We never got new
ones, but we'd get a piece
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of one or somebody gave us one
00:22:01.12\00:22:02.48
and Ronnie would put
them together to make
00:22:02.52\00:22:05.35
a little bicycle.
00:22:05.39\00:22:06.72
But even if my chain came off,
00:22:06.76\00:22:08.59
I would go to put
it on and he'd say,
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.09
"Let me do that."
00:22:10.13\00:22:11.46
Well, anytime something
went wrong my front wheel
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went bad or tire,
he'd say, "I want to...
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I'll fix that."
00:22:15.56\00:22:16.90
So I told him because of
him, I can do carpentry work
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and lots of stuff,
but I'm a mechanical
00:22:19.93\00:22:21.74
invalid because he
never let me do anything.
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Even my first car...
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I went out to where you guys
were working at John Martin's
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at West Frankfort and
I bought my first car.
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I was 16.
00:22:33.42\00:22:34.75
It was yellow 1956,
yellow and black Chevrolet 283,
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I think, the engine.
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And so I bought the car here.
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.62
No, it's 55, first one
was 55 Ford in Crown Victoria.
00:22:42.66\00:22:47.00
So I bought this Tim
for $25 but the motor
00:22:47.03\00:22:51.13
was over here in a bunch of,
00:22:51.17\00:22:52.83
in that bushel
baskets for all the parts.
00:22:52.87\00:22:56.50
So Ronnie was 19 so I said,
00:22:56.54\00:22:58.67
"Ronnie, John says
he'll sell me this car
00:22:58.71\00:23:01.74
for 25 bucks for the
car and 25 for the motor."
00:23:01.78\00:23:05.75
So he said, "Well
okay, I'll put it together."
00:23:05.78\00:23:08.98
So all I did was we
went to the folk's house
00:23:09.02\00:23:11.62
and they poured that
concrete platform out there,
00:23:11.65\00:23:14.82
or concrete slab.
00:23:14.86\00:23:17.43
And so I just
would hand Ronnie stuff
00:23:17.46\00:23:19.86
and he put that whole
thing together, 19 years old.
00:23:19.89\00:23:23.03
Now the only trouble
00:23:23.06\00:23:24.40
is I didn't get
to drive it very much
00:23:24.43\00:23:26.20
because we
didn't have any exhaust.
00:23:26.23\00:23:27.64
It didn't have an exhaust
so from the manifold out,
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.51
it sounds like a helicopter.
00:23:30.54\00:23:32.77
So first time I drove it,
the police stopped me and said,
00:23:32.81\00:23:35.74
"Well, where's your
muffler?" And I said...
00:23:35.78\00:23:37.35
They didn't know it's
not only not a muffler.
00:23:37.38\00:23:39.38
It didn't come with the car.
00:23:39.41\00:23:42.28
They didn't
know that the muffler
00:23:42.32\00:23:43.95
going to yard rows
uptown would have cost
00:23:43.99\00:23:45.65
more than the whole
car so we didn't have that.
00:23:45.69\00:23:48.29
So, but anyway, Ronnie, I've
forgiven you, but because of...
00:23:48.32\00:23:52.03
Well, here's one
thing, anything I get,
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.40
anytime anything
goes wrong mechanically,
00:23:54.43\00:23:57.27
I just say, "Ronnie, I need
you because it's your fault.
00:23:57.30\00:24:00.57
I'm a mechanical invalid."
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.00
So now I've got that out
in the public notice, Ronnie.
00:24:02.04\00:24:04.57
He's still with it
about all that stuff.
00:24:04.61\00:24:07.71
The little girl
that works for me,
00:24:07.74\00:24:10.58
well, her alternator went out.
00:24:10.61\00:24:12.58
And she went to one of
these auto stores to get one
00:24:12.61\00:24:15.45
and it just blowed her away.
00:24:15.48\00:24:16.89
It was $265 and so, you know,
she doesn't make that much.
00:24:16.92\00:24:20.86
And so I called
him and I said...
00:24:20.89\00:24:22.79
You should pay her more. I know.
00:24:22.82\00:24:24.16
That's another
subject. Don't get it started.
00:24:24.19\00:24:28.53
So I called him, I
said, "That's ridiculous."
00:24:28.56\00:24:31.43
I said, "Do you know
where they rebuild them?
00:24:31.47\00:24:33.10
You know they used to
rebuild them and you could buy."
00:24:33.13\00:24:34.70
And he said, "Those that you
buy at the store are rebuilt."
00:24:34.74\00:24:37.67
And he said, "Go
to eBay," and he said,
00:24:37.71\00:24:40.04
"You'll get one less than $100,"
00:24:40.08\00:24:41.64
so we went to eBay 70 bucks.
00:24:41.68\00:24:43.78
So He's able to
take that another one.
00:24:43.81\00:24:45.15
I said, "You're a genius."
00:24:45.18\00:24:46.51
He said, "I don't like to brag."
00:24:46.55\00:24:49.72
Hardly, I don't like to
brag. Oh, that sounded well.
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.35
Speaking of bragging then,
why don't we feature him since
00:24:51.39\00:24:54.16
we've been talking to him.
00:24:54.19\00:24:55.52
We're going to do a song.
00:24:55.56\00:24:57.09
It's a song that
remember Roy Groves and Tommy
00:24:57.13\00:25:00.43
and John Hartley
and Red Morrison,
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.56
and bunch of those sang.
00:25:02.60\00:25:03.93
And I guess we
probably learned it from them.
00:25:03.97\00:25:05.77
Let us have a
little talk with Jesus.
00:25:05.80\00:25:07.84
And Roy would, "Now let us."
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.64
You know he had this big
deep bass voice and great guy.
00:25:10.67\00:25:14.21
And we grew up, they were
just a block from our house
00:25:14.24\00:25:16.28
and Tommy started
playing the piano for them
00:25:16.31\00:25:17.98
when he in Adult Quartet.
00:25:18.01\00:25:19.48
He was just 11 years old.
00:25:19.51\00:25:21.18
And so they travel weekends
00:25:21.22\00:25:22.82
and so maybe that'd be a
good time to try that song.
00:25:22.85\00:25:26.35
As you probably heard that, Tim,
00:25:26.39\00:25:27.92
but Tommy was playing
for live Sunday morning
00:25:27.96\00:25:30.96
radio for the
Quartet when he was like 11.
00:25:30.99\00:25:34.13
You played live then you
drove out to the radio station
00:25:34.16\00:25:37.07
and went in and it
was on the air live.
00:25:37.10\00:25:40.47
I didn't say that my
piano player is 11 years old.
00:25:40.50\00:25:44.34
With an Adult Quartet,
00:25:44.37\00:25:45.71
but I know Tim was playing
that early too, with groups.
00:25:45.74\00:25:49.24
But anyway, why don't we
get ready and we'll sing,
00:25:49.28\00:25:51.88
let us have a
little talk with Jesus.
00:25:51.91\00:25:53.68
And those of you at home
sing it with us if you know it.
00:25:53.72\00:25:56.52
I once was lost in sin
00:26:04.66\00:26:08.06
But Jesus took me in
00:26:08.10\00:26:11.40
And then a little
light from heaven filled
00:26:11.43\00:26:14.67
my soul
00:26:14.70\00:26:18.07
It bathed my heart in love
00:26:18.11\00:26:21.38
And wrote my name above
00:26:21.41\00:26:24.71
And just a little talk With
00:26:24.75\00:26:26.78
Jesus made me whole
00:26:26.82\00:26:30.85
Now let us have a
little talk with Jesus
00:26:30.89\00:26:34.72
Let us tell Him
all about our troubles
00:26:34.76\00:26:38.16
He will hear our faintest cry
00:26:38.19\00:26:41.43
And He will answer by and by
00:26:41.46\00:26:44.63
Now when you feel
00:26:44.67\00:26:46.07
A little prayer wheel turning
00:26:46.10\00:26:48.37
And you know a
little fire is burning
00:26:48.40\00:26:51.81
You will find a
little talk With Jesus
00:26:51.84\00:26:55.21
makes it right
00:26:55.24\00:26:59.65
I may have doubts and fears
00:27:05.79\00:27:09.06
My eyes be filled with tears
00:27:09.09\00:27:12.29
But Jesus is a friend
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.00
Who watches day and night
00:27:14.03\00:27:19.07
I go to Him in prayer
00:27:19.10\00:27:22.37
He knows my every care
00:27:22.40\00:27:25.74
And just a
little talk With Jesus
00:27:25.77\00:27:28.71
makes it right
00:27:28.74\00:27:31.71
Now let us have a
little talk with Jesus
00:27:31.75\00:27:35.68
Let us tell Him
all about our troubles
00:27:35.72\00:27:39.02
He will hear our faintest cry
00:27:39.05\00:27:42.29
He will answer by and by
00:27:42.32\00:27:45.29
Now when you feel A
little prayer wheel turning
00:27:45.33\00:27:48.96
And you know a
little fire is burning
00:27:49.00\00:27:52.30
You will find a
little talk With Jesus
00:27:52.33\00:27:55.50
makes it right
00:27:55.54\00:27:59.67
Have a little talk with Jesus
00:27:59.71\00:28:02.98
Tell Him all about our troubles
00:28:03.01\00:28:06.38
Hear our faintest cry
00:28:06.41\00:28:08.95
He will answer by and by
00:28:08.98\00:28:11.99
Now when you feel A
little prayer wheel turning
00:28:12.02\00:28:15.69
And you know a
little fire is burning
00:28:15.72\00:28:18.99
You will find a
little talk With Jesus
00:28:19.03\00:28:22.50
makes it right
00:28:22.53\00:28:24.83
Makes it right
00:28:24.87\00:28:29.74
Okay. That wore me out.
00:28:32.77\00:28:34.68
I might sit down on
that. Sit back down.
00:28:34.71\00:28:38.51
Well, that was a little rough
but what do you expect, right?
00:28:38.55\00:28:41.98
That's right.
Thank you, Tim for...
00:28:42.02\00:28:43.89
Wouldn't we be a mess
without him right now?
00:28:43.92\00:28:47.72
Oh, man. Oh,
mercy, this be big mess.
00:28:47.76\00:28:50.33
This lot of fun
though because actually about
00:28:50.36\00:28:52.79
the only song that we ever sing
00:28:52.83\00:28:54.40
and we'll have to do
it here in a few minutes
00:28:54.43\00:28:56.46
because our mom made
sure that we did as well
00:28:56.50\00:28:58.90
today that will be.
00:28:58.93\00:29:00.27
You know, glorious
day, and that's about
00:29:00.30\00:29:01.94
the only song we ever
sang in many, many years.
00:29:01.97\00:29:05.17
So this is something new
we're branching out today.
00:29:05.21\00:29:07.98
But Dee said that we
had a few requests to sing,
00:29:08.01\00:29:11.28
but we said we're
going to sing anyway.
00:29:11.31\00:29:15.48
Not really but she did say,
00:29:15.52\00:29:16.85
"Well, I think it'd be
good to get family together,"
00:29:16.89\00:29:19.45
and so why not?
00:29:19.49\00:29:20.82
And so we don't
claim to be great singers
00:29:20.86\00:29:23.02
or great musicians,
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.56
but we do believe it's
a way to serve the Lord.
00:29:24.59\00:29:27.80
And I've seen
music for so many years.
00:29:27.83\00:29:30.20
It was music that really helped
3ABN because when we first
00:29:30.23\00:29:34.20
were building the station,
Melody and I were traveling
00:29:34.24\00:29:36.60
and singing in churches.
00:29:36.64\00:29:38.07
So everywhere we went,
00:29:38.11\00:29:39.44
we got to tell people
about this new TV station
00:29:39.47\00:29:41.84
that the Lord
impressed us to be a part
00:29:41.88\00:29:44.08
of and to reach the world,
00:29:44.11\00:29:45.58
so music has always
been a part of our family.
00:29:45.61\00:29:48.12
We talked about our mom again,
00:29:48.15\00:29:49.75
her family that
they were all singers
00:29:49.78\00:29:53.89
and some of them good musician.
00:29:53.92\00:29:55.26
Like Charlie the steel guitar
player in the country band and,
00:29:55.29\00:29:58.59
you know, so they were good.
00:29:58.63\00:29:59.96
And I think Robert played guitar
00:30:00.00\00:30:01.33
and my Aunt Lena would sing
00:30:01.36\00:30:02.70
and played the piano and my mom,
00:30:02.73\00:30:04.37
so virtually all
of them did some.
00:30:04.40\00:30:07.14
We kind of got
it from both sides.
00:30:07.17\00:30:08.80
Of course, our dad
his side, you know,
00:30:08.84\00:30:10.94
his brothers and
sisters they all sang, you know?
00:30:10.97\00:30:13.88
Our cousins, you know,
all sang and pretty nicely,
00:30:13.91\00:30:17.71
you know, so we really got
a little bit from both sides
00:30:17.75\00:30:21.08
of the family.
00:30:21.12\00:30:22.48
And some of you got a lot
more than others of us did.
00:30:22.52\00:30:26.39
Yeah, I feel cheated.
00:30:26.42\00:30:27.79
I feel a little bit cheated.
00:30:27.82\00:30:29.16
But those times that
you guys were singing around
00:30:29.19\00:30:31.69
the piano and playing the guitar
00:30:31.73\00:30:33.09
and I was out in the little
shed working on the lawnmower,
00:30:33.13\00:30:35.70
we talked about, you see.
00:30:35.73\00:30:37.93
My idea was a splint, you know,
00:30:37.97\00:30:41.97
where you guys were so centered
on music and then on sports.
00:30:42.00\00:30:46.31
And I added the
auto repairs with...
00:30:46.34\00:30:50.88
That came from
my mom's side too.
00:30:50.91\00:30:52.75
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:30:52.78\00:30:54.12
Ronnie didn't continue
like in the high school
00:30:54.15\00:30:56.79
and years later, Ken
and I played ball for many,
00:30:56.82\00:30:59.42
many years.
00:30:59.45\00:31:00.79
In fact, I just played
last Sunday night, I think,
00:31:00.82\00:31:03.22
so I'm quit already
at 70, I probably should.
00:31:03.26\00:31:06.80
But you won the eighth grade...
00:31:06.83\00:31:12.13
Was it at the Illinois State,
00:31:12.17\00:31:14.57
Illinois pole vaulting
when he was in eighth grade.
00:31:14.60\00:31:17.91
And then a few
days after that he was
00:31:17.94\00:31:20.41
pole vaulting at home and
broke your collarbone, right?
00:31:20.44\00:31:22.98
That's right.
Harry Holder's house.
00:31:23.01\00:31:24.78
You know and I was surprised,
Danny, that our mom kept
00:31:24.81\00:31:28.28
little clippings that
come out in the newspaper.
00:31:28.32\00:31:30.75
Before she passed away,
00:31:30.79\00:31:32.12
she gave me some
clippings that she had saved
00:31:32.15\00:31:34.36
now for over 40 years and
now they're over 50 years old.
00:31:34.39\00:31:38.36
And I remember one of them said,
00:31:38.39\00:31:40.23
"Ronnie Shelton pitches,
no hitter in Park League."
00:31:40.26\00:31:43.67
You know so we played
baseball as well in park,
00:31:43.70\00:31:46.90
and so we've got pictures
I think of the three of us
00:31:46.94\00:31:49.30
standing there in
our ball flaunt uniforms.
00:31:49.34\00:31:51.61
Yeah. Standing out by...
00:31:51.64\00:31:52.97
You remember the arch
in front of the house,
00:31:53.01\00:31:54.68
you know, in the
picket fence, you know?
00:31:54.71\00:31:57.95
So it was wonderful, I mean,
00:31:57.98\00:31:59.88
it kept us off
the streets would say.
00:31:59.91\00:32:02.92
Oh, it did that, and the parents
00:32:02.95\00:32:05.12
who believed in
whippings back then we called,
00:32:05.15\00:32:07.89
there's a
spanking, there's a whipping,
00:32:07.92\00:32:09.92
and then there's a whipping.
00:32:09.96\00:32:11.49
And our dad
believed in whippings.
00:32:11.53\00:32:12.93
And that's the worst.
00:32:12.96\00:32:14.30
And we got the whippings,
but he only gave it to us
00:32:14.33\00:32:16.06
when we needed it.
00:32:16.10\00:32:17.43
But anyway, Kenny, let's
jump, we got a little time.
00:32:17.47\00:32:20.30
We can do a couple more
songs. Let's jump to you.
00:32:20.34\00:32:22.80
The thing about
Kenny is he always
00:32:22.84\00:32:24.47
wanted to be a preacher
from the time he was little
00:32:24.51\00:32:27.04
right or am I wrong so forth?
00:32:27.08\00:32:29.24
No. No not at all.
00:32:29.28\00:32:30.61
Tell us about it?
00:32:30.65\00:32:31.98
It's interesting, you
know, at an early age.
00:32:32.01\00:32:33.78
I think at least in my mind,
00:32:33.82\00:32:35.28
seven or eight
years old or nine.
00:32:35.32\00:32:37.32
Why thoughts
would come in your mind
00:32:37.35\00:32:39.95
like that that was, "I
will never be a preacher."
00:32:39.99\00:32:45.89
And I don't know
why they kept coming in.
00:32:45.93\00:32:47.76
We go to church and
as we hear different ones
00:32:47.80\00:32:49.43
speak all the time.
00:32:49.46\00:32:50.80
And anyway I had my reasons
for that because I thought
00:32:50.83\00:32:54.70
maybe they need to go
out and get a real job.
00:32:54.74\00:32:56.91
He is a preacher.
You know what I'm saying.
00:32:56.94\00:32:58.27
Learn to work with your hands,
do something because we always
00:32:58.31\00:33:01.31
though that's,
kind of, can I say...
00:33:01.34\00:33:03.85
It's what a man did.
00:33:03.88\00:33:05.21
You go out and you work, you
get a job and you do whatever.
00:33:05.25\00:33:07.48
And in my poor
little mind right there,
00:33:07.52\00:33:08.95
I can't finance it.
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.32
Man, that's the
last thing I want to be.
00:33:10.35\00:33:11.69
In fact I'll
never be one of those.
00:33:11.72\00:33:13.05
So I'm glad that God
knows better that He has
00:33:13.09\00:33:15.92
a plan for each
and every one of us.
00:33:15.96\00:33:18.46
And like Ronnie
also too, you know,
00:33:18.49\00:33:21.06
I turned down the
call quite a few years.
00:33:21.10\00:33:24.07
In fact, it was seven years.
00:33:24.10\00:33:25.93
It's interesting.
00:33:25.97\00:33:27.67
Seven years I turned it down
00:33:27.70\00:33:29.04
and I knew that it
should be but didn't want to.
00:33:29.07\00:33:30.81
So, you know, I'm
thankful God still,
00:33:30.84\00:33:33.68
you know, comes and He still
works through the Holy Spirit.
00:33:33.71\00:33:36.85
And I know He's
doing it to many people
00:33:36.88\00:33:38.21
who are at home right
now through the Holy Spirit.
00:33:38.25\00:33:39.61
You're impressed that you
need to be singing or your gift
00:33:39.65\00:33:42.18
teaching, preaching, whatever
it might be, music, whatever.
00:33:42.22\00:33:45.22
You know, I
used to encourage it,
00:33:45.25\00:33:46.59
don't waste as much
time as I wasted it.
00:33:46.62\00:33:48.89
Don't do it.
00:33:48.92\00:33:50.26
You know be happy in
Jesus and do what gift He gave.
00:33:50.29\00:33:52.99
You just
continue to work with it.
00:33:53.03\00:33:55.03
And as you see, Brother Tim
will say, "He's multiplied it."
00:33:55.06\00:33:57.97
Right? You didn't start out
the way that you play right now.
00:33:58.00\00:34:01.24
And I'm not trying to lift him.
00:34:01.27\00:34:02.60
I'm just saying that it changes.
00:34:02.64\00:34:03.97
But you put a lot of work in it,
00:34:04.01\00:34:05.34
a lot of effort
into it as my brother
00:34:05.37\00:34:08.08
Danny did in his
singing and playing the guitar.
00:34:08.11\00:34:12.65
And, you know, I've
often said and I tell people,
00:34:12.68\00:34:15.02
I'm thankful he didn't.
00:34:15.05\00:34:16.65
I'm gonna, be careful
close your ears, children.
00:34:16.69\00:34:18.35
I told Danny to shut up several
times as we were growing up,
00:34:18.39\00:34:22.59
because he always had a guitar.
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.46
He was too little to
put his arm almost all
00:34:24.49\00:34:26.36
the way around it
and he'd be playing.
00:34:26.39\00:34:29.00
And then what
really got me at the time
00:34:29.03\00:34:31.83
was he closed his
eyes and he was singing,
00:34:31.87\00:34:35.40
which I didn't understand.
00:34:35.44\00:34:36.77
He was singing honor
and glory to the Lord
00:34:36.81\00:34:38.24
and I didn't have that.
00:34:38.27\00:34:40.21
And I didn't understand
that you could be singing
00:34:40.24\00:34:43.18
praises unto the Lord and
so I'd go by and I'll say,
00:34:43.21\00:34:45.95
"Man, this guy loves himself.
00:34:45.98\00:34:47.55
Come out of it, Danny."
00:34:47.58\00:34:48.92
You know, and I'm
thankful that he never did.
00:34:48.95\00:34:52.12
So, you know, we
learn from those things,
00:34:52.15\00:34:54.09
and I'm grateful
and thankful for a lot
00:34:54.12\00:34:56.22
of those
experiences that we've had
00:34:56.26\00:34:58.03
while we were growing up.
00:34:58.06\00:34:59.39
We learned a lot of things.
00:34:59.43\00:35:00.76
We learned to share,
00:35:00.80\00:35:02.66
even a little bit we had
to give to somebody else first
00:35:02.70\00:35:06.43
and we had parents that
encouraged that all along
00:35:06.47\00:35:09.67
and I'm thankful for that.
00:35:09.70\00:35:11.04
Absolutely, now,
like with there, folks,
00:35:11.07\00:35:13.04
with Tommy, he played
the piano hours every day.
00:35:13.07\00:35:16.08
And we had a little house
00:35:16.11\00:35:17.88
and it wasn't big
enough to have a piano.
00:35:17.91\00:35:21.18
And I guess when we were
getting closer to teenagers
00:35:21.22\00:35:24.25
so we got our first TV.
00:35:24.29\00:35:26.19
But when the piano was going
on, you can never watch TV,
00:35:26.22\00:35:28.66
you couldn't hear anything.
00:35:28.69\00:35:30.06
So we complained so much.
00:35:30.09\00:35:31.43
At one time in
the winter, mom...
00:35:31.46\00:35:33.53
We helped him move the
piano out on the front porch.
00:35:33.56\00:35:36.10
Now, it was a front porch.
00:35:36.13\00:35:37.47
It wasn't closed
then, so Tommy instead
00:35:37.50\00:35:40.40
of quitting will put on air
muffs and gloves and went out.
00:35:40.44\00:35:44.54
And we couldn't
believe we hear all this music
00:35:44.57\00:35:46.81
going on out there so
finally my mom started crying.
00:35:46.84\00:35:50.11
She said, "Look, that
kid loves music this much.
00:35:50.15\00:35:52.01
We're going to bring it
in house and get used to it."
00:35:52.05\00:35:56.12
She said, "We're
going to get used to it."
00:35:56.15\00:35:58.02
So when anybody would complain,
00:35:58.05\00:36:00.29
he'd say, "Hey,
look, I'd rather be singing
00:36:00.32\00:36:02.09
than smarting off or
acting up or whatever
00:36:02.12\00:36:06.09
so just leave me alone."
00:36:06.13\00:36:07.56
She said, Danny's singing again,
00:36:07.60\00:36:08.93
"Lets him leave him alone.
00:36:08.96\00:36:10.30
If he's singing let him go.
He's not bothering anybody."
00:36:10.33\00:36:12.63
So that was about it.
00:36:12.67\00:36:15.44
And we're going to get ready
to do, what today that will be.
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.64
Tammy, give us a little
bit of your memories with mom,
00:36:17.67\00:36:20.48
growing up in music.
00:36:20.51\00:36:21.84
I mean, she...
00:36:21.88\00:36:23.21
Tammy always, she
came out singing, I think.
00:36:23.24\00:36:25.98
And the older
she's always had...
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.82
My dad was, "I tell you, your
little sister can sing, boys.
00:36:27.85\00:36:31.25
This girl can sing."
00:36:31.29\00:36:33.15
So he was your
biggest fan, you know?
00:36:33.19\00:36:35.16
And I remember I was his.
00:36:35.19\00:36:36.76
Yeah, and but, you
today, you're a Christian,
00:36:36.79\00:36:40.13
you and Bruce, you
love the Lord, why?
00:36:40.16\00:36:42.53
I mean you could
have gone any different
00:36:42.56\00:36:44.67
any way that you wanted.
00:36:44.70\00:36:46.17
It's not we all
haven't been here or there.
00:36:46.20\00:36:48.44
But you end up
in our sunset years.
00:36:48.47\00:36:51.47
They say, "Serving
the Lord" I mean, why?
00:36:51.51\00:36:53.68
Yeah, because as you
learn, as you get older,
00:36:53.71\00:36:56.64
what else is there?
00:36:56.68\00:36:59.01
This whole world is just a mess
00:36:59.05\00:37:01.78
and the things that
we've all went through
00:37:01.82\00:37:04.35
and deaths and
sicknesses and things.
00:37:04.39\00:37:08.32
You learn that if
you can't depend on God,
00:37:08.36\00:37:11.26
what in the world?
00:37:11.29\00:37:12.63
What do you do?
00:37:12.66\00:37:14.13
If you're in dire straits,
and you can't get on your knees
00:37:14.16\00:37:17.30
and say, "God help me."
00:37:17.33\00:37:19.23
Well, there's
no hope for people.
00:37:19.27\00:37:20.94
And so I want to
make sure that people
00:37:20.97\00:37:24.77
realize that the only hope
you have in this world is Jesus.
00:37:24.81\00:37:28.94
That's the only hope.
00:37:28.98\00:37:30.31
That's the only encouragement
that you have because you know
00:37:30.35\00:37:33.68
somebody is stronger than
you that somebody is in control.
00:37:33.72\00:37:36.65
You're not in
control of everything.
00:37:36.69\00:37:38.95
But I would like to say,
I think that we had the best
00:37:38.99\00:37:41.36
parents that we
could have ever had.
00:37:41.39\00:37:44.79
After I got kids
and I get frustrated
00:37:44.83\00:37:47.86
and scream at them
and, you know, yell at them.
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.10
And I started
thinking, you know,
00:37:50.13\00:37:51.67
"I never heard
mom raise her voice.
00:37:51.70\00:37:53.50
I never heard dad yell.
00:37:53.54\00:37:55.80
I never heard them
yell at each other,
00:37:55.84\00:37:57.77
you know, for that matter."
00:37:57.81\00:37:59.14
I mean if he was
going to give a whipping,
00:37:59.17\00:38:00.51
you got a
whipping, but nobody was mad,
00:38:00.54\00:38:01.88
nobody blew up or
was angry, you know?
00:38:01.91\00:38:05.41
I mean my dad was
totally objective.
00:38:05.45\00:38:08.82
He was the kind, you make your
bed, you lie in it, you know?
00:38:08.85\00:38:12.65
And so these are the
rules and if you break them,
00:38:12.69\00:38:14.92
this will happen, so
there's consequences.
00:38:14.96\00:38:17.26
You know there
was one good thing.
00:38:17.29\00:38:19.23
I think it's good
for all the homes...
00:38:19.26\00:38:21.16
It'd be good for my
own home and especially
00:38:21.20\00:38:23.20
when you have kids in it.
00:38:23.23\00:38:24.57
It's that mom and dad
had differences at times,
00:38:24.60\00:38:29.30
but they would never
discuss the differences
00:38:29.34\00:38:32.14
when we were around.
00:38:32.17\00:38:34.08
You notice that, my
dad would say sometime,
00:38:34.11\00:38:36.48
"We'll talk about later, honey."
00:38:36.51\00:38:37.98
Yeah. We wish they would.
00:38:38.01\00:38:39.45
We would think
we're making inroads
00:38:39.48\00:38:41.68
and could have got in
to do whatever but whatever
00:38:41.72\00:38:44.29
one says, "No," the other
one, "I absolutely said no."
00:38:44.32\00:38:48.42
So there was no like,
"Well, I'll go see mom."
00:38:48.46\00:38:51.16
In fact if you did
that, you got in big trouble.
00:38:51.19\00:38:53.66
Oh, yeah, you
got in worst trouble.
00:38:53.70\00:38:55.06
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:55.10\00:38:56.43
But yeah, they set such a
good example for us and I,
00:38:56.46\00:39:01.20
you know, of course
there wasn't perfect to is but
00:39:01.24\00:39:04.54
I sometimes as you said
about once every few months
00:39:04.57\00:39:08.41
I drive by the
house on Warden Street.
00:39:08.44\00:39:10.68
Well, we'll have to
meet on Warden Street.
00:39:10.71\00:39:12.15
We'll have to
meet on Warden Street.
00:39:12.18\00:39:13.52
We'll have to meet,
and I get tears in my eyes.
00:39:13.55\00:39:14.88
But you know, we thought
we had such a huge backyard
00:39:14.92\00:39:16.99
and everything and it
looks like a postage stamp now.
00:39:17.02\00:39:19.39
I don't know what happened.
00:39:19.42\00:39:20.76
We had a big
hill that we thought
00:39:20.79\00:39:22.36
if we went down on
the bike that it was just
00:39:22.39\00:39:24.03
the most scary thing,
00:39:24.06\00:39:25.39
and either the
mind has settled it
00:39:25.43\00:39:27.00
or we were
fantasizing because it's just
00:39:27.03\00:39:29.03
a little bitty right now.
00:39:29.06\00:39:30.40
Maybe you as a
little girl thought,
00:39:30.43\00:39:31.77
I don't think
the hills scared us
00:39:31.80\00:39:33.50
but we did everything
up and down that hill.
00:39:33.54\00:39:35.74
Yes.
00:39:35.77\00:39:37.11
You talked about going back
00:39:37.14\00:39:38.47
and looking at the
old home play place.
00:39:38.51\00:39:40.08
Well...
00:39:40.11\00:39:41.44
If you remember
I even bought it.
00:39:41.48\00:39:42.81
You bought it.
00:39:42.84\00:39:44.18
I bought it for
a few years, yeah.
00:39:44.21\00:39:45.91
And I loved it
because you had it.
00:39:45.95\00:39:47.72
You know and it's
really whenever you felt
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.22
like that you was
going through something
00:39:49.25\00:39:51.65
and the world was caving in,
00:39:51.69\00:39:53.46
you start looking back
to where you were happiest,
00:39:53.49\00:39:57.43
you know?
00:39:57.46\00:39:58.79
And it took me
back to the old house.
00:39:58.83\00:40:00.66
Okay, very good.
00:40:00.70\00:40:02.03
So now instead of looking back,
00:40:02.06\00:40:03.60
we can look forward
that's going to be my
00:40:03.63\00:40:05.97
intro to what a
day that will be.
00:40:06.00\00:40:08.70
I think we can try it.
00:40:08.74\00:40:10.24
Now who sings a melody, Kenny
or me or do we know here, Tim?
00:40:10.27\00:40:14.08
We have to figure out a key.
00:40:14.11\00:40:16.01
I think Kenny does it.
00:40:16.04\00:40:17.38
There is coming a day
00:40:25.49\00:40:29.76
When no heart aches shall come
00:40:29.79\00:40:33.96
No more clouds in the sky
00:40:34.00\00:40:38.40
No more tears to dim the eye
00:40:38.43\00:40:42.77
All is peace forever more
00:40:42.80\00:40:47.11
On that happy golden shore
00:40:47.14\00:40:51.51
What a day, glorious day
00:40:51.55\00:40:55.88
That it will be
00:40:55.92\00:41:00.19
What a day that will be
00:41:00.22\00:41:04.49
When my Jesus I shall see
00:41:04.53\00:41:08.76
And I look upon His face
00:41:08.80\00:41:12.80
The One who
saved me by His grace
00:41:12.83\00:41:17.54
When He takes me by the hand
00:41:17.57\00:41:21.61
And leads me
through that Promised Land
00:41:21.64\00:41:26.31
What a day, glorious day
00:41:26.35\00:41:30.79
That will be
00:41:30.82\00:41:35.22
There'll be no sorrow there
00:41:35.26\00:41:39.46
No more burdens to bear
00:41:39.49\00:41:43.97
No more sickness, no pain
00:41:44.00\00:41:48.30
No more parting over there
00:41:48.34\00:41:52.57
And forever
00:41:52.61\00:41:54.84
I will be With the One
00:41:54.88\00:41:58.81
who died for me
00:41:58.85\00:42:01.35
What a day, glorious day
00:42:01.38\00:42:05.65
That will be
00:42:05.69\00:42:09.96
What a day that will be
00:42:09.99\00:42:14.36
When my Jesus I shall see
00:42:14.40\00:42:18.73
And I look upon His face
00:42:18.77\00:42:22.97
The One who
saved me by His grace
00:42:23.00\00:42:27.64
When He takes me by the hand
00:42:27.68\00:42:31.81
And leads me
through that Promised Land
00:42:31.85\00:42:36.45
What a day, glorious day
00:42:36.48\00:42:40.89
That will be
00:42:40.92\00:42:45.36
What a day, glorious day
00:42:45.39\00:42:49.96
That will be
00:42:50.00\00:42:55.80
We only have a few more minutes,
00:42:59.71\00:43:01.11
but maybe we could
get in another song.
00:43:01.14\00:43:02.98
But I think
maybe right now, Kenny,
00:43:03.01\00:43:05.35
why don't you look
to the folks at home.
00:43:05.38\00:43:07.25
There's somebody
watching this program.
00:43:07.28\00:43:09.25
Maybe they're looking
back in a time in their life,
00:43:09.28\00:43:11.75
which was the best
time they feel like.
00:43:11.79\00:43:14.42
But we got to let him
know that, well, that's great.
00:43:14.46\00:43:17.36
The future is much better.
00:43:17.39\00:43:19.16
What are you saying in
few minutes to folks at home?
00:43:19.19\00:43:21.16
Yeah.
00:43:21.20\00:43:22.53
You know, as we sang that song,
00:43:22.56\00:43:23.90
what a day that will be
when my Jesus I shall see.
00:43:23.93\00:43:28.14
That is our hope.
00:43:28.17\00:43:29.97
That's our encouragement.
00:43:30.01\00:43:31.77
I believe in this world
that we're living in today.
00:43:31.81\00:43:34.68
You know, I see people on
here and people being depressed.
00:43:34.71\00:43:37.81
They're taking their own lives.
00:43:37.85\00:43:40.02
They're not sure
what direction to go.
00:43:40.05\00:43:43.55
They're looking for answers.
00:43:43.59\00:43:45.12
And, you know, I thank God 3ABN
00:43:45.15\00:43:47.16
is out there because
they're providing answers
00:43:47.19\00:43:49.22
based on the Word of God.
00:43:49.26\00:43:51.39
But we're talking
about serious situations,
00:43:51.43\00:43:54.36
serious problems in the world
00:43:54.40\00:43:57.03
and God gives us
answers from His Word.
00:43:57.07\00:43:59.27
If we would just go to
it and just simply say,
00:43:59.30\00:44:02.54
"What a day that will be
when my Jesus I shall see."
00:44:02.57\00:44:05.77
I've often said to
myself, "If I miss heaven,
00:44:05.81\00:44:09.68
number one, it'll
be because I've chosen.
00:44:09.71\00:44:12.58
Jesus has done everything
possible for me to be there.
00:44:12.61\00:44:16.12
There's no reason."
00:44:16.15\00:44:18.12
All of heaven would be emptied
for you if you're in trouble,
00:44:18.15\00:44:20.69
all of heaven will be emptied
00:44:20.72\00:44:22.06
if you'll just call
on the name of Jesus.
00:44:22.09\00:44:24.89
But your purpose for being here,
00:44:24.93\00:44:27.36
and so many missed in this world
00:44:27.40\00:44:29.20
and maybe I missed
it for a long time.
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.70
And now I think
God's given me insight.
00:44:31.73\00:44:34.24
If you miss heaven, Kenny,
00:44:34.27\00:44:35.60
you've missed your
purpose for being here.
00:44:35.64\00:44:38.64
There's no other reason for any
of us to go through this mess.
00:44:38.67\00:44:41.78
If this world, you know, if
this is all it has to offer,
00:44:41.81\00:44:46.58
it's a sad thing
to play on mankind
00:44:46.61\00:44:49.15
and God wouldn't do that.
00:44:49.18\00:44:50.75
There's got to be more.
00:44:50.79\00:44:52.35
I realized as a
very young person,
00:44:52.39\00:44:54.72
every time we'd go to
church and we'd come home,
00:44:54.76\00:44:56.49
I kept thinking,
"There must be something more.
00:44:56.52\00:44:58.76
There must be something
more than just, you know,
00:44:58.79\00:45:01.33
Sunday morning you get
up and mom starts doing
00:45:01.36\00:45:02.73
the laundry and da-da."
00:45:02.76\00:45:04.27
There is something more and
let me encourage you with that.
00:45:04.30\00:45:07.54
Jesus is the more.
00:45:07.57\00:45:09.74
He says, "I'm coming back
and I want to take you home."
00:45:09.77\00:45:12.34
So I just encourage each
and every one of you right now,
00:45:12.37\00:45:15.14
make that decision.
00:45:15.18\00:45:16.51
It's a decision you
will never, ever regret.
00:45:16.54\00:45:20.05
Please, don't put it
off. It's not for tomorrow.
00:45:20.08\00:45:23.02
It's not next
week, not next year.
00:45:23.05\00:45:24.49
It's right now, and you'll
never be sorry that you did.
00:45:24.52\00:45:28.39
We need His blood.
00:45:28.42\00:45:29.76
We need the victory that He
gives us each and every day.
00:45:29.79\00:45:32.73
And I look forward
when Jesus will come.
00:45:32.76\00:45:34.93
You know why, bro, because
this world's not my home.
00:45:34.96\00:45:37.80
All right. I think I
finally learned that.
00:45:37.83\00:45:40.37
It's not my home. I'm
just passing through it.
00:45:40.40\00:45:43.27
Is that's
something we could sing?
00:45:43.30\00:45:44.67
Yes.
00:45:44.71\00:45:46.04
All right, I think we'll try it.
00:45:46.07\00:45:47.41
This world is not my home
00:45:55.98\00:45:59.05
I'm just passing through
00:45:59.09\00:46:02.16
My treasures are laid up
00:46:02.19\00:46:05.16
Somewhere beyond the blue
00:46:05.19\00:46:08.30
The angels beckon me
00:46:08.33\00:46:11.43
From Heaven's open door
00:46:11.47\00:46:14.20
And I can't feel at home
00:46:14.24\00:46:17.27
In this world anymore
00:46:17.31\00:46:21.24
O Lord you know
00:46:21.28\00:46:23.91
I have no friend like you
00:46:23.95\00:46:27.12
If Heaven's not my home
00:46:27.15\00:46:30.29
Then Lord what will I do?
00:46:30.32\00:46:33.36
The angels beckon me
00:46:33.39\00:46:36.42
From Heaven's open door
00:46:36.46\00:46:39.26
And I can't feel at home
00:46:39.29\00:46:42.46
In this world anymore
00:46:42.50\00:46:46.40
Over in Glory Land
we'll live eternally
00:46:46.43\00:46:52.31
The Saints on
every hand are shouting
00:46:52.34\00:46:56.68
victory Their
song of sweetest praise
00:46:56.71\00:47:01.85
Drifts back from Heaven's shore
00:47:01.88\00:47:04.62
And I can't feel at home
00:47:04.65\00:47:07.72
In this world anymore
00:47:07.76\00:47:11.69
O Lord you know
00:47:11.73\00:47:14.36
I have no friend like you
00:47:14.40\00:47:17.60
If Heaven's not my home
00:47:17.63\00:47:20.80
Then Lord what will I do?
00:47:20.84\00:47:23.91
The angels beckon me
00:47:23.94\00:47:27.01
From Heaven's open door
00:47:27.04\00:47:29.78
And I can't feel at home
00:47:29.81\00:47:32.91
In this world anymore
00:47:32.95\00:47:36.55
And I can't feel at home
00:47:36.58\00:47:39.39
In this world anymore
00:47:39.42\00:47:44.66
Okay, well, we did.
00:47:49.30\00:47:51.23
I may have to sit down
again on that one. Okay.
00:47:51.27\00:47:54.30
Good job. You know what?
00:47:54.34\00:47:55.70
I'm thinking right now.
00:47:55.74\00:47:57.77
Tim doesn't have a microphone,
00:47:57.81\00:47:59.37
so it doesn't give him
chance to say very much,
00:47:59.41\00:48:01.54
and I'm not going
to share it this time.
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.04
But I'd like you to
play through that one,
00:48:03.08\00:48:05.21
just play through.
00:48:05.25\00:48:06.58
Give us a really good old
Southern Gospel feel to that.
00:48:06.61\00:48:09.48
Anything you want
anywhere you want, it's yours.
00:48:09.52\00:48:11.89
All right. Praise the Lord.
00:49:09.21\00:49:12.15
No tell him if he
would have practiced first.
00:49:12.18\00:49:13.98
Well, he missed two keys.
00:49:14.02\00:49:15.35
I mean, he didn't make bad...
00:49:15.38\00:49:16.72
I don't mean he hit bad notes.
00:49:16.75\00:49:18.09
It just there's two keys out
of what 88 that you didn't hit.
00:49:18.12\00:49:20.59
You only hit like 87.
00:49:20.62\00:49:23.89
What was that you just said?
00:49:23.93\00:49:25.26
Eight six, sorry, I
can't count very good.
00:49:25.29\00:49:27.60
What was that
you just said about
00:49:27.63\00:49:28.96
putting an ad in the
paper to find a piano player.
00:49:29.00\00:49:30.97
No, I repent.
00:49:31.00\00:49:33.44
We'll keep Tim. Amen.
00:49:33.47\00:49:34.80
No honestly,
it's an... Thank you.
00:49:34.84\00:49:37.74
Honestly, it's an incredible
gift that God has given him.
00:49:37.77\00:49:40.28
Oh, unbelievable.
00:49:40.31\00:49:41.64
And we were talking
about earlier, Kenny,
00:49:41.68\00:49:43.38
what you were
saying is Tim just...
00:49:43.41\00:49:45.58
He didn't get where he
is by just sitting at home
00:49:45.61\00:49:48.48
and reading the paper, right?
00:49:48.52\00:49:50.52
It's not that that's always bad,
00:49:50.55\00:49:52.25
but I'm saying
the gift that you have
00:49:52.29\00:49:54.32
God gave it to
you, but, you know,
00:49:54.36\00:49:56.86
anything that we do
we can get better at.
00:49:56.89\00:49:59.29
In other words, what we're doing
00:49:59.33\00:50:00.80
and so like your first
sermon, you probably hear
00:50:00.83\00:50:03.23
your first sermon you
guys you might shudder
00:50:03.26\00:50:04.97
a little bit and
think, "Did I really?
00:50:05.00\00:50:06.80
Was that me?"
00:50:06.84\00:50:08.60
I heard just a few years
ago, four or five years ago
00:50:08.64\00:50:12.01
Kay Kuzma sent me
00:50:12.04\00:50:13.91
when I was at ASI in
1985 in Big Sky Montana.
00:50:13.94\00:50:17.81
First time ever I went anywhere
and they never heard of ASI.
00:50:17.85\00:50:21.52
And so they were
there and ended up
00:50:21.55\00:50:23.82
that they asked me to
speak Friday afternoon.
00:50:23.85\00:50:26.39
Not because they'd
scheduled me or plan on me
00:50:26.42\00:50:28.36
but there was 7500 feet
or so up in the mountains
00:50:28.39\00:50:31.99
and it was raining and pouring
and so they had few 100 people.
00:50:32.03\00:50:35.73
And so finally,
somebody had heard about
00:50:35.76\00:50:38.27
what we were
getting ready to do.
00:50:38.30\00:50:40.34
We were so new, I
think you were just pouring
00:50:40.37\00:50:42.64
concrete on the
floor of the big building,
00:50:42.67\00:50:45.47
of the uplink building.
00:50:45.51\00:50:47.04
And so we were there
00:50:47.08\00:50:49.08
and I'm going to get
00:50:49.11\00:50:52.25
all just up here.
00:50:52.28\00:50:53.62
It's all right
now. Take your time.
00:50:53.65\00:50:55.78
I'm going to go back
just to the goodness of God.
00:50:55.82\00:50:58.99
We're there and I want to go
back for just a moment, Kenny,
00:50:59.02\00:51:02.19
because what you were
saying earlier about what we do,
00:51:02.22\00:51:05.43
and what we for the
honor and glory of God,
00:51:05.46\00:51:08.06
and how God blesses.
00:51:08.10\00:51:09.53
And I had no idea
and it just hit me,
00:51:09.56\00:51:11.50
I thought about May Chung.
00:51:11.53\00:51:13.20
And when I met her for
the first time that people
00:51:13.23\00:51:16.54
didn't
understand we were saying,
00:51:16.57\00:51:17.91
"Well the Lord's
impressed me to build
00:51:17.94\00:51:19.27
a television
station to reach the world."
00:51:19.31\00:51:21.44
And they're like,
"Oh, yeah, whatever."
00:51:21.48\00:51:23.08
May Chung's like,
"Can you come to my room?
00:51:23.11\00:51:25.75
I want to hear about this."
00:51:25.78\00:51:27.22
As soon as we did, she
said, "This is of the Lord.
00:51:27.25\00:51:30.19
I'm going to support it."
00:51:30.22\00:51:31.82
And literally
from that moment on,
00:51:31.85\00:51:33.46
then Kay Kuzma got involved,
other people got involved,
00:51:33.49\00:51:36.29
McKees got involved.
00:51:36.32\00:51:38.06
And this thing began
to grow and begin to grow
00:51:38.09\00:51:40.40
and begin to grow.
00:51:40.43\00:51:41.76
And I'm so
amazed by that because
00:51:41.80\00:51:46.23
when I listened to...
00:51:46.27\00:51:47.60
Kay Kuzma sent me the tape
that they asked me to sing.
00:51:47.64\00:51:52.31
She sent me the tape and said,
"This is your talk at ASI."
00:51:52.34\00:51:57.15
Now 30 some years
ago, 30 plus years ago,
00:51:57.18\00:52:01.38
and when I
listened to it, I'm like,
00:52:01.42\00:52:04.55
"I wouldn't give to me."
00:52:04.59\00:52:06.25
I mean, it was so terrible.
00:52:06.29\00:52:08.26
I mean, it was not like
you get up and you can sing
00:52:08.29\00:52:11.26
and you can do, but God
blesses us in spite of us.
00:52:11.29\00:52:15.43
And so what did hit
me, well, we may feel like
00:52:15.46\00:52:17.83
we got a better delivery
now or we hope to have it.
00:52:17.87\00:52:20.34
But it's not
really about the delivery.
00:52:20.37\00:52:22.14
It's who's delivering it.
00:52:22.17\00:52:23.57
That's the Holy Spirit's
delivering it into the hearts
00:52:23.61\00:52:26.31
and the minds of the people.
00:52:26.34\00:52:28.08
That makes all the
difference in the world,
00:52:28.11\00:52:29.81
but I can go back.
00:52:29.84\00:52:31.18
You talked about,
Ronnie, going back to your home
00:52:31.21\00:52:33.21
and bringing tears to your eyes,
00:52:33.25\00:52:35.48
I'm that way when
I look back over some
00:52:35.52\00:52:37.49
of these miracles that
sometimes even by myself.
00:52:37.52\00:52:41.16
I can sit around at
night and I think, you know,
00:52:41.19\00:52:43.79
God had this all planned.
00:52:43.83\00:52:45.16
Yes.
00:52:45.19\00:52:46.53
And I want you to think about,
00:52:46.56\00:52:47.90
right now God has
your life planned.
00:52:47.93\00:52:49.73
Yes, He does. And
even today, we got a call.
00:52:49.76\00:52:52.37
I got two calls
literally one back to back.
00:52:52.40\00:52:55.27
Someone said,
"My son is on drugs.
00:52:55.30\00:52:58.97
He's having a
hard go and hard time.
00:52:59.01\00:53:02.21
Will you pray for him."
00:53:02.24\00:53:03.58
That's such an honor
to somebody to call you
00:53:03.61\00:53:04.95
and say, "Can you pray
with me and join hands with me?"
00:53:04.98\00:53:08.82
And then someone
called me that we had...
00:53:08.85\00:53:11.32
Yvonne and I had
met two years ago.
00:53:11.35\00:53:13.76
We've only met her one time.
00:53:13.79\00:53:16.22
It was in the
Bahamas but every now
00:53:16.26\00:53:18.09
and then we talk or
we text back and forth.
00:53:18.13\00:53:21.56
And I got a call and
said, I was surprised
00:53:21.60\00:53:24.63
I haven't heard
from her in many,
00:53:24.67\00:53:26.00
many months, maybe a year.
00:53:26.03\00:53:27.70
And said, "My husband
asked me to call you."
00:53:27.74\00:53:32.71
Now, I've hardly talked
to the husband at all and,
00:53:32.74\00:53:36.58
you know, from the
background I assumed
00:53:36.61\00:53:39.08
he wasn't a
Christian and what have you,
00:53:39.11\00:53:40.95
but he said, "Call Danny."
00:53:40.98\00:53:45.62
And why call Danny,
00:53:45.65\00:53:46.99
not because of
Danny because she said
00:53:47.02\00:53:50.06
he saw Yvonne and I
00:53:50.09\00:53:52.16
and he knew I'm trying to
say this as delicately as I can.
00:53:52.19\00:53:56.06
But Jesus working through us
that he right now there's some
00:53:56.10\00:54:00.40
bad reports that
he could be getting.
00:54:00.44\00:54:02.67
And so they've already got
some and so he wanted prayer.
00:54:02.70\00:54:07.64
And I said, "What
a privilege that is."
00:54:07.68\00:54:09.81
See, God knows each
and every one of our lives,
00:54:09.84\00:54:12.71
and He knew us before
the foundation of the world.
00:54:12.75\00:54:16.18
And so right now you may
be going through some terrible
00:54:16.22\00:54:18.89
things in your life.
00:54:18.92\00:54:20.96
We all like to look
back as Ronnie said,
00:54:20.99\00:54:23.46
but I think we more want to look
00:54:23.49\00:54:25.89
forward because
when we look forward,
00:54:25.93\00:54:28.80
we find this
world is not our home.
00:54:28.83\00:54:30.40
We are just passing through.
00:54:30.43\00:54:32.20
Can I share
something really quick?
00:54:32.23\00:54:33.90
The little girl
that works for me,
00:54:33.94\00:54:36.77
it's serious home
life that she came from,
00:54:36.81\00:54:39.11
very sweet little girl.
00:54:39.14\00:54:41.91
She talked to her mom the
other day and her mom said...
00:54:41.94\00:54:45.75
She said, "I don't know
00:54:45.78\00:54:47.12
why I got some books in
the mail from the 3ABN."
00:54:47.15\00:54:50.02
She knows that that's
what we do and everything.
00:54:50.05\00:54:53.76
And I said, "Did she throw
them away because that's kind
00:54:53.79\00:54:56.66
of what I thought?"
00:54:56.69\00:54:58.03
And she said, "No,
she's reading it every night."
00:54:58.06\00:55:00.60
And she said, "This book,"
she said, "I really like it.
00:55:00.63\00:55:03.50
There's three of them."
00:55:03.53\00:55:04.87
And she said, "It's from
a guy named Danny Shelton."
00:55:04.90\00:55:08.07
And Alexa said, "Mom,
that's Tammy's brother."
00:55:08.10\00:55:11.64
And she said, "You're kidding."
00:55:11.67\00:55:13.98
And so now you've planted
the seed through those books,
00:55:14.01\00:55:17.15
she's reading them every night.
00:55:17.18\00:55:18.58
And she got on the
phone with me and she said,
00:55:18.61\00:55:19.98
"You know what?
00:55:20.02\00:55:21.35
Some of what that says
really makes sense to me."
00:55:21.38\00:55:23.28
Good. All right.
00:55:23.32\00:55:26.15
God has your life
planned from the beginning
00:55:26.19\00:55:28.59
and He has
something special for you.
00:55:28.62\00:55:31.69
John 10:10, "The thief
cometh not but for to steal,
00:55:31.73\00:55:34.80
kill and
destroy," but Jesus says,
00:55:34.83\00:55:36.97
"I'm come that you may have
life and have life abundantly."
00:55:37.00\00:55:40.27
We're blessed.
00:55:40.30\00:55:41.64
If we died today, we've all hit,
00:55:41.67\00:55:43.00
and Tammy is not
quite there to us,
00:55:43.04\00:55:44.37
the rest of us have hit our 70s.
00:55:44.41\00:55:46.17
So every day is a bonus.
00:55:46.21\00:55:48.94
You know, it's a gift and,
but God has something planned
00:55:48.98\00:55:52.11
no matter how old
or how young you are.
00:55:52.15\00:55:54.62
So we're asking
today for you to consider
00:55:54.65\00:55:57.19
if you haven't already
00:55:57.22\00:55:58.55
asked Jesus into your
heart in your life today.
00:55:58.59\00:56:01.46
Say Lord, please
forgive me for my sins.
00:56:01.49\00:56:03.89
I'm a sinner.
00:56:03.93\00:56:05.43
And you've said, the
Bible says, Jesus says,
00:56:05.46\00:56:08.60
"If you confess your sins,
00:56:08.63\00:56:09.96
He's faithful and just
to forgive us from our sins
00:56:10.00\00:56:13.00
and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
00:56:13.03\00:56:14.97
So we can by faith, we
won't instantly be perfect.
00:56:15.00\00:56:18.67
We will when we see
Jesus, but we'll be struggling.
00:56:18.71\00:56:21.68
We're going through this
process of sanctification.
00:56:21.71\00:56:24.88
But you know
what? God will be there.
00:56:24.91\00:56:26.65
He's going to take
your burden in a time
00:56:26.68\00:56:28.18
when the world is so messed up.
00:56:28.22\00:56:30.02
You turn on the news and you see
00:56:30.05\00:56:31.49
not only Coronavirus but
all the things that's happening,
00:56:31.52\00:56:34.69
you say, "Lord
Jesus, come quickly.
00:56:34.72\00:56:37.79
Lord Jesus, come
quickly because this world
00:56:37.83\00:56:40.93
just can't go on much longer."
00:56:40.96\00:56:43.20
So today is the
day of salvation.
00:56:43.23\00:56:45.30
So I'm going to ask Tammy
to just say a short prayer.
00:56:45.33\00:56:47.44
We got a few seconds
and for those at home,
00:56:47.47\00:56:50.31
for those that need
Jesus, they'll accept Him today.
00:56:50.34\00:56:52.61
Yes.
00:56:52.64\00:56:53.98
Lord, thank You for
this opportunity that You
00:56:54.01\00:56:56.01
have given us to
minister to others
00:56:56.04\00:56:58.65
and for others
to minister to us.
00:56:58.68\00:57:00.82
And, Lord, we pray
that You would impress
00:57:00.85\00:57:02.95
anyone that is watching this
that Jesus is what they need.
00:57:02.98\00:57:07.72
There is no other
hope on earth but Jesus,
00:57:07.76\00:57:10.23
and He gave His life for us.
00:57:10.26\00:57:12.43
And He is taking care of
us every minute of every day.
00:57:12.46\00:57:16.20
He has our lives mapped out.
00:57:16.23\00:57:18.20
Sometimes we think
we know more than Him,
00:57:18.23\00:57:20.64
but we don't because He can
count every hair on our head.
00:57:20.67\00:57:24.27
And He knows what
it is that we should do
00:57:24.31\00:57:27.28
and we have to depend on Him.
00:57:27.31\00:57:29.04
Lord, there's nothing else
in this world to depend on.
00:57:29.08\00:57:31.78
Thank You again
for this opportunity.
00:57:31.81\00:57:33.62
Be with each and everyone
that is viewing this program
00:57:33.65\00:57:36.25
and touch their
hearts in Jesus' name.
00:57:36.28\00:57:38.35
Amen.
00:57:38.39\00:57:39.72