Welcome to Your
Favorites By Request
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with me, Tim Parton.
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You've sent me
your favorite songs
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and I'm ready to
play while you sing along.
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And if you don't
remember all the words,
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don't worry,
they're on the screen.
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And now Your
Favorites By Request.
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Hi.
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Welcome to Your
Favorites By Request.
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We would probably agree that
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one of the most popular verses
in the Bible is John 3:16,
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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God so loved,
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what an amazing
intimate and personal gift.
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If you've risked
showing and sharing love,
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hopefully you know
the feeling of having love
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genuinely poured back to you.
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As you would imagine
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one of my favorite
song themes is love.
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There are thousands
of secular love songs,
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some of my favorites
are from the '40s era.
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But nothing beats a
good old gospel love song
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or a hymn to my savior.
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So imagine how
thrilled I was this week
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to hear from
Michigan and New Jersey
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and out Washington
State with requests for songs
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that express the love
of our precious savior.
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And this one, for Allen
in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee,
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a great old
convention style song
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called I Love My Savior Too.
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Jesus, my heavenly
King, loves me, I know
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Praises to Him I
sing, onward I go
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Closely to Him I
cling, blessings still flow
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I love my Savior, too
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I love my Savior
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He loves me, too
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I seek His favor
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In everything I do
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Walking with Him each
day Lovelight doth shine
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Doing His will
always, never repine
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Kneeling to Him I
pray Thy will, not mine
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I love my Savior, too
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I love my Savior
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He loves me too
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I seek His favor
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In everything I do
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I love my Savior
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He loves me too
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I seek his favor
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In everything I do
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I seek my savior too
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That's a lot of fun if
you like that kind of thing.
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Here's a great song,
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Isn't the Love of
JESUS Something Wonderful.
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There will never
be a sweeter story
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Story of the
Savior's love divine
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Love that bro't Him
from the realms of glory
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Just to save a
sinful soul like mine
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Isn't the love of
Jesus something wonderful
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Wonderful, wonderful
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O, isn't the love of
Jesus something wonderful
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Wonderful it is to me
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Boundless as the
universe around me
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Reaching to the
farthest soul away
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Saving, keeping
love it was that found me
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That is why my
heart can truly say
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Isn't the love of
Jesus something wonderful
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Wonderful, wonderful
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O, isn't the love of
Jesus something wonderful
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Wonderful it is to me
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Wonderful it is to me
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I like that
song, wonderful love.
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A lot of times, we wonder
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if the lyrics of songs
can really touch our life
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like maybe even a sermon can,
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and it's not
really up for debate.
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With just words,
if it touches you,
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it touches you,
and you can't help it.
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But the next song
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is a song written by
a very prolific writer
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Charles Wesley
wrote several hymns.
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And one of the
viewers sent me a book,
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it's a companion to hymns
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and it talks
about And Can It Be,
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and it's an example of how
the lyrics can touch lives.
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This says that, "Charles
Wesley often told in his journal
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how he made use of hymns
in his evangelistic ministry.
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The August 22nd, 1739
entry in Charles' Journal
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tells how this hymn
was used by the Holy Spirit
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in the conviction and conversion
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of a drunken
servant of a Mr. Stewart.
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This morning..."
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The journal says,
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"The work upon poor
Robin appear to be God's work.
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The words that made
the first impression
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were from the second
stanza of And Can It Be
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'Tis mercy all immense and free,
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for oh my God it found out me.'"
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Charles writes that
this servant must...
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"He now seems
full of sorrow and joy
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and astonishment and love."
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So he's talking about the impact
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that these lyrics
had on the singer,
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the listener of the words.
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So this song is full of words,
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I had to tell
somebody has more words
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in the Webster dictionary.
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But they are great words,
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and I hope that you
can make sense of it.
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If it's a favorite of
yours, you will sing along.
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The rest of you
can just read along
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and take in the
meaning of these words.
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And can it be that I should gain
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An int'rest in
the Savior's blood?
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Died He for me
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Who caused His pain?
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For me, who Him
to death pursued?
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Amazing love!
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How can it be
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That Thou, my God
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should die for me?
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Amazing love!
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How can it be
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That Thou, my God
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Should die for me?
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Amazing love!
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How can it be
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That Thou, my God
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Should die for me?
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Long my imprisoned spirit lay
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Fast bound in sin
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And nature's night
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Thine eye
diffused a quickening ray
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I woke, the
dungeon flamed with light
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My chains fell
off, my heart was free
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I rose, went
forth, and followed Thee
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No condemnation now I dread
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Jesus and all in Him is mine
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Alive in Him, my living Head
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And clothed in
righteousness divine
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Bold I approach
the eternal throne
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And claim the crown,
through Christ my own
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Amazing love!
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How can it be
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That Thou, my God
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Should die for me?
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And we'll be right back.
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