Hi, and welcome back.
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Many of you have been watching
sometimes may feel sorry for me
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for the inability that I
have of forming sentences.
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Somewhere in between
my brain and my mouth,
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the words get confused.
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And I have a little
bit of trouble sometimes
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and I'm working on that.
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But I have friends who
are brilliant songwriters
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that can form
sentences and write songs,
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the lyrics of which
are heavenly in my opinion.
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And I have one of my friends
on line right now, Dave Clark.
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He's written several songs
many that you've probably sung.
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I'm gonna talk to him.
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Let's see if he can give
me some tips on how to talk.
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Dave, are you there?
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I'm here, Tim. How
are you doing, sir?
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Hey, I'm doing wonderful.
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It is so great to see you.
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I was just telling my friends
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what a great songwriter you are.
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Let's start off with maybe
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some of the songs
that you have written
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that they may recognize.
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Well, it depends who
you listen to, I guess.
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I've been doing
it a long, long time.
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And we wrote a lot of the stuff
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for groups like For Him
and Phillips, Craig and Dean,
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and songs like
Crucified with Christ,
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Mercy Came Running,
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This Is How It Feels To Be Free,
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why, I'm not sure.
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The irony is that I grew
up in southern gospel music.
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And last year was the
first southern gospel single
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I ever had.
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Really?
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And it was just
kind of ironic but...
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Now, how long
have you been writing?
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I wanted to write,
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I felt like God called
me to write from the time
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I was a young kid.
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I lived in Michigan.
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Back in that day, we
didn't have computers.
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There was no other way to
do it except move to Nashville.
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So that's what I did,
two weeks after high school.
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I set out with the
ugliest car in Michigan.
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And by the time I got there,
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I had the
ugliest car in Nashville.
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Cool.
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Well, you felt right at home.
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I did.
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So you are also
a musician though.
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You brought that
too to the table.
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I played, you know,
through high school and stuff,
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and ended up my first
professional music job
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was riding on the same bus
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that you rode on
with the Spear family.
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And I stayed there five years.
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And I love being with them,
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they were my parents'
favorite group as a kid,
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and it was a dream come true.
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But I remember, one night,
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we were doing the camp meeting
in Iowa, Nazarene camp meeting.
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And they did a song called,
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pour through me about
vessels have gone dry.
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And even though
I'd written a song,
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I knew they would sing it to me.
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They also sang
the verse that night
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that never get
sung to the old hymn,
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I'd rather have Jesus.
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And that night, they sang:
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I'd rather have
Jesus to men's applause
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I'd rather be
faithful to His dear cause
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I'd rather have
Jesus than worldwide fame
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And I knew who
they were singing to.
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We were in an industry
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where the only way
to gauge our success
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was by men's applause.
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And I went that week
and resigned to Brock
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and I just said,
"God called me to write.
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As good as you've been to me,
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I don't know how
I'm going to do it
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but I've got to write songs."
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Sweet.
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Well, that's an
awesome step of faith to take.
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And I know that
there are a lot of singers
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and song writers in Nashville
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who are trying
to find their place,
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and so it's a good thing
to follow the calling of God
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and to just put it all
in His hands and trust Him.
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And He certainly
has been good to you.
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I've seen your name on
several billboard charts
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and that's really, really cool.
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And it's an honor
to call you friend
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to the extent that I
am your friend at all.
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But I do admire your
talent and your gift,
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and I encourage you to
keep doing what you do.
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Now you're also affiliated
with a publishing company.
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Are you still doing that?
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Yes.
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I am creative director
for a company called Lillenas,
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and they do a
lot of church music
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and we were
blessed to get to work
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with the Tim Parton arrangement
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that came out last
year with Michael Speck.
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Right, cool.
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I love the church.
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And sometimes you
call it core music,
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sometimes it's
inspirational music.
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All my life, I have
had one market in mind
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and that's to write for where
I felt like the church was.
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Nice.
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I love the ability to
edify the saints through lyrics
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that glorify God.
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Sure.
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So let's do a song
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that maybe there's a
favorite song of yours.
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Anything you've
written you like?
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Probably, a writer always
likes the last one they wrote,
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and the best one is the
one they're about to write, so.
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But you know what?
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Probably one
that people might know
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the most would
be Christmas song.
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And it was
recorded about 20 years ago,
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and every year since it's
been recorded by another artist
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in this past Christmas,
Rascal Flatts recorded it,
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so that was kind of exciting.
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Cool. And so give me the title.
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The title is, A
Strange Way to Save the World.
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Strange Way, all right.
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Let's do it.
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I'm sure he must
have been surprised
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At where this road had taken him
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Cause never in a million lives
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Would he have
dreamed of Bethlehem
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And standing at the manger
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He saw with his own eyes
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The message from
the angel come to life
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And Joseph said "Why me
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I'm just a simple man of trade
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Why Him
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With all the rulers in the world
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Why here
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Inside this
stable filled with hay
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Why her, she's
just an ordinary girl
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Now I'm not one to second guess
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What angels have to say
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But this is such a
strange way to save the World"
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To think of how
it could have been
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If Jesus had come as He deserved
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There would have
been no Bethlehem
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No lowly shepherds at His birth
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But Joseph knew the reason
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Love had to reach so far
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And as he held
the Savior in his arms
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He must have thought "Why me
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I'm just a simple man of trade
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Why Him
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With all the rulers in the world
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Why here inside this
stable filled with hay
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Why her
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She's just an ordinary girl
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Now I'm not one to second guess
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What angels have to say
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But this is such a strange way
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To save the World"
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What a great song!
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Wonderful, wonderful lyrics.
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Dave Clark, you are amazing man.
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Thank you very
much and God bless you.
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And I look forward to
hearing more songs from you.
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Tim, thank you so much and
best of luck for your show.
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And God is blessing on
your whole staff there.
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Thank you so
much. Thanks, brother.
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God bless you. Bye.
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Bye-bye.
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For Chuck and Gayle in Montana,
and for Ellen in Virginia,
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here are two more
modern gospel songs
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with beautifully crafted lyrics
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depicting the second
coming of Jesus Christ,
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We Shall Behold Him
and The Midnight Cry.
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We shall behold Him
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Yes, we shall behold Him
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Face to face
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In all of His glory
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We shall behold Him
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Yes, we shall behold Him
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Face to face
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Our Savior and Lord
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The angel will sound
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The shout of His coming
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And the sleeping shall rise
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From there slumbering place
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And those who remain
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Shall be changed in a moment
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And we shall behold him
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Then face to face
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Yes, we shall behold Him
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We shall behold Him
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Face to face
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In all of His glory
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We shall behold Him
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We shall behold Him
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Face to face
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Our Savior and Lord
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When Jesus steps out
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On a cloud to
call God's children
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The dead in Christ shall rise
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To meet Him in the air
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And then those that remain
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Will be quickly changed
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At the midnight cry
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When Jesus comes again
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I look around me
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And I see prophecies fulfilling
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And the signs of the times
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They're appearing everywhere
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I can almost hear the Father
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As He says, "Son,
go get my children"
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And at the midnight cry
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The bride of Christ shall rise
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When Jesus steps out
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On a cloud to
call God's children
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The dead in Christ shall rise
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To meet Him in the air
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And then those that remain
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Will be quickly changed
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We shall behold Him
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Our Savior and Lord
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Amen.
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I have such sweet memories
of New Year's Eve services
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as a child when we
would form a circle
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around the church sanctuary
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and sing this chorus
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reminding each
other of that blessed hope
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that He is coming soon.
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He's coming soon
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He's coming soon
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With joy
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We welcome His returning
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It may be morn
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It may be night or noon
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We know He's coming soon
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Sing that with me.
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He's coming
soon He's coming soon
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With joy we
welcome His returning
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It may be morn
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It may be night or noon
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We know He's coming soon
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And if you believe that,
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I think it's all
the more important
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to keep a song in your heart
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because Jesus keeps us singing.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
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Sweetest name I know
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Fills my every longing
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Keeps me singing as I go
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Send me a song Then
you sing along with me
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