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Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY210050S
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00:01 As you're well aware,
00:03 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:00 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:18 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day. 01:21 And we always like to say thank you for your love 01:23 and your prayers and financial support of 3ABN 01:26 as we continue to take this great gospel 01:30 of the kingdom into all the world. 01:32 Today is a special program 01:34 and we decided we'd get a bunch of old folks here together. 01:37 And we'll get together, we'll talk, we'll reminisce. 01:40 Now, some of us aren't all that old 01:42 and I was referring to you, 01:44 Tammy, I'm referring to Tim Parton who is with us. 01:47 But the rest of us, we can hit the senior citizen, 01:49 but it's my privilege today to have my Sister Tammy, 01:52 Brother Kenny and Brother Ronnie with us today. 01:55 And we rarely ever sing together as a family. 02:00 And I don't know if it's because we know that that's not 02:03 really our gifts or not, 02:04 but we rarely do it as a family. 02:06 But we said, "Well you know what, we're not getting any 02:08 younger if we're going to do it." 02:10 And our mother, who's resting in Jesus 02:12 she would be happy if she knew we were all 02:14 singing here together and having a great time. 02:17 So we want you will maybe sing some songs that you know today. 02:20 We want you at home to sing with us. 02:23 And we're just going to be... 02:24 We haven't even talked about 02:26 what we're going to talk about today. 02:27 But we have already prayed and asked 02:29 the Holy Spirit to lead, guide and direct, 02:32 so our goal today 02:34 is that when this program is over, 02:36 you will have made a decision to draw closer to the Lord, 02:39 Jesus Christ. 02:40 So once again, it's good to... 02:42 Thank you for all that you do. 02:43 And right now we want you to join us in our little 02:48 conversation and our music. 02:50 So I'm going to start out here. 02:51 I'm going start out with Tim Parton. 02:53 Brother Tim, how you doing today? 02:54 I'm good. I'm good. 02:57 I'm ready for this to happen. 03:00 I've been hearing about it and I was afraid that you might 03:03 cancel it because you have that control that authority. 03:06 But I think the other three 03:09 were against that because they wanted to do this, right? 03:12 That's right. 03:13 Okay, if I had known that I probably 03:15 wouldn't hand him the mike. 03:16 He just said all of that. 03:18 I thought he's going to support me in this. 03:19 Well, we thought about cancelling it, 03:21 but at our age it may be if we 03:23 cancelled it might be because one of us 03:24 is sick or something happens you know. 03:26 But honestly, God is good, isn't He? 03:28 He's so good and so we're glad to be here. 03:31 And let's go back and talk a little bit. 03:33 Ronnie, talk about something your mind sticking up. 03:36 We grew up together, four boys. 03:38 Tommy's not here today, 03:39 but four boys and then eight years later after me. 03:43 I'm the youngest boy came a little girl. 03:45 Yeah, I was going to say. 03:46 And if I remember that mom had had three boys 03:49 and she was wanting the girl so bad but Danny was born. 03:53 Oh, no. 03:54 And she cried. And she cried. 03:58 Well, yeah, people are still crying over that. 04:01 People are still crying but then they didn't stop 04:03 so they tried one more time and finally got the girl. 04:06 And you were talking about Danny had the authority 04:08 and I thought, "Well, I think me and Kenny 04:10 whenever we want to know something, we go to her." 04:12 Here you go. 04:15 Okay, well tell us 04:16 how you came into that position, Tammy? 04:21 It seemed after our mom passed away it just, kind of, 04:25 fell on to my shoulders. 04:27 And they were so... 04:29 what would you... 04:31 They aggravated me so much when I was little and pulled 04:33 so many stunts that I thought, 04:35 "Now I'm in charge so I could kind 04:37 of get them back in different ways." 04:40 Yeah, it says "Old people dream dreams and have big vision." 04:43 All of that according to the Bible. 04:45 But, now, don't get too uptight, we have a good time. 04:48 We do. 04:49 We joke each other a little bit back 04:50 and forth and we always do that. 04:52 People think something's wrong with us, probably if we didn't. 04:56 But let's talk a little bit about... 04:57 Kenny, tell us a little bit about Shelton household 05:00 growing up about mom and dad and, 05:02 you know, his health and that type of thing? 05:04 We'll talk about that a little bit 05:06 and then we'll do a little bit of music, 05:07 and music was a big part of our life growing up. 05:10 Yeah, no, it really was. 05:12 And I was... 05:13 You know, I always loved being around a musical family. 05:16 I never really participated too much with it, 05:19 but you could be sure in the Shelton 05:21 household there was somebody coming over, 05:23 some group meeting there, you know, somebody playing 05:26 the piano, somebody sing or a group at any time. 05:30 It just seemed like that went on all the time, all the time. 05:33 And I think that's where some of the good old gospel music, 05:36 kind of, sunk into our heads and our minds 05:39 and just kind of by the grace of God, 05:40 it stayed there and then we go to church 05:41 and sing these things. 05:43 But it was, I think it was... 05:44 The neighbors a lot of times would say in the summertime, 05:47 especially, you know, we'd open the windows 05:49 and we'd had a window fan. 05:51 And they would say the next day, "Oh, I know you guys had 05:53 a good time last night. 05:54 Man, we could hear the music." 05:56 Now if it had been me, I'd probably shut the window 05:57 and shut that. 05:59 But they said, "We really enjoy that," 06:00 because it wasn't something 06:02 that went on in every household. 06:04 It was, and they were singing 06:06 and they knew it was about Jesus 06:09 and the coming of Jesus 06:10 and when there were things that would happen in the community, 06:13 the neighborhood. 06:15 We could always expect that mom would get 06:18 a call or something to say, "Pray for us or pray for a part 06:21 of the family right here," 06:23 because they knew we were praying family, 06:24 and that we love Jesus 06:26 and that was good to have that on the block. 06:28 And I don't know about you. 06:29 I don't know, maybe I'll ask these folk something out here. 06:32 Every once in a while, I feel 06:34 the need that want to drive by the house 06:38 that I was born in. 06:39 I don't know if any of you feel that way or not. 06:41 Several times I have done that in the last several years. 06:44 Just drive by and look at that old house... 06:48 Still standing. 06:49 It's still standing and it had a lot of us 06:51 who did a lot of building on it. 06:52 And I don't know, and we were 12 and 13 years of age. 06:56 The music room we built for Dad, 06:58 remember the music room we had. 06:59 Ronnie, how old was you when you wired that? 07:01 Well, I've probably been early teens, very early. 07:05 Yeah. Around 13, yeah. 07:07 I wired the house and like I said, 07:08 "Whenever we built an upstairs," 07:10 because it was just a basically a four room house 07:13 and we had too many guys, you know, so... 07:15 We had two bedrooms. 07:17 Yeah, two bedrooms, that's right. 07:18 So we opened up an attic 07:22 and it was only six-foot right in the middle. 07:24 So when you walked you had to walk right down 07:26 the middle and that was a problem for us. 07:28 And 12 feet wide but it went down to three feet 07:30 and we pulled downstairs. 07:32 So we just pulled down the stairs to get up 07:35 and down every night. 07:36 They're not that a good stairways, but no heat, 07:38 no air out there. 07:40 Really, no designated heat or air conditioner. 07:42 But an hour or two before bedtime, 07:44 remember mom would say, "Pull the curtain back 07:46 so that he can go upstairs." 07:49 And that was it, but, you know, I read... 07:52 I'm like, Kenny, I appreciate it, though. 07:53 I mainly remember Friday nights 07:55 when we gathered around the piano and that's when... 07:58 The only song that the folks ever taught us 08:02 was gospel music, 08:04 that's the only thing that they ever taught us. 08:06 And it was so natural for us because mom 08:08 and dad did a real nice duet. 08:12 She played the piano very well 08:14 and dad always played the guitar. 08:16 And they played a very nice duet and singing gospel 08:20 and so each one of us then as we got 08:22 a little bit older, Kenny picked up 08:25 a guitar and he was more rhythm. 08:27 And then Danny picked up the guitar 08:29 and did a little more lead on it 08:30 and then I picked up the bass, you know and so, 08:33 our brother Tommy was a grand piano player, you know? 08:36 Yeah. 08:38 And so we began to sing 08:39 and each one of us picked up an instrument 08:42 and it just seemed a natural thing to do. 08:44 Amen. 08:45 What happened was our father was disabled 08:48 at about 36 years old with a heart attack. 08:52 And so times were pretty tough then but before that, 08:55 he was a trucker and had a truck. 08:57 And we used to go... 08:58 We call everything from picking glasses, busting bottles, 09:02 you know, of glass and filling up 09:04 the trucks taking to St. Louis. 09:06 Really, he was a recycler. 09:07 Now we can call him that. Yeah, recycler. 09:09 Absolutely, junk, you know, metals, iron, steel, brass, 09:13 you know, whatever, copper, whatever we could get. 09:15 We go to the junkyards and say, hey down there's an old motor, 09:18 go get that, it's got some copper 09:19 so we'd bring it and then we'd sell all 09:21 of that but then later. 09:22 And then we used to go to Indiana every fall, 09:26 in the fall and pick tomatoes every summer 09:28 and come back from fall when we were really young. 09:32 I think my last time I was 9-10 years old, 09:34 but when dad had a heart attack. 09:36 But I don't think Tammy ever went, she was young enough. 09:39 She didn't go, but we'd go live with the Amish. 09:41 And there was times that my uncle Olin and all his family, 09:44 my Uncle Budd, my grandma and grandpa, 09:46 Tim and we stayed. 09:48 There was two or three years. 09:50 Tommy remembered it better than me but we stayed in a barn 09:53 with no running water, no electricity, 09:54 but he said there was cardboard in between 09:58 the dividers between families. 10:00 And so it was just a horse barn that you lived in all 10:03 summer because you're working for the Amish 10:05 and they didn't have like electricity or running water. 10:08 So when we lived in the old Amish's houses, 10:10 we didn't have that either, but they did have a number nine 10:12 washed up, if some of you know what that is. 10:16 So right, we'd stand in that and once a week, 10:20 Kenny said like... 10:21 Whether you needed it or not. 10:23 Yeah, once a week and they run barefooted most of the time. 10:26 But when after my dad was disabled 10:28 and my mother worked hard, and so we all helped 10:30 and we helped the neighbors mowed yards and painted, 10:33 did whatever we could do to help, 10:35 you know, support the family. 10:38 But through it all, you know, my mom and dad stayed faithful. 10:42 My mother became a Christian the year I was born in '51. 10:46 My dad, he continued to play... 10:48 He played country music and you know the... 10:50 I don't know what you call them, bars, 10:52 or mom used to call them honky-tonks. 10:54 But dad then used to do it and so for several years 10:57 he had a band called Tommy Shelton 10:59 and the Melody Kings and had a radio program. 11:01 But he became a Christian in 1955, I think. 11:06 And so a few years later, several things happened. 11:09 He finally said, "I just give up. 11:10 I know what the Lord wants me to do." 11:12 But he was faithful after that. 11:14 And so, though we didn't have much income, 11:16 we did have a lot of love in the family. 11:18 And we always, it's never... 11:20 Did anyone ever doubt when Sabbath morning came, 11:22 we were going to church or not? 11:23 No, never. 11:25 You never had an option, did you? 11:26 No, it's just... 11:28 It's like going to school, there's no option. 11:30 Yeah, absolutely. So anyway, so... 11:34 I was thinking about, you was talking about 11:35 going to school. 11:36 We went to the grade school that we could walk over just 11:39 three or four blocks to ours. 11:41 Joined our grade school where we went, you know? 11:44 And, of course, the three of us was very competitive 11:46 and so we'd like to play basketball and softball 11:49 and baseball and whatever else, you know, that... 11:53 There was a lot of fun in those days. 11:56 When you look back on those, you think those were some 11:58 of the best times of our life. 11:59 You know, you didn't have a care in the world about 12:01 anything except we're going down, 12:03 you know, take the basketball 12:05 and we're going down to school to play ball. 12:06 That's where we were going. 12:08 And so, to me, it was a good atmosphere, 12:10 you know, to be growing up. 12:12 And even though we were very poor... 12:14 We look back now and we say, 12:16 "We were some of the poorest in the school." 12:18 We just didn't know it. 12:19 We didn't know it at the time, you know? 12:21 We thought everybody had holes in the bottom of their shoes. 12:24 And got their clothes from the goodwill. 12:26 Yeah, who knew? Yeah, that's true. 12:28 Our homemade shirts. 12:30 Mom made some nice homemade shirts. 12:32 Tell us about mom's shirts and then we'll sing a song. 12:33 Tell us about mom's sewing. 12:35 She worked at a dress factory, right? 12:37 They call it piecework, 12:39 so that means the more you put out 12:40 the more you're going to make, 12:42 so she learned to really sew quickly. 12:43 I needed a shirt one time, you know, 12:45 there were some met holes. 12:46 She had a little older hand singer with the thumping foot. 12:49 Singer with the thumping foot or whatever and she said, 12:51 "I'll make you one." 12:53 And made me a shirt in about 15 minutes, she had a shirt. 12:56 And I'm looking at her and thinking, "Wow, that's good." 12:58 I tried it on and one collar hung about here 13:01 and the other one was up to here. 13:02 I said, "Mom, isn't that little strange. 13:04 I mean, the one collar is too long. 13:06 Can we reduce?" 13:07 She said, "Kenny, don't worry about it. 13:08 Nobody is going to notice it, man, just go ahead. 13:10 You're lucky, you got a shirt." 13:12 Here's what they did notice 13:14 and I look back at some 13:16 of that old pictures that we had in school. 13:18 But our shirts what happened, they would give my mother. 13:22 She worked at a dress factory 13:23 so that gave you a hint what they made, dresses right? 13:27 So they would give her the remnants. 13:29 So she would come home and make a shirt 13:31 so we might have a white shirt with flowers all over, 13:33 you know? 13:35 And now if you're in Hawaii or somewhere it may be okay, 13:38 but in Southern Illinois in the wintertime 13:40 so she would just use whatever dress materials. 13:43 So we had all these shirts and as Kenny said, 13:45 she didn't really go by patterns. 13:47 He said she could put together. 13:48 One time he said mom made the fastest I've seen, 13:50 she made a whole shirt in eight minutes. 13:54 And the beautiful part about it is if it didn't fit 13:56 the one she made it for, 13:58 you just hand it to the next boy. 14:00 That's, Danny, it's too little for Ronnie. 14:02 Well, Danny, if that fits you and it's like this on me. 14:05 I was three years younger, you know, so... 14:06 You couldn't complain. 14:08 If you did, it was taken away from you 14:09 so if you need a shirt you just kind of. 14:11 Absolutely, yeah. We know about hand me downs. 14:12 It's good. Yeah, we do. 14:14 Speaking of that, the hand me downs that they did always 14:18 give us gospel music, 14:19 you know, because after they became Christians and, 14:22 of course, that was the main music. 14:24 My dad, he liked to play music and had guys come over 14:27 and they do some other country stuff on Tuesday night 14:30 or whatever. 14:31 But, you know, in general gospel music 14:32 so we ever and as Ronnie said that's the only thing 14:34 they ever taught us 14:36 and so one of the first songs that I remember ever 14:38 singing with my mother's, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. 14:41 Then I think we're going to add 14:43 and make a little medley because when we look 14:45 back over it all, God is good. 15:02 Turn your eyes upon 15:06 Jesus Look full in 15:12 His wonderful 15:15 face And the things 15:21 Of earth 15:23 Will grow strangely dim 15:29 In the light of His glory 15:34 And grace 15:36 Now we're going to do, God is so good. 15:42 God is so good 15:48 God is so good 15:53 God is so good 15:57 He's so good to me 16:02 I love him so. 16:04 I love him so 16:09 I love him so 16:15 I love him so 16:19 He's so good to me 16:23 He's coming soon. 16:26 He's coming soon 16:31 He's coming soon 16:37 He's coming soon 16:41 He's so good to me 16:45 Is He good to us? 16:47 He's so good to 16:53 Me Amen. 16:57 Everybody said amen. Amen. 17:00 Okay, let's go ahead and talk for a little bit more 17:02 and then maybe we'll get another song going here, 17:04 but I'd like to start out. 17:06 Each of us we were raised in a Christian home, 17:09 but you can have Christian parents all you want, 17:12 and grandparents and everybody around you. 17:14 But at some point, each and every one of us, 17:16 Tim, have to make a decision for ourselves that we 17:19 want to serve the Lord. 17:21 You're going to serve the Lord, 17:22 you're going to serve the devil. 17:23 There's no in-between, you can't do both, right? 17:26 So at some point, we have to make that decision, 17:29 so I, kind of, want to go back, maybe, Ronnie, 17:31 we'll start with you. 17:32 Ronnie was the one, my mother was Rice 17:35 and Rices were very quiet. 17:37 I remember going to my grandpa Rice's house, 17:40 and my mom would have us come and sit 17:42 and he was a retired coal miner, 17:43 but we'd sit in the house and you could hear 17:45 the clock tick tock, tick tock, because he didn't say much. 17:50 My mom would do all the talk and then so we were just, 17:52 kind of, quiet there. 17:54 Now, our grandpa Shelton's we were running wild 17:56 outside doing all, kinds of stuff, 17:58 but it was more formal at the Rice's. 18:00 So my grandpa, he didn't say much, 18:02 Uncle Robert, you know, Uncle Charlie, 18:05 those didn't talk. 18:06 Now, my mother did a lot of talking 18:08 and Aunt Lena did quite a bit, 18:09 but most of the boys and Uncle Ollie, 18:11 he talked quite a bit. 18:13 But, Ronnie, we always said he's Rice. 18:16 My mother said he looked like the Rice. 18:17 He's just like my family. 18:19 So we're growing up, 18:20 he was the quietest one in the house. 18:22 Am I right? 18:23 They always said, you know, my whole life I heard this. 18:28 "I know Tommy and Kenny, and Danny and Tammy, 18:30 now which one are you?" 18:32 I said, "I'm the only one left. I'm Ronnie." 18:37 They say, "We never hear from you." 18:39 I say, "In our house I can't get a word in edgewise." 18:43 But you know what talker is. 18:44 Well, some of our family is, 18:47 you know, and our mom could talk too as well, you know? 18:50 It may have come down from her but she was a big talker. 18:53 And you know, Danny I said, "One day 18:56 when we all get to heaven, it's going to be so wonderful. 19:01 When I see my mom and my dad there, 19:05 and they said Ronnie did what? 19:07 He became a pastor. 19:09 You know, Ronnie who never talks pastor the church?" 19:13 And I did you know, as God worked in my life. 19:16 I was in my mid 50s. 19:17 You were mechanic for many, many years. 19:19 So you started preaching when, 19:21 when the Lord called you to preach. 19:22 Actually, you know, the call actually came 19:25 considerably earlier, but I chose to ignore it. 19:28 Okay. 19:30 When Rick Cortell, you know, our brother Rick, 19:33 whenever he used to come in to my garage, 19:35 and he and I would talk all the time. 19:38 And I'll tell you about Rick first 19:40 and then I'll get to this. 19:41 I always had a box of literature there 19:43 and Rick was what sort of? 19:46 Assembly of God. 19:47 Assembly of God pastor. Yeah. 19:49 But he went to school with us 19:50 and so he knew the Shelton family. 19:52 You and him singing, you know. Oh, yeah, great guy. 19:54 Great guy, exactly. 19:56 But I would witness to Rick 19:57 when he'd come into the garage 19:59 and I always had a box of literature there. 20:02 And when he come in, he'd start rummaging through there 20:05 and picking out, you know, literature from our church. 20:08 And anyway, I witnessed to him and finally, 20:14 one day he had picked all through the box. 20:18 And I said, "Rick, have you got this one?" 20:20 He said, "Yes, I got that." I said, "How about this?" 20:22 He said, "I got that." 20:24 And he said, in fact, he said, 20:25 "I've got everything in the box." 20:26 He said, "I just notified your conference 20:28 and said send me one of everything." 20:30 So that's what he did. 20:31 But anyway, during that time, once in a while, 20:34 I would fill in one of the local churches, 20:37 you know. 20:38 And I really felt God's call then 20:40 but I wasn't ready to handle it. 20:42 I wasn't ready to do it for 15 years, 20:45 maybe later, you know. 20:46 I think I was like 57 or something whenever I finally 20:49 took a call to become a pastor in first in Arkansas, 20:54 and then in Oklahoma. 20:56 And so anyway, one day as I was going with this, 20:58 one day when we get to heaven, and mom's going to say, 21:01 "Well, I knew these boys were 21:03 preachers because they could talk, they had a way 21:05 a gift of God..." 21:07 She's going to say, "But who are you?" 21:08 Yeah, exactly, she'll say, 21:10 "What happened to my Ronnie? 21:11 Yeah, my Ronnie didn't talk." 21:13 It'd be wonderful whenever we get there. 21:16 And so God did work in my life and He loosened my tongue 21:20 if you will where I could talk. 21:22 All right. 21:23 This may be a good time to bring it out because we 21:25 want to get everything out in the open today. 21:27 I think it's a good time to get it out. 21:29 When we were younger, 21:31 Ronnie from the time we can remember he literally 21:35 loved anything that had to do with auto mechanics 21:37 or electrical or wiring. 21:39 And Ken and I particularly, we love sports so no matter 21:42 what sports was there, 21:44 that's exactly what we wanted to do, 21:45 and that's all we were all about was the sports. 21:48 But we all learned to work with 21:50 our hands because when you're poor 21:51 and you don't have a lot of income coming in, 21:53 you learn to do things. 21:55 But since Ronnie was three years older than me, 21:57 like we get an old bicycle. 21:59 We never got new ones, but we'd get a piece 22:01 of one or somebody gave us one 22:02 and Ronnie would put them together to make 22:05 a little bicycle. 22:06 But even if my chain came off, 22:08 I would go to put it on and he'd say, 22:10 "Let me do that." 22:11 Well, anytime something went wrong my front wheel 22:13 went bad or tire, he'd say, "I want to... 22:15 I'll fix that." 22:16 So I told him because of him, I can do carpentry work 22:19 and lots of stuff, but I'm a mechanical 22:21 invalid because he never let me do anything. 22:26 Even my first car... 22:27 I went out to where you guys were working at John Martin's 22:30 at West Frankfort and I bought my first car. 22:33 I was 16. 22:34 It was yellow 1956, yellow and black Chevrolet 283, 22:38 I think, the engine. 22:40 And so I bought the car here. 22:42 No, it's 55, first one was 55 Ford in Crown Victoria. 22:47 So I bought this Tim for $25 but the motor 22:51 was over here in a bunch of, 22:52 in that bushel baskets for all the parts. 22:56 So Ronnie was 19 so I said, 22:58 "Ronnie, John says he'll sell me this car 23:01 for 25 bucks for the car and 25 for the motor." 23:05 So he said, "Well okay, I'll put it together." 23:09 So all I did was we went to the folk's house 23:11 and they poured that concrete platform out there, 23:14 or concrete slab. 23:17 And so I just would hand Ronnie stuff 23:19 and he put that whole thing together, 19 years old. 23:23 Now the only trouble 23:24 is I didn't get to drive it very much 23:26 because we didn't have any exhaust. 23:27 It didn't have an exhaust so from the manifold out, 23:30 it sounds like a helicopter. 23:32 So first time I drove it, the police stopped me and said, 23:35 "Well, where's your muffler?" And I said... 23:37 They didn't know it's not only not a muffler. 23:39 It didn't come with the car. 23:42 They didn't know that the muffler 23:43 going to yard rows uptown would have cost 23:45 more than the whole car so we didn't have that. 23:48 So, but anyway, Ronnie, I've forgiven you, but because of... 23:52 Well, here's one thing, anything I get, 23:54 anytime anything goes wrong mechanically, 23:57 I just say, "Ronnie, I need you because it's your fault. 24:00 I'm a mechanical invalid." 24:02 So now I've got that out in the public notice, Ronnie. 24:04 He's still with it about all that stuff. 24:07 The little girl that works for me, 24:10 well, her alternator went out. 24:12 And she went to one of these auto stores to get one 24:15 and it just blowed her away. 24:16 It was $265 and so, you know, she doesn't make that much. 24:20 And so I called him and I said... 24:22 You should pay her more. I know. 24:24 That's another subject. Don't get it started. 24:28 So I called him, I said, "That's ridiculous." 24:31 I said, "Do you know where they rebuild them? 24:33 You know they used to rebuild them and you could buy." 24:34 And he said, "Those that you buy at the store are rebuilt." 24:37 And he said, "Go to eBay," and he said, 24:40 "You'll get one less than $100," 24:41 so we went to eBay 70 bucks. 24:43 So He's able to take that another one. 24:45 I said, "You're a genius." 24:46 He said, "I don't like to brag." 24:49 Hardly, I don't like to brag. Oh, that sounded well. 24:51 Speaking of bragging then, why don't we feature him since 24:54 we've been talking to him. 24:55 We're going to do a song. 24:57 It's a song that remember Roy Groves and Tommy 25:00 and John Hartley and Red Morrison, 25:02 and bunch of those sang. 25:03 And I guess we probably learned it from them. 25:05 Let us have a little talk with Jesus. 25:07 And Roy would, "Now let us." 25:10 You know he had this big deep bass voice and great guy. 25:14 And we grew up, they were just a block from our house 25:16 and Tommy started playing the piano for them 25:18 when he in Adult Quartet. 25:19 He was just 11 years old. 25:21 And so they travel weekends 25:22 and so maybe that'd be a good time to try that song. 25:26 As you probably heard that, Tim, 25:27 but Tommy was playing for live Sunday morning 25:30 radio for the Quartet when he was like 11. 25:34 You played live then you drove out to the radio station 25:37 and went in and it was on the air live. 25:40 I didn't say that my piano player is 11 years old. 25:44 With an Adult Quartet, 25:45 but I know Tim was playing that early too, with groups. 25:49 But anyway, why don't we get ready and we'll sing, 25:51 let us have a little talk with Jesus. 25:53 And those of you at home sing it with us if you know it. 26:04 I once was lost in sin 26:08 But Jesus took me in 26:11 And then a little light from heaven filled 26:14 my soul 26:18 It bathed my heart in love 26:21 And wrote my name above 26:24 And just a little talk With 26:26 Jesus made me whole 26:30 Now let us have a little talk with Jesus 26:34 Let us tell Him all about our troubles 26:38 He will hear our faintest cry 26:41 And He will answer by and by 26:44 Now when you feel 26:46 A little prayer wheel turning 26:48 And you know a little fire is burning 26:51 You will find a little talk With Jesus 26:55 makes it right 27:05 I may have doubts and fears 27:09 My eyes be filled with tears 27:12 But Jesus is a friend 27:14 Who watches day and night 27:19 I go to Him in prayer 27:22 He knows my every care 27:25 And just a little talk With Jesus 27:28 makes it right 27:31 Now let us have a little talk with Jesus 27:35 Let us tell Him all about our troubles 27:39 He will hear our faintest cry 27:42 He will answer by and by 27:45 Now when you feel A little prayer wheel turning 27:49 And you know a little fire is burning 27:52 You will find a little talk With Jesus 27:55 makes it right 27:59 Have a little talk with Jesus 28:03 Tell Him all about our troubles 28:06 Hear our faintest cry 28:08 He will answer by and by 28:12 Now when you feel A little prayer wheel turning 28:15 And you know a little fire is burning 28:19 You will find a little talk With Jesus 28:22 makes it right 28:24 Makes it right 28:32 Okay. That wore me out. 28:34 I might sit down on that. Sit back down. 28:38 Well, that was a little rough but what do you expect, right? 28:42 That's right. Thank you, Tim for... 28:43 Wouldn't we be a mess without him right now? 28:47 Oh, man. Oh, mercy, this be big mess. 28:50 This lot of fun though because actually about 28:52 the only song that we ever sing 28:54 and we'll have to do it here in a few minutes 28:56 because our mom made sure that we did as well 28:58 today that will be. 29:00 You know, glorious day, and that's about 29:01 the only song we ever sang in many, many years. 29:05 So this is something new we're branching out today. 29:08 But Dee said that we had a few requests to sing, 29:11 but we said we're going to sing anyway. 29:15 Not really but she did say, 29:16 "Well, I think it'd be good to get family together," 29:19 and so why not? 29:20 And so we don't claim to be great singers 29:23 or great musicians, 29:24 but we do believe it's a way to serve the Lord. 29:27 And I've seen music for so many years. 29:30 It was music that really helped 3ABN because when we first 29:34 were building the station, Melody and I were traveling 29:36 and singing in churches. 29:38 So everywhere we went, 29:39 we got to tell people about this new TV station 29:41 that the Lord impressed us to be a part 29:44 of and to reach the world, 29:45 so music has always been a part of our family. 29:48 We talked about our mom again, 29:49 her family that they were all singers 29:53 and some of them good musician. 29:55 Like Charlie the steel guitar player in the country band and, 29:58 you know, so they were good. 30:00 And I think Robert played guitar 30:01 and my Aunt Lena would sing 30:02 and played the piano and my mom, 30:04 so virtually all of them did some. 30:07 We kind of got it from both sides. 30:08 Of course, our dad his side, you know, 30:10 his brothers and sisters they all sang, you know? 30:13 Our cousins, you know, all sang and pretty nicely, 30:17 you know, so we really got a little bit from both sides 30:21 of the family. 30:22 And some of you got a lot more than others of us did. 30:26 Yeah, I feel cheated. 30:27 I feel a little bit cheated. 30:29 But those times that you guys were singing around 30:31 the piano and playing the guitar 30:33 and I was out in the little shed working on the lawnmower, 30:35 we talked about, you see. 30:37 My idea was a splint, you know, 30:42 where you guys were so centered on music and then on sports. 30:46 And I added the auto repairs with... 30:50 That came from my mom's side too. 30:52 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 30:54 Ronnie didn't continue like in the high school 30:56 and years later, Ken and I played ball for many, 30:59 many years. 31:00 In fact, I just played last Sunday night, I think, 31:03 so I'm quit already at 70, I probably should. 31:06 But you won the eighth grade... 31:12 Was it at the Illinois State, 31:14 Illinois pole vaulting when he was in eighth grade. 31:17 And then a few days after that he was 31:20 pole vaulting at home and broke your collarbone, right? 31:23 That's right. Harry Holder's house. 31:24 You know and I was surprised, Danny, that our mom kept 31:28 little clippings that come out in the newspaper. 31:30 Before she passed away, 31:32 she gave me some clippings that she had saved 31:34 now for over 40 years and now they're over 50 years old. 31:38 And I remember one of them said, 31:40 "Ronnie Shelton pitches, no hitter in Park League." 31:43 You know so we played baseball as well in park, 31:46 and so we've got pictures I think of the three of us 31:49 standing there in our ball flaunt uniforms. 31:51 Yeah. Standing out by... 31:53 You remember the arch in front of the house, 31:54 you know, in the picket fence, you know? 31:57 So it was wonderful, I mean, 31:59 it kept us off the streets would say. 32:02 Oh, it did that, and the parents 32:05 who believed in whippings back then we called, 32:07 there's a spanking, there's a whipping, 32:09 and then there's a whipping. 32:11 And our dad believed in whippings. 32:12 And that's the worst. 32:14 And we got the whippings, but he only gave it to us 32:16 when we needed it. 32:17 But anyway, Kenny, let's jump, we got a little time. 32:20 We can do a couple more songs. Let's jump to you. 32:22 The thing about Kenny is he always 32:24 wanted to be a preacher from the time he was little 32:27 right or am I wrong so forth? 32:29 No. No not at all. 32:30 Tell us about it? 32:32 It's interesting, you know, at an early age. 32:33 I think at least in my mind, 32:35 seven or eight years old or nine. 32:37 Why thoughts would come in your mind 32:39 like that that was, "I will never be a preacher." 32:45 And I don't know why they kept coming in. 32:47 We go to church and as we hear different ones 32:49 speak all the time. 32:50 And anyway I had my reasons for that because I thought 32:54 maybe they need to go out and get a real job. 32:56 He is a preacher. You know what I'm saying. 32:58 Learn to work with your hands, do something because we always 33:01 though that's, kind of, can I say... 33:03 It's what a man did. 33:05 You go out and you work, you get a job and you do whatever. 33:07 And in my poor little mind right there, 33:08 I can't finance it. 33:10 Man, that's the last thing I want to be. 33:11 In fact I'll never be one of those. 33:13 So I'm glad that God knows better that He has 33:15 a plan for each and every one of us. 33:18 And like Ronnie also too, you know, 33:21 I turned down the call quite a few years. 33:24 In fact, it was seven years. 33:25 It's interesting. 33:27 Seven years I turned it down 33:29 and I knew that it should be but didn't want to. 33:30 So, you know, I'm thankful God still, 33:33 you know, comes and He still works through the Holy Spirit. 33:36 And I know He's doing it to many people 33:38 who are at home right now through the Holy Spirit. 33:39 You're impressed that you need to be singing or your gift 33:42 teaching, preaching, whatever it might be, music, whatever. 33:45 You know, I used to encourage it, 33:46 don't waste as much time as I wasted it. 33:48 Don't do it. 33:50 You know be happy in Jesus and do what gift He gave. 33:53 You just continue to work with it. 33:55 And as you see, Brother Tim will say, "He's multiplied it." 33:58 Right? You didn't start out the way that you play right now. 34:01 And I'm not trying to lift him. 34:02 I'm just saying that it changes. 34:04 But you put a lot of work in it, 34:05 a lot of effort into it as my brother 34:08 Danny did in his singing and playing the guitar. 34:12 And, you know, I've often said and I tell people, 34:15 I'm thankful he didn't. 34:16 I'm gonna, be careful close your ears, children. 34:18 I told Danny to shut up several times as we were growing up, 34:22 because he always had a guitar. 34:24 He was too little to put his arm almost all 34:26 the way around it and he'd be playing. 34:29 And then what really got me at the time 34:31 was he closed his eyes and he was singing, 34:35 which I didn't understand. 34:36 He was singing honor and glory to the Lord 34:38 and I didn't have that. 34:40 And I didn't understand that you could be singing 34:43 praises unto the Lord and so I'd go by and I'll say, 34:45 "Man, this guy loves himself. 34:47 Come out of it, Danny." 34:48 You know, and I'm thankful that he never did. 34:52 So, you know, we learn from those things, 34:54 and I'm grateful and thankful for a lot 34:56 of those experiences that we've had 34:58 while we were growing up. 34:59 We learned a lot of things. 35:00 We learned to share, 35:02 even a little bit we had to give to somebody else first 35:06 and we had parents that encouraged that all along 35:09 and I'm thankful for that. 35:11 Absolutely, now, like with there, folks, 35:13 with Tommy, he played the piano hours every day. 35:16 And we had a little house 35:17 and it wasn't big enough to have a piano. 35:21 And I guess when we were getting closer to teenagers 35:24 so we got our first TV. 35:26 But when the piano was going on, you can never watch TV, 35:28 you couldn't hear anything. 35:30 So we complained so much. 35:31 At one time in the winter, mom... 35:33 We helped him move the piano out on the front porch. 35:36 Now, it was a front porch. 35:37 It wasn't closed then, so Tommy instead 35:40 of quitting will put on air muffs and gloves and went out. 35:44 And we couldn't believe we hear all this music 35:46 going on out there so finally my mom started crying. 35:50 She said, "Look, that kid loves music this much. 35:52 We're going to bring it in house and get used to it." 35:56 She said, "We're going to get used to it." 35:58 So when anybody would complain, 36:00 he'd say, "Hey, look, I'd rather be singing 36:02 than smarting off or acting up or whatever 36:06 so just leave me alone." 36:07 She said, Danny's singing again, 36:08 "Lets him leave him alone. 36:10 If he's singing let him go. He's not bothering anybody." 36:12 So that was about it. 36:15 And we're going to get ready to do, what today that will be. 36:17 Tammy, give us a little bit of your memories with mom, 36:20 growing up in music. 36:21 I mean, she... 36:23 Tammy always, she came out singing, I think. 36:26 And the older she's always had... 36:27 My dad was, "I tell you, your little sister can sing, boys. 36:31 This girl can sing." 36:33 So he was your biggest fan, you know? 36:35 And I remember I was his. 36:36 Yeah, and but, you today, you're a Christian, 36:40 you and Bruce, you love the Lord, why? 36:42 I mean you could have gone any different 36:44 any way that you wanted. 36:46 It's not we all haven't been here or there. 36:48 But you end up in our sunset years. 36:51 They say, "Serving the Lord" I mean, why? 36:53 Yeah, because as you learn, as you get older, 36:56 what else is there? 36:59 This whole world is just a mess 37:01 and the things that we've all went through 37:04 and deaths and sicknesses and things. 37:08 You learn that if you can't depend on God, 37:11 what in the world? 37:12 What do you do? 37:14 If you're in dire straits, and you can't get on your knees 37:17 and say, "God help me." 37:19 Well, there's no hope for people. 37:20 And so I want to make sure that people 37:24 realize that the only hope you have in this world is Jesus. 37:28 That's the only hope. 37:30 That's the only encouragement that you have because you know 37:33 somebody is stronger than you that somebody is in control. 37:36 You're not in control of everything. 37:38 But I would like to say, I think that we had the best 37:41 parents that we could have ever had. 37:44 After I got kids and I get frustrated 37:47 and scream at them and, you know, yell at them. 37:50 And I started thinking, you know, 37:51 "I never heard mom raise her voice. 37:53 I never heard dad yell. 37:55 I never heard them yell at each other, 37:57 you know, for that matter." 37:59 I mean if he was going to give a whipping, 38:00 you got a whipping, but nobody was mad, 38:01 nobody blew up or was angry, you know? 38:05 I mean my dad was totally objective. 38:08 He was the kind, you make your bed, you lie in it, you know? 38:12 And so these are the rules and if you break them, 38:14 this will happen, so there's consequences. 38:17 You know there was one good thing. 38:19 I think it's good for all the homes... 38:21 It'd be good for my own home and especially 38:23 when you have kids in it. 38:24 It's that mom and dad had differences at times, 38:29 but they would never discuss the differences 38:32 when we were around. 38:34 You notice that, my dad would say sometime, 38:36 "We'll talk about later, honey." 38:38 Yeah. We wish they would. 38:39 We would think we're making inroads 38:41 and could have got in to do whatever but whatever 38:44 one says, "No," the other one, "I absolutely said no." 38:48 So there was no like, "Well, I'll go see mom." 38:51 In fact if you did that, you got in big trouble. 38:53 Oh, yeah, you got in worst trouble. 38:55 Yeah. Yeah. 38:56 But yeah, they set such a good example for us and I, 39:01 you know, of course there wasn't perfect to is but 39:04 I sometimes as you said about once every few months 39:08 I drive by the house on Warden Street. 39:10 Well, we'll have to meet on Warden Street. 39:12 We'll have to meet on Warden Street. 39:13 We'll have to meet, and I get tears in my eyes. 39:14 But you know, we thought we had such a huge backyard 39:17 and everything and it looks like a postage stamp now. 39:19 I don't know what happened. 39:20 We had a big hill that we thought 39:22 if we went down on the bike that it was just 39:24 the most scary thing, 39:25 and either the mind has settled it 39:27 or we were fantasizing because it's just 39:29 a little bitty right now. 39:30 Maybe you as a little girl thought, 39:31 I don't think the hills scared us 39:33 but we did everything up and down that hill. 39:35 Yes. 39:37 You talked about going back 39:38 and looking at the old home play place. 39:40 Well... 39:41 If you remember I even bought it. 39:42 You bought it. 39:44 I bought it for a few years, yeah. 39:45 And I loved it because you had it. 39:47 You know and it's really whenever you felt 39:49 like that you was going through something 39:51 and the world was caving in, 39:53 you start looking back to where you were happiest, 39:57 you know? 39:58 And it took me back to the old house. 40:00 Okay, very good. 40:02 So now instead of looking back, 40:03 we can look forward that's going to be my 40:06 intro to what a day that will be. 40:08 I think we can try it. 40:10 Now who sings a melody, Kenny or me or do we know here, Tim? 40:14 We have to figure out a key. 40:16 I think Kenny does it. 40:25 There is coming a day 40:29 When no heart aches shall come 40:34 No more clouds in the sky 40:38 No more tears to dim the eye 40:42 All is peace forever more 40:47 On that happy golden shore 40:51 What a day, glorious day 40:55 That it will be 41:00 What a day that will be 41:04 When my Jesus I shall see 41:08 And I look upon His face 41:12 The One who saved me by His grace 41:17 When He takes me by the hand 41:21 And leads me through that Promised Land 41:26 What a day, glorious day 41:30 That will be 41:35 There'll be no sorrow there 41:39 No more burdens to bear 41:44 No more sickness, no pain 41:48 No more parting over there 41:52 And forever 41:54 I will be With the One 41:58 who died for me 42:01 What a day, glorious day 42:05 That will be 42:09 What a day that will be 42:14 When my Jesus I shall see 42:18 And I look upon His face 42:23 The One who saved me by His grace 42:27 When He takes me by the hand 42:31 And leads me through that Promised Land 42:36 What a day, glorious day 42:40 That will be 42:45 What a day, glorious day 42:50 That will be 42:59 We only have a few more minutes, 43:01 but maybe we could get in another song. 43:03 But I think maybe right now, Kenny, 43:05 why don't you look to the folks at home. 43:07 There's somebody watching this program. 43:09 Maybe they're looking back in a time in their life, 43:11 which was the best time they feel like. 43:14 But we got to let him know that, well, that's great. 43:17 The future is much better. 43:19 What are you saying in few minutes to folks at home? 43:21 Yeah. 43:22 You know, as we sang that song, 43:23 what a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see. 43:28 That is our hope. 43:30 That's our encouragement. 43:31 I believe in this world that we're living in today. 43:34 You know, I see people on here and people being depressed. 43:37 They're taking their own lives. 43:40 They're not sure what direction to go. 43:43 They're looking for answers. 43:45 And, you know, I thank God 3ABN 43:47 is out there because they're providing answers 43:49 based on the Word of God. 43:51 But we're talking about serious situations, 43:54 serious problems in the world 43:57 and God gives us answers from His Word. 43:59 If we would just go to it and just simply say, 44:02 "What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see." 44:05 I've often said to myself, "If I miss heaven, 44:09 number one, it'll be because I've chosen. 44:12 Jesus has done everything possible for me to be there. 44:16 There's no reason." 44:18 All of heaven would be emptied for you if you're in trouble, 44:20 all of heaven will be emptied 44:22 if you'll just call on the name of Jesus. 44:24 But your purpose for being here, 44:27 and so many missed in this world 44:29 and maybe I missed it for a long time. 44:31 And now I think God's given me insight. 44:34 If you miss heaven, Kenny, 44:35 you've missed your purpose for being here. 44:38 There's no other reason for any of us to go through this mess. 44:41 If this world, you know, if this is all it has to offer, 44:46 it's a sad thing to play on mankind 44:49 and God wouldn't do that. 44:50 There's got to be more. 44:52 I realized as a very young person, 44:54 every time we'd go to church and we'd come home, 44:56 I kept thinking, "There must be something more. 44:58 There must be something more than just, you know, 45:01 Sunday morning you get up and mom starts doing 45:02 the laundry and da-da." 45:04 There is something more and let me encourage you with that. 45:07 Jesus is the more. 45:09 He says, "I'm coming back and I want to take you home." 45:12 So I just encourage each and every one of you right now, 45:15 make that decision. 45:16 It's a decision you will never, ever regret. 45:20 Please, don't put it off. It's not for tomorrow. 45:23 It's not next week, not next year. 45:24 It's right now, and you'll never be sorry that you did. 45:28 We need His blood. 45:29 We need the victory that He gives us each and every day. 45:32 And I look forward when Jesus will come. 45:34 You know why, bro, because this world's not my home. 45:37 All right. I think I finally learned that. 45:40 It's not my home. I'm just passing through it. 45:43 Is that's something we could sing? 45:44 Yes. 45:46 All right, I think we'll try it. 45:55 This world is not my home 45:59 I'm just passing through 46:02 My treasures are laid up 46:05 Somewhere beyond the blue 46:08 The angels beckon me 46:11 From Heaven's open door 46:14 And I can't feel at home 46:17 In this world anymore 46:21 O Lord you know 46:23 I have no friend like you 46:27 If Heaven's not my home 46:30 Then Lord what will I do? 46:33 The angels beckon me 46:36 From Heaven's open door 46:39 And I can't feel at home 46:42 In this world anymore 46:46 Over in Glory Land we'll live eternally 46:52 The Saints on every hand are shouting 46:56 victory Their song of sweetest praise 47:01 Drifts back from Heaven's shore 47:04 And I can't feel at home 47:07 In this world anymore 47:11 O Lord you know 47:14 I have no friend like you 47:17 If Heaven's not my home 47:20 Then Lord what will I do? 47:23 The angels beckon me 47:27 From Heaven's open door 47:29 And I can't feel at home 47:32 In this world anymore 47:36 And I can't feel at home 47:39 In this world anymore 47:49 Okay, well, we did. 47:51 I may have to sit down again on that one. Okay. 47:54 Good job. You know what? 47:55 I'm thinking right now. 47:57 Tim doesn't have a microphone, 47:59 so it doesn't give him chance to say very much, 48:01 and I'm not going to share it this time. 48:03 But I'd like you to play through that one, 48:05 just play through. 48:06 Give us a really good old Southern Gospel feel to that. 48:09 Anything you want anywhere you want, it's yours. 49:09 All right. Praise the Lord. 49:12 No tell him if he would have practiced first. 49:14 Well, he missed two keys. 49:15 I mean, he didn't make bad... 49:16 I don't mean he hit bad notes. 49:18 It just there's two keys out of what 88 that you didn't hit. 49:20 You only hit like 87. 49:23 What was that you just said? 49:25 Eight six, sorry, I can't count very good. 49:27 What was that you just said about 49:29 putting an ad in the paper to find a piano player. 49:31 No, I repent. 49:33 We'll keep Tim. Amen. 49:34 No honestly, it's an... Thank you. 49:37 Honestly, it's an incredible gift that God has given him. 49:40 Oh, unbelievable. 49:41 And we were talking about earlier, Kenny, 49:43 what you were saying is Tim just... 49:45 He didn't get where he is by just sitting at home 49:48 and reading the paper, right? 49:50 It's not that that's always bad, 49:52 but I'm saying the gift that you have 49:54 God gave it to you, but, you know, 49:56 anything that we do we can get better at. 49:59 In other words, what we're doing 50:00 and so like your first sermon, you probably hear 50:03 your first sermon you guys you might shudder 50:05 a little bit and think, "Did I really? 50:06 Was that me?" 50:08 I heard just a few years ago, four or five years ago 50:12 Kay Kuzma sent me 50:13 when I was at ASI in 1985 in Big Sky Montana. 50:17 First time ever I went anywhere and they never heard of ASI. 50:21 And so they were there and ended up 50:23 that they asked me to speak Friday afternoon. 50:26 Not because they'd scheduled me or plan on me 50:28 but there was 7500 feet or so up in the mountains 50:32 and it was raining and pouring and so they had few 100 people. 50:35 And so finally, somebody had heard about 50:38 what we were getting ready to do. 50:40 We were so new, I think you were just pouring 50:42 concrete on the floor of the big building, 50:45 of the uplink building. 50:47 And so we were there 50:49 and I'm going to get 50:52 all just up here. 50:53 It's all right now. Take your time. 50:55 I'm going to go back just to the goodness of God. 50:59 We're there and I want to go back for just a moment, Kenny, 51:02 because what you were saying earlier about what we do, 51:05 and what we for the honor and glory of God, 51:08 and how God blesses. 51:09 And I had no idea and it just hit me, 51:11 I thought about May Chung. 51:13 And when I met her for the first time that people 51:16 didn't understand we were saying, 51:17 "Well the Lord's impressed me to build 51:19 a television station to reach the world." 51:21 And they're like, "Oh, yeah, whatever." 51:23 May Chung's like, "Can you come to my room? 51:25 I want to hear about this." 51:27 As soon as we did, she said, "This is of the Lord. 51:30 I'm going to support it." 51:31 And literally from that moment on, 51:33 then Kay Kuzma got involved, other people got involved, 51:36 McKees got involved. 51:38 And this thing began to grow and begin to grow 51:40 and begin to grow. 51:41 And I'm so amazed by that because 51:46 when I listened to... 51:47 Kay Kuzma sent me the tape that they asked me to sing. 51:52 She sent me the tape and said, "This is your talk at ASI." 51:57 Now 30 some years ago, 30 plus years ago, 52:01 and when I listened to it, I'm like, 52:04 "I wouldn't give to me." 52:06 I mean, it was so terrible. 52:08 I mean, it was not like you get up and you can sing 52:11 and you can do, but God blesses us in spite of us. 52:15 And so what did hit me, well, we may feel like 52:17 we got a better delivery now or we hope to have it. 52:20 But it's not really about the delivery. 52:22 It's who's delivering it. 52:23 That's the Holy Spirit's delivering it into the hearts 52:26 and the minds of the people. 52:28 That makes all the difference in the world, 52:29 but I can go back. 52:31 You talked about, Ronnie, going back to your home 52:33 and bringing tears to your eyes, 52:35 I'm that way when I look back over some 52:37 of these miracles that sometimes even by myself. 52:41 I can sit around at night and I think, you know, 52:43 God had this all planned. 52:45 Yes. 52:46 And I want you to think about, 52:47 right now God has your life planned. 52:49 Yes, He does. And even today, we got a call. 52:52 I got two calls literally one back to back. 52:55 Someone said, "My son is on drugs. 52:59 He's having a hard go and hard time. 53:02 Will you pray for him." 53:03 That's such an honor to somebody to call you 53:04 and say, "Can you pray with me and join hands with me?" 53:08 And then someone called me that we had... 53:11 Yvonne and I had met two years ago. 53:13 We've only met her one time. 53:16 It was in the Bahamas but every now 53:18 and then we talk or we text back and forth. 53:21 And I got a call and said, I was surprised 53:24 I haven't heard from her in many, 53:26 many months, maybe a year. 53:27 And said, "My husband asked me to call you." 53:32 Now, I've hardly talked to the husband at all and, 53:36 you know, from the background I assumed 53:39 he wasn't a Christian and what have you, 53:40 but he said, "Call Danny." 53:45 And why call Danny, 53:47 not because of Danny because she said 53:50 he saw Yvonne and I 53:52 and he knew I'm trying to say this as delicately as I can. 53:56 But Jesus working through us that he right now there's some 54:00 bad reports that he could be getting. 54:02 And so they've already got some and so he wanted prayer. 54:07 And I said, "What a privilege that is." 54:09 See, God knows each and every one of our lives, 54:12 and He knew us before the foundation of the world. 54:16 And so right now you may be going through some terrible 54:18 things in your life. 54:20 We all like to look back as Ronnie said, 54:23 but I think we more want to look 54:25 forward because when we look forward, 54:28 we find this world is not our home. 54:30 We are just passing through. 54:32 Can I share something really quick? 54:33 The little girl that works for me, 54:36 it's serious home life that she came from, 54:39 very sweet little girl. 54:41 She talked to her mom the other day and her mom said... 54:45 She said, "I don't know 54:47 why I got some books in the mail from the 3ABN." 54:50 She knows that that's what we do and everything. 54:53 And I said, "Did she throw them away because that's kind 54:56 of what I thought?" 54:58 And she said, "No, she's reading it every night." 55:00 And she said, "This book," she said, "I really like it. 55:03 There's three of them." 55:04 And she said, "It's from a guy named Danny Shelton." 55:08 And Alexa said, "Mom, that's Tammy's brother." 55:11 And she said, "You're kidding." 55:14 And so now you've planted the seed through those books, 55:17 she's reading them every night. 55:18 And she got on the phone with me and she said, 55:20 "You know what? 55:21 Some of what that says really makes sense to me." 55:23 Good. All right. 55:26 God has your life planned from the beginning 55:28 and He has something special for you. 55:31 John 10:10, "The thief cometh not but for to steal, 55:34 kill and destroy," but Jesus says, 55:37 "I'm come that you may have life and have life abundantly." 55:40 We're blessed. 55:41 If we died today, we've all hit, 55:43 and Tammy is not quite there to us, 55:44 the rest of us have hit our 70s. 55:46 So every day is a bonus. 55:48 You know, it's a gift and, but God has something planned 55:52 no matter how old or how young you are. 55:54 So we're asking today for you to consider 55:57 if you haven't already 55:58 asked Jesus into your heart in your life today. 56:01 Say Lord, please forgive me for my sins. 56:03 I'm a sinner. 56:05 And you've said, the Bible says, Jesus says, 56:08 "If you confess your sins, 56:10 He's faithful and just to forgive us from our sins 56:13 and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 56:15 So we can by faith, we won't instantly be perfect. 56:18 We will when we see Jesus, but we'll be struggling. 56:21 We're going through this process of sanctification. 56:24 But you know what? God will be there. 56:26 He's going to take your burden in a time 56:28 when the world is so messed up. 56:30 You turn on the news and you see 56:31 not only Coronavirus but all the things that's happening, 56:34 you say, "Lord Jesus, come quickly. 56:37 Lord Jesus, come quickly because this world 56:40 just can't go on much longer." 56:43 So today is the day of salvation. 56:45 So I'm going to ask Tammy to just say a short prayer. 56:47 We got a few seconds and for those at home, 56:50 for those that need Jesus, they'll accept Him today. 56:52 Yes. 56:54 Lord, thank You for this opportunity that You 56:56 have given us to minister to others 56:58 and for others to minister to us. 57:00 And, Lord, we pray that You would impress 57:02 anyone that is watching this that Jesus is what they need. 57:07 There is no other hope on earth but Jesus, 57:10 and He gave His life for us. 57:12 And He is taking care of us every minute of every day. 57:16 He has our lives mapped out. 57:18 Sometimes we think we know more than Him, 57:20 but we don't because He can count every hair on our head. 57:24 And He knows what it is that we should do 57:27 and we have to depend on Him. 57:29 Lord, there's nothing else in this world to depend on. 57:31 Thank You again for this opportunity. 57:33 Be with each and everyone that is viewing this program 57:36 and touch their hearts in Jesus' name. 57:38 Amen. |
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