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00:04 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:24 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:57 ♪ ♪ 01:07 Welcome to another 3ABN Today program. Thank you for joining 01:11 us as you do each and every day. (Danny Shelton) I'm so glad to 01:13 be sitting here today with my great friend and buddy, 01:17 Mr. Tim Parton. 01:18 It's a delight to see you too friend. 01:20 Oh, I'll tell you what. It's been a while since we sat down like 01:23 this to the piano and had the microphone. So today you pray 01:29 for us and we'll pray for you but we're going to do a little 01:32 bit of music and then after we do a song or so here we have a 01:36 special guest today. I almost can't wait till we do it. Maybe 01:39 we'll hurry through the song because we have a special guest 01:42 that you're going to know. 01:43 He's worth waiting for. 01:45 He is and that you'll love and so we're going to be talking 01:47 about gospel music today. So call your friends, your enemies, 01:51 everybody. Tell them, say tune in to 3ABN. It's going to be a 01:55 great program. The reason we know, we've already prayed and 01:58 asked the Holy Spirit for His anointing to be here today. 02:01 So if you're looking for a blessing, you'll find one. 02:04 Now don't necessarily look how good we sing or play or how good 02:08 looking or not we are but if you're looking for a blessing 02:10 I promise you, and you open your heart to God when this program's 02:15 over you'll feel better than you did when we started. How do I 02:18 know? Because I'm expecting that blessing too. 02:20 And you know why? Because I think all of us have encountered 02:24 the goodness of God. I mean I know I have in my life. So I 02:29 think that we all have that in common and we can always look at 02:34 His goodness in our lives and we can sing along and appreciate 02:38 everything and might really appreciate these first two songs 02:43 especially because they talk about God being good and how He 02:47 watches us and cares for us. 02:50 Absolutely. When I was very young my mom used to sing a song 02:55 and you probably know it...Now we want you at home if you know 02:59 these songs sing with us. If you don't just lip-sync and act like 03:02 you know what you're doing. But why don't we do I Trust in God? 03:06 Okay. Did your mom sing this song? 03:08 Yeah, she used to sing this. 03:11 Okay. ♪ ♪ 03:15 ♪ I trust in God wherever I may be ♪ 03:23 ♪ Upon the land or on the rolling sea ♪ 03:34 ♪ Oh come what may from day to day ♪ 03:45 ♪ My heavenly Father watches over me ♪ 03:54 ♪ I trust in God Oh I know He cares for me ♪ 04:05 ♪ On mountain bleak or on the rolling sea ♪ 04:16 ♪ Though billows roll He keeps, He keeps my soul ♪ 04:25 ♪ My heavenly Father watches over me ♪ 04:33 Listen to this verse. 04:36 ♪ He makes the rose an object of His care ♪ 04:44 ♪ He guides the eagle through the pathless air ♪ 04:53 And guess what? 04:54 ♪ And surely He, He remembers me 05:05 ♪ My heavenly Father watches over you and me ♪ 05:12 Sing it with me now 05:15 ♪ I trust in God I know me cares for me ♪ 05:23 ♪ On mountain bleak or on the rolling sea ♪ 05:31 Ah come on 05:33 ♪ Though billows roll He keeps my soul ♪ 05:43 ♪ Oh my heavenly Father watches over me ♪ 05:53 ♪ My heavenly Father watches over, ♪ 06:00 he watches over ♪ You and me, and me ♪ 06:09 Mmm, Praise the Lord. He's watching over you today. He 06:12 loves you. He died for you. He made a plan of salvation for you 06:15 He's coming back very soon in the clouds of glory to claim His 06:21 redeemed from all around the planet earth. Exciting time to 06:24 be alive isn't it? (Amen) Sorry I kind of break up a little bit 06:27 I think about my mother singing that song. She used to sing it 06:29 and she used to put her heart into that. And I do. The 06:33 words mean a whole lot more to me now. We're getting older Tim. 06:36 But the message never gets old. 06:38 In fact it gets dearer for the fact that again He's just 06:45 faithful to each of us and to know that someone who cares is 06:47 watching over us. There's a song I enjoy. It's along that same 06:53 line that talks about the very same thing. 07:00 All right. I like it already. 07:03 ♪ God takes real good care of me Every day is good as I can see ♪ 07:16 ♪ I serve Him with gladness, I have no regrets ♪ 07:25 ♪ For He walks beside me. Why should I worry ♪ 07:30 ♪ and why should I fret? Faith in my heart to ♪ 07:35 ♪ strengthen every day ♪ His guiding light ♪ 07:41 ♪ to guide each step of the way. To God, I can pray ♪ 07:46 ♪ His goodness and His mercy every day is mine ♪ 07:50 ♪ And I can call on Jesus any time ♪ 07:54 ♪ You see God takes good care of me ♪ 08:01 ♪ Oh, every morning, noon or night ♪ 08:04 ♪ He's taking good care of me And I'll praise His name ♪ 08:10 ♪ throughout eternity ♪ 08:15 ♪ He solves every problem that I ever met ♪ 08:21 ♪ So I'm going to trust Him ♪ 08:26 ♪ I ain't a gonna worry and I'm not about to fret ♪ 08:30 ♪ My wonderful friend keeps a watching over me ♪ 08:36 ♪ Through trouble and care He'll take great care of me ♪ 08:41 ♪ Though there's lots of trouble in the world today ♪ 08:46 ♪ He's never been too busy to hear me when I pray ♪ 08:50 ♪ You see God takes good care of me ♪ 08:56 ♪ My heavenly Father watches over you and me ♪ 09:08 ♪ Oh yeah, God takes great care of we ♪ 09:21 Beautiful. Boy if that doesn't get you encouraged and happy 09:24 I had to stand up here a while ago. I'll need to stand up again 09:27 maybe run around a little bit. Get some of this joy of the Lord 09:30 There's nothing like the goodness of God to get a man 09:35 going. Absolutely 09:36 Thank you so much for that song. That's a pretty old song, right? 09:39 That's an old Henry Slaughter tune. The Statesmen used to sing 09:42 it. That's one of those old quartets, you know the Statesmen 09:46 Speaking of quartets. Not so very old. You did a great job. 09:52 But gospel music goes back a long way. But I 09:57 look at some of we're 09:58 going to call it the founders of southern gospel music herein 10:01 the United States of America that started comes from a family 10:05 and I'm going to introduce right now Mr. Billy Blackwood. So 10:10 y'all heard of the Blackwood Brothers, I'm sure. If you 10:12 haven't you been hiding under a bushel somewhere for many 10:16 years. (It's been a long time) Billy, it's so good to 10:18 have you here today? 10:20 Danny, great to be here with you and with Tim. 10:22 We're having fun already. 10:23 I can tell. I can tell. Let me in on it. 10:25 We're enjoying it. So absolutely So it's so great to have...Now 10:31 Billy some of you've seen him. You guys did a program together 10:34 right? We did it over in the sound center actually. 10:39 Billy Blackwood and Friends and so how you been watching that. 10:43 But Billy we're going to talk in a little bit. I want you to sing 10:45 something first though. You got a book here and it's a great 10:50 book. I've been reading it. And for me to stay on something, my 10:53 mind's like a kid. It's got to keep my attention. So far I'm 10:59 having a hard time putting it down to do others. The Gospel 11:02 Music Life. The Gospel Music Live. It's an autobiography 11:05 of Billy Blackwood. So we're going to get to go back a little 11:08 bit today and find out about the dad and aunts or uncles and 11:12 all who back and the Blackwood's started about when? (1934) 11:18 1934 11:19 Before you and I discovered America. It's older than you. 11:24 Just a little bit. 11:25 It is older than me, at least a few years. But anyway we're 11:30 going to find out about that and your latest project that you 11:31 been up to. So right now maybe we going to... 11:34 Which one you want to do? 11:36 Let's do Without Him first. This is a great old...I love some of 11:38 the old classic songs. This is one of my favorites. Written by 11:42 Mylon LeFevre. 11:46 On the last chorus Tim me and you'll do just a little bit with 11:47 him. Let him do the...we'll jump in a little bit. It's hard not 11:50 to sing this song, you know. 11:52 ♪ ♪ Great song. 12:00 ♪ Without Him I could do nothing Without Him I'd surely fail ♪ 12:18 ♪ Without Him I would be drifting ♪ 12:27 ♪ Like a ship without a sail ♪ 12:37 ♪ Jesus, Oh Jesus Do you know Him today ♪ 12:50 ♪ Please don't turn Him away ♪ Oh Jesus, my Jesus ♪ 13:06 ♪ Without Him how lost I would be ♪ 13:17 ♪ ♪ 13:22 ♪ Without Him I would be dying and without Him I'd be enslaved♪ 13:40 ♪ Without Him I would be hopeless ♪ 13:48 ♪ But with Jesus Oh thank God I'm saved ♪ 13:59 If you know this chorus help us sing. 14:00 ♪ Jesus, Oh Jesus Do you know Him today ♪ 14:13 ♪ Please don't turn Him away ♪ 14:19 ♪ Oh Jesus my Jesus ♪ 14:28 ♪ Without Him how lost I would be ♪ 14:59 Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. 15:01 Hope today you're not without Him. 15:04 Amen. I love that song. 15:05 Many, many years...Wasn't Mylon wasn't he really young when he 15:11 wrote that? 15:13 Seventeen years old. 15:14 Seventeen years old. You know it's kind of like some of these 15:16 songs, oh, Surely the Presence and some of these that reminds 15:22 me that style of song, the Lanny Wolfe type. You go back to those 15:26 and just some of those beautiful songs. And it talks about just 15:31 literally our relationship because what we all...and this 15:35 what I think people talk about who's smart and who's not and 15:38 all this people. To me intelligence is understanding 15:43 who we are and who God is. So we have to ask God, hey Lord 15:46 help us understand who we are. Before we can trust you we got 15:49 to know who you are. And when you read his word and you begin 15:52 to pray and you see God literally every path that you 15:56 go through...when He wants you to go through those doors He 15:59 opens them. You don't have to fight them and knock them down. 16:01 And you know that you can trust in a God and then no matter what 16:05 you go through that literally in life without Jesus Christ 16:08 as Lord and Savior of your life you're just like a ship without 16:11 a sail. And if you're out in the ocean or even a big lake you 16:16 have a sail. They didn't have motors back a long time ago but 16:21 you're out in the ocean without a sail, you're in trouble, big 16:26 trouble. So I love it. Jesus, Jesus. 16:29 You know Danny as you're talking it just comes to me that there 16:34 are probably people watching today who feel like their boat 16:39 is out in the middle of the lake and they're without a sail. You 16:42 know if that's you today, that was my life at one period and I 16:47 just want to let you know God loves you, He has a plan for 16:51 your life. I tell people all the time, Jesus is the most exciting 16:54 person you'll ever meet. He's the best friend you'll ever have 16:57 and He's the only Savior you'll ever need. And so today if your 17:00 boat is adrift and maybe your life is adrift and you can't 17:03 find the shore with both hands we got the answer. His name is 17:07 Jesus. He gives us peace. He gives us direction, He gives us 17:10 everything we need for life and godliness. So we hope you know 17:13 Him today. That's why we're here to share with you. 17:16 Absolutely. We're going to do maybe another song or so but 17:18 then we want to talk a little it about some of your background 17:21 and your book. Who's on next Tim? 17:23 What would you like to do? Would you, you want to sing 17:26 another one now that you're warmed up. 17:28 Sure let's do that I'd Rather... This is an old song. I grew up 17:32 watching Dr. Billy Graham in those crusades and seeing 17:36 you know hundreds and thousands of people come to Christ. One of 17:38 my favorite parts of the crusade was to hear George Beverly Shea. 17:42 (Oh yeah) sing that big baritone voice and Bev Shea and my dad 17:45 were contemporaries and they were friends. I didn't know Bev 17:50 Shea but I certainly you know watched him sing, heard him sing 17:52 This was one of the songs he used to sing on the Billy Graham 17:56 crusades and as I've lived a little life now, no comment, 18:03 no comment. As I've lived a little life and I've tried a lot 18:06 of things in the world, we'll talk about that in my book in 18:09 just a little bit. But I tried a lot of things the world has to 18:12 offer I found out that there's nothing that can take the place 18:15 of a relationship with Jesus Christ. We are created, we are 18:19 born with a hole in our heart and we might try to stuff 18:23 everything in the world...You might try to stuff everything 18:25 in the world in that hole to fill it. It doesn't matter what 18:28 you put in there, it's in the shape of Jesus and until you 18:31 plug Him into that hole you're going to search until you find 18:34 Him, but you can find Him today. And so I want to sing this old 18:37 Bev Shea song and hope that you enjoy it as I do. Let the words 18:42 mean to you what they meant to the writer and what they mean to 18:45 me as I sing them. Listen. 18:47 ♪ ♪ 18:54 ♪ I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold ♪ 19:02 ♪ I'd rather be His than have riches untold ♪ 19:14 ♪ I rather have Jesus than houses or lands ♪ 19:22 ♪ I'd rather be led by His nail-pierced hand ♪ 19:34 ♪ Than to be a king of avast domain ♪ 19:43 ♪ And be held in sin's dread sway ♪ 19:54 ♪ I'd rather have Jesus than anything ♪ 20:02 ♪ This world affords today ♪ 20:14 ♪ ♪ 20:18 ♪ And I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause ♪ 20:26 ♪ I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause ♪ 20:37 ♪ I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame ♪ 20:44 ♪ I'd rather be true to His holy name ♪ 20:54 ♪ Than to be a king of a vast domain ♪ 21:05 ♪ And be held in sin's dread sway ♪ 21:15 ♪ I'd rather have Jesus that anything ♪ 21:23 ♪ this world affords today ♪ 21:36 ♪ This world affords today ♪ 21:54 Amen, beautiful. I mean that's a mouthful really. 22:00 That's a mouthful. 22:02 That's a mouthful when you say I'd rather have Him than you 22:04 know than literally all the wealth and you're talking about 22:06 all the things this world has to offer. I mean, you grew up in a 22:11 family, you could have gone about any direction you wanted 22:13 because of the music of the Blackwood brothers. In fact you 22:17 started heading in some directions and I'm sure in your 22:19 life you look at Billy and you say well you can tell he's born 22:22 with a silver spoon in his mouth He never had a problem in his 22:25 life. Everything has just been, my mom used to say, hunky-dory 22:29 whatever that means. It was good whatever that meant at the time. 22:32 So hope it's nothing that somebody's offended about. 22:35 That's what I'm used to. So but when you look at your life 22:41 everybody on earth we each have to make our own decisions. So 22:45 you grew up a little bit. Tell us a little bit about the 22:47 Blackwood Brothers, where they started and a little bit about 22:50 them. Your dad and the rest of them and then... 22:52 Yeah well for folks who don't know about our family 22:54 my dad and his two older brothers and a nephew started 22:57 singing together down in Mississippi out in the middle of 23:00 nowhere Mississippi. That's not a town on the map. They were 23:03 literally out in the sticks about nine miles from the 23:06 nearest town which was the county seat. But they started 23:10 singing together. Realized that they had a blend in their 23:13 voices which is true of like you and your brother sang and the 23:17 Gatlin Brothers and the Mandrell Sisters you know and groups like 23:22 that. There's a familial blend and a dynamic that happens 23:26 vocally when there's family singing together and the 23:28 Blackwood Brothers realized they had that. My dad was 15 when 23:32 they said let's make a career out of this. They had grown up 23:34 as sharecroppers, the poorest of the poor, you know, farming 23:38 somebody else's land for a share of the crop. Living in a little 23:42 shack on that land that they didn't own. They didn't own the 23:44 land, they didn't own the farm implements, they didn't own the 23:46 mule, they didn't own nothing. But when they found out they 23:50 could sing they saw an opportunity to get out of the 23:51 cotton fields of Mississippi. 23:55 Absolutely. Smart, 15 years old. 23:56 Fifteen. My dad was 15. His brother was older than he, quite 23:58 a bit older but his nephew R.W. was two years his junior. And 24:02 they started singing together and eventually got on the radio 24:06 there, a local radio station, and then went to the capitol 24:09 of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi. Got a big deal 24:12 there singing on the radio there And one thing led to another. 24:15 In 1950 they based in Memphis, Tennessee and by that time had 24:21 built quite a following. They were on a major radio station 24:24 there in Memphis and were holding monthly concerts in the 24:29 city auditorium, the Ellis auditorium there in Memphis 24:32 Packed out the concert every month. They had guest groups 24:33 come and sing with them. But they really kind of hit their 24:36 stride in the early 50s. And there's a couple of kids that 24:42 grew up in that area that credit my dad and the Blackwood 24:46 Brothers as being major influences on them. One was a 24:48 young guy who was a truck driver there in Memphis... 24:52 That one that came in the back, tried to get in... 24:54 He did. He came in the back. Tried to get in the auditorium 24:55 because he didn't have enough money for the ticket. But Elvis 25:00 Presley was that young man and he was a big Blackwood Brothers 25:04 fan. His mom, that was his mom's favorite group. In fact, when 25:06 his mom passed away the group was traveling and singing 25:09 somewhere and Elvis and Vernon, his dad, chartered a plane to go 25:14 get my dad and the Blackwood Brothers to bring them to 25:16 Memphis to sing for her funeral. But he was one of the young 25:20 people that came up. There was another guy, his family were 25:23 farmers over in east Arkansas and he later did okay in music 25:28 and his name was Johnny Cash. He wrote my dad a letter...He 25:33 wrote a song called Over the Next Hill We'll Be Home years 25:35 later and my dad recorded it. So in the mail comes a letter to 25:39 my dad: Dear James, when I was a kid we were working in a 25:42 cotton field and we'd come in and take our lunch break to 25:46 listen to the Blackwood Brothers on WMPS radio. Never did I dream 25:50 that I would one day write a song that James Blackwood would 25:53 record. He said, of all the honors, or all the awards I've 25:55 ever won, this is the highest, this is the most. So the 25:58 Mandrell Sisters, Larry Gatlin said the first time he heard my 26:02 dad sing he said that's when I knew what I wanted to do. The 26:04 Statler Brothers when they were kids coming to the Blackwood 26:07 Brothers concerts and decided to form a group. So I mean just on 26:10 and on. The list is quite lengthy. Also in 1954, there was 26:17 a TV show...now you have to be at least as old as we are, maybe 26:19 a little older to know about this but a lot of folks know 26:22 about TV programs today like American Idol and You Can Be a 26:25 Star and those kinds of things. Well back then the program was 26:28 called Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. 26:29 Absolutely. Tim, you don't remember. 26:32 We watched that all the time, every week. 26:33 The Blackwood Brothers had the opportunity to be on in 1954 and 26:38 they won. So immediately while they had been kind of confined 26:44 to the south for most of their 20 years, by this point, 26:48 instantly all of America because everybody tuned in to the most 26:52 popular show on TV at the time. And everybody tuned in to see it 26:56 They saw what gospel quartet music was and so that catapulted 26:59 them to a new level. (absolutely) And again so that 27:04 was our background. That's what I kind of grew up in was that 27:06 kind of environment. 27:10 But just because you dad and your uncles and all were there 27:12 that doesn't necessarily mean the kids would have the talent 27:16 or the desire to do it. But it turned out so many of you did. 27:20 Right. Just about all the second generation did. 27:23 Yeah. And they all loved it and many of you spent your life, 27:27 much of your life, in gospel music so this is then the beat 27:31 goes on, the song goes on with the Blackwood Brothers. I'm 27:35 always amazed at that you know and so anyway in the book. We're 27:39 getting a little bit of that but we're going to find out a little 27:43 bit about your life because at some point you had to say well 27:47 even though my folks are this, my dad's doing all of this, you 27:52 had to come to the point to say Lord I really trust you. I want 27:55 you to be the Lord of my life. But I guess you tried a few 27:59 other things first. In fact, didn't you do some work with 28:02 Elvis in Vegas. 28:04 I did, I did. But I had traveled with the Blackwood Brothers when 28:05 I was just a teenager but, you know my story, Danny and Tim. 28:13 But I wanted to see what the world had to offer. Brought up 28:16 in a Christian home, you know, Christian family, gospel music 28:19 family. But I just wanted to see what was out there. And 28:25 because of my association with a lot of these people and like you 28:29 mentioned Elvis, I remember as a kid. This was back before cell 28:34 phones. I'd know it was my dad on the phone and he'd hang up 28:37 and he'd say, that was Elvis, he wants us to, he wants me to call 28:40 the guys and go out to Graceland and sing because gospel music 28:43 was his favorite kind of music. Now he was called the king of 28:46 rock 'n roll but his love was gospel music. And he would call 28:49 my dad and the Blackwood Brothers would go out there and 28:52 stand, you know, sit at the piano till three in the morning 28:54 while he plucked some chords. He was no Tim Parton that's for 28:57 sure but Elvis would pluck some chords on the piano and they'd 29:00 sing gospel music because that's what he really loved. And he 29:04 always gospel groups opening the concerts for him. And one of 29:08 those young men was Donny Sumner who's uncle J.D. had sung base 29:13 with the Blackwood Brothers and now had the Stamps Quartet and 29:16 they were singing with Elvis and Donny started a group, got the 29:18 job opening for Elvis and called me and said, Hey we need a 29:22 drummer and I was a drummer. He said would you like to join us? 29:24 And I said well let me think about it, yeah! So I was 20 29:29 years old and I got to join the Elvis show. We opened the show 29:32 in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe and on tour. And I stayed there for 29:37 almost two years. It didn't take me that long though to figure 29:41 out that all the glitters isn't gold. And Danny, I was way in 29:46 over my head. People ask me about that part of my life 29:50 because a lot of folks know the headline of that. But they don't 29:56 know the detail that I would love to have a do-over on those 30:00 two years because I wasn't walking with the Lord, I wasn't 30:01 living for the Lord. I had no testimony worth anything. And 30:07 I would love to have a do-over on that. But God was gracious. 30:12 I found out that God is a forgiving God, God's a redeeming 30:18 God, God's a restoring God, He's a relational God. It's not all 30:25 rules and regulations. It's about relationship. And when I 30:30 had the relationship with Him that He desires most everything 30:34 else kind of comes along with that. It's a...You know that. 30:38 But I did, I deviated, but God graciously restored me to my 30:44 walk with Him and I got back into gospel music and been doing 30:47 it ever since. Spent all these years now in music ministry. 30:51 The book came about because of a lot of the things we've just 30:55 been talking about and here's the point. I'm going to go ahead 30:58 and let you in on the back page, the last page of the story. 31:03 The book is just a hook, the book is a tool because a lot of 31:07 people who may never darken a church door, they know the name 31:11 Elvis Presley, they know the name Johnny Cash, they know the 31:13 Statler Brothers and the Mandrells and the Gatlins and 31:17 all and their interest will be piqued by association with that 31:22 and with just the story of my family. It's an interesting 31:25 story. (Yes) But when they get to the end of the book the plan 31:31 of salvation is there, the redeeming grace of God is there. 31:35 And so I encourage you...I mean a lot of people just enjoy the 31:39 story as a believer. It'll be encouraging to you. But if you 31:43 know someone who doesn't know Christ this book, A Gospel Music 31:47 Life will tell you all the story I've just told you plus a lot 31:51 About 150, 200 pages. 31:54 Yeah, about 190. But a lot of pictures (good read) I put a lot 32:00 pictures in there for people like me who like to not just 32:02 read but like to see just all kinds of historical pictures 32:05 of my career through the days. And all of the Blackwood 32:08 Brothers history. Our whole group history is in there as 32:10 well. So... 32:12 And there's something else beside it here. 32:13 Yeah there's something else beside it here. This is a 32:15 companion CD. It's called Billy Blackwood and Friends and 32:18 somebody's that really close to you is on here with me. (Yeah) 32:21 Yvonne and I do a duet on here of the old hymn In the Garden. 32:25 But a couple of songs that I've done for you today, Without Him 32:29 and I'd Rather Have Jesus are both on here. But a lot of old 32:33 classics and a couple of newer songs as well. But you'll love 32:36 both of those, the book and the CD. 32:38 You know it's not just your talent that I'm thrilled to... 32:44 I love hearing you sing. There's an anointing on you. But it's 32:47 the testimony, finding out where you started and where you are 32:53 today. And so when you're singing I'd Rather Have Jesus 32:56 you mean it. That's worth everything. 32:58 That's why that song means so much to me. I mean I grew up 33:02 hearing it in a special, because it's a special song, ah you know 33:09 when you've tasted what the world has to offer and you've 33:15 been in those circles and you've been in those places and you've 33:19 witnessed that I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame. I'd 33:24 rather be true to His holy name. I'd rather be led by His nail 33:27 scared hand. Those things... those are not just great lyrics 33:31 it's not just a great song that's real life to me (tearful) 33:36 That's precious, absolutely precious. Tim. 33:42 What I love is the commitment to a ministry. I think that's 33:48 wonderful that...You know, I'm still a young guy. But I haven't 33:57 I mean I've been in the business for a long time. We've had the 34:02 privilege of performing on the same stages together but I love 34:06 the fact that you have been so faithful to the ministry and to 34:11 God and to encouraging and edifying and...That's a wonderful 34:17 gift. So I want to say thank you and I know you've been applauded 34:22 many, many, millions of times. But it's all about your 34:28 faithfulness, your commitment to God and His faithfulness to you. 34:33 For sure. 34:34 He is faithful. Even when we're faithless the word says He's 34:36 faithful. (Absolutely) 34:38 I think we need some music. 34:40 Okay well I think that I'd like to hear you sing a song. It's 34:44 called Leave It There. 34:47 My Aunt Lena May and my cousin Margaret, I remember when we were 34:53 kids, my brother and I were family of kids, we used to 34:57 listen to them sing. They didn't sing much. But they sang, the 35:01 only song I can really remember the two of them doing and it 35:05 really has stuck with me. I saw it recently somewhere. I thought 35:08 about it so I looked it up and I said I want to see if I got 35:11 all these words. So I just brought it up to Tim the other 35:13 day. We'll see if we can...It's called Leave It There. So I 35:16 don't know if you all know it. You can sing it with us. 35:22 ♪ If the world the world from you withholds ♪ 35:27 ♪ of its silver and its gold ♪ 35:29 I know that part 35:31 ♪ And you have to get along with meager fare ♪ 35:37 ♪ Just remember in His word how He feeds the little birds ♪ 35:48 ♪ So take your burden to the Lord and leave it there ♪ 35:57 Leave it there. 35:58 ♪ Leave it there, Oh, leave it there ♪ 36:05 ♪ Just take your burden to the Lord and leave it there ♪ 36:15 ♪ If you trust and never doubt ♪ 36:21 ♪ He will surely, he'll bring you out ♪ 36:25 ♪ Just take your burden to the Lord ♪ 36:29 ♪ And leave it there ♪ 36:33 Now this next verse, I'm learning this now. I'm 36:37 experiencing this. 36:39 ♪ When your youthful days are gone ♪ 36:43 ♪ And old age is stealing on ♪ Mmm. 36:48 ♪ And your body bends beneath the weight of care ♪ 36:53 ♪ He will never leave you then He'll go with you till the end ♪ 37:04 ♪ So take your burden to the Lord ♪ 37:09 ♪ And leave it there ♪ 37:16 ♪ Leave it there, leave it there ♪ 37:27 ♪ Take your burden ♪ or you can put an s on it if you want 37:28 ♪ And leave it there ♪ All of them. You can put all of them 37:31 there. 37:33 ♪ If you trust and never doubt ♪ 37:36 ♪ Oh He will surely, He'll surely bring you out. ♪ 37:41 ♪ Just take your burden to the Lord ♪ 37:45 ♪ And leave it there ♪ Billy 37:52 ♪ Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there ♪ 38:06 That's a neat old song, isn't it? (Yeah) Take your burden to 38:09 the Lord. I was thinking some people say well I got all these 38:11 burdens, you want to put an S but to God, it's all the same. 38:14 Your one burden or your 100 burdens. He's in charge of all 38:18 of it. As soon as you come to the foot of the cross and commit 38:21 your life to Him, guess what happens. That burden is lifted 38:25 from you, He takes it and He carries it. 38:28 I Peter says cast your care on Him because He cares for you. 38:30 You know, I've got a couple of songs that I need to do a little 38:36 dedication. So let me just say to the people the Washington 38:44 D.C. Alumni Association of the University of the Southern 38:48 Caribbean, that's the University of the Southern Caribbean. They 38:52 celebrating their 55th anniversary. (Congratulations) 38:56 Yeah right. Back in 1967 that was even before I was around. 39:01 Yeah, I was 16 or something then 39:05 So I love again the commitment to the education that they 39:14 started back then and then 55 years later, here it is 2022. I 39:18 know we're not supposed to maybe date our program but this is for 39:22 their special occasion and so I just want to play a couple of 39:27 songs for them. 39:28 You going to be a little bit of Caribbean music? 39:30 Well, you know what... 39:33 You can put a little of that beat in there I'm sure. 39:34 Well let me start with one, I'll warm up to it maybe, okay. 39:39 So here's a song that you'll recognize. 39:42 ♪ ♪ 40:19 I love this song. 40:20 ♪ ♪ 40:55 Changes style and tempo. 41:00 ♪ ♪ 41:24 ♪ I sing because I'm happy I sing because I'm free ♪ 41:39 ♪ His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me ♪ 41:54 ♪ Yes, I know He watches me ♪ 42:05 And you. 42:06 Yes, He does. 42:07 I love it. You know, I love watching him play because you 42:09 know what, you can tell he surprises himself. 42:11 Tim: Laugh out loud. 42:13 He's playing along and I can just tell all of a sudden like 42:14 he's like whoa I didn't even... That was pretty neat. 42:17 I want to tell you something about Tim. He'll shoot me for 42:20 saying this but we... 42:22 With a rubber band. 42:23 Yeah, with a rubber band. Yes. We'd been on concerts together 42:27 a group that Tim played with and the Blackwood Brothers and I 42:30 know what talent he was, but I had the opportunity to produce 42:33 one of our records, first record for the group, I'd ever produced. 42:36 And I tapped Tim to be the session leader. So he came in 42:41 with charts and I mean just knocked that record out of the 42:47 park. I looked so good. They said, Boy you really produced a 42:52 good record. It wouldn't have been anything if it hadn't been 42:55 for this guy. He just hit a home run on everything he touched. 42:59 You're very kind. Well, okay. Moving on. So here's the fun 43:06 song, a song that I love, a song that we all love to sing, When 43:10 We All Get to Heaven. And so I'm going to try this. You watch and 43:15 we will both be surprised. Oh no there'll be no parts. No, no, 43:18 you can put that mike down. 43:22 ♪ ♪ marching tempo 44:14 ♪ ♪ walking base 44:28 ♪ ♪ 45:15 Ha! All right. I think you missed your part on that. 45:18 Yeah, I did. I was way behind on that. Now that was excellent. 45:24 I've never heard that song arranged like that. And probably 45:27 never will again. 45:28 If we're lucky we won't ever have to endure that again. 45:31 Absolutely. I can't imagine having that much music inside 45:36 of you. It's got to come out. 45:38 I asked Tim earlier, I said do sparks ever come out of your 45:40 ears because the firing of the synapses in there just have to 45:44 something to behold. 45:46 But you realize Tim, I'm sure you must have a master's degree 45:49 in music. (Oh Yeah) I'm sure you took lessons from the time you 45:52 were a little boy, right? 45:54 Two years, yeah and that's what I got right there. 45:58 Just honestly you really didn't get that...You and the Lord 46:02 developing that talent. 46:03 It was totally Him. I played a little and he just blessed me. 46:08 But He blessed you're effort on the go. The blessing's on the go 46:11 You know what, I want to change streams here real fast and talk 46:16 a little bit about a friend of mine that we all know. You may 46:23 probably have seen him if you've watched 3ABN or the Praise Him 46:27 Network. His name is Lake Jones and he's 28 years old and he 46:35 moved to New York City and was trying to break into the music 46:40 scene there. At the beginning of December of 2021, he had some 46:50 flu-like symptoms and went to the doctor and long story short 46:57 he ended up having to have a pacemaker. Had open heart 47:01 surgery and he is currently recovering from that but it's a 47:06 temporary situation and in fact in a couple of months, he will be 47:11 going back in to replace that pacemaker and they may have to 47:19 do what...I'm not even sure of the procedure but it's going to 47:21 be where they have to puncture three places in his heart 47:25 because the valve is not mending well so he's in much need of 47:32 prayer. I know a lot of people have written in talked about how 47:35 much they enjoy Lake Jones' singing. So I just want to 47:40 encourage you pray for Lake because it could be that he's 47:46 definitely going to have to have a bigger pacemaker. I'm not 47:50 exactly sure what all that entails naturally because I'm no 47:52 heart surgeon. But I want to dedicate a song to him. He 48:02 didn't anticipate this. And I know a lot of people are going 48:04 through situations that you don't anticipate. You know life 48:07 throws you a curve every so often. And you wonder how long 48:11 God do I have to go through this situation before you answer my 48:18 cry? Before you heal? Before you send aid and assistance. So this 48:26 is a great song and in fact I was practicing this song this 48:31 morning and I got a text from a friend. I think she's my friend. 48:37 I'm pretty sure she is. And she sent me, it was a +61 48:45 international text. It was so timely. She just mentioned that 48:50 she was overwhelmed by all that was on her plate right now. She 48:55 says I had a decent melt-down after work. I left work in time 49:00 to go to prayer meeting in an effort to sing away my 49:03 discouragement. But she was crying and she said singing 49:06 while crying isn't a skill I've mastered. But she just pulled in 49:11 at home. She thought let me see what's on Praise Him. And she 49:14 says there you are Tim singing This Is My Father's World, How 49:17 Great Thou Art and the Wonder of It All. Just gold! Thanks for 49:22 the reminder of things beautiful and that God is bigger than any 49:25 problem. So I want to tell you He is bigger than any problem. 49:29 But there is that holding pattern that oftentimes we feel 49:34 ourselves...find ourselves in. So I want to just sing this bit 49:40 of encouragement to you. 49:47 ♪ The days are long the nights are longer ♪ 49:50 ♪ and all there seems to be is silence ♪ 49:55 ♪ It's hard to wait for answers ♪ 50:02 ♪ when I'm pleading for guidance ♪ 50:07 ♪ But I have confidence in the God known for His goodness ♪ 50:22 ♪ So while I wait I'll be strong ♪ 50:29 ♪ Raise my voice and sing a thankful song ♪ 50:37 ♪ That God is good. He never fails those He loves ♪ 50:48 ♪ He's seldom early but He's never late ♪ 50:52 ♪ So I'll be strong While I wait ♪ 51:08 ♪ My heart is calm I can rest ♪ 51:12 ♪ I understand His time is best ♪ 51:18 ♪ He's seldom early but He's never late ♪ 51:25 ♪ So I'll be strong while I wait ♪ 51:40 So if your waiting ♪Just be strong while you wait♪ 51:51 Yeah. What I beautiful song. Thank you so much for doing that 51:55 and ministering to people because really that's what this 51:57 is all about. We could just stay here and sing around the piano 52:01 but you know God has given us the tools to literally reach up 52:04 as we're speaking and singing here. Billy, this signal's going 52:08 22,300 miles to space to satellite traveling at the speed 52:12 of 186,200 miles per second to nine different satellites 52:17 encompassing planet earth coming down in the countries around the 52:21 world. Right now Ukraine, Russia all of the countries in Europe 52:26 are able to download 3ABN Australia. Whether you're going 52:29 to Africa, whether you're going to South America, central, north 52:34 It doesn't make any difference where. And what an opportunity 52:37 that we have to reach out to somebody to share. So thank you. 52:43 We're not just doing some music but we're doing it for a purpose 52:46 and that's to hopefully somebody in the valley of decision, 52:50 somebody about ready to give up that you never need to do that 52:54 because Jesus is always there. He's the answer to this world's 52:58 problems today. 53:01 I think Billy has a great song that would wrap this whole 53:03 thing up. 53:05 Our friend Lanny Wolfe wrote a song called You're In God's 53:09 Hands. And I was up here with Danny and with Tim, I don't know 53:14 a couple of years ago we were doing a program and Lanny sang 53:18 this song and I was working on this recording and Danny leaned 53:22 over to me and said, I think you need to put this song on your 53:25 record. So I did. And right on the heels of what Tim just 53:28 shared. Listen as I sing. 53:30 ♪ ♪ 53:43 ♪ You're in a place you've never found yourself before ♪ 53:54 ♪ and you're not sure just what tomorrow has in store ♪ 54:03 ♪ But where two or three are gathered ♪ 54:09 ♪ God has promised to be there ♪ 54:14 ♪ So now in faith believing we lift your name in prayer ♪ 54:27 ♪ You're in our prayers, We've touched the throne of grace ♪ 54:36 ♪ For you, your Father cares ♪ 54:42 ♪ He's promised He would see you through ♪ 54:47 ♪ You can be sure the Great I Am ♪ 54:52 ♪ Will make a way, just trust His plan ♪ 54:57 ♪ You're in our prayers but best of all ♪ 55:01 ♪ You're in God's hands ♪ 55:11 ♪Sometimes you feel your falling tears are cried in vain♪ 55:22 ♪ But God counts them all ♪ 55:24 ♪ and with compassion feels your pain ♪ 55:32 ♪ Acquainted with grief and sorrow ♪ 55:36 ♪ The Lord knows how much you can bear ♪ 55:41 ♪ He's laid you on our hearts so now we lift you up in prayer ♪ 55:53 ♪ You're in our prayers ♪ 56:03 ♪ we've touched the throne of grace for you ♪ 56:05 ♪ Your Father cares ♪ 56:09 ♪ He's promised He would see you through ♪ 56:14 ♪ You can be sure ♪ 56:16 ♪ The Great I Am will make a way Just trust His plan ♪ 56:23 ♪ You're in our prayers But best of all ♪ 56:27 ♪ You're in God's hands ♪ 56:38 ♪ We touched the throne of grace for you ♪ 56:43 ♪ Your Father cares ♪ 56:47 ♪ He's promised He would see you through ♪ 56:53 ♪ You can be sure The Great I Am ♪ 56:57 ♪ Will make a way Just trust His plan ♪ 57:02 ♪ You're in our prayers ♪ 57:05 ♪ But best of all you're in God's hands ♪ 57:12 ♪ You can be sure the Great I Am ♪ 57:16 ♪ Will make a way, Just trust His plan ♪ 57:23 ♪ You're in our prayers ♪ 57:28 ♪ But best of all you're in God's hands ♪ 57:45 Amen. Time is all gone. Until we see you next time may the 57:49 Lord richly bless you abundantly more than you could ever ask 57:52 or think. 57:55 ♪ ♪ |
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