Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), Tim Parton
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017017A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:06 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:09 Thank you for joining us as you do each and every day 01:12 and as always thank you for your love and your prayers 01:15 and financial support of 3ABN 01:17 as we endeavor to take this great gospel 01:19 of the kingdom into all the world. 01:21 I'm here today with 01:23 one of my favorite friends in the whole world 01:24 and one of the greatest musicians 01:27 I think on planet earth, 01:28 we'll give God the credit for that, 01:30 my Brother Tim Parton. 01:31 Oh, what a tweet. Tim, how you doing? 01:33 Well I'm doing better now 01:34 that I know I'm one of your favorite friends and... 01:36 Oh, absolutely. I know my status with you. 01:38 It's good to know. Oh, yeah, yeah, all right. 01:40 I think it's important to let people know 01:41 what they mean to you too and I truly... 01:43 Before they die, right? Exactly. 01:45 Well, it doesn't, you know... 01:47 Yeah. 01:48 Every day just let them know how much they mean to you. 01:49 Now that really is 'cause a lot of times 01:51 we'll talk about after someone 01:53 or even I've heard people at funeral homes, 01:55 said, boy, he was an, and you know, 01:56 or later I wish I had it told, 01:58 I lost my father when he was just 51 years old, 02:02 back 1974 02:04 and there were so many regrets I had 02:06 that I thought, 02:07 "Wow, I wish I had just told him this, 02:09 or wish I had told him I loved him more." 02:11 Right, right. 02:12 You know, as you get older you understand those things 02:13 but I was 21 almost, I guess 22 when that happened, 02:17 just a young person, 02:18 but today we want to do some music 02:20 and speaking of that, 02:22 I kind of wanted to go back 02:24 and talk to you and kind of reminisce 02:27 we want you at home to reminisce 02:29 because how important is parental training. 02:33 It's incredibly important 02:35 because the reason I can look back and see 02:38 why I'm here today is because of my parents. 02:41 And so those of you that are parents and grandparents, 02:44 it's our responsibility 02:46 to train up the child in the way he should go. 02:48 And when he is old, the Bible says, 02:50 he will not depart from that, 02:52 you know, they may go away for a while 02:54 but we have to claim those promises 02:56 about our young people. 02:57 But I'm thankful, Tim, I came from, 03:00 my family, we were pretty poor. 03:02 We lived on the poor side of the track on West Frankfort 03:05 but my father was disabled at 36 years old. 03:08 My mother and dad used to, my dad especially 03:10 had a little country band 03:12 and they played every weekend 03:15 everywhere they could play and travel quite a while. 03:18 And I know that my mother only played, 03:20 she always used to say, 03:22 "Now don't talk about me 03:24 playing out in the clubs for a bit but..." 03:26 Now here's what she said, 03:28 "I tried to get your dad to quit 03:29 and he wouldn't quit." 03:31 So I said, "Well how would you like it 03:32 if I go out and play?" 03:33 Oh, wow. 03:35 So she played what we call a little honky-tonk, 03:36 can you show what a honky-tonk, rag time. 03:42 That was my mother, 03:44 she could do it with the best of them... 03:46 I love it. 03:47 She could do it with the best of them 03:48 It's quite a style. Oh, yeah. 03:50 But she did and they were raised in Christian homes. 03:53 I think my mother was raised Methodist, 03:56 my father didn't go to church at all. 03:58 All right. 03:59 Family, they raised 12 kids, I think 13 of them, 04:02 totaled my aunts and uncles 04:03 and my Uncle Kenneth was killed in World War II 04:06 but I was raised with 12 aunts and uncles 04:09 on the one side and some of those like 04:11 Uncle Owen had 12 kids and Uncle Bud eight... 04:13 All right. 04:14 You know, we had five but my father was disabled 04:16 and so he became a Christian, 04:18 my mother became a Christian in the year I was born 04:21 I think, 1951 04:23 and then after that my father took him 04:25 about three or four more years. 04:27 I won't go through the whole deal 04:29 but it was a series of things. 04:30 He just would not, my mother would say, 04:32 "Honey, you really need to accept the Lord." 04:34 Everything he tried to do 04:36 literally as he would say blew up my face 04:38 till finally he said, "You know, what? 04:39 The Lord wants me that bad. 04:41 I'm going to..." 04:42 You know, my mother, so he died for you, 04:44 made a plan of salvation for you, 04:46 then I'm going to give my heart to Him. 04:48 Yeah. And he did that. 04:49 So he quit playing out, 04:50 which he could make pretty good money back then. 04:52 They made money 04:54 and so he quit doing that altogether. 04:57 So now he was disabled with a heart attack, 04:59 where he couldn't hold a regular job. 05:02 So we didn't have much of an income but those of us, 05:05 the kids worked and we all chipped in, 05:07 my mother worked and so we painted houses, 05:10 all the brothers mowed lawns for people and, you know, 05:13 we got jobs at early years. 05:14 But what I'm so thankful 05:16 is that both of my parents were Christians. 05:19 And I didn't hear them 05:20 arguing with each other all the time 05:21 and they didn't argue with us. 05:23 It was like this, this is the way 05:24 it's going to be and this is what you do. 05:26 Right. 05:27 And then they would explain to you why, 05:29 and my dad would say, 05:30 "Look, the Lord made, the reason I'm the parent 05:32 'cause he put me in charge. 05:34 So as long as you're under this roof, 05:36 you're going to do what I say." 05:37 But he was very good at saying. 05:38 This is why I want you to do, not just because I want you 05:42 but I want you to grow up to be something, 05:45 to be a value to somebody else. 05:47 He used to say, "I don't care how much money you make 05:49 or what you do or how much, you know, 05:51 schooling education you get. 05:52 I just want you to be a person who loves people 05:56 and who loves the Lord and makes it to heaven." 05:59 And so I'm thinking today 06:01 when we used to sit around as kids 06:04 and on Friday evening especially, 06:06 Sabbath came and my mother played the piano 06:08 and my dad played guitar, 06:10 and as we got older my brother Tommy played piano, 06:13 and I played guitar, 06:14 my brothers could play bass or guitar, 06:16 whatever you needed, 06:18 and I think you have a similar story. 06:19 I do. 06:21 So tell us a little bit about yours? 06:22 Well, I was raised in a Christian family 06:24 and my dad played the guitar 06:27 and we all sang 06:29 and it was just, it was what we did. 06:31 Actually my parents had formed a little group 06:34 called the Parton Family... 06:35 Okay, all right. 06:37 It was my sister, I have an older sister 06:38 and so it was the Parton trio. 06:39 Okay. 06:41 And so when I came along, that was just, 06:43 it was either get in or get left, you know, 06:47 so I began to sing when I was like two and three. 06:50 I remember my mom telling me that I was singing harmony 06:55 before I was even saying words. 06:56 I would hum harmony to the radio. 07:00 So it was, you know, it's just, 07:02 that's I didn't have, 07:04 I was just telling somebody the other day. 07:06 When I graduated high school, 07:08 I didn't wonder what I was going to do. 07:12 I knew I was going to be playing music. 07:14 Okay. 07:15 It was just like, it's so natural 07:17 and I have a son now 07:18 who is getting ready to graduate 07:19 and I'm kind of concerned about what he's going to do 07:22 because I don't see that natural inclination 07:25 or supernatural whatever 07:26 or however way you want to look at it... 07:27 Sure, yeah. 07:29 But, so I'm kind of concerned about his direction. 07:31 Yeah. 07:32 He's a Christian and he wants to follow the Lord... 07:34 Yeah, sure. 07:35 But there's no, you know, specific, 07:36 obvious like it was in my life 07:39 where I went right on the road out of high school, 07:41 so anyway back to my growing up, 07:44 that was, we sang four or five times a week. 07:49 Really? Wow. 07:50 Yeah, it was through... 07:51 What kind of music did you do? 07:53 Give... We... 07:54 This is, let me tell you, I told Tim, 07:55 here's a program we're going to do today. 07:57 I'm just going to throw things out 07:58 and see if you know it and you play it 08:00 whatever happens here. 08:01 But we prayed and asked for the Holy Spirit to be here 08:04 and we're here today. 08:05 We're not here to show you anything 08:07 but to worship with you, 08:09 because God inhabits to praise us of His people, 08:12 and one of the ways we can praise Him 08:14 is through music. 08:15 So some of you, we know we get letters 08:17 from those of you that's incarcerated, 08:19 those of you in hospitals or nursing homes 08:21 and you say, I really love it when you all just kind 08:24 of stand around the piano and sing some songs 08:27 that maybe we might know too and we can sing with you. 08:30 So today we have a plan without a plan 08:33 and that is we've asked the Holy Spirit 08:35 to lead, guide and direct in this. 08:37 But I told Tim, 08:38 I'm not really going to tell you, 08:40 I'm going to throw out some things, 08:41 so this would be one of those... 08:42 In other words... Something that... 08:44 You are going to put me on the spot. 08:45 Yeah, something that you did when you were really young 08:47 with your family, what kind of music... 08:48 I remember one of the first songs 08:49 that my sister and I sang was... 08:51 This little light of mine, 08:53 I'm gonna let it shine 08:56 This little light of mine, 08:59 I'm gonna let it shine 09:02 This little light of mine, 09:05 I'm gonna let it shine 09:08 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine 09:10 One more time, you sing it now... 09:14 This little light of mine, 09:17 I'm gonna let it shine 09:21 This little light of mine, 09:24 I'm gonna let it shine 09:27 This little light of mine, 09:30 I'm gonna let it shine, 09:32 Let it shine, let it shine, 09:35 let it shine 09:37 And there is something else. 09:38 Let my light 09:41 Shine for Jesus 09:43 Okay. 09:45 Let it shine 09:47 All day through 09:50 Let it shine 09:53 Shine for Jesus 09:56 Let it shine 09:58 Let it shine on you. 10:00 I love it, beautiful. 10:02 Something like that with my words in it. 10:04 I love it. 10:05 So those are the type of songs, 10:06 was it you considered gospel music, 10:08 southern gospel music, just...? 10:09 Oh, yeah... 10:10 Or did it, did you do all of it? 10:12 This was back in the '70s... 10:13 Okay. 10:15 And you know, I didn't know 10:16 that there was a specific southern gospel... 10:17 Okay. 10:19 We just sang, you know, gospel music... 10:20 Gospel music... Yeah. 10:22 And do you ever do any of the Lanny Wolfe stuff? 10:23 We did... 10:25 Did you ever hear Lanny Wolfe before you came here? 10:26 Oh, yeah, definitely... 10:28 Everybody, right? Oh, my goodness, yeah. 10:29 We had in his records and yeah, there was, 10:32 we might visit 10:34 just a whole bunch of different writers 10:36 that we sang from... 10:37 Surely the presence... Surely the presence... 10:38 Of the Lord. Yeah. 10:40 Yeah, I want you to play a little bit of that... 10:41 Okay... 10:43 Maybe we'll saying with you in a minute. 10:44 Do you have a preference on the key words for you? 10:45 No. well, you know what I can do and can't do, so. 10:47 Okay. 11:33 Surely the presence 11:38 of the Lord is in this place 11:43 I can feel 11:45 His mighty power 11:48 and His grace 11:53 I can hear 11:55 the brush of angel's wings 11:59 I see glory on each face 12:04 Surely the presence 12:09 of the Lord is in this place. 12:16 Well, it's amazing, no matter where you go, 12:18 you can feel the presence of the Lord, 12:20 that's what I love about it is wherever we travel, 12:22 we never have to say, "Oh, I'm afraid." 12:24 Now, maybe if we take ourselves into positions 12:27 we shouldn't be in 12:29 and my folks always tell me now if you go in a bar, 12:31 the Lord isn't going to go in there with you. 12:32 Right. 12:34 Your angel's not going to go in there with you, 12:35 so you're on your own. 12:36 So I never went in a bar, you know. 12:38 All right, that's smart, that's smart. 12:39 But it's amazing that wherever we go 12:42 that God's presence is there. 12:43 Absolutely. 12:45 And whether we're here on television 12:46 or wherever you are at home, 12:48 right now you may be by yourself. 12:50 Maybe you've not seen anybody, haven't heard from your kids 12:53 or, your, you know, family in any sense 12:55 and you're feeling really down, you're feeling really lonely 12:58 but you don't have to be, all you do is say, 13:00 "Lord here I am, 13:02 please come and visit me today." 13:04 And I promise you He's going to say, 13:06 "Well, I've been here all along, 13:07 you just didn't see me. 13:09 You just didn't hear me." 13:10 And but when we're open to that, 13:11 God will speak to us. 13:13 And that peace will come that will fill that void. 13:17 And so it's, 13:18 I'm so thankful today to be a Christian. 13:21 And I'm so thankful that I have an opportunity. 13:24 I never knew what I was going to, 13:26 my dad used to say, 13:27 "Son, what are you going to do with your life?" 13:29 I said, "I don't know." 13:30 Like it was in high school, he's like you, about your son, 13:34 get through about my junior year, 13:35 my dad finished eighth grade, 13:38 he was first one in his family of 12 or 13, 13:41 graduate in eighth grade. 13:43 My mother I think did her freshman year at high school. 13:45 So they didn't put much emphasis on education too much 13:48 but they wanted us to do something. 13:50 So I'd be 16 junior, senior, 13:52 son, what are you going to do with your life, 13:54 I said, "I don't know. 13:55 I'm just kid." 13:56 He said, "Yeah, but you graduate in high school, 13:58 what are you going to do?" 13:59 And I said, "I really don't know." 14:00 And he said, "Well, I think 14:02 it's about time you figure this out. 14:03 You need to start thinking." 14:05 So one day, Tim, 14:06 they had a senior class in West Frankfort, 14:09 we went down, it was 1969 14:11 to Southern Illinois University, 14:13 big university in Carbondale. 14:15 And it was orientation of course, 14:17 what they're doing is 14:18 trying to get all the students from here 14:20 to go to college there. 14:22 So first time in my life, I went to a college campus. 14:25 I said, "Wow this is pretty good." 14:27 But, you know, you're in late '60s 14:28 and you are starting the hippie movement 14:30 and all these things are going but I said, 14:32 "Maybe I'll go to college." 14:33 My older brothers, none of them had gone to college. 14:36 So maybe I'll do that. 14:37 So I go home, I said, I want to talk to my dad 14:40 'cause he's always what are you going to do. 14:41 We had a little music room, 14:43 it's just we called it music room, 14:44 we had a little reel to reel Sony tape recorder, 14:47 guitars and big speakers he had built 14:49 and people would come over, his friends 14:51 and they play it every Tuesday night 14:52 and, you know, things like this. 14:54 So I would go in there 14:56 and my dad was sitting on a stool, 14:58 I'll never forget, 14:59 had a microphone, little recorder, 15:01 he was playing his guitar, I said, "Dad." 15:03 "Yeah, son?" 15:04 I said, "You always ask me 15:06 what I'm going to do with my life?" 15:07 I said, "I think, I know what I want to do." 15:09 "Really, what's that?" 15:11 Didn't hardly, you know, hardly looked around, 15:12 said "Really what's that?" 15:14 I said, "I want to go to college." 15:16 He looked back and he said, 15:18 "That's what I like about you son, 15:19 you're always joking." 15:20 And then he just went on back and I walked away and I'm like, 15:23 "Wow, who do I think I am to go to college?" 15:25 I mean, I didn't know anything about grants awaited... 15:27 Sure, sure. 15:29 So I didn't do it, you know, point is, 15:30 but the Lord had a plan for my life. 15:32 God's got a plan for your life... 15:33 Absolutely does. 15:35 Maybe you don't know 15:36 the direction God wants you to go right now. 15:37 Now that could be the teenager, 15:39 that could be the person in college 15:40 or you might be my age or older, 15:42 you might be 75, still wondering. 15:44 Now wonder what it is God wants me to do 15:46 as long as we have breath, 15:48 you know, let everything that has breath do what? 15:51 Praise the Lord. Absolutely. 15:53 And so I'm so thankful, I got in construction. 15:55 My brother and I, we had a construction company 15:57 about, oh, I don't know, 13, 14 years, 16:00 then I went to Michigan, 16:01 managed a lumber yard there in Berrien Springs, 16:03 you know, Andrews University... 16:06 Came back down here in '79, 16:08 Melody's mother and I 16:10 and the girls we had Ronda and Lisa. 16:12 She had two girls when we were married 16:14 and so we had a little group. 16:15 So we started traveling and singing, 16:17 then of course she was killed in an automobile accident 16:19 in 1982 16:21 but Melody and I, we continued singing 16:23 as she got older 16:24 and I praise God today that she still does. 16:26 So train up a child in a way it should go, 16:28 now it doesn't mean anybody, everybody is perfect 16:30 'cause none of us are, 16:32 but like you, where would you be 16:33 without the training from your folks today? 16:35 Right. 16:37 I think about that 16:38 and my older sister and I talk about that 16:41 and the great memories 16:43 that we have not only the training 16:45 and the godly influence 16:48 that my parents instilled within us 16:50 and being around people, 16:51 being in churches and singing 16:53 and just being, 16:55 having a community of people of fellow believers, 16:58 but the words of the songs that we sang, 17:03 they come into play so much in our daily lives, 17:06 we're just going through life 17:08 and I'll be walking down the street 17:09 or driving down the street 17:10 and a song will come to me, lyrics will come to me 17:13 that provide direction for me in a situation that, 17:18 you know, I would never have thought that, 17:20 that song would have given me some guidance, some clearance, 17:23 some clarity on what to do. 17:25 In fact, let me just sing a song... 17:27 Yeah. This is a great little song. 17:28 Now you might not think that this was very applicable 17:32 but even more so now that, you know, 17:34 when you get older you realize what you were singing 17:35 when you were a little kid... 17:37 All right, let's do it. 17:38 And so this is a great Steward Hamblin song. 17:40 It's kind of a, he wrote, how big is God... 17:42 Oh, yeah. 17:44 The great song 17:45 and this old house wants to my children, 17:47 you know, that one, it's great, great song. 17:48 I know you got the base, but you got it there, okay. 17:50 I got something. 17:52 But this is a great little tune that, just a lot of fun. 18:01 My mamma told me something 18:03 That everyone should know 18:06 And it's all about the devil 18:08 And I've learned to hate him so 18:11 She says he causes trouble 18:14 When you let him in the room 18:16 He will never ever leave you 18:19 If your heart is filled with gloom 18:21 So let the sun shine in 18:24 Face it with a grin 18:27 Smilers never lose 18:29 And frowners never win 18:31 So let the sun shine in 18:34 Face it with a grin 18:37 Open up your heart and let the sun shine in 18:43 When I forget to say my prayers 18:45 The devil jumps with glee 18:47 But he feels so awful, awful 18:50 When he sees me on my knees 18:53 So if you're full of trouble 18:55 And you never seem to win 18:58 Just open up your heart and let the sun shine in 19:03 So let the sun shine in 19:07 Face it with a grin 19:09 Smilers never lose 19:11 And frowners never ever win 19:13 So let the sun shine in 19:17 Face it with a grin 19:19 Open up your heart and let the sun shine in. 19:30 I love it. Something like that. 19:32 We sing, I sing that as a kid but... 19:33 Did you? 19:35 I didn't know had all those words, 19:36 I don't know where I learned, I learned at home 19:38 but maybe our folks didn't have all the words, 19:40 that's, that's really neat. 19:42 Those are great lyrics. 19:44 30 years later, 40 years later you're still got those in, 19:47 you know... 19:48 Right, yeah... Frowners never win... 19:51 Simlers never lose... Simlers never lose. 19:52 Right, exactly. 19:53 I love it 'cause we've read the back of the book. 19:55 And Revelation says they overcame him, Satan, 19:58 by the blood of the Lamb. 19:59 And the word of the testimony. And the word of the testimony. 20:01 That's exactly right. 20:02 And so it says we win, so there we go. 20:04 And you know the power of a smile 20:06 and you know the power of a frown. 20:08 Yeah, absolutely. 20:09 And when you see somebody with a smile, 20:11 you are more apt to go up and talk to him 20:13 and you know the power of a frown, 20:15 you want to turn away and walk, leave him. 20:17 Yeah. 20:19 So yeah, those little nuggets like that... 20:21 Yeah, yeah. 20:22 Will make life learning to deal with life, 20:25 I believe Christ walks with us and the Spirit lives in me 20:29 and gives me the ability to handle situations, 20:32 but little tips like smiling and, you know... 20:37 Absolutely, being happy. Yeah. 20:39 It's just, you can't smile without being happy. 20:42 Right, right. I mean, how many... 20:43 That's a lot of good advice. 20:44 How many angry people do you know that are smiling? 20:47 You know, they're not, right? They're not, right. 20:48 So smilers win. 20:51 Right. That's true. Right. 20:52 Frowners don't, so there you go... 20:53 Good advice, good advice. That's great advice. 20:55 Take it to the bank. We'll stop the program today. 20:56 Now play a little better, sing a little bit of 20:58 ''This Ole House". 21:00 Oh my goodness, I don't know that's... 21:01 You don't have to play or do the bass 21:03 but, oh, you remember the... 21:04 I really, I just knew that line. 21:05 You know how the tune goes? 21:39 Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer 21:41 I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints. 21:45 Let's see if I know the words, I don't know, if I do, bless... 21:47 This ole house once knew my children 21:50 This ole house once knew my wife 21:53 This ole house once rang with laughter 21:55 As it stood the storms with life 21:58 This ole house is gettin' old 22:00 And I feel no fear or pain 22:03 For I see an angel peekin' 22:05 Through a broken window pane 22:09 Need this house no longer. 22:10 Yeah. 22:11 Ain't a-gonna need this house no more 22:13 Ain't got time to fix the shingles 22:16 Ain't got time to fix the floor 22:18 Ain't got time to oil the hinges 22:21 Nor to mend the window panes. 22:23 Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer 22:26 I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints. 22:30 I said I didn't even know, I knew those words... 22:31 That's great, yeah. Isn't that crazy? 22:33 And that's what we're just talking about things 22:35 that you listen to, things that you hear, 22:39 I'm 65 years old and there's hardly a day go by 22:42 I don't think of something when I'm making decisions 22:44 that my dad told me when I was a young person 22:47 'cause he had so much common sense. 22:49 Yeah, wow. 22:50 He didn't make it through the educational, 22:53 you know, system... 22:54 But he sure did when it came to common sense... 22:56 Right, right. 22:57 And how to deal with people but things like that, 22:59 this ole house once knew my children... 23:01 Isn't that great? 23:02 Well, you know, they say children, right? 23:04 This ole house once knew my children. 23:05 I noticed you said that. 23:06 This ole house once knew my wife. 23:08 That's good. 23:09 And I don't remember where, but Tennessee Ernie Ford, 23:10 didn't he used to do that... 23:12 I think so Rosemary Clooney sang as well. 23:13 Oh, yeah. Did she really? Yes, yeah. 23:15 Okay, a lot of those folk. Yeah, great. Great songs. 23:16 What else did you say he did, Stuart Hamblen, 23:17 he was a great writer. 23:19 Yeah, he did ''How Big is God.'' 23:20 Oh, yeah. Then there was a great song. 23:30 It is no secret. 23:37 Was that someone you 23:40 You may have long for added strength 23:45 Your courage to renew 23:50 Do not be disheartened 23:55 for I bring news to you. 23:59 Sing in chorus, Tim. 24:01 It is no secret 24:07 What God can do 24:13 What He's done for others 24:18 He'll do for you 24:24 With arms wide open 24:29 He'll part anew 24:35 It is no secret 24:41 What God can do. 24:49 Wow, now that is going way back. 24:52 The time went out. 24:53 So people saying are you sure they doesn't know... 24:55 Really, this is neat, I love doing this 24:57 'cause it's like just sitting around like 24:58 we used to do with kids at home, 25:00 my dad would start, give me a key 25:02 for like suppertime, you remember that? 25:03 Oh, yeah, let me see it. 25:04 We'll give a little bit of tempo to it. 25:07 When I was but a boy 25:10 In days of childhood 25:16 I used to play 25:18 Till evening shadows fall 25:26 Then winding down 25:28 An ole familiar pathway 25:35 I would hear my Mother call 25:39 At set of sun 25:44 Come home, come home 25:49 It's supper time 25:54 The shadows lengthened fast 26:02 Sing it come home now. 26:03 Come home, come home 26:08 It's supper time 26:13 We're going home 26:17 At last. 26:21 All right, wow. Yes. 26:24 Those are neat songs and some of the great songs, 26:27 I mean, there's a lot of beautiful songs written today 26:29 but I think some of the greatest songs 26:31 ever written. 26:33 We did on the program not too long ago, 26:34 I come to the garden alone. 26:36 I mean, where do you find a song for me 26:39 that ministers to me like this song. 26:42 I mean, I come to the garden alone. 26:43 Would you play a little bit, maybe? 26:45 Yes, I will. 27:23 And He walks with me 27:30 And He talks with me 27:34 And He tells me 27:37 I am His own 27:43 And the joy we share 27:47 As we tarry there 27:54 None other 27:58 Has ever known. 28:02 I like this second verse, it says. 28:06 He speaks 28:09 And the sound of His voice 28:14 Is so sweet 28:18 The birds hush their singing 28:24 And the melody 28:29 That He gave to me 28:34 Within my heart 28:39 Is ringing. 28:43 Sing it at home with me. 28:45 And He walks with me 28:50 And He talks with me 28:55 And He tells me 28:58 I am His own 29:03 And the joy we share 29:08 As we tarry there 29:15 None other 29:19 Has ever known. 29:32 Amen, what beautiful songs. 29:35 Then there's a lot a up tempo songs 29:39 that I remember 29:40 when I was a kid growing up in our church. 29:43 We used to go and then Sabbath afternoon 29:45 we had these young people's meetings. 29:48 We used to go sometimes in the afternoon 29:50 and we'd like the younger kids, 29:51 you want some more up tempo songs. 29:53 So I'm gonna let's see 29:54 what some of them like He Lives 29:57 or Onward Christian Soldiers, or something, 29:59 I want you to give us a little. 30:01 I told Tim, I'd put him on the spot. 30:03 So give us a little of that. I say bring it, I love it. 31:10 All right. 31:56 Yeah, that's good. Oh, that is. I love it. 31:59 Not my playing, I mean this song. 32:00 No, no, no, it's great. Yeah, it's good stuff. 32:01 And I want to ask you, 32:03 we were talking about education a while ago. 32:05 You apparently graduated 32:07 from the Juilliard School of Music, 32:08 is that true? 32:10 In my dreams I did but no, I play by ear. 32:14 You play by ear. 32:15 Now, come on, I mean 32:17 you hit every note on the piano. 32:18 I was temped to take this water... 32:19 Well, that's just because... 32:21 I think piano was so expensive, 32:22 I though it was going to catch on, 32:23 I thought, I saw smoking here. 32:25 Well, no, I played every note 32:26 just in case I find one that works, that so, 32:28 I was searching for the melody. 32:30 No, when I was, actually when I was born 32:34 my parents had already purchased a piano 32:36 for my older sister. 32:37 One of those spin it, you know, just the half way 32:40 and so she didn't take a liking to it as we say. 32:44 So I'm kind of one of those with obligated personality, 32:46 I felt like I needed to, 32:48 you know, make use of the piano since my sister didn't. 32:50 I always like to give her a hard time about that 32:53 but I crawled up there, 32:55 I remember as early as age two, 32:57 crawling up and just, you know, beginning to get the feel of it 33:01 and then, you know, 33:03 naturally as I didn't know what I was doing at the time 33:06 but I just found 33:08 that I had a kind of a natural drawing to it, 33:11 a supernatural drawing to it. 33:13 And I mean surely you took, you know, you started lessons 33:16 and you started taking lessons for years. 33:18 Okay, so what I did was I took when I was at age six, 33:22 I took piano lessons when I was, yeah, 33:25 just I turned six 33:28 and I took for two years 33:30 and I always say 33:31 that I couldn't teach the teacher anything, 33:34 so but that's really silly 33:36 but honestly what happened was 33:38 I remember going in one day at the lesson, 33:43 I played the song exactly right but I was in the wrong key. 33:47 Oh. 33:48 So I had asked the teacher to play the song for me 33:51 before I left the previous lesson 33:53 and I had memorized it 33:55 and just didn't catch the right key signature. 33:58 So I gave myself a way, 33:59 so my parents said fully on this as they say. 34:02 Why spend the money 34:03 when you didn't need the lessons. 34:05 Exactly, well I could have, I wish that I, you know, 34:07 as every person now who desires to play the piano, 34:11 they grew up, their parents will give them the opportunity, 34:15 you know, to take lessons, 34:17 I wish that I would have pursued my music 34:19 even further in and through education 34:22 because honestly, I have struggled 34:24 with feeling like I was legitimate. 34:27 Oh, my, my... 34:29 And, you know, I'm not being pitiful, it's truthful. 34:31 And a lot of people I'm sure feel that way 34:33 when they have a natural gift 34:36 that you feel like 34:38 you need a degree or a diploma something to prove... 34:41 I'll give you one. Okay. 34:43 I'll give you one I'll write it. 34:44 From the Danny Shelton School of music, I love it. 34:47 Well, that will be worth something, 34:48 as long as I can have a cap and gown... 34:51 What lessons would do 34:52 because most of the people that I know, 34:54 I mean, I have friends who, 34:56 they play a little bit and they'll say, 34:58 I took ten years of piano as a child 35:01 but they can't play anything unless it's in front of them. 35:04 But now you, if we put a song in front of you, 35:07 you could play a little bit enough just to hear it. 35:09 Yeah, it would be painful at first. 35:12 Because I'm not good at sight reading. 35:14 And I would want to take time and wood shed it as they say. 35:19 But you know, I was listening 35:21 to somebody talking just this morning, 35:24 talking about the 10,000 hour concept, 35:28 I don't know if you've heard how it takes 10, 000 hours 35:31 to master something. 35:32 Really? 35:34 Music is something, again, growing up in it, 35:37 that's all I've known. 35:39 So thus I've been blessed, 35:41 I was blessed to be in that position. 35:44 But I had a reason to practice 35:46 which I didn't even know I was practicing at the time, 35:49 I was just playing to learn the songs 35:51 that my family was going to be singing. 35:52 So I always encourage people, if you want to, 35:55 want to be good at something, have a reason to do it 35:59 and then if you don't want to embarrass yourself 36:01 in the public 36:03 while you'll learn how to do that 36:05 but it takes a lifetime of committing 36:07 and you can't be good at several things. 36:09 Yes. 36:10 You know, you have to pick a field that you're good at 36:12 and then pay somebody to mow the yard. 36:15 My dad once again used to say, 36:17 "Son you're a jack of all trades and master of none." 36:19 Oh, wow. 36:21 'Cause I like doing everything and when ball season was in, 36:23 no matter what kind of, 36:25 if it's a baseball, ping-pong ball, 36:27 basketball, you know, I'd find something to do 36:30 but I'd love to do music too. 36:32 So I'd do music and then I'd play ball some more, 36:34 then I got into construction, then I do this and I do that. 36:37 So consequently, 36:39 I can do a little bit of a number of things 36:41 but really didn't master but... 36:43 But you're a great communicator and that's what I do love... 36:46 That I've probably put a whole lot more than 10,000 hours in. 36:49 Well, sure. Well, sure, yeah. Sure. 36:51 But you know, in all the things that you were doing 36:53 and all those skills that you had, 36:55 you were using that gift of communication 36:57 to get the job or to... 36:59 Yeah, I talk, my brothers used to get so upset at me at home, 37:02 they were older and I was the youngest brother 37:04 out of four boys 37:05 and my younger sister Tammy came eight years after me 37:08 and they'd be and I'd sing around the house and say, 37:10 "Dad, won't you make him shout up, he sings." 37:13 And my dad said, "As long as he wants to sing, 37:15 he's happy, we're going to let him be happy 37:17 Now if he's crying or being fussy 37:19 then I'll work on him." 37:20 He'd say and I knew what that meant. 37:22 Right. 37:23 That wasn't like some parents say work on you, 37:24 my folks knew it and my dad knew 37:26 how to work on you... 37:27 Right. Usually it was with the belt. 37:29 You know, well, people going to say what they want, 37:30 but I'm glad that he loved me enough 37:32 to take care of me 37:34 when I was out of line 37:35 and give you some hope 37:37 and some vision for the future of what we really want to do. 37:40 But I think God, now I learned from my parents, 37:43 my parents came in, it was a different era 37:46 and there was more if you, if I can use this word, 37:48 you might understand with me, legalism of do's and don'ts... 37:51 Sure. 37:52 So well, this is you can't do this, you can do this, 37:54 you can't do that. 37:56 So I didn't really understand, 37:58 I knew I wanted to be a Christian, 37:59 I tried but I didn't really understand 38:02 a relationship with Jesus. 38:04 And that freedom, it gives me, 38:06 doesn't give me the freedom to go out and sin... 38:08 Right. 38:10 But it gives me the freedom to love Jesus 38:12 and to say thank you Lord, I want to serve you... 38:14 Right. 38:16 And now I don't worry about people say, 38:17 "Well, what do you do on a Sabbath? 38:19 You know, when my folks say, you know, 38:21 now you are not going out and play ball, 38:22 you are not going to watch television, 38:24 you are not going to do these things 38:25 and that's the best they knew 38:27 how to tell us as kids but I tell people, 38:29 don't worry about what you can't do, 38:31 worry about what you can do. 38:32 You spend time with God, with your family, 38:35 with church family, you can go out in nature, 38:36 there's so many things, spend time studying, 38:39 not having to spend time 38:40 worrying about your bills, right? 38:41 Your payments, worrying about things 38:43 that work or stress that you have. 38:45 What a great opportunity, what a great time, so. 38:49 I'm really thankful for parents who love the Lord and raise me. 38:54 Now, if I'd done everything right in my life? 38:56 Absolutely not. 38:58 And I mean, I've had everything written about me 39:00 and said about me that could be said 39:02 but that's okay, 39:03 I'm in good company, they said it 39:05 with a lot of other people too, 39:06 probably talk about you too, Tim, 39:07 behind your back, you know... 39:09 If they care it all. 39:11 Now they care. 39:12 Well, what it is, when you are on the frontline... 39:13 Right, exactly... 39:15 You know, the enemy hates people on the frontline 39:16 and so you there, so I've learned to expect it 39:19 and most everybody that I am around in ministry, 39:22 you find it and then, you know, what? 39:24 Those of you that are Christians, same thing, 39:26 maybe you're by yourself at home 39:28 but you're still, the devil is out 39:29 to steal, kill and to destroy... 39:31 Right. 39:32 But Jesus says, "I've come to give you life 39:34 and give it more abundantly." 39:35 So I'm so thankful for that promise today 39:38 and thankful that He loves us, He died for us, 39:41 He made a plan of salvation for us 39:43 and He's coming back very soon in the clouds of glory. 39:46 It's our prayer, mine and Tim's here, 39:48 all of us here at 3ABN that we can meet together, 39:52 that second coming says, 39:53 the dead in Christ shall rise first 39:55 and we which are alive 39:56 and remain shall be caught up together, 39:59 this is forever with the Lord in the sky, 40:01 so you'll be able to sit around on the piano 40:03 and with Tim Parton up there playing... 40:06 I'm hoping when we get to heaven, 40:08 you'll be able to play the piano, 40:10 so I can sit back and listen 40:11 'cause I'm gonna be retired by then. 40:13 Well, yeah. 40:14 Especially if you keep on asking these requests 40:16 of songs I don't know. 40:17 Yeah, I'm just trying to think of another one... 40:19 Hey, I'll tell you what, before we go on... 40:20 All right. 40:22 You're talking about, you know, 40:24 situations where people talk about you 40:26 and there's another life lesson in a song 40:29 that I learned and you've probably, 40:31 you may have sung this one yourself, 40:34 but this was one I remember singing 40:36 when I was a kid. 40:37 One of the more serious ones and it goes like this. 40:43 Little flowers never worry 40:48 When the wind begins to blow 40:54 And they never, never cry 41:01 When the rain begins to fall 41:07 Though it's wet 41:08 and, oh, so cold 41:14 Soon the sun will shine again 41:20 And then they'll smile to the world 41:27 For their beauty to behold 41:33 So, let it rain, let it rain, 41:38 let it pour 41:41 Let trouble keep knocking at my door 41:49 If we'll learn the right from wrong 41:56 It will help to make us strong 42:03 So when the clouds begin to gather 42:09 And that old wind begins to blow 42:15 Little flowers don't complain 42:21 Though they're tossing to and fro 42:28 So I guess they've learned the secret 42:34 Even little flowers know 42:40 That if it never, never rains 42:47 Then will never, never grow 42:52 So, let it rain, let it rain, 42:56 let it pour. 42:58 Sing it. 42:59 Let trouble keep knocking at my door 43:06 If we'll learn the right from wrong 43:13 It will help to make us strong 43:20 'Cause if it never, never rains 43:28 Then will never, 43:31 Never grow. 43:40 There's a great life lesson. 43:42 What a pretty song that is. Yeah, it is. 43:44 I think I used to sing that years ago once in a while, 43:47 but never really knew again all the words of it, 43:50 but it's such an as you said life lessons, 43:53 absolutely beautiful. 43:54 Yeah, Job knew that, he learned that the Lord gives 43:57 and He takes away, 43:59 but whatever you are going through, 44:01 blessed be the name of the Lord. 44:02 That's right because his friends all told him, 44:04 "Hey, Joe, go out and die." 44:06 Right? Right. 44:07 Hey, basically hang yourself, shoot yourself, 44:08 do whatever you can do... 44:10 Right, exactly. You're exactly right, yeah. 44:11 I guess he didn't have gun. 44:12 Yeah, some friends... 44:14 Spear yourself, do something, you know... 44:15 You know, he got the point. Yeah. 44:16 He said, fully on you all, 44:18 blessed be the name of the Lord, 44:19 I'm sticking with the God. 44:21 Absolutely. So that's should be our goal. 44:22 Absolutely, I cannot believe as I'm looking down, 44:24 here we got like just eight or ten minutes 44:26 for this whole program. 44:28 What else you got, any more surprises up your sleeve? 44:30 Is there some, I loved it... 44:32 I'm surprised at myself, I'm on air, 44:33 just don't know what's going to happen next actually. 44:35 So one tune... 44:37 Well, if I can think of something maybe, 44:38 how about you know the song, ''Something Beautiful"? 44:40 Maybe play it a little bit. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. 45:25 Something beautiful, 45:30 Something good 45:35 All my confusion 45:40 He understood 45:45 All I had to offer Him 45:49 Was brokenness and strife 45:53 Yet he made something 45:57 Beautiful of my life 46:05 If there ever were dreams 46:08 That were lofty and noble 46:11 They were my dreams at the start 46:16 And the dreams for life's best were the dreams 46:21 That I harbored down deep in my heart 46:28 But my dreams turned to ashes 46:32 My castles all crumbled 46:35 My fortune turned to loss 46:40 That I wrapped it all 46:43 In the rags of my life 46:47 And laid it at the cross. 46:52 At the feet of Jesus, right? 46:54 Something beautiful 47:00 Something good 47:05 All my confusion 47:10 He understood 47:15 All I had to offer Him 47:19 Was brokenness and strife 47:23 But he made something 47:28 Beautiful of my life 47:33 And he'll make... 47:34 And he'll make something 47:39 Beautiful of your life. 47:41 Of your life. 47:47 Wow, isn't that amazing, 47:49 how God can take the least, 47:52 and when you think there is no hope 47:55 that He can do something great. 47:56 I love it because God is the creator, 47:58 Satan is an imitator 48:00 and he's got all kinds of imitation 48:02 especially for young folks, 48:03 well, I'm going to have to add all of us, 48:05 'cause I'm 65 and he's still working on all me, right? 48:08 And the devil is but so is God. Right, exactly, more so... 48:10 What's that old song, remember that song? 48:12 He still working on me that used to be one but... 48:13 Right, yes, right. 48:15 He's still working but the devil is an imitator, 48:17 he's a liar but God is the truth. 48:22 The Bible says, He is the truth, 48:24 the way, the truth and the life. 48:25 Without him, there's nothing. 48:27 Anything else is false, 48:29 so unless you're looking to Jesus, 48:31 to the cross of Calvary, 48:32 that's the only hope for this world today. 48:35 There is no other way out 48:37 and we serve a God that's so big, 48:39 He's absolutely marvelous. 48:41 Sometimes I wonder, I'm marvel, how big is God? 48:45 Tim? 48:47 Is that my cue? That's your cue. 48:48 Sound like a cue to me, I like it. 48:49 You know that? 49:56 Raise it up a half step. We'll just do the last part. 50:00 How big is God 50:04 How big and wide 50:07 His vast domain? 50:11 To try, to tell 50:15 These lips can only start 50:21 Well, He's big 50:23 He's big enough 50:25 To rule this mighty universe 50:32 Yet small enough 50:36 To live within 50:39 My heart 50:45 Now who wrote that, you say it's... 50:46 Stuart Hamblen. Hamblen wrote that also. 50:48 Wow, what a great songwriter. Yeah. 50:50 I don't know all the verse 50:52 but I know quite a bit of the verses. 50:53 Apparently, I don't either. That's no, no, no... 50:56 No, he has such a great, he was a great lyricist. 51:01 Oh, absolutely. 51:03 And you know, he was a cowboy... 51:05 Oh, really? 51:07 The singing one of the first singing cowboys on the radio... 51:08 Oh, is that right? I didn't know that. 51:11 Yeah, he had such, you need to search on him, 51:12 I would like to do a program one day of just his songs... 51:15 Absolutely, absolutely. 51:16 Because he had some really great songs, 51:19 a lot of people who are, you know, 51:21 aren't believers they hear these some songs from, 51:23 you know, olden days and so, good stuff. 51:26 As a singing cowboy way before your time 51:28 but my time was Roy Rogers. 51:30 Okay. 51:31 And he and Dale Evans used to write some... 51:33 I thought he was a fictional character. 51:35 I didn't know he was real, 51:36 now you're the first person I met that ever knew him. 51:38 No, absolutely, Roy Rogers, he was a singing cowboy 51:42 but he and Dale Evans, they did, 51:44 they were Christians and they did a lot of... 51:46 Have faith, hope and charity 51:50 That's the way to live successfully 51:52 That's what I've heard. 51:53 How do I know, the Bible tells me so 51:58 Don't worry 'bout tomorrow 52:01 Just be real good today 52:04 The Lord will bless and guide you... 52:07 Something like that. 52:08 Lead you on your way Oh, the Bible says have faith 52:11 Hope and charity 52:14 That's the way to live successfully 52:17 How do I know, the Bible tells me so 52:21 How about this guy, he doesn't even have to hear a song, 52:24 has no idea what it is 52:25 and he jumps right in and can play it. 52:27 What a gift, what a gift. 52:28 I can't believe our time is all gone. 52:30 We're going to have to take a short break, 52:32 then we're going to come back with a closing thought. |
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