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Ryan Day Cd Project

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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
00:29 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
01:17 Rock of ages, cleft for me
01:25 Let me hide myself in Thee
01:32 Let the water and the blood
01:39 From Thy riven side which flowed
01:46 Rock of ages, cleft for me
01:54 Let me hide myself in Thee
02:09 Sometimes I feel discouraged
02:18 And I think my works in vain
02:27 I'm tempted oft to murmur
02:36 To grumble and complain
02:44 Oh, but then I think of Jesus
02:53 And all He's done for me
03:02 Then I cry, oh Rock of ages
03:11 Hide Thou me
03:20 Oh, Rock of ages
03:29 Hide Thou me
03:37 There is no other refuge
03:46 Can save, Lord but Thee
03:54 And through this dark world
03:59 I've wandered far
04:06 Far from Thee
04:12 Then I cry, oh Rock of ages
04:22 Hide Thou me
04:42 - Amen. Praise the Lord. Hello and welcome to 3ABN
04:44 Today. Thank you for joining us as you do
04:46 each and every day. I know our intro's a little
04:49 different than normal, but we have Ryan Day
04:52 here today. What an incredible instrument that God
04:54 has given him for music and for preaching, and we're
04:57 going to get to know Ryan a little better today. He
05:00 has a brand-new CD out that we're all excited
05:03 about. I love his songs and the music. And between him
05:07 and Tim Parton doing the music behind him, we're
05:09 going to have a great time today in the Lord.
05:12 And so again, we appreciate you. Thank you for your love
05:15 and your prayers and financial support of 3ABN
05:18 as we endeavor to take this great gospel of the
05:20 Kingdom into all the world. And one of the
05:22 things that we have seen that crosses denominational
05:26 lines over the past 34 years is music. There
05:30 are people who will watch 3ABN who might not ever
05:33 stop on this channel when they hear preaching or
05:36 prophecies or the mark of the beast; but when
05:38 they hear music like this, they'll stop and listen.
05:41 Then later, we'll get phone calls or letters
05:43 or emails that say, "You know, I stopped to listen
05:46 to that music, but then I heard the next program
05:49 and the next one," and then they talk about
05:50 coming to Jesus or joining the church. So, music is
05:54 a great tool that God has given us, and we're so
05:57 thankful that Ryan Day is now a part of working
05:59 with the music channel. We'll talk about that in
06:02 a few minutes-but before he sits down, I think I'm
06:05 just going to ask you, Ryan, if you'll do another
06:07 song for us right now, and then we'll come back
06:09 and hear from Ryan speaking.
06:26 In this quiet place with You
06:31 I bow before Your throne
06:34 I bear the deepest part of me
06:39 To You and You alone
06:43 I keep no secrets For there is no thought
06:49 That You have known
06:51 I bring my best and all the rest
06:56 To You I lay them down
07:06 With all my heart
07:12 I want to love You, Lord
07:16 And live my life
07:21 Each day to know You more
07:25 All that is in me
07:29 Is Yours completely
07:34 I'll serve You only
07:38 With all my heart
07:57 You faithfully supply my needs
08:02 According to Your plan
08:05 So help me, Lord, to seek your face
08:10 Before I seek Your hand
08:14 And trust You know what's best for me
08:18 When I don't understand
08:28 Then follow in obedience
08:32 In every circumstance
08:42 With all my heart
08:48 I want to love You, Lord
08:52 And live my life
08:55 Each day to know You more
08:59 All that is in me
09:03 Is Yours completely
09:09 I'll serve You only
09:20 I'll serve You only
09:34 With all my heart
10:04 - Amen. Thank you so much, Ryan. Beautiful song-"With
10:07 All My Heart." Today, it's a privilege to introduce to
10:11 some of you... Now many of you have been able to
10:12 see Ryan and get to know him over the last several
10:15 months or year; but right now, I'm happy to say
10:18 that he's full-time, employed- if you call it that. I hate to
10:22 call him employed when you're having so much
10:24 fun and you're in ministry, but it's a joy to have Ryan
10:27 here full-time at 3ABN. Ryan, it's great to have
10:29 you here today. - Amen. It's good to have you
10:31 here, brother. Thank you so much. Good to be here.
10:32 - You know what, a great instrument, a great tool
10:34 that God has given you- and I know you give Him
10:36 the glory for that. - Amen. - Now, you know Yvonne.
10:39 She's got a lot of music background and sang with
10:43 a lot of big names, but she says to me, "Ryan's
10:46 got one of the greatest tools that I've ever"...
10:48 You know, "natural tools that I've heard." - Oh,
10:51 praise the Lord. - So, coming from her, that's
10:53 a pretty good compliment. - That's humbling, coming
10:55 from her. - She may not say that to you, but she
10:56 says it to me. She said, "He has an incredible tool"-
10:59 you know?-"It's an incredible instrument." It was her words.
11:02 I say, "tool"; I'm a carpenter. "Tool,"
11:04 but she's "instrument." So, God has blessed you.
11:10 But we're going to find out today a little more
11:12 about you. You, for a number of years, you
11:16 were preaching. So, you were with Amazing Facts.
11:18 - I was with Amazing Facts for 5 years before I came
11:21 here, but I wasn't always a Seventh-day Adventist
11:24 Christian. I wasn't raised in the Adventist church,
11:26 so... - Well, we want to spend a little time; we're
11:28 going to do some more songs, so don't get antsy
11:30 at home. We're going to have him back up and do
11:32 a few more songs, brand-new. Can you show your CD, maybe?
11:35 - Yeah, absolutely. So, this is the new- this is it: the
11:38 "Songs of Faith" album. I'm a little proud of it.
11:42 It's my very first professional album. - Can you give us some
11:46 of the songs? - Absolutely! So there are songs like: "The
11:48 Solid Rock," "You Are My All in All," "Spirit in the
11:51 Bride," which is kind of a worship medley... "They
11:54 Sing a New Song" is also on this one. "I'm Going
11:57 to Give Him Glory" project, which is a wonderful song
11:59 written by David Huntsinger. We also have: "We'll Understand
12:02 It Better," "By and By," good old-fashioned kind
12:05 of pick-me-up hymn, which is a really good one. "With
12:08 All My Heart," which you heard just a few moments
12:10 ago, "Hide Thou Me," which is the one I started with in
12:13 the beginning, and of course, "I'd Rather Have Jesus,"
12:16 which we'll do in just a few moments, "Gethsemane,"
12:18 as well (which is a song you wrote, and Lanny
12:21 Wolfe co-wrote, which is wonderful), and then a
12:25 song called, "Satisfied," which is actually me and
12:28 Tim Parton in a duet on that one, which is... It
12:31 was fun; very fun for me and Tim. And then of
12:33 course, the last two are: "Until Then" and "When We
12:36 All Get to Heaven." - Can't be- those kinds
12:38 of songs are here forever. "Until Then," "When We All
12:40 Get to Heaven," I mean- most of these songs, you
12:43 know? - Yes. - And so, I love that your music,
12:46 your style of music- and it fits right into our 3ABN
12:48 audience, because most of our audience doesn't like all
12:53 the-and I'm just gonna like they talk to me, okay?
12:55 - Sure, sure. - They don't like all the beating and
12:57 banging and all the loud drums and all the percussions
13:01 and all the things going on. It's between- when
13:04 we get to heaven, we may really be surprised at some
13:07 of the music's there; so it's not to say what music is
13:09 sinful, what isn't sinful, what's good and bad, but
13:13 people have different taste. - Sure, sure. - So, I may be
13:16 a little broader in my taste than some of the folk are,
13:19 and then there's people a whole lot broader than
13:21 me. In fact, I was talking to the airlines just a little
13:26 bit ago, and...I don't know if it was a day or two ago,
13:29 and the lady- she said, "I gotta put you on hold,
13:31 and I'm so sorry that our music isn't working right
13:36 now, so it'll just be quiet." And I said,
13:37 "No, thank you, 'cause I'm sure that's going to
13:39 be better than the music," because everybody has
13:42 different taste, you know. - Right, right. Yes. - But
13:44 anyway, we appreciate your kind of music; but for a young
13:46 guy, you're kind of keeping the hymns and all of that-
13:50 you know. A lot of the young folk are totally
13:52 getting away from that. A lot of the music nowadays
13:54 from folks your age, and you get pushing that 30
13:58 mark-you know. Getting up here, they're all into
14:00 the more kind of...you don't know if it's rock,
14:02 you don't know if it's gospel, you don't know-
14:03 Christian- you don't know what it is, really; but yours
14:07 is very distinct, you have a message to give,
14:10 and it's just like in your preaching, and you give it. I
14:13 appreciate that, and so do we and our viewers at home will,
14:16 too, so we're excited for you to get to know Ryan
14:19 better. And of course, your position now with
14:21 the Praise Him Music Channel is what? - I am the assistant
14:24 to the general manager, who is Tim Parton, of the
14:27 Praise Him Music Network- the 3ABN Praise Him Music
14:30 Network. - And it is on the air now? - It is on
14:32 the air, it is going strong, and we're very excited
14:34 about some of the great opportunities and broadcasting
14:38 that we're going to be doing coming up in the near future.
14:40 - So for the folks on the go and traveling, and
14:43 they're always here and there, is there a way
14:45 they can use their phones or? - Oh, absolutely, yeah.
14:48 So I would encourage everyone to download
14:50 first, if you have a smartphone, download the 3ABN app. It's
14:54 free; just simply go to your app store, download-
14:56 just type in "3ABN," it'll pop up there, and you'll
14:59 have access to all the 3ABN different networks.
15:02 And of course, in that list is the Praise Him Music
15:05 Network. You can carry it with you anywhere
15:06 you want. Everywhere that you have internet connection,
15:09 it's available. Absolutely. - Isn't that amazing?
15:11 Yeah, and they go to the different... You can go on
15:13 the computer, you can go different ways, and be able
15:15 to get this 24/7. I love listening to it when I'm
15:18 traveling. It's wonderful. I watch it when I can when
15:21 I'm not driving, but... [laughter] Other than
15:23 that, I love watching it. So, brand-new music
15:26 network that I'm sure you're going to love. We have all
15:29 kinds of people watching already and watching the
15:32 music. I had talked to former attorney general not too
15:36 long ago, and he said, "Man, I love watching
15:38 3ABN's- your station and your music channel and
15:43 all of that," so we have a lot of people who watch
15:46 and love the music. As I was telling the folks
15:49 earlier, music is a universal language that people would
15:53 stop and watch 3ABN when they hear music like this.
15:57 They might not if you're up there preaching a fiery
15:59 sermon, but...you know, it gets them there, and
16:02 once they're there, a lot of times the Holy Spirit
16:04 leads them to continue to watch. Let's go back
16:07 and talk a little bit about your background. Now,
16:10 you were raised in what state? - So, I was raised
16:11 in the state of Arkansas. - Okay! - I was primarily
16:15 raised in a couple of different Pentecostal
16:17 denominations-more charismatic. So, I was the preacher's child,
16:22 and raised in a very conservative, wonderful
16:26 Christian home-but of course, the Lord had a different plan.
16:30 He knew we loved truth. He knew we were searching
16:32 for truth-and it wasn't too long before the truth
16:35 of the Sabbath and those wonderful pillar faithful
16:39 messages that the Adventist church teaches all around the
16:42 world came our way, and we couldn't pass it up, so...
16:45 - Wow! So that's just through... You weren't
16:49 watching TV, necessarily. Did you meet people who
16:51 were Adventist, and...how did that work? - So yeah!
16:54 So basically, my aunt-have to give a shout out to my
16:57 aunt Gwen (she's probably going to watch this), and
16:59 I think also my aunt Genie had something to do with
17:02 this, as well. It's both my dad's sisters, and they
17:04 had been... My aunt Jenny had- or she's- my aunt
17:08 Gwen had been involved in the Adventist church
17:11 at this time (this was back in the mid '90s-
17:13 early-to-mid '90s) and said come into, I think, some
17:16 Mark Finley or Kenneth Cox tapes that I'm
17:19 sure, probably, 3ABN had something to do with the
17:22 recording. And somehow, someway, I think it was my
17:25 Aunt Genie eventually shared a tape with my
17:28 dad, and they kind of both shared with my father,
17:30 and my Aunt Gwen really kind of pushed. You know,
17:33 "Watch that tape! Watch that tape!" And so my dad
17:35 watched it, and the rest is history. My dad began
17:38 to watch all of the Kenneth Cox tapes and Mark Finley
17:40 evangelistic series, and I remember as a kid,
17:43 peering into the television, watching these guys talk
17:46 about biblical things that I didn't quite understand...
17:48 but little did I know that years later, it would play
17:51 a major role in- and those same tapes would play a
17:54 major role in my conversion. - Wow. That's amazing. So,
17:57 your dad, did he- did your whole family, like, just join
18:00 the Adventist church, or did you take it one step
18:02 at a time? - It was kind of a multistep process. It's
18:06 interesting how it happened, because while my dad was
18:08 still in the Pentecostal faith and, you know, kind
18:11 of non-denominational, denominational-he was
18:14 kind of all over the place at one time, but he was
18:16 still preaching the Adventist message. In fact, many times
18:19 it cost him to... You know, some of the boards at the
18:21 churches that he attended would ask him to leave,
18:23 because he was preaching these truths. And so, actually,
18:27 long story short, I was the first one in my family that
18:30 made the decision to join the Adventist church. And
18:33 then of course, my brother and my sister joined, and
18:37 then, of course, later on, my mother and
18:39 father would join, as well. So, praise the Lord all
18:41 of my family are Adventist Christians, and they love
18:45 Jesus, and I praise God for the journey that He
18:47 has brought us through. - That's great. So you
18:50 were one of the first ones to stay in your family to
18:52 step out and say, "I wanna join the church." - That's
18:55 right. - That's great. Now, the book Ten Commandments:
18:58 Twice Removed, you said that helped you. - Yeah,
19:00 so this was actually a few...maybe a year or
19:03 two before I actually made the decision to
19:05 formally join the church. My father and I and my
19:08 family had started our own little kind of non-
19:10 denominational Sabbath-keeping church, teaching all of the
19:13 Adventist teachings in this church-in a little
19:16 country church out in the middle of nowhere. And
19:18 one day, a friend of my father's came in and had
19:20 a big stack of books, and he just laid them up on this
19:23 table in our sanctuary. He said, "If anybody
19:25 wants these, they can have them," and I started
19:27 going through them. One of them that stuck out to
19:29 me was the Ten Commandments: Twice Removed - Danny Shelton
19:32 and Shelley Quinn. So, I pulled it out of that stack,
19:34 read it, couldn't put it down; read it twice,
19:36 read it three times, and it played a huge role in
19:39 helping me kind of dial-in my understanding of,
19:42 you know, the Commandments and the importance of
19:44 Sabbath-keeping and obedience to Christ and
19:46 upholding the truth in the last days. - So, there's
19:49 all kinds of ways that we can, you know... There's
19:52 all this new media and media highways, but still
19:56 yet, there's just a good old book. It's printed, it
19:59 has pages, and you can turn it (you don't even
20:01 have to go on the internet or go somewhere), that they're
20:04 still effective, and we see that over and over - many
20:07 books; not just ours - but many of them that
20:09 we still pass out and give away, and we see people's
20:13 lives changed. So yours is a progressive thing.
20:16 You, more and more as you saw it - but something
20:19 interesting: you were obviously looking for
20:22 truth. - Absolutely. - And so, when you're looking
20:24 for truth, the Lord showed it to you. - Absolutely!
20:27 And I always tell people, you know, it first has
20:29 to start with one having the love for the truth.
20:31 You have to love truth... and I did. I wanted truth
20:34 more than anything, even if it meant me losing my
20:37 job (which I did at one time for the Sabbath),
20:39 me losing friends, which I did many times when
20:42 I gave my heart to Jesus... But I was on that search
20:46 as my family was, and things begin to change - but the
20:49 Lord had a plan. I just said to Him, even though
20:53 I wasn't perfect and I still had a lot of things in my
20:55 life (and still do!) that the Lord's working on
20:57 me. The Lord just wants a willing soul, and He showed
21:01 me that. "If you're willing to be used by Me, I will
21:03 use you." - You know what, what a great segue to your
21:06 next song, "I'd Rather Have Jesus." - I'd rather
21:08 have Jesus; that's right! - You were just saying-
21:10 all of that said, "I'd Rather Have Jesus."
21:12 So, we're going to have Ryan get up and sing this
21:14 song in just a moment, and a lot of you folk will know
21:17 it. If you don't, if you're younger and you haven't
21:19 heard it, this is, to me, it's one of the great
21:21 all-time songs. "I'd rather have Jesus than silver
21:24 and gold," and the author is saying that when we
21:27 really look at this world, it really doesn't have
21:29 anything. That silver and gold's not going to help
21:31 you when you get 90 or 100 or whenever you come to
21:35 the grave and you go down in the grave- nothing's
21:38 gonna help you but knowing Jesus Christ and accepting
21:41 Him as Lord and Savior of your life. And so,
21:45 today, that's a goal of 3ABN is to present Jesus
21:49 Christ to a lost and dying world - to see that He
21:51 is the answer for this world's problems today.
21:54 And it's our hope and prayer that each and
21:56 every one of you, along with us, would look all
21:59 around the world but say, "You know what, I've seen
22:01 it all...but 'I'd rather have Jesus.'" Ryan.
22:28 I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold
22:38 I'd rather be His than have riches untold
22:49 I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands
22:59 I'd rather be led by His nail pierced hands
23:10 Than to be the king of a vast domain
23:20 Or be held in sins dread sway
23:31 I'd rather have Jesus than anything
23:42 This world affords today
23:56 Ohh...
23:58 I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause
24:08 I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause
24:18 I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame
24:29 I'd rather be true to His holy name
24:40 Than to be the king of a vast domain
24:51 Or be held in sin's dreadful sway
25:05 I'd rather have Jesus
25:13 Than anything
25:23 This world affords
25:32 Today
25:42 Mm...
25:56 - Amen. Thank you, Ryan. This is all part of a brand-new
25:58 CD, and you should go to 3ABN. You can go to the
26:03 website, whatever - anytime, we always
26:04 say, other than Sabbath hours. This is Ryan's,
26:08 and it's his own personal; it's nothing that we own,
26:11 but we support him and what he's doing, so you
26:13 can work out the details with Ryan but you probably can
26:15 find out right here through 3ABN how to contact him.
26:18 And so, I would encourage you not only for yourself,
26:23 but for people around you. We know people
26:26 that- neighbors, we know friends... Maybe sometimes,
26:28 you can't really talk to them about Jesus;
26:30 but say, "Hey, I got this gift. There's a guy that
26:33 I met or I like." Maybe you go to a concert
26:35 somewhere, you see him, "Hey, I see him on 3ABN,
26:38 and I really just feel like the Lord's impressed me
26:42 to give you this." They'll listen to it. They may not
26:44 tell you yes or no, but so many times, in their
26:47 home, in the quietness, when they're struggling,
26:50 they'll put on this music. And we've seen over and
26:54 over again people brought to Jesus through music
26:57 like this. So, we encourage you to contact 3ABN and
27:02 find out how you can get yours we say any time
27:04 other than Sabbath hours I'd encourage you. In fact,
27:08 you're going to have a hard time getting this
27:09 away from me, Ryan, when the program's over, so I'll
27:12 work out with you whatever we gotta do later. We'll
27:15 trade something. We'll work it out, but wonderful.
27:19 Thank you, again, so much for what you're doing. Now,
27:21 we got a little time for talking. We want to get
27:24 a couple more songs in, but I want to talk about
27:26 you then actually felt a call to ministry. - Yeah.
27:30 Absolutely. - And how- what happened then?
27:32 - Yeah, so I was probably about two years into having
27:36 been working in my local Seventh-day Adventist
27:39 Church. I was youth pastor and made my way up through,
27:43 being an elder and really working in my local church.
27:47 The Lord just inspired me one day and encouraged me
27:49 as I had been watching some evangelistic series,
27:52 I had been studying my Bible more, and the Lord
27:54 just placed it on my heart. Said, "You know what, I've
27:56 given you gifts, I've given you talents...
27:57 I want you to use them for me." And so, myself
28:00 and my brother Dakota, who is now an Amazing
28:03 Facts evangelist, and both of our wives and our
28:07 friend Jordan Moore... We all, 5 of us, went
28:09 from Arkansas to California in 2013, and we went
28:13 through the Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism there
28:16 where we were trained by Pastor Doug and the AFCOE
28:19 crew on how to do proper evangelism in these last
28:22 days...and it was one of the best decisions of my
28:24 life. And so, about halfway or a little more than halfway
28:28 through that program, I was given a couple of opportunities
28:30 to speak, and the Lord just blessed me abundantly
28:34 and providing an opportunity for myself to join the Amazing
28:37 Facts evangelistic team. And so from that point
28:40 forward for the next 5 years, I would travel on
28:43 behalf of Amazing Facts Ministries, and I would
28:46 find myself all over the United States and Canada,
28:49 preaching the gospel, and it's just been the greatest
28:52 journey of my life. I'll never take it back. It's
28:56 a wonderful thing. - So you could've never really looked
28:58 back as a young child, going to these churches and
29:02 thinking, "I'd be out in the frontline, being
29:04 an evangelist in the Seventh-day Adventist
29:06 Church," right? - That's right. Never; never.
29:07 [laughter] It's a beautiful thing. - Yeah, it's amazing.
29:10 But you mentioned your brother, so your brother...
29:12 Is he? Tell us about your family and siblings.
29:15 - Yeah! So I mentioned earlier all of my family
29:17 eventually made that decision to be Sabbath-
29:20 keeping Christians in the Seventh-day Adventist
29:22 Church, and my brother Dakota who's younger
29:24 than me-he's about 4-and-a-half years younger than me-he's
29:27 also an Amazing Facts evangelist still today,
29:30 and so he travels, and he's been with them now
29:32 for about two-and-a-half~ almost three years. And
29:34 so, yeah! Of course, I'm no longer with Amazing
29:38 Facts now; I'm here with 3ABN. But as I'm kind of
29:41 transitioning out of there, my brother's kind of taken
29:44 up the banner and he's moving forward in the field of
29:47 evangelism, so yeah. - Now, it'd probably be a really
29:50 hard choice if you had to decide between singing
29:54 or preaching, 'cause I can tell when you're
29:56 doing it, when you're ministering, you love
29:58 both. - Sure, sure. Aw, yeah. - And you love it.
30:01 So, that would be a tough decision, wouldn't it? - It
30:03 would a tough decision. I love to preach, I love
30:06 to sing, but I think every man knows what he's best
30:09 at at the end of the day, and I would say that I
30:12 probably am better at singing than I am preaching...
30:17 But at the end of the day, it's not about being better
30:19 or better than someone else; it's about being willing
30:21 to preach and to sing for Jesus, which I love doing
30:24 both - absolutely. - So on 3ABN- we're kind of
30:27 putting you- you just jumped right out of that,
30:29 jumped right into this. Now you've been doing,
30:31 what, some of the Sabbath school programs? - I've been
30:33 on the Sabbath School Panel. - How do you like that? - Oh,
30:34 I love it! It's just been an incredible journey.
30:37 - Some of the folk you're sitting beside there,
30:41 listening and working with? - Oh, man, it's like
30:43 drinking from a fire hydrant when I'm around Jill and
30:46 Shelley and John and Kenny, and then yourself, and it's
30:50 just... It's been an incredible experience -
30:52 absolutely. - Oh, it is. I've been on it a few
30:54 times; I feel I'm out of my league, you know?
30:56 But it's really neat to hear everyone's perspective of
30:59 the same lesson study, but different people get
31:03 different-you know?-it's like little gems of truth.
31:05 - It's true. - And so when I listen to you, I listen to
31:07 Jill and each one, and so I've read it, but we'll
31:10 each pick up something different, and it's
31:13 really... It's one of the most watched programs,
31:16 as far as we could tell, of people watching, and
31:19 we're happy for that, because the more people
31:21 that's watching, the better. And again, a lot of these
31:24 folk- most of our viewers... People don't know this.
31:26 In general, a lot of people don't know-... As far as
31:30 we can tell, probably 95%- and I didn't make a mistake
31:34 on this-95% of our viewing audience and listening audience
31:38 are not Seventh-day Adventist. So, I hear a lot of people say,
31:42 "Oh, well, that's an Adventist channel, preaching to the
31:46 choir"... Not really, and there's nothing wrong
31:48 with preaching to the choir, and we do to a lot of choirs,
31:51 and 3ABN's known around the world...but it's amazing
31:55 to me that- here's an amazing fact-that probably
31:59 95% of our potential viewing audience is not Seventh-day
32:04 Adventist, and we understand that as we travel: in airports
32:07 and places. I've been in Bucharest, Romania, and
32:09 Russia, Moscow, and cities that where you would have
32:13 no idea that people would walk up and say, "Oh,
32:15 I see you"...and their accents from whatever
32:19 country but their attempt to do in English (and some
32:22 of it's pretty good, actually). But, "Oh, I see you on 3ABN,"
32:26 I'm always amazed at the people that are watching 3ABN
32:30 around the world. So again, we're so thankful that you're
32:34 here, you're part of the team, the music team;
32:36 but we didn't make you decide, 'cause we're
32:38 having you do both. - Amen. - So you're going to be
32:40 preaching the camp meeting, too? - That's right. Coming
32:42 up spring camp meeting; absolutely. - Isn't that
32:44 going to be great? What's that-June 5th through 8th?
32:46 - June 5th through 8th. It's on the Ten Commandments-
32:48 God's holy law and covenant; law of liberty-and so I'm going
32:52 to get to preach on the topic of the Sabbath, so
32:55 it's going to be really fun. - Yeah. Oh, you're
32:57 going to do the Sabbath? - I'm going to be doing the
32:58 topic of the Sabbath, which is a big one. - Well, why not,
33:00 right? [laughter] 'Cause you learned it, and it didn't
33:02 come from not being raised in the church. - That's right.
33:05 - Yeah. Absolutely. - Amen. - Well, right now, I want to
33:07 transition to a song, but I want you to- you tell
33:10 me about it a little bit from your perspective-
33:12 you chose it-but Gethsemane. - Sure. - And why that on this
33:16 particular project. - Yeah, absolutely. Well, first and
33:18 foremost, any time I get to sing about Christ and
33:22 the sacrifice that He gave for us... You know, many
33:24 people think that the ultimate sacrifice He
33:26 gave was up on cross, and that for sure is true that
33:29 He did indeed endure the cross in despite of the
33:32 shame, but He had to endure Gethsemane. The first time
33:36 I heard this song was actually in the studio,
33:38 just as a new kind of convert coming into 3ABN as an
33:43 employee. I remember you had brought me into the
33:46 studio and said... Either there's a song that I
33:48 wrote and you played it for me, and I was just
33:50 captivated by the message, the way it was very well
33:54 written, the music was just beautiful... And from that
33:57 moment on, when I had the opportunity to make
34:00 this CD, I kind of, you know, urged E.T. and
34:03 Tim and yourself, "Hey, can I record this song?"
34:07 And it's just been such a blessing. I love the message,
34:09 and I know the Lord really used you, and Lanny Wolfe
34:11 to write the song. - Yeah, Lanny Wolfe. And actually,
34:13 the night before we were doing that whole project...
34:16 I was getting ready to- Reggie was producing that
34:20 particular project. I was going down to meet
34:23 him, and I was supposed to pick up Lanny Wolfe
34:25 at the airport, and I got this little tune... "He
34:28 suffered Gethsemane through blood, sweat, and tears"...
34:32 And so, all of a sudden, it started coming to me,
34:35 "Each drop of blood He shed..." All of a sudden, words
34:40 start coming to me, and I said, "Wow, that is..."
34:42 So I write this chorus, the words and the music;
34:45 so Reggie calls, and I say, "Reggie," I said,
34:49 "Man, I wish it weren't so late in the project, 'cause
34:52 we're recording the next two days, but this little tune came
34:56 to me." "Let me hear it." Soon as I play it, he said,
34:58 "Danny, we gotta get that on this CD." And I said,
35:00 "I don't even have the verses to it!" So he
35:03 said, "Well, let's... Maybe you can work on it."
35:05 So I pick up Lanny at the airport and take
35:08 him to his room; and when I drop him off, on the way
35:12 there, I say, "Lanny, I wrote this little chorus
35:14 tonight." And I didn't ask him to work on it; you don't
35:17 ask Lanny Wolfe. He's a legend, so I don't expect
35:20 him to drop down to my level. But I said, "Well,
35:23 if he wants to do it, he'll volunteer." So he said,
35:25 "That's really nice." The next morning, we
35:29 go to breakfast, and he says "Do you want somebody?
35:32 That song's been running through my mind all night.
35:34 You want verses?" And I said, "Absolutely." So he
35:37 literally, that day, was in a side room, working,
35:41 putting the verses together (which are INCREDIBLE), so
35:44 I don't take the credit for that. Lanny through
35:47 the Holy Spirit, you know, doing it. But it turned
35:49 out to be a song that we give God all honor and glory and
35:53 praise, and you do a great job on it, so
35:55 we're going to have Ryan sing to you right now...
35:58 Again, this CD's available; all you have to do is contact
36:01 3ABN other than Sabbath hours. We'll tell you how
36:04 you can get this new project; but right now,
36:07 he'll be ministering to us through Gethsemane.
36:24 All the way from heaven's splendor
36:30 Robed in flesh, One in a manger
36:37 Jesus came to set sin's captives free
36:47 "Father, not My will, but Thine be done,"
36:55 Was the prayer He prayed, God's only Son
37:01 So, He drank the bitter cup for you and me
37:12 He suffered Gethsemane
37:18 Through blood, sweat, and tears
37:24 Each drop of blood He shed
37:29 Bought me a million years
37:36 God's crowning sacrifice
37:43 His spotless Lamb
37:49 Now risen from the grave
37:54 He is the great I Am
38:04 All alone, He felt forsaken
38:10 In the garden, His heart was breaking
38:16 Yet He chose to die on Calvary
38:27 Jesus, blessed Savior and Redeemer
38:35 All to Him I now surrender
38:41 Could I do less after all He's done for me
38:51 He suffered Gethsemane
38:58 Through blood, sweat, and tears
39:04 Each drop of blood He shed
39:09 Bought me a million years
39:16 God's crowning sacrifice
39:23 His spotless Lamb
39:29 Now risen from the grave
39:33 He is the great I Am
39:43 He could have left us to die in our sin
39:49 Alone, forever lost
39:54 Oh, but grace would change how the story ends
40:01 Jesus' blood would pay the cost
40:10 He suffered Gethsemane
40:16 Through blood, sweat, and tears
40:21 Each drop of blood He shed
40:26 Bought me a million years
40:34 God's crowning sacrifice
40:40 His spotless Lamb
40:46 Now risen from the grave
40:51 He is the great I Am
40:59 God's crowning sacrifice
41:05 His spotless Lamb
41:14 Now risen from the grave
41:18 He is the great I Am
41:25 Now risen from the grave
41:31 He is the great I Am
41:48 Mm...
42:05 - Amen. Wow. Amazing. Thank you, Ryan, so much.
42:09 What a...just a beautiful delivery on this song that
42:13 talks about, when you think about Jesus in the garden
42:16 of Gethsemane, that He was willing to give His life for
42:21 you and me. It said that He sweat great drops of
42:24 blood...but each drop of blood bought you and me
42:27 a million years. I mean, think about eternity and
42:30 how it can go on and on and on. Sometimes, it's
42:34 almost mind-boggling-but the love that God has for
42:37 fallen man... Now we see through a glass darkly,
42:40 but then face to face... But someday, we'll understand
42:43 it better by and by. And to me, it's just an amazing
42:47 gift that God has given. So, our hope and prayer
42:49 is that each and every one of you accepts Jesus Christ
42:53 as Lord and Savior of your life, and all you have to do
42:55 is confess your sins. He's faithful and just to forgive
42:58 you from your sins, cleanse you from all unrighteousness,
43:01 then all you have to do is go and tell. That's what
43:03 Ryan's doing! He's doing it- what God has done for him.
43:07 His own personal testimony's his greatest asset right now,
43:10 because he's out singing or preaching, "This is what
43:14 Jesus has done for me." Ryan, thank you so much
43:16 for what you're doing. We don't have a lot of time
43:19 for the talking part; we're going to try to get in another
43:21 song, but you gotta tell us a little bit about when
43:23 we got you, we actually got a package, a deal,
43:26 and who's now also involved in the ministry. - That's
43:30 right. So my wife, when we were with Amazing Facts,
43:32 we traveled both together for five years on the road.
43:35 She had, you know, there at the last, she had a
43:38 little bit of an extended time where she taught
43:41 at another school before coming to 3ABN with me.
43:44 When we were making the decision to come here,
43:48 we wanted to make sure that her gifts were being
43:50 used, as well, and so we just prayed, "Lord,
43:53 if there's some way that Stephanie could also be
43:55 used for Your glory and her gifts be used for You"...
43:59 - But there really wasn't an opening that we could
44:01 see. - Yeah, there wasn't at the moment. - But she
44:03 said a great thing: "Well, I'd be willing to do production
44:06 if I needed to. I've had some experience, or
44:08 wherever you need me." So that, when you say you're
44:11 willing like that, it's amazing what God does.
44:13 - That's right; and this was actually before we
44:15 had actually formally come on as an employee when we
44:19 were here recording one day, and then the Lord
44:21 just opened an incredible door. The superintendent
44:23 of schools here was here on campus at 3ABN, or at
44:26 the school across the road, and she got to meet him,
44:28 and the rest is history. She's now the principal
44:32 and head teacher of the Thompsonville Junior Christian
44:34 Academy. - Amen. - So, it's a blessing. - Isn't that
44:36 amazing? - Absolutely. - I love it. So, for the
44:40 future, God's got big plans for the both of
44:43 you. - Absolutely! - And you're young enough that
44:45 He can use it, and it gives me great peace knowing
44:48 that we have people like Greg and Jill Morikone,
44:51 and we got Jason Bradley- you know, Dare to Dream-
44:54 we got Jason Bergmann in accounting, have you in
44:57 ministry, Tim Parton- a number of folks. So
45:01 as I'm getting older and older, you know, say,
45:03 "Well, should the Lord tarry?" 3ABN's in good
45:06 hands, and I'm so thankful that God is bringing the
45:08 right people here that have a burden to get an
45:11 undiluted three angels' messages-one that
45:14 would counteract the counterfeit into all the
45:16 world. What I'd like to do- Ryan, we do have time.
45:20 We'll come back and talk for a little bit more, but
45:22 I would like to go back and have you do- this
45:25 is a great song. Probably everybody listening to it
45:28 will know it. If not, it's time you learn
45:30 it! It's one of the greatest songs from my life. My dad
45:34 would sing it; I remember as a child in church, watching
45:38 my dad up front, singing, "Until Then." So right now,
45:41 sit back and be blessed as Ryan sings to you, "Until Then."
45:58 My heart can sing when I pause to remember
46:09 A heartache here is but a stepping stone
46:20 Along a trail that's winding always upward
46:32 This troubled world is not my final home
46:43 But until then my heart will go on singing
46:55 Until then with joy I'll carry on
47:06 Until the day my eyes behold that city
47:17 Until the day God calls me home
47:29 The things of earth will dim and lose their value
47:40 If we recall they're borrowed for a while
47:51 And things of earth that cause my heart to tremble
48:02 Remembered there will only bring a smile
48:13 But until then my heart will go on singing
48:25 Until then with joy I'll carry on
48:36 Until the day my eyes behold that city
48:47 Until the day God calls me home
48:59 Until the day my eyes behold that city
49:11 Until the day God calls me home
49:26 Until the day He calls me home
49:46 - Well, that's a two-hander right there. Just think about
49:49 it: when God calls us home, you know when
49:51 that will be? Now, some people say, "Well, if
49:53 I die today, He's going to call me home." No,
49:55 not then. We gotta sleep for a little while, sleep
49:58 in the grave, the Bible says, but at the Second
50:00 Coming, at the sound of the trump, the dead in
50:02 Christ shall rise first. We which are alive and remain shall
50:06 be caught up together with the Lord in the air.
50:09 What a glorious day that will be. But until then,
50:12 we need to hold on, keep the faith, don't be discouraged.
50:15 When things come against you, don't blame God;
50:18 blame the devil! He's the one that's out to steal,
50:20 kill, and to destroy. Jesus says, "I am come to give
50:23 you live and give it more abundantly." I don't know
50:25 about you, but I'm encouraged today to hear these songs of
50:28 faith, to hear Ryan's testimony... It's incredible
50:31 what God is doing. Just as He's orchestrating-
50:34 and Ryan, just as He's orchestrating your life,
50:37 each and every person watching this program today, Ryan,
50:41 you agree with me God is orchestrating their salvation,
50:44 and it's a matter of accepting that free gift. Why don't you
50:47 take just a couple minutes and you look into the camera
50:49 and talk to the folk today that, maybe, you're sitting
50:52 on the fence or trying to decide what they really
50:55 want to do with their lives. - Absolutely. You know, just
50:57 as you said-the Bible promises us that God,
50:59 He is the great Creator. He is the King of the cosmos;
51:03 and there is not a hair on your head that He doesn't
51:06 know about, and He loves each and every - the Bible
51:08 says God IS love. And you know, He displayed
51:13 that love on Mount Calvary when He gave each and
51:15 every drop of blood of His life and breath of
51:18 His life for us that we may have salvation.
51:21 You know, we're talking about ministry; we're
51:23 talking about preaching and singing, and all of
51:25 these things are great... It's not for our glory;
51:28 it's for His. I'm not the only one with a talent,
51:31 Danny. God has blessed each and every person
51:33 with a gift and a talent to use for Him, and
51:37 I want to encourage each and every person at home,
51:38 watching, that it's not too late, no matter
51:41 where you are in your walk with the Lord.
51:44 You may think you don't have a walk with the Lord-
51:46 it's still not too late. All you simply have to
51:48 do is call out to Him and say, "Lord, I
51:50 recognize that I am a sinner, and I recognize
51:52 that you gave your life that I may have life
51:56 more abundantly and be saved from my sin."
51:58 So I encourage you: give your heart to Jesus.
52:00 Simply kneel- you could do it no matter where
52:02 you are; you could be at home, you could be at
52:04 work, you could be driving down the road. You could
52:05 be listening to this incredible CD! And to encourage you to
52:10 give your heart to Jesus. I encourage you to do so
52:12 while you still have time, because Jesus IS alive.
52:15 He is still living and He is still working
52:18 among His people, and He will come again for His
52:20 people who are prepared and ready for His return.
52:23 - Amen. Thank you so much. When we think
52:27 about it, you know, the goodness of God, again,
52:30 it makes each of us- we feel so unworthy,
52:33 but really, we should, because we're not worthy.
52:35 But as you said, God is love. - He is love. - And
52:38 so again, I'm so thankful today for you and for your
52:41 music that you're doing and for this new CD that
52:44 we have right here that I'm hanging onto...in just
52:47 a minute, this new CD... But what we'd like for
52:50 you to do, we're going to put up an address roll in
52:52 just a few seconds. And so, I would encourage you
52:55 to contact Ryan, because if I understand it right
52:59 that weekends, people, once you come out and
53:02 minister to- you and Tim maybe to come out and
53:05 do some stuff together, do some music and of
53:07 course, you haven't heard Tim Parton. Tim was playing
53:10 quite a bit on the music you were singing then,
53:13 but an incredible piano player; he's really gifted.
53:16 And the two of them together is a lot of fun, and they'll
53:18 minister to you. So if you want to contact them,
53:20 you may do so at the following address.
53:25 - If the Holy Spirit impresses you to support 3ABN's
53:28 worldwide ministry, you can do so in a variety of ways!
53:32 You can write to
53:33 3ABN Post Office Box 220 West Frankfort, IL 62896.
53:40 Again, that's 3ABN Post Office Box 220 West Frankfort, IL 62896
53:47 You can call us at (618) 627-4651
53:51 That's (618) 627-4651. You can also visit us
53:57 online for our live programs, schedules, and more at 3abn.tv.
54:03 That's 3ABN.tv


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