Bill & Gloria Gaither - Thank You [Live] ft. Ray Boltz

[@sirgarruovl]

as I read what people are writing here ...it is no wonder that the churches are pretty empty....it is very very sad that you think you can judge this very annointed singer....yes the annointing is still there any song that he sings has that very special touch .....the touch of God. Please take a moment and go look in the mirror...we are all sinners....we have all fallen short of the Glory of God....all these comments are doing is pushing this man further away....he has truly been chosen by God, just as God chose David whom became an adulterer....I love this man and I know that I will see him in heaven....because God's grace is sufficiant.... so please get off your high horses and enjoy the gift that God has given him and Rays obedience to have written these song and performed them.....music is what brought me to God, it was a song by Dallas Holm called "Rise Again"....it softened my heart and I went to the altar to ask Jesus to come into my heart.....May God Bless you all....

[@TautekiTaremon-ok6mg]

This song mean so much to me It's so touching and very meaningful It also teach us a lesson about giving to the Lord because that's what life is all about Nothing else matters when we all leave this life

[@StarM-z4v]

😊AMEN🙏🏽

[@rencharlie8863]

I've given my Life to Christ!I'm 16 years old.Please pray for me.I want to be a good man in future...And,I'm from Nagaland,India!God Bless America and his beloved people...😊😊😊

[@msafirilugoe2550]

Renbenthung Kikon amen

[@GiftyEliyanaGraceActs]

Check out Bro Zac Poonen messages little brother ☺ ☺

[@vivianeborkholder2268]

And I recommend Mike Winger :) welcome to the family, my dude!! John 15

[@MD-hg9dq]

A PRAYER On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰

[@J-Dawg-1]

God bless you!

[@adapedneau1114]

Who is still Lisening in 2020 ???

[@mariezimmerman295]

I think he's great ! He's honest ! And and a christian

[@Lillithscorpio]

2021

[@dollyvitka9676]

I am still listening in 2021. My Uncle sings in church. Its one of my favorites. Along with I Pledge Allegiance to The Lamb. And im sure the Lord loves Ray no matter what.

[@Lillithscorpio]

@@dollyvitka9676 yup!

[@Lillithscorpio]

@@dollyvitka9676 God Knows we will always make mistakes & be confused. That's why he died for our sins, that is our future sins too.

[@dionnejones3835]

I was in the second grade when I first started going to private schools. They pastor and his wife taught us this song to sing to the teachers and principal they read the Bible to us every day. Every since than this has been my FAVORITE song.

[@sabrinadawn4112]

I am praying for Ray. We serve a faithful God who is long suffering that none should perish. I praise Him daily for rescuing me from the pit of despair. Philippians 1:6💞

[@angelacormell7027]

Ray Boltzs music still touches my heart! I pray he knows how much he's missed, and will come back and sing more songs for Jesus. ❤️

[@adapedneau1114]

After a Fall from Grace it only takes one Drop of the Blood of the Lamb to be forgiven !!!

[@shernettegrant5538]

Amen

[@Mark-sj3xb]

He has not repented. He is living with his husband.

[@Allenmassageguy]

God will forgive him. He still serves the Lord ❤

[@mannfan12]

@@Mark-sj3xb how many Christians divorced for other than the one reason allowed in the Bible, remarried to someone else, and are serving in positions of church leadership???

[@strictlybusiness7174]

Without a doubt!

[@khumoyamekoogotsitse4174]

2024 still listening

[@parkerharris1811]

Heard this song for the first time when my grandma was playing it laying down next to my grandpa, who was a preacher for 50 years, on his death bed. It will forever have a place in my heart

[@JohnMungwele-nj2fb]

Anyone in 2024👋👋

[@denilsonmartins6784]

Yes🎉🎉

[@thrivestory]

2024 I am listening 🎶

[@parispoet]

Who is still listening to this in 2022? I love this song! I woke up today with this song in my heart. I remember this song being popular back in the 90s...good old days. ❤❤

[@catshomelife]

I'm enjoying this song in May 2023. Worth revisiting!

[@tabeakalimeris1230]

Lyrics: I dreamed I went to heaven And you were there with me We walked upon the streets of gold Beside the crystal sea We heard the angels singing Then someone called your name You turned and saw this young man And he was smiling as he came And he said friend you may not know me now And then he said but wait You used to teach my Sunday School When I was only eight And every week you would say a prayer Before the class would start And one day when you said that prayer I asked Jesus in my heart CHORUS Thank you for giving to the Lord I am a life that was changed Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave Then another man stood before you And said remember the time A missionary came to your church And his pictures made you cry You didn't have much money But you gave it anyway Jesus took the gift you gave And that's why I'm here today CHORUS (repeat) One by one they came Far as the eyes could see Each life somehow touched By your generosity Little things that you had done Sacrifices made Unnoticed on the earth In heaven now proclaimed And I know that up in heaven You're not supposed to cry But I am almost sure There were tears in your eyes As Jesus took your hand And you stood before the Lord He said, my child look around you For great is your reward CHORUS (repeat) I am so glad you gave

[@mariezimmerman295]

He is anointed!so judge not

[@troywilkinson160]

I think you mean condemned. Not anointed. You’re welcome for the correction.

[@ntsikimalinga7547]

😊

[@azyoadrienne]

We need you Ray! Cone home!

[@ClassicRoyal]

Had to watch this on the anniversary of Billy Graham’s home going!

[@bobbymay4034]

I was in two of his concerts and was so moved and blessed may God help him in every way. Only God could have giving him this talent. Ray always use it fo Jesus.

[@fridahpaul897]

Since 1994 was listening to this song till today

[@schmuelsonsradang4301]

My father passed away at old age 6 years ago due to cancer. He'd served the Lord ministry as a pastor for almost 45 years. This song always remind me of him, the sacrifices he he made for the ministry almost unnoticed by men. I know that he had found his eternalnpeace and rest with the Lord. Yesterday, I met a stranger, an old man at a pharmacy. As I was talking to the cashier the man and his wife were looking at me. As I walked out the man told me that my voice sounds familiar to one young preacher who came to his church in 1976 , the man said that he gave his only belonging at that time, a guitar for my father when he found and accepted Christ as his savoir through the sermon on that one particular day. I told him.that my father passed away 6 years ago. The wife, wiping her tears said, they haf tried for many years to find him but after 1980s they migrated to New Zealand. They came to their grandson's wedding. I was speechless but deep inside I thanked God that there are souls out there saved through his works. Glory to God.

[@Jesse-gc8fq]

amen

[@Unjovencomotu31]

Today I cry, Billy, Thank you, I am from Colombia. I was learning english. I decided to use your preaching for studying the acent. I was touched for your love for God. Now I am a young preacher of the gospel. God grant me the power that you had in Christ. See you in heaven. R. I. P

[@SelfReflective]

No doubt about it, this is a good song. And I'm an atheist, but I enjoy it for the emotion.

[@gavinomalley7099]

Ray is one person I would love to just sit down with and talk to for hours, knowing I would be a better man when I left him than before.

[@2004mojo]

I didn't know that Billy Graham died 9 months before his 100th birthday. What a life! I AM SO GLAD HE GAVE! 🙏

[@RM-yp6dt]

This song brings me back to being 4 years old 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I used to ball my eyes out listening to this. What a throwback..

[@NicolasForJesus]

Thank YOU Lord!

[@mickfely]

This song reminds me of my mother and all the many children that my Mom helped come to Love the Lord.

[@ChristinaMarieAngelicque-vc3nx]

WHO IS STILL LISTENING TO THIS SONG IN 2023?

[@Lejmm]

2024

[@annachis07]

Me!

[@Honu425]

Me!

[@kaneirkayleecasimiro4877]

Still the best song in 2020 🥺❤️❤️ Thank You Ray ☺️🥰

[@glorialeeyoung4400]

They sang this at my Daddy's going home to Jesus day!

[@richardbealle761]

It's a great song!

[@TryH4rdGaming]

My dads too

[@erickboone7024]

My condolences but he is with Father now

[@MrAtchisonc]

I will play this at my Dad's funeral

[@philipamankwa419]

Seek no "Thank yous" on this despicable space called Earth, the real "Thank you" will be said in the great city whose road are made of Gold! The New Jerusalem. Hallelujah

[@두다리건널목바라기별]

I was first introduced to this song, "Thank You" on Christmas of 1994. I was attending a small Christian University out of State. My first internship while I was in class was working under State and Federal Chief Prosecutor's Office. What an awsome journey of faithful fellowship of Korean Campus Crusade for Christ our walk together had been for last eighteen years, and twenty eight years for this beautiful and grand walk this Nation have had to continue relentless work toward adopting two States; Puerto Rico Puerto Rico San Juan San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, Greenland Greenland Nuuk Nuuk, Greenland 🇬🇱. Jaishoon Couplar

[@jeanaller9246]

My husband and I both came to the Lord through the preaching of Evangelist Darrell Dunn so many years ago! One day we will see him in Heaven and be able to say, "Thank you"!

[@jfultz100]

I think that God is a spirit that is greater than any one religion. There is so much we don't see or understand in this life. I believe that God loves Ray for who he is and I'm happy for him. I've always liked this song. I think the best part about going to Heaven is going to be finding out that some little thing you felt compelled to do was actually the answer to someones prayer.

[@Odorokasu]

This song still makes me cry. I used to be a puppeteer at an old church we used to go to when I was younger. And the childrens' church leaders were moving to another church. So we did a puppet show for them with this song. Needless to say, all of us behind the puppet stage were crying our eyes out while doing it. This song always makes me think of them.

[@bigbubba29]

It touched me that Bill and Gloria accepted him as he is.

[@DavidWilliams-mo6dj]

RIP Billy Graham 🙏 he home with the Lord. Tears started falling. This song s always touched me from a child up till now. But this time tears really started falling. The passing of Billy. N I think this was recorded before his passing. But what a perfect and beautiful remembrance video of him. A true man after good own heart. Led so many ppl to Christ as well.......

[@2004mojo]

Just wanted to note that you're correct. Billy Graham was still alive when this was recorded. Ruth Graham is in the audience and she passed in 2007, eleven yrs before he died.

[@marybruce3923]

Thank you Father for my wonderful parents who taught me about you,my dad did teach my Sunday school when I was 8. Thank you for carrying me thru four different types of cancer in the last 20 years and the death of my son David June of this year. Love you Lord Jesus.

[@lucilleaa]

Remember the example of Cain.....he wanted God to accept him on his own terms, by offering the fruits and vegetables that he'd had poured his heart into growing....he offered to God what was nearest and dearest to his heart, but this was not what God had requested, so the offering was refused....we mistakenly try to justify to ourselves what should be acceptable to God

[@BelieveInTheLordJesus777]

Amen!

[@francoisbessing]

Interesting how quick we can summon a man's sin like thirsty pharisees but keep our own neatly, tucked away. Why are you all throwing multiple stones when you yourselves are not without sin?

[@BelieveInTheLordJesus777]

So if someone keeps living in the same sin, likely not recognising it as such due to this end time deception, shall we just ignore because we are all sinners? A Christian should sincerely repent of its sin and not keep doing it. Also, a true Christian should help someone that has a sin problem, not ignore due to the extra-Biblical "love" people are adding to it, throwing away the righteousness of God.

[@rohenry14]

@@francoisbessing it still doesn't mean homosexuality is right. And if I am sinning, I wouldn't mind someone helping me back to the right path. God, in his word has already condemned this, we don't need anymore confirmation

[@mariezimmerman295]

Really how about all the crooked preachers !they are evil! Divorce is wrong how many preachers are divorced stop judging ! Hell be in heaven not you

[@deborahkayemauro333]

Thank you, Lord for the life of Billy Graham! 😇😇🙏🙏😍

[@carolcollins6243]

I wonder if Billy Graham would still want to be joined with this performer today?

[@johntatum1951]

Thanks to the Lord for allowing me the honor of meeting Ruth Graham one afternoon in front of her and Billy's home in Montreat, NC...I had been working at Ridgecrest Baptist Center, and me and my girlfriend (at the time>>:) Peggy...drove up to see if we could find the Graham homeplace...while parked outside the gate...Ruth drove up in her blue Mercedes covertible...I told her our names and where we were working...she smiled and then she asked us to pray for Billy...so I told her we would...I still pray for Billy now...God bless him and soon he will be reunited with Ruth in Heaven...PTL!

[@gospelmusiconpianobyalanmc822]

Hallelujah Praise the Lord!! Praying Ray returns back to the Lord and Sing for Jesus 🙏

[@justanotherbloke7748]

Damn his voice. If I had a voice like Ray Boltz, I wouldnt be talking, I'll be singing forever.

[@roelienvanzyl534]

One of the best songs of all time...thank God for the good still on this earth. Nearly gave up

[@mariezimmerman295]

God gave a gay man that song !

[@seyitomiamseyitom5642]

One of the best performance ever. Who's with me??? This 2022!!!

[@olayinkabode-alaaka5015]

I avoid listening to this song in public as no matter how hard I try, it brings tears to my eyes even after listening for close to 30 years. This is one song sent by God to men. God bless you, Ray Boltz.

[@carlamichelle0071]

Ray YOU are an inspiration.. Your faith, Your relationship with God.. The fact that you keep Praising his name and Loving him, Your heart Shows IN the Music that you Make to for The Lord.. I thank God That He Knows our Hearts ... And Loves all our Bits and Broken Pieces xxxx

[@Lillithscorpio]

One of my favorite songs ! So uplifting ! Praise God !

[@jevvieanadon9955]

I love this song so much thank you so much Lord ❤️🙏🙏

[@shernettegrant5538]

Thank you Ray for giving too the Lord with that beautiful voice ,my favorite song that is the Anchor hold by Ray Bolt.

[@Haru_.a]

저도 천국에 가서 주님을 뵐때 이모습으로 뵙길 원해요

[@Lillithscorpio]

This song makes me cry everytime I watch it . I watch it everyday so many times . Love this song so touching . Bringing me closer to God ! Thank you Ray for singing this song !

[@aryatwijukamoses8775]

Greatest song of all time

[@glorialeeyoung4400]

Ray thank you for all the anointed songs you've written. God bless you and may you find His Love sufficent. I'm so sorry you are in deception now. I pray for you and I love you. Please come back to your first love Ray. He loves you more than anyone else ever can.

[@dovylovylovy9025]

Ray.The Lord loves you.pls return back to Him as scripture warned agst sodom n gomorah for their sins.Deutronomy The Lord is willing to circumcise our hearts to love Him with all our hearts tat we may live.He has used you to touch many thru those annointed songs.come back to Him brother .turn from deception

[@mariezimmerman295]

He is back! God loves him! The bible says divorce is a sin too! Stop judging !

[@stephaniemang-osan3330]

I love Brother Ray Bolts too. Whatever he is in right nowadays, I don't judge him cause only God could do that. But one thing for sure, and I do believed it's true.. God is surely waiting for him (Bro. Ray) ... I too am missing his performance in the Bill Gaither Band... Please return Brother... Many people most especially here in the Philippines were and are blessed and encourage with all your songs.. please come back to the Lord.. He loves you still whoever you are... We love you!

[@bondslave100]

Lord you are merciful and loving and kind , the kindness that leads us to repentance, Ray I do not believe the lord goes back in his word to accommodate us, we must obey, scripture its life on his terms not ours. You are a son come back to your father who loves you.

[@bryantsang225]

In 2023 here, thank you giving to the Lord. Sending prayers to everyone across the world that you may have great health and wealth.

[@itsjustian8484]

My mother is a big fan of the Gaithers and all the many, many homecoming friends. And because I grew up hearing so many of these songs, they still pop up in my head every now and then. And, this song came to mind today. Didn't remember who wrote or sang it, but I typed in "Thank you for giving to the Lord" and up it came. Such an amazingly powerful song! May God bless everyone who simply takes the time to listen to it in full!❤️🙏✝️

[@SteenbockRueschenberg]

Lord I pray for Ray he has helped so many with our faith Lord help him with his we have all sinned none of us is worthy of your Forgiveness may we all congess our sins to you and turn from them back to You

[@slingoat]

This mans music as done So much, for the cause of Crist.. Thank you Ray!!!

[@gavinomalley7099]

Ray, there is so much love coming from you, you feel just like home.

[@ages777]

Forget the Old Testament for a moment and just read Romans 1:21-32, it’s harrowing to think what happens when we don’t continually allow God change and transform our lives. My personal understanding is that all Christians need to acknowledge from day 1 that they need to continually change in some way, they can’t be the same. If they can’t, then they truly have not made Jesus their Lord, and only prefer Him as a Saviour. This is not to say that we don’t make mistakes or have continual struggles.

[@seamus1956]

ages777 Yes, read Romans, but do it within the context of culture, custom and recipient. Was this a treatise to all believers for all eternity or was it a letter to a struggling young church in the City of Rome? Rome, the Capitol of a great empire, where it was common practice for heterosexual soldiers, senators and the other elites to utilize slaves and young boys for sexual gratification. Where wanton sex parties, even orgies were relatively common and gender lines were often crossed. The passage you describe does say some pretty poignant things, but two words pop out: "unnatural" and "lust". With science discovering organic physiological differences between gay and straight brains that could influence sexual orientation, the possibility that, for them, attraction to the opposite gender might be against their nature (unnatural) has to be considered. It is also a misnomer to assume that every homosexual relationship is lust driven. Is that how you felt when you had your first boyfriend/girlfriend? Were you consumed with "lust" when you finally decided to marry? Why do you think it's any different with homosexuals? How do you tell a young boy who, from the moment he enters puberty, knows he's "different" from the other boys, that he's an "evil sinner" because he doesn't get all nervous and flustered around the girls in his class but gets butterflies the size of small planes when he gets near a certain other boy in his class. Do you destroy him by telling him those feelings that are so natural to him are wrong, that he must pray and change? Do you grieve when, after 10+ years of praying for deliverance and being told his natural feelings are "evil", he decides there is no hope of change and therefore acceptance and takes his own life. Or maybe he survives that, goes against every instinct he has and falls in line and gets married, has kids and finds himself 60 years later depressed and lonely because, in spite of what some of his friends call a great life he never experienced the emotional intimacy of a true marriage because he could never feel that way about a woman, that for 80 years there was something missing in his life. Lives like that cannot be of God. Faith cannot be solid or unmoving. Faith is ever changing as God gives us knowledge and understanding. If it wasn't, we'd all be Catholic, the Church would be the only one with the Bible and we'd still believe what the Church taught centuries ago - that the Earth is flat and the Universe revolves around it. New understandings come to the Church constantly, and as long as they keep the basic tenets of the faith regarding the birth, life, crucifixion, death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior and the coming of His Spirit they must be prayerfully considered by every believer. To turn the Bible, that wonderful book of promises inspired by God as a help, into a hard and fast, by the numbers rule book is turning it into an idol and is where much of the modern Church has led itself astray.

[@DanielRodriguez-qq7tq]

I Like It God Bless You

[@wansec5834]

Thanks Ray for such an inspiring song ! Remember through life's struggles our Lord is always there, willing to love and forgive us ! What Grace !!

[@jobsantiago3342]

For the lives that never stopped pouring tears in prayer and financing the Gospel that I may know and experience Jesus: Thank you!

[@jimmypahamutang-qo8uv]

Ilove the song.thank you for giving me to the LORD

[@rogersantos368]

I heared this song 2020 or 2021. 2024 is around the corner and this song remains in my heart reminding me.

[@AFULLERROOFLIFE]

He’s so good at telling the story of the song. Wow! Love this man!

[@tinatavola5828]

I am so touched by this song. Thank you to all who gave for the extension of God's kingdom. I am one of those lives that was changed through my church furniture ministry. God Bless you abundantly.

7 years ago I'm listen this song until now, times so fast. 2:30 This is very motivated me

[@Shey123able]

This video should have about 100M views

[@angelikaa259]

Ray is AMAZING‼️

[@GisherJohn24]

Thank you FOR GIVING TO THE LORD!!!! I AM SO GLAD YOU GAVE!

[@avisswope6495]

I PRAY FOR YOU EVERY DAY RAY BOLTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[@spectacularicey9062]

This song can show you how beautiful the heaven will be the childrens of God ...I really wish to be there...

[@jl-heatfan4life717]

I Love This Song, My Greatest Fren Introduced Me To This Song And I Like To Thank Her For it, And Thank The Lord She Is My Best Fren Thank You Ray For Ur Beautiful Singing....👍👍

[@brendarubin761]

I am praying you go back to the Lord Jesus.Ilovethis song.

[@joannwood3151]

I heard Ray say that he wrote this song for his pastor on pastor appreciation day.

[@reneesimmons6321]

I pray and hope that Ray you will find the truth and fall on your knees and come back to the Lord that loves you.

[@noah-z6c]

This song hits home and I'm balling my eyes out

[@donnasanchez3438]

my mistake I’m glad he is still singing for the lord ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jasonfanai1397]

Amen...i was listening blindly a decade ago when i was a child..now..i am a sunday's school teacher....and touched me now..Praise the Lord..

[@mrtruecaller8370]

This song is so torching my soul. Thank you Lord

[@nissigracenitta6339]

Heard this song more than 100 times still wanna hear Praise god

[@priscillaagure2265]

This song takes me back to my childhood... Very powerful

[@juliasafer9640]

His door is open to everyone. He teaches love, not judgement.

[@samsonmathayo6191]

thank you Lord

[@risenlee763]

Wow! We are not home yet!

[@novieretalla9656]

thank you for this song it made me cry...thank you Jesus.

[@CarmenlamariaCasillas-pk2gc]

Still listening 🎶 this song I heard in t.b.n. thank you.😇

[@RubenGorceaJr]

He is living in great sin may God help him realize what he is doing and may he return to God hole heartedly

[@두다리건널목바라기별]

Mr. Ray Boltz, thank you for staying through such adversary and giving us hope in keeping amazingly beautiful Contemporary Christian Music. Jaishoon Couplar

[@vickiemcclintock6382]

I dedicated this song to my MemMaw 20 years ago at her funeral. She was the Greatest Woman in the World to me. I miss her and I love her so much. This song is my MemMaw and how she lived.

[@kobevang520]

This song always touches my heart ❤️

[@martinmoore2468]

Beautiful inspirational song. The song of peace for humanity's future.

[@tmartin7145]

i love this song

[@jiantaiqiu]

Very touched and cry. Thank you my Lotd.

[@francoisbessing]

Am here after hearing of the passing of Billy Graham...saw his image on the screen and was moved...

[@victorcrittenden4404]

Billy Graham was such a blessed and mighty preacher of God! My prayers always for him and his family. A true man of God!

[@TheMsmay2]

he simply touch people through this song!beautiful!

[@OLAFEMMANJO]

It's a soul touching song and re-thinking of "what have you done for the Lord" that people can remember you for. Bill, Gloria and Boltz can not be forgotten for this bcos they touched and still touching souls with this song, may God continually strengthing themand counting them and us worthy in His kingdom in Jesus Name. Love you...

[@jayb5435]

love this all time favorite i tear up everytime not sure what it is ...i guess just feels excellent with the lords love ...but unexplainable feeling

[@barbaraspears5548]

So beautiful!

[@CaroleDiTosti]

Lovely Michael who sent this. Happy Easter to all my friends on FB. Well wishes to all of which ever denomination you are...and if you are an atheist...have a lovely day.

[@reneepeterson4877]

I miss Reverend Billy Graham 💓