Things Learned at Grandparents' Knees

praise the lord everyone you may be seated and we greet you this morning in the wonderful name of the lord jesus christ what a joy it is to be in the house of the lord today and um you'll uh give me the liberty today there are several things on my mind that um i want to to say before we begin the message and of course number one today is grandparents day and let me ask this question how many in this house in the last year now i don't mean for the first time but some of you it'll be the first time well let's do it like this how many for the first time this past year has become a grandparent raise your hand i don't know why um jason lambert and billy briggs came to my mind because um number one it was last week that sister mccool and i was attending brother lambert's graduation from law school at least it seems that way and there he is holding a grandbaby and a proud grandmother and grandfather billy briggs uh i couldn't believe he's a grandfather um he's a i guess he's not out there is he in the room today uh where is he all right he's he's he's he's doing duties but um uh for billy briggs to be a grandparent it seems only yesterday gary pulled up in front of our house with a uh a a trailer with a blue tarp over it and billy was just a little boy the checkered champion of the world there's a story behind that you'll have to ask him but anyway and then the others that should be children and your grandparents now and welcome to the club i want you to know it's a great club and before you lose interest i may have found one of the lost books of the bible that i'll be reading to you from i said i may have so i'll hold you right there and then a couple of other things i want to thank the lord for this past year uh sister mccool and i had our 65th wedding anniversary we had our 64th anniversary of the church and two great things happened the church has been so good to billy mccool uh you've you've you've treated us well and uh on a couple of things that's really been big in my life this past year number one um i was in love with an old uh 2030 john deere tractor we bought new uh about 40 years ago and um it got beat up and tore up but i still loved it and need worked on so uh brother brad may said i'll fix that he took it home with him and kept it for days and days and days went into weeks and so i told pastor mark tell brother brad not to worry about that old tractor i know there's you can't find parts for it and and don't don't don't worry about it just just when you just get it eyes on break and when he brought it back it looked like a it had been totally rebuilt a brand new 2030 john deere tractor and he's sitting out there in the lot and that was a great treasure to me and then another great thing happened to me this past year the church has furnished me with an automobile for several years it's not my car it belongs to the church and so uh it had uh the one i had had over 200 000 miles on it and the men in the men's fellowship breakfast had been asking me we're going to we you need another car it's it's not safe to be driving around and a vehicle with that many miles on it and i said no we're in a building program and and when i don't you do that now we're not going to put that much money in a car now and so finally i i agreed that uh that they could go ahead and and and furnish me with a car again as i said it belongs to the church it's not mine but you young men you can't bark for a date that's how they try to but um when they started to do that started to raise money uh brother mike mintzer and old ben franklin motor said no the church is not going to bite i'm going to buy it and he he furnished me with a cadillac with 13 000 miles on it well that's about a month's driving for what i usually do and the other day what reminded me of that i i went into napa auto parts to get a belt for a lawnmower and i thought i wasn't going to get away they was bragging on that car how beautiful it was the color it was and then one fellow went out and there's two or three of them i thought they was going to rob me well not really but they were so impressed and i had to take the time to tell them about old ben franklin motors and mike mentzer and what they had done that was given that to the church didn't cost the church one dime and how how marvelous the lord has been to first apostolic church there's others go ahead and give the lord a hand clap praise give the lord hand clap praise uh it's amazing what god has done of course i've i've known brother uh mike mentzer for many years i preached his father's funeral and uh there that's been years ago but anyway the lord has been good to us to to put in this church family some of the greatest people on planet earth now go ahead and get give yourself a hand for everybody now i know when you do what i've just done you're you're not calling a lot of names that you need to call and i wish i could because there are so many of you every one of you is so precious and so dear and i want you to know that bishop mccool appreciates each and every one of you and then something unusual happened to me last night a lot of things happens to me that it seems coincidental but how could it be coincidental when you look back and see what it was i woke up this morning thinking how long have we been on television how long i just wonder how long we've been on tv i don't know why i was thinking that way but i walked over to my bookcase and i picked up that's an old three-quarter that's what the tape they used to make tapes out of right there not the little that's what they call a three-quarter inch tape and it is dated september the 12th 1976. today is the 45th anniversary of our first tv program today is the exact september the 12th i've got it on 1976 my mother and father were on that tape there my mom and dad were both they both gave their testimony on this tape and that means 45 years ago was our first tv program and oh how i thank god for how good the lord is and this being grandparents today i'm the happiest grandparent in the house and i'll debate you on that anytime um now this falls into the category of what it's worth department and i'll just read this for what it's worth i have on my laptop a file that says scrapbook and i have things of interest and i put it in there and forget it but i ran into this and i told that for all my life i've heard that there were lost books of the bible this sounds an awful lot like scripture but i have never read it in the king james version i'll leave it to you to decide whether or not it was in one of the lost books it says god created the mule and told him you'll be mule working constantly from dust to dawn carrying heavy loads on your back you'll eat grass and lack intelligence you will live for 50 years the real answer to live like this for 50 years is too much please give me no more than 20. and it was so then god created the dog and told him you will hold vigilance over the dwellings of man to whom you will be his greatest companion you will eat his table scraps and live for 25 years and the dog responded lord to live 25 years as a dog like that is too much please no more than 10 years and it was so god then created the monkey and told him you will be monkey you'll swing from tree to tree acting like an idiot you will be funny and you will live 20 years and the monkey responded lord to live for 20 years as the clown of the world is too much please lord give me no more than 10 years and it was so finally god created man and told him your man the only rational being that walks the earth you will use your intelligence to have mastery over the creatures of the world you will dominate the earth and live for 20 years and the man responded lord to be man for only 20 years is too little please lord give me the 20 years the mule refused then the 15 years the dog refused and the 10 years the monkey rejected and it was so and so god made man to live 20 years as a man then marry and live 20 years like a mule working and carrying a heavy load on his back then he's to have children and live 15 years as a dog guarding his house and eating the leftovers after the he empties that they empty the pantry then in his old age to live 10 years as a monkey acting like an idiot to abuse his grandchildren for what it's worth you can judge that whether that's in one of the lost books of the bible or not but i got a kick out of it today is grandparents day and i announced my title would be things learned at grandparents knees genesis 50 22 through 26 and joseph dwelled in egypt he and his father's house and joseph lived 110 years and joseph saw ephraim's children of the third generation that meant his great-grandchildren the children also of messier the son of manasseh were brought up upon joseph's knee now knees that's where i get my thought for my topic today what children learn at their grandparents knee well they learn a lot of things sometimes it's things that we want them to know and some things they we don't want them to know we were very fortunate sister mccool and i when our grandchildren came along we lived right across the street from each other and we were also lucky mark and jamie were both working on their degrees at the university of tennessee thus we had the privilege of babysitting or keeping the grandchildren when they came along well the i don't sister mccool don't usually get fired up but we were in uh miller's what is dillard's now but and she was showing her picture of ashley ashley was just a baby and of course we showed everybody the grandbabies pictures and the ladies seemed so disinterested she said i've got one grandchild they live in california or live in colorado and said i'm glad said i've served my time i don't have to see him but once a year i thought sister mccoo was going to come unglued she's normally very calm but we were so happy for those grandchildren when they came along and at that time i was the conference coordinator and conference site on the conference site committee and we yeah my job was to travel different places and find places that were suitable to have a general conference so uh this was actually before anthony was born i asked you must have been about three years old and um we were i had to go to dallas texas well mark and jamie they were so liberal and i've heard of grandparents and and uh son-in-laws and daughter-in-laws get into scraps as busters and they won't let their grandparents see the children the grandparents don't want that and that is so it i can't even relate to it it was such a joy to us when they let us and and we we were so delighted to keep them with us as much as we could and uh if i had to take a trip we took ashley with us if we had to take a trip we took when anthony came along we took him we were on our way to dallas texas you didn't know this that uh our music minister who does such a fantastic job i was her first music teacher i take credit for that we were on our way to dallas texas and it was a long road and we she sat between us didn't have car seats for children back then and she put one arm around my arm and the other arm around her grandmother's and here we went for hours and to kind of entertain her we would sing songs and uh we gotta sing a little song that says little robin robbing walking walking walking to missouri can't afford to fly poor little robin walking walking into missouri take god a teardrop in his eye well instead of that amusing her she broke down and began to squall began to cry she felt so sorry for little robin well i wanted to cheer her up back then they had knobs on radio you could turn them up with a knob back back in the last century you could turn the radio on and go across yeah some of you remember that and um so it turned it on and there was a song that came on and a fellow was singing oh my exes live in texas that's why i hang my hat in tennessee so i joined right in singing with him and i added my little all my exit live in texas that's why i hang my hat in tennessee and we had a big time about that and we're saying we're on our way to texas we're on our way to texas to buy our little granddaughter a pair of cowboy boots and cow and we kept her entertained when we got back home the next sunday she went to sunday school class and the teacher asked the children if they'd like to sing so one thing oh how i love jesus another let the sun shine in came ashley's turn and she said yeah i've got a song all right singing it she sung oh my exit live the teacher said honey who taught you that she said mamo tell me being a grandparent isn't fun to have your grandchildren at your knees is so fantastic and i in in my years now i i just have a hard time separating all the glorious things one night and i told sister mccool this two instances will stand out in my memory of ashley and anthony many many many but that was one that because it was so hilariously funny um we were in a uh conference in cincinnati ohio and we were in a high-rise hotel building it was really high-rise and in the middle of the night the fire alarm went off and they commanded all of us a va to evacuate and we got out of that bed and and we got dressed as best we could i carried anthony down the steps and we went all the way down i don't know how many how many flights it was but um when we got down to finally they cleared we went back upstairs and we were sitting we looked out and we could see the fire trucks lined up down the street and um uh we didn't know what and lo and behold they gave another alarm they somebody had set a couch on fire you know in the elevator uh waiting area those couches sometimes you and somebody had had deliberately just for me to say and set off with some oak alarm and anthony i don't know he was so small because we had to carry him but i'll never forget he said papaw let's pray well let's pray and we got down on our knees that night at his request and we prayed for safety and then when we got up he wasn't afraid he said well people if something happens tonight we know where we're going and then to hear these two lead and singing and worship and preach you're looking at an old man that's as delighted as the word delight can be i want you to know this is a great great day for me grandparents day joseph was now then 110 years old he had talked to his grandsons and let's see what he had taught them and joseph said to his brethren i die and god will surely visit you and bring you out and when i read that something stood out to me god will surely visit you and bring you out of this land i said whoa i'm not going to do violence to the word of god but i'm going to put a period right here god will surely period god i want you to know i've learned this by experience god will surely what will she do he will surely do whatever you need him to do as a grandparent i feel like a grandparent of this church i feel like i'm grandparents to most of you here to and i want you to god will surely what will god will surely provide the the needs to build a new church god will surely provide needs to buy buses god will surely provide needs for a car god will surely provide needs for perfuse god god will surely provide needs to heal your body if you do god will surely by the way my brother gary today showed me said listening is bobby mccool senior bob if you're listening i love you man we're both grandpa's aren't we joseph said god will surely visit you verse 25 and joseph took an oath of the children of israel saying god will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from fence now son i want to tell you something now now monsieur your your daddy manasseh he was my first son he's my first boy and and when you when your daddy was born i looked at your daddy and when i looked at your daddy and i'm sure listen to what i'm telling you son your daddy when he was born i'd be i'd come down egypt when i was 17 years old and now then i had i become the prime minister and and son let me tell you something when i held your daddy and my arms my soul flooded over instead of me being angry with my brothers instead of me thinking a bit about getting evil with my brothers as i looked in your daddy's eyes and i looked at your daddy's face i said to myself son if i'm ever going to be a great leader i've got to be as innocent as this little baby if i'm going to have bitterness now i'll i'm going to name him my nasa for god has made me forget grandparents if there's anything we need to teach our children it is to forget the the toiling and forget anything bad that's been done to you and remember all the good things [Applause] and then be careful what you unwittingly tell your grandchildren [Music] genesis 37 and 6 he said unto them here i pray you this dream which i've dreamed he told them about the dreams he had about the that they was uh putting their socks together and their sharks fell down to him and i'm not going to go into detail because we heard two of the greatest messages on joseph i've ever heard by brother steve smith but by and by these brothers became so very jealous of him and behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my she rose and also stood upright and behold your sheep stood around about made obedience to my sheep and his brethren said to him shalt thou indeed reign over us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us that hated him the more for his dreams and for his words and he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brethren and said behold i have dreamed to dream more behold the sun the moon the eleven stars made obesions to me and he told it to his father and to his brethren and the father rebuked him and said unto him what is this dream that thou hast dreamed shall i and my mother and my brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth lessons learned from the above verses everyone now mashir i want you to know this i want the grandchildren of of uh and my great-grandchildren to understand this everybody's not always going to be excited about your dreams as you are but don't let it discourage you my grandchildren i want to tell you something things that you're excited about everybody else won't be excited about it there's going to be some that will be jealous there'll be those that will despise you for what you do and for what you accomplish but let me tell you something do not let it discourage you when they do not stand beside you don't let it discourage you god told daniel the thing was true but the time appointed was long i came to knoxville in 1957. i stayed for five years and had nothing to show for it but a flat top basement with a dirt floor i became so discouraged in 1962. i i one morning i stepped down out of that house trade was living in a eight foot wide 42 foot long house trailer in shyland trader park and i stepped down and i told sister mccool i said honey i'm resigning this morning i'd been here five years and seemed like my father-in-law as dear as he was to me wanted to encourage me but he said it looks like it's the bleakest thing i've ever seen for anybody to ever have a church of the apostolic faith in knoxville my dearest friend brother j.t payne called me up he tried to help me put me into the piano business we were refinishing p addison anything to try to help me make a living and that didn't work i i tried the piano business and brother payne said brother mccool the people of knoxville don't know how to appreciate your ministry he said you need to close up come down here to portadel georgia and be my associate pastor i'll put you in office on one side of the platform and mine will be on the other side and you can go out and preach and i'll hold the church and i'll go out and preach you you hold the church and it sounds so inviting i lay on my face and that pink house trailer i'll never forget that black and pink colored linoleum or vinyl floor and i prayed until there was a puddle of tears there and i said god please show me what you want me to do god have someone to call me right now for about god to have somebody and i didn't hear from god i literally lay on my face and heart on that floor and a puddle of tears and i couldn't get get anything from god god please say something to me grandchildren are you listening grandchildren are you listening and finally i said i'm leaving brother mckinney was our assistant pastor and that sister mccoo said no i mean we were going to sunday school and i stepped in i'll never forget it the step of that house trailer i said honey i'm resigning this huh what yes i'm resigning i resigned turn the church over to brother mckinney and we traveled for three years every time we came through knoxville i was so discouraged i was so burned out i was i i was a successful evangelist in demand all over the country preaching camp meetings revivals conferences anniversaries and yet i couldn't get but just a little handful together in knoxville i i ran into a preacher who was a fantastic preacher brother shu was one time a uh the district superintendent of the state of texas of the united pentecostal church and i told him i was coming to knoxville to start a church he said son go anywhere in the world but don't go to knoxville that's a preacher's graveyard he said i went there 20 years ago and like to starve to death and by this time i began to believe him so i traveled for three years every time we came close to knoxville i wanted to bypass it if i could bypass an oxfield i would didn't come to church i didn't call brother mckinney i didn't call anybody in the in the church every time we talked about knoxville sister mccool said honey one day there's gonna be a good church in knoxville we may not be the pastors i had a praying godly wife that held onto god and she said there is one day going to be a great church in knoxville grandchildren will tell you something mary wright marry a wife that knows how to get a hold of god and watch god i want you to know she never let me forget the calling oh god where are you did you really speak to me in little rock arkansas when i was on my god was i mistaken yet i wondered was i really in the will of god grandparents grandchildren let me tell you something there's going to be times you're going to go through this and you will not know whether you're hearing from god or not genesis 37 3 13 and israel said unto joseph well let me not leave you hanging there after three years i was in revival with uh the church of his brother thorpe senior he's dead now but the church was between kingsport and gate city virginia and one one sudden i got a call from brother mckinney and he said brother mccool i'm tired i'm weary and he said i want to give the church up you're the founding pastor and uh i think it's only right for me to call you and turn the church back over to you and let you get these folks a pastor i said well i'll be there next week and we'll have a few nights service and i'll be looking for you a pastor so we closed the revival brother thorpe's church and we started revival in that little basement church and the holy ghost began to move god began to move there was a revival started out in that basement church and the next thing you know instead of getting them a pastor we was building an upstairs with brick on each side all around us god was moving and god filled up that building in just a short while [Music] i hadn't gotten my pastor yet after all those years i raised him one i had a little boy that started to school when we when we got back in 1965 he was ready to start school that fall and god raised him up after all those years and he finished his education at the university of tennessee and now look god has given him to us as a pastor and what a pastor what a pastor's wife and what a pastoral staff oh grandchildren let me tell you what god will do if you'll trust him what did i say god will surely god will surely glory so one day son daddy told me to go see about your uncles so here's the great uncle and they're they got their sheep down there flock and shake and said go see about oh i was so happy to go see my brothers i i was about 50 miles away but i was so glad i was only 17 years old but but but you see i was so thrilled that i was going to get to go see my brothers i loved my brothers so good but when they saw me coming i thought they would come running to meet me i thought they would be so overjoyed to see me but instead i heard them talking they said we're going to kill our brother sometimes he said i was wandering around out there in the field and said a certain fellow found me in the field and asked me a question said what are you doing he said i'm looking for my brothers can you help me find them grandchildren let me tell you something he was wandering in the field you know what jesus said the field was jesus said the field is the world grandchildren i was wandering in the field i was looking for my brothers i didn't know what to expect when i found them but i'm i'm looking for and when i when i found them i found fellows that were jealous i found fellas that had meanness in their mind i found fellows that didn't have any good intent let me tell you church something you and i are still looking for our brothers that's wandering out there in the world and they may not always appreciate what we're doing they don't know that we're out for their best interest we don't they don't know that we're here to point them to glory but children grandchildren want to tell you we're still looking for our brothers yes [Applause] and they may not smell right they may not look right they may not be what we think we're looking for but wait a minute god's got a result out at the end don't be discouraged because your brothers turn their back on you don't be discouraged because things don't go well and things are going against you and you know i had to sit in there and listen to them in matthew 13 33 jesus said the field is the world yes i seek my brethren and when he found him he didn't find what he thought he was going to find and let me tell you something church we're not always going to find what we think we're going to find uh i i hear preachers tell about the great things and they catch they they catch whales they catch big i know how to catch any panfish they they the big thing you know usually the folks that comes up from the church they're wanting something they need something that's all right they may come here they may walk through that door they may not be dressed the way you like to see somebody dress they may not talk the way you want to hear them talk they meant but let me tell you something they're in this world and you and i have a responsibility to stand by and lead them to jesus christ and they said let's kill him and reuben i'm telling you he had quite a conscience he said oh no let's not kill him said let's throw him in a pit children you're gonna find some folks that have a weak conscience you see reuben said don't kill him but let's throw him in the pit reuben lacked the moral courage to condemn the horrible suggestion of his brothers so he embarked upon a path of debate discussion persuasion and compromise you see when he should have turned red with anger his neck veins standing out white around the mouth boy's intense emotional eyes blazing at the suggesting of murdering their brother he calmly suggested shed no blood but let's cast him in a pit let me tell you something children what will become of our dreams of pentecostal power and pentecost revival if the spirit of reuben prevails and we're willing to discuss and negotiate a way what made the power of pentecost possible we're not here to debate it we're not here to compromise and thorpe and efficiency we're here to preach revival and the pentecostal power that's brought us to where we are it's not time to change now you see they stripped him of his coat dipped in animal blood i'm gonna take this to daddy and gonna tell him that a wild beast has slain him precious priceless and irreplaceable a gift from his father but to his brothers it was something to be dipped in animal blood and used as false evidence to doom the dreams of joseph children grandchildren don't always believe the evidence the devil has the evidence stacked against you you may have a bad reputation the coat may be bloody the coat says he's dead and you know what jacob said jacob when he saw that cope he said my son joseph is without a doubt been torn by a wild beast and i'll never see him again wait a minute jacob there's more to that dream and there's more to that you see he's the dreamer and there's more to his dreams and that cult may say he's dead but you see when god saw that coat god didn't see him chewed up by an animal god saw him sitting as the prime minister of all egypt that cult may say one thing but god says don't believe the evidence the devil may say you're going to be a drug addict the devil may say your daddy was a drunk you're going to be a drunkard the devil may say your father's been a real browser but let me tell you something don't believe a word of this god sees something else behind that code the world has learned it's the spirit of this world which desires the freshness and the invigoration of the pentecostal experience the world has learned that the charisma of a living christ is far superior to dead formal religion they've changed the sports world has discovered the evangelistic fervor instilled in players can help make them winners the late women's basketball coach pat summitt went so far as to say we're not a team we're a cult we're such religious fervor meaning we're so knit together as a loyal basketball family we follow instructions and we love one another and we're going to be champions and they were but the beautiful coat given to us by our father is greatly responsible for our attractiveness isaiah said it thusly to appoint unto them that mourn in zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joyful mourning for the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness the planting of the lord that he might be glorified you see the world wants to take our garment of praise and dip it in animal blood and pronounce revival and old-time religion dead friend don't believe it for a minute hey guy put it this way thus saith the lord of hosts yet once it is a little while and i'll shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land and i will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and i will fill this house with glory saith the lord of hosts the silver is mine the gold is mine said the lord the glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former saith the lord of hosts and in this place will i give praise saith the lord of hosts don't you let the devil tell you that pentecost revival is over that the knoxville has burned over that you can't have revival it's still going on don't you believe the devil's lie for one minute [Applause] judah said to his brethren what profit is it if we slam conceal his blood what profit is it if we slay our brother profit that's the key word which disrobes and robs doctors lawyers politicians and preachers of their good name honor and respect prophet prophet what did we do to profit drugs tobacco prostitution the devil does not care what happens to you he just wants to profit from your misery i'm headed to a close years ago brother elm o'brien and sister uh brian bought out bought a dunkin donut franchise in south knoxville and the fellow that sold cigarettes came by and wanted to put a cigarette machine and he was very persistent and brother brian told him no you're not put one in and finally brother bryce i'll tell you what here's my pastor's phone number call him if he says it's all right to put a cigarette machine in my dunkin donut place then i'll i'll i'll do it because he knew what so the fella called me and told me how much money he was going to give to the church how much money would be made from that cigarette machine i said sir don't mean to be insulting to you but would you do me a favor come and go with me that next week i've got a man that's dying of lung cancer i want you to come and stand by his side and watch him take his uh labored breath that's what's happening to the man that you're selling your cigarettes to you're selling cancer you're selling death and of course brother brian let me tell you something there is no profit in sin sin will doom your soul sin will cost you your life sin will send you to hell [Applause] let's settle him proverbs 23 23 said buy the truth and sell it now also wisdom and instruction and understanding the father of righteousness shall greatly rejoice he that beget the wise child shall have joy the father and the mother shall be glad and she that bear thee shall rejoice my son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways young people let me tell you something you watch how your your pastor lives you watch how the pastor's wife dresses you watch how this pastoral uh staff and it gives uh their behavior their honesty i want you know we've got a pattern to go by and we can live by that would you stand your feet with me there's one more coat let me jacob said joseph's blood soaked coat no doubt some able beasts to torn joseph to pieces the devil may have what may seem to be irrefutable evidence of your sinful past good news your past may be blood soaked but now it's soaked in the blood of jesus your past may be blood soaked but when the devil tells you about your sins ask him for evidence jesus said i'll take your sins and cast them in the depths of the sea never to remember them against you devil where is your evidence sir that man named peter cut my ear off he did well where's the evidence your ear is still there all that man jesus eliminated the evidence he saw a healing he saw a miracle instead of seeing a man going to prison the next coat seemed to be irrefutable evidence of joseph's attempt attempted molestation of his master's lying lustful wife but in reality it was joseph's passport let me say it a little slower the next coach seemed to be irrefutable evidence of joseph's attempted molestation of his master's lying lustful wife but in reality it was joseph's passport to becoming the prime minister of all egypt that coach he said he's he tried to molest me tried to rape me pilate believed it sent him to prison but it was in prison where he found an avenue of escape and wound up before the leader of egypt and the next thing you know he's the prime minister of all egypt grandchildren no matter what the evidence says god looks up evidence and sees something entirely different god sees you as a saint of god as a musician saying grandchildren god is still turning the heart broken into happy ones he's still issuing garments of praise he's still giving the oil of joy for mourning he's got something for you today and as the singer sings i'd like for us to take this time together around the software go ahead and sing for us it's time now would you come forward grandchildren come on my children come on my children come on let's raise the cake come on let's rededicate our life ourselves to the lord grandchildren he's got a rock of righteousness he's given you the oil of joy for mourning he's given you the god come right now