The Man in Black
(I apologeegize for all you non-Johnnee Cash fans)
He couldn't walk the line but he found God

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Kman you have put together a great worship thread here. Thanks so much. Awesome, great, moving music. Wonderful! I expecially like "Aint'No Grave". Go Johnny!! Imagine getting to hear him sing in heaven. I am reaady for that.

Sue, you couldn't have said it better. Thank you for stopping by. You blessed me as much as the music. My favorite was also "Ain't No Grave" and I had just discovered it for the first time. It brought tears to my eyes and does every time I hear it.

I have seen him live several times starting in '67.
Just incredible!

PS-"He couldn't walk the line" was in reference to his getting arrested - I think near El Paso - and then June led him back toward the Lord. He couldn't walk the line is also I think, a pretty good metaphor for all of us: sinners; yet, ironically, by God's Grace we walk the straight and narrow.

Bless you sister Sue.

Thanks Kman. That is great that you got to see him sing in person! I know it had to be a dynamite performance. I never got to see Johnny Cash sing in person but I sure do have his CD's and love listening to them.

Thanks for the info behind the songs too. I knew June Carter had a part in his recovery but not the details.

If anyone comes on this thread and just listens to one song it should be "When The Man Comes Around". That is a last days commentary to the max! I also like hearing June's mother Maybelle Carter, singing "Keep On The Sunny Side".

LOL, hey Kman, you look amazingly like Johnny Cash in your avatar!

I'm sure Johnny is in heaven. Problem is, no one will recognize him because he will be all in white!

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Diane, you crack me UP! I spit out my coffee on that one.

Check these out:



The first time I heard this song was Russ Taff's version:

Diane you are on a roll tonight. This is the second thread I have opened and here you are with the best joke of the night. I just saw your Steve Martin video on another post. "All in white"

Kerry, what are you doing drinking coffee at 11 at night?? This could explain why you are always up late posting like me. I'm not drinking coffee though. Just too lazy to get up to go lie down. Pathetic, really.

T/Sue, glad to entertain the troops! Don't worry, it's just the insanity and depression talking....

Where is Jesus anyway?? Wasn't He supposed to be here by now??? Arggggh!

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He better come soon, it looks like we are beginning to unravel laughing.

Thanks Kman for posting these Johnny Cash songs...I appreciate this very much....I'm gona listen to Ain't No Grave...and tuck it in for the night. Thanks again.

And, Diane, you're the ticket tonight...FUNNY...Yes!!!

Thanks Texas Sue this is what I needed this eve...hat's off to ya "LilSis"

Joe

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TN, I'll watch those videos. Thank you. Diane. You mentioned your husband was not saved. I hope He's waiting for him. Tell your husband I told him to hurry up.

But this one's dedicated to Sue from Texas:

Kman, how sweet of you. Can you believe I never heard that song before? It was really good. I thought I had heard all of his songs but this was a new one to me. He was young in the video - must have been back in the 60's?

Two of his old ones that I liked were "Tennesse Flat Top Box" and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen". I'll bet you remember those too. They were pretty popular when they first came out.

Kman, thanks for your thoughts and concern for my husband! Only God knows for sure if he's saved or not, but we had a talk the other day about going to heaven and I asked him if he thought he was going. He said yes, so I asked him why. He said "because I love Jesus"! I thought that sounded really encouraging! He still is not really interested in the things of God, but everyone is at different levels in the Lord, and God knows how much it means to me for him to be in heaven, so I am encouraged that things are moving in the right direction!

Thanks for your prayers! I KNOW they are making a difference!

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Kman here is another good gospel number by Johnny Cash. Love this one - it really moves.

Diane-I'm glad to hear that. At minimum, that's at least a start. Of course, most people just have to get over there self, and realize Jesus doesn't need any help in the saving.

Sue-glad you enjoyed that song. Yes, I think it's from the early sixties and I think from "The Fabulous Johnny Cash" album if my memory serves me correctly.
Thanks for the video. I'll watch it soon. I believe I've heard it once or twice. Once and awhile I'm surprised by one I've never heard. I just painstakingly prepared four new ones and when I previewed them they were all: "Sing it Pretty Sue"
- don't know why. So it's back to the drawing board...then the video. Think it says "Everybody's gonna have religion in glory, etc."
'ts only 10:30 here in California so I probably have time.

By the way, hope you enjoyed the song, Joseph.

Oh ! such a lovely thread this turned out to be.

Yes - wonderful! I've always loved Johnny Cash - just love "The Man in Black".

A couple of years ago I came across a book written by him called "The Man in White" (hello??Diane??!)
It is a novel - fictional account about the life of the apostle Paul. It is all based on the facts of the Bible, but tells the story of how this or that may have transpired and his relationships, etc.

He apparently identified strongly with Paul and struggled for years in the writing of this book.
It is absolutely fascinating, very well done. He gives some personal info about how the book came about and his struggles in writing it. He talks about his personal dreams and visions from God. You really get an appreciation of his diligence as a student of the Bible and Biblical history. He was quite simply a very brilliant man!

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Thank you for your input, Anne & Betsy.

Texas Sue. I enjoyed the video: "Wonderful Time Up There." Thanks much.


TWO STORIES OF REDEMPTION:

The Man Called Cash (page 21-22)
(Steve Turner
Dyess, Arkansas

"At age twelve, Cash answered the call during a revival in 1944. This was the age that many Southern Baptists regarded as the "age of accountability," when children were considered morally developed enough to choose or refuse. This was the age, according to the Gospel of Luke, that Jesus went to Jerusalem with his parents for the Passover and, with a clear sense of his divinity, debated with the rabbis in the temple.

If Cash remembered who preached the night of his conversion he never mentioned it. It's unlikely that he heard anything that he never heard before. It was
just the right night. He'd always known that someday he would have to choose one way or another, and he'd tried to put it off, but this night, for a reason
he couldn't explain, he felt that postponing the decision would, in itself, be a decision. How many times could a person put off salvation? If Jesus Christ was "the way, the truth and the life," what possible benefits were there in keeping him waiting?

Cash believed in the reality of heaven. He also believed in the reality of hell. Heaven was like the sound of sweet music working on your soul at the end of a hard day's work. Hell was like the red glow of burning fields in the still of an Arkansas night. The fear of hell was one of the instruments God used to
make us hunger after heaven. When the preacher called for those who wanted their sins forgiven to make their way to the front, Cash got out of his seat as
the congregation sang "Just as I Am":

Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for thee
And that Thou biddest come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!2

Cash would never regret or renounce this decision.
And though he would go through long periods of disobedience, he never lost the conviction that Christ had accepted him, just as he was, and that nothing could reverse that acceptance. The church's thirty-five-year-old pastor, Hal Gallop, baptized him soon afterward in the Blue Hole, a large pond used by all the local churches. J.E. Huff experienced a similar call around the same time. "When I was saved I didn't want to come down because I felt so light," he says. "I'm sure J.R [Johnny Cash] felt the same."

Although Johnny was jailed overnight in 1965 in El Paso for drug smuggling and concealment and once again in 1967 in Lafayette, Georgia with a pocket full of pills, the Lord was watching over him. June bailed him out, then persuaded him to attend a service at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville. The sermon was about the Samaritan women at the well to draw water. It was there that Jesus offered her "Living Water": "Everyone who drinks this water [the water in the well] will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst." Whether Johnny was saved on that day or earlier in 1944, only the Lord knows for sure (but I believe it was 1944).

"Both incidents brought home to Cash his inability to control his behaviour and yet revealed the forgiving nature of God. They were moments of grace. He was
reminded of the words of the apostle Paul: 'For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39).'"


Story #2: The Real Thing
Sunnyvale, Ca.

I am a controller and an analyzer. My wife is also a controller. Therefore, imagine...twenty-two years ago...I was relentless. I could not bear my wife going to hell. I was not one to use very much tact. Neither was my wife. She was born a Catholic; she would die a Catholic. One day it reached a head. We were standing in the bedroom, she had a can of coke in her hand. She couldn't remember this part--except she was numb and could no longer feel the floor. She
began pounding me in the chest. I held her tight. It finally passed and she regained her senses. She laid down and went to sleep and dreamed:

everywhere were dead bodies. But there was some kind of party going on. She let loose a balloon she was holding, watched it float up. Suddenly, it began to
melt--along with everything else. She heard balloons popping. The whole world was melting. Suddenly there was a voice. "All born again Christians, come with
me. She started to rise. The voice asked: "are you a Christian?"--as if the question was on a hinge, tentative.

"Yes. Jesus died for my sins."

"Okay, come."

She, weeping, was then escorted to Calvary. "No, you don't need to show me, no!" She couldn't bear to look. "I don't wanta see! "But there she was. She saw His Face. She was crying, crying, crying. "Stop, please!" She remembered the blood--and His eyes.

She was then taken to another place. She had had enough. "This is your mansion. Eat whatever you like. All these fruits here in the garden." She ran into the yard, happy, ecstatic! There was filipino fruit! And she is a filipina.

At 4:00 AM she woke up. When she got up to walk, it felt like there was no carpet. She was still crying. She felt clean, her sin gone--uplifted, empty,
floating. (These were her words.) "I am born again!"

Kman, thanks for posting that account of Johnny's salvation. I didn't know that. I don't know much about Johnny except that he always did seem to be a truly humble man - even through his sin.

Who's story is story #2? Is it your wife's story? I was unclear on who it was. What a moving story! Thanks for sharing!

Betsy, I didn't know the Apostle Paul was written about as a man in white! I bet he and Johnny are in heaven right now comparing outfits!

Hi Diane - when you posted about johnny now being the man in white, it reminded me of his book.
Actually the title "The Man in White" is referring to Jesus - as Paul encountered Him on the road to Damascus.
And yes, Kman, thanks for the excerpts above! And I was also wondering who the second was about??

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Diane and Betsy - yes, this was the true story of my wife [and her dream]

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For Texas Sue:

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Kman, you have been on the trail of all of Johnny's best songs. Don't you love these two? Brings back a lot of memories hearing these. I really love the guitar in Tennessee Flat Top Box. Great, real music, not tampered with by all those synthesizers and computer junk. The real deal. Thanks for finding those just for me. I loved listening to them. Very thoughtful!! :)

I also really enjoyed "Sing It Pretty Sue". I am still amazed that in all this time I had never heard it before.

I know this trail must end soon. I've been enjoying it so much I find it hard to stop, there's always one more out there too good to pass up. I agree about the synthesizers and computer junk. He was once called "the rough-cut king of country" (later sometimes even he tried to get too fancy - plus Luther Perkins, who died as a result of smoking in bed, was irreplacible. (Of course I'm old-fashioned as you can tell

Here we go:


good accoustics:


bad accoustics but live:


change of pace: not johnny: too good to pass up:


this is how he looked in '67, I saw him run out on stage, open w/ Big River (the same year he was arrested [second time], rededicated his life to Jesus [the Living Water]...)

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rapture train [get aboard!]




the wedding feast: don't miss it, please

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"I once knew a hermit named Dave
that kept a dead horse in his cave ..."
(Johnny Cash-Everybody Loves a Nut)

That describes this thread - which I am now beating.
Well, the horse is not dead but it's on life support.
These are the beginnings of the last dying gasps:



Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings


Waylon Jennings

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"'I once knew a hermit named Dave
that kept a dead horse in his cave ...'
(Johnny Cash-Everybody Loves a Nut)

That describes this thread - which I am now beating.
Well, the horse is not dead but it's on life support.
These are the beginnings of the last dying gasps"


(Did you ever look back at your writing and say to yourself: "that's not what I meant to say at all?"
You meant to say "who kept a dead horse" - not "that kept..." and you meant "you were beating a dead horse" as the saying goes - and not the thread. And now in trying to correct it it only gets worse, so absurd.)

So at last this thread comes to an end (most likely).
(And you struggled for a long time to post pictures but you couldn't.)


this ends too abruptly as if they cut him off from mentioning hell

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