When the Roll is Called Up Yonder - story behind the hymn
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- A Sunday School teacher named James M. Black met a lost young girl and invited her to his class. Her absence at one of their future lessons led to this classic hymn about our names being read out one day in glory! Hear the story and a deep look at the words in today's episode.
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Sources used for for today's video:
- hymnary.org/text/when_the_tru...
- Kenneth W. Osbeck. 101 Hymn More Stories. 1985. Kregal Publications: Grand Rapids
- John Mclelland. The Ambassador Book of Great Hymn Stories. 1994. Ambassador Productions Ltd: Belfast
LYRICS:
1 When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more,
And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;
When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,
And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
Refrain:
When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.
2 On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise,
And the glory of his resurrection share;
When his chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies,
And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. [Refrain]
3 Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun;
Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care.
Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done,
And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. [Refrain]
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I love you Brother for reminding me of Romans 8:16, because I was backslidden, because of my own anger and difficulties in life with my poor health. I am in tears writing this, but I have re-dedicated my life to Christ, and surrendered my all to Him. He now sits on the throne of my own heart.❤❤❤
Amen, brother. Tears of joy with you, living every day for our precious Savior. Like many, I truly believe we are living in the very end of the end times. Until He comes to take us home, this month or on some distant date, we do no better than to study the Word, love Him, and share the message of the cross with those who are perishing. See you in eternity.
Praise God!!
Every heart knows its own sorrow. Now comes a prayer of complete surrender using caps as emphasis to communicate no matter what may come LIFE IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD THROUGH THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST to become more than a conqueror through HIM who loved us via the wonder of faith since our contract with survival is brokered with sadness, fragility and anxiety.
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, their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark when aiming to solve a problem then creating another resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) 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 justification by grace 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 seek 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 movies, 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 in order 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 (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), 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? 🥰
God bless you and we will shortly meet when the roll is called up yonder!
I learned this song in Russian when I was 3. My parents and I sang it as a trio. We were going by car from Germany to kroatia, we'll back than it was yugoslavia, 3 days in the car so we sang alot. I am 49 and I still remember the words. I love those old hymns which we sang at church long time ago. ❤
This was my dad’s favorite hymn even though he was not saved until years later. Thank God that he was truly saved just 2 days before he passed from this life and I look forward to when I will see him again in Heaven because of God’s wonderful grace.
This is still a favourite at Salvation Army funerals. This was sung many times when I attended morning meetings with my grandparents, my Grandpa played in the Salvation Army Band.
I also turned away from God as a result of life’s difficulties, until God softened my heart, many years ago, and helped me stop blaming God, because God is good, and always reaching out to us, to comfort and Bless.
Great video, I love your comments also.
I sang this song in church all the time as a child!
My great grandparents would sing this song at home, at Frankfield Methodist Church 🇯🇲, before and after prayer meetings, alter calls, Jamaican burial at the graveside.
Teaches me to confess my sins to THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY repent snd turn away.
It not THE LORD JESUS CHRIST will be shocked but human beings.
For your ministry and family, Thank you
This is very kind of you. Thank you so much!
Absolutely wonderful hymn and an excellent breakdown and explanation of it!
My grandmother's church sang this beautiful song whenever we went with her. Beautiful song. Thank you for the memory.
Thank you for sharing this, as well as your others. It's a blessing to know the story behind these hymns. We had an evangelical pastor visiting from another church, so i went to hear him. He was preparing to share the truth with a local Mormon church. After his sermon, we sang this, his favorite hymn, and added to my favs, too. It was rousing !!
We do want to be ready when the Lord returns. It will be a joyous, yet sad day as some, many, will remain in the grave until the second resurrection. Why many ? Jesus warned us there is a broad way and a narrow way, Matt 7:13. So, how do we get through that straight gate ?
As soon as you believe, from hearing the Word, you are saved, Eph 2:8. An example is the thief on the cross.
But we have our free will, the perfect gift of a loving God, which means we stumble. As we wake up to our offenses to God, we are given the golden opportunity to repent, confess "...and sin no more". But sometimes we do. The devil knows how to push our buttons.
So what should we focus on ? We should, after faith, take steps for good works. Not because that'll save us alone, they are filthy rags, Isaiah 64:6, but because they show our faith, James 2:18 !!!
KJV Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
And, may i present the warning given for these last days, the Three Angels' Message; KJV Revelation 14:6-12
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
This turned out longer than i expected. God is in charge.
So, to stay on that narrow way, keep our names written in the book of Life and to be there at the first resurrection, answering the roll call, keep His commandments, especially the seventh day of the fourth commandment, noting Matt 11:30.
Maranatha, saints !
I grew up singing this song in church. When I heard the opening chords, I instantly remembered the three verses. Yes, there is a ‘Blessed Assurance’ in knowing when all of life is over and our work on earth is done, we will be with Jesus!
Very good indeed.I am bereft of speech.. Thanks.
It is truly a magnificent hymn and it rouses the faithful, and renews our blessed hope! I used to sing it as a tiny lad in the late 50s and early 60s in church. Back then they used real hymn books instead of monitors. God bless you Luke!
Those sleeping in Jesus will wake to meet their Savior. Praise God ❤🙏
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
The first time I heard this song, the Masters of Harmony choir sang it in the barbershop style. It has since become one of my favorite hymns❤
What a privilege He has given us to be a part of His work.
I've known this hymn from childhood, but it's the first time I'm hearing its history.
Another lovely presentation today... Thanks.
Yes, I learned this wonderful song as a young child. We sang it often in our church. I so love hymns, they contain so much theology.
I remember spending the night with my sweet grandmother. In the morning, I would hear her singing this song. What a wonderful memory!
I grew up on this song & love it. It often comes to mind & I sing it to the Lord.
On that bright and cloudless morning,
when the dead in Christ shall ris
I love your channel 🙏
We just sang this song at our Sunday service today!!! September 10 , 2023. Thanks for sharing.
This hymn was my favorite as a child, and I have always greatly loved this one!!! It brings back some wonderful memories of the congregation at my Grandparent’s church singing this song with much love for our Lord❣️❣️❣️ I do not recall at what age I was when it sunk in what this song truly means and says, Only From The Almighty Lord God!!! He Has Brought to my attention and Taught me not to only sing these hymns with great love for Him, but to know exactly what I am singing, and the meaning of the lyrics Because They Are Inspired and Given By God The Father❣️🙌❣️🙌❣️ Thank you for this great video, and all of your videos that you make and share, All Praise and Glory to God Above and Around!!!!!!!!
This channel is Gold
I am so grateful for your work, brother!! Keep fighting the good fight. You're a blessing 🎉
We do not call on the Lord, or have salvation, because we are worthy,
but because _He Is!_
What a beautiful.story I love that beautiful hymn.
I love the story behind this beautiful song.Thx for sharing
Brother Luke, when you mentioned the song 🎵, Where Jesus is, tis Heaven there, ...
Wow!!! I was so happy to hear that title !
At Billy Graham crusade, a famous singer from the 1940s, sang that song 🎵 at his crusade. And when ever I see that video of Billy Graham, I just fell in love with that song. It reminds me, I can live Heaven, because Jesus is there with me. " amid the sorrows and woes"🎵.
God bless you!
- Debbie
I forgot to add, the singers name at Billy Graham crusade is Ethel Waters.
I remember singing this song in my grandma's church in North Carolina. Being born in the south, we understood the language used, and I still love the song today! Thank you for sharing it.
That was a really nice song. What a hope we have in Jesus. We used to sing it back when I was young.
Yes a song sung when I was young. Loved your talk on it today. Thankyou for the reminder of that great day.
Thank you for this song and the writer's history. It confirms to me that God uses whomever He wants to bring glory to His name, even an abducted child's life can be used one day...
I remember this dong as a teenager in the 70s we sang it when we still used hymn books. How I miss some if those lovely hymns.
Today, in many songs are sung with lyrics that are more focused on me and my needs than on God and our Saviour Jesus! The music is too loud and overbearing.
I do miss the songs of praise and worship we used to sing.
I have heard it and I think it is really meaningful.
Thank you Luke, what a blessing!
How I enjoy this program of yours Luke. It is so inspiring and kinda changes the power and meaning of songs so many times sung in church. You do spend much time to prepare and seek the history of songs and we appreciate your effort. Be blessed.
I am looking forward to hearing the history of this hymn. A little personal history: My earliest memories are of my grandmother rocking me on our porch singing hymns. This was one of her favorites. I misheard and misunderstood the words. I remember asking my Mother when I was maybe 4 if I could have a "plonder roll" for dinner. She said "plonder roll?" I said grandma sings about them. "Up Yonder" sounded like a plonder to me and of course I only knew a 'roll as being food.
Ha! I made a similar comment, you'll hear it when the video goes live!
As a fellow Nazarene I have loved your videos on the old hymns. Oh how much I miss singing these at church these days. Have you done a video about "There's Power in the Blood"?
Yes I grew up with this song in The Salvation Army in the 50s and 60s. It was very popular then and a great one for much joyous clapping and timbrel playing. The positive assurance of it is great to proclaim. I love the way you gave it a jazz feel.😊
Me too.
In East Tennessee (USA) we use the word " yonder " all the time referring to something in a far distance. We say " it's over yonder." etc.
when the roll is called up yonder I'LL BE THERE...ptl
Funny how I thought everybody knows this song, as I sang it in worship all my life. I truly enjoy your history behind the song. With this, when our opportunity comes I hope to be singing this among many fine old songs of faith.
I grew up singing this in church here in Northeast Texas, but hadn't heard it in a few years. Then today at work, I was driving to a local restaurant listening to a radio station called KHCB that plays a lot of the old songs, and this song came on. Now here I am on RUclips, and this video gets suggested for me.
Love this….from Oklahoma USA
One of my favorite hymns! Thanks Luke!
Please share the history of the hymn , I There is a fountain filled with Blood
Then, when all of life is over,
and our work on earth is done,
And the roll is called up yonder I’ll be there.
What an awesome story.
Amen
Maranatha!
Hi enjoyed the song.i researched James black on Google, it said he was born in New York. My wife's ancestors are blacks from Scotland so I was hoping to find a link to share with her.
I'm wondering if its from a verse in the Bible? Please help me find it
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation:20:12-15
The rapture, tribulation period and 1,000 year reign is missing in the first verse of this song. WHY ! Because
these are doctrines of demons.