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Thread #120730   Message #2628497
Posted By: Azizi
10-May-09 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'If He Change My Name'?
Subject: RE: Origins: 'If He Change My Name'?
Here's a link to a YouTube video of Jennifer Bynum singing the African American spiritual "If He Change My Name"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLelqaZC15g&feature=PlayList&p=D37499AD63DD260C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=25


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Here's a link to a YouTube video of a woman named Oya singing another African American spiritual: "I Know I Been Changed (The Angels In Heaven Done Signed My Name)"

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOA_2YJuQik

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"The angels signed my name" means the baptized person has his or her name in God's Book of Life.

Btw, in Pentacostal churches, baptized people were/are called "saints". This adds more meaning to the well known African American gospel song "When The Saints Go Marching In".