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Billy Graham - Getting A Piece of the Rock

March 17, 2025 | 28:29

Billy Graham - Getting A Piece of the Rock
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Billy Graham Crusade Classics | Billy Graham - Getting A Piece of the Rock | March 17, 2025
  • In 1949 a bold and dynamic young preacher
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  • Set out on a journey that would have an impact
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  • On every continent for generations to come.
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  • For more than 50 years and to more than 210 million people,
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  • Billy graham has passionately spoken
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  • About the certainty of hope found in jesus christ.
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  • There are many things about god
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  • That i don't understand or comprehend.
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  • I accept his revelation of himself by faith,
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  • He's brought races and denominations together
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  • Toward a common purpose
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  • As he's preached in 185 countries around the world.
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  • Christ belongs to all people.
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  • He belongs to the whole world.
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  • He has stood alongside presidents,
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  • Met with dignitaries and world leaders,
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  • And today billy graham is recognized
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  • Among the most influential religious leaders
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  • In the history of the world.
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  • From our archives,
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  • The billy graham classics.
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  • Now tonight i want you to turn with me to
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  • Deuteronomy the 32nd chapter and the 31st verse, deuteronomy.
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  • That's in the old testament
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  • Over toward the beginning of the old testament
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  • In what is called the pentateuch,
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  • The first five books of the bible
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  • And there's a verse tucked away
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  • In moses' farewell address to ancient israel
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  • That says this in the 31st verse.
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  • It says this, "for their rock is not our rock."
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  • For their rock is not our rock.
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  • In the latter part of the last century,
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  • A man toured america and great britain
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  • And many times, he used that text.
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  • I'd never noticed that text
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  • Until i read one of his sermons a few weeks ago.
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  • D.l. moody.
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • Moses is now an old man.
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  • He has led the children of israel
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  • For 40 years in the desert.
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  • He's been a king, a father, a president,
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  • A leader all these years.
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  • And now only joshua and caleb are left.
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  • All the other generation are dead
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  • And all the people standing out before him are young people.
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  • Young people just like you with the same desires,
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  • The same aspirations, the same longings,
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  • The same dreams, the same problems,
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  • The same sins,
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  • The same temptations that you have.
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  • And moses looking upon this vast audience,
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  • An entirely new generation,
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  • With his long white beard,
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  • Preaching to them, warning them,
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  • Warning them of other gods and false gods
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  • That are going come up to take the place of
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  • The true and the living god.
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  • And he said, if you follow these false gods,
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  • That judgment of god will come upon you.
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  • And he referred to god as a rock
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  • And he referred to these other gods as rocks,
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  • Spelled with a little "r".
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  • The rock god was spelled with a capital "r".
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  • Now why did he use the term rocks as an illustration?
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  • The children of israel had been wandering around
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  • Among the rocks for 40 years.
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  • They knew what a rock was.
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  • They knew the hard rocks and the soft rocks
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  • And all kinds of rocks.
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  • And he said, "their rock is not our rock."
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  • What are some of the rocks in america right now
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  • That young people are in danger?
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  • You know, i talked to a man just a few weeks ago
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  • Who claimed to be an atheist.
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  • I don't know whether he was really an atheist,
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  • But he said he was an atheist.
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  • He said, "i've been an atheist all my life".
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  • He said, "my father was an atheist."
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  • He said, "i am now 71 years of age," and
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  • I said, "what do you have to look forward to?"
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  • He said, "nothing."
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  • He said, "life has been miserable for me".
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  • "well," i said, "why don't you give up your atheism?"
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  • "why don't you believe in god?"
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  • He said, "my pride won't let me."
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • Compared with paul, the apostle paul said,
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  • "i fought a good fight. i finished my course.
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  • "i have kept the faith.
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  • "henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
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  • "which the lord, the righteous judge,
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  • "will give me in that day."
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  • What a contrast between an atheist and a believer.
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  • One man was facing death, fearful, empty.
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  • The other man was facing death full of confidence.
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • Secondly, young people,
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  • Many young people are going after materialism.
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  • They fallen for the materialistic god
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  • That says things are more important than
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  • Anything else.
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  • I find across the country today,
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  • A deep economic discontent among people.
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  • I find it in europe.
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  • I find it around the world and people are wanting more
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  • And more things and we forget that
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  • We have the highest standard of living the world has ever known.
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  • We still have poverty.
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  • The government is trying to do something about it.
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  • The church is trying to do something.
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  • Hundreds of social agencies are trying to do something about it,
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  • But the people that we call living in poverty
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  • Would be considered rich if they lived in bangladesh
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  • Or in many other parts of the world.
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  • We're a rich nation,
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  • But still with all of our riches,
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  • We're dissatisfied.
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  • We want more, more, more, more.
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  • The more we get, the more we want.
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  • Jesus said,
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  • "you cannot serve god and mammon."
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  • He said, "a man's life consists not
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  • In the abundance of the things that he possesses.
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  • A famous man was quoted in the paper the other day
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  • As saying,
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  • "i'm worth millions of dollars, but i can tell you this,
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  • "that's not where it's at."
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  • "i'm worth millions, but that's not where it's at."
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  • Adolf berle, in his study of power,
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  • Points out riches make people solitary, lonely,
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  • And often afraid.
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  • Many times a rich man has a loneliness and a fear
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  • Because you see,
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  • If you make riches your god, if you make things your god,
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  • If you make money your god, it leaves you empty.
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  • George bernard shaw said,
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  • "there are two tragedies in life.
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  • "one is not to get your heart's desire
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  • "and the other is to get it."
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  • You think if you had a lot of money, you'd be happy.
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  • Some of you have already got a lot and you're not happy.
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  • Two tragedies, you didn't get it and you did get it.
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  • You see, without god,
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  • Life loses its zest and its purpose and its meaning,
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  • Even though you may have money.
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  • Young people in america today are revolting against affluency
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  • And yet today, many young people are prisoners of a culture
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  • Which puts a premium on things rather than moral values.
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • Don't make money your god.
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  • There's nothing wrong with having money
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  • If you've got it legitimately and honestly.
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  • It's what you do with it.
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  • It's your attitude toward it.
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  • Do you love it?
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  • Has it become your god?
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  • Does it dominate you?
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  • Does it have such a hold on you
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  • That you don't have time for god?
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • That's not the rock we want.
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  • And then thirdly, their aims and objectives are not our rock.
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  • What are the objectives of
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  • The average person in america today?
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  • Power, pleasure, leisure, money.
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  • What is the objective of a christian?
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  • To glorify god, to live for god,
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  • To do the will of god,
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  • To love your neighbor, to help your neighbor,
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  • To make an impact in society for god
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  • And to leave the world a little better place
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  • Because you were here.
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  • What is your objective?
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  • Is your objective to get all the leisure time you can,
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  • To have all the pleasure you can have,
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  • To make all the money you can make?
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  • What is your objective?
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  • What's your goal in life?
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  • Where are you headed?
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • And then fourthly, there's pleasure.
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  • You know, in america today, we're searching for new thrills.
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  • We've worn out the old amusements.
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  • You're not to become so absorbed.
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  • The bible says, "be temperate in all things."
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  • There are legitimate pleasures that can take most of your time
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  • And occupy most of your thinking
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  • That are legitimate in themselves,
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  • But they soon become sin because they've taken the place of god.
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  • "in thy presence is fullness of joy;
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  • "at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore,"
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  • Said the psalmist.
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  • Do you have that kind of pleasure?
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  • The kind of pleasure that's not dependent on circumstances.
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  • The kind of pleasure that's not dependent on how you feel.
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  • The kind of pleasure that runs deep that has been brought there
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  • By the spirit of god.
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  • When the tide comes in,
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  • The rock of pleasure will turn into a sand.
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  • The sweetness of pleasure turns to
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  • Bitterness and disappointment.
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  • Life becomes empty, sick, and a tragic thing
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  • When pleasure is put first and becomes your god.
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • There's the rock of revolution.
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  • All over the country we hear the word revolution
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  • And many young people have fixed their hopes and their dreams
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  • On change in the political system
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  • And they believe that if they can get this revolution,
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  • It'll fix everything.
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  • I was with one of these young leaders
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  • Whose name is known to many of you in new york
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  • Some time ago;
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  • And i looked out across manhattan.
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  • He said, "we're going to burn it down."
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  • I said, "what are you going to rebuild in its place?"
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  • He said, "we haven't gotten that far."
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  • I said, "well, before you destroy the american ship,
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  • "you better be sure that you can know how to build a raft."
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  • Many people have an idea that they, i think they,
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  • It's the excitement of revolution
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  • For revolution's sake.
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  • You know, every utopia has turned out to be a pipe dream
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  • In the history of the human race.
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  • Their rock is not our rock.
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  • Yes, we need change in america, but let's keep our freedom.
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  • Let's don't have a revolution just for revolution' sake
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  • Or we will destroy everything that's been built
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  • In the greatest nation in the history of the world.
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  • Seventhly, religiosity can become a god.
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  • You know, there's a great emphasis today
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  • On the occult.
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  • I was asked about it on television today
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  • In an interview.
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  • Satan worship.
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  • People today that are going after all kinds of false spirits
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  • Across the country and in europe and in the far east as well.
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  • It's become a big thing and a big business,
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  • And many young people across the country are being fooled by
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  • All kinds of cults and spirits and devils and demons.
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  • Beware, you are dealing with the dark powers
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  • That are very real.
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  • How did jesus overcome the devil?
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  • By arguing?
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  • No.
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  • By debating?
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  • No.
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  • He quoted scripture.
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  • The bible says that
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  • He was filled with the holy spirit.
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  • He was walking according to the will of god
  • 00:13:21.595 --> 00:13:24.064
  • And he quoted the bible
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  • And every time he quoted the bible;
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  • The devil was defeated.
  • 00:13:29.035 --> 00:13:31.104
  • That's the reason it's important to memorize scripture.
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  • Study the bible.
  • 00:13:34.140 --> 00:13:36.142
  • I'm so anxious that young people across america now
  • 00:13:36.142 --> 00:13:38.712
  • That are finding christ by the thousands,
  • 00:13:38.712 --> 00:13:41.081
  • Will get into the scriptures, get into the word of god.
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  • Learn it.
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  • "desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby,"
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  • Because if you don't,
  • 00:13:50.624 --> 00:13:53.293
  • We're going to have a backlash in the next generation
  • 00:13:53.293 --> 00:13:56.863
  • And young people who have had an experience with christ
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  • And don't become taught in the scriptures
  • 00:14:02.969 --> 00:14:07.307
  • Are prime targets for the devil.
  • 00:14:07.307 --> 00:14:12.612
  • Get into the scriptures.
  • 00:14:12.612 --> 00:14:15.548
  • Get to work for christ.
  • 00:14:15.548 --> 00:14:18.785
  • Their rock is not our rock.
  • 00:14:18.785 --> 00:14:23.256
  • Eighthly, their cure is not our cure.
  • 00:14:23.256 --> 00:14:29.262
  • That's one of the problems of psychiatry.
  • 00:14:29.262 --> 00:14:31.965
  • I'm for psychiatrists and psychologists.
  • 00:14:31.965 --> 00:14:34.234
  • I send many people to them,
  • 00:14:34.234 --> 00:14:35.902
  • But there's a point beyond which a psychiatrist who is not
  • 00:14:35.902 --> 00:14:40.040
  • A believer, there's a point beyond which he can't help.
  • 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:44.444
  • In many cases, he has no cure.
  • 00:14:44.444 --> 00:14:48.114
  • And many of them have admitted this to me privately
  • 00:14:48.114 --> 00:14:51.618
  • And some of them are beginning to do it publicly
  • 00:14:51.618 --> 00:14:54.020
  • And they're doing it in books now.
  • 00:14:54.020 --> 00:14:56.222
  • You'll see, the cure of the world,
  • 00:14:56.222 --> 00:14:59.526
  • The freudian cure is one direction,
  • 00:14:59.526 --> 00:15:04.698
  • But the christian cure is other.
  • 00:15:04.698 --> 00:15:07.000
  • The christian cure is the cross of our lord jesus christ.
  • 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.071
  • The cure for domestic problems.
  • 00:15:11.071 --> 00:15:16.776
  • There's a father having problems with a son.
  • 00:15:16.776 --> 00:15:24.651
  • What is the cure?
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  • The son in rebellion, the son going out on his own,
  • 00:15:28.121 --> 00:15:33.760
  • Seeking his own identity, doing things that appalls the father.
  • 00:15:33.760 --> 00:15:38.231
  • The father becomes angry.
  • 00:15:38.231 --> 00:15:40.000
  • The parents become upset.
  • 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.703
  • There is a christian cure.
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  • The cure is christ.
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  • To go to our knees.
  • 00:15:49.476 --> 00:15:52.178
  • And you know,
  • 00:15:52.178 --> 00:15:53.246
  • I love the young people of this generation.
  • 00:15:53.246 --> 00:15:56.216
  • I can see why a lot of them have rebelled.
  • 00:15:56.216 --> 00:15:59.019
  • They have rebelled against
  • 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:00.153
  • The hypocrisies they've seen in us.
  • 00:16:00.153 --> 00:16:02.555
  • They've seen us tell lies.
  • 00:16:07.494 --> 00:16:11.664
  • They've heard us tell them not to smoke their pot
  • 00:16:11.664 --> 00:16:13.967
  • And seen us drink our alcohol.
  • 00:16:13.967 --> 00:16:18.405
  • They've heard us use those swear words.
  • 00:16:18.405 --> 00:16:23.243
  • They've seen father and mother flirting with
  • 00:16:23.243 --> 00:16:25.278
  • The next-door neighbor.
  • 00:16:25.278 --> 00:16:28.448
  • They've seen the sharp business deals
  • 00:16:28.448 --> 00:16:30.050
  • That they knew were not right.
  • 00:16:30.050 --> 00:16:32.252
  • They've seen the emphasis has been on things
  • 00:16:35.588 --> 00:16:37.957
  • Even while you went to church on sunday,
  • 00:16:37.957 --> 00:16:40.427
  • Yet the whole emphasis of your life is materialistic.
  • 00:16:40.427 --> 00:16:43.329
  • They've seen the hypocrisy and they said,
  • 00:16:43.329 --> 00:16:46.433
  • "we don't want it."
  • 00:16:46.433 --> 00:16:50.437
  • But let me tell you this.
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  • You young people.
  • 00:16:51.971 --> 00:16:53.907
  • If you had lived a few years ago,
  • 00:16:53.907 --> 00:16:56.776
  • Your life expectancy wouldn't have been very long
  • 00:16:56.776 --> 00:16:59.045
  • Because, you see,
  • 00:16:59.045 --> 00:17:00.113
  • This generation was able to make some breakthroughs
  • 00:17:00.113 --> 00:17:02.115
  • In medicine and in science
  • 00:17:02.115 --> 00:17:05.585
  • That has given you all these marvelous drugs
  • 00:17:05.585 --> 00:17:08.288
  • So you don't have to worry today about small pox and polio
  • 00:17:08.288 --> 00:17:12.625
  • And all of these other things that preoccupied people
  • 00:17:12.625 --> 00:17:16.896
  • A generation or two ago and sent terror and fear
  • 00:17:16.896 --> 00:17:20.400
  • Through this community of charlotte many times
  • 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:23.303
  • Through disease.
  • 00:17:23.303 --> 00:17:26.539
  • There are many wonderful things this generation has brought.
  • 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:29.843
  • Television, radio brought the world into our living room.
  • 00:17:29.843 --> 00:17:36.049
  • And this generation of people, my generation, worked hard.
  • 00:17:39.085 --> 00:17:43.089
  • We came through the depression.
  • 00:17:43.089 --> 00:17:45.592
  • We didn't want you to ever have to go through
  • 00:17:45.592 --> 00:17:47.794
  • A depression again.
  • 00:17:47.794 --> 00:17:49.429
  • We came through world war ii and we determined that
  • 00:17:49.429 --> 00:17:51.664
  • We were going to do all we could to keep out of another
  • 00:17:51.664 --> 00:17:54.400
  • Great world war.
  • 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.403
  • And you young people must understand that
  • 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:04.043
  • This generation has done some good things
  • 00:18:04.043 --> 00:18:09.682
  • Even though we've done some bad things
  • 00:18:09.682 --> 00:18:12.886
  • And we want to help you as we hand the torch to you.
  • 00:18:12.886 --> 00:18:15.655
  • We want to help you change it and make it better,
  • 00:18:15.655 --> 00:18:21.161
  • But we've got to, in all fairness,
  • 00:18:21.161 --> 00:18:23.930
  • Say that the problem lies deeper than we thought.
  • 00:18:23.930 --> 00:18:28.101
  • The problem lies in the human heart.
  • 00:18:28.101 --> 00:18:31.070
  • We've found that we cannot legislate morals.
  • 00:18:31.070 --> 00:18:34.073
  • We've found we cannot pass a law and settle our race problem.
  • 00:18:34.073 --> 00:18:39.412
  • We can help, but that doesn't solve it all.
  • 00:18:39.412 --> 00:18:43.683
  • It's got to come from the human heart.
  • 00:18:43.683 --> 00:18:46.052
  • That's why jesus said, "you must be born again."
  • 00:18:46.052 --> 00:18:49.923
  • Their rock is not our rock.
  • 00:18:49.923 --> 00:18:53.226
  • Their cure is not our cure.
  • 00:18:53.226 --> 00:18:56.629
  • Our cure says you must be born again.
  • 00:18:56.629 --> 00:19:01.301
  • Now what is this rock that is ours with the big capital "r"?
  • 00:19:01.301 --> 00:19:06.139
  • The rock is god and the bible tells us that
  • 00:19:06.139 --> 00:19:10.109
  • The rock in the old testament was actually jesus christ.
  • 00:19:10.109 --> 00:19:16.749
  • He was the rock, king of kings and lord of lords,
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  • Born of the virgin mary,
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  • Died on the cross for our sins,
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  • Rose again for our justification.
  • 00:19:24.457 --> 00:19:28.027
  • He is the rock that we're to put our confidence
  • 00:19:28.027 --> 00:19:31.297
  • And our faith in
  • 00:19:31.297 --> 00:19:32.432
  • And he's called in the bible, the rock of defense.
  • 00:19:32.432 --> 00:19:35.368
  • When we put our trust in him, he takes our side.
  • 00:19:35.368 --> 00:19:38.538
  • He takes out part.
  • 00:19:38.538 --> 00:19:40.073
  • He helps us carry the load
  • 00:19:40.073 --> 00:19:42.508
  • And when you come to jesus christ as savior,
  • 00:19:42.508 --> 00:19:44.510
  • You don't have to,
  • 00:19:44.510 --> 00:19:45.878
  • You don't have to live a life by yourself.
  • 00:19:45.878 --> 00:19:49.449
  • You can't live the christian life alone.
  • 00:19:49.449 --> 00:19:52.518
  • Christ will be there.
  • 00:19:52.518 --> 00:19:53.886
  • He is the rock that will help you to live the life.
  • 00:19:53.886 --> 00:19:57.223
  • If god is for us who can be against us.
  • 00:19:57.223 --> 00:20:00.293
  • I'm glad that my defense
  • 00:20:00.293 --> 00:20:02.895
  • At the great judgment of god is going to be in the hands of
  • 00:20:02.895 --> 00:20:05.565
  • The greatest lawyer in the universe,
  • 00:20:05.565 --> 00:20:08.635
  • Jesus christ, our advocate.
  • 00:20:08.635 --> 00:20:11.271
  • And the devil is going to say,
  • 00:20:11.271 --> 00:20:12.238
  • "look at billy graham, ha-ha.
  • 00:20:12.238 --> 00:20:14.007
  • "look at the sins he committed.
  • 00:20:14.007 --> 00:20:15.441
  • "look at the things he did that are wrong."
  • 00:20:15.441 --> 00:20:17.910
  • Jesus christ is going to step, step up and be my representative
  • 00:20:17.910 --> 00:20:22.048
  • And he's never lost a case.
  • 00:20:22.048 --> 00:20:24.550
  • And then, he is a high rock, the bible says,
  • 00:20:28.454 --> 00:20:32.725
  • A watch tower.
  • 00:20:32.725 --> 00:20:33.960
  • Lead me to the rock that is higher than i.
  • 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:36.195
  • Did you know that the christian has
  • 00:20:36.195 --> 00:20:37.797
  • A vantage point that the world doesn't have?
  • 00:20:37.797 --> 00:20:40.900
  • Everybody's wringing their hands and saying,
  • 00:20:40.900 --> 00:20:42.268
  • What's happening in the world?
  • 00:20:42.268 --> 00:20:43.436
  • What's wrong with the world?
  • 00:20:43.436 --> 00:20:44.304
  • Why is the world in such a mess?
  • 00:20:44.304 --> 00:20:45.905
  • I can tell you.
  • 00:20:45.905 --> 00:20:48.541
  • The simplest christian in this audience tonight
  • 00:20:48.541 --> 00:20:50.843
  • With no education at all
  • 00:20:50.843 --> 00:20:52.145
  • Can tell you exactly what's wrong with the world
  • 00:20:52.145 --> 00:20:55.081
  • Because the christian has an insight
  • 00:20:55.081 --> 00:20:57.617
  • That nobody else has.
  • 00:20:57.617 --> 00:20:59.952
  • Their christian can tell you what's wrong with the world
  • 00:20:59.952 --> 00:21:03.456
  • And the christian can tell you what could put the world right
  • 00:21:03.456 --> 00:21:07.727
  • Because you see we have a rock, a vantage point.
  • 00:21:07.727 --> 00:21:12.598
  • Then the bible teaches that our rock is a refuge.
  • 00:21:12.598 --> 00:21:15.668
  • The bible speaks of the cleft in the rock,
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  • A hiding place from the storms of life.
  • 00:21:18.871 --> 00:21:22.608
  • A place where we can go and pray and meditate and
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  • Think and worship god.
  • 00:21:25.011 --> 00:21:29.515
  • Rock is a foundation.
  • 00:21:29.515 --> 00:21:31.784
  • For other foundation can no man lay than that
  • 00:21:31.784 --> 00:21:34.087
  • Was laid in christ jesus.
  • 00:21:34.087 --> 00:21:36.789
  • Is jesus christ the foundation of your life?
  • 00:21:36.789 --> 00:21:39.492
  • There were two men that jesus told about.
  • 00:21:39.492 --> 00:21:41.828
  • One built his house on the sand,
  • 00:21:41.828 --> 00:21:43.496
  • One built it on the rock.
  • 00:21:43.496 --> 00:21:44.997
  • The storm came and the one that was built on the sand crumbled
  • 00:21:44.997 --> 00:21:49.268
  • And the one that was built on the rock lasted.
  • 00:21:49.268 --> 00:21:52.438
  • Where are you building your life?
  • 00:21:52.438 --> 00:21:55.441
  • Is it on the rock or is it on a false rock?
  • 00:21:55.441 --> 00:21:59.879
  • A sandy rock that will crumble and erode, a shaley rock.
  • 00:21:59.879 --> 00:22:06.452
  • Oh, there are some things that are eternal in our rock.
  • 00:22:06.452 --> 00:22:10.523
  • The bible says god is eternal.
  • 00:22:10.523 --> 00:22:13.493
  • The eternal god is thy refuge.
  • 00:22:13.493 --> 00:22:15.695
  • The bible says that spiritual truth is eternal.
  • 00:22:15.695 --> 00:22:18.798
  • The bible says that god gives us eternal life.
  • 00:22:18.798 --> 00:22:22.568
  • The bible tells us that heaven is eternal.
  • 00:22:22.568 --> 00:22:25.471
  • The bible says god's judgment is eternal.
  • 00:22:25.471 --> 00:22:28.941
  • He is an eternal rock.
  • 00:22:28.941 --> 00:22:32.645
  • The bible says, "prepare to meet thy god".
  • 00:22:32.645 --> 00:22:36.215
  • The bible says, if in this life only we have hope,
  • 00:22:36.215 --> 00:22:39.519
  • We are of all men most miserable.
  • 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:42.021
  • Even his enemies recognize that their rock is not our rock.
  • 00:22:42.021 --> 00:22:48.895
  • Paul says of the rock in the wilderness
  • 00:22:48.895 --> 00:22:51.497
  • In first corinthians 10, that rock was christ.
  • 00:22:51.497 --> 00:22:57.303
  • Other rocks crumble and slide and erode and fall,
  • 00:22:57.303 --> 00:23:05.545
  • But not christ.
  • 00:23:05.545 --> 00:23:08.881
  • Is he your rock?
  • 00:23:08.881 --> 00:23:12.251
  • Is he your lord and your master and your savior?
  • 00:23:12.251 --> 00:23:15.588
  • Have you surrendered everything to him without reservation?
  • 00:23:15.588 --> 00:23:18.424
  • You can tonight.
  • 00:23:18.424 --> 00:23:22.195
  • You say, what do i have to do?
  • 00:23:22.195 --> 00:23:24.197
  • You have to be willing to turn from your sins.
  • 00:23:24.197 --> 00:23:27.166
  • You have to be willing to receive him as your lord and
  • 00:23:27.166 --> 00:23:30.269
  • Your master and your savior.
  • 00:23:30.269 --> 00:23:32.972
  • And you have to be willing to do it publicly.
  • 00:23:32.972 --> 00:23:35.541
  • Jesus said,
  • 00:23:35.541 --> 00:23:36.843
  • "if you're not willing to acknowledge me openly
  • 00:23:36.843 --> 00:23:38.978
  • And publicly,
  • 00:23:38.978 --> 00:23:40.246
  • I'll not acknowledge you before my father, which is in heaven.
  • 00:23:40.246 --> 00:23:43.483
  • There's no such thing as secret discipleship.
  • 00:23:43.483 --> 00:23:47.787
  • You come publicly.
  • 00:23:47.787 --> 00:23:48.921
  • That's why i ask people to come forward
  • 00:23:48.921 --> 00:23:50.590
  • To receive christ openly.
  • 00:23:50.590 --> 00:23:53.826
  • That's part of it.
  • 00:23:53.826 --> 00:23:56.362
  • It's an open acknowledgement that he is your rock.
  • 00:23:56.362 --> 00:24:01.133
  • But i want to tell you what i said across japan and india
  • 00:24:01.133 --> 00:24:04.203
  • And across africa.
  • 00:24:04.203 --> 00:24:07.273
  • When you come to jesus christ and make him your rock
  • 00:24:07.273 --> 00:24:09.642
  • With a capital r,
  • 00:24:09.642 --> 00:24:11.811
  • You must turn from the other rock.
  • 00:24:11.811 --> 00:24:18.951
  • And it will cost you something
  • 00:24:18.985 --> 00:24:22.655
  • Because some of the rocks in your life are wrong.
  • 00:24:22.655 --> 00:24:26.893
  • Will you make jesus christ your rock of gibraltar
  • 00:24:26.893 --> 00:24:30.796
  • And stake your eternal destiny on him?
  • 00:24:30.796 --> 00:24:34.367
  • I am asking you to do that tonight
  • 00:24:34.367 --> 00:24:35.968
  • And i'm asking
  • 00:24:35.968 --> 00:24:37.103
  • Hundreds of young people to make him their rock tonight
  • 00:24:37.103 --> 00:24:39.472
  • And go out of here saying, from this hour on,
  • 00:24:39.472 --> 00:24:42.608
  • I'm going to follow him and serve him
  • 00:24:42.608 --> 00:24:44.377
  • And i'm going to help change the world for christ.
  • 00:24:44.377 --> 00:24:47.280
  • That's the revolution we need.
  • 00:24:47.280 --> 00:24:50.616
  • I'm going to ask you to do it right now.
  • 00:24:50.616 --> 00:24:53.853
  • I'm going to ask hundreds of you to get up out of your seat;
  • 00:24:53.853 --> 00:24:56.188
  • Men, women, young people,
  • 00:24:56.188 --> 00:24:58.024
  • And come and stand in front of the platform
  • 00:24:58.024 --> 00:24:59.792
  • And say, tonight,
  • 00:24:59.792 --> 00:25:01.060
  • I want christ to be my rock.
  • 00:25:01.060 --> 00:25:03.429
  • I want him to be my lord and my savior.
  • 00:25:03.429 --> 00:25:06.332
  • I want him to forgive my past sins.
  • 00:25:06.332 --> 00:25:08.668
  • I want to know that i have eternal life.
  • 00:25:08.668 --> 00:25:11.938
  • Men, women, young people.
  • 00:25:11.938 --> 00:25:13.606
  • You may be a member of the church.
  • 00:25:13.606 --> 00:25:15.708
  • You may not be a member of any church.
  • 00:25:15.708 --> 00:25:17.610
  • I don't know who you are, what you are,
  • 00:25:17.610 --> 00:25:19.412
  • But you want christ tonight.
  • 00:25:19.412 --> 00:25:20.813
  • You get up and come.
  • 00:25:20.813 --> 00:25:22.248
  • We're going to wait.
  • 00:25:22.248 --> 00:25:25.351
  • As hundreds are responding to mr. graham's invitation
  • 00:25:25.351 --> 00:25:27.920
  • To make a public commitment to jesus christ,
  • 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:30.656
  • You can make that same commitment
  • 00:25:30.656 --> 00:25:32.658
  • Right where you are.
  • 00:25:32.658 --> 00:25:34.527
  • Just pick up the phone and call the number
  • 00:25:34.527 --> 00:25:36.729
  • You see on your screen.
  • 00:25:36.729 --> 00:25:38.030
  • Special friends are waiting to talk with you and pray with you
  • 00:25:38.030 --> 00:25:41.200
  • About this most important decision.
  • 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.838
  • ♪ and that thou bidst me come to thee ♪
  • 00:25:45.871 --> 00:25:55.815
  • ♪ o lamb of god, i come, i come. ♪
  • 00:25:55.815 --> 00:26:12.865
  • To you that are watching by television,
  • 00:26:05.891 --> 00:26:14.834
  • I'm sure that you can see
  • 00:26:14.834 --> 00:26:16.068
  • That hundreds of people are coming here in
  • 00:26:16.068 --> 00:26:17.670
  • The great charlotte coliseum to make their commitment to
  • 00:26:17.670 --> 00:26:20.740
  • Jesus christ as the rock of ages,
  • 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:24.377
  • The one that they're going to give allegiance to tonight
  • 00:26:24.377 --> 00:26:27.246
  • And surrender to as lord and master and savior.
  • 00:26:27.246 --> 00:26:30.549
  • To receive everlasting life.
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  • Where you are in your home or a bar or hotel lobby,
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  • Wherever you are,
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  • You can receive christ into your heart.
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  • I hope you'll make that commitment.
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  • It'll change your life.
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  • God bless you.
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  • If you just prayed that prayer with my father,
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  • Or if you have any questions about a relationship
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  • With jesus christ,
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  • Why don't you just call that number that is on the screen.
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  • There'll be someone there to talk with you, pray with you
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  • And answer those questions.
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  • And remember, god loves you.
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  • If you would like to commit your life to jesus christ,
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  • Please call us right now toll free at 1-800-380-6804.
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  • That's 1-800-380-6804.
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  • Or you can write to us at
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  • Or you can contact us on the web 24/7 at billygrahamtv.org.
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  • That we give to everyone who responds at the invitation.
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  • On behalf of franklin graham and
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  • The billy graham evangelistic association,
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  • Thank you for watching and
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  • Thank you for your prayers.
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  • (billy graham) there's only one way, only one hope.
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  • ♪ witness the story that never fa-a-ades. ♪
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