Billy Graham - God Plus You

October 21, 2025 | 29:30

These are the amazing Billy Graham Crusades from the past 25 years that bring the message of salvation through Jesus Christ to the world.

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Billy Graham Crusade Classics | Billy Graham - God Plus You | October 21, 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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[applause]
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Now tonight i want you to turn with me to judges ,
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That's in the old testament.
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Judges the seventh chapter and the twentieth verse.
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I'm not going to try to read this entire story
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Because i want to tell it to you.
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It'll take less time
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If i tell it to you.
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It's the story of gideon.
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And all of you have heard of gideon.
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And in this twentieth verse it says,
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"and they cried, the sword of the lord and of gideon."
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Now at this period in israel's history
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They were conquered by the amalekites
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And the midianites and the various
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Other peoples of that area.
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And they were suffering great oppression.
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And one day god spoke to a man by the name of gideon
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And said, "gideon, i want you to go lead my people.
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"i want you to be their judge and their leader
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"and if you will be my man i'll be with you,
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"and we'll defeat the armies of the enemies of israel."
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Gideon said, "well, lord, i'm not equipped to do this.
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"i can't do this.
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"i'm not even a soldier, i'm a farmer.
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"i don't have any education.
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"i've never been taught anything in military strategy.
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"how can i go out and do all of this?"
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And god said, "well, i'm calling you, gideon,
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"because i have chosen you to go out
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"and lead israel in her war
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"and lead you to victory."
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Gideon said, "well, lord, i've got to know
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"that it's you talking, so i'm going to put a fleece out;
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"and if it comes out the way i say it..."
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(and he did it on two occasions)
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"then i'll take it from you."
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So god did what gideon asked.
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It was dry one time and wet the next time.
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And all of you, most of you, know the story
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And then gideon got together 22,000 men, all armed.
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And god came to him again and said,
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"gideon, there's one problem.
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"you've got too many in your army.
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"you remember, i'm with you, gideon,
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"you don't need that many.
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So gideon cut 'em down to 10,000.
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God said, "well, it's still too many."
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That reminds me of lenin,
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Who was one of the founders of modern communism.
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He would walk into a meeting and there'd be 600,
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And he'd stalk out.
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He said, "you can't conquer the world with 600...
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"that's too many."
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He said, "when you cut it down to 300, i'll be back."
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I was told the other day by one of the greatest
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Political strategists in the united states
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That you can take any congressional seat
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In the united states--
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Democrat or republican--
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If you have 300 totally- dedicated people
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That are willing to work day and night.
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He said that's all it takes,
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Is 300 dedicated people.
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Republican, democrat, whoever you are--
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If you've got 300 that'll go all-out,
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You can take a congressional seat.
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So he said-- i've never tried it,
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But that's what this man told me.
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So gideon went down to spy out the land.
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Now they had spies in those days.
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We're reading a lot about the cia
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And the spy activity--
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Well, the spy business is pretty good today,
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But it was good back in those days too.
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And gideon took one of his friends down
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To look over the army camp.
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And it says, "there were tens of thousands
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"of midianites," and said,
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"the camels were so great in number,
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"they were like the sands of the sea."
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You couldn't even count them.
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Gideon didn't have any camels.
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And he looked at their weapons,
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And they were the most modern weapons;
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He'd never seen such weapons.
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And he came back and the lord said,
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"gideon, you've got too many.
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"you've still got to cut down."
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Well, you can imagine gideon was trembling
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In his boots by this time.
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And god said, "here's the way you want to do it.
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"take all your army of 10,000 men
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"and put them down by the stream,
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"and let them drink water,
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"and those that lap it up in their hands like a dog would do
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"keeping their eyes alert, looking around,
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"they'll be your army.
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"those that get on their hands and knees
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"and just drink it, looking down,
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"without being alert, cut them out."
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And when it was all finished,
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Only 300 out of the 10,000 lapped it up like a dog.
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God says, "there's your army."
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"what?!
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"me go out with a little handful of farmers,
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"300 of them?"
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And god said, "furthermore, i don't want you to
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"take any weapons with you.
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"all you do is take a trumpet,
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"give each man a trumpet in his right hand,
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"and give him a pitcher,
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"and then inside of this pitcher, put a torch.
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"and do what i tell you."
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So gideon divided his 300 into three companies,
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And at night they went down to the midianite camp
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Of thousands of men, and the amalekites.
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And at a certain moment, gideon blew the trumpet,
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All the trumpets, 300 of them blew,
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They burst the pitchers, and here were the torches,
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And it so confused the midianites
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And the amalekites, that they began to fight
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Among themselves, and kill each other,
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And they began to run for their lives.
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And a mighty victory took place.
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Now what i would like to say to young people tonight is,
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All you need is god.
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If you're totally surrendered, and totally dedicated,
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And say, "lord, here's my hand with all i've got,"
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God has a place for you.
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He can use you.
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Are you one of god's children tonight?
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Have you received him into your heart and life?
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All it takes is one.
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There's a young man here in this audience tonight...
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I don't know who you are,
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But there's a young man here that could turn america
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Upside down for christ,
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If he went all-out for christ.
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There's a young woman here tonight,
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That god could mightily use right now,
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In the great spiritual vacuum we find developing in america.
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You know, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
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Every link in a chain is necessary.
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You are a link in god's chain, in god's plan,
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To proclaim the gospel to the whole world,
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Right now in history.
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Are you as a young man, a young woman,
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Ready to say i'm ready to go?
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I'll be god's man, i'll be god's woman.
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I'm willing to go to bible school.
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I'm willing to go to a christian school and study.
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I'm willing to prepare myself.
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I'm willing to study the scriptures to be god's man.
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Look at the people that stood alone.
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Look at noah.
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120 years he was building that ark,
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And as far as we know, not a single person
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Believed in him.
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We don't even know that his family believed in him,
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Though they were saved.
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God had come to noah and said,
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"noah, it's going to rain 40 days and 40 nights,
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"and there's going to be a gigantic flood,
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"and i'm going to wipe out the entire human race
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"and start all over again,
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"but because you have lived a holy life,
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"and because you're a righteous man,
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"and a good man and a believer in me,
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"i cannot destroy you."
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And he said, "i want you to build a ship
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"450 long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high."
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Noah said, "you mean, build a ship out here
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"in the middle of the desert?
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"people will say i'm crazy."
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Noah didn't argue with god, he didn't say that.
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The bible says noah was terrified.
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Just like you'd be.
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If god should suddenly come and say to you,
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"i want you to do thus and so,"
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Something far beyond your ability
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And it looked absolutely crazy and ridiculous--
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That's how noah felt,
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But he went to work,
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And for 120 years, he preached repentance.
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He warned the people,
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"a flood is coming, a flood is coming!
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"judgment is coming; repent!
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"turn to god while you can!"
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And he kept on building that ark,
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And people thought he was crazy.
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If they'd have had psychiatrists then,
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I'm sure they'd have had a dozen on him.
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[laughter]
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And on the last day, he stood in the door of the ark
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And said, "come in, come in and be saved.
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"it's going to start raining."
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The skies were clear.
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Up until that time,
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We don't think there'd ever been rain on the earth.
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But somebody yelled and screamed and said,
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"there's a cloud!"
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And the cloud grew black, lighting flashed,
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And thunder roared and the wind blew,
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And the rains came!
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And the people beat on the door of the ark
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And said, "noah, let us in, let us in, let us in,"
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But it was too late.
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Because the bible says something interesting...
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It says, "god shut the door."
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And someday the door of grace will be closed.
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Someday it will be too late for you to come to christ.
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That's why it's important to come now in this day of grace.
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In this age when god from the cross is saying,
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"i love you, repent of your sin and believe."
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Noah stood alone.
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Or abraham, god came to abraham and said,
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"abraham, i'll tell you what i want you to do.
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"i want you to pick up all your possessions..."
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Now he was a rich man,
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"i want you to take all your possessions,
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"and go to a land called canaan."
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He'd never heard of canaan.
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He was in haran.
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"i want you to take everybody.
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"all your family, all your possessions,
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"and move, and go hundreds of miles away to a land
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"that i'm going to give you and to your posterity.
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"it'll be a land flowing with milk and honey."
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12th chapter of genesis .
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And the bible says, abraham, a man of faith,
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Went... alone.
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Left everything he'd ever known
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Just because god told him,
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And god used him
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To found the mightiest nations in the world.
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Moses...
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Moses was way back on the back side of the desert,
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And he was 80 years old.
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You know, when you're 80 years old,
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You think you're, well, you're getting along.
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This lady here tonight,
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She'd have been a kid at eighty,
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That we introduced a moment ago.
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106 years of age.
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Like moses.
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But 80 years of age, you don't quite think of a man
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Leading a nation.
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But god came to him one day on the back side
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Of that midian desert,
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And moses saw a bush burning,
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And he went over to investigate,
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And out of the bush spoke the lord,
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And he said, "i am the lord god, and moses, i want you to go
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"and lead the people of israel out of egypt.
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"they've been slaves down there long enough."
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Moses said, "i can't!"
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"i can't even speak!
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"i'm 80 years old!"
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God said, "moses, i've chosen you.
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"i'll be with you."
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So moses went,
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And through a series of circumstances,
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He led the children of israel out of egypt,
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And he became the greatest man in the old testament.
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God plus one!
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One man believing in god.
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One man trusting god.
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One man taking up the responsibility
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God laid on his shoulders.
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Samson...
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You think of samson as big and strong.
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He wasn't necessarily big and strong.
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Samson was certainly the strongest man
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That ever lived, but he didn't look strong.
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All he had was long hair,
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But that long hair was the symbol
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Of god's anointing and blessing upon him.
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And god was with samson and samson could go out
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And slay thousands of people with the jawbone of an ass.
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He even got 3,000 of the enemy
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And killed them in one day,
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With his bare hands.
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He could take a lion and rip his jaws apart.
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He could take a bear and tear a bear apart,
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As long as he was faithful and true to god,
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Because god was with him.
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You say, "billy, do you believe those stories?"
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I believe every one of them.
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What about you?
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One person committed to jesus christ
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Is important in the sight of god.
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That's the reason for the cross.
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We find the lord jesus christ dying on that cross
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For your sins, and every time you see a cross,
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It should remind you of what you mean to god.
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Jesus not only died for all,
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He died for each.
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I want you to get that again.
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He not only died for this, all this big crowd
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Here in new mexico, and all the crowd
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Watching by television-- he died for each of you,
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As if you were the only person that he was dying for.
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"he tasted death," the scripture says
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In hebrews 2 , "he tasted death for every man."
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He died in your place just for you.
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And he had the capacity to call you by name,
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And i believe on that cross, he was looking down
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2,000 years, and he was saying, "billy graham, andré crouch,
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"beverly shea, cliff barrows..."
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And your name.
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He died for you,
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Because he has the hairs of your head numbered,
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And if every hair of my head is numbered...
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You know, people write me and they say,
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"don't you wear a toupee or something?"
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I said, "no, you can come and pull my hair if you want."
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I have more hair than my head'll hold, really,
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And i have to have it thinned every time i have a haircut.
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And the bible says that god has every hair
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That i've got numbered.
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He sees every sparrow fall.
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Have you ever watched sparrows?
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Millions and millions and millions and millions
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Of sparrows where we live, and god sees every one of them.
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I guess he has all their feathers counted.
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He knows where every beetle and every bug is.
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He knows it all.
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He has the capacity.
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It boggles the mind what god has.
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And yet he knows you and he loves you.
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And he's interested in you.
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And he'll go with you from this stadium
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To lead a whole new life that you never knew existed before.
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But you've got to be willing to pay the price.
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And here's the price:
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It's got to be all-out commitment.
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Now when you go all-out for christ,
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That doesn't mean you become perfect.
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This is the mistake
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That many, many christian young people make--
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They think that the moment you accept christ,
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That you are to be perfect, and everybody around you
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That has accepted christ becomes perfect,
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And they become a little bit critical.
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The most critical christians, many times, are the ones
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That have recently found christ
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Because they look at other christians and believers
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And they don't see perfection.
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You are never going to find
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A perfect christian anywhere in the world.
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We will be perfect someday.
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That brings us to the big word: sanctification.
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In a sense, when you come to jesus christ,
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You're sanctified.
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In another sense, you are progressively being sanctified.
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In another sense, you will be totally sanctified
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When you get to heaven.
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Now when you come to christ,
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You start reading the bible and you begin to pray,
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You begin to fellowship with other christians,
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And you begin to grow.
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Now, your growth, many times, will be so small,
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And after a while, you'll get disgusted with yourself.
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You'll get discouraged.
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The first two or three years after i came to christ,
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I had some terrible moments of discouragement
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And despondency, and boy, does the devil like that.
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The moment you get discouraged,
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He said, "i've got him."
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That's one of his big instruments--
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Discouragement.
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If you make a mistake,
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If you're not all that you ought to be immediately,
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Don't get discouraged.
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And then when you look back two years later to that moment,
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You'll say, "well, i actually am growing."
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You may not see yourself growing every day.
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It's a gradual growth.
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And then there'll be experiences.
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God will give you experiences.
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There will be an experience of a dedication
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Of a new area of your life,
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And then again, there'll be another experience
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And another area of your life is given to god.
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And god will point to something else and say,
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"billy, i want that."
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And i surrender that.
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It may be through a moment of emotion.
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I don't want to give it up,
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But god says you've got to give it up.
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You've got to love that person that you're having a war with.
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It's hard, but god says, "i want you to."
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And, with god, and god alone.
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I remember when i was in bible school,
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Down in florida,
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I had a little place that nobody knew about,
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And i'd go there all alone
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And sometimes i'd spend two and three and four hours.
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And i'd have it out with the lord
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On subject after subject after subject,
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And problem after problem.
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I'd go in there sometimes, and i'd say,
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"lord, i know that i haven't been saved
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"because i just lost my temper upstairs
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"and told that guy off.
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"something's wrong."
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And i would confess it and the lord would say,
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"well, you go back and make it right with that person."
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Then i'd start all over again.
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But it was a gradual time of growth.
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Sometimes it'd be rapid growth;
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Then again it would slow down.
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But always growing in the grace and knowledge of christ.
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And then someday, with him, perfection!
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Because we will be like the lord jesus christ.
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Now what is god doing in your life right now?
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God's business now is to mold you into the image of christ,
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So that you will love like he loves,
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Have peace like he has,
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Joy like he has,
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Gentleness like he has,
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And anger like he has.
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Yes, there are times we're to be angry.
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We're to be angry at sin.
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We're to be angry at wickedness.
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We're to be like lot in sodom,
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Uncomfortable around wickedness.
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Yes, tonight, god is interested in you.
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Jesus told about the shepherd that had a hundred sheep,
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And one of them was missing, and he left the ninety and nine
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And went after the one lost sheep.
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Are you the one lost sheep tonight?
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Are you the one that this whole crusade
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Is all about tonight?
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Are you the one
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That all this prayer has taken place?
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All this planning has taken place?
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You tonight surrendered totally to christ,
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Could be mightily used,
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If you gave your heart and your life to him.
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Yes, jesus died for you.
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He died on the cross
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That you might come to know him as lord and as savior.
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You say, but what do i have to do?
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It's very simple.
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He made it so simple that children can accept it.
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Made it so simple that the blind,
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And the deaf and the dumb can come.
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Made it so simple that the educated can come.
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He said, all you have to do
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Is repent of your sins.
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That means that you're willing to change
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Your way of living.
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It means that you tell god, "god, i'm sorry," and mean it,
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And if you have to, go back and make restitution.
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Make right some of the things you've done wrong,
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All that you can.
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That's costly and it hurts,
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But that's repentance.
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Secondly, by faith receive him as lord and savior.
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Now it happens simultaneously.
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You can't divide repentance and faith...
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They go hand-in-hand and arm-in-arm.
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Faith means that you put your full weight on christ,
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And trust him as your lord and master and savior,
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And you're not trusting in yourself,
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And you're not trusting anybody else to save you.
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And this is another mistake young people make,
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I think, many times, is depending for their
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Christian growth on fellowship with other young people
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Instead of getting into the word of god themselves,
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And praying themselves.
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You see, you should never be dependent on somebody else
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For your spiritual life.
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You depend totally on your own personal
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Relationship with the lord jesus christ.
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I remember an old evangelist wrote me one time,
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And he said, "i found that i got all the joy
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"and happiness in my life out of the big meetings,
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"and when the big meetings were over,
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"i lost my joy and my happiness."
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Can you imagine that?
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He had missed his devotional life,
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He had missed his personal walk with god,
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So much so that when his health declined,
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And the meetings declined, his joy went,
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Because his joy was in the big crowds,
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And all the fellowship that he had with other christians.
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Don't put it there.
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Put it in christ!
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God and god alone.
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Just you and god tonight.
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I'm going to ask you to receive him.
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Receive christ into your heart.
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Make him your savior and make him your lord,
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And i'm going to do something that we've seen thousands do
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This week; i'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat
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Right now, hundreds of you, and come and stand in front
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Of this platform and say by coming,
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"i receive christ into my heart.
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"i want him to be the lord of my life,
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"i want him to have all of me.
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"i'm giving him everything i have.
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"i'm going to do like robert moffatt,
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"i'm just gonna get in the collection place
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"and give him everything."
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Will you do that tonight?
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Hundreds of you.
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If you will, come and stand in front of the platform,
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And after you've all come and stood,
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I'm going to have a prayer with you,
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Give you some scripture.
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We're going to give you some literature,
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A counselor will talk to you,
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And then you can go back and join your friends.
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If you're with friends and relatives, they'll wait.
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Just get up and come.
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If you've come in a bus, they'll wait on you.
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No one leaving the stadium, please.
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Just get up and come right now and stand here,
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And say, by coming,
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"i receive christ as my lord and my master and my savior."
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You may be a member of the church.
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You may be catholic or protestant.
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I don't know who you are, what you are.
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You may not be a member of any church,
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But whoever you are, you get up and come,
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Because you need christ.
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You want his forgiveness, you want his life.
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You come.
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♪ just as i am and waiting not ♪
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♪ to rid my soul of one dark blot ♪
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(voice-over) as hundreds are responding
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To mr. graham's invitation to make a public commitment
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To jesus christ,
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You can make that same commitment
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Right where you are.
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Just pick up the phone and call the number
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You see on your screen.
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Special friends are waiting to talk with you and pray with you
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About this most important decision.
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♪ i come ♪
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♪ just as i am... ♪
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You that are watching by television right now
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Can see that hundreds of people are coming
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To make their commitment to jesus christ
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Here in albuquerque, new mexico
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At the university stadium.
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You can make your commitment where you are, right now.
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Just receive christ into your heart.
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He'll come in,
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And you will have christ with you always.
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God help you to make that decision.
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And i hope you go to church next sunday.
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God bless you.
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♪ just as i am poor, wretched, blind ♪
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♪ sight, riches, healing of the mind ♪
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If you just prayed that prayer with my father,
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Or if you have any questions
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About a relationship with jesus christ,
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Why don't you call the number on the screen.
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There will be someone there to talk with you, pray with you and
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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
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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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Billy graham
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1 billy graham parkway
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Department c
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Charlotte, nc 28201
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Or you can contact us on the web 24/7 at billygrahamtv.org.
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We'll get the same helps to you that we give to everyone
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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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Jesus christ died for the world.
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Whatever country
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Whatever the color of your skin.
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Whatever language you speak.
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Jesus christ died for your sins.
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It's jesus.
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Billy Graham - God Plus You

October 21, 2025 | 29:30

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