Billy Graham - Living On The Fault Line

March 10, 2025 | S1:E120

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 - Living On The Fault Line | March 10, 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 i want you to turn with me to the 12th chapter of hebrews,
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The 12th chapter of hebrews.
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It's very windy up here where i'm standing,
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And i have to hold my bible down or it will blow away.
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"and this word, yet once more signified
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"the removing of those things that are shaken,
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"as of those things that are made,
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"that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
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"wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
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"let us have grace, whereby we may serve god acceptably
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"with reverence and godly fear."
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You know, i read an article some time ago
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And i think it was harper's magazine
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Entitled "goodbye san francisco",
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And the title of this article indicated that
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The san andreas fault that runs up and down california
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May explode at any time into the greatest earthquake
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Perhaps the world has ever known.
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And some british scientists came over here and the bbc,
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The british broadcasting corporation accompanied them
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And they soon felt that
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This thing is going to happen at any time.
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They said not if, but when two plates of
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Hot, slowly moving inner mass are beginning to rub together,
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The edges are rough.
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They're beginning to bend,
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And they say that it could strike right under
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San francisco bay
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And kill thousands of people and wound other thousands.
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And as i read that article, it seemed to say to me
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That it could be a picture of our world today.
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New economic, social, scientific, and religious ideas
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Are rubbing and bending against the traditional values
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That we've always held in the united states and canada.
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And there's mounting internal pressure against all restraint
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As more and more persons want only personal gratification.
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And the world is moving toward
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A great international, cultural, and political earthquake
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Unless something happens
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And that something will have to be
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A supernatural moving of the spirit of god
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Throughout the world.
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They're international tensions.
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Look at the horn of africa or the mideast or
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The soviet union and china
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With all of their statements against each other.
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Mr. zhou enlai said before he died,
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"we are not preparing for peace in china.
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"we are preparing for war."
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The technological fault line.
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Science could almost now build paradise on earth.
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But even when man was in paradise,
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He rebelled against god
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And that's where the first sin was committed.
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Total social justice in those days,
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No wars, no police forces, no armies, no vietnam's,
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No death, no suffering, no hospitals.
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In the middle of that man rebelled against god.
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Science could bring us almost to the point of paradise again,
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Were it not for the fact that man is a sinner.
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He has lust and greed and hate
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And because of that man is under the sentence of death.
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The technological fault line makes it impossible
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For history to repeat itself.
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We say that history repeats itself,
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But there's one element in modern times
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That's different than anything in the history of the world
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And that is technology.
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Why up until about 1835 man could only go as fast as
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A horse could run.
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Look how fast we can go today.
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18,000 miles an hour through space.
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In just a little over 150, less than 150 years
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That's all happened.
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And then we have the question today
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Of genetic engineering and environmental manipulation
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And they're causing scientists to frantically look for
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Ethical guidelines.
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What is going to guide us?
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If we reject the 10 commandments
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And we reject the sermon on the mount
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And we reject biblical ethics,
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What's going to guide us from crashing?
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Then there are the personal fault lines
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That you have in your own life and your family
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And your business
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And your relationships with your neighbor.
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The tensions are there.
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Jesus said there would come a time when
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Men's hearts would fail because of fear.
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Fail because of fear, boredom, anxieties,
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Guilt, fear of death, loss of health.
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How many people are watching me right now
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That you've already been told
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That you have a terminal illness?
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Many of you that are sitting here will be told this year
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By the doctor that you only have a few months to live
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And you may be a young person.
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The bible says, "it's appointed unto man once to die
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"and after that, the judgment."
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Yes, we're living at a crisis period
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And jesus said there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon
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And in the stars and upon the earth,
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Distress of nations with perplexity,
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The sea and the waves roaring,
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Men's hearts failing them for fear.
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Looking after those things which are coming on the earth
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For the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
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Yes, jesus said the powers of heaven.
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The whole earth and heaven itself will be shaken
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By what is going to come
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And that's what we just read in hebrews.
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The bible says god is going to shake the earth once more
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And the heavens, the stars, the planets will be shaken,
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But there will be some things that will remain
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That will always be the same,
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That you can always count on.
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First, the nature of god never changes.
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God said, "i'm the lord god, i change not."
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The scripture says,
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"every good gift and every perfect gift is from above
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"and cometh down from the father of lights
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"with whom there is no variableness,
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"neither shadow of turning."
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That means that god doesn't change so much as an eyelash
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In all the centuries.
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God is unchanging in his holiness.
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God is a holy and a righteous god.
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Holy, holy, holy lord, god almighty,
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Which was, which is and which is to come.
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God is a holy god and a righteous god,
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And god will not put up with sin.
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He still hates it because he's a holy god.
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And god is a god of judgment.
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The bible says, "the lord shall judge
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"the ends of the earth.
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"every secret thing will be brought to light."
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There is a day of judgment coming that has not changed.
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The day has been set.
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It's been appointed.
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God is unchanging in his love.
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"but god commended his love toward us
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"in that while we were yet sinners,
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"christ died for us."
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God still loves and he loves with such an everlasting love
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That he gave his son, the lord jesus christ.
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To die for you.
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And if it were not for that, there is no hope in the world.
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He died on the cross and he rose again
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And he's alive and he's coming back.
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And that's the hope that we have.
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And that's the good news of the gospel.
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The word gospel means good news.
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I have good news for you.
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The good news is god loves you.
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He has a plan for your life.
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There's a purpose for living.
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There's a reason for existence.
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Don't give up.
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Don't let the headlines frighten you.
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God is still sovereign.
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He's still on the throne
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And those of us that follow him and serve him have a future
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That's brighter than tomorrow.
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"because he lives, i can face tomorrow," wrote the gaithers.
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Yes, god is love and god's so loved.
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Another thing hasn't changed is the word of god,
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"the grass withereth, the flower fadeth,
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"but the word of our god shall stand forever."
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"forever, o lord, thy word is settled in heaven."
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The first question the devil ever asked man and eve
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In the garden of eden was,
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"yea, hath god said?"
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He tried to make them doubt the word of god,
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But this word doesn't change.
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It's unchanging.
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That's why it's important to read it every day
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And to study it.
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Let it be your guide.
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And then human nature doesn't change.
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Jeremiah said,
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"the heart is deceitful above all things
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"and desperately wicked."
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Has that changed?
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Look at the world today.
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Read the headlines about the murders and the robberies
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And the muggings and the rapes throughout the world,
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Not just in canada or the united states.
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It's worldwide.
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A worldwide convulsion of violence and terrorism.
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That's what jeremiah said,
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"the heart is deceitful above all things
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"and desperately wicked."
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Your heart, my heart.
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You don't know what you would do under certain circumstances.
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We're all sinners.
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Sinners by birth, sinners by choice,
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Sinners by practice.
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We need sin forgiven.
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You cannot be reconciled to god.
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You cannot go to heaven unless those sins are forgiven
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And god says, i can forgive you if you repent of your sin
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And receive my son, jesus christ as your lord and savior.
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Another thing that hasn't changed,
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The moral law hasn't changed.
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It's easier for heaven and earth to pass
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Than one tittle of the law to fail, said jesus.
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"thou shall have no other gods before me."
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Idolatry is still a sin.
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"honor thy father and thy mother."
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Rebellion against the authority of your parents is still a sin.
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"thou shall not commit immorality."
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If you have committed immorality, you're a sinner.
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"thou shall not steal."
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Cheating in school, pilfering in a store.
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"thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
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Lying.
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Have you ever told a lie?
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You say, "well billy, unfortunately,
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Almost all of those i've, i've committed."
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Well, suppose you had only broken one of those laws,
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Just one, one time?
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That made you a sinner.
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Because the bible says that if we keep the whole law
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And yet offend in one point,
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We're guilty of the whole law.
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So in that sense,
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We've all broken all the commandments.
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We have sinned against god,
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Whatever the color of our skin,
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Whatever our religious affiliation,
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We are sinners and we need reconciliation.
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We need justification.
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We need to be redeemed.
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And that's why christ came.
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And that's why he went to the cross.
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And then fifthly, and lastly,
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The promise of his coming again has not changed.
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He is coming again.
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General macarthur said, when he left the philippines,
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"i shall return."
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Christ said before he left, "i shall return."
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I believe he's going to return.
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When the son of man shall come in all his glory
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And all the holy angels with him,
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Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory
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And before him shall be gathered all nations.
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That'll be the greatest disarmament peace conference
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The world has ever known.
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And it's the one conference that's going to work.
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All nations will be gathered.
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Maybe they'll come to new york and sit in
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The united nations building,
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I don't know, but all the nations of the world, i think,
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Are go into gather at jerusalem and the peace will be dictated.
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We will come under a theocracy, god ruling.
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And i would rather trust
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The lord jesus christ to rule this earth
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Than any living man that has ever lived except him.
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He would rule it with justice and love
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And mercy and tenderness and perfection,
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Which we don't have today from any man
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Because any man that we elect
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Or that climbs to the top is still a man.
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His heart has not been changed.
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Jesus said, "i go to prepare a place for you
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"and if i go and prepare a place for you,
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"i will come again and receive you unto myself
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"that where i am there ye may be also."
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As he was ascending into heaven,
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Two men in white apparel stood beside the disciples
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With tears in their eyes.
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These disciples were watching the ascension of their lord
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And these two men said,
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"ye men of galilee, why stand ye gazing into heaven?
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"this same jesus which is taken up from you into heaven
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"shall so come in like manner
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"as ye have seen him go into heaven."
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Do you know what winston churchill's favorite song was?
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.
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The nicene creed, which all of our denominations,
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Most all about denominations, accept says
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"he shall come again with glory
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"to judge both the living and the dead."
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Charles wesley, the great english hymn writer,
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Wrote 7,000 hymns.
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We have on the platform dr. oswald j. smith,
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Who has been one of the greatest hymn writers of our century
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And now the gaither's whose songs are being sung
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All over the world.
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But charles wesley wrote 7,000 hymns, can you believe it?
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And 5,000 of them dealt with
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The second coming of jesus christ.
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When queen elizabeth ii, your queen, was crowned,
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You remember
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The archbishop of canterbury laid the crown on her head
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And here is what he said as he laid it there.
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"i give thee, o gracious lady, this crown to wear
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"until he who deserves the right to wear it shall return."
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That's a part of the history of britain.
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When a sovereign is crowned,
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It's recognized that it's only temporary
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And that crown will someday be worn by
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The king of kings and lord of lords.
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The great question facing the world today is
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Who's going to restore the order?
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Who can counter the dangers?
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Who can govern the world?
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I proposed to you, the lord jesus christ can
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And he's going to do it, the bible tells us that.
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The last two verses of the bible say,
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"he which testified these things saith, 'surely i come quickly.'
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"amen, even so come lord jesus."
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The last thought in the bible is the coming again of
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Jesus christ.
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Now before his coming, he made certain predictions.
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He said there'll be some signs that you can watch for.
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He said there'll be convulsions,
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There'll be earthquakes,
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Social and political earthquakes as well as physical.
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Wars, worldwide violence, moral permissiveness,
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Tribulations, both jews and christians alike suffering.
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Antichrist.
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People betraying one another leading up toward armageddon.
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Is that where we are now?
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I do not know because he warned us against trying to set a date,
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But all the signs would seem to point that
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Something has to happen pretty soon
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Or there may not be a human race left.
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And you know it's interesting to me that
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We're not hearing very much about that
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From the pulpit today,
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But we're hearing it from the scientists and
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The government leaders from many nations of the world.
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And it seems that the prophets of our time have become
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The scientists and the sociologists
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And the philosophers and the political leaders
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Who are warning us
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As president carter did the other day when he said,
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"we're on a dangerous course."
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Now, what will happen when christ comes?
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I have some good news for you.
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Sin, suffering, and death are the three greatest problems
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That man has ever faced.
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They'd been with us since the beginning.
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Science has not solved any of them.
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It has not solved the problem of sin in the human heart.
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It's not solved the problem of suffering.
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You can put a person in
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The finest hospital in the world
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And he'll still suffer.
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Put him in the finest under the finest psychiatric care
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And he'll still suffer because man is a suffering being.
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Science cannot solve this terrible problem
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Of human suffering.
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We've not been able to solve the problem of death.
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Men still die by the thousands every day
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From all kinds of causes,
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But jesus is going to eliminate all that.
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Sin will be eliminated.
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Suffering will be eliminated.
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Death will be eliminated.
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Peace will be established on the earth.
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His name shall be called the prince of peace,
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Of the increase of his government and peace,
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There shall be no end,
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The scripture says.
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Our social institutions will be reconstructed.
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Poverty will be eliminated.
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Social justice will prevail throughout the world.
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The kingdom of god will triumph.
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I'm glad to be on his side.
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I'm glad that he chose me a number of years ago
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And i was born again
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And i received christ into my heart.
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And now i know that i'm ready to enter his kingdom
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By his grace and by his mercy.
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I've already entered the kingdom and have eternal life now.
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I don't have to wait to die to get it.
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I have it now.
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So, the future does not hold any fears for me,
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But the future holds fears for me when i think of you
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Who may not know christ.
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Now, what should our attitude be until that moment when he comes?
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We're to wait with patience.
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"for ye have need of patience for yet a little while
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"and he that shall come will come and will not tarry,"
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In hebrews 10.
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It's been 2000 years since he made those promises.
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Peter said people are going to begin to ask,
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Where's the promise of his coming?
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In all these 2000 years people look for him.
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He hasn't come.
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What's wrong?
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Did something happen?
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No, everything's going right along to god's timetable.
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God planned it this way.
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That's the way he meant it to be
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So that we will come to him by simple faith
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And accept him into our hearts as lord and savior.
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Yes, we're to wait with patience because he's going to come.
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And then we're to watch.
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Do you get up some morning and say,
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"lord, maybe today you're going to come."
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Do you go to bed at night and say,
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"lord, maybe while i'm sleeping, you're going to come."
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We're waiting with longing expectation for
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The coming of our lord jesus christ,
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Said paul in philippians 3.
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Are you waiting and watching?
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And then we are to work.
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Because he's coming doesn't mean that
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We're to go home and sit down
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And wait and do nothing
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And say there's nothing i can do to help the world.
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It ought to cause you to work harder than ever before.
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Harder in your church, harder in your community.
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Do more good works than ever before.
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Pray for peace, work for peace,
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Help in all good works.
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The scripture says,
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"blessed is that servant whom his lord when he commeth
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"shall find so doing,"
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Jesus said that.
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When he comes back,
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He ought to find you working harder than ever before.
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I've met some people that said there's no use evangelizing.
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There's no use giving to missions.
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Then there's no use giving to the hungry of the world
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Because jesus is going to come back
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And we can't solve all the problems anyway.
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That is an unscriptural and an unbiblical attitude
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And it's a sin.
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We ought to be working and giving
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And praying and living with the expectation that
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He is going to come, but it ought to increase our zeal.
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It ought to intensify our efforts.
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As far as i'm personally concerned.
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I read in the paper once in a while
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Where some people hopefully say that i'm going to retire soon.
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Well, i want to tell you,
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I don't ever intend to retire until the lord retires me.
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I know that i'm getting a bit older, but i want to tell you,
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I feel the best i've ever felt in my life
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And the lord has given me extra strength
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And given our team extra strength.
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(applause)
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We are going to carry on.
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We're going to carry on by the grace of god
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And with your help,
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By your prayers and your support
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Carrying this gospel throughout the world.
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And then the last thing that we're to do,
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We're to prepare with urgency.
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Jesus said, "therefore, be ye also ready
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"for in such an hour as ye think not
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"the son of man cometh."
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"in such an hour as you think not
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"the son of man cometh."
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Are you ready?
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What do you have to do to be ready?
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First, repent of your sins,
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But you say, how do you do that?
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You say, "lord, i'm sorry.
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"i'm willing to change my lifestyle.
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"i'm willing to change my way of thinking
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"and living and i'm ready to bring my whole life
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"under the lordship of jesus christ.
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"i'm changing my priorities."
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That's repentance.
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You can do that today, right now, today.
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Secondly, by faith you receive christ
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As your lord and your savior.
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Maybe you've already done that when you joined a church,
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But you want to reconfirm that commitment
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Because you're really not sure.
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You see, you can be a member of the church
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And not have a personal daily relationship with christ
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And you're not sure that you have that relationship,
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His peace and his joy and his love is not yours
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And the assurance is not there.
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And on this wonderful glorious afternoon,
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You'd like to make sure.
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I'm going to ask you to do something
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That we've seen thousands of people do
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During the past few days.
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I'm going to ask hundreds of you to get up out of your seat
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And come and stand in front of this platform
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And after you've come and stood here,
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I'm going to say a word to you
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And have a prayer with you
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And give you some literature
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To help you in your christian life
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Before you go.
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If you're with friends or relatives,
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They'll wait on you where you are.
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If you've come in a bus, they'll wait
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And i'm going to ask that no one leave the stadium.
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The temptation is to run and get ahead of everybody else,
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But please stay where you are.
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This is a holy moment.
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This is a moment of eternity with thousands of people here.
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Why do i ask you to come?
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Every person jesus called in the new testament,
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He called publicly.
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He said, if you're not willing to openly acknowledge me
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Before men,
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I'll not acknowledge you before my father,
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Which is in heaven.
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There's something about coming forward
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And standing here publicly
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That settles it and seals it in your life
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And many people have already started.
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You come from this great stand back here,
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Get up and come quickly.
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It'll take you about two minutes to come, so start now.
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Quickly, you come.
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(voice over) as hundreds are responding to mr. graham's invitation
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To make a public commitment 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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♪ and that thou bidst me come to thee, ♪
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♪ o lamb of god, i come, i come. ♪
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You're that are watching by television can see
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That hundreds of people are coming down every aisle
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In this great stadium
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To make their commitment to jesus christ.
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You make that commitment where you are now.
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Let him come in as your lord and master
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And be prepared for that great day
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Because you see,
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He may not come in your lifetime,
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But if he doesn't, when you die,
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That's the end of the world for you.
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Are you ready for that event?
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You can make ready right now.
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Just receive christ into your heart.
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If you just prayed that prayer
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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 just call that number
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That is on the screen.
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There'll be someone there to talk with you,
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Pray with you 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
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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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Billy graham,
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1 billy graham parkway,
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Department c,
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Charlotte, north carolina 28201
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Or you can contact us on the web 24/7 at
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Billygrahamtv.org.
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We'll get the same helps to you
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That we give to everyone who responds
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At the invitation.
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On behalf of franklin graham
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And the billy graham evangelistic association,
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Thank you for watching
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And thank you for your prayers.
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(franklin graham) the bible says,
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"seek the lord while he may be found.
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"call on him while he is in near."
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The bible says,
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"without faith it's impossible to please god
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"because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
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"and that he rewards those who seek him."
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You come to christ tonight.
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You've got to be willing to turn your back on your sins.
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Will you call upon his name?
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Will you seek him tonight?
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It's ann, she's in trouble.
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If you don't take it to the edge every chance you get
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You're dead already, baby.
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I was in trouble
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And i didn't know what to do.
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Ow!
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Where are the jews?
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I knew that i could take on the world.
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It's like you're in a dream
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But not really a dream,
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This is reality.
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I don't really believe
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In all this
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But i know someting crazy
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Is happening right now.
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Billy Graham - Living On The Fault Line

March 10, 2025 | S1:E120

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