Billy Graham - Who Is Jesus?

March 19, 2026 | 28:29

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 - Who Is Jesus? | March 19, 2026
  • 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 i want you to turn with me, if you will
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  • To luke's gospel, luke's gospel,
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  • The fourth chapter.
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  • Jesus had just been tempted in the wilderness.
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  • He had been tempted by the devil.
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  • And the devil had tempted him and it was a real temptation.
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  • It wasn't just a put up thing.
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  • It was a real genuine temptation.
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  • Three times the devil tempted jesus
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  • And he overcame the devil.
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  • And he did it by just quoting scripture.
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  • He said, "it is written."
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  • He didn't argue with the devil.
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  • He didn't debate with him.
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  • When the temptation came he just quoted scripture.
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  • That's why it's so important to learn
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  • As much scripture as you can.
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  • Because when temptation comes,
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  • The way to make him run
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  • Is to quote scripture.
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  • Because the scripture is the sword of the spirit.
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  • And then after the temptation we begin to read,
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  • "and he came to nazareth, where he had been brought up:
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  • "and, as his custom was," he went to the church,
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  • Or the synagogue, "on the sabbath day,
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  • "and stood up to read."
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  • Where do you go on sunday?
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  • It says as his custom was.
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  • Jesus, himself, went to church faithfully.
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  • "and there was delivered unto him
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  • "the book of the prophet isaiah.
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  • "and when he had opened the book,
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  • "he found the place where it was written."
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  • That the 61st chapter of isaiah, by the way,
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  • If you want to look it up in the old testament.
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  • And he's quoting from the old testament.
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  • He says, "the spirit of the lord is upon me,
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  • "because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
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  • "he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
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  • "to preach deliverance to the captives,
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  • "and recovering of sight to the blind,
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  • "and set at liberty
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  • "them that are bruised,
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  • "to preach the acceptable year of the lord.
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  • "and he closed the book,
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  • "and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
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  • "and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
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  • "were fastened on him."
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  • Tonight i want us to fasten our eyes
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  • On the person of jesus christ.
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  • Not only who he was, but what he was
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  • And what he can do for you.
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  • Who is this jesus?
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  • What did jesus claim?
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  • When a president gives his inaugural address,
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  • Its purpose is to announce to his fellow americans
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  • What he hopes to accomplish during his administration
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  • Over the next four years.
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  • And here in luke the fourth chapter
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  • Jesus gave his inauguration address.
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  • He gave six reasons why he came to earth from heaven.
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  • He said he'd come first
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  • To preach the gospel to the poor.
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  • The word gospel means good news.
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  • He meant those that were poor in spirit, as well as,
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  • Those that were physically poor.
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  • He said i've come to bring good news to you.
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  • I've come to tell you that i can help you
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  • Solve your problems and heal your hurts.
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  • I've come to tell you that i can save your soul.
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  • I can guarantee that when you die you'll go to heaven.
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  • Secondly, jesus said i've come to heal the broken hearted.
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  • How many broken hearted people there are here tonight?
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  • How many broken hearted that are watching on the television?
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  • People yearn for good news.
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  • He came to heal the broken hearted.
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  • And thirdly, jesus came to preach deliverance
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  • To the captives.
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  • He meant people that were captured by habits
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  • And sins that are wrong.
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  • Many of you would like to break some of your bad habits,
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  • But you can't do it.
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  • He said i can help you break any habit you've got
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  • That's wrong, if you'll let me.
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  • Newspapers tell us about murders, and rapes,
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  • And assaults and robberies,
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  • Everything is increasing every year it seems.
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  • And we're wondering what in the world
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  • Are we going to do about it.
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  • And then the drug problem
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  • And the habits that people get into.
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  • And then fourthly, jesus said
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  • He came to bring sight to the blind.
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  • And of course, we've seen people that are blind
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  • Walking down the streets with their white canes,
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  • Trying to find their way and pick their way
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  • So they won't get hurt
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  • And they're blind, physically blind.
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  • But he was talking about the spiritually blind.
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  • And there are many of us that have the best physical vision
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  • That you could possibly have,
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  • But we're spiritually blind.
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  • We're blind toward god.
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  • We're blind toward the needs of our fellow man.
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  • We're blind toward the homeless people.
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  • We're blind toward the suffering people.
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  • We're blind toward people of another race
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  • And their needs and what we could do
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  • To go out of our way to help them and to love them.
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  • And fifthly, jesus said he came to set at liberty
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  • Those that are bruised.
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  • How many bruised people are here tonight?
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  • You're bruised by a family disorientation.
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  • You're bruised by disagreements in the family
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  • Or in the business or in your work place
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  • Or with your neighbors.
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  • Or you're bruised because somebody
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  • Said something bad about you.
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  • Or you're bruised by jealously,
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  • You're bruised.
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  • He said, "i've come to set at liberty those that are bruised."
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  • And the eyes of all of them in the synagogue were on him.
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  • I want you to get your eyes on him tonight.
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  • And there are several things i want you to see about jesus.
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  • First, he is the creative christ.
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  • Now, we've had this great spaceship that's gone out
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  • Called hubble.
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  • And it's brought back to us visions of a universe
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  • That we hardly dare dream about.
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  • It's so much bigger.
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  • So much beyond anything the scientists ever dreamed.
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  • And yet the bible says
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  • That jesus created all of it.
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  • That's hard to comprehend, isn't it?
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  • Its hard for my little brain to take in that
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  • He is from everlasting to everlasting.
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  • He never had a beginning, he never has an end.
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  • And it says for by him were all things created
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  • That are in heaven and that are in earth,
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  • Visible and invisible.
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  • Whether they're thrones or dominions,
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  • Or principalities or powers.
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  • All things were created by him and for him.
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  • And he is before all things and by him
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  • All things consist.
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  • That word consist means hold together.
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  • This podium would explode were it not for that
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  • Unknown cohesive thing
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  • That science has not yet discovered what it is
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  • That holds it together.
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  • And that certain something is christ.
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  • The power of god holding everything together.
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  • So that we set our watches and our clocks
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  • By the stars and the moon and the sun.
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  • So accurate, so perfect
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  • And god created it all.
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  • And christ was god.
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  • And there are now billions of galaxies
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  • That we didn't know existed.
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  • But i think about those little insects.
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  • I told my wife the other day, i said,
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  • "you know, i've gotten so that i even don't step
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  • "on those insects because i hate to see
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  • "that little life snuffed out."
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  • Because i know god put that insect there,
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  • That ant or that spider or whatever it is.
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  • And when you think about all the things that are in the sea,
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  • All the little fish, all the big fish,
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  • All the whales, everything; he created it all.
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  • You know when they
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  • Came back with some of those first reports from hubble,
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  • One of the scientist said when he saw the pictures
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  • And saw some of the things they were finding out,
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  • He said, "makes you believe in god, doesn't it?"
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  • It certainly does.
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  • I don't see how a person can disbelieve god
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  • When they see all of that.
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  • Because man could not do it.
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  • [applause]
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  • Jesus, jesus was
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  • The creative christ.
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  • But he's also is the compassionate christ.
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  • The scripture says he went about doing good.
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  • Jesus never met a human need
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  • That he didn't attempt to help.
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  • He touched and cleansed the lepers.
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  • We're living in a world that hurts.
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  • He can touch our hurts.
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  • He can bring life back to what
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  • You thought was dead inside of you.
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  • Compassion is a word that is often used,
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  • But many people don't know what it means.
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  • Compassion means that we suffer with the person
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  • In our minds.
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  • It means suffering with.
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  • It doesn't mean that you are just sorry they're suffering,
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  • It means that you do something about it.
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  • You do what you can to help them.
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  • As with mercy, compassion is complete
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  • Only when actions to help accompany the feelings.
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  • I hear about, i saw a cartoon where
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  • A man had fallen down a deep well.
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  • And another man had tossed him a rope.
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  • And the man in the well was saying thanks for the rope,
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  • But it would help more if you would hold onto the other end.
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  • [laughter]
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  • God not only gives us the rope,
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  • But he holds the other end and he pulls us up.
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  • He'll pull you out of that hole that you're in
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  • And that thing that you can't...
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  • [applause]
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  • And we have so many diseases.
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  • Jesus had compassion on the people with disease;
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  • The psychological diseases
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  • Such as guilt and loneliness
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  • And fear and emptiness, and the fear of death and despair.
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  • And many people have spiritual diseases.
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  • Nicodemus was a great leader,
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  • A religious leader.
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  • And he came to jesus by night
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  • And he wanted to talk to jesus about spiritual things.
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  • And jesus said, "nicodemus, you need to be born again.
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  • "you need the life of god in you
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  • "to give you a new birth.
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  • "and unless you have this new birth
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  • "you cannot see the kingdom of heaven."
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  • And nicodemus said,
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  • "well, how can a man be born when he's old?"
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  • Jesus said, "there's a mystery to it."
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  • It's like the wind that blows.
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  • You can see the evidence of it.
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  • You can't reach out and grab it
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  • And study it under a microscope.
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  • But you see the effects.
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  • And when christ comes into your heart
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  • And you are born again you see the effects.
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  • There's a new love, and a new joy,
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  • And a new tenderness in your life
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  • That you haven't had before.
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  • [applause]
  • 00:12:37.894 --> 00:12:46.403
  • But he can also take the guilt away.
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  • And he can also give the assurance
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  • If you died tonight you'd go to heaven.
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  • [applause]
  • 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:01.885
  • And wherever you go in the world
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  • You see hospitals that have been built by believers,
  • 00:13:04.087 --> 00:13:08.158
  • Named after the apostles; many saint paul hospitals
  • 00:13:08.191 --> 00:13:11.795
  • Or saint luke's hospitals and so forth.
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  • He's helped teach people to read and write,
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  • To counsel the depressed, the suicidal, the drug users,
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  • People with aids, the homeless.
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  • All of that jesus wants us to become involved in.
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  • He had compassion.
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  • He's interested in all of those people and he loves them
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  • And he wants to help them if you'll let him.
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  • [applause]
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  • Jesus looked on the world
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  • And the scripture says that he loved the world, so much so
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  • That he was willing to die on the cross
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  • And shed his blood
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  • So that the world could be saved.
  • 00:13:53.003 --> 00:13:55.305
  • And i look on the world today and i feel helpless.
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  • As i look on the world scenes today
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  • And read the newspapers.
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  • How can i cope with it?
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  • What more can i do?
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  • Jesus said, "without me you can do nothing."
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  • But with me you can change the world.
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  • And i believe that we christians could change the world.
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  • [applause]
  • 00:14:17.961 --> 00:14:25.235
  • You know it's interesting to me when jesus left the scene,
  • 00:14:25.268 --> 00:14:27.804
  • When he died on the cross,
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  • When he arose from the dead,
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  • He had not healed all the people that were sick.
  • 00:14:31.908 --> 00:14:35.578
  • He had not fed all the people that were hungry.
  • 00:14:35.612 --> 00:14:38.214
  • And yet he said, "i have finished the work which
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  • "thou gavest me to do."
  • 00:14:41.618 --> 00:14:46.323
  • But jesus said, "the wheat and the tares
  • 00:14:46.356 --> 00:14:48.725
  • "are going to grow together."
  • 00:14:48.758 --> 00:14:51.261
  • In other words, he said that evil is going to get worse
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  • And good is going to get better
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  • And they're going to grow together.
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  • It looks like a paradox.
  • 00:14:59.502 --> 00:15:01.905
  • Then he said, "then shall the end come."
  • 00:15:01.938 --> 00:15:05.141
  • Now the end in the teachings of jesus
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  • Is the end of this age and a new kingdom will be ushered in
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  • And we'll live in a new world.
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  • Jesus christ is going to come back as the prince of peace.
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  • [applause]
  • 00:15:21.291 --> 00:15:27.630
  • And then he was also the crucified christ.
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  • The creative christ
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  • And the compassionate christ
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  • And the crucified christ.
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  • No one living today can imagine what the cross was.
  • 00:15:40.343 --> 00:15:45.348
  • Death by crucifixion was a lingering death,
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  • Which took sometimes hours and days
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  • Before the victim died;
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  • The mocking, the scoffing, the insults hurled at him.
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  • And when they mocked him,
  • 00:16:02.032 --> 00:16:05.702
  • He said, "don't you know that i can pray to my father
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  • "and he can send 72,000 angels to rescue me?"
  • 00:16:09.706 --> 00:16:17.447
  • Why didn't he do it?
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  • Why did he stay on the cross?
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  • Why did he die?
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  • Not because he'd sinned, he had broken no laws.
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  • He wasn't guilty of anything.
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  • He died in your place.
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  • He died in my place.
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  • Because the bible teaches that you and i are sinners.
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  • We have broken god's laws.
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  • I've broken the laws, the laws of god,
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  • The ten commandments, the sermon on the mount.
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  • I haven't lived up to the sermon on the mount
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  • And i haven't kept all the commandments.
  • 00:16:47.977 --> 00:16:51.347
  • And the scripture says if you've ever broken one commandment
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  • You've broken them all.
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  • So i'm guilty of all in the sight of god
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  • And so are you.
  • 00:16:58.788 --> 00:17:00.857
  • And the result of that
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  • Breaking of the law is death.
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  • Not only natural death
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  • That we know all about when we see the tombstones
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  • And we see those crosses at normandy.
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  • Each one standing for a person that died.
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  • Died so that we can have the freedoms
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  • That we have today.
  • 00:17:24.013 --> 00:17:26.216
  • But they were people too
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  • And they have to stand before god as individuals.
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  • All the suffering and the shame and the disgrace
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  • And the dishonor that you and i deserve
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  • He bore for you.
  • 00:17:42.732 --> 00:17:44.334
  • The scriptures says he was made a curse for you.
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  • The sin that you and i committed he took on the cross.
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  • He became guilty of your sins and mine.
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  • He became guilty of murder, of adultery.
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  • He had never committed a sin.
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  • And you can imagine what it must have meant
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  • To have that on him.
  • 00:18:01.885 --> 00:18:04.854
  • "for he hath made him to be sin for us
  • 00:18:04.888 --> 00:18:06.656
  • "who knew no sin
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  • "that we might be made the righteousness of god in him."
  • 00:18:08.057 --> 00:18:13.496
  • Because of the cross
  • 00:18:13.530 --> 00:18:15.298
  • God offers forgiveness to you.
  • 00:18:15.331 --> 00:18:18.935
  • He offers to place you before him
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  • As though you had never committed a sin.
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  • Yes, there's going to be a judgment.
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  • God is a god of love and mercy.
  • 00:18:25.175 --> 00:18:27.410
  • But he's also a god of judgment.
  • 00:18:27.443 --> 00:18:29.445
  • There's going to be a great judgment day
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  • In which you're going to stand before god some day
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  • And give an account of your life here and now.
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  • How are you going to stand?
  • 00:18:37.820 --> 00:18:39.656
  • Life is so short.
  • 00:18:39.689 --> 00:18:41.090
  • Somebody asked me what was the greatest surprise of my life.
  • 00:18:41.124 --> 00:18:44.294
  • I said, "the brevity of life."
  • 00:18:44.294 --> 00:18:46.629
  • I didn't dream that life was so quick.
  • 00:18:46.663 --> 00:18:49.566
  • It seems like only yesterday
  • 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.536
  • That i was just a boy.
  • 00:18:53.570 --> 00:18:56.973
  • And here all these years have passed
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  • You don't know when your moment is going to come
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  • When you have to stand before god.
  • 00:19:02.178 --> 00:19:05.415
  • And the sin that god cannot forgive,
  • 00:19:05.448 --> 00:19:09.152
  • Think of it, he cannot forgive this sin,
  • 00:19:09.185 --> 00:19:12.021
  • He cannot forgive the sin
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  • Of your turning jesus christ down.
  • 00:19:13.823 --> 00:19:17.093
  • If you say no to christ he can't forgive it.
  • 00:19:17.126 --> 00:19:21.331
  • Because he's made that as the road to heaven
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  • By the way of the cross.
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  • The man and the woman who does not flee to the cross
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  • To accept the shelter that god offers is doomed.
  • 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:36.512
  • He's also the conquering christ.
  • 00:19:36.546 --> 00:19:40.617
  • That means that he rose again.
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  • He didn't stay on a cross.
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  • He rose again and tonight he's alive.
  • 00:19:45.555 --> 00:19:48.224
  • He's a living christ.
  • 00:19:48.258 --> 00:19:49.726
  • [applause]
  • 00:19:49.759 --> 00:20:01.271
  • He's a living christ.
  • 00:20:01.304 --> 00:20:03.339
  • And i don't offer you a dead christ on a cross.
  • 00:20:03.373 --> 00:20:05.575
  • I offer you a christ who's alive
  • 00:20:05.608 --> 00:20:08.211
  • And who is someday going to
  • 00:20:08.244 --> 00:20:09.579
  • Be king of kings and lord of lords.
  • 00:20:09.612 --> 00:20:12.649
  • [applause]
  • 00:20:12.649 --> 00:20:14.317
  • He said, "i am the resurrection
  • 00:20:14.350 --> 00:20:15.618
  • "and the life and he that believeth in me
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  • "though he were dead yet shall he live."
  • 00:20:17.553 --> 00:20:20.023
  • His resurrection is mentioned more than a hundred times
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  • In the new testament.
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  • He's the contemporary christ.
  • 00:20:25.094 --> 00:20:27.797
  • He's the one that can transform you
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  • And change you.
  • 00:20:30.266 --> 00:20:31.401
  • And people could stand up all over this stadium
  • 00:20:31.434 --> 00:20:33.469
  • And say yes christ changed me.
  • 00:20:33.503 --> 00:20:36.005
  • Christ came into my heart.
  • 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:37.840
  • [applause]
  • 00:20:37.874 --> 00:20:47.250
  • And then lastly, he's the coming christ.
  • 00:20:47.283 --> 00:20:50.887
  • Jesus said, "i will come again."
  • 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:56.526
  • The scripture says, "in such an hour as ye think not
  • 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.828
  • "the son of man cometh.
  • 00:20:58.861 --> 00:21:00.963
  • "behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him."
  • 00:21:00.997 --> 00:21:05.034
  • And the whole world, you can sense it, i can sense it.
  • 00:21:05.068 --> 00:21:07.437
  • The whole world seems to be reaching some sort of a climax.
  • 00:21:07.470 --> 00:21:12.342
  • And that climax is christ
  • 00:21:12.375 --> 00:21:15.878
  • And he's going to sit on the throne
  • 00:21:15.912 --> 00:21:18.614
  • And he's going to rule.
  • 00:21:18.648 --> 00:21:20.283
  • [applause]
  • 00:21:20.316 --> 00:21:26.923
  • Now what do you have to do?
  • 00:21:26.956 --> 00:21:29.125
  • There are three things that you must do.
  • 00:21:29.158 --> 00:21:32.261
  • And you should do it tonight, don't wait.
  • 00:21:32.295 --> 00:21:34.964
  • Because you may never have another moment like this
  • 00:21:34.997 --> 00:21:37.033
  • As long as you live.
  • 00:21:37.066 --> 00:21:41.304
  • The first thing you must do is repent.
  • 00:21:41.337 --> 00:21:43.373
  • "repent ye therefore and be converted
  • 00:21:46.542 --> 00:21:48.444
  • "that your sins may be blotted out,"
  • 00:21:48.478 --> 00:21:50.880
  • The scripture says.
  • 00:21:50.913 --> 00:21:53.116
  • "god commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent."
  • 00:21:53.149 --> 00:21:57.954
  • Repentance means that you say, i'm sorry i have sinned.
  • 00:21:57.987 --> 00:22:00.757
  • I'm willing to turn from my sins.
  • 00:22:00.790 --> 00:22:02.759
  • I'm willing to go in a new direction,
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  • If you will help me, lord.
  • 00:22:05.495 --> 00:22:06.629
  • I can't repent by myself.
  • 00:22:06.662 --> 00:22:08.297
  • But with your help, i'll repent.
  • 00:22:08.331 --> 00:22:11.434
  • And then the second thing is,
  • 00:22:11.467 --> 00:22:12.535
  • You must have faith to believe in christ.
  • 00:22:12.568 --> 00:22:15.004
  • Get your eyes on him.
  • 00:22:15.037 --> 00:22:17.774
  • Don't trust in your own religious background
  • 00:22:17.807 --> 00:22:21.711
  • Or your own good works.
  • 00:22:21.744 --> 00:22:23.379
  • Say to god, oh god i know that i have sinned.
  • 00:22:26.716 --> 00:22:32.021
  • You may be a leader in the church.
  • 00:22:32.054 --> 00:22:33.890
  • You may be a minister in the church.
  • 00:22:33.923 --> 00:22:37.126
  • You may be a bishop in the church.
  • 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:39.962
  • I've had bishops come to me in private
  • 00:22:39.996 --> 00:22:42.298
  • And tell me they're not certain that they're ready to meet god
  • 00:22:42.331 --> 00:22:45.701
  • And they want me to pray for them.
  • 00:22:45.735 --> 00:22:48.137
  • I had the head of a great church, a few years ago,
  • 00:22:48.171 --> 00:22:52.742
  • Call me to his bedside when he was dying
  • 00:22:52.775 --> 00:22:57.847
  • And i prayed with him.
  • 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.450
  • You can be in the church, a leader in the church
  • 00:23:04.454 --> 00:23:08.157
  • And still not certain that you know christ.
  • 00:23:08.191 --> 00:23:11.894
  • You can know him before you leave here.
  • 00:23:11.928 --> 00:23:13.696
  • You can know that your sins are forgiven.
  • 00:23:13.729 --> 00:23:15.665
  • You can know that if you died tonight you'd go to heaven.
  • 00:23:15.698 --> 00:23:19.368
  • I'm going to ask you to make that kind of a commitment.
  • 00:23:19.402 --> 00:23:25.174
  • You're not here tonight by accident.
  • 00:23:25.208 --> 00:23:27.844
  • You're here because in the providence of god
  • 00:23:27.877 --> 00:23:29.879
  • He arranged for you to be here to hear what
  • 00:23:29.912 --> 00:23:32.982
  • The gospel is tonight.
  • 00:23:32.982 --> 00:23:35.017
  • I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat
  • 00:23:35.051 --> 00:23:36.786
  • As we've seen thousands of people do on every continent.
  • 00:23:36.819 --> 00:23:40.857
  • I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat and come
  • 00:23:40.890 --> 00:23:43.826
  • And stand in front of the platform here.
  • 00:23:43.860 --> 00:23:45.695
  • There's plenty of room.
  • 00:23:45.728 --> 00:23:47.830
  • You might have been in the choir.
  • 00:23:47.864 --> 00:23:50.166
  • You might be a leader in the church.
  • 00:23:50.199 --> 00:23:52.368
  • You might have been baptized.
  • 00:23:52.401 --> 00:23:53.669
  • You might have been confirmed.
  • 00:23:53.703 --> 00:23:55.338
  • I don't know, but you need christ.
  • 00:23:55.371 --> 00:23:57.940
  • You're not certain how you stand before god,
  • 00:23:57.974 --> 00:24:00.676
  • You come.
  • 00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:03.179
  • And everyone else be in prayer.
  • 00:24:03.212 --> 00:24:06.115
  • 00:24:06.115 --> 00:24:06.549
  • ♪ just as i am without one plea... ♪
  • 00:24:07.617 --> 00:24:18.060
  • (announcer) as hundreds are responding to mr. graham's invitation
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  • To make a public commitment to jesus christ,
  • 00:24:20.763 --> 00:24:23.633
  • You can make that same commitment
  • 00:24:23.633 --> 00:24:25.568
  • Right where you are.
  • 00:24:25.568 --> 00:24:27.103
  • Just pick up the phone
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  • And call the number you see on your screen. special
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  • Friends are waiting to talk with you and pray with you
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  • About this most important decision.
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  • ♪ ...come to thee ♪
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  • ♪ oh, lamb of god, i come ♪
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  • ♪ i come ♪
  • 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:59.302
  • (cliff barrows) just as these many have done here in cleveland,
  • 00:24:59.302 --> 00:25:01.404
  • There's time for you to make that important decision
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  • Yourself, to follow christ.
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  • Just call the number on the screen.
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  • It could be the most important phone call you ever make,
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  • So call right now.
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  • ♪ with many a conflict, many a doubt ♪
  • 00:25:14.850 --> 00:25:21.891
  • ♪ fightings within and fears without ♪
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  • ♪ o lamb of god i come ♪
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  • ♪ i come ♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • And i want you that are watching by television to know
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  • That you can make the same commitment
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  • That the people that are here
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  • In this great stadium in cleveland, ohio,
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  • Are making tonight.
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  • You can say yes to christ.
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  • You can say, lord come into my heart.
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  • I repent of my sins. i receive you.
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  • And christ will come into your heart wherever you are;
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  • Whatever state you're in, whatever city,
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  • You can make that commitment quietly
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  • In your heart right now.
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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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  • 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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  • And remember, god loves you!
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  • Please call us right now, toll free at
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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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