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Billy Graham - You Can Be Born Again | Billy Graham Classics

March 16, 2026 | 28:29

Billy Graham - You Can Be Born Again | Billy Graham Classics
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 - You Can Be Born Again | Billy Graham Classics | March 16, 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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  • ♪ a ruler once came ♪
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  • ♪ to jesus by night, ♪
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  • ♪ to ask him the way of ♪
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  • ♪ salvation and light, ♪
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  • ♪ the master made answer ♪
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  • ♪ in words true and plain. ♪
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  • ♪ ye must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪ i verily verily say unto you ♪
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  • ♪ you must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪ oh children of men, ♪
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  • ♪ attend to the word, ♪
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  • ♪ so solemnly offered ♪
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  • ♪ by jesus the lord. ♪
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  • ♪ and let not this message ♪
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  • ♪ to you be in vain, ♪
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  • ♪ ye must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪ you must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪ ye must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪ i verily verily say unto you ♪
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  • ♪ ye must be born again. ♪
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  • ♪
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  • [applause]
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  • I want us to turn to the second chapter of john's gospel,
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  • Beginning with verse twenty-three.
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  • Jesus had been traveling
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  • Throughout the land of palestine.
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  • He'd been in-- now he's in galilee.
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  • And then he went on his way to jerusalem,
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  • To attend the feast of the passover.
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  • And "when he was in jerusalem at the passover in the feast,
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  • "many believed in his name
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  • "when they saw the miracles which he did.
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  • "but jesus did not commit himself unto them
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  • "because he knew all men."
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  • "and needed not that any should testify of man,
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  • "for he knew what was in man."
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  • These people believed in jesus,
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  • These were very religious people
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  • They were religious leaders,
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  • But they didn't believe on jesus
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  • As their lord and their savior.
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  • And they're thousands of people here tonight that
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  • Believe in jesus christ with your mind,
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  • You believe enough to go to church,
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  • You believe enough to engage in even christian work,
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  • And good works.
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  • But deep in your heart, you really don't know christ
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  • As your lord and your master and your savior.
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  • A newspaper article in great britain carried a headline
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  • A few weeks ago that said, "a new world is being born."
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  • Yes, jesus said it's possible to live a new life.
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  • He said in the next chapter, the third chapter of john,
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  • "you must be born again."
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  • He said if you're not born again
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  • You'll never see the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Jesus said, "i say unto you, except a man be born again,
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  • "he cannot see the kingdom of god."
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  • When jesus said that to this great religious ruler
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  • Who was a pharisee and rich,
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  • He was in the revivalist movement of that generation.
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  • He belonged to the sanhedrin,
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  • The highest ruling body in the nation.
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  • He was also a rich man, we find out.
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  • He was a pharisee and
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  • The pharisees were considered the leaders of the country.
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  • Now nicodemus was the kind of man that most churches
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  • Would be glad to have.
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  • But jesus said, "nicodemus, all your good works
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  • "and all your religious knowledge is not enough,
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  • "you need something more."
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  • Jesus knew that man was capable of lying and cheating
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  • And hate and prejudice and social inequality.
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  • He said, "out of the heart proceed evil thoughts and
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  • "murders and adulteries and thefts and false witnesses
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  • "and blasphemies, these are the things," he said
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  • "which defile a man."
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  • The bible always describes the disease that we have
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  • As the free act of an intelligent, moral,
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  • Responsible being.
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  • There are many words in the bible that are translated sin.
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  • Many words.
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  • Transgression is one of them.
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  • Transgression means that we've broken the ten commandments,
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  • And every person here tonight has broken the ten commandments.
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  • Somewhere along the line you told one lie.
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  • And the bible says if you've broken one commandment,
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  • You've broken them all.
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  • So that means that you've broken all the commandments.
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  • And we haven't lived up to the sermon on the mount.
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  • We're missing the mark, "all unrighteousness is sin,"
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  • The scripture says, in i john 5:17.
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  • Then there's iniquity.
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  • Iniquity means there's a turning aside
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  • From the straight path.
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  • "all we like sheep have gone astray.
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  • "we've turned every one to his own way."
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  • The bible teaches that the spirit is dead toward god.
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  • We have a body but living inside is our spirit
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  • And it's that spirit of ours that is going to live forever
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  • Either in heaven or hell.
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  • And the difference will be
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  • The decision that you make about jesus christ.
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  • Mark twain was once asked, what are the two greatest
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  • Words in the english language?
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  • And he replied, "not guilty."
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  • The two greatest words, not guilty.
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  • And that's what god is going to say to you
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  • At the judgment, if you know christ.
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  • If you don't know christ, if you haven't had this
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  • Relationship with christ, you'll be declared guilty
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  • And suffer the consequences.
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  • Well, what is the new birth?
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  • What does it mean to start over?
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  • Nicodemus asked that question,
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  • "how can a man be born when he's old?"
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  • He wanted to understand it.
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  • But jesus indicated to him that there's a mystery about it,
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  • He said in john 1:13
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  • "which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh
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  • "nor of the will of man but of god."
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  • You can be born in a garage
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  • But that doesn't make you an automobile.
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  • You can be born in a christian home
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  • But that doesn't make you a christian.
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  • He didn't say that you could be baptized
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  • And that would get you to heaven.
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  • Oh, you should be baptized after you come to christ.
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  • Simon the sorcerer was baptized by phillip
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  • After having intellectually believed,
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  • But peter told him your heart's not right
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  • In the sight of god.
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  • You need christ.
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  • Or confirmation, or whatever practice they have
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  • In your denomination, in your church.
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  • The conditions of belonging to the church
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  • Were that you must first be saved.
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  • Some of you might have been saved at confirmation,
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  • And some might not have been.
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  • Only the holy spirit knows when a person is born again.
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  • When that line is crossed.
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  • I believe a person like becky that spoke to us
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  • A few moments ago, she would say that day that she made that
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  • Decision was the moment she was born again.
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  • I believe i know the day i was born again,
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  • But my wife doesn't know the day.
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  • She knows she's always loved christ.
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  • She cannot remember the day that she didn't love him and
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  • She can't remember the day
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  • When she didn't put him first in her life.
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  • Frederick the great of prussia was a professing christian.
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  • He once invited voltaire the famous atheist to a banquet.
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  • And during the toast, voltaire said,
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  • "i will barter my seat in heaven for one prussian mark."
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  • After a silence a fellow guest spoke up and said to voltaire,
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  • "sir, in prussia we have a law that says before we can
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  • "sell anything, we have to have proof of ownership.
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  • "can you prove that you have a seat in heaven?"
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  • I ask you this,
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  • Can you prove that you have a seat in heaven?
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  • The only way you can get a seat is to come to the cross
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  • And confess that you're a sinner and receive
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  • Christ as lord and savior.
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  • And come to the empty tomb
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  • And believe that he rose again from the dead.
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  • Voltaire was speechless,
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  • He didn't know what to say.
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  • To be born again means to be born from above.
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  • The holy spirit of god comes in and gives you a new heart.
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  • You see, your old nature is no good.
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  • You have to have a new nature,
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  • You have to have a new heart.
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  • "a new heart also will i give you
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  • "and new spirit will i put within you,"
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  • Says ezekiel 36.
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  • In acts peter called it repenting and being converted.
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  • In romans paul speaks of it as being alive from the dead.
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  • In ii corinthians he calls it being a new creation,
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  • Old things have passed away,
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  • Everything becomes new.
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  • Has that happened to you?
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  • It could happen tonight.
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  • It can happen right here.
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  • You don't have to wait some other day,
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  • You don't have to put it off.
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  • In colossians paul calls it "putting off the old man
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  • "with his deeds and putting on the new man which is renewed
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  • "in knowledge after the image of him that created him."
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  • Just before i came here a man in the city of asheville
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  • Near our home in north carolina pulled a gun on the teller
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  • Who handed him the money as instructed.
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  • But that man did not know that the bag
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  • Also contained a dye bomb.
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  • And when it exploded it covered the money,
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  • The bag and his hand with this dye
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  • And he couldn't get it off.
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  • And when they caught him the dye was easy to see.
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  • And because of sin we have dye on our souls
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  • And we can't wash it off.
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  • Because of this dye we're easily spotted and
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  • Caught and brought to the judgment.
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  • But jesus can cleanse the dye with his blood.
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  • The only way to cleanse the dye of sin is by
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  • The blood of christ, "the blood of jesus christ
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  • "his son cleanseth us from all sin," the scripture says.
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  • And that's what you need tonight.
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  • [applause]
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  • Now what happens?
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  • Nicodemus asked jesus, he said, how can it happen?
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  • What happens?
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  • Jesus said there's a mystery to it.
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  • He used the analogy of the wind,
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  • He said, "the wind blows where it listeth,"
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  • You can't see it.
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  • You can't catch it, but you can feel it.
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  • You can see the effects of it.
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  • The holy spirit comes into our hearts and gives us a new
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  • Nature and you can't pick it up and analyze it with your hands
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  • Or put it in a laboratory.
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  • It's the work of the spirit of god in you
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  • When you say yes to christ.
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  • There's the analogy of the new birth.
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  • There's the moment of conception,
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  • There's the nine months of gestation,
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  • Then there's birth.
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  • And the scripture says there's the reception of the
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  • Word of god, "being born again not of corruptible seed
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  • "but of incorruptible by the word of god
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  • "which liveth and abideth forever."
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  • You hear the scripture quoted here tonight,
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  • You say yes to christ, conception or it may be
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  • One other step in gestation or it may be birth.
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  • I don't know, only god would know that.
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  • "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god."
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  • There's something about the word of god
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  • That has to do with your salvation.
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  • "it pleased god by the foolishness of preaching,"
  • 00:14:42.242 --> 00:14:44.844
  • (or declaration or proclamation) "to save them that believe."
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  • It's the work of the holy spirit,
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  • You see, he convicts you of sin.
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  • You become conscious of the fact that you've sinned.
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  • You've come short of what god requires.
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  • That's the work of the spirit of god inside you.
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  • Then when you receive christ he comes to indwell.
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  • He will indwell you.
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  • He will live in you.
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  • You don't have to leave here to live a christian life
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  • Which you can't do by yourself.
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  • You have the holy spirit living in you to help you to
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  • Live the christian life.
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  • I couldn't live the christian life an hour
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  • Without the work of the holy spirit.
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  • And i'm a failure.
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  • I feel my sense of failure all the time.
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  • I'm not a great giant saint of god.
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  • People put a person who is publicized a little bit
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  • On a pedestal, i don't belong there.
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  • I belong in the gutter with all the sinners
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  • That have been saved by grace.
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  • I'm a sinner saved by the grace of god.
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  • [applause]
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  • Jesus uses an interesting illustration,
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  • He reaches over to the old testament
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  • And the people of israel when they were on their way
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  • Out of egypt, had all been bitten by serpents, snakes.
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  • And they were dying and suffering and screaming.
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  • And so moses lifted up a serpent in the wilderness
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  • Made of brass
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  • And he said, "if you look at that serpent
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  • "you'll be saved, you'll be healed."
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  • Well, that was absolutely foolishness,
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  • There's no saving qualities
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  • Or healing qualities in that brass.
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  • To just look and be saved, think of it,
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  • That's all you have to do.
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  • And thousands of them did and they were saved.
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  • But thousands of them didn't, they thought it was too
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  • Foolish and too ridiculous and too simple.
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  • And that's the way some of you think about the gospel
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  • Of christ and you think about the cross and the resurrection.
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  • It's too simple.
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  • It can't possibly be true.
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  • What becky said can't be true.
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  • What has been sung here tonight can't be true.
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  • It's too easy, it's too simple.
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  • See, you come to christ, that's easy in a way
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  • Because you have to repent of sin,
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  • That means that you have to say to god,
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  • "i'm sorry, i'm a sinner.
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  • "i'm willing to turn from my sin but lord
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  • "i'll need your help,
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  • "even when i give these things up
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  • "i can't do it by myself.
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  • "i'm caught in those chains that was sung to us
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  • "a few moments ago.
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  • "chains of habit.
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  • "and i've tried to break them and i can't."
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  • Tell god that.
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  • And let the holy spirit come in and break them for you.
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  • And he will do it and he'll do it tonight.
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  • [applause]
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  • About seven or eight years ago,
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  • A little plane was going from miami to nassau
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  • And it crashed in the ocean.
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  • And the pilot survived the crash but had blood
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  • On his forehead which attracted sharks.
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  • And he spent hours, if you can believe it--
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  • He spent hours kicking those sharks away,
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  • As he was floundering around in the water.
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  • After he'd been in the water ten hours he saw an aircraft
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  • And waved his orange life vest at the aircraft.
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  • The pilot spotted him and dropped a smoke canister and
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  • Radioed a coast guard cutter that was twelve minutes away,
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  • And said, "hurry, there's a guy out there
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  • "that's surrounded by sharks."
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  • The coast guard cutter came and they helped him to
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  • Scramble up the rope ladder.
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  • Nothing less than the outside intervention
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  • Of that coast guard cutter could have saved
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  • That man from a terrible agonizing death.
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  • God will intervene tonight in your life and in your heart
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  • And take you away from those sharks that want to destroy you.
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  • You see, that man didn't need better techniques,
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  • He didn't need encouragement, he needed to be saved.
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  • And that's your position tonight,
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  • You need to be saved.
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  • And you can tonight by opening your heart to christ.
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  • I'm going to ask you to do something that we saw
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  • Hundreds of people-- over 3,000 last night do.
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  • I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat and
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  • Come and stand in front of the platform and say tonight,
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  • "i want to open my heart to christ.
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  • "i want to have this encounter with christ in my life."
  • 00:20:09.002 --> 00:20:12.338
  • You may go to church or you may not.
  • 00:20:15.875 --> 00:20:18.144
  • You may be a believer with your mind but somehow
  • 00:20:18.177 --> 00:20:21.814
  • You're not certain that christ has control of you,
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  • Is in heart.
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  • If you come from that top stand up there,
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  • It's gonna take about two minutes extra for you
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  • So start now.
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  • Hundreds of you, thousands of you that need to come,
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  • Young and old.
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  • If you're under ninety-nine years of age,
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  • You are a person that needs christ.
  • 00:20:42.502 --> 00:20:45.505
  • And you may not be sure. you may even be a clergyman.
  • 00:20:45.538 --> 00:20:50.243
  • We've had clergymen in almost every crusade
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  • That come forward, and say,
  • 00:20:52.512 --> 00:20:54.480
  • "i've been preaching for years but i'm not sure
  • 00:20:54.514 --> 00:20:56.983
  • "that christ really has me.
  • 00:20:57.016 --> 00:20:58.985
  • "i'm not certain of my relationship to god
  • 00:20:59.018 --> 00:21:01.654
  • "and i want to be sure."
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  • You get up and come.
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  • And after you've come i'm going to say a word to you,
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  • Have a prayer with you,
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  • Then you can go back and join your friends.
  • 00:21:09.429 --> 00:21:12.365
  • If you're with relatives or friends, they'll wait on you.
  • 00:21:12.398 --> 00:21:15.435
  • If you've come with a group, they'll wait.
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  • It will only take a few moments
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  • And what a beautiful evening to come.
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  • You get up and come.
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  • We're going to wait on you.
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  • Why do i ask you to come?
  • 00:21:26.612 --> 00:21:29.882
  • Jesus died publicly on the cross for you, publicly.
  • 00:21:29.916 --> 00:21:36.456
  • He said if you're not willing to acknowledge me before
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  • Your fellow man, i'll not acknowledge you before
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  • My father which is in heaven.
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  • There's something about coming forward and standing
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  • Publicly that makes it genuine in your life.
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  • You get up and come from all around.
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  • It'll take a few moments because this is such
  • 00:21:54.874 --> 00:21:57.043
  • A large place, but we're going to wait on you.
  • 00:21:57.076 --> 00:21:59.946
  • And everybody here is going to be praying for you.
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  • You come while the rest of us pray.
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  • ♪ just as i am without one plea, ♪
  • 00:22:09.889 --> 00:22:20.666
  • ♪ but that thy blood was shed for me. ♪
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  • ♪ and that thou bidst me come to thee, ♪
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  • ♪ oh lamb of god i come, ♪
  • 00:22:43.189 --> 00:22:52.832
  • ♪ i come. ♪
  • 00:22:52.865 --> 00:23:01.174
  • ♪ just as i am though tossed about ♪
  • 00:23:01.207 --> 00:23:12.218
  • ♪ with many a conflict, many a doubt ♪
  • 00:23:12.251 --> 00:23:23.629
  • ♪ fightings within and fears without ♪
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  • ♪ oh, lamb of god, i come ♪
  • 00:23:35.508 --> 00:23:45.117
  • ♪ i come ♪
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  • Just as these hundreds are coming forward
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  • To make a commitment to christ here in cleveland,
  • 00:24:01.100 --> 00:24:03.469
  • You can too right where you are.
  • 00:24:03.503 --> 00:24:06.405
  • Just call the number on the screen.
  • 00:24:06.439 --> 00:24:08.674
  • Special friends are waiting to help you
  • 00:24:08.708 --> 00:24:10.576
  • Start life over again with jesus christ,
  • 00:24:10.610 --> 00:24:13.346
  • So don't wait, call now.
  • 00:24:13.379 --> 00:24:17.316
  • ♪ may all i need in thee to find ♪
  • 00:24:17.350 --> 00:24:27.994
  • ♪ oh, lamb of god, i come ♪
  • 00:24:28.027 --> 00:24:37.703
  • ♪ i come ♪
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  • I want to say a word to all of you
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  • That may be watching by television.
  • 00:24:53.853 --> 00:24:57.590
  • We're not on live anywhere but this will be shown
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  • Some months later, perhaps somewhere.
  • 00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:02.562
  • And i want to say a word to you and tell you that
  • 00:25:02.595 --> 00:25:06.032
  • Hundreds of people have come here in cleveland, ohio
  • 00:25:06.065 --> 00:25:08.568
  • In this great stadium,
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  • To make their commitment to christ tonight.
  • 00:25:10.236 --> 00:25:12.805
  • And you can make that commitment where you are.
  • 00:25:12.838 --> 00:25:15.007
  • Just say yes to christ.
  • 00:25:15.041 --> 00:25:18.210
  • Say, "lord, i do repent of my sins as best i know how,
  • 00:25:18.244 --> 00:25:22.315
  • "i don't understand it all.
  • 00:25:22.348 --> 00:25:24.250
  • "but what little i do know, i act on it.
  • 00:25:24.283 --> 00:25:28.521
  • "i come to the foot of your cross and i say,
  • 00:25:28.554 --> 00:25:31.257
  • "oh god, i'm a sinner, help me, save me. forgive me."
  • 00:25:31.290 --> 00:25:36.195
  • He will.
  • 00:25:36.228 --> 00:25:37.997
  • He'll change you too.
  • 00:25:38.030 --> 00:25:40.499
  • You can make that commitment right now, where you are.
  • 00:25:40.533 --> 00:25:43.936
  • In your home, in a hotel room
  • 00:25:43.970 --> 00:25:46.272
  • Or with a group of people somewhere.
  • 00:25:46.305 --> 00:25:48.708
  • Make that commitment.
  • 00:25:48.741 --> 00:25:52.645
  • ♪ just as i am... ♪
  • 00:25:52.678 --> 00:25:57.683
  • There's still time to make that decision to follow christ.
  • 00:25:57.683 --> 00:26:00.853
  • Just call the number on the screen
  • 00:26:00.886 --> 00:26:02.688
  • And someone will talk with you and pray with you.
  • 00:26:02.722 --> 00:26:05.291
  • If the lines are busy,
  • 00:26:05.324 --> 00:26:07.026
  • Write the number down and call back later.
  • 00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:09.295
  • We'll be here as long as the calls keep coming in.
  • 00:26:09.328 --> 00:26:12.999
  • If you just prayed that prayer with my father,
  • 00:26:13.032 --> 00:26:15.534
  • Or if you have any questions
  • 00:26:15.534 --> 00:26:16.702
  • About a relationship with jesus christ,
  • 00:26:16.702 --> 00:26:19.171
  • Why don't you call the number on the screen.
  • 00:26:19.171 --> 00:26:21.807
  • There will be someone there to talk with you, pray with you and
  • 00:26:21.807 --> 00:26:24.810
  • Answer those questions.
  • 00:26:24.810 --> 00:26:26.245
  • And remember, god loves you!
  • 00:26:26.245 --> 00:26:29.949
  • If you would like to commit your life to jesus christ,
  • 00:26:32.351 --> 00:26:35.421
  • Please call us right now, toll free at
  • 00:26:35.421 --> 00:26:37.556
  • 1-800-380-6804.
  • 00:26:37.556 --> 00:26:40.993
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  • 00:26:40.993 --> 00:26:44.930
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  • Who responds at the invitation.
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  • The billy graham evangelistic association,
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  • Into the darkness.
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