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Billy Graham Crusade Classics

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November 21, 2024 | S1:E48

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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 | HD-BGCC0048 | November 21, 2024
  • 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 the ninth chapter of the book of hebrews.
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  • The ninth chapter of the book of hebrews .
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  • And i'll come to the text a little bit later.
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  • I want to speak tonight on the subject, three things,
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  • Three things you cannot do without.
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  • Three things you cannot do without.
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  • My father was not a poor man.
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  • He was not a wealthy man, he would be called middle income.
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  • He made whatever you can make on a two or three hundred acre
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  • Red dirt farm in north carolina.
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  • I never did look at his bank account,
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  • Never knew how much he made.
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  • He seemed to have enough on the table.
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  • And we always had one suit of clothes a year.
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  • And we had five cents of ice cream every saturday night.
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  • And we did pretty well.
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  • Look at the waltons, you'll see a little bit about how we lived
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  • In those days in the mountains of north carolina.
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  • You know immanuel kant once said,
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  • "a man is rich not by what he owns,
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  • "but by what he can do without."
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  • You're not rich by what you own,
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  • But what you can do without.
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  • I've always remembered that statement.
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  • And as we're entering a recession
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  • I guess we're in one,
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  • Or a depression whatever you call this that we're in,
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  • You'd be amazed at what you can do without.
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  • We may have to go back and live like we lived
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • But i'll tell you, you could walk down the streets
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  • Of all the towns around there
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  • And you wouldn't be afraid of being hit over the head
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  • Or mugged.
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  • You never heard of a rape, i guess they had 'em.
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  • I never heard of 'em.
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  • I don't ever recall hearing about a murder in our community.
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  • And somehow or another, we children thought we were
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  • The happiest people in the world.
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  • And we had to work from three in the morning till sunset.
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  • My mother always served breakfast at 5:30 every morning.
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  • And we didn't know how bad off we were.
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  • Now the bible says there are at least three things
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  • You can't do without
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  • If you are to have joy and peace and assurance
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  • And your sins forgiven
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  • And to know that you're going to heaven.
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  • What are they?
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  • The first one is found in hebrews 9:22.
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  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
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  • Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
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  • In other words if jesus christ had not gone to the cross
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  • And shed his blood for your sins,
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  • You could never have forgiveness.
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  • You would be a lost soul.
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  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
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  • Because from genesis to revelation blood is shed.
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  • And why, leviticus 17:11, moses said,
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  • "for the life of the flesh is in the blood.
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  • "and i've given it to you upon the altar
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  • "to make an atonement for your souls
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  • "for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul."
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  • Now if you're an average person you have five quarts of blood
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  • Circulating in your body every twenty-three seconds.
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  • Blood carries the garbage out without contamination.
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  • It's the most mysterious substance in the whole anatomy.
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  • Nobody exactly knows all about the blood.
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  • And we're all related by blood.
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  • You may be a black man, a brown man, or a yellow man,
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  • Whatever your background you are related to me by blood.
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  • Our blood can, if it's the same type can be interchanged
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  • Within the races.
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  • The scripture says, the apostle paul said,
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  • "god hath made of one blood all the nations of men
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  • "to dwell on the face of the earth."
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  • When i have a blood transfusion,
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  • As i've had on several occasions when i've had operations,
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  • I didn't ask him what's the color of the man's skin
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  • That blood came out of?
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  • I just wanna get it in there as fast as i can.
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  • Our blood, we're related, we're related to adam.
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  • Adam and eve were the first parents.
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  • And adam and eve sinned against god
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  • And they broke god's law,
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  • They rebelled against god and
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  • Then an interesting thing happened.
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  • They tried to cover their sins with fig leaves.
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  • And they couldn't do it.
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  • And you know what god did?
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  • God went out and slew some animals and blood was shed
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  • And god was teaching man from the garden of eden
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  • To this very hour
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  • That if you're to have forgiveness of sin,
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  • Blood has to be shed.
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  • And you go all the way down through the old testament
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  • It's the same thing.
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  • Or go in the new testament it's the same thing.
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  • When cain and abel, they were the first sons of adam and eve,
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  • Cain came along and brought his sacrifice
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  • But there was no blood in it.
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  • Abel brought his and there was blood in it.
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  • God accepted abel's and rejected cain's.
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  • And cain got mad and became jealous of his brother
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  • And killed him and you had the first murder
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  • In the history of the human race according to the bible.
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  • And then you remember that night in egypt,
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  • God said i'm going to kill as a judgment in egypt,
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  • The first born of every house in all of egypt.
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  • And every jew remembers that even to this hour
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  • And they celebrate it every year.
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  • I want you to take some blood and animals, slay an animal,
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  • Take the blood and put it on the doorpost.
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  • And when i see the blood, i'll pass over.
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  • Not when i see your good works,
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  • Not when i see how rich you are,
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  • Not when i see what church you belong to,
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  • But when i see the blood i'll pass over.
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  • Why?
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  • You go to the communion on sunday
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  • And you take of the wine or the grape juice,
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  • Whatever your church serves.
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  • That wine or that grape juice stands for blood.
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  • The blood that was shed on the cross.
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  • John the baptist cried out, "behold the lamb of god
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  • "that taketh away the sin of the world."
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  • Why did he call him a lamb?
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  • Because as a lamb he was going to the cross,
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  • His blood was to be shed for your sins,
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  • He takes away the sins of the world.
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  • And that blood tonight
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  • Can cleanse every sin you've ever committed.
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  • There's power in the blood.
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  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
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  • Do you want forgiveness tonight?
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  • Do you want forgiveness of every single sin?
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  • Because you see you cannot get into heaven
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  • If you're guilty of a single sin
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  • When you get to the entrance of heaven.
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  • Every sin has to be forgiven.
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  • And there's no way for sin to be forgiven
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  • Except by jesus christ's work on the cross.
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  • Now blood of course is symbolic in the bible,
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  • It means the life of christ was given for us at the cross.
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  • And when he died on that cross and shed that blood
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  • God accepted that sacrifice
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  • Instead of you having to make a sacrifice.
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  • In other words you won't have to spend a day
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  • At the judgment.
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  • You won't have to spend one day in hell.
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  • You will be forgiven as though you had never sinned
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  • By the blood.
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  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
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  • The scripture says "forasmuch as ye know
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  • "that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things
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  • "as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of christ
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  • "as of a lamb without blemish and without stain."
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  • One of the most popular songs a couple years ago was
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  • "oh happy day, when jesus washed my sins away."
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  • And in revelation 12, we read "they overcame;" how?
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  • "by the blood of the lamb."
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  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
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  • Jesus paid the ransom.
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  • I read the other day about this italian playboy
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  • That was kidnapped and they're holding him right now for ransom
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  • For sixteen million dollars.
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  • And there's a popular song right now also that says
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  • Don't pay the ransom.
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  • But if jesus had not been willing to go to that cross
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  • And pay the ransom with his own blood,
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  • You couldn't be saved.
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  • You couldn't have forgiveness.
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  • And on the cross god is saying something to all of us,
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  • He's saying, "i love you, i love you,
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  • "i love you, i love you.
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  • "i love you so much
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  • "that i'm willing to see my only son die."
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  • The angels couldn't believe it.
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  • They pulled their swords, seventy-two thousand of them,
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  • Ready to come and sweep this whole planet into oblivion
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  • And rescue the son of god.
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  • But he never called them.
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  • He said, "i came to do the will of my father."
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  • He died and he shed his blood on that cross for you
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  • And without the shedding of blood you could not be forgiven.
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  • The second thing that you can't do without.
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  • Hebrews 11:6,
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  • Hebrews 11:6;
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  • Just turn a couple pages over.
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  • Hebrews 11:6; "without faith it is impossible to please him."
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  • Now christ has already done the work on the cross.
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  • But now comes your part.
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  • Without faith you cannot please him.
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  • Hebrews 11 has been called god's hall of fame
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  • And after this passage some of the men and women of faith
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  • Are listed like noah and abraham and sarah and isaac
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  • And jacob and joseph and moses and even a prostitute, rahab.
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  • Because she too believed in god.
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  • And proved her faith by her works.
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  • But you say what is faith?
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  • I've committed all kinds of sins
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  • And i know that i have to have the blood
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  • And now i find out i have to have faith.
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  • What is faith?
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  • How do i get this faith?
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  • Do you know what faith is?
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  • I'm not sure i can explain it all to you,
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  • But faith is believing and receiving what god has revealed.
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  • What god has revealed in this book.
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  • What god has revealed in nature.
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  • What god has revealed in conscience.
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  • And it can be defined as that trust
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  • In the god of the scriptures
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  • And in jesus christ whom he sent for salvation.
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  • Faith is personal trust apart from any works in jesus christ.
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  • I cannot work my way to heaven.
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  • After i received christ as savior i prove
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  • That i'm a christian by my works.
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  • But you cannot do one single thing
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  • To earn one minute in heaven.
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  • "for by grace are you saved through faith
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  • "and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of god,
  • 00:13:04.283 --> 00:13:06.452
  • "not of works lest any man should boast.
  • 00:13:06.485 --> 00:13:10.890
  • "but to him that worketh not
  • 00:13:10.923 --> 00:13:13.159
  • "but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly
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  • "his faith is counted for righteousness."
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  • My salvation does not depend on even one percent
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  • Of what i do or am.
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  • It depends entirely on the work of jesus christ
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  • At the cross and the fact that i have received him
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  • As my lord and my savior.
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  • But after i'm saved i am sinning every minute
  • 00:13:37.516 --> 00:13:40.553
  • And every day if i'm not working for my savior.
  • 00:13:40.586 --> 00:13:44.924
  • And abiding in him.
  • 00:13:44.957 --> 00:13:46.892
  • "and faith without works is dead," said james.
  • 00:13:46.926 --> 00:13:51.831
  • Now the bible teaches that faith is the only approach to god.
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  • "for he that cometh to god must believe that he is."
  • 00:13:55.734 --> 00:13:58.370
  • And the bible tells us that faith is commanded.
  • 00:13:58.404 --> 00:14:00.806
  • Jesus said have faith in god
  • 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.209
  • And that's an imperative there in matthew or mark 11.
  • 00:14:03.242 --> 00:14:08.881
  • And then on another occasion john said,
  • 00:14:08.914 --> 00:14:10.916
  • "and this is his commandment,"
  • 00:14:10.950 --> 00:14:12.184
  • This was the commandment of jesus,
  • 00:14:12.218 --> 00:14:13.619
  • "that we should believe on the name of his son jesus christ."
  • 00:14:13.652 --> 00:14:19.592
  • It's a command, god commands you,
  • 00:14:19.625 --> 00:14:22.061
  • He commands you.
  • 00:14:22.094 --> 00:14:23.095
  • He gives you an order, believe, believe,
  • 00:14:23.128 --> 00:14:26.365
  • Believe, believe.
  • 00:14:26.398 --> 00:14:29.201
  • "believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shall be saved."
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  • There's no other way that you can approach god,
  • 00:14:32.805 --> 00:14:35.107
  • No other way you can know god,
  • 00:14:35.140 --> 00:14:36.709
  • No other way you can come in contact with god
  • 00:14:36.742 --> 00:14:39.011
  • Except through faith.
  • 00:14:39.044 --> 00:14:42.448
  • "therefore being justified by faith,
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  • "we have peace with god through our lord jesus christ,"
  • 00:14:45.951 --> 00:14:49.355
  • Romans 5:1.
  • 00:14:49.388 --> 00:14:51.557
  • What is faith?
  • 00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:54.927
  • The reception of the gospel,
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  • Confidence in god and his word.
  • 00:14:57.630 --> 00:15:00.032
  • Being confident of this very thing.
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  • A total dependence on christ for our forgiveness
  • 00:15:02.534 --> 00:15:06.772
  • And for the fulfillment in our lives.
  • 00:15:06.805 --> 00:15:10.376
  • Did you ever hear the story of john paton?
  • 00:15:10.409 --> 00:15:13.579
  • The great missionary in the new hebrides.
  • 00:15:13.612 --> 00:15:16.181
  • He was translating the scriptures
  • 00:15:16.215 --> 00:15:17.716
  • Trying to learn their language.
  • 00:15:17.750 --> 00:15:20.052
  • And he couldn't translate the word faith
  • 00:15:20.085 --> 00:15:22.988
  • And he worked on it for months and months and months
  • 00:15:23.022 --> 00:15:25.257
  • And he couldn't find a word for faith.
  • 00:15:25.291 --> 00:15:27.126
  • And one day he saw a man lying on a low reclining chair
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  • That supports the weight of the whole body.
  • 00:15:32.231 --> 00:15:35.434
  • And john paton said, "what are you doing?"
  • 00:15:35.467 --> 00:15:38.637
  • And the man said, "reclining."
  • 00:15:38.671 --> 00:15:40.606
  • Paton jumped up and he said, "i've got my word for faith!
  • 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:44.610
  • "it's reclining on jesus."
  • 00:15:44.643 --> 00:15:47.780
  • And here's how he translated it:
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  • For god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
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  • That whosoever reclineth his whole weight upon him
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  • Shall not perish but have everlasting life.
  • 00:15:58.390 --> 00:16:01.560
  • He that reclineth his whole weight upon him is not condemned
  • 00:16:01.593 --> 00:16:06.565
  • But he that reclineth not his whole weight upon him
  • 00:16:06.598 --> 00:16:10.269
  • Is condemned already because he hath not reclined
  • 00:16:10.302 --> 00:16:13.372
  • His whole weight upon the name
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  • Of the only begotten son of god.
  • 00:16:15.407 --> 00:16:19.511
  • Have you reclined your whole weight upon christ
  • 00:16:19.545 --> 00:16:23.148
  • And christ alone?
  • 00:16:23.182 --> 00:16:25.751
  • Or are you counting on a little bit of your own goodness
  • 00:16:25.784 --> 00:16:28.921
  • And counting on a little bit of churchanity?
  • 00:16:28.954 --> 00:16:32.691
  • I can't go down here to a church and get on a pew
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  • And recline on the pew and say i'm saved.
  • 00:16:35.494 --> 00:16:38.497
  • This pew is saving me.
  • 00:16:38.497 --> 00:16:40.666
  • No it's not.
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  • You recline on christ.
  • 00:16:43.002 --> 00:16:46.071
  • Your faith is in christ,
  • 00:16:46.071 --> 00:16:48.340
  • The person of the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:16:48.340 --> 00:16:51.577
  • That's faith.
  • 00:16:51.577 --> 00:16:53.779
  • Faith means that i receive and that i do something about it.
  • 00:16:53.779 --> 00:16:59.018
  • I'm asking you tonight to put your whole weight
  • 00:16:59.018 --> 00:17:02.688
  • On jesus christ, jesus plus nothing.
  • 00:17:02.688 --> 00:17:07.993
  • Just jesus.
  • 00:17:07.993 --> 00:17:13.065
  • And then the third thing that you cannot do without.
  • 00:17:13.065 --> 00:17:15.701
  • First, "without the shedding of blood
  • 00:17:15.701 --> 00:17:17.469
  • "there's no forgiveness of sin."
  • 00:17:17.469 --> 00:17:20.172
  • Second, "without faith you cannot please him."
  • 00:17:20.172 --> 00:17:23.642
  • Thirdly, "for without me you can do nothing,"
  • 00:17:23.642 --> 00:17:27.813
  • John 15:5 .
  • 00:17:27.813 --> 00:17:30.149
  • "without me you can do nothing."
  • 00:17:30.149 --> 00:17:34.086
  • Now of course jesus in this chapter is talking about
  • 00:17:34.086 --> 00:17:36.221
  • The vine and branches and he's talking about fruit bearing.
  • 00:17:36.221 --> 00:17:39.224
  • In other words without me you cannot bear any fruit.
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  • After you've come to jesus christ as your savior
  • 00:17:42.861 --> 00:17:45.297
  • You know what happens?
  • 00:17:45.297 --> 00:17:46.665
  • The holy spirit comes to live in your heart.
  • 00:17:46.665 --> 00:17:51.036
  • Now the holy spirit is the representative
  • 00:17:51.036 --> 00:17:52.905
  • Of the lord jesus.
  • 00:17:52.905 --> 00:17:54.273
  • Jesus christ is at the right hand of god the father,
  • 00:17:54.273 --> 00:17:56.875
  • He went away.
  • 00:17:56.875 --> 00:17:59.445
  • He sent the spirit of god here to this earth.
  • 00:17:59.445 --> 00:18:03.182
  • The moment you receive christ,
  • 00:18:03.182 --> 00:18:04.883
  • The moment you put your whole weight on christ,
  • 00:18:04.883 --> 00:18:07.586
  • The spirit of god comes to live within you
  • 00:18:07.586 --> 00:18:10.289
  • And he lives through you and in you
  • 00:18:10.289 --> 00:18:13.459
  • And he lives the christian life through you.
  • 00:18:13.459 --> 00:18:17.963
  • Now one of the most important chapters in all the bible is
  • 00:18:17.963 --> 00:18:21.667
  • This fifteenth chapter of john.
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  • And those of you that come forward tonight
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  • We're going to give you a gospel of john
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  • And i hope you'll read this chapter right away.
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  • Because it's an important picture
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  • Of our lord jesus christ and our relationship to him.
  • 00:18:31.076 --> 00:18:35.447
  • You see this is the grapevine that he's talking about,
  • 00:18:35.447 --> 00:18:37.749
  • And grapevines were grown all over palestine in those days.
  • 00:18:37.749 --> 00:18:42.054
  • And they needed a lot of attention,
  • 00:18:42.054 --> 00:18:43.856
  • They grew fast and they were drastically pruned every
  • 00:18:43.856 --> 00:18:48.560
  • December and january.
  • 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:51.630
  • And they bore two kinds of branches, those grapevines.
  • 00:18:51.630 --> 00:18:56.368
  • One was fruit-bearing and the other bore no fruit at all.
  • 00:18:56.368 --> 00:19:02.574
  • So the branches that bore no fruit
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  • Were drastically pruned back
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  • So that they would drain away none of the strength
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  • From the root and from the vine itself.
  • 00:19:11.884 --> 00:19:15.254
  • Now the wood of the vine has the curious characteristics
  • 00:19:15.254 --> 00:19:19.224
  • That it wasn't good for anything.
  • 00:19:19.224 --> 00:19:21.593
  • It was too soft for any purpose so they would take
  • 00:19:21.593 --> 00:19:24.196
  • These false branches, these branches that didn't bear
  • 00:19:24.196 --> 00:19:27.099
  • Anything and have a big bonfire with them.
  • 00:19:27.099 --> 00:19:30.002
  • And jesus says his followers are like that.
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  • Some of them are lovely, fruit-bearing branches
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  • Of himself, others are useless because they bear no fruit.
  • 00:19:36.708 --> 00:19:43.015
  • And christians, professing christians,
  • 00:19:43.015 --> 00:19:45.884
  • Whose christianity consists of just professing
  • 00:19:45.884 --> 00:19:48.954
  • Without practice,
  • 00:19:48.954 --> 00:19:51.023
  • Words without deeds.
  • 00:19:51.023 --> 00:19:56.495
  • I believe the bible from cover to cover
  • 00:19:56.495 --> 00:19:59.665
  • And i believe the cover
  • 00:19:59.665 --> 00:20:01.633
  • Because it says holy bible somebody said.
  • 00:20:01.633 --> 00:20:05.337
  • A man told me, "he said i'm a fundamentalist with a big f."
  • 00:20:05.337 --> 00:20:10.609
  • And he looked as mean as i've ever seen, he meant it too.
  • 00:20:10.609 --> 00:20:15.080
  • And he was.
  • 00:20:15.080 --> 00:20:18.417
  • But that doesn't necessarily mean that you're right with god.
  • 00:20:18.417 --> 00:20:23.088
  • You've got to prove it by bearing fruit.
  • 00:20:23.088 --> 00:20:28.227
  • You've got to prove it by bearing fruit,
  • 00:20:28.227 --> 00:20:30.829
  • What kind of fruit?
  • 00:20:30.829 --> 00:20:32.164
  • The fruit of the spirit, love and joy and peace
  • 00:20:32.164 --> 00:20:34.900
  • And gentleness and longsuffering,
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  • All those fruits of the spirit.
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  • They are to characterize
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  • The true believer in jesus christ.
  • 00:20:42.674 --> 00:20:46.745
  • "by their fruits ye shall know them," said jesus.
  • 00:20:46.745 --> 00:20:51.817
  • By their fruits ye shall know them.
  • 00:20:51.817 --> 00:20:56.722
  • There are many of you here tonight,
  • 00:20:56.722 --> 00:20:58.123
  • You look like a christian,
  • 00:20:58.123 --> 00:20:59.791
  • You act like a christian in many ways.
  • 00:20:59.791 --> 00:21:01.727
  • But deep inside there's no abiding in christ.
  • 00:21:01.727 --> 00:21:05.731
  • There's no life, there's no sap.
  • 00:21:05.731 --> 00:21:09.001
  • The fruit isn't there.
  • 00:21:09.001 --> 00:21:11.136
  • Three ways in which we can be useless branches.
  • 00:21:14.506 --> 00:21:17.409
  • One, you can refuse to listen to christ at all.
  • 00:21:17.409 --> 00:21:21.747
  • Second, you can listen and then render him lip service,
  • 00:21:21.747 --> 00:21:25.284
  • Unsupported by deeds.
  • 00:21:25.284 --> 00:21:28.086
  • Thirdly, you can accept him as master
  • 00:21:28.086 --> 00:21:31.690
  • And make him lord of your life,
  • 00:21:31.690 --> 00:21:35.694
  • Because when you come to jesus christ
  • 00:21:35.694 --> 00:21:37.629
  • You not only accept him as savior,
  • 00:21:37.629 --> 00:21:39.865
  • But you accept him as lord, the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:21:39.865 --> 00:21:45.470
  • He must be lord of your eyes, lord of your ears,
  • 00:21:45.470 --> 00:21:48.607
  • Lord of your tongue, lord of your hands,
  • 00:21:48.607 --> 00:21:50.876
  • Lord of your feet, lord of your pocketbook,
  • 00:21:50.876 --> 00:21:53.211
  • Lord of your bank account, lord of your family.
  • 00:21:53.211 --> 00:21:57.416
  • He's first in every area of your life.
  • 00:21:57.416 --> 00:22:02.421
  • Is he in yours?
  • 00:22:02.421 --> 00:22:04.756
  • Or are you among the branches that need to be cut off?
  • 00:22:04.756 --> 00:22:09.227
  • And he said that he cuts them off,
  • 00:22:09.227 --> 00:22:11.296
  • He prunes them back and they're thrown into the fire.
  • 00:22:11.296 --> 00:22:15.500
  • Always remember that the branch that bears no fruit
  • 00:22:15.500 --> 00:22:18.870
  • Must be destroyed if the rest of the vine is to be preserved.
  • 00:22:18.870 --> 00:22:24.876
  • Even among true believers that's true because
  • 00:22:24.876 --> 00:22:27.412
  • We have in the bible a very strange passage
  • 00:22:27.412 --> 00:22:31.083
  • That i don't have time at this moment to go into.
  • 00:22:31.083 --> 00:22:34.086
  • The sin unto death.
  • 00:22:34.086 --> 00:22:36.988
  • I believe that there are christians, true believers,
  • 00:22:36.988 --> 00:22:40.726
  • That many times die before their time.
  • 00:22:40.726 --> 00:22:44.296
  • Are you abiding in christ?
  • 00:22:47.833 --> 00:22:50.001
  • Jesus withdrew himself into solitary places to meet god.
  • 00:22:50.001 --> 00:22:53.271
  • And we must do the same thing.
  • 00:22:53.271 --> 00:22:55.340
  • We must keep contact with him every day,
  • 00:22:55.340 --> 00:22:57.542
  • It must be constant and deliberate.
  • 00:22:57.542 --> 00:22:59.578
  • Never a day when we do not sense his presence.
  • 00:22:59.578 --> 00:23:02.381
  • And without this abiding you cannot do anything
  • 00:23:02.381 --> 00:23:05.550
  • That will be spiritually pleasing to god.
  • 00:23:05.550 --> 00:23:08.553
  • Without me you can't bear supernatural fruit.
  • 00:23:08.553 --> 00:23:14.993
  • But with him i can love that fellow over there
  • 00:23:14.993 --> 00:23:17.796
  • That normally i wouldn't love.
  • 00:23:17.796 --> 00:23:21.266
  • With him i can be gentle
  • 00:23:21.266 --> 00:23:24.269
  • When normally i might want to hit him in the face.
  • 00:23:24.269 --> 00:23:28.240
  • With him in my life, living through me,
  • 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:31.309
  • I can forgive the wrongs that have been done
  • 00:23:31.309 --> 00:23:36.047
  • And the things that were said.
  • 00:23:36.047 --> 00:23:38.350
  • With him
  • 00:23:38.350 --> 00:23:43.054
  • The life can be lived,
  • 00:23:43.054 --> 00:23:44.089
  • Because you see, nowhere in the new testament
  • 00:23:44.089 --> 00:23:46.191
  • Does it tell me, billy graham, to live a christian life.
  • 00:23:46.191 --> 00:23:50.695
  • It tells me that the old billy graham must die
  • 00:23:50.695 --> 00:23:54.533
  • And christ must live through me and in me.
  • 00:23:54.533 --> 00:23:58.370
  • He does the living through me,
  • 00:23:58.370 --> 00:24:00.138
  • If i'm daily moment by moment abiding in him.
  • 00:24:00.138 --> 00:24:04.843
  • It's his sap that gives me the strength and the life,
  • 00:24:04.843 --> 00:24:08.380
  • The spiritual life that i must have.
  • 00:24:08.380 --> 00:24:11.082
  • "by their fruits ye shall know them."
  • 00:24:11.082 --> 00:24:14.052
  • "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
  • 00:24:14.052 --> 00:24:18.356
  • "without faith i cannot please him."
  • 00:24:18.356 --> 00:24:21.393
  • "without me ye can do nothing."
  • 00:24:21.393 --> 00:24:23.795
  • I'm going to ask you tonight to receive christ into your heart,
  • 00:24:23.795 --> 00:24:26.998
  • Let him forgive your sins.
  • 00:24:26.998 --> 00:24:28.967
  • I'm going to ask you to recline all your weight,
  • 00:24:28.967 --> 00:24:31.570
  • Maybe you've put ninety percent of your weight,
  • 00:24:31.570 --> 00:24:33.371
  • But i'm asking tonight all your weight on christ.
  • 00:24:33.371 --> 00:24:36.875
  • I'm asking you tonight to make him lord, as well as,
  • 00:24:36.875 --> 00:24:39.578
  • Savior of your life.
  • 00:24:39.578 --> 00:24:41.813
  • You may be a member of the best church in town
  • 00:24:41.813 --> 00:24:44.449
  • But you really need christ in your heart.
  • 00:24:44.449 --> 00:24:47.085
  • You may not be a member of any church.
  • 00:24:47.085 --> 00:24:48.653
  • Whoever you are and whatever you are,
  • 00:24:48.653 --> 00:24:50.322
  • I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat
  • 00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:52.457
  • Right now, hundreds of you.
  • 00:24:52.457 --> 00:24:54.259
  • Get up and come and stand in front of this platform.
  • 00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:56.461
  • And say by coming, i want christ in my heart.
  • 00:24:56.461 --> 00:25:00.532
  • I want forgiveness, i want to put my whole weight on him.
  • 00:25:00.532 --> 00:25:05.470
  • And after you've all come and stood here
  • 00:25:05.470 --> 00:25:06.905
  • I'm going to say a word to you and have a prayer with you.
  • 00:25:06.905 --> 00:25:10.342
  • We're going to give you some literature,
  • 00:25:10.342 --> 00:25:12.377
  • Then you can go back and join your friends.
  • 00:25:12.377 --> 00:25:15.547
  • If you've come with friends and relatives, or come in a bus,
  • 00:25:15.547 --> 00:25:18.083
  • They'll wait.
  • 00:25:18.083 --> 00:25:19.384
  • It won't take but just a moment in this stadium,
  • 00:25:19.384 --> 00:25:21.286
  • You come quickly right now.
  • 00:25:21.286 --> 00:25:23.255
  • Hundreds of you from everywhere.
  • 00:25:23.255 --> 00:25:24.990
  • You may be in the choir,
  • 00:25:24.990 --> 00:25:27.993
  • And you've been singing all these nights,
  • 00:25:27.993 --> 00:25:30.228
  • But you're not sure that christ is in your heart.
  • 00:25:30.228 --> 00:25:33.098
  • You come, we're going to wait.
  • 00:25:33.098 --> 00:25:36.167
  • ♪ just as i am without one plea ♪
  • 00:25:36.167 --> 00:25:45.710
  • (announcer) as hundreds are responding to mr. graham's invitation
  • 00:25:45.710 --> 00:25:49.214
  • To make a public commitment to jesis christ,
  • 00:25:49.214 --> 00:25:51.950
  • You can make that same commitment right where you are.
  • 00:25:51.950 --> 00:25:55.387
  • Just pick up the phone and call the number
  • 00:25:55.387 --> 00:25:57.422
  • You see on your screen.
  • 00:25:57.422 --> 00:25:59.124
  • Special friends are waiting to talk with you and pray with you
  • 00:25:59.124 --> 00:26:02.294
  • About this most important decision.
  • 00:26:02.294 --> 00:26:04.696
  • ♪ ...come to thee ♪
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  • ♪ oh lamb of god i come ♪
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  • ♪ i come ♪♪
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  • As you that are watching by television can see
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  • There are hundreds of people here at
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  • The university of new mexico
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  • That are coming to make their commitment to jesus christ.
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  • You can make your commitment where you are now.
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  • You can put your whole weight on him.
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  • And say yes, lord jesus, come into my life.
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  • And he will.
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  • God bless you.
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  • If you just prayed that prayer with my father,
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  • Or if you have any questions
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  • About a relationship with jesus christ,
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  • Why don't you call the number on the screen.
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  • There will be someone there to talk with you, pray with you and
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  • Answer those questions.
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  • And remember, god loves you!
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  • If you would like to commit your life to jesus christ,
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  • Please call us right now, toll free at
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  • 1-800-380-6804.
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  • That's 1-800-380-6804.
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  • Or you can write to us at:
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  • Billy graham
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  • Or you can contact us on the web 24/7 at billygrahamtv.org.
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  • We'll get the same helps to you that we give to everyone
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  • Who responds at the invitation.
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  • On behalf of franklin graham and
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  • The billy graham evangelistic association
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  • Thank you for watching and
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  • Thank you for your prayers.
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  • ♪ witness the story that never fa-a-ades ♪
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