1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: On a rainy night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Reverend Billy 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 2: Graham stood before a crowd and reflected on another stormy 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 2: moment in history, the day Jesus died on the Cross. 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: With thunder rolling in the background and umbrellas dotting the audience, 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: Reverend Graham painted a vivid picture of the crucifixion, not 7 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: just as a historical event, but as a turning point 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: for all of humanity. He spoke with urgency and compassion, 9 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: reminding listeners that the pain and sacrifice of that day 10 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: still echo in our lives today. It was the darkest 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: day the world has ever known, he said, But through 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: that darkness came light, hope, redemption in the promise of 13 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 2: eternal life. As the rain fell, the message cut through 14 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: like a beacon. No matter how dark the sign, no 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: matter how dark the times may seem, there is always 16 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: light at the foot of the cross. With tomorrow being Easter, 17 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: we thought this was the perfect time to listen to 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: the Reverend Billy Graham preach about Jesus's death and more important, resurrection. 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: My message is going to be brief, and my text 20 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 3: is going to be Luke the twenty third chapter, beginning 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: at verse forty two. Remember me when thou comest into 22 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: thy kingdom, And Jesus said, unto him, faverly, I say 23 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: unto thee today thou shalt be with me in Paradise. 24 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 3: The greatest and most historical event of all of history, 25 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 3: where it's when Jesus Christ died on that cross. And 26 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 3: when Christ died on the cross, the. 27 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: Lightning flashed, the thunder roars, the. 28 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 3: Darkness came, as the nails had gone into the hands 29 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 3: of Christ, and a spear had gone into his side, 30 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 3: and the nails threw his feet, and Jesus was hanging 31 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 3: between heaven and Earth, suffering for us. 32 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: The soldiers had. 33 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 3: Taken him out of his prison, and they'd put a 34 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: crimson robe on him. 35 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: They had beaten him. 36 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 3: Two or three times, and then they took two or 37 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 3: three murderers with him, two of them in particular, who 38 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: were going. 39 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:39,399 Speaker 1: To be crucified with him. 40 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: And then they took him across Jerusalem, and they made 41 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 3: each one of them bear a placard, or at least 42 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: a herald went before them to bear a placard telling 43 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: of their crimes. And then Jesus stumbled and fell he 44 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 3: was weak from the loss of blood, and they compelled 45 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 3: an African to help him carry his cross. And as 46 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 3: long as the history of man shall go, we will 47 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: always remember that it was an African. 48 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: That helped Jesus bear his cross. 49 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 3: There are people today that say that Christianity is the 50 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 3: white man's religion. Don't you believe it? For all of 51 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 3: those who believe in Jesus Christ, he belongs to all people. 52 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 3: He came from that part of the world that touches Asia, Africa, 53 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: and Europe. He belongs as much to the African as 54 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 3: he does to the European, and as much to the 55 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: European as he does to the Asian. Jesus Christ belongs 56 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 3: to all people. But an African helped him carry his cross. 57 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 3: And then when they got to God Gother, these soldiers 58 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 3: went about their work nailing the nails in These two 59 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 3: murderers and thieves that were being crucified with Jesus were yelling, screaming, crying, 60 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 3: but Jesus never uttered a word. And they took some 61 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 3: medicated wine that acted as a sedative and gave it 62 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 3: to the two thieves. 63 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: And they took it, and they offered it to Jesus. 64 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: And he refused it because he wanted to drink the 65 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 3: very bitter dregs of death in our place for us. 66 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 3: He wanted to suffer all of death, showing that God 67 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 3: loved the world and God was willing to forgive the sins. 68 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: Of the world. 69 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 3: Because of what Christ was doing on that cross, the 70 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 3: people that. 71 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: Were watching were laughing and sneering. 72 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 3: They said, he saved others, why can't he save himself. 73 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 3: Come on, you worked great miracles, why don't you work 74 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: one more? 75 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: You raised Lazarus from the dead, you raised a widow's 76 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: son from the dead. Why can't you save yourself? 77 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 3: Those blind people did not realize that God had for 78 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 3: ordained and predetermined that Jesus Christ was to die the 79 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: death of the Cross, and it was only through that 80 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 3: death that the world could find forgiveness and salvation. 81 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: There is no other name given among men whereby we 82 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: must be saved. 83 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: The apostle Paul was an intellectual, one of the most 84 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 3: brilliant men that ever lived. And Paul went to Corinth, pagan, intellectual, immoral, Corinth, 85 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: the university center of the ancient world. And Paul said, 86 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 3: I'm determined to know nothing among you said Jesus Christ 87 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 3: and him crucified. 88 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: Why did Paul say that? He said that. 89 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: Because God has locked up. 90 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: In the cross the secret of the universe. 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 3: The only way that Earth can ever find reconciliation with Heaven, 92 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 3: it's by way of the cross. The only way that 93 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 3: you can ever get to Heaven is by way of 94 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 3: the cross. And if Jesus Christ had not gone to 95 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 3: the cross, you could have never had sin forgiven, you 96 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 3: could have never gone to heaven, and the problems. 97 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: Of Earth would have never had a solution. 98 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 3: Only by the way of the Cross can we find 99 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 3: our way back to God. And that's why it was 100 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 3: important that Jesus stay on the cross, because you see, 101 00:06:59,320 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 3: man is in. 102 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: Rebellion against God. 103 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden of Eden, and 104 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 3: every man since Adam and Eve has broken God's law 105 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 3: and sinned against God. And as a result of that, 106 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 3: God and man are separated. And man's only way back 107 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 3: to God is through Jesus Christ. Man had broken the law. 108 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: Man deserved death, he deserved judgment, he deserved hell. But 109 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: God said, wait a minute, I'll give my son, I'll 110 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 3: let him die, I'll let him take the judgment. And 111 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 3: the hell for you. And if you will put your 112 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: trust and your faith in my son, I will forgive 113 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 3: your sin. I will change your life. I will give 114 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 3: you an inner peace and joy and satisfaction that you 115 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: would never find in any other way. So Jesus worth 116 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 3: dying on that cross for your sins and your sins. 117 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: Some people say, why don't you try to make your 118 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: gospel relevant? The most relevant message in the world tonight 119 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 3: is the fact that Christ. 120 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: Died for you. He died in your place. 121 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 3: He shed his blood for you, and without that experience, 122 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 3: no one can get to heaven. Yes, Jesus Christ died, 123 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 3: and the people laughed and sneered. And two people that 124 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 3: sneered and laughed. 125 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: The most were these two thieves and murderers that were 126 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: dying with him. 127 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 3: They were both mocking him, but one of them became 128 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: strangely silent. And finally, this one that was silent turned 129 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 3: and rebuked the other thief in the air, the murderer, 130 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 3: and said, we'd die justly. 131 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: We deserve to. 132 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 3: Be crucified, But not this man in the middle. He's 133 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: a good man, He's the son of God. Then he 134 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 3: turned to him and asked him what seemed to be 135 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 3: an improbable, unimpossible question. He said, remember me, when thou 136 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 3: comest into thy. 137 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: Kingdom, will you remember me? Lord? 138 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 3: And then Jesus gave one of the most astounding answers 139 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 3: in the history. 140 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: Of the world. 141 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 3: The angels in heaven must have been shaken and startled 142 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 3: and amazed when they heard what Jesus answered. Jesus said, 143 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 3: today today, thou shalt be with me in paradise. 144 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: Think of it. Here was a thief, a murderer, a man. 145 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: That had permitted every crime in the books, dying, turns 146 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 3: to Jesus in his dying moment and says, Lord, remember me. 147 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 3: He didn't even say forgive me. He didn't even say, Lord, 148 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 3: take me to Heaven with you. He didn't say, Lord, 149 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 3: prefer me. He just said, Lord, remember me. And Jesus 150 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 3: and said, quick as a flash, and said, today thou 151 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 3: shalt be with me in paradise. And to all of 152 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 3: you people that think you can't be converted in a moment, 153 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: and that you cannot be saved at this isle and 154 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 3: at this moment, in this rain, in Baton rouge, and 155 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 3: have your whole life transformed. You read the stories of 156 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 3: the New Testament and the encounters. 157 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: That people had with Jesus. 158 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 3: There are many of you that came here tonight in 159 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 3: this rain that never dreamed that you were going to 160 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: meet Jesus. You came out of curiosity, or you came 161 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 3: because your bus was already on the way, or you 162 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: had already promised some friends to come, or you're a 163 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 3: student here at the university and you. 164 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: Came out of curiosity. 165 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 3: Many of the people of the New Testament that came 166 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 3: to Jesus never planned it. They never thought that they 167 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 3: would have their lives changed. This thief on the cross 168 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 3: that had been in prison, knew that he was going 169 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 3: to die on a cross. 170 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: He knew he deserved it. 171 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 3: He never dreamed that before the night came that day 172 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 3: he would be in heaven. He deserved judgment, he deserved hell. 173 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 3: I'm going to see that man in heaven someday, by 174 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 3: the grace of God. 175 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: He wasn't saved by his good works. He didn't even 176 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: have time to be baptized. He didn't have time for anything. 177 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: But he's in heaven. That's the grace and the mercy 178 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: of God. 179 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 3: And I want to tell you that the greatest word 180 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 3: in all the language of men is forgiveness. 181 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: That day, Jesus forgave him of. 182 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: Every sin it had ever committed, wipe the slate clean, 183 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 3: and he was in heaven. There are three things about 184 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,599 Speaker 3: this passage. The whole Gospel is in it. There's repentance. 185 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: It's the only death bed repentance in the whole Bible. 186 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 3: I don't know what led this fellow to ask that 187 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 3: question or to make that statement. It might have been 188 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 3: the prayer that Jesus had just prayed, Father, forgive them, 189 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 3: they know not what they do. It might have been 190 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 3: what Jesus had said to John concerning his mother. I 191 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 3: don't know what it is or what it was, but 192 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit used it. 193 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit used. 194 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 3: It to convict him and convincing that he needed Jesus, 195 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 3: and he repented of his sins at that moment, and 196 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 3: he was saved. I can imagine the other thief saying, 197 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 3: why what have you done? If you turned prence you 198 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 3: something you Remember we strangle that old merchant for his gold. 199 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 3: Remember you kidnapped that little child, Remember that girl you raped, 200 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 3: Remember that person you slew. You think God's gonna forgive you? 201 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 3: Are you turn to preacher? He can't forgive you. I 202 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 3: don't care what your sin is. I don't care how 203 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 3: deep in sin you've gone. I don't care what you've done. 204 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 3: God can forgive you. God clean cleans you. God can 205 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 3: make you a new person tonight, if you put your 206 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 3: faith in your trust in Him. Yes, he repented, and 207 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 3: the second thing he did was to believe. The Bible says, 208 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 3: if we believe in our heart that God had raised. 209 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: Him from the dead, we shall be saved. 210 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 3: The scripture says, on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou 211 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 3: shalt be saved. But as many as received him, to 212 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 3: them gave he power to become the sons of God, 213 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 3: even to them that believe on his name. 214 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: Just repent and believe, and then you'll be saved. 215 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 3: He said, when thou comest into thy kingdom, as though 216 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 3: he were thinking of some far off kingdom aide somewhere. 217 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 3: And Jesus answered and said, today, right now, you'll be saved. 218 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 3: Right now, you can have eternal life. You can put 219 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 3: your trust in your confidence in Christ now. And he did, 220 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 3: and that day he went to Paradise. Now it's the word. 221 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 3: Remember that. I want you to think about a moment. 222 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 3: He said, Lord, remember me, did you know that God forgets. 223 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 3: Did you know that there's a scripture in Jeremiah thirty 224 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 3: one thirty four says I will forgive their iniquity, and 225 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: I will remember their sins. 226 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: No more. 227 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 3: God can forget. God can forget your sins. 228 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: What does God forget? 229 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 3: God never forgets the universe. He sends the rain, Yes, sir, 230 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 3: God sends the rain. But the rain falls on the 231 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 3: just and the unjust. The sun comes upon the just 232 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 3: and the unjust. God blesses all of us with all 233 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 3: of his blessings. He never forgets. Suppose he forgot the 234 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 3: sin rain. Suppose the sun cease to shine, the earth 235 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 3: would turn into a glacier. Suppose God would forget, because 236 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 3: the scripture says that God holds the whole universe together, 237 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 3: and if God ever took his hand off, it would 238 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 3: blow to pieces. And then the scripture says that God 239 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 3: remembers you. 240 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: Tonight. 241 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: I had in my little office here where I see people. 242 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: A lady and her children, and a. 243 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 3: Mother and their son, and their husband is a prisoner 244 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 3: in North Vietnam. I don't think any of us will 245 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 3: ever know what these families have suffered. I don't think 246 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 3: any of us will ever know what those boys out 247 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 3: there have probably gone through psychologically and physically, never knowing. 248 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 3: And then we had another one come and see us 249 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: tonight and her husband, she's just found out is is 250 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 3: alive and a prisoner. But for a long time she 251 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 3: didn't know he was only missing an action. But let 252 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 3: me tell you this. 253 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: God remembers them. 254 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 3: And when we bowed our heads in the little office 255 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 3: and prayed that God would remember them, that his grace 256 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: and his love would reach out to North Vietnam the 257 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: prison camp and touch them, God remembers them. And God 258 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 3: answers prayers. How many times has God been with you? 259 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:13,160 Speaker 3: You don't even know, because you see, you almost had 260 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 3: a wreck the other day, but you were saved from it. 261 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 3: Why when you get to heaven you may find out why. 262 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 3: It might have been divine intervention. And that happens to 263 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 3: all of us. God remembers you, and then God never 264 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 3: forgets our sins either. The Bible says, be sure your 265 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 3: sin will find you out. The Bible says God is 266 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 3: not marked for whatsoever a man. So if that shall 267 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 3: he also read. The Bible says, for God shall bring 268 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 3: every work into judgment. God is going to judge every 269 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 3: sin that's ever been committed. 270 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: What is your sin that so easily beset you? 271 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 3: It's going to be brought to light all the sea 272 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: with things. God is going to judge it. God never 273 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: forgets sin. No sin has ever been forgotten by God. 274 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 3: God has recorded everything you've ever done and all the 275 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 3: things you've ever thought, from the time you were born 276 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 3: till the time you die. It's all there. It's all 277 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 3: in the record books. And God will never forget. Nothing 278 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 3: is going to be forgotten. How do you stand before God? 279 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 3: But there's one thing God can forget. He can forget 280 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 3: sin because of Christ. The Bible says in tewod Corinthians 281 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 3: five twenty one. He has made him to be sin 282 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 3: for us. It says in Isaiah fifty three, the Lord 283 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 3: have laid on him the iniquity of us all. It 284 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 3: says in One Peter two twenty four, Who his own 285 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 3: self bear our sins and his own body on the tree. 286 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: The scripture teaches that. 287 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 3: God can forget our sins because of Christ. 288 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: The sin that would damus, the sin. 289 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 3: That would send us to judgment, the sin that would 290 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 3: send us. 291 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: To hell, God can forget. 292 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 3: In Hebrews one three, it says, your sins are purged. 293 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: In Isaiah forty three. 294 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,239 Speaker 3: It says your sins are blooted out. In Psalm one 295 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 3: O three it says your sins are put away. Isaiah 296 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 3: thirty eight says your sins are put behind his back. 297 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 3: And in Hebrews it says God can remember your sin 298 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: no more, ladies and gentlemen, because Christ died, because he 299 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 3: rose again because of what he did. God cannot remember 300 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 3: my sins. I've committed plenty of sins in my life, 301 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 3: and even if I'd only committed one sin in my 302 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 3: whole life, it's enough to cause me to go to 303 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 3: the judgment and be lost, because I could keep the 304 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: whole law and yet offended one point, and I'd be 305 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 3: guilty of all. But God has forgotten my sin. He 306 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 3: forgot every sin that I have ever committed. Everyone he 307 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 3: has forgotten. He's the only person in the whole universe 308 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 3: that can forget. He has the ability to forget. Has 309 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 3: he forgotten your sin? Have you brought your sin and 310 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 3: laid it to the feet of Jesus? What a knight 311 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 3: to give your life to Christ. You may never have 312 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 3: another moment like this. The Bible says he that hardened 313 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: his heart being often reproved, shall suddenly be cut off, 314 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 3: and that without remedy. You've sat here for over two 315 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 3: hours in the rain. Many of you are soaked all 316 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 3: the way through, and you've done it because you want 317 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 3: your sins forgiven. Many of you and others of you 318 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 3: have sat here because you're praying for somebody that needs Christ. 319 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 3: And this is your awen, your moment, and may never 320 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 3: come again like this. I'm going to ask you to 321 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 3: do something that I saw people in London do. I 322 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 3: saw people in San Diego? Do I saw people in 323 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 3: Pittsburgh do? I'm going to ask scores of you to 324 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 3: get up out of your seat right now and come 325 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,199 Speaker 3: across this field in the rain and stand here, and 326 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 3: by coming say I want Christ in my life. I 327 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 3: want my sin forgiven. I want to know I'm going 328 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 3: to heaven. I want to know that I will not 329 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 3: be at the judgment in that final day. I want 330 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 3: my life transformed by the power of Christ. I'm going 331 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 3: to ask you to come right now, men, women, young people. 332 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 3: God has spoken to you. You need Christ, and in 333 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 3: a moment like this, you'll never forget it. I met 334 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: a missionary out in the Far East a few months ago, 335 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 3: said I received Christ one of those nights at Wembley 336 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: Stadium in the pouring reign in England, and stood ankle 337 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 3: deep in mud to find Christ and said, I thank 338 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 3: God because if it hadn't been for the rain, I 339 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 3: don't know whether I would have come that night or not. 340 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 3: But he said there was something about the challenge of 341 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 3: coming forward in the rain that challenged me and it 342 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 3: changed my life. Yes, it's not easy to come, but 343 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: Christ went to the cross for you, and many people 344 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 3: are on the way. Now you get up and come 345 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 3: and make you a commitment to Christ. 346 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 4: As hundreds are responding to mister Graham's invitation to make 347 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 4: a public commitment to Jesus Christ, you can make that 348 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 4: same commitment right where you are. Just pick up the 349 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 4: phone and call the number you see on your screen. 350 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 4: Special friends are waiting to talk with you and pray 351 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 4: with you about this most important decision. 352 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: To say a word to all of you that have come. 353 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: You've come tonight to make your commitment to Christ because 354 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 3: you want your sins forgiven, you want to know you're 355 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 3: going to heaven. You want a new direction in your life, 356 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 3: and you've come to make a commitment to Christ because 357 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 3: you want him to. 358 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: Forget your sin and save your soul. 359 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 3: Well, I want to tell you he remembers you, and 360 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 3: he loves you, and he wants to forgive you. 361 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: He loves you. 362 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,239 Speaker 3: Keep that in mind now that God loves you and 363 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 3: is willing to forgive and forget all the past and 364 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 3: from tonight on. There are four things that are very important. First, 365 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: read your bis day. We're going to give you a 366 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 3: Gospel of John. We want you to read it several 367 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 3: times before you read any other part of the Bible. 368 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 3: We're going to give you a Bible study. We're going 369 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 3: to give you some verses of scripture to learn memorize. 370 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 3: This helps you to grow desire the sincere milk. 371 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: Of the Word, that you may grow there by. 372 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 3: The Scripture says you cannot grow in the Christian life 373 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 3: without reading and studying the scriptures every day. 374 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: Secondly, pray. 375 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 3: God will hear and answer your prayer. You're his child 376 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 3: now He loves you. Take every detail to God in prayer. 377 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 3: He will answer your prayers. Don't let a day go 378 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 3: by but what you spend a few minutes every morning, 379 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: every evening, and all during the day in prayer and 380 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 3: pray about everything, whatever the details are, nothing is too 381 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 3: small to bring to God's attention. And then, thirdly, witness 382 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 3: for Christ. How do you witness. You're witness by the 383 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 3: smile on your face. You witness by the new attitude 384 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 3: you have in the dormitory, the new attitude you have 385 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 3: toward work, the new attitude you have in the home. 386 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: And then you. 387 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 3: Witness by going to somebody of another race and going 388 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: out of your way to be kind and courteous and gracious. 389 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 3: And people will soon say, well, what's happened to you, Mary, 390 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 3: and you can say, well, I've found Christ. 391 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: He's changed my life. That's witnessing. 392 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 3: And then fourthly, get into a church where Christ is 393 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: preached and get to work for Christ. Get into the 394 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 3: church and work in the church. You say, but I 395 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 3: don't like to go to church. Jesus went to the 396 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 3: churches of his day and they weren't all they were 397 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,679 Speaker 3: supposed to be. But he did it to set us 398 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 3: an example. 399 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: That we should go to church. 400 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 3: Four things, Read the Bible, pray, witness, and go to church. 401 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 3: Now I'm going to ask that we bow our heads, 402 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 3: and I want you to pray this prayer out loud 403 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 3: after me. Oh, God, I'm a sinner. I'm sorry for 404 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 3: my sin. I'm willing to turn from my sin. I 405 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 3: received Christ as Savior. I confess him as Lord. From 406 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 3: this moment on, I want to follow him. I'm serving 407 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 3: in the fellowship of his Church in Christ's name. 408 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: Amen. 409 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 2: If you like the Michael Berry Show in podcast, please 410 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 2: tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a 411 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: nice review of our podcast. 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