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Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show in nineteen seventy seven. I was

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Speaker 1: a wee willie of seven years old. The Billy Graham

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Speaker 1: Christmas Special featured a combination of spiritual teachings, the Bible, music,

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Speaker 1: holiday themes. It had guest performances by Johnny Cash and

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Speaker 1: of course his wife June Carter Cash, and they sang

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Speaker 1: I heard the bells on Christmas Day and it was

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Speaker 1: an interesting way to connect kind of pop culture music

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Speaker 1: with a Christian crowd. It's hard to imagine how big

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Speaker 1: Billy Graham was back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Take my word for it, but at the end of

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Speaker 2: it all.

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Speaker 1: There's beautiful music, there's the trappings of the secular Christmas

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Speaker 1: portion of it. At the end of it all, Billy

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Speaker 1: Graham brought the focus to the core message of Christmas,

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Speaker 1: which is the birth of Jesus Christ and the themes

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Speaker 1: of hope, faith, unity, salvation. I think it's really really

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Speaker 1: well done, and that's why we've chosen it for this

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Speaker 1: week as your bonus podcast. This is Billy Graham, the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven Christmas Message.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy the most thrilling season of the year is Christmas,

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Speaker 3: and in some ways this should be one of the

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Speaker 3: best Christmas seasons that Americans have spent in many years.

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Speaker 3: It's certainly been one of the best We've ever had

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Speaker 3: to have members of our own family here, and our

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Speaker 3: team family and Johnny and June Cash. What a Christmas

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Speaker 3: season this has been for us. But this past year,

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Speaker 3: we've visited a number of countries throughout the world preaching

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Speaker 3: the Gospel, and in many of the places that we visited,

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Speaker 3: we sent that some sort of crisis threatens the very

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Speaker 3: foundations of their societies. Thus, as we celebrate Christmas, ominous

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Speaker 3: world and mind. In addition, I'm speaking to many of

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Speaker 2: Your own personal crisis.

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Speaker 3: It could be in your home, your health, your work,

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Speaker 3: midst of all these problems there comes the message of Christmas,

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Speaker 3: I think the message of Christmas has been generally misunderstood

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Speaker 3: Others think only of Bethlehem, of the star in the sky,

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Speaker 3: shepherds in the field, and angels singing, And still others

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Speaker 3: cynically ask where is the Prince of Peace? But the

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Speaker 3: The Christmas message is relevant, revolutionary, and reassuring.

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Speaker 2: In a world of confusion and crisis.

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Speaker 3: It can be summed up in three tremendous events, a birth,

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Speaker 3: on that first Christmas night, the Bible tells of the

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Speaker 3: Angel who said to the fearful shepherds, as we read

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Speaker 3: you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to

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Speaker 3: During various wars, many a mother tries to keep in

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Speaker 3: The Angel said at the birth of Jesus, he shall

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Speaker 3: The central message of Christmas to me is that Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 3: aware again of the disease of human nature. You see,

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Speaker 3: man is actually a paradox. On the one hand, there

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Speaker 3: At this Christmas season, many churches will be celebrating communion,

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Speaker 3: Christ became the lamb slain from the foundation of the

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Speaker 3: Resurrection stand as man's only hope. It was on Good

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Speaker 3: the good news of Christmas. But you must also do something.

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Speaker 3: You must humble yourself and admit your sin and your

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Speaker 3: Some of you may dismiss it as ridiculous and idiotic.

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Speaker 3: of God. We all admit that we need some sweeping

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Speaker 3: But our greatest need is a change in the heart.

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Speaker 3: That is why Jesus said you must be born again.

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Speaker 3: And his famous sermon in Athens, said God now commanded

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Speaker 3: There's also the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom, you know.

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Speaker 3: Chiseled into the cornerstone of the United Nations building is

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Speaker 3: This is the time when he who came as a

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Speaker 3: But when it seems that man is about to destroy himself,

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Speaker 3: God will intervene. Christ will return. At his birth, he

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Speaker 3: The Angel said to the frightened shepherds two thousand years ago.

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Speaker 3: Good Night and a blessed Christmas from our house to

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