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