Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey
November 6, 2018
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An exclusive look at how God used one man to share one message to millions.
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Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey
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- - HE HAD A SPARK IN HIS EYES THAT WAS VISIBLE.
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- AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY" IS THE
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- SUBJECT OF TODAY'S "PRAISE"
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- PROGRAM,
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- COMING TO YOU FROM RIGHT HERE AT
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- THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE BILLY
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- GETTING TO SEE HERE IN THIS
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- IN JUST A FEW BRIEF WORDS, IT'S
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- GONNA PLAY ITSELF OUT?
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- JUST, YOUR THOUGHTS BEFORE WE
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- GET INTO IT.
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- - FRANKLIN GRAHAM: IT'S JUST AN
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- INCREDIBLE PROGRAM ABOUT HOW GOD
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- TOOK A COUNTRY BOY OUT OF
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- AND TOOK HIM TO THE ENDS OF THIS
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- EARTH TO SPEAK TO MORE PEOPLE
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- THAN ANY OTHER PERSON IN THE
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- HISTORY OF THIS WORLD, BUT IT'S
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- SO THAT'S WHAT YOU GET TO SEE.
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- - MATT: IT'S SIMPLY ENTITLED
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- "BILLY GRAHAM: AN EXTRAORDINARY
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- JOURNEY," AND IT'S RIGHT HERE,
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- JOURNEY," AND IT'S RIGHT HERE,
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- - THINK ABOUT IT.
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- A MAN WHO BRINGS THE WORD OF GOD TO MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY
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- OTHER PERSON IN HISTORY.
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- - A HUMBLE FARMER'S SON WHO HELPED CHANGE THE
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- WORLD IS A SPIRITUAL GIFT TO ALL OF US.
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- [RADIO SOUND BITES] - BILLY GRAHAM.
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- - DR. BILLY GRAHAM.
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- - BILLY GRAHAM.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - WHO WAS THIS MAN WHO COULD PREACH LIKE THIS?
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- - BILLY GRAHAM: I CANNOT SAVE ANYBODY.
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- I'M JUST AN ORDINARY MESSENGER OF THE
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- KINGDOM OF GOD.
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- - HE WAS A GIANT.
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- YOU WON'T SEE HIS LIKES AGAIN.
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- - HE WAS UNPARALLELED IN MY JUDGMENT.
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- - I THINK PRESIDENTS REACHED OUT TO HIM
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- BECAUSE THEY WANTED WHAT HE HAD.
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- - NONE OF US WERE IN ON THOSE ONE ON
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- ONE SESSIONS.
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- - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT EVERY ONE OF US ARE
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- IMPORTANT TO GOD.
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- - DOCTOR GRAHAM AND DOCTOR KING ON THE SAME
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- PLATFORM SENT A VERY POWERFUL MESSAGE.
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- - THERE IS NO EXCUSE EVER FOR BIGOTRY.
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- WE ARE TO LOVE AS GOD LOVED US.
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- - IT WAS A VERY TENSE TIME.
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- HE WAS REALLY CRITICIZED BUT MY FATHER NEVER
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- BACKED DOWN.
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- - HE WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO TAKE A RISK WHEN IT
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- WAS FOR THE RIGHT REASON.
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- - IS THERE AN ANSWER?
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- YES, THERE IS AN ANSWER.
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- - YOU ALWAYS KNEW WITH GRAHAM IT WAS ABOUT THE
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- MESSAGE AND NOT ABOUT THE MAN.
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- - WHO IS THIS UNIQUE PERSON THAT COMES ACROSS
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- THE PAGES OF HISTORY?
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- JESUS SAID, FOLLOW ME.
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- COME AND CHANGE THE WORLD WITH ME.
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- [MUSIC]
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- [SIRENS WAILING]
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- - THIS IS 42 ND AND BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY,
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- OVERLOOKING TIME SQUARE.
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- ABC TV NEWS CAMERAS ARE ON THE SCENE TO REPORT
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- HISTORY AS IT'S MADE IN THIS CULMINATION OF 16
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- WEEKS OF THE BILLY GRAHAM NEW YORK CRUSADE. IT'S BEEN SAID --
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- - WHAT A THRILLING AND WONDERFUL SIGHT THIS IS.
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- I WISH THOSE THAT WERE SHARING THE SERVICE BY
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- TELEVISION COULD SEE WHAT I SEE.
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- - NARRATOR: BILLY GRAHAM WAS AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN
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- AS AMERICA'S PASTOR.
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- HE HAD QUICKLY BECOME A NATIONAL SENSATION.
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- - YOU SAY, BUT BILLY, I'M DIFFERENT.
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- I DON'T THINK RELIGION TAKES WITH ME.
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- I DON'T THINK I'M THE KIND --
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- - BUT HIS UNLIKELY JOURNEY BEGAN FAR FROM THE
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- GLARING LIGHTS.
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- - EVERY AFTERNOON AS BILLY CAME THROUGH THE
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- DOOR, MARTHA!
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- THOSE WERE HIS FIRST WORDS, AND I KNEW BILLY
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- WAS ON THE PREMISE.
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- - AS A BOY GROWING UP ON A NORTH CAROLINA DAIRY
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- FARM, BILLY'S CHILDHOOD WAS ABOUT AS ORDINARY AS
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- IT GETS.
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- - HE READ EVERY TARZAN BOOK.
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- THEN HE WOULD GO DOWN IN THE WOODS AND HE WOULD
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- TRY TO ACT IT OUT.
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- [LAUGHTER] DIDN'T WORK TOO WELL.
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- - HE AND MELVIN WORKED ON THE DAIRY FARM.
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- MELVIN LOVED THE HARD WORK.
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- BILLY FRANK DIDN'T REALLY LIKE TO DO PHYSICAL WORK.
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- NEVER DID.
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- - MY BROTHER WAS INTERESTED PRIMARILY IN TWO
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- THINGS, THAT WOULD BE BASEBALL AND GIRLS.
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- I'M NOT SURE WHICH ORDER.
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- - EVEN THOUGH BILLY HAD GROWN UP IN CHURCH, AS A
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- TEENAGER, HE ONLY ATTENDED RELUCTANTLY.
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- WHEN TRAVELING EVANGELIST MORDECAI HAM CAME TO TOWN,
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- IT WAS NO SURPRISE THAT BILLY WANTED NOTHING TO
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- DO WITH IT.
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- - WHEN MORDECAI HAM CAME TO CHARLOTTE, I THOUGHT
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- IT WAS SOME SORT OF BIG CIRCUS OR BIG EMOTIONAL
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- EVENT, AND I DIDN'T HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT
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- EVER GOING.
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- - BUT A FEW WEEKS INTO THE THREE MONTH LONG REVIVAL,
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- BILLY FRANK'S CURIOSITY GOT THE BEST OF HIM.
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- HE HOPPED ON A FRIEND'S OLD PICKUP AND SET OUT
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- TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE FIGHTING PREACHER.
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- - I HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A LARGE CROWD ATTENDING A
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- RELIGIOUS MEETING.
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- I THINK 3.000 OR 4.000 PEOPLE.
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- AND IT MADE A GREAT IMPRESSION ON ME.
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- AND I DECIDED I WANTED TO GO BACK THE NEXT NIGHT,
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- THEN THE NEXT AND THEN THE NEXT.
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- BY THAT TIME, I WAS COMING UNDER CONVICTION
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- THAT I WAS A SINNER, THAT I NEEDED REDEMPTION
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- MYSELF, THAT I NEEDED CHRIST IN MY HEART.
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- I WAS A CHURCH MEMBER, BUT I STILL KNEW THAT
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- SOMETHING WAS LACKING.
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- I KNEW I DIDN'T HAVE THAT PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
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- WITH CHRIST.
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- ONE NIGHT WHEN THE INVITATION WAS GIVEN, I
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- JUST SAID LORD, I'M GOING.
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- AND IT WAS ON THE LAST VERSE OF THE LAST VERSE
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- THEY SANG, AND ABOUT 400 PEOPLE WENT FORWARD THE
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- NIGHT I DID, AND WHEN I STOOD THERE I THOUGHT TO
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- MYSELF WHAT A FOOL I'M MAKING OF MYSELF IN FRONT
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- OF ALL MY FRIENDS HERE.
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- BUT I KNEW SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED.
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- - THERE WAS A DEFINITE TURN IN HIS LIFE.
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- WE KNEW THEN THAT THE LORD HAD REALLY GOTTEN
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- HOLD OF HIM.
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- - HIS EMPHASIS BECAME MORE ON WHAT THE PREACHER
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- HAD BEEN PREACHING AND WANTING TO KNOW WHERE HE
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- COULD GO AND LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE BIBLE.
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- - NARRATOR: BILLY'S NEWFOUND INTEREST ALONG
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- WITH HIS LOVE OF SUNSHINE AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS
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- EVENTUALLY LED HIM TO ENROLL IN THE FLORIDA
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- BIBLE INSTITUTE.
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- WHILE THERE, HE EXPERIENCED A CALLING HE
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- COULDN'T DENY.
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- - I JUST FELT GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ME, AND HE
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- SAID, I WANT TO USE YOU.
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- AND I PUT UP ALL THE ARGUMENTS I COULD THAT I
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- WAS NOT CAPABLE, DIDN'T HAVE THE PROPER
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- EDUCATION, BUT GOD WAS CALLING ME, AND I KNEW
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- THAT SO I GOT ON MY KNEES RIGHT THEN AND I SAID
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- LORD, I'LL GO WHERE YOU WANT ME TO GO AND I'LL BE
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- WHAT YOU WANT ME TO BE.
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- AND I SAID, I'M YOURS.
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- - NARRATOR: OPPORTUNITIES TO SPEAK AT
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- LOCAL CHURCHES SLOWLY EMERGED INCLUDING ONE
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- THAT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON BILLY GRAHAM'S MINISTRY.
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- - FIRST SERMON IN A BIG CHURCH WAS THE FIRST
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- BAPTIST CHURCH OF VENICE.
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- I PREACHED ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
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- I GAVE AN INVITATION AT THE END OF MY TALK FOR PEOPLE TO
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- COME FORWARD, AND I'D NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE,
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- AND 11 PEOPLE CAME.
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- I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT.
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- AND I WAS SO MOVED IN MY OWN HEART THAT I SAID
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- LORD, MAYBE YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A GIFT THAT I
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- DIDN'T KNOW THAT I COULD GIVE AN INVITATION AND
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- PEOPLE WOULD COME TO CHRIST.
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- AND I BEGAN TO GIVE INVITATIONS AFTER THAT.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS IN 2 CORINTHIANS THAT HE
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- WAS MADE SIN FOR US WHO KNEW NO SIN.
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- - IN 1945, BILLY JOINED YOUTH FOR CHRIST AS AN EVANGELIST
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- TRAVELING OVER A MILLION MILES DURING THE NEXT
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- FOUR YEARS.
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- - AND TODAY -GOD TURNED HIS BACK -- I KNOW THE
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- ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEM TODAY.
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- - THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BILLY GRAHAM CONTINUED TO
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- INCREASE IN CITY AFTER CITY, BUT HE SOON FACED A
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- DILEMMA THAT THREATENED TO DERAIL HIS
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- EMERGING MINISTRY.
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- - FRANKLIN GRAHAM: THERE WAS THIS DEBATE GOING ON
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- WITHIN HIS FRIENDS THAT BEGAN TO QUESTION
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- SCRIPTURE, AND WERE QUESTIONING WHY MY FATHER
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- BELIEVED IN THE BIBLE TO BE THE HOLY INSPIRED
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- WORD OF GOD.
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- - THE ARGUMENTS WERE THAT YOU COULDN'T REALLY TRUST
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- THE SCRIPTURES AND THAT ONLY THE OLD-FASHIONED
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- FUNDAMENTALIST COULD TRUST THE SCRIPTURES.
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- AND I BEGAN TO THINK WELL, PERHAPS THEY'RE RIGHT.
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- MAYBE THIS BIBLE ISN'T AS AUTHORITATIVE AS I
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- THOUGHT IT WAS.
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- AND I REMEMBER HOW DISTURBED I WAS WITH THAT
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- BECAUSE I'D ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE BIBLE.
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- - THE VERY FOUNDATION OF BILLY'S FAITH WAS SHAKEN.
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- HE AGONIZED OVER THE DILEMMA KNOWING HE COULD
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- NOT MOVE ON UNTIL THE ISSUE WAS SETTLED ONCE
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- AND FOR ALL.
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- STILL TO COME, ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY--
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- - THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUNGER FOR FAITH IN
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- THIS COUNTRY AND FOR ANSWERS.
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- - BUT BILLY'S SEARCH FOR ANSWERS UNCOVERED
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- DEEPER UNCERTAINTIES.
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- - I WENT THROUGH A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE
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- INTELLECTUALLY ABOUT THE BIBLE.
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- - AND LATER, BILLY GRAHAM ENDURES THE PERILS
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- OF STEPPING OUT IN FAITH.
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- - IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY
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- THREATENING LETTERS WE GOT.
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- - BILLY GRAHAM, AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY IS
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- NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND DIGITAL HD.
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- - CHRIST BELONGS TO ALL PEOPLE.
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- HE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
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- - THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM OFFERS A UNIQUE LOOK INTO
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- THE LIFE OF BILLY GRAHAM, EVANGELIST TO THE WORLD.
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- IT CONTAINS EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
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- AND INTERVIEWS INCLUDING INTIMATE MOMENTS FROM
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- PERSONAL FILM COLLECTIONS.
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- THE DVD CONTAINS NEARLY 2 HOURS OF BONUS FEATURES
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- INCLUDING REFLECTIONS FROM BILLY GRAHAM'S
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- FINAL INTERVIEW.
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- - WE HAVE TO LIVE A LIFE IN WHICH WE
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- LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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- - ALSO INCLUDED, BILLY GRAHAM'S INSPIRING
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- FUNERAL SERVICE.
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- - I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR MY
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- FATHER TO STEP INTO HEAVEN.
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- - THIS DVD IS SUBTITLED IN NINE LANGUAGES AND
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- MAKES A GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT.
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- IT'S ALSO A WONDERFUL WAY TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH
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- FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
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- - HAVE YOU OPENED YOUR HEART TO JESUS?
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- HAVE YOU PRESENTED OF YOUR SINS?
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- - OWN THESE UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS
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- FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY.
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- GO TO BILLYGRAHAMFILM.COM
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- TO GET YOUR COPIES TODAY.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - BILLY GRAHAM WAS AT A CROSSROADS WRESTLING WITH
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- ARGUMENTS THAT CARRIED ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES.
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- FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES WERE RAISING DOUBTS ABOUT
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- THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE.
- 00:11:29.140 --> 00:11:31.190
- - THE ARGUMENTS WERE THAT YOU COULDN'T REALLY
- 00:11:31.210 --> 00:11:34.040
- TRUST THE SCRIPTURES, AND I REMEMBER HOW DISTURBED
- 00:11:34.060 --> 00:11:37.100
- I WAS BY THAT BECAUSE I'D ALWAYS BELIEVED IN
- 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.100
- THE BIBLE.
- 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.140
- - BUT BILLY CONTINUED TO STUDY AND PRAY.
- 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:44.070
- THE SUMMER OF 1949 WOULD BRING HIM TO A
- 00:11:44.090 --> 00:11:47.000
- WATERSHED MOMENT.
- 00:11:47.020 --> 00:11:52.100
- - I REMEMBER MANY YEARS AGO I WENT THROUGH A
- 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.200
- TERRIBLE STRUGGLE INTELLECTUALLY
- 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:56.220
- ABOUT THE BIBLE.
- 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.060
- AND I WAS CONCERNED AND WORRIED AND BATTLING
- 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.180
- WITH MYSELF.
- 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:02.250
- AND I REMEMBER GOING OUT IN THE MOONLIGHT, OUT IN
- 00:12:02.270 --> 00:12:04.220
- THE FOREST AND I TOOK THIS BIBLE, AND I SAID
- 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.250
- LORD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL ABOUT THIS BIBLE.
- 00:12:08.270 --> 00:12:13.000
- THERE ARE MANY THINGS I CANNOT EXPLAIN.
- 00:12:13.020 --> 00:12:15.060
- I REMEMBER LAYING THE BIBLE OUT ON A STUMP, AND
- 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:19.290
- I SAID LORD, THIS IS YOUR WORD.
- 00:12:20.010 --> 00:12:22.250
- I'M GOING TO ACCEPT IT BY FAITH LIKE I ACCEPTED THE
- 00:12:22.270 --> 00:12:27.160
- LORD JESUS CHRIST BY FAITH, AND HE SAVED ME
- 00:12:27.180 --> 00:12:30.200
- AND CHANGED ME AND TRANSFORMED ME.
- 00:12:30.220 --> 00:12:32.150
- I'M ACCEPTING THIS AS YOUR WORD BY FAITH.
- 00:12:32.170 --> 00:12:35.070
- [MUSIC]
- 00:12:35.090 --> 00:12:41.200
- - IT WAS A DECISION THAT BILLY WOULD LATER SAY
- 00:12:41.220 --> 00:12:43.220
- GAVE HIM A LASTING UNASSAILABLE STRENGTH.
- 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:47.230
- - I REMEMBER I USED TO PREPARE MY SERMONS BY
- 00:12:47.250 --> 00:12:49.110
- GETTING A LITTLE OUTLINE AND THEN TEARING UP A
- 00:12:49.130 --> 00:12:51.110
- BIBLE AND PASTING THEM UNDER THOSE DIFFERENT
- 00:12:51.130 --> 00:12:54.190
- POINTS, AND I JUST KEPT QUOTING THE SCRIPTURES
- 00:12:54.210 --> 00:12:56.290
- AND SAYING, THE BIBLE SAYS.
- 00:12:57.010 --> 00:12:58.160
- AND IT HAD ITS OWN BUILT-IN POWER.
- 00:12:58.180 --> 00:13:01.010
- AND GOD HONORED IT.
- 00:13:01.030 --> 00:13:02.050
- THE BIBLE SAYS, I AM THE LORD.
- 00:13:02.070 --> 00:13:04.090
- I CHANGE NOT.
- 00:13:04.110 --> 00:13:06.050
- [MUSIC]
- 00:13:06.070 --> 00:13:12.090
- IT WAS 1949 JUST WEEKS AFTER BILLY'S DOUBTS
- 00:13:12.110 --> 00:13:15.120
- ABOUT SCRIPTURE WERE PUT TO REST.
- 00:13:15.140 --> 00:13:18.080
- EVIDENCE OF HIS NEW CONFIDENCE PRESENTED
- 00:13:18.100 --> 00:13:20.130
- ITSELF IN LOS ANGELES UNDER THE BIG TOPS OF TWO
- 00:13:20.150 --> 00:13:23.110
- RINGLING BROTHER CIRCUS TENTS.
- 00:13:23.130 --> 00:13:25.270
- - WHEN WE STARTED IN THOSE MEETINGS IN THE
- 00:13:25.290 --> 00:13:27.260
- TENT AT WASHINGTON AND HILL STREET, I HAD THIS
- 00:13:27.280 --> 00:13:30.040
- TREMENDOUS EXPERIENCE IN WHICH I'D EXPERIENCED THE
- 00:13:30.060 --> 00:13:31.260
- AUTHORITIES OF THE SCRIPTURES.
- 00:13:31.280 --> 00:13:35.030
- AND I WENT THERE AND QUOTED THE SCRIPTURES.
- 00:13:35.050 --> 00:13:37.080
- I BELIEVE THIS SINCERELY FROM THE DEPTHS OF
- 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:39.250
- MY HEART.
- 00:13:39.270 --> 00:13:41.080
- THE MEETINGS BEGAN TO GATHER A LITTLE MOMENTUM
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- DURING THOSE FIRST THREE WEEKS.
- 00:13:43.250 --> 00:13:46.040
- - THEN ONE NIGHT IN WHAT IS ONE OF THE PIVOTAL
- 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:49.030
- EVENTS IN BILLY GRAHAM'S CAREER, HE SHOWED UP AT
- 00:13:49.050 --> 00:13:52.160
- THE TENT AND THE PLACE WAS OVERFLOWING WITH
- 00:13:52.180 --> 00:13:54.220
- NEWSPAPER REPORTERS.
- 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.170
- - I SAID, WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
- 00:13:57.190 --> 00:13:58.210
- WHY ARE YOU ALL HERE?
- 00:13:58.230 --> 00:14:00.020
- AND ONE OF THEM SAID, YOU'VE JUST BEEN KISSED
- 00:14:00.040 --> 00:14:01.100
- BY WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
- 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:02.280
- - AND HE SHOWED HIM A PIECE OF PAPER THAT
- 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.150
- LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN TORN OFF OF A WIRE
- 00:14:04.170 --> 00:14:05.290
- SERVICE MACHINE, AND THERE WERE 2 FAMOUS WORDS
- 00:14:06.010 --> 00:14:08.080
- ON IT, PUFF GRAHAM.
- 00:14:08.100 --> 00:14:13.220
- - YOU KNOW, I NEVER MET MR. HEARST.
- 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.090
- I NEVER HAD ANY CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIM
- 00:14:15.110 --> 00:14:16.180
- IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
- 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.270
- WHATEVER THE REASON, IT CERTAINLY STARTED A CHAIN
- 00:14:17.290 --> 00:14:20.070
- OF EVENTS THAT I NEVER DREAMED.
- 00:14:20.090 --> 00:14:23.000
- - AND THAT FOLLOWED BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED
- 00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:25.280
- PRESS, INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.
- 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.240
- SOON AFTERWARDS STORIES IN TIME, LIFE, NEWSWEEK,
- 00:14:27.260 --> 00:14:30.280
- AND BILLY GRAHAM BECAME NATIONALLY KNOWN.
- 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.270
- AFTER THAT THE TENT WAS EXPANDED.
- 00:14:34.290 --> 00:14:37.000
- PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE, AND REVIVAL WENT ON
- 00:14:37.020 --> 00:14:39.250
- ANOTHER FOUR WEEKS.
- 00:14:39.270 --> 00:14:42.050
- - ONE NIGHT A RELUCTANT SPECTATOR LOUIS ZAMPERINI
- 00:14:42.070 --> 00:14:46.040
- JOINED THE CROWD.
- 00:14:46.060 --> 00:14:48.210
- HE HAD GAINED FAME AS A TRACK STAR, BUT DURING
- 00:14:48.230 --> 00:14:51.020
- WORLD WAR II HE WAS CAPTURED AND
- 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:52.280
- MERCILESSLY TORTURED.
- 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.000
- THOUGH HE RETURNED HOME A HERO, HE WAS FILLED WITH
- 00:14:55.020 --> 00:14:57.240
- BITTER RAGE AND HAD TURNED TO ALCOHOL TO
- 00:14:57.260 --> 00:15:00.210
- DROWN HIS PAIN.
- 00:15:00.230 --> 00:15:02.240
- - LOUIS ZAMPERINI: BILLY GRAHAM JUST HAPPENED TO
- 00:15:02.260 --> 00:15:04.270
- QUOTE THE RIGHT SCRIPTURES AND HE SAID
- 00:15:04.290 --> 00:15:06.040
- THE RIGHT THINGS.
- 00:15:06.060 --> 00:15:07.090
- IT REALLY STABBED ME IN THE HEART.
- 00:15:07.110 --> 00:15:09.070
- I REALIZED WHAT I HAD TO DO.
- 00:15:09.090 --> 00:15:12.260
- - AND THE QUESTION IN THAT DAY WILL BE, WHAT
- 00:15:12.280 --> 00:15:14.200
- DID YOU DO WITH JESUS?
- 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:16.150
- HAVE YOU TRUSTED CHRIST JESUS AS SAVIOR?
- 00:15:16.170 --> 00:15:19.180
- - IT ALL HIT ME AT ONE TIME.
- 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.150
- I GOT BACK AFTER ACCEPTING CHRIST, AND MY
- 00:15:21.170 --> 00:15:25.000
- LIFE WAS COMPLETELY CHANGED AND IT'S BEEN
- 00:15:25.020 --> 00:15:27.220
- CHANGED EVER SINCE.
- 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.200
- [MUSIC]
- 00:15:29.220 --> 00:15:34.230
- - AFTER THE STUNNING SUCCESS OF WHAT BECAME AN
- 00:15:34.250 --> 00:15:36.210
- 8 WEEK LONG REVIVAL, NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE
- 00:15:36.230 --> 00:15:39.070
- SAME FOR BILLY GRAHAM.
- 00:15:39.090 --> 00:15:41.220
- BUT HE WASN'T ALONE ON THIS REMARKABLE JOURNEY.
- 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:46.040
- - THERE WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN A BILLY GRAHAM
- 00:15:46.060 --> 00:15:49.040
- WITHOUT A RUTH GRAHAM.
- 00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:50.040
- [MUSIC]
- 00:15:50.060 --> 00:15:53.180
- - IN 1940, BILLY HAD MET RUTH BELL WHILE
- 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.000
- CONTINUING HIS STUDIES AT WHEATON COLLEGE
- 00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:59.060
- NEAR CHICAGO.
- 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.010
- THE DAUGHTER OF MISSIONARIES WAS KNOWN
- 00:16:01.030 --> 00:16:02.280
- FOR HER DEEP SPIRITUALITY AND MISCHIEVOUS FUN.
- 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.200
- - WHEN I CAME OUT AND SAW HER STANDING THERE,
- 00:16:06.220 --> 00:16:09.120
- HE SAID THAT IS RUTH BELL.
- 00:16:09.140 --> 00:16:11.070
- AT THAT MOMENT I WAS IN LOVE, AND NOT ONLY IN
- 00:16:11.090 --> 00:16:14.080
- LOVE, SOMETHING TOLD ME INSIDE SHE'LL BE YOUR WIFE.
- 00:16:14.100 --> 00:16:17.050
- AND IT TOOK HER NEARLY A YEAR TO COME TO THAT
- 00:16:17.070 --> 00:16:19.080
- SAME CONCLUSION.
- 00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:20.180
- [MUSIC]
- 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.120
- I WAS FRIGHTENED TO DEATH TO EVER ASK HER FOR A
- 00:16:23.140 --> 00:16:24.260
- DATE, BUT I FINALLY WORKED UP ENOUGH COURAGE
- 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:27.140
- TO ASK HER TO GO AT CHRISTMAS TIME TO
- 00:16:27.160 --> 00:16:29.100
- THE MESSIAH.
- 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.010
- SO I TOOK HER TO THE MESSIAH, AND SHE WAS
- 00:16:31.030 --> 00:16:34.020
- EVERYTHING THAT I HAD HEARD ABOUT HER.
- 00:16:34.040 --> 00:16:36.210
- - I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS PRAYING THAT NIGHT, AND
- 00:16:36.230 --> 00:16:41.240
- MIND YOU I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE MAN.
- 00:16:41.260 --> 00:16:43.280
- I'D JUST BEEN WITH HIM FOR THAT ONE DATE.
- 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.210
- BUT I JUST PRAYED AND I SAID, LORD, IF YOU WILL
- 00:16:47.230 --> 00:16:50.200
- LET ME SHARE HIS LIFE, I WILL CONSIDER IT THE
- 00:16:50.220 --> 00:16:52.210
- GREATEST HONOR POSSIBLE.
- 00:16:52.230 --> 00:16:55.060
- AND FORTUNATELY I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT LAY AHEAD.
- 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.120
- I WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE NERVE TO PRAY A PRAYER
- 00:16:59.140 --> 00:17:01.000
- LIKE THAT.
- 00:17:01.020 --> 00:17:03.180
- - ON A WARM AUGUST NIGHT IN 1943, BILLY AND RUTH
- 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.110
- WERE MARRIED IN THE QUAINT MOUNTAIN TOWN OF
- 00:17:07.130 --> 00:17:09.060
- MONTREAT, NORTH CAROLINA.
- 00:17:09.080 --> 00:17:12.160
- - THEY WERE CALLED TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
- 00:17:12.180 --> 00:17:16.150
- MOTHER WAS THE TETHER TO DAD'S BALLOON.
- 00:17:16.170 --> 00:17:23.180
- - SOON AFTER THEIR WEDDING, RUTH BEGAN TO
- 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:25.190
- EXPERIENCE THE FIRST OF MANY SEPARATIONS AS
- 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:28.030
- BILLY'S DEMANDING PREACHING SCHEDULE INCREASED.
- 00:17:28.050 --> 00:17:32.060
- - CAN YOU IMAGINE SAYING GOODBYE TO MY FATHER
- 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:34.080
- KNOWING HE'S GOING TO BE GONE NOT JUST FOR A WEEK
- 00:17:34.100 --> 00:17:38.110
- BUT FOR TWO MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS, SIX MONTHS,
- 00:17:38.130 --> 00:17:41.160
- I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DID IT.
- 00:17:41.180 --> 00:17:44.240
- - BILLY GRAHAM: A LOT OF TIMES I WOULD GO DOWN
- 00:17:44.260 --> 00:17:46.210
- THIS DRIVEWAY HERE WITH TEARS IN MY EYES.
- 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:49.130
- I DIDN'T WANT TO GO BECAUSE I KNEW IT WOULD
- 00:17:49.150 --> 00:17:51.000
- BE SEVERAL WEEKS OR MONTHS BEFORE I'D SEE HER.
- 00:17:51.020 --> 00:17:55.260
- - THERE WERE TIMES WHEN SHE WOULD GO AND TAKE A
- 00:17:56.150 --> 00:17:58.060
- JACKET OUT OF HIS CLOSET AND SLEEP WITH IT SO SHE
- 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:00.220
- COULD SMELL THE SMELL, AND FOR A YOUNG WOMAN,
- 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.020
- THAT'S TOUGH.
- 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:06.190
- - FOR ME IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO
- 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.160
- HAVE HIM GONE SO MUCH OF THE TIME FOR ANY OTHER
- 00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:11.170
- REASON THAN THAT OF SHARING JESUS CHRIST WITH PEOPLE.
- 00:18:11.190 --> 00:18:15.150
- - HER COMMITMENT ENABLED BILLY TO REMAIN FAITHFUL
- 00:18:16.040 --> 00:18:18.290
- TO GOD'S CALL AS OPPORTUNITIES TO REACH
- 00:18:19.010 --> 00:18:21.170
- PEOPLE WITH THE GOSPEL GREW BEYOND ANYTHING THEY
- 00:18:21.190 --> 00:18:24.130
- COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.
- 00:18:24.150 --> 00:18:26.200
- - BILLY GRAHAM: THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION
- 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.100
- POINTS TO CHRIST.
- 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:30.240
- AND THE BIBLE SAYS YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SINS FORGIVEN.
- 00:18:30.260 --> 00:18:33.180
- WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE SINNERS!
- 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.230
- WE CANNOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS!
- 00:18:35.250 --> 00:18:38.040
- AND I PLEAD TODAY THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
- 00:18:38.060 --> 00:18:40.230
- HUNGRY TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD.
- 00:18:40.250 --> 00:18:44.130
- - THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUNGER FOR FAITH IN
- 00:18:44.150 --> 00:18:48.060
- THIS COUNTRY AND FOR ANSWERS.
- 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:50.080
- HE REALLY BROUGHT THAT BASIC YEARNING AND
- 00:18:50.100 --> 00:18:53.280
- LONGING IN PEOPLE TO THE FOREFRONT.
- 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.150
- - THAT SAME HUNGER FOR FAITH IN OTHER COUNTRIES
- 00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:00.270
- LED TO INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONS THAT WOULD
- 00:19:00.290 --> 00:19:03.080
- TAKE BILLY GRAHAM AND HIS YOUNG TEAM AROUND THE GLOBE.
- 00:19:03.100 --> 00:19:07.080
- LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THEIR EXTRAORDINARY
- 00:19:07.100 --> 00:19:09.100
- JOURNEY WOULD LAST ALMOST SIX DECADES.
- 00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:12.260
- - BILLY GRAHAM: SOMETIMES I GET SO SICK OF SEEING THE NAME
- 00:19:17.070 --> 00:19:19.080
- BILLY GRAHAM AS THOUGH I'M THE WHOLE THING, AND
- 00:19:19.100 --> 00:19:22.240
- I KNOW THAT IT'S A WORK OF MANY PEOPLE BEING USED
- 00:19:22.260 --> 00:19:25.170
- OF THE LORD AND OFFERING THEIR SPECIAL GIFTS TO US.
- 00:19:25.190 --> 00:19:29.280
- - EVERYBODY THINKS A CRUSADE'S A PRETTY SIMPLE
- 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.060
- THING, AND IT'S A HUGE ENDEAVOR.
- 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:35.090
- OBVIOUSLY, BILLY CAN'T DO ALL THAT GROUNDWORK.
- 00:19:35.110 --> 00:19:39.070
- - MY GRANDFATHER WAS VERY BLESSED TO HAVE
- 00:19:39.090 --> 00:19:41.120
- PEOPLE AROUND HIM THAT SHARED THE SAME PASSION
- 00:19:41.140 --> 00:19:44.230
- TO PROCLAIM THE GREATEST MESSAGE EVER.
- 00:19:44.250 --> 00:19:49.020
- - IT WAS BILL'S LOVE FOR EVANGELISM AND HIS CALL
- 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:53.160
- TO THE MINISTRY THAT MOTIVATED ALL OF US AS A
- 00:19:53.180 --> 00:19:56.020
- TEAM, AND HE NEVER TOOK US FOR GRANTED.
- 00:19:56.040 --> 00:20:00.000
- - HE HAD A BURDEN AND A CALL ON HIS LIFE TO TAKE
- 00:20:01.040 --> 00:20:04.040
- THE GOSPEL MESSAGE TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS
- 00:20:04.060 --> 00:20:05.180
- HE POSSIBLY COULD.
- 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.020
- HE PREACHED TO MORE PEOPLE FACE-TO-FACE THAN
- 00:20:08.040 --> 00:20:12.040
- ANY OTHER PERSON IN HISTORY.
- 00:20:12.060 --> 00:20:14.060
- - BILLY GRAHAM: YOU NEVER HEAR JESUS SAYING "I THINK" OR
- 00:20:14.080 --> 00:20:16.200
- "PERHAPS THIS IS THE WAY".
- 00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:18.040
- HE ALWAYS SAID THIS IS THE WAY,
- 00:20:18.060 --> 00:20:22.060
- THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
- 00:20:22.080 --> 00:20:24.270
- - BILL SAID I WILL GO ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME
- 00:20:24.290 --> 00:20:28.270
- AT ANY COST TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.
- 00:20:28.290 --> 00:20:32.140
- GOD TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD,
- 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:33.280
- AND BILL TOOK GOD AT HIS WORD.
- 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.260
- - NOT ONLY WAS BILLY GRAHAM WILLING TO GO
- 00:20:38.170 --> 00:20:40.130
- ANYWHERE, HE WAS ALSO WILLING TO USE EVERY
- 00:20:40.150 --> 00:20:43.110
- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS TOOL AVAILABLE.
- 00:20:43.130 --> 00:20:45.290
- - NO MATTER WHAT YOUR RACE, WHATEVER THE COLOR
- 00:20:46.010 --> 00:20:48.080
- THE SKIN, GOD LOVES YOU.
- 00:20:48.100 --> 00:20:51.040
- - ON JUNE 1, 1957 WHEN VIEWERS TUNED IN TO ABC,
- 00:20:51.060 --> 00:20:55.070
- THEY SAW SOMETHING ON THEIR SMALL TELEVISION
- 00:20:55.090 --> 00:20:56.270
- SCREENS THEY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE...
- 00:20:56.290 --> 00:20:59.010
- THE FIRST LIVE TELECAST OF A BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE.
- 00:20:59.030 --> 00:21:02.220
- - JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS OF HIS OWN VOLITION!
- 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:07.060
- - HE KNEW HOW VALUABLE MEDIA WAS.
- 00:21:07.080 --> 00:21:09.100
- HE KNEW HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO GET HIS
- 00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:10.200
- CRUSADES ON TELEVISION.
- 00:21:10.220 --> 00:21:12.190
- THEN MILLIONS AND MILLIONS EXPONENTIALLY
- 00:21:12.210 --> 00:21:14.150
- PEOPLE WOULD SEE IT.
- 00:21:14.170 --> 00:21:16.200
- - DR. GRAHAM HAD ALL THE QUALITIES: HANDSOME AS A
- 00:21:16.220 --> 00:21:19.070
- MOVIE STAR, HE SPOKE IN A LANGUAGE EVERYBODY COULD
- 00:21:19.090 --> 00:21:22.160
- UNDERSTAND. TELEVISION WAS THE PERFECT MEDIUM FOR HIM.
- 00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:25.200
- - I'M ASKING YOU TONIGHT TO MAKE A CLEAR CUT.
- 00:21:25.220 --> 00:21:27.240
- - HE HAD A SPARK IN HIS EYES THAT WAS VISIBLE.
- 00:21:27.260 --> 00:21:30.170
- YOU KIND OF COULDN'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF HIM.
- 00:21:30.190 --> 00:21:32.080
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:21:32.100 --> 00:21:35.110
- - ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T ALWAYS BEHIND THE PODIUM,
- 00:21:35.130 --> 00:21:37.210
- HE WAS FAITHFUL TO THE MESSAGE.
- 00:21:37.230 --> 00:21:40.070
- - ARE YOU CRITICIZED FOR COMING ON THIS SHOW
- 00:21:40.090 --> 00:21:41.280
- BY THE MORE DEVOUT-- SAY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
- 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.080
- - THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE THAT CRITICIZE ME,
- 00:21:45.100 --> 00:21:46.200
- BUT I ALWAYS TELL THEM THAT CHRIST WENT AMONG
- 00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:49.180
- THE PUBLICANS AND SINNERS,
- 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.030
- AND I CAN COME WITH JACK PAAR.
- 00:21:51.050 --> 00:21:52.130
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:21:52.150 --> 00:21:54.270
- - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CAN BE BROKEN IN YOUR
- 00:21:54.290 --> 00:21:56.220
- HEART BY THOUGHT AND INTENT, AND THAT'S THE
- 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.060
- REASON THE BIBLE SAYS THAT EVERYBODY'S A SINNER.
- 00:21:59.080 --> 00:22:01.150
- EVEN ED IS A SINNER.
- 00:22:01.170 --> 00:22:03.010
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:22:03.030 --> 00:22:04.260
- - IT COMES AS QUITE A SURPRISE.
- 00:22:04.280 --> 00:22:06.270
- - JESUS SAID IF YOU LOOK ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER
- 00:22:06.290 --> 00:22:09.170
- HER IN YOUR HEART, YOU'VE ALREADY COMMITTED ADULTERY.
- 00:22:09.190 --> 00:22:11.260
- - I REALLY HAVE TROUBLE WITH THAT ONE.
- 00:22:11.280 --> 00:22:14.190
- - I'LL TELL YOU WHY.
- 00:22:14.210 --> 00:22:16.020
- THE BIBLE SAYS ALL HAVE SINNED, AND THAT'S THE
- 00:22:16.040 --> 00:22:18.220
- REASON WHY WE NEED THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD,
- 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.160
- AND THAT'S WHY CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS.
- 00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:23.090
- - OKAY, I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR YOU--
- 00:22:23.110 --> 00:22:24.290
- - PHIL, YOU KNOW YOU REALLY BLUSHED.
- 00:22:25.010 --> 00:22:28.010
- - DADDY WOULD ACCEPT TO GO ON THESE SECULAR
- 00:22:28.030 --> 00:22:31.050
- PROGRAMS BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE THIS WAS JUST ONE
- 00:22:31.070 --> 00:22:33.100
- MORE WAY THAT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
- 00:22:33.120 --> 00:22:35.070
- COULD BE PREACHED.
- 00:22:35.090 --> 00:22:37.150
- - AND WHETHER HE WAS ON LARRY KING LIVE OR MEET
- 00:22:37.170 --> 00:22:39.060
- THE PRESS OR ANY SHOW HE DID THAT WAS
- 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:41.060
- NON-RELIGIOUS IN ANY WAY, HE NEVER GOT OFF MESSAGE.
- 00:22:41.080 --> 00:22:46.270
- - WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?
- 00:22:46.290 --> 00:22:48.070
- - HE SAID GO INTO THE WHOLE WORLD AND PROCLAIM
- 00:22:48.090 --> 00:22:50.090
- THIS MESSAGE THAT GOD LOVES PEOPLE, THAT HE'S
- 00:22:50.110 --> 00:22:53.150
- INTERESTED IN PEOPLE, HE WANTS TO HELP THEM IN
- 00:22:53.170 --> 00:22:55.240
- THEIR PRESENT SITUATION,
- 00:22:55.260 --> 00:22:57.150
- AND HE WANTS TO SAVE THEIR SOULS.
- 00:22:57.170 --> 00:23:00.070
- - COMING UP, WHEN THE NATION WAS AT A
- 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:03.040
- BREAKING POINT, HOW WOULD BILLY GRAHAM REACT?
- 00:23:03.060 --> 00:23:06.150
- - BILL CLINTON: THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL TRIED TO
- 00:23:06.170 --> 00:23:08.230
- PRESSURE BILLY GRAHAM TO PREACH TO A SEGREGATED AUDIENCE.
- 00:23:08.250 --> 00:23:12.100
- - BILLY GRAHAM: SOME PEOPLE ARE PREDICTING THE
- 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:13.250
- POSSIBILITY OF A RACE WAR.
- 00:23:13.270 --> 00:23:15.150
- - AND LATER, GOD'S CALL TO THE COMMUNIST EASTERN
- 00:23:15.170 --> 00:23:18.030
- BLOCK THREATENS THE FUTURE OF BILLY'S MINISTRY.
- 00:23:18.050 --> 00:23:20.290
- - THE SOVIETS HAVE CERTAINLY MADE SOME
- 00:23:21.010 --> 00:23:22.020
- PROPAGANDA OUT OF YOUR VISIT.
- 00:23:22.040 --> 00:23:23.100
- - DO YOU STAND BY WHAT YOU SAID?
- 00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:24.290
- - I REMEMBER HIM SAYING THIS MAY BE
- 00:23:25.010 --> 00:23:27.070
- THE END OF MY MINISTRY.
- 00:23:27.090 --> 00:23:29.180
- - BILLY GRAHAM: I'VE BEEN ASKED SO MANY TIMES LATELY
- 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:38.090
- DO I FEAR DEATH.
- 00:23:38.110 --> 00:23:42.020
- NO. I LOOK FORWARD TO DEATH
- 00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:43.240
- WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION.
- 00:23:43.260 --> 00:23:46.200
- - BILLY GRAHAM: AS I LOOK BACK OVER MY LIFE,
- 00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:53.230
- IT'S FULL OF SURPRISES.
- 00:23:53.250 --> 00:23:55.170
- - AND HERE HE IS... BILLY GRAHAM!
- 00:23:55.190 --> 00:23:56.260
- BILLY GRAHAM!
- 00:23:56.280 --> 00:23:57.290
- BILLY GRAHAM. [APPLAUSE]
- 00:23:58.010 --> 00:23:59.230
- - BILLY GRAHAM: I NEVER THOUGH I WOULD BECOME FRIENDS WITH
- 00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:02.000
- PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
- 00:24:02.020 --> 00:24:05.260
- - AS A CHILD, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
- 00:24:06.290 --> 00:24:08.120
- ALL THE DIFFICULTIES.
- 00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:09.280
- - BILLY GRAHAM: A LOT OF TIMES I WOULD GO DOWN THIS
- 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.030
- DRIVEWAY HERE WITH TEARS IN MY EYES.
- 00:24:12.050 --> 00:24:13.240
- I DIDN'T WANT TO GO.
- 00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:15.230
- - HE WAS A GIANT.
- 00:24:16.150 --> 00:24:17.140
- - HE WAS UNPARALLELED.
- 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:18.240
- - FOR GOD SO LOVED!
- 00:24:18.260 --> 00:24:20.120
- - IT WAS SO POWERFUL FOR ME.
- 00:24:20.140 --> 00:24:22.060
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:24:22.080 --> 00:24:23.230
- - THE PREACHER WHO HELPED CHANGE THE WORLD
- 00:24:23.250 --> 00:24:25.140
- IS A SPIRITUAL GIFT TO ALL OF US.
- 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:29.000
- - BILLY GRAHAM: SOME PEOPLE ARE PREDICTING THE
- 00:24:36.260 --> 00:24:38.160
- POSSIBILITY OF A RACE WAR.
- 00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:40.200
- IT'S NOT A PROBLEM IN ALABAMA ALONE.
- 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:44.040
- IT'S A WORLD PROBLEM!
- 00:24:44.060 --> 00:24:45.210
- WHEREVER YOU HAVE TWO RACES LIVING.
- 00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:47.260
- IS THERE AN ANSWER?
- 00:24:47.280 --> 00:24:51.120
- YES, THERE IS AN ANSWER!
- 00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:53.290
- THE ANSWER IS IN THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST,
- 00:24:54.010 --> 00:24:56.240
- AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SPIRITUAL
- 00:24:56.260 --> 00:24:59.010
- BROTHERHOOD IN CHRIST ALONE.
- 00:24:59.030 --> 00:25:03.010
- - I HAVE SOME VERY SAD NEWS FOR ALL OF YOU.
- 00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:10.190
- MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS SHOT AND WAS KILLED TONIGHT.
- 00:25:10.210 --> 00:25:13.120
- [CROWD SCREAMING]
- 00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:16.140
- - GRAHAM, I BELIEVE, YOU'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED
- 00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:18.270
- OF THE TRAGEDY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR.
- 00:25:18.290 --> 00:25:21.270
- - YES, AND I WAS JUST INFORMED ABOUT FIVE
- 00:25:21.290 --> 00:25:25.040
- MINUTES AGO, AND IT COMES AS ONE OF THE GREATEST
- 00:25:25.060 --> 00:25:28.080
- SHOCKS OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.
- 00:25:28.100 --> 00:25:31.130
- THERE IS NO EXCUSE EVER FOR HATRED.
- 00:25:31.150 --> 00:25:34.000
- THERE IS NO EXCUSE EVER FOR BIGOTRY AND INTOLERANCE.
- 00:25:34.020 --> 00:25:37.270
- WE ARE TO LOVE AS GOD LOVES US!
- 00:25:37.290 --> 00:25:42.010
- [MUSIC]
- 00:25:42.030 --> 00:25:45.020
- - I THINK BOTH DR. GRAHAM AND MY FATHER
- 00:25:45.040 --> 00:25:48.080
- WERE TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
- 00:25:48.100 --> 00:25:53.060
- - BILLY AND MARTIN WERE FRIENDS, AND A LOT OF
- 00:25:53.080 --> 00:25:55.200
- WHITES DAMNED BILLY FOR THAT.
- 00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:58.270
- - BILLY GRAHAM; WE DEMANDED INTEGRATION ALMOST FROM
- 00:25:59.120 --> 00:26:01.120
- THE BEGINNING OF OUR MEETINGS IN THE SOUTH.
- 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:03.260
- NOW TODAY IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE
- 00:26:03.280 --> 00:26:06.110
- PRESENT GENERATION TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THINGS
- 00:26:06.130 --> 00:26:08.260
- WERE IN THOSE DAYS AND WHAT IT TOOK TO BE THAT WAY.
- 00:26:08.280 --> 00:26:12.030
- HOW MANY THREATENING LETTERS WE GOT, AND HOW
- 00:26:12.050 --> 00:26:14.240
- MANY THREATS AGAINST MY FAMILY, AS A RESULT OF
- 00:26:14.260 --> 00:26:16.290
- THE STAND THAT WE TOOK AT THAT TIME.
- 00:26:17.010 --> 00:26:20.010
- - BILLY'S FIRST PUBLIC ACTS AGAINST RACIAL
- 00:26:20.250 --> 00:26:22.280
- SEGREGATION TOOK PLACE AT HIS CRUSADES IN THE SOUTH
- 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:25.250
- DURING THE EARLY 1950'S.
- 00:26:25.270 --> 00:26:28.170
- AT THE TIME, IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE FOR ROPES
- 00:26:28.190 --> 00:26:30.100
- TO SEPARATE THE WHITE FROM THE BLACK SECTIONS.
- 00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:34.110
- - HE WALKED IN TO THE CRUSADE AND THEY HAD
- 00:26:34.130 --> 00:26:37.020
- ROPES UP. BILLY SAW THEM.
- 00:26:37.040 --> 00:26:39.220
- - BILLY GRAHAM: BLACKS WERE SUPPOSED TO SIT IN BACK OF
- 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:41.080
- THAT, AND THE WHITES WOULD SIT IN FRONT.
- 00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:44.190
- I WAS APPALLED AT IT AND DECIDED THAT I HAD TO
- 00:26:44.210 --> 00:26:48.150
- SPEAK OUT ON IT AND I HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
- 00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:50.280
- I SAID NO MORE OF THIS.
- 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.250
- AND I WENT TO THE HEAD USHER AND ASKED HIM IF HE
- 00:26:53.270 --> 00:26:56.180
- WOULD REMOVE THE ROPES, AND HE SAID NO, HE WOULDN'T.
- 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.260
- - BILLY GOT UP FROM THE PLATFORM AND HE WALKED
- 00:27:00.280 --> 00:27:02.260
- DOWN PAST THE USHERS AND TOOK THE ROPES DOWN HIMSELF.
- 00:27:02.280 --> 00:27:07.130
- - BILLY GRAHAM: AND I REMEMBER THE HEAD USHER RESIGNED,
- 00:27:07.150 --> 00:27:11.090
- AND THERE WAS QUITE A LITTLE FLACK ABOUT THAT.
- 00:27:11.110 --> 00:27:14.220
- - IN A 1956 ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN LIFE
- 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.070
- MAGAZINE, HE WROTE IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO URGE
- 00:27:17.090 --> 00:27:20.070
- PEOPLE TO LOVE THEIR NEIGHBOR UNLESS WE LEAD
- 00:27:20.090 --> 00:27:22.150
- THEM ALSO TO THE CAPACITY TO LOVE.
- 00:27:22.170 --> 00:27:24.220
- CHRIST GIVES MAN THIS CAPACITY.
- 00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.080
- - BILLY GRAHAM: WE MUST MEET CHRIST, WE MUST KNOW HIM
- 00:27:27.100 --> 00:27:30.100
- AS OUR LORD AND OUR SAVIOR.
- 00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:34.160
- - HIS APPROACH WAS MORE OF TRYING TO GET PEOPLE
- 00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:37.110
- INTO THE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST THAT THAT
- 00:27:37.130 --> 00:27:39.230
- WOULD TRANSFORM THEIR MINDSET AND THE WAY IN
- 00:27:39.250 --> 00:27:42.210
- WHICH THEY LIVED, SO THEY WOULD SEE PEOPLE
- 00:27:42.230 --> 00:27:45.060
- DIFFERENTLY AND THUS TREAT PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY.
- 00:27:45.080 --> 00:27:48.100
- [MUSIC]
- 00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:55.280
- NEWS ANNOUNCER: IN NEW WORK, MR. BILLY GRAHAM MAKES
- 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.180
- A DRAMATIC DENUNCIATION.
- 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.180
- - THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HUMAN NATURE!
- 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.220
- WHAT IS IT IN THE NATURE OF MEN THAT CAUSES MEN TO
- 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.100
- HAVE INTOLERANCE AND RACIAL INTOLERANCE?
- 00:28:06.120 --> 00:28:09.060
- THE PROBLEM OF THE WORLD TONIGHT IS SIN!
- 00:28:09.080 --> 00:28:12.290
- - FROM EISENHOWER TO KENNEDY, TO JOHNSON AND
- 00:28:16.040 --> 00:28:18.220
- THEN NIXON, BILLY WORKED CLOSELY WITH ALL THESE
- 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.080
- PRESIDENTS ENCOURAGING THEM TO TAKE STEPS TO END
- 00:28:21.100 --> 00:28:23.190
- RACIAL SEGREGATION.
- 00:28:23.210 --> 00:28:26.240
- - BILL CLINTON: ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO, MY SUNDAY
- 00:28:26.260 --> 00:28:28.200
- SCHOOL TEACHER TOOK ME TO LITTLE ROCK TO HEAR
- 00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:31.190
- BILLY GRAHAM'S CRUSADE.
- 00:28:31.210 --> 00:28:36.010
- THE SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED BECAUSE OF LITTLE ROCK
- 00:28:36.030 --> 00:28:37.270
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL CRISIS.
- 00:28:37.290 --> 00:28:40.220
- THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL IN LITTLE ROCK
- 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:42.190
- TRIED TO CONVINCE, EVEN TO PRESSURE BILLY GRAHAM
- 00:28:42.210 --> 00:28:45.060
- AND ALL OF HIS PEOPLE, TO PREACH TO A
- 00:28:45.080 --> 00:28:48.010
- SEGREGATED AUDIENCE.
- 00:28:48.030 --> 00:28:49.150
- AND HE TOLD THEM IF THEY INSISTED ON THAT, HE
- 00:28:49.170 --> 00:28:51.110
- WOULD CANCEL THE CRUSADE AND TELL THE WHOLE WORLD
- 00:28:51.130 --> 00:28:53.290
- WHY. AND WHEN HE ISSUED THE CALL AT THE END OF THE
- 00:28:54.010 --> 00:28:58.250
- MESSAGE, THOUSANDS CAME DOWN HOLDING HANDS,
- 00:28:58.270 --> 00:29:04.010
- ARM IN ARM, CRYING.
- 00:29:04.030 --> 00:29:06.190
- IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE OLD SOUTH
- 00:29:06.210 --> 00:29:09.070
- IN MY HOME STATE.
- 00:29:09.090 --> 00:29:12.050
- - BILLY GRAHAM: BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE!
- 00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:17.070
- BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY
- 00:29:17.090 --> 00:29:18.280
- DISCIPLES IN THAT YE HAVE LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.
- 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.020
- THAT IS A SUPERNATURAL LOVE GIVEN TO YOU BY GOD
- 00:29:22.040 --> 00:29:25.090
- WHEN YOU RECEIVE CHRIST.
- 00:29:25.110 --> 00:29:27.060
- [MUSIC]
- 00:29:27.080 --> 00:29:32.100
- - BILLY'S CONCERN FOR RACIAL EQUALITY EXTENDED
- 00:29:32.120 --> 00:29:34.280
- TO SOUTH AFRICA DURING APARTHEID.
- 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:38.250
- HE REPEATEDLY REFUSED INVITATIONS TO VISIT
- 00:29:38.270 --> 00:29:41.090
- UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ALLOW A
- 00:29:41.110 --> 00:29:43.050
- NON-SEGREGATED MEETING.
- 00:29:43.070 --> 00:29:45.070
- - BILLY GRAHAM: CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A WHITE MAN'S
- 00:29:45.090 --> 00:29:47.050
- RELIGION, AND DON'T LET ANYBODY EVER TELL YOU
- 00:29:47.070 --> 00:29:48.290
- THAT IT'S WHITE OR BLACK!
- 00:29:49.010 --> 00:29:50.210
- CHRIST BELONGS TO ALL PEOPLE!
- 00:29:50.230 --> 00:29:54.030
- HE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE WORLD!
- 00:29:54.050 --> 00:29:58.080
- HIS GOSPEL IS FOR EVERYONE!
- 00:29:58.100 --> 00:30:00.050
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:00.070 --> 00:30:04.090
- - BILLY'S LOVE FOR PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF
- 00:30:04.110 --> 00:30:06.000
- RACE OR NATIONALITY, WOULD SOON BE TESTED.
- 00:30:06.020 --> 00:30:10.040
- A TRIP BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN INCITED A
- 00:30:10.060 --> 00:30:12.100
- FIRESTORM OF CRITICISM.
- 00:30:12.120 --> 00:30:15.010
- - MR. GRAHAM WILL RECEIVE YOUR QUESTIONS
- 00:30:15.030 --> 00:30:16.110
- FROM THE FLOOR. YES, SIR.
- 00:30:16.130 --> 00:30:18.190
- - DO YOU FEEL THAT DURING YOUR TRIP TO THE
- 00:30:18.210 --> 00:30:20.050
- SOVIET UNION YOU WERE IN ANY WAY TAKEN ADVANTAGE
- 00:30:20.070 --> 00:30:22.140
- OF BY THE SOVIET UNION?
- 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:24.270
- - SOVIETS HAVE CERTAINLY MADE PROPAGANDA OUT OF
- 00:30:24.290 --> 00:30:26.260
- YOUR VISIT, HAS IT NOT?
- 00:30:26.280 --> 00:30:28.140
- - I KNEW THAT I MIGHT BE USED FOR PROPAGANDA,
- 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.270
- BUT I FELT THE RISK WAS WORTHWHILE.
- 00:30:30.290 --> 00:30:33.210
- - IN 1982, BILLY GRAHAM VISITED MOSCOW WITH
- 00:30:35.270 --> 00:30:38.210
- INTENSE MEDIA SCRUTINY AND CONTROVERSY.
- 00:30:38.230 --> 00:30:42.210
- BUT MORE THAN 20 YEARS EARLIER, HIS FIRST VISIT
- 00:30:42.230 --> 00:30:47.060
- TO THE COMMUNIST NATION COULD ONLY BE AS A TOURIST.
- 00:30:47.080 --> 00:30:51.090
- THOUGH IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE, HIS PRAYER
- 00:30:55.150 --> 00:30:57.140
- WAS THAT SOMEDAY HE MIGHT PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL
- 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.100
- BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.
- 00:31:00.120 --> 00:31:04.050
- - I BELIEVE THAT'S WHERE IT STARTED FOR
- 00:31:04.070 --> 00:31:06.080
- DR. GRAHAM, A LOVE FOR THAT PART OF THE WORLD, A
- 00:31:06.100 --> 00:31:09.160
- PART OF THE WORLD THAT WAS SUFFERING FROM ALL
- 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:12.010
- THE HARDSHIPS COMMUNISM BROUGHT.
- 00:31:12.030 --> 00:31:15.070
- [MUSIC]
- 00:31:15.090 --> 00:31:17.290
- - IN COUNTRIES LIKE THE SOVIET UNION, THE CHURCH
- 00:31:18.010 --> 00:31:19.290
- VIRTUALLY WAS SHUT DOWN.
- 00:31:20.010 --> 00:31:23.240
- EVERYTHING THAT DID EXIST WAS UNDERGROUND.
- 00:31:24.100 --> 00:31:28.160
- - IN 1977, HE WENT TO HUNGARY.
- 00:31:29.170 --> 00:31:34.090
- THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT SAID MAYBE
- 00:31:34.110 --> 00:31:37.070
- A THOUSAND SHOWED UP.
- 00:31:37.090 --> 00:31:39.210
- THE CIA TOLD ME HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
- 00:31:39.230 --> 00:31:43.110
- CAME FORWARD TO HEAR HIS MESSAGE.
- 00:31:43.130 --> 00:31:47.100
- - HE BEGAN TO PENETRATE THOSE COUNTRIES AND THOSE
- 00:31:47.290 --> 00:31:50.200
- AREAS WITH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, AND PEOPLE CAME
- 00:31:50.220 --> 00:31:53.040
- FROM FAR AND WIDE TO HEAR HIM WHEN THEY KNEW
- 00:31:53.060 --> 00:31:55.170
- THAT HE WAS COMING.
- 00:31:55.190 --> 00:31:57.100
- - BILLY GRAHAM: GOD TOOK YOUR SIN.
- 00:31:57.120 --> 00:31:58.240
- - THERE'S A REAL SENSE IN WHICH THE COUNTRIES
- 00:31:58.260 --> 00:32:01.030
- THAT WE VISITED IN EASTERN EUROPE WERE SEEN
- 00:32:01.050 --> 00:32:04.030
- AS A PRELUDE HOPING THAT DOOR WOULD OPEN FOR AN
- 00:32:04.050 --> 00:32:07.250
- INVITATION TO THE SOVIET UNION.
- 00:32:07.270 --> 00:32:11.250
- 1982 THAT INVITATION CAME, BUT IT WAS NOT
- 00:32:14.040 --> 00:32:18.040
- AN EASY INVITATION.
- 00:32:18.060 --> 00:32:20.240
- - BILLY GRAHAM WAS ASKED TO ADDRESS AN
- 00:32:21.140 --> 00:32:23.040
- INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON
- 00:32:23.060 --> 00:32:25.120
- THE PERILS OF NUCLEAR WAR, BUT IT WAS COMMON
- 00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:28.000
- KNOWLEDGE THAT THESE EVENTS WERE PLANNED FOR
- 00:32:28.020 --> 00:32:30.010
- PROPAGANDA PURPOSES TO BENEFIT THE SOVIET UNION
- 00:32:30.030 --> 00:32:32.290
- AND VILIFY THE UNITED STATES.
- 00:32:33.010 --> 00:32:35.200
- - I'D ALREADY BEEN TO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, BUT
- 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:38.070
- TO GO TO RUSSIA TO ADDRESS A PEACE
- 00:32:38.090 --> 00:32:40.110
- CONFERENCE, WHICH IN THOSE DAYS LOOKED LIKE
- 00:32:40.130 --> 00:32:42.100
- THE BETRAYAL OF ALL THAT WE STOOD FOR IN AMERICA.
- 00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:47.270
- - THE WORLD SEEMED TO BE KIND OF POISED ON THE
- 00:32:50.210 --> 00:32:52.080
- KNIFE EDGE BETWEEN PEACE AND NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION.
- 00:32:52.100 --> 00:32:56.230
- - THE TENSION BETWEEN AMERICA AND THE SOVIET
- 00:32:56.250 --> 00:32:58.260
- BLOCK WAS AS TENSE AS YOU COULD GET WITHOUT
- 00:32:58.280 --> 00:33:03.210
- A BOMB BEING DROPPED.
- 00:33:03.230 --> 00:33:06.240
- - WHEN BILLY ARRIVED IN MOSCOW, SPECULATION AND
- 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.120
- POLITICAL QUESTIONS DOMINATED THE HEADLINES.
- 00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:14.220
- BUT WHEN BILLY STOOD TO SPEAK BEFORE THE AUDIENCE
- 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.180
- OF 600 DELEGATES, HIS PURPOSE FOR BEING THERE
- 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.270
- WAS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.
- 00:33:20.290 --> 00:33:23.010
- - I SPEAK TO YOU TODAY AS A FOLLOWER OF JESUS
- 00:33:23.030 --> 00:33:26.200
- CHRIST, DECLARING THAT EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER
- 00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:29.010
- BEEN, OR AM, OR EVER HOPE TO BE IN THIS LIFE OR THE
- 00:33:29.030 --> 00:33:32.110
- FUTURE LIFE, I OWE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:33:32.130 --> 00:33:36.080
- LET US CALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO REPENTANCE.
- 00:33:36.100 --> 00:33:39.210
- - TO BE HONEST, I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNISTS KNEW
- 00:33:39.230 --> 00:33:41.100
- WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
- 00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:42.220
- - THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS GOD'S
- 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:45.000
- UNIQUE SON SENT INTO THE WORLD TO TAKE AWAY OUR
- 00:33:45.020 --> 00:33:48.010
- SINS BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, THEREFORE MAKING
- 00:33:48.030 --> 00:33:50.260
- IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO BE AT PEACE WITH GOD.
- 00:33:50.280 --> 00:33:55.130
- - WE WERE FLYING BACK FROM THE SOVIET UNION
- 00:33:59.170 --> 00:34:02.030
- AFTER THAT FIRST TRIP, AND I REMEMBER HIM
- 00:34:02.050 --> 00:34:04.230
- SAYING, THIS MAY BE THE END OF MY MINISTRY.
- 00:34:04.250 --> 00:34:09.200
- BUT I BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT THIS WAS WHERE
- 00:34:09.220 --> 00:34:11.240
- GOD WANTED US.
- 00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:14.150
- WE'LL LEAVE THE FUTURE IN GOD'S HANDS.
- 00:34:14.170 --> 00:34:17.070
- - THERE HAS BEEN, IN THIS COUNTRY, SOME
- 00:34:18.220 --> 00:34:20.110
- CRITICISM OF YOU FOR GOING TO THE MOSCOW
- 00:34:20.130 --> 00:34:22.040
- CONFERENCE, TO THE ASSEMBLAGE OF
- 00:34:22.060 --> 00:34:23.220
- RELIGIOUS LEADERS. WHY DID YOU DO IT?
- 00:34:23.240 --> 00:34:26.280
- - HE WAS CRITICIZED SEVERELY, EVEN BY
- 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:28.220
- EVANGELICALS, BUT MY FATHER KNEW THAT GOD HAD
- 00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:31.190
- CALLED HIM TO THIS.
- 00:34:31.210 --> 00:34:34.150
- GOD HAD GIVEN HIM A BURDEN FOR THIS, AND HE
- 00:34:34.170 --> 00:34:35.270
- WAS NOT GOING TO BE DISSUADED.
- 00:34:35.290 --> 00:34:37.110
- - I THINK BILLY SHOWED A LOT OF GUTS TO GO THERE
- 00:34:37.130 --> 00:34:40.250
- AND SPEAK THERE.
- 00:34:40.270 --> 00:34:43.190
- - I LOOKED ON THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS IN NEED OF
- 00:34:43.210 --> 00:34:45.290
- THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD AND THE NEED OF A
- 00:34:46.010 --> 00:34:47.290
- RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST, AND THAT'S HOW I PREACHED
- 00:34:48.010 --> 00:34:50.250
- TO THEM, THAT'S HOW I SPOKE TO THEM, AND THAT'S
- 00:34:50.270 --> 00:34:53.150
- HOW I WITNESSED TO THEM.
- 00:34:53.170 --> 00:34:55.070
- [MUSIC]
- 00:34:55.090 --> 00:35:08.020
- - YOU COULD SEE THAT THERE WAS A REVOLUTION
- 00:35:08.040 --> 00:35:10.030
- THAT WAS GOING TO COME BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE
- 00:35:10.050 --> 00:35:12.180
- WANTING TO BE FREE, FREE TO WORSHIP GOD.
- 00:35:12.200 --> 00:35:16.100
- [CROWDS CHEERING]
- 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:20.190
- - THE STREETS WERE JUST LINED WITH PEOPLE.
- 00:35:20.210 --> 00:35:22.230
- PEOPLE WERE STANDING ON EVERYTHING THEY COULD
- 00:35:22.250 --> 00:35:24.180
- STAND ON, ROOF TOPS, EVERYWHERE, AND MY UNCLE
- 00:35:24.200 --> 00:35:26.230
- SIMPLY HELD UP THE BIBLE, JUST HELD UP THE BIBLE.
- 00:35:26.250 --> 00:35:31.230
- - THEY WOULD HANG FROM THE TREES OR SIT ON TOP
- 00:35:31.250 --> 00:35:34.030
- OF WALLS OR PEER THROUGH WINDOWS JUST TO HEAR.
- 00:35:34.050 --> 00:35:36.290
- - WOULD YOU PUT UP YOUR HAND NOW?
- 00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:38.160
- AND SAY TONIGHT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE THAT COMMITMENT.
- 00:35:38.180 --> 00:35:41.050
- - I REMEMBER STANDING ON THE PLATFORM WITH BOXES
- 00:35:41.070 --> 00:35:44.010
- OF THE MATERIAL THAT WE WOULD GIVE TO NEW
- 00:35:44.030 --> 00:35:46.250
- BELIEVERS AND JUST SIMPLY THROWING IT OUT TO THE
- 00:35:46.270 --> 00:35:50.030
- THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT WERE GATHERED THERE.
- 00:35:50.050 --> 00:35:52.060
- THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY.
- 00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:55.040
- - I WAS INTERPRETING FOR DR. GRAHAM, AND WE WALKED
- 00:35:55.060 --> 00:35:57.280
- INTO THAT STADIUM, AND IT WAS PACKED.
- 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.080
- [MUSIC]
- 00:36:00.100 --> 00:36:03.150
- THAT WILL NEVER ARE FORGOTTEN.
- 00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:05.120
- [MUSIC]
- 00:36:05.140 --> 00:36:08.090
- - THE MORAL AWAKENING THAT BILLY HELPED TO
- 00:36:08.110 --> 00:36:10.220
- IGNITE STARTING HERE IN AMERICA IGNITED HOPE AND
- 00:36:10.240 --> 00:36:13.250
- KEPT ITS EMBERS BURNING IN FAR AWAY PLACES BEHIND
- 00:36:13.270 --> 00:36:17.180
- AN IRON CURTAIN.
- 00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:20.270
- NO QUESTION BILLY GRAHAM, WITH OTHER MESSENGERS WHO
- 00:36:20.290 --> 00:36:24.100
- CARRIED FORTH THE WORD, KEPT THE BALANCE IN THE
- 00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:26.260
- COLD WAR IN FREEDOM'S FAVOR.
- 00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:29.230
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- 00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:36.190
- - MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.
- 00:36:36.210 --> 00:36:40.180
- [CROWDS CHEERING]
- 00:36:40.200 --> 00:36:45.270
- - I DON'T CARE WHAT IDEALOGIES ARISE IN THE
- 00:36:45.290 --> 00:36:47.270
- FUTURE, THE ULTIMATE WINNER IS GOING TO
- 00:36:47.290 --> 00:36:50.020
- BE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- 00:36:50.040 --> 00:36:51.260
- [CROWDS CHEERING]
- 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:59.230
- - COMING UP...
- 00:36:59.250 --> 00:37:01.210
- BILLY GRAHAM'S LIFE IMPACTED THE MEEK
- 00:37:01.230 --> 00:37:03.110
- AND THE POWERFUL.
- 00:37:03.130 --> 00:37:05.070
- - PRESIDENTS REACHED OUT TO HIM BECAUSE THEY
- 00:37:05.090 --> 00:37:06.240
- WANTED WHAT HE HAD.
- 00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:08.160
- - BUT WHEN THE PUBLIC FIGURE FACED HIS FINAL
- 00:37:08.180 --> 00:37:10.140
- YEARS, WHAT WERE HIS PRIVATE THOUGHTS?
- 00:37:10.160 --> 00:37:13.190
- - I'VE BEEN ASKED SO MANY TIMES LATELY
- 00:37:13.210 --> 00:37:15.150
- DO I FEAR DEATH?
- 00:37:15.170 --> 00:37:18.040
- SOME OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND RELATIVES,
- 00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:21.010
- AND ESPECIALLY MY WIFE, ARE ALREADY IN HEAVEN.
- 00:37:21.030 --> 00:37:25.200
- - NEXT ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY.
- 00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:29.000
- - ANNOUNCER: BILLY GRAHAM, AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY,
- 00:37:33.070 --> 00:37:35.250
- IS NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD AND DIGITAL HD.
- 00:37:35.270 --> 00:37:39.000
- - CHRIST BELONGS TO ALL PEOPLE.
- 00:37:39.020 --> 00:37:41.210
- HE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
- 00:37:41.230 --> 00:37:44.050
- - THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM OFFERS A UNIQUE LOOK INTO
- 00:37:44.070 --> 00:37:46.260
- THE LIFE OF BILLY GRAHAM, EVANGELIST TO THE WORLD.
- 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:50.150
- IT CONTAINS EXCLUSIVE, NEVER-BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
- 00:37:50.170 --> 00:37:53.110
- AND INTERVIEWS INCLUDING INTIMATE MOMENTS
- 00:37:53.130 --> 00:37:55.230
- FROM PERSONAL FILM COLLECTIONS.
- 00:37:55.250 --> 00:37:58.060
- THE DVD CONTAINS NEARLY TWO HOURS OF BONUS
- 00:37:58.080 --> 00:38:01.030
- FEATURES INCLUDING REFLECTIONS FROM BILLY
- 00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:03.170
- GRAHAM'S FINAL INTERVIEW.
- 00:38:03.190 --> 00:38:05.240
- - WE'RE TO LIVE A LIFE IN WHICH WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:09.280
- - ALSO INCLUDED, BILLY GRAHAM'S INSPIRING
- 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.120
- FUNERAL SERVICE.
- 00:38:12.140 --> 00:38:14.030
- - I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR
- 00:38:14.050 --> 00:38:16.030
- MY FATHER TO STEP INTO HEAVEN.
- 00:38:16.050 --> 00:38:19.110
- - THIS DVD IS SUBTITLED IN NINE LANGUAGES
- 00:38:19.130 --> 00:38:22.030
- AND MAKES A GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT.
- 00:38:22.050 --> 00:38:24.180
- IT'S ALSO A WONDERFUL WAY TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH
- 00:38:24.200 --> 00:38:26.220
- FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
- 00:38:26.240 --> 00:38:28.110
- - HAVE YOU OPENED YOUR HEART TO JESUS?
- 00:38:28.130 --> 00:38:30.150
- HAVE YOU REPENTED OF YOUR SINS?
- 00:38:30.170 --> 00:38:32.260
- - OWN THESE UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS
- 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:34.180
- FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY. GO TO
- 00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:37.010
- OUR WEB SITE TO GET YOUR COPIES TODAY.
- 00:38:37.030 --> 00:38:40.160
- [CROWDS CHEERING]
- 00:38:46.030 --> 00:38:52.050
- - AS I LOOK BACK OVER MY LIFE, IT'S FULL OF SURPRISES.
- 00:38:52.070 --> 00:38:55.220
- [MUSIC]
- 00:38:55.240 --> 00:39:00.090
- I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BECOME FRIENDS WITH
- 00:39:00.110 --> 00:39:02.150
- PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
- 00:39:02.170 --> 00:39:06.200
- - YOU SAY, BUT BILLY, I DON'T DESERVE SUCH LOVE.
- 00:39:06.220 --> 00:39:08.290
- I'M A SINNER. I'VE BROKEN GOD'S LAW.
- 00:39:09.010 --> 00:39:10.280
- I'VE FAILED HIM A THOUSAND TIMES. I KNOW...
- 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.130
- [MUSIC]
- 00:39:13.150 --> 00:39:16.050
- - I LOOK OUT ACROSS AN AUDIENCE, AND I STAND
- 00:39:16.070 --> 00:39:18.180
- THERE TO PREACH, AND I THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE
- 00:39:18.200 --> 00:39:22.130
- WITH THE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND THEIR
- 00:39:22.150 --> 00:39:25.020
- VARIOUS NEEDS, AND I KNOW THAT THEY ARE OBJECTS OF
- 00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:28.060
- GOD'S MIGHTY LOVE.
- 00:39:28.080 --> 00:39:30.220
- - FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD...
- 00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:34.280
- - THAT HE GAVE HIS SON, HIS ONLY SON,
- 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.040
- TO DIE UPON A CROSS.
- 00:39:39.060 --> 00:39:43.020
- - GOD TOOK YOUR SINS AND YOUR SINS AND YOUR SINS
- 00:39:43.040 --> 00:39:47.240
- AND MY SINS AND LAID THEM ON CHRIST.
- 00:39:47.260 --> 00:39:53.200
- - JESUS IS ALWAYS SHOCKING PEOPLE WITH HOW
- 00:39:53.220 --> 00:39:57.090
- FAR HE WAS WILLING TO GO WITH HIS LOVE, AND I
- 00:39:57.110 --> 00:40:00.170
- THINK THAT'S WHAT BILLY GRAHAM UNDERSTOOD WELL.
- 00:40:00.190 --> 00:40:03.250
- HE LOVED WELL, WHETHER HE AGREED WITH PEOPLE OR NOT.
- 00:40:03.270 --> 00:40:07.230
- - HE WOULD NEVER HESITATE, WHETHER IT WAS
- 00:40:07.250 --> 00:40:12.010
- A SINGLE PERSON OR JUST A SMALL GROUP OR WHETHER IT
- 00:40:12.030 --> 00:40:15.240
- WAS A LARGE GROUP.
- 00:40:15.260 --> 00:40:17.290
- HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO SHARE HIS FAITH IN CHRIST.
- 00:40:18.010 --> 00:40:22.110
- - HE WAS ALSO SIMPLY A GOOD FRIEND AND CONFIDANT
- 00:40:22.130 --> 00:40:26.040
- A TRAIT VALUED BY BOTH THE HELPLESS AND POWERFUL.
- 00:40:26.060 --> 00:40:30.070
- - I THINK PRESIDENTS REACHED OUT TO HIM
- 00:40:30.090 --> 00:40:32.050
- BECAUSE THEY WANTED WHAT HE HAD.
- 00:40:32.070 --> 00:40:35.200
- - I THINK HIS RELATIONSHIP WAS A
- 00:40:35.220 --> 00:40:37.130
- COMFORTER, A ROLE OF ADVISOR.
- 00:40:37.150 --> 00:40:41.170
- - NONE OF US WERE IN ON THOSE ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS
- 00:40:41.190 --> 00:40:44.220
- THAT HE MAY HAVE HAD WITH BILL CLINTON WHEN HE WAS
- 00:40:44.240 --> 00:40:46.290
- IN TROUBLE OR WITH LYNDON JOHNSON WHEN HE DESPAIRED
- 00:40:47.010 --> 00:40:50.070
- OVER THE WAR OR WITH GEORGE BUSH WHEN HE WAS
- 00:40:50.090 --> 00:40:52.210
- ABOUT TO SEND KIDS TO WAR.
- 00:40:52.230 --> 00:40:55.190
- WHILE WE WEREN'T IN ON THOSE SESSIONS, IT'S
- 00:40:55.210 --> 00:40:58.040
- OBVIOUS THAT ALL OF THOSE PRESIDENTS SAID VERY
- 00:40:58.060 --> 00:41:01.040
- OPENLY "I CAN TAKE SUCH COMFORT FROM TALKING
- 00:41:01.060 --> 00:41:04.250
- TO BILLY GRAHAM."
- 00:41:04.270 --> 00:41:07.290
- - WHETHER FOR A PRIVATE MEETING OR
- 00:41:08.010 --> 00:41:10.000
- A NATIONAL CELEBRATION, EVERY U.S.
- 00:41:10.020 --> 00:41:12.060
- PRESIDENT SINCE WORLD WAR TWO HAS FOUND OCCASION
- 00:41:12.080 --> 00:41:15.070
- AND REASON TO CALL ON BILLY GRAHAM.
- 00:41:15.090 --> 00:41:17.270
- - WE RECOGNIZE, ON THIS HISTORIC OCCASION, THAT
- 00:41:17.290 --> 00:41:21.230
- WE ARE A NATION UNDER GOD.
- 00:41:21.250 --> 00:41:24.210
- THIS FAITH IN GOD IS OUR FOUNDATION
- 00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:26.260
- AND OUR HERITAGE.
- 00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:29.290
- - WHEN A PRESIDENT HAS TO COMMIT FORCES,
- 00:41:30.010 --> 00:41:32.230
- SOMEBODY'S SON, SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER,
- 00:41:32.250 --> 00:41:34.150
- INTO BATTLE, IT'S VERY TRAUMATIC.
- 00:41:34.170 --> 00:41:36.210
- YOU CAN'T BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE.
- 00:41:36.230 --> 00:41:38.080
- YOU DON'T FORM A COMMITTEE.
- 00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:39.280
- THE BURDEN IS THE PRESIDENT'S, AND I JUST
- 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.160
- WELCOMED THE COMFORT GIVEN TO ME BY BILLY
- 00:41:42.180 --> 00:41:44.190
- GRAHAM. HE WAS THERE.
- 00:41:44.210 --> 00:41:46.180
- HE WAS AT MY SIDE, AND IT MEANT A LOT TO ME.
- 00:41:46.200 --> 00:41:50.270
- - BILLY GRAHAM, THE MAN, THE PREACHER, THE HUMBLE
- 00:41:50.290 --> 00:41:56.070
- FARMER'S SON WHO HELPED CHANGE THE WORLD, IS A
- 00:41:56.090 --> 00:41:59.130
- SPIRITUAL GIFT TO ALL OF US.
- 00:41:59.150 --> 00:42:01.210
- [MUSIC]
- 00:42:01.230 --> 00:42:13.140
- - DADDY NEVER SET OUT TO HAVE A ROLE AS THE
- 00:42:13.160 --> 00:42:16.020
- CHAPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENTS, BUT I THINK
- 00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:19.010
- THAT HE ACCEPTED THAT ROLE.
- 00:42:19.030 --> 00:42:22.010
- HE WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN THEM AS PEOPLE, NOT
- 00:42:22.030 --> 00:42:25.070
- NECESSARILY AS THE PRESIDENT,
- 00:42:25.090 --> 00:42:27.030
- BUT AS INDIVIDUALS.
- 00:42:27.050 --> 00:42:28.280
- - VERY FEW PEOPLE WILL TELL THE PRESIDENT ABOUT
- 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.250
- SPIRITUAL THINGS AND RELIGIOUS THINGS OR HAVE
- 00:42:31.270 --> 00:42:34.090
- PRAYER WITH HIM, AND I FELT THAT THIS WAS A WAY
- 00:42:34.110 --> 00:42:37.130
- THAT GOD USED ME.
- 00:42:37.150 --> 00:42:40.130
- - JESUS CHRIST WAS THE SON OF GOD.
- 00:42:40.150 --> 00:42:42.210
- - I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT BILLY GRAHAM OTHER
- 00:42:42.230 --> 00:42:46.050
- THAN HE WALKED WITH PRESIDENTS AND KINGS, BUT
- 00:42:46.070 --> 00:42:50.250
- I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT GENUINE BILLY GRAHAM
- 00:42:50.270 --> 00:42:53.250
- IS CHARACTERIZED IN TWO THINGS: HUMILITY AND LOVE
- 00:42:53.270 --> 00:43:00.240
- FOR THE LOST PEOPLE.
- 00:43:00.260 --> 00:43:02.220
- - YOU COME BY SIMPLE CHILD-LIKE FAITH, LIKE A
- 00:43:02.240 --> 00:43:05.020
- LITTLE CHILD WOULD COME TO HIS FATHER.
- 00:43:05.040 --> 00:43:08.270
- - THE MAIN THING WHEN YOU MEET HIM IN-PERSON IS
- 00:43:08.290 --> 00:43:13.170
- THAT HE WILL NOT TAKE THE OXYGEN OUT OF THE ROOM,
- 00:43:13.190 --> 00:43:20.110
- THAT HE SIMPLY LISTENS TO YOU FROM THE VERY MINUTE
- 00:43:20.130 --> 00:43:25.060
- YOU WALK IN.
- 00:43:25.080 --> 00:43:28.210
- - THE PERSON I KNEW WAS A PERSON THAT, WHILE
- 00:43:28.230 --> 00:43:31.220
- FAMOUS, WAS A HUMBLE MAN, WAS EASY TO KNOW.
- 00:43:31.240 --> 00:43:35.260
- HE WAS THE KIND OF PERSON THAT COULD READ YOU
- 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.170
- PRETTY WELL AND WAS ABLE TO ABSORB YOUR ANXIETIES.
- 00:43:38.190 --> 00:43:41.230
- [MUSIC]
- 00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:46.080
- - HE WOULD BE VISITING THE BATTLEFIELDS AND
- 00:43:46.100 --> 00:43:48.260
- OFTENTIMES THE HOSPITALS, AND I REMEMBER ONE TIME,
- 00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:53.090
- THERE WAS A SOLDIER THEY'D BROUGHT IN.
- 00:43:53.110 --> 00:43:55.170
- HE WAS IN A STRIKER FRAME.
- 00:43:55.190 --> 00:43:57.180
- HE'D BEEN SEVERELY INJURED ON THE
- 00:43:57.200 --> 00:43:59.180
- BATTLEFIELD, AND THE ONLY WAY BILL COULD SEE HIM
- 00:43:59.200 --> 00:44:03.140
- WAS TO GET DOWN ON HIS BACK AND SLIDE UNDER THAT
- 00:44:03.160 --> 00:44:06.000
- HOSPITAL BED AND LOOK AT HIM.
- 00:44:06.020 --> 00:44:09.030
- AND AS THE FELLOW LOOKED AND SAW MR. GRAHAM ON HIS
- 00:44:09.050 --> 00:44:12.200
- BACK AND BILLY LOOKING AT HIM AND SAYING, "GOD
- 00:44:12.220 --> 00:44:15.230
- BLESS YOU, BUDDY.
- 00:44:15.250 --> 00:44:17.190
- LET ME PRAY FOR YOU." THE TEARS COMING DOWN THE
- 00:44:17.210 --> 00:44:21.000
- SOLDIER'S EYES AND FALLING ON BILL.
- 00:44:21.020 --> 00:44:25.200
- [MUSIC]
- 00:44:25.220 --> 00:44:33.080
- - WHEN I THINK OF BILLY GRAHAM, I THINK OF THAT
- 00:44:33.100 --> 00:44:37.050
- AWESOME MAN OF GOD THAT DID NOT COMPROMISE.
- 00:44:37.070 --> 00:44:41.150
- - JESUS DID MAKE IT PLAIN, AND THE SCRIPTURE
- 00:44:41.170 --> 00:44:43.290
- DOES MAKE IT PLAIN THAT HE IS THE WAY TO KNOW GOD.
- 00:44:44.010 --> 00:44:49.250
- - WHAT HE HAS DONE IS HE HAS IGNITED SO MANY
- 00:44:49.270 --> 00:44:53.120
- OTHERS TO TAKE THAT GOSPEL.
- 00:44:53.140 --> 00:44:56.030
- YOU LOOK AT FRANKLIN.
- 00:44:56.050 --> 00:44:57.280
- - JESUS CHRIST IS ALIVE AND HE'S HERE TONIGHT.
- 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.060
- - YOU SEE HIM PICKING THE BATON UP AND CARRYING IT.
- 00:45:00.080 --> 00:45:05.040
- THERE'S A HOST OF OTHERS THAT HAVE SEEN WHAT
- 00:45:05.060 --> 00:45:10.150
- HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T COMPROMISE THE WORD OF
- 00:45:10.170 --> 00:45:14.000
- GOD OR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:45:14.020 --> 00:45:17.090
- SO THE LEGACY LIVES ON.
- 00:45:17.110 --> 00:45:19.290
- - I'VE NEVER BEEN IN A COUNTRY WHERE MY FATHER'S
- 00:45:20.010 --> 00:45:23.060
- INFLUENCE HAS NOT BEEN FELT BECAUSE THERE ARE
- 00:45:23.080 --> 00:45:25.000
- EVANGELISTS AND PREACHERS ALL AROUND THE WORLD WHO
- 00:45:25.020 --> 00:45:27.070
- FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE.
- 00:45:27.090 --> 00:45:28.270
- HE'S THEIR ROLE MODEL, HE'S THEIR MENTOR, HE'S
- 00:45:28.290 --> 00:45:30.250
- THEIR TEACHER, HE'S THEIR PASTOR, AND THEY'VE NOT
- 00:45:30.270 --> 00:45:32.240
- EVEN MET HIM.
- 00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:34.150
- [MUSIC]
- 00:45:34.170 --> 00:45:36.240
- - I KNOW THAT HE'S BEEN PUT ON A PEDESTAL, BUT HE
- 00:45:36.260 --> 00:45:39.050
- WAS NOT PERFECT, AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN HORRIFIED
- 00:45:39.070 --> 00:45:41.200
- WITH ANYONE SAYING THAT HE WAS PERFECT.
- 00:45:41.220 --> 00:45:43.220
- BUT HE WAS FAITHFUL TO THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- - I'VE BEEN ASKED SO MANY TIMES LATELY DO
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- I FEAR DEATH?
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- NO, I LOOK FORWARD TO DEATH WITH GREAT
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- ANTICIPATION.
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- I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING GOD FACE-TO-FACE,
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- AND THAT CAN HAPPEN ANY DAY.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - I FOUND DURING A LOT OF YEARS IN MY LIFE WHEN
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- I'VE HAD SICKNESSES AND BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL AND
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- SO FORTH, THERE'S A PEACE THAT JUST RESIDES THERE
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- AND STAYS THERE THAT I CANNOT EXPLAIN.
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- [MUSIC]
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- [CROWDS CHEERING]
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- [CROWDS CHEERING]
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- - EVERYBODY CAN HAVE THAT SAME PEACE IF THEY
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- RECEIVE CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR.
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- - I KNOW I'M GOING TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF WHAT
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- JESUS DID ON THAT CROSS.
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- - WHEN JESUS CAME, HE DIDN'T COME TO LIVE OR
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- EVEN TO TEACH.
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- HE CAME TO DIE ON A CROSS, AND ON THAT CROSS,
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- HE BORE OUR SINS AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US.
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- WE'RE ALL SINNERS.
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- HE CALLS US TO REPENT OF OUR SINS AND TO COME TO
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- HIM BY FAITH.
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- - JESUS SAID, "I'M THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
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- NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME." THE
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- ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER, FATHER GOD, IS THROUGH
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- HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
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- - YOU COME TO JESUS TONIGHT.
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- LET HIM CONTROL YOUR LIFE AND FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND
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- GIVE YOUR ASSURANCE IF YOU DIE, YOU'LL GO TO HEAVEN.
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- IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
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- - SOME OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND RELATIVES,
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- AND ESPECIALLY MY WIFE, ARE ALREADY IN HEAVEN.
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- AND BECAUSE OF THE HOPE WE HAVE IN JESUS, WE CAN
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- ALL BE IN HEAVEN SOMEDAY FOREVER.
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- BUT FIRST, THERE MUST BE A DECISION HERE
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- AND NOW IN THIS LIFE.
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- - IN AMOS THE FOURTH CHAPTER, IT SAYS,
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- "PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD." ARE YOU PREPARED?
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- HAVE YOU OPENED YOUR HEART TO JESUS?
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- HAVE YOU REPENTED OF YOUR SINS?
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- I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO DO THAT TODAY.
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- THIS MAY BE THE LAST OPPORTUNITY YOU'LL EVER
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- HAVE. THIS IS THE MOMENT.
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- TONIGHT, I WANT JESUS IN MY HEART.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - YOU DON'T HAVE LONG, YOU'LL BE IN ETERNITY,
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- AND THE DECISION YOU MAKE TONIGHT MAY DECIDE WHERE
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- YOU'LL BE. DO YOU KNOW CHRIST? ARE YOU READY?
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- [MUSIC]
- 00:49:20.090 --> 00:49:32.170
- - I DO NOT OFFER YOU A DEAD CHRIST.
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- I OFFER YOU A LIVING SAVIOR!
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- I OFFER YOU A LIVING CHRIST!
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- HE IS ALIVE AT THIS MOMENT, ALIVE!
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- - WOULD YOU WELCOME PLEASE
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- EVANGELIST, AUTHOR...
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- - BILLY GRAHAM.
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- - BILLY GRAHAM [APPLAUSE]
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- - HE WAS UNPARALLELED IN MY JUDGMENT.
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- - NEVER GIVE IN!
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- - HE'S BEEN AN INSPIRATION.
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- HE'S BEEN A FRIEND.
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- - THE PRESIDENTS REACHED OUT TO HIM BECAUSE THEY
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- WANTED WHAT HE HAD.
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- - HE WAS A GIANT.
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- YOU WON'T SEE HIS LIKES AGAIN.
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