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The Cross, Billy Graham's Message To America_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 21, 2018 2:42 PM UTC  Evangelist Billy Graham addressing the congregation in Trafalgar Square in London in 1954 Evangelist Billy Graham addressing the congregation in Trafalgar Square in London in 1954 Fred Ramage—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 21, 2018 2:42 PM UTC Billy Graham, considered by many [the father of modern Christian evangelism](http://time.com/18423/billy-graham-obituary/?xid=homepage), has died at the age of 99\. Graham preached in 185 countries throughout the course of his storied six-decade career, reaching millions of people across the globe and [earning the nickname “America’s Pastor](http://time.com/5168158/evangelist-preacher-reverend-billy-graham-dead/?xid=homepage).” Below, you can watch five of Graham’s greatest sermons, from the spiritual revival that made him a household name to the last address he ever gave, on his 95th birthday in 2013. **Los Angeles, 1949** The spiritual revival that launched Billy Graham into global fame was his 1949 Los Angeles crusade. More than 350,000 people attended over the course of the two-month long revival, held in a giant tent downtown known as the Canvas Cathedral. Graham was just 30 years old. **Washington, 1952** In 1952, Graham held a revival in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the Capitol Building. Vice President Alben Barkley helped to arrange the event, but President Harry Truman refused to come. During this meeting, Graham asked Congress to create a national day of prayer, and that’s how the annual tradition began. **New York City, 1957** Graham’s 1957 Greater New York Crusade drew more than two million people. The preacher sold out Madison Square Garden nearly every night from May to September, and more than 100,000 people attended the final night in Times Square. Martin Luther King Jr. joined him to lead the people in prayer. **Seoul, 1973** Graham’s largest crusade was the Seoul, South Korea revival of 1973, held on the airstrip at Yoi-do Plaza. More than 3.2 million people attended over five days starting in late May, and an estimated 75,000 pledged themselves to follow Jesus Christ. **Birthday Message, 2013** Graham gave his last message to America on his 95th birthday, in November 2013\. In a message aired in thousands of churches, Graham said the United States is in great need of a spiritual awakening. “There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God,” he said. ## Transcript >> For 60 years, my father, Billy Graham, preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and at 95, he has a message that he would like to share with you right here from his home. And it's a message I believe that can change your life and change the direction of this nation. >> Young Billy Graham hailed another Billy Sunday. >> Reverend Billy Graham, one of the most inspirational spiritual leaders of 20th century. >> I need you to welcome, thank you for coming, Billy Graham. -[ unk ] Billy Graham. >> Our recipient for the man who honors us by being here today. >> What is your purpose? >> Going to the whole world and proclaim this message. >> You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Shall make you free. Shall make you free. >> As I live back here with my life, it's full of surprises. I never thought I would become friends with people in different countries all over the world. >> For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. I want us to look at the cross tonight. >> I'll say how God's hand got in me. When I began preaching many years ago, it was not with any thoughts that I'd be preaching to large audiences. >> Come to the cross. His gospel is for everyone. >> God has done this. >> Christ is alive! Modern America today, there is redemption of the soul. >> Our country is in great need of a spiritual reckoning. Well, there have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God. Of all the things that I've seen and heard, there's only one message that can change people's lives and hearts. >> There is a way, if you come by the way of the cross. The cross, the cross. >> I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross. Not the cross that hangs on the wall or around someone's neck ,-- >> We receive our freedom purchased by the ransom at the cross. >> but the real cross of Christ- >> The cross expresses the great love of God to men. >> is scarred and blood- stained. His was a rugged cross. >> His real purpose for coming was to die. >> I know that many will react to this message, but it is the truth. And with all my heart, I want to leave you with the truth. >> God says, I love you. I love you. I love you with everlasting love. >> He loves you, willing to forgive you of all your sins. >> On our churches we have a cross. It's embossed on our Bibles, on our Bibles. >> I thought a cross was a relic. It was a medallion on a necklace at best. >> It's an ornament that we wear around our necks, Christians and non- Christians. >> The cross really didn't have any meaning to me except for something artistic that rock stars wore. >> But talk about the depth and the real meaning of the cross, and it becomes an offense, why is that? >> The cross is offensive because it confronts people. Even so, it's a confrontation that all of us must face. >> I was really hurting and just didn't understand the source of all my pain and problems. I spent my whole life just burdened for something, hungering for something, thirsting after, chasing this thing that I couldn't put my finger on ultimately. >> I was abused by older people some- in the family somehow, outside of the family. So I was like an odder. I always talked back. I've always gotten fights. My whole world was surrounded by guns and drugs and gangs. I remember in front of all my friends just telling them to watch this, and as a lady was driving down the street, I jumped in the middle of the street and pointed the gun right at it just to see her panic and freak out, and it was just me seeking power. >> My mom always told me about God. I think I had an idea that God was big and good, but as time went on and I saw more and more tragic things happened around me, I think that was the beginning of me just questioning everything about life and about God. When I was 10 years old, my step dad came to pick me up and he said that my cousin, Kelly, was dead. I remember being so mad, and really just deciding that if God was big and good, why wouldn't he protect my cousin. He was so tiny and so awesome, such a funny, brilliant little guy. Why wouldn't God protect him from a huge muscle guy like his step dad who beat him to death? >> I'm like out there, crossing, holding hands, and I'll stand up to preach, and I'll think of all the paper with their different backgrounds and their various needs, and I know that they are objects of God's mighty love to the point that he gave his Son, his only Son, to die on a cross, and the cross was the most terrible form of execution by the Romans for criminals. And Jesus endured all of that in our place because of our sins. We deserve the cross. We deserve hell. We deserve judgment, and all that death means. I know that many people have disputed that. People don't want to hear that they are sinners. To many people, it's an offense. The cross is offensive, because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world. >> You see, the Bible teaches that all of us are wrong. We've all gone astray. We have everyone turning to his own way, and when we turn to our own way, we go astray from God's way, and that includes the whole human race. And that's why the world is in such terrible danger right now. It's not dangerous so much because we have atomic bombs; it's dangerous because of the human hearts backup the bombs, filled with envy and hate and strife and greed and lust and all the other things that could pull the trigger, ( pull the trigger, pull the trigger ). >> I remember thinking that same year that my cousin died about the death of the evil in the world. I never wanted to have kids. It was just a new person to suffer. And that was the year I started to cry myself to sleep every night and stopped believing in God. I couldn't get away from my own depression, so I started studying other religions. There was a lot of nice ideas, but there wasn't any tangible healing, and I remember thinking I'm tired of the pain in my heart. I'm tired of going to bed that way. I'm tired of feeling like a burden. I'm just tired of not knowing why I'm alive, and so, I remember the night I laid in bed and I knew I was gonna commit suicide the next day. I knew that I was not gonna live past tomorrow. >> By 16, I was getting high on a daily basis and got involved with a woman after woman after woman, and, you know, when you mix drugs, you mix alcohol, you mix youth, it's cause for an explosion. My mother was really concerned about me. I remember she just grabbed the Bible, said, " I don't know what to do. You just need to read this Bible ." You know, I remember taking the pages of the Bible and just ripping them out and throwing them on the ground and saying, " I don't care about your God. I don't care about this. This doesn't mean anything to me ." >> One reason that the cross is an offense to people is because it demands. It doesn't suggest. It demands a new lifestyle in all of us. Sin is a disease in the human heart. It affects the mind and the will and the emotions. Every part of the well being is affected by this disease. How can we break this bondage? How can we be set free? God helps us right those change. The Bible says if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things pass away. Everything becomes new. It can make you a totally new person. >> On the day that I planned to commit suicide, I came home from school and my grandma was there and she wasn't supposed to be there. And she looked at me and said, " There's something wrong with you. You're gonna go to church ." I was like, " No way I'm going to church ." And she screamed at the top of her lungs like we were fighting back and forth and I just didn't wanna listen to her yell anymore, and so I decided, " Fine, I'll go ." And then afterwards, I'll go ahead and follow through with my plan. So I went to the back of the church and slumped down on my chair and hated everybody in the room, and the Pastor started speaking and I hated him more than anyone. And he says, " There's a suicidal spirit in the room ." And of course all the hairs stood up in the back of my neck, and " Well, this is really weird ." And I got up and went to the door. A white- headed man was standing there and he stopped me, and he was like, " The Lord wants me to speak to you. He wants you to know that even though you've never known an earthly father, that God will be a better father to you than any earthly father could ever be. God knows the pain in your heart. He has seen you cry yourself to sleep at night ." The idea was so overwhelming to me. He's like, " Do you want me to pray for you so that Jesus can take the pain out of your heart ?" He put his hand on my shoulder and started to pray. It was as if the God of the universe showed up right in front of me, and the first thing I noticed was that God was holy and good. And the second thing I noticed was that I was so not holy and not good. >> I was in a really dark place. I was really lonely, really depressed, and a friend of mine reached out in Nevada Mutual conference, and I'm thinking why not. My mind was blown when I got there. I had never seen anything like it. I saw guys with bullet wounds and ex- gang members who love Jesus, and I had never seen anything like that before. And so, I was intrigued. I never forget the Pastor. You know, he started talking about Jesus and talking about Him in an intense way that I had never thought about before. I had never just imagined Jesus as a real person going through a real thing. So I just kind of thought of Him as this fairy off- distant person, but he brought it home to me and he started talking about Jesus being beaten and being whipped for a crime he didn't commit, and the skin being ripped off his back and him having to, in the midst of his pain, carry this cross of this mountain of the skull and being pinned to this cross. It was so vivid and visual to me I could-- It was like I could see this happening to Jesus. And I remember him saying like " How dare you tough guys call my Jesus a punk ." You know, like " Look at what he went through ." And then the preacher said, " Do you not know you've been bought with a price ?" And it just came to a head. It was like " Wow ." >> On that cross, God was laying on Jesus our sins. They nailed him and put nails in his hands, but before that, they had scourged him. A Roman scourge was a terrible thing. They took whips and pellets on those whips and beat a person almost to death, and then they took that cross and made him carry the cross, which was in his weakened condition, was almost impossible. But he carried that cross to a place outside of Jerusalem and then they put nails in his hands, but that was not the real suffering. The real suffering is when he said, " My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? In that terrible moment, Him, God the Father, was suffering. He shed his blood and the shedding of that blood carries with it God's bare life. >> The blood is the meeting place between God and man. And the Bible says without the shedding of blood, there's no forgiveness, and that's what Christ was doing on the cross. He was making atonement for our sins, and he was shedding his blood. Now, when you take the blood out, that means you're giving your life. And that's what it means. It means the life of Christ. The cross and the resurrection of Christ offers forgiveness of sin, offers a whole new life and offers you eternal life if you come to the cross by repentance and faith. >> Jesus literally took all of this on his own back for me. You know, I remember bowing out just hair touching the ground and saying, " I'm sorry, God. I'm sorry ." But one step led to another, which led to another, and, you know, I was that drinking and sleeping around with women and the conviction that I was now feeling was so strong. And I remember driving on the highway just thinking to myself, " God, you gotta do something 'cause if you don't do something, I might hurt myself or hurt somebody else. I don't know what's gonna happen, but just don't kill me ." I get cut off by a truck and my truck just starts tipping until it flips over and starts rolling fast. I think the last is coming in. The windshield cracks. I'm not wearing a seatbelt at all, so I'm kind of floating around the car, and I looked at myself over, it was just a piece of glass stuck in my arm, and I pulled it out, and that was it. I say, " Lord, I need to get with you. I need you to change me. I need you to really make this real, and I need to stop running from you ." I was genuinely trying to know Him more and read my Bible and grow, and I really began to be a passionate Christ follower. >> But you set me free. I gave you no reason to give me new seasons, to give me new life, new breathing. But you hung there bleeding. You died for my lies, and my cheating, my lust, and my greeding. Lord. What is a man? That you are mindful of them? >> I realized you don't earn righteousness, that none of us is righteous, not even one, and that our works are like filthy rags to God. >> Holding on to the past. But like a hero in a dream. Christ came and He rescued me. Now I'm gonna tell the world. I'm gonna tell it everywhere. >> Jesus lived the life I could not live and died the death I should have died. You know, that gets to me everytime just to think, " Man, I gain everything. I put my trust in Him ." >> If God had looked at me and said, " Go away forever, he would have been right. It would have been justice. The same time I felt that, I felt him inviting me to an embrace of grace and love unconditional. It was like God was saying I love you. I know you're tired of the way you've been living, and I will make you new if you will let me. In my heart, it was just yes. It just said " Yes, I need that. I want that. Please ." And that's why I woke up the next day. I just felt such a peace and a joy almost that I never felt before. Jesus saved my life and on top of everything else, the life of my son and the new baby that wouldn't be if Jesus hadn't intervened and rescued me. The almost overwhelming thing is to think that Jesus became sinned, and it was my sin and it was things that I've done that hails him on the cross. It was things that I've done, he hung naked on a cross bleeding in a shameful way. So, I would never have to be ashamed for the things that I've done. The truth is-- the truth is there is no other way besides Christ and what he did. There's no life outside of that. >> There is no other way of salvation, except through the cross of Christ. Jesus said, " I'm the way, the truth, and the life. No man can come unto the Father but by me ." The only way to the father, Father God, is through his Son, Jesus Christ. And while Jesus is the only one that was born in this world without sin, but more than that, he was a righteous man, and when you come to Him, you're clothed in His righteousness. God no longer sees our sin. He no longer sees your own heart. He sees Jesus. >> Now I don't understand all about it. There are many things about the cross and about salvation that I do not understand, and I'm not told that I have to understand at all. I'm told that I'm to believe and anybody can believe. A blind man can believe. A deaf man can believe. An old person can believe. A young person can believe, and that word, believe, means commit. I commit my life totally to Him. Jesus Christ from the cross says, " I will save you. I will forgive you. I will change you. I will make you a new person, if you come to the cross by repentance and faith ." Come to Christ. >> When you come to Christ, you come by the way of repentance. Repent means to change, to change your way of living and turn from your sins and turn to Jesus Christ and say, " I'm a sinner. I need forgiveness, and I know the truth, the only one that can change me ." >> Hope went dark that violent day. The whole earth quaked at love's display. Three days silence in the ground. This body born for heaven's crown. On that bright and glorious day when heaven opened up the grave. He's alive and risen indeed. Praise him for the mercy tree! Death has died, love has won. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Jesus Christ has overcome. He has risen from the dead. >> The Bible says that in spite of our rebellion and rejection, God loves you. He loves you so much that he gave his son to die for your sins, and when Christ died on that cross, he became guilty of lying. He became guilty of slander. He became guilty of jealousy. He became guilty of the most filthy dirty sins. Christ took the hell that you and I deserve. Now God said, " Receive me, believe in, put your trust in your confidence in Him, and I will forgive your sins and I will guarantee you eternity in heaven. It's all yours and it's all free. All you have to do is receive me ." >> Today, I'm asking you to put your trust in Christ. I'm going to ask you to pray this prayer sentence by sentence after me. Dear Heavenly Father, I know that I'm a sinner and I ask for your forgiveness. I believe you've died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins. I repented my sins. I invite you to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow you as my Lord and savior, in Jesus name. Amen. >> He's alive. I've given my life not to a dead Christ but to a living Christ, and he's given me a song to sing. He's given me a flag to follow. I have reason for existence. I know where I've come from. I know why I'm here. I know where I'm going. Do you? >> If you just pray that prayer with my father, I'd like for you to go to our website. We have some resources there that we will like for you to have. These are resources that will help you to grow in your new relationship with Almighty God and his Son, Jesus Christ. Remember this one thing, that God loves you, and the Bible tells us that God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believed in him should not perish and should have everlasting life. 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