1 00:00:02,810 --> 00:00:05,290 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:05,670 --> 00:00:07,150 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:07,150 --> 00:00:09,090 for some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:11,650 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers 5 00:00:11,650 --> 00:00:11,930 too. 6 00:00:12,470 --> 00:00:14,710 This week we have Billy Graham with his 7 00:00:14,710 --> 00:00:16,250 message, The Great Judgment. 8 00:00:19,450 --> 00:00:23,750 Now Matthew the 26th chapter beginning at the 9 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:25,790 36th verse. 10 00:00:26,650 --> 00:00:29,690 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place 11 00:00:29,690 --> 00:00:33,990 called Gethsemane and saith unto the disciples, sit 12 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:36,690 ye here while I go and pray yonder. 13 00:00:37,250 --> 00:00:39,050 And he took with him Peter and the 14 00:00:39,050 --> 00:00:41,950 two sons of Zebedee and began to be 15 00:00:41,950 --> 00:00:43,690 sorrowful and very heavy. 16 00:00:44,370 --> 00:00:47,250 Then saith he unto them, my soul is 17 00:00:47,250 --> 00:00:51,450 exceeding sorrowful even unto death, tarry ye here 18 00:00:51,450 --> 00:00:52,590 and watch with me. 19 00:00:53,070 --> 00:00:54,670 And he went a little further and fell 20 00:00:54,670 --> 00:00:57,250 on his face and prayed saying, O my 21 00:00:57,250 --> 00:01:00,410 father if it be possible let this cup 22 00:01:00,410 --> 00:01:01,370 pass from me. 23 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:05,970 Nevertheless not as I will but as thou 24 00:01:05,970 --> 00:01:06,330 wilt. 25 00:01:07,770 --> 00:01:10,150 I want you to see this picture tonight 26 00:01:10,150 --> 00:01:15,370 because the last 24 hours in the life 27 00:01:15,370 --> 00:01:19,150 of Christ was the darkest period in the 28 00:01:19,150 --> 00:01:21,330 history of the entire world. 29 00:01:22,070 --> 00:01:25,790 And here we find an incident in the 30 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:29,510 last hours of the life of Christ that 31 00:01:29,510 --> 00:01:31,750 I want us to think about tonight and 32 00:01:31,750 --> 00:01:34,990 see what practical application we have in our 33 00:01:34,990 --> 00:01:37,150 own lives and the world in which we 34 00:01:37,150 --> 00:01:37,490 live. 35 00:01:38,310 --> 00:01:40,310 Many people write to me and they say 36 00:01:40,310 --> 00:01:42,310 we don't understand the gospel. 37 00:01:43,170 --> 00:01:45,910 We don't understand what you mean by receiving 38 00:01:45,910 --> 00:01:47,770 Christ or being born again. 39 00:01:48,310 --> 00:01:50,710 But I think more people write to me 40 00:01:50,710 --> 00:01:54,610 and say this, they don't understand why Christ 41 00:01:54,610 --> 00:01:57,870 had to die on the cross in order 42 00:01:57,870 --> 00:02:00,270 for us to be saved. 43 00:02:00,990 --> 00:02:03,210 They do not understand the dark hours of 44 00:02:03,210 --> 00:02:03,910 Gethsemane. 45 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:07,150 They do not understand why Christ voluntarily laid 46 00:02:07,150 --> 00:02:07,990 down his life. 47 00:02:08,370 --> 00:02:10,830 They do not understand why he endured the 48 00:02:10,830 --> 00:02:12,350 shame of the cross. 49 00:02:12,910 --> 00:02:15,650 They do not understand all the phrases in 50 00:02:15,650 --> 00:02:17,470 the Bible that talk about the blood. 51 00:02:18,110 --> 00:02:20,190 Many times in the scriptures you find the 52 00:02:20,190 --> 00:02:21,430 phrase the blood of Christ. 53 00:02:21,670 --> 00:02:24,550 The blood of Christ cleanses us from all 54 00:02:24,550 --> 00:02:24,910 sin. 55 00:02:25,330 --> 00:02:26,950 And people revolt against that. 56 00:02:27,050 --> 00:02:28,010 They don't like that. 57 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:30,390 And they wonder why that's in the Bible 58 00:02:30,390 --> 00:02:33,390 and why so much stress is placed upon 59 00:02:33,390 --> 00:02:36,930 the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 60 00:02:37,670 --> 00:02:40,490 Well tonight I want us to see these 61 00:02:40,490 --> 00:02:42,770 last 24 hours in the life of Christ 62 00:02:42,770 --> 00:02:46,230 were the darkest in history and yet it 63 00:02:46,230 --> 00:02:49,570 was the darkness just before the dawn. 64 00:02:50,310 --> 00:02:52,850 And I believe that history repeats itself. 65 00:02:53,350 --> 00:02:55,470 And when the world comes to that moment 66 00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:58,010 of despair, that moment when it's about to 67 00:02:58,010 --> 00:03:00,870 blow itself apart, that moment when it seems 68 00:03:00,870 --> 00:03:04,250 there is no solution, at that moment the 69 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:05,510 sun will rise. 70 00:03:05,950 --> 00:03:07,670 The kingdom of God shall come. 71 00:03:08,010 --> 00:03:10,030 Because we have the promise in the scripture 72 00:03:10,030 --> 00:03:12,510 that Jesus Christ the Son of the Living 73 00:03:12,510 --> 00:03:15,090 God is coming back to this earth again. 74 00:03:15,470 --> 00:03:17,490 He is going to set up His kingdom. 75 00:03:17,670 --> 00:03:20,030 And then shall the prayer be answered that 76 00:03:20,030 --> 00:03:22,890 He prayed in the Lord's prayer, Thy kingdom 77 00:03:22,890 --> 00:03:23,390 come. 78 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:25,530 His kingdom shall rule. 79 00:03:26,190 --> 00:03:30,610 But before the triumph, before the crown, before 80 00:03:30,610 --> 00:03:34,090 the kingdom, before the victory, there had to 81 00:03:34,090 --> 00:03:34,930 come the suffering. 82 00:03:35,530 --> 00:03:36,990 There had to come the cross. 83 00:03:37,770 --> 00:03:40,590 And before you can share in Christ's victory, 84 00:03:41,030 --> 00:03:43,010 before you can have a new life here 85 00:03:43,010 --> 00:03:45,110 and now, before you can go to heaven, 86 00:03:45,110 --> 00:03:47,850 before you can claim the promise that we 87 00:03:47,850 --> 00:03:51,370 shall someday reign with Christ, you too must 88 00:03:51,370 --> 00:03:53,370 come to that same cross. 89 00:03:54,390 --> 00:03:57,590 You too must endure the humility of repentance 90 00:03:57,590 --> 00:03:58,290 of sin. 91 00:03:58,590 --> 00:04:01,090 You too must come in simple faith and 92 00:04:01,090 --> 00:04:03,190 stand at the foot of that cross and 93 00:04:03,190 --> 00:04:05,710 receive the Savior who is willing to go 94 00:04:05,710 --> 00:04:06,370 to the cross. 95 00:04:08,150 --> 00:04:10,110 I want you to see on this night 96 00:04:10,110 --> 00:04:13,730 before He died, He has had the last 97 00:04:13,730 --> 00:04:16,510 supper with His disciples in the upper room. 98 00:04:17,130 --> 00:04:18,670 And they've gone now to the Mount of 99 00:04:18,670 --> 00:04:19,890 Olives at the foot of the mount. 100 00:04:20,470 --> 00:04:22,210 And now they're in a garden that is 101 00:04:22,210 --> 00:04:23,430 called Gethsemane. 102 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:26,610 And Jesus leaves eight of His disciples on 103 00:04:26,610 --> 00:04:27,930 the outskirts of the garden. 104 00:04:28,130 --> 00:04:31,550 And He takes three with Him, Peter, James, 105 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:32,290 and John. 106 00:04:32,970 --> 00:04:34,650 And He goes a little further into the 107 00:04:34,650 --> 00:04:37,050 garden and He tells these three disciples to 108 00:04:37,050 --> 00:04:38,250 watch and pray. 109 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:41,310 And then He goes about a stone's throw 110 00:04:41,310 --> 00:04:44,910 further along and falls prostrate on the ground 111 00:04:44,910 --> 00:04:47,710 and begins the agonizing prayer. 112 00:04:48,350 --> 00:04:50,810 And before He was finished, the Bible says, 113 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:54,770 He was sweating drops of blood. 114 00:04:56,030 --> 00:04:57,170 What agony! 115 00:04:58,330 --> 00:04:59,530 What a prayer! 116 00:05:00,650 --> 00:05:02,610 Christ must have prayed that night. 117 00:05:04,430 --> 00:05:07,750 Many times in Scripture you find Christ praying 118 00:05:07,750 --> 00:05:08,930 all night. 119 00:05:09,550 --> 00:05:11,930 And if Jesus Christ had to pray all 120 00:05:11,930 --> 00:05:16,850 night, what about us in 1958, with our 121 00:05:16,850 --> 00:05:22,950 race problem, with our problem of communism, with 122 00:05:22,950 --> 00:05:25,130 the problem of crime that is getting worse 123 00:05:25,130 --> 00:05:28,470 with every passing day, with all the social 124 00:05:28,470 --> 00:05:30,630 problems that we face in the world, and 125 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:33,190 the personal problems, and the problem of sin. 126 00:05:33,890 --> 00:05:35,450 We Americans are not praying. 127 00:05:36,030 --> 00:05:37,610 We're not calling upon God. 128 00:05:38,190 --> 00:05:40,210 We give lip service to God, but our 129 00:05:40,210 --> 00:05:41,410 hearts are far from Him. 130 00:05:41,610 --> 00:05:43,350 Why when the President of the United States 131 00:05:43,350 --> 00:05:45,190 gave a proclamation for a day of prayer 132 00:05:45,190 --> 00:05:47,210 the other day, you didn't read much about 133 00:05:47,210 --> 00:05:47,370 it. 134 00:05:47,630 --> 00:05:49,390 Very few churches observed it. 135 00:05:49,510 --> 00:05:51,710 Very few people spend any time in prayer, 136 00:05:51,890 --> 00:05:53,730 on the day of prayer, when the President 137 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:55,410 said we need to call on God. 138 00:05:55,670 --> 00:05:57,390 The people didn't call on God. 139 00:05:58,750 --> 00:06:01,750 We couldn't call ourselves a Christian nation tonight. 140 00:06:02,110 --> 00:06:05,130 There are Christians living in America and Christian 141 00:06:05,130 --> 00:06:07,650 influences have been felt in this country, but 142 00:06:07,650 --> 00:06:10,010 we today are a heathen, pagan country. 143 00:06:10,790 --> 00:06:12,290 We're away from God. 144 00:06:12,850 --> 00:06:14,030 We have plenty of religion. 145 00:06:15,370 --> 00:06:18,870 We have beautiful churches, but our hearts are 146 00:06:18,870 --> 00:06:19,770 far from God. 147 00:06:20,430 --> 00:06:22,850 We are not spending time in prayer, the 148 00:06:22,850 --> 00:06:26,170 blackest hour in history since the last 24 149 00:06:26,170 --> 00:06:27,610 hours of the life of Christ. 150 00:06:28,730 --> 00:06:32,570 We are living in today, living on the 151 00:06:32,570 --> 00:06:35,610 very brink of hell itself, living on the 152 00:06:35,610 --> 00:06:38,410 brink of annihilation, and we're not praying. 153 00:06:39,230 --> 00:06:44,930 We're not calling upon God, and Jesus prayed 154 00:06:44,930 --> 00:06:49,610 and agonized until sweat, sweat blood drops came 155 00:06:49,610 --> 00:06:51,350 out from His perspiration. 156 00:06:53,090 --> 00:07:00,470 That night, Jesus prayed a mysterious prayer, an 157 00:07:00,470 --> 00:07:03,690 unusual prayer, a strange prayer. 158 00:07:04,570 --> 00:07:07,710 He said, O God, if it be possible, 159 00:07:08,490 --> 00:07:12,130 let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not 160 00:07:12,130 --> 00:07:13,750 my will but Thine be done. 161 00:07:14,030 --> 00:07:15,350 What did he mean by that prayer? 162 00:07:15,610 --> 00:07:17,590 Let this cup pass from me. 163 00:07:19,290 --> 00:07:21,670 A cup of medicine is offered to a 164 00:07:21,670 --> 00:07:24,610 child, and he shrinks back. 165 00:07:25,950 --> 00:07:27,630 Then at the bidding of his father, he 166 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:28,170 takes it. 167 00:07:28,850 --> 00:07:34,210 That night, a bitter cup was offered to 168 00:07:34,210 --> 00:07:37,390 Jesus, and he shrank from it. 169 00:07:38,890 --> 00:07:39,370 Why? 170 00:07:40,030 --> 00:07:41,610 I want you to see it tonight. 171 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:46,330 Always the cross had been before Christ since 172 00:07:46,330 --> 00:07:47,870 the day he was at his baptism. 173 00:07:48,530 --> 00:07:51,110 At the temptation, the marriage of Cana, when 174 00:07:51,110 --> 00:07:53,510 he said, my hour has not come, when 175 00:07:53,510 --> 00:07:55,470 the crowd wanted to make him a king, 176 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:58,270 at the Mount of Transfiguration, when he talked 177 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:02,690 to Elijah and Moses, he knew that he 178 00:08:02,690 --> 00:08:03,450 must die. 179 00:08:03,770 --> 00:08:05,270 He had taught his disciples that he must 180 00:08:05,270 --> 00:08:05,970 go to the cross. 181 00:08:06,250 --> 00:08:07,970 He had read in the Old Testament scriptures 182 00:08:07,970 --> 00:08:10,730 about the suffering that the Messiah must endure. 183 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:13,070 The shadow of the cross was before him 184 00:08:13,070 --> 00:08:13,790 all the time. 185 00:08:14,090 --> 00:08:15,890 He knew that he had to go to 186 00:08:15,890 --> 00:08:18,390 the cross to pay for our sins if 187 00:08:18,390 --> 00:08:19,330 we were to be saved. 188 00:08:20,310 --> 00:08:23,410 But here was the final hour, and the 189 00:08:23,410 --> 00:08:24,910 cup of suffering was bitter. 190 00:08:25,730 --> 00:08:27,630 And in order for us to understand the 191 00:08:27,630 --> 00:08:30,230 chemical formula of the mixture of the cup 192 00:08:30,230 --> 00:08:33,090 that night, I want us to look into 193 00:08:33,090 --> 00:08:34,309 it deeply for a moment. 194 00:08:35,070 --> 00:08:36,490 I want us to see it and analyze 195 00:08:36,490 --> 00:08:36,890 it. 196 00:08:38,169 --> 00:08:40,230 And I want us to see how much 197 00:08:40,230 --> 00:08:43,570 Christ endured that we might be forgiven of 198 00:08:43,570 --> 00:08:45,470 sin, that we might go to heaven, that 199 00:08:45,470 --> 00:08:47,470 we might have some hope of the solution 200 00:08:47,470 --> 00:08:48,490 of our problems. 201 00:08:49,370 --> 00:08:53,430 First, the first element in that cup was 202 00:08:53,430 --> 00:08:54,510 physical pain. 203 00:08:56,050 --> 00:08:57,210 Physical pain! 204 00:08:58,090 --> 00:09:00,430 Oh, men have died terrible deaths before. 205 00:09:00,910 --> 00:09:02,890 Men have been thrown into boiling water. 206 00:09:03,810 --> 00:09:05,410 Men have been burned at the stake. 207 00:09:06,110 --> 00:09:08,990 Other men have died and suffered physical pain. 208 00:09:09,190 --> 00:09:11,470 But the death of the cross was something 209 00:09:11,470 --> 00:09:13,290 even worse than any of that. 210 00:09:13,850 --> 00:09:15,510 The death of the cross is said to 211 00:09:15,510 --> 00:09:18,330 be the worst possible torture that a man 212 00:09:18,330 --> 00:09:19,030 can endure. 213 00:09:19,910 --> 00:09:22,050 Because first they would strip a man to 214 00:09:22,050 --> 00:09:22,470 the waist. 215 00:09:23,610 --> 00:09:25,650 Then they would tie his hands together and 216 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:28,110 bend him over and take long leather thongs 217 00:09:28,110 --> 00:09:32,210 with lead pellets or steel pellets embedded in 218 00:09:32,210 --> 00:09:34,210 the leather thongs, and they would beat him 219 00:09:34,210 --> 00:09:36,350 across the back until his back was in 220 00:09:36,350 --> 00:09:36,590 ribbon. 221 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:40,930 And many times the lash of those thongs 222 00:09:40,930 --> 00:09:43,290 would come around his face and take his 223 00:09:43,290 --> 00:09:46,670 eyes out by the socket, even tear his 224 00:09:46,670 --> 00:09:47,290 teeth out. 225 00:09:47,710 --> 00:09:52,310 And often death followed just the scourging and 226 00:09:52,310 --> 00:09:55,570 the flogging that were given by great muscular 227 00:09:55,570 --> 00:09:55,950 men. 228 00:09:57,370 --> 00:10:01,110 Jesus endured that kind of flogging for you 229 00:10:01,110 --> 00:10:02,130 and for me. 230 00:10:03,090 --> 00:10:05,630 Then they took a crown of thorns, sharp 231 00:10:05,630 --> 00:10:08,070 thorns, and placed on his brow. 232 00:10:09,030 --> 00:10:11,570 And his face bled as they jerked his 233 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:12,290 beard off. 234 00:10:14,910 --> 00:10:17,270 Then they spat in his face until he 235 00:10:17,270 --> 00:10:18,950 was covered from head to foot with the 236 00:10:18,950 --> 00:10:20,370 spittle of the people. 237 00:10:21,450 --> 00:10:29,390 Hatred, prejudice, intolerance, vehemence, the human heart against 238 00:10:29,390 --> 00:10:29,870 Christ. 239 00:10:30,430 --> 00:10:34,630 Christ wasn't killed by Rome or Israel. 240 00:10:35,490 --> 00:10:38,030 The Bible tells us that Christ was crucified 241 00:10:38,030 --> 00:10:39,170 by you and me. 242 00:10:40,230 --> 00:10:43,470 My sins and your sins crucified Christ. 243 00:10:44,230 --> 00:10:45,370 We had a part in it. 244 00:10:45,590 --> 00:10:47,030 All the hatred of mankind. 245 00:10:47,510 --> 00:10:49,110 We've seen in the past few days what 246 00:10:49,110 --> 00:10:49,910 hatred can do. 247 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:52,410 We've seen some men with sticks of dynamite 248 00:10:52,410 --> 00:10:55,470 blowing up synagogues just to express their hate. 249 00:10:57,110 --> 00:10:59,210 May God have mercy upon them. 250 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:04,250 The human heart is expressed in that cross. 251 00:11:05,850 --> 00:11:09,010 Almost saddest as they flogged him, as they 252 00:11:09,010 --> 00:11:10,690 beat him, as they spit on him, as 253 00:11:10,690 --> 00:11:12,230 they put a crown of thorns on him. 254 00:11:12,410 --> 00:11:14,510 And then they gave him a 250 pound 255 00:11:14,510 --> 00:11:15,450 cross to carry. 256 00:11:16,370 --> 00:11:18,470 And he stumbles along the road with that 257 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:21,490 cross until Simon of Cyrene had to come 258 00:11:21,490 --> 00:11:22,850 and help him carry the cross. 259 00:11:23,090 --> 00:11:26,730 And I'm certain today in heaven Simon is 260 00:11:26,730 --> 00:11:29,450 thrilled and proud of the fact that he 261 00:11:29,450 --> 00:11:32,690 helped Jesus carry the cross. 262 00:11:33,770 --> 00:11:35,690 Have you helped Jesus carry the cross? 263 00:11:36,590 --> 00:11:38,130 Or were you one of the ones putting 264 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:39,410 the nails in his hands? 265 00:11:39,590 --> 00:11:41,110 But you say, Billy, I would never put 266 00:11:41,110 --> 00:11:42,230 a nail in Jesus' hand. 267 00:11:42,470 --> 00:11:44,510 I would never pick up a flog and 268 00:11:44,510 --> 00:11:44,990 flog him. 269 00:11:45,030 --> 00:11:45,570 Wouldn't you? 270 00:11:45,750 --> 00:11:46,730 You did it today. 271 00:11:49,190 --> 00:11:51,630 The sin that you committed today helped crucify 272 00:11:51,630 --> 00:11:52,230 Christ. 273 00:11:53,190 --> 00:11:55,810 Because those people were our representatives. 274 00:11:56,390 --> 00:11:58,910 We were expressing ourselves in them. 275 00:12:00,270 --> 00:12:02,570 You and I helped crucify Jesus. 276 00:12:02,870 --> 00:12:04,330 He was dying for our sins. 277 00:12:04,950 --> 00:12:06,930 Then they took him to Golgotha's Mount and 278 00:12:06,930 --> 00:12:08,530 they put spikes in his hands. 279 00:12:09,190 --> 00:12:11,990 They tore his hands and his feet. 280 00:12:12,370 --> 00:12:13,770 He never uttered a sound. 281 00:12:14,750 --> 00:12:18,770 The pain, the thirst, his tongue was swollen 282 00:12:18,770 --> 00:12:19,270 double. 283 00:12:20,250 --> 00:12:23,770 And he hung hour upon hour on that 284 00:12:23,770 --> 00:12:24,690 terrible cross. 285 00:12:25,130 --> 00:12:27,330 And then at the end, many times when 286 00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:29,010 a person was dying on a cross, the 287 00:12:29,010 --> 00:12:31,950 ravenous birds, the vultures, would come with their 288 00:12:31,950 --> 00:12:34,410 iron-like beaks and pick at him while 289 00:12:34,410 --> 00:12:35,470 he was still alive. 290 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:38,150 That was the cross. 291 00:12:38,950 --> 00:12:42,790 And that night, the night before he died, 292 00:12:43,150 --> 00:12:44,950 Jesus was on his knees. 293 00:12:46,630 --> 00:12:49,070 Before God and saying, oh God, if it's 294 00:12:49,070 --> 00:12:51,910 possible to save Billy Graham, if it's possible 295 00:12:51,910 --> 00:12:54,530 to save Jim Jones, if it's possible to 296 00:12:54,530 --> 00:12:58,290 save men and women some other way, without 297 00:12:58,290 --> 00:13:01,510 me having to endure that pain, oh God, 298 00:13:02,090 --> 00:13:02,650 find it. 299 00:13:04,070 --> 00:13:05,710 But there was another suffering. 300 00:13:06,730 --> 00:13:10,130 There was the suffering which was the loneliness 301 00:13:10,130 --> 00:13:12,850 that he suffered, because Jesus went to the 302 00:13:12,850 --> 00:13:13,710 cross alone. 303 00:13:15,410 --> 00:13:16,810 No one else could go with him. 304 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:18,350 He was the Son of God. 305 00:13:18,450 --> 00:13:19,830 He was the only one in the universe 306 00:13:19,830 --> 00:13:22,490 that could bear all of our sins, because 307 00:13:22,490 --> 00:13:24,890 the Lamb, he was the Paschal Lamb that 308 00:13:24,890 --> 00:13:25,850 Passover season. 309 00:13:26,210 --> 00:13:28,570 And the Lamb had to be without blemish. 310 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:31,970 And he was the Paschal Lamb being slain 311 00:13:31,970 --> 00:13:34,070 from the foundation of the world for us. 312 00:13:34,410 --> 00:13:36,190 He alone had in his body and in 313 00:13:36,190 --> 00:13:38,610 his soul the capacity to bear our sins, 314 00:13:39,310 --> 00:13:42,590 because you see, we'd sinned against God, we'd 315 00:13:42,590 --> 00:13:44,810 rebelled against God, and we deserve death, and 316 00:13:44,810 --> 00:13:46,770 we deserve judgment, and we deserve hell. 317 00:13:47,450 --> 00:13:50,170 But Jesus said, I'll take the judgment, I'll 318 00:13:50,170 --> 00:13:51,930 take the hell, and I'll take the suffering. 319 00:13:52,590 --> 00:13:57,050 And he went to that cross alone, because 320 00:13:57,050 --> 00:13:58,310 only he could suffer. 321 00:13:59,110 --> 00:14:01,810 Only he could be offered as a sacrifice 322 00:14:01,810 --> 00:14:04,150 that would be pleasing to God, and would 323 00:14:04,150 --> 00:14:06,090 reconcile God and man together. 324 00:14:07,510 --> 00:14:09,170 So he endured it alone. 325 00:14:09,550 --> 00:14:12,010 Judas was betraying him for 30 pieces of 326 00:14:12,010 --> 00:14:13,150 silver, about $21. 327 00:14:15,150 --> 00:14:16,670 You've betrayed him today. 328 00:14:16,910 --> 00:14:20,110 The lie you told betrayed Jesus. 329 00:14:21,010 --> 00:14:23,870 The lustful thought that you had, the immoral 330 00:14:23,870 --> 00:14:26,250 deed that you did, the cheating that you 331 00:14:26,250 --> 00:14:31,070 did in business, all of that betrayed Jesus. 332 00:14:32,090 --> 00:14:33,990 How many times we've betrayed him? 333 00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:36,230 We were a part of that betrayal, and 334 00:14:36,230 --> 00:14:37,870 we're just as guilty as Judas. 335 00:14:39,270 --> 00:14:41,090 And we will go to the same place 336 00:14:41,090 --> 00:14:43,630 as Judas went, unless we repent of our 337 00:14:43,630 --> 00:14:47,490 sin and come to Jesus Christ, and ask 338 00:14:47,490 --> 00:14:48,450 him to forgive us. 339 00:14:50,490 --> 00:14:52,070 Jesus died alone. 340 00:14:54,490 --> 00:14:56,690 There he is alone, hanging on the 341 00:14:56,690 --> 00:14:58,430 cross for our sins. 342 00:14:59,490 --> 00:15:01,110 There are many types of loneliness. 343 00:15:01,350 --> 00:15:02,790 There's the loneliness of solitude. 344 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:05,750 You've been alone when all you could hear 345 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:08,270 was the thunder of the surf alongside the 346 00:15:08,270 --> 00:15:10,030 ocean on some faraway beach. 347 00:15:10,810 --> 00:15:12,850 I've stood on a lonely beach in India, 348 00:15:13,570 --> 00:15:15,630 and I didn't see a person for miles. 349 00:15:15,830 --> 00:15:17,830 The most beautiful beaches in the world, I 350 00:15:17,830 --> 00:15:19,950 think, are along the coral strands of India. 351 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:22,530 And I've heard only the beating against the 352 00:15:22,530 --> 00:15:24,930 surf, against the rocks. 353 00:15:26,450 --> 00:15:26,930 Loneliness. 354 00:15:27,710 --> 00:15:29,830 Admiral Byrd wrote in his book, Alone, how 355 00:15:29,830 --> 00:15:31,870 he spent five months in the loneliness and 356 00:15:31,870 --> 00:15:33,210 darkness of the South Pole. 357 00:15:33,690 --> 00:15:36,110 Louis Zamburini, a friend of ours in California, 358 00:15:36,510 --> 00:15:39,090 spent 45 days alone on a life raft. 359 00:15:39,310 --> 00:15:42,130 The loneliness, not knowing at any moment when 360 00:15:42,130 --> 00:15:44,150 you might be pulled down by a shark, 361 00:15:44,570 --> 00:15:46,870 or a Japanese plane would come over and 362 00:15:46,870 --> 00:15:47,650 machine-gun you. 363 00:15:49,270 --> 00:15:49,750 Alone. 364 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:52,830 Yes, there is that type of loneliness. 365 00:15:52,930 --> 00:15:53,690 We know about that. 366 00:15:53,910 --> 00:15:55,350 But there are other types of loneliness. 367 00:15:55,570 --> 00:15:57,090 There's the loneliness of society. 368 00:15:58,350 --> 00:16:01,830 There's the poor creature that is living in 369 00:16:01,830 --> 00:16:04,090 a tenement house in New York tonight, watching 370 00:16:04,090 --> 00:16:04,970 this telecast. 371 00:16:05,630 --> 00:16:07,130 You never receive a letter. 372 00:16:08,390 --> 00:16:10,050 You never hear a word of encouragement. 373 00:16:10,250 --> 00:16:12,290 You never know the handclasp of a friend. 374 00:16:13,550 --> 00:16:16,530 Or there's the wealthy society leader whose money 375 00:16:16,530 --> 00:16:18,750 has bought everything but happiness and joy. 376 00:16:19,450 --> 00:16:21,410 Or there's the country girl in New York 377 00:16:21,410 --> 00:16:25,150 or Los Angeles tonight, who is seeking fame 378 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:26,750 and fortune in the big city and who's 379 00:16:26,750 --> 00:16:28,470 been disillusioned and disappointed. 380 00:16:29,630 --> 00:16:30,910 And now she's lonely. 381 00:16:31,510 --> 00:16:34,430 There's no loneliness like the loneliness in a 382 00:16:34,430 --> 00:16:34,810 crowd. 383 00:16:35,570 --> 00:16:36,870 And some of you living in the midst 384 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:39,090 of the big city are lonely tonight. 385 00:16:39,470 --> 00:16:40,910 There's an emptiness in your heart. 386 00:16:41,130 --> 00:16:42,110 I want to tell you something. 387 00:16:42,550 --> 00:16:44,670 You give your life to Christ tonight, and 388 00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:46,730 He can become your friend that sticketh closer 389 00:16:46,730 --> 00:16:47,310 than a brother. 390 00:16:47,730 --> 00:16:49,570 He can be with you in your loneliness. 391 00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:52,290 And then there's the loneliness of suffering. 392 00:16:52,670 --> 00:16:54,630 Some of you are watching from hospital beds 393 00:16:54,630 --> 00:16:57,210 right now, from hospitals all over America, and 394 00:16:57,210 --> 00:16:58,570 you're lonely lying there. 395 00:16:58,690 --> 00:17:00,670 They're friends, perhaps, in the water, the room 396 00:17:00,670 --> 00:17:01,030 with you. 397 00:17:01,690 --> 00:17:02,790 But you've been suffering. 398 00:17:03,970 --> 00:17:05,950 A lady gave her life to Christ some 399 00:17:05,950 --> 00:17:08,030 time ago, and she said, I've been crippled 400 00:17:08,030 --> 00:17:10,930 for five years with arthritis, and I've suffered. 401 00:17:11,190 --> 00:17:13,010 What a terrible suffering I've had. 402 00:17:13,329 --> 00:17:15,109 And she said, I have spent many a 403 00:17:15,109 --> 00:17:17,170 day alone, but never a lonely day. 404 00:17:17,849 --> 00:17:19,770 Give your life to Christ, and you'll never 405 00:17:19,770 --> 00:17:21,050 have another lonely day. 406 00:17:21,410 --> 00:17:24,829 Because you see, Jesus has also suffered. 407 00:17:25,369 --> 00:17:27,030 He knows what it means to suffer. 408 00:17:27,850 --> 00:17:30,710 And in suffering, He understands your suffering, and 409 00:17:30,710 --> 00:17:32,210 He can come and put His hand on 410 00:17:32,210 --> 00:17:34,610 your brow and comfort you and be there 411 00:17:34,610 --> 00:17:37,210 by your side during those lonely hours of 412 00:17:37,210 --> 00:17:37,530 suffering. 413 00:17:38,730 --> 00:17:41,650 And then there's the loneliness of sorrow. 414 00:17:42,550 --> 00:17:44,910 You've been in the sick room, and you've 415 00:17:44,910 --> 00:17:47,090 seen a loved one snatched from you. 416 00:17:47,390 --> 00:17:48,790 You couldn't do anything about it. 417 00:17:50,130 --> 00:17:52,850 And your heart has been crushed by sorrow. 418 00:17:53,390 --> 00:17:55,390 There's disappointment in your life. 419 00:17:55,930 --> 00:17:57,670 Maybe your husband's walked out on you. 420 00:17:58,350 --> 00:18:00,190 Maybe your boyfriend has left you. 421 00:18:00,610 --> 00:18:03,750 And your heart is crushed and broken and 422 00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:04,510 bleeding tonight. 423 00:18:04,510 --> 00:18:07,890 But Jesus also suffered. 424 00:18:09,590 --> 00:18:10,330 He knows. 425 00:18:10,970 --> 00:18:13,090 He stood at the friend of His, His 426 00:18:13,090 --> 00:18:16,510 friend Lazarus and wept when Lazarus died. 427 00:18:17,270 --> 00:18:19,270 He knows what it means to have a 428 00:18:19,270 --> 00:18:20,110 crushing sorrow. 429 00:18:20,730 --> 00:18:22,150 He can be there with you right now. 430 00:18:22,530 --> 00:18:24,830 He can wipe those tears away and give 431 00:18:24,830 --> 00:18:26,390 you a joy and a peace in your 432 00:18:26,390 --> 00:18:28,590 heart and take away that loneliness. 433 00:18:29,370 --> 00:18:31,430 And then there's the loneliness of character. 434 00:18:32,410 --> 00:18:34,410 A man may find himself in a community 435 00:18:34,410 --> 00:18:36,650 or a society where he has to take 436 00:18:36,650 --> 00:18:39,090 a stand alone on some moral issue. 437 00:18:39,370 --> 00:18:41,170 And it's not easy to stand alone. 438 00:18:41,970 --> 00:18:43,530 Moses had to stand alone. 439 00:18:44,630 --> 00:18:46,810 Elijah on Mount Carmel had to stand alone. 440 00:18:46,950 --> 00:18:49,010 Everybody in the country was against Elijah. 441 00:18:49,390 --> 00:18:54,590 He was the only man that stood for 442 00:18:54,590 --> 00:18:54,970 God. 443 00:18:56,670 --> 00:18:58,450 And you know we that know the Lord 444 00:18:58,450 --> 00:19:01,110 Jesus Christ as our Savior are in a 445 00:19:01,110 --> 00:19:03,710 small minority in the world. 446 00:19:04,110 --> 00:19:06,590 And we're going to be standing more and 447 00:19:06,590 --> 00:19:07,810 more alone. 448 00:19:08,270 --> 00:19:10,270 And some of us someday may have to 449 00:19:10,270 --> 00:19:13,430 pay with our blood and our life for 450 00:19:13,430 --> 00:19:15,110 our faith in Jesus Christ. 451 00:19:16,330 --> 00:19:18,550 And you're standing alone in your office. 452 00:19:18,690 --> 00:19:20,070 You are the only one that's a Christian. 453 00:19:20,810 --> 00:19:22,750 You're the only one that is trying to 454 00:19:22,750 --> 00:19:24,550 live for Christ on the high school campus. 455 00:19:24,890 --> 00:19:26,550 You're the only one in your class. 456 00:19:26,890 --> 00:19:28,770 You're the only one in your community trying 457 00:19:28,770 --> 00:19:29,570 to live for God. 458 00:19:29,630 --> 00:19:31,930 And sometimes you get discouraged and you feel 459 00:19:31,930 --> 00:19:32,370 lonely. 460 00:19:32,590 --> 00:19:35,390 Well remember that almost everybody God ever used 461 00:19:35,390 --> 00:19:38,010 knew those hours of loneliness. 462 00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:41,950 The loneliness of character. 463 00:19:42,990 --> 00:19:47,050 And then there is the loneliness of sin. 464 00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:48,570 And that's the worst of all. 465 00:19:48,990 --> 00:19:51,870 The Bible says when Judas betrayed Jesus on 466 00:19:51,870 --> 00:19:54,430 that last night at the supper he left 467 00:19:54,430 --> 00:19:56,490 the meeting of the disciples and he went 468 00:19:56,490 --> 00:19:57,990 out because it was night. 469 00:20:01,190 --> 00:20:03,090 You remember when you were young and your 470 00:20:03,090 --> 00:20:04,270 conscience was sensitive. 471 00:20:05,610 --> 00:20:07,310 And if you told a lie your conscience 472 00:20:07,310 --> 00:20:08,090 spoke to you. 473 00:20:08,890 --> 00:20:11,670 But now it's become hardened and dulled. 474 00:20:12,610 --> 00:20:15,670 And you know the remorse of many years 475 00:20:15,670 --> 00:20:16,510 of sin. 476 00:20:18,010 --> 00:20:19,670 There are many of you sitting at a 477 00:20:19,670 --> 00:20:20,530 bar right now. 478 00:20:21,590 --> 00:20:22,770 You wish your life were different. 479 00:20:23,330 --> 00:20:25,530 You wish that you weren't chained by the 480 00:20:25,530 --> 00:20:27,030 habits of sin tonight. 481 00:20:27,350 --> 00:20:28,430 You'd like to be free. 482 00:20:28,970 --> 00:20:29,850 But you can't. 483 00:20:29,970 --> 00:20:30,450 You've tried. 484 00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:31,470 It's impossible. 485 00:20:33,770 --> 00:20:35,590 The loneliness of sin. 486 00:20:36,150 --> 00:20:38,070 And the older you get the more lonely 487 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:38,610 you'll be. 488 00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:41,790 Because you see away from God there's nothing 489 00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:43,730 but loneliness and remorse. 490 00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:45,670 Go ahead and continue for a while. 491 00:20:45,730 --> 00:20:47,650 The Bible says there's pleasure in sin for 492 00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:48,070 a season. 493 00:20:48,210 --> 00:20:49,210 You can get away with it for a 494 00:20:49,210 --> 00:20:49,470 while. 495 00:20:50,670 --> 00:20:52,230 But I want to tell you one thing. 496 00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:55,050 A man told me one day said, I'm 497 00:20:55,050 --> 00:20:56,070 not afraid of going to hell. 498 00:20:56,130 --> 00:20:57,070 He said there'll be a lot of other 499 00:20:57,070 --> 00:20:57,850 people down there. 500 00:20:58,990 --> 00:20:59,630 But listen. 501 00:21:00,470 --> 00:21:03,430 The Bible indicates that hell is a lonely 502 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:03,910 place. 503 00:21:04,010 --> 00:21:05,230 You won't see anybody else there. 504 00:21:05,290 --> 00:21:06,370 You won't even see the devil. 505 00:21:07,450 --> 00:21:08,850 A lot of people have an idea that 506 00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:10,750 hell is a place where the devil is 507 00:21:10,750 --> 00:21:12,410 standing in a furnace and giving the orders 508 00:21:12,410 --> 00:21:14,250 or sitting in a big office running hell. 509 00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:15,810 That's not the picture at all. 510 00:21:16,390 --> 00:21:18,770 The picture is one of separation from God 511 00:21:18,770 --> 00:21:21,410 and blackness and night and darkness and loneliness. 512 00:21:21,950 --> 00:21:22,950 You'll be all alone. 513 00:21:23,310 --> 00:21:24,350 You won't see your husband. 514 00:21:24,510 --> 00:21:25,350 You won't see your wife. 515 00:21:25,430 --> 00:21:26,390 You won't see your friends. 516 00:21:26,490 --> 00:21:27,230 You'll be alone. 517 00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:29,670 The loneliness of sin. 518 00:21:30,510 --> 00:21:32,590 Sin pays wages. 519 00:21:33,330 --> 00:21:35,070 And it crushes your personality. 520 00:21:35,270 --> 00:21:36,210 It crushes your life. 521 00:21:36,550 --> 00:21:37,870 And it crushes your soul. 522 00:21:38,050 --> 00:21:39,290 And it ends up in hell. 523 00:21:40,690 --> 00:21:43,050 Turn to Christ tonight from your sins. 524 00:21:43,490 --> 00:21:44,350 Let him free you. 525 00:21:44,730 --> 00:21:45,810 Let Christ come in. 526 00:21:46,570 --> 00:21:48,230 Then heaven is going to be a place 527 00:21:48,230 --> 00:21:50,330 of fellowship where your loved ones and friends 528 00:21:50,330 --> 00:21:50,790 will be. 529 00:21:51,190 --> 00:21:54,170 Heaven will be a glorious world of fellowship 530 00:21:54,170 --> 00:21:54,970 and friendship. 531 00:21:55,870 --> 00:21:57,490 There'll be no loneliness in heaven. 532 00:21:57,590 --> 00:21:59,530 The Bible says there'll be no night there. 533 00:22:00,810 --> 00:22:02,430 What a hope we have. 534 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:05,270 Those of us that know Jesus Christ as 535 00:22:05,270 --> 00:22:05,870 our Savior. 536 00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:10,070 Yes, the Bible says Christ suffered alone. 537 00:22:10,550 --> 00:22:12,530 I have trodden the winepress alone. 538 00:22:12,810 --> 00:22:14,750 And of the people there was none with 539 00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:15,750 me, said Jesus. 540 00:22:16,870 --> 00:22:20,510 Thirdly, the third element in this bitter cup 541 00:22:20,510 --> 00:22:22,710 was the mental anguish. 542 00:22:23,570 --> 00:22:25,710 Jesus had studied Isaiah the prophet. 543 00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:28,690 Jesus knew that he had to suffer. 544 00:22:28,790 --> 00:22:30,850 He knew something about the afflictions of the 545 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,670 next day, that night in the garden. 546 00:22:33,070 --> 00:22:35,370 He knew what was going to take place. 547 00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:39,030 And mentally he was suffering such anguish as 548 00:22:39,030 --> 00:22:40,850 he thought about the suffering of the next 549 00:22:40,850 --> 00:22:41,230 day. 550 00:22:41,930 --> 00:22:44,090 And we have thousands of people in America 551 00:22:44,090 --> 00:22:45,850 that are suffering mentally. 552 00:22:46,870 --> 00:22:49,430 We have thousands of psychological problems. 553 00:22:49,930 --> 00:22:51,710 We have thousands of people in our mental 554 00:22:51,710 --> 00:22:52,330 institutions. 555 00:22:52,790 --> 00:22:54,850 We have thousands of people today that are 556 00:22:54,850 --> 00:22:55,770 confused mentally. 557 00:22:56,110 --> 00:22:57,970 I want to tell you that Jesus can 558 00:22:57,970 --> 00:23:00,630 touch your mind if you let him come 559 00:23:00,630 --> 00:23:00,890 in. 560 00:23:01,090 --> 00:23:04,970 Because thousands of our mental problems are a 561 00:23:04,970 --> 00:23:08,570 result of spiritual separation from God or they're 562 00:23:08,570 --> 00:23:09,970 a result of idolatry. 563 00:23:10,510 --> 00:23:13,230 They're a result of putting other things first 564 00:23:13,230 --> 00:23:17,330 before God and that causes mental unbalance many 565 00:23:17,330 --> 00:23:17,790 times. 566 00:23:18,110 --> 00:23:19,170 Give your life to Christ. 567 00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:22,130 Put Christ first and I guarantee to you 568 00:23:22,130 --> 00:23:24,650 that he can handle many of the mental 569 00:23:24,650 --> 00:23:28,570 problems and psychological problems and psychopathic cases that 570 00:23:28,570 --> 00:23:30,710 we face today in this country. 571 00:23:31,730 --> 00:23:34,170 There are thousands of people that are suffering 572 00:23:34,170 --> 00:23:35,390 mentally. 573 00:23:36,430 --> 00:23:39,450 Down here in the South there are thousands 574 00:23:39,450 --> 00:23:41,710 of people that are suffering anguish at this 575 00:23:41,710 --> 00:23:42,590 particular time. 576 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:44,750 It's not just a southern problem. 577 00:23:45,390 --> 00:23:46,470 It's a world problem. 578 00:23:46,570 --> 00:23:47,830 It's the problem on Cyprus. 579 00:23:48,130 --> 00:23:49,590 It's the problem in the Middle East. 580 00:23:49,670 --> 00:23:50,870 It's the problem in New York. 581 00:23:50,910 --> 00:23:52,150 It's the problem in Chicago. 582 00:23:52,550 --> 00:23:53,990 It's the problem in the Far East. 583 00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:55,170 It's the problem in India. 584 00:23:55,450 --> 00:23:57,030 It's not just a southern problem. 585 00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,950 And thousands of people are searching their souls 586 00:23:59,950 --> 00:24:02,690 and searching their conscience and their minds are 587 00:24:02,690 --> 00:24:04,950 tortured and bewildered by what is the right 588 00:24:04,950 --> 00:24:06,810 thing in a complicated situation. 589 00:24:08,330 --> 00:24:10,870 Mental problems, I tell you, Christ is the 590 00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:11,210 answer. 591 00:24:13,130 --> 00:24:14,190 Come to Christ. 592 00:24:15,430 --> 00:24:16,970 Come at the foot of his cross and 593 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:18,790 let him touch your mind and your heart 594 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:21,290 and relax your soul in your heart. 595 00:24:23,610 --> 00:24:25,910 Then we shall know love for our fellow 596 00:24:25,910 --> 00:24:29,670 man that knows no bounds and we shall 597 00:24:29,670 --> 00:24:32,430 love our neighbors as ourselves. 598 00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:34,650 There are thousands of people that want to 599 00:24:34,650 --> 00:24:35,910 obey the law but they don't know what 600 00:24:35,910 --> 00:24:36,570 the law is. 601 00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:39,530 The federal government says one thing, the state 602 00:24:39,530 --> 00:24:42,150 government says another, and they're confused. 603 00:24:42,650 --> 00:24:45,130 And there's a tremendous confusion in the problem 604 00:24:45,130 --> 00:24:48,090 because it's a constitutional problem as well as 605 00:24:48,090 --> 00:24:48,850 a race problem. 606 00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:51,810 And it's all confused and many people are 607 00:24:51,810 --> 00:24:55,150 making emotional statements at the moment, flag-waving 608 00:24:55,150 --> 00:24:57,690 statements, hysterical statements. 609 00:24:58,470 --> 00:25:00,990 Would to God that all of us could 610 00:25:00,990 --> 00:25:04,770 come to the cross and see in Christ 611 00:25:04,770 --> 00:25:08,750 a solution of all the problems that bewilder 612 00:25:08,750 --> 00:25:10,710 us and confuse us. 613 00:25:10,910 --> 00:25:12,530 That may not be your problem. 614 00:25:12,770 --> 00:25:14,210 There may be some other problem in your 615 00:25:14,210 --> 00:25:16,650 life but you need Jesus, you need Christ, 616 00:25:17,090 --> 00:25:18,410 the country needs Christ. 617 00:25:19,870 --> 00:25:23,590 And then, fourthly, the fourth element in this 618 00:25:23,590 --> 00:25:25,690 bitter cup that Jesus was about to drink 619 00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:28,450 was the cup of the anguish of soul. 620 00:25:29,430 --> 00:25:32,350 All others, the physical pain, the loneliness of 621 00:25:32,350 --> 00:25:34,910 its shame, and the mental anguish was nothing 622 00:25:34,910 --> 00:25:38,170 compared to the spiritual suffering that Jesus suffered 623 00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:39,750 on the cross that day. 624 00:25:41,630 --> 00:25:43,850 And that night he was thinking about that. 625 00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:46,970 And his suffering was wrapped up in one 626 00:25:46,970 --> 00:25:49,610 little word, S-I-N, sin. 627 00:25:50,550 --> 00:25:53,770 Because that next day Jesus was going to 628 00:25:53,770 --> 00:25:59,090 be guilty for the first time of murder, 629 00:25:59,930 --> 00:26:04,290 and robbery, and adultery, and lying, and covetousness, 630 00:26:04,370 --> 00:26:05,910 and idolatry. 631 00:26:05,910 --> 00:26:08,130 Because he was going to become guilty of 632 00:26:08,130 --> 00:26:09,950 your sins and my sins. 633 00:26:10,150 --> 00:26:12,510 And a cloud was going to pass between 634 00:26:12,510 --> 00:26:14,350 him and God. 635 00:26:15,270 --> 00:26:19,750 A cloud for the first time, and his 636 00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:22,850 pure righteous soul was going to be filled 637 00:26:22,850 --> 00:26:23,590 with sin. 638 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:25,890 Your sins were going to be laid on 639 00:26:25,890 --> 00:26:26,210 him. 640 00:26:27,630 --> 00:26:29,710 The scripture says that God had laid on 641 00:26:29,710 --> 00:26:31,090 him the iniquity of us all. 642 00:26:31,170 --> 00:26:33,050 The Bible says he was made to be 643 00:26:33,050 --> 00:26:35,210 sin for us who knew no sin. 644 00:26:35,510 --> 00:26:36,950 He had never known sin, but he was 645 00:26:36,950 --> 00:26:38,110 made to be sin. 646 00:26:38,350 --> 00:26:40,710 How his soul must have shuddered. 647 00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:42,910 How his soul must have been shaken. 648 00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:46,410 How Jesus must have looked with horror. 649 00:26:46,770 --> 00:26:48,090 How he slumped from that. 650 00:26:48,450 --> 00:26:51,010 And he said, Oh God, if it's possible, 651 00:26:51,570 --> 00:26:53,490 let this cup pass from me. 652 00:26:54,790 --> 00:26:56,610 Oh God, I don't want to have to 653 00:26:56,610 --> 00:26:57,450 drink this cup. 654 00:26:58,190 --> 00:27:00,090 If there's any other way to save men. 655 00:27:00,290 --> 00:27:01,890 If there's any other way for the world 656 00:27:01,890 --> 00:27:02,630 to be saved. 657 00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:04,330 If there is any other way. 658 00:27:05,390 --> 00:27:07,550 Oh God, suppose a man could work for 659 00:27:07,550 --> 00:27:08,270 his salvation. 660 00:27:09,490 --> 00:27:11,130 But the Bible says you can't work for. 661 00:27:11,590 --> 00:27:13,410 The Bible says, for by grace are ye 662 00:27:13,410 --> 00:27:15,130 saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. 663 00:27:15,330 --> 00:27:16,850 It's the gift of God, not of works, 664 00:27:16,990 --> 00:27:17,890 lest any man should boast. 665 00:27:18,270 --> 00:27:19,950 You can work your fingers to the bone 666 00:27:19,950 --> 00:27:21,910 doing good works, but that will not save 667 00:27:21,910 --> 00:27:22,370 your soul. 668 00:27:23,130 --> 00:27:24,850 You are not saved by works. 669 00:27:27,350 --> 00:27:29,110 Suppose a man could pay for it. 670 00:27:30,010 --> 00:27:32,110 Suppose you had a billion dollars tonight. 671 00:27:32,430 --> 00:27:34,130 Suppose you were the richest man in the 672 00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:37,010 world, and you gave it all to charity, 673 00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:38,830 or you gave it all to God. 674 00:27:39,410 --> 00:27:40,270 Would you go to heaven? 675 00:27:41,550 --> 00:27:43,430 Not unless you'd come to the cross. 676 00:27:44,070 --> 00:27:46,310 Because you see, if you could have bought 677 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:48,090 your way, or if you could have worked 678 00:27:48,090 --> 00:27:50,070 your way, or if you could have schemed 679 00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:52,610 your way to heaven, Jesus would have never 680 00:27:52,610 --> 00:27:53,570 gone to the cross. 681 00:27:54,330 --> 00:27:58,550 That night, God would have said, Jesus, you 682 00:27:58,550 --> 00:27:59,990 don't have to go to the cross. 683 00:28:00,990 --> 00:28:03,050 But God could not say that to his 684 00:28:03,050 --> 00:28:03,330 son. 685 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:06,810 There was no other way. 686 00:28:08,090 --> 00:28:10,750 If it be possible, let this cup pass 687 00:28:10,750 --> 00:28:11,210 from me. 688 00:28:12,030 --> 00:28:14,730 If it be possible, oh God, let this 689 00:28:14,730 --> 00:28:16,150 cup pass from me tonight. 690 00:28:17,330 --> 00:28:19,290 I don't want to have to drink it 691 00:28:19,290 --> 00:28:20,350 unless I have to. 692 00:28:20,870 --> 00:28:22,310 But there was no other way. 693 00:28:23,990 --> 00:28:25,730 And if I could tell you another way 694 00:28:25,730 --> 00:28:28,610 of salvation that was easier, I would tell 695 00:28:28,610 --> 00:28:28,830 you. 696 00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:31,190 I'm here in Charlotte, North Carolina. 697 00:28:31,930 --> 00:28:33,070 This is my home. 698 00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:35,010 This is where I was born. 699 00:28:35,590 --> 00:28:36,830 This is where I was reared. 700 00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:38,690 I'm proud of this city. 701 00:28:39,390 --> 00:28:41,910 I love this great state of North Carolina. 702 00:28:42,330 --> 00:28:44,390 From the mountains to the sea, no more 703 00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:46,010 beautiful place in the world to live. 704 00:28:48,730 --> 00:28:52,150 And I would not be guilty of betraying 705 00:28:52,150 --> 00:28:54,030 my neighbors and my friends. 706 00:28:54,750 --> 00:28:57,030 I tell you tonight, after studying this book 707 00:28:57,030 --> 00:29:00,510 for 20 years, there is no other name 708 00:29:00,510 --> 00:29:03,210 given among men whereby we must be saved 709 00:29:03,210 --> 00:29:04,470 except the name of Jesus. 710 00:29:05,050 --> 00:29:07,310 There is no other way of salvation except 711 00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:08,410 at the foot of the cross. 712 00:29:09,130 --> 00:29:10,910 And when I look at that cross tonight, 713 00:29:11,030 --> 00:29:12,070 I see four things. 714 00:29:12,430 --> 00:29:14,590 I see first the terribleness of sin. 715 00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:16,430 I know that I'm a sinner. 716 00:29:16,950 --> 00:29:18,850 When I look at Christ dying in my 717 00:29:18,850 --> 00:29:20,810 place on the cross and realize the things 718 00:29:20,810 --> 00:29:22,450 that I've done and that it was my 719 00:29:22,450 --> 00:29:24,710 sins that nailed Him there, I must cry 720 00:29:24,710 --> 00:29:26,610 out to God, Oh God, I am a 721 00:29:26,610 --> 00:29:26,790 sinner. 722 00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:30,430 And then the second thing I see is 723 00:29:30,430 --> 00:29:31,950 the amazing love of God. 724 00:29:32,090 --> 00:29:35,310 But God commended His love toward us in 725 00:29:35,310 --> 00:29:37,830 that while we were yet sinners, Christ died 726 00:29:37,830 --> 00:29:38,190 for us. 727 00:29:38,330 --> 00:29:39,710 You rebelled against God. 728 00:29:39,830 --> 00:29:41,010 You've sinned against God. 729 00:29:41,310 --> 00:29:43,110 You've done things that you know you shouldn't 730 00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:43,430 have done. 731 00:29:43,510 --> 00:29:45,470 You've helped even crucify Jesus. 732 00:29:46,370 --> 00:29:48,190 But in spite of it, God loves you. 733 00:29:48,790 --> 00:29:50,770 And on the cross there is written in 734 00:29:50,770 --> 00:29:56,250 gigantic letters in neon fire, God so loved 735 00:29:56,250 --> 00:29:59,130 the world that He gave His only begotten 736 00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,750 Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not 737 00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:03,310 perish but have everlasting life. 738 00:30:03,570 --> 00:30:05,050 There is the love of God. 739 00:30:05,690 --> 00:30:07,530 And if you have any doubt concerning the 740 00:30:07,530 --> 00:30:09,190 love of God, look at the cross. 741 00:30:09,870 --> 00:30:11,630 It was there that He died for us. 742 00:30:12,530 --> 00:30:16,350 Thirdly, in that cross I find my complete 743 00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:16,790 redemption. 744 00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:19,530 Christ bowed His head and said, It's finished. 745 00:30:20,150 --> 00:30:21,670 I can't add anything to it. 746 00:30:21,710 --> 00:30:23,010 I can't take anything away. 747 00:30:23,410 --> 00:30:24,690 It's there in the cross. 748 00:30:25,050 --> 00:30:26,330 And if I'm ever to get to heaven, 749 00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:27,490 I'll have to come to the cross. 750 00:30:27,610 --> 00:30:29,330 If I'm ever to have sins forgiven, I'll 751 00:30:29,330 --> 00:30:30,350 have to come to the cross. 752 00:30:30,350 --> 00:30:32,430 And I want to ask you tonight, have 753 00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:33,270 you been to the cross? 754 00:30:34,550 --> 00:30:36,550 Are you sure that you've had this encounter 755 00:30:36,550 --> 00:30:37,590 with God at the cross? 756 00:30:38,150 --> 00:30:39,590 You may be a member of the church. 757 00:30:40,490 --> 00:30:42,010 You may live a moral life. 758 00:30:42,930 --> 00:30:44,150 You may be a decent person. 759 00:30:44,770 --> 00:30:46,350 I don't know who you are, what you 760 00:30:46,350 --> 00:30:46,650 are. 761 00:30:47,830 --> 00:30:49,410 It doesn't make any difference what race you 762 00:30:49,410 --> 00:30:52,250 come from, what your nationality background is, what 763 00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:54,250 state you live in, how rich or how 764 00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:55,970 poor, how educated or uneducated. 765 00:30:56,130 --> 00:30:57,410 You have to come to the cross. 766 00:30:58,250 --> 00:30:59,610 You say, but Billy that's foolish. 767 00:30:59,950 --> 00:31:01,170 Do you mean to say I can't be 768 00:31:01,170 --> 00:31:02,870 accepted by God unless I come to the 769 00:31:02,870 --> 00:31:03,110 cross? 770 00:31:03,230 --> 00:31:03,690 That's right. 771 00:31:04,790 --> 00:31:06,590 And the Bible says the preaching of the 772 00:31:06,590 --> 00:31:09,470 cross is foolishness to them that perish. 773 00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:11,150 God said you'd say it's foolish. 774 00:31:12,110 --> 00:31:13,930 You may be a PhD in the university, 775 00:31:14,430 --> 00:31:16,150 but if you're ever to have peace of 776 00:31:16,150 --> 00:31:18,550 soul with God, you'll have to come like 777 00:31:18,550 --> 00:31:19,990 a little child to the foot of the 778 00:31:19,990 --> 00:31:20,370 cross. 779 00:31:20,650 --> 00:31:22,310 You won't understand it intellectually. 780 00:31:22,610 --> 00:31:23,290 You never will. 781 00:31:23,990 --> 00:31:26,390 You'll never understand the atonement all the way. 782 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:28,570 You'll never be able to make it all 783 00:31:28,570 --> 00:31:28,950 out. 784 00:31:29,630 --> 00:31:32,990 But you come in simple childlike faith and 785 00:31:32,990 --> 00:31:33,910 give your life to Christ. 786 00:31:34,010 --> 00:31:35,690 You may be the biggest businessman in North 787 00:31:35,690 --> 00:31:36,090 Carolina. 788 00:31:37,410 --> 00:31:39,130 You may be a society leader. 789 00:31:39,710 --> 00:31:41,130 You may be a union official. 790 00:31:41,750 --> 00:31:43,030 You may be a laboring man. 791 00:31:43,690 --> 00:31:45,670 Whoever you are, whatever you are, you'll have 792 00:31:45,670 --> 00:31:47,310 to come through the same gate into the 793 00:31:47,310 --> 00:31:47,570 kingdom. 794 00:31:47,890 --> 00:31:50,110 And Jesus said it's a narrow gate and 795 00:31:50,110 --> 00:31:51,250 the gate is the cross. 796 00:31:52,090 --> 00:31:53,610 And if you are not sure that you've 797 00:31:53,610 --> 00:31:56,190 been there renouncing your sin and receiving Christ, 798 00:31:56,190 --> 00:31:57,410 you've come tonight. 799 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,110 Because I do not see how any person 800 00:32:00,110 --> 00:32:01,530 could resist the love of God. 801 00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,210 Many people ask me, what is the unpardonable 802 00:32:04,210 --> 00:32:04,490 sin? 803 00:32:04,550 --> 00:32:06,110 I'll tell you the sin that God cannot 804 00:32:06,110 --> 00:32:06,550 pardon. 805 00:32:06,970 --> 00:32:10,070 Any man or woman that rejects or resists 806 00:32:10,070 --> 00:32:13,110 his son, Jesus Christ, who died, that's the 807 00:32:13,110 --> 00:32:14,130 unpardonable sin. 808 00:32:14,510 --> 00:32:16,630 There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. 809 00:32:16,930 --> 00:32:18,150 There is no other way. 810 00:32:18,510 --> 00:32:20,390 And I tell you, my beloved friends of 811 00:32:20,390 --> 00:32:22,990 this great nation, there is only one way 812 00:32:22,990 --> 00:32:26,110 of forgiveness and redemption and salvation, and that's 813 00:32:26,110 --> 00:32:26,750 in the cross. 814 00:32:27,030 --> 00:32:28,670 And I'm asking you to come to the 815 00:32:28,670 --> 00:32:29,330 cross tonight. 816 00:32:29,870 --> 00:32:31,770 I'm asking you to come by faith and 817 00:32:31,770 --> 00:32:33,350 say, oh God, I have sinned. 818 00:32:33,510 --> 00:32:35,610 Oh God, I'm sorry for the things I've 819 00:32:35,610 --> 00:32:35,850 done. 820 00:32:36,170 --> 00:32:38,350 I come and by faith receive thy son, 821 00:32:38,530 --> 00:32:39,270 Jesus Christ. 822 00:32:40,290 --> 00:32:41,410 Don't neglect it. 823 00:32:41,910 --> 00:32:43,390 Don't put it off till another night. 824 00:32:43,830 --> 00:32:45,610 You may never have another moment quite like 825 00:32:45,610 --> 00:32:46,090 this tonight. 826 00:32:46,770 --> 00:32:48,290 I'm going to ask all of you in 827 00:32:48,290 --> 00:32:49,570 this building to get up out of your 828 00:32:49,570 --> 00:32:51,450 seat right now, hundreds of you. 829 00:32:51,550 --> 00:32:53,830 Just get up now and come and stand 830 00:32:53,830 --> 00:32:56,470 right here in front and say tonight, I 831 00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:57,310 want Christ. 832 00:32:57,470 --> 00:32:59,590 I will identify myself with him at the 833 00:32:59,590 --> 00:32:59,950 cross. 834 00:33:00,470 --> 00:33:02,390 I'm ready to turn from my sins. 835 00:33:02,490 --> 00:33:04,270 I'm ready to give myself to Christ. 836 00:33:04,690 --> 00:33:06,190 I want him to fill my life. 837 00:33:06,670 --> 00:33:08,390 I want him to help solve my problems 838 00:33:08,390 --> 00:33:11,230 and forgive my sins and lift my burdens. 839 00:33:11,850 --> 00:33:13,090 I want him to come in and be 840 00:33:13,090 --> 00:33:13,990 closer than a brother. 841 00:33:14,390 --> 00:33:16,450 I want him to come in and help 842 00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:18,670 me and forgive me and cleanse me. 843 00:33:19,290 --> 00:33:20,970 I'm willing to come and meet him at 844 00:33:20,970 --> 00:33:21,490 the cross. 845 00:33:21,810 --> 00:33:23,310 God says I want to meet you. 846 00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:25,810 I want to help you, but I'll only 847 00:33:25,810 --> 00:33:27,370 meet you and help you one place and 848 00:33:27,370 --> 00:33:28,090 that's the cross. 849 00:33:28,370 --> 00:33:29,970 And it may look foolish to say get 850 00:33:29,970 --> 00:33:31,010 up out of your seat and come. 851 00:33:31,310 --> 00:33:33,130 Don't ask me how it happens. 852 00:33:33,310 --> 00:33:34,830 I only know when a man comes to 853 00:33:34,830 --> 00:33:36,430 Christ he can never be the same again. 854 00:33:36,910 --> 00:33:38,750 I only know that his life is changed 855 00:33:38,750 --> 00:33:39,890 if he comes to the cross. 856 00:33:40,230 --> 00:33:41,450 And I'm going to ask you to come 857 00:33:41,450 --> 00:33:44,430 right now, hundreds of you all over the 858 00:33:44,430 --> 00:33:44,690 building. 859 00:33:44,850 --> 00:33:46,170 Just get up out of your seat at 860 00:33:46,170 --> 00:33:48,810 this moment, every head bowed, every eye closed. 861 00:33:49,170 --> 00:33:51,730 And after you've all come, we're going to 862 00:33:51,730 --> 00:33:53,090 have a moment of prayer and a verse 863 00:33:53,090 --> 00:33:53,570 of scripture. 864 00:33:54,390 --> 00:33:56,210 And if you're with friends or relatives, they'll 865 00:33:56,210 --> 00:33:56,450 wait. 866 00:33:57,010 --> 00:33:58,630 If you've come in a delegation, they'll wait 867 00:33:58,630 --> 00:33:59,210 on you. 868 00:33:59,650 --> 00:34:01,870 And you at home, right where you are, 869 00:34:01,930 --> 00:34:04,050 can receive Christ right in your living room 870 00:34:04,050 --> 00:34:06,050 as hundreds of people are going to come 871 00:34:06,050 --> 00:34:07,650 here to give their lives to Christ as 872 00:34:07,650 --> 00:34:09,730 they have every night this week here in 873 00:34:09,730 --> 00:34:10,050 Charlotte. 874 00:34:10,870 --> 00:34:12,190 Now you come, quickly. 875 00:34:14,889 --> 00:34:15,850 All over the building. 876 00:34:16,130 --> 00:34:16,969 Just get up right now. 877 00:34:17,090 --> 00:34:18,030 Come, hundreds of you. 878 00:34:19,010 --> 00:34:19,510 That's it. 879 00:34:19,690 --> 00:34:21,770 God bless you. 880 00:35:09,820 --> 00:35:12,020 Many people are coming from all over this 881 00:35:12,020 --> 00:35:13,760 building to give their lives to Christ. 882 00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:17,980 Right there, you can give your life to 883 00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:18,080 him. 884 00:35:20,650 --> 00:35:22,670 It's so simple that many people stumble over 885 00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:22,850 it. 886 00:35:22,890 --> 00:35:23,950 They make it complicated. 887 00:35:24,950 --> 00:35:26,630 You bow your head right in your room, 888 00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:28,530 right now. 889 00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:29,630 Just bow your head. 890 00:35:33,260 --> 00:35:35,760 And just quietly say in your heart, I 891 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:36,860 give my life to Christ. 892 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,140 Then go to church tomorrow morning. 893 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,020 Go tell the minister at the church what 894 00:35:42,020 --> 00:35:42,540 you've done. 895 00:35:43,260 --> 00:35:44,780 Tell him you want the fellowship in the 896 00:35:44,780 --> 00:35:45,000 church. 897 00:35:45,620 --> 00:35:47,380 And then write to me, Billy Graham, here 898 00:35:47,380 --> 00:35:49,520 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we'll send to 899 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,300 you the same literature that we send or 900 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:54,840 we give to these people that are coming 901 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:55,660 forward here tonight. 902 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,080 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 903 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,240 in Classic Sermons series. 904 00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:21,660 This week you heard Billy Graham with his 905 00:36:21,660 --> 00:36:23,260 message, The Great Judgment. 906 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:25,200 Tune in next week to hear A.W. 907 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,020 Tozer talk about girding up your mind on 908 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:30,000 From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.