Good morning,
I have been blessed and very privileged to have attended several Billy Graham Evangelistic crusades and the Pastors' schools conducted by the the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Ihave attended several Crusades. I recently heard an interview on the internet which was first on TV, the most recent interview of Billy Graham with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren. It took place on Monday, December 20, 2010. Graham said, “I have a tremendous amount of hope because I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead. I believe he is alive right now. My wife is already in heaven. I look forward to seeing her definitely in the near future because I’m 92 now and I know that my time is limited on this earth. But I have tremendous hope in the fact I’ll be in the future life . And I’ll be there because of what Jesus Christ did for me on the cross and by the resurrection. And this gives me a great deal of hope.”
VAN SUSTEREN: If you were to do things over again, would you do it differently?
GRAHAM: Yes. I would study more. I would pray more, travel less, take less speaking engagements. I took too many of them in too many places around the world. If I had it to do over again, I’d spend more time in meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love him and adore him and looking forward to the time we’re going to spend together for eternity.
Billy Graham is something of an Abraham when it comes to living by faith. Although I believe that Billy Graham would be humble enough to say that his faith doesn’t even come close to that of Abraham. Billy Graham has preached Christ to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings.
In Abraham’s walk with God he exercised great faith. Abraham’s faith was evident when God called him to leave his home country and go to a foreign land.
Genesis 12:1, 4, “The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
It took a lot of faith on Abraham’s part to leave his home country for a place he had never seen, but he trusted God. He walked by faith. When Billy Graham traveled to those 185 different countries he knew where he was going and his traveling method was quite different from Abraham’s means of traveling. There was more to come that would test Abraham’s walk of faith. The greatest test of all was yet to come!
Genesis 22:2 “Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Wow! Amazing! But Abraham also had amazing faith in God. Hebrews 11:17-19 "By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.
Abraham’s faith was so strong that he believed that God could or would raise his son Isaac from the dead! HOW’S THAT FOR FAITH?!
In Jesus our Lord,
Brown
Saturday evening worship service.
Location: First United Methodist Church. Endicott
53 McKinley Avenue, Endicott.
Sponsored by the Union Center United Methodist Church, 128, Maple Drive, Endicott
Saturday 15, 2011
6 PM Gathering: Pizza,Chicken Wings, and Coffee.
6:30 PM Worship Service
Worship Music by a local worship Team, and Dave Berry
Speakers: Rev. Bill Turner,
Rev. Brown Naik,
Dr. Elizabeth Droz, PhD, Dean of Students at Binghamton University
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