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In this timeless sermon from East Rutherford, New Jersey, Billy Graham delivers a powerful message on faith, repentance, and the transformative power of the Gospel. Join us as we revisit this classic sermon that continues to inspire and challenge believers today. Graham's heartfelt call to return to Christian values and seek a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is as relevant now as it was then. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the enduring wisdom and passion of one of history's greatest evangelists.
In this timeless sermon from East Rutherford, New Jersey, Billy Graham delivers a powerful message on faith, repentance, and the transformative power of the Gospel. Join us as we revisit this classic sermon that continues to inspire and challenge believers today. Graham's heartfelt call to return to Christian values and seek a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is as relevant now as it was then. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the enduring wisdom and passion of one of history's greatest evangelists.
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00:00Do you number your days? Do you realize how important every single day is?
00:10I want to speak tonight on the brevity of life.
00:15Do you know in the days of Jesus, as fast as a person could go was as fast as a horse could run.
00:21And that happened all the way until 1830, when we developed an engine faster than a horse.
00:31Think of that. Those hundreds and thousands of years, all as fast as you could go, was on horseback.
00:39Then in 1910, we developed a military aircraft that went 42 miles an hour.
00:44And then I remember very well, just like it was yesterday, when Lindbergh took off for Paris.
00:53And in 33 hours, he was in Paris. And we thought that was really something.
00:58Today we get on a Concorde, or some people do.
01:02And they're there in three and a half hours.
01:06You know, we've invented all of these modern things to save time.
01:11And we have less time than ever before.
01:13We have a lot less time now than my father and mother had in the horse and buggy days.
01:19And yet we have fast automobiles and fast airplanes, and we're running from place to place like mad people.
01:26And most of us don't know what we're going to do when we get there.
01:31Time is collapsing on us.
01:34How much longer do we have?
01:36You have so much time, but for what?
01:43You have time to serve Christ.
01:46You have time to live according to His will.
01:49You have time to obey Him.
01:52Have you done like the psalmist said in 3115,
01:55and put yourself at God's disposal when He said,
01:59My times are in your hands?
02:02And what are you going to do with those years?
02:07Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.
02:11Do you know how many minutes there are in a day?
02:131,440.
02:16Do you know how many hours there are in a week?
02:20168.
02:21Now, if you live to be 70,
02:24your first 15 is childhood or adolescence.
02:28You spend 20 years in bed.
02:31The last five years, the physical limitations,
02:34and you're curtailing your activities.
02:36That means you only have 30 years left for everything else.
02:4130 years to live.
02:43And part of that time has to be spent eating
02:45and working
02:48and figuring up your income tax.
02:53The scripture asks this question,
02:55What is your life?
02:57It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time
03:00and then vanisheth away.
03:02Our time is already in God's hands.
03:07God has a day already set
03:09for you being taken from this world.
03:12It may be in an accident.
03:14It may be a cancer.
03:16It may be a heart attack.
03:18Whatever it is,
03:19it's already set.
03:22You will stand before the great judgment of God
03:25to give an account of how you spent this life
03:27and what you did about Jesus Christ
03:29because God gave his son
03:32to die for your sins
03:33because, you see,
03:34we're all sinners.
03:36We all have the same disease.
03:37I don't care what the color of your skin is.
03:39God doesn't look at the color of your skin.
03:42God looks at your heart
03:43and God sees that you have a spiritual heart disease
03:47and that spiritual heart disease is called sin.
03:51And we're all sinners.
03:52It's interesting to me that rich people
03:54cannot buy more alums.
03:56Scientists cannot invent new minutes.
04:01You cannot even save time
04:02to spend it on another day.
04:05The scripture says that we're to redeem the time.
04:08It's a phrase out of the business world.
04:10It means to buy the time.
04:13Take 10% of your time and say,
04:15Lord, this is yours
04:16for Bible study, for prayer.
04:19Have you committed your whole life to Christ?
04:23Has that ever happened to you?
04:24Oh, you say, yes, I've been baptized.
04:27I've been confirmed.
04:30I go once in a while to church.
04:34I think about God once in a while.
04:38But have you really committed to it?
04:40Are you totally committed to him?
04:42And are you sure if you died at this moment,
04:44you'd go to heaven?
04:46Are you certain your sins are forgiven?
04:47That's why Christ came and died on the cross
04:50and shed his blood.
04:52And God raised him from the dead.
04:56And God raised him from the dead.
05:01And then there's the tyranny of time.
05:03It controls us.
05:04And we become frustrated
05:06running from one thing to another
05:09because we don't feel that we have enough time
05:11to get everything done that needs to be done.
05:14Jesus said, I must work the works of him
05:16that sent me while it is day.
05:19The night cometh when no man can work.
05:21The night is going to come to you
05:22and you won't have an opportunity to serve God.
05:25Serve him while you can.
05:26Serve him now.
05:28Put him first in your life.
05:31Yet at the end of his life,
05:33he said, I've finished the work
05:35that you gave me to do.
05:37God has a plan for your life.
05:42And you can finish it
05:43with God's help.
05:45And he'll give you a joy and a peace
05:47that you never dreamed existed
05:48if you put your confidence in him.
05:52Oh yes, when Jesus left the earth,
05:55there were people that needed to be healed
05:57and lives that needed to be touched.
05:59But Jesus said he had finished the work
06:02that had been assigned to him
06:03by the Father.
06:05God has assigned a work
06:08that only you can fill.
06:09You are unique.
06:11Nobody can take your place.
06:14And God needs you in his kingdom.
06:20Time can be our tool,
06:22but we can also be its slave.
06:25Even so, time is amazingly fair
06:28and forgiving.
06:29No matter how much time
06:30you've wasted in the past,
06:32you can still have tomorrow.
06:35Adlai Stevenson once said,
06:38it's not the days of your life,
06:40but the life in your days that count.
06:43You have to buy it.
06:45What is the price you have to pay?
06:47The price is that you have no time
06:54for certain things.
06:56We shouldn't drift along haphazardly
06:59doing all the pleasures
07:01and all the drinking
07:02and all the other things that are wrong.
07:05God wants us to love others.
07:08The main thing that he wants us to do
07:10is to love your neighbor
07:11and love people of another race.
07:13The one thing that distinguishes
07:17a believer from others
07:18is love that dominates your life.
07:23Your life should be carefully planned.
07:26Then there's the termination of time.
07:29Brethren, the Apostle Paul said
07:31in 1 Corinthians,
07:32time is short.
07:34In Revelation, it tells us
07:36that time shall be no more.
07:37Jesus and his disciples
07:40spent the 94 verses of Matthew 24
07:43to the end of the chapter 25,
07:46talking about the end of the age.
07:49As we approach the end of the age,
07:51we read in Revelation 12
07:52that the devil will be frantically active
07:55because he knows
07:57that his days are numbered.
08:01Yes, there is a devil.
08:03There is a Satan.
08:04He's a real person.
08:05And they're real demons.
08:08And they're going to battle
08:09for your soul tonight
08:11because Satan does not want
08:14to give you up.
08:16He'll battle to keep you in his kingdom
08:18because there are two kingdoms.
08:20There's the devil's kingdom
08:22and there's God's kingdom.
08:23And you have the right to make a choice
08:25which one you want to be in.
08:27In Romans 13,
08:30the Apostle says,
08:31knowing the time,
08:32that now it is high time
08:34to awake out of sleep
08:36for now is our salvation
08:37nearer than when we believed.
08:39The night is far spent.
08:41The day is at hand.
08:42Let us therefore cast off
08:43the works of darkness
08:44and let us put on the armor of light.
08:47The Bible several times
08:49uses the phrase,
08:50the time is at hand.
08:53Jesus told us to discern
08:55the signs of the times.
08:57One of the signs is
08:59that iniquity shall abound.
09:02Pick up your newspapers
09:03and watch your newscasts.
09:05Iniquity is abounding everywhere.
09:08Not just in New York,
09:09not just in New Jersey,
09:10but throughout the world.
09:13When the role is called in heaven,
09:15will you be there?
09:16Is your name written
09:17on the book of life?
09:19Because the scripture says
09:20if your name is not
09:21on the Lamb's book of life,
09:22you'll never enter heaven.
09:25Your name right now
09:26is on what is called
09:27in the Bible,
09:27the books and under your name
09:30are all the sins
09:32that you ever committed,
09:33all the things
09:33that you've ever thought
09:34that are wrong,
09:35all of your intents
09:36that are wrong.
09:37It's all there.
09:39Record it.
09:41And we'll face you
09:42at the judgment.
09:44But when you come to Christ
09:46and present yourself
09:48wholly and completely
09:49to Him as Savior and Lord,
09:51He blots out everything
09:53in those books
09:54and writes your name
09:56in another book,
09:57the book of life,
09:59the Lamb's book.
10:01Is your name written there?
10:02If my name was not written there
10:03and I didn't know it,
10:04I wouldn't leave this building
10:05tonight until I was sure.
10:07Because there may never
10:09be another moment
10:10like this in your life.
10:12This is your hour with God.
10:13And then the brevity of time
10:17calls for immediate action.
10:20The fact that time is short
10:21calls for us to do something
10:23about it now
10:24because the scripture says
10:25in 2 Corinthians 6,
10:272,
10:28now is the accepted time,
10:31not tomorrow,
10:32today.
10:35Things you ought to do,
10:36do it now.
10:37Money you ought to give,
10:38give it now.
10:39People you ought to witness to,
10:41witness now.
10:42Every time the clock ticks,
10:44it seems to say now.
10:47Today,
10:47if you will hear His voice,
10:49harden not your heart.
10:50You can harden your heart.
10:51You hear a message like this
10:53and it can be very dangerous
10:54because you'll harden your heart.
10:57And the next time
10:58you hear the gospel,
10:59your heart will be harder
11:02and harder and harder.
11:05Come to Christ now.
11:06If there's even a whisper
11:07in your heart
11:08that you need to come,
11:09you come.
11:11Then there's the warning of time.
11:13It will someday be too late
11:14for your soul.
11:16Time is too short
11:17for indecision and vacillation.
11:19Don't halt between two opinions.
11:23Fools say there's plenty of time.
11:26The devil says there's plenty of time.
11:29Every morning you have
11:3086,400 seconds to spend
11:34and to invest.
11:35Each day the bank name time
11:37opens a new account with you.
11:39There may be no tomorrow.
11:42Come now.
11:44When I tell you,
11:45you need to come
11:46and make your commitment to Christ
11:47with these hundreds and thousands
11:48that have already come
11:49in this crusade,
11:51the devil will say,
11:53wait another time,
11:55another place.
11:57This is not the time.
11:59This is the time.
12:00The very fact you are here
12:01indicates it's the time.
12:02By some strange coincidence
12:07or providence,
12:08God has brought you here tonight.
12:11And before you came,
12:13you thought you were all right with God,
12:14but now you're not sure.
12:16And you want to make sure.
12:18You want to be certain.
12:19Yes,
12:22the devil always says,
12:23yes,
12:24do it.
12:25But some other time
12:26and some other place,
12:29God says,
12:30here and now.
12:32You want to make sure.
12:46You want to make sure you are here
12:51in the middle part?
12:51Do you want to make sure you are here?