Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Monday, April 13, 2020
Shine Your Light
Matthew 5:16---Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
which is in heaven.
One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion.
Tom Allan, Scotland’s famous young preacher, was brought to Christ
while a black soldier was singing, “Were You There When They Crucified My
Lord?”
He said it was neither the song nor the voice, but the spirit in which
that soldier sang—something about his manner, something about his sincerity of
expression—that convicted him of his wicked life and turned him to the Savior.
Our faith grows by expression. If we want to keep our faith, we must
share it—we must witness.
By Billy Graham
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Transformed By Grace
2 Corinthians 5:21---He hath made him
to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God . .
Augustine was one of the greatest theologians of all time.
He was a wild, intemperate, immoral youth.
In spite of his mother’s pleadings and prayers, he grew worse instead
of better.
But one day he had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ that
transformed his life.
His restlessness and the practice of sin disappeared.
He became one of the great saints of all time.
John Newton was a slave trader on the west coast of Africa.
One day in a storm at sea he met Jesus Christ.
He went back to England and became an Anglican clergyman.
He wrote scores of hymns, one of which has become the modern popular
song, “Amazing Grace.”
This is what Christ can do for anyone who puts his trust in Him.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Saturday, April 11, 2020
What Is Most Important?
1 Corinthians 15:13,14,20---But if there be no resurrection of the dead,
then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching
vain, and your faith is also vain. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and
become the firstfruits of them that slept.
I was invited to have coffee one morning with Konrad Adenauer before he
retired as the Chancellor of Germany.
When I walked in, I expected to meet a tall, stiff, formal man who
might even be embarrassed if I brought up the subject of religion.
After the greeting, the Chancellor suddenly turned to me and said, “Mr.
Graham, what is the most important thing in the world?”
Before I could answer, he had answered his own question.
He said, “The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
If Jesus Christ is alive, then there is hope for the world.
If Jesus Christ is in the grave, then I don’t see the slightest glimmer
of hope on the horizon.”
Then he amazed me by saying that he believed that the resurrection of
Christ was one of the best-attested facts of history.
He said, “When I leave office, I intend to spend the rest of my life
gathering scientific proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
It was the fact of the resurrection of Christ that called the disciples
to go out as burning young revolutionaries to change the world of their day.
They preached that Christ is alive. This should be our message every
day of the year.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Friday, April 10, 2020
Do Not Trust Your Heart
Luke 23:33---
And when they were come to the
place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of
rejecting the best and accepting the worst.
Why did the crowd ask for the release of Barabbas and the crucifixion
of Jesus?
The answer is in the biblical statement, “The heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked.”
Jesus is just as divine today and just as much alive as He was on that
first Good Friday.
Yet millions today don’t accept Him.
His goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows
up our impurities; His sinless life still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we
allow Him to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to
destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.
Dr. Billy Graham
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Unchanging Human Nature
John 1:29---The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
At the cross of Christ, sin reached its climax.
Its most terrible display took place at Calvary.
It was never blacker or more hideous.
We see the human heart laid bare and its corruption fully exposed.
Some people have said that man has improved since that day that if Christ
came back today, He would not be crucified but would be given a glorious
reception.
Christ does come to us every day in the form of Bibles that we do not
read, in the form of churches that we do not attend, in the form of human need
that we pass by.
I am convinced that if Christ came back today, He would be crucified
more quickly than He was two thousand years ago.
Sin never improves.
Human nature has not changed.
By Dr. Billy Graham
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
What Makes Christianity Different?
Luke 24:6---He
is not here, but is risen.
Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the
world.
Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our
Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose
again.
Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and
is alive at this moment.
Many gravestones carry the inscription, “Here lies . . . ,” but on
Christ’s tomb are emblazoned the words, “He is not here.”
Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no
tombs at which to worship.
Many good men have lived, and still live, in the memory of those who
knew them, but there is only one man who conquered death—Jesus Christ—and He
will live forever.
Dr. Billy Graham
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