Billy Graham from Fargo, ND, 1987

you can’t change your past but Christ

can Christ can change the past by

covering your sins with his blood and

forgiving all the sins and mistakes you

ever made that’s a wonderful thing

because God has a set of tapes in which

everything you’ve ever said everything

you’ve ever done and everything you’ve

ever thought is there and will be played

at the judgment but if you come to

Christ and surrender totally to him he

wipes out the tapes he erases the tapes

and no one will ever hear them

somebody says follow your conscience but

your conscience may be seared or it may

be dead it may be no good it’ll lead you

wrong you can be sincere but be wrong

and many of you can be sincere in your

beliefs in in what you’re doing and the

way you’re living but deep in your heart

you’re wrong you’re not going according

to the scriptures you’re not going

according to what Christ says and the

scripture says you must come to the

cross and repent of your sins and let

Christ forgive your sins from the cross

and wash your sins by his own blood and

receive the righteousness of God God has

an ability that you don’t have he has

the ability to forget he forgets our

sins and that’s the most thrilling

thought in the world is to go to bed at

night and know that your sins are

forgiven many of you must decide this

afternoon before you leave here every

person here will decide one way or the

other about your relationship to God

some of you need to rededicate your life

to Christ some of you need a new

experience with Christ others of you

need to come to Christ perhaps for the

first time in total surrender of your

life to him if you’re going to be

forgiven of your sins if you’re going to

get to heaven what about you do you know

Christ are you ready for death because

it’s coming and for some of you there’s

no way out

there’s pressures and troubles and

trials in your life and difficulties and

problems and there seems to be no answer

it may be you and your wife you just

can’t seem to make it you you you love

each other and yet you don’t and you

fight in your scrap is there anywhere

else yes there’s a way Jesus said I am

the way the choice that some of you make

today will decide where your children

are going to be where your grandchildren

are going to be what their lives are

going to be like it’s the choices that

we make Moses said I call heaven and

earth to record this day that I’ve set

before you life and death blessing and

cursing therefore choose life that both

you and your children may live it

affected future generations what are you

going to do about it