Billy Graham in San Diego, CA, on August 18, 1976.
you see happiness doesn’t depend on
abundance happiness depends on something
else it depends on something deeper and
the Bible says Isaiah the prophet said
there is no peace saith the Lord to the
wicked I don’t care how rich you get and
how powerful you get there will be no
peace in your heart if you don’t know
God now that word wicked doesn’t mean
that you do wicked things it means that
you’re just away from God you’ll be like
the Restless sea the Bible says if you
ever looked out at the sea and watched
how restless it is it’s coming and it’s
going the Bible says that’s the heart of
the person who doesn’t know Christ
that’s the way his party is always
restless the Bible says be not deceived
God is not mocked whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap
but the Bible also says blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven and whose
sins are covered that word blessed means
happy if you have your sins forgiven and
your iniquities have been covered by the
blood of Christ
then there’s happiness and there’s joy
and this peace and God can forgive sin
because of the Cross God has sent his
son the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the
cross and he put all of your sins on him
he became the sin bearer he became the
scapegoat he was the one that took the
penalty for your sins and because of
that God says I love you I can forgive
you there’s hope there’s joy there’s
purpose there’s meaning because he lives
I can face tomorrow I’m looking forward
to that day when I’ll see Christ face to
face are you does he live in your heart
now would you like that hope and would
you like that peace and would you like
that joy would you like to know that all
your sins are forgiven would you like to
know
that you are going to heaven you can
tonight on the authority of God’s Word
I can promise it to you tonight you
don’t get eternal life when you die you
get it right here and now tonight