On July 20, 1957, Billy Graham preached to 100,000 at Yankee Stadium. At that time, it was the largest crowd to pack the venue.
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this is Yankee Stadium New York this is
an historic hour you’re attending by
television the largest evangelistic
gathering together in American history
the climactic meeting of the Billy
Graham New York crusade by 9:00 this
morning the parking lots of Jason’s this
ballpark were filling up by mid
afternoon they were overflowing tonight
not a seat remains unoccupied in a
stadium that can hold 80,000 and others
lined the infield and outfield to a
point of saturation it beggars belief
that one other individual can be crowded
into these premises all of the gates of
Yankee Stadium have been closed
thousands of others are milling about
out on the extra perimeter of Yankee
Stadium beyond the confines of the
stadium itself and those will be served
by loudspeakers that have been placed
there for their convenience up until
this moment the greatest crowd ever to
attend one evangelistic meeting in the
United States was in the Cotton Bowl
Dallas 1953 75,000 were there more than
100,000 are here and now we have a very
special guest this evening and we’re
going to ask mr. Billy Graham to come
and introduce that guest for us I think
the man that I’m going to introduce is
probably one of the hardest working men
in the United States he has certainly
brought new luster to the office of vice
president he has become America’s number
one ambassador of goodwill it’s been my
privilege to follow in some of his
footsteps in other parts of the world
and found his popularity tremendous
overseas wherever he is gone he’s a
young man with vision and I found him to
be a man of humility and integrity and
courage and we invited him here tonight
and I think that whatever your party
affiliation and I’m sure that they’re
Democrats as well as Republicans here
that we all admiring as a great vice
president
and as a loyal American he came from a
Christian home he has a Christian
heritage and we appreciate his taking
time out of his busy schedules to be
with us here at Yankee Stadium tonight
vice president
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dr. Gramm distinguished guests on the
platform behind me and ladies and
gentlemen may I first bring through this
great audience here in Yankee Stadium
and those who are listening on
television radio a message from one who
is a very good friend of Billy Graham
and one whom I know would like to have
been area his duties would have allowed
it the greetings and best wishes wishes
of the President of the United States
right the eyes now
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now Billy has given me permission to as
he says say a few words I preside over a
body in which nobody says a few words
but under any and any event I know that
all of you as well as I are looking
forward to hearing Billy Graham tonight
and not hearing me
but I do welcome the privilege of saying
just a word to this great audience on
this occasion one cannot stand as I do
in the center of the baseball diamond
Yankee Stadium with this tremendous
crowd all around us without thinking of
what this meeting means and what it
represents as many of you perhaps all of
you were aware this is a very
significant year in the history of
America
it was just 350 years ago that the first
settlers landed its jamestown and just
13 years after that the Mayflower came
to Plymouth Rock my friends in Virginia
incidentally tell me that the only
reason the Mayflower came to
Massachusetts was that it was blown off
its course on the way to Virginia but in
any event when we think of the landing
of jamestown when we think of those
hardy people who crossed the Atlantic in
the Mayflower we inevitably think of why
America has enjoyed the tremendous
progress that we have there are some who
will tell you that America has become
today the most powerful nation in the
world producing almost half the world’s
goods the strongest militarily and
economically that the world has ever
seen that all this has happened because
of the great resources with which we
have been blessed
and it is true that all of us should be
thankful for the fact that we have
enjoyed them have been blessed by the
tremendous natural resources which we
found in this land but we know that
other peoples have had similar
advantages and have not enjoyed the
progress that we’ve had there are others
who will credit America’s progress to
another factor they will say that
America is a great nation today because
Americans are a great people but if you
ever stop to think who the people of
America are ours is no master-race than
the Nazi or fascist sense Americans came
from all the continents from all the
races from all the nations of the world
no when you examine the reasons for
America’s greatness I think we must go
further there are others one of which
certainly is the fact that we have
enjoyed here the blessings of liberty
another of which is the fact that each
individual American should have the
opportunity to make his own contribution
in his own way to the nation’s great but
certainly on such an evening as this I’m
sure we all realize that one of the most
basic reasons for America’s progress in
the past and for our strengths today is
that from the time of our foundation we
have had a deep and abiding faith in God
and that is why this crusade culminating
in this meeting tonight means so much
not just to New York not just to the
Atlantic seaboard but to all of the
Merah
and perhaps to the world as well because
it serves to remind us all of the fact
that we as the people can be only as
great as we have real faith in the
Creator to whom we owe everything that
we enjoy and so with that may I say that
I appreciate the opportunity to express
as a citizen as a government official
appreciation to Billy Graham for the
work that he has done and in expressing
appreciation to him may I add a word
also to those who have worked with it I
realized as you realize that for such a
crusade to be successful it took the
work of literally thousands of people
thousands of I or you will never meet
but thousands who have spent as much
time as anyone up here in front of you
who spent in order to see that this
crusade would be successful and to all
of them I know we express appreciation
and thanks tonight I think for example
of the music we’ve just been hearing
this magnificent choir the organ from
the piano the leader I have never heard
music which was more inspiring I might
say incidentally that some of you might
wonder why I singled out the music I
wouldn’t mention this fact that this
were a political meeting but for five
years I played the piano in the East
Whittier friend Sunday School in
California
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and then finally the man who just
introduced me Billy great if you read
Stanley highs book you will get one
estimate of why Billy Graham has had the
tremendous success that he’s had I think
I am knowing pretty well I played golf
with him and incidentally he isn’t a
very good golfer he can’t even beat me
but in addition to that I have seen him
in Washington I have talked to him in my
office before and after his trips abroad
and I think I know something of why he
has had the great impact here in the
United States and in all the countries
he is visited yes he’s a very eloquent
speaker you have seen him and you’ve
heard him tonight and we’ll hear him
again but that isn’t the major reason in
my opinion because others can be Allison
speakers and not be as effective as he
has been he also is a great organizer
this meeting is the best indication to
that but that alone by itself would not
be enough for his success I think there
are other qualities many perhaps but
just two that I would like to mention
and one is that here is a man who
believes here is a man who is sincere
here is a man when he speaks you feel
that he is talking about something that
he knows that he believes and that he
feels deeply and then there is another
quality a quality which you know as well
as I
for a man to walk into the stadium as he
did tonight to see this tremendous crowd
and still retained humility such a man
is indeed a remarkable person and as we
walked across the stadium and came up to
this platform I remarked about this
crowd and I said Billy you can be proud
that such in my wonderful crowd has come
tonight
why as a matter of fact I just occurred
to me that on October twenty third
fourth and fifth the Yankees will play
the White Sox here at Yankee Stadium
eighteen of the best ball players in the
world and they will have a hard time
getting this stadium filled and so Billy
Graham one man filling it should feel
pretty proud of himself but you know
what he said
you know what he said his reaction was I
didn’t fill this stadium god
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is that may I say I’ve appreciated the
opportunity to be with you to pay my
respects and my tribute to Billy Graham
but most of all to what he stands for
and may I wish for all of you and for
him that God would be with you all the
days of your life thank you
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beyond the highest car and reaches to
the lowest would we we think the Olson
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I’m going to ask that we bow our heads
for prayer and while our heads are bowed
for prayer I’m going to ask that there
be no moving around from this point on
please no whispering no talking
one person moving or one person walking
disturb thousands of people and I’m
going to ask you to give absolute
attention there are thousands of people
here tonight that have burdens that need
to be lifted problems that need to be
solved sin that needs to be forgiven
many of you are searching for a new way
of life you’re searching for joy please
happiness security assurance
assurance that if you died you’d go to
heaven but I want to tell you before you
leave this stadium tonight you can find
an answer to the dilemmas and the
problems and the perplexities of life
your life can be changed it can be
transformed you can become a new person
from this moment on by surrendering your
life to Jesus Christ I’m going to ask
you tonight to listen not only with your
physical is but I’m going to ask you to
listen with the ears of your soul the
Bible teaches that your heart your soul
has is listen if you’ve never listened
tune in those years to the God he has a
message for you tonight our Father and
our God we pray to thy Holy Spirit shall
bring upon this vast congregation of
holy hush and we pray to thy spirit
shall draw and convince and convict and
bring men to the Savior for we ask it in
his name amen
I do not feel that I can read my text
until I say my word of appreciation all
of you that have sacrificed and worked
and prayed for this great and historic
day all of those gracious and thoughtful
words that the vice president has said I
want to hand over to the ones or whom it
belongs all the credit to the person of
our Lord Jesus Christ tonight I want you
to turn with me to this the 32nd chapter
xxxii chapter of the book of Exodus and
the 26th verse night after night I’ve
asked people to bring their Bible I hope
that many of you brought your Bibles
tonight Exodus the 32nd verse in the
26th chapter for our first scripture
here it is where we have a picture of
MOSI standing before a great crowd of
people something like this I know this
sitting the gate of the camp and said
who is on the Lord’s side let him come
under knee and all the sons of Levi the
other themselves together under him then
I want you to turn with me to the book
of Joshua
I’m the 24th chapter in the fifteenth
verse and we read these words and if
it’s been evil unto you to serve the
Lord choose you this day whom you will
serve whether the gods which your
father’s served that won’t the other
side of the flood or the gods of the
amorite in whose land easy well what
else for me and my house we will serve
the Lord and the people answered and
said God forbid that we should forsake
the Lord to serve other gods in these
two passages of Scripture we find two of
the greatest leaders of the Old
Testament Moses and Joshua on both
occasions
the people had wondered into idolatry on
both location Moses and Joshua preached
to the people on both occasions Moses
and Joshua said choose you whom you
shall serve whether the gods of the
other nation or whether you will serve
their true and the Living God tonight I
want to tell you before you leave Yankee
Stadium you too shall have to choose
because there is no neutral ground
concerning Jesus Christ you will have to
choose whether you’re going to serve God
or whether you’re going to serve the
gods of materialism and secularism and
the other gods of America Julius Caesar
once ordered by Pompey to disband his
legions in Gaul we passed this a river
that divided Gaul in Italy instead if I
pass not this river immediately it will
be the beginning of all misfortune that
Gaius care and then he’d go bees carry
it into the river and sit on the Italian
side ready for battle and ready for
destiny
I tell you tonight you won’t have to
make a choice Alexander the Great was
one side how I conquered the world he
said by not wavering tonight I’m going
to ask that you not waver that you not
be indecisive but did you make a
clear-cut choice and to Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Master and Savior just
walk was one of the greatest military
heroes of all time if you remember he
led the spies into the promised land and
with Caleb he made the Minority Report
he led Israel across the Jordan River he
led his rail into the Battle of Jericho
and defeated the hostile tribes of
Canaan he was a man of loyalty and
obedience he was courageous in faithful
and above all he was a man of decision
and action but now the war was over
and Joshua found that the people would
planning purred idolatry and many times
the problems of peace are greater than
the problems of war and the great sin of
America tonight is idolatry the first
commandment says thou shalt have no
other gods before me
and God says if you break that
commandment if you break any of the Ten
Commandments ye shall die and that’s
what sin is the word sin means
transgressor a breaker of God’s law a
breaker of the Ten Commandment or a
coming short of God’s standards in God’s
requirement and God said we’ve all come
short we’ve all broken his laws and one
of the laws that every person in this
stadium tonight has broken is the first
commandment thou shall have no other
gods before me you say well Billy I
don’t have any gods that I make with my
hands that I go out in the backyard of
my home or in my apartment and worship
oh yes but we have American God the gods
of love that gods of secularism the gods
have indifferent
the gods of amusement the gods of all
types of materialism that are rampant
throughout America tonight
and God says you’ll have to make a
choice he said if you want to continue
in your life continue in your sins
continue in your materialism without
giving regards to God he said go ahead
because when God created you he gave for
you an ability that he did not give to
any of his other creatures he gave you
the ability to choose you can live any
kind of life you want to and I say this
reverently there is nothing God can do
about it they told you have a will of
your own you can choose to serve God or
reject God you can choose to serve God
if you like or you can choose to serve
other gods if you like you have the
right to choose and thousands of people
listening to my voice tonight have
chosen
other God you have chosen the other gods
of America and I tell you tonight the
message of the law
of God here the American people tonight
is this choose you this day whom you’ll
serve true soon side you’re going to
beyond Moses said before the people of
his day and said to Joshua sister for
the people in his day and said to Christ
stood before the people of his day and
said choose the people of Israel had
gone into idolatry outwardly they were
followers of God they believed in God I
think most Americans believe in God the
catholic digest recently said that 99%
of the american people now believe in a
supreme being we believe in God but
that’s not enough we believe in God we
are not against God we are not
antagonistic to God we just don’t have
time for God we are so busy too busy
without money making just busy without
places too busy with our amusement too
busy with all the other things of life
we don’t have time for God we don’t have
time for Bible readings we don’t have
time for prayer we don’t have time for
church attendance we don’t have time for
the things of God friends are the things
of the soul the Bible teaches that you
have a body eyes and ears the nose and
hands and feet and that body of yours is
soon going to the grave every heartbeat
is a heartbeat near a desk and every one
of us are headed for death and your body
goes to the grave but you live on your
soul that’s part of you distinctly that
part of you that is called personality
lived forever and the Bible teaches that
the wages of sin is death the results of
your idolatry the results of your sin
means spiritual death it means
separation from God it means destruction
it means hell and thousands of us
tonight are on the broad road that leads
to destruction and tonight I would say
with Moses I would say with Joshua turn
we can’t choose God serve Him
live for him that is the message of God
tonight to this great audience to people
at Yankee Stadium they must decide and
you must decide whether you want to
serve other gods or whether you will
serve the true in the Living God and
Joshua said you must decide now not
tomorrow he said now immediately I
believe that this meeting tonight is not
by accident there is no organization
that we could have had that would have
brought this great cloud there is no man
that could have brought this cloud this
cloud is then brought together I believe
by the Spirit of God using all of us
working together and I don’t believe
anybody is here by accident I believe
you are here by did by an appointment I
believe this is your night with Almighty
God and it may never come again like
this you stand face to face with a
decision with a choice to choose either
the broad road that leads to destruction
or the narrow road that leads to eternal
life and when you walk out of Yankee
Stadium tonight you will be walking one
of those two rows Joshua said regardless
of your decision if I’m the only one in
Israel if I’m the only one left as for
me and my house we will serve the Lord
and I say tonight if I know my own heart
if I’m the only one in New York but
thank God I’m not there are thousands
and multiplied thousands in this city
have said I am NOT going to serve other
god I’m going to serve the true in the
Living God and during the past few weeks
we’ve seen thousands of all walks of
life as they’ve moved out of those great
stands at Madison Square Garden and come
to stand on the Lord’s side by receiving
Jesus Christ into their hearts and their
lives the Bible teaches that we must
make a choice Adam had to make a choice
when he stood before the forbidden tree
God had created Adam and Eve in his own
image because God is a God of love and
together they had walked in the Garden
of Eden
friendship but that friendship was
spoken a wall was built between man and
God when man deliberately rebelled
against God deliberately disobeyed God
and every son of Adam since that day has
disobeyed God and we’re all sinners
we’re sinners by birth we’re sinners by
choice we’re sinners by Plexus and now
the Bible says that God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son
and when you look on the churches of
this city you will see a call that call
signifies that Jesus Christ came to seek
and to save that which was lost
that God commended his love toward us in
that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for and on that cross Christ died
and shed his blood that our sins might
be forgiven and that we might bring God
in man back together again but you must
choose
you must choose whether you’re going to
serve Christ whether you’re going to
give your life to Christ or whether
you’re going to serve your own gods and
the gods of your own making and the gods
of your own devices the rich young girl
I had to serve Moses had to serve and
when Moses choose when Moses made his
choice the scripture says these words by
faith Moses when he was come to years
which used to be called the son of
Pharaoh’s daughter choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a
season but seeming the reproach of
Christ greater riches than the treasures
in Egypt for he had respect unto the
recompense of the reward by faith he
forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of
the king how he endured is seeing him
who is invisible yes we must choose
between two ways of life as Moses did as
Joshua did in proverbs 14:12 the Bible
says there is a way which seemeth right
unto a man but the end thereof are the
ways of death there are many people that
come to me and say well mr. Graham I’m
following my conscience won’t that get
me to heaven won’t that save my soul
isn’t that enough the Bible says no
the Bible talks about a dead country the
Bible talks about a seared country the
Bible talks about our hard conscience
your conscience is no longer safe guide
when you have committed one sin after
another and gone against your conscience
don’t follow your conscience your
conscience can lead you to hell because
your conscience is no longer a state
guide and then there are other people
that say well if I’m sincere
isn’t that enough no sincerity alone
will not take you to heaven I think I
told you one night about a man who
picked up a football at the Rose Bowl
he ran 65 yards and ninety thousand
people cheered and we had our glasses
right on him and he was the most
determined sincere man I’ve ever seen
but he ran the wrong way and lost the
game and it’s possible to be sincere and
be wrong there are others which say well
really I’ve done great works I’m a great
moral person I live the good life
isn’t that enough I’ve treated my
neighbor as myself isn’t that enough
that’s not enough the Bible says for by
grace are ye saved through faith and
that not of yourselves it is the gift of
God not of works lest any man should
boast
you cannot reform your way to heaven you
cannot rationalize your way to heaven
you cannot moralize your way to heaven
you cannot work your way to heaven there
is nothing for the saving of your soul
except one thing and that is the fact
that Christ died and rose again and you
must come and repent of your sins and
receive him as your Lord and Savior the
Bible says you have to choose between
two masters Christ made that quite clear
when he said no man can serve two
masters for either he will hate the one
and love the other or else he will hold
to the one and despise the other you
cannot serve God in man Jesus demands
that you make a choice either between
soul
serving yourself or Christ it’s a
definite queer cut choice that you must
make if you were to get to heaven if
your sins are to be forgiven and if
you’re to have a full or
life here if you’re to have peace and
joy here in the midst of all your
troubles and all of your difficulties if
you have peace and joy and stability if
life is to be all that it was meant to
be for you and if your soul is to go to
heaven then you must make a clear-cut
choice by receiving Jesus Christ as your
Lord and Savior and self-denial the
jesus said you cannot come after me
unless you’re willing to deny self take
up the cross and follow me what did he
mean he means that you crucify ego that
selfishness that fired inside of you
that is to be crucified and then we have
to take up the cross what does that mean
that doesn’t mean that you take up a
beautiful cross that you see around the
person’s neck that means that you take
up a place of execution that you take
your place at Christ’s side wherever you
are no matter how unpopular it may be it
means to go back to the office back to
the shop back to the community and
witness for Jesus Christ even though
it’s unpopular it means to go back into
your community go back to your job go
back wherever you are and live for
Christ oh we have thousands of people in
America that go to church on Sunday they
have a little halo on their head and
they sit down in the pew and they have a
saintly smile off and as soon as the
service is over they go home and pick up
the pitchfork and the horns begin to
grow again and they get angry and they
have prejudice and they have pride and
they have jealousy and they have all of
these evil things Jesus talked about
those people that serve me with their
lips but their hearts are far from me
and we are thousands of people that
serve God with lips but they don’t live
it and they’re the way they live it give
the lie to what they believe and I tell
you you not only have to believe it but
you must live it and when you live it
the Holy Spirit gives you the power to
live
I can hear a lot of you saying but I
don’t have the strength I don’t have the
power to live the Christian life I can’t
live the Christian life I’ve tried oh of
course you can’t listen there’s not a
man or a woman or a young person in this
crowd that can live the Christian life
tonight in your own strength but the
love would you give your life to Christ
the Holy Spirit comes in to live he
gives you the power the result is the
dynamic to live the Christian life the
Bible says you become a new creation a
new moral nature you become a new person
when you give your life to Jesus Christ
he puts a spring in your step and a joy
in your soul and a peace in your heart
he gives you that stability and strength
he gives you a new dynamic you have a
new moral nature you have an assurance
that if you’ve died you’d go to heaven
the Bible says these things they’d
believe these things I write unto you
they believe on the name of the Son of
God that you may know that you have
eternal life and that ye may believe on
the name of the Son of God yes the Bible
teaches that you have to choose between
two destinies heaven or hell many people
ask me do you believe in heaven I
certainly do the Bible teaches do you
believe in Hell I certainly do the Bible
teaches the Bible teaches that hell is
separation from God and the Bible
teaches that any person that dies
outside of Christ is law it’s separated
from God and I warn you that it is for
eternity that is the reason that you
must choose God you must choose Christ
you must give your life to Christ so
that you can live it here and so you can
go to heaven yonder and then just will
made it quite clear he said the choice
is a choice you have to make yourself he
said it’s for me and my house we will
serve the Lord
he knew that he could not choose for the
tribes of Israel they must choose for
themselves your father cannot choose for
you your parents cannot choose for you
your wife cannot choose for you your
husband cannot choose your children
cannot choose you have to choose for
yourself it’s a decision that every
individual
has to make man is a social being
however there is an inner sanctuary
within ourselves where we retire from
all of the fellowship comradeship or
influence there’s a lonely arena where
the greatest battle of life must be
fought alone and that arena
you’re fighting a battle alone tonight
you’re deciding whether you’re going to
live for selfishness and yourself or
whether you’re going to give your life
to Christ and live for him but you must
make the choice you must make it you
must make it no one can make it for you
alone if you sit or stand in your place
tonight it is a choice that you have to
make what will be your answer what will
be your choice the people of Israel in
Moses they came over to Moses side the
people in just was they said we will
choose the Lord I asked you people of
America will you choose the Lord tonight
will you choose Christ now I want to
warn you something the choice involves a
price it involves a price it’ll cost you
subject it will cost you your sin it may
cost you other things just some people
it may cost their job there’s some
people it may cost money because if
you’re making a dishonest dollar you’ll
have to quit it
I know a man they told me last week that
he was converted at Madison Square
Garden the second week and he said the
way he said last week I lost twenty ten
thousand dollars on a deal because it
had a it was a little bit shady but he
said before my conversion I would have
made it it may cost you something yes
it’ll cost you your sins though
everything God takes away he brings
peace and joy now it’s not easy to be a
Christian I want to make that clear it’s
not easy to be a Christian
oh I know it’s easy in America to call
ourselves Christians but I tell you it’s
not easy to be a Christian it’s not easy
to read your Bible every day many times
it’s not easy to spend time in prayer
every day that the Christian life
requires many times it’s not easy to go
faithfully to church but the Christian
life requires it it’s not easy to say no
to temptations
it’s not easy to stand up for moral
right in a community it’s not easy many
times the Christian life is the most
difficult of all because you’re going
against the whole trend of what may be
popular many times to stand for what is
right and truth and honesty and
integrity it costs paulie’s head it
costs all the Apostles their lives to
stand for Christ well suffer a thousand
times I ask you tonight have you
suffered for Christ I want to tell you
don’t you come to Jesus Christ unless
you’re willing to deny self and take up
the cross don’t come to Christ unless
you’re willing to suffer necessary to
following Jesus amends the cross demands
that you cross carry across are you
willing tonight are you willing to
choose God are you willing to pay the
price of repenting of sin you say well
Billy what is repentance repentance
means that you acknowledge that you
failed God that you’ve sinned against
God and you’re willing to renounce your
sin you’re willing to give up your sin
and it means something else it means
that by faith you must receive Christ as
your Lord and Savior you must come to
the foot of the cross and by an act of
your will choose Christ say I will
receive him I will give my life doing I
will surrender to it I will receive him
as my Lord and Savior and master then
last of all
Joshua indicated that there could be no
delay the choice is urgent
the delay makes the decision harder and
some of you will say well I’m not going
to choose tonight I’m not going to give
my life to Christ tonight I’m going to
wait indecision is in itself a choice
time decides for the man who will not
decide for himself if you have a ticket
for the Queen Mary and it fails tomorrow
you may be indecisive as to whether
you’re going to Great Britain or not but
if you wait past the sailing time that
choice will have already been made for
you and some of you may wait beyond the
time when the Spirit of God speaks to
you because you see you cannot come to
Christ anytime you want to you can only
come when the Spirit of God is drawing
you in pulling you in speaking to you
and the Spirit of God is speaking to you
tonight the Spirit of God is speaking to
thousands of you and that’s the only
time you can come to Christ when the
Spirit of God draws you to the close
don’t you hesitate don’t you wait you
may never be this close to the kingdom
of God again you may never be this close
to Christ again you may never have such
an opportunity as this again millions of
people have prayed in hundreds of
languages around the world for this
meeting tonight God is speaking he’s
speaking to you you need God in your
home you need crepes in your community
you need Christ in your soul in your own
life I tell you tonight give your life
to Him
kneel to him to Christ and say with
Joshua as for me in my house we will
choose the Lord the Bible says now is
the accepted time today is the day of
salvation not tomorrow today give your
life to Christ now
blind Bartimaeus would have never had
his eyes heels
had he not called upon Jesus when Jesus
was passing by the thief on the cross
took the one memory head and said Lord
remember me when thou comest into thy
kingdom
and Jesus said today thou shalt be with
me in paradise you say well Billy what
do I have to do all you have to do is
today decide for Christ our choice of
your intellect yes of your emotions yes
of your will yet your total personality
yielded to Christ determined it from
this day on you’re going to live for him
on the rugged way beaten cliffs of the
west coast of Scotland our man was once
gathering the eggs of the sea birds
which nests there
he’d been let down from the top of the
cliff by a rope to the ledge where the
nests were but in a moment of
carelessness had let the Rope slip from
his hands he knew that the first swing
of the roof would be his only chance and
with all the powers of his body in mind
he jumped for the rope seized it and was
saved Joshua said choose you this day
kills you this day America who will you
serve children to this day whoever you
are listening to me who will you serve
will you come on God’s side will you
receive Christ will you determine to
live for him from this moment on will
you start reading your Bible daily will
you spend time every day in prayer in
communion with God will you live a
disciplined Christian life will you
stand up for Christ whenever the
occasion calls will you go to church
tomorrow will you be in your church
tomorrow indicating that you are ready
to take your place in the Fellowship of
the great body of Christ in a church
where crises please
will you take your stand for Christ the
message I’ve given to you this evening
is not a new message
it’s an ancient message it is the
message of Moses it is the message of
just life it is the message of God
through them and all the prophets and
all the apostles and all the evangelists
it’s the message of the old and the New
Testament it’s a message centered in the
person of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ I call you tonight in his name to
him I call you to Christ I ask you to
choose it is impossible tonight for me
to give an invitation the way we
normally do for you to take your stand
for Christ I cannot call you out on this
field the authorities say that the crowd
is too dense and to fix every pile is
jammed there is no way that anybody
could get forward in this greatest cloud
in the history of this great stadium but
I am going to ask you to do this those
of you that will receive Christ those of
you that will accepting those of you
that will trustees those of you that
promise to live for him from now on
you’re receiving him as your Lord and
Savior you’re making sure that if you
died you’d go to heaven by an act of
repentance and faith you’re giving your
life to Christ tonight I’m going to ask
that not a person leave Yankee Stadium
now this is the holy moment I’m going to
ask that all of you that will receive
him as Savior and trust him is Lord I
want you to stand up quietly and
reverently where you are all in the sand
stand up and all of you that are already
standing I want you to hold your hand up
and leave it there as an indication that
you’re giving your life and your heart
to Jesus Christ tonight and trusting him
as your Lord and Savior stand up
wherever you are right now quietly in
your place that’s all I’m going
to ask you to do tonight I cannot ask
you to come forward and stand down here
but I want you to stand everywhere
quietly and reverently just stand up
hundreds of you that God is speaking to
yes yes many people are standing
everywhere to stand up everywhere we’re
going to wait alone right now
she stand quietly asleep tonight I
choose God
I choose Christ I’ve give my life to it
from this moment on I’m going to trust
you as my Lord and say I want to give my
life here
piss standing wherever you are all over
the place
yes hundreds of people are standing up
in those balconies
we have mostly Christian people in this
lower level but up in those balconies
hundreds of sectors all down here
hundreds of people are lifting their
hands stand up back here all back in
here just stand up where you are and say
tonight I give my life to Christ I
choose Christ I give myself to him
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