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

[Applause]

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

[Applause]

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

[Applause]

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

[Applause]

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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the love of God is greater far and

Connaught and car never now it goes

beyond the highest car and reaches to

the lowest would we we think the Olson

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honor the quill and every man a prize by

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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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