This morning I want to use as a platform, beginning in Galatians chapter one, and I thank the Lord for compelling not only me, but I've noticed some of the ministers that I admire preaching through the epistle to the Galatians. And I must admit and thank our Lord that I now understand this epistle better than I have ever understood it. And it, because of the sovereignty of God, comes at an appropriate time, I'll say, in the history of America, as America mourns the death of the Reverend Billy Graham. And it is, not something that I take lightly because Mr. Graham is admired by countless millions of people. He's led in a sense a extraordinarily moral life. He has presented in his messages in a sense, the components of the gospel. But when one examines his life from his early ministry, there are some things that, and some behaviors that disturb us. Those who have come to believe in the truth of God's word, men who have been called by God and women who understand the word of God, to know that in his behavior as a professing believer, it contradicts the gospel. I know what I'm saying is not going to please many people who admire Mr. Graham. But nonetheless, as the slave of the Lord, I cannot bow down to the likes of people. The Apostle Paul said in the book of Romans that God will judge according to truth. It is therefore the responsibility of the men who have been called by God to tell the truth. C.A. Spurgeon made this quote. In the moment I heard that, and I've always had these reservations once I began to learn the scriptures of Dr. Graham, and his compromising of the essential truths of the gospel. C.H. Spurgeon said this, it is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout, well done to a Christian man, close quote. At the passing of Dr. Graham, the first verse came to my mind was Luke 626, and I'll have you turn to some of these verses, but I want you to turn to Luke 626. As you turn there, I would have you also know that the Lord himself said in John 15 that the world would hate believers. The Lord, because he is, God and human flesh could never tell a lie and untruth. And he warned to the disciples in the process of their ministries, not to seek men's approvals, that the world, if they tell the truth, the world is going to hate them, despise them. And I found in my ministry, that's exactly what happens happens when one stands on God's contextual truth, that's rightfully divided truth. Because the Bible can also be incorrectly divided. But Jesus said something very interesting that came to my mind the moment that Dr. Graham passed. And it was Luke, 646. Luke 6, 26, I'm sorry, excuse me, thank you. He says, Luke 6, 26, he says, woe to you when all men speak well of you. For so they, their fathers to the false prophets. I know Spurgeon had this verse in mind when he made that quote. I remember just several months ago, Dr. R.C. Sproul passed. What did we see? The only ones mourning for him are those who truly understood and believed the gospel. There was no worldwide recognition. There were no plans to let him lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. There were no accolades and commendations coming from the political powers, the business powers, nothing. It was only those who truly believed the word of God, who stood unapologetically on his truths. They were the ones that mourned the passing of Dr. Sproul. And we can say that throughout any of the godly men throughout history, even the greatest of them, the Lord Jesus Christ. John said in John one, he came into his own, his own did not receive him. We know at the end of his three years of ministry, the greatest display of godly power and miracles ever seen on this earth. And the people cried with one voice, crucify him. And his body was beaten and bloodied, spear wound in his side, holes in his hands and feet, just as the Old Testament had prophesied. His appearance was so marred that, as some theologians have said, it was like just a piece of meat hanging there. No pomp, no ceremony. He was taken down at the cross and rushed into a grave. Not even the traditional custom of preparing the body for death were they able to perform before putting him in the grave. So how is it possible the very Lord himself was rejected by mankind, hated, and they are crying, crucify him. And now we have a man who is being adored by politicians, being adored by the entire world, false religions, religions that are actually the enemy of Christ. How is it that those who profess to be Christians are saying glowing commendations of this man And those who hate Jesus Christ are saying the same thing. This is what the apostle Paul is saying. I mean, I'm sorry, but this is what Luke is saying. He's writing, woe unto you when everyone speaks well of you. It's really a testimony to compromise. When one stands unapologetically on God's truth, stands against the evils and sin of this world, the world is going to hate them. Jesus in Matthew chapter 5 talked about the Beatitudes and he says, blessed are you when you are persecuted for my name's sake. The world is going to dislike me, I'm disliked because of what I believe, much of what I believe. And if you follow me on Facebook, you know I'm, I don't mince words, put the truth on there. But going back to Galatians, something interesting when we talk about Dr. Graham, but also about Brother Mike and myself and any minister, Dr. MacArthur, Alistair Begg, James White, anyone who proclaims that they are spokespersons for God. Paul says in Galatians chapter one, Again, these words, I wanna read them to you. And beginning again at verse six. Apostle Paul said, I am astonished that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. Which is not another, there is no other gospel. But here we have in verse seven, Some who are troubling you, the present tense, they're continuing to incessantly trouble you and stir up your spirits, agitate you, literally get you to doubt the true gospel of Jesus Christ. And this is what they want to do. They want to change. They want to turn. They want to distort. They want to corrupt. They want to pervert the gospel of Christ. This is what they do. He said, but even if we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let them be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than that which you have received, let him be cursed. Paul is announcing again an anathema, a condemnation, something devoted to the wrath of God, devoted to destruction for anyone pervert the purity of the gospel message. And this is really what I want to really emphasize here in verse 10 concerning myself and why I'm saying what I'm saying and why I'm compelled to say what I'm saying against one of the most revered religious figures in all of America in American history. Paul says in verse 10, for a Do I now persuade men or gain the approval or seek to gain the approval of men or God? Or do I seek to please men? Paul says, for if I still please men, I would not be the servant of Christ. In perfect tense, it's continued servant of Christ. It's not gonna be popular what I say about Dr. Graham. But nonetheless, the Bible is clear. The Apostle Paul, in writing to the Galatians and his shock and bewilderment of the fact that they have already began to apostate. Apostasy to turn away from the true gospel and it's not on their own there are those who are Have come in who are helping them stirring up their Souls stirring up their minds causing them to doubt God to the doubt that God saves through Jesus Christ alone and Well, you said Dr. Graham didn't do that. Dr. Graham said the basics of the gospel, but how did he live it out in his ministry is the question. What did he really believe? The devil wants to undermine faith. Again, Hebrews 11 six without faith, I can't please him. So I must believe the gospel. But what is the gospel? Paul said, it is simple. It is the death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5, turn over there, 2 Corinthians 5. He died for our sins. He gave himself up for our sins. Here is the gospel. that God saves through faith in his son. So it is wicked for people to come into the church and masquerade as ministers of the gospel, but yet stir up doubt in that very gospel. Look at verse 20. The Apostle Paul says, now then we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God were pleading through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us. that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Theologians call it double imputation. Christ was accounted on the cross with my sins. It was imputed to him and he paid the price on the cross of Calvary and died for my sins that I might be imputed with his righteousness. to be forgiven of my sins and imputed and accounted it though I lived his righteous life. Christ died for sins, Paul says, but he rose again to justify us. This is the gospel. Again, if you'll go over to 1 Corinthians 15 one more time, 1 Corinthians 15, let's again look at this gospel. Did Dr. Graham preach the gospel? Yes. Did he live it out? No. In first Corinthians, chapter 15, verse one. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel, which I preach to you, which you also receive in which you stand, by which also you are saved. You're saved by what? The gospel. Therefore you must understand what it is. He says in verse 3, let me back to verse 2, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. That is the gospel. he died for sins he paid the price he satisfied the righteous demands of god and he was buried and he rose again the third day and if you go back to galatian it permeates the scriptures galatians chapter one verse one paul an apostle not for men nor through men but through jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead Again, verse 2, 3, at the end of verse, let's, verse 3, grace and peace, grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age according to the will of God. He gave himself for our sins. This is the gospel. And we must have faith in Jesus Christ alone. Salvation is only through him and him alone. Ephesians 2 89, for you have been saved by grace through faith. It is God's gift, not of works. So no man will be able to boast. No one will be able to be able to boast. And since faith is the only way to please God and the greatest act of faith is to believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone for our salvation. And Paul thought it no small thing that these men would come into this church and preach a work salvation. It is Christ plus something. And this is what Dr. Graham tended lean towards. In Matthew chapter seven. Go to chapter seven. Lord Jesus Christ, ending his sermon on the mount, gave us a warning. He gave us a warning. Verse 13. He is concluding his sermon. He's given the requirements to enter the kingdom of heaven. In Matthew chapter 5 and verse 48, he said, you must be as perfect as his father is. No man or woman is capable of being perfect like God. He has demonstrated in his Sermon on the Mount that none of us, none of us can be saved and be perfect like the father. And he comes to verse 13 after giving the criteria for entering the narrow gate. Then he says, enter. It's not a present tense command. It's an heiress imperative. You enter once. But you must, it's imperative that you enter. In the active voice, you must enter the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate, this is why they go on the wide road, because the gate is narrow, and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Christ introduced and reveals to us this narrow gate, but there's a threat to the narrow gate given to us in verse 15. Beware of false prophets who come to you dressed like shepherd sheep. They come in sheep clothing, but notice the exterior, the exterior is dressed like a sheep, but the interior is a ravenous wool. Jesus said, you will know them by their fruit. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruit, you will know them. Notice, he doesn't say by what they look like. but they produce. Then he goes to verse 21 and says, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, we're into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name and done many wonderful wonders in your name. Then I would declare it to them. I never knew you depart from me. You who practice lawlessness. This is work salvation. They're standing before the Lord at the judgment seat and what are they depending on? They're preaching, they're depending on their casting out demons, and they're depending on all of the good things that they've done. And that won't save them. They must believe in Jesus Christ, the gospel, they must believe in Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 14, six, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. Go over to Acts chapter 12. Acts chapter 12, Peter said, I'm sorry, Acts chapter four, verse 12. Look what Peter says. One of the first verses that I memorized when becoming a believer. He says, nor is there a salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we what must be saved. There is no other name. Go to act 17. Paul in Athens saw all of these false gods and said that the Athenians were really religious people and they had an inscription to the unknown God look at verse 23 now go to verse 22 quickly Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious. For as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, to the unknown God. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing him, I proclaim to you. God who made the world and everything in it since he is lord of heaven and earth does not dwell in temples made with hands Nor is he worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything since he gives to all life breath and all things And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings so that they should seek the Lord in hope that they might grope for him and find him though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said. For we are also his offspring. Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising. Now look at this. Truly, these times of ignorance, God winked at, He overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead. In Acts chapter 20, Paul is about to leave Ephesus and they will see his face no more. And brother Mike and I draw in a sense our ordination from Acts 20 and our responsibility to you to tell you the truth. Paul and speaking to them before he leaves, I wanna pick up in verse 24. Paul said that the Holy, what about verse 23? He says, what about the verse 22? And see now, I go bound in the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things which will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulation await me. But none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may finish my race with joy and the ministry which I receive from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of God's grace. his unmerited undeserved unearned favor through faith in Jesus Christ alone. You don't deserve it. We have not earned it. We do not merit it. It is a gift from God to and we are to believe God totally to believe in Christ. Verse 25. And indeed now I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God will see my face no more. Verse 26, therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. Therefore, now this is ministers he's speaking to. This is the Mike and I, and this is the verse that Mike and I have framed. Therefore take heed to yourself and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit Has made you the overseers you are to shepherd the church present tense Shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood He purchased you with his own blood It's our responsibility to take care of the Lord's sheep. Why? Look at verse 29. For I know this, that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also, from among yourself, men will arise, rise up speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves. Therefore, I command you always present tense imperative, always watch. It's imperative that you always watch and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. So now brother, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. Paul says, I have covered it. No one silver or gold or clothes. Responsibility is to protect the sheep. Why? Because wolves are going to come in. Even from among yourselves shall perverse men arise, teaching things. In 1 John 4, two commandments are given to us, inspired by the apostle John. He says, don't believe every spirit. Do not believe. That's a, the do not believe is a present imperative. Keep on not believing every spirit. And then the second command was test every spirit. Keep on testing. Both are present imperatives. It is not optional. It is a responsibility of the believer to keep on testing Mike, to keep on testing us, to keep on testing any spirit or person. that claims to represent the Lord Jesus Christ. In Acts 17, the Bereans, Paul say, were eager to listen to what he said, but they tested everything he said by the word of God, scriptures. Dr. Graham gave us a simple message of the gospel. But just as Peter and X and in Galatians, I'm sorry, Galatians two, who gave the optics of the gospel a bad name by abandoning the free liberty that he had in Jesus Christ to a group of individuals who were preaching a work salvation who had perverted the gospel, corrupted the gospel, turned the gospel upside down. Billy Graham did this. I'm gonna read a quote. By a man by the name of James Russell Lowell. And it's, I have two lengthy ten sheets and I just wanna read an excerpt, possibly a couple. Listen to the quote. It is not just Billy Graham's unconditional statement of support for the party of abortion and gay rights that should be cause for weeping. Now notice he said, it is not just. It is his denial of the truth, the true gospel that should break our hearts. It was May 31st, 1997 that Graham appeared on the Hour of Power with Robert Shuler and the following exchange took place. And this is an exact transcript. Dr. MacArthur mentions this as well. And it's on YouTube if you want to go look at it. Shuler to Dr. Graham. Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity? Billy Graham. Well, Christianity and being a true believer, you know, I think there's the body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ or knows Christ, whether they are conscious of it or not, they're members of the body of Christ. I think James answered that, the apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem, when he said that God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for his name. I remember Billy Graham saying that he didn't understand theology. said he wasn't a theologian, but every belief is a theologian. Now I heard him say that myself. I'm not a theologian. Well, what are you? All of us are theologians. The study of God. We are studying God. It is imperative that we know what God said to rightfully divide the word of God. He goes on to say, well, I think James answered that. in the first council, when he said God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for his name, where his name's Jesus. And that's what God is doing today. He's calling people out of the world for his name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ. Because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have. And they turn to the only light They have and I think they are saved and that they are going to be with us in heaven and this only light is Islam Buddhism whatever That's the light they're they're doing good things they're seeking the light, but they don't know Jesus Shuler Responds what? But what I hear you saying, that it's possible for Jesus Christ to come into the human heart and soul and life, and even if they've been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible, is that a correct interpretation of what you're saying? Graham? Yes, it is, because I believe that. I've met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible and never heard of Jesus, but there they believed in their heart that there was a God. They tried to live a life. They tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding communities in which they live. Mr. Russell, Mr. Lowell says, These remarks by Graham illustrate how tragically far he has come from the faithful message of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ alone. If what Dr. Graham said is true, he says, then foreign missionaries who have sacrificed their lives to share the name and the message of Christ with the lost could have saved themselves a great deal of trouble. If God sovereignly calls people out of salvation outside of his own son, it makes a mockery of Christ's suffering and sacrificial substitutionary atonement for our sins. Further, it renders absurd God's word itself, which clearly teaches salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone. goes on to say, on Sunday night following the New York Crusade, Graham appeared on Larry King where he announced that in his early years he preached hell and damnation. Now he said he prefers to preach on love. Has hell ceased to exist because Billy Graham prefers to talk about love? Are the words of Christ recorded in scripture that warn repeatedly about hell and the lake of fire to be downplayed because the man called America's pastor has changed his ministry philosophy? Should people stake their eternal destiny on some undocumented act of God that will allow them to enter heaven as a Muslim or a Buddhist because Billy Graham says so under our power? Lowell goes on to say, the sad fall from truth by Dr. Billy Graham is a sober warning to us all. God's word instructs us to be Bereans. Like those early Christians, we are to search the scriptures and we are to compare all that we hear with the unchanging, inspired word of God. Following after a man, no matter how much good he has done at some point in his ministerial career, is risky business. The apostle Paul warned repeatedly in the epistles, do you hear what he said? The apostle Paul warned repeatedly in the epistles above those who would change and subvert the gospel, he said, but though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you, What you have received, let him be a curse. For do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? For if I get pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ. God's word is plain. You cannot have the accolades of a sinful world and the approval of Jesus Christ. You cannot suck in the halls of power by toning down your gospel message and expect to be found faithful. He says, in conclusion, Dr. Graham has sadly chosen a path that deviates from the narrow one laid down by Christ himself. We would do well to learn from his example. These are just some of the excerpts. God has declared and disclosed the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our faith Our faith has to be based on that absolute truth. It's dependent upon it. Faith is the only way to please God, so we have to be dependent that we have the truth that we can absolutely trust Jesus Christ for salvation. You know, we had a discussion about the sovereignty of God in the saving of people this morning. Dr. Graham had a lot of people following him that were associates of his who you don't really know of the Catholic Church, other aberrant people that followed him that you didn't know about. For instance, in some of his crusades, he would preach the gospel And then when, for instance, people that were Catholics, and Catholicism is a false religion. Dr. MacArthur was asked, is Catholicism another denomination? No, he said it's another religion. It's not Christianity. It is pseudo-Christianity, false. The Catholic Church teaches what the Judaizers taught, work salvation. I've heard their apologists say, you cannot know you're saved. The only way to be saved is to continue to do good works, to adhere to the teachings of the church, and they will facilitate your salvation. As a matter of fact, the Catholic Church announces an anathema on us for believing that salvation is through Christ alone. If we say, as John said in 1 John 5, that we can know we're saved, then it's an anathema pronounced on us by the Catholic Church. They believe you can lose your salvation. They even categorize sins, venal sins versus major sins. And yet, Dr. Graham had a glowing relationship with the popes and with his church. As a matter of fact, In his crusades, if a Catholic came to believe the message of the gospel, he would actually send them back to the Catholic representatives who always traveled with him. So these people have escaped a work salvation and now you turn them back over to the very religion that damns them. Article by David Cloud. And I didn't really get a chance to read all of this. He began saying at the beginning of his, this article, he said, Billy Graham's compromise and disobedience began very early in his ministry. You can go to YouTube and one of my first, the first man who was instrumental in my life and apologetics was Dave Hunt. And Dave Hunt has a brief video, as a matter of fact, it's on my Facebook page. And he tells you that in 1948, he himself asked Dr. Graham, he says, what are the three greatest dangers to Christianity? He said, communism, Catholicism, and Islam. He said by 1952, which is two years before I was born, he renounced all of that. he had already abandoned him. So David Cloud is correct, says that his compromise and disobedience began very early in his ministry. And I would have to ask if he's preaching the gospel, does he have faith in it? Because if he has faith, he is not going to compromise it. And it's not some aberrant behavior. This has been consistent for six decades. Paul rebuked Peter, and Galatians 2, we'll be looking at that, for just the optics, the appearance, the appearance of perverting the gospel. And Paul says, I called him out to his face publicly. And he said he was to be blamed. He said he was not being faithful to the gospel, in how he was living, just the appearance. And we know what Paul said about the appearance of evil, abstain from all appearances of evil. And so he would say one thing, but then would do nothing. So was his faith really in Christ? Charlene and I heard Dave Hunt say that what he really enjoyed was the popularity. He got into cahoots with a enemy of the Lord and who was able to promote his career. Make him this great man. He said the compromise began much earlier than 1957. Though as early as 1944, Billy Graham was befriended by one of the most influential Catholic leaders in America, Fulton Sheen. Ever heard of Fulton Sheen? Listen, it says when Sheen died in December of 1979, Graham testified that he had known him as a friend for over 35 years. Sheen was a faithful son of Rome. In his book, Treasure in Clay, She said that one of his spiritual secrets was to offer mass every Sunday in honor of the blessed mother to solicit her protection of my priesthood. She devoted an entire chapter of his biography biography to Mary, the woman I love. He said, when I was ordained, I took a resolution to offer the holy sacrifice of the Eucharist every Sunday to the blessed mother. All of this makes me very certain that when I go before the judgment seat of Christ, He will say to me in his mercy, I heard my mother speak to you. During my life, I have made about 30 pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes and about 10 to her shrine in Fatima. And this was his friend. This man believed that Mary contributed to his salvation. And this was Billy Graham's friend. spoke glowingly of him. Say Graham acknowledged that he accepted Fulton Sheen's sacramental gospel as the truth even in those days. There's a serious problem and deception with this. While Graham was meeting with Fulton Sheen and befriending him as a fellow evangelist, Graham was assuring fundamentalist leaders such as Bob Jones and John P. Rice that he was, John R. Rice, that he was opposed to Catholicism and that he was a fundamentalist. It is obvious, though, that Graham, Billy Graham, was never committed to the position in his heart. And it goes on. and on and on. He says in his autobiography, Graham acknowledged that he began to draw close to Rome very early in his ministry. At that time, March 1950, Protestantism in New England was weak, due in part to theological differences within some denominations. The influence of Unitarian ideas in other denominations and the strength of the Roman Catholic Church In spite of all that, a number of Roman Catholic priests and Unitarian clergy together with some of their parishioners came to the meeting along with those from evangelical churches. With my limited evangelical background, this was a further expansion of my own ecumenical outlook. I now began to make friends among people from many different backgrounds and develop a spiritual love for their clergy." Close quote. That's what Graham said. Dr. Clouds, David cloud, I should say, he said, you don't remind my readers that the Catholic and the Unitarian and modernist clergy that Graham learned to love in the late 1940s and the early 1950s were men who denied the very faith that Graham claimed to believe the Catholic clergy that Graham loved denied that salvation is through the grace of Christ alone by faith alone without works or sacraments. And they denied further that the Bible is the sole authority for faith and patient in practice. The modernist clergy that Graham Love denied that the Bible is the infallible word of God and questioned or openly denied the virgin birth, miracles, vicarious atonement, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Unitarian clergy that Dr. Graham Love were men who denied the Godhead and the blood atonement of Jesus Christ and who scoffed at the infallibility of the Holy Bible. And it goes on and on and on. The question again is, what saves us? Should I be adamant about to defend the truth? Jude said I should. Jude said we are to contend for the faith once and all, given to the saints. The Apostle Paul said at the end of his life, I have fought a good fight. I have finished the race. And the key to me was, he said, I have kept faith. As tragic as it is with Dr. Graham, I clearly see we must, as ministers and as Christians, you know, humbly, meekly stand with the truth. And if people don't like it, then they just won't like us. And just as Christ said here when we read Matthew, he says that the world is going to persecute you and dislike you. And I just want, as your pastor and your brother in Christ, I just had to warn you that we had to take this gospel serious. Paul took it serious in Galatians. Again, a man that would trek for miles for the purity of the gospel, confront other apostles, apostles I should say apostles, apostles because of the truth of the gospel. And I'm just gonna read the end of Galatians chapter two and I'm done. Verse 11. Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face because he was to be blamed. For before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, if you being a Jew live in the manner of Gentiles and not as a Jew, why do you now compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ. and not by works of the law, for by the works of the law, no flesh will be declared righteous. And this is what Catholicism and many of these false religions, they teach a work salvation. We saw in Matthew, Jesus ignores that and says, I never knew you. Verse 17, but if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners. Is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not. For I build again those things which I destroyed. I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live. But Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh. I live by faith, faith, faith in God's son. He said, I do not set aside the undeserved, unmerited, unearned favor of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died needlessly. We are not saved by works, we are saved to work. And every act of obedience to the Lord is an act of faith. If I don't steal, it's because I believe God. If I treat my wife right, it's because I believe God. I do it. I'm going to do these things because of the faith that I have in the Lord. Therefore, the Lord is living in me. Just as Paul says, the life I live now, I live by faith in the son of God. And unfortunately, Billy Graham spoke out one side of his mouth. Or should I say both sides of his mouth? He spoke that which appealed to the masses and he was popular. At the same time, he affirmed enemies of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm not his final judge. Only when I get the glory, will I know what happened to Dr. Billy Graham. One thing I do know, in his habitual consistent life from before I was born, he's always compromised the gospel truth. and the people that he associated with, Paul pronounced God's curse upon. No, I'm not seeking the approval of men, but I wanna be faithful to my God and tell the truth. Here's the Bible.