Billy Graham – Best Sermon | How to Have Peace in Your Heart
How to Have Peace in Your Heart
Evangelist Billy Graham explains the only thing you need to do to experience peace
“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!”
― Billy Graham
I divided, a school student stood up at Harvard and asked me in a discussion, said, can you tell me in plain and clear language?
What must I do to be saved?
He asked me that question right in front of the faculty and the other students.
And I answered him, I answered him as Paul answered, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
After Peter had preached his great sermon at Pentecost, the people were stirred in their hearts.
And they said to Peter, what must we do? What do we have to do?
20th century man asked the same question that man has always asked.
I remember when I was in Korea during the war, there was a chaplain that came to me and he said, you know, I’ve been to seminary, I have my degrees.
I’ve been pastor of a large church. I was called to be professor at a seminary.
And the other day, I was called to the side of a dying boy out at a field hospital and he was dying and I didn’t know what to tell him.
He asked me, he said, what must, what can I do? To find peace in my heart.
I know I’m dying and he said, I didn’t know what to tell him.
What would you tell him the answer that Paul gave to this jailer long ago.
It is so simple that millions stumble over it.
You don’t have to straighten out your life first.
You don’t have to go home and do something good in order to find Christ.
You do that after you’ve come to Christ, we don’t have to make ourselves well.
Before going to a doctor. Doctor Henderson is sitting on the platform, he sees sick people.
He doesn’t see well, people. Jesus was called a great physician.
He said it is not the help that you need a doctor, but the sick, I’ve not come to call the righteous but sinister repentance.