Nearly 250 years ago, our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, setting our nation on the path to freedom.
Centuries before that, Jesus Christ made a way for us to be free from death itself—and to know true, lasting peace.
Read more from Billy Graham in this excerpt from his 1965 sermon in Honolulu, Hawaii:
“We must have freedom from death. Unless we have this freedom, then everything else is in danger. Death cancels out every blessing. Nothing matters if death ends all. ‘For what shall it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul?’ (See Matthew 16:26.)
“And yet it is painfully obvious that no man or nation can give freedom from death. Every person listening to my voice has a death sentence hanging over him at this hour. How can governments expect to keep the world at peace when the peoples of the world are marching inevitably to certain doom?
“One of the basic desires of the soul is to live on and on. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Men may grow tired of aches and pain and the decrepitude of old age, but they do not grow tired of life itself.
“God has arranged to satisfy this yearning of the soul to live forever and this desire to be free from pain and sickness and trouble. Man is a little creature with a big capacity; a finite being with infinite desires; deserving nothing, but demanding all. God made man with this huge capacity and desire in order that he might come in and completely satisfy that desire. God made the human heart so big that only He can fill it. He made its demands so much that only He can supply that demand.
“The government cannot compete with God. The government has nothing satisfying to offer to the soul, and therefore it cannot bring peace to the soul.
“Jesus Christ is the only One who holds the keys of death. In His death and resurrection, He took the sting out of death. And now God offers eternal life to every person who puts their trust and faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.”
Listen to Billy Graham’s full 15-minute message.
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