The altar call is the opposite of the gospel the Graham Crusade has preached. It is like bait and switch.
"It is not going to church every Sunday that is going to save you. It is not keeping the ten commandments that is going to save you. It is all those who call upon the name of the Lord." That is basically the gospel in how Graham would present it.
Then comes the opposite of what he had preached at this altar call.
"If you are not sure you are saved, come forward and make a commitment to follow Christ."
Did you blink? What is involved in keeping your commitment to follow Christ for you to gain the assurance of your salvation? It is more than keeping the ten commandments, because His standard of teachings are higher than the works of the law. It means going to church every Sunday is going to save you for how else would you be keeping that cmmitment to follow Christ for teh assurance of your salvation? Get it now?
That is why in an interview with Tony Snow, Billy Graham doubted he would be received by Jesus Christ because he was not always a good christian. Why would he think like that? Because by that commitment to follow Christ is the knowledge of sin. Of course, he will gain no assurance of salvation if he looks to keeping that commitment to follow Christ as a means to save himself. And yet he had said all those that call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Course, he has been marked on the internet as saying that there are others ways for sinners to be saved which goes to show how astray he is.
And yet they worship Him in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Remember; what we build on that foundation, God will judge. Any work that denies Him, they will be denied by Him by that iniquity, but He is faithful as He still abides in them as that foundation can never be removed, but unless they repent, they run the risk of being left behind at the pre trib rapture event.
If circumcision is done by you, which is the smallest letter of the law, you are required to do the whole law. What is making a promise to God is? The biggest letter of the law, and yet somehow or another, believers thinks God will give more grace if they keep trying to keep promises that only God can finish. That is the whole point of Matthew 5:33-37 where in verse 36, Jesus said why you should not make any oath' not even swear by them, because you cannot make one hair white or black. Only God can do God's work in you. So where is your faith under the law? It is voided.
Believers need Jesus to forgive them for making promises covered under His New Covenant as He will finish His work in us to His glory. As no flesh shall glory in His Presence, they are at risk of being left behind at the pre trib rapture until they repent and rest in Him & His promises to us for following Him as the just can only live by faith.
Consitutionally wise, it would be hard to deny sinners to choose Islam in America. I cannot fathom politically how to ban Islam in America without the ACLU making a stink of it, but I can fathom denying them Sharia Law politically. They do not need it. There are muslims in America and there is no wishing them away. Like any sinner, we can hope that they hear the gospel of the Good News in Christ Jesus sooner rather than later.
They will try to explain Sharia Law vaguely, to attempt to assuage fears about it, but like the Quran, once implemented, they can choose to respond with harsher punishment when it suits them.
They are trying to do that now in the UK, all the while holding up signs that says no to democracy, because that is what it means to implement Sharia Law on everyone as it is a moral code to be followed by everyone.
As Islam is of Satan ( and I do not know how you can say that I defend Islam by posting that ) you have been caught sleeping at your post, brother.
Please read my words in context and you will see my sarcasm better.
Denying them Sharia Law is keeping democracy in America. Giving them Sharia Law makes America a theocracy.
Yeah right. I am for denying them Sharia Law. You must be confusing me with another poster when you replied this way.
The "yeah right" was the sarcasm in response to you saying I am helping muslims accomplish their goals.
Don't ignore His words either for how we are to behave under the New Covenant. We are not to be offended by the muslims, but that does not mean give them Sharia Law.
John 16:1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.