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Feb. 21, 2018 - Jim Bakker Show
03:31
Jim Bakker Remembers Billy Graham
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New Beginning for Billy Graham 00:02:48
Today I was awakened by the sad news that the man who has preached in person to more people and won more souls to Jesus Christ than any other man has died.
My friend Billy Graham and a friend to millions has gone to be with the Lord today.
Billy Graham was born in 1918 and has left this earth today, February 21st, 2018.
The year he was born ends with an eight, a number that means a new beginning.
A beginning surely for Billy Graham, whose birth was a new beginning for the world, as he would lead millions and millions to Christ, like no other man before him.
Today, in the year 2018, that also ends with an eight, we see not an end, but rather a new beginning, a beginning of an eternity walking with his Savior, Jesus Christ, and meeting millions who he has led to the Savior.
Billy Graham walked with and ministered to the leaders of the world.
He prayed with every president during his ministry years.
He ministered to everyone from royalty to the lowest of the low.
I know this because at my lowest moment, Billy Graham walked into my prison, threw his arms around me, and he said, Jim, I love you.
The day before, I heard on the radio that he had been voted one of the top three most respected men in all the world.
And now he was in my prison comforting me.
The week was released.
I was released from prison.
I was sitting in the Graham home eating chicken dinner.
That first Sunday out of prison, I was surrounded by the Graham family.
If there was and is an example of godly family, Christ-loving family, it is the family that Ruth and Billy Graham raised.
That heritage lives on in their children.
Franklin, my dear, dear friend, Ann, Ruth, Gigi, and Nelson.
At this very moment, my heart aches with pain, but it also leaps with joy that Billy is walking with and embracing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Billy's Heavenly Home 00:00:57
Some believed and have declared that the death of Billy Graham would signal the beginning of the last days.
I don't know this to be fact, but I do know according to the scriptures, we are truly living in the final days before the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Today, Billy Graham died at the age of 99, which is also appropriate as the number nine means fruitfulness.
At an age of double fruitfulness, Billy enters heaven, leaving an abundance of legacy, of fruitfulness that no man has achieved before.
Billy often said, my home is in heaven.
I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy is home.
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