Jim Bakker Show - Jim Bakker Remembers Billy Graham
Aired: 2018-02-21
Duration: 03:31


=== New Beginning for Billy Graham (02:48) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:14]  My friend Billy Graham and a friend to millions has gone to be with the Lord today.
[00:00:22]  Billy Graham was born in 1918 and has left this earth today, February 21st, 2018.
[00:00:32]  The year he was born ends with an eight, a number that means a new beginning.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:53]  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.
[00:01:12]  Billy Graham walked with and ministered to the leaders of the world.
[00:01:18]  He prayed with every president during his ministry years.
[00:01:22]  He ministered to everyone from royalty to the lowest of the low.
[00:01:28]  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.
[00:01:41]  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.
[00:01:51]  And now he was in my prison comforting me.
[00:01:56]  The week was released.
[00:01:57]  I was released from prison.
[00:02:00]  I was sitting in the Graham home eating chicken dinner.
[00:02:05]  That first Sunday out of prison, I was surrounded by the Graham family.
[00:02:10]  If there was and is an example of godly family, Christ-loving family, it is the family that Ruth and Billy Graham raised.
[00:02:21]  That heritage lives on in their children.
[00:02:24]  Franklin, my dear, dear friend, Ann, Ruth, Gigi, and Nelson.
[00:02:31]  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 (00:57) ===

[00:02:43]  Some believed and have declared that the death of Billy Graham would signal the beginning of the last days.
[00:02:49]  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.
[00:03:01]  Today, Billy Graham died at the age of 99, which is also appropriate as the number nine means fruitfulness.
[00:03:10]  At an age of double fruitfulness, Billy enters heaven, leaving an abundance of legacy, of fruitfulness that no man has achieved before.
[00:03:21]  Billy often said, my home is in heaven.
[00:03:25]  I'm just traveling through this world.
[00:03:29]  Billy is home.