One of the most famous preachers died three days: Billy Graham. However, I doubt that he was really saved. The reason was the doctrine he taught.
Here his Gospel:
First, you must recognize your need.
Second, you must understand the cross.
Third, you must count the cost.
He also said, “Which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost? … So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:28, 33). Many people come to Christ without first counting the cost. The cost includes repentance, the forsaking of sin, and a continual, daily, open acknowledgment of Christ in your life.
Fourth, you must take a definite step.
One day at Stanford University, a student of a non-Christian faith came to me and said he was convinced that Jesus is the Son of God but said he couldn’t confess Him publicly. He said that back in his own country the cost socially would be too great. I had to tell him that the Bible says: “Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32-33). Like the rich young ruler of old, the student went away sad. He had counted the cost and was not able to pay the price of open acknowledgment of Jesus Christ as his Savior. We ask people to make a public confession of Christ in our meetings because Christ demanded a definite commitment. Christ had reasons for demanding that people openly follow Him. He knew that an unwitnessed vow is no vow at all. Until you have surrendered to Christ by a definite act of your will, you are not a Christian.
If you are truly saved, you know this is not biblical. Sadly this Gospel is taught more often than the true Gospel of the imputed righteousness in Christ. The world can't accept that. They want to go to heaven their own way. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with doing good works for Jesus. However, us true Christians do not do them TO GO to heaven, rather BECAUSE we are going to heaven. We are saved only by believing in the Gospel as described 1 Corinthians 15:1-4:
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
Like so many others Billy Graham saw a changed life as the root, not as the fruit. Of course we should bare fruit. However, some backslide, as we can see in the man living in fornication in 1 Corinthians 5. That man did not repent, but he was saved by Christ! Supporters of Arminiansm, Calvinism and Lordship Salvation definitely CANNOT explain this.
Later he even started teaching Universialism (that everybody's saved) and supporting abortion and LGBT marriage.
He definitely taught one of the most unbiblical statements (even though I wish it was true) in an interview with Dr. Schuller:
Dr. Graham: "Well, Christianity and being a true believer, you know, I think there's the body of Christ which comes from all the Christian groups around the world, or outside the Christian groups. I think that everybody that loves Christ or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the body of Christ. And I don't think that we're going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. What God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don't have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they're saved and they're going to be with us in heaven." Dr. Schuller: "What I hear you saying is that it's possible for Jesus Christ to come into a human heart and soul and life even if they've been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you're saying?" Dr. Graham: "Yes it is because I believe that. I've met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, have never heard of Jesus but they've believed in their hearts that there is a God and they tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZWug3QAvs&t
Sadly the scripture doesn't support that. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6) Joel Osteen said something very similar too on an episode of the Larry King Show. He said that all religions loved God and had a relationship with Jesus... sadly not!
Billy Graham also was good friends with country singer Johnny Cash. I am very sure Cash was saved tho. About Billy Graham - I don't know. Only God knows.
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