I have something to say about BILLY GRAHAM and the (2) interviews that so many condemn him for. Some of you, like JOHN MACARTHUR are going to take all the 1000's of messages that he has preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified throughout all the world in the last 50+ years and trash them over (2) interviews that most people misunderstood, including JOHN MACARTHUR.
Billy Graham had a call from God on his life and he obeyed that call and was faithful to it for 50+ years. Millions of unbelievers heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and came to a saving knowledge and were saved, cleansed and forgiven of sins and many backslides as well. He proclaimed the name of Jesus and salvation under that name more than any other evangelist during the time of his call. Today people are viewing on TV his former messages of the gospel and getting saved generations later. They did everything they could to get these new converts into local churches in their area and even had missionaries sent to start one where there was none. You would think that a man of God like MACARTHUR would recognize these things and given BILLY GRAHAM double honor like the scriptures teach instead of ridiculing what was said on those interviews as an 88 year old man, who may be functioning with limited faculties.
Shame on MACARTHUR who has never learned about double honor and never studied how David treated Saul who tried to take his life on several occasions. I wonder if he ever read what David said about Saul after his death, knowing that God had taking the kingdom away from him and was given to another. David let no guile come out of his mouth and this is what he said in honor of King Saul and his son Jonathan...
2Sam 1:19-25 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
That is double honor and there are some believers today that actually think that Saul went to hell because he disobeyed the voice of God and because of the evil spirit that God had given him. There are those today that think that BILLY GRAHAM is also going to hell and JOHN MACARTHUR promotes that slander by his statements about the man of God. MACARTHUR should repent of the evil of what he said about God's man, BILLY GRAHAM, and make it public. For some reason we think that we have a right to criticize the man that God has called and raised up and we do not have that right. I have plenty more to say about it but I'll save it for later for all those ignorant scoundrels that don't know anything about the call of God.