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This is cassette 24 sides C and D, and it presents the last portion of the final session of the 10-day Congress. You'll hear the concluding Congress message given by Doctor Billy Graham and the closing moments of adjournment. But first, Doctor John Stott of England, chairman of

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the Lausanne Covenant drafting Committee, talks about the covenant and invites participants to sign it. The Leizon Covenant is a very solemn personal commitment. It commits us to concrete and sacrificial action. It can be signed with integrity only after careful thought and prayer. Some of you may

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need longer in which to consider it, and we'll send in your signed card after you've left within the next few days. Others may not feel able to sign it at all. Each of us must make his own conscientious decision before God, and each who signs it

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signs not in any representative capacity, but as an individual member of the body of Christ. Nevertheless, it expresses so far as we have been able to secure the consensus of the Congress. It is therefore now my privilege to invite you, indeed to encourage you, if the

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Holy Spirit so directs your conscience to add your signature to the Lausanne Covenant which binds us to pray together, to. together to work together for the evangelization of the whole world. And first, Doctor Billy Graham as honorary chairman of the Congress, and Bishop Jack Dan as

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chairman of the planning committee who have themselves reached a conscientious decision in this matter, will affix their signatures to the covenant. In that same spirit. We now invite those of you who have your covenants with you and who wish to to sign. I would now pray

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in the closing words of the covenant in the conclusion, that God may help us, each one. By His grace, And for his glory. To be faithful. To this our covenant. Amen. Hallelujah. It's been such a joy for us all to be here to renew our covenant

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with God. To go home, determined to be a better servant for him. I think I've told some of you about my father, a Canadian pastor who'd who'd go to convocations such as this, where God's blessing was felt. He'd go home and he'd say to my mother.

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The wheat was so high, you couldn't see the fences. And how true that's been here. Marketplace is empty. No more traffic in the streets. All the tools are No more Time to harvest wheat. Busy housewives. I. In the courtroom, no debate, work on. is all suspended

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as the Come the I I just The trumpets sounding. I see. is Look Coming pray. God Oh You Happy faces Line the hallways. Those whose lives he has redeemed, broken homes he has mended, those from prison, he has freed. Little children and the

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aged hand in hand stand all aglow, who were crippled, broken, ruined. Now dressed in garments. I I can hear Where the chariots from. I the marching the Of God's trumpets. Well, the End of sin and wrong wriggle. robes are now unfolding heaven's grandstands all in place.

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Heaven I is now assembled to sing. T is coming. is coming. I just. The trumpet sounding and Oh his face I see. Oh But Is coming. Oh. Dr. Graham The subject assigned me. By the program committee as the King

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is coming. Bev Shea has sung it. Bev Shea has been at my side for 31 years. And I've gotten in the habit that I cannot preach unless he sings first. But I think that I would be remiss in this position of being the last speaker. If

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I did not say on behalf of all of you. Our profound appreciation. For the chairmanship of Bishop Jack Dane, and I think we can applaud and say that. And I would like to pay tribute also to Don Hope and his staff. Again For the splendid work

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of arrangements and logistics. That they have done. Don Hoke has been in Lausanne for many months. And I do not know many people that can turn out the work that Don Hope can turn out, and we're very grateful. Now today because we are running so far

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behind, I feel a little bit like I did when I preached my first sermon. It was in a little Baptist church in North Florida. I had prepared 4 sermons, and each sermon I thought would last 45 minutes. And I stood up before 36 people. And I

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preached all 4 sermons in 8 minutes. Now my message today. Has 4 points But I'm going to dwell only on the last one. And the text is Matthew 24:14. And all of you know it already, it's been quoted so many times in this Congress. And this

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gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.

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My points were, first, the message to summarize in this Congress, the message we've already heard from Bishop Kibanra this morning, the message is Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and risen from the dead and coming again. The message of the kingdom. The message that Philip went about

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preaching all over Samaria. The message has not changed in 2000 years. Our methods of presenting the message have changed, but not the message. Secondly, permission. The mission that we have is proclamation. Proclamation by presence and verbal proclamation. That is our mission as we go back. And

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thirdly, The motivation And one of the motivations of evangelization is somehow we do not understand. I do not understand, but somehow in the providence of God and the sovereignty of God, It is connected with the coming again. of our Lord Jesus Christ. When this gospel of

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the kingdom shall have been preached to all the nations. Then shall the end come. There are many things about this that we do not understand. I do not exactly understand when a nation can be said to be evangelized, even though I heard it explained this week

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several times. I do not understand why God Himself did not do the evangelization. Why he chose instruments like us to do it. Why did he not choose the angels to do it? Why did he give us this awesome responsibility? Why did he give us this tremendous

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command? Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel. I do not understand all of that. But like the apostle Paul, Knowing something of the terror of the Lord. The love of Christ on the cross. The compassion that we feel for fellow human beings that are

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lost in the darkness of this world. But primarily because Of the command of our Lord Jesus Christ, His last orders. To go into all the world. And we are closer today to fulfilling that command. than ever before in the history of the Christian church. Now, my

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final thought that I would like to dwell on following Bishop Cavandra's words. What kind of messengers are we to be as we leave Lausanne? We live here as messengers, as proclaimers. As evangelists, as teachers, as pastors, as theologians, but in a sense all evangelists. Paul told

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Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. And I say to every theologian here, to every professor, to every teacher, to every pastor, do the work of an evangelist. We leave here With a vast array of knowledge about theology. One of the participants was overheard to say

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the other day. I have theological indigestion. And in a sense we've heard so much, felt so much, and seen so much. That it's going to take us several weeks to sort it all out. And digest it. We've learned something about the world in which we live.

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Something about ourselves this morning I sat on this platform and I said, oh Lord. May the cross touch my life. In a new way. We've learned something about the areas of our ministry. Our vision of the world has been enlarged in American, said, I never dreamed

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that people from the third world had so many capabilities. I said they've got more ability than we've got. And we've heard people from all the nations stand up here. Day after day and deliver their souls. And this audience today possesses all the gifts of the spirit.

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We've wept together, we've debated together. We've laughed together. We've had our visions renewed. We've not always agreed on everything. But that brings us to the word of Saint Peter. In 2 Peter 3:11. Saying then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought

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ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Peter has just announced that this world is going to pass away. It's going to be burned up. The Lord is going to come back. The king is coming. In view of that, In view of the world in

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which we live and the challenges we've received at Lausanne, in view of the fact that our Lord is coming back. What manner of persons ought you to be? What kind of an evangelist, what kind of a pastor, what kind of a theologian should you be? Should

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I be? In Psalm 12, the first verse is translated in the Living Bible. It says, Lord, help. Lord, help. Godly men are fast disappearing. Where in all the world can dependable men be found? Are you a godly man? A godly woman. Are you a dependable man,

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a dependable woman? Our whole world is in a crisis of leadership at this moment. Political leadership. And leadership in every field. The world is crying for a leader. We want some person with a magic carpet. To come on the stage of world events. With a formula

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for world peace in solving the problems of the world. The world is waiting for a furor. The world is waiting for a leader. Someday that leader is going to step on the world stage and that leader is the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone has the solution

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to our complex problems. You must be an instrument prepared by the hand of God. As you go back from Lausanne. And first I would say to you, You must have had an experience with Christ. John Wesley once said, what a dreadful thing it would be for

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me if I should be ignorant of the power of the truth I'm preparing to proclaim. Did you know that a pastor From America This past week Accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior. At this conference. He said, I have been preaching. For a number of

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years. I hold 2 theological degrees. But till this week, I have never been sure. That I knew Jesus Christ. Jesus had 12 that traveled with him and no one suspected that there was something wrong with one of them. No one suspected Judas. He had the language.

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He had the look. He was trusted with a great responsibility of caring for the finances. Of the little group There's a man in this audience from America. Who had been preaching for many years. And one Sunday morning he was converted under his own preaching. What a

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dreadful thing it would be if you could come to Lausanne and go away with a doubt about your personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Wesley had been a missionary. But he was not sure of his relationship with Christ until Wednesday, May 24th, 1738. Before you

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leave here. Make sure Secondly, As you go from Lausanne, many of you are going to go back to very dangerous situations. Paul lived in danger all the time and in suffering. I'm sure that when Paul went to a town, One of the first things he did

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was not to go and see which was the. Better hotels or motels. I suspect he would go by the jail first to see what it looked like. Because he knew that sooner or later he would probably be there. Many of you are going back to dangerous

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situations. All kinds of dangers. It may not be actual physical danger. But dangers that you will be misunderstood and misquoted and misused. Misunderstood by those that you're going back. But in the midst of the danger, God will be there. Did you know that all of my

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ministry Especially since it became known. I have been frightened to death almost every day in these 25 years. I live in a state of perpetual Fear I hope it's godly fear. I'm always fearful that I'll say something or do something that would bring reproach to the

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name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's dangerous To be a pastor, to be a teacher. We have a tremendous responsibility before the Lord. To be godly men. But Paul said I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. He seemed to glory in danger. He

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seemed to become strong in danger and bold in danger, because he knew God was with him. There's nothing any bolder than a righteous man. And thirdly, As messengers of God, we will often live lonely lives. There's a loneliness. In the gospel I sometimes cannot explain it.

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But Paul said, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me. There may come issues and they may come times when you take a stand, when all will forsake you. All your former connections, all of your former friends. And it's a price that you have

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to pay. Demos hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Some of your co-laborers having loved the present world have forsaken you. Betrayed you. The loneliness of Calvary that we heard about a moment ago. No one could enter into that suffering except the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He must tread the wine press alone. Exclaiming, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? No one can ever comprehend the loneliness of that moment when this sinless. Son of the living God was made sin. For us Or the loneliness of Paul in Arabia for

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3 years, or the loneliness of John on the Isle of Patmos. A man who is used of God in the burning bush must often learn to suffer rejection at the hands of the worlds and the religious leaders alike, and often retire to the backside of the

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desert to be alone just with God. He's called upon many times to leave all, just to follow Jesus. But he will not be alone. Because he will be ministered to. By the Spirit of God. As Elijah was by the Brook cherry. Fourthly, our true messenger lives

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a burdened life. He carries about in his heart, if he's the Lord's vessel, a burden none can share but those who know it firsthand. He often cries, and I've cried 1000 times. Who is sufficient for these things? I've often gone to a city for a crusade.

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And I've looked out of my window upon the city, or I've looked down from an airplane on the city as we were coming in, and I've said this people is too much for me. Lord, I can't do it. The burden Of the man of God This

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concludes side C. Dr. Graham will continue his message on side D.