Would be no better time than right now at Billy Grahams funeral. To settle this once and for eternity. Its simply by faith, simply by believing. And if you were to just pray a simple prayer like, this just say in your heart, just say this in your heart. God, im a sinner. Im sorry for my sins. Forgive me. I believe that jesus christ is your son. And i want to trust him as my savior. And i want to follow him as my lord. If you just pray a simple prayer like that, god will forgive your sins and you can have that hope of eternal life. I last visited with my father sunday, february the 18th. And on the 21st Of February he was escorted by gods angels to the throne of god. And i could only imagine what it was like for my father to step in to heaven. And there was the Lord Jesus Christ to say well done, good and faithful servant. There was the throne of god. Can you just imagine that . My mother, his mother, father, friends, clapping, cheering, bells ringing, trumpets blowing. Not because it was billy graham. Its just another child of god had come home. Another child of god. Daddy, i wont see you on this earth again, but i will see you again. I will see you maybe soon but not yet. To God Be The Glory. [applause] thank you, franklin. And those last words that he said are something we all should leave with today as we sing a wonderful hymn to God Be The Glory, great things he hath done. Great Our Rejoicing through jesus his son. Will we stand together as we sing this wonderful hymn for the benediction. But everyone sing join and lift your voice. Let him be heard. To God Be The Glory great things he hath done and open the flood gates that all may go in Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the earth hear his
voice Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the people rejoice oh, come to the father, through jesus, the son and give him the glory, great things he hath done oh, perfect redemption, the purchase of blood to every believer, the promise of god the vialest offender who truly believes that moment from jesus, a pardon receives Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the earth hear his voice Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the people rejoice oh come to the father through jesus the son and give him the glory, great things he hath done. Snows great things he hath taught us great things he hath done and great Our Rejoicing through jesus the son but purer and higher and greater will be our wonder, our transport when jesus we see Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the earth hear his voice Praise The LordPraise The Lord let the people rejoice oh come to the father through jesus the son and give him the glory great things he hath done let the church say amen. Amen. Let us say it one more time for the father. Amen. And the holy ghost. Amen. I had the privilege of praying as dr. Graham dedicated the highway out there. So i have the privilege now, my great honor to give this benediction to this Great Service. Hasnt it been a Great Service . Amen. Lets give god the praise. [applause] celebration. Celebration. And now may the grace of god, the Sweet Communion of his holy spirit, may it rest, rule, and abide with us henceforth and forever more and the church said amen. Now im going to ask you to do one thing for me. They asked me to do this last night and i told them i would get it right. So help me, please. Because i wont get to do this again. [laughter] please remain standing until all until you are told to do the next thing. [laughter] God Bless You
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away in 2007. The ceremony taking place under a massive tent there in charlotte at the Billy Graham Library. As you can see, more than 2,000 people from all over the world. 500 countries represented there as they make their way out. We also saw the president , donald trump, the first lady melania in attendance, as well as the Vice President mike pence and his wife karen. The funeral being called grahams last could you said. Hilast crusade. Franklin saying billy graham said one day you will read billy graham is dead. Dont believe one word of it. I will be more alive than i am now. I will have just changed addresses thats all. Billy grahams funeral and ceremony continuing now with a private service for the burial of billy graham as we yoall say our goodbyes after a very special service there please stay tuned to Fox News Channel and this station for continuing
coverage of. Im sandra smith. Live fox News Coverage in new york. We have continuing coverage of the billy graham funeral. We are joined by chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. Bret baier anchor of Special Report and Shannon Bream fox news At Night Host joins us as well. Shannon, may i start with you first. What a Special Ceremony we have been all watching this together, starting out with one of his sisters and we heard from many of his children, all with incredibly sentimental thoughts looking back at their fathers life. Yeah, it was a beautiful ceremony. I had a chance to hear him in high school in the 1980s in tallahassee, florida. He came and for days filled up the Football Stadium at Florida State university. He attracted great crowds, but he always said faithfully through the end of his life it wasnt about him. It was about attracting people to jesus christ u i had a chance, too, to visit over at the Capitol Rotunda this week where he was lying
in honor. I didnt see one person of all the people cued up and waiting in lines. Not one person with tears. They were all with smiles believing as you noted there with Graham Franklin his son said dont grieve. He is in heaven now. My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with god which i believe comes through knowing christ. Thats what this service was all about today. Transparency. His daughter ruth talked about going through two devastating divorces. The second one her parents had warned her against moving too quickly in this relationship. She said it fell apart quickly and she was so humiliated and worried she would embarrass her father but not just that billy graham. Talked about the two day drive home not knowing how her parents were going to receive her and winding up that driveway she saw her father waiting for her to get out of that car and tomorrow brace her. It was all about forgiveness and redemption. Thats what he spent his whole Life Preaching about today and thats what that service was about as well. Sandra have you been watching this ceremony with us with the president in the first row looking quite engaged because it was absolutely beautiful ceremony. Chris . It was a great funeral, which is an odd thing to say. But it was and so often these big events get overwhelmed by the scale and the ceremony. But this had a deeply personal feeling and it was very revealing of who billy graham was anne graham lotz, one of the older sisters who billy graham used to say was the best preacher in the family. She was just terrific. I was also struck as shannon was by that very moving speech by her younger sister ruth graham a tribute to her dad who says i always have to follow her, being ann graham her older sister and told that story which told so much about, you know, being worried that she had embarrassed the family by these two failed marriages and billy and his wife ruth were there to greet her and
forgive her and tell her that their lo for her was as unconditional as ever. And then Franklin Graham, who has taken over the ministry the billy graham evangelical association, i was struck as you were, sandra by i have never been more alive as i am right now i have just changed addresses. Very moving moment at the end when he said if this was were your funeral, would you be in heaven . Are you sure . Because thats really what it was all about. Its not honoring billy graham. Its a message to each of us to do what we need to do to get right with the lord. And to take our lead a life that will lead us to heaven. I thought it was a very moving ceremony. And all you had to do, if you never heard billy graham say a word was to listen to his daughters and his son and you knew who billy graham was and what his message and his values were. Sandra breath, since webrete have heard reference back to the words where she ended saying she walked up the Driveway Tout Family home and there her father was, billy graham, and all he had to say after all her troubles and heart break was welcome home. Lets listen to this. Questions swirled in my mind, what was i going to say to daddy . What was i going to say to mother . What was i going to say to my children. I had been such a failure. What were they going to say to me . Were tired of fooling with you. We told you thought to do it. Youve embarrassed us. And let me tell you, you women will understanding you dont want to embarrass your father you really dont want to embarrass billy graham. [laughter] and many of you know that we live on the side of a mountain. As i wound myself up the mountain, i rounded the bass bend in my fathers driveway
and my father was standing there waiting for me. As i got out of the car, he wrapped his arms around me and he said welcome home. There was no shame. There was no blame. There was no condemnation. Just unconditional love. And you know, my father was not god. But he showed me what god was like that day. When we come to god with our sin, our brokenness, our failure, our pain and our hurt, god says welcome home. Sandra bret, there was not a dry eye on this couch and including may i say it father jonathan. But what a beautiful sentiment from his family there. It really was, and i was struck by this ceremony being split, really. It was a very personal Family Ceremony in that
gene, gigi ruth, anne, franklin all speaking, offering personal sentiment. Sometimes talking directly to daddy and having messages for him. And the other side is the pastor who preached to more than 200 Million People. 185 countries, 77 Million People saw him in person, in 60plus years of being a preacher. And you heard the two representatives from the middle east, sammy degar and billy kim from korea talking about the reach that billy graham had throughout the world. So i was struck by the two sides of this. The pastor to the world, really. He was called americas pastor and then the family side of this that he was daddy. And they were saying goodbye to him. We talked earlier about the marker on his grave stone. And it will just say november 7th, 1918 to february 21st, 2018, preacher of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, john
14 6. Thats all it will say. John 14 6, of course, jesus answered i am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. The verse that was central to grahams preaching his ministry Around The World. Sandra beautiful stuff. Harris i want to draw our attention to the Family Members now as everyone has come out of that tent, it was a revival of spirit and such a great tribute but also just for all of us watching. It was a reminder of christianity and jesus christ and all of the things that reverend graham was about as you saw the sun come up. We have had a noreaster on the coast. You could see that and had this been anywhere enclosed. I know the president of the United States offered up the cathedral, the nations cathedral. But if this had been any other place, you wouldnt have seen that. And it was such a moment of almost like a wink and a kiss from heaven. It was really beautiful. Shannon bream, you attended liberty university. And there is a lot of graham
legacy on that campus. I interviewed recently Jerry Falwell jr. Who is their president. He mental a lot to you personally and this family. Yeah. He really did. Like i said at first getting to hear him speak in person when i was a high school kid, i was very moved by that i was intrigued to go to this crusade because i had heard about those but to go and show up where there are tens of thousands of people who will show up for days on end, when you heard him and saw him, he was so humble in person, reverend graham was. He wasnt flashy, He Wasnt Running Around the stage. His message was very simple and very direct. And, yet, it drew people from all over the world, all over the political spectrum. People from hollywood. He met with queens and had a relationship with queen elizabeth. All the way down to a homeless person on the street who he could not pass by. And he would stop and speak to. I mean, he had one goal with his life. And that was just to share this message with anyone who would listen. And through that legacy, as bret talked about the
millions who heard him in person, undoubtedly the millions who have seen clips of his sermons will hear recordings over the ages to come, i can only imagine, you know, he seemed to me on the day that we had heard he had passed away that the welcome he had in heaven was the one that everybody would hope to get which is well done my good and faithful servant. He sprea spent his life spreadig the gospel. It seems like right now with the world in so much turmoil and so much of a schism between people on all kinds of different issues and ideologies, he would have been uniting in his message and saying were all in the same playing field. We are all children of god. And we all have the same opportunity to have a relationship with him. Harris one of the people you just mentioned there and i think bret as well billy kim the president of far east Broadcasting Company in korea said it this way. That there is a crown of righteousness that has been laid down in heaven for the reverend billy graham. You talked about his meeting with and talking with many
royal members over the years. The queen of england. But the thought today is that a crown of righteousness, the True Royalty In Heaven will be laid down. We continue our coverage today. Now that billy graham is being laid to rest in the Prayer Garden on the Billy Graham Library. You are watching his Family Members. His children, you see anne graham right there in the forefront of the screen giving much love to the people who have come out to pay their respects inside that tent today that sits on the grounds of the library. Our continuing coverage, stay close. Pany definitely doesnt have that. You can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ Liberty Mutual insurance. There werent two Billy Grahams. He loved his family, he stood by us. He comforted us, he left us an enduring legacy. His uncompromising testimony of gods great love, all of us children came to see the world and our father in heaven through my fathers eyes. Harris so beautiful. We brought you the funeral today of the reverend billy graham. He is being laid to rest at the Prayer Garden at the Billy Graham Library in charlotte, north carolina. Our Special Coverage continues now. Father Jonathan Morris is with us now. You made a remark about how raw visceral and accessible this was today via his children, Billy Grahams children. This funeral said billy graham. We were commenting earlier. You know, some funerals are super sad. This was sad but it was also
joyful. And you got that from his own children. And what a greatestment to any person to say we saw billy graham or we saw this man in his children. Right . And they represented so perfectly that joy that he is in heaven. And at the same time, and this was very powerful, especially that it was on national television, and being seen Around The World that Franklin Graham basically made an altar call, right . He invited everybody to make a decision to follow god with your life. And thats what he was so famous for. Yes, he preached the gospel, but then he said make a decision. Make a decision. Do you want to follow jesus as your lord and xavier . And thats what we just saw in this funeral. You know, here i am a catholic priest, im not a Southern Baptist or evangelical, and, yet, so many catholics, orthodox, christian, others saw in
this man a call to the core, to the essential of what christianity is and that is following the person of jesus of nazareth, the second person of the holy trinity, and we saw that at his funeral. Harris hearing you speak about it now, what people also saw in billy graham is that he was unrelenting in talking about jesus and christianity. And as the world has bent to a much more neut