The Billy Grahams are used to reach those who God chose to be saved during life. Your comment is not unlike one I always hear. If everyone is going to be saved, why did Jesus have to die on the cross. That action is the only thing that allows salvation in the first place. Without the cross, no one would be saved, and without evangelists, no one would respond to the gospel.
Let me ask you this: Does your knowledge that the cross will enable you to get into heaven cause you to act in an evil manner? No one who truly understands the cross wants to take advantage of pure grace.
Acceptance of a gift is a far cry from good behavior, good attitude, good thinking etc..... The faith we have isn't even our own, it's the faith of Jesus Christ given to us by God, lest any man should boast. Again, we don't earn our way to heaven. The ticket has been paid for already. If we are depending on our actions to get us there, we're all goners. Before Christ's death on the cross, behavior was the way. Christ preached the if gospel. If you forgive, I'll forgive. Works were everything. Paul preached Christ and Him crucified. Between those 2 messages, Christ died for us. Hence, pardon and forgiveness were replaced by justification. Justification means we were never guilty. And our sins are not reckoned against us. Pardon and forgiveness depend on behavior and can be revoked. Justification depends on faith alone. We tend to mix the two. Our instructions are to be conciliated to one another, because Christ has conciliated us to God.
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