Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant

Scripture Reading: Matthew 25:14-30

Focus Verse: Matthew 25:21  “His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.  Enter into the joy of your lord.”

On February 21, 2018 one of the worlds greatest evangelist was promoted to heaven.  The Reverend Billy Graham went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Billy Graham was quoted as saying, “Some day you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead.  Don’t believe a word of it.  I shall be more alive than I am now.  I will just have changed my address.  I will have gone into the presence of God.”  What a great positive way to think of death.  As a believer in Christ, we have the hope of being alive in heaven.  It has been said that Billy Graham was the greatest communicator of the Gospel since the apostle Paul.  More than two billion people in this world have heard his message of salvation through crusades, radio and television.  He conducted 417 crusades in 185 countries and territories on six continents.  Countless millions of people have surrendered their lives to Christ through his ministry of 80 years.  I am told that Billy Graham preached in Kenya on two occasions, Kisumu in 1960 and Nairobi in 1976. 

Billy Graham’s main message did not change over those 80 years, because the Gospel message is the same yesterday, today and forever, and because God’s Word never changes.  “I have one message: that Jesus Christ came, he died on a cross, he rose again, and he asked us to repent of our sins and receive him by faith as Lord and Savior, and if we do, we have forgiveness of all of our sins,” said Graham at his final Crusade in June 2005 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York.

Billy Graham’s life is an example of a life that was completely surrendered to Christ.  God can use you and me in amazing ways, if we will fully surrender our lives to God.  Ephesians 3:20 “God wants to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we might ask or think.”  Since Billy Graham’s death people have been asking “who will be the next Billy Graham?”  Any one of us can be the next Billy Graham.  Anyone of us can go into this world and share the Gospel.  I am sure that when Billy Graham reached heavens gate yesterday that Jesus welcomed him in by saying “Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant.”  Billy Graham promoted to heaven at the age of 99.  November 7, 1918 - February 21, 2018. Let Billy Graham’s life and death be an example to all of us of a life surrendered to God and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

“He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me … has passed from death into life” (John 5:24 NKJV).

Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries

Read more on this website: https://memorial.billygraham.org/official-obituary/