Billy Graham calls listeners to accept Jesus and renounce worldly pleasures, alcohol, and drugs. He argues only the Holy Spirit can convict people of sin, and urges believers to embrace being "fools for Christ" even if it means ridicule and isolation from the world.
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And when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, turn your back on the pleasures and the sensual lust and things of this world, people think you're a fool. The world that does not know Christ looks foolish to me. Why can't they see? Why can't they understand? I want to grab everybody I see on the street and everybody we pass, everybody in the hotel. I want to grab them and say, look here, Christ could change your life. I see their empty I see the— hear the hollow laughter. And I see them drinking, trying to drink themselves into some happiness. Or taking the drugs and that hollow stare that they have. And I say, "Oh, if I could only just shake them loose." But you see, only the Holy Spirit can do that. I cannot do the work of the Holy Spirit for him. The Holy Spirit must convict them of sin. He must also lift this veil that's over their minds. What the world calls foolish I'm resting my salvation on the cross of Christ, no matter what the world may think of him or of me. We're fools for Christ's sake, willing for the world to look at us as out of our minds, willing to be accounted as the very offscouring of the earth because we've turned to Christ. Are you one of the devil's fools? Are you willing to be a fool for Christ's sake?