<TITLE>03. Par 6-7</TITLE>L-6 In a breakfast few months ago with Billy Graham, one of the world's noted evangelists, a wonderful character, a great man of God, I had the privilege of shaking his hand. Our paths have crossed many places. At Zurich, Switzerland, he hit it on Saturday evening; I begin in the same place on Sunday morning to start. I wasn't there; my plane never landed quick enough till I could get a cab and get to the grounds, but I turned the radio on and I could hear him.
And many times our paths has crossed, but never got to shake his hand till he was in Louisville, Kentucky, across from my hometown. There I shook his hand. It's always a privilege for me to meet men of God.
And I heard him that morning as he raked and combed those ministers, how he reproved them in the Name of the Lord by the Bible. And he said, "I go into a city and work hard and try my best to bring people to Christ. And when they give them a decision card," said, "you ministers write them a letter instead of going, giving them a good warm handshake." Said, "And I come back in a year from then, where I had ten thousand converts, I don't have ten. What's the matter?" He said, "It's because of you ministers."
I set there, my heart swelling and going down. I felt sorry for the man, not yet over forty-something years old, turning gray. And I know it's hard away from his family. I sympathize with him, a servant of Christ.
But I thought, "Brother Graham, if you only knew what you--you do...  But you're burning out, but you're combing through waters that's already been combed from cross the country, from place to place, going--have a great revival, thousands come up and accept Christ. In another year, none of them, hardly, just a meager little few...

L-7 Remember, the called out of God is the elected. He said, "The kingdom's like a man that went forth and cast a net into the sea." And when he brought them in, he had all kinds in there. He had crawfish, mudturtles, snappers. He had serpents. He had lizards, frogs. He had scavenger fish, and he had real fish. Only thing the minister's doing is seining with the Gospel net. Whatever it was, all of them caught in the Gospel net. But the nature of him, let him lay there a little while; if he's a frog he'll jump right away. If he's a turtle, just isn't but a few minutes till he says, "Well, there ain't nothing in this anyhow." Right back to the mud hole he goes. A crawfish will say, "Well, I tell you; it seemed like it was all right; but I tell you, I just don't... " See, he's a crawfish to begin with. You can't make nothing else out of him.
Christ never died just to let people have sympathy. Christ... God doesn't run His office that loose. You wouldn't run your office that loose. Christ never come from heaven, saying, "Well, I'll die and perhaps maybe people will feel sorry for Me and come." No, sir. Christ died to--to call the election, that God elected before the foundation of the world, and them alone. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to Me I'll give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." There you are. See? Christ died to save those who God by foreknowledge knowed would be saved. And so when...


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