Today’s Apostasy by Billy Graham

Today’s Apostasy

By Billy Graham

There are some today who have become victims of a censorious, critical and fault-finding spirit. They produce very little of the fruit of the Spirit, as listed by the Apostle Paul: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control”(Galatians 5:22–23). They have lost the true meaning of 1 Corinthians 13, which gives the definition of love. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:1–2). Paul describes love this way: “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:4–6). As we see Christians fighting one another and quarreling among themselves, our hearts become grieved and sick. We know that the enemy is at work—denying, dividing and destroying people of God and causing them to fall away from the Gospel in various ways. May God help us to turn to Him. May we have a great revival that will melt our hearts together, burn our consciences and drive us back to the altar with tears of repentance. A revival among Christians could change the whole process of history and reverse the immoral tide.