Graham...A modern day Judas

I don't believe that Dr Graham was just a disobedient brother. I don't believe he was a brother at all. The Bible teaches us that spiritual fruit exposes the true nature of the plant Matthew 7:16-20. Fruit never comes at the beginning of the growing cycle it always comes at the end. It's easy to judge Dr Graham by his early ministry rather than the end but this is a big mistake. Only God knows for sure but I believe Dr Graham was a modern-day Judas.
Graham 

John 6:70, 1 John 2:19.
How grateful we are for those who were genuinely converted under his ministry but that is to the praise of God's glorious grace not man's innovation and compromise. God's work is the saving. Ours is the obeying. I believe that when Dr Pettit praised the late Dr Graham, he did not endorse a disobedient brother but rather an apostate.
The following are direct quotes from Dr Graham’s magazine Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/billy-graham


He met with popes from John XXIII to John Paul II, and his friendship with the latter seemed especially warm and deep. After an extraordinary personal meeting of two hours in 1989, Graham reported, "There was a pause in the conversation; suddenly the pope's arm shot out and he grabbed the lapels of my coat, he pulled me forward within inches of his own face. He fixed his eyes on me and said, 'Listen Graham, we are brothers.'"
Already in 1966, only a year after the Second Vatican Council, Graham said, "I find myself closer to Catholics than the radical Protestants. I think the Roman Catholic Church today is going through a second Reformation." On The Phil Donahue Show in 1979, he said, "I think the American people are looking for a leader, a moral and spiritual leader that believes something. And the pope does. … Thank God, I've got somebody to quote now with some real authority." On John Paul's visit to America in 1980: "[He] has emerged as the greatest religious leader of the modern world, and one of the greatest moral and spiritual leaders of this century. ... The pope came [to America] as a statesman and a pastor, but I believe he also sees himself coming as an evangelist. … The pope sought to speak to the spiritual hunger of our age in the same way Christians throughout the centuries have spoken to the spiritual yearnings of every age—by pointing people to Christ." And later, on the pope's message in Vancouver, where Graham preached a month later: "I'll tell you, that was just about as straight an evangelical address as I've ever heard. … He gives moral guidance in a world that seems to have lost its way."
In his statements about John Paul II, as well as about Mother Teresa and the Catholic church more generally, many evangelicals thought Graham had gone overboard or landed in gross heresy. But I am confident that he was driven by a passion for sharing the saving gospel of Christ. In the great encyclical of 2000, Redemptoris Missio("Mission of the Redeemer"), John Paul envisioned the third millennium as "a springtime of world evangelization." Graham surrendered his entire life to playing a not insignificant part in precipitating that springtime




Machen White 
Ephesians 5:11


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