Hope for the World

   Part 2

     Billy Graham met with Konrad Adenauer before he retired as chancellor of Germany. He told Graham "The most important thing in the world ... is 'the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ is alive, then there is hope for the world.' 

     Graham wrote, "This risen Christ, taken by faith, is great enough to cope with every problem the human race faces. His power has world implications. 'The government will be upon his shoulder.' (Isaiah 9:6.) He is still the Lord of history.

     "When he was crucified, the Roman governor ordered an inscription written over his cross that said, This is the King of the Jews, in three languages. He still is King. One of our failures is not seeing Christ as King of the physical and material as well as spiritual, of the mind as well as the soul, of the government as well as the heart. 

     "In this country we debate the separation of church and state. But Christ cannot be separated from life, for he 'is all and in all,' (Colossians 3:11). Nazism arose in Germany only after the church failed to fill the vacuum following World War I. Germany was robbed of a Savior and gave birth to a dictator." 

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