Is Anything in Life Free Anymore?
By Will Graham
The Easter Sunrise Service has always been one of my favorite services to preach. There’s something so special and unique about gathering to worship the risen Savior on Easter morning. It’s a time when we can focus most on the sacrifice and glorious resurrection of Jesus, which gives us hope and removes the sting of death. I love it!
I remember several years ago when I was in college and dating the beautiful woman who would one day be my bride, Kendra. I took her with me to visit my grandfather, Billy Graham, for Easter in Montreat, N.C.
On our way back to Liberty University that afternoon, we drove up to Boone, N.C., to see my parents. We pulled into a little gas station on the south side of U.S. Route 70 to fuel up and be on our way. I vividly remember standing in line while the people in front of me made friendly conversation with the clerk behind the counter.
“Nothing’s free anymore!” the man chuckled as he handed over the money to pay for his gasoline purchase.
At that moment God told me to speak. My heart cried out to share the Gospel with these people: “Yes, God’s gift of Salvation is free! That’s what Easter is all about! God paid the debt for you through His Son, Jesus!”
My friends, that’s what I should have said.
Sadly, I kept that proclamation to myself. I regret it to this day. God gave me the words to say and wanted me to share His hope on that glorious Easter day with people who likely needed to hear it, but I disobeyed him and kept it silently in my heart. Frankly, I chickened out.
I made a covenant with God that day that if I ever felt Him speaking through me again, I would share it boldly and not hold back. Who knows? Sharing the words He gives us may be the difference between someone spending an eternity in Heaven or in Hell; the difference between a life of hope and a life of discouragement and despair.
As we celebrate Christ’s resurrection this year, I encourage you to listen to God as He speaks to you, and be His mouthpiece as He speaks through you. Easter is what it’s all about, and we need to take every opportunity available to us to share His saving message.
Has God laid on your heart the names of friends and loved ones who need to know Him?
May GOD bless Nigeria, America and Israel and take care of us; May GOD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the LORD lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!
May the grace the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen!

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Fundamental distinctions which radically change the intent and interpretation of Torah as a political foundation/Constitution vs the religions established through Biblical and Koran counterfeits. Goyim never accept to this day the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. They do not thereafter dictate any Torah commandment. Not Moshiach nor who or what qualifies as a prophet. Daniel a mystic not a prophet. Oral Torah by definition interprets the k’vanna of wisdom commandments\time-oriented mitzvot.
Jewish Halacha despite Middle Ages assimilation to Greek logic philosophies – which in effect negated the Chanukkah lights – halacha contained within the Gemara “commentary” to a specific Mishna – serves as courtroom witnesses who testify based upon observance of the Mishnaic case viewed from different perspectives. Halacha after the Roman exile of Jews from Judea “converted” into religious law – with rabbinic decisors (geonim, rishonim, acharonim) who fill the function of spiritual-legal guides whose rulings regulated communal religious existence in cursed g’lut. Halacha of this much later statute law assimilated codes, copied Roman law, much like the bible influenced by the printing press.
Despite these codes, imposed by decisor “authorities” such as Rambam or Karo, halacha simply not religious law. But remains precedents by which witnesses testify a Case heard before a Sanhedrin common law courtroom, viewed from different perspectives. A living human being shares no comparison to a mirror reflection or photograph of that person stored in a vault for hundreds of years. Still another example: The Cathedral copy-cat Temple built by king Shlomo merely a “photograph” of the Torah commandment צדק צדק תרדוף – which serves as the foundation of judicial common law courtrooms mandated by the Torah written Constitution. As determined by a Torah precedent: Moshe’s establishment of 3 Cities of Refuge with their small Sanhedrin courts.
If you take the time to learn the Hebrew T’NaCH you will see the day vs night difference between the Hebrew T’NaCH which the Xtian bible has replaced. For example: how a person organizes ideas changes what that person understands. Take the “Order” of – GOD vs dog. The Xtian bible translations did just that with their institution of Chapter & Verse organization which replaced the Hebrew sugya/sub-chapter Order. Something akin to Grover Cleveland’s decision to abandon all original US President advice from Washington – Madison – father of the US Constitution – inclusive of Andrew Jacksons’ free banking rejection of European Central Banking.
Yes, today even the Hebrew T’NaCH also modified through printers – to include Xtian chapter and verses! But within the Torah scrolls & Hebrew T’NaCH, remain odd gap/spaces scattered throughout all that literature. Starting with the 5 Books of the Torah scrolls read on shabbat and organized around an internal פ & ס. These two Hebrew letters refer to “sugyah” – sub-chapter and “Parech” – chapter. The printed Hebrew T’NaCH – originally likewise organized in hand written manuscripts prior to the printing press movable type 1455 invention – employ easily observable gaps which separate one sub-chapter from another. The printing press invention directly impacted the 1611 KJB together with the Catholic Bibles. Just as did the chapter system, developed early in the 13th century by Archbishop Stephen Langton 1205-1227. The verse system introduced in the 16th century – Santes Pagnino produced a versed Latin Bible in 1551.
The Catholic bibles based upon Latin translations. They include deuterocanonical books whom Ezra and other post destruction of the 2nd Temple, Tannaim Era survivors excluded from the Hebrew T’NaCH literature. King Cyrus of Persia, whom the prophetic Book Isaiah refers to as “moshiach”, permitted Jews to return back to Judea after our 70 year Babylonian exile ordeal. The Catholic/Protestant 30 Years War terminated in 1648. Martin Luther moved the Catholic deuterocanonical books to an “Apocrypha” section in his 1534 German bible.
William Tyndale executed in 1536. Convicted of Lutheran heresy—mainly for his Protestant theological writings (e.g., justification by faith, denial of transubstantiation) and related polemics; his English Bible translation viewed as a direct challenge Lutheran Church authority. Strangled at the stake, then his body was burned. The Lutheran church sided with Hitlers’ Nazism. Nonetheless his translations omitted some deuterocanonical books prior to his betrayal and State murder. John Calvin treated them as separate and apart from “Scripture”. The 1611 King James Bible reflects that Protestant tradition and relied heavily on Tyndale, the Geneva Bible, and the Bishops’ Bible.
A substantial portion of German society—including many Protestants and Catholics—backed or accommodated the Nazi regime, especially in the 1930s, motivated by nationalism, anti‑communism, fear, and the regime’s social/order promises. Major church bodies made compromises (e.g., the Protestant Reich Church movement, concordats and local accommodations by Catholic bishops). Anti‑Jewish violence did not end in 1945—notable examples like the 1946 Kielce pogrom in Poland show continued lethal antisemitism and communal breakdown after the war. Moral accountability for mass support remains a valid and widely held judgment against all biblical translations, based upon the language of the gospels themselves: “by their fruits you shall know them”. Where was Jesus during Xtian war crimes throughout history from the Crusades to the blood libels to pogroms to mass expulsions to ghetto gulags etc?
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