Like Wesley, I find that I must preach the law and judgment before I can preach grace and love….The Ten Commandments…are the moral laws of God for the conduct of people. Some think they have been revoked. That is not true. Christ taught the law. They are still in effect today. God has not changed. People have changed….

Every person who ever lived, with the exception of Jesus Christ, has broken the Ten Commandments. Sin is a transgression of the law. The bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Ten Commandments are a mirror to show us how far short we fall in meeting God’s standards. And the mirror of our shortcomings drives us to the cross, where Christ paid the debt for sin. Forgiveness is found at the cross, and no other place, according to the Bible…. –Billy Graham, Quoted in George Burnham and Lee fisher, Billy Graham and the New York Crusade, pp.108, 109.