Category: Evangelism / Salvation
Preacher: Billy Graham
Ministry: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA)
Event: Portland Crusade, Portland, Oregon
Date Preached: Not Specified
Date Published: 2026
Language: English
Pages: 23
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About This Message
Jesus Christ Superstar is a classic sermon by Billy Graham, preached at the Portland Crusade in Portland, Oregon, on the question that has followed Jesus through every generation: who is He?
Dr. Graham opens in Luke 11:29–32, where Jesus tells a crowd demanding a sign that He is the sign, and that “a greater than Jonah is here.” He then takes up the rock opera that had young people everywhere talking about Christ, and its haunting refrain, “Do you think you’re what they say you are?” The rest of the message is his answer.
From there the sermon follows a clear path. It looks at Jesus as a real man who was hungry, tired, tempted in every point, and yet sinless, and at His claim to be the eternal Son of God, the Word made flesh. It turns to the ethics He taught, the death He died, and what He meant when He cried, “It is finished.” It closes with the resurrection, the question of whether Jesus was a liar, a lunatic, or Lord, and the everyday faith by which anyone can come to know Him. The message ends with a public invitation to arise and receive Christ.
About the Preacher
William “Billy” F. Graham Jr. (1918–2018) was raised on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. He made a commitment to faith at age 15 during a revival, was ordained in 1939, and earned a degree from Wheaton College in 1943, where he married Ruth McCue Bell.
After pastoring in Illinois and serving as the first full-time evangelist for Youth for Christ International, he rose to national prominence through the 1949 Los Angeles Crusade. That launched decades of global outreach, including crusades in London, New York City, Seoul, and Rio de Janeiro, and over his lifetime he preached live to nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories. In 1950 he founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).
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Digital Book Information
| Information | Details |
|---|---|
| Title | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| Preacher | Billy Graham |
| Ministry | Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) |
| Event | Portland Crusade, Portland, Oregon |
| Date Preached | Not Specified |
| Date Published | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 23 |
| Format | PDF Digital Book |
| Publisher | LivingSermons.com |
| Edition | First Edition — 2026 |
| Archive Status | Published and preserved |
Key Scripture
Luke 11:29–32
“The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold a greater than Jonah is here.”
Dr. Graham begins with Jesus’ answer to a generation demanding a sign, then shows that the sign they were looking for was standing in front of them, and still stands before every reader today.
Inside This Digital Book
This digital edition contains:
- A foreword by Wisdom Epsi, Chief Editor of LivingSermons
- The publisher’s note
- The transcribed main message
- The sign greater than Jonah
- What think ye of Christ?
- The Man Jesus
- The claim of divinity
- The death He died
- The meaning of the cross
- He is risen
- Faith: the bridge to knowing
- Arise and come
- The invitation continues
- About the speaker
- About LivingSermons
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