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Welcome to Plodcast, this is episode 154.

Thanks for joining us.

Let's have a good time, shall we?

I want to begin by talking about John MacArthur's stance in worshiping,

contrary to the order of the governor of California, Governor Newsom.

What basically happened was John MacArthur has taught for a number of years basically that as scripture teaches that we should

honor the existing authorities and submit to them and so on, which is the teaching in 1st

Peter 2 and Romans 13 and when the coronavirus hit the initial response

at Grace community was to comply. This is this is not our lane this is the

civil authorities lane and so we will comply.

But as time went on the situation became more and more clear.

As I watched John MacArthur's statement on it, he demonstrated that the lockdown order or the prohibition of Christian worship or the prohibition of churches was being radically

was being radically misapplied or misapplied in such a way as to indicate that churches were being singled out.

In other words, liquor stores are open.

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