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John MacArthur.

Well, good morning.

You know, we've been talking a lot about truth.

That is what we do, at Grace to you, unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

And this morning, I want to look at what Scripture says about certainty, settled knowledge.

How do we know what we know and how can we be confident that what we believe is true?

You know, one of the most disastrous developments in Western society since the end of World

War II has been the loss of certainty.

It's not politically correct these days to hold strong opinions, to be convicted, to hold convictions

about especially biblical truth.

And that's ironic because one of the founding documents of the American way of life,

the Declaration of Independence, opens with a short preamble that's followed by these famous

words, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

But in postmodern America, no truth is self-evident. We're not even supposed

to be what, be sure what a person's gender is until that person tells you his, her,

or their pronouns, or until the kindergarten teacher figures it out. And so we ask, how can I be sure in a world that's constantly changing?

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