The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We are in a brief series on unity in the church from Philippians chapter 1.

And if you would like to turn in your Bible to Philippians 1, I want to read the portion

of Scripture that we'll be looking at.

And I want to mention to you that I feel it's important for me in these messages to make

sure that I make the case as fully as I possibly can.

It doesn't mean I'm going to make the sermon any longer so you can rest assured that's

not going to happen.

But I do want to load it with all the Scripture that applies to these subjects because I know

these messages get listened to a lot after they're preached here and I just want to make

sure that everything is in there so that people don't assume that something was left out

or that the full argument or the full text of Scripture wasn't being considered.

So it's important to do a kind of complete picture on these subjects.

Talking about unity is critically important because the church of Jesus Christ on the larger

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