Well hello everyone and welcome to this broadcast you're listening to another edition of Family Talk and as most of you know

this is a division of James Thompson Family Institute. I'm James Thompson and we're going to let you hear the

second half of recording that we began yesterday featuring the voice of Dr. John MacArthur. He's senior

pastor of Grace Community Church in California and he's had his own radio program. He took that

position in 1969 and he's now heard on more than 2,000 radio outlets throughout the world. It's

called Grace to You and he's written many, many books. I could take the rest of the program to

introduce him to you but I bet you already know. About 10 years ago or so, Dr. MacArthur came to

Woodman Valley Chapel here in Colorado Springs. It's a very prominent church here and on that day

he gave a stunning presentation on America's moral decline. He took that message from Romans 1, 28 to

32 and I don't do this very often but I'm going to read that scripture to you to understand the

context of what John MacArthur said. Because of this God gave them over to shameful lust. Even their

women exchanged natural relations with unnatural ones. In the same way the men abandoned natural

relations with women who were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed in decent acts with

other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they

did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind

to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,

greed, depravity. They are full of envy, murders, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips and

slanderers. God haters, insulin, arrogant and boastful and they invent ways to do evil. They

disobey their parents, their senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous

decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things

but they also approve of those who practice them. Now going back to what I said, Dr. MacArthur

came to Colorado Springs and gave this stunning message based on that scripture having to do

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