two preachers, indistinguishable to their close friends, Judas and Peter.

Judas belonged to Satan.

Peter belonged to the Savior.

I love this benediction in Ephesians grace.

We, with all those, we love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible love.

They were taught by the same teacher.

They lived three years with the same small group of friends, yet they turned down two very different paths.

One became a pillar of the early church, and the other, history's most notorious villain.

Today, on Grace to you, John MacArthur will show you why Peter stayed loyal to Christ, while Judas betrayed the Lord.

Along the way, you're going to see the profound change that can happen when you, like Peter, understand what it means to love Christ more than yourself.

The lesson you're about to hear is part of John's study titled Lessons for a Modern Day Disciple, and now here's John MacArthur with today's lesson.

I think you know that there has been a very disturbing reality in my life through all of the years of my ministry, and that is the fact that the church is occupied by people who aren't really saved.

I have addressed that so many ways I can't even count them.

I have written so many books on the gospel according to Jesus, the gospel according to the apostles, ashamed of the gospel, and beyond and beyond, and books that don't have the gospel in the title that are addressed at the same subject.

The truth, war, you know them all, hard to believe.

And they all are really driven at the same reality that the church is full of people who are on their way to hell.

And if we are going to throw our bodies in front of them and make them go over us to get there, it has to start in the church.

We can't make assumptions.

Tonight I want to tell you the tale of two preachers.

These two you know, you know them very well.

Both were called by Jesus personally.

Both answered the call for suck everything and followed Him.

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