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

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to You Bible teacher John MacArthur.

The story of my life can basically be tied to one thing, and that is the love of the truth.

Everything is about the truth, written,

the truth incarnate. You can't divide them because the word of God is the written word,

and the word of God is also the incarnate word. Psalm 138 says God has exalted his word equal to

his name. The only way we can truly worship God,

serve God, honor God, love God, and proclaim God is to do all of that with His word. The hymns

we sing are reflective of the truths of Scripture, set to music the way

they are. They lift our souls and our spirits as you experience again in the wonderful

time of worship this morning. But everything rises out of one book. There's a simplicity in

the Christian life. There's a simplicity in Christian ministry because everything

comes out of one book. Now, admittedly, it can take a lot of books to understand the one

book correctly, and that's why you're here. Take a lot of influences, a lot of instructors,

preachers, teachers, to get this one book right.

But how remarkable it is that God has deposited everything he wanted us to know

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