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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