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.

Now, as you know, last Sunday we began to look at the book of Revelation, and the reason

I felt urgency to do this is because

there seems to be so much confusion in our world about the future, and it seems to be so

ominous. The powers that be in our country, and I think elsewhere in the world, are

trying to do everything they can

to frighten people about the future so they can exercise a certain control over them, and I think

that will continue to escalate. They are not in charge of the future by any stretch of the imagination.

The environmentalists are not in charge of the future, nor are the polluters in charge of the future.

No human being is in charge of the future. That belongs to God and God alone.

And to have that perspective, that is the divine perspective, you have to go to the Word of God,

and no better place in the book of Revelation.

Now, as we come to the second part of Chapter 1, just to kind of introduce it in the framework of what we've been doing over the last couple of months, I did some sermons on the life

of the church. We talked about that in church membership. We talked on the life of the church.

We talked about that in church membership.

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