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

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I had the marvelous privilege this week to spend a few hours with some of the faithful brothers

in our church.

Some of them who have come to the seminary and others who are part of our church congregation.

These are young black men that gave up a chunk of their time to sit with me and talk through some of these issues.

Thanks to Carl Hargrove for kind of leading that discussion which was powerfully fruitful

for me.

I have been talking the last couple of weeks from the Word of God, as I always do, to try

to help people understand what is going on in our world from a biblical perspective.

That falls to me to be the spokesman for the Lord, and that is a humbling responsibility

that I obviously don't take lightly.

James says, stop being so many teachers for theirs is a greater condemnation, not wanting

to fall into condemnation and having used my mouth for so many years, a sensibility

to speak for God, I have come to understand the seriousness of this accountability.

And so I have endeavored the last couple of weeks to give you a biblical perspective on the issues that we face and

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