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.

Good evening, Pastor John.

My name is Joshua.

Hi, Joshua.

The question is just being here at Grace Community Church, grateful to be here.

What a wonderful church. Thank you. What are some here at Grace Community Church, grateful to be here. What a wonderful

church. What are some weaknesses of Grace Community Church, and how can we guard our strength

ourselves against those weaknesses? Well, all the weaknesses of Grace Church are the cumulative

weaknesses of all the believers and leaders in the church.

As Paul said, not as though I have attained, right?

But I pressed toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

None of us has arrived, not me, not the elders of the church, not the pastors of the church,

and not the people of the church.

So we bring together our collective. So we bring together our collective

strengths and we bring together our collective weaknesses. We are constantly, as we've been saying

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