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.

Well, good evening everybody.

This is Sunday night, May 3rd, 2020.

And you are actually in my office. This isn't a stage.

This is my office at Grace Community Church.

I do have to confess that they clean my desk off.

It doesn't normally look this clean.

There's normally a lot more work hanging around on this desk that I need to get to.

But yes, this is my office, and it has been since way back in the 1970s, this is the sort of center of my world and ministry here at Grace Church, which we so much love. We moved to my office

tonight because it allows me to talk to you a little bit about the church. For the last

couple of Sunday nights, we've done Q&A in our church auditorium, albeit an empty auditorium.

We put a desk out there so you could see that the church was empty.

Sunday mornings, we've been doing our services live stream from the worship center,

either live or we've used some previously recorded sermons.

But, you know, it's time for me to talk a little

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