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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We'll start over here with Rick McLean in that line and give me your name and then your question.

Yes, my name is Stan and I'm personally very grateful for your teaching.

Thank you.

And my question is with all the mass shootings and the homeless and a culture that

believes man can get pregnant, we live in a crazy world and I have relatives in my family

who are mentally ill.

So I went to the Bible to try and get some guidance and I find that for such a huge problem

that really affects such huge parts of our, says there's very little in the Bible.

So the one thing I did find was in Luke chapter 8 when Christ is dealing with the demonic

guy lives in the tombs and it says Christ cast out the demons and then it says and out of the guy.

And then it says and then he was sane.

So I guess my question is is every mental illness have a demonic component or is there such a thing as just a mental illness?

And if so why didn't Christ ever heal somebody who had a mental illness apart from demonic

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