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, it's wonderful to be with you again on this Sunday night.

We've been doing a number of different things since we've been unable to gather as a church.

And last Sunday morning I addressed the issue of the family and God's wisdom for the family.

And I thought it would be helpful to maybe continue thinking along that line since we're all together with our family for perhaps a few more

weeks and draw you into the Word of God with regard to what the Bible says about the important

critical responsibility that we have as parents to raise our children in the nurture and admonition

of the Lord.

So at least tonight and maybe again next Sunday night, we're going to talk about this wonderful

divine responsibility of raising children that become a joy to their parents and a blessing to the world and

useful to the kingdom of God.

I think all of us are aware we don't need statistical proof that parenting has fallen on dire,

hard times.

Marriage is dead in America every year, less and less people get married.

More and more people stay single. They cohabitate.

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