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And now unleashing God's truth, one verse at a time, here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now we come to the Lord's table when we pray time. Here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now we come to the Lord's table when we personalize all that worship and we from the heart

honor the Lord with our repentance, confession, faith and trust, and obedience as we partake.

But before we do that, I want to take a look at the cross maybe from a different perspective,

so if you want to look in your Bible, it's 1 Peter chapter 2.

First Peter chapter 2 and I'll just make a few remarks with regard to this passage.

First Peter chapter 2, of course First Peter is written to believers who are scattered in a

hostile world and they are in the

very outset of this epistle identified as aliens in the world. They're suffering,

insults, and persecution. And Peter writes this to encourage them.

In chapter two, we'll look at verse 20, what credit is there if when you sin and are harshly

treated you endure it with patience?

But if when you do what is right and suffer for it, you patiently endure it, this finds grace

with God.

For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in his steps,

who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in his mouth.

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