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, as you know, if you've been around Grace Church recently, we're in a series of sermons where I'm helping you to look at critical conversations with the Son of God.

And that, of course, takes us to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the gospel accounts of his life.

Conversations about salvation, conversations about the gospel, conversations

about sin and forgiveness, and eternal life, and faith, and unbelief. All of those essential

elements were topics of conversation between our Lord and his disciples

as well as the people of the land of Israel.

And they are profoundly important conversations because our Lord is defining for us the essence of spiritual truth.

One of the most profound conversations and one of the most serious is found in the sixth chapter

of John.

Open your Bible, if you will, to John chapter 6. And I draw your attention

down to verse 59, where Jesus is teaching in the synagogue in Copernium. He did this in his

Galilean ministry. That was kind of his headquarters,

so much of his teaching and miracle working was done in the town of Copernium on the north shore

of the Sea of Galilee. So that's where we find him in this text of John's 6th. Let me read you verses 59 and following.

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