The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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

Here's Grace to You Bible Teacher John MacArthur.

I want you to open your Bible to John six again as we did last week.

As you can tell, the title of the message is the same, Christian deconstruction.

For many generations of the church, no one would understand what that means.

But in this contemporary scenario, maybe over the last five or six years, that has become a very popular term

to describe people who once professed to be Christians but who turned away.

They deconstruct their Christian faith.

It primarily finds its adherence on the Internet through the normal ubiquitous social media means

as they give their testimonies to being liberated from the oppression that Christianity once was for them.

This is the typical scene.

And most of them who defect do so because of an unwillingness to turn from iniquity, transgression, and sin, and be obedient to the Lord.

And it comes down to that. The true Christians obey and false Christians resent that.

And so trying to get a handle on that and help you to see it and understand it, I've chosen John chapter six as a great passage to explain this.

Because it is a widespread phenomenon, as I said last week, there are so many false forms of Christianity, so many churches that preach an inadequate gospel,

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