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's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I want you to open your Bible to John 6 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 profess 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, that 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 6 as a great passage to explain this because it is a widespread

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