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

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

If you would open your Bible to 1 Timothy chapter 3, I'm going to read that passage to you

as the setting for the message this morning.

1 Timothy chapter 3 and verses 14, 15, and 16.

I am writing these things to you hoping to come to you before long.

But in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself

in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support

of the truth.

By common confession, great is the mystery of Godliness.

He who was revealed in the flesh was vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels proclaimed

among the nations believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

I want to focus in particular on those words that you see in verse 16, which most scholars

would affirm, is a hymn from the earliest life of the church.

We see that as a hymn because of its unique structure.

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