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.

This morning I want to talk to you on the subject of contentment.

And I want to see if I can't be very practical in talking about that.

I am concerned because there are so many things in this world to make us discontent.

Just about everything in this world makes us discontent.

And discontent can lead to anxiety and anxiety can lead to fear.

And we can readily lose our joy as believers even if we go down the wrong path in a world

where the ground is not only shifting under our feet but seems to be opening up sinkholes

into which we fall into some kind of unknown darkness.

There are plenty of things to frighten us in this world.

There are plenty of things that are open-ended in the sense that we don't know where they're

going, but we know they're going in a direction that concerns us and it's not going to be

the way it's always been for us.

And this is the time we need to get a grip on being content even in these very difficult

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