Being a true Christian is being delivered,

and it's being delivered from several very important realities.

The first one is true Christians have been delivered

from error to truth, from error to truth.

Think about your parents, children,

even your aunts, uncles, and cousins.

No doubt you have at least a few physical characteristics

or personality traits in common with your relatives,

attributes that make it clear you are related.

Well, can the same be said for those in the Christian family?

Are there obvious features that all believers share?

What should you see?

What identifies a person as a Christian?

Those are challenging and timely questions

that John MacArthur's addressing

in his current study on Grace to you.

It's a look at what it means to be delivered by God.

So follow along now as John begins today's lesson.

One of the great words in the Bible is the word deliverance,

though it is not commonly used in the Christian vocabulary.

There are a number of categories in which we have to understand

the nature of deliverance.

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