Let me say in a general way, salvation is a great subject.

The subject of God's work in the lives of sinners is the great theme of redemptive history,

and it is the great theme in Scripture.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

You can probably think of cases where well-known athletes or entertainers were arrested

for abusing drugs and they entered a rehabilitation program.

And then after claiming to be clean, they continued to have problems again and again.

Now when you say one thing, but your actions tell a different story, you've got a problem.

And yet some people see no problem when a person claims he's a Christian, but his way

of life bears no resemblance to what the Bible says a Christian should look like.

That sort of thinking compelled John MacArthur to examine what being a Christian, what

being delivered by God really means.

Stay here now as John continues his study titled Delivered by God.

Let me say in a general way, salvation is a great subject.

The subject of God's work in the lives of sinners is the great theme of redemptive history,

and it is the great theme of Scripture.

It is not to be understood any way you want to understand it.

It is to be understood the way God has revealed it.

There are so many rich elements to the great truth of salvation, but they are divided, I

would say, into two categories.

There are those non-experiential realities in salvation, and then there are those experiential

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