Nobody is a Christian who doesn't believe in the true gospel and who doesn't have holy longings,

righteous affections, love for what is right and a deep animosity toward what is wrong.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Now, here's a question for

you. If you don't realize that you're in serious trouble, why would you call out for help? You wouldn't.

You know, that's a classic picture of the unregenerate center. He's in the worst possible trouble,

yet he doesn't realize it. He doesn't know he's in danger of God's judgment for sin.

And surprisingly, many churches today purposely do not tell sinners they're in danger.

Imagine the consequences, both for the unbeliever left in the dark and for those who refuse to

communicate the truth. Well, Grace to you is committed to the truth of God's word, even the hard truths.

John MacArthur will explain the danger you are in if you don't know Christ. And if you're a believer,

he will help you communicate the gospel with conviction. So stay here on Grace to you as John

continues his study titled, Delivered by God. I must continue to deliver what I feel is pressing on

my heart. I don't ever remember hearing a sermon on deliverance. I don't ever remember reading

a theology about deliverance. And so I began to look in some of the indexes in the back of theology

books to see if there was any discussion on the subject of deliverance. I couldn't find anything.

I began to view salvation from the perspective of deliverance and realized that this great truth

is largely neglected in the church. And so we're in the midst of this series on deliverance than

neglected doctrine. And why is it important? It's important because I am saying to you in this series

that I am continually saddened and I am continually disappointed by the widespread lack of discernment

in the quote, unquote evangelical church. And while it's lack of discernment is obvious to any

discerning person, and while we could make a long list of things that they don't seem to discern

very well, at the very top of that list is one most critical matter where there is a serious

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