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

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This morning, I want to continue our series on conversations with our Lord. And the purpose of this is to get an understanding of how our Lord

ministered as an evangelist, really, how he directed conversations toward the truths that were necessary

for entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

We've been looking at a number of those with such great blessing.

This morning we come to a familiar one, and I want you to turn in your Bible to Mark 10,

verse to 17 to 22.

And this is another one of these conversations about salvation that is so important.

I've been talking to you now for a number of months about how important it is to get the

gospel right and to get the gospel complete so that you don't

have short-circuited conversions, people who think they're saved and they're not, who haven't

heard enough depth in the gospel to know what they're actually doing. We talked about the fact

that the way of salvation is a narrow gate and hard to find,

and we talked about the fact that it not only is hard to find, but it is costly denying yourself,

taking up your cross, and following Jesus. We're looking at these conversations that our Lord had as particularly an evangelist

so that we know exactly what should our responsibility be in proclaiming the gospel

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