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

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unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

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 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.

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