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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now it is Mother's Day and what that usually means is that the family is all together.

And of course that's for sure right now around the world.

So perhaps mom and dad and kids and maybe some extended family are all together on this day.

And we don't want to pick on mom.

We do want to show our love and affection to her.

But it seemed to me a wonderful opportunity while all the families are together to talk

about what is essential for a family, what is essential for a family.

And the most important thing, the most essential thing in the life of a family is wisdom, is

wisdom.

And I want to talk about that from the Word of God.

In fact, I'm going to let heaven speak through Scripture of the words that you will be hearing

in this message are the words of Scripture with a little bit of comment from me.

In Daniel chapter 1 and verse 17, it was said about the four young men who were taken

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