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

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

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now it is Mother's Day and what that usually means is that the families 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.

The words that you will be hearing in this message are the words of Scripture with a little

bit of comment from me.

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