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

to You.

If you've never contacted Grace to You, we want to send you a free booklet by John that

unpacks fifteen Greek words in Scripture that explain a stunning paradox, how a God

of perfect justice can show mercy to sinners who deserve only punishment.

Request your free booklet titled 15 Words of Hope by writing to Hope at gty.org.

This offer is good in North America and Europe through June 2023.

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

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

I have been trying to address the issues as we have gone through them over the last almost year and a half now,

and try to help you to be able to respond to the dramatic changes that are going on in the world around us,

and to understand them from a biblical perspective.

This has been, by most measures, a very difficult and trying year.

But in reality, this has probably been the most exciting and joyful year of ministry I've ever known.

I feel like Moses 40 years in Egypt, 40 years in the wilderness, and now I'm 80 and I'm just getting started.

This has been...

I know you're calculating that you don't want me for another 40 years, but this has been a really incredible year for life at Grace Church, hasn't it?

It's been a wonderful year, and our disappointment doesn't lie with our Lord.

Our disappointment doesn't lie with the redeemed in His church.

But as I look over the landscape weekend and week out and try to help you understand things from a biblical perspective,

I'm very much aware that there is a massive amount of disappointment on the part of just about all of us who desire the honor of God

and the honor of Christ and who want an environment that is protective of virtue, who want a safe place to live and raise our children safe from the physical harm that can come upon us

...