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

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

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

Today I want to address a very important issue that has been stirred up on the Internet

with me kind of in the middle of it.

I do not like to give short answers.

I don't like to get put into position to do this.

I put into position to do that because I feel like that just escalates confusion.

So I want to take the opportunity to address the issue of women preachers this morning

and to give you a more thorough answer from the Word of God on this very, very important subject.

And I think by the time we are finished you will understand what the Word of God has to say

and how consistently it says it.

So to begin with let's open the Word of God to 1 Corinthians chapter 14, 1 Corinthians chapter 14.

And I want you to look down at verse 33, verse 33.

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.

Then this sentence really begins the text with regard to our subject.

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