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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 356 - Lessons Learned From the Life of John MacArthur

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

John MacArthur recently went to be with the Lord, a bittersweet reality—his presence will be deeply missed, yet he is now in glory with Christ. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar reflect on the tremendous legacy he left behind, remembering how his ministry shaped their lives and influenced the broader church. Mark recalls MacArthur being the very first Christian author he read, who introduced him to expository preaching. Expository preaching works carefully through the Bible verse by verse, letting t...

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0:00.0

What MacArthur did was for me, he introduced expository preaching unlike anything I've ever seen or experienced.

0:08.3

I didn't know exist.

0:09.3

I only thought topical preaching existed until I heard MacArthur, and I didn't know how to explain it.

0:14.8

I didn't know what was happening, in fact, right?

0:17.3

Just expositing the word, going through passages as opposed to just using topics. Now, you can obviously have expositing the word going through passages as opposed to just using topics now you can

0:22.9

obviously expose it have expository preaching with topics but uh he would just go through the word

0:28.9

and doing that was so beneficial to my soul it uh it set me free and you guys experienced this

0:36.8

obviously where you are going through something, and then

0:40.4

the preacher's teaching on something, and that's like exactly what you're going through.

0:44.1

And you're like, hey, did somebody share with you my issue?

0:47.3

Yeah, right.

0:48.1

Did somebody share with you what I'm going through?

0:50.8

Sin.

0:52.4

So you have these naysayers with John MacArthur.

0:55.0

I can't believe that you're elevating John MacArthur.

0:57.3

Do you not realize and recognize what has happened through John MacArthur?

1:02.2

The ability to give people the love for reading for commentaries to understand proper context to what they're reading.

1:08.4

Right?

1:08.6

Just one commentary amongst other commentaries and everything else.

1:11.1

This man was a trailblazer on the same level, almost as Ray Comfort.

1:14.8

Oh.

1:20.7

The most consistent, constant, constant, routine-oriented.

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