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.

Before we actually look together to the Word of God, I want to talk to you,

firstly our congregation of people as your pastor.

My concern for the current racial issues and social justice and all that has unfolded in

that realm actually began two years ago.

It was back in 2018 that I made the statement that this particular issue of social justice

and accusations of racism had the potential to do more harm to the evangelical church

than anything I'd ever seen in my life.

That has played out to be exactly true.

And over the last couple of years I've endeavored to address it in numerous ways, an extended

series from Ezekiel chapter 18, a series of blog articles on the Grace to You blog.

Some question and answer events, some of them prolonged, one of them is available from

Grace to You.

Cermons on the unity of the church from Philippians, cermons on the riots, cermons on our responsibility

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