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.

It has been pretty obvious to me over the last number of months that the Church of Jesus Christ, at least as far as I can discern on a public

level, has become preoccupied with the issues at hand and has allowed itself to be sucked into

the vortex of the world's problems and is making an effort to be a friend of the world, which as we read

in James is a very dangerous thing to do.

As I assess some of the reasons for this, one glaring reason for the church to be preoccupied

with the world is the absence of any vibrant

expectation for the return of Jesus Christ.

Weak eschatology leads to worldly church. When people lose sight of the fact that this is a fallen world

careening ever deeper and deeper into sin, disintegrating continuously toward more and more evil.

And when the church thinks that its role in the world is to stop that, it is living with a delusion.

Our hope is not in fixing the world. Our hope is in the return of Jesus Christ.

I want to speak to you again this morning on that subject and even for the next few weeks,

and I want to draw your attention to the 19th chapter of Revelation, Revelation

Chapter 19.

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