We view heaven as our primary preoccupation.

This is what motivates us.

We're concerned to see the Savior.

We're concerned to hear well done from the Savior.

We're concerned to be rewarded by the Savior.

We're concerned for eternal glory. Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host,

Phil Johnson. It's the bedrock truth of Christianity. Salvation is by God's grace alone. You can't earn your

salvation. But once you're saved, what part, if any, do you play in your own spiritual

growth and development? John MacArthur examines that today as he continues his series,

Reaching for the Prize. But before the lesson, John, as the Grace to you staff returns today from a holiday

break, coming back to the office, many of them will do nothing but dig through a lot of

correspondence.

And that's a really good and amazing thing.

Take a moment to tell listeners what's always waiting for us on the first workday of a new

year.

Well, because that time of year is just downtime for everybody.

Everything kind of grinds through a halt.

We have a couple of weeks of vacation, and everybody comes back.

And because December is also the largest mail month for the ministry in the year by far,

they do come back to that mountain of mail. Inevitably,

there's this sort of exaggerated Christmas attitude that, you know, on Christmas when we were kids,

we go to the tree and excited to open our gifts. Well, the Grace Tew staff is like a bunch of kids

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