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

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Here is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

It is obvious that we live in a world where forgiveness is desperately needed.

We know from Scripture and we know from experience that the heart of all sinful people is full

of hostility.

We are by nature prone to anger, prone to resentment, prone to bitterness, prone to hate, and even

prone to murder.

The slaughters that have gone on in world history are just really beyond comprehension, beyond

comprehension.

I always think about the killing fields between Russia and Germany, and I appeared about

10 years when between the Russians and the Germans they massacred 13 million people,

none of them in the military, just massacring people.

That's just one little brief time in human history that marks the depth of the anger,

the resentment, the bitterness, the hatred, and the murderous intent of the human heart.

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