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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

It was back in September of 2018, but I gave a series of messages on the 18th chapter of Ezekiel.

Racism had in my mind crossed a line.

Every form of racism, critical race theory, intersectionality, systemic racism, white privilege.

The oppressed and the oppressors, other issues coming out of the feminist agenda and homosexual

agenda had crossed a line from the world where bitterness and rancor, vengeance, and hatred flourish

into the kingdom.

And Christian leaders had begun to pick up the worldly philosophy and carry it into the

church and into Christian universities and seminaries,

into denominations.

I said at the time that this was the most devastating thing I'd ever seen in my life in terms

of tearing a nation apart, and it would be as well the most devastating thing

to tear the church to shreds if it ever crossed that line into the kingdom of light.

Sadly, that happened.

And that has done no small amount of damage to leaders, churches, relationships, schools,

denominations, and the damage is far from over.

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