Peterson has been repeated incessantly through church history,

where people who declare that they believe the truth about Christ

make alliances with Satan.

Christians have been trying to use the world to somehow help Jesus

build his kingdom and essentially they have struck deals with the devil. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. A survey of 15,000 churches

found that between the years 2000 and 2020 the size of the average congregation dropped from 137 people to 65.

Many pastors have tried to reverse that trend by making Church more entertaining.

For example, by using clips from popular movies as sermon illustrations.

Churches have even put in skate parks and arcades to attract families and young people, but will strategies like those strengthen the church

for the work God has established it to do? The challenges for God's people seem more insurmountable

today than ever.

Make sure you're thinking biblically about these challenges.

John MacArthur's current series can help you do just that.

To continue his series called The World versus the Kingdom of God, here is John MacArthur.

Jesus said this in John 18, my kingdom is not of this world.

If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting so that I would not be delivered over to the Jews

But as it is my kingdom is not of this world

There's no connection between the kingdom of God and the world.

We heard the echo still hearing in our ears of the fact that there is a distinction between the flesh and the spirit, those in the

flesh cannot please God, the flesh, the world, the kingdom of darkness, one and the same.

Then Jesus said in Luke 17,

the kingdom of God is in your midst. The kingdom is here, because the king is here, he's

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