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.

The little booklet that you received, if you got one, has a little picture in there of the book that I finished called The War on Children

that will be available in January. It's at the printers now. It was in the process of going

through that book and taking stock with what is happening to the children of our culture that I felt like we as a

church needed to affirm our commitment to children.

That is a stewardship, obviously, that God has given to us, and we need to take it seriously.

I know I know we do. What is happening

to the children in this culture is horrific. It is disastrous both temporally and eternally.

It is being played out by basically every interest group in our country from the media to the politicians

to create a world that will assault children.

But if you understand God's interest in children, you will understand how serious the consequences

are to action taken against children.

In fact, Jesus made the comment that rather than offend a little one, using it as an illustration

of a believer, you'd be better off for a millstone to be hanged around your neck and be drowned in the

sea.

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