When the word fills you, and the word overpowers your thinking and your life, and you're saturated by the word,

that is what leads you to a Christ-centered focus.

As you gaze into the glory of the Lord revealed in the Word, you're transformed into the image of Christ.

As you're transformed into the image of Christ, you will make no provision for the lust of the flesh.

You will abstain from fleshly lust.

You'll kill sin.

Welcome to Grace to You, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur. I'm your host,

Phil Johnson. It's heartbreaking to hear about a pastor who confessed to an immoral relationship or who was caught stealing from his church.

The pain that causes to his family and to his congregation, really to everyone around him, is profound.

And sadly, we probably all know of a church or two that has endured a

scandal of that magnitude. There is no shortage of reminders about the damaging nature of sin.

Every day you face a threat that you can't be complacent about. Sin can and will destroy you

if you let it take root.

So how do you keep that from happening?

Well, it starts with understanding that every sin from the relatively small to the most destructive

begins in the same place, in your mind.

That's where you need to cut sin off.

Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur is going to help

you see the consequences of sinful thinking and the joys of rooting out sin and keeping your thoughts

pure. The title of our current study, John MacArthur's Most Memorable Sermon. It's a collection

of John's sermons that members of the Grace to You staff have

chosen as their all-time favorites. Now with today's lesson, here's John MacArthur.

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