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.

Well, that is one of my very favorite hymns.

Certainly of the hymns that are written about the church, it's one of my most cherished hymns.

The church is one foundation.

And that's really what I want to talk to you about today, the foundation of the church.

I've entitled the message, heaven on Earth. And that is a very accurate description

of the church. Just out of curiosity, I googled Heaven on Earth. To find out if anybody wanted to identify the church as heaven on earth, this is what I found.

Heaven on earth is 2.2 miles from here.

At least that's what Google said.

This is a place called Heaven on Earth.

So I looked them up

and here is their mission statement.

The mission of Heaven on Earth

is to improve

the quality of life

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