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.

Now we come to the time in the Word of God, which is really the highlight of worship because we start in worship with the truth. We worship the Lord

in spirit and in truth. And we're in a series called Heaven on Earth. It's just a brief series

on the church which we have designated as Heaven on Earth. This is the taste of heaven on earth.

The only taste that anyone can ever have. This is the taste of heaven on earth, the only taste that anyone can ever

have. This is all of heaven the earth will ever know until our Lord returns. We are heaven on

earth. It should be manifest both to us and the world around us how different we are than they are.

We come now to what is essentially part four, and looks like it won't be the last one.

I'm not sure how many they're going to be, but this one is a very important one.

A number of years ago, I went to Kazakhstan, vivid memories of flying about 35 hours.

I don't know how many times I changed planes across the world to arrive in Kazakhstan.

I think it was about 6 o'clock on a Monday morning, and I had been invited to come and speak to the first pastors conference after the breakup of the

Soviet Union.

There were about 16 or 1,700 pastors.

It never happened before.

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