The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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Here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Through the years, it has been a particular concern of me to address issues that I thought were significant in the evangelical world.

This kind of rose above the normal issues and the normal battles of ministry.

A book like Charismatic or strange fire addressed a massive charismatic movement that had made a large

and inordinate mark on evangelicalism and confused a lot of people. And I wanted to address that,

and the Lord allowed me to do that. In fact, there were actually three books dealing with that.

And then perhaps a book that you would know, the book called The Gospel According to Jesus,

address the issue of is Jesus Lord and must you believe that to be saved?

The lordship controversy as it was called, and that was a huge issue because there was bad

theology being pumped out of a seminary that was populating

the faculties of most Bible colleges and Bible institutes across America, and it was everywhere.

And I felt I needed to address that.

Followed it up with a gospel according to the apostles.

And then when pragmatism came along, I felt like I needed to address that.

And there have been other issues like that through the years that we've tried to tackle issues that transcend just the normal and were

rather epic issues for evangelical pastors in particular. And it's been a joy to do that, and it's

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