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.

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

evangelical world.

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

A book like charismatic chaos or strange fire

addressed the 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 had 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,

addressed 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 the gospel, according to the apostles.

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