So there was Hannah in a hard place to raise a child, in a hard place to be secure, in a divided

family and yet she had a right relationship to her husband because they shared worship and they shared love and

those two things eliminated conflict. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Quite some time ago, Reader's Digest magazine published a feature called Heroes for Today,

keying on the notion that it's good, if not necessary, for people to have excellent examples

to follow.

But of course, if you're a Christian, you'll need a special brand of hero, one chosen

by God himself.

And today, John MacArthur looks to God's word to begin some fascinating character studies or

hero studies you could say it's a series he calls appropriately heaven's

heroes and you know John most people probably would say that it was easier to find heroes in past generations

and that these days it's hard to find people for our kids to look up to or for anyone to look up to for that matter. And I know you go back to

scripture to find heroes, so talk a little bit about that.

Well, yeah, if there's anything that is emblematic of the superficiality of this culture it is their heroes.

People in the movies, people on television, people in sports, or even cartoon characters, but

nothing of any substance.

This culture could use the dose of Heaven's Heroes.

And I love the fact that we're doing this.

They're heroes, not just in our estimation,

but they're heroes in the view of our Lord himself who really

renders the final verdict on everyone's life.

To find these heroes, you need to look no further than the pages of the word of God and that's why

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