Men and nations seem to go in the same endless cycles of repetition, from glory to destruction.

And somewhere along the line, they fall into sinfulness and end in destruction.

That's the story of man in Eden, and that's the story of every man and every nation since.

Music And that's the story of every man and every nation since.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm Phil Johnson, your host.

Some say that working to change society through political means is like giving a cancer patient a band-aid.

It offers no cure for the deeper problem.

But where sinful behavior and agendas can be controlled by legal means,

shouldn't Christians make a political stand?

Or should we take a different aim and devote ourselves only to evangelism? Or should we land somewhere in between? It's never been more important to answer those questions. John

MacArthur gives a timely biblical perspective today on Grace to You in his study called God's

Word to an ungodly society.

So follow along now as John begins his message.

The cynicism of the preacher in Ecclesiastes is somewhat justified when he said,

there is nothing new under the sun.

History becomes for him an endless cycle of repetition, and so he says, that which hath been

is now, and that which is to be hath already been.

Men and nations seem to go in the same endless cycles of repetition, from glory to destruction.

Their beginnings are usually bright and hopeful and filled with promise, and somewhere

along the line they fall into sinfulness and end in destruction.

That's the story of man in Eden, and that's the story of every man and every nation since.

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