Only those people who are saved, only those people who embrace the Savior, only those people

who do the will of the Father, in the words of Matthew 12 and Mark Chapter 3, only those who

do the will of the Father by believing in the Son even have a capacity to know the will

of God.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

How can you be sure your next decision is the right one?

In other words, how can you know God's will, even in the gray areas of life? Those are common and important questions. Thankfully, Scripture shows you how to answer them,

and you'll see that today in John MacArthur's lesson titled Knowing and Doing God's Will.

We're continuing our brand new series called John MacArthur's Most Memorable

Sermon. It's a unique study that's composed of messages that have been chosen by Grace to You

staff members. And today's sermon, knowing and doing God's will, was selected by none other than

me. The first time I ever heard John preach, I was working as an editor at Moody Press

in Chicago. John came to speak at Moody Bible Institute, and it was for a student chapel, but

employees could go because it was a special week of chapel messages, and John was going to preach

every day that week. And they passed out a sheet telling who was coming.

It said, John MacArthur, Jr., he's a fifth generation preacher from Sun Valley, California.

I'd never heard of him. And it said, on Monday, he's preaching on how to know God's will for your life.

And so I decided not to go.

I told my office mate, I really have time to go hear this guy

whose claim to fame is he's somebody's son.

I said, somebody should tell Jr.

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