I believe there is discipline and chastening to every son that God loves.

And that's when he puts us in the hands of the inquisitors or the jailers or the tormentors,

parabolically speaking, who apply the pressure to us until we admit our sin and confess

our sin.

And in this case, it is the sin of unforgiveness.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. When you sin,

is God angry at you or disappointed or frustrated or does he simply forgive and forget?

And when others sin against you, how can you treat them the way God treats you?

Important questions. John MacArthur has answers in his series, My Brother's Keeper.

But before the lesson, John, we are coming up on Grace to You's 56th anniversary.

You started at Grace Church as pastor in February of 1969, and we always link the origin of Grace to

you to that date because they recorded your sermon. And it's important to recognize that Grace to

you is not merely surviving after all of these years,

but we're thriving. And we rejoice at the ministry opportunities that are still before us.

And, John, I know that you're as amazed as anyone by the longevity and the reach of grace to you.

So to what do you attribute the scope of this ministry?

I've always said that if I concentrated on the depth, God would take care of the breadth.

I never ever, and you know this because of all these years, I've never sought ways to promote the preaching, ways to sell it, to get it out.

All I ever wanted to do was say, let's just make sure we're faithful

in handling the Word of God and leave the breadth of it to the Lord. Yeah, I remember at one of your

anniversaries recently, the theme was the work of the Word, and that's really what it boils down

to. Yeah, and I knew when I came to Grace Church, one thing for certain, God would honor his word.

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