So we understand that to say someone is the son of is to merely say that their nature or their

character obviously seems to have been born of that. To say we are sons of light means that the

dominant influence in our lives is light.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. Society has a way of

making you pick sides. Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke, Apple or Android, baseball or football?

Now those are not exactly life or death alternatives but some alternatives are indeed that serious.

Like the night people and the day people the Apostle Paul speaks of.

John MacArthur helps you determine which group you're in as he continues his series called

the Rapture and the Day of the Lord. A John in this study that focuses on end times events,

even here you are driving home gospel truth about the eternal destinies of believers and

nonbelievers. Is it ever surprising when a passage that doesn't focus squarely on the gospel

ultimately does point to the message of salvation in Christ alone?

No, it doesn't surprise me because the whole purpose of all of Holy Scripture is to bring people

to a true relationship with God. The whole intent of the Bible, every part of the Bible, is that God

can complete his salvation work. So you're never going to be very far from the means for that

salvation to take place and that's that's yeah, I think a surgeon who said he'd take a text

and find the route to the cross and take it there. Yeah, you can sometimes be guilty of pushing a text

to the cross before you explain what it has in its own historic intentions but that's absolutely right.

Eventually everything is going to lead you to the cross because the answer to everything is in

the cross and the resurrection. Throughout my years of studying God's word and preaching at the

pulpit of Grace Community Church, I have always, always gone back to the gospel and I'll tell you

why. Not because I'm intending to go back and preach the gospel as if I had some preoccupation with

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