The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we come back to the book of Ephesians, that's a delight for me.

I feel most comfortable when expositing a book of the New Testament.

And I think the last time that I went to Ephesians was long time ago.

And it was the right time to take a look at it again since I doubt that very many of you

were even here, you shouldn't live your Christian life without an opportunity to study this incredible book.

I want the theme to be for this week and certainly next week as we look at the same passage again.

Christ is everything. Christ is everything.

It amazes me how the church churches, church leaders can totally lose their focus on Christ and wander off into all kinds of other

subjects, themes. It's very sad. Christ is everything.

I'm going to try to convey that to you today and our focus should always be on Him

in our personal lives and in our church life as well.

Sometimes I need to get out of the current environment that I'm in.

Even the current theological environment or ecclesiological environment that I'm in.

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