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

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

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

This morning I'm going to challenge you a little bit.

We're going to go into the Word of God and I'm going to ask that you go with me and stay with me in this.

And I can promise you the reward will be just exactly what you would expect when you give attention to the Word of God.

But let's begin in Luke 17 verses 20 to 25.

We're going back to this passage, done that several times now.

Luke 17, 20 now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming

he answered them and said the kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed nor will they say,

look, here it is or there it is, for behold the kingdom of God is in your midst.

And he said to the disciples, the days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man

and you will not see it.

They will say to you, look there, look here.

Do not go away, do not run after them.

For just like the lightning when it flashes out of one part of the sky shines to the other part of the sky,

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