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

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

Here is 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.

We've 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

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