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 is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

If you'll open your Bible to the second chapter of Galatians, I want you to know that this

morning we're going to be looking at a little more of the history and the background

when you take the Scripture as it comes, you take what comes gladly because all of

it is profitable that we might be thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

These biographical sections put some demands on us to sort things out a little bit and

we're going to endeavor to do that.

For this morning anyway, I want to at least get you to look at the opening five verses

of chapter two.

Let me read them to you.

Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas taking

Titus along also.

It was because of a revelation that I went up and I submitted to them the gospel which

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