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

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher, John MacArthur.

Well, John, I know you're not much of a movie buff, and yet there's a film that's being released and premiered this week that I know you're very excited about called the essential church.

Talk about that. How did that come about? Why is it called the essential church?

Tell us a little bit about the background of this. Well, this is a full length to our documentary

that are very talented people have put together to tell the story of Grace Church

in its conflict with the state of California, the health department, city of Los Angeles,

governments. We had such an unusual situation because we did not comply with the health orders.

We didn't follow the commands of social distancing, masks, vaccinations, and only so many people. We paid no attention to any of it, really.

And we were in contempt of court, and we were getting violations every week,

and there were fines and prison sentences with the violations.

It was just an amazing, amazing story.

We just believed that the Word of God requires us to be

faithful as a church and stay open. And when we came to the point that we knew that the

statistics were not true, not honest, and people weren't going to die in mass.

Our people started coming back to the church.

And so many churches didn't do that.

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