There's a right way, there's a wrong way.

There's a right interpretation of a passage, and every other interpretation is the wrong one.

There's a right theology, and anything that disagrees with it is a wrong theology.

There is a right way to understand God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, and salvation, and a wrong way. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Picture this.

You're piloting an airplane solo when you suffer a stroke.

You don't lose consciousness, but the stroke puts pressure on your

optic nerves, and it renders you completely blind at 15,000 feet. You can't see your instruments,

and worse, you can't see the runway to make a landing. Well, that is exactly what happened to

Jim O'Neill, a businessman from England, but there's a

happy ending. He managed to land the plane safely, thanks to the heroic intervention of another pilot

who flew next to him, radioing precise spoken directions and guiding this blind pilot safely to the ground. Well, like that disabled

pilot, many churches are in effect flying blind today, unable to distinguish truth from error.

But that doesn't have to be the case. In fact, there's help at your side. It's called discernment. And today, John

MacArthur continues making a plea for discernment. That's the title of his current study.

And now here's today's lesson. Disernment is critical in the life of the church. Knowing sound

doctrine is essential in the life of the church. Sound doctrine, Paul said to Timothy

is to be preached, it is to be guarded, it is to be kept as a treasure and passed on to the next

generation. Now, we said last time that there is a lack of discernment in the evangelical

world today, and I gave you the first reason. You remember what it was? Lack of doctrinal

clarity and conviction. Lack of doctrinal clarity and conviction. That's pretty obvious. We just

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