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.

One of the, if not the greatest thanksgiving that I have continually in my life, is the fact that

our four children are in Christ.

And before I talk about that today and this month, I want to say a personal word of profound

love and gratitude to my wife Patricia for sustaining such an unwavering commitment to

Christ and through righteous living that was embedded in the life of our children so

that they didn't just have a preacher for a father and they had a model for a mother.

And in addition to that, people sometimes say what influence was most important on your

children.

And the answer of course is mom and dad, but very close behind that is the impact of so

many of you on my children, my grandchildren, and now great grandchildren.

And you touch all of their lives here at Grace Church so that it's not just what I preach

or what Patricia says and does, but it's undergirded by the strength of conviction and Christian

life and dedication that the kids grew up seeing and even the great-grandkids are seeing

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