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And now, unleashing God's truth one verse at a time, here is

Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur. Welcome, everybody. We get a Q&A tonight, and the five of us

just wanted to, yeah, the five of us just wanted to have better seats. So we're just going to

sit up here so we can listen to John talk some more. Pastor, thank you so much for letting us

celebrate you this morning. I know that you don't prefer us to pay attention to you and you did

everything within your power

to appropriately flip that straight to the faithfulness of God. So thank you so much for this

morning and reminding us of your vantage point. The line that is memorable to me was you've had

a front row seat to the work of the word and the

spirit and then you spent the rest of the time talking about this beloved congregation and how

that ministry's enriched your life so give us after thoughts after this morning kind of

oh um again it after this morning, kind of... Oh.

Again, it's such an overwhelming experience to arrive at 55 years of ministry.

I'm still trying to process that.

And when I was asked to do some reminiscing about it, it was difficult for me to,

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