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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher, John MacArthur.

Normally this would be a communion Sunday, as the bulletin indicates,

but I asked that we postpone one Sunday so that I had a little more time

because I wanted to speak to you in light

of all that's going on in our world, and in particular the atrocities that occurred over in the

land of Israel. That is on everyone's mind.

We understand the horrors of it.

It is for some of us unimaginable behavior and conduct, although it is nothing new in the world.

And I was really asking the Lord to direct me in a particular way because there's so many

aspects and perspectives on what is going on in Israel and in the Middle East and in the

conflict and the war that has begun.

But as I thought about it, I began to list the things we could talk about and be informed

by Scripture.

We could look at this event and take a look at the Arab Jew conflict, not only as it is today, but when it started back

in the book of Genesis between Ishmael and Isaac, which was the beginning of this conflict.

We could even look forward into the future where this conflict will continue until

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