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.

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 the final Battle of Armageddon. So it really goes from Ishmael

and Isaac all the way to Armageddon. That is all of redemptive history.

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