The following sermon is by John MacArthur, Bible teacher with Grace to you.

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one verse at a time. Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur. Well, John, obviously,

there have been significant changes in the culture just in the course of your lifetime. The year

you started at Grace Church, 1969,

is when America put a man on the moon, which would have been unthinkable back when you

were born even. And so all the changes that have taken place have really literally changed

the way we live. And some of them for the better, many more conveniences and technological

advancements. But if you look at just the moral quality of life in the West, you'd have to say

it's degenerating and it's begun to degenerate quickly. Does it seem to you like the pace of our

culture's moral decline has accelerated

dramatically just in the past half decade? Well, yeah, I think if you just take a sort of a broad

view of history, you talk about something like the Reformation. Prior to that, there's a thousand years of the Roman Catholic Church dominating.

The Reformation comes, and it's epic, and it goes for, I think, well, even until today.

But it wasn't long after that until humanism comes in. But those were always years. I mean, there can be many years, decades. Now, you can have trends in weeks or months because of the massive, massive exposure to everything in the world through media.

That's right. You were born into the modernist world, and now we live in a postmodern world.

What's changed there?

Well, I think what's changed is the modern world could be defined as the effort to find the truth.

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