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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Our text is going to be the 18th chapter in the book of Ezekiel, and I would encourage you to turn to that chapter.

I do understand that talking about the subject that I'm talking about can be a little bit controversial,

and that's fine.

I am the first one to want to help clarify things that folks might be confused about, and I've been asked by many people if I would talk about this issue of social justice, which is such a big issue in our society.

So that's what we're going to do.

I don't want to give you my opinion or anybody else's opinion.

I want to show you what the Word of God says so that we can understand this particular movement that's going on around us.

Now, my goal is not to talk about politics or economics or sociology or any of those things.

I just want to address the issue of social justice and the gospel, social justice and the gospel.

Our culture, our society has been talking about social justice for a couple of years.

Social justice has been around for a long, long time.

It's part of a classic socialism, but we have in recent months and recent years seen social justice become an issue in the evangelical church where there are many people saying social justice is an essential part of the gospel, and if we don't understand that it's a part of the gospel, we don't have the true gospel at all.

That is a pretty significant claim.

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