The violently hostile intent of the enemies of Christ leads them to be willing to find any advantage by which they can discredit the Church.

And the Church's discord and infighting is one that they use frequently.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Financial stability comes with managing your money well.

Structural stability and automobiles or office buildings requires skillful engineering.

But what does it take to experience spiritual stability?

Consider that today as John MacArthur continues his study on Grace To You called seven steps to spiritual stability.

Now before the lesson, John, it's been a busy few days for our staff.

Since we got back from the Christmas break, take a moment here to tell our listeners what was waiting for us when we return to the office here.

Well, as at the beginning of every year, it's a mountain of mail because the greatest amount of mail comes in the last weeks of every year as people do their year in giving.

So when we come back, there's just a massive mountain of mail that's delivered to us by the post office.

And I have to say, Phil, it's probably the most joyful time of the year because when we go through that mail, we not only receive gifts from tens of thousands of people around the country, but we also receive letters of thanks.

And you know, our people are so faithful, so diligent.

This is an amazing place to work. We had a board meeting just recently and we talked about that with our board.

How we have employees who've been here for decades and decades and there's a joy here.

There's a fellowship here. There's a affection among our staff.

And what are we 60 to 70 people?

Yeah.

Maybe on our staff.

Not massive by any means. And yet we cover the globe with the teaching of the word of God.

And these people are so profoundly rewarded when we get to read all the incredible testimonies. So we return to an overflow of email.

Thank you notes, financial gifts. And it was clearly sacrificial and humbling.

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