The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

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

We're going back to the book of Galatians to take another look at the next section here,

and that would be chapter four.

So you can open your Bible to Galatians chapter four, and we'll begin at least to examine

the subject of sons of God, sons of God, and the doctrine, the wonderful doctrine of adoption.

By way of reminder, all religions, all religions, without exception, all religions as well as false

forms of Christianity, and there are many of those, teach that people are delivered from

judgment, saved from divine punishment, by their own works, works of morality, works of religion.

And that, of course, is Satan's big lie, and it has covered the planet through all of

human history since the fall.

The gospel, the true gospel of salvation by faith alone, apart from works, had been

buried under the mountainous monolithic power of the Roman Catholic Church for a thousand

years, until the Reformation.

The Reformation was all about recovering the fact that salvation was by faith alone and

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