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.

I have been navigating over the last couple of years the current situation in our world

and in our country and trying to address issues that would be of help to you.

And there seems to be one sort of dangling issue that I haven't gotten around to and

the Lord prompted my heart for that subject today.

And you notice the title of the believer's highest earthly joy.

This is a call for joy and it is a reasonable call for joy.

And it strikes me that this is an important thing to examine from the Word of God because

if ever there was a time that your joy could fade, it would be this particular time in

the history of our society.

And for those who are older, who have seen the degradation and the corruption and the

loss and the spiraling down and the darkening darkness in ways that really are very different

from the past.

And even for the younger generation who are basically hammered incessantly with the corruption

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