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December 2020. 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, the Believers' 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.

Especially 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

of this culture and wonder just exactly if there's going to be anything left of society

in which we could find a measure of joy and a measure of satisfaction if things continue

the way they are going.

We have said numbers of times to you that we're basically living in Romans 1.

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