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Grace to You: Pulpit Podcast

The Benefits of Suffering for Christ (2 Corinthians 4:8-18)

Grace to You: Pulpit Podcast

John MacArthur

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4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church.

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

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to You.

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If you've never contacted Grace to You, we want to send you a free booklet by John that

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unpacks fifteen Greek words in Scripture that explain a stunning paradox, how a God

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of perfect justice can show mercy to sinners who deserve only punishment.

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Request your free booklet titled 15 Words of Hope by writing to Hope at gty.org.

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This offer is good in North America and Europe through June 2023.

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

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

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We come now to the study of the Word of God, and we have been looking at second Corinthians

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chapter 4.

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I invite you to turn in your Bible to that chapter with apologies to those of you who haven't

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been here the last few weeks.

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We've been slowly working our way through this chapter because we have been talking about

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the fact that as Christian believers, we are citizens of the heavenly kingdom, and our

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responsibility is to shine the light into the darkness.

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The light is in us because Christ is in us.

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The light is also in the Word of God because therein is the light of the gospel and the

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gospel revealed.

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Verse 5 of this chapter says, we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and

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ourselves as your slaves for Jesus sake.

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This is the heart of the point and purpose of the church in the world to preach not ourselves,

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