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 a couple of weeks away from celebrating fifty years.

It's hard to comprehend that all these many years have gone by.

It has been a benediction to me and to Patricia and our family that has been

that is beyond comprehension and beyond description.

The Lord has been kind to me, perhaps more than anyone, putting me here with such wonderful

and loving people and bringing into my life so many blessings that I can't even count

them.

I don't know why the Lord has done this in His sovereign purpose, but I want to certainly

be grateful to Him and I trust He knows the gratitude that is in my heart in every conscious

waking moment for what He has allowed me to enjoy here through all these years.

And I thought as we head toward that celebration, it might be good to get a little bit of

a picture of what the Lord sort of placed in my heart at the beginning, that set the

course for Grace Church.

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