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.

Good morning, everybody.

Wonderful to be together and to talk about the state of the church.

Obviously a lot could be said and I know you who are in ministry are always analyzing

that, not only your own church, but the larger church and trying to make the church

conform more to the Word of God and to the will of the head of the church, the Lord Jesus

Christ.

To be assigned a task of talking about the state of the church opens up all kinds

of possibilities.

So I had to narrow everything down and I've narrowed it down to a particular portion of Scripture

that we'll get to in a moment.

Over the last number of weeks and even months I've been preaching from this pulpit on the

invisible kingdom, trying to distinguish for our congregation and those around the world

who are listening the difference between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness.

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