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

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Here is 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 the 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.

And obviously, they're diametrically opposed to each other.

We've tried to help many new people who've been coming to our church to understand the foundational

realities of what the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God and the kingdom of light

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