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

If you've never contacted Grace to you, we want to send you a free booklet by John called How to Prepare for Christ's Return.

The Bible says to fix your hope on the Lord's return, but until Christ comes back, how should you spend your days?

This booklet answers that important question.

Request your free copy of How to Prepare for Christ's return by writing to prepare at gty.org.

That's prepare at gty.org. This offer is good in North America and Europe through December 2025.

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

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I think we all understand the evil that exists in the world.

We're seeing it at a level like we have never seen in our lifetime before in this sort

of post-Christian, anti-Christian time of corruption. We are seeing an entire society, an entire globe catapult headlong into gross kinds of corruption

and immorality at every level, and the powers that be supporting all of that and taking aim

at those who are righteous in the culture.

This is exactly what Isaiah talked about in chapter 5 when he said bitter has replaced sweet

and everything is upside down and inside out and overturned.

The things that we always consider to be good are now considered as evil, and the things that

were evil are now good. So we understand manifest evil in the world. We understand there's

a battle between good and evil. We as the children of God have been made new creations and

we love righteousness and we are set against a world that is bent on evil at a

level that has never been seen before because evil men get worse and worse through history,

as the Bible says.

We understand what we see and what we know and what we experience.

...