A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God.

They're foolishness to him.

He can't understand them.

Why?

Because they're spiritually examined, spiritually discerned, spiritually appraised, and guess what?

He is spiritually dead.

Welcome to Grace to You, featuring the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host,

Phil Johnson. When you hear a pastor or a Bible teacher say that the human race

is totally depraved, what comes to your mind? Probably just small segments of humanity, career

criminals, serial killers, ruthless tyrants, people as evil as they can be. Well, the humbling fact

is we are all born totally depraved.

But what exactly does that mean? Find out today in John MacArthur's study called the

doctrines of grace. As you'll see, the doctrine of total depravity is not so much about the

intensity of every person's sin as it is about the extent

of it and how helpless man is to save himself. And as surprising as it sounds, that truth is

actually something you should cherish. So follow along now as John begins the lesson.

God must save us. He must choose us, call us,

regenerate us, justify us by his divine power because we are neither willing nor able to do it for

ourselves.

And this takes us to what I'm going to call the doctrine of absolute inability.

John 6, verse 64, there are some of you who do not believe, verse 64, verse 65, John 6, for

this reason I've said to you, no one can come to

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