God has to overpower spiritual death and give life, overpower spiritual blindness and give sight,

overpower spiritual ignorance and give truth, overpower the pervasive love of sin and replace it with a desire for righteousness.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Think for a moment about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, about what it accomplishes.

Obviously, it rescues sinners from judgment for their sins and for the penalty for their sins,

from eternal torment in hell.

But is there something else it accomplishes, even something greater than saving sinners from God's wrath.

Consider that with John MacArthur today as he continues his study on a subject that's challenging for a lot of people.

The title of this study, The Doctrines of Grace.

And with that lesson now, here's John.

I understand that this is not a small controversy.

When you talk about the doctrine of election, there are many people who feel, as I noted

in our original message, that this is a dangerous doctrine, that this turns God into a monster,

that this is almost blasphemous, that this is a kind of heresy, and yet no matter

how much human reason, human preference might rage against this doctrine, it is inescapably

taught in scripture.

And we need to bow our knees to this great truth of divine election and once we do it may

become to us the most precious of all doctrines.

I understand what the Bible says about these matters of salvation and I understand that the Bible says about these matters of salvation.

And I understand that the Bible says in 1 Timothy 2,4 that God desires all men to be saved

and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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