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 is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I have a lot that I want to help you to understand from Matthew chapter 2, so open your Bible

to this chapter.

I suppose there would be something that would be a day for a devotional message, something

maybe on a topical format and that's fine, but nothing has the power and the glory of

the Scripture itself.

And even in its detail, it manifests its divine authorship.

And we will see that again this morning.

As we look at verses 13 in particular to the end of the chapter with a little bit of a

return to a portion of the earlier part of chapter 2.

In the Old Testament, God promised to send a king into the world who would bring salvation

to individual souls, eternal life for them in heaven, and who also would establish on

earth a kingdom of righteousness, justice, and holiness.

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