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.

All of our worship is necessarily worship not only in spirit, but in truth, and so it needs

to be informed by the Word of God.

And we're going to look at the Word of God this morning and we're going to look at a truth

that is the supreme truth about the very nature of God.

This is not only our first blessing, but is that which is most preeminently true about God.

Go back to Ephesians chapter 1, and I just want to let you know you're very privileged

to be here today because what you're going to hear in this next little while is foundational to absolutely

everything you ever think about in your life and certainly foundational to our worship

and preparing us for heavenly worship.

I draw you back to chapter 1, verse 3, and I just want to read down into verse 6.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as he chose us in him before the foundation

of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us to

adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the kind intention of his will, to the

praise of the glory of his grace which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved.

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