He didn't cease to be God, even hanging on the cross, even in the moments when he was under

the judgment of God, his father, even when he was bearing the weight of sin and the wrath of God against that sin, he did not

for a millisecond cease to be the mighty God himself. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. In a museum

ten people can look at the same painting or sculpture and see it ten different

ways. But when it comes to understanding the identity of Christ, is that also a matter of personal

opinion? Well today, John MacArthur will show you that Jesus' nature is not open to multiple interpretations and neither is your source of knowing

about him. The title of John's current study, Who Is Jesus Anyway?

But before we move ahead in that study, it's appropriate to step back for a moment and mention some

people who deserve our attention.

Of course, John, I'm talking about the men and women who not only study along with us on radio, but those who take a hands-on

role in our broadcast.

Yeah, by hands-on role, you mean they support us financially.

Yeah.

Now what would we be without that?

I mean we don't have any other means of support

than the faithful giving of the folks who are blessed by this ministry.

It's been that way since we started the ministry.

We in fact, many years ago we decided to give away material.

We didn't want to be dependent on selling things. We wanted to make

everything freely available. We opened the vault for all the sermons. That's

been what maybe 15 years ago now? Yeah it was 2008 so. And so we

wanted to make that ministry free to everyone if we could do that and that's

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