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's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We are committed to deal with the Scripture as it's laid out.

And the amazing reality is that the letter of Galatians, for example, and for that matter

of the rest of the New Testament was written to new believers.

In the case of the epistles of Paul to new believers who were Gentiles and had no real

experience with the Old Testament at all.

And in a very brief time after the gospel had been preached to them and he administered

to them, he would write letters back to them that are profound, that have very carefully

crafted and sometimes complex arguments that are predicated on deep thinking about the truth.

The precious treasures of Scripture are not to be found lying on the surface.

And I think we've learned that through the years.

It isn't just for the sake of the information we glean by focusing and thinking carefully.

It's for the relationship that we glean.

It's so that we can know our God more fully and so that we can believe more firmly the

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