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.

Open your Bible if you will to the fourth chapter of Galatians.

We are looking at this wonderful epistle which emphasizes salvation by faith alone that is the

Christian message that is why there was a Protestant Reformation.

Salvation is not by faith plus works.

It's not a cooperative effort between the sinner and God.

God does a little and you do a little and together it all works to come about that your

sins will be forgiven and you can enter God's holy heaven.

But rather the Bible is crystal clear that salvation is totally a work of God and all the

sinner contributes is simply an open hand.

We just reach out to receive the gift by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

As we've been saying all along, however, all false religion, all false religion, including

false forms of Christianity, want to make salvation a combination of God's work and ours,

faith and works.

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