The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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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 want you to turn back to the 15th chapter of the Gospel of John.

This is a subject that has been much on my heart, probably for 15 years or so.

I remember flying to England, flying to London to do a banner of truth conference.

And for the first time, really awakening to the truth that I want to point out to you today,

I knew it was there, but it was below the surface until that particular flight,

I spent hours tracing a specific word through the scripture and coming to a fresh understanding

of the concept of slave, slaves of Christ, which is the theme.

And it was a few years later that I wrote a book, and I presented it to the publisher and they were not sure that I should

be allowed to title the book, Slave. That term is fraught with all kinds of expectations

and implications and they tried to get me to change the title and I refuse to do

that because essentially I was uncovering a cover-up by using the word slave and I wasn't going

to cover up the uncovering of a cover-up by changing the title.

So it's available.

It's called slave.

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