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God's truth one verse at a time. Here is Grace to you Bible Teacher John MacArthur.

I want to approach the Grace to you Bible Teacher John MacArthur.

I want to approach the message perhaps in a bit of a different way and I'm praying that the

Lord will help me as he did in the first service to convey to you all the things that are in my heart.

But as a starting point, if you would open your Bible to the Gospel of Matthew and the 11th chapter. I want to read the opening six verses as kind of a foundation for our look to

scripture together.

Matthew Chapter 11,

versus 1 through 6, when Jesus had finished giving instructions to his 12 disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

Now when John, that's John the Baptist, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ,

he sent word by his disciples and said to him,

Are you the expected one or shall we look for someone else?

This seems like a bizarre. or shall we look for someone else?

This seems like a bizarre query from John the Baptist.

We read earlier the annunciation to Zacharias and Elizabeth of the coming of the greatest man. the of the Messiah one who would straighten out his paths for when he arrived.

We are very familiar with the fact that John introduced Jesus personally with these words,

behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

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