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

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through December 2020. And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time, here's Grace to You Bible teacher, John MacArthur.

It's such an honor to be here at a Grace to You event.

This Truth Matters conference here at the Ark, I so appreciate Dr. MacArthur, Phil, Ken Ham, and so many others who are involved here.

And I'm thankful you're here and I'm thankful

that we are here to consider God's truth. When was the moment you knew you were living through

a revolution? Was it when our cities burned two years ago this summer? Was it when the former police chief, a black man of St. Louis

was murdered? Was it when one evangelical leader after another spoke positively about social

justice? Was it when pastors seemingly sound men, men many of us love and respect and have learned

much from, me included, recommended Ibrahimex Kendi and Robin DiAngelo and the deeply compromised

book divided by faith from pulpits? In the last five years in America and much of the West, we have witnessed

a social revolution. This revolution is driven by the movement we call, wokeness. Wokeness

urges us all to wake up to the reality of systemic racism in America. That's what the term means if you have

been wondering how to define it. To be woke is to wake up and see America not as a just

public order, not as a place that has real sin in its past, grievous sin, but yet a country that has made real progress.

No, to be woke is to say none of that has really happened. Actually, America is still

systemically racist. And in fact, according to Kendi and others, the racism is worse because

it's gone underground, it's gone quiet and now normal people,

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