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

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

The return of Jesus Christ's ad say seems to be a subject created with pretty much indifference

in the evangelical world today, and yet it is not only a cardinal truth of Christianity,

but it is essentially the ultimate truth of Christianity because everything is moving toward

our Lord's return.

One could argue that this is the most important of all doctrines because every other doctrine

ultimately consummates in Christ returning for His people and judging the ungodly and setting

up His kingdom and then creating the new heaven and the new earth where we will dwell with Him forever.

The end of the story is the whole point of the story.

There are so many who ignore the end of the story which is a tragic perspective in all regards

and an irresponsible one as well, I think.

The Bible is crystal clear on what is to come in the future and this is our hope.

We don't need to be living in this world worrying about what is going to happen to the planet

or to the nations or in the future politically or economically or on any other level because

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