Is there any good news?

Good news about sin that it can be dealt with?

Is there any good news about the meaning of life?

Is there any good news about the future life after death?

Is there any good news?

There's good news.

And that's the gospel.

The good news of God.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

You may have wondered for a long time what Christians mean when they talk about the good news of the gospel.

Or maybe you've walked with Christ for a long time, but it's been a while since you examined the gospel in greater depth.

Whatever the case, I think you'll benefit from today's broadcast as John MacArthur kicks off his study called And Now for the Good News.

And John, it's interesting. The term good news is one

we get so comfortable using that we forget the strong implication it carries. If the gospel is

good news, there must have first been some bad news. Yeah, and, you know, in the culture we're

living in today, the common modifier for news is fake news.

Right, right.

But when it comes to the gospel, the gospel is good news, and it becomes good news because of the reality of the bad news.

And the bad news, of course, is the dire spiritual condition of every human being. Sinful from conception at birth, that sin

becomes manifest in behavior, alienated from God, as the Bible says, without God in the world,

broken, corrupt, hopeless, helpless, unwilling and unable to come to God. That is the plight of the

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