Welcome to Grace to you. I'm Phil Johnson. Well, these past weeks have changed day-to-day life

for people in every part of the world, and I really don't have to tell you why.

Wherever you live, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting your life right now, even if your

community hasn't been directly impacted by illness. The spillover effects of this virus have been unprecedented.

Even for Christians who know their eternal future is secure,

the rapid upheaval to life caused by COVID-19 has been stunning, bewildering, frustrating, even fearful.

If ever we needed guidance and encouragement from God's word, it's right now. It was with all of that in mind that John

MacArthur prepared a message he delivered the Sunday before last. What he

preached could not have been more timely, so we've rushed to get it on the radio. So stay here for

this special edition of Grace to you and here's John MacArthur with his message

the promise of peace in a worried world.

It is a joy to be able to come to you this morning in this fashion and to direct your thoughts

toward the things of the Lord in a time of trouble, a time of trial,

a time of, for some people, a certain amount of danger and the reality of mortality faces all of us in a time like

this and the place to go is to the word of God and that's what I want to do this morning.

To begin with, let me remind you of something that Job's friend Elphas said.

He said this, he was right, he said man is born for trouble as sparks fly upward. As surely as sparks off a fire fly

upward man is born for trouble.

Trouble is certain and trouble is relentless.

Life is dangerous.

In fact, there is nothing more certain than the fact that we're all going to die.

That alone is the certainty of life.

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