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

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

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 Elaphaz 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. In that sense,

life is a terminal illness. Life is a fatal condition. Life is a fatal condition.

Life is a deadly disease.

I remember being on the Larry King show after 9-11 and Larry King said to me, what is the lesson

here?

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