Our message is the cross and the resurrection.

To confess Jesus says, Lord, and believe in your heart that God, what?

Raised him from the dead.

That's the seed.

That's the gospel seed.

That's the word concerning Christ. Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's been said there is no attribute of God more comforting to his children than the doctrine of divine sovereignty. The great preacher Charles

Spurgeon called God's sovereignty, quote, the pillow upon which you lay your head. That is to say,

true rest for the Christian comes from trusting God in all things. The question is, how do you

cultivate that trust? Specifically, when you've been witnessing to a friend or a

coworker or a family member, and it seems nothing you've said is getting through, how do you deal with

that? Is it all about putting forth effort, maybe a lot more effort, in order to see that person

come to faith in Christ? Consider that today as we

continue a series of messages chosen by Grace to You staff members that we call John MacArthur's

most memorable sermon. Today's lesson is titled The Theology of Sleep. So follow along as John

begins the lesson. I want you to take your Bible and open it to the fourth chapter of Mark. So follow along as John begins the lesson. I want you to take your, your Bible and open it to

the fourth chapter of Mark. I want to talk about what I've called the theology of sleep.

The Lord gives us really a whole chapter here on evangelistic instruction. It's foundational,

I think, to our understanding of biblical evangelism. It's comprehensive. It's foundational, I think, to our understanding of biblical evangelism.

It's comprehensive. It's detailed. It is critical for us to understand what's in this chapter.

I want to begin by having you look at verses 26 to 29. And it is from this portion of the chapter

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