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

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, there are many wonderful things to come by way of the instruction of the Lord that's

going to be given through those who

will be ministering to you.

And I counted a joy to kind of lead off this morning.

In thinking about what I might talk about, I guess maybe just a bit of a preface.

I have felt for, I think, the entire duration of my ministry that the church has suffered

from an inadequate understanding of the doctrine that relates to sanctification.

And even in recent years when we are pretty astute on the doctrine of justification, and

we have that down pretty well, as you heard in the beautiful hymn who sung earlier, his

robes for mine, we understand that.

And there is uniformity on that among those who are faithful to the

Word of God. We get that. We go back to the reformers and we hold their flag and sustain their

impact by holding the same convictions that many of them discovered in a time when it was obscured.

So I think in general we do well with the doctrine of justification.

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