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John MacArthur.

Well there are 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 count it 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 of 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

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