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.

I would encourage you to open your Bible to the passage I read earlier, Luke

Chapter 12.

As I, passage I read earlier, Luke chapter 12, as I go before the Lord and seek his will and plan for sermons, I don't necessarily know in the planning what one week after another

might bring.

But he does.

And the Lord knew that this passage was for this day in his purposes.

Lessons about death from Jesus.

I don't think in my lifetime I've heard the word deadly as many times as I've heard it

in the last five months.

This is the only time in my lifetime that you get a daily score, no sports scores, but you

get the death score every day.

And I will admit, as we all must, that life is a terminal illness for all of us.

Every year 60 million people die in the world, three million every year die in our own country.

They all will live forever, either in heaven or hell.

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