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

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

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I have been so grateful to have the opportunity to speak to you in a way that's not the normal

for me through all the years that I've been at Grace Church, and that is to take every

Sunday sort of as an event on its own and speak to you from a different time.

And speak to you from a different passage of Scripture rather than do the normal work going

through books.

And we'll get back to that.

But at least we have a couple more Sundays to speak from passages that I hope are helpful.

I realize that we have a lot of new folks that are coming, lots, tens of thousands of new

people listening on live stream and downloading the sermons after they show up on the Grace

to You website, the church website, or YouTube, or wherever it is.

And so there are people who are hearing, and I always want them to hear clearly the message

of the gospel so that there's never any question about that.

And I've tried to do that embedding that in a number of the messages over the last year

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