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December 2024 and now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time. Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Everyone's so excited that you're here, Pastor John. It's so good to see you. Welcome back. We're so glad you here.

I had to appear so people knew I wasn't dead.

I mean, I've been reading about my death and it's highly exaggerated.

Along those lines, would you give everyone just an update on how you're feeling, how things are going as you recuperate?

How much time do you have?

Maybe a summary.

I was preaching here January of 2023 in the morning service and all of a

sudden I couldn't breathe and I said I'm having trouble with my breath and then I went on and preached for 50 minutes.

But that was the first service in between the I was told that I had probably had an AFIB attack on my heart and that I was

benched for the second service. So it took me to the hospital and the upshot of that was I had four stints put in the arteries around my heart and it was very successful.

My heart was doing very well. A few months after that, they noticed an aberrant

rhythm in my heart, so they did another procedure where they run an electric wire up and shock that whatever that cell wants to do on its own and it was successful.

And a few months after that, maybe almost a year, the cardiologist said, you need to have your aorta replaced.

Well, that sounded pretty serious, but they have a new procedure where they literally

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