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 have absorbed a lot of encouragement from a couple of messages that I preached last week when I was down in Dallas,

Texas, and then down at the Ligonier Conference in Orlando, Florida, the messages, of course,

some people live streamed them or some people saw them on YouTube or whatever and suggested that I needed

to give that same biblical insight to the folks of Grace Church.

And so in thinking about that and also realizing that we would have to skip Ephesians

next week because it's Resurrection Sunday.

It just turned out to make sense that we would follow the pattern of passion week both

this Sunday and next, and we'll pick up Ephesians in a couple of weeks.

So I would invite you to open your Bible to Mark 12, Mark 12.

And I want to read this text to you to have it in your mind and then we're going to

consider it in some measure of depth. This is, by the way, Wednesday of Passion

Week. This is Wednesday of Passion Week. The Lord knows he's going to be crucified.

He told his disciples that on a number of occasions.

And back in chapter 10, verses 32 to 34, he explicitly told them the details of what was going

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