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 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.

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.

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