Do you realize that God chose you before the foundation of the world?

Do you believe that he wants you to confront this world with a direct message?

Is your heart broken so that there's a mourning?

Do you want to fulfill your God-ordained calling, or do you just want to be comfortable?

What is our response?

I think it's more than just calling people to Christ.

I think it's confronting their lifestyle and calling for a holiness and a righteousness

that pleases God.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

The September 11th terrorist attacks.

Hurricane Katrina, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those are just a few events that prompted many communities to revise their crisis plans.

In contrast, remember what John MacArthur said yesterday on Grace to You.

Although man automatically thinks of a program

in the face of a crisis, God thinks of people, specific people, that he brings into the world

to give messages of warning and preparation, people like the prophet Jeremiah. On the eve of Israel's

darkest days, God used Jeremiah to sound a warning,

and frankly, it's a warning to the United States, and really to every nation today, God's

word to an ungodly society. That's John MacArthur's focus here on Grace to You. So let's get

to the lesson. Here's John.

We live in a day when God is completely ignored. Men plunge headlong into vice, busy giving

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