The fact is, for whatever giftedness God has prepared you, for whatever task he has called

you to do, he predestined that before you were ever conceived.

Therefore, that is why you exist.

With that in mind, it ought to give you some new thrust in the ministry you have, a ministry

for which you were made.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

When you watch TV or read the news, even when you simply look around at your community and think about how bad the world has become, it's worth noting that we aren't unique in terms of our

moral decay. Many great nations have gone down similar roads before. And on today's grace to you,

John MacArthur considers the prophecies of Jeremiah and what they

meant for some nations in biblical times and some frightening similarities that we share with them.

John calls this series God's Word to an ungodly society. Follow along as John shows you how to follow Jeremiah's example, the bold

stand he took for the truth in a culture that hates truth. We live in a day when God is completely

ignored. Men plunge headlong into vice, busy giving full expression to their reprobate minds.

In our own country, justice is breaking down. Standards are being perverted. God has been

replaced by money, sex, and human ego. It seems to me that man has gone beyond the bounds that God set and stands on the edge

of an eternal night.

Our nation has for the most part forgotten God.

I would have to say that worse than that, they pretty much mock God.

As the scripture says, we could say of us, there is no fear of God in them. Evil abounds

in our society and sadly has even filtered its way into the church. I really believe

is that we've gone too far, too far in the church and too far in our nation. And I think we face a divine

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