There will be a barrage of persecution.

These are going to be very challenging days.

We will not bow.

We will be gracious and we will be loving,

but we will render to God what is God's.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

About 10 years ago, the Supreme Court handed down the decision to legalize homosexual marriage in the United States.

Maybe you wondered what that reality would mean for those who held to biblical

standards and what it would mean for your church. Well, at that time, John MacArthur stepped

into the pulpit and addressed that pressing moral issue, and that sermon instantly became

one of the most popular in Grace to You Use history. We're going to air that message

today as we continue a series of lessons chosen by our staff as their favorites by John

MacArthur. This series is titled John MacArthur's Most Memorable Sermon. And so with his lesson

titled, We Will Not Bow, Here's John.

A lot has happened in our country.

A lot is happening at a very rapid rate.

And with all the discussion that's been going on, I've been kind of eager to get to you

and maybe help to give you a perspective.

This country talks a lot about terrorist attacks, and rightly so.

Almost anybody in America can give you some kind of a listing of the most destructive acts

of terror that have happened in our country.

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