The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, as I said earlier in the service, we live between God's judgment and God's salvation.

We live between divine wrath and divine mercy.

That's what human history is.

Human history is full of judgment.

From the time of the fall in the garden, judgment fell, death came.

Human history is the chronicling of all the relentless judgment of God on the unrighteous

and the ungodly.

But at the same time, history is the story of God redeeming His people.

So we find ourselves along with everybody else in human history living between God's

judgment on the unrighteous and God's mercy on the righteous.

And God knows exactly what He is doing.

And I will point that out to you in 2 Peter 2, 2 Peter 2.

The text of this passage is focused on judgment, but I just draw your attention to verse

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