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 obviously tried to address through the last year and a half almost the issues that

can front us in the country that we live in and the world that we live in and the times

that we live in.

But I thought there's one final message that I would like to lay upon you and that's

what's come together this morning.

It has many components and many parts and it may test your attention span a little bit.

When we first decided to meet as a church, it's been a year now and to do that without regard

to what the government was telling us to do, there was a lot of criticism.

That criticism came from evangelical leaders, pastors, bloggers, writers, friends, foes,

just about everywhere.

But we were not dissuaded in any sense from doing what we did.

The Lord has demonstrated to us that we were lied to.

And I think whatever the issues are in the world, the church is the only hope of the world.

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