Jesus, God in human flesh, says that in one moment an extreme sinner can be pronounced instantly

righteous without any works, without any merit, without any worthiness, without any law keeping,

without any moral achievement, religious achievement, spiritual accomplishment or ritual.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. You've probably

heard it said that all religions are the same. You just believe in a higher

power, try to be a good person, and you'll get to heaven. Well, you may know that's not true.

That's not the gospel. But if someone asked you exactly what is the gospel, what sets Christianity

apart from other religions, would you know what to say? John MacArthur will help you with that today as he continues his study, who can be right with God.

But before today's lesson, John, you have a few thoughts for some people who share our passion for the unvarnished Word of God and who did something extraordinary to help keep the teaching of God's word available on

radio stations like this in the coming year. Yeah, and what we mean by that is when we came back

a few days ago to Grace to You and saw the mountain of mail and began to pour over it and read the

letters and open the envelopes.

I can say this.

The outpouring of support for this ministry was beyond generous.

It was thrilling.

We know it was sacrificial.

And obviously, year-end giving is a significant portion of our annual budget,

and it enables us to do what we do through

radio, books, CDs, the Internet, and television. And all of those ministries are a reflection

of people's generosity to us. It's really simple. We teach the Bible, and we have about 60 to 70 employees who enable us to produce the radio,

the television, the books, and all the other resources here. It's really a small core of people

who are a team that are committed to the love of the truth and to love one another. And together,

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