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This is a special that we just did on John MacArthur.

Two words stood out. Well, I almost don't want to say him now.

I don't want to put them in your brain.

I'm not going to say it.

Maybe I'll say it at the end.

There were two things that stood out to me in particular,

just taking some time to be inspired by what John MacArthur did to

glorify God in his life.

America is the greatest country in the world. Welcome to our special here on the first TV.

Who was John MacArthur? John MacArthur, a favorite preacher of mine, passed away at the age of

86 the other day. Today's special is about his life and service and listen, maybe we're going to

have some theological issues here or there. If you're watching now, you're like, I don't like when he said this or whatever. And those things are always great to talk about it. Maybe some of those will come up today. But the goal is to be inspired by his boldness and his dedication to preaching God's word that we can all learn from and apply to our lives, even if we're not

preachers. I think, Sky Schaeffler is a good example of this, right? He's a golfer, sure, whatever.

And he'll be the first to tell you, whatever, but Christian first. But we all have opportunities to share

the gospel. Here's an example of MacArthur's boldness. He was on Larry King Live in 2005, and he was with another person on Larry King Live, a young

man by the name of Gavin Newsom, when he was the mayor of San Francisco.

They just legalized gay marriage in San Francisco when you had John MacArthur and Gavin Newsom talking to each other.

I'm a practicing Catholic. I got married in the church two plus years. I don't see what we're doing in terms of advancing the bond of love and monogamy and extending that to families, families of same sex, in any way, shape or form, takes away anything from the church

or the sanctity of the union that my wife and I have. I would just like to ask the mayor as a practicing Catholic, do you believe the Bible is the Word of God? Yeah, look, Pastor, I'm not going to get in a theological debate with you. That would be inappropriate. No, that's not a theological debate. That's just a straight question. Do you believe the Bible is the authoritative word of God?

Yeah, I, with you. No, that's not a theological debate. That's just a straight question. Do you believe the Bible is the authoritative word of God? Yeah, with respect, I guess I do. Now the response.

Well, then the Bible says when God created man, he said one man, one woman, cleaved together for life. That's a family. Jesus in the New Testament reaffirms that. All the writers of the old and the New Testament affirm it.

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