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

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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

The will of God for the church in the world is to proclaim the gospel.

That is our calling.

Churches have been distracted, to put it mildly, in this current climate, to get into all kinds

of things that are not the gospel, even though they want to label them as the gospel.

The gospel is the gospel.

And this is a time for us to understand it explicitly and clearly.

Last week, we looked at the conversion of Matthew, tax collector, and we heard the words

of Jesus, I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

That is the remarkable reality of the gospel that God saves sinners.

That when we were enemies, he set to save us.

That those people who are self-righteous and religious are, by their own self-righteousness, cut off from the

hope of salvation.

We saw last week that it was the religious Pharisees who thought they knew God and were

the representatives of God who were most strongly denounced by Jesus and who were sons of hell and making

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