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John MacArthur
Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. John and his wife, Patricia, have four grown children and fourteen grandchildren.
John’s pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John is the president of The Master's College and The Master's Seminary, and he has written hundreds of books and study guides (see below), each one thoroughly biblical and practical. Best-selling titles include The Gospel According to Jesus, The Second Coming, Ashamed of the Gospel, Twelve Ordinary Men, and The MacArthur Study Bible, a 1998 ECPA Gold Medallion recipient.
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Jesus Is Coming!
We have earthquakes, famines, conflict between nations - even war. But does that mean Christ is about to return? Well, two things are certain . . . Jesus is coming . . . and you need to be prepared.
4 Marks Of A Godly Man
Now just exactly what does this phrase mean? Maybe if we just took a very simple approach to it and said it means, "God's man...God's man." That is to say, a man who belongs personally to God, a man whom God in the truest and highest sense owns or possesses. This is not a man who belongs to the world. This is not a man who belongs to the culture. This is not a man who belongs even to the church. This is not a man who belongs to the board of the church. This is not a man who belongs to the denomination or the association or those who ordained him. This is God's man. This is the man who personally belongs to God.
4 Marks Of A Hellbound Man
As I have been traveling across America this past week and ministering in a number of cities and encountering a number of people, I have been reminded again of the tragic reality that there is a world dying in sin. And as I was thinking about our brief meditation time this morning in preparation for the Lord's table, my heart was drawn to John chapter 8. Would you open your Bible for a moment and look with me at one of the most tragic portions of Scripture reflecting the ministry of our Lord?
Perseverance Of The Saints Part 1
What if a professing Christian sins again and again and doesn't repent? How would you describe his spiritual condition? Has he lost his salvation? Bottom line, can a Christian ever lose his salvation? See what God's Word has to say . . .
Perseverance Of The Saints Part 2
It's an age-old question . . . Can you lose your salvation? Is there something you can do to make God take it away? What John MacArthur has to say about that may turn what you believe upside down.
Perseverance Of The Saints Part3
When should a believer doubt his salvation? Is it possible to do something - to sin so terribly - that you forfeit your salvation? Consider those critical questions in light of The Doctrines of Grace.
Perseverance Of The Saints Part 4
Imagine a new religious teaching that stirs up so much controversy, the world's leading Christian thinkers get together for seven months to prepare a response? It's a true story . . . and it rocked the church . . . as you'll see. . .
A Scriptural Critique of Infant Baptism
In fact, after the reformation if somebody was re-baptized who was baptized as an infant, they were labeled an Anabaptist and persecuted. It was not uncommon for that persecution to reach a fever pitch, so that after the Reformation you had protestant people who believed in infant baptism persecuting people who believed in believer's baptism. It became a serious issue, even to the point where some people who believed in adult immersion after confession of faith in Christ and were re-baptized were killed.
Understanding Baptism
Now, probably, the greatest number of people who call themselves Christians have never been baptized according to New Testament Baptism. It may well be that the majority of those who call themselves Christians have not been properly baptized. It's not as if it's not clear about what a baptism is, and how it is to be done. It is clear. It's just that there has been sort of an indifference to that very important matter, and I would like to, if I can, put an end to that indifference this morning, if that in fact is the case.
The church then is commissioned in the great commission to do the work of baptizing. It's amazing to me to see mass evangelistic crusades, these massive crowds of people, these huge crowds of people, and supposedly people coming to Christ. Never do you see a baptism. Never is there a baptism at such events. And yet, on the day of Pentecost, 3000 people believed, and 3000 people were baptized when the church began.
When the Holy Spirit spoke in speaking through Peter, "repent and be baptized". He gave a command there to the individual who repents and believes. So the church is commanded to baptize. The individual's commanded to be baptized. There is really no lack of clarity with regard to this. In fact, in each of the cases where the great commission is given in Matthew, Mark and Luke, there's an emphasis on baptism.