You’re only eager to go to heaven if you know you’re going there, right? So count it all joy when you fall into various trials because when you come out the other side with a stronger faith, you’ve just had proof, and that proof is pure gold. So we’re protected, we’re protected by the hope that cannot fade, by faith that cannot fade, in the power that cannot fade. It presses right straight through various trials and out the other side. — John MacArthur

“I am the Lord.” And verse 2, “You shall be holy, for I the Lord God your God am holy.” He’s saying to His people, “You have to stand against this.” It’s a shocking thing when this becomes the agenda to support. Homosexuality and the Campaign for Immortality — John MacArthur // September 12, 2012 I don’t know how much time America has left; I really don’t. But we’re on a course described here as God casting us out. “The land has become defiled; I’ve brought its punishment upon it” – verse 25 – “so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.” And we get all caught up in the politics of this election. That isn’t the issue. There are things vastly more important than that, than personalities. It’s about whether this society exists in the future at all as we know it. The land is so defiled, God will spew it out. First he abandons it, and then He destroys it. Verse 30 ends the section, “You keep My charge” – keep My commands – “don’t practice any of these abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them” – why? – “I am the Lord.” And verse 2, “You shall be holy, for I the Lord God your God am holy.” He’s saying to His people, “You have to stand against this.” It’s a shocking thing when this becomes the agenda to support. Chapter 20 of Leviticus – chapter 20 and verse 13. And there are – there are just – this is a hard section to read because it talks about so many ugly thing – incest, adultery, all kinds of horrible things. Verse 13, “If there’s a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. This bloodguiltiness is upon them.” Remember we said last week the murder of babies makes this land bloodguilty. Their blood cries out for punishment. Homosexuality makes this land bloodguilty. “Their bloodguiltiness is on them. They have committed a detestable act; they surely shall be put to death.” “Well,” you say, “that’s such a terrifying message.” And I say again, there’s still hope for them. Turn to Isaiah 56. The only hope is in the Lord. Isaiah 56, verse 3, “Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely separate me from His people.’” In other words, I don’t have a chance; I’m an outsider. “Nor let the eunuch say, ‘Behold, I’m a dry tree.’” In other words, I have no hope. Listen to this, “For thus says the Lord, ‘To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose what pleases Me, and hold fast My covenant, to them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.’” What grace is that?

This is the most detailed MRI scan of an unborn baby. At just 20 weeks, she is moving, turning her head, kicking—even standing. Her beating heart is also visible. Children are a gift from God.

When John MacArthur called out Mark Driscoll for calling himself reformed and then becoming a charismatic.

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It’s really not complicated.

A corrupt generation gets so embedded that it takes generations, if ever, to root it out. That’s where we are: lust for pleasure, selfishness, materialism, sexual perversion, anger, hate, vengeance, unforgiveness, prejudice, lack of submission to authority, civil rebellion, corrupt leadership. Hope for a Doomed Nation — John MacArthur // May 24, 2015 Listen: any other god but the God of Scripture, any god that anybody devises, the god of Islam, the god of Mormonism, the god of Judaism—any other god but the God who is the Trinity; the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; the God of Scripture, Old Testament and New; the God of the gospel. Any other god is an idol. Any other god is an idol, whether you’re an atheist or you worship a false god, that’s idolatry. If you’re an atheist, you worship yourself. But any other god means you hate the true God, that’s what it says. “Those are those who hate Me,” and that’s what we’re seeing in this country, folks. You have to see, they hate God. They hate the true God. And Jesus said in John 15, “They hate My Father and they hate Me, and they will hate you.”We just have to set the record straight, this is how it is, okay. This society is not your friend. They hate God; they hate Christ; they hate you. This is going to create generational impact to the third and fourth generation. What does that mean?  Please, it doesn’t mean when a father sins, his kids pay. No, it’s not a father, it’s fathers. It’s not a child, it’s children. It’s not a generation, it’s generations. What this says is when you have a corrupt generation, it will take three or four generations with the best conditions to change that. So here it is: you’re not going to fix it; don’t try. Neither will your children, neither will your grandchildren, and probably neither will your great-grandchildren. This is your world, and their world, and the next world, and the next world. And it may be the last one; Jesus may come. But you’re not going to change it, so stop trying. You can’t change it politically, can’t change it financially, it’s how it is. Ezekiel 18:20 says the sins of an individual are never punished in his children. You only are punished for your own sins; that’s a different issue. This is generational impact. A corrupt generation gets so embedded that it takes generations, if ever, to root it out. That’s where we are: lust for pleasure, selfishness, materialism, sexual perversion, anger, hate, vengeance, unforgiveness, prejudice, lack of submission to authority, civil rebellion, corrupt leadership. That’s going to be around for your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren. It’s not going to change. So what do we do? Well, first of all, remember this: this culture is not going to help you in anything that is God-honoring. Don’t look to the culture for any help in your personal holiness. In order for you to be personally holy, you need to separate. This culture offers you nothing. The less exposure, the better.There was a time when I was a boy growing up that it was cultural morality, cultural dignity, cultural honor, cultural honesty. There was a kind of Christian mentality. No more; they’re your enemy. They hate everything that you love. They’re you’re enemy. They’re God’s enemy, Christ’s enemy, your enemy. They’re not going to help you in your personal life: separate. Parents, they’re not going to help you in your parenting. They’re not going to help you; you’ve got to know that. They’re not going to help you. They’re not going to help you in any way. They’re not going to help you through the toys they make for your kids. They’re not going to help you through the entertainment they provide for your kids. They’re not going to help you through the schools. They’re not going to help you. They’re against you.This raises the stakes in personal holiness and raises the stakes in parenting. And they’re not going to help the church, they’re going to come against us really strong.

God bless the fallen, God bless our troops, and God bless the United States of America.

He loved us in eternity past. We were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. He didn't set his love on us when we were living in this world and embraced his son. He set his love on us in eternity past and wrote our names in the book of life because we constituted the bride that he would give to his son. He loved us from everlasting to everlasting. If you're looking for something to rejoice about, how about starting there with an incomprehensible infinite love and a love that is eternal going back and going forward. He loved you before you existed. He loved you before anyone existed. You are loved in the Son and the Son is eternal. — John MacArthur

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Genuine Repentance —Voddie Baucham

The cross assaults your emotional sensibilities. Then the cross collides with your intellectual pride, and then it crushes your self-determining will. You want to be a Christian, do you? It's the end of you. You're done. Try to sell that. This is not -- listen, this is not the gospel of self-fulfillment. This is the gospel of self-denial. It's not about you becoming all you can be. This isn't the army. This is about the end of you. — John MacArthur

I will never forget this unplanned, Holy Spirit–filled moment during Charlie Kirk’s memorial when the band began to play and the crowd held up signs with Charlie’s face that said, “Here I am, Lord send me.” It felt like, for a brief moment, tragedy might spark a spiritual revival and unify Christians on the Right. But in the months since, things have felt increasingly divided and disoriented. It appears we've lost people to a conspiratorial world view and pro-Islam world view. I asked @JeremyDBoreing whether we’re heading toward a great revival or total fracture. His answer, and his reflection on Pentecost, is powerful: