Preface: The following post is only two weeks old:
In the afternoon of January 1, 2023 I booted up John MacArthur's church's streaming sermon....but he had taken ill. It was reported a few weeks later that there was some artery cloggage....a procedure was done....and the pastor would need a few weeks of rest. It has been 2 1/2 years since that day....and he has hardly been in the pulpit at all....as one new procedure would follow another.
I check every week to see if he might be back in his pulpit....and I pray every day that he his lungs would function well enough for him to preach. I'm doing this in faith that God would....if it be in His perfect will...give us back the old John Macarthur as in the sermon YouTube that is below....which is pure John Macarthur...and one of the strongest evangelical sermons that I have ever heard him preach!
John MacArthur is not perfect....nor was Spurgeon or Martyn Lloyd-Jones or any of the great preachers of the past. He fell for the lure of politics about six years ago...and he missed the false prophet that he had been warning us of for the past for decades....but God is merciful....or a wretch like me would not be typing here right now.
We in evangelicalism are essentially shepherdless right now. God has taken most of his faithful shepherds home....Billy Graham and R. C. Sproul and Tim Keller and many others....men who would not have shrunk back and refused to warn....as all the others have today.
It may be that John MacArthur would return to his pulpit....and not be the warning that I would expect him to be. That is in God's hands. As for me....I know that evangelicalism right now is in the dark....and they need a voice of warning....a trumpet!
Have you come here and read my pitiful posts on the gospel of Jesus Christ....and been frustrated because it is not sinking in? Are you a long-time church goer and frustrated because you have never understood what all the fuss was about. Are you about to give up? Give it one more try....listen to this sermon by John MacArthur....because it is for you!
