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I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It's perhaps God's most celebrated attribute is forgiveness.

Does God pardon without justice? And if not, on what basis can he declare a guilty sinner justified? And how can you be sure that you will be declared guilt-free on Judgment Day? there may be no more important questions.

John MacArthur answers them today as he continues his study called Without Excuse from Romans chapter 2.

So turn there in your Bible, Romans chapter 2, if you're able, as John begins today's lesson.

There are four great reasons why the heathen are lost.

Years later, someone told me to check out WDCX Radio 99.5 FM in Buffalo, New York, and that led me to discover John MacArthur's verse-by-verse exposition, which in turn prompted me to start reading the Bible.

Ultimately, this led me to purchase the MacArthur Study Bible, and after that I bought the complete set of John's New Testament Commentary series.

For 24 years, I have been driving for about an hour and 15 minutes to get to work every day.

Despite the traffic, my co-workers noticed that I arrived to work relaxed.

The more and more people demand recreation and idle time, the more corrupt they will become.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

The legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, once said, "'Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing, the result.'" You know, it's true, the end result is important in any job, but it's certainly not the only thing God cares about.

We have rejected God.

We have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have rejected the Bible.

We have rejected not only the gospel in the Scriptures, but we've rejected basically the morality of the Scripture.

Where's my first paragraph break? We're gonna do the first four verses and call it good as we start chapter 49.

Now, reading the notes in the MacArthur Study Bible, uh, the, it says this, referring to 49 verse 1 through chapter 57 verse 21.

Uh, MacArthur wrote, "This section defines the Messiah, servant's prophetic and priestly functions, his equipment for his task, his sufferings and humiliation, and his final exaltation.

The word servant or servants occurs nearly 10 times in this portion, which magnifies Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God who is slain to redeem God's elect." And then it says that verses one through 13 of chapter 49 is the second of the four servant songs.

do that.

But, you know, this is the MacArthur Study Bible talking about this whole passage.

He says, I told you everything that's going to happen.

It's happening just like I told you.