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John MacArthur

John MacArthur


John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.

MacArthur'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 Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.

      Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.

      MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.

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Cuando Jesús hubo tomado el vinagre, dijo: Consumado es» (Juan 19.30). En el texto griego, «Consumado es» es una sola palabra: ¡Tetelestai! Fue un grito triunfante, lleno de rico significado. Él no quiso decir simplemente que su vida terrenal había terminado. Quería decir que la obra que el Padre le había dado que hacer estaba ahora completa. Aunque colgaba allí, pareciendo una víctima patética y perdida, Él celebró el triunfo más grande en la historia del universo. La obra expiatoria de Cristo había sido terminada, la redención de los pecadores estaba completa y Él estaba triunfante. Cristo había cumplido a favor de los pecadores todo lo que la ley de Dios requería de ellos. La completa expiación había sido hecha. Todo lo que la ley ceremonial presagió se había cumplido. La justicia de Dios estaba satisfecha. El rescate por el pecado fue pagado en su totalidad. La paga del pecado se estableció para siempre. Todo lo que quedaba era que Cristo muriera para que resucitara también. Es por esto que nada se puede añadir a la obra de Cristo para la salvación. Ni ritual religioso ya sea el bautismo ni penitencia, ni ninguna obra humana puede ser añadida para hacer eficaz la obra de Cristo. No hay obras humanas adicionales que pudieran aumentar o mejorar la expiación que Él compró en la cruz. El pecador no está obligado a contribuir en nada para ganarse el perdón o una buena relación con Dios; el mérito de Cristo por sí solo es suficiente para nuestra completa salvación. ¡Tetelestai! Su obra expiatoria se hizo. Es todo lo que se necesita.
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Cristo murió como ningún otro hombre ha muerto. En cierto sentido, fue asesinado por manos de hombres malvados (Hechos 2.23). En otro, fue el Padre quien lo envió a la cruz y allí lo quebrantó, sometiéndole a padecimientos, agradándole al Padre que fuera así (Isaías 53.10). Sin embargo, en otro sentido, nadie le quitó la vida a Cristo. Él la entregó voluntariamente por aquellos a quienes Él amó (Juan 10.17–18). Cuando finalmente expiró en la cruz, no fue una lucha dolorosa contra sus asesinos. Él no mostró ninguna agonía frenética. Su paso final hacia la muerte, como todos los demás aspectos del drama de la crucifixión, fue un acto deliberado de su voluntad soberana, que muestra que hasta el último momento, Él estaba soberanamente en control de todo lo que sucedía. Juan dice: «Y habiendo inclinado la cabeza, entregó el espíritu» (Juan 19.30). De manera quieta y sumisa, Cristo simplemente entregó su vida. Todo había sucedido exactamente como Él dijo que ocurriría. No solo Jesús, sino también sus asesinos y la multitud burlona, junto con Pilato, Herodes y el Sanedrín: Todo había cumplido perfectamente el determinado consejo y anticipado conocimiento de Dios hasta en su más mínimo detalle. Así Cristo, con calma y majestuosidad, mostró su soberanía absoluta hasta el final. Parecía una tragedia extraordinaria para todos los que lo amaban. Pero era el más grande momento de victoria en la historia de la redención, y Cristo aclararía ese hecho glorioso cuando irrumpiera triunfante de la tumba apenas unos días más tarde.
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The doctrines of divine sovereignty (that God elected sinners for salvation in eternity past) and human responsibility (that sinners are held accountable for how they respond to the gospel) are both clearly taught in Scripture, and play an important role in this passage. Without apology or excuse, the Bible teaches that the Father “chose [believers] in Him [Jesus Christ] before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4; cf. Col. 3:12; Titus 1:1; 2 John 1). In eternity past, they were “predestined” for justification (Rom. 8:29), adoption (Eph. 1:5), and a heavenly inheritance (Eph. 1:11). Based on no merit or work of their own (Eph. 2:8; Titus 3:5), God “saved [believers] and called [them] with a holy calling,
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Why the kingdom? Because the Kingdom is God’s total answer to man’s total need.
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The use of behavior modification and cognitive therapy techniques that were designed to replace Christ and the Scriptures with human wisdom (Prov. 16:25) cannot produce in an angry child the fruit of the Spirit. That
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God did not give us his gospel just so we could embrace it and be converted. Actually, he offers it to us every day as a gift that keeps on giving to us everything we need for life and godliness.
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As James MacDonald wrote, “To really be gripped by your identity in God’s greatness you must wade out of the shallow waters of self-absorption into the deep waters of praising him at all times for all things.
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and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." The word translated as "insight" is a Hebrew equivalent to "discernment.
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This word deposit is taken from the ancient world. In the age before personal safes and safe deposit boxes, a person who was going to be away for some time might ask another to care for a treasured possession. He would entrust this possession to another, depositing it to him, and this person was bound by a sacred oath to protect it.8 In his letters to Timothy, Paul, who knows that he will not always be able to encourage and mentor Timothy, entrusts to him the gospel message. Timothy would be expected to guard this message and to find worthy, godly Christians to whom he could in turn entrust it. And so the gospel has been protected and has carried from one generation to the next through the long, storied history of the church. And so it has been handed in trust to you and to me and to all who believe.
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Key Thought The Bible teaches there is a clear relationship between spiritual discernment and spiritual maturity. For a Christian to be mature, he must also be discerning. Those who are not discerning must be immature, backsliding, or dead. Conversely, those who exhibit discernment must be alive, growing, and mature. It is clear from Scripture that all Christians are expected to pursue discernment, for the Bible cries out repeatedly for us to do so. It is the responsibility of each Christian to heed and to answer the call and so to guard the deposit God has entrusted to us.
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El mal solo puede hacer una parodia del bien, no puede inventar formas de belleza y gozo genuinos
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Cuando Dios nos da un don, podemos esperar que también nos de pasión [...]. La persona apasionada por acoger a otros en su hogar, muy bien podría tener el don de hospitalidad; la persona que le encanta organizar reuniones, podría estar dotada de con un tipo de liderazgo; la que se apasiona por la verdad de Dios, podría estar dotada de discernimiento.
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We have truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, and the Spirit to guard us. We have the Word of God to battle for us. Through it all we pray to the Spirit to protect and guide us against the schemes of the devil. In this way we can fight against and overcome the spiritual forces that are set against us and committed to our downfall. We can wage war against and defeat the spiritual forces that seek to lead us away from discernment by offering a clever and subtle counterfeit of the truth.
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When we have rejected the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture, we allow Christians to depend on things other than the Bible as their guide to matters of life and faith. In particular, people begin to depend upon mysticism, upon ways of supposedly knowing God apart from the Bible. They look inward for intrinsic wisdom rather than outward to the Bible for its extrinsic wisdom. They forsake biblical reason in favor of feelings, voices, visions, or other subjective means of supposedly knowing God. This is a deadly error, for spiritual discernment must be founded upon God's objective revelation of himself in Scripture. We can only judge between what is wrong and what is right when we know what God says to be true. We can know this only from Scripture.
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Key Thought Because discernment is a good and noble pursuit, it is one that has been opposed on all fronts. It will continue to be opposed by our sinful natures, by satanic forces, and by cultural influences. As Christians we must stand firm against all of these forces, trusting in God to equip and to sustain us, for while discernment is a difficult calling, it is one with ultimate benefits.
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And Richard Phillips writes, "Theology bores today's Christians, which is another way of saying we are bored with God himself.
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We live in an age where too many who profess to be Christians rarely consider their spiritual maturity - an age when many consider spiritual immaturity a mark of authenticity, and when people associate doubt with humility and assurance with pride. Far too many people consider sound theology the mark of a person who is argumentative and proud.
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Solo podemos juzgar entre lo bueno y lo malo cuando sepamos lo que Dios dice que es cierto. Esto solo lo podemos conocer de las escrituras.
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No conocemos todo lo que hay que conocer, pero lo que Dios nos enseña a través de la Biblia es verdadero y digno de confianza.
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God honored Solomon's request because he was pleased with what Solomon had asked. This teaches us that God values discernment and honors those who seek after it.
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