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NEW & IMPROVED UPDATE: Grace to You has now made all MacArthur audio (sermons, Q&A sessions, etc.) available online for free. This particular interview with Phil Johnson is now available HERE, and includes both the audio AND transcript. Enjoy!
About a month or so ago I received from Grace to You, the ministry of John MacArthur, a CD that contained an interview of Dr. MacArthur by his friend and editor, Phil Johnson. As most of you probably already know, Phil is one of the members of TeamPyro (also kown as Pyromaniacs), and also runs the immensely beneficial and outstanding Spurgeon Archive website.
Pam and I decided to listen to this CD on the way to meet some dear friends of ours for dinner and a night out on New Year’s Eve, and I must say that this interview of Dr. MacArthur is one of the best I have ever heard on the topic of election. I thought this interview was so important and beneficial to us that I contacted Phil to find out if it was available online somewhere for me to link to on this website and , if not, to see if I might have permission to host it right here. Phil responded back that it was not available anywhere online, and he gave me persmission to host it right here on VOTS. So, you might say that this is a VOTS online exclusive (not including all the thousands of CD copies that were sent out by GTY to those such as Pam and myself). Phil’s actual words were that he didn’t think it was online anywhere, so if you have information that it is, please let me know.
This interview of MacArthur is so good for a number of reasons. It is what I would call a no-holds-barred, politically-incorrect, biblical look at the doctrine of election. Nothing is held back by either Phil or John, and the result is a straight-forward and truthful look at a doctrine that the unregenerate find so repulsive. I would encourage anyone who has struggled with this doctrine – or has professing family members or friends whose view of election is far from the truth – to listen to this interview themselves and also to direct others to it here. Then I would encourage you to contact Grace to You to see about getting a copy for yourself. It is a CD that every true believer needs to have in his/her library.
For future reference, I will provide a permanent link to this post and audio in one of the sidebars to the right. Thanks to Phil Johnson for giving me permission to host this very important discussion on the sovereignty of God regarding His elect. Per request, the file is provided at a rate of 16kbps. Here goes:
Answering the Key Questions About the Doctrine of Election – John MacArthur
(c)(p) copyright 2006 by Grace to You. All Rights reserved. Used by permission.
PS. In light of Tim Challies’ incredible power and influence, and by his linking to this post (and the possible high volume of visitors), please do me a favor if you can. Out of consideration for my server host and limited bandwidth, please right click on the link above, select ’save as’, and copy the file to your hard drive before listening to the interview. I thank you…and my server thanks you!
UPDATE: Thanks to Abe (comments below), and completely unbeknownst to myself or Phil Johnson, this interview apparently was broadcast by Grace to You over the radio back in October of ‘06. The link for part one of that file is here, and part two is here. A transcript of the interview is also available here. – the links that were here are no longer valid. See the first link above for the audio and transcript of this important interview.
