“Todo el mal en la crucifixión, provocó un bien infinito. De hecho, este fue el acto más malvado jamás perpetrado por corazones pecaminosos: El Hijo de Dios sin pecado, el santo Dios mismo en carne humana, fue asesinado injustamente después de haber sido sometido a las más horribles torturas que podrían ser concebidas por mentes perversas. Era el mal de todos los males, el peor acto de depravación humana que jamás podría concebirse y el mal más vil que jamás se haya cometido. Sin embargo, de este provino el mayor bien de todos los tiempos: La redención de un sin número de almas y la manifestación de la gloria de Dios como Salvador. Aunque los asesinos pensaron el mal contra Cristo, Dios lo encaminó a bien, para salvar a muchos (cp. Génesis 50.20). La cruz es por lo tanto la prueba definitiva de la soberanía absoluta de Dios. Sus propósitos se cumplen siempre, a pesar de las malas intenciones de los pecadores. Dios aun obra su justicia a través de las malas acciones de agentes injustos. Lejos de hacerlo culpable por su maldad, esto demuestra cómo todo lo que Él hace es bueno, y como Él es capaz de obrar para que todas las cosas ayuden a bien (Romanos 8.28), incluso el acto más malvado de los poderes del mal que ha conspirado para llevar a cabo. Por otra parte, si Dios estaba soberanamente en control cuando las manos injustas de hombres asesinos pusieron a su amado Hijo en la cruz, ¿por qué alguien se resiste a la idea de que Dios todavía está soberanamente en control, incluso cuando se producen males menores? La cruz, por lo tanto, establece la soberanía absoluta de Dios fuera de toda duda.”
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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.