John MacArthur Health Update & The Danger of Deep Fake & AI Generated Videos

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Videos created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are now becoming common on YouTube. They often use click bait and false headlines to lure you in. As bad as this is its nothing in comparison to the danger "Deep Fake" videos pose for the future. Not familiar with these terms? Interested in how John MacArthur is doing? Go ahead and watch and click thumbs up if you found the video helpful, if you didn't go ahead and click thumbs down TWICE! -Article: https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-macarthur-briefly-returns-to-pulpit-for-thanksgiving-service.html Thank you for checking out my videos. Please consider subscribing and remember when you click thumbs up, that helps the video to get out to more people! Along with the sermons & Bible studies we also cover stories in Christian news as well as examining the teachings and practice of people like John MacArthur, John Piper, Alistair Begg, Steve Lawson, Paul Washer, Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, Amy Grant NIV Baptist Churches Christian Music ESV Newsboys TobyMac, Kirk Franklin, Michael Tait CCM Exposed Amy Trey Pearson Hillsong Maverick City Music Elevation Worship Bethel Bill Johnson Kris Vallotton Kirk Franklin Brandon Lake Semler Relient K Switchfoot Lauren Daigle TobyMac Newsboys DC Talk Kevin Max deconstruction United Methodist Roman Catholic Discernment T.D. Jakes Lakewood Church Truth Error liberal conservative Pope Francis Taylor Marshall Kenneth Copeland, Kathryn Krick, Joyce Meyer Steven Furtick, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, Beth Moore, TD Jakes, false teachers Apologetics Mike Winger, Voddie Baucham, Paul Washer, Wretched Radio, Todd Friel, TreasureChrist (Reformed Wiki 2.0), Reformation Charlotte, Protestia, Andy Stanley, Ray Comfort of Living Waters United Church of Christ Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, LDS, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Charles Stanley, The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins, The Shack, Heresy, KLove, Christian Science, 7th Day Adventists, Seventh Day Adventist, Baptist Church, dispensationalism, covenant theology, Calvinism, Arminianism, Replacement theology, rapture, pre-trib, pretribulation, post-trib, post tribulation premillennial, postmillennial, end times, tribulation prophecy Book of Revelation, King James Version, KJV. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING! Salvation is available for anyone who would repent and turn to Jesus for forgiveness! The true gospel is Christ crucified and risen for the remission of sin. A person is saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8-9, John 14:6). The Scripture says if you would confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be saved! Romans 10:9. The next step after salvation is to get baptized and start learning & serving in a good local Bible believing church.

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Hello, today is Wednesday, November 27th, and the title of this video is
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John MacArthur Health Update and Fake AI -Generated Videos. Have you seen some of these
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AI -generated videos with the clickbait thumbnail, like so -and -so, this just happened, and it's like they're on Fox News or something?
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Yeah, well, we're going to be talking about that and giving an update, an actual update, a real update on John MacArthur's health, because people care about that, and there's reasons why it's significant.
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So first of all, the reason I'm doing this video, somebody told me, they left me a comment and said that John MacArthur had returned to the pulpit at Grace Community Church for the first time in almost six months, so I did a search on YouTube, and this is what
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I found. I'm showing you the screenshots now. One video says, at age 85,
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John MacArthur finally confirms the rumors, and it has a picture of Joel Osteen along with two men kissing.
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Sorry about that. I know nobody wants to see that, but the point is, a whole bunch of fake
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AI -generated videos popped up, and you can tell that they're AI -generated oftentimes because it'll have something totally outrageous, or someone from Fox News supposedly reporting on John MacArthur or someone else, and it's all fake, but they try to get you to click on it with these thumbnails, and the picture has, the thumbnail has nothing to do with the video, usually, and the video itself is nothing but pictures along with a computer -generated voice.
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So these types of fake AI -generated channels and videos are becoming more common.
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Maybe you're already aware of them, but if not, be careful because if you see something like that, there's a good chance that the information in the video is totally false.
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Over the past few months, there have been a variety of these videos about John MacArthur.
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Some even reported that he had died, but it's obviously not true. But let's get into the actual health update.
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This is from the Christian Post. It says that Pastor John MacArthur returned to the pulpit
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Sunday evening, November 24th, after a month's long absence due to health issues.
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MacArthur, they say, who appeared visibly thinner, but in good spirits, received a half a minute standing ovation from the congregation upon his return during the
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Los Angeles Area Church Thanksgiving Communion service, a significant moment that marked both his recovery and, as he shared, a deepened walk with the
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Lord through a myriad of health challenges, including undergoing three heart surgeries and procedures on his lungs.
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John MacArthur is quoted as saying, I am still here and I'm thankful to the
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Lord for that. MacArthur, who hadn't preached during a service since July, remarked, visibly moved by the warm reception.
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He said that while it wasn't his choice to be away from the pulpit for so long, and he went on, and I thought that was interesting.
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He said it wasn't his choice. And maybe that's simply because he's not able to preach. He's in poor health and he wants to, but he just physically can't.
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But it may be a decision by the elders. Let's face it,
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Grace Community Church is elder -led, so knowing John MacArthur, he may be chomping at the bit to preach a sermon, but his elders are like, no,
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I don't think that's a good idea. I mean, I only say that because when they shut down for COVID during 2020,
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MacArthur on one occasion said, hey, I wanted to be open, but the elders all voted, you know, majority that we needed to be closed.
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So what MacArthur means by that, that, you know, he can't preach or what was the exact quote he wanted to preach?
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Let me just find it here. But it wasn't his choice. So either way, either way.
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Why is this important? Because John MacArthur, it's good that he's still around for several reasons.
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The Reformed world, some of you will remember this, the Reformed world sort of came unglued after the death of R .C.
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Sproul. Most of the social justice controversy, a lot of that was in the Reformed camp. So after R .C.
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Sproul died, he was one of the leading, you know, it was like MacArthur and Sproul. And when Sproul died, the social justice controversy just kind of took off.
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And a lot of people said if Sproul were still around, this wouldn't be happening.
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Or if R .C. were still alive, people like Ligon Duncan and some of these other people wouldn't have drifted so far in a woke social justice direction.
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And that's a pretty common belief. I think there's something to that. And the point is, if the
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Lord should tarry when MacArthur goes home to be with the Lord, you just wonder what kind of effect that will have.
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Having strong Christian leaders without question, having strong Christian leaders, it helps to keep things and people in check.
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So when strong leaders pass, bad things often happen. It happened with Sproul to a certain degree, and it may happen with MacArthur.
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So that's why it's good that he's still in decent health, all things being considered. And he's still around.
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He's still commenting on things. That's a good thing. And especially when somebody passes away.
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Here's another example. D. James Kennedy was a big leader in the Reformed movement. When he died, who took his place at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church?
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Tullian Tevigian. So enough said, right? So I pray, all that to say this,
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I pray that John MacArthur will be around for a long, long time, even if he isn't preaching every
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Sunday. But back to the AI -generated video. So that was the report.
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No real new information, except that he did take the pulpit for the first time in a very long time at Grace Community Church.
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No real news beyond that, but that is significant news. But back to these AI -generated channels and these videos.
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AI -generated videos are totally obnoxious. Not only are they factually giving you bogus information, doing clickbait thumbnails, these channels are totally obnoxious.
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You see here another one. They have a thumbnail from the channel Preaching for God's Glory.
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You know, that's a good channel, but this video, even though it's their thumbnail, it's not their video, but it says
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MacArthur Health Update. But if you click on it, it's just a sermon from Grace to You.
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So what is this about? So watch out for these AI -generated videos.
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And what's going to be worse when they start showing up, if you've heard of the term deep, deep fake, right?
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These deep fake videos where that technology allows people to make videos of pretty much anyone and everyone just saying and doing things that they never did.
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So in theory, someone could do a deep fake video of you robbing a liquor store, even though you never did it, right?
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I don't think anything like that has happened yet, but in theory, this technology makes that possible.
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So right now we're dealing with AI -generated videos and they're giving false information, but in the future, once this technology gets into the hands of the common man, someone could do a deep fake video of John MacArthur on stage with Benny Hinn, shaking hands and hugging and John MacArthur's apologizing and telling his congregation that he's now a charismatic and Benny Hinn is really a great apostle of the faith.
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And I don't think anyone would ever believe that, but that technology is real.
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And again, once it becomes common, when people are able to do that, people can now, the average person can now make
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AI -generated videos. So once people are able to make deep fake videos on their own,
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I mean, that's going to change, that's going to be a game changer if YouTube allows those types of videos to be put online.
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Okay. So those are my thoughts for today. And again, today is November 27th.
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And along with the prayers for John MacArthur, if you'd be willing to pray for me, I would appreciate it.
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I currently have a case of vertigo. So if you could pray that the Lord would take that away, that would certainly help.
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Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I do not want to have this for Thanksgiving. I know about the maneuvers that help with vertigo and I'm taking vitamin
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B and none of it's working, but I had to cancel Bible study for tonight. So if you're looking this week, if you're looking for the
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Genesis Bible study, no Genesis Bible study this week, unfortunately I canceled, but yeah, if you could pray for me,
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I'd appreciate it. By the way, if you do live in the area, our church, Moores Corner Church is celebrating
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Thanksgiving. We're serving Thanksgiving dinner at 1 PM, Thanksgiving day. So that's 10
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Churchill Road in Leverett. And I hope everyone watching has a happy and blessed