How firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

What does it mean to have a relationship with God?

We hear that phrase a lot.

Do you ever wonder how it works?

Is having a relationship with God like having a relationship with other people?

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

And those are good questions.

And Dr. McGee answers them in this study in the book of 1st John.

As we begin, let's join Dr. McGee for another introduction on the important themes of 1st John

and in our previous study of Jonah.

Now, we marvel at the fact that since we go from Old Testament to New and then New back to Old,

how often the one book will tie into the other

book. And this is true here. The lesson that we got in the book of Jonah was a great lesson on

missions. Now we come to First John, and 1 John has something else that ties into the main theme of the book of Jonah.

Now, the main theme in the book of Jonah, you'll recall, is resurrection.

God raised the dead.

And the great theme, actually, of the New Testament. God raised the dead.

And the great theme, actually, of the New Testament, is not only that Christ died for our sins, but the fact that he rose again the third day.

He was dead.

He was buried, and he rose again the third day according to the

scripture. And part of that scripture is the book of Jonah. Now, first John is going to deal

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