How firm a foundation,

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

Welcome to Through the Bible, a five-year journey through the whole word of God.

Our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, leads us as we travel this time through the book of

1 John chapter 2.

Now, as Dr. McGee has told us, First John has one of the most succinct and clear summaries

of what it means to be a Christian.

Whether you know Jesus Christ as your Savior or you haven't yet met him these studies will make it

very clear to you what this life of following Jesus is all about but before we begin here's an

introduction by dr. McGee with some foundational teaching on how to live the Christian life now god

saves us by grace and that's his work for us. God does not ask you to work for your

salvation. He has done that work for you. He asks you to accept it, and that means that you

accept it by faith, just like you'd accept any other gift. Now, that's his work for us.

But living the Christian life is still by grace.

A great many people think it means if you become a Christian,

you begin to grit your teeth and pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

But it's still his work now in us. You see, salvation is his work for us,

and living the Christian life, or if you want the theological term, sanctification, it's his work

in us. His work for us saves us. His work in us is the Christian life. Now, God today is not hurling

thunderbolts from Mount Sinai. He's a loving Lord besieging us that are his children to let him continue his work in us. They began it by sending the Lord

Jesus to die for us. And that's the reason that in the epistle like that great pistol to the

Romans, they're not commandments given. When Paul gets to that practical section in the 12th chapter,

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