How firm a foundation,

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

Is it possible to live in sin and still be happy?

Well, that's the topic our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, addresses here on through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwett's your host for this five-year journey through God's entire word, and I'm so glad that you're on the Bible bus today.

To give you a little preview of where Dr. McGee takes us in our lesson. Here's a recording of a letter that he read from a

listener here in Southern California. This party writes, I listen to your morning broadcast

every single day. It is a great encouragement to me and makes the day just a little easier.

Today I come to you with a very critical problem and hope that you will help me,

for I'm desperate and have nothing left to try or anybody to turn to.

To several Christians and to some non-Christian individuals, I've asked to help me without really telling what my problem is, and I always get the same answer. Pray about it. They all said, well,

I have for over a year. I've been praying. I know that I'm a newborn, again Christian, although

many times I had doubts, but I know that I'm a newborn, again Christian, although many times I had doubts, but I know that I have been saved.

Brother, I don't know what you're going to think when you find that I'm a homosexual.

Perhaps you'd think that I'm living in false assurance of eternal life.

But believe me, this is not the case.

I know I'm saved, but I lost the joy of my salvation for a while,

and I try to live a Christian life, and I never was so miserable.

Well, Dr. McGee went on to say that anyone involved in a sinful lifestyle must first of all acknowledge

what he's doing is sin, and then he must forsake that sin.

And then he added this, and I'm quoting from Dr. McGee here, you must be willing to do God's will. This idea that

you can engage in any kind of sin and be a child of God, that's a big mistake. The prodigal son

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