How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McKee.

I'm Steve Sweats, your host, and I'm so glad that you've joined us as we're going to study a very important passage of Scripture in 1 John 3.

Now, if you're joining us for the first time, welcome aboard the Bible bus as we travel a five-year path through the entire Word of God.

So stay on the Bible bus, and after five

short years, you'll have traveled through all 66 books of the Bible. And don't worry about

where you start on this journey. In fact, 1 John, where we are today, is really a great place to

begin. Our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, designed this study to jump back and forth between the Old

and New

Testaments. Soon, we're going to finish First John, and then we're heading back to the Old

Testament for the book of Micah. It's such an exciting tour that helps all of us really

understand the scripture in a deep way. So, visit ttb.org if you want some more information

on through the Bible and Dr. McGee, as well as our five-year journey through God's Word.

Now, before we get started, here's the first part of an introduction that Dr. McGee recorded specifically for this section of our study.

And now we have come far enough along that I should take a few moments to give some background material that we need

if we are to understand this profound yet very understandable epistle of John. He is beginning to say

some things that can be comprehended only by what is written in his gospel. The gospel of John, and that has to do with

the two natures of the believer. The old nature with which he's born, the new nature which he

gets when he accepts Christ, born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God that liveth and abideth

forever, is the way Simon Peter put it. But again, it should be born from above, not of corruptible seed.

Now the Lord Jesus amplified that statement. He says, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that

which is born of the spirit is spirit. That is, flesh will always be flesh. You can do a lot with

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