How firm a foundation,

ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent work.

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

I'm Steve Schwetz, and today we'll learn about the importance of the familiar verse,

He who has the son has life, he who does not have the son of God, does not have life. But first,

here's more from Dr. McGee on God's attributes. Last time we studied the first one, God is love.

Let's conclude that now.

Now, love explains, I think, today why God created this universe and this earth and man.

Have you ever stopped to wonder, well, why in the world did God create all of this vast universe? What was the point of it? You see? Why would he do

that? Couldn't he got along without doing that? You ever wonder why? Well, if God is love,

then he cannot exist in the splendor and the loneliness of isolation.

He created man.

He created man to love him, a man to have fellowship with him.

That's the reason that he visited Adam every afternoon in the Garden of Eden for fellowship.

And then that man turned his back on God and ran away from him with the woman.

I tell you that man's been running away from God ever since.

This idea today that man is searching for God.

It's the other way around. God is searching for man.

And so we see that God created man, a creature. God says he loved him. God so love the world.

And then the love of God tells something else. It tells out the free will of man.

It explains the free will of man. The free will of man has taken a beating in the past few years.

The election of God has helped center stage. There are little groups all over this country today that are sitting around and say God has elected certain ones.

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