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

What do you think are the three biggest and best ideas in the Bible?

Well, in this study on Through the Bible, we're going to look at the letter of 2nd John,

and our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, explains the difference between God's love, grace, and mercy.

After we study these three amazing gifts from God, I'm thinking that we're going to put these on our biggest and best list.

But before we jump into Second John, Dr. McGee recorded a special introduction that describes

another wonderful gift from God. And that's the good news of Jesus Christ. Let's listen.

Now, as we look back, there are three very important things that we should emphasize to you today.

The first is, is the gospel. What is the gospel? And the second thing is, what about man?

Who is man? Is man really a sinner? And we want to see God's estimation of man.

And then the third, the coming of the Holy Spirit into the world. That was as new and as great as the

coming of Christ, friends, because until the Holy Spirit came,

no one could have been saying. Because you remember, the Lord Jesus said, Harry in Jerusalem,

tell you being dued with power from on high. And friends, the word of God has to go out like

that today if it's effective at all.

Now, I want us today to look at this picture that's given to us of the gospel in the New Testament.

Now, in the four gospels, we had the greatest event of human history recorded,

the coming of the second person of the Godhead, clothed in human flesh in Bethlehem.

He intruded into man's history.

He was born of a virgin, lived a spotless and sinless life, born in Bethlehem,

reared in Nazra, and at the age of about 33, he was crucified for the sins of mankind. And it's John who wrote in his first epistle. In 1 John

2, 2, he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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