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

Now, you know, you can't keep God from loving you. You can't keep it from raining and you can't keep the sun from shining. But you can get out of the rain and you can get out of the sunshine. You can't keep God from loving you, but you can put up an umbrella of indifference, an umbrella of sin, an umbrella of rebellion,

and you won't experience it, but he loves you.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

That's what our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, has to say about the great news that nothing can separate you and me from the love of God.

Isn't that an encouragement?

You know, we've got a fantastic study of God's word ahead of us, so stay with us for the love of God. Isn't that an encouragement? You know, we've got a fantastic study of God's

word ahead of us, so stay with us for the conclusion of the New Testament Book of 2 Peter. Now,

as you grab your copy of God's Word and you find your seat on the Bible bus, I'm especially

grateful to have Greg here in the studio so that we can tell you about a trip that I took recently

to Liberia, Africa.

Yes, and I'm especially grateful because I get to sort of turn the tables and be a little more of

the host and say, Steve, you went on this trip to Liberia. Tell us about it.

Well, first of all, even getting there, I mean, the Reader's Digest version of this is we,

and we talk about this before, another listener who was unaffiliated with the program, is listening in Nevada. I think he's in Henderson,

and he decided to call us and say, hey, I'm working with a ministry that's involved in Liberia,

and I think that they can use through the Bible in their ministry. Fast forward, one media player

goes out, then 25, then 50,

then 200, and then we show up. And they have out of this, you know, these little media players

going in a country that doesn't have usable internet. I know I was there. Yes, you were there.

Even though I was paying for it, after about three in the morning, it's just choked. It's just not there. It's not there because

seven people are on it instead of the four that we're supposed to be on earlier. So anyway,

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