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

Are you a soldier in the Lord's Army?

How about an athlete or even a farmer?

Welcome to through the Bible. If you were with us for Dr.

J. Vernon McGee's last study in 2nd Timothy chapter 2, those metaphors are

familiar to you. But we haven't completed all the pictures that Paul wants for us in that chapter.

So stay tuned and we're about to look at ourselves as teachers, vessels, and servants when we

continue our study in 2nd Timothy 2 beginning at verse 11.

But before we get started, I want to share with you a recording that Dr. McGee made some

years ago talking about this ministry and then inviting us to join with him to take the whole word to the whole world.

So I think that Dr. McGee would be pleased to know that since his passing, the ministry

has expanded and today it's reaching more people in more languages than ever before.

I never thought I'd ever be in this ministry.

I never expected to be a missionary. I knew all along through school I was not called to a mission field. I had heard a great

missionary, a missionary, a missionary doctor, the Sudan interior mission,

held a story that came from his field and every fellow in the seminary was weeping including myself.

The boys one on one side of me and one on there the both of them went to the Mission Field and they've done a great work.

I never felt called to go to the Mission Field.

The first time I made a trip to the mission field and saw, but the missionary there was undergoing

and his family and the tremendous, tremendous sacrifice he was making. I said to a friend of mine who went along with me.

I said to him, you know, I know now why God didn't call me as a missionary.

The reason is that I don't have the intestinal fortitude to make the

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