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

Faith, hope, love.

These three characteristics picture an important Trinity for the Christian life.

And that's what Dr. McGee tells us in our study on Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Sweats and I'm so glad that you're on the Bible bus with us.

I love how Dr. McGee describes faith as something based on past historical fact,

love as something we experience and express in the present and hope as tied to the coming of

Jesus Christ in the hopefully near future.

Our study begins in Colossians 1 verse 2, so why don't you turn there now as we ask God for

his help in understanding His word.

Father, thank you for your promise that a heart that

seeks you finds you. We ask that you would guide us as we study your word and then show

us what you know we each need. We ask this through your son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Let's get to our study in Colossus 1 on through the Bible with Dr. J.

Vernon McGee.

Now we pick up our study today, friends, in Colossians, the first chapter, and we'll put in again

today at verse two, as we did not finish that last time. I hope that

you have your Bible open to this passage of scripture and have before you our notes

and outlines you'll find it will make this study more

meaningful to you. Now we are in this introduction to the epistle to the

the Colossians. Now we find here Paul putting down his almost a stereotype

introduction as you find it in some of his other episals And he addresses it to the Saints and as we said before

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