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

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm Steve Schwartz,

welcoming you to another great adventure in God's word.

So as you open to Ecclesiasties chapter 3 verse 1,

here are some introductory thoughts from our teacher Dr. J. Vernon McKee.

We welcome you aboard the Bible bus today as we continue our safari through the entire Bible from Genesis to revelation.

Now we're in the book of Ecclesiasties. It bears a similarity to the book of

Proverbs because there are many proverbs given in Ecclesiasties, but here again it has a message for the

young.

The last chapter will bear down on this, remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.

And we believe that young people today are listening to the word of God and that the spirit of God

is changing their lives and I want to share with you two letters that reveal that and

both of them are remarkable this first one especially

it comes from Mesa Arizona I am 21 years old and I have been a hypocrite ever since I can remember. Since

starting to listen to your program regularly I have started studying my Bible every day. I can actually feel myself being born again.

It is a good feeling. I am getting rid of my bad habits. I am for the first time in my life, placing my life in the

hands of God. I no longer fear and worry. I feel safe and secure for the first time in a long time.

Now may I say to you that there be some that would take exception to the statement that this party makes that they feel themselves

being born again.

But I rather like that because I'm of the opinion that it doesn't happen all of a sudden. Some of us came into this world

quite suddenly. Some of us got here maybe before the nine months, but others were a long time in getting here.

And so the new birth is, I think, similar to that.

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