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

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee, I'm Steve Schwartz.

Let's pray to get started.

Father, thank you for your word. Would you open our eyes to I'm Steve Schwartz. Let's pray to get started.

Father, thank you for your word.

Would you open our eyes to see your wonder?

In Jesus' name, we pray.

Amen.

Now let's set off for Ephesians 5.

Now we want today to get back to our text of scripture,

and we'd like for you to turn here to this 14th verse, I'm going to begin reading there. He says

Wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and rise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

Look carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise men buying up the time because the days are evil, on this

account become not senseless that is foolish, but understanding, that is being prudent, what the

will of the Lord is.

Now this is again a very wonderful passage of scripture and we are here in this

section here where we see the engagement of the church. The church is moving

toward the day when we'll be brought into Christ's present.

And the church will be presented to him as a bride as we're going to see in a few moments. But that is something that ought a

condition are living down here. And if it doesn't then there is something radically wrong with our relationship to him.

Because an engaged girl is apt to give a great deal of attention to the man she's engaged to. A child of God

who is looking forward to the day when they'll be with Christ it's apt to

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