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

Who do you think are the hardest people to reach with the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Did you answer Muslims, Hindus, Buddhist, what about atheists?

We'll find out how Dr. J. Vernon McGee answers that question on through the Bible.

I'm Steve Sweats, your host and fellow passenger on the Bible bus.

And I'm so glad that you're here

as we open our Bibles to the book of Ezekiel at chapter 2.

But before we get started,

here's Dr. McGee with an introduction to our passage.

Here in this second chapter, God says to Ezekiel, he says,

now I want you to bring a message to the House of Israel,

but very candidly they're not going to hear you that is

they won't believe you they won't accept it but you are to do it and he said

God says that's all right says they don't believe me either. And I feel that we today are cast in very much that kind of a role in the day in which we live.

It's a day when many are hearing the word of God and we rejoice in that, but many do not hear the word of God.

And what about that?

Well, Paul says that we are a savor of life unto those that are saved and a savor of death under those

that are lost.

In other words, they're going to be a whole lot of people that listen to this program that

are going to do nothing about it and actually the gospel is going to

condemn them instead of saving them because they'd never be able to go into the

presence to God and say look I never heard it at all but many are responded and right

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