How firm of a foundation he says of the Lord, he is laid for your faith in His excellent Word.

How long have you known and walked with the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?

Would you say you're a different person today than you were the day you first believed on his name,

whether it's days or months or decades ago?

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm Steve Schwetz and I hope that you said yes,

I'm a different person today because that was Jesus promise to us that he would make us new

creations. That day that you met the Lord, you were given eternal life. But also on that day,

you began a process called sanctification that will continue every day for the rest of your life

on earth. Dr. McGee will go into great detail on this process today in our study of Galatians 6.

Now we've already seen how our lives changed when we came to Jesus by faith and we studied

in Galatians 5 how walking with the Lord produces the fruit of His Spirit in our lives.

And today we'll go deeper into how that Spirit fruit produces character in us.

It's such a great study. So grab your copy of God's Word and open it to Galatians 6.

But first our teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee shared a few thoughts about one character trait that we

should put on every morning like a coat. That character trait is humility. Here's Dr. McGee now.

I entitle this editorial, the proud pigme versus the humble human being. I have a scripture for

this and it's found in Proverbs the sixth chapter beginning at verse 16. Will you listen to this?

These six things, death the Lord hate. Ye seven are an abomination unto him. A proud look,

a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood and heart that devise of wicked imaginations

feet that be swift to running to mischief. A false witness that speaketh lies and he that soeth

discord among brethren. Now God says these are the things that he hate. It's an ugly brood as you can see

and these are the things that are actually in the heart of the natural man. That is you and I before

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