If firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

If you had to divide all of mankind into just two groups, what would they be, man or woman, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, East or West?

Well, it might surprise you to know that when God looks at us, he really does see only two groups.

What are they?

Well, that's our topic for our study on through the Bible,

where we'll find out what sets us apart from one another. We're in the Old Testament book of

Habakkuk with Dr. J. Vernon McGee. So as you hop aboard the Bible bus and turn to Habakkuk chapter

two, let's continue with Dr. McGee's special introduction on God's covenants with Israel.

Now, God made four unconditional covenants with the nation Israel,

and these covenants did not depend on Israel doing anything except believing God.

That's all they had to do is just accept them. And they acted on that belief of God. That's all they had to do, is just accept them.

And they acted on that belief of coas.

Now, covenants depend, therefore, on the integrity of God.

Now, these covenants are marked out by God saying,

I will do certain things.

And there happens to be one conditional covenant, and that's the mosaic covenant.

God says, if ye will do something, then I will do something.

And they're out of that land today because of that.

Now, I want to begin with the first covenant

that is of such great significance to us, and that's the covenant God made with Abraham. And we find

that in the 12th chapter of the book of Genesis. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, from thy kindred, from

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