How firm a foundation,

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

What happens when God's people become complacent?

Welcome to Through the Bible.

In this study, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to give us the answer to that question straight from the book of Haggai.

I'm Steve Schwartz, your host, and I'm so glad that you're here with us today, in part because my friend and Through the Bible's president, Greg Harris, and I have some time to talk about a trip that I took earlier this year to Mexico.

Yeah, and this is one of those fun conversations where I get to kind of become the host and flip the table a little bit and ask you, how was your trip, Steve?

It was a great trip. I was able to go with James, our ministry leader in that area, and that a nice, nice perk because he speaks Spanish.

So I know.

I always had a translator at my shoulder, which is very helpful.

And I believe that's the first time ever in the history through the Bible that we have

somebody on our team who can speak another language when we're traveling.

Yeah.

It is great.

Yeah, it's been really nice.

So just the time that we've got, I want to focus on the opportunity that we had to

visit a radio station up in a mountainous area of Chiapas in the highlands of southern Mexico.

Wow.

And it was the Sozzil people, and they are an indigenous group that speaks Sozsche.

And they're typically a combination,

I think missionaries call it a synchronistic kind of a religion that's kind of...

A mishmash of traditional, cultural, different religions.

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