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

Welcome to Through the Bible.

We're in the book of Haggai in our five-year journey through the word of God. And this time our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to be talking about an important life principle. So if you can, turn in your Bible to chapter 2. Now, if you've been on the Bible bus for long, then you know that we love your letters, emails, your texts, and even your voicemails. We love to share them here on this

program, too, and we've done this for decades. And to tell you a bit more about this tradition and to

introduce our study, here's Dr. McGee. And we would like to be in touch with you. That is,

you know, we come to you on one side of the freeway down the right side with the

word of God.

And you can come back to us on the other side of the freeway, going on the right side with

a letter.

And if we don't have that kind of a communication, we won't be able to continue to come

down our side of the freeway.

Now, you understand that. And if you do, we'll have freeway. Now, I hope you understand that,

and if you do, we'll have a letter from you, I'm sure, and you'll want to help us to get the

word out to the world. We're coming to something unusual today in the little book of Haggai

during the second chapter at verse 10. The people have built a new temple. We're living in a day when many churches

are building bigger churches, better churches, the more ornate churches. And we are going that

direction. Israel went the other direction. They built a temple, but it was just a little thing compared to Solomon's

temple. And the important thing is that the Spirit of God was with them in a small temple.

He had departed from the big temple. And in all of this moving today, let's be sure the Holy Spirit goes with us.

I don't misunderstand.

I do not think God dwells buildings, as we're going to say today, he indwells believers.

But let's make sure that the Spirit of God works in the new building.

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