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

Jeremiah said that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.

Well, I'll tell you who can.

Only God.

You picked a good day to study God's word on through the Bible.

Our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, explains the antidote to our wicked hearts, and that's

knowing Jesus.

I'm Steve Schwetz, and we're in the book of

Haggai on our five-year journey through the whole word of God. Now, before we begin,

here's the last of Dr. McGee's introductions on the judgments in Scripture. Before we finish

the little book of Haggai, I'd like very much to conclude the series that we've been giving now for some time in our introductions

on the subject of the judgments that are mentioned in the Bible.

We've had, for instance, the judgment of the cross.

That is where Christ's VOA, your sin and my sin, that is called a plenary,

substitutionary death of Christ. He died of judgment for death. Then the second judgment we saw

is self-judgment. If we would judge ourselves, we'd not be judged. A Christian is permitted to judge himself.

And if he does not, then God will judge.

Then you have the chastening judgments of God.

And then the fourth one was the judgment of believers' works.

That is to see whether we receive a reward or not. Then we had the judgment of

angels, and then the judgment of the nation Israel, and then the judgment of the nations, the Gentile

nations of the world. Now, today, we want to see the judgment of the great white throne. And this is the

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