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

Someday in heaven, when God is passing out rewards, who do you think might be one of the most honored people?

Paul? Maybe Peter. Or maybe it's someone you've never heard of and of whose story you've never been told.

Welcome to Through the Bible. Dr. J. Vernon McGee is going to give us some surprising insight into that future scene in this study.

We're in Haggy chapter two, so hop

aboard the Bible bus and turn there in your Bible if you can. Now, as you know, we love to read

letters and emails and texts to start off our studies, and Dr. McGee himself started this tradition.

So here he is sharing a letter from a listener whose heart and life were changed by God's

word. Here is a very interesting letter from West listener whose heart and life were changed by God's word.

Here is a very interesting letter from Westfield, New Jersey.

It says I've been a Methodist since I was very little, grew up close to the church,

attended Sunday school and worship every week and youth fellowship evenings. As I became a teenager, I became a fill-in Sunday school teacher, et cetera,

studied my verses, sang in the choir, et cetera.

But somewhere along the way, I became acutely aware that there was something wrong there.

People were snobbish, bigoted, and oh so uppity,

and the noted and highly esteemed pastor spent about one hour a week in a travel log of his

ministry with about three minutes devoted to the gospel reading. Well, sir, that's about where I got

off the train. I continued to be what I thought was a Christian,

doing good works, praying in thanks and in need, marrying a Roman Catholic and raising two fine

sons. I have attended church, the Catholic services, with them on their important days, but never

went back to regular attendance anywhere.

And then she begins to talk.

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