How firm a foundation,

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

Pragmatic, a man of action.

Welcome to Through the Bible. I'm Steve Schwetz, and all the words that you've just heard accurately described the prophet Haggai, whose Old Testament book were beginning today. As our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee tells us, Haggai didn't have his head in the clouds. He got right down to where the rubber meets the road. So, climb aboard the

Bible bus and find your seat for this very important and practical study. And while you do that,

let's listen to a bit more from Dr. McGee's introduction that we began in our last study. Now, you may

recall that Dr. McGee was telling us there's only one sin for which there's no remedy, and that's

the sin of refusing to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. Here's Dr. McGee.

God has a remedy for every other sin and for all sin, and he died for you, and I don't care

who you are listening to Dave. You can argue with me until you're blue in the

face about whether you belong to the elect or not. Frankly, I'm not interested in that because you and I

do not have the roll call of the elect. If we did, it would be a different story than we could

concentrate on them. But God has not told us that because he died

for the sins of the world. And every person ought to have an opportunity except the Lord Jesus Christ

I reject him. And that's the reason that we have put such a great emphasis upon this. Now,

the great passage that we have on this is found

in 1st Corinthians 3, 915. And let me rapidly look at this. He says in verse 9,

for we are laborous together with God. You're God's husband, and you're God's building.

Now, in other words, God is permitting you and me to put up a building, and here is the way it works.

According to the grace of God, which is given unto me as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation and another build it down, but let every man take heed

how he build it thereon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Now the foundation is down. Salvation is available. You have accepted Christ. That's the foundation. But if any man build upon the

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