We need today to get our eyes off of a church, off of religion, off of an organization, and off of a man, by the way.

No man down here should be the one we should be looking to.

And I hope you just don't look to this poor feeble preacher on the Through the Bible Radio.

Look to Jesus.

Look to him.

How firm up on day! on the through the Bible radio. Look to Jesus. Look to him.

How firm of foundation,

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

What great encouragement to begin our study.

Look to Jesus.

Who doesn't agree that it's pretty easy to be distracted by all the shiny things our culture throws in front of us?

Or on the other side of that, the difficult things that burden us.

You know, Jesus warned us of this tendency in his parable of the seed in

Mark 4. He said, the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things

entered in and choke the word, and it became unfruitful. But he then contrasted the seed thrown on

good ground, such as those who hear the word and receive it and bring

forth fruit. Let's listen to Jesus' encouragement and let the seed of his word fall on the good

ground of our hearts and grow fruit in our lives. I'm Steve Schwetz, your host, welcoming you to Through

the Bible. Now, in just a moment, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee is going to lead us through

Hebrews 12, and as we learn about another danger signal, it's a warning sign, really, that Dr. McGee calls

the peril of denying. And we'll see how this warning directed toward Jewish Christians in the first

century applies to us as well. So hop aboard the Bible bus and find a comfortable seat and turn with me to Hebrews

...