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

It doesn't matter how active we are in the church or how devoted our service.

We need God's word to take root in our heads and our hearts in order to grow.

That's what we'll hear from Dr. J. Vernon McGee on through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwartz, your host on the Bible bus.

And before we turn to Hebrews 4, let's listen to Dr. McGee's next introduction on how God works in mankind's history.

I am in a quandary because I've come to a section that is especially precious indeed to the child of God.

And I feel totally inadequate to deal with it.

And that's the reason I've been talking to you

in the preliminary part of our study about the dispensations of Scripture. And I want to continue

that today. It'll be, I'm sure, some preparation for the understanding of this great epistle.

We said that in the New Testament and in the gospel of Matthew,

we are brought face to face with three dispensations, the dispensation of law and the dispensation

of grace and the dispensation of the kingdom. They're all mentioned in the gospel of Matthew.

You see, the Lord Jesus in the gospel of Matthew, was born a king. Matthew emphasizes that.

Wise men came from the east, not seeking a savior, but one that was to be a king. And he was introduced by

John the Baptist, not as a Savior, but as a king, because he began by saying, repent, the kingdom

of heaven is at hand. And you can't have a kingdom without a king. And the fact was, the great fact of

that day was the king was present. And they rejected the king, by the way. And the kingdom was,

we have heard people say, postponed. It wasn't anything postponed, my friend.

It all happened in the direct will of Almighty God.

And so the kingdom was postponed in the sense that it's delayed,

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