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

Have you ever wondered if we can out-send God?

Or, to put it in another way, can we ever sink so low and sin so much that God's grace can't reach us?

Well, welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm so glad that you're here as Dr. J. Vernon McGee answers these important questions and so many more as we dive into Josea chapter one known as one of the minor

prophets and you'll hear Dr. McGee take exception to that description minor Josea is really a fascinating

book it begins with a big scandal one that could show up on any made-for-t vmovey you know but

ultimately when we get to the end of this book, I think what you'll remember

most is the amazing depth of God's love for every one of us. I'm Steve Schwetz, and before we get

started, Greg and I have got some listener stories that we want to share with you. And today, Steve,

we want to do something that we do from time to time, which is reflect on our core values and how they are very real.

They're not just sort of statements that you put on a poster on a wall.

And one of our core values that we have been taught by Dr. McGee, and he was taught by Jesus, so that's a pretty good chain of reference, is that we are simply

called to fling the seed of the Word of God. And we have just heard so many stories here in North

America and around the world of we fling the seed, others pick it up, and then they fling it some more.

Yeah, absolutely. I think of the illustration

of, you know, the seed that we're flinging, it's just an, the Lord keeps putting more seed in this

bucket, and we keep throwing it out, and we're not piling seed on seed. There's new opportunities

that the Lord is bringing to us that we've talked about this before. Neither one of us is smart enough

to know what we're going to go to.

Now, we're good stewards, and we plan to an extent, but so much of the growth of this ministry

into different aspects of it has not come from your head or my head.

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