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

There is law in love and there is love in law.

That's some of the important truth that we'll hear on through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

I'm Steve Sweats, your host on this five-year journey through God's word, and we're nearing the end of our study of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, as the Bible bus travels through chapter 63.

Now if you're new to studying God's word with us this might be a difficult passage to begin

with but keep listening because Dr. McGee has some encouragement for us too.

In fact, to help you understand the importance of looking at God's word as a whole

instead of individual parts, Dr. McGee recorded an introduction to this study and here's what he

had to say.

Someone has sent me quite a few quotations and I like every one of them comes from down in Vista, California and it says read your

Bible prevent truth decay and I want to repeat something I've said many times the great problem in the church today can be boiled down to just this one thing, that is ignorance of the word of God.

And the average child of God is not bothered by it.

In fact, I used to have men that would be asked to serve as officers.

I've had this many times.

Well, Dr. McYou, you know I don't know anything about the Bible.

And actually there was a note of bragging about the fact

they didn't know anything about the Bible.

A day we need to know the word of God so that the spirit of God will have something to work on

in our hearts and our lives.

Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word, your entire word.

Thank you for each passage, those that instruct us, those that encourage us, and even

Lord those that correct us.

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