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

You don't have to live the Christian life very long before you realize it's hard.

No one promised it would be easy and no one said

that we could do it in our own strength. Welcome to through the Bible I'm your

host Steve Sweats and as we study the book of Jeremiah with our teacher Dr. J. Verna McGee we hear one

hear one theme repeat itself,

turn back to God.

It was Jeremiah's message to the people of Judah

and it's God's message to every wandering heart today in every generation.

You've gone far enough, now turn back.

You know that we love to read letters.

We do that so often on the program and I try to include a few every week that I think are going to encourage you.

So often we hear of people who thought that they were too far from God or that they had lived too hard of a life or maybe they made too many

bad decisions.

But you know like the Prophet Jeremiah, who compassionately and passionately called people back

to God, we keep telling the story of God's love and his forgiveness,

and people, well, they're responding all over the world.

In fact, listen to this note from a man who listens to through the Bible in Cantonese.

I have heard your teachings from the Bible.

I am filled with hope and with questions.

God has never been in my thoughts or a part of my life, but now I wonder what I have been missing

please pray for me. Now that's the kind of request that we can run with. In fact if

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