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

On what single event does the message of the entire Bible depend?

Is it the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross?

In this study on through the Bible, Dr. J. Vernon McGee explores what connects the gospel message

and the entire Christian life.

So find your seat on the Bible bus, and let's listen to a quick introduction.

And today, we need to emphasize the resurrection more than it's being emphasized.

We hear a great deal about the death of Christ, and we should.

But also, we should hear an equal amount about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have today, if you want an illustration of this, get your song book.

You will find song after song about the death of Christ, the cross, the blood of Christ, all of that.

And friends, I wouldn't take one of those hymns out of the book.

But how many do you have on the resurrection?

Very few.

How many sermons a year on the death of Christ?

We say that we fundamentalists, we're preaching the gospel,

but we have only one Easter sermon. My friends, we ought to have more than that. The early

church, you remember every Sunday, not on Easter Sunday, every Sunday, the first day of the week,

they went around and said, he is risen.

He is risen.

When's the last time that you heard that in your church?

I'm sure you never heard it except on Easter Sunday.

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