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

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

As you hop aboard the Bible bus, our lesson is in the small but powerhouse New Testament

Book of Jude.

It only has one chapter, but it's full of encouragement and warning.

In addition to our study in Jude, we've also begun a series of special introductions

from Dr. McGee on the judgments of the Bible.

We'll look at eight judgments in all. One of them past and the rest of them future. Now we remember the past judgment

every good Friday when we honor what Jesus did for you and me on the cross. He bore God's

judgment for our sin, so everyone who believes in him can have eternal life. Dr. McGee continues now, speaking about

the death of Christ. Last time we mentioned the one judgment that is past, eight judgments in all,

one pass, two or present, five of a future. And we have seen the divine judgment through the cross of Christ,

that if there had been any other way to save man other than the death of Christ,

God would have given a law. God would have enabled man to jump over the hurdle,

but man wasn't able to make it.

Man came short of the glory of God.

Now, you would say that that put God in a very bad place,

that in other words, God has painted himself into a corner where now there's nothing left for him to do but send his son.

But you must remember that he was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

I think before God brought any of this physical creation into existence,

he had this plan that he's working on today,

as well as multitudes's infinite number of other

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