How firm a foundation,

ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

It's a great day to study God's Word.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you to Through the Bible. Now, as the Bible bus rolls along, Dr. J. Vernon McGee has a lot to teach us from the New Testament book of Jude. If you haven't gotten your copy of briefing the Bible, our free book of Dr. McGee's notes and outlines for Jude and all of our other studies on Through the Bible, why don't you head over to ttb.org and download it yourself. Besides your Bible, this can be a helpful tool that will help you understand the background to every book that we're studying. Again, it's called briefing the Bible, and it's available for free download at ttb.org. Or call us at 1,865 Bible, and we'll send you an abridged paperback copy by mail.

And of course, if you listen by app, you don't need to do anything but go to the menu and you'll

find the notes and outlines right there. Now while you find your place in Jude 3 and 4,

here's more from Dr. McGee on the New Covenant.

Now we come to the New Covenant and the New Covenant is the new covenant. Now we come to the new covenant, and the new covenant is the covenant that Jeremiah records,

and it's over in the 31st chapter of Jeremiah, beginning at verse 31.

Will you listen to this?

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel

and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant

they break, they broke it, although I was a husband under them, saith the Lord. But this

shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord.

I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in

their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Now, this covenant is to

succeed the Mosaic covenant, which was temporary to begin with, and it was a

covenant that was not an unconditional covenant.

It was conditioned on their obedience and faithfulness to God. And it is if ye will. It's not what I will, but if

ye will. Now God says, I will. This is a covenant that he has not yet made with Israel. He will

make this covenant with them in the future. And that, of course, is for the

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