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.

We're headed to the New Testament book for a brief but powerful study in the book of Jude.

You know, Jude wrote this letter to warn the church that false teaching was creeping in,

as well as a general falling away from the truth.

Dr. McGee says few books have more to say to our generation than this little letter from Jude.

Does that grab your attention? Well, it certainly does mine. So turn to the book of Jude,

and as you do, let's hear more of Dr. McGee's continuing discussion on God's covenant with David.

Now we come today back to that covenant God made with David. And it's such a wonderful passage.

I spent a little time with it last time. It's over in 2nd Samuel, the 7th chapter at verse 8.

And this is where a prophet was wrong. And he's going to have to go back and correct himself

because he told David to go ahead and build a house to God.

God said, no, wait a minute.

I got another message for David.

And here's part of it.

Now he says, now therefore, so shall thou say unto my servant David.

Thus hath the Lord of hosts.

I took thee from the sheep coat, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. My all away from out with the

sheep on the hillside to a throne in the palace in Jerusalem is a long ways for any man to go.

David has made the trip. And he says now to David,

and I was with thee with us, soever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight,

and have made thee a great name, liken to the name of the great men that are in the earth.

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