How firm a foundation,

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

What does it mean to live a life for God?

Well, that's what we'll hear in a special introduction to Through the Bible,

as our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, explains how wonderful it is to know God and enjoy Him forever.

So find your seat on the Bible bus and open your copy of God's Word of Malachi 1 as we listen.

And we've been looking at several subjects that help us to understand God's great purposes

as revealed in these prophetic books and how he's winding down things as far as this little

world is concerned.

And these things we've been looking at, we've talked about

many things, not cabbages and kings, I trust, but other things that are far more important.

And we've been talking about actually the things that are spiritual characteristics of the

millennium, those elements that enter in. And we've been talking

about the fact that it'll be a holy people and that God has called us, believers today, not

to uncleanness, but unto holiness. That means to live a holy life, a life for God. After all, what is the supreme

end of man? The supreme end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. How wonderful it is, to

know him, and we can only know him through the Lord Jesus Christ.

He made it clear that the Father's not known except to those to whom he reveals them.

Now our God we've seen is a holy God. He asks that we be holy.

And now closely aligned to that is the love of God.

We just got started in that last time, and in the second chapter of Ephesians, they're put

together three words that belong together, and that verses four and five, but God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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