How firm a foundation,

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

The more you see your own flaws and sins,

the more precious and amazing you find God's mercy.

That's what we learn on through the Bible, as Dr. J. Vernon McGee, our Bible teacher, on this

five-year journey through the whole word of God teaches us from the Old Testament book of Micah.

So, as you get your copy of God's word open to Micah, Chapter 4, here's Dr. J. Vernon

McGee with a special introduction to our study.

Now, I want today to finish the thing that we began several days ago

when we were talking about the fact that this prophet spelled out sin.

He was very specific about it. In fact, the matter is, there were certain things that he mentioned that he dealt with not sin as just a big lump sum of something, but very specifically just what the sins were. It's interesting today that you hear sometimes

someone pray publicly, Lord, forgive us our sins. Well, you always wonder, well, what are they?

And I remember that Mel Trotter was telling about the time he had a man on his board. And this man

would pray every Saturday morning

in their prayer meeting. Lord, he said, forgive us our sins. And so Mel Trotter went to him and says,

well, why don't you tell the Lord what it is? And the man says, well, I can't think what it is. And

Mel Trotter said, well, guess at it. And Mel Trotter said, well, guess at it.

And Mel Trotter said, you know that he hit it the very first time.

And I think that most of us need to spell it out.

Micah, in his little book, he condemns violence, corruption, robbery, covetousness, gross materialism, spiritual bankruptcy,

illicit sex, pride, and bribery, and idolatry.

These are the things that he mentioned specifically.

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