What firm a foundation,

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

What are the dangers of prideful and godless living?

Well, the answers are probably evident, but just in case there is any uncertainty in your mind,

our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to make it very clear in today's study of the Old

Testament book of Obadiah.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwartz, so grateful that you're here with us as we continue our never-ending five-year

journey through all 66 books of the Bible. Now, our time in Obadiah is nearly finished. So

next time, we're going to travel ahead in the Old Testament book of Jonah. And then, after that,

we head back to the New Testament study of 1 John. By joining us on the journey, you know that you're jumping

on board what Dr. McGee affectionately called the Bible bus, and every day I'm committed to save

a new seat. So go ahead and grab your copy of God's Word and get comfortable. And while you do that,

here's an introduction by Dr. McGee. I want to take a few moments before we get back into the text to look at what Obadiah is saying

and its effect upon us. Because we've come to the most important and subtle factor that is eroding

the quality of human life in our contemporary culture, that we need to

pause here for a moment to view its consequences in our lives, both private and public.

Obadiah puts the microscope down on humanity, and we see the disease that is destroying modern man.

These germs are so small that they escape our attention, and we ignore them.

Pride is the name of the germ and virus that is more deadly than cancer a legionaire's disease.

Let me define pride again, according to Obadiah.

It's an attitude of a life that declares its ability to live without God.

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