How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

What's the world's most powerful weapon of mass destruction?

What's the world's most powerful instrument for giving life?

Well, compare your answers with those found in God's word as you hop aboard the Bible

bus.

We're headed today to Proverbs Chapter 18.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm your host Steve Schwartz,

and of course our teacher is the late Dr.

J. Vernon McGee.

Now, before we begin, we got just enough time

to share a couple of letters from our mail bag.

The first one's a letter from a prisoner.

Dr. McGee read it many years ago but it's a good one so let's listen to it now.

And we've had a remarkable letter from a prisoner in prison in Texas who received a Bible.

He says the penenealogy of the Bible doesn't rely alone on restitution, but on work as well.

We need to develop a creative alternative to prisons. For the most part

imprisonment should be limited to incorrigible. Society obviously needs that protection. But even those prisoners

should be allowed the therapy of labor, all inmates in our penal institutions except the sick and infirm

should be made productive. The normal life of an inmate is 16 hours a day of lusting and 8 hours a day of sleeping.

That's the situation in virtually all our prisons.

And may I intrude and say, this comes from a man back of the bars.

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