How firm of a foundation he says of the Lord is laid for your faith in His excellent Word.

Are you ready to sing praises to God?

Then hop aboard the Bible bus as we set out for another great adventure in the book of Psalms.

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm Steve Schwetz, and we'll begin in Psalm 109 in just a moment,

but first here's our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McKee, who recorded a few words of introduction for the study.

Our study today brings us to Psalm 109. I went over that last time just a little too fast,

and so we're going to back up and take another look at it. These are very wonderful Psalms.

And we're putting an emphasis as you can see on this book of Psalms in this particular section

that praises the Word of God. We'll be coming to a Psalm shortly that is a center of the Bible,

and it's all about the Word of God. It's quite interesting that recently some research was done.

I think it was the Princeton Religion Research Center, and found out that Americans overwhelmingly

believe in God, but they do not read the Bible that there is today great biblical illiteracy,

and there has been a revival of Bible study, which we're delighted to hear about everywhere,

but I don't really think we've scratched the surface, so let me urge you, especially at this point,

to begin reading the Word of God as we go along. That's one of the things that we suggest to those

who go through the Bible with us is that they read the Word of God as we go along, and it's well

to read it ahead of time, and I'll tell you why. For 21 years, we averaged about 1500 people

every Thursday night, downtown Los Angeles, and that is something that has not been duplicated.

I wish it would be, but there's not that emphasis on the Word of God today that there should be,

and we believe that part of the expectation and the interest was because people were asked to read,

and they did read ahead of our study, and they were sitting there with an air of expectancy,

and today we need that, and we urge you to read along with us. We have a nation of Bible illiterates.

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