How firm a foundation,

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

In a world full of noise and half-truths,

is there any place that we can still find honesty?

Whether it's in politics, education, social media, or even the courts, it's harder than ever to know who to trust.

So where should we turn when truth feels out of reach?

Welcome to Through the Bible, where our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, points us to the only source of truth that we can fully rely on, God's word.

I'm Steve Schwetz, your host, and we're continuing our journey in Zachariah beginning at Chapter 8, verse 15.

But before we dive in, here's more from Dr. McGee's focused series of introductions on the justice of God.

And we're talking now about the justice of God will permeate the entire

structure of society in that day. And God's judgment is so different than ours.

We saw that he is not partial. It's impartiality, not partial to any person or group, and that you cannot pay your way or even promise him.

This idea that you'll promise him that you'll do better and you feel like that saves you.

You can't buy God, friends. If you sin, you're going to be judged for that sin unless you can

find somebody who will pay the penalty for you. And there's one who paid that penalty for you. And that's

the Lord Jesus. And God is just. May I say to you, God judged Israel more severely than he judged any nations roundabout Israel.

They didn't have the light. Israel did. We have the light today and therefore, I think that

God's more apt to judge us and judge us more severely because of our failure today.

Just because we've sent out a few missionaries and we support the through the

Bible radio program, that doesn't mean by any means that we'll escape the judgment of God,

that we're sinning as a nation. And God does not overlook that. Now we come to another element of

the judgment of God that we need to look at,

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