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

Idolatry, it's where every great nation has gone off the track it has been when it has departed from the living and true god

or when it has given up and gone into an idolatry that's led to gross immorality

that's the warning our teacher dr j vernon mee, shares with us in this study of Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz, excited to continue our study in the Old Testament book of Zephaniah.

Now, while I hold the doors of the Bible bus open, and you find your seat,

here's a bit more from Dr. McGee's important discussion on the

covenants of the Bible. Now today I want to return back to the messages I've been

bringing on the different covenants that God made with his people. And we come today to

the Mosaic covenant. We've seen the covenant God made with Abraham, an unconditional covenant.

And then we've seen the Palestinian covenant, which reinforced Abraham's great covenant.

And it is a covenant that guaranteed that land to the children of Israel as an eternal possession.

And then we come now to the covenant given through Moses.

We have yet to look at the covenant made with David,

and then the new covenant that is to be made in the future.

Now, the Mosaic covenant is introduced actually the

dispensation of law into Israel. And John put it like this in his gospel, John 1 17,

for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Now, after the children of

Israel became a nation and they were in the land of Egypt, God led them out. And at Mount Sinai,

God there made this covenant with them. He gave them options, however. Moses went to the top of the

mountain, and we're told in Exodus 19, verse 3, and Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him

out of the mountain, saying, thus shall thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel,

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