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

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Sweats, and I'm so glad that you're here as we begin a short study in the Old Testament book of Zefaniah.

Now, Zefaniah isn't exactly what some would call encouraging.

In fact, many say its message seems really rather harsh and cruel.

But our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, turns this thinking upside down as he explains what he calls the dark side of love.

So go ahead and get comfortable.

And while you do that, Greg and I have a quick update on what's happening.

This time, how about Pakistan?

Yeah, how about Pakistan?

And there's a larger subject I'd like us to be thinking about as we share one or two of these amazing things.

And that is that we know that there is so much going on around the world using through the Bible

that we don't know about.

If that confuses you.

In other words, God's spirit is moving people to take the resources, the flinging of the seed.

And every once in a while, we get a little feedback, and I'm happy that we can share this report that came.

But I didn't know anything about this until an email came from our friends over at Indoor International.

And essentially, what it is is there is a listening group.

Now, they don't call it a home group in

Pakistan. They just formed a bunch of listeners. And they're actually, it's a viewing group,

if you want to be technical about it, because this is our Urdu satellite TV program. And here's

what the email says, Steve. This came from one of our contacts in Pakistan, and he said this.

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