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

Are you ready to be free from the sins to drag you down?

Well, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, will share a Bible-based solution to the problem of sin in a believer's life, and we all have to deal with it.

So while his ideas may not seem desirable at first, listen closely.

They just may be the new direction that you've been looking for.

Thanks for joining us on Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwartz, your host, on this five-year journey through God's entire word.

Why don't you open your Bible to 1st Peter Chapter 4?

And as you find your spot, Greg and I want to turn our attention to how our ministry is impacting the lives of people in Africa.

Yeah, and Steve, today, although we're always excited and joyful about

what God is doing, a lot of what God does, not only around the world, but in our own lives,

is it's very deep and it's sometimes very tender and there's painful things that God touches

in our lives. And today, we want to have the privilege of sharing

some of the vulnerable stories that listeners from a country that you and I have a lot of

a heart for, which is Uganda. Yeah. And just Africa in general, I mean, we're really seeing

the Spirit of the Lord move in that continent in significant ways and the letters that we have today that all stem from

a from a happenstance meeting in Carlsbad, California. These three languages all came out of that.

So let me start with the first one. This is a dramatic story from a listener to our Juba Arabic

program. Juba Arabic is spoken in South Sudan, very difficult place. I would list it from what I know of the top three to five most difficult, most dangerous places to live on the planet today. So that's where this letter's coming from. It says, in our family, we've had some terrible things happen. One of our brothers died by suicide as a result of challenges and a family

misunderstanding. During the burial of our late brother, people were blaming us for his death.

This had a traumatic impact on my life. I became miserable and depressed because I felt

rejected by my relatives. So the only solution I thought was for me to commit suicide as well.

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