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

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee. I'm Steve Schwartz, inviting you to find a seat on the Bible bus as we continue our journey through the small but powerful book of Amos. So grab your Bible and turn it to Chapter 2 of Amos. And while you do, we're going to hear some introductory thoughts from Dr. McGee, specifically prepared to accompany our study. Here's Dr.

McGee. Now, I want to say just a word in the introduction today about Amos. I mentioned

the other time of two ago about this man, Amos. Really, he was a country boy, and he has a world view.

And there's something else about this man.

He's one of the most practical of the prophets, because he talked right down to the people

and up to the rulers, and he dealt with the problems of that day.

Actually, he saw how the poor were being hurt by the expenditure of government.

In that day, it was on luxury and pleasure, and I think a lot of government money is going that way today.

I personally resent some of the things that taxes are going for today.

We have no voice at all, and we're seeing our nation today being smothered by brainwashing.

We have seen it here in California relative to all of these issues of today, like abortion

and the homosexual issue.

All of that has been brainwashing by the news media, and there's very few men in the pulpit

that are standing up tall and straight and taking a stand on these things.

Well, that's certainly a thought-provoking take from Dr. McGee, and it gives us an idea of just how often neglected books like Amos have a lot to teach us.

And that's why one of our core values here through the Bible is to teach the whole word, not just cherry-picking books and verses.

That's right, Steve.

And it's what makes us fairly unique. There are some other

ministries that teach the whole Bible from cover to cover. But it seems like God has just uniquely

prospered and blessed Dr. McGee's handling of the entire Word of God. Yeah. And the systematic

approach and doing it in a relatively short time frame, five years, you know, Old Testament, New Testament has been very successful.

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