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 your host Steve Schwetz, and I'm so glad that you're here as our study in the Old Testament Book of Amos continues.

Before we begin, though, Dr. McGee has recorded a quick introduction based on a simple homespun quotation that seeks to explain the very profound truth of election.

Let's listen now.

And it's one of the best that I think I've seen on

this particular subject. And it's a quotation that goes back to Aunt Jane of Kentucky by

Eliza Calvert Hall written in 1898.

And there's always been, and is today, a great discussion about predestination and free will.

And there's quite a group that have centered on the doctrine of election.

And they make a great deal of that today and the sovereignty of God.

And that's fine if they wouldn't hold it out of proportion to other scriptures.

And that's the reason I want to share this with you.

And it's very homely and very down to earth.

Here we go. It says, how much piece in a quilt is like

living a life. Many a time, I've sat and listened to Parson Page preaching about predestination and

free will. And I've said to myself, if I could just get up there in the pulpit with one of my

quilts, I could make life a heap planer than Parsons making it with his big words. You see, to make a

quilt, you start out with just so much calicoico you don't go to the store and pick it out

and buy it but the neighbors give you a piece here and a piece there and you'll find you have a

piece left over every time you cut out a dress and you just take whatever happens to come. That's

predestination. But when it comes to cutting the quilt, why you're free to choose your own pattern,

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