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

Here's an interesting fact for you.

The name Josea, who is God's spokesperson in the book that we're studying right now on the Bible bus,

is another form of the name Joshua, which is the Hebrew version of the Greek name Jesus.

Josea, Joshua, Jesus.

All their names mean salvation.

The Old Testament men named Josea and before him Joshua were pictures

of what Jesus Christ embodied in the flesh, God's salvation. Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J.

Vernon McGee. I'm Steve Schwetz and I'm welcoming you aboard the Bible bus as we continued together

our five-year journey through God's entire word.

Now, Dr. McGee begins our program by sharing a letter from a concerned listener.

No doubt we all will be moved by this issue we still deal with, and it all comes down

to what we'll hear about in our study of Hosea 3 and 4, that people follow destructive

ways because they don't know or

understand God, and the individual tragedy naturally leads to despising the truth and withholding

mercy. Let's listen now to this letter from Corvalus, Oregon.

As the chairman of Corvallis right of life, I have been involved lobbying state legislators

concerning several bills. One bill we are concerned with has to do with handicapped babies

being denied food and water after birth to hasten their death.

In talking to legislators, the feeling among them seemed to be that it is better to let the

child die, whatever the methods, to spare the family the burden of a handicapped child.

After talking to them, doubt began to creep into my mind.

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