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

Remember the old saying, ignorance is bliss?

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz.

And today, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, tells us what the New Testament book of James has to say about ignorance, particularly if you've chosen to stay ignorant after you've been given the facts.

But first, through the Bible's president, Greg Harris and I have a great update on our

home group movement around the world, specifically in the country of Bangladesh.

A country that you and I have both been to. We've been there together. And it's exciting to see

what God is doing. And we, as always, just see so much fruit out of this kind of ministry because it's

Bible study, it's fellowship, it's, while we're not trying to plant churches, it often is a church

in a place where there is no local church. Yeah. And it's interesting to see that, I don't know

if people realize that Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country in the world and it's not that big no I mean one-tenth the size of the

state of Alaska I actually looked that up to make sure our folks were right and that is absolutely

correct one-tenth the size of Alaska incredible it is here let's get to the letters when you

talk about it because of our experiences there here's a woman who listens in Bengali Muslimi.

My name is Jarina.

I am a home group member and recently was baptized.

Thank you for your lessons on prayer.

I was very confused by prayer and was unsure how to talk with God.

Now I have learned to pray properly through your teaching.

Every morning I pray and at night I pray together with my family members. I feel peace through prayer and I thank God that I

learn to pray through the media kits. Now let's just, that's amazing, first of all, just to think,

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