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

If you or someone you love is suffering today, and you need some encouragement that God is with you,

that He loves you, that He has a plan for you, well, stay with us.

This study in James is just for you.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard the Bible bus as we continue our study in the very practical New Testament book of James.

Now, one of the lessons that we learned today is that during times of testing and trial,

we're often tempted to ask why God, and we're reminded that God's answer is always, trust me.

Let's listen now, as our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, tells us more in this introduction.

The Bible bus, friends, is going through now the very practical book of James, and we are right down now where the rubber meets the road in our bus.

And we are coming to some things that are going to be very practical. And actually,

we're going to find especially in the study today, that the epistle of James is the answer

to all of these how-to books. You know that today we are flooded with books telling you how to stay well,

that God wants you well, he wants you prosperous, he wants you successful, and he wants you

happy all the time, and he wants life to be a better roses for you, and that the Christian life is really

something that's great fun. Well, James is going to contradict that. He's going to say that God's

going to test you, and God's going to test you with maybe not letting you have enough

money. He may test you and you won't be well. He may test you and you won't be successful.

The fact of the matter is, the epistle of James is so practical that many of us veer away from it today because we don't want to hear James say some of the things that he says to us, but actually the epistle of James can mean more to us and be more practical in our everyday

lives than you could possibly imagine.

And it reveals that you really don't have to be a howling success in the business world

are a social lion in the world of today in order to be a Christian that you can be a very

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