He promised to forgive us
July 22, 2025
What is it that this poor saint walking down here today who has it in his heart a desire to live for God above everything else, and yet who sees his weakness, he sees his faults. He’s walking in the light of the Word of God and yet he wants to please God. What can he do? May I say to you, there’s good news for him. I know it’s familiar, but let’s listen to it. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just ….” And the word “just” means He’s righteous. God is right when He forgives us. Well, how can He be righteous? I’ll tell you why. Because He promised to forgive us.
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“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son just keeps on cleansing us from all sin.” You can have fellowship with Him today, not because of who you are, not because that you today think you can bring God down to your plane, but you can have fellowship with Him because Jesus Christ shed His blood to make it possible. And that’s the basis on which any of us will have fellowship with Him.
July 21, 2025
John was presenting Jesus Christ. He says to them, “I want to present to you this person—this person that I happen to know. And I want to tell you about Him, and from that you’ll have fellowship, and from that your joy will be full.” And may I say to you, you cannot have fellowship, you cannot have joy as a child of God apart from Jesus Christ. He’s the very source. And it is your relationship to Him that will determine both your fellowship and your joy today.
July 18, 2025
“These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” That is the thing that is very important for us, I think, today to see. Something that a preacher has to keep in mind. It’s the high note. It is the ultimate aim of preaching, actually. It doesn’t mean that a preacher shouldn’t preach on conviction and sin, for he should. But through conviction and through repentance and through turning to God, there ought to be joy. That is the ultimate aim. And this is the thing that John says, “I’m writing that your joy might be full.” God wants His people to rejoice. God wants us to come into His presence with joy.
July 17, 2025
The Lord is good, and He’s “a stronghold in the day of trouble.” Are you having any trouble? Well, if you want to get to a good shelter, the Lord is that shelter. “And He knoweth those who trust in Him.” I’m very happy that I’m not going to get lost in the shuffle. I won’t get lost in the multitude. And I’m very happy that the Scripture says, “He knoweth those who trust in Him.” He doesn’t have to have an IBM machine to record your name. Actually, He’s got you written on His heart. He’s written your name on the palms of His hands. He knows you. He knows those who’ve trusted Him.
July 16, 2025
You remember the Psalmist said, “The Lord is good. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” And if the redeemed don’t say so, nobody’s going to say so. So, I’m going to say so: God is good. God is good, friend. That’s wonderful to know. I don’t know who you are, where you are, or how you are, but wherever you are God today loves you. And God wants to save you. And if you’re not saved just because you won’t come to Him because He can save you and He will save you. God is good. That’s an axiom of Scripture and it’s an axiom of life. The Lord is good.
July 15, 2025
Now the real test of the Christian life, you see, is not on the arena backed by applause. It’s not before the crowd in the coliseum. There were five million martyrs who bear testimony to the truth of the gospel in the first three centuries. They laid down their lives for Christ, but did you know that there were many more million than that who bear witness by the faithful lives they live each day? Nothing spectacular; nothing sensational. Nothing outstanding. They’re just living for God. They have a purpose, they have a direction, and they have a thrilling experience.
July 14, 2025
Now meekness does not necessarily mean weakness. Now Moses was considered a meek man, but you remember when he got up and talked to the children of Israel, he didn’t sound like a meek man according to our notion of meekness. He spoke right out. And you remember, the Lord Jesus was “meek and lowly,” but He went in and cleansed the temple. Nobody else speaks along these lines today as far as I know. And the thing that’s hurting our churches; somebody should speak out today and say, “Look, brothers, sit down. You’re spoiling things. You ought not to be trying to love the preeminence all the time. You should learn to be meek and let others speak out.
July 11, 2025
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” Now very frankly, he makes it very clear that he wants him to prosper, not only financially, not only materially, and this man apparently was a man of means. But he says, “I want you to prosper in your health and that you might prosper also in his soul.” That he might grow spiritually, you see. What health is to the body, holiness is to the spiritual life of the believer. Healthy spiritually—that is holiness, growing in grace and in the knowledge of Christ.
July 10, 2025
John and Paul are writing to people who lived in the Roman world. And in Paul’s day it was Bloody Nero, and in John’s day—for he saw one emperor after another rise that persecuted Christians, beginning with Titus. And the persecution was severe. And yet here are men and women in that Roman world—a brutal world, a cruel world pagan to the core—and yet here are men and women, and they are doing what? They’re walking after His commandments. They’re translating the gospel into life. That is the thing that is desperately needed today.
July 9, 2025
God will hear the prayers of His children. “And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” Now, that is a wonderful place to come to—to know that you and I have a heavenly Father, we’re in fellowship with Him, that we’re going to pray—not selfishly. Or if we regard sin in our lives or there could be other hindrances to prayer. But when we’re walking in fellowship with Him, we can be sure of one thing—that if we are following Him, that what we ask we can have confidence that He will hear and answer the prayer.
July 8, 2025
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About Dr. J. Vernon McGee
John Vernon McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1904. Dr. McGee remarked, "When I was born and the doctor gave me the customary whack, my mother said that I let out a yell that could be heard on all four borders of Texas!" His Creator well knew that he would need a powerful voice to deliver a powerful message.
After completing his education (including a Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary), he and his wife came west, settling in Pasadena, California. Dr. McGee's greatest pastorate was at the historic Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles, where he served from 1949 to 1970.
He began teaching Thru the Bible in 1967. After retiring from the pastorate, he set up radio headquarters in Pasadena, and the radio ministry expanded rapidly. Listeners never seem to tire of Dr. McGee's unique brand of rubber-meets-the-road teaching, or his passion for teaching the whole Word of God.
On the morning of December 1, 1988, Dr. McGee fell asleep in his chair and quietly passed into the presence of his Savior.
After completing his education (including a Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary), he and his wife came west, settling in Pasadena, California. Dr. McGee's greatest pastorate was at the historic Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles, where he served from 1949 to 1970.
He began teaching Thru the Bible in 1967. After retiring from the pastorate, he set up radio headquarters in Pasadena, and the radio ministry expanded rapidly. Listeners never seem to tire of Dr. McGee's unique brand of rubber-meets-the-road teaching, or his passion for teaching the whole Word of God.
On the morning of December 1, 1988, Dr. McGee fell asleep in his chair and quietly passed into the presence of his Savior.
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