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April 10, 2025
Oh, my friend today, regardless of the position of the body, we need to pray today. And regardless of the position of the body, our hearts and lives should be on their knees before Him. In fact, we should be down on our faces before Him. Salvation today is determined by this posture of the soul. The epistle to the Romans that presents justification by faith and says that no sinner can even wiggle a finger and contribute to his salvation—that it’s all of God, that He does it all. But when you’re willing to come and there receive what He has to offer, God can and will save you.
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I’ve learned that that’s a wonderful lesson as far as God’s concerned. If you start running away from Him and get on the end of the switch, it's going to hurt. When God starts disciplining you or letting you suffer, start moving toward Him and it won’t hurt. When the children of Israel were going through the wilderness, they came to the bitter waters, but they put in those waters a tree, and it made them sweet. That tree is the cross. You can trust this wonderful Savior. He says: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden; I will rest you.” Do you know what it is to bring your burdens, your sorrows, and your sufferings to Him?
April 9, 2025
You and I are dealing with a Savior and with a God that will never throw you overboard. Have you ever noticed those that have been His that He’s never thrown overboard? He never threw Jacob overboard. He should have, but He didn’t. And Jonah? May I say to you tonight, friends, He’ll not throw you overboard. He didn’t throw Simon Peter, the man who denied Him—the man who three times in one night and one time with an oath said, “I don’t even know Him.” The Lord said, “I pray that your faith fail not.” He’ll never throw you overboard.
April 8, 2025
“Wherefore, beloved, seeing that we look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” In other words, we’re to live a holy life down here. That means a life separated unto God. And, friends, after all, what is really worthwhile in this earth today? What are your goals? Are you a productive Christian today, moving to a worthwhile goal? Well, somebody says, “I’m going to raise my family.” That’s worthwhile. Somebody says, “I want to make a good living for my family and educate my children.” That’s worthwhile. These things are worthwhile. But really, what is the object of your life? Is it to live for God? And if you live for God today, all of these secondary issues, I believe, will take care of themselves.
April 7, 2025
Now, you know you can’t keep God from loving you. You can’t keep God from loving you, but you can put up an umbrella of indifference, an umbrella of sin, an umbrella of rebellion, and you won’t experience it, but He loves you. May I say to you, friends, you can turn your back on him. You can blaspheme Him. You can treat Him anyway, but you cannot keep Him from wanting to save you. You can’t keep Him from loving you. For He provided a Savior; gave His Son to die, and Jesus today wants to save you. He wants to. And He will save you if you’ll turn to Him and receive the salvation that He offers in Jesus Christ.
April 4, 2025
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; He is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” Now, He’s longsuffering, and He’s not rushing things. After all, He’s got eternity ahead of Him. He’s had eternity back of Him. He doesn’t need to worry about time. A thousand years, one day; one day is a thousand years. But the thing is, it’s inevitable. It is coming. It will descend upon the earth someday. And now God is giving men everywhere an opportunity. And that’s the reason we want to get the Word out. It’s the only thing that can change hearts and lives.
April 3, 2025
You see the Word of God is not only divine and not only deity, but it is also human; very human. It’s like the Lord Jesus—He was both God and man. And the Bible is a God-book and it’s a man-book. It deals right down here with the human life and gets right down to the nitty-gritty, right down here where you and I live and move and have our being. But yet it is God speaking to man in a language that he can understand. And it’s the only supernatural thing today that we have in this world that is tangible. This is the only physical miracle that we have today from God is the Word of God.
April 2, 2025
There is another word that’s gotten lost today in the shuffle, and it means just exactly what it says. “Like God.” It means a desire to be like your Father. You’re born again now into the family of God. You want to be like your Father, God-likeness. And that doesn’t mean that you’re like God, but it does mean that that’s the desire and aim of your life. What is the goal of your life today? Is it to live for God? And to have these things developed in your life? Godliness? It’s a good word, and it’s a wonderful goal for a child of God.
April 1, 2025
You “might be partakers of the divine nature.“ That is, you might be a Son of God. What a tremendous truth this is. This is something that’s overwhelming. When you’re born again, you’re given the nature of God, friend. You long for the things of God. Don’t tell me that the Christian life is a series of little do’s and don’ts today, and if you don’t do this and you don’t do that, you’re living the Christian life. My friend, you’re a partaker of the divine nature, and you want the things of God. That’s the thing that’s important.
March 31, 2025
“Epiguōsis” means “a super knowledge.” It means a knowledge that comes by the Holy Spirit, taking the things of Christ and making them real to us. I believe that you can know Jesus Christ better than you can know your closest loved one. I believe that you can know Him so that you can go to Him and tell Him things that you wouldn’t even dare tell your closest loved one. You can talk to Him. May I say to you, to know Him is life eternal. That’s the important thing. Now that comes through a birth—“born again,” as Peter says, “not with corruptible seed, but incorruptible of the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever.”
March 28, 2025
My friend, if you’re not a believer today, don’t say you’ve got some mental reservations. You don’t have any. You’ve got some sinful reservations. It’s when the heart will turn, then God will lift the veil. Anytime you are ready, God’s ready, and He will save you. And I believe that today it’s “whosoever will may come” and that “God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth”—and that’s all He asks you to do; doesn’t even ask you to clean up when you come to Him, but He’ll clean you up if you really mean business with Him and come to Him.
March 27, 2025
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Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.
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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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