Get rid of religion
January 22, 2024
If you’ve got religion, I suggest you get rid of it and exchange it for Christ. Now I personally do not think you can call Christianity a religion. There’s no ritual given, none whatsoever, with Christianity. Have you ever stopped to think that? That’s the reason that you can have all kinds of churches. You can sing the doxology if you want to. There’s nothing wrong with it and there’s nothing particularly right about it, either. Because you are never given a form to go by. Why? Because Christianity is a person, and you either have Christ or you don’t have Christ. You either trust Christ or you don’t trust Christ.
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“I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” It will always inflate an individual like a balloon if he feels like he’s a little smarter or better educated than those that are around him. But education has to fall back on experience and experience is something you cannot trust. It has to be tested by the Word of God. The thing today is that a great many people are testing the Word of God by their experience. My friend, you need to test your experience by the Word of God and see if it will stand up and under it.
January 19, 2024
The Word of God contains for the Christian today the answer to the problems of life. And it doesn’t come about through some little pious and sugar-coated Bible pill that it is given out and it has psychological and philosophical implications. That’s not the solution. Some men are doing pretty well financially themselves with it. And I say this kindly to you, why don’t you get back to the Bible? Why don’t you come to it today? There’s no easy solution to the problems of life, and studying the Word of God requires a great deal of I would say “mental perspiration.” It’s needed today, and it’s needed today in the church.
January 18, 2024
Now let me ask you a question. Are you really thankful to God today? Now yesterday did you thank Him for anything? You got anything that you thanked Him for? My, there’s so much that we can thank God for—there’s always something you can thank Him for, and you can be grateful for. Did you really thank Him yesterday for something? Or did you grumble? May I say to you that we’re told “in everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
January 17, 2024
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.” And a great many people think, “Let your speech be salt.” They really sting you with, you know, little sarcastic remarks. But it means “always, with grace, seasoned with salt.” In other words, a child of God should have a conversation that deters evil, not promotes it. Should withhold it, you see. And I think it also has in it the idea, don’t be boring as a Christian. Oh, the Lord forgive us for being boring as Christians. We ought to be excited about all this. “That ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
January 16, 2024
“Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.” Now that simply means that you’re not going to have to report to your boss maybe. When his back is turned, he doesn’t see that you’re loafing on the job. He doesn’t see that you’re not really giving him a full day’s work. But the Lord Jesus does. And you’re going to answer to Him because, see, you are in Him and you belong to Him. And therefore, you have to give an account of your life to Him. And since we represent Him down here upon the earth, He’s going to ask that His representative be found faithful, you see.
January 15, 2024
Paul could reduce his life down to just one goal. The one thing had top priority in his life. “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth for those things which are before; I press toward the mark of the prize of a high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” You see, he had his eye and his mind and his heart and his total affections fixed upon Jesus Christ. Now that reduces life down to the lowest common denominator and gives us the highest answer that you can get. And, of course, that answer is Christ Himself.
January 12, 2024
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.” Now that doesn’t mean that we become a doormat, but it does mean that when we have a complaint we’re to go to the individual and try to work the matter out. And there are a great many that you can’t, of course. Our Lord denounced the Pharisees, and there was no thought there—any thought at all of forgiveness. And there are people that you and I just can’t get along with. But we are to forgive one another, even as Christ forgave us.
January 11, 2024
Have you ever walked on a mountainside or walked by the seashore and you could just look up and say, “You’re my Lord. The Creator, the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus, you’re my Lord.” Have you ever told Him that? I’ve got a little grandson and you can’t imagine what it means to an old man to have him crawl up in your lap and put his arms around you and tell you that, “You’re my grandpa.” And I have a Heavenly Father and, I’m of the opinion that He likes for us and our Savior likes for us some time to come to Him and tell Him, “You’re my Lord.”
January 10, 2024
“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” It was Lord Lyndhurst who made this statement, “I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.” The historical fact of the resurrection of Christ is that you and I, when He died, He took your place and my place. When He was raised, we were raised in Him and we’re joined today to a living Christ. Oh, my friend, how important that is for us to see today—that we’re joined to a living Savior.
January 9, 2024
Need help today? You need a partner today? I want to recommend one to you. He’ll never desert you. Never leave you nor forsake you. And He says, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end.” You may desert Vernon McGee but He never will. And that’s the reason I depend on Him more than I depend on you, my friend. And that’s the reason you ought to depend on Him instead of depending on me. Oh, that there might be praise in your mouth and in my mouth, and your life and my life, and your heart and my heart today. Praise to God.
January 8, 2024
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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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