How to approach God
February 14, 2024
My friend, you’re not going to rush into the presence of God. You can’t rush into His presence. He just doesn’t permit that. If you come to the Father through Christ, that’s the only way He can be approached today. And you never get in there because of who you are—you get in there because you’re in Christ. “No man cometh to the Father, but by Me.” The Lord Jesus made that very clear. And if we’re His child, we can come with boldness, but we come to a throne of grace. If you attempt to come to God today on any other basis than the grace of God that’s been extended to you in Christ, friend you won’t make it. He just doesn’t let you in on any other basis.
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I’d like to say that the church needs another vision of God. Not just of His love, but the fact that our God is a holy God, a righteous God, and He moves in judgment. And you know, He never asked me to apologize for Him. I don’t intend to apologize for Him. Take it or leave it. You can shut your eyes, put your head down in the sand like an ostrich is supposed to do, but every ostrich has got more sense than that. But, my friend, you can’t destroy what the Word of God says. God will punish sin. He says He will. But He loves you, friend. He’ll save you. But you know, you’ll have to come His way. And Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, but by Me.”
February 13, 2024
Now God today will not compromise with evil. And I thank Him for that—that He won’t compromise with evil in your life or my life. Because it’s evil and sin that has brought all the sorrow in this world. It’s the thing that puts the grey in the hair, the totter in the step, the stoop in the shoulder. And it is the thing today that breaks up homes. It breaks up lives. It fills our graves. I’m glad God won’t compromise with it. God says He hates sin and He intends to destroy it. He intends to remove it from His universe. And today our God is moving forth uncompromisingly, unhesitatingly, undeviatingly against sin, and He doesn’t intend to accept the white flag of surrender from it. He intends to drive it from his universe.
February 12, 2024
All you and I have to do is to look at our own lives and, when we do, we recognize that whatever’s come to us, God is righteous and just. Now if you don’t think so, you feel like, as I have felt many times, that God was being a little unfair to me and unjust. Then I became, well, I felt sorry for myself. I developed a complex of some sort that He was persecuting me. Sort of a spiritual paranoia. Many of us are like that. But, friends, I’ve come far enough in life, and I look back on those days when it was so dark and bleak, and I’m of the opinion that God permitted it because He was accomplishing a purpose in my life. And I praise Him today for it.
February 9, 2024
Very candidly, friend, when you look at your own life and that, are you ready to complain against God today? I know how I whined and howled when I got cancer. I felt like the Lord just was being unfair. Then I had the opportunity of lying alone on that hospital bed and looking at my own life. Friends, God wasn’t wrong. I was. I tell you—you and I need to face up to it. This idea today that we’re something special. God’s not going to do anything that’s unjust. He’s not going to do anything that’s wrong. You and I are wrong. God is not wrong.”
February 8, 2024
God’s people must be prepared to enter the kingdom. That brings up a very pertinent question, does it not, for you and me today. Are you fit today for heaven? Right now, suppose God took you to heaven as you are right now, would you be fit for heaven? I can’t answer it for you, but there’s going to have to be a great deal of repair work done on Vernon McGee to make him ready for heaven. And that is what life is all about. It’s just a school, preparing you for eternity. And the question is, it’s something for you to think about. Maybe in your odd moments, or when you’re lying on your bed at night, are you fit for heaven?
February 7, 2024
His message is, “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nose: for wherein he is to be accounted of?” Don’t put your confidence in man. Did you know you and I exhale, but we don’t know whether we’re going to inhale the next breath? That’s all man is today, just a little breath. He misses one breath, and he’s through. He’s out of the picture. And multitudes today—heart trouble hits them just in a moment, and they disappear from the earth’s scene. Don’t put your confidence in man. Put your confidence in Jesus Christ today.
February 6, 2024
God has been misrepresented in the sense that He loses His temper and that He breaks forth in judgment and flails away upon His people. That’s never the picture. The picture is that your sin is like a wick, and when you continue in sin, why the judgment comes of itself; that sin brings upon itself that judgment. And you remember the Lord Jesus made the statement in His day that the spark and the fire would come and destroy. It naturally followed. If you’re going to put the spark of sin, a fire will follow; or “Be not deceived; God is not mocked. Whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap.”
February 5, 2024
Today there’s a way out for America. But if America goes like other nations—and we’re moving in that direction—our time is limited as a great nation, by the way. There is a way out. Philosophy says: Think your way out. Indulgence says: Drink your way out. Politics says: Spend your way out. Liberalism says: Legislate your way out. Science says: Invent your way out. Industry says: Work your way out. And Labor says: Strike your way out. And Fascism says: Bluff your way out. And Militarism says: Fight your way out. The Bible says: Pray your way out. And the Lord Jesus Christ said, “I am the way out.” That’s the only hope of America today, friend.
February 2, 2024
I hope you find humor in the Bible. If you do, it will make it lots more interesting for you. And God has a sense of humor. I think that when we get in eternity and get past the time of sin on this earth, get past the program that God is working out and we’re there in eternity—you know, I think we’re sure going to have a good time. We’re going to have many laughs, and it’s going to be a hilarious situation, by the way. And it doesn’t hurt as you go through today as Christians to have the right kind of humor. And God has put a lot of it in the Bible; at least I find a lot of it in the Bible.
February 1, 2024
“When our Lord cried on the cross, “It is finished” [“Tetelestai”], my friend, it’s finished as far as your redemption and mine is concerned. You and I can add nothing to that whatsoever. Your redemption and mine was completed 1900 years ago, long before we got here. And when we arrived, all that we are asked to do is to accept and receive that. And after He died upon the cross, appeared for 40 days, He ascended. He sat down at God’s right hand. And the reason He sat down was because your redemption and my redemption was completed, and there’s nothing that can be added to our salvation.
January 31, 2024
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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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Thru the Bible International
A Través de la Biblia
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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