“I want to do His will”
April 12, 2023
The problem—the great problem today is that a great many are trying to follow a few little rules and regulations. And again, let me say it, they’re programmed like an IBM computer. And they feel like if they run through all those little things and do them, everything will work out. My friend, you’re a human being. If you’re a child of God, you’ve got a new nature. And you've still got that old nature. But as Paul says, “I know within my flesh dwelleth no good thing.” But Paul says, “I want to do His will.” Is that the thing that’s in your heart and life?
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And I hear a great deal today about the word “commitment.” Do you want to commit your life to Christ? What do you mean by that? I hear that so much today. Well, let me tell you what it means here. Full commitment is to love Christ. And if you love Christ, He says that you’re going to keep His Word. You can’t help it. You want to please the person that you love. You don’t like to offend the person that you love; you want to please them. Now the question is not, “Are you committed?” but “Do you love Christ?” That’s the important thing today. Do you love Christ?
April 11, 2023
Now, the child of God wants to obey not only the commandments, but he wants to obey the Word of God. That is, he wants to please the Father in everything that he does. I get the impression from some Christians, the way they talk is this: "Well, how far can I go in my conduct and still be a Christian?" I never would answer them, because they’re asking the wrong question. What is the right question to ask? The right question is, “What can I do to please my heavenly Father? What can I do to please Christ?” You see, a child of God wants to please Him.
April 10, 2023
But my friend, there’s another face. That’s the face of Jesus Christ. And if we just behold Him. Oh, my friend, in this hour may I say this to you? I’m talking to many of you that are alone right now and we can just talk about this. Oh today, the thing that you and I need is to behold His face. It's to draw close to Jesus Christ. That’ll change you. Oh there’s so many of us so wrapped up in methods and activity and action, we’re just so busy. And we haven’t looked at Him recently. Let’s take a little time and look at Him.
April 7, 2023
Fellowship, you see—we’re in a family. That’s the thing that’s important today. I don’t care about these little rules that you’re following and you think that somehow or another that you are going to live the Christian life like that. My friend, God doesn’t want you to be a programmed computer. He’s not trying to make that out of you. You’re a human being with your own free will, but you’re a member of His family, and He wants to have fellowship with you. And I think we can talk to Him as we talk to no one else. If we are to have fellowship with the Father and enjoy it and have an assurance in our own heart, we must keep His commandments. Don’t say that we’re free do as we please. A Christian doesn’t do as he pleases; he does as Christ pleases.
April 6, 2023
The sincere child of God wants to please the Father. And he walks along with that in mind, as the Psalmist expressed it in Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts.” And every child of God wants, therefore, to please the Father. And thank God we have propitiation. Now that means Christ is really our mercy seat. He is the One. Friends, you see, Christianity today is not a ritual, it’s not a ceremony, it’s not a system, and it’s not even the church. Christianity is a Person, and that Person is Christ. He is our mercy seat. Now He’s a mercy seat for the whole world.
April 5, 2023
Now fellowship for a believer means that we meet and share the things of Christ. In fact, this Bible study we have together here each day, I trust is a fellowship with many of you. As we talk about the Lord Jesus and about His Word, we trust that you enter into it and that it becomes meaningful to you, and that you and I share the things of Christ. We can have fellowship one with another when we share the things of Christ and we can have fellowship with Him. And I think right now He’s listening in to us and that He’s watching you and me both. And He’s saying, “McGee, why don’t you do a better job than you’re doing?" I wish I could present Him in a more wonderful way because, friends, that’s one of His names. He’s wonderful.
April 4, 2023
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." And until you are ready to take that verse and put it at the first of the Bible and accept it, my friend, you’re not prepared to read very much farther in the Word of God. Because that’s where it all rests. Did God create this universe? Or is it a happenstance? And it’s almost ridiculous to think that it just happened, that this universe just came into existence. It is like Dr. Conklin said, to make a statement like that, that it just happened, is just as ridiculous to say that as it is to say that the dictionary came into existence because they had an explosion in a print shop. There is intelligence back of this universe that you and I live in.
April 3, 2023
“Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed who feareth the Lord.” You can’t get away from that. Thus, there’s that reverential fear of God. Obedience unto Him. The children know whether you love the Lord, whether you’re serving Him, whether you’re obeying Him, whether He’s important in your life. My friend, there’s no substitute for that. You never have a happy home until you get rightly related with God. And when you get rightly related with God, then it’ll be amazing how many of these other problems that they just fall into place and take care of themselves.
March 31, 2023
“Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.” What is it that makes a happy family? What’s the foundation? Oh, I know that there’s all kinds of conferences today for the family, the young family, and how they can adopt certain methods and adjust themselves to certain procedures. My friend, you can never have a happy home until there is the fear of the Lord in that home. And a home where they walk day by day in the home in the ways of the Lord. There must be the fear of the Lord.
March 30, 2023
And the very interesting thing is that many of the writers of the Talmud pointed it out. And the thing they pointed out was this: That their life is like this. We come to God as a sinner. We’re away from Him, separated from Him, alienated from Him. And then we come to Him, and as we come to Him in salvation, we come to Him in our sanctification, that we might grow in grace and the knowledge of Him. And so, it’s a constant “going up.” And we’re climbing a spiritual way. And, friends, you and I ought to be farther along today than we were last year, and we ought to recognize that.
March 29, 2023
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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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