Live for God today
December 16, 2024
“But I keep under my body … that I might not be rejected or cast out, but that I might be disapproved.” Paul says, “When I come into His presence, I don’t want to be disapproved. I don’t want the Lord Jesus to say to me, ‘You failed Me. Your life should have been a testimony; it’s not!’” And friends, you’re going to hear it if you don’t live for Him. Now somebody needs to say that, and I know that’s not popular. But, my friend, you’re going to stand before Him someday. And thank God, Paul could say when he came to the end of his life: “I finished my course. I have kept the faith. I know there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.” Oh, to live for God today.
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He says, “I am the vine, I am the genuine vine. You are branches.” Now you’re to do what? “Bear fruit”—you’re to bear fruit. Oh, today how careful we should be about our Christian lives. And we can’t do this in and of ourselves. We need to recognize that He is divine. If we’re to have any life, it must come from Him. And if there’s any fruit, it must come from Him. It can only go through us, because that’s all a branch is. It’s just sort of a connecting rod, that’s all. It connects into the vine, and it gets out yonder and bears some fruit, a few grapes out there. That’s the thing that He’s talking about here, friends.
December 13, 2024
“They shall never perish, and no one shall pluck them out of My hand. My Father, who hath given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.” Now it’s not, therefore, your ability to hold on to Him, but of His ability to hold onto you, my friend. Now He says here, with infinite wisdom and full authority of the Godhead, that He can hold us and that they who trust Him shall never perish. The question is: Is your hope fixed in God who is all powerful or in a god who may suffer defeat?
December 12, 2024
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Now can you mention anything he didn’t mention there? Can you mention anything then that would separate you from the love of Christ? May I say to you this takes in the whole kit and caboodle. Here we are given the guarantee that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing that is seen, nothing that’s unseen, nothing that’s natural, nothing that’s supernatural can separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ Jesus our Lord.
December 11, 2024
“Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works.” Let’s go on—let’s get moving, friends. Spiritually, let’s quit staying where we are today. All we do is marking time. Let’s go on. Let’s begin growing. May the Word of God grip our hearts. May it enter into our lives. May we be able to take it into the workshop, into the classroom, wherever go, wherever we move, into the home. Wherever we are, let’s be able to take the Word of God with us, friends.
December 10, 2024
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” We can speak freely to the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, I can tell Him things I can’t tell you. And He understands me. He knows my weakness, and I’ve learned to be very frank with Him. Not attempt to become buddy-buddy. He is God, and I come in worship and reverence to Him, but I’m free to speak because He’s also a man. He’s God, but He’s Man, and I come to Him. And I can come boldly—if you understand by that I can come with great freedom. I can tell Him what’s on my heart.
December 9, 2024
But He was tested; and, for that reason, He knows how we feel. We have a high priest that understands us, and He’s always available. He’s always there, and He understands us. He understands us not academically, but He is in the flesh, and down here He was tested. He was touched with the feeling of our infirmity. He knew what it was to weep. He knew what it was to hunger. He knew what it was to be touched with sorrow. Jesus wept. He was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but without sin.
December 6, 2024
“All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” You can’t conceal anything from Him. I labored under the delusion as a young Christian that I would not let God in on everything that was in my life. I’d pray that He’d give me certain things and do certain things, but I’d never let Him know the motive. But He knew it all the time. He is One that knows the thoughts of the heart, and everything is open to Him today! My friend, your life is an open book to Him. Somebody says, “You think we ought to confess everything to Him?” Well, why don’t you, my friend? He already knows. Just as well tell Him all about it. How wonderful this is.
December 5, 2024
I think that this is the supreme satisfaction that comes to a child of God, that he’s in the will of God, that he’s doing the work of God, and that he can trust God—that he can just rest in Him. That place that Mary came to. She sat at Jesus’ feet, and Martha’s back yonder in the kitchen with those pots and pans. She was really worn to a frazzle. But Mary had already done her work. And if we just learn to sit at Jesus’ feet, that satisfaction— “Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” And friends, the only thing in the world that can rob you of that rest is unbelief.
December 4, 2024
I wonder really when you begin to think this through, isn’t it a matter of conceit on our part to think that you and I as sinners could do something that would cause God to say, “Oh, my, what a nice little fellow you are. And I’m so happy to have you in heaven, because you are sure going to add a great deal to it.” Why, my friends, that’s not the picture at all. He did it all for us, you see. Because even our righteousness is filthy rags in His sight. He can’t accept our righteousness because we don’t have any. “There are none righteous; no, not one.” And, therefore, He offers a finished salvation to you. And when you trust Christ, you become a new creation in Christ Jesus.
December 3, 2024
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, today, after so long a time; as is said, today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” Now, he’s saying, “not tomorrow, but today.” And today is today for you and me. Back yonder, it was another day for these folks that the writer here is addressing. But, my friend, today—right now, wherever you are, look at your watch or clock. What time is it? Well, this is the time of salvation. This is now. Now! Right now you can trust Christ as your Savior. “Today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” What a wonderful thing!
December 2, 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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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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