Love God, love His Word
July 19, 2024
We've asked the question time and again, do you love the person of Christ? Maybe I ought to go back of that. Do you love the Word of God? You would never love Him unless you love the Word of God. And my feeling today, it's not really the attitude toward the book, when you get it down to the final analysis. One seminary professor said to me some time ago, he says, "What theory of inspiration do you hold?" Well, I said to him, “The theory I hold is no theory at all. I love the book.” You have to love the Word of God before it will ever become meaningful to you. Then the Word of God reveals a person, and then you fall in love with Him.
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I believe that when God calls you to do a job, He'll give you the power to do that job. In fact, I think God's work can only be done with the power of God. If you recognize you can't do it, that's the best position you can come to. Moses, you remember, finally came to the position after forty years in the wilderness, he couldn't deliver the people. Now God says, “I can do it through you,” and God called him to do it, and he was able to do it. And I think that today it’s so practical that it works in the ministry, it works in the pew, it works in the mission field today. Therefore, the important thing is to make sure that we're called of God to do the thing.
July 18, 2024
This is what God would say to you and to me right now. He says, “Preach the Word.” And the word “preach the Word” means to herald it, to give it out, to proclaim the Word of God. This is very important. It's sort of a rallying cry. It is sort of like a motto. It's like that which people respond to. This is a rallying cry to you today, friends, and to me. Herald the Word, give out the Word of God. And the expression I have adopted and many of you are giving it back to me is, “Let's get out the Word.” And that's exactly what Paul is saying here: “Preach the Word.”
July 17, 2024
How do you know it's the Word of God? Because you can prove it's true. How do you prove it's true? He says here that the Word of God is profitable, and here's what it will do. I have right here on my desk, right now, about five hundred letters. I know what it'll do, and I have those around me today and they are willing to testify. I believe that the Word of God is as much a fact and you can prove it as much as you can prove any problem of geometry or any scientific fact today. This is what the Word of God will do. I tell you, this book gets right down where the rubber meets the road. It walks in shoe leather today, and that's the proof of it. And that's the thing that makes me know it's the Word of God.
July 16, 2024
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it’s profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, (‘thoroughly’ is the word) thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” Will you look at that for just a moment here, because this is important for us to understand. It is good for doctrine, that is, for teaching. The Bible is to be taught, and it's good for reproof. That's conviction. And if the Spirit of God is working, it'll bring conviction to our hearts. That's the way you can test whether the Word of God is moving in your life. Now it's for correction, that is, setting things right in your life—the Word of God is to discipline us.
July 15, 2024
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” And that word “inspiration” means “God-breathed.” These men, actually, they were not pens that the Lord picked up and wrote with them. But the marvel of it is that He used these men's personality, expressed things in their thought patterns, and yet He got through exactly what He wanted to say. And God has given us His Word and He hasn't any more to say to us. If God opened heaven and spoke out of heaven today, He wouldn't add anything to what He's already said, friend. He has said it, and He hasn't any more to say to us.
July 12, 2024
I believe that we're moved into an orbit today where you are going to be persecuted for your faith. I think that we may be able to, in the days that are ahead, see the separation of the men and the boys, those who are really standing for Jesus Christ and those who are not. And I think this is something that every believer should take an inventory of his life. How far am I willing to go for Jesus Christ? What would I really be willing to give up? Rather heart searching, isn't it? I'm very sorry to have to say to you, I don't come up with too good an answer, but I do want to serve Him, and I love Him. And I'd like to say to Him, I hope He'll give me grace to bear if and when the time comes.
July 11, 2024
“Be strong in the grace that’s in Christ Jesus.” My friend, if you think today that you can grit your teeth and go out and do it on your own, you are in for grave disappointment. If you feel that somehow or another, you can follow a few little rules—“If you do this—first one, this one, then the next one—everything's going to work out alright.” Well don't you detect that that's just another legal system that's being given to you today? Paul has no rules, and the Word of God has no rules today for the child of God, actually, to live the Christian life. We are saved by grace. We're to live by the grace of God and be strong in that grace of God.
July 10, 2024
God did not eliminate physical death but spiritual death, eternal death—that is, eternal separation from God. Now Christ has abolished that, so that no sinner need go to a place where you'll be eternally separated from God. Because today He's the Mediator, one Mediator between God and man. You can be reconciled to God; God's reconciled to you. Man cannot be saved by perfect obedience, he cannot render it, he cannot be saved by imperfect obedience because God will not accept it. And that leaves only one solution to the dilemma, and that is the one who said, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.”
July 9, 2024
How do you accept a promise? Well, you do it by faith—the only way you can accept eternal life. He offers it to you. It's a gift, and the gift is something you have to believe in the giver—not in the gift, but the giver. The Lord Jesus gives you eternal life when you trust Him as Savior because He paid the penalty of your sin. He today can offer you heaven on the basis of your faith, your trust in Him. You honor Him when you believe Him and you come His way. And therefore, the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus, makes it clear. This is the only place you can get it, friends, and it's through Christ.
July 8, 2024
When the real gospel is preached and men come to Christ, we're all brothers. So you don't need all this talk about better race relations. You can't create it by forcing people together. Only the gospel of the grace of God makes a man a brother of mine, and when he does, doesn't make much difference about his skin at all. That's not the important thing. Then we need to recognize as Martin Luther put it, “God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.” And that is the message that should go out and the only message that can affect a sin-sick world at the present time.
July 5, 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.