To know Him
March 28, 2025
“Epiguōsis” means “a super knowledge.” It means a knowledge that comes by the Holy Spirit, taking the things of Christ and making them real to us. I believe that you can know Jesus Christ better than you can know your closest loved one. I believe that you can know Him so that you can go to Him and tell Him things that you wouldn’t even dare tell your closest loved one. You can talk to Him. May I say to you, to know Him is life eternal. That’s the important thing. Now that comes through a birth—“born again,” as Peter says, “not with corruptible seed, but incorruptible of the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever.”
References:
2 Peter 1:1-4
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My friend, if you’re not a believer today, don’t say you’ve got some mental reservations. You don’t have any. You’ve got some sinful reservations. It’s when the heart will turn, then God will lift the veil. Anytime you are ready, God’s ready, and He will save you. And I believe that today it’s “whosoever will may come” and that “God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth”—and that’s all He asks you to do; doesn’t even ask you to clean up when you come to Him, but He’ll clean you up if you really mean business with Him and come to Him.
March 27, 2025
A proud person will not be able to experience the grace of God. It’s only when you and I come in humility. And we’re to be clothed with it, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” And that is anxiety. “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden; I’ll rest you.” Bring your burden of sin to Him, and He’ll save you. Then come to Him later on, and He will meet you and help you with your problems. “Cast your care upon him.” We’re to worry about nothing, Paul said to the Philippians, but pray about everything. That is, take it to the Lord in prayer and leave it there. Don’t pick it up again.
March 26, 2025
I found seventeen separate words in the Old Testament that were translated by the word “glory.” What is glory? And I have a notion that the average Christian would just have about the foggiest notion about this thing. Well, I found out that glory does have a shape and size. Listen to this: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” The size of this universe that they already know about is staggering, and I think we’ve never even gotten out of the front yard of God’s vast universe, it’s so great. That’s glory. The greatness of our God.
March 25, 2025
“Commit the keeping of their souls to him.” Have you really trusted Him? I’m sure that many of you have a safety deposit box, and in that safety deposit box you keep your valuables. And you go to sleep at night and you don’t worry about it at all. And friends, I went to sleep last night, and I didn’t worry about Vernon McGee’s soul. I’ve made my deposit with Him, and I trust Him today. Have you made a deposit with Him? If you’ve done that, even when trouble comes to you and the dark day comes and you’re called to go down through the valley, may I say to you, you can do it knowing that He’ll take care of you.
March 24, 2025
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” Now, they’re to rejoice in what? The fiery trial which is to test you. And it’s going to be normal Christian experience, by the way. Someone has put it this way: “God hath not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God hath promised strength from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.” And that is a very lovely way of expressing it.
March 21, 2025
My friend, I don’t think you can go on in sin if you’re a child of God. You’ve got the nature of Christ. You’re joined to Him. He’s suffering no more. He suffered down here once. But He can help you—He sent the Holy Spirit down to indwell, and we’ve been baptized in the body of believers as Peter has pointed out to us. And now, by being filled with the Holy Spirit, we can live for God, and we can’t do it in our own strength. And he says here, “Who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.” Now the Lord Jesus is going to judge someday, and the believer knows that he’s to come up before the judgment seat of Christ.
March 20, 2025
A child of God with a new nature longs to please Christ in all things. And if you don’t, friends, something is radically wrong. And that’s the reason that I believe the study of the Word of God is essential today. It takes the total Word of God today. Not just a few little verses and draw out some little legalistic system by which you attempt to live and if you’ll follow that, why you’ll be able to live the Christian life. You cannot live the Christian life by following rules. You can only live the Christian life by having the mind of Christ and by having the Spirit of God moving in you.
March 19, 2025
“Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts….” Oh, do you have a little sanctuary—a little chapel in your own heart today? Where, when you’re riding along in the car or you’re walking down the street or you’re in the shop or the office or in the schoolroom, the classroom, there is a little chapel there. There is a little sanctuary there where you can withdraw and where you can sanctify the Lord God in your heart so that those outside will know, my friend, that you belong to Him? Because we as individuals need to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts.
March 18, 2025
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” Now the child of God here is to publish His praises. In what way? You show forth His praises by not manifesting the works of the flesh. Then he says: “Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.” May our lives reflect something of this glorious, wonderful gospel.
March 17, 2025
“We are the people and the sheep of Thy pasture, who in time past were not a people”—we didn’t belong to God; we were far from Him—“but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” And, friends, there’s one gift that you don’t want to miss. And the title of that gift, the name written on the box, is “mercy.” And it’s a big box. God, He’s rich in mercy; an abundant mercy. And if you need any today, you can go to Him and He’s merciful. He wants to save you. He wants to help you. He wants to lift you up. How wonderful it is.
March 14, 2025
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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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