Walk in the Spirit
August 15, 2023
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.” Now that’s a very wonderful statement. To begin, if you’ll notice, what does it mean to be a Christian? And I don’t like the word “commitment” today at all. Well, what does it really mean to be saved? It means to receive a person, and that person is Jesus Christ. Listen to Paul: “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.” Now that you’ve received Him, now walk in Him. And that, my friend, is a very wonderful thing—that’s what it means to walk in the Spirit, you see, today. Learn to walk through this life.
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We have a wonderful Savior today. And today the throne of God is not a throne of judgment; it’s a throne of grace. God doesn’t want to hurt you. He’s got His arms outstretched to a lost world. God is saying, “Come. But you’ll have to come My way. You’ll have to believe Me.” “…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved…” and “…there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” This is the decree that’s come out today from a wonderful God, and it’s come out actually to a lost world. And what a wonderful decree it is.
August 14, 2023
And I have a Savior today; He’s despised in this world. They’re saying a lot of dirty, blasphemous things about Him today. But my friends, He is King of Kings; He’s Lord of Lords. He is the lily of the valley. He’s the one altogether lovely. And someday, He’s coming. And we ought to get in practice of bending our knees to Him and adoring Him and praising Him. It’s very important. He ought to become sweeter every day. Do you, today, rejoice more as a Christian than you did last year or ten years ago? Oh, I thank God that I’m a happier Christian than I was ten years ago. How wonderful it is.
August 11, 2023
Now he says, “Whom we preach, warning every man….” Now the gospel is not “what” we preach, it’s “whom” we preach. No man has ever preached the gospel that hasn’t preached Christ. You see, Christ is the gospel. He’s eternal life, John said. John says, “We’re going to make known to you this eternal life. We’ve seen eternal life.” Well, who’d he see? Christ! And my friend, today you either have Him or you don’t have Him. The gospel is Christ. It’s what He has done for us in His death, His resurrection, and what He’s going to do in the future.
August 10, 2023
He says, “Enter ye in at the strait gate. Wide is the gate, broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” And the wide, broad way is like a funnel but you come in at the big end, but it gets narrower and narrower and finally leads to death. But the narrow way, you come in by Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life, and it just keeps leading out. You come in the other end of the funnel, and it just gets broader and broader. He came that we might have life, might have it more abundantly. What a picture of the happy man.
August 9, 2023
When I was a student pastor in a little, unpainted, suppose-to-be white church, and I remember one morning after I’d finished preaching, there was a country boy there, waiting. And after everybody had left, he came up to me, tears came down his eyes. And he shook hands and he says, “I didn’t know Jesus was so wonderful!” Then he wanted to say something else, and he couldn’t say it; he choked up. He turned and walked and started across the cotton patch right by the church. And I stood there and watched him. I said, “Oh, God, I want to preach so people will think that Jesus is wonderful.”
August 8, 2023
You see, God today is not a disagreeable neighbor that’s waiting around the corner to pounce on you and to find fault with you. God has His arms outstretched, and He’s saying to the sinner, He says, “Come, and I’ll give you redemption rest.” And now He goes on to say something else here that’s very important. “Having made peace through the blood of his cross….” And you see, when God forgives it’s always because the penalty has been paid. God never forgives until the penalty has been paid. The penalty’s been paid for your sins; therefore, God can forgive you.
August 7, 2023
“For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.” And that’s one of the important words that you have in this epistle. He was God when He came to this earth. And in Him “all fullness dwelt.” He was 100% God down here. He wasn’t 99.44% God—100%. And that little baby that was lying yonder 1900 years ago on the bosom of Mary and seemed so helpless, He could have spoken this universe out of existence. He is man of very man; He is God of very God! That’s who He is.
August 4, 2023
And then we have this statement: “…that in all things he might have the preeminence.” And this is, may I say, a very wonderful statement. The will of Christ must prevail throughout all of God’s creation. That’s God’s intention. Even in spite of the rebellion of man down here, God says, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” God is moving forward today—undeviatingly, unhesitatingly, uncompromising—toward one goal, and that is to put Jesus on the throne of this little world on which you and I live.
August 3, 2023
Did you know there’s only one man raised in a glorified body today? He’s “the firstfruits of them that sleep.” And so, when you put a loved one that’s in Christ, put that body in the grave, you’re just putting it in a motel—like putting it in a hotel for just a few days. Because there’s coming one bright morning! The body is put to sleep; the individual’s gone to be with the Lord! What a picture we have. And then when He comes to take His church out of this world, then, my friend, that body’s going to be raised. It’s sown in corruption, raised in incorruption! And we receive a new body. Oh, He’s wonderful!
August 2, 2023
Have you ever stopped to think of the power that’s tied up in this vast physical universe? Who’s holding this thing together? He not only created it, but He holds it together. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one that does this. “…By him all things consist!” And you have that, by the way, again back here in Hebrews 1:3. “Who being the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power—He holds everything together—when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” He’s a wonderful Person, isn’t He? He’s a glorious Person!
August 1, 2023
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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.