A wise man will hear
October 9, 2023
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel.” A wise man will hear—that’s been the characteristic of all great men, has been that they never reach the place where they felt like they had learned everything. I listened the other night to a young man on television. He’s skyrocketed to fame in rock music, and the thing that characterized him was his arrogance. He knows it all. I don’t think you could tell that young man anything. But a wise man will hear.
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We’re told in First Corinthians, the very first chapter, in verse 30, “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.” And wisdom is number one. Christ is the wisdom for the believer today. And we’d need to know wisdom, and to know wisdom is to know Jesus Christ. Paul said that was the ambition, “that I might know Him ….” That was the ambition of the life of Paul the apostle. Oh, that that might be the thing that would grip your soul and my soul today. Oh, how we need it. I need it. You need it, I’m sure.
October 6, 2023
Paul makes it very clear in the third chapter of Romans. He presents Christ as the propitiation, the mercy seat for our sins. And then he says “for the sins that are past.” And that doesn't mean our sins that are past, it means the sins before the Cross. When God saved Abraham, God saved Abraham on credit. That offering Abraham brought didn’t save him. It pointed to Christ. And when Christ died on the cross, He paid for everything that was past. That's what He meant when He said “it's finished”—for those that are past and for those of us that are future. And the trouble of it is with us future is we want to add something to it. He did it all.
October 5, 2023
God is drawing certain lines. He made a line of demarcation between light and darkness. There are no gray areas as far as God is concerned. It's either right or it's wrong. We today are living in a time when the church is traveling on “the high C's” today: confusion and compromise and comfort. And compromise is the big thing of the hour. God drew the line, and He's on that line of demarcation. He said, “One side is light, the other side is dark. One side is right, the other side is wrong.” And from that day to this, I think God's been drawing the line.
October 4, 2023
Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is a substance. Faith is evidence. And our salvation today doesn't rest upon make-believe. It rests upon the historical fact that Jesus Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, He rose again the third day. And there's evidence for that. Lord Lyndhurst, who was a great jurist in England, he made this statement. He says, “I think I know what evidence is, and there is more evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ than there is for any other critical historical incident in the history of the world.”
October 3, 2023
What works for one man won't work for another man. God wants to use each one of us in His own way. And that's the wonder and the glory of it is: There's nobody that can take your place in the world. And God created you to do something that you alone can do. Now, if you come along and try to imitate somebody else and don't do what God calls you to do, you see, it's going to be a vacuum at that particular point. That's how important you are. And we ought to recognize that and try to do the thing God would have us do.
October 2, 2023
When you come to Jesus Christ, you are brought not only into a body, but now you are brought into a place where you stand before God on a par with anybody. I could stand today with you and you stand today with me on equal footing. And therefore the point of separation for believers should never be color. It should never be a social status. It should never be on any basis at all because we’ve been made one in Christ. And I don’t care who you are. If you’re a believer in Christ, you and I are going to be together throughout eternity. And I don’t know why we shouldn’t speak to each other every now and then down here, friends.
September 29, 2023
Spurgeon says, “It’s not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it’s Christ. It’s not thy hope in Christ that saves thee; it’s Christ. It’s not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.” That’s where the power is and that’s where the salvation is. Now Paul’s not talking about faith when he says “and that, not of you.” Well God says “the gift.” He’s talking, rather, about salvation and salvation is a gift that eliminates boasting. Everything about it is God.
September 28, 2023
Now faith is the instrumental cause of salvation. It’s the only element that the sinner brings to the great transaction of faith. But we’re told it’s the gift of God. And now somebody’s going to say to me, “Well then, preacher, since it’s the gift of God and God hadn’t given it to me, then I guess I’m not to blame.” Oh, my friend, may I say to you? God’s made that very clear. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” My friend, if you want to trust Christ, you’ll have to listen to the Word of God. And God will give faith to all therefore who will give heed to the message of the gospel.
September 27, 2023
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it’s the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” Now this is the great verse that consummates this section in which he’s given to us, actually, the past, the present, and the future of the believer. We were dead in trespasses and sins, walking according to the course of the world. And now God, by His infinite, marvelous, wonderful grace has reached down and saved us. And then what a future we have. We’ll be on display revealing the grace of God.
September 26, 2023
God has His arms outstretched to a lost world and says, “If you’ll come My way.” And by the way this is His universe. He’s doing it His way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe. He does. This is His. He makes the rules. And you’re going to have to come His way. He loves you. Oh, you can’t keep Him from loving you. Now it’s what you can do, you can’t keep the sun from shining, but you can get out of the sunshine. And by sin today—by being out of the will of God, turning your back on Him—you won’t experience the love of God. But if you will come to Him through Christ, He will save you. God is rich in mercy.
September 25, 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.