He has the answers
April 3, 2024
Quite interesting, you know, how you can spend your life down here. And you may have your Ph.D. degree and still you don’t know anything. Don’t know anything about the origin of this universe, or you don’t know where it’s going. Now, no idol can tell you that, and no Ph.D. Degree can give you that answer; no college today can give that to you. It’s well to turn to the One who does have the answer. And it doesn’t mean He’ll give you the answer, but it’s nice to know Him who knows the answer. Now there are so many things that I don’t know. But I want to say this to you, I know the One who does know.
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You may think you’re something, but you’re a nobody. We’re a nobody. It’s only God that can make us a somebody. Little man frets down here and “struts across the stage of life,” as Shakespeare put it. And he huffs and puffs like the old wolf around the little pig’s house. Huffing and puffing, that’s man today. And where is he going and what is he getting out of it? And some of them see the futility of it all and take their own lives. Well, where else are they going to turn, friend? The only place you can turn today is God, and what men are missing today. The fellowship. The salvation. His goodness. His grace. All these are yours if you but turn to Him.
April 2, 2024
As you trusted Christ, the Holy Spirit did several wonderful things for you, and one of those things was He regenerated you. He made you a child of God. He also indwells you. Then you’re baptized by the Holy Spirit, put in the body of believers, the church. You’ve been put in as a member of that body, and you’re in Christ. Paul says “in Him,” that is, in Christ, “dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him.” How wonderful this is. So that, when you come to Christ, you get everything.
April 1, 2024
The preacher he got up and he said, “Brethren,” he says, “this church, it needs to walk.” And one of the deacons said, “Amen.” He says, “Brethren, this church needs to run.” And this deacon says, “Hallelujah.” And then he says, “Brethren, this church needs to fly.” And this deacon he said, “Amen and hallelujah.” And then the minister said, “But it’s going to cost money to make this church fly.” And then this deacon says, “Let her walk, brother, let her walk.” And today, if you’re going to walk with God through this earth, it’ll probably cost you something. But He’ll furnish your strength. You need strength to walk? He’ll give it to you. If you need strength to fly, He’s got that for you also.
March 29, 2024
“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” God knows about the difficulties and problems of those that are His own. And friend, if you belong to Him, He’s able to quiet the storms of life for you. And somebody says, “Well, I’m in a storm and He hasn’t quieted it.” Well, then, instead of sitting down and weeping or beginning to criticize God, why not begin to look around and find out what the lesson is He wants you to learn in the storm. God would not let you go through it unless there was a lesson there for you to learn.
March 28, 2024
“O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up to the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.” And the “good tidings,” of course, is the gospel. What is it? “Behold your God.” And my friend, until you see that Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh, you haven’t seen anything yet. Immanuel, God with us. And because of that, His name’s Jesus. That’s His human name. And if He’s just a human, He’s not my Savior—but since He’s Immanuel, He is Jesus. He is my Savior.
March 27, 2024
“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.” Now we come here to where man is compared to the grass of the field. And the question is: Where can there be comfort in this? “This is not comfort,” you say. Yes, it is. You see, man is faint and frail and feeble, but the Word of God is what’s strong and sure and secure. And that’s our hiding place. That’s our foundation that we rest on. That’s our sword and our buckler. That’s our high tower. That’s our protection. That’s our security. That’s our salvation.
March 26, 2024
The heathen, in all their religions, they bring an offering to God to appease Him, and that’s what propitiation means. You’ve got to do something to win Him over. But the thing is that the sin of man has alienated man from God, but you see it’s God who did something. And today God is propitious. You don’t have to do anything to win Him over. And propitiation is toward God and reconciliation is toward us. God has done everything that needs to be done. And today, we’re asked to be reconciled to God; not to bring something to win Him over. God’s already won over. That’s what Jesus did for us on the cross.
March 25, 2024
The Lord Jesus put it like this in John 16:23-24: “And in that day (and that’s this day) ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father, in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive and your joy may be full.” Now, we can go to God in the name of Christ today—to our Heavenly Father with our prayer. And if it’s His will, if it pleases the Lord Jesus, if it’s in His name, “Thy will be done.” It means that it’s to please Him.
March 22, 2024
Now today moral values are gone. That’s our problem, actually, today in this country. For years there’s been taught in our schools the evolutionary theory, which makes man an animal. And no moral values are taught. Now if you talk today as I do about law and order and about a high state of morality, somehow or another you’re not as smart and, therefore, we should not listen to that which is old-time stuff. Well, may I say to you that the old-time stuff is going to be the future stuff. And that will be a King reigning in righteousness. And then moral values will come back into place.
March 21, 2024
“A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” Now He’s not only King, you see. He’s a Savior King. He bore the winds and the tempest of the judgment of sin for us. And He’s a Rock for our protection today. And He was set before us, you remember, back in Isaiah 26:4 as the Rock of Ages. And this is another aspect of His ministry under the figure of the Rock. He is a place of hiding today.
March 20, 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.