The other side of the storms | Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee with Dr. J. Vernon McGee (2024)

“In the world, ye shall have trouble … but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Be of good cheer in trouble? Yes. My friend, many of God’s children are learning and knowing what trouble is. He didn’t say that we would miss the storms. Fact of the matter is He said we would go through the storms, all the storms of life. The thing He did say very definitely and dogmatically, He said we were going to make the harbor. Because any little boat that He’s onboard isn’t going to the bottom of the Sea of Galilee, it’s going to the other side. And we’re in the process of going to the other side.

May 27, 2024

“Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” If you have experienced the grace of God, that means you’ve been saved. For it is by grace are we saved. And you have come as a lost sinner, bringing nothing to God, and receiving everything from Him, then you’ve experienced the grace of God. He offers you salvation. The gift of God is eternal life, and you can’t work for a gift. If you do, it ceases to be a gift and it’s something you work for; it’s a payment. God is offering you¬—a lost, hell-doomed sinner—a salvation if you trust Him, and that’s grace.

May 24, 2024

Every person preaches by his life some message. You’re saying something to somebody by the life that you live. And you can’t help it. Maybe a child in your home. And that’s one of the reasons that we’ve got a lot of young kids out on the highways and byways and streets and alleys of this world today is they looked at mama and dad at home, and they didn’t like what they saw. And they took to the highway. Oh, my friend, may I say to you, the greatest sermon you’ll ever preach, and I’ll ever preach, is by the life that we live.

May 23, 2024

The Holy Spirit today is in the world, and He alone can convict. And, therefore, I want the Word of God here to go out—not just in word only—and I want it go out like that, the fact of the Word. That’s important. But it needs no embellishment. It just needs to be given out, and it needs to communicate meaningfully to the hearts and lives. If you’re an unsaved person and if you’ll listen, friend, Jesus Christ can transform your heart and life, change you from an unbeliever and a lost sinner to become a son of God. And friends, that’s the greatest miracle that can take place this day, and there’s nothing quite like it.

May 22, 2024

I accept the Word of God as the inerrant Word of God and that it is God speaking to us. Now that doesn’t end it. I go farther than that. I believe that when the Spirit of God will take this Word of God here that it can reach into your heart and my heart, into your life and my life, and that it can transform it. And that people are born again. Not by the weakness of the human flesh, “but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” And that the Spirit of God can take the Word of God and make it real to you.

May 21, 2024

“Knowing, brethren, beloved, your election of God.” Now maybe you don’t like it, but that’s the way it happened. And God’s running this universe. Instead of getting a little placard and starting around and protesting today, why don’t you fall down on your face before Him and thank Him that He even brought you into existence. That He’s given the opportunity as a free moral agent to make a decision for Him. And His invitation still goes out: “If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink.” I think God is holding out for this lost world today a salvation, and He’s saying to men and women, “Take it or leave it.” And that’s where your freedom comes in. You will either choose Him or you’ll reject Him. You’ve got to do one or the other.

May 20, 2024

God is no tyrant. God is righteous. God is just. God is holy. And everything that God does, it’s right. Now you may not think so—and I have news for you. If you do not think God is right in what He’s doing today and that He’s not following the best plan, the news I’ve got for you is you are wrong. God is not wrong. You are wrong. And you are the person that needs to get your thinking correct, because if you don’t, you’re out of step with the universe. This universe exists for Him, for His glory, for His purpose.

May 17, 2024

May I say to you today, God is the Creator, and this universe exists for His glory. He is God! And He doesn’t look to anybody for advice. He’s running this universe for His own purpose. He’s directing it for His own glory. And you and I live in a universe today that, actually, is theocentric—that means God-centered. It is not anthropocentric, man-centered. That today it is not geocentric; that is, earth-centered. But it is uranocentric; that is, it is heaven-centered. Now today, this is God’s universe, and He’s running it His way.

May 16, 2024

God does not save by love, He saves by grace. And that’s love in action. You see, labor is foreign and contrary and the opposite of love. It just doesn’t go along with it. But, you see, love will labor, and when it does, it just doesn’t seem to be labor. Like that little girl was carrying a heavy baby, and a man, when she went by, said to her, he says, “Little girl, isn’t that baby too heavy for you?” And she said, “No, he’s my brother.” Makes all the difference in the world. It’s a labor of love. And the Lord Jesus, He put it right on the line. He says, “If you love me, keep my commandments.” And if you don’t love Him, why, I don’t think it’s worthwhile to try and keep them, friend.

May 15, 2024

Now what’s wrong with Cain? Well, he’s a sinner by nature, but he’s also a sinner by choice and acts. “By faith,” we’re told, that “Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous ….” How? Because he was a nice little Sunday school boy? No, not that at all. He was a sinner, but he responded to the Word of God. And he believed God. And when he believed God, then he was saved. My friend, that’s what faith is. It connects you to God. It communicates to your heart the Word of God and you respond. And that’s what conversion is. It’s to believe God.

May 14, 2024

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