
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


By Dr. J. Vernon McGee
4.9
2828 ratings
The podcast currently has 584 episodes available.
The most played episodes among Podcast App listeners.

I have a question for you today. It’s a rather personal question. Can you declare your pedigree as a Christian? Well, somebody said, “Why, I didn’t know whether I could or not.” Absolutely. You become a son of God by faith in Christ. There’s no other way. I want to say to you: You can be born again by the blood of Christ and be in the family of God, and that’s the only way. How can you make sure? Take God at His word. If you trust Christ, then you take God at His word. And He says that you’re His son by trusting. “Now are we the sons of God.” Are you a son of God? You are if you’ve trusted Christ, and you can believe God.

Now He saved us by His infinite, marvelous, wonderful grace, but you and I are in a world today—and it’s a wicked world and it’s a rough world. And like the children of Israel out in the wilderness, this world is a wilderness as far as God is concerned, and sin is in the world. And God saves us by His marvelous grace. But then we’re told that we have a fight and we have an enemy. And Paul said to a young preacher in 2 Timothy 2:3, “Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” And he said again, “Fight the good fight of faith.”

“Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.” There are things that are above human comprehension, and only the Spirit of God can make these things real to us. And our prayer ought to be, “Open Thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy Word.” We need to bring a humble mind to the study of the Word of God. Just because you read it in the Bible, does not mean you know it. The Spirit of God will have to make it real to you. If you bring to the Bible an honest heart and you sincerely want to know God’s truth, if you have doubts, then bring them to Him.

Jesus died. He was buried. He rose again. What does that mean to you? Did you accept Him as Savior? And when I say that, what do I mean? I mean did you believe He died for you? You believe that when He was buried, that means your sins were absolutely buried. The sin question was settled. And that when He rose again He rose—well, let me turn it around. You and I rose in Him, and we’re now “in Christ.” And God sees us “in Christ.” And His righteousness has been made over to us; what He is, His standing becomes our standing. And that’s all that you and I have of which we can boast today.

“The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” And you notice our Lord says, “I have prayed, though that you’re going to deny me—I prayed that your faith fail not.” And today He’s our Intercessor. He knows whether you’re moving to the place of failure and of stumbling. And if you’re His, my friend, He’s already prayed for you that your faith fail not. If you belong to Him, your faith will not fail—though you fail, your faith will not fail—and the reason it will not is because He’s prayed for you. You see, He’s our Intercessor. He prays for us today.
The podcast currently has 584 episodes available.

8,853 Listeners

5,193 Listeners

2,512 Listeners

1,329 Listeners

1,433 Listeners

1,675 Listeners

1,451 Listeners

3,082 Listeners

394 Listeners

186 Listeners

5,434 Listeners

498 Listeners

2,923 Listeners

13,173 Listeners

275 Listeners