J. Vernon McGee > Quotes

“Dr. Klaus Mampell from Germany reportedly said that he didn’t see any more reason for seeing us (the human race) connected with apes than with canary birds or kangaroos.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“From the line of Nathan came Mary the mother of Jesus. From Solomon came Joseph, Mary’s husband. The Lord Jesus Christ received the blood line and the legal title to the throne of David through Nathan and Solomon.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Actually, the cross of Christ is an offense to all that man prides himself in. It is an offense to his morality because it tells him his work cannot justify him. It is an offense to his philosophy because its appeal is to faith and not to reason. It is an offense to the culture of man because its truths are revealed to babes. It is an offense to his sense of caste because God chooses the poor and humble. It is an offense to his will because it calls for an unconditional surrender. It is an offense to his pride because it shows the exceeding sinfulness of the human heart. And it is an offense to himself because it tells him he must be born again. You”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Believe me, David had a checkered career. This is the reason he suffered—he let sin enter his life. But above it all was a faith in God that never failed. He wanted more than all else to have a wonderful relationship with God.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“My friend, God loves you today. If you knew how much He loves you, it would break your heart—you would be in tears. Now you can keep from experiencing God’s love, but you cannot”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so [Gen. 1:11]. Now God is putting plant life here because man, until the flood, was a vegetarian. Man will eat nothing but fruit and nuts. The forming of the plant life completed the third day.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“It is not that they looked in the ark and saw something that they should not have seen. That is not the point. The ark was a box. That is all it ever was. The point is that it was at the ark in the Holy of Holies that God met with His people. He is not meeting with them now. They have turned from Him. Their rebellion and blasphemy are revealed in their disobedience. Because of this, God brings judgment upon them.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“that”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“shocked the person when I said, “I believe that too. Not only is healing in the Atonement, but a new body is in the Atonement, and a new world is in the atonement of Christ. But we don’t have it yet.” The political parties and the United Nations have been trying to bring in a new world for years, but we certainly do not have these yet. But Christ”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“One fourth of the books in the Bible are of prophetic nature; the subject and statement of the books are eschatological, that is, they deal with prophecy. One fifth of the content of Scripture was predictive at the time of its writing; a large segment of that has been fulfilled.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“The theistic evolutionist considers the days in Genesis as periods of time, long periods of time. I do not believe that is true. God’s marking off the creative days with the words, “And the evening and the morning were the first day,” etc., makes it clear that He was not referring to long periods of time but to actual twenty-four hour days.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“He prayed for all things that he might enjoy life; He was given life that he might enjoy all things.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“classmate of mine once complained to a professor about a book he was required to read. He claimed it was as dry as dust. “Well,” said the professor, “why don’t you dampen it with a little sweat from your”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“customs”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Oh joy! oh delight! should we go without dying, No sickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying. Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into glory, When Jesus receives “His own.” O Lord Jesus, how long, how long Ere we shout the glad song, Christ returneth! Hallelujah! hallelujah! Amen, Halleljah! Amen. “Christ Returneth” —H. L. Thrner”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Vol. 52: The Epistles

“We need to realize, my friend, that you and I are creatures, creatures of God, and as creatures of God, we owe Him something.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“The key verse to the Book of Daniel is Daniel 2:44: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom,which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“My friend, if you live habitually in the flesh and obey the things of the flesh, and the new nature doesn’t rebuke you, you must not have a new nature—because “they that are after the Spirit [mind] the things of the Spirit.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“On the great Day of Atonement when Aaron took the blood into the Holy of Holies, he laid aside all of his garments of beauty and glory and wore only the simple linen garments that the other priests wore.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“He sins because he is a sinner. Fundamentally, on the inside, man is a sinner, and that accounts for his actions. I am sure that many people in that day said of the Assyrians,”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Vol. 30: The Prophets

“The purpose of the Scripture is for instruction in righteousness. It was not written to teach you geology or biology. It was written to show man’s relationship to God and God’s requirements for man and what man must do to be saved. You can write this over the first part of the book of Genesis: “What must I do to be saved?”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“man’s reason never follows the redemption route.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“My friend, after you have been saved, God is going to talk to you about good works. Until that time, God is not even interested in your 'good works' because what you call a good work, God calls dirty laundry. The righteousness of man is filthy rags in His sight (Isaiah 64:6). He doesn't want any of that. He wants to save you.”
― J. Vernon McGee, 1 and 2 Timothy / Titus / Philemon

“There is no unanimous acceptance of evolution even by scientists.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Daniel was not conformed to this world, but he was transformed by the renewing of his mind, and the will of God was the all-absorbing purpose of his life.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Somebody may say, “But I may not be able to hold out.” He is going to do that for you—He will hold you. His sheep are safe, my friend.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Providence is the way God leads the man who will not be led.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation

“Actually, the Christian life is the Spirit of God living in the believer.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Through His Spirit: The Person and Unique Work of the Holy Spirit

“Isn’t it interesting that Jesus can tell people the truth and they will not believe. It arouses their intense antagonism. Yet people will believe the wildest rumors and the biggest lies. Dictators have learned that. Hitler was very frank about this in his book when he said that if a big lie is told again and again and again, finally the people will believe it.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Vol. 38: The Gospels

“Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.”
― J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, Volumes 1-5: Genesis through Revelation