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Man it's great to be here tonight. I really enjoyed that scripture reading
I almost feel like it was like a sermon in and of itself
This is like the second sermon now because God's Word is so powerful even just being read
But I'm loving the conference I appreciate everyone who came here from far away and the faithful
Members of the church here appreciate all the hospitality and for inviting me to come and preach and tonight
I'm preaching a sermon called strong language in the King James Bible
strong language in the King James Bible
There's a little bit of a double meaning here in this title because first of all the KJV
Just uses some strong language because it's it's got power right there's strength in it
But then also it's kind of like hey warning, you know viewer discretion advised strong language, you know
So it's got a little bit of a double meaning
The first thing I want to say before I get into the message tonight is that the King James Bible?
Does not need a language update. It does not need to be updated
Now I'll also say this the chances are very
Very slim that it will ever need a language update in the lifetime of anyone in this room
Even the smallest child even in their lifetime
it's probably not gonna need a language update because the English language has been fixed for a very long time and
It's changing very very slowly. And so therefore we have no issue in
In
2023 understanding the King James Bible and look folks. We're not a bunch of stuffy
Academics just kind of preaching to each other from one theologian to another here
Hey
We're out there on a weekly basis going up and down the street and we typically gravitate
Toward the more low-income areas when we do that and guess what?
We got in our hand a King James Bible and we're talking to people all day long and they have no trouble
Understanding the Word of God that we show I look I've been so winning for 20-some years
I've never had anybody say to me. Hey, you know
I'm just having trouble understanding the message right now because of that Bible version that you're using I
Mean, have you ever had that happen when you're out evangelized with the King James? Like I'm sorry
I what does that mean you read him Romans 323 you read him Romans 6.3. Nobody bats an eye
At the language why because it's the same language that we're speaking today
It's just an an older form of the language now sure
There's a little bit of archaic language in the King James, but look leave the King James alone
It ain't broke. So don't fix it. In fact some of our
Preacher, I don't know what you want to call frenemies or people who pretended to be our friends and and hate us
You know, they were going around saying that you know, pastor Anderson's positioning himself
To
Update the King James someday, you know
He wants to to go to the Greek and Hebrew and redo the the King to look let me tell you something
There are a few reasons why that's absurd number one
First of all, I'm not a good writer
I'm a verbal communicator number one, and I just finished telling you that it doesn't need it
I'm against it and it will not be needed in our lifetime
It might be needed 500 years from now or something, but who cares?
Number
One, you know, but
That's the kind of false
accusations that people want to make just to just to try to run me down or just to run down a preacher that's
You know trying to do a good thing
But are there some archaic words in the King James? Of course
There are a few words that are archaic
But you could point out hard words in other versions, too
Because sometimes people come at you with this list of words like oh, yeah
Well, if the King James is an archaic explain these 30 words. Where's what you have to understand? There's
31,000 some
Verses in the King James. So yeah in
31,000 some verses you're gonna be able to pull out like every thousand verses
Some really hard word and and kind of stump somebody with it
But I could find 30 very difficult words in the NIV and the ESV in any version
that's just the nature of the beast but
Here's what I like in this tune if you would turn to Isaiah chapter 14
I'm gonna give you an example that people like to bring up about an archaic word
But you know, I was thinking about this thing of complaining about the few archaic words in the King James
It's sort of like if you had a really classic
Mustang convertible who thinks that that's a pretty cool car like a
1960s era Mustang convertible. I mean and then somebody's like, oh, it doesn't have power windows
You know
It's like dude, you're missing the whole point. This is a beautiful vehicle
This is a classic car, you know
And it's like they want you to get the most like stripped down like this basic like I don't know Ford Focus or something
But it's got power windows it's got you know, the radio that I want or it's like
You know, the King James is the classic
So yeah, okay. It looks old but it's cool
Anyway, I just that was just kind of an illustration that came to my mind
But here's an example people like to bring up
Isaiah chapter 14 verse 23 the word besom as an archaic word
The Bible says I will also make it a possession for the bittern and
pools of water and I will sweep it with the besom of
Destruction sayeth the Lord hosts now, here's the thing
You don't really have to know what this word means to understand what he says. I will sweep it
Sweep it with the besom of this earth who here
Would say I think I know what a besom is even without
having known this word in the past
You just instantly know it from context
But yet if you find this word on a list, you know, they come at you with just a list of words
What's be them mean? Hmm. You might be stumped. But if you actually saw it in the verse, you wouldn't be stumped at all
and
You could say yeah, the word besom is archaic
So you could say I will sweep it with the broom of destruction
Right, and I don't think that would be a wrong translation. Sorry Patrick Boyle
But you know, I'll sweep it with the broom of destruction would be totally fine
But is it really worth it to start tampering with the classic messing with the classic?
changing it, you know, no just leave it alone and
By the way, you can even make the argument that words like besom aren't really even archaic anyway
Because they're in every modern dictionary and they're still used just not very often now as somebody might point out and say well pastor
Anderson you kind of blew past another tough word there the bit turn
But let me tell you something about this word bit turn it's not archaic at all
It is absolutely not an archaic word. It is a current term in
2023
You say well, well, well, I don't know it. What if I told you that just because you don't know a word
Doesn't mean that it's not a word in our language right now
Like you know every word and see both arrogant bozos like James White. They don't know a word
So then they're just put on a list of archaic words. Just call it archaic. So they start listing just current
Normal basic words that they just happen to not know
It's like they just say oh this is archaic collar archaic ado archaic. It's like what?
These words are not archaic see a bit turn is a type of bird and
Just google it right now all kinds of pictures of birds will come up and they'll tell you hey, this is a type of bird
Look, we just don't know it cuz we're not that into birds
And you know, it's interesting. I was reading Exodus and I had to look up the word
Selvage I got to the word selvage now, I'm thinking to myself. Oh, this must be archaic
Because you know what? That's just a cop-out when we don't know something. It's just like archaic archaic archaic
but then
Could I get some water? I'm sorry. I
Asked my wife I said I said hey, honey
You know, I had to look up this this archaic word
Selvage and she's like, what are you talking about? She said that words not archaic at all. She said anyone
down at the sewing store
Anyone down at Joanne fabric or SAS fabric, you know
They are gonna know what that word means
You just don't know it cuz you're not into sewing and here's the thing
There are a lot of words where if you're not into sailing if you're not into sewing if you're not into farming if you're not
Into birding look you don't know the word
Birding is actually a thing, but you thought that was a joke, but that actually is a word. See that's another word
You don't know you don't know stuff
All right
People are like I'm birding that's funny. It's like no really birding. Okay, so it's a hobby. Yeah, exactly
So the point is that just because you don't know a word
Doesn't mean it's archaic now some words in the butt and the King James, of course are truly archaic
But they're few and far between the and usually the
Context defines them and the vast majority of the time when people are claiming that things are archaic
It's just because they don't know that word and look I read books all the time and have to look things up in the dictionary
Virtually every monitor I'm talking about I read books that just came off the printing press in
2023 2022 2021 and you know what I'm doing. I'm looking things up in the dictionary
Because I don't know every word that's just called reading and people are like give me a Bible where I never have to look anything
Up, it's like dude. That's gonna be a dr. Seuss version because any
literature that's written for big boys and
Big girls is actually gonna have some words that you have to look up every once in a while. So get over it
It does not need a language update
Now that being said let me move on to the main subject
I want to talk about which is the strong language in the King James. You see the King James Bible is
100% accurate. Okay, the King James Bible is the Word of God without error
But not only that the style of the KJV is awesome
Part of translation isn't just getting the meaning right obviously
That's the most important thing to us is that we want the Bible to correctly and accurately
Communicate truth to us because our our soul is at stake here right heaven and hell
Are at stake and and the way that we live our lives is at stake
And so if this Bible is gonna be our final authority for all matters of faith and practice now
We want to make sure that it accurately is telling us what the Word of God says and so obviously that's the most important thing
But we also care about the style don't we because we also want to get the right mood
the right feeling
Right the right kind of emotional impact because you could have two words that mean the exact same thing and they feel different
Right, and we'll get into that in the sermon as we go through it
Now admittedly the King James contains some harsh language, doesn't it contain some rough language. Is it warranted?
Is it right for the KJV to use rough language does it communicate the correct tone and
Tonight we're gonna talk about that strong language in the KJV now go back to Isaiah 30. That's where we started
Isaiah chapter 30. Hopefully you're right there in chapter 14
So it's just a quick little trip over to chapter 30 look at verse 8
It says now go and this is just a bonus verse
30 verse 8 now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book
That it may be for the time to come
Forever and ever how do you like that verse on the preservation of God's Word?
That this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not hear the law of the Lord. They don't want to hear the Bible
Which say to the seers see not and to the prophets prophesy not unto us right things
Speak unto us smooth things
Prophesy deceits
You see when you're preaching smooth things, you're preaching deceit. You're preaching lies because the truth is rough
Lies are smooth. Okay
Get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us
Wherefore thus say it the Holy One of Israel because you despise this word
See people who despise the Word of God they say to the preachers give me a smooth sermon
Soften that up. It's too. What's the opposite of smooth?
Hey, that's too rough smooth that out. That's coming from people who hate the Lord and hate the Word of God
They want lies. That's what the Bible says
if you would do
Matthew chapter 11 Matthew chapter 11 is about John the Baptist right? Jesus Christ is talking about John the Baptist
I'm gonna start reading it while you get there
Matthew 11, I'm gonna start in verse 7
Try to get there by the time I get to verse 8
It says and as they departed Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John
What went ye out into the wilderness to see a read shake it with the wind?
You know, do you think that John the Baptist is the kind of guy who's tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine?
He's just kind of this weak little softy
Because a read is not something that you could really lean on for support right a wee a read is a very weak
plant
But what went ye out to see verse 8 a man clothed in soft raiment the whole day that wears soft clothing are in King's houses
But what went ye out to see a prophet? Yeah, I say unto you and more than a prophet
And so the man of God throughout the Bible, he doesn't wear soft raiment. He wears a rough garment
He preaches rough things
Right you think about guys like John the Baptist Elijah Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel
These men of God they're not preaching smooth
So it kind of makes sense that the Word of God which consists of the law and the prophets and the Apostles is
Gonna contain some rough
Things if God used rough men to communicate it
Now
A lot of this sermon is based upon a video that I found on YouTube by a guy named Mark Ward now
I don't know if many of you are
familiar with Mark Ward
but
He is a guy who has pretty much made his entire ministry and his entire shtick is about
Telling you that the King James Bible
Needs to be updated that the King James Bible uses language that is too archaic and and too hard to understand
In fact in the video that I watched while I was preparing the sermon which was called bad words in the KJV
In that video on bad words and the King James he even he even said there was a different language
He said Elizabethan English is it's just another language like that the cage if he's written a foreign language
And so he's just constantly
Exaggerating
The fact that there's archaic language in the King James. This is his big thing and
you know, he's trying to make a name for himself as being this this guy who does that and
This guy's exact opposite of the prophets in the Bible the the guys in the rough garment. This guy wears some soft clothing
Let me tell you and that's just his underwear. Okay, because I'm saying this guy and look this isn't just me saying it
everybody
Then I've talked to about this guy just the first thing he says like that guy is so stinking effeminate
So he is super feminine. It's not just me saying that that's just like a common report
It's reported commonly among you that there be a faggot II man named Mark Ward, you know, and I as being
present have judged already
But anyway, he makes this video about the five bad words that these are the five bad words that he identifies
in the King James bastard
pisseth
whore
Bowels
And
Ass, okay
now isn't it kind of funny that he fails to bring up hell and damn and
Instead he brings up bowels. I've never heard of bowels being considered a bad word ever
Anywhere it's not it's it's sort of like that if you've ever seen that like
47-second mean that's just like it's fake. It's a fiction never happened. We made this one up. This one is not real
It was you know, who knows what I'm talking about
It's total fiction we made this one up it isn't real no not a chance
Nope, and so that's basically what I would say to bowels
Being a bad word
Okay
But he fails to bring out hell and damn
Now, why did he fail to bring these up because this guy everything that he does is so
Dishonest, it's intellectually dishonest to say well
I'm gonna talk about the bad words in the in the KJV bring up some word that no one has ever
thought of as a bad word bowels and
Then turn around and leave out words that are considered cuss words in this world, which are damn and hell
Those are considered cuss words
Those are the type of things that would be you know labeled as strong language by say, you know
The Motion Picture Association of America at times or TV stations or radio or whatever
Okay, in fact, you know one of the most famous
Moments in movie history isn't gone with the wind frankly my dear
I don't give a damn first time a cuss word is used in Hollywood. Okay
Well, isn't it funny that Mark Ward leaves that out and instead replaces it with bowels which we'll talk about all of these five
now I
remember when I was a teenager, I was in a youth group one time and
The teacher asked the class he was talking and it was sort of an interactive thing a little bit where he would ask questions
And you know, it was it was it was acceptable to speak back
He wanted us to to talk to him and he asked a question, you know, where would we be?
without Jesus, you know, like if Jesus had not come where would that leave us and
I said we'd be going to hell
Without Jesus now who thinks that's a pretty reasonable answer
Right, and I kid you not I said we'd be going to hell and a girl in the class unironically went home
Because she thought that I just used a cuss word
I just spoke in profanity and in the same church, I went there for two years the pastor never
Used the word hell and he never mentioned hell not even the concept though
In fact, my dad walked up to him and said, you know, why do you never talk about hell in your service?
You never bring up hell and he said well, yeah, I know I should but it's just it's so unpleasant
I just don't like to talk about it
and so I
Think that this idea of
Hell and damn being a cuss word has even made them become taboo
even among Christians
So that it's not just a taboo out in the world of hey, you know gone with the wind
You get a little edgy there with that word. Damn. It's like no now in church. It's edgy to say hell
Hey, that's a shame because Jesus Christ preached a lot about hell
We need to hear some hell fire and damnation preach it and you know, if tipper gore doesn't like it she can sit on attack
So this whole thing of making hell and damn out to be cuss words is stupid
Use those words they're good words
And by the way, the Bible used the word hell
Both about the literal place hell and it just uses it as a figure of speech as well
Talks about the tongue is set on fire of hell, you know, your tongue didn't literally get fire from the literal place hell
So, let me read you the description from Mark Ward's video
Here's what he says in the in the description of the YouTube video. I
Checked this video with wiser and older heads
Although it is not safe for kids
So
He says this video is not safe for children
Because he's gonna talk about the bad words in the kjv and it's not acceptable for children
Though it is not safe for kids. I do not play these bad words for cheap laughs
This is a discussion that needs to be had
What can be done about these awkward moments in Sunday school when certain kjv words say their word for donkey?
Makes the teens titter
This video discusses five bad words in the kjv
Bastard pisseth whore bowels and ass. I can't say it was pleasant to make but I felt that it had to be done
Now here's what's ironic here's what's funny I
Consider myself to be an educated person not saying that I'm super smart or anything, but I am not an uneducated person
I'm no dummy and
I have never heard this word titter before in my life and I didn't know what it meant
I mean I knew from the context
But I had to look up the word titter in the dictionary who would say I don't know that word titter
I'm not familiar with that word. Okay, so so mr
Mark Ward who's so worried about all these words that people don't know and and it's so hard to understand it
So our cake uses a word that 75% of the auditorium doesn't know myself included and you can claim that I'm a dummy or something
well, if that's what you want to think fine, but I
Didn't know this word and I do a lot of reading and I have a decent vocabulary
So in Mark Ward's video, he talks about an acid test for whether these words are
No bueno, you know for whether these words are not words that we should be
Preaching or teaching he gave an acid test. He had a two-part acid test number one
He said would your pastor ever use this word behind the pulpit outside of referencing specific mentions in the KJV
Would he ever use the word bastard?
Pisseth whore bowels or ass
Now apparently he hasn't been around the new IP that much
Okay
Because you know
I'm thinking about I'm thinking about a video that I had on YouTube back before my channel got delayed
They had a lot of views that was called
Congratulations on your bastard and that was not referring to a specific reference in the KJV that was just me preaching
Okay
but then
So that's number one would your pastor ever use this word behind the pulpit outside of the specific mentions of the KJV number two
Will the teens titter?
When you read these verses now think about how stupid this is his acid test for what's acceptable to be preached
What should we be using when we're given the Word of God is like does your pastor do it?
Folks whether your pastor does or doesn't do something doesn't determine right from wrong
Like well if we do it, it's good. If we don't do it. It's bad. I mean, come on
But then number two if it makes the teens titter like like so how the audience reacts determines what I preach, right?
No, I get up and preach what I'm supposed to preach let the audience figure out their reaction that's not my problem
Okay, so now let's get into the meat of the video we're gonna go through each
Verse here now turn to first Kings chapter 14
I'm gonna address these five words in the order that
Mark Ward addressed them first of all pisseth now Mark Ward claims that no other version
Uses this term pisseth against the wall that it's only in the King James
Pisseth against the wall and that the rest of the versions will just do it as males
Okay
So the example that he uses is in first Samuel chapter 25
This is where David is angry at Nabal and he's gonna go in and slaughter the household of Nabal
So and more also, you don't have to turn there. You're going to first Kings 14, but this is first Samuel 25 22
So and more more also do God unto the enemies of David if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light
Any that pisseth against the wall, so David's mad and he's like man
I'm gonna kill everybody who pisseth against the wall in Nabal's house
Now Ward claims that the KJV is actually right here and he actually says that the modern versions
He believes the modern versions are wrong to replace this with males
Sort of seeming to defeat the purpose of his own video at first there
but he says that
Yeah, actually the Hebrew says pisseth against the wall
And so obviously if David's angry, this is what Ward even said if David's mad
He's not just like you know the males, you know, he's like man kill the ones that piss against the wall
Cuz he's mad, right?
But here's what's so stupid though, but then then Ward turns around and says he says well the KJV
Correctly rendering like the mood of David here and what David said, but he claims that David was quote
Sinning in his speech here though. Like it's it's recording that he said that but he shouldn't have said it
He was he was sinning in his actions, which okay
You could make that case for sure that his anger was sinful or that his actions were sinful
But no
He said he's also sinning in his speech by saying that he was and that he should have just he should not have used quote
this earthy offensive
scatological phrase
David was sinful to use it and
Then he points out and then he says it's used somewhere else when rapshaki one of the enemies of the Lord's people
Comes and he says, you know
Hey
I'm here to talk to these people that are on the wall here so that they can eat their own
dung and drink their own pits with you and
And
He basically is trying to point out that yeah people say this in the Bible and yeah
The Bible is right to say piss but you know, these people are sinning when they said it because they're getting too crude
this is what he'd said in the video and
Even kind of said that the new versions changing it to urine
You know, the guy is this man of war ready to invade a city
Let them drink their own urine
And feed their fecal matter
Eat your poop, you know, I mean
Obviously like the King James
Captures the spirit of the original. Okay?
And
Then he brings up how he said man. There was even a preacher he said
That used this as evidence that men should be standing up if you can believe that, you know
But
Here's what he failed to bring up look at Jerram look at 1st Kings you're in 1st Kings look at chapter 14 verse 7
He fails to bring this up because he's intellectually
dishonest and a liar
Okay
Because obviously he's looking up all the mentions of piss. You think he didn't know about this verse. Oh, whoops
I thought it was just David and Rhapsody
Whoops, like any idiot could type in the word piss into a concordance
Software and he obviously did but he's a liar and a deceiver. Okay, here's what he here's what he failed to bring up
Verse 7 go tell Jeroboam thoughts sayeth the Lord God of Israel who's talking here the Lord God of Israel
Look at verse 10 therefore be old
I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam him the pisseth against the wall now is the Lord
God of Israel sinning when he says
Him the piston cuz remember David's sinning in his speech when he said that
Well, that's funny cuz the Lord God of Israel said the same thing
We could also go to first Kings chapter 21
You don't have to turn there
But you can't if you like first Kings 21 20 and Ahab said to Elijah has thou found me o mine enemy
And he answered I have found thee
Because thou has sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord
Behold I will bring evil upon thee and will take away thy posterity and will cut off from a have him
That pisseth against the wall. See he doesn't bring these up because they're not convenient to his point
Here's what's funny someone in the comment section says well. Hey wait a minute. You're saying David sinned with his speech
What about the fact that Jehovah God himself says him that pissed against the wall in first Kings chapter 14, and here's what he says oh
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. I shall
Think about it as I write my new book on this subject based on this video series
So he basically just uses this comment to shill his book his upcoming book
Acting like it's new information to him
Being all humble like oh
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention
Coming off all humble and willing to learn and regular you lying piece of trash
You knew it because nobody makes a video about the word piss
without looking up the eight references to the word piss and the King James Bible I
I
Looked him up when I was like seven I
Got out the concordance
I can remember sitting in my brother Clint's room when I was like seven or eight and we're looking up every mention of piss and
Bastard and ass and we we we had a we had a Bible study
I'm still studying the Bible
Inspire Clint inspired me
Oh
So earthy and scat illogical well how's this for scat illogical
Malachi 2 3 the old I'll corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces now. Here's the thing about that
This is the Word of God. This is Malachi the prophet this inspired scripture
It's the Word of God and here's the thing every translation is gonna say I'm
Smearing crap in your face in some word whether it's dung in your face or poop in your face
I don't what is that scat illogical? Is that gonna make the teens titter?
Is that gonna make people snicker and laugh
So what well, I wonder if they're gonna laugh when onan spilled on the ground
But the problem is you know
Most teachers and preachers are just not gonna communicate these stories from the Word of God bless the teens titter
Folks preach the Word
Preach the Bible preach the Word of God if somebody wants to laugh. Hey, I laugh, you know, I tittered too
When I was a kid, I laughed at some of these mentions. I would kind of laugh at some of these things
You know what? But you know what? I still love the Bible. I'm still here. I'm still serving God
So Oh God forbid somebody has a little fun
Somebody laughs a little bit about you know
Somebody, you know getting somebody's ass out of the ditch or something, you know
haha
God forbid we enjoy that moment
What a dork
Okay, so that was the first word piss it let's move on to the second word whore
These are this is his list of bad words, right?
whore
bastard pisseth bowels
And ass
Oh
Make me laugh while I'm drinking. All right
So
Bastard, you know, he just makes the argument that hey back then, you know
It was just used for an illegitimate child
Whereas now it means both an illegitimate child or you could just kind of call somebody a jerk like oh that guy's such a bastard
You know, he makes that point or whatever
Okay, whatever
Anyway, I'm not gonna spend time on that
but the word whore
Here's what he brings up this verse in Proverbs 23 if you want to turn there. Okay, Proverbs 23 verse 27
He calls the word whore this
horrendous word
Okay
But yet he admits that all modern Bible versions use it sometimes
He admits that the NIV the ESV all modern versions use it in some places
But it's just the KJV uses it too much for his taste or something and he brings up this verse as the verse that bothers
him
Proverbs 23 27
for a whore is a deep ditch and
A strange woman's a narrow pit and he says quote to hear this word whore
Brought up so casually grates on our ears. It almost seems cruel in a context like this
What no one literally no one feels that way except you mr. Lavender pink shirt Mark Ward
Mr. Everyone says you're effeminate as hell. Literally everyone says that
The whore is a deep ditch
Strange woman's a narrow pit
She also lieth and waitest for a prey and increase at the transgressors among way who here sympathizes with this woman right now
in the in the scripture in the context we're talking about a woman who is the
proverbial strange woman the whorish woman the adulterous who hunts for the precious life her
House is the way to hell. I
Don't know. It just seems like cool to call her a whore though
It's absurd
Is it okay to call her a deep ditch?
Is it okay to call her a narrow pit? I mean what in the world? It's crazy
Anyway, let's move on. I got I got a move on for sake of time. So we talked about
Piss we talked about
Bastard we touched on it. I mean it still means illegitimate child
It's just it's taken on some other meanings and he says well, it has this new perjorative meaning or whatever
But here's the thing, you know people used to be more negative toward bastards in the past than they are now
So I feel like that kind of balances out in a sense
You know the fact that yeah people have expanded the meaning of bastard in 2023
But we've also become a lot more comfortable with bastards in general
So probably those two things almost kind of balance out and you probably get kind of the right almost the right field
But even so I already made the point earlier that even if a word were archaic which bastard isn't
So what if you have the odd
Archaic word get over it deal with it look it up in a dictionary
But then the fourth one he brings up is the really stupid one bowels, right because literally no one believes that this is a bad word
but he just gaslights us that bowels is a dirty word or something and
Here's what he says after giving a few verses. He says I don't this is a direct quote
I don't want to give another example of this or spend any more time on this word than I absolutely have to
He's so offended by this word bowel
I don't know. He's probably just scared of getting that gay bowel disease or something gay bowel syndrome or something
Because why like why does this bother him so much this word like yeah rectal cancer. Yeah, exactly
but anyway
So what does bowels mean well, you know bowels is referring to your intestines, right?
Now
Here's the thing about this is that the Greek word here means bowels, you know in all of these uses in the New Testament
This word is not a disputed word. I mean, it's readily agreed upon
Ancient Greek modern Greek. I mean, this is a word that's been consistent splotch now, which means bowels
Okay, he wants it to be translated more something like heart or something like that now in some places
It's talking about literal bowels. Like for example, you know turn these but acts 118 now this man purchased a field with the reward of
Iniquity and falling headlong. He burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out
That's talking about his guts right his intestines
But the parts that bother him are verses like for example and Philemon
Yay, brother. Let me have joy of the in the Lord refresh my bowels in the Lord
Like
You know
No, not really it's it's it doesn't bother me, you know, I've grown up with this with you know
The the multitude of references to bowels in the King James. I mean the New Testament uses word a lot. Okay, and
I figured it out pretty quick. You know what we're talking about
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that we're not talking about this from a scientific like health
Perspective or something like literal intestines. Okay, but even we today use the word guts
Metaphorically like hey, he doesn't have the guts. We're not talking about his literal intestine, right? We're talking about courage. Okay
Philippians 1 8 is another one for God is my record how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ
And you know, there are all these
Verses this guy's my bowels, you know or you know in Song of Solomon
She talks about her bowels yearning for him, you know
He proposes something along the lines of heart or something like that instead
Here's the problem with that is that you already have a lot of mentions of heart in the Bible
Don't you you have all these words about the heart and you know, if you're gonna change
Bowels to heart and then what about rains the Bible issues the word rains
Which means kidneys now if you change it to kidneys that'd be kind of weird and awkward
You know the Lord searches the kidneys and the heart. I mean, he sounds like he's a doctor or something
He's got you opened up. He's checking your kidneys. He's checking your heart
But the reason we use the word rains is because rains means kidneys, but again, it's not just about being accurate
it's about having the right mood the right tone and
Rains is a word for kidneys
That's more just kind of talking about that region more generally kind of from the outside than like this is a kidney
you know that we're dissecting right here on the table and and the reason why it uses words like rains and
Bowels is because and he acknowledges this in his video that in the ancient world
People thought that the seed of emotion is found in the abdomen
And this is because if you think about it when you feel
Fear or love or you feel anxiety. You don't feel it in your head
You feel it in your abdomen you feel it in your chest you feel in your stomach
You feel it in your lower back. Like you get these visceral feelings and people even talk about like
Visceral, I love that word like understanding something on a visceral level
That's a gut level because viscera is a Latin word for Splaktha, right? It's it's you know, it's your guts. It's your intestines
It's your bowels, right?
and
Guess what?
The brain is not necessarily the seat of all our emotions anyway
Because of the fact that of course attached to the kidneys we have the add
renal
glands, right add
Renal rains renal right adrenal adrenaline, right?
So, you know adrenaline and think there are processes going on in the abdomen and so forth
And so, you know what? I mean if you're gonna say well this idea of you know
The bowels being a seat of emotion is outdated. Well, then so is calling it the heart outdated
Why don't we just why doesn't everything just be the brain the mind? I
Mean just as much as our heart is
A metaphor it's not literal. It's not like our literal beating organ is feeling these things. It's a metaphor
Well, guess what? Yes, the hearts a metaphor, but so are the bowels
So are the rains now he just want to change it all to heart then it's just gonna be heart heart heart
There's too much heart
The Bible is using a variety of language to express a variety of things
Why would we want to strip the Bible of its meaning and diversity and try to just simplify it?
Down to the point where it's just like the
It's either your mind or your heart and that's it. No, how about the rains?
because I feel like there's a little difference of a nuance and the rains and the bowels versus the heart because I feel like the
Bowels and the rains is more of like a you know, I don't know
It just feels the word just feels different to me the concept feels different. Okay, and so
Oh
What's his problem his problems not with the KJV his problems actually with the actual Greek New Testament because the Greek New Testament is
the one that's an
Cardia over here for heart, right and it's saying Splock now over here for the rain for the guts or the intestines or the or the
bowels like
So we should we just change the Bible?
Because you don't like references to guts or you don't like references to intestines. I mean, this is just a dumb argument
To just say
That you know, well, we're just gonna change it because we don't we don't think of it that way
We just think guess what the Bible contains a lot of archaic concepts
That you can't update because that's how it was back then. I mean, how do you update the word concubine? I
Mean think about like the word concubine. That's not a word we use so you could say that that words are cake, right?
Okay, what do you want updated to there is no
modern
2023 word that accurately
Correctly would express the concept of a concubine because it's not really a thing in our society
So you need an archaic word to express an archaic concept
Because we don't have a word that's an exact analog of concubine, you know, and so that's an example
but there are lots of things like that where the Bible is using an archaic concept and
So we can't just be like, oh, I don't understand what concubines are so give me something I can understand
No, no, why don't you just figure out what a concubine is? Why don't you just figure out what bowels are?
Because it talks about bowels figure it out
So anyway, and then he covers the word ass which obviously in our modern vernacular has been replaced by donkey
And so, you know, he just says oh it's gonna make people laugh
Well, why don't you just say donkey or whatever but again, it's just stupid I'm not gonna spend time on that one to be honest
Now that's kind of it for Mark Ward's video, but I want to bring up the fact that
There's nothing new under the Sun when it comes to
People thinking that the Bible contains obscene language or that parts of it should not be read out loud
Now this part of the sermon is gonna get a little bit technical
okay, so
Buckle up and hopefully, you know, you have the attention span for this
Okay, but there's a phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible. There's a phenomenon in the Old Testament
That is called the Korea petit
Phenomenon, okay
Most people haven't heard of this and but you know what? It's totally reasonable that you haven't heard about it because it's something that
virtually nobody ever talks about
In most situations and and the funny thing is though when somebody claims to read Hebrew and
doesn't know what this is, that's a little strange because
Anybody who reads you anybody who actually reads the Hebrew Bible knows about this because it's on literally like probably every page
So this karay kativ thing is big if you're actually reading the Bible in Hebrew
Now, what is it? Well
and
Again, don't let me lose you on this part
Okay, slap yourself do what you need to do to pay attention to this part. This is this is interesting stuff. It's important
So the karay kativ phenomenon, what does that mean?
Well, what it is is that the old the the scribes who are copying the Old Testament during the Middle Ages
Okay, you have Jewish scribes that are copying the Hebrew Bible in the Middle Ages. They were absolutely
Fanatical
About not making a mistake right Jews are very superstitious and
So they were downright
Fanatical and and this part's probably familiar to you if you've grown up in church
You've probably heard the stories about out, you know, every time they come to the name of God the tetragrammaton
they go take a bath and go through this big process before they write the name of God and then they throw away that pin and
Never use it again, you know, have you ever heard those kind of stories about these kind of radical things that they would do
So you have these fanatical scribes in the Middle Ages that are copying the Hebrew Bible. Hey great, you know, hey
I'm glad at least they're copying it accurately
Now here's the thing whenever you're copying a text
Inevitably, there's gonna be the odd typo a mistake right every once in a while
You're gonna spell something wrong. Just human beings are gonna do things like that, right?
And so as they're copying the text they were very fanatical about like we can't change anything don't change it
We've got to just copy what has been handed down to us what we've received from antiquity
We're gonna copy it and we're not going to change anything which I mean sounds great to me
Right that at least they're really being careful with the thing. Okay
So then at the then at the end of each
Book they have like this
Statistical data about how many words are in that book and and and just so that you could check and make sure that everything is
Accurate. Okay. So this is called the Masoretic Hebrew text, right the traditional Hebrew text
If you have a Masoretic Hebrew text, it has all these things in it. Okay
Well every once in a while as they're copying they came to something that was just obviously a mistake
Like it'd be like let's say I were copying the Bible by hand and I came to a place where it said
You know the house of God and instead of house it said the hose of God
You know like the you was missing right and somebody just instead of writing
H-o-u-s-e they just wrote h-o-s-e. Can you see how someone could make a mistake like that? Just leave out one letter
Now anybody who's looking at a Bible if you bought a King James Bible tomorrow at the store and you open it you're reading your
Bible it said that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the hose of God
You would know immediately this should say house
This is a typo. This is supposed to say house
It wouldn't really bother you or what if it was spelled?
H-o-u-c-e
You'd be like
That's a typo, you know, that's not a word it wouldn't really freak you out or anything
But you'd just be like, yeah, this isn't right. But here's the thing. Remember the Jews they're fanatical
even when they came to something like that they knew is
A mistake they're like, we're just gonna we're just copying what we've been presented with
But what they would do is in the column they would write the correct word
Or the correct spelling you understand what I'm saying?
So they're like we're gonna we were gonna keep the
Consonantal text because remember the Hebrew Bible is the Hebrew language
I should say as an alphabet with 22 letters in it
If you go to Psalm 119 and your King James, you got all 22 letters, right?
I'll have that Gimel Dalit. Hey Bob, etc. And and those things are all consonants 22 consonants
It originally didn't have vowels. So the consonant text they just copy it is and they will not change anything
But what they do is they write the correct reading in the column and they say
When you get to this part of the text when you're reading it out loud don't read hose
Read house, you know, I'm just giving that as an English example
Everybody following me so far everybody good. Okay, so there were other situations though
Where it was a little more dubious because sometimes just obvious like like the examples
I just gave where it's a little more dubious where they're they're kind of not a hundred percent
If it's wrong or not, it seems like it could be wrong, but we don't know if it's wrong or not
But they would again put in the column. Here's how we think it should be read
But then they're gonna leave it alone in the text is they're not gonna change anything
They want it to be preserved the way they received it from antiquity the way it's been passed down
So over the centuries a lot of these had accumulated we're talking about
Many many hundreds of these notes and and you know, we're talking about a lot. Okay, and
Most of them are just really minor things that don't even affect any meaning or anything
They're more just like spelling issues and just really minor but some of them do make a big difference in the meaning, you know
So you've got the in the column. Here's what we know. It should be or we're 99%
But we're gonna leave the written right here as is okay, but not only that
There were other things that they did that were just up to their viewpoint. Like for example, they don't want to pronounce the tetragrammaton
So every time they come to that name of God instead of pronouncing it they would say
They would say Adonai or they would say Elohim. They would he say Lord or God it would replace it
99% with Lord about you know 1% with God, okay
so that's kind of like a
Permanent karay kativ now karay means that which is red and
Kativ means that which is written. So sometimes when you're looking at even like a
Replica of the King James. Is this the replica? There are some notes in here where it'll mention the karay kativ
There's like 31 notes like that in the column where they'll tell you which one they went with or didn't go with or whatever in
A certain place because kativ is what is written karay is what is red
And so like I said anybody who reads a Hebrew Bible knows about this because you'll be reading along in a Hebrew Bible and they've
written in all the vowel points of how to pronounce the text, but then every time you come to one of these words where there is a
Karay and a kativ there will be no vowel points on it
It's just consonants and then you have to go over to the column and it will tell you read this
But not only do you have this issue of
Correcting typos and correcting errors in the column through the karay note on the side
There were situations in the Hebrew Bible and here's where it becomes relevant to the sermon tonight
Where the Jews decided this word is too obscene to be read publicly
This is a cuss word
Now we're talking about people living over a thousand years ago
You know these people and again, we're not talking about before Christ we're talking about medieval
Jewish scribes, right? So we're talking about Middle Ages. We're talking a D
Okay
That's the evidence we have but you know, it's possible that this phenomenon could go back further than that we don't know
But the point is that you know, we're talking about medieval scribes
They're like this word is too obscene and the tradition of it being too obscene
Probably even does go back all the way to the time of Christ in many cases
But the point is they're like this is a cuss word. We don't want to get up by the pulpit and say ass
We don't want to say bastard
Piss behind the pulpit right? It's that mentality. So here's what they do in the in the column
They use this karay kativ system to say don't say that say this instead. Let me give you some examples
You
Remember that scripture where it talks about God giving them amaurods and their secret parts
The Philistines get amaurods and their secret parts. Well, here's the thing. We have a word in modern
vernacular like emerot like hemorrhoid
Hemorrhoids, right
Emerod hemorrhoid, you can see the connection. Well, here's the thing, you know to the Jews the word for this in Hebrew
Not talking about the English word, but the Hebrew word
For those emerods or hemorrhoids. They said this is an obscenity. This is a cuss word this profanity
Instead use this other word, you know that means something similar
Also, there's a word for
Dung, you remember that verse where it talks about the the cab of doves dung being sold for a certain price
Well, apparently that word for dung there is like the equivalent for the s-word in English
You know and and so basically these medieval scribes
they've got this they come across this text and it's using this older word this archaic word that has become a cuss word now and
They're like, we don't want to say the s-word from the pulpit. Obviously, it's a Hebrew word, but I'm gonna spare you all the Hebrew
What's the point right?
And so they say, you know use this other word for dung instead, you know
And if you're not sure what the s-word is, you know, just see pastor Shelley after the storm and he'll they'll pronounce it for you
But anyway, uh, sorry, I'm sorry
Didn't know that but anyway, uh, there's another word
where it says that they broke down the house of Baal and
This is what the King James says
They broke down the image of Baal and break down the house of Baal and made it a draft house unto this day
Well, the Bible talks about when you use the restroom things go out the draft, right? So the draft house like an outhouse
Okay
Well, apparently, you know in the Hebrew text
You know the medieval scribes in their day and and maybe even earlier than that
Maybe even around the time of Christ or whatever this had come to be like a word that's like on par with the s-word
And so they don't want it to be the SHIT house or whatever. So they're like, hey don't say that use this other milder word
Okay
There's another word that means like to to sleep with a woman to ravish a woman
right, and this had become like the f-word and
So they're like, whoa, we don't want to say that so they say hey use this other word
Shachav, which just means like to lie with you know, it's a more basic word
so the bottom line is the Kirei kativ is not only to fix things like typos and and
Scribal errors they fix them in the column
But another way that that's them, you know, that's the main way that it's used
But it could also be used for other situations. Like for example, if they're like don't say ass say donkey
You know where they're trying to basically
Clean it up as it were. So what is my point of?
Explaining that to you is just to show you that there's no new thing under the Sun from somebody saying
That hey this word in the Bible is a cuss word don't say it don't read it from behind the pulpit
And so now some people would hear this evidence that I just presented say we'll see. Yeah, they're right
You know, they were right about that. You got to clean up the Bible
You got a you got to tone that thing down now. Now. Here's the thing
How does a word stop and think about this for a minute? How does a word that's in the Bible?
Even become a cuss word in a language
It's because people aren't using the Bible
Because if people have been like using the Bible reading the Bible if all of society is like reading the Bible a lot
Then no word in the Bible could even become a cuss word, right? It's probably because you're neglecting the Bible and
Then it's like you and then you haven't heard the word bastard in decades
From the Bible and then it's like you're only hearing it in the whoa. That's a bad word, you know
If you actually stayed with the Bible and grew up with the Bible these things wouldn't even become
So called cuss words in the first place, right but not only that if you stop and think about it
with these words that
You know have have have, you know taken on a different feel or a different connotation, right?
They they became a cuss word over time
You know, a lot of people like Mark Ward could criticize the King James and say well, you know
That's why we need to get rid of the King James. But here's what's funny. Is that with these karay kativ discrepancies?
We're talking about the original
These people aren't saying hey this translator got a little carried away here
When he's talking about make it, you know making the house of Baal into a crap house or whatever, you know
But basically it's the original
It's literally the immediately inspired Hebrew text that has the so-called bad word
now of course not to say that it was a bad word when it was written because maybe it was fine when it was written and
Then later it took on that connotation
yada yada yada
So I think we've kind of seen both sides of this
We've seen this this kind of Jewish mentality that says hey, you know, don't say that
We've heard what Mark Ward has to say. We don't want to make people snicker. We don't want to make him laugh
We don't want people to hear these words and be offended. He kept using the word awkward uncomfortable
It could make people, you know feel bad
And by the way, you know, I think Mark Ward's a big-time hypocrite also because in his video where he claims like oh man
I'm not doing this for easy laugh and and I sought godly counsel before I even made this video and this is really
Uncomfortable for me and I don't want to spend any more time on the word bowels and I have to
Then he says the word in the video bit ch which isn't even in the Bible
Why and why did even he just includes it as a fun anecdote
Now, let me ask this if Mark Ward is really just so scandalized by these potty words
Why would he then include the word for female dog, you know, and again, you know if you need help with it after the service
You know, but anyway, why?
Why would he include a word that's not even in the Bible
He's obviously being a big-time holier-than-thou hypocrite
Acting like oh, I'm so I'm so holy. I'm so sanctified. My mouth is so clean. My language is so clean
I'm offended by the word bowels and then he just drops that word. It's like well
Why though?
Because he's a big-time dork. That's why
So who's right
Who's right is is Mark Ward right when he says hey don't make people uncomfortable by using coarse language
Don't use these earthy
Scatological terms, you know smooth that out a little bit the KJV has too much strong language
Is he right?
Now obviously we can just get up and say
You're wrong. We're right
Let's pray amen
But how why don't we prove why don't we prove that he's wrong? How about we just prove that he's wrong right now
Go to Ezekiel chapter 23. I'm gonna prove that he's wrong because because you know
You can see it's always good to see where other people are coming from, right?
You can see where he's coming from because you can see where the Jews are coming from like look
Try to put yourself in the Jews position in in the Middle Ages
You know
they've got this text that that's been neglected by a lot of people and
people haven't really been reading it as much as they should and it hasn't been read publicly as much as it should and it hasn't
Really impacted society as much as it should so this word that used to be an okay word now
It's like the F word this word that used to be an okay where now it's like the S word
It's like man, we don't want to say that from behind the pulpit or whatever, right?
So you can kind of see where they're coming from
That they're like, hey, let's substitute a word that means the exact same thing and we'll be fine now
There's nothing wrong with substituting a word that means the exact same thing
I mean when the KJV translates those words, it just it just says lie with I mean, what did it say?
Did it use like a really rough word just a draft house?
Said dumb over here, you know, it just said lay with whatever there's nothing wrong with using synonyms. Sorry Patrick Boyle
But you can always swap out a synonym it's not wrong if the Bible were translated into English and said donkey instead of ass
It's not like that's a corruption of God's Word. I mean according to Patrick
Well, that would be a corruption of God's Word to go from ass to donkey. I don't believe it is I believe that you know
changing an animal name
If it's the same animal it's fine who cares
So look try try to put you know, you kind of put yourself in there, okay
Yeah, I can kind of see that right kind of see I can see where mark words coming from because mark words trying to claim
That you know when the KJV came out these were you know bastard wasn't really a bad word
Neither was bowels still isn't never will be
It's a fiction we made this one up never happened
But you know you could you could make the case with ass and bastard
You can't make that case with damn or piss piss has always been piss
It's always been a yellow fluid exiting your body, you know
Piss he's out to lunch whore. He's totally out to lunch, you know
But it's like well, you know the King James is too rough too awkward we don't want to make the teens titter
Let's
See who's right because I'm gonna show you right now the mark Ward is 100% wrong
okay about what kind of a tone the Bible should have and
Look to say well, yeah, the Bible should say that but don't read it out loud. That's absurd
Till I come Jesus said give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine now
I know is the Apostle Paul who said it but you know, it's really Christ telling that to the church, right Paul
It's a metaphor right Paul saying it unto Timothy is a picture of Christ saying it to the church
till the second coming of Christ
We should give attendance to reading, you know, Paul's saying to Timothy till I come give a tensory, but it's not like Oh Paul
Shut up. We don't give tens to reading anymore. That's that's a stupid way to read the Bible, right?
It's really Jesus telling us till I come give attendance to reading. Okay
All of the psalms should be sung out loud in church all of the text of Scripture should be writ read out loud in church
Let's look at Ezekiel chapter 23 and this is just what we could go I could spend another hour
Going through examples like that. I'm not going to I'm just gonna show you a few because it's not hard to prove this point
Ezekiel 23 to son of man there were two women the daughters of one mother and
They committed of whoredoms in Egypt they committed of whoredoms in their youth
there their breasts were pressed and
There they bruised the teats of their virginity. Now. Let me ask you something
is
That maybe gonna make people feel as awkward as the word
Bastard or ass or whore or maybe do you think that that's even more awkward?
and
Not only that you can look this up in any Bible version and it's gonna say something just as
Explicit as what I just read to you like
The other versions don't soften this or tone this. I mean they change it
They change everything for crying out loud, but they change it
But it's it says something just as in fact what their versions say would probably make the teens titter even more
I just can't stop using that word
Oh
It's gonna make them a snicker
Teens are gonna snicker when they hear ass. They're gonna snicker when they hear piss. They're gonna snicker when they hear best
Well, let me ask you this mark word. Are they gonna snicker when they hear about these women having their breasts pressed and
Bruising the teats of their virginity. I mean look I guarantee there's gonna be some teen in some church somewhere. This is like
Haha
He like he like said teats, haha your Pat your put your passers-cool
Your church is cool. He said your put your pastor said he's I
Mean like
There's no version that's gonna soften this up for you buddy because Ezekiel was just doing some rough preaching
So if God intended the Word of God to be sanitized for your protection
Like these people want then explain this to me
Explain this verse to me if God's offended by course
Rough things in the cage IV. I mean, I think we can handle the word bastard. I think we can handle the word piss
I think we can handle the word whore if we can handle this verse
Bruising the teats of their virgin stop saying that pastor Anderson. I mean, it's the Bible
Verse 8
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt for in her youth
They lay with her and they bruised the breasts of her virginity and poured their whoredoms upon her verse 21
Thus thou callest to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth in bruising thy teats
By the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth
He already brought up the bar where he said where God said I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your fates
Even the dung of your solemn feast and one shall take you away with it
He said look your solemn feasts are dung and I'm gonna take that dung and I'm gonna shove it in your face. I
Wonder if the teens are gonna stop tittering, please. I'm trying to
Spound the Word of God
Folks
Mark Ward is full of dung
because if God
Was so
Affinitive. It's just like oh man, it's so hard for me to say the word bowels, you know right now
It's just all these words. So, you know, it just seems so harsh to call this woman a whore. I
Mean, what about look at Ezekiel chapter 16? I'll be done in a moment
Ezekiel
1633 tell me who's right. I mean look I tried to kind of give
Obviously, I'm biased up here. Obviously, I'm giving my viewpoint
Obviously, I'm preaching the truth up here and I think Mark Ward's a bozo, but you know, I tried to fairly
Represent his argument and I tried to see where he was coming from
I tried to see where the Jews that were coming from that literally they're not even talking about a translation
They literally wanted to change the original Hebrew text now, they're afraid to change it
So they put it in the column and say well pronounce it
Pronounce it, you know as
Donkey says ass but you know, we got a right ass but pronounce it donkey
And look I I could see where they're coming from I tried to fairly represent that point of view
I can see that they did that and doesn't it kind of show you there's nothing new under the Sun
You know that that basically this idea the idea of certain words
Being considered cuss words, even though they mean the exact same thing
But this one's okay to say and this one's not this shows that that idea goes back
Well over a thousand years that's been a thing and you know the Jews in the Middle Ages
I mean, that's what they did, you know, hey
What's the deal here? I mean is the King James Bible
Too vulgar, is it too coarse?
Is it too rough when it chooses words like damnation and hell and and it says all these rough things
Well, you know
I think that the proof that it's not too rough is when we look at texts like this in Ezekiel that cannot there's no way
to translate them in a mild way and
So this vindicates the KJV my point is the KJV is fine
The KJV has the right tone and when you have a guy like Rab Shaky, he's not talking about urine
Dave is not talking about males
It's not what the Hebrew says just translate what the Hebrew says, you know
We don't need to clean up the Hebrew and clean up the Greek and clean it up
Ezekiel 16 33 they give gifts to all whores
Doesn't that just bother you when you hear that word?
No, it really doesn't
Part of it's because I grew up with it, you know
Why don't we just start exposing culture to these words and then maybe they'll get used to them
Maybe they didn't get used to a word hell again
And we might actually hear a hell sermon once in a blue moon in Baptist churches if people would get used to that word again
They give gifts to all whores
But thou give us thy gifts to all thy lovers and hire us them
That they may come in unto thee on every side for thy whoredom and the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms
Whereas none fall with thee to commit whoredoms
You're different than whores. You don't nobody wants to be with you
People actually want to pay for the whore. You don't have any customers you end up paying them. That's cold
And that thou give us the reward and no reward is given unto thee how does that work for being a prostitute
You're paying the customer because you're so nasty nobody even wants to be with you you got to pay them
That's what Ezekiel is preaching right now. Is that gonna make the teens titter?
It's making grown men and women titter right now
Wherefore O harlot hear the word of the Lord
Thus saith the Lord God now notice he switched from whore to harlot. Yes. He's just using variety in his language
Now the King James does that he uses synonyms, you know, just just to mix things up a little bit
Thus saith the Lord God because thy filthiness was poured out my nakedness
Discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers and with all the idols of thy abominations by the blood of thy children
Which thou didst give unto them behold therefore
I'll gather all thy lovers
With whom thou has taken pleasure and all them that thou is loved with all them that thou is hated
I will even gather them round about thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them that they may see all thy nakedness
I mean, this is some rough preaching my friend
It's God's Word
It's a great man of God
Ezekiel Mark Ward
I'm not telling you to choose between Steven Anderson Ezekiel because you know what?
I'm nothing compared to Ezekiel. Ezekiel is a super mega man of God that I
Could you know what I mean? Like I'm not even close
to that level
But you know Ezekiel saying something so I'm so here's here's my take on Ezekiel is just like yeah Ezekiel. Yeah
Yeah
Okay, whereas Mark Ward's like
Oh
Stop it
You know, so basically
Mark Ward or Ezekiel
Who are we gonna go who are we gonna listen to who who who is who gets to decide?
What is too rough?
What is too harsh? What is too explicit?
Mark Ward or Ezekiel, I'm gonna go with Ezekiel what spires never to pray father
We thank you so much Lord for the King James Bible. Not only is it accurate Lord, but it's powerful in its language
It's majestic. It's also rough and earthy and gritty and
Lord it's magnificent and we thank you so much for the privilege of being in church and reading and studying and hearing it Lord and
We thank you so much for this conference where we have a group of people
They want to stay with
The truth and not be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine and every Bible that comes out every month
Lord help there to be a great Renaissance of the King James Bible being preached in this country in Jesus name we pray. Amen