doctrine of God sneaking and whispering things in your ear that's contrary to scripture
is not biblical, okay? And when I say contrary to scripture, I mean that it's not contained
in the scripture. You know, people come up and they'll say, God told me to buy a
red Corvette, you know, and God told me to move to Texas. You know, that sounds
right, okay? But it's just not biblical, all right? You know, there's things that
sound right, they sound good, or maybe they were good advice, you know, and they try
to attach this to God, you know, or you go and you drive down this road and there'll
be billboards and it says, you know, I don't even know what some of the expressions are
exactly but it'll be something like, God says, you know, you shouldn't vote for
Biden, you know, and it's like, when did God say that? You know, they just make
up things and they claim that God said them and even though it sounds right, even
though it's something you might agree with, it's not right to attribute it to God saying
it unless he really said it. You don't want to put words in God's mouth and the way
that you make sure that you don't put words in God's mouth is by saying this is what
he said. If you say this is what he said, nothing more, nothing less. It's all of
it. You know, we don't want to diminish a word. We also don't want to add to anything
that God said. He is, you know, and think about this, God can write just a little
book like this and give us all the things that we need. You know, if you were to try
and figure out how many laws there are in the United States, you would have, I mean,
there would be a library of books after book after book for them to try and tell you
what to do. You know, God's law is just a portion of this book. I mean, everything
that God could possibly want to give you, all the information you could possibly need
is contained in this one little book and with just one hour of reading, you could
read it in 90 days or less depending on how fast you read. I mean, all these, that's
powerful to me. Not that God is this jibber jabber up in heaven and he's like,
oh, I forgot to give you another instruction or let me give you more. No, he already
gave us plenty of instruction. He already gave us all the instruction that we need and
we need to live by what he already gave us. Some people are unsatisfied with what
they have. They're always looking for the next thing, but we need to be satisfied
with God has given us. Look at Matthew 4 verse 4 and this is when Jesus is tempted
by the devil in the wilderness. It says, but he answered and said, it is written
man should not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the
mouth of God. Now notice the doctrine that Jesus just laid out. He says that we're
not supposed to live by just food and obviously you need food to live. If you stop eating,
you will die. Eat. I don't think I have to convince anybody of this doctrine,
but here's the thing. He said more important than your physical food is every word that
proceeded out of the mouth of God. So if God is constantly jibber jabbering to every
single person on this planet, how is that going to be possible for me? If God's talking
to someone in China and whispering in the air, say, buy a red Corvette, how am I going
to know about that? It doesn't give an exception. It says every word that
proceeded out of the mouth of God. So if I'm supposed to live by every single
word that proceeded out of his mouth, I have to have it. Otherwise, it wouldn't
even be possible. You know what? It is possible because I do have every word that
proceeded out of his mouth. It's called the Bible. That's why we elevate the word
of God in this church. That's why we elevate what God said. That's why we're King James
only because we don't even want a watered-down version of what he said. We want exactly
what he said. We want every word that proceeded out of his mouth.
And you know, if you go to Luke 4, let's look at another place, Luke chapter number
4. It's the exact same story told from another perspective, but we have in Luke
chapter 4, it's a parallel passage. Look at verse number 3. We get the context.
And the devil said to him, if thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it
may be made bread. And Jesus answered him saying, it is written that man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. So again, we have another
place telling us the same doctrine that we need every word of God. But you know
the NIV takes that phrase out. The New International Version, if you read it in there,
it'll say man doesn't live by bread only. And then it just drops the fact of every word of God.
Well, how does that work? Which one is it? Well, it's the King James Bible. That's the one that it is.
And that's a different sermon. But my first point in hearing the voice of God is you have to understand that it's not private.
It's never been private and never will be private. It's always been public and we've always needed all of it.