Matthew chapter four, verse number four.
It says, but he answered and said,
it is written, man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
And we have an every word Bible here today for us
to read and enjoy every day.
Look, a lot of people had to go through a lot of things
in order for us to get this Bible.
Do you realize that?
People were assassinated, people were murdered,
Bibles were burnt by the thousands,
and all in order to stop this great book from being printed,
this great book from being able
to be placed in your hands today.
Things could have turned out differently,
but here's the thing,
even if they would have killed King James,
I think that God would have somehow made,
obviously because he's promised to preserve his word,
so somehow that would have happened,
but God put all these things in place
so that it could be accomplished.
That's what I believe.
Matthew chapter 24, verse 35 says,
heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
Well, how do we know his words shall not pass away?
Well, that verse is in your Bible.
Jesus said that his words wouldn't pass away.
Was he right?
Yeah, because they're still here.
2,000 years later, we still can read that verse
because his words have not passed away.
Every word that proceedeth out of his mouth
is there preserved for us to be able to read.
Turn to Jeremiah chapter 36.
I'm gonna read for you in Psalm 119, verse 89.
It says, forever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
There is a perfect version up in heaven, too,
and it's been settled for a long time.
God's word has always existed,
and we have that for us.
We have God's word, something that's always existed,
something that's always been,
something that's forever in heaven settled.
The words were settled.
Everything that was said was settled,
and we have this in our hands.
I mean, we take this for granted.
I think a lot of people take for granted
the fact that they have a perfect Bible that they can read.
Not even every country can say that that's true.
There's Bible versions that have gone by the wayside
that were probably good translations,
but they're not even in print anymore.
It's hard to find the right one in France.
It's hard to find the right ones
in all these different countries.
Why?
Because it didn't resonate with the people.
People did not continue to preach God's word.
People didn't continue to go soul-winding,
and so when you have something
like the French Revolution happen
where they're lopping people's heads off
because of their Christian beliefs,
or in Russia when people were murdered and put into gulags,
the Germans, they didn't have a perfect version.
Martin Luther translation is not perfect,
but you can just see the hearts of the people of Germany.
There's most of the people there
just don't care about the Bible.
But you know what?
People today in America,
they've stopped caring about the Bible too.
But we need to be people that not only,
we don't just say we're King James only,
we read the King James.
We should read this book every single day
and not take it for granted.