Amen the part of the chapter that I'd like to focus on is beginning there in verse number seven in Matthew chapter three
When the Bible reads, but when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism
He said unto them Oh generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say within yourselves
We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones
To raise up children unto Abraham and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees
Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire now
This is significant because this is actually the first preaching that we really get to
from a man of God in the New Testament John the Baptist comes on the scene and
Starts preaching before Christ has even come on the scene and started preaching
He's the forerunner of Jesus Christ and right away the subject that is just brought up right out of the gate
You open the New Testament and you start reading the first book the book of Matthew and one of the first things
That comes out of the mouth of a man of God is telling the Jews
Don't think within yourselves to say we have Abraham to our father
For I say unto God is able of these
Stones to raise up children unto Abraham and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees
Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast in the fire now
What's interesting about that is that there's a movement out there today known as Hebrew roots
And it's so funny how they actually use that word root
To describe their movement the Hebrew roots when that's the exact root that
Jesus and John the Baptist and all the preachers of the New Testament explained that the axe was laid to the root of that tree
that tree was cut down and they're trying to dig up that old dried up dead root and
build their faith on that root and
Build their religion on that root the title of my sermon is this
Greek the language of the New Testament and an alternate title for my sermon would be this laying the axe
to the Hebrew root
Laying the axe to the Hebrew roots, but we hear it all the time even amongst independent fundamental Baptists now saying hey
We need to get back to our Hebrew roots. We need and you'll see independent fundamental Baptists even
That are King James and soul winning saying that we need to celebrate the Passover and put on a funny hat and they get
Out the star of rim fan and they go with all these Jewish traditions and Jewish fables
We need to lay the axe to the root that Hebrew root movement
It's false, but what I want to preach about this morning specifically is that the language of the New Testament is Greek
It's not Hebrew the New Testament was written in Greek and I'm going to prove that to you from the Bible now
Let's just start out by opening our Bibles to the table of contents
Okay
Now that's somewhere that most preachers don't have you turn
but turn to the table of contents right at the beginning of your Bible there and
Just look at the books of the New Testament and this might be handy for you to refer back to throughout the sermon
And sometimes we just those of us who grew up in church might just take for granted that
Everybody knows the books of the Bible or where they are because we grew up in Sunday school
You know memorizing Matthew Mark Luke John acts the epistle to the Romans first and second Corinthians Galatians and Ephesians Philippians
Colossians first second Thessalonians first and second Timothy Titus and Philemon who learned that song when you're good
Yeah, like five people in this whole out of out of 305 people
Hebrews James first and second Peter first and second and third John Jude and Revelation
So, you know the five of us
That grew up in Sunday school with that song, you know, okay
We know where that but I remember when my wife first got saved
one of the first things she had to do was memorize the books of the Bible and
she took initiative and memorized them right away and I remember we'd go to church and the pastor would say turn to so and
So the book and she'd go like this and she I could see like wheels turning
And then she'd go there because she had to learn it. It wasn't something that just came to her naturally
So as we look at the table of contents here
we see the
27 books of the New Testament and that's what I want to focus on today is about the New Testament and let's start out
By looking at the epistles of the New Testament. Okay. So first of all, we got the first four books Matthew Mark Luke and John
Those are the four Gospels that tell us of the life of Christ then the book of Acts
Picks up the story where the four Gospels leave off and talks about what Christ's apostles did
After the death, burial and resurrection and then from Romans the the sixth book that you'll see there all the way to the book
of Jude
so almost to the very end our
epistles or long letters that were written by the apostles
Unto various Christians or churches and different people and those epistles contain the doctrines of the New Testament
And they explain the life of Christ. They explain his death burial and resurrection. They explain salvation
They explain end times prophecy
They are just the teachings and the doctrines of the New Testament and then of course the book of Revelation
Gives us the end of the world the end times that which is to come that which is future
So as we look at the New Testament today
I want to show you that this book is written in Greek and it's written for a reason in Greek because God could have delivered
It in Hebrew just as he delivered the Old Testament Hebrew and there's a false teaching out there going around now with this Hebrew roots
movement where they claim that it was originally written in Hebrew and
That the Greek New Testament came later or that the Hebrew Old New Testament was hidden or suppressed or whatever
Let's prove that to be false right now
Look at the table of contents and let's start with the epistles and let's look at the epistles
These are places right Romans. That's a place to the saints which be at Rome
It tells us at the beginning of that book first and second Corinthians
So these books are being written to people who live in a city called Corinth and you could go and visit that city even today
you could go to these physical places and
Where would they be located? Well, somebody tell me where Rome is located
Italy right. Okay. Where is Corinth located?
It's located in Greece. Okay now
Galatians is
Written to the church as plural of Galatia because Galatia is not just a city is a region
Okay, and that region of Galatia is in modern-day
Turkey the next book Ephesus Ephesians right if you look at your table of contents
Ephesians is written to the people living in Ephesus. That's a city in Turkey
Philippi is a city in
Macedonia back then today, it would be northern Greece. Okay
Colossae where the Colossians lived is another city in modern-day
Turkey and
Thessalonians is written to the people in Thessalonica or Thessaloniki and that's in modern-day Greece
Now you say Turkey what's what's going on with that? Well at that time
Turkey was a Greek speaking place
later on with the Muslims and the the Ottoman Empire and so forth Turkey was taken over by
Muslims and so forth, but at the time that the New Testament's being written Turkey was a Greek speaking place
From the time of Alexander the Great and into the Roman Empire and so forth
So what do all these places have in common? We just went through a bunch of places
Rome Corinth Galatia Ephesus Philippi Colossae Thessalonica
These places are all Greek speaking places. Okay
Corinth is in Greece
The rest are either in Turkey or Greece
The only one that's not in either Turkey or Greece both Greek speaking place at that time is Rome
But at that time in the Roman Empire Greek was a language that was spoken all over the place
Certainly Rome Italy was not a place where Hebrew was spoken. That should go without saying
So what we see is that out of all of these epistles
They're all written to Greek speaking places
So obviously they're written in Greek not only that
But the next three books if you look down at your at your Bible there first and second Timothy
Titus and then we can even include the fourth book of Philemon. These are known as the pastoral epistles
So they're not written to a church or a group of Christians in a geographic area, but rather they're written to a pastor
Timothy Titus or Philemon
These men are Greek Timotheus. His father was Greek
Titus was Greek
Philemon was Greek now turn if you would in your Bible to
Colossians chapter 4 I want you to go to Colossians chapter 4 and then I want you to go to Philemon as well
So go to the book of Philemon, which is toward the end of the New Testament little tiny book
Right after Titus and then I want you to also find the epistle of the Colossians chapter 4
Let's start first of all in chapter 4 of Colossians
the Bible says in Colossians 4 9
with Onesimus a
Faithful and beloved brother watch this who is one of you
They shall make known unto you all things which are done. So according to Colossians 4 9
Onesimus is a guy from Colossi
everybody get that look down at verse 17 and
Say to Archippus, by the way
These are all Greek names of Greek people say to Archippus take heed to the ministry
Which thou has received in the Lord that thou
Fulfill it. So when he writes a letter the Colossians
He has a special message for a guy named Archippus and he talks about how a guy named Onesimus is from there now
Look at Philemon
Philemon chapter 1
Verse 1 there's only one chapter. It says in Philemon verse 1 Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ and Timothy our brother
unto Philemon our dearly beloved and fellow laborer and to our beloved Appiah
and Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church in thy house look at verse 10 I
beseech thee for my son
Onesimus whom I've begotten in my bonds
So notice he's talking to Archippus and he's talking about Onesimus as being a guy who's from there
Which proves that Philemon is at Colossi
Archippus and these that they're all at a city in
Where Asia minor modern-day Turkey a Greek speaking place which goes to prove
that all of these epistles that Paul wrote from Romans up through Thessalonians to these different cities and
All four of the pastoral epistles are written to Greek people in Greek speaking places
Now that's a lot of the New Testament that's 13 books if we go to our table of contents
We just talked about 13 books from Romans to Philemon as being all
written to Greek people in Greek places speaking Greek
But we're supposed to believe that the New Testament was really written in Hebrew and we need to get back to Hebrew roots of Christianity
Well, if half of the New Testament has just been demonstrated to be written toward Greeks
That's not a Hebrew root
That's a Greek root
Now if you would go
To 1st Peter chapter 1 so and we're not done. We've only looked at 13
We're going to show that more and more of the New Testament is written unto Greek people
That's just starting with Paul's epistles because some people would say well
That's because the Apostle Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles. There's a there's a goofball teaching out there called dispensationalism
And I don't believe in any of it none of it
It's false doctrine. It should be completely just cast in the garbage can and we just need to get back
Just reading the New Testament believing it for what it says and getting rid of this false man-made paradigm known as dispensationalism
Well dispensationalism says well the part of the New Testament that applies to us
Directly is the part that Paul wrote
Because Paul's the epistle to the Gentiles because Paul called himself the epistle to the Gentiles
But here's where they're getting that wrong is that all of the other apostles were also
Apostles to the Gentiles because every apostle that Jesus sent out was an apostle to the Gentiles
Because he told all of them to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
And he said to all of them to teach all nations
Now some of them for a while were disobedient and just kept preaching to the Jews only that was their disobedience
That wasn't God's plan God didn't have this weird
Dispensational plan of he's gonna reveal a new salvation through Paul a new doctrine and Paul's gonna be I mean look
Why would God send the eleven apostles and tell them the ones that met him on that mount in Matthew 22 or Matthew 28?
Why would he send them and say okay? We've been preaching to Israel for the last three and a half years. Just keep doing that
Just keep doing that even though they rejected it, and I'm gonna send one guy to reach the whole rest of the world does that make any sense?
But that's what they want us to believe they want us to believe that Peter James John that they're all
To the Jews and that Paul's the apostle of the Gentiles no
They're all supposed to be an apostle of the Gentiles
Because God told the Jews the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof
And he laid the axe to the root of that tree he destroyed
You know finally none of them could be in an apostle to Jerusalem anymore because he destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD
So the point is that it's not just Paul
Who was the apostle to the Gentiles or preached to the Greeks or the Gentiles because let's look at what Peter wrote now
Right 1st Peter the Bible says in 1st Peter chapter 1 Peter an
Apostle of Jesus Christ and let's see who he's writing to to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus
Galatia
Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia
All Greek speaking places. Do you notice some of them that are familiar Galatia?
Where's Galatia modern-day Turkey Asia?
There is referring to Asia minor modern-day Turkey Greek speaking place
Who's he writing to look at verse 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit?
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ
Grace unto you and peace be multiplied
So he's writing to those who are saved by the blood of Christ in all these Greek speaking places. That's who Peter's writing to
Now
Some people would take this and I'm just gonna give all the arguments of the other side and why they're false
Some people would say well, he's just writing to the Jews in those locations
the diaspora the dispersed Jews and
That's why he says the strangers scattered throughout. Okay, we'll go to chapter 2 and let's see if that's really true 1st Peter chapter 2
Let's see if he's writing to Jews or Gentiles
Because these are Gentile places
Galatia is a Gentile place Pontus Cappadocia
Bithynia look at 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 9
but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood unholy nation a
Peculiar people that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light
Watch this which in time past were not a people
Now were the Jews or Israel in time past a people yeah, they were a people Israel the Jews
But he's saying that the group that he's writing to now in all these various geographies by thinny a Asia place
He's saying you guys in time past were not a people
But are now the people of God that's something new
Look the Jews had already been the people of God in the past
He says you that I'm writing to in time past were not a people
But now are the people of God which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy, but look at verse 11
Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims
Abstain from fresh fleshly lust which war against the soul
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evildoers
They may by your good works, which they shall behold
glorify God in the day of visitation
So the Bible is clearly saying he's writing to people who are living among the Gentiles
They're strangers and pilgrims. Why because this world's not our home
That's what's meant by strangers and pilgrims
because
We are like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
Where we desire a heavenly country
We desire a better country. We're not mindful of that country from whence we came out and
The Bible says and you say well, but it says they're among the Gentiles. Yeah, but look at Ephesians to flip over to Ephesians 2
Ephesians chapter 2 and then we're gonna go to 2nd Peter
Look what the Bible teaches in Ephesians chapter 2 and again Ephesians is being written
To Greek people Greek speaking place Book of Ephesians
Chapter number 2 Gentiles
Look what he says in verse number 11
Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh. Are they still Gentiles?
He said in time past your Gentiles in the flesh
So he's saying now that they're saved
They're not really considered a Gentile anymore because in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile in that sense
So the point is that when he says you're living among the Gentiles
He's saying you're beyond just being a Gentile or he because the word Gentile has the implication of like the heathen
The nation's the the Gentiles he says wherefore remember that ye being in time past
Gentiles in the flesh who are called
Uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands that at that time you were without Christ
being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and
Strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ
So he's saying you were aliens of Israel you were
Strangers or foreigners to the Commonwealth of Israel, but jump down to verse 19 now
therefore you're no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the
Household of God so when you get saved you receive a spiritual green card
You know you receive a spiritual citizenship status you receive a spiritual immigration
document into the spiritual nation of Israel
So whereas you were just a heathen Gentile Greek Italian whatever when you believe on Jesus Christ
You're no more a stranger. You're not an alien anymore
You're actually a fellow citizen in God's Kingdom
You're a fellow citizen of the Commonwealth of Israel you're graphed in you are part of that
Holy nation that peculiar people so when Peter talks about them being strangers
He's saying they're a foreigner to this world. They don't fit into this world. They're a peculiar people
Whereas in the past they were a foreigner unto the people of God. They were a stranger to the people of God
Now they're a citizen of God's Kingdom and a stranger and a pilgrim in this world
Go if you would to 2 Peter. So it's clear that the book of 1 Peter is writing to the Gentiles
Living in Gentile places and telling them in time past you were not a people but now you are the people of God
Why because you believed on Christ?
Because you've got Jesus in your heart because you are been sprinkled by the blood of Jesus Christ
You are now a people of God that's not written to the Hebrews. That's written to the Gentiles
Now the book of 2 Peter. Let's see who 2 Peter is written to it says in verse 1
Simon Peter a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
Through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord
Let me ask you this. Is there anything in that that limits it to a certain nationality?
Is he saying hey, I'm writing to the physical descendants of Abraham. I'm writing to the Hebrews. I'm writing to the Israelites
No, no. He said I'm writing to everybody who's saved. Anybody who has obtained like precious faith with us
Now look at chapter 3 of 2 Peter. He says in 2 Peter 3 verse 1
This second epistle beloved I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance
That tells me right there that 2 Peter is written to the same people that 1 Peter is written to
Because he's saying I'm writing you guys the second epistle
So if 1 Peter is written to Gentiles living in Bithynia and Pontus and Asia and Cappadocia and Galatia
Guess what 2 Peter is written to the same people those who have received like precious faith in Christ
Go if you would to Luke chapter 1
So now we've seen 15 books so far that are specifically spelled out as being written to Gentile people in Gentile places
And specifically Greek speaking people in Greek speaking places
So the count's up to 15 now and there's only 27 books in the New Testament
Let's look at Luke and see who Luke is written to
Luke chapter 1 verse 1 this is the first of the four gospels we'll look at
It says for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
Even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word
It seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first
To write unto thee in order most excellent Theophilus
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed
So we have a Greek guy named Lucas writing to a Greek guy named Theophilus
So the book of Luke is clearly written to a Greek speaking audience by a Greek speaking man
The book of Acts, you don't have to turn there, is written to the same audience
Luke wrote Acts as well
That's why Acts chapter 1 says the former treatise have I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach
So in Acts chapter 1 verse 1 he talks about having written the book of Luke
And he's writing the book of Acts to the same guy as a follow up
He's writing Acts to him to let him know what
Look down at Luke 1 verse 4 what's the purpose of the book of Luke
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou has been instructed
This guy already knew the gospel
He already was saved
He already knew the death, burial and resurrection of Christ
But Luke wanted him to know the certainty of the things wherein he was instructed
And that's exactly what we need today in church
When we come to church on a Sunday morning, a Sunday night and a Wednesday night
We need to be shored up on what we believe
We need to be rooted and grounded
Why?
So that we're not tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine
Something that's so easy to prove from the Bible
That the New Testament is a Greek book written to Greek people
But people come up, well hey did you know it was actually written in Hebrew
And people follow that hook, line and sinker
Why?
Because they don't know the certainty of the things wherein they've been instructed
They're not getting doctrine today
In fact your average independent Baptist church, here's what they tell you
Son, daughter, you need to go to Bible college for at least one year
So that you can get a foundation of doctrine
Well what have you been doing with my time for the last 17, 18 years
When you had three hours a week to preach to me
What are they doing?
It's a lot of fluff
It's a lot of ra ra shish kumba
It's a lot of encouragement
And look, I'm for encouragement
I'm for a pep talk
I'm for motivational sermons
I'm for hard preaching against sin
We need hard preaching against sin
We need somebody to get up and rip face and cry loud and spare not
But let me tell you something, you know what else we need?
We need somebody to teach us the Bible
And the Bible says the pastor needs to be apt to teach
And we need more teaching going on in churches today
We need to learn the Bible and know the Bible
I want you as a member of Faithful Word Baptist Church
To hold this book in your hand
And you know that there's 66 books in it
And you know what the Old Testament's about
And you know what the New Testament's about
You know who wrote it, who it's written to
What it says, what the doctrine is
And then when somebody comes to you with these goofball doctrines like
Did you know his name's not really Jesus?
It's actually Yeshua?
You're immediately going to say, that's a lie
That's a fraud
I know what the Bible says
And I know why I believe it
And I know the certainty of the things wherein I've been instructed
But something as basic as the name of Jesus
That's pretty basic
I mean would you call the name of Jesus a deep doctrine
Or would you say that's kind of a starter doctrine
A basic, beginner doctrine
But yet today we have Christians even being drawn away
And confused
Where they're like, whoa
Have we got the wrong name?
It's like, are you even saved?
That's the only name whereby we must be saved
But we have today these institutions called Bible colleges
That basically give an excuse for pastors not to teach the Bible
Because they say, oh well, you'll get your doctrine over there
And then they ship them off to some other city or some other state
To go get their doctrine
And listen, a lot of the doctrine coming out of these Bible colleges is not right
It's not the right doctrine
And the doctrine in the local churches is usually better than the doctrine that's found in the Bible colleges
Because usually the local churches
There's a lot of just humble pastors who are reading their Bible
And just preaching it as they see it
These institutions that are Bible colleges
You know, they teach a lot of corrupt doctrine
And they have an agenda of bringing in more students
So they kind of want to appeal to a broad range of churches
So that's going to affect their doctrine
Whereas, you know, you're more likely to get good doctrine just from a local church
Just from an independent pastor who's just got the Holy Spirit living inside of him
And he opens the Bible and reads it and preaches it
You know, and we'd be better off today if people followed the doctrines of the thousands of churches across America
Than these Bible college doctrines
And the point is that you shouldn't have to go to Bible college and pay a bunch of money
To learn the Bible
What are we coming to church for on Sunday morning?
Sunday night, Wednesday night
Look, if you go to this church for a year
You will learn a lot about the Bible
You will know the Bible well
You don't need to go to Bible college
You come here for a year
And we're only going to take three hours a week
And it's free
And you'll learn more
Because we're actually teaching the Bible here
But the problem is you get a shallow sermon
Everything's an encouragement
Everything's a sermon against sin
Everything's a motivation to go soul wedding
No, no, no
We need to balance the package here by teaching the Bible
And you need to learn the certainty of the things wherein you've been instructed
You know, how about for starters that the New Testament is written in Greek
And that his name is Jesus
Not Yahshua or Yahashua or Yahshua
Whatever different spellings
That the Hebrew roots movement or the black Hebrew Israelites or whoever else
Comes out with of the spelling of the week
Let's go if we would
To our next book
Revelation chapter 1
Last book in the New Testament
Why? We want to be rooted and grounded
In what we believe
And coming to church is not enough
You've got to read the Bible on your own
You know, I'm just giving you the skeleton this morning
I'm just giving you the outline
You've got to go in and read the whole book of Luke
Read the whole book of Acts
Read the whole book of Revelation
Fill in the blanks
So, what we've confirmed so far is that 17 books so far, right?
13 epistles that Paul wrote
2 epistles that Peter wrote
And the 2 books that Luke wrote
Were up to 17 books confirmed
Greek books
To Greek speaking audience, right?
Go to Revelation chapter 1 verse 4
Who is the book of Revelation written to?
Because now we're getting into a new author
We've talked about Paul
We've talked about Peter
We've talked about Luke
Let's talk about the next author of the New Testament
The Apostle John
This is not John the Baptist
This is the Apostle John that followed Christ
Verse 4
John to the 7 churches which are in Israel
Is that what it says?
No, John to the 7 churches which are in Asia
Grace be unto you and peace
From him which is and which was and which is to come
And from the 7 spirits which are before his throne
Look at verse 11
Saying I'm Alpha and Omega
The first and the last
Alpha and Omega?
What alphabet are those letters from?
Notice he didn't say I am Aleph and Toph
He didn't say I'm Aleph and Toph
He said I'm Alpha and Omega
What alphabet is that?
That's the Greek alphabet
I'm Alpha and Omega
The first and the last
And what thou seest
Write in a book
And send it unto the 7 churches which are in Asia
Unto Ephesus
That's familiar from the book of Ephesians
Unto Smyrna
Unto Pergamos
Unto Thyatira
Unto Sardis
And unto Philadelphia
And unto Laodicea
Now flip over to chapter 9
So again clearly he's writing to Gentile places
Greek speaking places
Greek speaking people
Now look if you would at Revelation chapter 9
Here's some internal evidence also
That the book of Revelation is written in Greek
This verse, Revelation 9-11
Would only make sense if this book were written in Greek
It wouldn't make sense if it were written in Hebrew
Look at Revelation chapter 9 verse 11
It says they add a king over them
Which is the angel of the bottomless pit
Whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon
But in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon
Now if he's just writing to people in Hebrew
Wouldn't it be enough to just say
Hey this guy's name's Abaddon
His name in the Hebrew is Abaddon
I mean that should be enough
Why?
Because Abaddon is a Hebrew word from the Old Testament
So if he was talking to people who spoke Hebrew
Right?
He would tell them
This guy's name is Abaddon
And then they'd go
Oh I remember reading that word Abaddon
In the Old Testament
Now I know what you're talking about
That makes sense
Why in the world would he tell them
Oh by the way here's what it is in Chinese
Why doesn't it say what it is in Chinese
Oh by the way here's what it is in Korean
That wouldn't make any sense would it?
No what he's telling them is that
In the Hebrew tongue his name is Abaddon
But in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon
So he's basically saying
Here's a name that you'll understand
Right?
So here's the tie in to the Old Testament
Hebrew Abaddon
But in the Greek for you
That would be Apollyon to you
Right?
So it's clear that Revelation is written in Greek
Alpha and Omega
Greek tongue
It's Apollyon
It's written to seven churches in a Greek speaking region
Go back to 3 John
Just a couple pages before the beginning of Revelation
Go back to Revelation chapter 1
Just go a few more pages left
You'll find a book called 3 John
So John wrote five books in the New Testament
He wrote the Gospel of John
Three Epistles
First, second and third John
And then he wrote the fifth book, the book of Revelation
Clearly Revelation is written in Greek
Ok?
So we can take that one out of the way
So let's look at some other books that John wrote
To figure out who John writes to and in what language he writes
Look at 3 John verse number 1
The elder under the well-beloved Gaius
Whom I love in the truth
So he's writing this epistle to one guy
Named Gaius
Right?
Gaius
Well Gaius is a Greek name
Not only that, look at verse 9
I wrote unto the church
But Diotrephes
Who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not
Guess what kind of name Diotrephes is?
A Greek name
You say, well how do you know that?
Well the same way that I know that Juan and Pablo and Maria are Spanish names
The same way that if somebody were named Jaime or Santiago
I would know that that person has a Spanish name
I don't have to wonder if Francois or Philippe are French
Or they have some kind of a French name for some reason
These names are distinct, right?
Whereas if somebody comes up to me and their name's Shlomo
You know, that's gonna say something about their background
So we can look at these names and these names cry out
It's a Greek name
Diotrephes
Okay, that's who's in the church
So it's a Greek church
Okay, Greek people
And then here's the good example in the church
Look at verse 12
Here's a good guy in the church
The bad guy in the church is called Diotrephes
The good guy's name is Demetrius
Demetrius hath good report of all men
That's not a Hebrew name
That's not a Bible name from the Old Testament
That's a Greek name
Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth itself
Yea, and we also bear record
And you know that our record is true
Okay, so we see that when John writes an epistle
He writes it to a Greek guy in a Greek church
There's a Greek hero and a Greek villain
Now let's go to the book of John
The Gospel of John
When we go to Revelation
He's talking Alpha and Omega
He's translating stuff into Greek, Apollyon
He's writing it to seven churches in Asia
What about the big one, the Gospel of John
Who is the Gospel of John written to?
Well let me start out by saying this
First of all, that the Gospel of John
Is by far the most negative about the Jews
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
The one that's pretty negative about the Jews
The book of John
And that's where you find Jesus telling the Jews
I know that you're Abraham's seed
But Abraham's not your father
You're of your father, the devil he told him
I mean he uses very strong words to condemn the Jews
In the book of John
The Gospel of John has that as a theme
That the Jews are doing wickedly at that time
By and large
It starts out in the book
He came unto his own
Meaning to the nation of Israel, to the Jews
And his own received him not
But as many as received him
To them gave he power to become the sons of God
Even to them that believe on his name
Which were born not of blood
They were born of blood
It's not, oh it's in my blood
Because I'm of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
No, they're not born of blood
Nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh
They're born of God
And how do you get born of God?
By believing on Jesus Christ
You're born again, you're a child of God
John 1-12 teaches us that
John 3-16 teaches us that
But look at John chapter 6
And what you'll find over and over again
In the book of John
Is clear evidence
That he's not writing to Jews
But that he's writing to a Greek speaking audience
A Gentile audience about the Jews
Notice what he says
In chapter 6 verse 4
Why doesn't he just say
In chapter 6 verse 4
Why doesn't it just say
And the Passover was nigh
Wouldn't that be enough for a Jew to understand
Is there any Jew or Hebrew or Israelite
Who doesn't know what the Passover is
So why doesn't he just say
Hey the Passover was nigh
He says the Passover
A feast of the Jews
Was nigh
So he has to educate
The audience here
Of what the Passover is
By the way that's a Jewish holiday
And notice he doesn't say that it's even
Look at chapter 7 verse 2
Let's see the same thing
So in 6-4 it said
The Passover
A feast of the Jews was nigh
John 7 verse 2
Now the Jews feast of Tabernacles was at hand
Why didn't he just say
The feast of Tabernacles was at hand
Why?
Because it's not for us
It's not something we celebrate
And it's obvious in the book of John
That he's distancing from these
Saying oh that's what the Jews
That's what they did
That's the Jews holiday
That's why as a Christian
I'm not going to celebrate
The feast of Tabernacles
And I'm not going to put on a yarmulke
And celebrate the Jews Passover
That's why it says in John chapter 2
You don't have to turn there
You go to chapter 11
John chapter 2 verse 13
And the Jews Passover was at hand
And Jesus went up to Jerusalem
Look at John chapter 11 verse 55
And the Jews Passover was nigh at hand
And many went out of the country
Up to Jerusalem before the Passover
To purify themselves
So notice all throughout the book
I just showed you four examples
In the book of John
And there's more of
Hey it's the Jews Passover
Oh the Passover
That's a feast of the Jews
Jews feast of Tabernacles
He didn't say it's the Christians feast of Tabernacles
He didn't say it's our feast of Tabernacles
He didn't say it's the Lord's feast of Tabernacles
No no no
Because we don't follow those practices
We don't do those holidays
Those things are done away in Christ
It's very clear
And so the book of John is clearly
You can't read this and say
Oh it's written to the Jews
That'd be silly wouldn't it
All the books that John wrote
Which is five books
Are clearly written to the Gentiles
They're written to Greeks
Diatrophes, Demetrius, Gaius
Churches in Asia
So now that brings us up to 22
So I've just proved from the Bible
That all the books that Paul wrote
That we looked at
That Peter wrote
That Luke wrote
That John himself wrote
That they're written to Greeks
So look
There's only 27 books
We've looked at 22
There's five left
Okay
So let's talk about those last five
Here's the last five
That we didn't just prove
Are written to Greeks
We have Matthew
This is what's left
Matthew, Mark, Hebrews, James and Jude
Right
Matthew, Mark, Hebrews, James and Jude
Now who do you think Hebrews is written to
The Jews
Right
Hebrews is written to the Hebrews
Amen
So you have a book there
That's specifically is addressed
To the Hebrews
You're not gonna get an argument
Out of me on that
I mean look
I have no dog in this fight
If it's written to the Hebrews
It's written to the Hebrews friend
But guess what
Luke isn't
John isn't
Acts isn't
Romans isn't
Corinthians isn't
And on and on
Go to James chapter 1
Let's see who James is being written to
Who is James primarily addressing his epistle to
The book of Hebrews is addressed to the Hebrews
It's written to the Jews clearly
Look at James chapter 1 verse 1
And we will see
Who this book is written to
James 1-1 says
James a servant of God
And of the Lord Jesus Christ
To the twelve tribes
Which are scattered abroad
Greeting
So who is James written to
It's written to the Israelites
Right
It's written to the twelve tribes scattered abroad
See if it's written to the Israelites
God tells us that
So Hebrews and James are written to the Israelites
Now the other three
I'm sorry there's one more
That I believe is clearly written to the Hebrews
And that would be the book of Matthew
Why
Because when you read the book of Matthew
There's so many references to the Old Testament
So many Old Testament quotes
It clearly is written toward
A Jewish or Hebrew audience
So I believe that there are three books in the New Testament
That clearly have a Hebrew audience
And that would be
Matthew
Hebrews
And James
I proved twenty-two books are for sure written to the Greeks
And then there are two books
That don't really say for sure
You know, either way
And that would be the Gospel of Mark
And the Gospel of Jude
Or I mean the Epistle of Jude
So the Epistle of Jude and the Gospel of Mark
I don't have any real clear evidence
But I personally have zero doubt
That those are written to a Greek speaking Gentile audience
In my opinion
Just from reading them
I don't have like a smoking gun
Like I do with the other twenty-two
Where I could just prove it to you
So
In total
Here's what we're left with
Everybody paying attention?
Here's what we're left with
Twenty-two books that are for sure directed at the Gentiles
Three books that are for sure directed at the Hebrews
And two books
That although I don't have the clear proof
I believe
Are clearly directed toward the Gentiles as well
Two that you could argue could go either way
Even though I wouldn't believe it for one second
So let me ask you this
Is this a Hebrew root?
Okay, let me ask you this
How many books
Of the New Testament
Would have to be written in Greek
And use the name of Jesus
In order for Jesus
To be a name that the Holy Spirit has taught us
How many would have to use that name?
Only one
If there's one book inspired by God
That says
His name is Jesus
Then we'd say
His name's Jesus
How many would it take?
Just one
But we have twenty-seven books
That were all written in Greek
Because even the books that are directed at the Hebrews
Were originally written in Greek
Because the Hebrews spoke Greek
They were scattered all over these Greek-speaking nations
And they knew the language where they lived
Now here's the other thing that people say
You expect me to believe that Jesus and the apostles spoke Greek?
Now go, if you would, to the book of John, chapter 12
You expect me to believe that Jesus and the apostles spoke Greek?
Obviously they spoke Hebrew
Okay
Well, where did Jesus grow up?
What's the name of the region where Jesus grew up?
What's it called?
What's it called? Nice and loud
Galilee, right?
Jesus grew up in Galilee
And you know what Galilee is called?
In the book of Matthew
It's called Galilee of the Gentiles
Galilee of the Gentiles
Why?
Because Jesus lived in a place
Where he was right on the border
Of what?
He was right on the border
Of where Greek was predominantly spoken
And where Aramaic
Which is sort of just a bastardized Hebrew
Where Aramaic was spoken
He was right on that borderline
Between the Aramaic-speaking area
And the Greek-speaking area
And let me tell you something
If we were to get in our car right now
And go to a border town
Like, say, Nogales
Or Yuma
Or El Centro
Or in McAllen, Texas
Let me tell you something
You're going to hear a lot of Spanish
And when you turn on the radio
You're going to hear Spanish
And you're going to hear Spanglish
Where the radio host
And this was the weirdest thing
The first time I heard this
I was driving down Interstate 8
And I was really bored
And I was flipping through the AM dial
And I heard Spanglish
And I've heard that term Spanglish
But I didn't really know what it was
Because I thought Spanglish
Just is when you're struggling
You don't really know the language
And you're kind of mixing it a little bit
But no, no, no
These people are fluent in both
But they speak Spanglish
Like, they'll talk for like 20 minutes on the radio
And just every other sentence
But they're not translating
They don't say the same thing
In English and then translate it in Spanish
They'll just start the sentence in English
And finish it in Spanish
Start the sentence in Spanish
Finish it in English
And they just go back and forth
And they're just talking back and forth
Just back and forth, back and forth
Why? Because virtually everybody in that town
Speaks both English and Spanish
That's why
They speak both
If we were to go to Africa today
The average person in Africa
Speaks two or three languages
The average person in India
Speaks two or three languages
The average person in Europe
Speaks two or three languages
What do you call somebody who speaks two languages?
What do you call somebody who speaks three languages?
Trilingual, right?
And what do you call somebody who speaks one language?
An American
You call them an American
Why?
Because we already speak the main language of the world, English
So the vast majority of people in America
Have no need to learn a second language
There's no reason for it
But in other parts of the world
People speak usually about three languages
They usually speak their local dialect
This is very local to them
Then they usually speak a more regional language
And then they'll speak English as a third language usually
When we were in Botswana
Pretty much everybody spoke two languages
They all spoke Setswana and English
Virtually everybody
Okay, a lot of people in India
Will speak their regional dialect
And Hindi
Which is sort of the national language
And English
So the point is
That Jesus and his disciples
Probably spoke a couple languages
Especially living near the border
They're all from Galilee, right?
Are not all these which speak in us Galileans?
Now think about how ridiculous it is
To think that Jesus
Who's 30 years old
Right?
30 to 33
Was his ministry pretty much, right?
And then think about the men that are following him
We know that Peter's married
I mean, these men are adults
They're fishermen
They're tax collectors
They have jobs
These guys
I mean, how old were they?
We can assume they're probably like 30 themselves
Okay
20, 30, 40, whatever
But let's just assume that these guys are like 30 years old
So I'm supposed to believe
That these guys are preaching and teaching
All throughout Israel
All throughout Judea
All throughout Samaria
And these different places
And although they avoided
You know, really evangelizing Samaria
Until after the crucifixion
They did go through there and spend some time there
There's stories like that in the New Testament
But I'm supposed to believe
That these guys didn't speak a lick of Greek
They just spoke Hebrew
But that they wrote all these books in Greek
Well, how do you
Let me ask you something
Can you write a book in a language that you don't speak?
Okay, if you're 30 years old
And you don't know a lick of Spanish
And then you start learning Spanish at age 30
You think you're going to be writing a book in that language?
No, you're not
That doesn't make any sense, folks
In order to write a book in Greek
You have to speak Greek
Probably as a native language
Probably as a language that you're very
I mean, it's hard
Look, it's hard to write a book in English
Who here has written a book before?
Put up your hand if you've written a book
Alright
Who has never written a book before?
Okay
So
Is it because of a language barrier?
No
But now write a book in a foreign language
Now you say, well, it's the Holy Ghost
Yeah, but the Holy Ghost is using human beings
They speak as they're moved by the Holy Ghost
And they're not writing in a foreign language
That they don't understand
They're spending time in these places
They're writing to people that they know
That they're buddies with
They know who Demetrius is
They know who Gaius is
They know all these people
They're hanging around with people that are Greeks
Because they spoke Greek
Because they spoke both
So to sit there and say
Oh, Jesus didn't know Greek
The apostles didn't know Greek
It doesn't make any sense
Look at John chapter 12
This is really interesting
John chapter 12 verse 20
And by the way
This book that I'm holding in my hand
Never mentions Yeshua one time
Never once
It just says Jesus
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
And this book was translated from this book
Okay
This is a Greek New Testament
This is the source of this
This was translated into English for us
Thank God
But this is the source
And this book never says Yeshua in it
One time
Not even once
And this is the original language
This is our language
Neither one of them says Yeshua
But we have a bunch of liars and frauds today
Putting out a King James Bible
With the sacred names restored, they say
And you can buy now at the store
A King James version
That takes out Jesus and puts in Yeshua
It takes out the Lord
And puts in Yahweh
And these names Yahweh and Yeshua
Are a total fraud anyway
Of modern Christ rejecting Israel
Those aren't even the original ancient names
And the bottom line is that Jesus
His name is Jesus
He said, wow, it wasn't really Jesus
It didn't have a J back then
Okay
Here's how it's spelled
Let me spell it for you in this book
Right here, the Greek New Testament
Because I know this is all Greek to you
Let me just spell it for you
I
And I'm using English letters equivalents
Okay
I
E
S
O
U
S
Everybody got that?
I
E
S
O
U
S
Now, if we were to go to the back of the Atarim
And you can do this after I'm done preaching
Go back to that corner back there
And you will find an exact replica
Of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible
That is, and if you pick it up
That's the exact weight
The paper is made out of the same material
Everything about that book is authentic back there
Because I've held the real one in my hand
That's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
And you can go to a museum in Goodyear, Arizona
And see an original first edition
And you'll see that that is an accurate representation
Down to the last typo
Down to the material of the paper
And if you go back there and you look up the name of Jesus
You know how it's going to be spelled in that English book right there?
It's spelled like this
I
E
S
U
S
So in this book it's I
E
S
O
U
S
In that book it's I
E
S
U
S
So let me ask you this
Is this book, the King James Bible, accurately representing the name of our Savior?
Because is there a difference between O
U
S
It's both us
Right?
Or oos
If we were speaking Spanish, right, we'd say Jesus
Or if we were speaking German we'd say Jesus
And if we're speaking English we say Jesus
That's just how we pronounce it
Jesus
That is no J
There's no J in the King James either
In 1611
But an I and a J
Are used interchangeably in the English language until recently
The J is just a stylized I
It's just an I that has a little tail
At the bottom
Right?
Now you say, well what in the world does an I have to do with a J?
Okay
Well if you want to know that
Talk to anybody who's from South America
You can talk to, where's Evelyn Royero?
Where is she?
Alright
Ask her if the I can ever make a J sound
And she'll say Jess
Okay?
And she'll tell you about a city called Hermosillo
Okay, why?
Because of the fact that different people in different areas
They will make that Y sound into a J
It's the same sound
And you know what a Y is called in Spanish?
I GRIEGA
Greek I
I GRIEGA
So you know I'm not trying to go down all deep this morning
The point that I'm trying to make here
Is that the name that's in this Greek book right here
And the name that's in this English book
That's his real name
It's Jesus
There's no Yahshua
Yahashua
Yahshuwa
None of that's in here
And you know what?
If you believe in that stuff
If you're going to say
Oh I think it's Yahweh
I think it's Yahshua
You didn't get that from the Bible
You didn't get that from any Bible
You got that from an internet video
Or an article
Or some Judaizing crypto Jew
Sold you that bill of goods
Or some Black Heber Israelite
Dressed up like Battlestar Galactica or something
That's where you got that from
You did not get that from the Bible
Look, if you're going to tell me
When you say don't make a big deal
It's just a name
It's just a language
No no no
Let me tell you this
If his real name is Yahshua
Listen carefully
If his real name is Yahshua
And his real name's not Jesus
Or Jesus
Then let me tell you something
Then this book is a lie
Because it has the wrong name
That makes this book a lie
And if this book is a lie
That means this book's a lie
Because this book is translated from this book
That's exactly
That's the end game
That's where you end up
So it starts out with just
Hey buddy
Hey kid come here
Psst
Hey kid over here
His real name
Is Yahshua
And then it seems like
Oh okay yeah
We're just kind of getting back to our Hebrew roots a little bit
You know
But you know what it eventually is designed to do
To destroy faith in this book
That's the end game
That's where it leads you
I want you to know the certainty of those things
Where you've been instructed
They want to basically
Destroy your faith in this book
Because this is the progression
First you say
Oh it's Yahshua
Well then the logical conclusion is
That this book's wrong
And the logical conclusion would also be
That this book's wrong
So they start you out with a gateway drug
Of a King James
That says Yahshua and Yahweh
But as soon as you actually have two brain cells to rub together
You're going to realize
Well if the King James had it wrong about the name
Maybe it's wrong about other stuff too
And if it's pulling from a Greek New Testament
Well we've got to discard that
Because that's not a Hebrew root
And then we end up discarding this
And you know what we end up left with?
We're left with the Old Testament Hebrew Bible
And the Talmud
It's a gateway to get you into Judaism
Christ rejecting Judaism
That's the plan
It's to de-Christianize and to Judaize
And look
It's evil
It's of the devil
It's a false wicked agenda
And I want to close on the
Oh we never looked at John 12 did we?
Let's look at John 12
This is interesting
John chapter 12 verse 20 says this
It says
There came certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast
The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee
And desired him saying
Sir we would see Jesus
We want to see Jesus
And by the way this is like a week before Jesus is crucified
This is right at the very end of his life
Sir we would see Jesus
Look at verse 22
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew
And again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus
So this isn't just a run of the mill thing
Lots of people want to see Jesus
I mean Jesus is a popular guy
Jesus when he preaches has thousands of people coming to hear him
When he preaches in a house the house is overflowing and people are falling out the window
But this is special
God made a point to tell us about this
And in fact it's so significant
That these Greeks come and ask to see Jesus
That the Bible records this run of the mill encounter
But not only that
When they tell Philip
Philip feels like he needs to go tell Andrew
And that they both need to have some kind of a pow wow
And then we're both going to go tell Jesus together
So it's interesting to them
It's not just an everyday thing
Because they're used to Hebrews and Israelites
And people who are coming to worship at Jerusalem
But these people were not among the worshippers
They came among them physically
But they were not themselves the worshippers
But they came among the worshippers
Meaning all these people came
But then all of a sudden there's these Greek guys
It's like what are these guys doing here
And then the Greeks come and they say
Well sirs we want to see Jesus
And it's like wow you guys came here
Because you heard the fame of Jesus
You're Gentiles
And they have to talk to each other
Because they're probably thinking to themselves
I don't know does Jesus want to talk to Gentiles right now
Because in the past he was focusing on the Jews and Israel
So you know I don't know
Andrew what do you think Andrew
These Greeks want to talk to Jesus
What do you think Andrew
Well I don't know let's go tell Jesus
Let's go together
Nothing in the Bible is coincidental my friend
This story if it didn't have significance
It wouldn't be here
It doesn't tell us every time they got up
And sat down and ate lunch
And went to the store
All those things that matter
Especially the book of John has very few stories in it
It's mainly Jesus' preaching
So it's significant
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew verse 22
And again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus
And Jesus answered them
So is Jesus talking about something unrelated
He's answering them
They're saying hey these Greeks are here to see you
And how did he answer them
He answered them
Saying the hour is come
That the son of man should be glorified
Verily verily I say unto you
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die
It abideth alone
But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit
Jump down to verse 27
Now is my soul troubled
And what shall I say father
Save me from this hour
But for this cause came I unto this hour
He said in verse 32
And I if I be lifted up from the earth
Will draw all men unto me
This he said signifying what death he should die
What's his response when they come to him and say
Hey these Greeks are here to see you
You know what it's time
The hour's come
It's time for me to die
Why? Because the death of the testador
Is what brings in the New Testament
According to Hebrews
He's saying you know what
It's time to bring in a New Testament
And these Greek people who came to talk to Jesus
Was a sign
From God
And when Jesus saw it he recognized this is a sign
They tell him these Greeks are here to see you
These Gentile Greeks want to see you
And he says you know what it's time
That was the signal to Jesus
Where he said it's time
Why? Because God is symbolizing
Or picturing the fact that the New Testament
Is not going to be about Israel
It's not going to be about the Jews
It's not going to be about the Hebrews
It's going to be about the Greeks and the Gentiles
So that's the sign
Go to Matthew 21
And we'll close with Matthew 21
That's not an accident
That those Greeks came and wanted to see Jesus
And he said you know what
Now my hour's come
And I'm troubled because I have to go to the cross
And suffer
For the sins of mankind
But look at Matthew 21 43
And I'll close on this thought
The Bible says therefore say I unto you
The kingdom of God
Is given to Israel to the Jews
He says the kingdom of God
Shall be taken from you
And given to a nation
Bringing forth the fruits
Thereof
Here's the bottom line
I'm just going to tie it all together for you today
Everything we just looked at
Why spend a whole sermon talking about the fact
That the New Testament is written in Greek
What's the point?
Here's the point
This book right here is a tool
This is the sword of the spirit
This is a weapon
This book is what we use
To do the work of God
Right?
Without this tool we can't do the work of God
Now this tool is not going to do you any good
Unless you speak Greek
But this tool right here
Is what you need
The English translation of that book
You can't do anything for God
You can't preach a sermon without these words
You can't win souls to Christ
Look, this is the tool
To serve God
What does it mean to be the chosen people?
I mean, does chosen people mean
That you're just chosen to be special?
You're chosen to be better than everyone else
You're chosen so that we can all bow down to you
And think you're great
Is that why he chose Israel in the Old Testament?
Is that why he chose 12 apostles?
Just, you win
You get to be the people
That everybody looks up to
You get to be the people
That everybody looks up to
The chosen
What does it mean to be chosen?
You're chosen for service
Get this point
You're chosen for service
That's why Jesus said to the apostles
You've not chosen me
But I've chosen you and ordained you
That you should bring forth fruit
And that your fruit would remain
He picked 12 disciples to work
I'm choosing you to be my full time workers
He chose 70 other apostles
To do work
To work
Why did he choose the Old Testament nation of Israel?
Just to be the special chosen ones?
No, he chose them to do a work
They were supposed to be
A light to the Gentiles
They were supposed to be a pattern nation
They were supposed to be
The ones who would preach the word of God
To the whole world
And be an example
Where all nations would hear of their righteous laws
And their righteous nation
And want to come and be a part of it
That's what it says in Deuteronomy
You know, what nation is like this nation?
That's what they should be saying
And that's mentioned in the context of them being chosen
So, in the New Testament
The Jews are not the chosen vessel
They're not the chosen people
Why?
Because God, first of all
God didn't even give the tool in their language
God gave the tool in the language
God gave the tool to the people that are going to use the tool
Because his chosen vessel in the New Testament is the Gentiles
Now the Jews can get on board if they'll believe on Christ
Because in Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile
Any Jew who wants to believe on Christ
Can be a part of Christianity
I said Christianity
And they can be equal with the Gentiles as Christians
But there's nothing special about them at all
Nothing
Nada
Why?
Because the service is what they're chosen for
And look, you and I today
Have been chosen to serve
God has chosen to use us
That's why he gave us the Bible in our language
So that we can do work with it
Why do we have
And people say
Well why would God give us the perfect Bible in English?
Why English?
English
You know why he gave us the perfect pure word of God in English in the form of the King James Bible
Preserved and passed down and accurately translated from the original tongues
Because we're the ones that are doing something with it
Now look, the Greek people these days
They're not doing much with it are they?
I mean when was the last time you saw Greeks going all over the world and preaching the gospel
You don't go to Africa and run into all these Greek missionaries
And there's Greek missionaries
No no no
The Greeks are dead spiritually now
They're not doing the work anymore
So God couldn't just leave it in Greek
First of all he wanted to translate it into all languages
So that all men could be saved anyway
And so that all men could have the tool to do works for him
Of all nations
But today
The people that are doing the most soul winning
And the most preaching
And serving God the most speak English
Like it or lump it
No no no
Guess what the Spanish speakers
Most of them are doing?
Catholic
Most of Spanish
What are they?
Pentecostal
Now look, are there great Spanish speaking churches that are being used greatly by God?
Yes, amen
There are a lot of great Iglesias Bautistas
That are doing great work for God
I'm not trying to say that
But I'm trying to tell you that if you took all the languages of the world
And put them in a row
You'll notice that the one who's doing the most for God
Are the ones that speak English
Now look
It doesn't have to be that way
Because do you think God cares whether we speak English or Spanish or Chinese?
You know what he cares about?
Getting the work done
And if the Spanish speakers want to step up to the plate
And be the next great missionaries
And the next great preachers
And the ones to reach the world with Christ
Then let's do it Spanish speakers
Right?
If the Chinese want to become the greatest Christians of all time
And bring the gospel all over the globe
Do it
If the Arab Christians want to do it
Do it
Why?
Because God is going to use whoever brings forth the fruit
And in the New Testament
That's not the Jews
It's never been the Jews
It's never going to be the Jews
That tree has been withered
And that fake tree will never bring forth fruit again
We're the chosen generation
Now what does that mean when we say
We even have a t-shirt about it that we like to wear
We're the chosen people
Is that a prideful statement of
Hey we're better? No no no
What it means is that we're the ones God's using
But you know what? God can use you too
You can buy that shirt too
You can make that shirt too
Anybody who wants to can wear that shirt
You don't have to be white to wear that shirt
You don't have to be black to wear that shirt
You don't have to speak English to wear that shirt
You know
You don't have to be Jewish
You don't have to be non-Jewish
You know the only thing you need to do to wear that shirt
Is just believe in Jesus
And if Jesus is in your heart you can wear that shirt
We're the chosen people
In time past we were not a people
But now we are
Chosen to reach the entire world
With the gospel of Jesus Christ
What the Jews failed to do
We're going to do
We're going to succeed and God knew that
And he looked down from heaven
And he saw that English speaking people
Were going to take the Bible into Africa
And India and China and all of the world
And he said you know what? I better make sure they get the tool
I better make sure that King James authorizes
54 of the smartest men who ever lived
To spend 7 years translating it
Because I want to make sure that sword is sharp
Because there's going to be so many people wielding it
You know what?
And today as we see
More Spanish speaking churches
Starting
And more Baptists
And more Christians
And people being saved amongst the Spanish speaking world
We notice that their sword is getting sharpened up
They're sharpening up that Reina Valera version
And getting it sharpened up
And they're getting it sharpened up
And getting it sharpened up
Getting it improved and better
Why did God give us the tool?
Because we're going to use it
And anybody who's going to use it, he'll give them the tool
If they do with what they got
And if somebody speaks a language
Where all they have is John and Romans
Well you know what?
If they take that John and Romans
And they start winning souls
And preaching and winning people of the Lord
And you know what? God's going to give them more
Because unto him that hath more shall be given
Jesus
But guess what? The Jews
They're not doing anything with it
They're blaspheming it. They're hating it
They're not the chosen ones
And I'm so sick of the Baptist
Pastors and preachers
Just repeating this lie
That the Jews are the God's chosen people
It doesn't even make sense
Chosen to do what?
To hate Jesus?
Chosen to do what? Have a democracy in the Middle East?
Is that really God's program?
To create the world and create democracies
It's the preaching gospel of Jesus
That's the choosing
That's what we're chosen for
We're the elect
We're the chosen
Why? Because God has a job for us to do
And you're hired
If you believe on Jesus