Good evening, welcome to our service this night here at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
It's good to see everyone here on this Sunday night service.
Let's all take our seats, please, as you take your song books.
And we'll turn to hymn number 15 tonight.
Number 15, lead me to Calvary.
Hymn number 15 begins, King of my life, I crown thee now.
Hymn number 15 on this first verse all together now.
King of my life, I crown thee now, Thy shout and glory be.
Lest I forget thy court, crown, brow, Lead me to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget thy agony,
Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary.
Show me the tomb where thou wast slain, Tenderly morn and wept,
Angels and rogues of light array, Guard in thee while south slept.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget thy agony,
Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary.
Let me, like merry through the gloom, Come with a gift to thee.
Show to me now the empty tomb, Lead me to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget thy agony,
Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary.
May I be willing or to bear, Gave me my cross for thee.
Sleep in thy love of grief to share, Thou hast for all for me.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget thy agony,
Lest I forget thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary.
Amen. Great service to sing tonight.
Father in heaven, thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. I pray
that you fill us all with your spirit as we sing praise to you.
Please bless the services and the preaching to follow. It's in Christ's
name I pray. Amen. Amen. Up to hymn number 126.
126. Anywhere with Jesus. Hymn number 126.
Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go. Anywhere he leads me in this world
below. Anywhere without him near his joys were
paid. Anywhere with Jesus I am not afraid.
Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot know. Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere with Jesus I am not alone. Other friends they fail me, he is still
my own. Though his den they lead me over dreary ways.
Anywhere with Jesus he's the house of praise.
Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot know. Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere with Jesus over land and sea. Telling souls in darkness of salvation
free. Ready as he summons me to know your
name. Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot go. Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere with Jesus I can go to sleep. When the dark and shadows round about
me creep. Knowing I shall wake and never more to
go. Anywhere with Jesus I'll be home sweet home.
Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot go. Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere, anywhere, fear I cannot go.
Going to the camping trip at Mount Graham the sign up sheets are over here to my left
and then the Sierra Leone missions trip is rapidly approaching if you have any
questions if you're thinking about going talk to brother Raymond Cooper otherwise
just be praying for them and hopefully great things will happen
and I'm sure that God's going to do something big on that week
and then below that just some other upcoming events listed
the information for the small town soul winning such as the trip to Payson this
Saturday is over here that's where you can sign
up for that get the schedule and brother Raymond Cooper is the guy to talk to to
get more details on that and that is about it for announcements
let's go ahead and count up the soul winning from the past few days going
back to Thursday anything from Thursday all right anything else from Thursday
what about Friday okay anything else
gotcha
anything else from Friday what about Saturday
six for the group on Saturday anything outside of
brother Raymond's group all right and then what about today
okay so we got six for this group we got scott four brother tilson
seven okay any other teams all right we got three
one anything else from today that I'm missing
all right very good keep up the great work on soul winning and with that let's
sing our next song all right you should find the insert in
your hymnal there of be thou my vision
if you don't have them please raise your hand be thou my vision oh lord of my
heart
be thou my vision oh lord of my heart
not me all else to me say that thou art
thou my best on by day or by night
waking or sleeping thy presence my mind
be thou my vision and thou my true
my ever with thee and thou with me lord
thou my great father
i thy true son
thou in me dwelling and i with me one
be thou my battle shield sword for my fight
be thou my dignity thou my delight
thou my soul shelter first in my time
raise thou me and work all power of my heart
gracious
thou my inheritance now and always
thou and thou only cursed in my heart
i king of heaven my treasure thou art
i king of heaven my victory won
i reach heaven so bright and sun part of my own heart whatever
still be my vision
amen your hymnals now please turn to hymn number 309
309 dare to be a daniel hymn number 309
standing by a purpose through number 309
standing by a purpose through he regards the man
honor them the faithful do all hail to daniel's band
dare to be a daniel dare to stand alone
dare to have a purpose for a dare to make a note
many my team never lost daring not to stand
who forgot at venose by joining daniel's band
dare to be a daniel dare to stand alone
dare to have a purpose for a dare to make a note
many giants great and tall song into the land
and go to the earth where followed by daniel's band
dare to be a daniel dare to stand alone
dare to have a purpose for a dare to make a note
hold the gospel banner high on to victory grand
singing in his host be quiet shout for daniel's band
dare to be a daniel dare to stand alone
dare to have a purpose for a care to make a note
they have a great singing tonight
all right this time we'll pass the offering plates around and as the plates
go around let's turn our bibles to ezra chapter 6 ezra chapter 6 in our
bibles as we always do we'll read the entire
chapter beginning in verse number one follow along silo brother dan as he
reads ezra chapter 6 starting in verse number
one
in ezra chapter 6 the bible reads then darius the king
made a decree and search was made in the house of the rolls where the treasures
were laid up in babylon and there was found at akmitha in the
palace that is in the province of the meads
a role and therein was a record thus written
in the first year of cyrus the king the same cyrus the king made a decree
concerning the house of god at jerusalem let the house be builded the place where
they offered sacrifices and let the foundations thereof be
strongly laid the height thereof three score cubits
and the breadth thereof three score cubits
with three rows of great stones and a row of new timber
and let the expenses be given out of the king's house and also let the golden and
silver vessels of the house of god which nebi knesser took forth out of the
temple which is at jerusalem and brought into babylon be restored and
brought again under the temple which is at jerusalem
every one to his place and place them in the house of god
now therefore tat and i governor beyond the river shethar bosni and your
companions the afarsakites which are beyond the river be far from
thence let the work of this house of god alone
let the governor of the jews and the elders of the jews build this house of
god in his place moreover i make a decree what you shall
do to the elders of these jews for the building of this house of god
that of the king's goods even of the tribute beyond the river
forthwith expenses be given unto these men that they be not hindered
and that which they have need of both young bullocks and rams and lambs for
the burnt offering of the god of heaven wheat salt wine and oil according to the
appointment of the priests which are at jerusalem
let it be given them day by day without fail that they may offer sacrifices of
sweet saviors under the god of heaven and pray for the life of the king and of
his sons also i have made a decree that whosoever
shall alter this word let timber be pulled down from his house
and being set up let him be hanged thereon and let this house be made a
dung hill for this and the god that hath caused his name to
dwell there destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand to alter
and destroy this house of god which is at jerusalem
i darius have made a decree let it be done with speed
then tatni governor on this side the river shethar bosni and their
companions according to that which darius the king had sent
so they did speedily and the elders of the jews builded
and they prospered through the prophesying of haggai the prophet and
zechariah the son of edo and they built it and finished it
according to the commandment of the god of israel and according to the
commandment of cyrus and darius and artaxerxes king of persia
and this house was finished on the third day of the month adar which was in the
sixth year of the reign of darius the king
and the children of israel the priests and the levites and the rest of the
children of the captivity kept the dedication of this house of god with
joy and offered at the dedication of this
house of god and hundred bullocks 200 rams 400 lambs and for a sin
offering for all israel 12 he goats according to the number of the tribes of
israel and they set the priests and their
divisions and the levites and their courses for the service of god
which is at jerusalem as it is written in the book of moses
and the children of the captivity kept the passover under the 14th day of the
first month for the priests and the levites were
purified together all of them were pure and killed the passover for all the
children of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and
for themselves and the children of israel which were come again out of
captivity and all such as had separated themselves
unto them unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the
lord god of israel did eat and kept the feast of unleavened bread
seven days with joy for the lord had made them joyful and
turned the heart of the king of israel unto them
to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of god the god of israel
dear father in heaven please fill pastor of the spirit and please give us all
ears to hear to receive wisdom this night from the sermon we pray in
jesus name amen man the title of my sermon tonight is
let the foundations be strongly laid let the foundations be strongly laid in
ezra chapter 6 verse 3 the bible reads in the first year
of cyrus the king the same cyrus the king made a decree
concerning the house of god at jerusalem let the house be builded the place where
they offered sacrifices and let the foundations thereof be
strongly laid the height thereof three score cubits and the breadth thereof
three score cubits and so the context here of the foundations being strongly
laid has to do with the house of god in the
old testament this was a physical building the temple
in the new testament the bible says that the house of god is
the church of the living god the pillar and ground of the truth the
bible says that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself
in the house of god which is the church of the living god so when it comes to
the church the foundations must be strongly
laid now one of the things that we will sometimes attach to our church as a
descriptor is that we are fundamentalists or we're
independent fundamental baptists what does that mean
obviously we know what the independent means
it means that we are not part of a denomination we're not part of the
southern baptist convention or the north american baptist or the
general association of regular baptist churches
or any of these other denominations we are totally
independent autonomous self-governing entity that's what it means to be
independent but what does it mean to be fundamental
well the word fundamental comes from the same root word as our word
foundation and that's really what it's getting at
fundamental means emphasizing that which is
foundational or being built upon a firm foundation we do not believe that the
word of god is changing or that it's fluid or that it
needs to be kind of interpreted with the times and you know
it just kind of has a general idea of kind of you know love god
and love other people and be nice you know we believe that god says what he
means in the bible and we don't believe that the rules
are constantly changing we believe that sin is still sin
and we take what the bible says literally unless it's obviously
figurative or poetic or symbolic we default to
saying hey this is what the bible says we're not
going to look for some deeper meaning until we deal with what it says right
here on the surface you know if it says not to kill if it
says not to steal if it says not to commit adultery
we're not going to do it you know that's what we believe we also
believe in things like jesus christ literally coming in the flesh
and being born of a literal virgin and living a sinless life dying on the
cross being dead for three days and three
nights and bodily bodily rising again
and we also believe in a literal second coming of the lord jesus christ
these are the type of things that fundamentalists believe in
we also believe that in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth
and we believe that god made man in his own image
that he formed man from the dust of the earth
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and
man became a living soul not just oh man is just you know the end of a
series of evolutionary steps and you've got these other apes and
chimpanzees that are you know 99 like us anyway you know no
we don't believe that we don't believe that we're animals
we don't believe we have quite that much in common with apes and chimpanzees
because we are made in the image of god and we're on such another level from
animals there's not even a comparison we're in a totally different class
okay there's there's there's animals and then there's us and we're not in the
same category okay these are the type of things that
fundamentalists are known for because they're just basic
foundational teachings of the bible and they are teachings
that stem from the fact that we look at the bible as an unchanging rock
where everything around it is changing and the rain
beats against it and the storm and the sea and it just
it just stays there it's just it just remains
that's what we believe so we don't believe that it changes with the times
now certain things do change as far as our culture
our lifestyle in america in the 21st century
is going to be different than it was in the 20th century before smartphones and
internet and other things it's going to be
different than before cars were invented or planes were invented
obviously there are things that change about our culture
and things that change about the way that we live our lives but
god's word doesn't change right and wrong doesn't change the morality of the
bible is literally set in stone
and so that's what it means to be fundamental that's what we mean when we
say we're independent fundamental baptists is that we take the
bible seriously we believe what it says we
don't believe it's changing it is the rock it is the foundation
that we are built on it doesn't move we will conform to it
instead of making it conform unto us this is what it means to be fundamental
so in the house of god we need to let the foundations
of god's house be strongly laid we need to lay down that foundation strongly
now the foundation is jesus christ and the foundation is
the word of god and of course jesus christ and the word of god
are hard to separate anyway because in the beginning was the word
the word was with god the word was god the word was made flesh and dwelt among
us so you've got jesus christ the word and
you've got the written word and so the the word of god in both cases
whether it's the written word or jesus right and obviously we can't fully
understand or grasp that but we know that jesus christ is the
incarnation of god's word and so uh it's hard to even
separate jesus from the word of god i think it's a mistake to try to separate
jesus from his word and so the foundation is jesus
therefore the foundation is the word now psalm 11 3 says this you don't have
to turn there if you would turn to first corinthians chapter 3
psalm 11 3 says this if the foundations be destroyed
what can the righteous do why do we need to lay down a strong foundation
because if the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do everything
else is in vain if you have a bad foundation
if the foundation fails it doesn't matter how beautiful the building is
it doesn't matter how quality the workmanship or how good the materials
were if the foundation fails everything is
doomed and so you've got to lay down a strong
foundation if the foundations be destroyed
what can the righteous do now what is our final authority
for all matters of faith and practice in the local church it's the word of god
this is the boss not what the pastor says not what
some great baptist leader of the pastor present says
the bible is our final authority so if the devil can mess up the bible
in any number of ways and give us some other version of the bible
that's completely messed up that says something totally different
then you could see how he would love to do that because he would love to destroy
our foundation he would love to take our foundation
right out from under us and this is why our church is king james bible only
now a lot of people say oh you want those king james but yes
oh i can't believe the king james bible only oh it's 2021
but let me tell you something it's insane
to be a part of this bible of the month club where the bible is constantly
changing and then you're going to claim to be founded on the rock
and you can sit there and say well we're founded on the original greek and hebrew
text yeah but here's the problem with that
99.9999 percent of christians can't read the original hebrew and greek text so
that's not really going to do us any good
being in a museum somewhere or being on the pastor's shelf
or being on a theologian's shelf if it's not in the hands of the people in the
pew that are actually living and serving god
and operating the church on a day-to-day basis
they better have the word of god in their own language
and so it's not enough to just say well it's stable in this other language that
99.99999 percent of christians don't speak
but in english we get a new one every five years
in english we get a new one every 10 years and let me tell you something
these bibles are constantly changing the niv
it's not like it's just the niv which niv you know because the niv goes through
dramatic changes every few years you know you got the 1984 niv and then
you got the 2011 niv and they're very different we're not
talking about just differences and spellings or punctuation or
correcting a typo we're talking about dramatically different readings
in places one of the big changes in 2011 was to make the niv more gender neutral
unlike the 1984 niv which retained most of the he
him his you know it switches to this plural they
you know even for a singular calling a singular they
right hmm what does that remind you of bunch of queers and weirdos that want to
do that with our language and so i'm not a part of the bible of the
month club my bible says the same thing that it does when i was six years old
and got saved by my mother's bedside it still says the same thing now 34
years later and 34 years from now it's still going
to say the same thing and it has said the same thing for over
400 years and god's people have thrived churches have thrived souls have been
saved this week and a year ago and 10 years ago
and 100 years ago and 400 years ago with this exact
book as far as this english translation of the bible
and so sorry i'm not interested in what the atheistic scholars in germany
have decided to do with the greek new testament this year
and and by the way oh i forgot to mention to you oh no
the greek and hebrew are up for grabs too anyway friend
those aren't even stable because guess what we're on the 28th edition
of the nesley alond greek new testament so
even if you you know what i said earlier just go ahead and just delete everything
i said earlier about hey it's not enough to be stable in the
greek and hebrew because these people don't even have a stable greek and hebrew
text either because they're constantly uh twisting
the hebrew text to go along with their new archaeological findings and the dead
sea scrolls and the septuagint and all these other things and they're
constantly changing the greek new testament
to where now they are going to literally overhaul the entire thing
with a new method called the coherence based genealogical method
brand new method for text criticism they're going to redo the whole greek
new testament and make dramatic changes to it
so far they've done just a small portion of it
uh i believe they did something like maybe first peter through the book of
jude or something and that's going to show up in the 29th
edition of the nesley alon but then there's going to be the 30th
edition and the 31st and then that will all trickle down into the english
translations and they'll just keep changing and
they'll keep changing and then they'll dig up something and
then some geek in germany will find something
and change something and it just keeps changing and changing
that's not a foundation the bible is done it was already finished a long time
ago it doesn't need to keep changing it's
done here we are we're done we've got it done
greek text done hebrew text done translated into modern english done
if you want to be a scholar and worry about
languages then let's get it translated into some languages that don't have a
bible but we're we're doing good in english
we're good to go all right we're okay now let's just use the thing
so we need to have the foundations strongly laid
and if the foundations are destroyed where we have some bible
that's been judaized where jewish scholarship and rabbinical type of ideas
have made it into the old testament translations now because we all know the
jews are the experts on the old testament right
even though the bible says in second corinthians chapter three that the jews
have a veil over their eyes when they read the old testament and they are
blinded and cannot comprehend the old testament
we need christians to interpret the old testament
i want christians to tell me what genesis means i want christians to tell
me what exodus means people who believe in christ people have
the holy spirit of god in their bosom but that's not what's
driving modern old testament scholarship it's driven by judaism well
you know what if i wanted to be jewish i'd be down in synagogue right now
i wouldn't be in a baptist church right now okay i don't believe in judaism i
believe in christianity and so the modern versions they're
being corrupted by bogus scholars unbelieving scholars
scholars who don't believe in the bodily resurrection they don't believe in the
virgin birth maybe they're even jewish and don't
even believe that jesus christ is the son of god
and that's who is changing these modern versions
and we need to stick by the traditional text the king james version this is the
traditional text this is what god has blessed and god has
used and so you can say oh that's a really
radical position there's nothing radical about just wanting to keep the bible the
same and not getting all excited because
someone dug up some piece of literal trash you know
why stuff ends up in the dirt because it's trash
because stuff that's not trash gets used and and people use it like here here's
the thing you know we use our bibles and we drive
them till the wheels fall off okay and then we throw them away right
and they pretty much are not going to be dug up 500 years from now or a thousand
years from now and be intact they're going to be just toast
they're going to be gone okay but that doesn't bother us
because we just keep copy getting more copies and more they're printing how
many millions of king james bibles every year
so it keeps getting passed down i'm not worried about the fact that we're going
to run out of king james bibles because guess what 200 years from now
there will still be plenty of them floating around
okay but you know what bibles like let's say the recovery version you
know one time i was in a bookstore and i found a
a bible that was called the recovery version and it was in a vhs case
like you slid it out of a vhs case it's like just a cool way to present the
bible like you slide out of a literal vhs case
you know here's the thing the i'm not convinced that the recovery
bible is going to be in print 400 years from now
you know what i mean in fact i mean the 1984 niv might not even be around
500 years from now i don't know but you know
it's it's probably likely too because it was a major translation
but there's all these other like kind of fly by night
squirrely janky translations out there right now aren't there
okay they're not going to be in print 500 years from now
but there are still going to be millions of copies of the kjv
but you know what some guy will then dig up the recovery version
and find it because the vhs case like preserved it
from a nuclear bomb or something it was just made out of the right material
and he's gonna find it and be like oh this is older and better
this is the real thing you know one document can be preserved just by a
fluke just by chance and it could be junk
it's like oh we found these new readings of the old testament that we've never
seen before you know why you've never seen them
before because they're junk because the good readings got copied and
copied and passed down and preached and used to be understand
what i'm saying it's the junk that dies and has to be
resurrected like 700 years later because it went out of print because
nobody cared because they were too busy printing the
real stuff does everybody see what i'm saying you
just have to use a little logic here so that's one foundation that needs to
be strongly laid we need to understand that our king
james bible is the traditional text that means it's
been passed down that means it's what god's people have
been using using using okay if you dig up something tomorrow i
don't care how old it is i don't care if somebody dates it and
says this is from the first century ad then i would just say well you know what
there were people corrupting the word of god even in the first century ad
because the apostle paul said it we're not as many which corrupt the word of
god it was already happening in his lifetime
so even when paul is writing his epistles there are people corrupting the
word of god age has nothing to do with it either
god preserved his word or he didn't either you have faith that god
preserved the bible for us or you don't and if you don't then why
would you even go to a baptist church if you believe that we need some scholar
to reconstruct the text because god didn't preserve the text
hey god preserved the text what we have is god's word
and it has been providentially preserved through the centuries
and this is the english translation of it
in the king james version it's accurate it's reliable it's been around for 400
years don't mess with it the foundation is the
word of god the foundation is jesus christ look at first corinthians
chapter 3 verse 10 according to the grace of god which is
given unto me as a wise master builder i have laid the foundation and another
buildeth thereon but let every man take heed how he
buildeth there upon for other foundation can no man lay
then that is laid which is jesus christ now if any man build upon this
foundation gold silver precious stones wood hay stubble every man's work shall
be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed
by fire and the fire shall try every man's work
of what sort it is if any man's work abide which he had built
there on he shall receive a reward if any man's work shall be burned he
shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so is
by fire but let me tell you something if you don't have the right foundation
you're not even there you're not even at this event you know the
bible here is talking about the judgment seat of christ
how every man's work is going to be made manifest the day
shall declare it at that judgment seat of christ
our works are going to be tried by fire but let me tell you something
the works will only be there if they're built on the foundation of jesus christ
because if you don't have that foundation of jesus christ if you're not
even saved you're not even there now once you have that foundation of
jesus christ then you build on that by doing works you know you start by
getting saved and then you do work for the lord right
and some of the work that you do for the lord is of eternal value
gold silver precious stones other work that you do for the lord
was wood hey and stubble it doesn't really have eternal value
and the bible teaches that if all of your work is burned
you're going to suffer loss meaning you don't get a reward because your works
were all wood hey and stubble but you know what you're still saved
though look at that powerful verse in verse 13
if any man's work or verse 15 sorry if any man's work shall be burned he shall
suffer loss but he himself shall be
saved so you've got if you've got jesus as your foundation
and then you you totally screw up the building
right you're okay let's build on it let's build the works and it's just all
wood hey and stubble nothing no gold no silver no precious stones it's just
wood hey and stubble and you get to the judgment seat of christ
and all your works go up in smoke but you're still saved so don't try and
tell me well if you're really saved you're
going to have the works you know salvation is by faith alone but
faith is never alone yeah it is the bible says but to him that
worketh not but believeth on him that justified the
ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
even as david also described it the blessedness of the man
unto whom god impudeth righteousness without works
saying blessed are they whose sins are forgiven and whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are covered blessed is the man to whom the lord will
not impute sin and if your works are burned up you
yourself shall still be saved and it says yet so
is by fire and people say you know well what does that mean yet so is by fire
what does that mean you know answer number one
who cares you're saved
you yourself shall be saved amen good enough for me what i but but answer
number two a better answer than that my opinion is
that that simply means that you're saved like by the skin of
your teeth you know it's like you you made it okay
but but but here's the thing let's say i'm wrong about that who i don't care
what it means because you know what i worry about in
the bible the stuff that's really clear and i do know what it means
because i guarantee you that i don't care if i live to be a hundred
i'm never gonna understand every word of the bible perfectly
but i'll tell you what some of the bible is real clear
like the parts that say that if you believe you'll have eternal life
and that everyone that believes has eternal life those verses abound
and those are clear and the clear thing i take from this verse
is that if my works are burned i will still be saved
and you know what if i'm saved i have eternal life
i'm going to heaven hey it's a shame to miss out on those rewards
but it's a lot better than going to hell
now you say why do you talk so much about salvation it seems like almost
every single sermon you know you put in some little two-minute rant
about how salvation is by faith and it's not by works
you want to know why i bring up salvation in literally almost every
sermon even if it's just for a minute or two
it's because i'm trying to let that foundation be strongly laid in our
church let the foundations be strongly laid
what could be more foundational than the doctrine
of jesus christ the doctrine of salvation
right doctrines of eternal magnitude like heaven and hell
that's pretty important now if you would go to hebrews chapter 6
hebrews chapter 6 we're talking about letting the foundations be strongly
laid fundamentalists always talk a lot about being saved
why because being saved is the foundation having jesus
as your savior is the foundation and then the works get built on that
so anybody who's a fundamentalist you should expect them to talk a lot about
the foundation so they're probably going to talk a lot
about being saved making sure everybody has that right foundation
and that's why independent fundamental baptists have always
emphasized being born again being saved having eternal life
salvation by faith these things have always been emphasized
by those who are fundamental because it's foundational
now hebrews chapter 6 says therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine
of christ let us go on into perfection not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works and of faith toward god
of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection
of the dead and of eternal judgment and he goes on
to talk about other things but let's stop and look at this verse for a minute
you know he lists six things here that he says are foundational
says not laying again the foundation of and he lists six things
but you know really there aren't six things in this list
there are really seven things in the list because when he says
leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ
that's the first foundation the principles of the doctrine of christ
that's the foundation and then these other six things are six other
foundational things for a total of seven foundational things
because he's been talking about the doctrine of christ
for hebrews chapter one through hebrews chapter five
and now he gets to chapter six he says okay now let's leave the principles of
the doctrine of christ like we've talked about
the basic doctrine of christ we're going to leave that subject
and we're not going to lay again these other foundations so we did deal with
this foundation in depth you know five chapters we've
been talking about the foundation the principles of the doctrine of christ
now we're going to move on onto basically more complicated things
more difficult subjects and we're not going to do these other simple subjects
or foundational subjects or basics okay
now what are these foundational subjects first of all
the doctrine of christ that's number one and we'll get back to that
but another thing that is foundational according to hebrews
chapter six here is repentance from dead works
and of faith toward god now what does repentance of debt from dead works mean
you know a lot of people say oh that's repenting of your sins
is that what that says it's not what that says now you might have one of the
if you're in the bible of the month club maybe your bible this month says that
that's possible i wouldn't be surprised but you know the bible doesn't say
repenting from sin it says repentance from dead works you
say what are dead works well let me explain it to you this way you
know faith without works is dead and works without faith is dead
right so if you have faith without works you have dead faith
and if you have works without faith you have dead works
so dead works would be works that you think you're doing for the lord
but you don't actually have your faith in jesus christ you know what dead works
are it's when people are in a false
religion working their way to heaven and they're doing all this service for
god to earn their way into heaven and when
they come before christ he's going to say to
them depart from me i never knew you ye that
work iniquity and they're going to say lord lord if
we not prophesied in thy name and on thy name of cast out devils and
in thy name done many wonderful works and then while i profess unto them i
never knew you depart from me that work iniquity you
see the unsaved who are not known by jesus christ who do
not have their faith in jesus christ as their savior the
wonderful works that they do god sees those as works of iniquity
so you could be going down to the united methodist church every week
with the rainbow flag on the sign and you maybe you're working in their soup
kitchen or maybe you're counseling lesbians
down there or something whatever you do down there you know
they're doing all this work for the lord down at the united methodist church
but i submit to you that the united methodist church is doing
absolutely nothing of value for the kingdom of god
and in fact they are evil is what they are
but they do it in the name of jesus and they're going to be all lined up one day
saying to jesus lord lord i was a lesbian minister of the united
methodist church i preached about you i told the story of
the good samaritan 500 times
he's going to say i never knew you you filthy dyke
depart from me into everlasting fire prepare for the devil and his angels
and that's an extreme example with the united methodist church because the
united methodist church is just so evil and so godless and so perverted but you
know there are lots of other people maybe in a less extreme situation where
they're just they're going to a church that
seems like a good church but it's a works-based salvation
those are dead works because they're not built on the foundation of faith in
christ those are dead works and so in order for
someone to be saved they would have to repent of
dead works meaning they have to stop trusting in those
rituals or works to save them i mean if someone thinks well i'm going
to go to heaven because i go to church every week
and i light a candle and i get on my knees and i cross myself
and i go through this process and the the priest
puts a wafer on my tongue and it dissolves in my mouth
and and i go through the process every ash wednesday
he puts the mark of the beast excuse me he puts a little ash on my forehead
and and uh or i maybe i get in my right hand or my forehead
and basically you know he slapped me when i was confirmed the priest slapped
me in the face and said receive the holy ghost
and so now i know i'm going to look in order to be saved
you would have to renounce that as your way to heaven
you can't say well i believe in jesus but i'm going to heaven because of the
because i go to confession because i go to mass because i've been
confirmed because i do the eucharist because i do
ash wednesday and fat tuesday and everything else
the bottom line is that those works that you do to earn your way to heaven
they're dead works and you have to repent of that
meaning you can't do faith and works you have to repent of the dead works and
start trusting in the finished work of christ
to save you so it's got to be faith not works it
can't be faith plus works so this is foundational repentance from
dead works repentance from works that are done to
earn salvation without faith in christ not based on a faith in the finished
work of christ as you're taken into heaven
repentance from dead works and faith toward god faith in god
we've got to have faith to save us not doing a bunch of deeds to save us
because salvation is by grace through faith not of works lest any man should
boast of the doctrine of baptisms you know
obviously that's a foundational thing that we're baptized by immersion
after salvation you know you don't really have to be that smart reading the
bible to figure out the baptisms by immersion
you don't have to be an expert or a theologian to understand that
although i'm sure many experts and theologians can explain sprinkling to
you it's not in the bible in the bible they
go both down into the water and john baptized
there because there was much water there and we're buried with him by baptism
into his death that like as christ was raised up from
the dead to the glory of god the father we also
should walk in newness of light we're buried with him by baptism into his
death okay jesus when he was baptized came up
straight way out of the water okay they went down both of them into the
water both philip and eunuch and he baptized him
it's pretty obvious that people are being immersed in water
when they get baptized in the river in the jordan river they're dunked under
the water and it's also clear that you have to
believe on jesus christ before you can get baptized that's why
the ethiopian eunuch says see here's water what doth hinder me to be baptized
and in acts 837 in the king james bible not in the niv not in the esv not in
these other new bibles that are coming out constantly
it says if thou believeth with all thine heart thou missed
and the eunuch said i believe that jesus christ is the son of god
and that's when he stopped the chariot and they went down into the water
and he baptized him okay you've got to be
saved before you can get baptized you don't sprinkle a baby and call it
baptism you dunk someone who has already made the
personal decision to believe on the lord jesus christ
these are foundational teachings the doctrine of baptisms
and of laying on of hands what is laying on of hands about
well this is typically talking about people being ordained into the ministry
and people being chosen and ordained to be a pastor or a deacon
they lay hands on them and pray for them they meet certain qualifications
again a basic teaching
the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the
dead you know i mean that's pretty basic
right that's pretty foundational to believe in an afterlife for god's
people and to believe not in just an afterlife
but also that there's going to be a a resurrection of the just
and a resurrection of the unjust and that there's going to be a resurrection
of life and there's going to be a resurrection
of damnation this life is not the end you know the
sadducees were a group of people in the old testament
who claimed to believe the word of god but yet
they denied the resurrection and jesus was dealing with them constantly and
dealing with the pharisees but the pharisees you know they believed
at least that there was going to be a resurrection
they believed in angels and spirits and things but
the sadducees had such a carnal view of life that they
believed that there was no angel or spirit and they believed that
you know your spirit is just the breath in your body and when you die
you're gone and you'll never come back and it's just over
hey we don't believe that we believe that we have eternal life
and that after you die there's heaven and hell and there's going to be
a resurrection of the just and the unjust and
some people are going to spend uh eternity burning in the lake of fire
others are going to spend eternally uh eternity
with jesus christ blessed forever living in the new earth and so forth
the resurrection of the dead and again you know this rolls into the next thing
eternal judgment eternal judgment i mean what does that
mean eternal judgment is that like the seventh day avenue
say where you just kind of burn up and then you're gone
is that eternal judgment no the bible says these shall go away into
everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal
hell is an everlasting punishment it lasts forever
it does not end that is eternal judgment and that's a foundational teaching of the
word of god go if you would to second john just a
few pages to the right in your bible second john
let the foundations be strongly laid we we need to have a strong
foundation of the word of god which means we can't be changing our bible
every couple years letting five people in germany make the
decision for the entire christian world what the bible should say and those five
people do they even believe that jesus rose from the dead
do they believe in the virgin birth huh do they even
know how to win a soul to christ are they even saved themselves
can you name these five people
no because and if i if i gave you their names you'd just be like who's that
who's that guy oh he's just the guy controlling the greek text
for you know the entire civilized world and chain making dramatic changes to the
word of god and that's going to filter down into your new english version
10 years from now 15 years from now 20 years from now
you know anything about him no you don't because he's who is he
he's in a smoke-filled room somewhere is what he is
the rulers of the darkness of this world know who that guy is
but look at second john verse 9 it says whosoever transgresseth and abideth not
in the doctrine of christ hath not god he that abideth in the doctrine of christ
he hath both the father and the son if they're coming unto you and bring not
this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him godspeed
for he that biddeth him godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds
the doctrine of christ is paramount it is foundational if we're going to let the foundations
of god's house be strongly laid obviously we need a strong foundation of an unchanging
word of god a final authority set in stone and look if 500 years from now the english language
has changed so much that a new bible is needed in our language because because you know maybe
because languages do sometimes change over time dramatically maybe not anymore because our
language is pretty locked in because of the technology but let's say 500 years from now
we needed a new bible in the next phase of english you know what though it would still
be translated from the same greek and hebrew text underlying this king james version and
it should still agree with this king james version in what it says
it should still say the same message it should be an accurate translation into that futuristic
language 500 years from now if that ever even happens but here we are today in 2021 and we
can understand this book just fine and all the words in this book are in uh an english dictionary
today there's nothing that's too archaic for us to deal with and so we're sticking with this
and we need a bible that stays the same so that we can be founded on the rock and not on the
shifting sands of textual criticism that is constantly changing that is never over these
people don't work want to work themselves out of a job because if textual criticism is over then
what you know what do they do with themselves anymore so that's why the work just has to never
end that's why you know the esv recently said that it was the final edition it's never going
to change again it took like less than a year for them to be like we're making a new one
because they spent a month playing golf and they're like dude i need i need a gig man
let's make another esv man let's just keep milking this thing for everything we can
these calvinists will keep buying it man let's do it they got bored after a couple months and
said let's make a new one you see there's no job in fundamentalism for being a textual critic
because we already have the text we already have the greek text we already have the hebrew text
we're done you know the only job is translating it into foreign languages or using it in our
language those are the jobs okay the doctrine of the word of god needs to be something that's
foundational we need to strongly lay that foundation and know where we stand on the bible
and not just that we have the king james version but that we also believe that the bible is god's
word and that the bible is inspired by god and that it's not just written by man and and he put
his own opinions and well you know it just kind of reflects the misogyny of back then or what you
know no it doesn't this book says what god intends it to say yes it's written by human authors but
they spoke as they were moved by the holy ghost and they're inspired by god and it's god's word
it's not of any private interpretation it was not delivered in old time by the will of man but by
the will of god god's word is foundational jesus is foundational jesus christ salvation we need to
lay that foundation strongly and also we need to strongly lay down the foundation of who jesus is
now specifically what was being hammered in the book of hebrews chapters one through five when he
said that he had just finished laying down the doctrine of christ the principles of the doctrine
of christ you know what was really hammered in that part of hebrew is the deity of jesus christ
because in chapter one it said unto the son he saith thy throne oh god is forever and ever
you know and again in chapter three it says this man was counted worthy of more glory than moses
in as much as he was builded the house hath more honor than the house for every house is
builded by some man but he that built all things is god and it just finished telling us that jesus
is the one who built all things and that he who built all things is god and so we see that jesus
christ is better than the angels in chapter one he's better than moses he is god in the flesh
he's the express image of the person of god the father and so jesus christ is deity but you know
what there is also another error out there that teaches that there's no trinity and that jesus
christ is god the father wrong jesus christ is the son there's the father the son and the holy ghost
the father is god jesus is god the holy ghost is god but the father is not the son the son
is not the father the son is not the holy ghost the holy ghost is not the father but they are
all god but it's one god one god three persons okay and we could think of all kinds of illustrations
to illustrate that and every illustration that we think of is going to come short
no illustration is going to be perfect people sometimes get mad at you when you use an
illustration and be like oh you don't use the wrong you know i think any illustration can work
for the trinity as long as you don't just like take it too far and make the make the illustration
your final authority we need to make the word of god the final authority and the illustration is
just to kind of help us grasp some things so don't take the illustration too seriously don't fixate
too much on the the illustration you know we're down in mexico soul winning and we felt that the
tres leches cake was you know an illustration of the trinity you know three milks one cake
you know the condensed milk is cake the fresh or the condensed milk is milk the fresh milk is
about you know it's one dessert three milks tres leches cake all right so you know i'm sure you
could pick apart that illustration and find all the problems with it okay no illustration is
going to be perfect but here's the thing you know one illustration that i think is a pretty good
illustration is that we as people are a body a soul and a spirit but yet we're one person
now again i'm not saying god's one person god's three persons one god but it's the same type of a
trichotomy because if you stop and think about it you know my soul is not the same as my body
my body is not the same as my spirit my spirit and my soul are not the same thing wouldn't you
say all these three are different from one another but yet the body is steven anderson
the soul is steven anderson the spirit is steven anderson so that just kind of goes to show how
three things can be one and even if they were separated even if i die and i give up the ghost
and the coroner calls you and says will you identify pastor anderson's body and you go to
the morgue are you going to be like well that's not pastor anderson pastor anderson's in heaven
no you're going to look at the body and be like
it's him it's pastor you know but you're going to say it's pastor anderson and it'll be true
but i'm going to be up in heaven and i'm going to be pastor anderson up there too
you see that okay so obviously again that is not a perfect illustration of the trinity
but it just kind of gets you thinking along the right lines other people would use an illustration
of like an egg you know there's a shell there's a yolk there's a white it's one egg or whatever
you know and again all these illustrations fall short so don't fixate on them here are the facts
from the word of god you want to know the facts jesus is the son of god is that a fact or what
i mean can we argue with that jesus is the son of god okay here's another fact jesus is god
and here's another fact there's only one god
so you can see how we're getting toward the trinity now just by stating a couple basic
facts once we know that jesus is god and the father is god and jesus is the son of the father
and there's only one god and then we get to the book of john and in the book of john over and
over again jesus distinguishes himself from the father he says you know you know i didn't i didn't
send myself the father sent me i'm not here testifying of myself the father testifies me
you know what jesus said and this this should just shut the mouth of every modalist permanently
everyone is pentecostal this should just shut him up permanently jesus said if i bear record
of myself my record's not true there's another that bears witness of me the father
now if jesus and the father are the same person then there's not two witnesses
it's written in your law the testimony of two men is true i bear witness of myself and the father
bears witness he says that's the testimony of two men and if we get to first john five seven the
famous verse everybody forgets the first part of the verse they're so focused on the second part
of the verse they all forget the first part of the verse it says for there are three that bear
record in heaven the father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one they focus on the
part that says the father the the word and the holy ghost and these three are one they focus on
that like father word holy ghost these three are one amen but don't forget the first part of the
verse there are three that bear record and if you would go to first you're in second john it's not
too far for you to go go to first john okay you can you can turn one page you big baby okay first
john chapter five look at the context it says in verse number six or it says at the end of
verse six it says it is the spirit that beareth witness do you see that that bears witness
for there are three that bear record so you see how bearing witness and bearing record
are the same thing and that's why he says in verse eight and there are three that bear witness
in earth so there are three that bear record in heaven and there are three that bear witness in
earth the spirit and the water and the blood and these three agree in one and then look at verse
nine if we receive the witness of man the witness of god is greater what does that mean if we
receive the witness of men it's saying if we would listen to the testimony of three separate
witnesses getting up and telling us the same thing in court if three witnesses showed up
and testified of the same thing we would say that's a strong case the prosecution has a strong case
we've got these three witnesses but what if those three witnesses were really just one witness
you know uh i'd like to call to the stand stephen anderson the pastor and then when he's done okay
call your next witness i'm calling now stephen anderson the husband and for my third witness
i'm calling stephen anderson the parent is that three witnesses but that's what oneness
pentecostals believe that's what modalists believe that it's just god acting as different roles you
know these these heretics that we threw out of our church for denying the trinity this is how
they explained it uh they explained it as well you know the the trinity is basically like you know
it's one band and you've got the guitar this is how they explained it okay the you got the
guitarist and the bass player and the drummer and it's three guys but it's one band right like three
persons one god they said that you know what we believe is that basically it's like a one-man
band it's just one guy he he plays the drums he plays the bass he plays the guitar but it's all
one guy it's a one-man band so it's basically one guy that's in three different roles he's in the
role of the drummer the role of the bass player the role of the guitar player but here's the thing
they're saying you know it's it's just one person who puts on the father hat puts on the son hat
it's like that old i don't know if it was andy griffith's show or something you know it's some
old black and white comedy sketch one time where the it's some small one-horse town and so one guy
he's like the mayor but then he like takes off his hat and puts on like a police hat and now
he's the police chief and then the guy's like let me talk to the fire chief and he ticks off puts
on fireman hat okay now i'm the fire chief he's just playing every role who knows what i'm talking
about so the point is that that is not what the bible teaches because if you went to court and
called that three witnesses that's ridiculous the in order to have three witnesses it has to be
three persons that's why jesus said it's written in your law the testimony of two men is true
that's why he said if i bear witness of myself my testimony is not true there's another
that bears witness of me the father the son and the holy ghost are three witnesses they are the
three witnesses the father the son and the holy ghost if they're all the same person they can't
be three witnesses that's what the bible actually teaches so if you just get a few basic facts and
people act like oh the trinity is so complicated took hundreds of years to develop the doctrine
it's not complicated folks if jesus is god and jesus is the son of god and there's only one god
and we know that jesus is the express image of his person and no man has seen god at any time
but the only forgotten son which is in the bosom of the father he had declared him and there's
three witnesses the father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one and we have all
these things in the book of john where where jesus says you know i came not to do my own will
just kidding i came to do my own will no he said i came not to do my own will but the will of him
that sent me there's the father's will there's the son's will you know what it's three different
centers of consciousness it is three different persons now obviously they are united it's one
god in three persons but look jesus said in john 17 that the father loved him before the
world began so before the world even began before god even created the heaven and the earth the
father loved the son how can that is that just one person loving himself what about when jesus
was on the cross and said myself myself why is thou forsaken myself no he said my god my god
why is thou forsaken me how can that be if it's the same person it's one god three persons you
say well i think i should be one person there's no one else to compare him to there's only one god
in the whole universe and he's three persons so you better just get used to god meaning
three persons because that's the only god there is and he's always been three persons and he always
will be three persons so that's what god means well how can that be one guy i think it's three
guys no because you don't even know what god means because god is the father the son of the
holy ghost that's the only god that there's a there are no other gods you know whenever the
bible says god's little g those aren't actually gods it's false gods that's why the bible says
will there be many that are called gods there are many that are called lords but there's only one
god okay and so this is foundational the doctrine of christ this matters this needs to be strongly
laid out don't get bored of hearing lots of preaching on the trinity don't get bored of
hearing preaching on salvation don't get bored of hearing preaching on baptism being by immersion or
these things you know we've got to lay down these strong foundations because look i'm all for
building fancy things on it you know i like to preach the deep things of the bible i like to
preach obscure bible stories that nobody's ever heard of and pull out deep truths from the word
of god hey i love it you love it well i love it too i love to learn new things and to get into
advanced teaching from the bible right i like the deep stuff too i'm for it i'm with it but but
here's the thing you know i'd hate to preach all this deep teaching and all this advanced teaching
and all this intermediate teaching and then have a bunch of people in our church you know confused
on salvation confused on the trinity confused on baptism getting mixed up in false doctrine because
we didn't lay down the foundation so we always need to hammer the basics and hammer the foundation
and by the way it's like this in any area of life the foundation is important in every area of life
you know you can have all kinds of bells and whistles on your vehicle but you know it better
have a good foundation you know i don't know about you i want the engine to work and to last and to
be solid it's not like oh this seed will you know heat up your backside it's like i live in arizona
i live in arizona man my backside is hot enough okay but it's like oh you know it's got this
you know five disc changer cd i guess that's obsolete now shows how much i know oh it's got
a you know it's an automatic but you can switch into sport shift mode you know but here's the
thing what happens if it just breaks down after 25 000 miles or something you're not going to
care about the pin striping down the side the spoiler on the back you know oh you know you
know most cars have the engine in the front this one's got the engine in the back ah what do they
call that again mid engine mid engine you know i don't care if it's mid engine i just want working
engine is what i care about you know you want the foundation to be right you want the the power
train and the you know you want the the fundamentals to be sound and you know if if i
had a car that was all banged up and scratched and dinged and and had duct tape and bondo and
everything else if if i had that car but the fundamentals were sound i'd be okay driving that
car whereas what about just like a beautiful perfect looking car and you turn it on and it
sounds weird and it's constantly breaking down and you're constantly having problems right
what would you rather have you'd rather have the fundamentals be right so i'd rather go into
a church that looks a little rough on the outside a little bit of bondo but it's fundamental
then the church where everything's perfect and the music's perfect and the decorations are perfect
and everything but the thing won't start you can't even get the thing to start a lot of these
churches are non-starters they don't even start i want a church that runs okay and you know what
i don't care if it looks perfect on the outside i want the fundamentals to be right because you
know what we can always fix the outside but if the fundamentals are bad you know it might be better
just to total that vehicle just to send it to the junkyard because it's fundamentally flawed the
engine is fundamentally flawed or something or just the the frame is not right or something
it's just like you know what we could work on this and fix it and pretty soon you're just going
to be throwing good money after bad trying to fix a vehicle that's fundamentally flawed it's junk
get a new one but you know if i have one that's fundamentally sound i can always fix the body
i can always make repairs to peripheral things and so that's the way church needs to be we need
to have a strong foundation now ideally you know it's going to look good and run good but you know
obviously the fundamentals are the most important thing we need to make sure that in our church
the fundamentals are laid down strongly ephesians says this you don't have to turn there it says
you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets jesus christ himself being the chief
cornerstone you're built on the foundation of the apostles that's referring to the new testament
the prophets that's referring to the old testament that's your foundation the apostles and prophets
you know your your foundation is jesus is your foundation the word of god is your foundation
foundation being saved is your foundation understanding the trinity is your foundation
right these are foundational things and if we get these foundational things right
there's no limit to how high we can build this thing i mean if we have the ultimate foundation
we can build as high as we want we can build 10 stories 20 stories 100 stories if we have
the right foundation whereas if the foundation's wrong it doesn't matter how good we are at
building doesn't matter how much money we throw at the thing you can throw money at that building
project you're going to build the leaning tower of pisa because your foundation isn't right
and then everything is in vain after that
if you take the time to lay down the fundamentals then you build on that okay you know and it's like
that in every area of life talked about cars you know you think about fighting think about
boxing or something you know it's the left jab it's the right cross you know and here's the thing
even guys that are super advanced super skillful you know what they're going to keep doing they're
going to keep working on jab cross hook they're going to keep doing that over and over and over
and over again because of the fact that those things are fundamental and everything else kind
of builds on a few basic skills and you've got to make sure that you have these fundamental
things right and so we've got to have the right bible the right salvation the right doctrine of
jesus christ and don't even dare come to me and say i don't think that the trinity is a big deal
as long as you believe in the deity of christ you're okay you're full of beans buddy because
the bible says you have to believe jesus the son of god to be saved says you have to believe he's
the son of god the son of god the son of god i believe that jesus christ the son of god that's
what the ethiopian eunuch said last time i checked he that believeth on the sun has everlasting life
this other weird charismatic pentecostal doctrine that says well no jesus is the father
it's garbage you're tampering with a fundamental doctrine there and we should not play with that
doctrine we need to be serious about the fact that it's the trinity and that it's not oneness
and we need to be serious about the fact that we're going to stick with an english bible that's
translated from the traditional text this is the authoritative translation over 400 years it's been
the rock it is the standard other versions can call themselves new american standard english
standard version that don't make them standard my friend because they're all compared to this
this is the standard see well why is that the standard because it is it's it just is
yeah but why it just is so uh it is the standard de facto it's the standard why is it the standard
oh i don't know because it's been the most popular bible for the last 400 plus years
whether you like it or not and you say well the niv outsold it yeah but this is the most read
bible by a mile pew research did a study people actually read the bible overwhelmingly do the
king james so niv sells bibles for people to put on their shelf their little precious moments niv
but they spend precious little time looking at the thing okay they use it as a doorstop
they use it just as a decoration or window dressing but this right here is what people
actually read the most even according to a worldly pew research centers polling
and so the king james bible is the standard because it is always going to be
the book that god's people are using as far as you know while we speak this language you know
so if somebody's listening to this uh recording a thousand years from now i don't know what's
going to be happening okay but the point is that this book is not waning in popularity i i can't
even count how many times i had people say like oh the king james bible's dying you're a dying
breed you king james people you're dying that's a lie look at google trends on search terms kjv
esv and niv and look at how around the year 2012-2013 all of a sudden the kjv just started
trending it's like they're all three kind of steady kind of steady and then the kjv just goes
like this and i saw somebody show me that graphic and i fact checked it myself to make sure it was
real so i went to google trends i ran the search myself and saw that same result of the kjv trending
and right now even this year there are multitudes of churches switching back to the king james in
the year 2021 right now they're switching back even other denominations even presbyterians
and reformed baptists and they're switching to the king james the king james is still and by the way
the king james i i think i looked at a statistic it's like 40 percent of churches are using it or
something you know a lot of them are other denominations and stuff but the point is
it's not going away it's still the standard you know it always will be you know obviously
in the foreseeable future the point is that god's word is always going to be preached by god's people
and loved by god's people we know the voice of the shepherd when we hear it the doctrine of
christ baptism the trinity the word don't get weary of of us hammering these things over and
over again because you're that same bozo who doesn't want to practice the jab and cross is
what you are you you know you only want the exotic spinning back fist and and the jump kick
you need the basics my friend we need to let the foundations be strongly laid let's
bow your heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much for uh salvation for the
word lord thank you for giving us a foundation i'm so glad that i don't have to live my life
on the shifting sands of this world a religion that's constantly changing a book that's
constantly changing lord thank you for the stability of having the word as our rock and
thank you that jesus christ is the same yesterday and today and forever and it's in his name we pray
amen amen let's turn our song books to him number 150
150 my faith has found a resting place him number 150
number 150 my faith has found a resting place
my faith has found a resting place not in the vice nor creed i trust the ever living one
his roots for me shall be i need no other argument i need no other plea
me it is enough that jesus died and that he died for me enough for me that jesus says
this is my fear and doubt a sinful soul i come to him he'll never cast me out i need no other
argument i need no other plea is enough that jesus died and that he died for me
my heart is leaning on the word the written word of god salvation by my savior's name
salvation through his blood i need no other argument i need no other
me it is enough that jesus died and that he died for me my great position
heals the sick the lost he came to save for me his precious blood he shed for me his life he
gave i need no other argument i need no other plea it is enough that jesus died and that he died for
me
amen great singing tonight you are dismissed
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