And don't ever be shy about being King James only.
Don't ever be like, well, you know, yeah,
I mean, we're King James.
You know what the attitude should be?
Of course we're King James.
What, don't you believe that God
preserved his word in every generation?
I mean, don't you believe when Jesus said,
"Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away"?
Of course we don't believe in a Bible
that was dug up in an archeological dig.
1800 years after Jesus, 1900 years after Jesus,
that's not God's word.
You know, a lot of times, Bibles that were inferior
or had errors in them, like where people made mistakes
in them when they're copying it and they would mess it up,
they get thrown in the trash
or sometimes they didn't want to throw it in the trash.
They put it in a pot and bury it.
And then these idiots dig it up thousands of years later,
like we found the real Bible.
Folks, that's a Bible that somebody threw away
because it was junk.
It'd be like, what would you do if you found
the New World Translation?
Throw it in the trash, right?
What are you gonna do when you find the Book of Mormon?
Throw it in the trash, burn it, whatever.
But see, unfortunately, they didn't burn it all the time.
Some of the Jews are too superstitious and they're like,
well, we don't want to burn it
because part of it's God's word,
so let's just put it in a jar and bury it.
And then some bozo digs it up thousands of years later,
oh, this is closer to the original.
Folks, we've had the Bible the whole time.
Was there some time when the Bible
just like stopped existing on this planet?
There's an unbroken chain of people preaching the Bible.
It's not like, well, Christianity died
for a couple hundred years and then it made a big comeback.
Christianity has always been around.
People have always been preaching the Bible.
The word of God's been,
well, you know, the Roman Catholic Church got corrupt.
Do you really think that Europe is just like the whole world?
Did you know that there are other continents besides Europe?
There's Africa, Asia, the word of God,
even during the dark ages was thriving other places.
The word of God's always been around.
It's always been preached.
You could always find it somewhere.
So what we have is an unbroken chain of God's word
and saved Christians from the time of Christ until now.
You said demonstrate that with a history book.
I don't need to, 'cause God said it was gonna happen
and so it happened.
He said it's preserved, it's preserved.
He said I'll build my church
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
That's what happened.
I don't have to show you a history book.
Okay, what if there's a history book written about Atlanta?
You think it's gonna cover Stronghold Baptist Church?
What if a book was printed in 2035
and they printed a book called
The Spiritual History of Atlanta from 1935 to 2035?
You think that Stronghold Baptist is gonna be mentioned?
Okay, what if they wrote The Spiritual History of Arizona?
Churches in Arizona in the 20th century, 21st century.
Do you really think that in the section from 2005 to 2020,
do you really think that there would even be any mention
of Faithful Word Baptist Church at all in that history book?
And if they did, they would just say,
"Oh, it's this horrible hate group."
You think they'd say, "Hey, this was a church
"that believed in salvation by faith," and you know?
No, they would just be like, "Oh man, crazy hate group.
"They were violent racists."
That's what they would say.
Am I right?
So why do you expect a history book
to just mention every real born-again genuine Christian
from Christ until now?
You know who the big names are always gonna be
in the history book?
Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen.
Look, if they were writing a history book
about religion in America, it'd be Rick Warren,
Bill Hybels, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, right?
So why do you think it was different back then?
There's nothing new under the sun.
There's always gonna be the big popular preachers
that have a lot of false doctrine,
and then there are gonna be the real preachers
that are going around and knocking the doors.
And look, how many people has this church won to Christ
on the chalkboard out there for the year of 2009?
It was like 800 souls saved or something.
That's huge.
That's 800?
That's massive, that's huge.
Never will go in any history book.
You think the media's reporting on that?
Revival in Atlanta, 800 saved.
You think that's gonna be the headline?
You know, so why do you think that that would have been the headline back then?
You see what I'm saying?
It's dumb to think, "Oh, well, the popular preachers now are bad, but the popular preachers
back then were all good."
Isn't that kind of stupid?
Or has it been that the popular preachers always tend to be bad, and the guys who are
doing the real work, maybe their church only runs a few hundred people, maybe their church
is running 75 people, but they win souls like their thousands, and maybe it's always been
like that.
Maybe there have always been people like me, and always been people like Pastor Berzins,
and always been people like Joel Osteen, and here we are in 2019.
Folks, you need to just have faith in what the Bible says, that God preserved it.
And if you actually believe that God preserved an every jot, tittle, and word Bible, you're
going to have to go to the King James for that.
No one even makes that claim about the modern versions.
They keep changing.
There have been more editions of the ESV than Spider-Man movies since the ESV came out,
and that's a lot.
You know what I mean?
Rambo movies.
I literally drove by a movie theater and it said, "Rambo's playing."
What in the world?
Is there really another Rambo movie?
Huh?
He's like 90 years old.
It's only the human growth hormone and steroids that are keeping him going.
But it's like Rambo part 17 and ESV part 18.
Right?
NIV.
Let's make a new one.
Folks, the King James is the same as it's been since 1611.
Yeah, the spellings have changed.
The capitalization and punctuation has changed, but the wording is the same.
The wording that we have today in our modern edition, the 1769 edition, that's what the
translators translated.
There have been typos and different things and capitals and whatever.
But as far as the words that the translators translated, that's what we have in the 1769
King James in our lap right now, the one that we all have.