...find every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book.
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book.
He which testifieth these things, sayeth, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Father, we thank you so much for our church, and we thank you for the Bible,
and I pray that you would please just use this message now in the hearts and lives of those that are here.
I pray that these sayings would sink down into the ears of every single person that's here.
Five years from now, ten years from now, fifteen, twenty years from now,
they will remember this sermon and what's taught this morning because of its extreme importance.
And in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Now the part of the chapter that I want to focus on is the famous verses in verses 18 and 19
where the Bible says, For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book.
Now I want to preach to you on this subject this morning.
The title of the message is this.
The New King James Version. That's the title of the message this morning.
The New King James Version.
Now, there are people in this world who are part of the Bible of the Month Club
and they use a different Bible depending on their mood.
You know, and we have churches today that call themselves independent fundamental Baptist churches.
I called one on the phone, for example, and I asked him, I said, What Bible version do you use?
They said, Well, we promote three versions of the Bible.
And then they received the list from me, the three versions,
and they were in the phone book on independent fundamental Baptist.
And so, but, I'll tell you this though.
There are a lot of people who would never use the NIV.
They would never use their bystander version.
They would never use the New American Standard.
They would never use the Living Bible.
They know how bad they are.
But, come on!
The New King James, they'll say, it's just a little different.
It's close enough.
No big deal.
It just gets rid of the thes and thes and thes.
My friend, that is not the case.
Then I'm going to expose to you this morning the New King James Version
for what it really is for the counterfeit, heresy, satanic book that really,
I got it right here on the pulpit.
This is the enemy this morning.
This is what I'm preaching.
It's this book, the New King James Version.
It says right here, placed by the Gideons.
The Gideons are doing the work of the devil, my friend,
by putting the New King James in every hotel room
and every soldier's hand in America.
I wrote with a Sharpie marker.
I didn't want to, you know, die suddenly
and have somebody go through my stuff and find this kind of stuff.
So I wrote with a Sharpie, Unholy Bible.
Just so people would know that I wasn't studying out of this
or contemplating changing over to this or whatever.
But let me start by establishing an important truth.
If you're ever going to understand what's wrong with the New King James Bible,
you're going to have to understand the importance of having an every-word Bible.
Now, let me read for you some scriptures.
And if you would, turn in your Bible to Deuteronomy chapter 8.
And while you're turning there, I'm going to read for you some other scriptures.
Matthew 24, 35, the Bible reads,
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mark 13, 31.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 21, 33.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
And you say, why did God repeat that three times?
Oh, Serena McDonald.
Look, God repeated it three times.
The same reason why when Pharaoh had a dream.
And you remember the fat-fleshed kind
and then the ill-favored kind that followed after
and then the fat-fleshed stalks of corn
and then the rank and dry ears of corn that came after.
He said, the thing is doubled unto Pharaoh
because it is certainly going to come to pass.
That's what he said.
And God here has given it to us three times
to emphasize to us the certainty of the fact
that God's words, not his words singular,
his words shall never pass away.
Matthew 5, 18.
For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
Luke 16, 17.
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass
than one tittle of the law to fail or be lacking.
The word fail in the Bible sometimes,
they talked about the food failing,
the water supply failing.
It's something running out.
It's passing away.
Deuteronomy 8, 3.
Look down at your Bible.
And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger
and fed thee with manna.
Which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know
that he might make thee know that man did not live
by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Look at Proverbs 30.
Proverbs 30.
Right after the book of Psalms.
Matthew 4, 4.
Jesus quotes that same scripture.
But he answered and said, it is written,
man should not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Now, it's interesting to me that Jesus Christ,
speaking Aramaic, quoting an Hebrew Old Testament passage,
it's written down by Matthew in the Greek language.
So when Jesus said, it is written,
man should not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,
that was in three different languages.
Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
And I'm going to tell you something.
God is able to translate his word from one language to another.
Right.
Amen.
I mean, I don't believe in this impotent God
that does not have the power to speak in more than one language.
But we live in a day where independent Baptists are teaching
that God only speaks Greek and Hebrew.
It's a lie.
God can speak English.
God can speak.
I mean, good night.
People that are Spanish and die and go to heaven,
they don't walk around the first several months
not being able to understand what's happening.
I'm sure they can give an interpreter something.
I'm sure God can speak to them and say, well done, amigo.
OK.
But look, I don't believe that God is unable to speak more than one language.
And we have a group of people,
and really it's the majority, as always the wrong way,
it's always the majority,
that says that God cannot speak his word accurately in English.
It's a lie.
I mean, God can speak his word in any language.
And you know what?
We ought to be translating the word of God into every language on the face of the earth.
That would be God's will.
And so we're dealing with people who don't understand
that God's word can be accurate and word for word in English.
Now you say, oh, you don't know what you're talking about, Pastor Anthony,
because you have to study.
OK.
Well, here, let me throw my credentials out for you.
I've read the Bible in German cover to cover in the German language.
I've read the New Testament in German twice.
I've read the New Testament in Spanish four times cover to cover
in two different versions, the wrong one and the right one.
I had the wrong one the first time I went through it,
and I realized it was a piece of junk, the 1960 version.
I went back and read it three times in the right version.
And then I've read the Bible or the New Testament cover to cover in Romanian,
cover to cover twice.
And I've read, I'm almost done with the New Testament in Norwegian.
OK.
So I understand that there are differences in language.
You don't have to explain, Anthony.
OK.
Me and my wife speak German at home, and I speak Spanish out soloing every week.
I know there are differences in language,
but guess who made the differences in languages?
God.
Guess who divided the languages at the Tower of Babylon?
God.
Guess who spoke his word in three different languages in one verse?
God.
And so, or how about when, well, I don't want to get into,
I'm getting off the subject.
I want to stay with the flow of the message here.
But here in Proverbs 30, look down at verse 5.
Every word of God is pure.
He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar.
Now God says here that his words are pure.
Every single word of it is pure.
And so people often think, well, it's not the words that matter.
It's the idea.
It's the truth.
It's not God's word.
It's the truth.
You know, the truth shall make you free.
It's all about the truth.
Hey, God's word is truth.
Amen.
And so don't try to differentiate between God's truth and his words,
because his words are truth.
Jesus said, the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life.
He said, I am the truth.
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And of course, Jesus Christ is the word, by the way.
John 1 is still in the Bible.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God,
and the word was God.
Same as in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him, according to the King James,
not according to the new King James.
We're going to get into a lot of verse comparisons in a little while,
but not according to the new King James.
According to the new King James, all things were made through him.
That's what the Jehovah's Witness Bible says.
New world translation.
That's what the NIV says.
That's what the RSV says.
No, but the King James says, all things were made by him,
and without him was not anything made that was made.
I found this, and I'm probably going to allude to this more in tonight's sermon,
but I've wanted this for a long time, and it was one of those things
that kind of gets lost and shuffled around, and you just can't seem to find it.
But I was speaking with my dad on the phone two days ago,
and he had this, and I've never been able to find it,
but he had a copy of it, so he faxed it to me.
This is actually a letter, and it's actually a few different letters.
It's 12 pages long that my grandpa wrote right before he died,
and it's addressed to his children.
I mean, this is addressed to his descendants,
telling them what he believed about the Bible,
what he believed about salvation, and I mean, this is great stuff.
I was encouraged, because I barely knew my grandpa.
I mean, I was Beyonce.
He passed away when I was only 11 years old.
We lived far apart. We didn't spend time together.
You know, I wish I would spend more time.
I spent a lot of time with my grandma.
I took her out to In-N-Out Burger on Friday night and everything.
That's one of the places she likes.
And, you know, she and I spend a lot of time together,
but unfortunately I didn't spend much time with my grandma.
It was just amazing to see that everything in here is exactly what I believe.
It was amazing. I mean, and I learned it from him.
I mean, I didn't even hardly talk.
I mean, everything in here is exactly what I believe,
and I love what he said here.
He said,
Until forever, we will with all our hearts believe and continue to stand on His Holy Word.
This was written around 1990, so almost 20 years ago.
With all our hearts believe and continue to stand on His Holy Word,
written in the King James Bible,
written, spoken, and made flesh.
John Chapter 1, Amen.
There is a guy who understood the Bible.
Of course, it's not that hard to understand.
Even a Bible can understand, John Chapter 1,
that the Word became flesh.
So I don't have a problem with that.
Do you have a problem with that?
And so this is a great document,
and it had a lot of other great doctrinal things in it.
But, you see, it's the words, my friend.
It's not just the thoughts, not just the ideas,
the words of God that are preserved forever.
Psalm 12, verse 6, the Bible reads,
The words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in the furnace of earth,
purified seven times, thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
Now, sit back, and I'm just going to read for you some Scriptures,
because you say,
Well, I just still don't think that it matters that much
if the word's different here, just a little different here.
I mean, you get the same doctrine, the same idea, the same...
You tell me whether God is emphasizing the words or not.
I'm going to read for you a series of Scriptures, okay?
And this is the introduction.
Then we're going to get out the New King James
and go through the verse-by-verse comparisons
of what's wrong with it.
But right now, we're just laying the foundation
so you can understand how important this issue is,
why I'm preaching on it.
Exodus 20, verse 1.
Don't turn there, because we're going to go so fast.
Exodus 20, verse 1,
And God spake all these words, saying,
Exodus 4, 28,
Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord
who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded.
Exodus 4, 30,
And Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses,
and did the signs of the sight of the people.
Exodus 24, verse 3,
And Moses came and told the people,
All the words of the Lord, and all the judgments,
and all the people answered with one voice instead of,
All the words which the Lord has said we will do.
Sounds like God's emphasizing all the words.
Every single word's important, isn't it?
Every word was perceived out of the mouth of God.
Exodus 24, 4,
And Moses brought all the words of the Lord,
and rose up early in the morning,
and drilled an altar under the hill with twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy 9, 10,
And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone,
written with the finger of God,
and on them was written according to all the words
which the Lord spake with you in the mount
out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy 17, 19,
And it shall be with him,
and he shall read therein all the days of his life.
Did you hear that?
You should read the Bible every single day of your life,
that he may learn to fear the Lord is God,
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do.
Now, when I show you all the things that are missing,
all the words that have changed and missing in this Bible,
how are you going to learn to do God's word in your life
if you read in this book all your life?
I mean, if you read in the New King James Version
all the days of your life,
you're not going to be able to do all the words
that are written in God's word,
because this doesn't have all the words.
And so he says in Deuteronomy,
Deuteronomy, you better be reading every day
the book that has all the words in it.
Deuteronomy 27, 3,
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 27, 8,
And thou shalt write upon the stones
all the words of this law very plainly.
Deuteronomy 27, 26,
Curseth be he that confirmeth not
all the words of this law to do them,
and all the people shall say Amen.
Deuteronomy 28, 58,
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book,
that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
the Lord thy God.
Did you hear that?
All the words of this law which are written in this book,
all those words, he says, do them.
You can't do them if you don't read them.
You can't read them if you don't have them.
And so we must have all God's words
if we're going to be able to obey that command.
Deuteronomy 29, 29,
The secret thing is belongeth to the Lord our God,
but those things which are revealed
belong unto us and to our children,
listen now, forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.
Who?
We and our children forever may do all the words of this law.
You say, well, it's only in the original.
Purity is only in the original.
Or as Dr. Jack Scott from Hammond, Indiana, says,
the King James Bible is not inspired,
only the originals are inspired.
That's what he said, I got it on my team tank.
Only the originals are inspired.
No, God said your children all the way forever,
every generation will be able to do
all the words of the book of this law.
He said the same thing in Isaiah.
I don't have this in my notes,
but in Isaiah he said,
I don't have time to turn there,
but he said that all these words
will be in the mouth of thy seed forever.
All the words of the book of Isaiah.
Deuteronomy 31, 12,
Gather the people together,
men and women and children
and thy stranger that is within thy gates,
that they may hear and that they may learn
and fear the Lord your God,
to observe, to do all the words,
all the thoughts, no,
all the ideas, no,
all the teachings, no,
all the commands,
all the words of this law.
And by the way,
if the King James Bible is not inspired,
you know what that means, right?
That means that God didn't speak all these words.
Because inspiration,
all scripture is given by inspiration,
and God means it's God-breathed,
God-spoken.
And so if it's not inspired,
when did it expire?
And if it's not inspired,
then God must not have spoken these words.
And if God didn't speak these words,
then I need to go somewhere
and find the words that God did speak.
If I have to learn Greek,
I'll learn Greek.
If I have to learn Hebrew,
I'll learn Hebrew.
If I have to learn Aramaic,
I'll learn Aramaic.
I won't even rest until I've learned
all three of those languages
if I believe that that's where God's word was.
Because I want to observe,
to do according to all the words
of the book of this law.
And I'm gonna tell you something,
if the King James Bible is not inspired,
then that means God did not breathe these words.
And if this isn't what God breathed,
what am I doing preaching it three times a week?
Three times a week.
And so it says in Deuteronomy 31, 12,
actually we already read that one,
Deuteronomy 32, 44,
And Moses came and spake
all the words of this song,
which is a Bible song,
in the ears of the people,
he and Hoshia, the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 32, 46,
And he said unto them,
Send your hearts unto all the words
which I testify among you this day,
which ye shall command your children
to observe to do,
all the words of this law.
Joshua 8, 34,
And afterward he read
all the words of the law,
the blessings and cursings,
according to all that is written
in the book of the law.
Joshua 24, 27,
And Joshua said unto all the people,
Behold, this throne shall be
a witness unto us,
for it hath heard
all the words of the Lord,
which he spake unto us.
It shall be therefore
a witness unto you,
lest ye deny your God.
That's what happens when you don't
have all God's word,
you start denying God.
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord
unto the people,
that asked of him again.
Thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I will bring evil
upon this place,
and upon the inhabitants thereof,
even all the words of the book,
which the King of Judah hath read.
Let me ask you something.
I've heard people say,
people who are King James only,
that position is based on ignorance.
No, it sounds like somebody's ignorant
of the last twenty verses
that I just read to you.
It sounds like somebody's ignorant
when they think that you can have
four hundred different versions
in the English language
that are all four percent different
from one another
because of copyright laws
in the United States.
They're all four percent different
from one another,
four hundred different versions.
Do the math on that,
those of you who are good at statistics
and math,
and tell me,
oh, things are messed up.
That's what you come up with.
That's what you put as your answer
at the end when you do that math.
If you do the math
of what it's going to take
when you have four hundred versions
that are at least four percent different
from one another.
You should just draw like an exclamation point
and a scary screaming face at the end.
Ahhh!
Madness, folly, stupidity is what it is.
And it's based on ignorance.
2 Kings 23, 2.
And the king went up into the house of the Lord
and all the men of Judah
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and the priests and the prophets
and all the people,
both small and great,
both small and great.
That's why we have the kids
in the service today.
Did you notice that?
That's why they're not in the nursery cell.
Small and great.
And he read in their ears
all the words of the book of the covenant
that was found in the house of the Lord.
Hey, wouldn't it be God
that all the words of the book of the covenant
will be found in the house of God in 2008
and not some book that chops and slices
and changes them?
The same exact verse is again
in 2 Chronicles 34, 30.
I'm not going to reread it.
It says the same thing.
Proverbs 8, 8.
This is God speaking.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
There is nothing forward of her verse in that.
Jeremiah 26, 2.
Thus saith the Lord,
Stand in the court of the Lord's house
and speak unto all the cities of Judah
which come to worship in the Lord's house.
All the words that I command you to speak unto them,
diminish not a word.
He said,
Don't even leave out a single word, Jeremiah.
Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes,
unto all the people, saying,
The Lord has sent me to prophesy against this house
and against this city all the words that you heard.
Jeremiah 30, verse 2.
Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying,
Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Take thee a roll of the book,
and write there in all the words
that I have spoken unto thee against Israel,
and against Judah,
and against all the nations,
from the day I spake unto thee,
from the days of Josiah,
even unto this day,
and I believe it's even unto this day today.
It's the same words in 2008.
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Jeremiah,
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the Lord
which he had spoken unto him upon the roll of the book.
Then Micaiah, the son of Gemariah,
the son of Shaphan,
had heard out of the book
all the words of the Lord.
Jeremiah 36-13.
Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words which he had heard
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Now it came to pass when they had heard all the words,
they were afraid, both one another,
and said unto Baruch,
We will surely tell the king of all these words.
And they went into the king and into the court,
but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elisha,
and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Jeremiah 36-32.
Then took Jeremiah another roll,
and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Nariah,
who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the book which Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
had burned in the fire,
and they were added to the sides unto them many like words.
And it came to pass, Jeremiah 43-1,
that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people
all the words of the Lord their God,
for which the Lord their God had sent unto them
even all these words.
And then he said,
Well, that's all in the Old Testament.
Well, look, I don't have time to read this stuff all day.
I've got to get into the rest of the sermon.
You don't get the idea yet?
Let me throw you a bone from the New Testament.
Acts 5-20.
Go stand and speak in the temple to the people
all the words of this life.
Acts 5-20.
Jesus said it.
Paul said it.
Jeremiah said it.
Isaiah said it.
The book of Psalms said it.
Proverbs said it.
Moses said it.
Again and again and again and again.
Again and again and again.
If you have any honesty in your heart at all,
you know that God emphasizes the words.
Not just the thought, not the idea.
It must be his exact words.
Don't diminish a word.
Not even a job or a tittle.
Now, let's get into this New King James version.
Now, you're going to open your Bible to these scriptures.
I'm going to have the real Bible open and the New King James.
And I'm going to show you what's wrong with the New King James.
Look if you went to Matthew chapter 7 in your Bible.
Matthew chapter 7.
Of course, this is the last chapter in the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew chapter 7.
We're going to look at verse number 14.
And I'm going to call on some volunteers just to read it in your King James Bible.
And then I'm going to read it in this false version here.
So, Brother Bosco, you want to read this one?
Matthew 7, 14.
Okay. Do you hear that?
It's narrow way and it's straight.
Many people think straight like s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t.
But that's not how it's spelled, is it?
It's s-t-r-a-i-t like the straights of Gibraltar.
The straights are something that are very narrow.
So when he says straight is the gate and narrow is the way,
he's reiterating how narrow it is, how small a way.
Keep them on the straight and narrow like you have to walk some path.
Straight means narrow.
It's a reiteration.
And so God says it's very narrow and straight.
In the book of Luke, his disciples asked him,
are there few that be saved?
And he said, strive to enter in at the straight gate, the narrow gate.
Because he said it is few. Few there be to find it.
Now look down at your Bible and listen to the new King James.
The new King James.
Oh, all they did, it was great.
They just took out the these and the those.
Makes it so much easier.
They did away with some of those archaic, you know, obsolete words.
No, let's see what they did.
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life.
Did you hear that?
And there are few who find it.
Difficult is the way.
Now let me ask something.
Is it easy to get saved or is it difficult to get saved?
Easy.
Oh man, you want to get saved?
Well, sit down.
It's going to take me a couple hours to explain it to you
and it's going to take you the rest of your life to act it all out
and you're probably never going to know for sure
because it's so hard to get saved.
Now a little child can get saved.
People who are mentally handicapped can get saved.
It's not supposed to be hard.
Jesus said, take my yoke.
He said, my yoke is easy and my burden's light.
He said, I'm the door.
If any man enter in by me, he shall be saved.
That sounds easy.
Believe I'm the Lord Jesus Christ and I shall be saved.
Sounds easy.
Drink the water of life freely.
Sounds easy.
I know how to take a drink of water.
How long do you think you were, Solomon,
when you learned how to drink a cup of water by yourself?
I don't know, like one.
Like one?
Yeah, see?
You're about one.
That's how long it takes to learn how to take a drink of water.
It's not that complicated, is it?
But the King James Bible is making salvation difficult.
Let's look at another verse where it makes salvation difficult.
Look at 1 Corinthians 1.
Oh, no big deal.
Oh, man, I'm going to a new church and it uses the new King James.
But, you know, no big deal.
You know, they're right about everything else.
First of all, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard
because nobody who's got...
Excuse me, I'm going to the coffee fish.
Just thinking about it.
Can you get me a cup of water?
Excuse me.
How could a church be right about everything else
if they have the wrong Bible?
And guess what?
If a church is right about everything else,
they're wrong about the one thing that matters.
There's only two things that really matter.
You want to know what they are?
There's two things that matter.
Number one, having the words of God.
And number two, knowing that salvation is by grace through faith.
Because if you have those two things right,
everything else will take care of itself.
You know that's right.
If you have the Holy Spirit in your bosom
and you have the King James Bible in your hand,
that's all you need.
Everything else will take care of itself.
So those are the only two things that even matter.
And so they sit there and say,
well, you know, I'm going to pick a church
that's right about everything else,
but, you know, there's a little wrong on salvation.
But they dress right.
Who cares?
Oh, they're all dressed right.
You know, well, you know,
they got the wrong salvation on doctrine, you know.
Well, man, you see the way they dress,
the music's right, but they got the new King James.
You need to get your priorities straight.
Now, I'm all for having the right music
and the right clothing and all those things,
but you know what?
I'd rather hang around with somebody
who's wearing a halter top in the King James Bible.
I'd rather have a guy come to church with no shirt on
who says I'm saved by grace through faith.
You know, preaching all these Bible stories
about God parting the Red Sea and Daniel in the lion's den,
right, I mean, to them they say,
oh, man, the preaching of the cross is foolishness.
But listen to the New King James.
Look down at your Bible.
The New King James says,
for sins in the wisdom of God,
the world through wisdom did not know God.
Okay, first of all, so in God's wisdom,
He just allowed everybody not to know Him, okay,
is the way it sounds.
But listen to what it says next.
It pleased God through the foolishness
of the message preached to save those who believe.
So this is saying that the message that we preach
when we preach on the cross of Jesus Christ
is a foolish message according to the New King James.
I mean, in the King James it said the preaching's foolish,
and if you come to faith before Baptist Church,
I hope you don't feel that way,
but, unless that's because you don't believe.
Because the ones who are saved is the power of God, huh?
But He says here,
it's the foolishness of the message being preached
in the New King James.
Do you think that the message that Jesus Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures
and was buried and rose again
according to the Scriptures is a foolish message?
Because I don't.
I think it's the power of God.
And this book right here is saying
that that's a foolish message.
The King James says preaching is foolish.
This says the message that's being preached
is what's foolish.
It's garbage.
Turn, if you would,
to, let's see here on my list here.
Some of these I'm just going to read to you,
but turn to 2 Corinthians 2.17.
2 Corinthians 2.17.
I'll read you a different one.
2 Corinthians 2.17.
Listen to this one.
Philippians chapter 3, verse 8, where he says,
And I count all things but dung,
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and do count them but dung,
that I may win Christ.
What a great verse, right?
Paul said I count all things but dung
for the excellency of the knowledge
of Jesus Christ my Lord.
Listen to what the New King James says.
He says,
For whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them as rubbish.
Now look, I thought we were doing away with all this old English.
I thought the whole point of your stupid New King James
was to do away with all this old English.
You're talking like somebody who drives
on the left side of the road.
I counted them as rubbish.
All the things that were gained today
I counted them as rubbish.
Shall we?
You know, I'm not good at a British accent, sorry.
Thank God we live in America and don't talk like those people.
No, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, good night.
I'm having an easier time understanding the King James.
I know what dung is.
Good night.
But rubbish.
But isn't it funny?
Do you think it's a coincidence
the NIV says rubbish in that verse?
Because remember in the New King James
all they're doing is updating the language.
If you want to update the language on dung,
it's crap.
There, I just updated the language for you.
Welcome to 2008.
It's excrement.
It's manure.
No, they updated the language to rubbish.
That's a different word.
And guess where it says rubbish?
The NIV.
Guess where it says rubbish?
The New American Standard.
Guess where it says rubbish?
The RSV.
I mean, listen to this.
Where'd they get it from?
They didn't update the language.
They went to the NIV and started bringing over verses
and words and changes.
Isn't it funny that in the NIV
the New American Standard,
Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version,
they both say to them that those of us who are being saved,
they say the exact same thing.
Is it amazing that all things were made through him
like I mentioned earlier is the same in the NIV,
the New Revised Standard Version,
the Revised Standard Version,
and the Jehovah's Witness New World Translation?
Where are they getting these changes?
They're just copying them from the NIV.
What you have when you have a New King James
is a book that's half King James and half NIV.
That's all it is.
And don't let anybody lie to you
and tell you that's not what it is.
But look if you would at...
Where did I have you turn?
I'm sorry.
Second Corinthians 2.18.
Brother Dave, would you read that?
It's all good.
Read it all.
No, I'm just kidding.
Verse 17.
Sorry.
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God,
but as of this fairly, but as of God,
in the sight of God, deeply in Christ.
Okay, so you said we are not as many which what?
The word of God, Brother Dave?
Corrupt.
Many people are trying to corrupt God's word, aren't they?
And he said we're not as many which corrupt the word of God.
Listen to the New King James.
What was that?
Which verse was it again, Brother Dave?
Seventeen, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Sometimes it's hard to even recognize the verses.
For we are not as many pedaling the word of God.
Now first of all, which word is easier to understand?
Corrupt or pedal?
Corrupt.
Pedal?
You say, oh, pedaling my bicycle?
No, he's talking about pedaling like peddlers in the street selling things.
He said we don't sell God's word is what the New King James said.
And yet the New King James is copyrighted and being sold.
Think about it.
I mean the King James Bible is not sold.
The King James Bible, I could run that off in my Xerox machine and hand it off tomorrow.
If I ran off copies of the New King James without permission from Nelson Publishers
and started handing them out after the service, I would be breaking the law for distributing
quote unquote God's word, according to them.
So they're saying we don't sell God's word.
And that's exactly what they're doing.
The King James doesn't sell it and says we don't corrupt God's word.
Why did they take out a verse about not corrupting God's word?
Because they are corrupting God's word.
So they took that verse out.
Here's another one.
Look at Romans chapter one.
Here's another verse where they, I'm trying to group these kind of by category.
First we saw how difficult it makes salvation.
Difficult, you're being saved, all these different things.
Then we see now that they're claiming not to sell it when they are selling it.
And they're taking out references to corrupting it and changing it.
Here's another one that they take out about changing the Bible.
Romans 1.25.
Brother Edwards, would you read that please?
Who changed the truth of God unto a light in worship and serve the Creator more,
the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever?
Okay, now notice, what did they do to the truth?
They changed it, right?
They changed the truth.
And of course, thy word is truth.
I mean, people changed the truth and what did God do?
Turned them over to a reprobate mind.
Isn't that what he said he'd do in Revelation 22?
He said he would take away their part out of the holy city.
No opportunity to ever be saved.
Okay?
And they changed the truth.
Listen to what the new King James says.
The new King James doesn't say that they changed the truth of God to a light.
It says they exchanged, exchanged the truth of God for a light.
So instead of just changing the gospel, changing God's work,
they just swapped it out with something different.
No, there's another gospel but it's not another.
But there'd be some which trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
The devil doesn't exchange.
He changes.
He doesn't just say, oh, you don't want me to swap this out.
No, he takes God's word and he changes it.
He takes the gospel and he changes it.
He takes a church and he changes it.
He doesn't always switch you from one church to a bad church, a good church to a bad church.
Sometimes he'll just pat me on the good church and just change it.
You know, he doesn't always exchange it.
He changes it.
Look at Romans 5-8.
Now that's not an important verse or anything.
I mean, good night.
This is a verse that we use out on soul winning all the time.
I do anyway.
It's part of the verses that I use when I'm soul winning.
But God commended, you probably don't even have to look at it,
but God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
But listen to the new King James.
Remember, they just updated the wording a little bit for us.
It says, but God demonstrates his own love toward us.
And that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Now, here's the thing.
First of all, command does not mean demonstrate.
But you know what other Bible says demonstrate?
You're never going to believe this, but the NIV says demonstrate.
You're never going to believe this, but the New American Standard says demonstrate.
You're never going to believe this, but the Raina Blair 1960 version
says muestra, which means shows or demonstrates.
But does command mean demonstrate?
Never.
Command has a few different definitions.
They're all used in the Bible.
And they're all used in our modern vernacular.
And they're all in every dictionary.
These are the definitions of command.
Definition number one is if I say,
I would like to commend you for your faithfulness to church.
What am I doing?
I'm praising him, right?
For his faithfulness to church.
Have you ever heard of this?
Receiving a commendation?
Letters?
Remember the Bible talks about letters of commendation?
Okay, so that's definition number one.
Definition number two is to entrust something to someone.
If I say, you know, this document that I received faxed to me from my dad,
this is really important to me, okay?
I'm going to commend this to your safekeeping.
You watch that and hang on to that part.
I don't trust you.
Just kidding.
But anyway, you get the idea.
That's what commend means, okay?
I commend unto you our sister Phoebe, it says in Romans 16.1,
as a Bible example of that usage.
Now, which one of these do you think God means in this passage?
We'll look at the verse before it.
And the verse before it explains the thought.
I mean, did you notice it starts with but, which is a conjunction.
So to get the complete thought, we're going to have to read the verse before it,
where it says in verse seven,
For scarcely or hardly ever, he's saying,
for a righteous man will one die.
Yet peradventure for a good man, some would even dare to die.
But God commended his love toward us
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Now, God is praising or exalting his love for us
because he's saying, I didn't even die for a righteous man,
which would be what your love could constrain you to do.
He said, I'm commending my love to you
because while you were yet sinners, I died for you.
So the word commend,
and I've read the Bible and I've looked this verse up.
I've read the Bible in German, Romanian, Spanish, Norwegian.
I've looked it up in Hungarian.
I've looked it up in some other languages that I've studied.
And guess what they say?
The ones that are the non-Catholic versions of those languages.
Guess what they say?
Praise, extol, commend.
For example, in Spanish,
encarecer is the verb that's used, which means commend.
It has to do with the price of it.
He's exalting it and lifting it up, how great it is,
how great God's love is for us,
and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Now, if Christ demonstrates His love for us
and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,
is He continually just demonstrating that?
Is that like the mass that they take
where every single week they are sacrificing Jesus?
Isn't that what they say?
It's the continual ongoing sacrifice.
No, Christ died once for sinners,
just for the unjust.
When I was talking to my grandma on Friday,
she was witnessing to a Catholic.
She met this Catholic lady for the first time,
and she said,
Oh, but do you read the Bible?
And she said,
Oh, I read the Bible.
Oh yeah, I read the Bible a lot.
I'm a Catholic, but I read the Bible a lot.
And she said,
Well, did you ever read the book of Hebrews?
And she said,
Well, it doesn't always sound familiar,
but I've read the whole Bible, so I must have read it.
Doesn't that sound like somebody who reads the Bible a lot?
Are we sure what the book of Hebrews is?
She's like,
Well, because there's this verse in the book of Hebrews.
This is what grandma said to her.
She said,
There's a verse in the book of Hebrews that says,
And every priest standeth daily, ministering and offering,
oftentimes with the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins.
That's the verse that she quoted from the book of Hebrews.
And she said,
Oh, we don't believe that it takes away our sins and stuff.
But of course they do.
They eat the cracker and it takes away their sins
and blah, blah, blah.
But no, God commended his love toward us.
And I've been out so many people and they say,
Commended?
That means demonstrate.
They've come under the influence of the NIV
because nobody would just come up with that on their own
because it's not what the word means
unless they heard it somewhere and picked it up somewhere.
And guess where they picked it up?
The NIV, the NAS, the RSV,
that's where they picked it up.
Turn, if you would, to Genesis 24.
And while you're turning there,
I'll read you a few more for sake of time.
How about this one?
1 Thessalonians 5.22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
But the NIV says,
the RSV, or not the NIV,
the New American Standard, the RSV,
the New Revised Standard Version,
and the New King James.
The New King James Version says,
Abstain from every form of evil.
So now if the appearance of evil is not wrong,
just stay away from the evil itself in all of its kinds.
Is that the same to say,
Abstain from all appearance of evil,
or Abstain from every kind of evil?
No, it's not the same.
Because Abstain from all the appearance of evil
means that if you are doing something
that looks like you're in sin,
like, for example,
let's say that you're spending the night together
in the same house and you're not married.
That's appearance of evil, right?
You say, well, we didn't do it.
You didn't commit any sin.
Well, you should be abstaining from any appearance of evil.
And you ought not have people think
that you're doing something wrong or wicked, you know?
But what was the next one?
Let's see here.
There was another one.
Yeah, but I didn't want to.
Okay, well, we'll do that one then.
Where is it again?
Dennis is what?
Dennis is 24.
All right, Dennis is 24.
Read for me.
Would you please read for me Genesis 24 verse number.
Good night, I'm losing my place.
Here we go.
Genesis 24, 47.
Would you read that, please?
Genesis 24, 47.
And I asked her and said,
whose daughter are you from?
And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son,
who milked a bear unto him.
And I put the earring upon her face
and the bracelets upon her hands.
Okay, now listen to this.
Then I asked her.
Are you looking down at your Bible, Genesis 24, 47?
Then I asked her and said, whose daughter are you?
And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son,
who milked a bore to him.
So I put the nose ring in her nose
and the bracelets on her wrist.
Now, am I lying?
I've got to have somebody tell me.
Am I lying or is that what that says, David?
That's what it says, nose ring.
Put the nose ring in her.
Now, I guess her nose was already pierced, huh?
You know, I mean, can you imagine
a complete stranger walking up to you and saying,
Bear, can I put this nose ring in your nose?
Hold still.
Hold still a minute.
A nose ring?
And then I love later on where he says,
Oh man, I forgot to put this in my nose.
It's the best part.
Hold on a sec.
I've got to find it.
Bear with me for a second while I find this.
It'll be worth it.
I promise.
Good night.
Why didn't I write that down?
Well, forget it.
I'm sorry.
I don't want to waste the whole survey.
But he says, like, when I saw the nose ring in her face,
I said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, you know.
And I was thinking to myself, like,
every time I walk into Starbucks
and I see a girl with a nose ring,
I just, Thank God.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
You know, it's like, nose rings?
I mean, look, who is a man in here
and you want your daughter to get a nose ring?
Put up your hand.
Who does not want their daughter to get a nose ring?
Put up your hand.
I don't want my daughter getting a nose ring.
You don't want all of them getting a nose ring.
I don't want Miriam getting a nose ring.
Nelly, don't get a nose ring.
Alright?
Just because you're three years old
doesn't mean that you can go out
and get your nose pierced or something.
Look, it's an earring.
It's an earring, folks.
It's not a nose ring.
Okay, listen to this one.
Acts 17, you don't have to turn there,
but in Acts 17, 22,
where Paul looks around at all their
false gods and idolatry, he says,
You are too superstitious.
In the New King James, he says,
Oh, you're very religious.
Can you believe that?
So now it's instead of him criticizing them
and getting up and saying,
Hey, you're too superstitious.
You're worshiping the unknown God.
You guys are superstitious.
He says, No, you're very religious.
Genesis 2.18, where the Bible says,
I'll make him and help meet for him.
The New King James changed it to,
I'll give him a helper that is comparable to him.
Comparable to him.
Like men and women are the same or something.
When they're not, obviously.
Listen to this.
Look at Ezra 8.36.
Ezra chapter 8, verse 36.
You say, well, what else is wrong with the New King James?
Well, it removes the word Lord 66 times.
It removes the word God 51 times.
It removes the word heaven 50 times.
It removes 2,289 words from the New Testament.
2,200, remember, remember one jot, one tittle, every word?
2,289 words have been omitted from the New King James
in the New Testament alone,
and the New King James changes over 100,000 other words
besides the ones that it omits and takes out.
Did you know that the New King James
never contains the word damnation or damnable, ever?
Oh, you're swearing.
Yeah, if you're reading the New King James, you are.
They probably think it's a cuss word.
No, every word of God is pure.
Maybe they think hell is a cuss word,
which is why they changed it to Hades and Sheol.
In Hades, you lift up his eyes.
They take out hell and put it in Hades.
They take out damnation.
They take out this word, Jehovah.
Seven times the King James Bible used the word Jehovah,
the personal name of God,
taken out of the New King James.
I guess you could just put any deity that you want in there.
No, God has a name. His name is Jehovah.
His name is Jesus.
He has a name, and removing God's name is blasphemous.
He says in, where did I have you turn?
Ezra 836?
Read for me Ezra 836, if you would, please.
And they delivered the King's commissions
unto the King's lieutenants and to the governors
on this side of the river,
and they furthered the people and the house of God.
Okay, now listen to this.
Now remember, the New King James,
the purpose was to update the language, right?
We want to get it easier to understand
because this King James is way too hard to understand.
You know, dumb, you know what I mean?
Come on. But listen to this.
This is the easy to read New King James.
And they delivered the King's orders to the King's satraps.
Now who knows what a satrap is?
I don't know what it is.
I still don't know what it is to this moment.
S-A-T, let me help you out.
S-A-T-R-A-P. Satrap.
Who knows?
Okay, who knows what a lieutenant is?
Every hand in the building is going,
Okay, who knows what sheol is?
Nobody?
Hey, listen man, you need to get saved
or you're going to burn in sheol.
You're going to go to sheol.
Get away from me, you weirdo.
You're going to Hades if you don't get saved.
Pretty easy to understand, huh?
Sheol, Hades, satrap?
No, these are words that are easy to understand.
Hell, lieutenant.
Lieutenant, everybody knows what a lieutenant is.
Nobody knows what a satrap is.
This is a satrap, please, does anyone know?
Okay, some, let's see here, Matthew.
Well, I'm trying to, I've got to skip some of these
because I don't want to be here all day, but.
Let's look at John 14.
Turn to John 14.
John chapter 14, and by the way, every single one of these changes that I've been listening for you is the same in either the New American Standard or the NIV.
That's where they're getting these words from. That's where they're getting these changes from.
I mean, even SATRAP is found in the NIV, New American Standard, and Revised Standard version.
Do you think that they all just independently came up with the word SATRAP?
You put SATRAP? That's exactly what we put.
Okay, wow!
Okay, John 14, 12. I'm sorry, John 14, 2.
Somebody stand up and read it for me.
John 14, 2. Somebody, anybody, quick.
In my father's house, or in any mansion, if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go prepare a plate for you. I go to prepare a plate for you.
Okay, so John 14, 2. Man, I'm turning the wrong Bible here. I'm losing it.
John 14, 2. It says here, in my father's house are many dwelling places.
Come on, I want a mansion. You say, what's a mansion?
A mansion is a lavish, rich, luxurious dwelling place.
That's what the word mansion means.
A dwelling place, it could be Motel 6.
Well, actually, you know what, I take that back.
Motel 6 has gotten a lot nicer lately.
They've remodeled all their rooms, and I stay at Motel 6 all the time.
They used to be a little bit, nowadays they're great.
They've got wireless internet in the room, I take that back.
It's like the shady nook hotel.
You know, these ones that are on like Highway 99 in California.
These ones that are like by the side of the road where it used to be the big highway.
Now they're put in the interstate and they're falling apart.
That's a dwelling place.
And my father's house is a shady motel room somewhere.
No, it's a mansion.
Look down at your Bible and verse number 16, though.
Read verse 16, David, in the front row here.
Read verse 16 of John 14.
And I will pray to the Father, and He shall give you another comfort that He may abide with you forever.
And I will pray to the Father, this is the new King James, and He will give you, the Bible says, another comforter.
The new King James says, I'll pray to the Father and He'll give you another helper.
Look, it's not the helper, like the Holy Spirit is our helper.
Like, you know, here's the thing, when I take somebody, and I realize the Bible says, you know,
the Lord is my helper, and Psalms referring back that He helps us.
But, you know, the person of the Holy Spirit, his name is not the helper.
Because, look, if I had somebody on the job, you know, he does help us, don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying he doesn't help us, okay.
But what I'm saying is, if I had somebody on the job, and he had a name tag, and it had his name,
and then with a capital H, like this has a capital H, it said, helper.
Would you think that's the person who's in charge?
No way.
But the comforter, the word comfort is a great word.
First of all, you know, he comforts us in all our sadness and sorrow, number one.
But not only does it mean comfort, like we think of comforting someone who's sad or sorrowful,
the word comfort actually also means to strengthen.
Because the word fort, see that F-O-R-T, is actually where the word comfort comes from?
Fort, like a fortress.
And so God strengthens us.
He lifts, you know, we're weak, and He strengthens us.
He lifts us up.
He empowers us.
And when we are sad and down, we don't need to drink Southern comfort.
We don't need to drown our sorrows.
We don't need to take pills and antidepressants, because we have the comforter living inside us
if we're reading a King James Bible.
Otherwise, supposedly, we have the helper.
Acts 4, 27, and 30, you don't have to turn there,
both places change from Holy Child Jesus to Holy Servant Jesus,
same as the NIV New American Standard and Revised Standard Version.
First Corinthians 6, 9 removes the word effeminate from the New King James.
So now, all of a sudden, it's fine to be effeminate, apparently.
You can act like a girl.
As long as you're not a queer, just go around and act like a girl, guys.
Nonsense.
The Bible says that it's wicked to be effeminate.
Be a man. Act like a man.
On and on, I'm trying to skip this.
It omits the phrase in Galatians 2, 20, nevertheless, I live.
It changes.
Turn to 1 Timothy 6, and this will have to be the last place that we turn to just for sake of time.
There's so many times, we could go on all day.
I've got stacks of paperwork here.
I mean, let me tell you this.
In Titus 3, 10, a man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition, reject.
It says a divisive man after the first and second admonition, reject.
Let me just introduce you to someone.
His name is Pastor Stephen L. Divisive Anderson.
I'm going to go down and get my legal name changed from Lee as a middle name to Divisive, Stephen D. Anderson.
Mr. Divisive.
Mr. Division.
Hey, God divided.
That's the first thing he did on and on in Genesis 1.
He divided light from dark, divided right from wrong, divides the unbeliever.
He separates the weak from the chaff.
He divides what's truth from what's a lie.
God says that we're to abstain from the divisive man.
No, you ought to find the divisive man and join his church.
You ought to find the divisive man and he should be one of your friends.
Every time I find somebody divisive, I say, man, come on in.
I've got to reject him.
Here it says, yeah, we should get rid of the heretic, but he says get rid of the divisive man.
But there are several changes in 1 Timothy 6 that I'd like to draw your attention to.
Let me turn there.
I've got so many things floating around on my pulpit here.
Let me turn to 1 Timothy 6 and the new, improved, better, new King James.
What did they do?
What gives them the right to call it the King James?
Did they dig up King James Version and pick up his dead hand and have him sign it in front of it or something?
How is it the new King James Version when King James has been dead for 350 years?
What does King James have to do with this Bible?
King James would roll over in his grave because King James was the one who proofread the King James Bible.
After the 54 great scholars and men had prayed and begged God and translated it perfectly,
King James was a man who was an expert in foreign languages and he approved the work and put his name on it.
He's not the one who translated it, but he put his name on it.
People have tried to lie about King James and say that King James was a queer.
Let me tell you something. Let me just shock you with something.
The gay agenda wants to make every historical figure from the past a queer.
It's not just King James. It'll do this to anybody.
Anybody who has a close male friend or a woman who has a close female friend,
they try to paint Abraham Lincoln as a sodomite. Did you know that?
The log cabin republicans and all this.
They try to say Marie Antoinette was a lesbian because she had a female friend.
They tried to say King James was a queer because he had a close male friend.
David said to Jonathan, he said, my love for you, he said the love that I have for Jonathan is greater than the love that I have for women.
Passing the love of women. Oh yeah, so David's a queer?
No, just because you love somebody, it's not talking about the bedroom, you pervert,
and maybe you've been watching TV and Hollywood and the rock and roll,
which basically all they think love is is a physical act.
And so anytime two men love each other or two women love each other,
they try to paint them as a queer. Garbage.
Now there are men that I love.
It doesn't make me a queer. It's a perverted society that equates love with the bedroom.
It's dirty. No, God loves us. We love God.
I love the brethren. There are men that I love, there are women that I love.
It doesn't mean I'm physical with them.
You need to turn off the stupid radio, turn off the TV and the cable television and the movies
that are brainwashing you that that's what love is, because that's not what it is.
That's reserved between one man and one woman for life.
You know, love is something that should be held for a lot of people in your life.
Is everybody listening? I mean, you have love for a lot of people in your life.
King James wasn't a queer. There's no evidence. I've read biographies on King James.
It's such garbage. They come up with this stuff
because the gays want you to think that it's always been the way it is right now,
that everybody's always been all these queers and they were just in the closet.
Now let me tell you something.
There are more queers walking on the face of the earth per capita
than have ever walked on the face of the earth in the history of mankind.
Did you hear me? There are more queers in America today
than there have ever been and they're multiplying right now.
They're multiplying, multiplying, multiplying, multiplying, multiplying,
because nobody's taking them out and killing them like the Bible says in Leviticus 20.13.
I'm not saying I'm going to go out and kill them.
It sounds like a good idea, but I'm not going to do it
because God says we should obey the powers that be,
but you know what? If this country had any justice in it,
they'd be taking them out and executing them
before they infest our whole land with perverts and sodomites.
I talked to a preacher last night and he said,
oh, people know the queers are taking over and politics this and politics that,
and I told him, I said, no, the problem's not politics.
The problem's in the pulpit
because you can't even go to a Baptist church
and hear this kind of preaching against the queers anymore.
It's all, you know, treat them like everybody else.
We've got to love them.
No, they ought to be killed is what ought to happen.
And if you don't like that, then go home and get a pair of scissors
and cut out Leviticus 20.13 out of your Bible
and then see how God likes that
when we just read like 50 verses at the beginning of the service
telling you not to remove anything.
Don't mess with me on the queers, okay?
Leviticus 20.13 is all I need,
and there's plenty of other verses in the Bible too.
Don't ever come up to me and mess with me about that.
Don't come up to me and tell me that I'm wrong on that.
If you want to come up to me and tell me I'm wrong on that,
just come up to me and wear a sign that says I'm an idiot.
Just hand me a piece of paper that says I'm stupid.
I'm a pansy. I'm a feminine, okay?
Because that's the way I'm going to hear it.
When you walk up to me and say, I think you're too hard on the queers.
I think you ought to love them.
I think that they should not be killed.
I think that's Old Testament. I'm a dispensationalist.
Just walk up to me and just say, I'm probably a queer.
Because that's the way I'm going to hear it.
You're going to say, I don't really appreciate it,
and I'm just hearing like, I'm probably a queer.
Keep your kids away from me.
Don't let your kids go around me.
I'm stupid. I'm not a fundamentalist.
I don't believe the Bible.
That's what I'm going to hear.
I'm not backing up on that issue like all your other little buddies are.
I'm not doing it.
You can find some other preacher that will back up on that,
because I'm not backing up on that.
And maybe if there were more people who wouldn't back up on that,
they wouldn't be.
And this guy is making noise.
But anyway, 1 Timothy 6.20.
Look down at your Bible there.
1 Timothy 6.20 says,
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings,
and oppositions of science falsely so called.
Now what does that make you think of?
Evolution, right?
It kind of pops in your mind.
Or like the gay gene.
You know, this kind of false science.
You knew I was going to tie that into the message somehow.
I did it.
I wasn't on a rant or a rabbit trail.
I knew exactly where I was going.
Hey, science falsely so called, listen to this.
This is the New King James.
O Timothy, guard that which was committed to your trust,
avoiding the profane and idle babble,
and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.
Now, that's not the same thing.
And see, you lose the sense.
You say, well, science means knowledge.
No, if science meant knowledge, then God would have said knowledge.
Right?
God knows the word knowledge.
I mean, it's used throughout the Bible.
And yet, this is the one time he used the word science.
Because he wants us to know what he's talking about.
That people who are calling themselves scientists in science
will try to contradict what the Bible says.
He says, beware of that.
Look back in the same chapter to verse number five.
It says in 1 Timothy 6, 5,
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness.
From such withdraw thyself.
This is your prosperity preaching crowd that says that gain is godliness.
Oh, you're making more money than you did last year?
God must be blessing you.
No, you might be as wicked as Donald Trump
and be making more money than you did last year.
That's not that gain is not godliness.
Gain does not mean the blessing of God.
I'm talking about financial gain.
That's the context here.
But listen to this.
He says, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Now, the is a means of is put in italics in the New King James
because it's been added in.
And it's put in italics.
But you see, there's no Greek text that says as a means of.
But I can tell you one place that says as a means of gain, the NIV.
I can tell you another one, the New American Standard.
I can tell you another one, the Revised Standard Version.
He's not saying that people think godliness is a means of gain.
Now, what if a pastor were being paid full time by his church?
Godliness in that case would be his means of making money, right?
Those that preach the gospel should live up to gospel.
I work my own full time job and I have no plans any time soon.
I'm going to hire an assistant and pay him full time and not go full time myself.
I have no intention of being a full time paid servant here.
That's not my goal.
But you know what, if I did, there would be nothing wrong with it.
I mean, their pastors all over America were paid by their church.
But here he's saying, no, just don't think that gain is godliness.
Gain does not equal godliness.
Money does not equal godliness.
But they've changed it to, don't think that godliness is a means of gain.
They've lost the original meaning and they've created a new meaning that doesn't quite make sense.
Look at verse number 10.
I mean, this is just one chapter, 1 Timothy 6 that we're going through.
Look at verse number 10.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
Pretty strong statement, isn't it?
Listen to the New King James.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
So it's just one possible root of all kinds of evil.
Now, that's not the same thing.
No, I believe from the top of my head to the bottom of my foot that the love of money is the root of all evil.
Not, oh, it's a root.
It doesn't even sound right.
I mean, it doesn't even make sense.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
No, it's the root of all evil, the love of money.
And you can always trace it.
You find evil in this world, trace it back to the love of money.
Trace it back to the power, the wanting things and possessions and things for yourself, money, the love of money.
You find a liberal church, the love of money, every time, every time.
Find a liberal preacher, the love of money.
Find a wicked church member, you'll find the love of money.
Why?
Because they that will be rich fall.
Those who want to be rich, he says in verse 9, fall into temptations and a snare
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
And so, anyway, we could go on all day.
I wish we could.
I don't have time for it.
But look, honestly, there's really no point in going on all day.
It would be a waste of our time if we went on all day.
Because if you haven't got it yet, you're never going to get it.
If you can listen to all that, for all the time I've been preaching this morning,
if you can sit and listen to that for an hour and fifteen minutes or whatever
and walk away and say the New King James isn't that bad,
I'm going to visit the church that used the New King James.
It's okay if they used the New King James.
If you can listen to that and walk away and still think that,
then you know what, I'm not going to waste my time explaining the New King James.
I really could have just showed you two things, and it should have been enough.
But I showed you many different things because I'm trying to make an impression on you.
Young people that are here today, teenagers, children of all ages,
someday you will be confronted with an opportunity
or some kind of pressure to go to a church that goes to the New King James.
I mean, if you don't think that the independent fundamental Baptists
are switching to the New King James, a lot of them are.
They're doing it.
And you better remember this day, I want you to remember these things
and remember that these are not small things.
These are big, ugly things that I showed you.
Wicked false doctrines, salvation being difficult, a process,
taking out hell, taking out damnation, taking out effeminacy.
Listen to me, the New King James is wicked.
And you say, well, do you have a positive application for the message?
Yes, read every word of God and read it daily.
And so what he's saying is, look, if you haven't read the Bible cover to cover,
how are you going to obey all the words, right?
I mean, you should read it cover to cover.
Now, you say, well, I've never done it.
It's going to take you some time.
It's going to take months, but you ought to start today.
Get one of those charts in the lobby and say, I will read every word of God
because I know the importance now of every word.
And I'm going to tell you something.
You say, well, I've read every word, but I don't read it daily.
Well, read it daily because he said if you're in order to obey every word,
reading it one time cover to cover is not going to do that for you.
He said in order to obey it, you must read it all the days of your life.
That's what's going to keep you obeying it.
You go a day without reading the Bible, you go two days without reading,
your sin, sin is going to come in your life
because you're not going to be able to obey it unless you're reading it daily
and you're reading it every word, every word, every word.
Let's bow our heads and pray.
Father, thank you so much for the Bible.
I thank God that I live in America.
I have the King James Bible.
I feel sorry for those who live in places where they only have small portions of the Bible
and they cannot read the whole Bible.
I pray that you would send those that would bring them the Word of God in their language.
I thank you so much, dear God, that you're able to put your word in English, Spanish,
German, Norwegian, whatever language.
Mankind is diligent to translate it into your God.
And please just help us be faithful, soul winning, reading daily in the Word of God.