Now, in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, the verse that I wanted to focus on there is verse 13,
where the Bible reads,
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth,
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
He's talking about speaking in the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth, not the words which
man's wisdom teacheth.
And what I want to preach about this morning is just on the subject in general of using
the right words,
or choosing the right wording in our lives.
Now, the first thing I want to point out is that in the Bible, it's very clear that words
do matter.
Now, if you would turn to Revelation chapter 22, Revelation chapter 22, the last chapter
in the Bible.
First of all, let me point out to you that the word, word, or words is found in the Bible
over 1200 times.
So God puts great emphasis on the word, or the words that he uses.
Over 1200 times mention is made.
There are a lot of scriptures that talk about God preserving his words, plural.
For example, the most famous in Matthew 24, 35,
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Not just the thought, or the idea, or just giving you the gist of it, but he said, my
words shall not pass away.
In Isaiah 59, 21, he said, as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord,
my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart
out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
said saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever.
So in Isaiah 59, 21, God is promising to preserve his words unto all generations, that they
will always be in the mouth of his servants, all the way to the end, forever, he said.
Revelation 22, verse 18, the Bible reads, 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.
God is saying here that if someone were to add to or take away from his words, then basically
that person is eternally damned.
Now a lot of people say, well, let's just paraphrase God has said.
Now if you're going to paraphrase what God has said, fine, paraphrase it, but don't call
it the word of God.
Don't say, hey, this is what God said, and then just paraphrase it.
No, if you're going to say what God said, it better be exactly what God said, not just
kind of similar to what he said, or just kind of get the gist of it.
People carry around these paraphrases like the living Bible, the message, the voice,
these new versions that are not even claiming to be a translation.
They even say right on them, this is a paraphrase.
But people carry it around and say, this is my Bible.
This is the word of God.
No, it isn't.
It's a complete distortion of what God said.
It's a very loose paraphrase, and it's very corrupt at that.
God says it's the words that matter.
It's the words that he's going to preserve.
It's the words that he does not want to be tampered with.
I've heard some people say this, well, that curse only applies to the book of Revelation.
Oh, right, because God doesn't want us to tamper with the book of Revelation, but go
ahead and tamper with the other 65 books and you'll be fine.
What kind of nonsense do people believe in?
Obviously, if God is putting a curse on those who would tamper with one scripture, he's
going to put that same curse on anyone who tampers with other scripture all throughout
the Bible.
Even in Proverbs he says, add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be
found a liar.
He said in Deuteronomy, cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of the covenant
of the book of the law to do them.
So God's word matters.
Now even little things about God's word matter.
Even just an S on the end of a word, making it plural versus singular, that actually matters.
Now there's a key example of this, I've preached on it so many times I'm not going to spend
time on it, but where in Galatians, God says that when he made the promise to Abraham and
to his seed, he said it wasn't seeds plural, it was seed singular, and that seed is Christ.
He didn't say seeds, he said seed.
What's funny is that if you get modern Bible versions, like the NIV, the ESV, the New Living
Translation, these popular modern versions, they say in Galatians 3 the same thing that
the King James says, but when you go back and look up those Old Testament scriptures,
it's all plural, descendants.
So they'll take it and say, hey, when God made the promise to Abraham, he said it's
to him and his seed, singular, not plural.
Then you go back in the new versions to Genesis and it's descendants, plural.
What is that?
They're creating contradictions in the Bible with these new versions because they think,
well, you know, the words aren't that important.
Or Christians will think, well, a little difference in wording isn't really that important
so long as we get Christ's message.
But when you create a bunch of contradictions in the Bible, that's a problem.
You know, somebody in fact emailed me.
They were struggling with a contradiction in the Bible and they said, how do you reconcile
this contradiction in the Bible?
And you know what I've noticed?
Usually when people come to me and say that, it usually turns out they're not reading a
King James.
That's where these contradictions are even coming from.
And it was from my sermon on Mark 6.
Go to Mark 6 because remember I just preached on Mark chapter 6 and in Mark chapter 6 on
Wednesday night we talked about how Jesus sent out the apostles two by two to go preaching.
And if you remember, in this special case, he did not want them to bring anything because
he wanted them to rely on God to provide for them.
So when they went out two by two as the apostles, they didn't bring any food, they didn't bring
any money and everywhere they went, people took care of them.
God had provided people that would take them into their homes and they would sleep there
and they would eat there and be fed and they just went completely by faith.
Now at the end of Jesus' ministry, he told them from now on, you know, bring money, bring
food, bring these things.
But this was a special miracle and a special thing that God did with the apostles where
he wanted them to travel very lightly and only bring the bare necessities.
Look what it says in Mark chapter 6 verse 8.
It says he commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff
only.
So what are they supposed to bring?
A staff, right?
Save a staff only.
No script, no bread, no money in their purse, you know, be shod with sandals, not put on
two coats, etcetera, etcetera.
Now if you would, keep your finger there and flip over to Luke chapter 9 verse 3.
Luke chapter 9 verse 3 to parallel passage.
While you're turning to Luke 9, 3, I'll read for you from Matthew chapter 10 verse 10 where
it says, nor script for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves,
for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Look at 9, 3, and he said unto them, take nothing for your journey, neither staves,
nor script, neither bread, neither money, neither have two coats apiece.
So let me ask this.
Is he telling them don't bring any coat?
Don't bring what?
Don't bring two coats, right?
He's saying, you know, don't pack a bunch of stuff.
Don't pack an extra coat, an extra this, an extra that, money, food like as if you were
going on a long journey.
Don't even put on shoes.
He said just wear sandals.
He wanted them to travel very lightly and not bring extra stuff.
That's what he's saying.
Listen to what the new versions.
Now I'm just going to read this just from the ESV.
But the same thing could go for the NIV, the HIV, the SUV, the RSV, whatever version.
Listen to what the ESV says in Mark 6, 8.
It says the same thing pretty much as the King James.
He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff.
Don't bring anything except a staff, okay?
In the King James he said save a staff only, okay?
But listen to what the ESV says in Luke 9, 3.
And he said to them take nothing for your journey, no staff.
Now listen to this.
In Luke 9, 3 he says no staff.
And Matthew 10, 10 he says no bag for your journey or two tunics or sandals or a staff.
So he tells them in Matthew and Luke no staff.
Don't bring a staff, right?
Whereas in Mark 6, 8 he says don't bring anything except a staff.
A staff is the only thing you're going to bring.
Now look, that's a contradiction.
Somebody comes to me and says, hey, there's a contradiction in the Bible.
You got the wrong Bible.
Because there's no contradiction.
Because in the King James he says not to bring staves, which is the plural, staves.
Don't bring multiple staffs.
Don't bring two coats.
Don't bring two of this, two of that.
He said bring one staff, not two.
But in these new versions they just change it to no staff.
And then in the other one it's like don't bring anything except a staff.
Well that would be a contradiction, wouldn't it?
But that's what I mean.
Just that little thing of just putting an S on the end of the word can make all the
difference between a contradiction and between something that makes perfect sense.
So you say well you're just being nitpicky about these new versions.
No it matters.
It makes a difference whether the Bible is perfect or not.
Whether the Bible is the truth or not.
Putting an S on the end of seed changes it from being Jesus who's blessed to being the
physical Israelites that are blessed.
All the world is not going to be blessed by the physical Jews.
But all the world will be blessed in Jesus.
And that's a big difference.
You know there's a big difference between telling you not to bring a staff and not to
bring staves, plural.
Big difference there.
Two different things.
And so these differences do matter.
So number one I want to say that words matter.
The words that God uses matter.
But also the words that we use matter.
The words that we choose matter.
So if you would to 1 Corinthians chapter 14.
And let me say first of all that number one the words that we use should be appropriate.
I'm sorry that's my next point.
The words that we use should be clear and easy to be understood.
You say what words should we use Pastor Anderson when we speak?
We should use words that are clear and easy to be understood.
Those are the words that we should use.
Look at 1 Corinthians 14 verse 7.
It says, And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give
a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it
be known what is spoken?
For ye shall speak into the air.
God says if you're using words that people don't understand then you are talking into
the air.
You're wasting your time.
We need to use words that are easy to be understood.
And you know there are some people who just like to drop big fancy words just to impress
you even though they know the listener doesn't understand that word.
And the purpose of our speech and our words is to communicate.
So we should never use words that are difficult to understand or especially words that we
know that our listeners are not going to understand just to make ourselves sound smarter
because of pride and arrogance.
Jump down to verse 18.
The apostle Paul said, I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you.
And by the way, tongues is languages.
Look it up every time it occurs in the Bible.
A foreign tongue, an unknown tongue is a foreign language.
That's it.
So he's saying I speak more foreign languages than all of you do because Paul was a very
educated man and he traveled all over the world so he was very proficient in language.
He said I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all.
Yet in the church I'd rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice I might
teach others also than 10,000 words in an unknown tongue.
He said I'd rather speak five words that people can actually understand than 10,000 words
in a foreign language and nobody understands what I'm saying.
God's saying we need to use words that are easy to be understood and we need to speak
English.
English today in the United States in a Baptist English speaking church English should be
the language that is spoken.
Now other churches speak other languages.
Now I don't think the whole world should speak English.
You know if you're in Mexico speak Spanish.
If you're in Germany speak German, you know.
And if there is a Spanish speaking community in Phoenix then I think it'd be great if there
were a Spanish speaking church that would preach in Spanish and that everybody who came
to that church would all speak Spanish and hear the word preached in Spanish and that's
their language.
But the preaching needs to take place in a language that people can understand.
That's the whole point of communicating and you say what are you talking about?
Well for example the Catholic Church had their services in Latin until what a hundred years
ago or something?
And a lot of them still do have the services in Latin.
Do you think anybody gets anything out of that when they go to church and sit through
a church service and the preaching is in Latin and they speak English or they speak Spanish
or they speak German and they're hearing a service in Latin it makes absolutely no sense
does it?
Or it'd be better to say five words in their own native language like how about these five
words you must be born again you know something.
But a Greek Orthodox you know you go there and a lot of it's in Greek and nobody understands
it doesn't make any sense does it?
But today these modern Bible versions just to get back on them they will leave foreign
words in the Bible that nobody understands.
And then they accuse the King James of being hard to understand.
Now the King James sounds old fashioned but it's not hard to understand.
All of these words are modern English words they're all in a contemporary English dictionary.
You can get the newest Webster's dictionary and it's going to have all these words in
it and some people just have a very small vocabulary and so they don't understand all
these words but they're all English and they're all clear words.
Now the new versions will put in foreign words okay and then they claim they're easy
to understand and they do it strategically.
They take out the word hell and put in a foreign word sheol.
Nobody knows what sheol means but you know what the sheol is that supposed to mean?
But sheol is the Old Testament Hebrew word for hell.
In the Hebrew language it's sheol.
So why don't we translate that into English and just call it hell and use a word that
everybody understands.
And I'll tell you why because they're trying to soften up the Bible by softening the words.
And hell is a powerful word it has a powerful connotation so they want to soften it with
a word that doesn't have as much emotion behind it or as much power behind it so they soften
it up by just oh sheol, sheol.
And it makes them sound smart and educated and it's a foreign word that nobody knows.
Now just to prove to you that the scholars are wrong to use the word sheol is that the
New Testament never uses the word sheol.
The New Testament translates that into Greek words that mean hell.
They don't leave that in the Hebrew.
So if God said hey we just have to leave sheol in the Hebrew then why did the New Testament
translate it into Greek?
We ought to translate it into English that's why and not leave that word.
If Jesus translated it and the apostles translated it then we ought to translate it.
And to sit there and have this foreign word sheol and they have other weird foreign words
like wadi and you know I've gone through all those lists and other sermons of weird foreign
words that they put in the Bible that don't make any sense.
We should use words that are easy to be understood.
Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 3, 2 Corinthians chapter 3.
And by the way if there's a word in the Bible if I'm preaching the Bible and there's a word
in the Bible that is a hard word that people don't understand then it's my job as a preacher
to explain it in simple language so that everybody can understand.
The goal of speech is that people understand what you're saying.
And so if there's a hard word you explain it so that people can understand it.
And you don't use foreign words and speak in an unknown tongue for no reason except
to soften the word of God and soften up the Bible and to change people's beliefs.
But look what it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 12.
It says seeing then that we have such hope we use great plainness of speech.
What does plainness of speech mean?
Well just to help you understand what plainness of speech means flip over to John 16.
Go to John chapter 16.
Because the Bible says in Habakkuk chapter 2 for example the verses that we're memorizing
it says and the Lord answered me and said write the vision and make it plain upon tables
that he may run that readeth it.
What does it mean to make something plain or to use plainness of speech?
It means to make it clear where people can see it they can understand it it makes sense
to them.
Look what John 16 25 says these things have I spoken unto you in Proverbs but the time
cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in Proverbs but I shall show you plainly of
the Father.
Jump down to verse 29.
His disciples said unto him lo now speakest thou plainly and speakest no proverb.
So plainness of speech is when you don't beat around the bush.
It's when you just make it clear what you're trying to express.
Now in Jesus's ministry he often spoke unto the multitudes in parables and dark sayings.
Why that hearing they would hear not seeing they would see not that they would understand
not.
They would curse upon them because their ears had waxed dull of hearing but unto the disciples
he spoke plainly he spoke clearly he expounded all things.
We the readers of the New Testament get a clear expounding of all things in the New
Testament.
Whereas the people in Jesus's day some of the Pharisees and Sadducees and the unbelieving
masses you know he didn't he only spoke to them in dark sayings and parables.
So what's the opposite of plainness of speech?
Speaking in dark sayings and parables and Proverbs and beating around the bush.
God says we in the New Testament the Apostle Paul said we use great plainness of speech.
Preaching should be plain.
It should be clear.
The words that we use should be crystal clear as to what we mean.
We need to say what we mean.
Now that's number one but number two and this kind of ties in with it.
Number two we should use words that are appropriate to the situation.
Go to Isaiah chapter 30.
So first of all we said the words that we choose are important.
Then we said that number one the words that we use should be clear.
They should be easy to be understood or we're just speaking into the air.
Secondly the words that we use should be appropriate for the situation.
What do I mean by that?
If we're talking about something negative we need to use a negative word.
If we're talking about something good we should use a positive word.
If we're talking about something wicked we should use a word that sums up that wickedness
and use words that are appropriate.
For example when the Bible talks about sin it uses harsh words about sin.
Why?
Because that's how God feels about sin.
God's angry about sin.
God hates sin.
And so when he uses words to describe sin he doesn't use soft, comforting, loving words
to describe sin.
He uses negative harsh words to describe sin because that's how he wants us to feel
about sin.
Now let me show you this scripture in Isaiah 30 verse 8.
It says now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book that it may be for the
time to come forever and ever.
Isn't that another great verse on the preservation of God's word?
Write it in a book forever.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the
Lord which say to the seers, see not, and to the prophets, prophesy not unto us right
things, watch this, speak unto us smooth things.
Prophesy deceit.
So these people that are wicked, rebellious, liars, they want the preachers to preach unto
them smooth things.
Don't preach right things, preach smooth things.
And he says preach deceit because let me tell you something, smooth prophecy or smooth
preaching is deceit because God's just not a smooth God and the Bible's not a smooth
book and when you get up and make it smooth you're lying, you're a deceiver.
The Bible says make it plain, not make it smooth, make it clear and we should use words
number one that are easy to be understood and number two, words that are appropriate
to the situation.
For example, words that the Bible uses about sin are words like adultery.
But what's the world's word for that?
An affair.
Now look, an affair is this euphemistic soft word, I mean that sounds like you're having
a tea party.
If you're having an affair, I'm having a little affair over at my house, you know, where we're
going to have tea and crumpets.
No, it's called adultery.
And what the Bible calls a whore or basically today they'll call that, you know, promiscuous
and that's what the new versions will change it to.
The whorish woman becomes, well, promiscuous woman.
First of all, whorish is easier to understand than promiscuous.
I think whore is just an easier word, it's one syllable, you know, and it has the negative
connotation that should be there when we talk about wickedness.
So the Bible used the word whore and of a man, it'll use the word whoremonger.
But you know what the world will use?
What?
A player or a playboy.
Now that, doesn't that sound nice?
A player, a playboy.
No, the Bible calls him a whoremonger and that has a negative connotation to it.
You know, they'll say, oh, she's a little loose, she's a little bit promiscuous.
No, the Bible says she's a whore.
She's whorish and what she does are whoredoms.
The NIV instead of whoredoms in Ezekiel 16 said, you know, illicit favors.
You know, illicit favors instead of whoredom.
So you know, the King James is using words that are clear and they're words that are
appropriate and what does appropriate mean?
It means it matches.
You know, the word, you know, is adultery nice?
Is it pretty?
Is it nice?
Is it fun?
It needs a negative word to describe it, not a nice word.
Is it nice when a girl goes around and sleeps around?
No.
It's disgusting.
It's unclean and so we need to use a word, whorish, whoredom and when a man goes out
and goes from one woman to the next to the next, is that cool and hip and macho?
No, he's a whoremonger and it's wickedness and we need to keep the right wording so that
we'll have the right emotion when we hear these words.
And here's another good Bible word that we never hear anymore, concubine.
Concubine is a Bible word.
What's a concubine?
A concubine is a woman that you sleep with and that's it.
Woman that you sleep with, not your wife, not one that has the status of being your
wife but it's just one that you just sleep, she's just there to sleep with you.
You know what?
That, if that word were to describe some people's live-in girlfriend then, you know, maybe then
they would feel like, wait a minute, I'm not being treated with proper respect here if
I'm just this guy's concubine.
And that's what a lot of women are today, are concubines.
They're just being used for their body, that's it.
And if a man really loves you, he'd be willing to marry you and provide for you and commit
to you for the rest of your life, not just use you as a temporary concubine.
But see, the word concubine goes over most people's head anymore because it's just not
politically correct.
You know, another word that's completely gone out of fashion is the word bastard.
Now people will use this today as an expletive but the Bible frequently uses the word bastard.
But you know why we don't use the word bastard anymore?
Because like half of children now are bastards.
So that, you know, it's like, oh man, can't use that word anymore.
And I'm not being negative toward those children, it's not their fault.
But let me tell you this though, if we use the word bastard, if that's the only word
we use, I bet people would think differently about that.
Children being conceived out of wedlock, that's what the Bible calls it, bastards.
So you know, words like concubine, bastard, whoremonger, you say, oh man, you're cursing
a blue streak behind the pulpit.
No, no, no, these are actually words that are appropriate to describe sin.
These are really bad sins.
And if we realize how bad they were, we'd realize that these are the right words.
Otherwise God was wrong because those are the type of words that he used in the Bible.
Other words that the Bible uses, for example, someone who drinks a lot of alcohol is known
as a drunk or a drunkard in the Bible.
I mean, that's what the Bible calls it, a drunk.
But what's our softened up word that we use today?
He's an alcoholic.
He has a drinking problem.
No, he's a drunk.
And that's the word that we should use, a drunkard, he's a drunk, all right.
And then we've got other words like, for example, the Bible used the word sodomite, sodomite.
And when it describes what sodomites do, then it says that they are going after strange
flesh.
What's a good synonym for strange?
Queer, right?
They go after strange flesh.
They are a sodomite.
And the Bible says that what they do is filthy in 2 Peter chapter 2.
Look, if you want to know what I think about the homo lifestyle, I say it's filthy.
If you want to know what I think about homosexuals, they are filthy.
What they do is vile.
Now these are Bible words.
It's vile, it's filthy, it's strange, it's queer, it's an abomination, they are sodomites.
And what word do they use to describe it?
Gay.
And gay is a positive word.
Because if you read any old books or sing old, you know, Don We Now or Gay Apparel didn't
used to be a trip to Urban Outfit or Abercrombie and Fitch.
You know, Don We Now or Gay Apparel just means we're putting on clothing that we wear to
something fun.
Because someone who's very gay, it means they're happy, they're lively, they're friendly.
And even the Bible uses the term gay apparel.
Okay.
And it's in James chapter 2.
So here we are taking a Bible word that's a positive word and then we're going to let
them bully us into using some positive word about their filth.
Filth.
Now if we use the word filth, if we use the word vile, which vile means what?
Gross.
Vile means disgusting or gross.
So if we use words like gross, disgusting, filthy, abominable, okay, then we'd have a
viewpoint that was a biblical viewpoint.
But when we use words like gay and homosexual and alternative lifestyle, you know, then
what happens?
It changes the way that we think.
And let me tell you something.
Using different words will change the way that you think and the devil has a plan to
change the way that you think.
He wants you to think adultery is not that bad.
He wants you to think that drunkenness is not that bad.
He wants you to think that sodomy is not that bad.
He wants you to think that being a whore and a whoremonger isn't that bad.
But I'm telling you something.
The Bible says that we as preachers need to make sin exceeding sinful.
That's wicked.
And not soften it up and try to make it sound like it's not that bad because we're desensitized
to sin.
See, often two words can have the identical meaning to them, but they have a different
emotion behind it or a different feeling, even though they have the same meaning.
For example, the word damn has the same meaning as the word darn, right, but it's just different
degrees of strength behind it, right?
Or for example, the word damnation versus condemnation.
They both mean the same thing.
Damnation, condemnation.
One of them is just softer than the other, condemnation.
That's why the new versions completely remove damnation because, you know, God forbid they'd
be one of those hellfire and damnation types.
So now they're like a shield, shield fire, darning type of a preacher.
So well, you know, darn you to heck, all right?
So what's going on is that sometimes words can have the same meaning, but they have a
different feeling.
And a good translator knows that when you translate something, you don't just translate
to a word that has the same meaning.
You translate to the word that also has the same feel to it.
You know, you want to have, you want to deliver the same spirit, you know, not just the meaning,
but also the spirit of what's being said.
And you can use words, like for example, you know, you could say whoredom and promiscuity,
they have, one of them is a lot, will grab you a lot more than the other and sounds a
lot worse.
Sounds a lot worse to be whorish than to be promiscuous.
Or for example, even if we just use words like, you know, let's say we wanted to describe
someone who's very strong-willed.
If we said that person was stubborn, that's negative, right?
Oh, you're very stubborn and obstinate, right?
But what if we use the words like resolute, determined, strong-willed.
Now strong-willed sounds positive because it has the word strong in it.
And that's a positive word.
Strong-willed and stubborn are both the same thing.
One of them is positive, one of them is negative.
So you don't want to just get the right meaning, you want to get the right feeling behind it
too.
It should be positive.
If it's negative, it should be negative.
For example, you know, if we talked about someone's body type, we could say, hey, that
person is very thin, very lean, very slim.
Those all sound good, right?
Lean, slim, thin, right?
But what if we said that that person was skinny?
Now all of a sudden it sounds bad, bony.
I mean, that sounds bad, that doesn't sound good, does it?
Or what if we said that they're a beanpole, you know?
That doesn't sound good.
But even though, you know, you could be talking about the same person, somebody who's skinny,
you could say, oh, man, that's really slim.
But one of them is saying, hey, it's too slim.
One of them is saying it's just right.
So it's both words that mean the same thing, but they have a different connotation.
You know, you could say that someone was full-figured.
That sounds good, right?
I mean, full.
I mean, the glass is half full, right?
That's good.
That's a positive word.
Full-figured.
Or you could say fat, and, you know, they both mean something completely different.
You know, you could say that someone was plump, then it sounds nice.
I mean, it sounds like a really good turkey dinner or something, you know what I mean?
So you know, plump, full-figured, or you could use words that are less flattering, right?
So the point is that the words that we use matter.
Number one, we should use words that are clear and clearly express what we're trying to say.
And number two, we should use words that are appropriate to the situation.
If we're talking about a really bad sin, we need to use a bad-sounding word.
And people always get on me for the words that I use about faggots, okay?
Now, see the word that I just used?
It was clear.
It was appropriate.
But people get on me about, oh, using words like queer and faggot.
But you know why?
Because they are soft on that sin.
That's the real reason.
And here's another one, murderer.
That's a good word.
Murder!
But here's what the world wants us to use, terminate a pregnancy.
Terminate a pregnancy.
Fetal reduction.
No, it's called murder.
Oh, you murdered your child.
See, that's a biblical word.
But we're made to believe it's just a termination or an abortion.
I mean, abortion's a computer term, you know?
You abort a process, okay?
You don't abort a human being.
You kill a human being because it's alive.
It's not aborted.
It's killed.
You know, well, you know, its development was arrested, you know, it was terminated.
No, wrong.
And so today, people will get on me and say, hey, you should call them gay.
I won't do it.
Call them homosexual.
I won't do it.
I don't like to keep using the word sexual, okay?
I know that word just rolls off everybody's tongue these days, but you know what?
It doesn't roll off my tongue.
I don't like using that word.
That's why I just shorten it to homo.
They're a homo.
And people got mad at me and said, how dare you call them a homo?
That is the nicest thing that I call them.
And I've written back, I've had people email me and I wrote back to me and be like, excuse
me, did you just get mad at me for using my softest term that I would use?
Homo?
Oh, how dare you shorten it to homo?
Look, if you're a Christian and you're offended by me calling them a homo, you are so brainwashed
by the world, it's not even funny anymore.
If that word offends you, homo.
Like I'm just supposed to bow down and just give these people the uttermost respect, and
then they're probably going to keep changing what they want to be called.
You know, now they want to be called LGBT.
And by the way, you know what LGBT stands for to me?
Let God burn them.
To me, that's what it stands for.
Whenever I see LGBT, that's what it means to me.
Let God burn them.
Why?
Because the Bible says in Jude, the Bible says in Jude, in verse 7, even as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah folks, he says
giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for
an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
So the Bible says that when God burned Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, that
was an example unto us today in the New Testament in Jude.
People say, well, you're all the way back in the Old Testament.
No, I'm in Jude.
It's the second to last book in the Bible.
How close to the end of this book do you want to get?
It's right here in Jude that they are to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.
Let God burn them.
And you say, well, no, no, no, Pastor.
Because now it's LGBTQ.
Let God burn them queers.
Huh?
Hey, you add as many letters to that thing as you want, I'll come up with something.
But you know, it's just because now it's not enough to just accept, it's not enough for
just to accept homos now.
Now we have to accept homos getting married and adopting children that were taken away
from people because they smoked pot.
And then they take away their kids and give it to a homo.
And then not only that, but now we have to accept the transgender and all this weird,
freakish, bizarre stuff.
You know, and then Facebook, that gives like 100 different options now under gender.
Did you know that?
It's over 100 now.
If you click on gender, it's like male, female, it gives you like four or five, and then it
says other.
And if you click on other, it gives you over 100 options.
Just for gender.
And this is the world we're living in today.
It's confusion.
And God is not the author of confusion.
And you know where a lot of the confusion is coming from?
The words that we use.
We need to get back to using biblical words.
And even these new Bibles are part of the confusion.
They're making the Bible gender neutral now.
The NIV that everyone grew up with, you know, in these liberal churches is the 1984 NIV.
In 2011, they completely overhauled the NIV to make it gender neutral in 2011.
So the new NIV at the store now has removed gender.
That's the biggest difference between the 1984 NIV and the, thank God for the King James,
it doesn't change.
That's the same, despite what all the liars will tell you, it's the same as it was in
1611.
And if you don't believe me, there's a replica back there that weighs 20 some pounds of a
1611 King James.
Go look at it.
Same thing as this one says.
But that these new Bibles are changing to become more gender neutral.
And people are confused now.
They don't even know that there's a difference between male and female, man and woman.
And every time I go down to the community college and preach about homosexuality, you
know what the students come to me and tell me?
Well, what about people that are born with both?
What about people that are both male and female, huh?
What about them?
This is the kind of stupidity today that our young people are being taught in these institutions
of higher learning.
Oh, that some people are just born both male and female.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
And I kept hearing it over and over again, oh, they're born with both or born with both
or both.
It's so stupid.
You know, I actually went out and got a book and read a book about it.
It wasn't even a Christian book, just a science book.
Just what are all these idiots talking about?
And I look it up and look at it, it doesn't even exist to be born with both.
It's so stupid.
Oh, but I'm the Professor Anderson, no, it doesn't exist.
Anybody who knows science knows it doesn't exist, okay?
Because anybody who knows anything about science knows that, and I don't want to get graphic
here, obviously, in front of children and everything, but anybody who knows anything
about science, about a baby who develops in its mother's womb, and I've had eight kids,
so I've had a lot of time to think about these things and, you know, I've gone through
eight pregnancies with my wife, knows that the same part that becomes the male anatomy
is the same part that becomes the female anatomy.
And for the first so and so weeks, eight, nine, ten weeks in utero development, there's
no difference between male and female in the womb.
You know, when it first starts out, it's the same.
Then when it gets to a certain point of development around, you know, I don't have the weeks memorized
but I want to say it's around eight or ten weeks, is where it starts to diverge, where
it will either turn into the male organ or it will turn into the female organ.
But it's the same exact organ in the beginning, and it goes one way or the other.
So how can you have two?
That'd be like saying that there's a man with two or that there's a woman with two.
It's stupid.
It's not real.
It doesn't exist.
But they'll lie to you and tell you, oh, these hermaphrodites, blah, blah, blah.
No, there are men that are deformed, that are underdeveloped, and then there are women
that are deformed, that are overdeveloped, but they are either male or female.
Chromosomally, they are either male or female because, you know, we are either chromosomally
male or chromosomally female.
It's that simple.
Now, you could be a feminine man or a manly woman.
You could be the bearded lady, but that doesn't make you a hermaphrodite.
It's not real.
And I read up on this from secular sources.
This isn't even a Christian book, okay?
It's a lie.
But they just want to confuse you with some weird exception, some bizarre deformity somewhere
that they can point out, out of all the seven billion people in the world, find somebody
that's deformed and then lie about their deformity to people who don't understand gestation of
a child in its mother's womb, and then they'll just get, oh, well, in that case, let's just
throw out everything the Bible says about sodomites.
In that case, let's have men marrying other men and women marrying other women.
It's madness today.
And we need to anchor our soul in a book that doesn't change, that uses clear, distinct
language that we can understand and that is appropriate for what we're talking about.
It's the words that matter.
And when you start changing the words, you change the way people think about things.
Even if it still gives the same gist of what's being said, if you make it gender neutral,
you've changed it.
If you make it soft or euphemistic, then you've changed it.
And we need some solid footing today in our world.
Just this week, the Supreme Court, I guess, made some ruling that now sodomites are getting
married in Arizona and they were all down there on, I think it was Friday, they were
all down there at the courthouse, all getting married, all the homos.
And this TV lady called me up and said, hey, Pastor Anderson, I want to interview you for
the evening news to get your reaction on this ruling.
I want to see what you think about the fact that homos are getting married now.
Sure, come on down.
So she came on down with the camera and everything.
And so I talked to her and I said, so?
I said, have you interviewed me before?
What made you pick me?
She said that she said, well, it's very hard to get anyone that will say anything negative
about this on camera.
And she said she called over a dozen pastors.
She called over 12 pastors who were against homosexuality, she called over 12 of them
and wanted them to comment and none of them would comment on it.
She said that they all, and here's what she said.
She said, they just said that they're too busy loving people than to point out their
sin and to basically condemn what they're doing.
Those were the exact words.
Loving people instead of condemning what they're doing.
And she said none of them.
She said she did a man on the street with a microphone and went around and asked people.
No one was negative, not one.
Nobody she said was either positive, oh, this is great, it's wonderful, or they just kind
of said, well, I don't care.
She couldn't get a single person on the man on the street to say that it was wrong.
Not even one.
She called down the list of all the pastors until she got to the absolute bottom of the
barrel.
Faithful Word Baptist Church.
And I said, come on down.
And of course I said all this awesome stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor.
But you know what, at least she put, she did, I liked the way it was edited, because in
the end, the first thing I say on the TV thing is, well, I think homosexuality is disgusting.
And that was on the evening news this week in Phoenix.
And me saying that homosexuality is disgusting, but you know what's disgusting?
Pastors that don't have the guts to talk about it.
And you know what, I guarantee you, I promise you, you say, well, go to John 7-7.
You say, well, I think these pastors, they just don't like going on TV, is what it is.
Because you know what, I promise you, if the news reporter would have said, hi, we're profiling
churches in Scottsdale that are helping the community.
Can we come down and just profile your church and just talk a little bit about your ministry?
Oh, they'd love that.
They'd love to do all the positive things.
But they don't want to go on TV and cry aloud and spare not.
And you know, yeah, there was no TV in Bible days, but there were some prophets who preached
a little more publicly than others, while others were hiding in a cave.
And it's ridiculous, my friend.
These pastors don't use plainness of speech.
That's the problem in America today.
Something's wrong in America when you can call 12 pastors who are on the right side.
And none of them will stand up and just say, it's wrong.
Not even to say what I said, but to just say, it's wrong.
It's a sin.
I'm against it.
They won't even go on TV and say that.
Look what John 7 says.
This is Jesus speaking.
And this is my message to all these liberal pastors of Phoenix.
The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth because I testify of it that the works thereof
are evil.
Now, it looked like Jesus was just so busy loving people that he didn't testify that
the works of the world were evil.
No, in fact, you can do both.
You can actually love people and preach against wicked sin.
So it's not like, oh, yeah, we don't do any soul-witting.
We don't love anybody.
We don't teach the Bible.
We're just on a mission to just hate people.
That's all we do.
Now, that's ridiculous.
We should do both, you know, do all of what the Bible tells us to do.
We don't have to choose.
But honestly, today, it's getting ridiculous when you can't even find pastors that will
say no to this stuff, even when it's just so blatant and so brazen.
You know, as it was in the days of Lot, the Bible says, so shall it be also in the days
of the coming of the Son of Man.
Who's Lot?
Lot was the guy that got out of Sodom and Gomorrah.
And what did they do?
They ate, they drank, and they did what?
They married.
They married and are given in marriage.
You know, that could even be prophetic of the fact that in the last days, Sodomites
will be getting married.
And that's what we see happening.
It's a fulfillment of prophecy.
But honestly, the preaching today is light years away from where it should be on that
subject.
And then people come to me, the one person who's willing to get on TV and say, it's disgusting.
And then they come to me and write to me and tell me, you need to soften up on it and use
words like gay, no.
Because somebody has to call a spade a spade.
And honestly, you know what?
It was 1.30 when I did that interview, 1.30 in the afternoon.
And she had to be done with the whole story, edited and done by four.
I mean, it had to be turned in, because it's going on 6 o'clock news, it had to be turned
in by four.
And I was the last ditch effort.
And listen to me, if I would have said no, there would have been no one expressing a
biblical viewpoint.
No one.
It would have just been nothing but, it's great, it's wonderful, thank God, it's about
time.
And you know what the sad thing is?
When a secret ballot initiative about this, about homos getting married, the people who
were against it were in the majority.
You know, when they put on the ballot of whether homos should get married or not, the majority
said they should not, the majority.
And isn't it funny when you go out on the street, you can't even find one.
Call all the pastors, won't even find one.
Why?
Because they all are scared.
You know, and they're afraid.
Or they're getting up and preaching about it and they're using the wrong words.
I'm not going to use the wrong words, my friend.
I'm going to use words that are appropriate, that are negative, and that are clear to understand.
And some people say, well, just say sodomite then.
Here's the problem with sodomite.
Most people don't know what sodomite means.
So I got to fall back on that plainness of speech principle.
You know, I remember one time my dad brought a visitor to church in Sacramento, California,
and the whole sermon was against sodomites.
This is about 10 years ago.
And my dad and this guy got in the car after the sermon, and my dad's like, what'd you
think of that sermon?
And the guy said, what's a sodomite?
And the whole sermon was about sodomites.
And the whole sermon went over his head because he's just like, oh, these sodomites, the sodomites,
the sodomites.
And this guy had no clue what a sodomite was, so he missed the whole sermon.
That's why you have to break it down into language that people understand.
You're like, sodomite.
People are like, what do you say?
I'm not going to, well, gay people, look, those that are gay.
That's gay to say that.
I would say the faggots, the queers, homos, perverts, pedophiles, deviants, reprobates.
This is what the Bible teaches.
But thirdly, this.
So number one, we should use words that are clear, easy to understand, make our point
across.
Number two, words that are appropriate.
Negative words for something negative, positive words for something positive.
And then thirdly, we should use biblical terms whenever we can.
Biblical terms are to be preferred over extra biblical terms.
Now that doesn't mean we can only use biblical terms when we talk.
Some people go too far with this.
I mean, obviously, we have to say things like car and computer and sometimes it makes sense
to use a word that's not in the Bible as long as it's a clear word that has the right meaning
behind it to explain the Bible, okay?
But there are a lot of words that are not in the Bible and they're not clear and they
have no benefit.
And these man-made theological terms should be avoided.
And we should try to use the Bible's terms.
Like for example, the words Christophany, theophany, satyriology, homiletics, hermeneutics.
Those are not biblical words, are they?
But not only that, they're not easy to understand and they're used by people who are trying
to sound smart.
And a lot of people will just get up and just use words like exegesis.
And God forbid that we would ever participate in eisegesis.
Just this smug, smart, like that's just how you show how smart you are and how educated
you are and try to talk down to people by using these big highfalutin type words that
are not biblical terms.
Just to elevate yourself and just use big words that nobody knows.
Now also, you know, people use the word sovereign.
I don't like the word sovereign, you know, because it's a word that's not in the Bible
at all.
It's not in the King James one time and people twist it to mean whatever they want it to
mean.
And so it's a word that brings confusion.
It doesn't bring clarity to any discussion.
It's a word that's deceptive.
And so I don't use it.
You know, it's better to prefer the words that God uses.
The Bible said, I started this sermon with this, 1 Corinthians 2, 13, it said, which
things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth.
The words that we should use are not the words of man's wisdom.
Hermeneutics, homiletics, soteriology, homilelogy, Christophany, theophany, protoevangelium.
It's just stupid to use big words just to impress people.
I'm not impressed.
Jesus spoke and the common man heard him gladly.
He wasn't trying to just impress by using big, crazy words that no one understood.
Now there are some words that are not used in the Bible that are actually very helpful
words.
Like, for example, the word Trinity is a good word.
That's not in the Bible, but the Bible does say these three are one.
So we could just call it the three and one.
If we wanted to, we could just say, hey, we believe in the three and one.
Do you believe in the three and one?
The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, three and one.
But Trinity is just an easier way of saying that.
It means the identical thing.
That's legit.
For example, the term rapture is not in the Bible.
But it does say that we're going to be caught up together in the clouds, and rapture means
catching up, being caught up.
So basically it's just easier than calling it the catching up, the catch up.
You know, it just doesn't sound the same when you talk about, you know, the catch up comes
after the tribulation.
You know, it just doesn't sound the same.
So it's just easy.
You know, so some words are good that we use, but that's because they're clear.
When we say rapture, people know what we're talking about.
When we say Trinity, people know what we're talking about.
These other unclear theological terms are a waste.
The Bible says, if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
he's proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh
envy strife, railings, evil surmisings.
So according to the Bible, God's words are wholesome words.
Wholesome means healthy.
You know, if we talked about a wholesome breakfast, it's healthy for you.
It's good for you.
So these are good words to use.
These are healthy, good, sound words to use.
And if you're offended by these words, you need to check your heart, because it might
just be that you're soft on sin, and God's not.
So who needs to change, you or God?
Maybe you need to just get used to some preaching that's not as smooth, and get used to some
wording that's not as smooth as what you're used to, and it's not that there's anything
wrong with the words that God uses in the Bible.
They're good words.
And we need to think about the words that we use.
There's so much more I could say.
I'll close the sermon on that, but we need to think about the, you know, words are important.
God's word is important.
That's why it's important to have a King James Bible, otherwise you get all these contradictions.
You get a soft-soaked sermon on sin when you get it from these new versions.
And it's important to use words that are appropriate.
Don't get sucked into all these really nice euphemisms about really bad things.
And then also, we should always try to prefer biblical terms, using God's word.
Biblical terms like believe, you know, that's a really biblical term about, when we talk
about salvation, we talk about believing, faith.
Not like, well, I made a commitment to Christ, you know, I asked Jesus to come into my heart.
You know, those aren't as biblical as just saying I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ
or I called upon the name of the Lord.
Biblical terms are always to be preferred over non-biblical terms.
We need to think about the words that we say.
There's so many other areas we could talk about.
Just in your marriage, just think about the words that you use with your wife.
Think about the words that you use with your husband.
Think about the words that you use with your children.
Because words are important, aren't they?
We need to think about what type of wording we use and choose our words carefully according
to these biblical principles.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father we thank you so much for your word, Lord, and for the Bible and for all the wonderful
things that you've given us in the Bible and just that it doesn't change, that it's clear,
Lord.
I thank you that we can understand the Bible and that it tells us very clearly what is
right and what is wrong, Lord.
This world is confused, very confused, Lord.
The Supreme Court is very confused because of the fact that we've allowed people to change
our vocabulary and change our words to where everything's been gender neutral and we don't
know the difference between man and woman.
We don't know the difference between right and wrong, Lord.
Help us to be anchored firmly to the rock of a King James Bible and help biblical words
and biblical concepts roll off our tongue more than the world's philosophies roll off
our tongue.
And in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.