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Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. We are gonna go ahead and get started this evening. Our first hymn,
if you'll grab a hymnal, turn to 202 My Redeemer, hymn number 202202 My Redeemer.
I mean, at this time, we'll open with a word of...
Heavenly Father, we thank you again for another opportunity today to gather
together. We thank you for leading us to those that were receptive and the
salvations that we're seeing this afternoon. Also pray that you just be
with those seeds that were planted, especially in that area where, you know,
things have been going rough, Lord, that they would just that you would be the
light there in the life that would shine forever more if they would just
receive that seed. We pray here for this service that everything would be done
decently in an order and that you'd continue to fill us with your spirit
ready to receive your word through preaching this evening. These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
All right, our next hymn, 121 Like a River Glorious. 121, 121 Like a River Glorious.
121 there on the first
Go ahead and raise your hand if you need a bulletin.
On the front, we do have our Bible memory
verse of the week, Genesis chapter number one,
verse seven on the inside.
We have our service times listed Sunday morning at 10.30,
Sunday evening at 4.30 and our Wednesday Bible study
through Proverbs at seven o'clock.
We do have our soul winning times listed there as well and this afternoon I believe we had one salvation.
We went back to that same apartment complex for the SWAT soul winning time yesterday.
Today, not so much luck as I had yesterday personally.
I ran into a black lady who said she was the Christ, so we found out it was different than what I expected.
That is what she said apparently that she's the Christ and then another guy told me that to get to heaven
You had to master the flesh. So wow very uh, it's just yeah, just master the flesh. Just be perfect, right?
real easy
Crazy doctrine that's out there from life church. He said he goes to life church
And he says you have to master the flesh to be safe. Great doctrine being taught there sarcasm. It's a bad church
Just so you know
Anchor Baptist church stats for the year so far
1650 for the year praise Lord for that. We do have our upcoming events August 27th through the first 31st is the Fire Breathing Baptist
Fellowship at steadfast Baptist Church in Texas
September 6th is the next soul-winning marathon in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
September 7th is the men's preaching night, followed by our potluck and game night.
And then October 6th through the 11th,
the big one, the Bahamas mission trip.
Cannot wait for some soul winning
where no one will tell you no.
You'll just constantly be preaching the whole time.
Really looking forward to that.
On the right is some information about giving online
and our online visitor card,
as well as our prayer list for this week.
Make sure to keep everyone in prayer on that list.
And if you have any requests, please email the church.
I'd be happy to add that for you.
That's gonna be leading us to our third song.
Our third hymn this evening, 437, battle hymn of the Republic, 437, 437.
437, we'll sing their starting right on the first.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the graves of wrath are stored.
He has loose the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching.
My soul to answer him be
as the offering plates are being passed, turn if you would this evening to John chapter number one.
John chapter number one.
John chapter 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God
The same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was nothing made not anything made
That was made
And in was life and the life was the light of men and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness
comprehended it not
There was a man sent from God whose name was John
The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe
He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light
That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world
He was in the world and the world was made by him and
The world knew it knew him not he came into his own and his own received him not
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and will be held his glory, the glory
as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
This was he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me."
And of his fullness have all we received and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
And this is the record of John, that when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem
to ask him, who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, what then, art thou Elias, and he saith, I am not, art thou that prophet?
And he answered, no.
that we may give an answer to them that sent us.
What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
make straight the way of the Lord,
as said the prophet Isaiah.
And they, which were sent, were of the Pharisees, and they asked him and said unto him, Why
baptizeest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom
ye know not.
Whose shoes latch it. I am not worthy to unloose
These things were done in Beth-arba, Beth-bar-bara
beyond Jordan
Where John was baptizing
The next day John C of Jesus coming unto him and said
Behold the Lamb of God which take away the sin of the world
This is he of whom I said after after me come with a man, which is preferred before me
for he was before me and
I knew him not
But but that he should be made manifest to Israel. Therefore. I am come baptizing with water
And John Bear records saying I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and at a boat upon him
And I knew him not but that
But he that sent me to baptize with water the same set unto me upon whom out South sea
the Spirit descending and remaining on him the same as he
Which baptizes with the Holy Ghosts and I saw and bear record that this is the Son of God
And again the day the next day
Again the next day after John stood and two of his disciples
looking upon Jesus, as he walked, he said,
Behold the Lamb of God. And the two
disciples heard him speak, and they
followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and
saw them following, and saith unto them,
What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi,
which is to say, being interpreted,
He saith unto them come and see, and they came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him
that day for it was about the tenth hour.
One of the two which heard John speak and followed him was Andrew Simon Peter's brother.
Which is being interpreted to Christ
And he brought him to Jesus and when Jesus beheld him he said thou art Simon the son of Jonah
Thou shall be called Cephas which is by interpretation a stone
The day following Jesus would
And sayeth unto him, follow me.
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip findeth in Nathaniel, and sayeth unto him,
we have found him, of whom Moses and the law and the prophets
did right, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathaniel said unto him, can there any good thing
come out of Nazareth?
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed of whom is no guile
Nathaniel said unto him
Whence knowest thou me?
Jesus answered
Said unto him before that Philip called thee
When thou was under the fig tree I saw thee
Nathaniel answered and said unto him rabbi thou art the son of God
Thou art the king of Israel
Jesus answered and said unto him because I said unto thee I saw thee under the
victory believe us now thou shall see greater things than these and he said
unto him verily verily I say unto you hereafter ye shall see heaven open in the
angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man let's pray gracious
We have thank you to those that are gathered to help us to keep distractions to a minimum.
Focus on the future of your word.
Jesus' name will pray it. Amen.
Amen.
Word of God itself, our church holds to the position of being King James only.
And what we mean by that is that we believe that the King James Bible is the perfect, inspired, preserved Word of God in English.
And when it comes to the English language, it is the only Bible that we use.
Now, I am not someone who's really biased in this position because I did not grow up King James only.
It's not something I was taught as a child.
Not that there's anything wrong with that if I was.
Look, if you're a child and you're being taught something true and good, stick with that.
But honestly, I did not grow up believing this.
And in fact, I had read the NIV, I have to admit my fault.
I had read the NIV cover to cover before I even got saved.
So I have given the modern versions a chance.
I read a lot of the Geneva Bible before I was saved.
I came to the position of being King James only because I am truly convinced that it is the truth,
that it is the right position.
And so the title of my sermon this evening is why we reject modern versions of the Bible.
This is such an important characteristic of our church and something that you really need to know
for yourself, not just be like, yeah, you know, our church is King James only.
You ought to know the reasons why we reject the modern versions, why we believe in the King James
Bible. And so I want to give you three reasons this evening why we reject the modern versions
have a wrong philosophy on scripture.
This is one of the biggest fundamental reasons why we differ with those that
stick with the modern versions rather than the King James,
is because we have a totally different philosophy
on the Word of God itself. What do I mean by that?
Well, look at John chapter number one.
Where did the Word of God come from?
John 1 verse 1, the Bible says,
in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
An important aspect of understanding
the Bible is realizing that this is a
spiritual book.
And the Bible says that the Word
was God.
Of course, that's speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It says in verse 2, the same was
in the beginning with God.
Verse 14 says, and the Word was made
and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth." See, we do not look at the Bible as just some cool historical document,
some, you know, academic document that we kind of just nerd out over and geek out over. It's kind
of this cool historical document. No, no, no, we believe that Jesus Christ, our God, is the Word of God.
And people today will scoff at those that are King James only and say,
Man, you guys worship the Bible. You're right. We do.
We do worship the word of God because Jesus Christ is the word and to teach some doctrine that you should not worship
The Bible is blasphemous because Jesus is the word of God and people today will say well you guys make an idol
Out of the Bible how it's not possible to make an idol out of the words of God
It's not possible to idolize idolatry is a sin
where you craft some piece of wood or metal into a likeness of a man or a beast or a bird or something like that.
Believing the Bible and believing the Word of God is inspired and perfect and that Jesus is the Word, that is just Christianity.
That's not idolatry.
Yes, we do worship the Bible and we are Baptists.
And one of the distinction of Baptists
is that this is the final authority
for all things that we believe.
We take that for granted, but you have to realize
there are other brands of Christianity
where they will just openly tell you,
yeah, we don't believe that the Bible
is the final authority on all.
manner of faith and practice.
I ran into someone who was a Greek Orthodox the other day out soul-winning and they said,
oh, so you guys believe, you know, like you only base your beliefs off the Bible and not traditions?
And I said, yeah, that's right.
That's exactly right.
Because in Greek Orthodoxy and in Roman Catholicism,
they would allow sometimes tradition to trump the Word of God.
What do we believe as Baptists?
We have to believe everything that the Bible says.
And if our tradition contradicts what the Bible says, we have to submit our tradition to the Bible.
Go to Psalm 119. Psalm 119.
While you're turning here, I'll read Ephesians 3.9, and the Bible says,
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ.
So in John chapter 1, the Bible says that God created everything
by the word, the word created everything.
Then in Ephesians chapter number three,
we see that God created all things by Jesus Christ.
How do you make these two jive?
Well, you realize that Jesus is the word of God.
Now look at Psalm 119 verse 89.
The Bible says this,
forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
What am I talking about how the people
who subscribe to modern versions,
they have a different philosophy on scripture itself?
What are some of the key distinctions between us?
Well, one, we believe that this is divine
and that Jesus is the word of God.
Also, we believe that the original manuscript, if you will,
the original copy of the word of God is in heaven.
Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
We believe that God had already had all the words of God written down and known before the foundation of the world.
Go to Psalm 33.
Psalm 33, let's get some more doctrine on this.
Psalm chapter 33 verse 6, notice what the Bible says,
by the word of the Lord were the heavens made,
and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.
So everything that exists was made by the word of the Lord.
Who is that? That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
All the hosts of heaven was created by what?
The breath of his mouth.
What that makes me think of is that word inspiration.
We believe that the Word of God is inspired, and what does that mean?
It means God breathed.
That is like the literal word for word translation of that word, God breathed.
But what does that mean?
It means that God's the source of those words, right?
Everything was created by the breath of God.
God spoke the world into existence.
God gave his word.
Let's talk about inspiration.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter number three.
Second Timothy chapter number three,
when it comes to the doctrine of the word of God,
one of the most important foundational doctrines
is this idea of inspiration.
What does it mean for the word of God to be inspired?
And is the King James Bible inspired?
These are questions people have.
Look at second Timothy chapter three verse 16.
The Bible says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
So everything that is considered Scripture was given by
inspiration of God, or was God breathed, or basically what that's saying is it came from God as
the source. He's the one who gave the Scripture. And if something is not inspired, it's not Scripture.
Not inspired, not Scripture. Not Scripture, not inspired. You can kind of flip these things around,
but that's how we could read things like the Apocrypha, for example.
And you just can tell that it's not inspired by God.
It has no power.
It doesn't bear witness with our spirit.
It's contradictory to the rest of the scripture.
And you can say, OK, this is not the inspired word of God.
But the 66 books that we have in the King James Bible,
I believe these are the inspired words of God.
Flip the couple pages there to 2 Peter chapter 1.
We'll look at another verse on inspiration.
And this all come together in a point quickly here.
2 Peter chapter number 1.
Verse 21, notice what the Bible says,
So when it comes to the word of God,
this is not some sort of cunningly crafted fable.
This is not the word of men.
People will wrongly say, oh, man wrote the Bible.
Wrong. Man did not write the Bible.
God wrote the Bible.
How? Through inspiration.
Exodus chapter 20 verse 1, and God spake all these words, saying.
And then it goes on to just list all the things that he said, and guess what?
Yeah, someone physically wrote that down, but that is the words of God.
God is filling these men with the Holy Spirit, and the prophecy is not coming by, notice, the will of man.
So it's not just their ideas, their words, their philosophy.
It's coming by God as they are inspired.
This is so amazing is because all 66 books of the Bible, there is no contradiction in them.
And like that, as a man, you could not do that.
But yet the Word of God is perfect because it's inspired by God.
Now, this is a little more of doctrinal nuance here,
but there's kind of a debate amongst independent fundamental Baptists
between how exactly God inspired Scripture.
And there's this idea called mechanical dictation.
Any nerds ever heard of this before? Awesome.
Okay, mechanical dictation versus what's kind of known as dynamic inspiration.
Now, I believe that there's good people on both sides of this that are saved, but kind of here's the idea of mechanical dictation.
Mechanical dictation teaches that when God spoke his word and inspired his prophets, he was moving their mouth, moving their tongue,
putting air into their lungs to force them to say the words that he wanted them to say.
It's kind of like, you know, a puppet and a puppet master where he's kind of taking over your mouth, taking over your lungs and taking over your brain and your thoughts to cause you to say the things that he wants you to say.
Now, to give this position fair scrutiny, I do think that there are some instances in the Old Testament where you can find this method of inspiration.
I'll show you that, but I'll just tell you my opinion is I lean towards more of a belief of dynamic inspiration.
Meaning that, the prophets and the men of God who spake the Word of God,
I do not believe that they lost their control over their mind or control over their body.
I believe that you could still kind of see their own personality and personal style
shine through in the Word of God. Yet, everything that ended up in the Word of God,
everything they said while they were under inspiration, was true and was the Word of God.
This is why I believe, you know, if you've read the Bible a lot, what's cool about it is that
It's all different, but it's all the same.
You know what I'm saying?
You could get a little bit different style from the Apostle John
than the Apostle Paul.
A little bit different style than Moses in the Old Testament, right?
And David in the Psalms.
There's a little bit of stylistic difference there,
but it all feels the same.
Why? Because it's coming from the same author.
That's the Holy Spirit of God.
I don't believe God primarily uses this idea of mechanical dictation.
But go to Numbers 22.
I will show you, just to give that side, fair shake, I do believe that there is an instance
of mechanical dictation in the Old Testament.
Here's a verse that they kind of used to prove this as you're turning there.
Psalm 41 verse 1, the Bible says, my heart is inditing a good matter.
I speak of the things which I have made touching the King.
of a ready writer.
Now, I believe that this is obviously poetic.
He's just saying like, I'm ready to be used by God
to speak the words of God.
But some people will say like, hey,
God's gonna grab that tongue and he's gonna write what he wants
like it's a pen or something like that.
And hey, there's, like I said,
there's good people that believe this.
I don't really buy it.
But here's an example of when it is true.
Numbers 22, verse 27.
And says, And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam, and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with the staff.
And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Okay, you got to give it to them here. This is mechanical dictation, because last time I checked, donkeys can't talk.
And so if a donkey is speaking, then yeah, God is filling the lungs of that donkey and moving the tongue and moving the mouth
to be able to say that. And man, this must have been a freaky thing to see where all of a sudden your donkey is reproving you after you just hit it.
But yeah, I would say, of course, this is mechanical dictation. Verse 29,
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me, I would. There were a sword in my hand. For now, would I kill thee?
I like how he doesn't even just acknowledge, like, this is crazy. This donkey is talking. He just responds. Like, this is normal.
Like, oh man, I wish I had a sword.
I'd kill you right now.
It's like, I would think I was tripping.
Like, if I'm like, messing with my chickens in the backyard
and all of a sudden my rooster's just like, what's up?
What's up, son?
You want to fight?
I'd just be like, where's a sword?
You know?
It's like, I would be freaking out.
Verse number 30 in the ass said unto Balaam,
I am not I thine ass upon which thou hast ridden,
ever since I was thine unto this day.
Was I ever want to do so unto thee?
And he said, nay.
So the donkey's just like reasoning with him
and like having an intelligent conversation
and going back and forth.
How does this happen?
This is a miracle.
Okay, this is mechanical dictation.
Here, God is opening the mouth of this donkey
and forcing him to say what God wants him to say.
I do not believe that this is what's happening
the majority of the time when the holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.
Go to Psalm chapter 12.
I'll read for you 1 Corinthians 14 verse 32.
The Bible says,
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
So in 1 Corinthians 14, the Bible teaches this idea that the preachers, the prophets, their spirit is still subject unto them.
They're still in control of their mind.
They're still in control of their thoughts.
This is how you know, by the way, the Pentecostal idea of speaking in tongues where they lose control of their thoughts and lose control of the things that they say.
That's not of God.
That's not a godly thing right there because the spirit of prophets are subject to the prophets.
What does that mean? When people are speaking the word of God in the Old Testament,
it's still really that person. Paul's still there, right? Or the New Testament.
Paul's still there, Peter's still there, their mind is still there,
but they are speaking the words of God.
So that's inspiration.
Now, another doctrine that's very important that goes along with inspiration is the doctrine of preservation.
The words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times.
Notice this, thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
Now this is where the roads kind of part between us and the modern version readers.
We would often agree on the doctrine of inspiration.
And many people will say, yeah, God's spake by these holy men of God,
and they spake the perfect Word of God.
But notice, it doesn't just stop there.
The Bible promises that God, it's His duty, it's His job
to not only inspire the words of God, but to preserve the words of God.
And I will say this, if God gave His Word by inspiration,
if He inspired His Word, but then He didn't preserve it,
then that was a waste of time.
I mean, think about the huge space of time that passes in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation,
that the Bible was written over the course of a long time of human history.
God gave that word by inspiration, but then he just forgot to preserve it?
I mean, think about how small of faith you would have to have in God to think that,
oh yeah, God inspired His Word, but He lost it.
This is the mentality today of most Christians.
I've heard it called this way, that they are original manuscript onlyists.
They wouldn't be King James only, their original manuscript only is saying,
yeah, the Word of God was perfect, yeah, it was inspired in the original manuscripts only,
but we've lost it today.
but so much has gotten lost in translation.
It's like, man, that's a really depressing view
because how do I go on as a Christian not knowing if I have the words of God?
How do I live my life by the Bible?
How do I submit to its authority if I don't even know it's the word of God?
Oh, yeah, I can't.
And that's why a lot of these new evangelical churches
that hold to the modern versions are so terrible.
and they don't take hard stands on anything,
and they're not really out there
turning the world upside down with the gospel
because they're not standing on the rock.
They're not even sure if they have the rock.
They're saying like,
yeah, we used to have the rock a long time ago,
but notice the Bible says,
thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
We believe that the Bible was inspired by God through holy men of God speaking as they're moved by the Holy Ghost
And then we believe that God allowed his word to be preserved perfectly unto us today
We believe that the King James Bible is that document now
Let me read for you some statements of faith from different churches around the country to kind of give you an idea of what people believe on this
this original manuscript onlyism.
Here's from Grace Community Church,
who John MacArthur was the pastor of
until he died and went to hell recently.
And the reason he went to hell
is because he denied the blood of Jesus Christ
as being necessary for salvation.
He taught Lordship salvation,
that you have to repent of your sins to be saved,
make Jesus the Lord of your life.
He taught work salvation, okay?
This guy was a wicked false prophet
who is in hell right now.
Here's what his church taught about the word of God.
It says,
We teach that the Bible is God's written revelation to man,
and thus the 66 books of the Bible given to us by the Holy Spirit constitute the plenary, meaning equally inspired in all parts, word of God.
We teach that the word of God is an objective, propositional revelation, verbally inspired in every word.
So far everything is great about this.
infallible and God-breathed. Man, that statement really had me going for a while.
I mean, I was getting really excited about how great that was, how
the Word of God is given by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
and that it's perfect and that it's plenary-inspired, it's equally inspired in all parts
and how it's infallible, well, in the original documents.
Well, how nice! Isn't that great to know that we used to have the Word of God today?
We used to have the Word of God on this earth.
We used to be able to know what God's will is in all situations,
but now this is the best we got.
No, that's not what the Bible teaches.
Here's 1st Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas.
Pastor Robert Jeffress, huge church, 14,000 plus members.
And again, it kind of starts off good.
It says,
The Holy Bible was written by men, divinely inspired,
and is the record of God's revelation of himself to man.
It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction.
It has God for its author, salvation for its end,
and truth without any mixture of error for its matter.
Beautiful writing so far. It's great.
Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
It reveals the principles by which God judges us,
and therefore is and will remain to the end of the world
the true center of Christian Union.
and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried.
I'm still loving it.
All Scripture is a testimony to Christ who is himself the focus of divine revelation.
Then it has in parentheses here, this next statement was added in 2003.
So everything I read for you used to be all that their statement said, and that was great.
Then they added this statement in 2003.
It is inerrant and infallible in the original manuscripts.
which is to be taken as verbally inspired.
All that beautiful poetic writing that you just had about how the glorious beauty and magnificence and power and trustworthiness and might of the Word of God
just at the end to let us down.
Telling us, well, that's what we used to have in the original manuscripts.
How does that help us today?
You know, what a joke this idea of original manuscript onlyism.
problem today go to Jeremiah chapter 36 Jeremiah chapter 36 and you know people who believe in
the modern versions of the Bible with their mouth they will pretend and give lip service to the idea
of believing in preservation but not the way that we do
We believe God preserved His Word of God perfectly in a book you can buy and hold in your hand and read today.
James White will say,
Oh no, no, no. I don't reject the doctrine of preservation.
I just believe God preserved His Word by all this trash dug up in the earth throughout thousands of years.
And every time we dig up a new parchment that was never found before for thousands of years,
that's God preserving His Word.
Wow, that's really helpful.
that thousands and thousands of years after the fact now we could have the Word of God,
except they're not even convinced they have the Word of God now because they keep updating it every single year.
They don't even believe that God has preserved his word through all the fragments that are found
because they're going to keep digging for more.
Because guess what? The love of money is the root of all evil.
And the modern Bible versions, let me tell you why they exist is for Jews to make money
and for haters of God to make money and for people who attack the word of God to make money.
Now let's look at a story. We're going to read a lot of this in Jeremiah that really highlights this idea of how
God preserves his word Jeremiah chapter 36 verse 5 and Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I am shut up
I cannot go into the house of the Lord
Therefore go thou and read in the role which thou hast written from my mouth
The words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's house upon the fasting day and also thou shalt read them
in the ears of all Judah that came out of their cities.
Notice the authorship of this role here.
Who is physically writing the words down in this story?
Beiruch, Jeremiah's servant.
So on one hand, you could look at this and say like,
hey, this is Beiruch writing this.
This is like Beiruch's authorship in a sense.
But really, Beiruch is just a proxy for who?
Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is speaking the words and his servant is writing down the things that he said.
So, you know, you could call this, you could call this the book of Jeremiah.
But you know who really is the author beyond that?
Look what it says there. It says that the words of the Lord in the ears of the people.
So, who is inspiring Jeremiah? The Lord is.
This is why it is accurate to say that God wrote the Bible.
Even if man physically wrote it down,
even if man physically spake these words,
who is the actual true author of the word of God?
God himself is.
And so here you can see a good example of that.
Look at verse number 10 it says then read Baruch in the in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord
In the chamber of Gimariah the son of Shefan the scribe in the higher court at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house
In the ears of all the people when Micaiah the son of Gimariah the son of Shefan had heard out of the book
Notice all the words of the Lord so in verse 10 the Bible describes this as what the words of Jeremiah
In verse 11, the narrator of the Bible describes it as
the words of the Lord.
So we can see this proves that God is the ultimate author
of Scripture verse 12.
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber, and lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishema, the scribe, and Dele Aya, the son of Shema Aya, and El Nathan, the son of Akbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shephan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when Beiruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Micaiah received the words of Baruch.
Baruch is now reading those to these kings and princes
and nobility here in this story.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudai,
the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shalamiah,
the sons of Kushai, unto Baruch saying,
take in thine hand the role wherein thou hast read
in the ears of the people and come.
So Baruch, the son of Nehriah, took the role in his hand
and came unto them.
Look at verse 15.
And they said unto him, sit down now
and read it in our ears.
So, Baruch read it in their ears.
Notice it just keeps passing on to like a new group of people.
It's just like, it's read to one person, now another, now another.
And this is how the Word of God has worked throughout history.
It just keeps getting passed on from one group of people to another.
Verse number 16.
Now it came to pass when they had heard all these words, they were afraid both one and other and said unto Baruch
We will surely tell the king of all these words. They asked Baruch saying tell us now
How did thou write all these words at his mouth?
I think they're kind of so shocked and perplexed by the power of the words that they're reading that they're like
How did you write this?
Like how did you write this super powerful book where they're reading it and they're scared?
They're like kind of filled with terror of the Lord here.
How did you write this?
I love this answer.
It always cracks me up in verse 18.
Then Barrick answered them.
He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth.
And I wrote them with ink in the book.
It's like, that's kind of how I picture he responds.
It's like, how did you write this?
Jeremiah spoke the words and I kind of just like wrote down
what he said in the paper with the pen and here you go.
That's kind of how I picture this story going down.
But I think it deserves kind of a sarcastic answer because what's the truth?
Like, how did you come up with this?
It's God.
It's the words of God.
And you should be amazed at the words of God.
You should be scared at the words of God.
It is powerful.
Verse number 19 says,
Then said the princes unto Baruch,
Go hide thee thou in Jeremiah,
And let no man know where ye be.
And they went into the king into the court,
But they laid up the roll in the chamber
Of Elisha the scribe and told all the words
In the ears of the king.
So the king sent Jehudai to fetch the roll
And he took it out of Elisha the scribe's chamber
And Jehudai read in it the ears,
Read it in the ears of the king,
And in the ears of all the princes
Which stood
Beside the king. So now it's getting read to another audience to the king and the princess again
Notice verse 22 now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month
And there was a fire on the on the hearth burning before him
And it came to pass that when jahudai had read three or four leaves
Notice he cut it with the pen knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire
That was on the hearth. What just happened here?
Jehoiakim has destroyed the original manuscripts.
The king has literally destroyed the original manuscripts.
Man, you know, thanks God for inspiring Jeremiah.
I appreciate you, you know, going through all the labor of getting Baruch to be a servant
and to write down the words of God and to put it down on paper.
But man, oh, it just sucks that we lost the word of God, right?
I mean, that should be the end of the story.
Because yeah, God inspired his word, but just throughout time, you know, kings tend to cut up.
and burned the roll or something like that.
No, notice what keeps happening here in verse 27.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
After that the king had burned the roll,
and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying, take the again another roll,
and write in it, notice,
all the former words that were in the first roll,
which King Jehoiakim, or which Jehoiakim,
the king of Judah hath burned.
How many words were lost when the original manuscripts were destroyed?
Zero.
Why?
Because God is intent on preserving His word.
It's His job to preserve His word.
And it doesn't matter if kings of this earth try to destroy the word of God.
It doesn't matter if people try to burn it in the fire.
God's going to make sure that His word gets preserved.
Word for word, perfectly.
God made sure to give that to Jeremiah.
Look at verse 29.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
thus sayeth the Lord, thou hast burned this roll,
saying, why hast thou written therein?
Saying, the king of Babylon shall surely come
and destroy this land, and shall cause
to cease from thence man and beast.
Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
he shall have none to sit upon the throne of David,
and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat.
and in the night to the frost.
Notice how God judges those who try to destroy his word
and try to mess with his word.
He is not going to take kindly to that.
He's going to make sure that he judges those people.
And I will punish him in his seed
and his servants for their iniquity.
And I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and upon the men of Judah all the evil
that I have pronounced against them.
But they hearkened not.
Even in the New Testament, when you read Revelation,
God promises to blot those names out of the book of life that add to or take away from God's word.
So back then in Jeremiah, today in 2025, those who would try to destroy or corrupt God's word,
He's angry at them. He will judge them.
Verse 32.
Then took Jeremiah, notice this, another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah,
who wrote therein, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which Jehoiachim, King of Judah, had burned in the fire.
Notice this, and they were added beside unto them many like words.
This destroys this textual criticism idea where they view
Like, how do we decipher what's the Word of God and what's not?
Well, textual critics, what they'll say is,
if it's older, it's better.
But would that be true in this story?
Is the role that Jehoiakim burned because it's older, is it automatically better?
Or is this one better where God preserved all the words
and in fact, he added some words unto that.
You know, this story itself being added because if that wasn't destroyed, God wouldn't have had to.
preserve his word even more and give him that other role.
No, if I had to choose between one or the other,
I want the second role, even though it's newer.
People get this idea, oh, older automatically means better.
That is not necessarily true.
Now, this brings a question, and again, there's people who are saved and who are King James
onlyists who disagree on this next question, but let's ask this question.
With the idea of understanding God has inspired His Word, and with the idea of understanding
that God has promised to preserve His Word, is the King James Bible, is the English King
James Bible right here, is this the inspired Word of God?
And I know there's good men that disagree with that that would say,
well, no, it's not inspired, it's only preserved.
But hold on a second.
If God gave his word, if he inspired his word,
and this is a accurate translation of the inspired words of God,
then this itself would be inspired.
Now, that does not mean, of course, we reject this idea known as double inspiration.
This Ruckmanite idea that God somehow inspired
the King James translators or gave them extra knowledge or extra wisdom to put into the
English translation of the Bible that wouldn't have been in the original Hebrew and Greek translations.
No, that's not what we believe. We believe that the originals are indeed perfect,
that they are indeed the inspired words of God. We don't think that the King James Bible is better
than the originals. That makes no sense whatsoever. But what we do believe is that, hey, the originals
And since this is a perfectly translated word of God, this as well is inspired now.
This leads to an important issue when it comes to the application of the truths that we're talking about so far.
If someone out there believes that the Word of God was inspired but not preserved,
that begs the question of like, hey, okay, then how do you put any authority into the Word of God?
Who really has the authority in these churches?
And that's a major issue because who has authority in a church that's not King James only is the preacher himself.
And it's funny how people will say,
we are a cult for being King James only,
but it's extremely not cult-like because what we're saying is,
hey, the preacher has to submit himself to the King James Bible.
And the Bible gets to correct the pastor.
And the Bible gets to correct all of us because Jesus is the Word.
And this is how Jesus, practically speaking, is the head of our church today.
It's through the Word of God.
Now, if you take the position of
original manuscript onlyism, where it's only the originals that were inspired,
well then who becomes the authority? Man becomes the authority.
And they do this by doing things like going back to the Greek,
where they'll read a verse for you in plain English,
and when they don't like what it says, you know what they do?
I mean, it doesn't mean sodomite, it means, you know, temple prostitute.
And we don't even know what that is, so let's just scratch Leviticus 2013 out of our Bibles today.
That's the kind of stuff that modern preachers are doing.
They have set themselves as the authority.
When there's something they don't like in the Bible, they just say,
oh, you know, it could have been lost in translation, we don't know what the truth would have been there.
Oh, let's look at what the Greek says, and they're just going to pray on your ignorance of not knowing Greek.
Because of course, most people don't speak Greek, don't read Greek, don't speak Hebrew,
but people just take the preacher's word for it.
This guy must know what he's talking about.
He said a Greek word, he must understand what he's saying,
and then that man is able to pervert and corrupt doctrine through this cult-like mentality.
You don't have to turn here, but Proverbs 3.5 says this,
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways, acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
The mentality we should have as Christians is trusting the Lord with all our heart and
saying, hey, the Bible knows better than I do.
God's ideas are better than mine.
And if the Bible says something that we disagree with in our flesh, the wise person would always
submit his ideas to that which the Bible says.
So why we reject modern versions of the Bible?
Number one, we just have a completely different philosophy on the Bible itself.
You know, they don't understand preservation the way that we do.
They don't view the Word of God as being Jesus Christ the way we do.
So we have a huge difference there.
Number two, modern translations of the Bible come from a different source than the King James Bible.
This is something that your average person does not understand, but realize this is super important.
The King James Bible was translated from a completely different source document than the modern versions of the Bible.
Now, it's similar enough to snow people and to trick people, but it is true.
It is a fact that they come from different source documents.
Let's talk about that.
The King James Bible, I'm sure you've heard, is based on what is known as the
Textus Receptus, meaning the received text, the word of God that's been being used by Christians
and handed down from generation to generation. Here's a brief description of what the Textus Receptus is.
The Textus Receptus, or received text, is a series of printed Greek New Testament texts,
primarily associated with the work of Desiderius Erasmus, later refined by scholars like Stefanus and Beza.
The term Textus Receptus comes from a 1633 Elzaver edition, which claimed it was the text received by all.
Greek New Testaments that's been being used and passed down by Christians from generation
to generation.
That's why it's called the Received Text, the Textus Receptus.
Modern versions of the Bible, your NIV, your ESV, your, you know, NASB, all these different
modern translations of the Bible, they are not translated from the Textus Receptus.
They are translated from a different text known as the Critical Text.
The critical text is a scholarly reconstruction of the Greek New Testament
based on principles of textual criticism prioritizing older manuscripts,
which we already talked about.
Older isn't necessarily better, especially in Jeremiah's story.
You don't want the older manuscript.
You want the newer one in that case.
But so they're just reconstructing the Greek New Testament
based on principles of textual criticism.
So if they dig something up out of the earth
and they can tell, hey, this is an older document
than whatever we have before,
then they are going to change their Bible,
they are going to change their Greek New Testament
to match whatever the most modern scholarly findings are.
And you know, I've watched debates
between textual critics
and people that believe in this idea of textual criticism
and they've said point blank, there is no...
There's no verse in the Bible that they would not be willing to change
should something be dug up to prove that, hey, this is older.
So if they find a new John 3.16, they're ready to change John 3.16.
They're ready to change John 6.47.
They're ready to change Romans chapter 10
as long as there's some sort of scholarly evidence for it.
Meaning they dug up some trash out of the earth
that they can say, oh, this is older
and they're willing to just rewrite the Bible
and they've done it time and time again.
This is not a good idea for understanding and preserving the Word of God.
And again, if we get this idea that Jesus is the Word,
it's not like, you know, Jesus disappeared for a while and we found him again.
Like, Jesus is ever-living and the Word of God is also ever-living.
It doesn't get hidden in the earth.
It says this, an example of critical text documents is the Codex Sinaiaticus.
That's a very important document.
the Codex Vaticanus from the 4th century and a smaller number of manuscripts
from the Alexandrian text type. Now
try to stick with me on this. What is the Codex
Sinaiaticus? This is very important text. It was writings
that was found in the trash in a Catholic monastery
at Mount Sinai. That is what the Codex Sinaiaticus is.
Here is...
A quote here.
So, the Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in 1844, that's pretty recently.
I mean, it's just crazy to think like, oh man, the Word of God was hidden until 1844.
Not that long ago, it was found by a man named Konstantin Fontischendorf.
This is a German guy at St. Catherine's Monastery.
He said this, in visiting the library of the monastery in the month of May of 1844,
I perceived in the middle of the Great Hall a large and wide basket full of old parchment.
So this is the guy that discovered the Codex Sinaiticus.
He says, and the librarian, who was a man of information, told me that two heaps of paper like this,
moldered by time, had already been committed to the flames.
So, you've got these heaps, these piles of trash that have been molded by time, and the librarian's saying,
oh yeah, a bunch of things like this, we've already burned them, we've already disposed of them, this is trash.
It says, what was my surprise to find amid this heap of papers, a considerable number of sheets of a copy of the Old Testament in Greek,
which we know the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, he's getting all excited about this Greek copy of the Old Testament.
which seemed to me to be one of the most ancient that I had ever seen.
The authorities of the convent allowed me to possess myself of a third of these
parchments or about 45 sheets all the more readily as they were destined for the fire.
So, Constantin Fontischendorf, he says, these were ready to be burned and thrown in the fire.
According to him, the librarian who was in charge, who was the custodian of these parchments,
he said this stuff was trash and it was going to be committed to the fire.
Now,
Realize, all of the modern versions today, your NIV, your ESV, your NASB, all of them,
they hang their hat on the Codex Sinaiaticus that according to the guy who found it said
it was going to be thrown in the trash.
That is where they are putting their faith and confidence today, literally in documents
that were to be thrown away.
Now, why were they to be thrown away?
Because they were inauthentic.
because they were trash.
See, the Texas Receptus, it's this wide collection of printed Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
that can be like, hey, everyone's been using these. Christians have been using them.
They've been being passed down from generation to generation.
Doesn't that match the doctrine of preservation?
God said he's going to preserve his word from this generation forever.
Then there's all these documents that's being passed down, passed down, used, used.
But no, we're supposed to reject that and we're supposed to believe.
that these partiments found in a trash can in a Catholic monastery is actually the word of God
and they have the audacity to laugh at us for being King James' onlyists.
Oh man, I can't believe King James' onlyists are a thing.
Man, haven't you gotten with the scholars of our time yet?
Aren't you so thankful that we have the modern technology of scholars to have more information
and more knowledge about the word? You don't even know what you're talking about.
You don't even know where your modern versions came from.
You don't know what the Kodak Xynaeaticus is.
It's trash.
It's stuff that was found in a trash bin in a monastery.
Then, on 1859, on another trip, he got the remaining manuscripts that were later used to create the critical text.
So, trip one, they only gave him like 45 parchment, he's real excited about that.
Then he comes back and he gets the rest that's used for the critical text.
What's not talked about in this is that he didn't just receive these New Testament and Old Testament parchment,
he also talked about how excited he was to find the epistle of Barnabas.
I mean, how many times have you guys read the Epistle of Barnabas, and you're by, oh yeah, it doesn't exist because it's fake, it's fraudulent, it's not the Word of God.
But man, you read Constantine Fontitian Dwarf, he was so excited to find the Epistle of Barnabas.
This is what people are banking on in their modern versions.
Then, in 1881, men named Westcott and Hort produced the critical text New Testament based
on the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus, and that text has been updated to date 29
times since 1881.
So Westcott and Hort, they take the findings of Konstantin von Tischendorf, this Codex Sinaiticus,
They put it together into one document.
That is called the critical text today.
That exists today and it's been updated 29 times.
It's represented by additions like the Nestle Aland, as anyone ever heard, Nestle Aland,
or the United Bible Society's Greek New Testament.
This document is under the custodian, under the custody today of the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft,
which is like the German Bible Club, basically, the German Bible Society.
They are in charge of this Nestle Aland document.
and they just released this year, the 29th edition.
So we got like this weird German guy, Constantine Fontischendorf,
who's like fawning all over, you know, the epistle of Barnabas
that he found in a Catholic monastery trash can.
Then we got all these German nerds today getting together
and every time something new is dug up, they're just like,
oh, change the word of God, oh, change the word of God.
They've done it 29 times.
But we're supposed to throw away the King James Bible.
We're supposed to leave the King James Bible.
We're supposed to be made to feel like we're stupid.
We're cold members.
We're just dumb country bumpkins
because we want to keep the word of God
that's been preserved for thousands of years.
That's been passed down from generation to generation
because some German dweeb.
Go look at the thumbnail of the sermon.
This guy looks like a total loser.
This German dweeb tells us to do so.
No.
It's ridiculous. It's not logical. It is not scholarly. It's not like, oh, modern technology has given us.
No, it's just lies. It's just stupidity.
Isaiah chapter 59, if you would. Isaiah chapter number 59.
Isaiah 59 verse 21. Notice what the Lord said.
As for me, this is my covenant with them. Say it to the Lord.
My spirit that is upon thee.
In 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's seed, sayeth the Lord, from henceforth and forever."
God promised that the words he was speaking during the days of Isaiah would be passed down to his children, to his grandchildren, to their children from now until forever.
Now the choice is yours of whether or not you actually believe that. You know, I believe that today.
I believe that God preserved His words,
but today the modern Christian movement
that is not King James only,
that embraces the modern versions,
they have to deny this verse.
They have to.
They have to say,
hey, the word of God,
which is the codex Sinaiticus according to them,
it was hidden until 1844.
That's what they would have to believe.
I reject that today.
I believe that God actually did preserve His words
from this time up till right now.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter number 3.
2 Timothy chapter number 3.
You know, another way to think about this is just by logic.
You know, we should consider the source of the information we believe.
Right?
You know, the simple person believe it every word.
The simple believe it every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Shouldn't we consider the source of things that we believe today?
That's what the Bible teaches here, 2 Timothy 3 verse 14.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
that from a child thou hast known, notice the holy scriptures which are able to
make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Paul is
telling Timothy here to continue in the things that he has learned and has been
assured of knowing of whom he has learned them. Timothy is supposed to
consider the source of the information that he's received and realize hey this
is a good source I should continue in these things. Specifically what is it
and that from a child that is known, the holy scriptures.
You know, we as Christians today, let's consider the source of our Bible.
Are we going to stick with the Bible that was translated from the textus receptus,
from the received text that's passed down from generation of believers to generation of believers,
or are we going to reject all of that and go with the source that came from the trash can in the monastery by the weird German guy?
That is the decision people have to make today.
And people may not realize it.
I realize not everyone actually studies these type of things.
And there's a lot to learn about this issue.
I feel like I've barely scratched the surface on this issue.
But your average person who goes to a New Evangelical Church
knows nothing of what I'm talking about right now.
But what they have done, whether they realize it or not,
is they've forsaken the received text.
They've forsaken the text's receptors,
and they've gone with the Bible, translated
from the trash from a Catholic monastery.
That's what your evangelical churches are doing today, whether they realize it or not.
Last point here, go to, if you would, 1 John 5, 1 John 5.
We talked about how, number one, we have a different Bible philosophy.
We have a different philosophy on the Word of God itself than those who follow the modern versions.
Number two, the King James has a completely different source text than the modern versions of the Bible.
Number three, the modern versions have a clear agenda to attack the Word of God.
Now, I realize that this is more of an opinion, but I'm going to try my best to convince you that this opinion is correct,
from Westcott and Hort.
Remember, these are the guys that took
Constantin Fontitian Dwarfs' documents
and turned them into the critical text
that is used to translate the modern versions today.
Here's some quotes from these guys.
They said this,
all distinctive Syrian or the Byzantine,
that's the Texas Receptus,
all distinctive Syrian Byzantine readings
must be at once rejected.
So they're just openly calling for you to just reject the received text.
So I don't think I'm going on a stretch to say here
that those who have been responsible for the creation of modern versions
have a clear agenda to attack the Word of God.
They just said, reject the textus receptus.
No reasons given, just reject it.
Fenton Hort referred to the textus receptus as villainous.
That's blasphemous.
You're referring to the perfect, preserved Word of God as villainous?
That's evil. That's coming from a wicked person.
That's coming from someone who wants to attack God's Word.
No person filled with the Spirit of God would ever refer to his Word as villainous.
That is an evil thing to say.
Fenton Hort also said this.
He said,
early ones. He refers to the Texas Receptus. The document that your precious King James Bible was
translated from, he calls it vile. He calls it villainous. This is a person with an agenda to
attack God's word. This is a devil-filled, you know, reprobate that is attacking God's word.
Let's look at some examples here of the modern versions where they delete entire verses and tell me that there is not an attack today on the Word of God.
The critical texts.
omit brackets, I'm sorry, the critical text omits or brackets many passages in the King James such as, where are you right now?
1 John chapter number 5 verse 7, the Bible says, for there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost,
and these three are, one, gone in the critical text versions of the Bible. They completely delete it.
or they put a little note in the footnotes that says,
hey, by the way, this isn't actually the Word of God.
Oh, the most reliable and oldest manuscripts don't have these,
so this isn't in the Word of God today.
What are they doing?
Doing exactly what the devil did in the garden,
casting doubt upon his word.
Now look, this is a major doctrine, the Trinity.
So it's not like our beef with the modern versions
is like some petty pedantic argument.
It's like, we're talking about the Trinity here.
We're talking about 1st John 5-7.
Okay, here's another one.
I'll just read these to you.
Acts 8 verse 37.
And Philip said,
If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered and said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
deleted out of the modern versions.
This man asks, what doth hinder me to be baptized?
He says, hey, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answers and says, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
This is gone in the NIV.
This is gone in the NASB.
This is gone in the ESV.
This is gone in all your modern versions.
Or it has a little note saying this shouldn't be in here.
This should not be in the Bible.
This isn't reliable.
This isn't the Word of God.
This is an important doctrine right here.
You know, this is a great place to turn to.
to prove that only believers are eligible for baptism.
You know, we as Baptists believe in believers' baptism.
You have to be saved in order to get baptized.
Why?
Because this man here asks, what's hindering me
from getting baptized, this Ethiopian eunuch?
And Philip responds, hey, you've got to believe.
If thou believe us with all thine heart, thou mayest.
Also, he says this great, powerful statement,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Man, that's what it's all about, right?
That's what we need people to believe today,
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Well, that's gone in the modern versions.
Mark chapter 16, verses 9 through 20,
that's a lot of verses right there,
completely gone in the modern versions.
John chapter 7 verse 53 through John chapter 8 verse 11,
the story of the woman had taken in adultery completely gone
or footnoted or bracketed in modern versions.
You know, if you go to a church that has the modern version Bible,
chances are you'll never hear a sermon ever about the woman taken in adultery
because it doesn't exist in their Bibles, folks.
These are big stories, famous passages, doctrines being affected.
You know, there's all sorts of different stuff like this.
Then there's some verses in the modern versions that change the Bible.
They don't necessarily delete, but they change it in a way that affects doctrine.
Go to Luke chapter number two.
Luke chapter number two.
And we'll see if this is just some minuscule, not very important doctrine.
Or if it's actually a really big deal.
Luke chapter number two, verse 33.
The Bible says and Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him
Joseph is who's listed there. The NIV says this the child's father and mother marveled at what was said about him
So notice if you read this in the NIV you could come away with an idea of thinking that Jesus was not born of a virgin
because in the King James, it's Joseph and his mother.
Mary was his mother, Joseph was not.
Joseph was a stepdad, if you will.
Why? Because he was conceived of the Holy Ghost.
But in the NIV, if you read that,
it clearly says that Joseph is the Father.
Now, what that would cause me to do reading that
is it would make me think like, man, there's issues in the Bible.
Man, there's a problem here because, of course, Jesus was born of a virgin,
yet it's calling Joseph his Father.
That's going to give doubt to the Word of God.
You know also in the Old Testament in the King James. It says behold a virgin shall conceive the new versions
It just says behold a young woman shall conceive well. Guess what young women conceive all the time
That's not special. That's not a miracle.
Young women are constantly conceiving in this world.
But what's special is that a virgin will conceive.
That only happened once in all of human history.
It will never happen again.
And it's having to do with the fact that Jesus Christ is divine.
That he's the son of God.
He's not the son of a physical human man.
Go to John chapter number one.
John chapter number one.
Look at John chapter number one.
This has changed in the NIV, verse 18.
No man hath seen God at any time, notice this phrase,
the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
he hath declared him.
The King James is careful to state that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God,
whereas the NIV says, no one has ever seen God but the one and only Son.
who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father has made him known.
King James says he's the only begotten Son, the NIV says he's the one and only Son.
Now that's a big contradiction, namely because in the same chapter, in John chapter number one,
it talks about how those who believe in him are the sons of God.
We are the sons of God. You're the son of God. I'm the son of God.
But you know what Jesus is? He's the only begotten Son of God.
What is that talking about? That's talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus Christ was raised again from the dead,
that's what Psalm 2 is talking about.
This day have I begotten thee.
That's when Jesus rose again from the dead.
He is the only begotten Son of God.
But He's not the only Son of God.
I'm the Son of God.
You're the Son of God through fate and Jesus Christ.
Go to 1 Timothy 3.
Let's look at another one that's changed.
1 Timothy 3.
Verse 16.
And without controversy,
great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the spirit,
seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world,
received up into glory.
We see God was manifest in the flesh.
What a great verse that is
to prove the deity of Jesus Christ.
I mean, how many times have you used this verse
out soul winning?
God was manifest in the flesh. Jesus Christ is not just a good man, not just a good teacher.
He is God in the flesh. Here's what the NIV says.
Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great.
He was manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, taken up into glory. Who just says he?
He was. That's not as powerful as saying God was manifest in the flesh.
The King James Bible is weighty and powerful and majestic, and most importantly, it's true.
It's the truth. But yet in the NIV you can come away with a much less
potent and strong tool in your tool belt to be able to prove that Jesus is God because it doesn't say God was
manifest in the flesh in the NIV. It just says he.
I'll read this one for you.
Colossians 1-14, the Bible says,
in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins.
The NIV says, in whom we have redemption.
the forgiveness of sins.
Taking away the blood of Christ.
So look, our criticisms of the modern versions,
they are not small criticisms.
They are not pedantic criticisms.
We're talking about the blood of Christ.
We're talking about the deity of Jesus Christ.
We're talking about, was Joseph the father of Jesus?
Or was he the stepfather?
Was he supposed as the father of Jesus Christ?
We're talking about, hey, was it a virgin
that was gonna conceive here?
Or was it just a young woman?
Hey, what is it that someone has to do before they get baptized?
Well, they better be saved.
They better believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any child of God that is sincere, that loves these doctrines, that loves the truth,
cares about all the issues that I'm talking about right now.
This is a big deal, big issues.
Now, you would expect that if their position was right, if the textual critic's position was right,
then they should have some serious, you know, hard-hitting
criticisms of the King James Bible, right?
But yet, they don't.
Every time these losers attack the King James Bible,
it's the most pedantic, silly, tiny examples they can come up with,
whereas we're talking about, like, yeah, how about the blood of Christ?
How about salvation?
How about the deity of Jesus Christ?
How about these major issues?
How about deleting whole verses?
How about deleting thousands of words?
They're just like, oh, they're totally ignoring that.
They're just, you know, swallowing a camel.
You know, straining out of that.
But here's James White's criticism of the King James Version.
I posted about this recently.
But this just goes to show how pedantic and how they have no, you know, nothing to stand on on their arguments.
James White read this verse in the King James, Acts chapter 5 verse 30.
The Bible says,
This is what James White says of this King James translation of Acts chapter 5 verse 30.
One simple error in translation that is easily recognized but very hard to explain away is Acts chapter 5 verse 30.
So he asserts that this is an error in the King James Bible.
Let me read this verse for you again.
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
That's what he's saying is an air why he says the King James version says the God of our fathers raised up Jesus
whom he slew and hanged on a tree think about what that's actually saying now look at the legacy standard Bible the
God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you put to death by hanging him on a tree
The participle there is the means by which he was slain by being hung upon a tree.
They did not kill him and then hang his body on a tree.
The King James simply missed the translation of the participle,
and so you have to be able to admit here, yup, they missed the translation.
The legacy standard Bible is superior there.
Talk about a pedantic criticism of the Bible saying that slew and hang on the tree,
that's a translational error.
It should have said instead that you slew Jesus by hanging him on a tree.
This is an example of someone who does not understand not only the Greek language,
but the English language.
because there's a grammatical function in the English called coordinate verb structure.
Let me explain what this is to you.
Slew and hanged in this example.
It's not describing this as like a sequence of events.
It's not saying like, you slew him, you killed him, and then you hung him on the tree.
This is just talking about two aspects of the same event.
This is used in our modern vernacular.
all the time, and it's also used in the King James Bible all the time.
I'll read for you just one example.
1 Samuel 17 verse 50.
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone,
and smote the Philistine and slew him,
but there was no sword in the hand of David.
You know, which one was it?
Did you slay him first or did you smite him first?
It's not talking about sequence here, it's just two aspects of the same event.
How he smote the Philistine and slew him.
How did he slay him? By smiting him.
It's talking about the same event.
Kind of like how in the New Testament talks about
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We're not talking about two different people here.
The God and Father.
Oh, this is talking about two different people.
No, that's just coordinate noun structure.
So notice how dishonest these people are.
It's amazing to me, the modern version lovers and the defenders of textual criticism, they are so prideful.
They just ooze pride and they want to act like they are the smartest people and they study the Greek, they study the Hebrew.
They're so wonderful.
Meanwhile, it's like, here's our criticisms, removing the blood of Christ.
affecting salvation, affecting the deity of Christ, affecting all these major doctrines.
Here's James White's criticism of the King James Bible.
He's slew and hanged.
Oh, the King James Bible is wrong because it should have said that they killed him by hanging on a tree.
What a dishonest person.
And that's why I say one of the biggest reasons why we reject the modern versions is because there's a clear agenda to attack the Word of God.
This is not coming from sincere scholarship.
This is not coming from James White is just searching for the truth and he just wants to know what God's truth is.
And he just stumbled across Acts chapter 5 verse 30 and the Holy Spirit led him to not be able to understand verb coordinate structure.
No, that's not what happened. What happened is that James White hates God.
And James White hates the Word of God, and he's dedicated his life to attacking it.
There are false prophets in this world, folks, and the Bible describes them
as wolves in sheep's clothing.
You know what that means?
Outwardly, they're going to tell you, I love God.
I love the Word of God.
Look, I'm dedicating my whole life to textual criticism
and to finding the truth of God's Word.
Know your false prophet.
You hate God, you hate the Word of God, and it's evident by this ridiculous, pedantic argument that you give
that a bunch of fifth graders could probably debunk you.
And I'm guarantee you that people reading Acts chapter 5 verse 30, they're not just like,
oh my goodness, this error.
It just makes sense.
Killed them the way that the Bible says in Acts chapter 5 verse 30.
Now, go to 2 Corinthians chapter 2.
This will be the last verse that we talk about this evening.
2nd Corinthians chapter number 2.
2nd Corinthians chapter number 2, look at verse number 17.
The Bible says this,
But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
During the time that the New Testament was being written, the author of the Bible here notes for us that there are already many people that are corrupting the Word of God.
And if there was many people back then corrupting the Word of God, if the devil was corrupting the Word of God in the Garden of Eden, don't you think that the devil is still doing so today?
Don't you think that there are wicked people still trying to corrupt and pervert the Bible today?
Men like Wescott and Horked, men today like James White, people corrupting the Word of God.
But notice what it says there, which corrupt the Word of God, but as of sincerity.
But as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ, you know, I believe that if a Christian is
Sincere if they actually want to know the truth, I believe that they will become a King James onlyist
Why because of the philosophy that we have on the word of God itself a sincere Christian is going to read John chapter 1 and say
Oh, wow, this isn't just some book. This isn't just some historical document. This is God. This is the word of God
This is Jesus Christ and if the word of God is divine, we know what it's always existed
Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
It's always existed.
And hey, when we read about things like inspiration,
we don't think, oh man, well, it was nice that someone had Jesus Christ at one point,
but Jesus Christ kind of fell, you know, failed and fell off the sin scene.
No, he's always existed.
He exists today, just like the word has always existed,
and it exists perfectly as well today.
Also, any sincere person is going to hear the arguments that we present saying,
hey, why are these massive doctrines being changed?
And they would not just brush those things over.
You can tell a sincere person when they strain at a nat and swallow a camel.
When someone's presented, and this applies to any area of life, by the way,
when someone's presented like,
here's 15 damnable heresies of this false prophet.
And they're just like, oh, I don't care.
I like his books anyways.
I like his sermons anyways.
Insincere person.
When someone presented hey look at these major issues in the modern versions. Oh, I don't care. You're a cult. You're stupid
You're a country bumpkin
You're not a sincere person a sincere person actually cares about these doctrines
I believe a sincere person will be King James only our church is going to stick with the King James Bible
Let's have a word of prayer Lord. Thank you for your word and thank you for all the men throughout history
that have put their lives on the line
that have even died for the Word of God.
I pray that we would not take those sacrifices lightly
or take them for granted
and not even care or cherish or fight for or read
or love the King James Bible today.
I pray that our church would always fight
for the King James Bible.
I pray that you would shut the mouths of false prophets
that wanna attack your word.
And I pray that every single person in this room
would cherish and love and read their King James Bible.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Our last hymn this evening will be number one, Jesus I my cross have taken.
Jesus, I, my cross, have taken. They're on the first.
Jesus, I, my cross, have taken.
All to lead and fall will be
Tested to despise forsaken.
Now from minutes my old child