beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow to whom it
was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the
things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel
unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the
angels desire to look into wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be
sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance but but as he
which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation
because it is written be ye holy for I am holy and if you call on the Father
without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work past the
time of your sojourning here in fear for as much as you know that you were
not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious
blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily
was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these
last times for you who by him to believe in God that raised him up from
the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God seeing
you purified your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren see that you love one another with a
pure heart fervently being born again not a corruptible seed but of
incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever for
all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass the
grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the
Lord endureth forever and this is the word by the God this is the word
which by the gospel is preached unto you let's pray to Lord God I thank
you for this opportunity to assemble and hear your word preached there's
assets you would bless pastor me here now with your Holy Spirit and please
bless the preaching in Jesus name we pray amen amen okay we're in 1st
Peter chapter 1 and the title of my sermon this morning is the Bible you
use matters the Bible that you use matters it says in 1st Peter chapter 1
and verse 23 being born again not of corruptible seed but of
incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever for
all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass
the grass withereth the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the
Lord endureth forever and this is the word which by the gospel it's preached
unto you this morning I want to talk about the fact that it's important
for us as Christians and as a church to recognize what is the legitimate
Bible that we should be using for our personal Bible reading for preaching
for winning others to the Lord and of course our church here holds the
position that the King James Bible is the inspired and preserved Word of God
for the English-speaking people what does that mean well we believe it's
inspired in that the underlying text of the King James Bible is inspired
given to God and to prophets through the Old Testament Hebrew and of course
the New Testament can eat Greek but also we believe in the doctrine of
preservation and that it has been maintained okay throughout the centuries
unaltered in other words the book that you have in your hands today is
exactly what they had in the Old Testament exactly what they had in the
New Testament albeit we have it in English and you say well how can that
be you know how is it that the Bible can survive for centuries on end
without having some sort of wicked individual some person who has an
ulterior motive to change the Bible churches that have changed the Bible
how do we know that we have the Word of God well number one is because of
the fact that we believe in the doctrine of preservation meaning God promised
to preserve his word throughout the centuries unaltered and so if God
promised that God is not a man that he should lie we know beyond a shadow of
a doubt that we have the Word of God as I mentioned in the Old Testament we
have it in Hebrew and then most you know the the major controversy amongst
churches as far as the Bible is concerned it's not necessarily
controversy surrounding the Old Testament but rather the controversy surrounding
the New Testament right and we know that we have the Word of God in the
New Testament preserved for us because of the fact that the New Testament is
essentially compiled of what's known as Greek manuscripts 5,800 approximate to
be exact and you have these that are later referred to as the Byzantine
text or many of you have heard of it as the majority text okay majority text
essentially representing 90% of those 5,800 Greek manuscripts you say where
do those manuscripts come from well when they're collating these Greek
manuscripts to create the underlying text of these Bibles that were going to
come out they had to find out where the Greek manuscripts are right so where
do you go you go to local New Testament churches you go to Christians
who are preaching it using it reading from it they are soul winning with it
they're teaching their congregations with it and they go to these churches
and they collect these Greek manuscripts from various different believers in
different churches of that era you say well how do you know you know how is it
that these churches are just willing to just give up their Greek manuscript to
some random stranger because that's how Christians have always been and in
fact God has always wanted anybody to just have the Bible they never
wanted it to just be secluded to a particular church chained up to the
pulpit you know where believers are unable to read it and learn from it God
has always wanted the Word of God to be propagated to be promoted to be
given to strangers and to unsafe people to Christians because the Word of God
should be free freely read for everyone so it's no wonder that when
they're collecting these manuscripts they go to the churches and you have
some unknown unnamed pastor and they're just like hey we're trying to
put a project together where we compile all of the Word of God and it's just
like take as many as you want it'll be like today when people come to our
church we don't have a bookstore where it's just like where if you want the
Word of God you need to pay for it you know $5.99 for you know a New
Testament or something it's just like take what you want take the Word of
God because it should be free and you know what nothing is new under the
sun that's exactly how it's been for hundreds of years there have been
many churches in times past who are just willing to readily give up their
Greek New Testament that they copied and that church is copied and
believers have copied that's how it's always been so they collect all of
these manuscripts and by the 1500s you have a man a man by the name of
Erasmus you have Stephanus you have Beza these individuals who essentially
collated all these Greek manuscripts into one cohesive document that we
would commonly refer to as the Texas Receptus now the Texas Receptus is
Latin for receive text okay and receive text simply means the
traditional text used by believers so again they're not going to the
basilica they're not going to the mega church down the street they're
going to actual churches local New Testament churches who are preaching the
Word of God they're evangelizing the Bible's being used copied and
distributed right and they're going to them and saying what is the
traditional text that you use what do you read from what do your
congregants read from okay they collect that and of course that is
then referred to as the Texas Receptus now the Texas Receptus is the the base
from which William Tyndale for example translated the first English New
Testament okay you have William Tyndale then later on you have
Coverdale Matthew you have the great Bible Geneva Bible bishops ultimately
leading up to the King James Bible which is a perfection of all those
previous translations and of course this is essentially a long lineage of
manuscripts translated from manuscripts that churches have used and
they've been approved of they have taught the right doctrine and that's why
we have the King James Bible today and you say well you know there's
plenty of other manuscripts that have been uncovered though you know they
were dug up that are older than a lot of those manuscripts are you using
well then we have an issue then because if God says that he's going to
preserve his word forever in the hands of believers then what is that thing
doing buried somewhere you know if God says hey it's going to sound out into
all the world it's going to be in the hands of all believers man should
not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth
of God in order to you know be a disciple of Jesus Christ we need to
keep his commandments we know what the Word of God says then we have a major
issue if a lot of these manuscripts have been dug up and they've been in the
dirt this entire time because that's not God's will for his word to be
under a rock somewhere or in a cave unread for hundreds of years and then
pulled out later and said well this is far more reliable than these
traditional texts well the traditional text is the text that's being used
it's the text that can prove all things and hold fast that which is good
all of a sudden older manuscripts comes in by the way just because it's older
doesn't mean it's more reliable Satan is old doesn't mean he's reliable and
so they're digging up these manuscripts and those manuscripts are
essentially the underlying text of a lot of the modern versions of the
Bible which is a major issue because they keep changing so if modern versions
of the Bible come to you and say hey here's the Word of God and then
the next year they say just kidding here's the Word of God and then the
next year after that is like well give us you know third times of charm here's
the Word of God then they don't really know if they have the Bible
they're constantly improving upon it they're constantly adding to it they're
endeavoring to find the truth meaning that whatever truth that they
claim to have now is not the truth they don't have confirmation that it's
the truth whereas the King James Bible has not been altered remain the same
and you know obviously we don't believe here that you have to learn the
Greek and the Hebrew to understand the King James Bible but if you were to
learn Greek and Hebrew you would see that it matches up perfectly with the
King James Bible because of the doctrine of preservation and yeah you
know what preservation does take faith absolutely and you know people who are
textual critics people who use the wisdom of this world want to think well
that's not enough well then you know then I don't even know what you're
doing in the Christian realm anyways then because we walk by faith and not
by sight and faith is that when we look at the Word of God and the Bible tells
us that he's gonna preserve his word we have to believe him even if we don't
have substantial evidence to prove it now we do have substantial evidence
but even if we didn't or we were ignorant of the information ignorant of
the knowledge if God said it we should believe it faith cometh by hearing
hearing by the Word of God and God is capable of preserving his word for
hundreds yea even thousands of years unaltered because his will is that
our eyes read the Word of God in its original form in our language by the
way okay now we're not a church that believes that the King James Bible is
the only Word of God it's the only Word of God for the English-speaking
people because God's will along with the inspiration and preservation of
Scripture his will is that all languages have the Word of God right
he doesn't just want Americans to have it or English-speaking people to have
it he wants people who speak Spanish to have it Mandarin Cantonese he wants
you know Southeast Asians to read it and their languages he wants all of the
world to have the Word of God in their particular language and the
proof of that is the fact that in the New Testament in Acts chapter 2 the
Word of God was spoken in different languages 14 different regions that
showed up at the day of Pentecost to hear the Word of God in their mother
tongue showing us that God wants people to have the Word of God in their
language that is God's will now I think having the King James Bible is
important for the English-speaking people because of the fact that
English is essentially the most important language in the world like
everyone wants to learn English okay not just in America just worldwide and
so you know it's no wonder why God would choose the King James to be such
a successful and prosperous Bible because he had the foreknowledge that
English would be the popular language of today many people are reading it
therefore a reason would have it that he would make a Bible in that
particular language that most people would like to read in the English
language and so you know this is why we use the King James Bible we believe
in the inspiration of the original manuscripts but also the preservation
throughout the centuries in different languages okay leading up to what we
have today in English and of course the Word of God is in different languages
throughout the world now the King James is important because of the fact
that number one it doesn't defect from the underlying text in other words
it's faithful okay it's faithful to the underlying text and you know what
we don't live in the Dark Ages anymore and so we can go on the internet you
can learn the Greek language you can learn the Hebrew language and you can
compare the King James side by side to a Greek New Testament and you'll see
that it matches up okay you'll see that it does not defect from the
underlying text nor does it correct the underlying to last 400 years now go to
2nd Timothy chapter 3 if you would 2nd Timothy chapter 3 that's just a brief
history from the Greek New Testament to what we have today and that's all
introductions now let me get into my actual points of the sermon of why
the Bible you use matters let me give you some practical reasons why it is
that the Bible that you use matters because you know today in 2024 you have
different churches that believe that you know they claim they're Christians
they claim to believe in the right salvation they claim to uphold some if
not all of the fundamentals of the faith but then you go into their
churches or you go into their library or you ask them what Bible they
use and more often than not it's not a King James it's an ESV it's an NIV
it's an NASB and I've never been to these liberal fund centers but I've
heard the testimony of others you know that you know when they go to these
particular churches the pastor will read from one particular version then
you have the congregations if they even bring a Bible using a different
version most of the time they don't even bring a Bible because they have
the Bible on the screen or whatever and then they're constantly you know
comparing with different versions of the Bible you say well isn't that a
more thorough way to study the Bible no the reason they do that is
because they're looking for a version that matches up with what they want to
say so if you have ten different versions you know and you want to
preach a particular doctrine you can just kind of cherry-pick from each
version to match up your narrative right whereas if we stick to the King
James we can't change anything because what it says is what it says
and so a lot of these Christians out there will use different versions of
the Bible and they actually look down on the King James they'll actually
look down on churches that use the King James and they're like oh you guys
are King James only is you know you're uneducated but at the same time we'll
say that the King James is too hard to read so explain to me this how is
it that we're our uneducated people but yet you're telling me that
you can't read the King James because it's too hard seems like
you're the uneducated one right they're essentially claiming that these
new modern versions are easier to read well yeah you know some false
doctrines are easier to believe for sure doesn't make it right now I will say
this is that even though a lot of these churches use modern versions of
the Bible the reality is this the vast majority of the people in those
congregations do not actually read the Bible you know they they're very
they rely upon their pastor they rely upon the interpretation of their
pastor or their devotional book that they're reading they're not
necessarily diving deep into the Word of God and at the end of it at the
end of the day a lot of people when they do make a deep dive on the Bible
and maybe they're using an NIV or an ESV they end up coming to the
realization well this thing is wrong this thing is missing verses why
does it say this and then they end up you know it kind of sparks
something in them to actually look for the truth and see what is the
appropriate Word of God to use now I'm thankful that you know I got saved in
a fundamental Baptist Church and right off the bat the church that I came from
they were King James only and you know it's not that a lot of the people
didn't necessarily know why but in general they had the culture of we're
King James only this is the Bible that we use modern versions are bad and
they would kind of give me an overview as to why they were bad the
verses that they're missing how they interfere and dilute a lot of the
doctrines and pervert the deity of Jesus Christ they remove the blood they
completely pervert verses on salvation and it's just very explicit right as
far as like the errors are concerned it's like well this is bad okay and
this is why I learned that the King James Bible is the superior Bible now
if you want a sermon on the comparisons between the King James and the modern
versions of the Bible and why the King James is superior you can go online
listen to my sermon that I have called the superiority of the King James Bible
and I show some pretty explicit examples where it's just like not only
blasphemous but some of them are just really silly we're just like I can't
believe it it says that and you know what you think to yourself why do the
people who read these Bibles why don't why don't they see that what's
because they don't read it that's why you know so you kind of wonder if
these editors who are making these modern versions like just throw it in there
like what if they see it they're not no one's gonna read this because the vast
majority of churches out there who use the modern versions of the Bible do not
promote Bible reading they don't promote studying the Bible you don't
have the pastor up there telling people they need to be reading the
Word of God opening the Bible cover to cover studying it to show themselves
approve them to God they make them rely upon their interpretation or the
devotionals that they're reading or whatever it is so let me give you a
couple reasons why the Bible you use matters practical reasons number one the
Bible you use should accurately describe salvation that's important right there
and in fact that's the most important thing when it comes to the
Christian faith is this salvation right that is the most clear and
distinct explicit doctrine of the Bible is salvation and it's the easiest
thing to understand in the Bible why is that well because God is not willing
that any should perish but that all should come to repentance he doesn't
want salvation the doctrine of salvation to become confusing he
doesn't want it to be above someone's head he wants it to be so easy that
even a child can understand it even a child can place their faith in Jesus
Christ by believing on him it doesn't have to be complicated whereas a lot of
the versions of the Bible actually overly complicate salvation they
contradict themselves when it comes to salvation and therefore people are
confused and you know again going back to churches that use the modern
versions think about this you know a lot of the people who join those
churches or are members of those churches a lot of times they're either
uncertain if they're saved right or they just have an un doctrinal view
of salvation a lot of them are you so how do you know because I go
soloing I knock on doors I'm evangelizing I'm constantly taking a
pole going door to door and if I run into people who go to a particular
mega church where they use a false version of the Bible more often than
not they'll tell me I don't know you know I'm not sure or I think I am
or yes I'm saved because you know I have a relationship with God or yeah I'm
saved because of the fact that you know I do good things they always either
give you an uncertain answer or an answer that is just completely
un doctrinal doesn't match up with the Bible now there's a problem with
that he said what's the problem well it reflects the fact that whatever
Bible version they're using or it's being preached to them is not clearly
communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ the Bible tells us in second
Timothy verse chapter 3 verse 14 but continue down the things which thou has
learned and has been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them
and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures listen to
this which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which
is in Christ Jesus the Bible says so the Word of God is telling us that
the Word of God is able to make you wise into salvation it's able to give
you the knowledge and wisdom of salvation so that you know you have to
place your faith in Jesus Christ and not in anything else now there is an
example that I like to always use when it comes to the modern versions
when it in regards to salvation and that is first Peter 2 2 you know in
the King James it says desire the sincere sincere milk of the word that
ye may grow thereby pretty simple right you basically read the Word of God as a
baby would consume milk and in light of that the milk essentially helps them
to grow physically just like the milk of the Word helps you to grow
spiritually so as you read the Word of God on a daily basis weekly basis
you're growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ pretty simple doctrine there right whereas them all many of the
modern versions ESV and IV included will say this desire the sincere milk of the
word that ye may grow into salvation now that's a perversion of salvation so
someone reads that what do they come walk away thinking oh I have to read
the Bible in order to get saved stay saved maintain my salvation to grow
into and you know some people would say well you know I get the idea of
what they're trying to say though you know what I mean it's just like the
Word of God provides salvation here's the problem though the Greek
manuscript doesn't say that you know when you look at the underlying Greek
text of 1st Peter 2 2 it uses the word like augment or grow and then
that's it says nothing about salvation so obviously they're using
some corrupt text that doesn't match up with the doctrine of salvation that
the Word of God promotes you understand so if you have someone
reading that they're gonna get confused about salvation they're gonna
think salvation is a process not something that happens in an instant and
make no mistake about it salvation happens in an instant once you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ you call upon the name of the Lord you could
be saved ED done with that's it whereas salvation according to a lot
of these modern versions of the Bible is a process you know all we have
to be sanctified we have to repent of our sins we have to obey God's
commands it's basically workspace salvation is what it is and you know
what you know corruption is not just something that's prevalent in English
Bibles it's also prevalent in Spanish Bibles you know because a lot
of fundamental Baptists unfortunately have used the corrupt the corrupt 1960
reign of Valera and you know fundamental Baptists literally will hold
to being King James only they'll say yeah we're King James only but then
they'll have a reign of Valera 1960 in their congregation that their people are
reading from that reads 1st Peter 2 2 with the salvation at the end that's
wrong my friends you know it's confusing a lot of Christians another
example would be 1st Corinthians 1 verse 18 you know the Bible tells us
for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto us
which are saved it is the power of God you know when we preach the Word
of God people out there like these people are crazy you know it's stupid
Christianity stupid the gospel stupid it's so silly but those of us who are
saved it's the power of God we know it has the capability of saving an
individual redeeming them saving them from the from the flames of hell unto
us which are saved now the modern versions such as the new King James
which is funny that they call it new King James because King James been dead
for a long time when did he authorize when did he authorize the new King James
he's been dead for so long but the new King James says this you know for
the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto
us which are being saved it is the power of God folks someone reads that
they're like okay salvation is a process and you wonder why people
sometimes doubt why because you know for us as Christians the process of
sanctification yeah sometimes we're right with God sometimes we are not
sometimes we do that which is pleasing unto the Lord sometimes we don't
sometimes we live righteously sometimes we sin that's what that's
how the Christian life is but when you couple that or interpret that
through the lens of salvation that's a major problem because then you have
people are like oh man you know I'm in sin maybe I lost my salvation
maybe I wasn't ever safe to begin with whereas the Bible says that you may
know that you have eternal life and then you may believe on the name of the
Son of God the Bible always talks about justification the doctrine of
salvation with finality once you have it it's yours forever you can move
on and in fact doesn't the Bible say let us go on unto perfection after
salvation whereas people they can't move on to perfection because they
don't even know if they're saved because the versions they either
they're using or the version that's being preached to them is confusing
them in regards to salvation this is why it's important when it comes to the
Bible that you use why because we need a Bible that appropriately describes
salvation turn with me if you would to Jeremiah chapter 23 Jeremiah chapter 23
you could turn that off brother Ulysses 1st Peter 1 23 says being born
again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God which
liveth and abideth forever
Jeremiah chapter 23 and so you know the King James is very clear on salvation
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in
thine heart that God has raised them from the dead thou shalt be saved
John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting
life verse 36 he that believeth on the son hath everlasting life he that
believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on
him over and over again the King James is reliable in regards to
salvation the doctrine and the message of salvation because God wants
people to get it and that's not to say that things on the Bible in the
Bible are you know some of it is hard to be understood for sure but one thing
that's not hard to understand is salvation you will always clearly see it and in
fact this is one of the reasons why when missionaries Christians distribute
Bibles they always give them which book the book of John sometimes even the
book of Romans but more often than not it's the book of John because the
book of John clearly and distinctly explicitly describes salvation by just
believing on Jesus Christ you know it's unfortunate that people don't know
this it's unfortunate that churches are being deceived by this but this is
why it's important to use the right Bible the Bible you use is important why
because of the fact that the Bible you should accurately describe salvation
but also let's go on to number two here the Bible you use should have
power you know the Bible tells us that the word of God is quick and powerful
what is quick a lie sharper than any two-edged sword meaning that it
basically said superior to any other document in this world piercing even to
the dividing of sunder of soul and spirit joints and tomorrow and is the
discern of the thoughts and the intents of the heart essentially
saying that the word of God is so powerful that it can pierce through your
own soul it's just like it discerns what you're thinking you know
sometimes either when you're reading the Bible or you're hearing preaching
from the Word of God you're like whoa this is talking about me I needed
this right now I was just praying in my head a couple days ago about this
particular issue I was just thinking about this I was just reading this it
like pierces it gives you hope it increases your faith right it strikes
fear in the hearts of people because it's powerful you understand it's able
to help you to realize that a place that you've never seen before exists
heaven hell you know none of us have ever seen hell none of us have ever
been to hell yeah I know there's a lot of people there oh I had a dream that I
went to hell or whatever and came back and it's like you don't smell
like smoke you know it's like oh you know I had these dreams about hell
but you know what none of us have ever actually seen the supernatural in
that way right but we know for a fact it's true and in fact I preached
on hell as though I've already been there because I use the descriptions of
the Bible and the descriptions the illustrations of the Word of God are so
powerful that when I preach about hell the recipients of my message believe it
they're like what must I do to be saved from this place why because the
Word of God has power to do so okay I mean think about it you know we've
never seen the Lord Jesus Christ we've never seen God with our own eyes
all we have seen or heard is what comes from this book and yet the Lord
Jesus Christ literally literally determines our life here like we're here
today meeting on Sunday to hear about the Lord Jesus Christ whom we've never
met face to face to speak of spiritual things that we've never seen
with our own eyes why because the Word of God is so powerful that it
convinced us that this is true like oh no that's called delusion you guys
are just delusional you know oh so what I should believe like in evolution
oh I should believe like in the Big Bang Theory I should believe that we
just are an accident here that's the delusion my friends the Bible you use
should have power and you say well how do I determine if the Bible that
I'm using has power well the Bible says that God has manifested his word
through what preaching so the preaching that is being used should reflect the
Bible right the right Bible should be reflecting should be reflected in the
preaching of God's Word so let me ask you a question you know the preaching
that comes from these modern versions is it really powerful well
number one it's not because of the fact that no one gets a from it it's
just they're just left in constant confusion whereas you ever notice anybody
who uses a King James speaks of salvation in such a clear distinct
manner they kind of they remove doubts they dissolve the doubts they just said
this is what you must do and I can't tell you how many times myself or
someone in our church has gone preaching and they get someone saved
and the person says I've actually never heard it as clear as you've
explained it I mean you know what I'm talking about they're like no man ever
speak like this and it's not because you're just like eloquent or you took
speech classes or something you are the vessel in which the treasure resides
and they're basically hearing the Word of God the powerful Word of God that is
able to save them and that's why they walk around they're like I've
actually doubt very clear I've never heard it explained to and I'm talking
about people who've been in church people who've gone to church they're
faithful to church they're like I've actually never heard it explained that
clearly you have put the cookie on the bottom shelf I get it you know why
because the Word of God has power and the power is distinct it's explicit it
can be easy to understand look at what I have you turn okay I'm gonna go
there in just a bit let me read to you from 1st Corinthians chapter 2
verse 1 the Apostle Paul says this and I brethren when I came to you came
now with excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the
testimony of God in other words he's not necessarily trying to go there to
make himself look good by you know expressing all these terms and using the
wisdom of this world and excellency of speech he says for I determined not
to know anything among you saved Jesus Christ and him crucified I mean
that's a simple message and I was with you in weakness and in fear and
in much trembling referring to you his humility and my speech listen to this
and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in
demonstration of the spirit and of power so he's saying look when you when
I came to you I didn't came to you with a a myriad of different terms to
explain theological doctrine and concepts I came to you in the
demonstration of the spirit and power right the power of God and he said
this that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the
power of God now what does that mean it's referring to the fact that there's
certain people in this world no matter how many Bible verses you give them
they will completely negate that ignore that reject that because their
favorite Bible scholar said this I mean how many times have you talked to
someone when they asked for a particular you're having a discussion
maybe you're getting into an argument and you're like oh this is easy I'm
just gonna give them this verse because you know the certain verses that you
have in your cabinet that you're just like you're toast dude she like you're
almost you're almost like it's so good that you don't know the Bible
cuz I'm about to just like destroy I'm a body you right now and then you
just give them the verse and they're just like yeah but st. Augustine said
this though I'm like who I'm like I'm giving you the Bible yeah but
Ignatius said this who these people are inferior to the Bible don't appeal to an
inferior authority to try to convince me friend use the Bible that is a
superior authority appeal to what the Word of God says but I'm telling you
it's the reason for that it's because of the fact that their faith is in the
wisdom of man not in the power of God and it could be something as simple
John 3 16 and they read it it's just like yeah but like faith without works is
dead though also you're saying that John 3 16 should just be ignored then
according to your interpretation you know and a lot of times when people
say things like that it's almost as if like yeah that interpretation is
wrong because we should always go with this interpretation whereas our
opinion and our interpretation is that both of them are right but one needs to
be interpreted in light of the other whereas many people are like well let's
just ignore John 3 16 John 3 36 John 5 28 Romans chapter 10 all these clear
scriptures about salvation and just stick with one you know three three
verses from James chapter 2 wrong my friends you know I'm not gonna quote a
Church Father because it's appealing to an inferior authority as compared to just
quoting the Bible right they're just you know because a lot of people are
doing this right now especially like a lot of these Catholics they depend on
these early Church Fathers and by the way if you believe that some of them
were right or wrong I actually don't care like well some of them were
Christians don't care you say why not because they're dead they can't defend
themselves we can't dig anybody over like did you really mean this you know
because the Catholics want to claim the Church Fathers and sort of the
Protestants and then they look at me and I'm just like I don't care about
those guys call no how about this call no man father and then both groups
are mad at me like you know what do you think I think you shouldn't call
any spiritual man father any man of spiritual leadership you should call no
man father and then they stoned me why cuz I'm appealing to the Word of God
because it actually has power and let me say this anytime you bring up the
Word of God this is how you know the Word of God has power is if the
people start gnashing at you whether in the comment section or you know in
person they're just like and let me give you this a clear example from
yesterday we're in Mexico and we're pretty but we had a great time in
Mexico we had 23 people saved it was awesome we went to a park and there's a
lot of people out and about a lot of great stories and Ulysses always gets
kicked out brother Hernandez always gets kicked out and you know we try to
modify our strategy so he doesn't you know we put him with the white guy
yesterday because maybe that would give him some credibility but maybe we
made him stand out more you know I mean because we put it with brother
Alex Berea and sure enough you know he gets kicked out so then you know it's
time to wrap it up so we're about to leave and we're just kind of waiting for
everyone and the security guard comes again and he comes and he's just like
you guys got to get out and we're just kind of like we're not really
doing anything we're done you know we're just out of park talking to each
other he's like you can't talk about the Bible you can't evangelize here
and I'm like well I'm not evangelizing right now I'm just talking to a
person you know and he's like the rules say you cannot do the things that you
guys are doing I'm like where are the rules and then he's like the rules
outside on the board say that you can't it's explicitly says that you
can't be preaching here I'm like show me so we go out there and it's
just like a list of like 15 rules or something all in Spanish and I'm like
I'm not reading all this I was like point to the number that says you know
and he points to one of the rules that said like you cannot bring anything
that is contrary to our morality or our customs right and I said I'm
bringing morality here what do you mean like what morality you think I'm
bringing and he's and he's like you people come here they drink and they
do I'm like I'm not drinking we're not drinking we're Christians I think
we're preaching the world I was like are you are you a Christian are you a
Catholic what are you and he's like I'm a Catholic I was like then support me
what I'm doing because I'm preaching about your God although you should be
supporting me and then you know I'm talking to people about eternal life
and he's like do you know you have eternal life I said absolutely that you
may know that you have eternal life and you may believe on the name of
the Son of God and then he starts gnashing at me he's like he starts
like grinding his teeth at me and I said and you could know too and I
started giving him all these verses and he's uh you got a chip you got a
chip like in Spanish basically basically saying like oh you're just reciting
these scriptures or something like that and I said look we're bringing morality
I'm not bringing any customs contrary to what you Mexicans are doing I said I
love Mexicans I was like we're here to eat tacos and talk to people that's
all we're doing I was like we're bringing morality and then he started
going off on people he's a worry from I was like I'm America I'm from
America and he's like do you like it I said absolutely like a lie I was like I
love America I said but I like coming here too I was like I'm here because I
love you Mexicans you know and we want to get you saved and and we're
just preaching the Word of God I said you should be supporting us because you
believe in God and I'm trying to help people understand about heaven and hell
but the whole time he's just like gnashing at me with his teeth because
and he started gnashing at me with his teeth when I was quoting him the Bible
because at the end of the day you could do nothing against the truth
before the truth and when the truth is clearly presented to you it's either
gonna you know it's either gonna cause you to make a decision and say what
must I do or it's gonna prick you in your heart and you're gonna want to
like be aggressive towards the messenger why because the Word of God has
power okay all right we got to turn on the AC again people are taking off your
sweaters and stuff and I'm burning up here well you'll be better right now
we're gonna crank it up what's the point that I'm making the point that
I'm making is the Word of God should have power okay and I'll be I'm just
maybe I am biased maybe I'm biased because I'm King James but I'll be
honestly I've never heard preaching from a pastor using a different version
of the Bible where I'm just like extremely impressed where I'm just like
wow that really hit here you know oh I really want to be a pastor now I
really want to go evangelize you know why because a lot of the preaching
that's done from those modern versions of the Bible in different
churches are only kind of made to kind of placate the congregation so they
can keep doing whatever it is that they're doing appease their conscience
not bother them they can keep coming back and tithing the Word of God should
motivate you to do something you know it resonates with the new man you hear
the Word of God you start cleaning up your life you start evangelizing you
start making changes and it's not because of the man preaching it it's
because of the Word of God you hear the Bible preaching it's just like it's
hitting home because it's the Bible okay so the Word of God should be the
Word of God that you should be powerful and that is clearly seen in
the preaching that's being used look at Jeremiah 23 verse 28 the prophet that
hath a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my word let him
speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat say at the Lord is not
my word like as a fire say it the Lord and like a hammer that breaketh
the rock in pieces what is it saying you know the Word of God is like fire
because it purifies it burns and it purifies not only that but it's like a
hammer that breaks the rock in pieces what could we liken that unto
it's likened unto using the Word of God to demolish false doctrine it
completely tears it apart destroys it and it's interesting that it likens it
unto a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces because Jesus Christ is that
stone right on whoever he shall fall it shall essentially you know break up to
pieces it'll vanquish that individual because of the fact that the Word of
God has that power it'll grind him to powder the Bible tells look at verse
30 therefore behold I am against the prophets saith the Lord that steal my
words everyone from his neighbor behold I'm against the prophets saith the
Lord that use their tongues and say he saith what is he saying I don't
like when people take credit for things that I didn't say right or
accredited him for things that he didn't say and that's something that's
very common today well the Spirit told me this well I feel like God told
me this and God is like you're saying he saith but I never said that
don't you get annoyed when someone quotes you and you're just like I
never said that pastor he has said this is like I never said that put the
timestamp where I said that I never said that that's an accusation that's a
railing accusation you're misrepresenting me right well God says
that these prophets are misrepresenting him when they say he saith but he's
never said that in the Bible the Bible says love the sinner hate the
sin don't say that don't accredit that to God it's not a verse in the
Bible Jesus said love the sinner hate the sin what where is that in John
where is that in Matthew where is that in Mark where is that in Luke it's not
in the Bible it's Gandhi that's Gandhi 1-1 you know I'm sure the Lord gets
very upset when he hears people say oh well God said this and it's what it
is is some philosophical term that came from someone other than the Bible he
gets upset at that that's why he tells us speak my word faithfully we
don't need to improve upon it we don't need to make apologies for it
we don't need to create modern concepts to make it more palatable for the
listener just say what it says says the first 32 behold I am against them that
prophesy false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people to
err by their lies listen to this and by their lightness that shows me
that biblical preaching should be hard because what's the opposite of light
heart right lightness is just you know them being oh you know God's not mad at
you you know it's just speaking very peaceably and obviously there's times
when we have to exhort we have to teach but there's other times that the
Bible says we have to rebuke and reprove and you know it has to reflect
the hammer that break at the rock in pieces it's not like I don't see a
slap on the wrist on this verse here right it's like well the Word of God is
like a no I most of the time when I hear preaching from fundamental
Baptist churches here's the phrase that I commonly hear he's stepping on
my toes right you know what that means it means like the pastor's
preaching and he's talking about you because the Word of God should be
direct I mean sometimes I get a little too direct where I actually just point
out the person sometimes but other times there's times that I preach and
it's just the sermon that I prepared and then people are like you told them
about that huh and I'm not a prophet that knows what's going on behind
closed doors or what you do in your family I'm just preaching the Word of
God faithfully but it applies to you because the Word of God has power and
there's I can't tell you any times I preach and it's not again it's not
because I'm special or because you know there's something unique about me
it's because of the Bible sometimes I'll preach and they're like whoa I was
just thinking about that yesterday me and my friend were literally asking
questions about this particular topic and then you talk about it oh we were
just talking about this or I was just thinking about this I just read
that in the Bible and then you talk about it you say well how do you do
it pastor me here I well here's how I do I just preach faithfully and the
Word of God has power and this is why the Bible says that it's quick because
it's alive it resonates with you the Word of God is like a life to your
life whoa it has power it's changing my life look folks I've been
saved for 17 years and then those 17 years I've heard so much preaching from
the King James Bible and it's absolutely changed my life it's made
me a completely different person than what I was 18 years ago
unrecognizable even not sinless but a lot different because it's like a rock
that breaks it's like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces it's like a
fire that purifies that sanctifies you making you more like unto the Son
of God that's what it should do go to Jeremiah chapter 26 let me read to
you from Psalm 19 verse 7 says the law of the Lord is perfect converting the
soul amen has the ability to convert people from false religion to the true
religion you know obviously there's people go they go apostate all the time
but in general you know we've seen a lot of Catholics saved Catholics could
boast all they want that they're like the biggest religion blah blah blah
but let's just be honest here Catholics aren't going on a weekly basis winning
Baptist to Christ Baptist on the other hand are going on a weekly basis winning
a bunch of Catholics to Christ that's fact so how can you make that claim
well cuz myself alone I've won a ton of Catholic I mean we won a bunch of
Catholics yesterday at least 23 Catholics got saved yesterday and I'm
sure many of us because you know there's a lot of Catholicism here and a
lot of Hispanics are Catholic you know many of you are gonna go out this
afternoon and get Catholics saved and here's the great thing this is the only
thing I like about Catholicism it's good and it's bad and that is that
they don't teach their people the Bible so it's easy to just go to them
show them the Bible the power of the Bible and then they just get saved
they're so worried about them going to another religion they consider to be
false they don't want them to know the Bible because they don't want them
to be knowledgeable about the Bible but it gives us a clean slate to work with
that's why they just readily believe it says the law of the Lord is perfect
converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise is simple
the Bible makes you smarter why cuz it has power the statutes of the Lord
are right rejoicing the heart when you read the Word of God you have that
rejoicing that joy in your heart when you learn something new in the Bible
right the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes the fear of
the Lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous all together reason number three the Bible you use matters why
well because the Bible you use should increase your faith in the Bible not
take away from it so what do you what do you mean by that you know
there are versions of the Bible out there today they cast a lot of doubt
on the Bible then when they read it there's footnotes at the bottom that say
these were not in the original manuscripts talking about the Trinity
so then it makes you question so is this really valid right and it's the
same tactic the Satan has used for thousands of years starting in the Garden
of Eden when he said yea hath God said casting doubt on the Bible
whereas when you read the Bible you should increase it should increase your
faith you should walk away from it feeling stronger in your faith not
wondering am I saved not wondering is the Trinity real not wondering all of
these fundamental doctrines of the faith whether the legitimate or not when
you have versions of the Bible that literally will question almost an entire
chapter of the Bible mark 16 the long the long reading of mark 16 people
claiming that it probably shouldn't be there it's like you makes you wonder if
you're unknowledgeable if you're uneducated in the Word of God you're
going to read that footnote and be like so like this is the Great
Commission though you know this has this is talking about salvation and
this shouldn't be here and then they'll say well you know it just
wasn't in earlier manuscripts but basically the editors of those Bibles
don't believe it should be there they're not going to tell you that
because they don't want you to they don't want you to they don't want to
have the stigma of the Jehovah's Witness where the Jehovah's Witness is
actually remove that that portion they remove that entire portion from Martin
the long reading of mark 16 whereas the modern versions they're they're trying to
make inch their way to that position where they just completely remove it
they just can't do it yet because people will freak out if they do you
know removing verses from the Bible is a big thing you know removing an
entire passage from the Bible that's huge and this is something that's been
going on again for hundreds of years the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 2
17 for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God but as a sincerity but
as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ the Bible tells us that
faith cometh by hearing hearing by the Word of God Deuteronomy 4 2 says
he shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you
diminish ought from it that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your
God which I command you look at Jeremiah 26 and verse 2 it says here
thus saith the Lord stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak unto
all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the Lord's house all the
words that I command thee to speak unto them diminish not a word in other
words anything that I say anything that I command you to say make sure
you don't remove any of it you said well that's something that was only
given to Jeremiah well the entire Bible is God's command to us the
entire Bible is God's Word and so God is equally commanding us today not to
take away from God's Word not to diminish it but you'll have modern
versions of the Bible in Acts chapter 8 where they'll literally remove if
thou believeth with all thine heart thou mayest verse 37 and just skip to
verse 38 that's weird when you have the Bible reading verse 36 then it's
just it's just verse 37 not even just the number of 37 not the verse they just
have the number in brackets they're literally saying nothing to see here
folks like what do they expect the reader to do when they read verse 36
and then it skips to verse 38 and just completely skips 37 I mean folks
that's questionable that's them take it away from God's Word and you know at
this is one of the reasons why a lot of modern versions of the Bible will
actually be printed almost in paragraph form you ever noticed that a
lot of the modern versions are in paragraph form so that it's very subtle
you won't really notice that the verse is being taken out whereas when you
use something like the King James the verses are distributed so each verse is
distinctly red and you can see if something's missing but if it's in
paragraph form it's kind of all jumbled together you don't really notice if
you're not paying attention that verses are being removed it's a very subtle
cunning move on their end so they kind of they try to pull the wool over your
eyes so you don't notice that they're removing from God's Word so at the
end of the day you know the Bible you use matters because of the fact
when you read the Bible it should increase your faith not cast doubt
whether this verse should be there not cast doubt whether well there's older
manuscripts that are more reliable not cast doubt as in this passage should be
removed or cast doubt that a passage is saying something completely different
I'll give you an example Jew 22 now Jew 22 doesn't really affect any major
doctrines but who cares you shouldn't change the Bible period right
Jew 22 says that if some have compassion making a difference I mean
it's a wonderful verse right modern versions of the Bible those who doubt
convince them I mean that's something completely different that's not even
similar whoa you get the gist of it you get the idea it's still teaching
something good it doesn't matter that's not what God said you can put
you know Jesus loves you on there if you want but the reality is this is
that doesn't say that be faithful consistent with the text and again
the ESV does this the NIV does this the 1960 reign of Alair does this they
literally completely change it and not even similar to the concept that it
originally was it literally removes it and just put something completely new
into it someone reads that they're reading in Spanish they're reading in
English they're gonna say which one's right then they then they start
doubting the reliability of either Bible especially though they'll cast
doubt on the King James the Bible you use is important because of the fact
that it should be complete you know the NIV for example removes 16 entire
verses how is that a complete Bible if the Bible says that man shall not
live by bread alone but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of God
then what if you have a Bible that doesn't have every word that's missing
16 not just words 16 verses go to 2nd Timothy chapter 3 if you would 2nd
Timothy chapter 3 you got two more points and that's it the Bible you use
matters why because the Bible you use should be the one that's actually being
used the Bible that you use should be the one that Christians are actually
using not the ones that Christians bring to their church or have on their
coffee table or make a shrine out of I'm talking about that they actually
use it what do you mean you know the Bible says give attendance to reading to
exhortation to doctrine the Bible says that we should be reading the Word of
God preaching the Word of God hearing the Word of God that's a Bible that's
being used why is it that a lot of these modern versions of the Bible have
to look so nice you notice that the covers of these modern versions look
like whoa they're like beautiful they're like
whited sepulchres and you know why you're laughing because you've used the
Bible enough to know what what I'm what I actually mean right like you're like
oh I know what he means by that he's saying that it's it's full of dead
men's bones because you use the Bible you see a Bible that's being
used is a Bible where pastor and congregant can discuss the Bible and we
have knowledge of its content it means you could recite it it means that right
now you're sitting with the Bible in your lap hopefully and if you're not now
you're gonna put a Bible in your lap no I think everyone pretty much has a
Bible in their lap and you're going to the passages you're reading it for
yourself and then afterwards we're gonna go evangelize and you're gonna
take that Bible and go show someone how to get eternal life you're quoting
verses you're reciting verses you're teaching people the Bible you're
giving biblical answers it's constantly being used and in fact let me just say
this anybody who uses a King James Bible is always using a brand-new King
James Bible eventually what do you mean by that I mean if you're using the
Bible it's gonna wear out there's plenty of Bibles I have in my office
what pages are falling out they got the stain right here my Sony Bibles
have the thumb stain right here and where is it in the book in the book
of Romans because it's constantly being used you say use for what to show
people the words of eternal life to teach people the Word of God to
memorize to obey to talk about I mean we're in a church where it's not just
me reading the Bible you have various men in the Bible various men in
their church they come up here and read the Bible and then we're making you
read I mean I'm literally just saying go here go here go to Jeremiah go to
Ephesians go here go and by the way don't take that lightly go to the
passage don't be lazy go to the actual verse open it up and if you say well I
don't know where it's at then go to the table contents and look for it and
find it and read it learn how to navigate through the Bible you know a
church that's having the Bible preached knows how to navigate through
the Bible I'm pretty sure I could pick out anybody right now don't worry I'm
not gonna do it but I do have faith in this I can probably pick out
anybody right now and say go to the book of Habakkuk and you'll be able to
find it and within a couple of seconds you know without even going to
the table of contents go to Isaiah and you'd be able to go there why
because you go there on your own and we are in a church where when we
reference scriptures you're constantly looking through and obviously if you're
a brand new Christian you might not be able to navigate through the Bible as
easy when I first got saved it was hard and I would get really
frustrated because the pastor would go to one passage and and I'm like looking
for him by that time by the time I found he's going to another one and I'm
like ah you know and then I'm just like there is no Philippians there's
only a Filipinos you feel like you know I see a job I don't see a job
though you know and you're just like man I can't find it but you know what
the more you read it though the more you practice referencing it the more you
use it the more you're able to find it and look this is why people who use
modern versions of the Bible don't know how to navigate the Bible they
can quote James 2 all they want they don't even know where James 2 is
let's just be honest if you say if they say James 2 I'm like give them a
Bible say tell me where James 2 is right now since you're so familiar with
that passage since you just know it inside and out open it up and show me
where James 2 is they wouldn't be able to do it me we can just open up James
2 anybody in here in fact I have the confidence that anybody in here can
literally open up James 2 and just do an expository lesson on James chapter 2
I have the utmost confidence that the vast majority of people in our church
can probably do that like find me James 2 and explain to me what James 2 means
the vast majority of our church members can probably articulate what it's
referring to even though they're not pastors why because James 2 is used
and in fact those people who try to use James 2 to refute faith alone they
actually don't even know what the they probably haven't even read the
chapter they've only read the passage there talks about faithful that
works is dead if I haven't even read verse 1 of James chapter 2 let's just be
honest what am I saying I'm saying that the Bible you use should be the one
that Christians are using the Christians are distributing the
Christians have memorized I don't know a whole lot of people that have
modern versions of the Bible memorized large portions of the Bible memorized
from the modern versions you might have a few here and there that might do it
but let's just be honest when you hear them cite scriptures like what was that
did he just like it just like doesn't compute you know what I'm talking about
when someone quotes something from a modern version and you're just like
brother what is that you know you're just kind of like what is that it's
very rare when you have that the vast majority of Christians that are actually
memorizing the Bible are actually memorizing it from here the King James
and that's fact and I'm not saying there's not people out there that are
memorizing from modern versions I'm saying the vast majority of them are
probably using the King James why because it's powerful and it's the one
that's always being used and even people who are critics of the King James
will say that it's a beautiful translation it is superior I had someone
in my old church tell me this one time you know cuz he used up an NASB and I
was telling him like we use King James here you know why don't you use the King James
and I wasn't very well educated on the subject of the King James Bible but I
knew that was the standard and I told him we use the King James here and so
we would go back and forth and this is what he told him this is the
conclusion of the matter he said this he said Bruce let me just explain
to you how it works he said the King James is a higher caliber Bible this
one is a lower caliber Bible and I'm thinking myself like so why don't you go
with the higher caliber I'm like didn't you just defeat your own because he was
saying like you know it's easier to read or something I'm like I want the
higher I want the Desert Eagle 50 Cal you know I mean give me the one
that is just like discombobulated you you know what I mean this is the one
but even he readily admitted and I've talked to many reformers I've talked
to many Protestants to say the same thing why because this is the
standard okay it's actually being used in effect second Timothy 3 16 says this
all scriptures given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine for a
proof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may
be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works the Bible says so the
Bible is supposed to make you a good Christian a good soul winner a good
husband a good father a good mother a good employee it should thoroughly
furnish you into all good works just dramatically improve your quality of life
by your adherence to it but let me say this the vast majority of people use
the modern versions of the Bible very worldly very carnal very
indoctrinal don't know the Bible don't evangelize very shallow form of
Christianity when it comes to the modern versions fact you want something
of substance you stick to the King James it'll make you of substance okay here's
my last point and that is the Bible you use should reflect preservation okay
what does that mean it means what I talked about in the very beginning and
that is that it should reflect the underlying text of Greek and Hebrew
okay which a lot of these don't you know a lot of the modern versions of
the Bible will use corrupted manuscripts that don't even agree with
each other I mean that's a major issue whereas the received text the
Texas Receptus that underlies the King James they do agree they are in
harmony they're very much credible and this is why it's silly and I'm
gonna make this last statement this is why it's silly when Catholics today in
2024 try to gaslight Christians into thinking we gave you the Bible I mean
have you heard that right well we gave you the Bible but hold on a second
I use the King James use a duree reams we are not the same we are not the
same and anybody with any knowledge of the Bible understands that the
Catholic Bible and the King James are translated from different manuscripts
and the manuscript that's being used to translate the King James is a
manuscript that they don't agree with so how can you say that you gave me
the Bible if you don't approve of the Bible that I'm using think about that
we gave you the Bible what do you mean you don't even like my Bible and
the last time I checked the King James wasn't training translated from codex
Sinaiticus or Sinaiticus and codas Vaticanus or at the
Alexandrian manuscripts it wasn't translated from the Latin Vulgate or
the Septuagint we use a completely different stream of Greek manuscripts
texts to translate the Bible so how can you say you gave us the Word of God
when literally they are not the same but the Catholic Church hopes that
you're just ignorant of the subject enough that you just believe their
counsel of Nicaea you know when all these guys got together and said
here's the Bible when Christians have had it as soon as the book of
Revelation was done it's a done deal you say then why are they saying that
because they want credibility for everything that is Christian and they're
the ones that unfortunately made history they wrote history and they
promote the history that fits their narrative okay but you know when the
Catholic tells you that like we gave you the Bible just tell them we don't
have the same Bible how my Bible has 66 books you have apocryphal
readings you don't approve of the King James so how can you say you gave me
my Bible you don't approve of the underlying Greek text of the King James
Bible the Texas Receptus you think they're still being dug up so how can
you say you gave us the Bible and well obviously what they're referring to
is the canonization of the New Testament well first of all the Old
Testament was already canonized in other words Christians already collectively
agreed what was considered the Word of God in the Old Testament but secondly
there's other languages that existed during that time that had the Bible
translated from the Greek text into their language prior to the Catholic
Church ever canonizing anything and so you know the Bible you use should
reflect preservation and it does okay you know it exalts the deity of Jesus
Christ it explains salvation perfectly it makes people more righteous and
it fulfills the promises that it gives because the Bible tells us that the
anointing which you have of God that it by to thin you abide within you
ye need not that any man teach you you know the Bible does it
actually teaches you without having me to teach you I supplement that which
you already learned but you're learning the Word of God on your own
whereas cults like the Catholic Church well they say well you need Church
authority to help you understand the Bible no because the natural man
receive it not the things of the Spirit of God so why would I go to an
unsaved person to learn the Bible and the Bible says that I have you don't
have the authority first John 2 says I have the authority it says I can
understand the Word of God interpret it for myself and know what it says
that's what the Bible actually says and so the Bible you use matters and
we are going to stick to the King James it'll always be King James and you
know whatever scrutiny you fall under for being King James only just embrace
it because you know what the Bible tells us that we should not be ashamed
of Jesus and his words and if we are then he'll be ashamed of us at his
coming and so you know I'm very much open about being King James only our
church is open about it I promote the King James online on my social media
platforms why because it is superior and if people want to criticize you for
it and lump you in with a bunch of weirdos that believe weird stuff about
the King James just tell them like I'm not a part of that group the King James
is superior and the evidence is already there it's the inspired and
preserved Word of God for the English-speaking people and if they
don't want to believe it then there's plenty of people out there to do I'm
not on this rampage to try to convert you know Protestants or whatever
Catholics to believe the King James Bible these hardcore Protestants are
hardcore Catholics to believe the King James Bible because there's plenty of
people door-to-door they would just believe it like that that's the
low-hanging fruit amen let's pray father we thank you so much for the
incorruptible Word of God that liveth and abideth forever pray help us as
your people to continue to read it and study it memorize it live by it and
preach it and that's one thing that a lot of churches get frustrated with and
they recognize that they don't really study the Bible like that and so I pray
that you'd continue to bless us Lord as we seek to do our best to adhere
to the Word of God and to teach it to others to teach it to our children
to have our children memorize the Word of God and that we may esteem the
words of your mouth more than our necessary foods I pray that you
bless us as we go on our way use the Word of God mightily in our lives and
in those who are not yet saved who will come to the saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ bless today in Jesus name Amen
please turn your song books to song number 377