The verse that I wanted to focus the sermon on was there in verse 12 where the Bible read,
For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents
of the heart.
So according to the Bible, the word of God is powerful.
The word of God is quick.
And if you notice behind me, it says that it's pure words.
If you stumbled in this evening, it's Pure Words Baptist Church for a reason.
Why?
Because we only want to use God's pure words.
That's why you'll also see on the sign, you'll also see on the banner, that we're King James
Bible only or King James Version only.
The question is why?
Well, because we want only God's pure words and you say, well, how do I find these pure
words?
Well, the Bible tells us right here that if it's the word of God, it's going to be quick.
It's going to be powerful.
It's going to be sharp.
That's how we know that it's God's word.
Now I'm going to look at the, I'm going to focus on these points at the beginning of
this sermon.
Go if you would to Psalms chapter 119, Psalms 119, we're going to look at a lot of things
in there.
What does quick mean?
Are you saying that this Bible can run a really fast marathon?
Like can it run a 20 minute mile, you know, a 20 minute mile and a 5k or, you know, what
is it talking about?
Quick in the Bible means alive.
If you study it throughout your Bible, quick just means that it's alive.
Something that is dead, it needs to be quickened to become alive.
So a lot of times the Bible look at something dead and say that needs to be quickened or
the Lord's going to quicken it.
He's just saying he's going to turn it into life.
He's going to give life unto it.
And when you look at the King James Bible, it has life.
It's alive today.
It's not like any of these dead versions.
You know why?
Because the King James Bible never changes.
Since 1611, the King James Bible's never changed one time.
Why?
Because it's alive.
Because it doesn't need reviving.
You don't need to constantly resuscitate the King James Bible like all these modern versions.
No, it's alive today.
That's why people can pick it up on the shelves and read it and it has power.
Wow, this thing is alive.
It affects us all today.
We live in 2018 and it's still just as alive today as it was when the Lord Jesus Christ
died on the cross.
It's just as alive today as when our Lord Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem's manger.
It's just as alive when all the kings were over Israel, when Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,
all the way back to Adam.
The Word of God has always been alive.
It's always been powerful.
It's always been sharp.
Look, you say, well, how do I know it's the Word of God?
Look, it's alive today.
What does alive mean?
Having life.
This is where we get life.
Life comes from the Word of God.
It comes from the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Genesis chapter six, I'll read for you.
It says, in every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall they'll bring into
the ark to keep them alive with thee.
They shall be male and female.
So when Noah was looking at all the animals and all the things he brought on the ark,
he's like, you got to bring them in the lark so they'll stay alive.
Look, that's what it means to have life, not to be dead.
But these modern versions, they're dead today.
They're not alive.
The Bible says he that hath the son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God, hath
not life.
So if you don't have a King James Bible today, you don't have life in your hands.
You want to have life?
You want to have something that's quick?
It's the Word of God only found in English in the King James Bible.
Jesus also said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Look, Jesus Christ is the one that we have our life.
He's the Word of God.
The Word of God has life today.
So let's look at Psalms 119, look at verse 25.
My soul cleaveth under the dust.
Quicken thou me according to thy word.
So if we want life, if we want to be having more life in our current situation, in our
marriage, in our finances, in our spiritual life, it comes through God's Word.
You say, I want to have life today, it's through God's Word.
You want to make something that's dead alive, it's through God's Word.
You want to take somebody that's dead spiritually, you know what you use?
Use the Word of God and preach him the Gospel, and you'll quicken their soul with the Word
of God today.
Now, obviously, God's the one doing the work, but we go out and we preach faithfully the
Word of God, and the Word of God will come into their heart, and the Lord Jesus Christ
will quicken their soul.
Why?
Because this Word is alive.
But if you go out with something dead, you're not going to get anybody alive.
You're not going to get somebody alive with some dead book.
You have to have an alive book, and when we go out this afternoon, when we went out all
this week, when we go out on Saturday, we're going to get a lot of people alive from God's
Word.
And that's how we're going to quicken people through God's Holy Word.
Look at verse 37, turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy
way.
Now, the thing that's interesting about Psalms 119, it's the largest chapter in your Bible,
okay?
It's the longest, 176 verses, all right?
It's basically if you took the Hebrew alphabet, it has the acrostic of the Hebrew alphabet,
so the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet, it's basically eight verses in a row.
All those words in Hebrew started with that first letter, then the second eight started
with the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
It's a beautiful poem, and it's still beautiful in English.
I still love it.
And the other thing about Psalms 119, there's a lot of things that are interesting about
this, is every single verse gives reference to God's Word.
It's all about His Word.
Now, it doesn't necessarily use the word word every single time, but it'll say statutes,
ceremonies, judgments, thy way.
Every single verse talks about God's Word, and there's so many times where you find the
word quicken, why?
Because the Word of God is alive today.
It's alive.
It's not a dead book.
This book is so alive, it's more relevant than the newspaper.
It's more relevant than all the fake news channels, than anything that man can say and
do.
Look, the school today, the college today, it's all dead compared to the Bible.
The Bible is alive.
That's where we get our life.
That's where you get our information.
Look at verse 40, the old, I have longed after thy precepts, quicken me in thy righteousness.
Look at verse 50, this is my comfort and my affliction, for thy word hath quickened me.
Look at verse 88, quicken me after thy loving kindness, so shall I keep the testimony of
thy mouth.
Look at verse 93, I will never forget thy precepts, for with them thou hast quickened
me.
He's saying, look, I've been quickened by your word.
That's what's quickening me.
That's what's going to continue giving me life, is God's word.
Look at verse 107, I'm afflicted very much.
Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.
He's like, give me some life, I'm dying here.
I need something to, you know, give me some substance.
It's God's word.
That's what's going to give you the life.
That's what's going to get you through the hard times.
That's what's going to get you through every struggle in your life, is God's word.
Look at 149, hear my voice according unto thy loving kindness, O Lord, quicken me according
to thy judgment.
Oh, that's a mean word, judge.
The Bible says that you get life through God's judgment.
That's how you're going to have life.
Look at verse 154, plead my cause and deliver me.
Quicken me according to thy word.
You see a pattern here?
I mean, he's saying, how do you get alive?
It's through God's word.
That's why he says the word of God is quick.
The word of God is alive.
That's how you get life.
You know what begets life?
Life.
You know what doesn't beget life?
Something that's dead.
Something that's not alive.
The atheist doesn't get this.
He thinks we all came from a rock.
Look, a rock isn't going to give you any life, buddy.
Look, you got to have something that's alive.
The word of God's alive and that's where we get all of our life.
When God created Adam, he breathed in him the breath of life.
That's how we get life is through the Lord, through the word.
And we learned this morning that the Lord Jesus Christ, he's a creator of all.
The word of God is a creator.
That's where we get our life.
Look at verse 156.
Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord.
Quicken me according to thy judgments.
Look at 159.
Consider I love thy precepts.
Quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness.
Look at 144, back up.
Thy righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting.
Give me understanding and I shall live.
How do we live?
We live through God's word.
And if you study throughout the Bible,
use of the word quick so many different times,
but we learned that the word of God is quick.
That's where we have the life.
That's how we are made alive is through God's word.
Now go view the Romans chapter number one.
Romans chapter number one.
Not only is the word of God quick today,
not only is it alive, it's just, it's powerful.
Now not everything that's alive is powerful.
Not everything that is alive has a lot of strength,
but the word of God is very powerful.
Look at verse 16.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
for it is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth,
to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Now if I just went out in my own wisdom
and my own strength and my own words
to try and get people saved, wouldn't happen.
I would fail.
I would fail miserably,
but because I go out and preach God's word,
because I'm using God's verses,
because I'm preaching the gospel,
it has power to get people saved.
That's why the Mormon,
that's why the Jehovah's false witness today
goes out and they fail and they fail and they fail
and then can't get anybody to come to their club,
they can't get anybody to come to their cult,
they can't get anybody to bring in,
so they have to bring in some maned loser
that has no life, that's basically emotional child
that they have to bring in.
Oh, he's got a lot of problems.
We'll just bring him in and befriend him
and they just pray on the weak.
They pray on the desperate.
They pray on the people
that don't have anybody else in their life
and they just bring them all in
and they try to build people off their cult that way.
Now look, I don't have to go out
and wonder if God's word's gonna work today.
I know that it's powerful.
When you go out and preach the cross,
when you go out and preach Christ and him crucified,
when you use God's word, it has power today
and it's gonna get people saved if you're using God's word.
But if you've gotten your own wisdom
and your own logic, you're just gonna fail.
It's just not gonna work.
There's no power there.
When you're trying to explain things to people,
they're not gonna change their mind.
They're like, eh, whatever,
your words don't really mean anything.
But when you use God's word,
when you use the power of the Bible,
you will get people saved.
Go to John chapter number seven.
John chapter number seven.
We see when the Lord Jesus Christ was on this earth,
he had a lot of power.
When he spake, many people wanted to hear
what he had to say, whether they were saved or unsaved.
I mean, they just, when he spoke, they were like, wow,
this guy has a lot of power.
The words that are coming out of his mouth,
they're so gracious.
They're so carefully chosen.
They're so wonderful.
Look at verse 43 of John chapter seven.
So there's a vision among the people because of him
and some of them would have taken him,
but no man laid hands on him.
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees.
And they said on them, why have you not brought him?
The officers answered, never man spake like this man.
Then they answered them, the Pharisees,
are you also deceived?
Have any of the rulers of the Pharisees believed on him?
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Look, the Pharisees, they hated Jesus Christ.
They hated his words.
They send the officers to arrest this guy
and by his words, they were turned away.
That's some powerful preaching.
I mean, you take the most hardened police officers today
under the commandment of the chief police officer
to come and arrest you.
And just by your words, they're turned off.
They're like, whoa, we can arrest this guy.
Whoa, did you hear what he said?
Did you hear the words that were coming out
of this guy's mouth?
They're so powerful today.
And the Lord Jesus Christ preaching,
his word being preached has power today.
Let's skip back one chapter.
Look at John chapter six verse 65.
And he said, therefore said I unto you
that no man can come unto me
except they were given unto him of my father.
From that time, many of his disciples went back
and walked no more with them.
Then said Jesus unto the 12, will you also go away?
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou has the words of eternal life.
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ,
the son of the living God.
Jesus answered them, have not I chose you 12
and one of you is a devil?
So we see even the Lord Jesus Christ,
he preaches with great power.
Now when he preaches, you know, some hard messages,
the multitudes just turn away.
You know what?
Jesus's message, if you preach all of it,
they don't really wanna hear it.
Now when he was offering them all the food,
when he had the banquet,
when he had all the fishes and the loaves,
they're piling in, everybody loves a free meal.
But then you start preaching at them,
and they're like, eh, I don't really like this message.
I don't really like what he's saying.
He gets to the point, only his disciples are left.
There's only 12.
And he's like, are you gonna go away too?
And they're like, we can't.
Thou has the words of eternal life.
How, where would we go?
You're the one that has the power.
That's my question.
If it's not this book, I mean, it's nothing.
This is the book with the words of eternal life.
This is where it's at.
Without this, I mean, what's the point of life?
I mean, the Quran is junk.
I mean, all these other religions is just junk.
This has the words of eternal life.
Where am I gonna go, Lord?
This is where I'm gonna go.
This is what he gave me.
This is where we get the power.
Go to 2 Kings chapter number 22.
2 Kings, this book has so much power,
not only can it get a dead man to become live again,
not only can it turn Christians into disciples,
it can also turn a lot of people
that don't even know they're doing anything wrong
to make a lot of changes in their life,
to get it right, to get turned on fire for God.
It has a lot of power.
No matter what area of life you're in,
no matter what stage you're in,
God's word has power today
and it wants to breathe life into your life.
Look at 2 Kings 22 verse eight.
And Ilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe,
I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.
And Ilkiah gave the book to Shaphan
and he read it.
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king
and brought the king word again and said,
thy servants have gathered the money
that was found in the house
and have delivered it into the hand of them
that do the work,
that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.
And Shaphan the scribe showed the king saying,
Ilkiah the priest have delivered me a book.
And Shaphan read it before the king.
And it came to pass when the king had heard the words
of the book of the law that he rid his clothes.
And the king commanded Ilkiah the priest
and Ahicham the son of Shaphan
and Achbor the son of Micaiah
and Shaphan the scribe and Asahiah a servant of the king
saying, go ye, inquire of the Lord for me
and for the people and for all Judah
concerning the words of this book that is found.
For great is the wrath of the Lord
that is kindled against us
because our fathers have not hearkened
under the words of this book
to do according unto all
that which is written concerning us.
Look the king Josiah,
basically the word of God has been put on a bookshelf.
It's been put in the house of the Lord.
The house of the Lord has been abandoned.
Nobody wants to hear God's word.
Nobody wants to hear God's law,
but then a priest stumbles upon it.
They decided to go clean up the house of the Lord.
He finds the book of the law and he reads it.
And he's like, uh oh, wow.
We're not doing a lot of things in this book.
Oh man.
So he goes and takes it to the king.
He takes it to king Josiah and he says,
let me read for you what I just found.
And the king upon reading,
just hearing God's word, just ripped his clothes.
That's how much power the word of God.
He's like, oh man,
how great is the wrath of the Lord upon us?
We're not following his commandments.
And you know what?
That's what it should be for the Christian today.
The Christian today, he reads God's word.
He reads how he's not following his commandments.
We should be cut to the heart.
We should be all man, Lord.
Oh man, we should make some changes.
You know what most people are?
Eh, I don't agree with that.
I don't like that.
That's not what I think.
Look, they don't wanna hear God's word today.
Now the people that wanna hear God's word,
the people that have ears to hear,
when they hear God's word, it has power.
It's gonna cut them to the heart.
And the person that says I don't wanna hear,
guess what?
The Bible didn't lose its power.
That's just their response.
And you know what?
It did cut them to the heart.
It did stab them into their sin and twist the knife.
And you know what?
That's why they didn't like it.
That's why they wanna get rid of it.
That's why they wanna bury it again
and go hide it so that nobody will read it anymore
because they don't like how much it cut them to the heart.
You know, when you read a fairytale,
it doesn't really bother you that it's not true.
You know, something that's not true doesn't bother you.
You know, people that wanna use God's name in vain,
how come they don't use any other false god?
How come they're not saying Allah and Buddha
and all these other gods to be a cuss word?
You know why?
Because it doesn't have any power.
You don't have power?
The name of Jesus Christ.
That's why when they say that name,
they know what they're saying.
Why?
Because the word of God has power today.
Not only that, it's sharp.
Go to Acts chapter number five, Acts chapter number five.
What is sharp today?
Well, the Bible describes it as a two-edged sword piercing.
And it says it's even dividing asunder of soul and spirit.
Now, soul and spirit, that's kind of hard in our minds
to even understand what separations exist there.
I mean, we're talking about two things that are very close.
They're very closely related.
The Bible says the word of God is so sharp,
it can divide the difference between the soul and the spirit.
Not only that, the joints and the marrow.
Your bone marrow is in your bones.
It's very difficult to get that out,
but the word of God's so sharp,
it can make the vision of anything.
It can make the vision everywhere.
It can tell us every single detail.
It says in Ephesians chapter six,
and take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
So in Ephesians chapter number six,
the Bible actually likens the word of God unto a sword.
Why?
It's our weapon today.
It's what we're supposed to use
to go out and fight the spiritual battle today.
And in Acts chapter five, look at verse 32.
And we are as witnesses of these things,
and so is also the Holy Ghost,
whom God has given to them that obey him.
When they heard that, they were cut to the heart,
and took counsel to slay them.
You say, oh man, when the atheist rejects God's word,
did it lose its power?
No.
Look, it cut him to the heart.
He didn't like God's word.
He didn't want to retain God in his knowledge,
so he became a fool, is what the Bible says.
And when the Pharisees and the Sadducees,
they heard Jesus Christ preaching, it cut them to the heart.
They didn't like it.
That's why he had to crucify him.
They said, for a good work we stone thee not,
but for blasphemy, because thou sayest thou the Son of God,
and he making himself equal with God.
Look, they didn't like what he said.
They didn't like the word of God.
The word of God was what was giving them the power.
It was what was alive.
It was what was so sharp, they didn't like God's word.
And from the Genesis to Revelation,
there's always been attack on one thing that's God's word.
It's always attacking what God said.
The serpent in the garden,
when he comes unto Eve subtly, what does he say?
Yea, hath God said?
He's trying to place doubt on God's word.
He's trying to attack God's word.
And at the end, in Revelation,
when the Lord Jesus Christ returns on the white horse,
he's gonna slay that devil,
he's gonna slay that old serpent
with the sword that proceeds out of his mouth,
which is the word of God.
So it's a battle today of the word of God
and the liar, the devil,
who's trying to twist God's word,
who's trying to pervert God's word,
who's trying to get you off your sword,
who's trying to get you off the battle of the day,
trying to put a butter knife in your hand,
trying to put a straw, you know, flax in your hand,
trying to put something that's just gonna break
or a splinter in your hand, more than likely.
I mean, talk about the modern versions of the day.
They're not even a butter knife.
They're a wound.
There's something that's gonna hurt you.
They're not gonna help you for one second.
Go to Psalms chapter 141.
Psalms 141.
You say, how do you know the King James Bible
is the word of God?
Because it's quick, because it's powerful,
because it's sharper than any two-edged sword.
Look, every single verse, every single line
of the King James Bible, it has so much power.
And when you read it and when you wanna know God's word,
man, it just comes so alive to you.
Man, you can see the power on every page.
Man, it can slice.
Man, it can cut.
Man, it is so sharp.
It's so clear, it's so black and white.
The word of God is sharp.
Other versions of the Bible, modern versions of the Bible,
they don't have any of these attributes.
They're not quick, they're not powerful,
and they're certainly not sharp.
Look at Psalms 141, verse one.
Lord, I cry unto thee, make haste unto me.
Give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense
and lifting of my hands at the evening sacrifice.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth.
Keep the doors of my lips.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their dainties.
Let the righteous smite me, and it shall be a kindness,
and let him reprove me, and it shall be an excellent oil
which shall not break my head,
for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
And you say, why in the world would I want,
you know, the word of God to cut me?
Why in the world would I want something so sharp
that's gonna hurt?
Well, the Bible talks about being reproved,
being smitten by your brethren as a kindness,
as something that's good unto you.
Look, the word of God, when it's correcting you
with the sharpness of God's word,
with the sharpness of his judgments,
with the sharpness of his commands,
it's to try and fix you.
You know, I liken this maybe on the dermatologist.
What does the dermatologist do?
He's trying to constantly cut off the moles
and all the scabs.
He's trying to get all that stuff off your body
that's hurting you, that's harming you.
Now, this is not an endorsement of dermatology.
I'm just saying that that's basically
what I think of, right?
Think of something really infectious on your body
that's harming you.
God's word's like, I wanna cut that off.
I wanna get that tumor off your body.
I wanna get whatever's infecting you
and causing you to go bad, have bad health,
whatever's hurting you, let's cut it off.
Let's get rid of it.
Let's purge it.
In John chapter number 15, Jesus Christ talks about
how he wants to purge us.
Why?
For us to be healthy, for us to do right
to produce more fruit in our lives.
And look, we should embrace the correction of God's word.
We should embrace the sharpness and wanna know
how to be right in the sight of God.
But if you don't have a King James Bible today,
you're not gonna know.
You're not gonna know where to cut.
You're not gonna know what needs to be cut.
You're not gonna have the power.
You're not gonna have the aliveness of God's word.
Now, I've kind of been giving hint
to the modern versions, okay?
So what's the three points?
The three points is the fact that it's quick,
it's powerful, and it's sharp.
The modern versions, they don't have this.
So this is why they have to make a lot of money off of them.
They have to constantly make new ones.
And so I had a list of all the modern versions today.
You say, well, why would people corrupt God's word?
For the money.
It's absolutely for money.
That's the motive.
For the love of money is the root of all evil
is what the Bible says.
You know where all these modern versions come from?
From money.
They wanna make lots and lots of money.
They wanna sell you the word of God.
But they don't sell you something powerful.
They don't sell you something sharp.
They don't sell you any of those other things.
They have to make a bunch of money off of it.
In 2006, Thomas Nelson.
Maybe you have a Bible,
it might even say Thomas Nelson Publishers on it.
It's a pretty popular Bible publisher.
They're the ones that had the new King James Version.
In 2006, they sold for $473 million
to Intermedia Partners, V2LP,
where the chairman of the board cashed in over $62 million
of his stock holdings.
So the person that's publishing the new King James Bible,
he decides to sell it to this holding company,
which basically is just Harper Collins.
Harper Collins owns like most every publishing house.
They keep buying all these publishing.
They own what you look at Zondervan.
You ever seen like Zondervan publishing?
That's where the Harper Collins comes into play.
They bought the new King James.
Why?
Because they wanted money.
They look at this really profitable company
making all this money so they buy them
so they can have their copyright,
their copyright on the Bible.
Look, if you go to the Dollar Tree,
there is only one Bible you can get at the Dollar Tree.
You say, what's the Dollar Tree?
It's a store where everything costs a dollar or less.
I love it.
I mean, it's great.
You just go, I want this.
I know what it is.
It's a dollar, all right?
You can only get a King James Bible.
You say, why?
Because all the other versions have a copyright on them.
So you have to pay all this money to this publisher.
What?
If it was powerful, if it was quick, if it was sharp,
wouldn't it just sell itself?
Look, do I really?
I mean, the King James Bible's selling all these Bibles,
outselling them.
Why?
Because it's the word of God.
But these modern versions,
they have to protect their garbage.
They have to protect their words
and they have to peddle it and make all this money.
They keep coming out with new versions.
Why?
Because it's not powerful, because it's not sharp.
They have to keep constantly updating it.
You say, why were they updating it?
Is it because they think they need a better version?
No, it's because they need to make more money.
This thing's dead.
They've already seen all the flaws.
So they keep trying to update it to try and make it,
well, this one's not as bad.
You know, start buying this one.
You know, well, this one, we changed this part of it
because we realized that that was wrong.
So we just keep updating it
and try to keep making it better.
Why?
So you'll keep buying it.
I looked at the copyrights.
From a new King James, you can only use 1,000 verses
without running into the copyright infringement.
You can only use 50% of one whole book or 50% of the work,
or they can basically sue you.
If you've been in your bulletin today,
if you were to just copy like 51% of Jude,
which that's just one book, right?
Or 2 John, 2 John,
I don't know exactly how many verses in there.
Maybe like use eight or 10 verses in your bulletin.
You would technically have to use a copyright.
And if you go to these big non-evangelical churches,
they will literally print the copyright on their bulletin.
Talk about ridiculous.
You can't even have the word of God on your bulletin
without having to slap that copyright.
Like the King James Bible doesn't have this.
Not only that, it gets worse.
The NIV, you can only have 500 words or 500 verses.
You can never have a completed book.
And it says only 25% of the work.
The NLT, it's the worst.
You can't have a complete book.
You can only have 500 verses and only 25% of the work.
This is not because they're alive.
This is not the word of God.
They have to sell it.
They have to try and make lots of money.
Now, I brought some examples with me today
because I'm kind of a visual learner.
So I try to help you as well, all right?
When it came to the King James Bible version issue, okay?
I'll be honest with you.
It was not King James only my whole life.
I was not brought up with his position.
I'd never even heard of it for the longest time.
And I'll be honest, as soon as I heard it,
I believed that the King James Bible
was the perfect word of God.
Why?
Because of the examples.
Now, not every person just immediately agrees.
Not every person immediately sees it.
But I found for the most part,
the people that just get it right away
is like the most of the people are gonna get it.
Most of the other people, they don't wanna get it.
And we'll talk about why.
We'll talk about why a person
does not want to believe this issue.
But let's just take a few minutes.
I have some poster boards with me today
to illustrate how these are not alive,
how these are not powerful, how they're not sharp.
Turn in your Bibles to First Thessalonians,
chapter number five.
First Thessalonians, chapter number five.
Now I got this poster board with me today
and I'm gonna highlight a particular Bible,
the NIV Bible.
And you say, why the NIV?
Because outside of the King James,
this is pretty much the most popular
in the sense of it's the most selling,
most of the new non-evangelical churches will use it.
So let's focus on the NIV.
If you look at First Thessalonians,
chapter number five, verse 22,
the Bible reads, abstain from all appearance of evil.
Now, what is that teaching?
It's teaching you, look, if it looks wrong,
if it looks evil, avoid it.
Don't have anything to do with it,
don't even come anywhere near it.
But what does the NIV say?
It says, reject every kind of evil.
Now, who would disagree with that?
I mean, hey, if it's bad, just reject it.
Okay, but you know what the King James Bible,
it's cutting something in your life.
It's saying that thing that you're doing that looks wrong,
don't even do it.
You know what, when you go to the bar,
that just looks wrong.
Well, I just got some water.
Yeah, that looks real evil though.
Walking into a bar?
Look, if it looks really evil,
abstain from the appearance of it.
The Bible's saying, look,
that's what we're teaching here today,
but the NIV, it's not sharp.
It's not powerful, reject every kind of evil.
This is the kind of sermons that you get
if you go to the big mega church today.
They'll say, do good, don't do bad.
Do right, don't do wrong.
Love people, don't hate.
I mean, it's just about reject every kind of evil, do good.
This is what they teach.
It's not the word of God.
It's not powerful.
If I go out today and I just show every person
in all of Houston this verse,
it will change no one's life, never.
That's not gonna change anybody.
Everybody already agrees.
But you know what, if I showed them just this one verse,
it could affect somebody.
They could say, you know what, I never thought about that.
That thing that I'm doing that looks like it's wrong,
I should give it up.
I should just get rid of it
because it has the appearance of evil.
God's word has power, every verse, every line,
every word of God is pure as what the Bible teaches.
So let's go to 2 Timothy chapter number two.
2 Timothy chapter number two.
And to help you out, I have another illustration
that I'm gonna use to help us with this.
So I've got some water in this cup, all right?
I'm gonna put it in here.
And I'm gonna put some water in here.
Now I got this from that back cauldron thing,
it's about as pure as you know,
what we can get it here in Texas
or whatever they have on tap or whatever is probably worse.
But is there anything really wrong
with either of these glasses?
Would you really say,
well, I really prefer the left one or the right one?
No, I mean, it's just, that's what we are.
Pure words Baptist church,
we want God's word to be pure today.
But you know what these modern versions do,
they do stuff to the water.
They're doing stuff to God's word.
Now let's look at 2 Timothy chapter number 15.
Study to show thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
Man, I just love the way that is.
Study, study the word of God.
The Bible instructs us to study.
It's important to have knowledge.
It's important to have wisdom.
It's important to learn.
Now let's see what the NIV says.
Do your best.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
a worker who does not need to be ashamed
and who correctly handles the word of God.
Now, does this tell you in any spot to study, to learn?
It's not giving you any instruction.
Just do your best.
Well, I'm just doing my best, buddy.
You know, I just go to church here once in a while.
You look, the King James Bible's telling you
actually do something.
Why don't you study your Bible this morning?
So you know what they did?
They said, well, we don't really like how this is worded.
We need to clean it up.
So we got some air freshener, all right?
So we gotta, you know, we gotta get some of this pure stuff.
You know, it's not working for us.
We gotta do our best.
You know what?
Now, how many of y'all are really excited?
Who wants some water?
Who's thirsty?
Does anybody want any of this?
But here's the stupidity, okay?
Even after one verse,
even after just showing this one thing,
people will still say, no, this is still God's word.
But how could I convince you to drink this?
How could I convince you to even take a sip of this?
That's disgusting.
It's contaminated.
It's dirty.
I don't even wanna touch, can I get this to your kids?
Oh, you're gonna take your kids to some church
where they're not even using the King James Bible
so they just get to drink all this?
Mm, yummy.
How damaging is that?
Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter number six.
1 Corinthians chapter number six.
And you're welcome to turn along.
I pretty much have, a lot of these next examples,
I don't have the whole verse,
just to keep it on the board.
So if you wanna kind of follow along,
read what the whole verse says.
1 Corinthians chapter number six,
the Bible says, flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body,
but he that commiteth fornication
sinneth against his own body.
All right?
Now, what does the NIV say?
It says, flee from sexual immorality.
Now, here's the problem with that, all right?
You say, well, that sounds about the same.
The problem is, is you don't know what this means.
Nobody knows what that means.
It's different for every single person.
So they get to interpret it however they want.
But you know what?
Fornication, it's real clear what fornication is.
It's when a man and a woman lie together before marriage.
But you know what?
That might not be sexual immorality to some people.
They might be, well, I just think adultery is.
So I guess fornication's okay,
because my Bible doesn't say that flee fornication.
My Bible doesn't have this.
It's not sharp.
It's not powerful.
Basically, this changes nobody's mind.
Because you know what?
You also won't find a single person on this planet
that does not believe that this is true.
They just have their own definition of this.
I mean, guys that will lie with any woman,
that'll just whore around, be a whore monger,
and just lie with every single lady, guess what?
He doesn't want anybody to touch his girlfriend.
Yeah, you believe that he wants to just have
someone touch his girlfriend?
He'll say, nobody, that's my girlfriend.
He has a definition for sexual immorality.
But you know what?
He probably doesn't know what this says.
He probably doesn't know to flee fornication.
And you know what?
After that first verse, it kind of looked gross,
but now it's kind of gone.
That's how a lot of people are.
They see that example, and then they look at it again later
and like, eh, it doesn't look that much different.
So we gotta spray it again, all right?
Here's your 1 Corinthians chapter number six.
But do you remember what's in there?
Do you remember what we just looked at?
All right, let's look at Leviticus chapter 19.
Go to Leviticus chapter number 19.
And look, I'm using these examples
because how can you say that this is the same book?
How can you say that this is God's word?
When God says, hey, the words of the Lord are pure words,
when he says every word of God is pure,
when in Revelation he puts a curse on anybody
that would add or remove from God's word today,
how can you be like, well, it's just all the same.
It's just all good.
Let's just drink the water with the cleaner in it.
That's disgusting.
Look at Leviticus chapter 19, verse 19.
I'll read for you, it says,
ye shall keep my statutes,
thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind,
thou shalt not sow thy field of mingled seed,
neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen
come upon thee.
Now this is a verse that a lot of atheists
will mock and scoff at.
They'll say, oh man, we're not supposed to wear clothing
with mixed fabrics.
That's what they'll try to say.
Well, did your Bible say mixed fabrics?
My Bible said a garment mingled with linen and woolen.
Now I'll just give you a little update.
Nobody in this room has a garment
of linen and woolen on right now.
That just doesn't exist.
People aren't making these type of garments.
But it's giving you a symbolic reference
to the fact that linen signifies our righteousness.
It signifies our works, because why?
Linen is a plant-based fabric.
It's one that men have to sew together and weave together
and takes a lot of work.
Whereas the woolen, that was killed by an animal.
An animal is slaughtered.
You didn't have to work for five seconds on the wool.
You just put the wool on.
Now obviously a woolen garment,
obviously they do a lot of things to repair that garment.
But that's the symbolism that God's giving us
of our works and his righteousness.
The fact that we're saved by the blood
and we shouldn't mix faith and works.
They're separate.
That's why he's saying you don't mix them together.
And you know what?
It would make a bad garment anyways,
because the wool and the plant-based fabric
would not mix together well.
But what does the novice say?
Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
Now look, everybody has that.
Everybody's wearing garments.
That makes the Bible look stupid.
They say, well, we didn't like how it said here.
So we had to clean it up.
So we got another substance this evening.
We gotta clean up God's word.
We need some ammonia.
I mean, we just need to clean this thing up.
You know what?
Some people might already not like the smell of the cleaner.
They're not gonna like the smell of ammonia.
You know what?
They'll tolerate these modern versions, won't they?
They'll tolerate the smell
of these disgusting, wicked Bibles.
Now who's thirsty?
Who's ready for a sip?
I mean, you're gonna let your kids drink this?
You're gonna let your kids even touch this?
I mean, this is poison.
This is toxic.
I'm not gonna dip my finger in here
and stir it around and kind of lick it.
I mean, this is poison right here.
I have another tab with me.
Go to Proverbs 18, Proverbs 18.
Well, so far, it's just difference of opinion.
You know, it's just different wording.
They could both be right.
I mean, they're both basically kinda saying the same thing.
I mean, two fabrics, linen and wool, and what's the big deal?
What, you know, I mean, he said, do your best.
I still think you should do your best.
I mean, come on.
You think we should not do our best?
People that are just silly.
But let's get some more egregious examples.
Look at Proverbs 18, verse eight.
The Bible reads, the words of a tailbearer as wounds.
They go down in the innermost parts of the belly.
When you go around and gossip about other people, it hurts.
It hurts, and when you find out
that everybody's laughing at you,
everybody doesn't like you, you're the joke,
you're the butt of the joke,
you're the one that they're all ridiculing,
it's like a wound.
You get that knot in your stomach.
You don't feel right.
You don't like it.
That's why we shouldn't go up and down as a tailbearer.
We shouldn't be going around
telling everybody's dirty secrets
and gossiping about one another.
It's hurtful.
What does the NIV say?
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels.
Choice morsels.
Now a morsel, you say, what's a morsel?
It's a small tidbit of food.
Okay, so think of a small little tidbit of food.
Choice means like the best.
It's like something that's a dainty, that's a delicacy.
So think about the just most delicate,
great treat that you've ever had.
Something that you just really enjoy,
some kind of chocolate truffle.
Some type of dessert that's just a delicacy,
it's just so fancy.
He's saying the words of a gossip are like dainties,
are like delicacies.
Is that saying the same thing?
That's the exact opposite.
Look, how could you ever justify gossip today?
How could you ever say that gossip's right?
The NIV says that it's right.
I mean, go around, well it's okay for me to gossip,
it's like a choice morsel, buddy.
I'm just helping you out.
I'm just giving you some dessert.
Wicked.
Go to Mark chapter number 10 now.
Now we're getting some more egregious examples.
Mark chapter number 10, verse 24.
The Bible says in Mark chapter 10,
and the disciples were astonished at his words,
but Jesus answered again and saith unto them,
children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches
to enter into the kingdom of God?
Now if you go out soul winning,
this verse will ring true.
Man, you knock on that really nice house.
You know, they got a five car garage.
They do not want to hear the gospel.
Why, because they're trusting in riches.
Every one of their needs physically is met.
Their belly is full, their bank account's full.
Look, they think that they got it all together.
They don't need Jesus Christ.
They don't need a savior.
They don't think they're on their way to hell.
They've been able to provide everything
that they've ever needed for themselves is what they think.
So they say, well, you know I've been trusting in riches
for every other area of my life.
Might as well trust it with my soul too.
And guess what, they're gonna die and split hell wide open.
It's so difficult to get a rich person
to want to hear the gospel today.
That's what the Bible teaches.
But let's see what the NIV says.
Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God.
Now, if entering the kingdom of God is by works,
that would be really hard.
But you know what, it's simple to be saved.
The Lord Jesus Christ likens it unto taking a drink
of water, not this water, you know, eating a piece of bread,
look, walking through a door.
It's easy to be saved.
It's simple to be saved.
Just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved.
How hard is that?
It's not hard.
And you know, some people, because it's so easy,
it's difficult for them to even want to believe it.
Like, that's all I have to do.
I just have to believe on the Lord.
Nobody's arguing that's hard.
You know what, the NIV, because it teaches works salvation,
it is hard.
You know what, and it's impossible to get saved from the NIV
because it corrupts all of God's word.
Because it's not pure today, because it's dead,
because it has no power,
that's not gonna get anybody saved.
That's not God's word.
This is not gonna give you life today.
This is not gonna help you out in any way.
You know what they did?
They just put a bunch of poison in there.
So I got some more stuff with me,
some fuel injecting cleaner,
because they just decided, you know what,
we got to ramp this thing up.
Let's put some poison in it too.
Let's put some stuff that you should never drink.
Oh man.
No, we added some color just for flavor.
You know, we wanted to get it really nice and juicy.
Now it's really hard to disguise.
At first you kind of were like,
well, they're just changing a few phrases here and there.
You know, it's not that big a deal.
I don't see the difference.
How can you look at that verse and not say it's different?
I mean, who wants some of this?
And you know what, it stands in sharp contrast
to all the verses they left in
about how it's still by faith, how it's still simple.
They contradict themselves all over the place.
You look at it and you're like,
there's something funny in that one layer.
In that one verse, there's something weird going on.
You know?
Go if you would to Luke chapter number four.
Luke chapter number four.
And when I talk to somebody
that doesn't believe in God's word,
is doubting the King James Bible,
I love to quote this verse
because if God truly loves us,
if God wants us to be saved,
if God wants us to follow his commandments,
wouldn't he give it to you?
I mean, if your boss at work wants you to follow the rules,
don't you think he's gonna give you the handbook?
He's gonna give you the rule sheet.
I mean, it just makes common sense.
And when Jesus Christ is being tempted by who?
The tempter, by the devil, by Satan.
What is Satan trying to do?
He's trying to corrupt God's word.
And what does Jesus rebuke him with?
Luke 4, four.
And Jesus answered him saying,
it is written that man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word of God.
You know what?
It took him a long time to rebuke that demon,
to rebuke that devil,
to rebuke that serpent in the garden.
But you know what?
He rebuked him by saying,
we should live by every word of God.
And if Adam and Eve had lived by every word of God,
they wouldn't have died.
They wouldn't have had that struggle,
but they got the NIV.
And you know what the NIV did?
It led them to death.
She didn't really know God's word.
She had doubt on God's word.
And look, these Bible versions,
they're just chock full of footnotes,
just doubting the word.
Did God really say that one though?
I mean, is that one in the oldest manuscripts?
Is that one in the newest manuscript?
I mean, they're just putting all kinds of doubt.
Now let's see what the NIV says in this verse.
Jesus answered, it is written,
man shall not live on bread alone.
Hmm, convenient they miss something.
What did they miss?
Every word of God.
Why in the world is that missing in the NIV?
You know why?
Because it's not every word of God.
They had to just take that one out
conveniently, didn't they?
Look, I believe the King James Bible
is every word of God today.
And if I didn't, my question would be, where is it?
Because didn't Jesus Christ say,
I need to live by every single word of God?
So my question is either that's a lie or where is it?
It's a King James Bible.
Go to Ephesians chapter number three,
Ephesians chapter number three.
Let's just add a little bit more poison,
you know, to this cup over here.
I know y'all are getting real thirsty over here.
It's starting to look good.
Hmm, that layer just keeps getting bigger
and bigger and bigger.
Look, this is ridiculous.
This is silly.
No one in their right mind would touch this.
But why are people using these modern versions today?
It's even more ridiculous.
I would rather, I mean, you probably drink this
than to drink those false versions the rest of your life.
Damn your soul to hell.
You probably survived from this,
but you won't survive from all this wicked corruption.
We need God's perfect and pure and holy word.
Look at Ephesians three verse nine.
God who created all things by Jesus Christ.
What does it say at the end of that verse?
I'll read the whole thing.
And to make all men see what is the fellowship
of the mystery, which is from the beginning of the world,
have been hid in God who created all things
by Jesus Christ.
So again, in this morning's service,
we emphasize this verse.
Why?
Because all things were created by Jesus Christ.
We learned that.
It's not just God generically.
No, it was created by Jesus Christ.
God the Father spoke the word
and the word of God was created.
He used Jesus Christ to be the creator
and to create all things.
What does the NIV say?
God who created all things.
It just leaves that convenient thing off
that it was by Jesus Christ.
Oh, just attacking the word of God,
attacking the deity of Jesus Christ,
attacking the son of God.
Why are these Bibles attacking the word of God?
Why are they attacking that it's through Jesus Christ?
Why are they attacking it's by Jesus Christ?
Look, they're wicked as hell.
Not only that, I have an NIV with me today.
Not only that, they take out 15 whole verses.
Now they'll say 16, but I really looked it up.
And the 16th one they say,
they still leave a little part of it, okay?
So I've got this NIV today.
If you flip open to any of these verses, they're gone.
They're not there.
They don't even know how to number it.
Now go to Matthew chapter 18, Matthew chapter number 18.
So what they like to do is they like to sprinkle
some footnotes in there and make it sound like,
well, in our versions they're really good.
So they try to add some sweetness in there.
They try to say, well, in our version,
you know, it's not that bad.
So they say, hey, we'll just sprinkle the pot
in a little bit.
Now who wants to drink this now?
I mean, it's got really good apple juice in it.
I mean, it just sounds so good.
It just looks so good.
Look, I don't care what you put in there.
You can't fix this.
There is nothing you can do to this
that will ever make me touch it with a 10 foot pole.
No matter how many times they update the NIV,
no matter how much they update these modern perversions,
look, it's never gonna be God's pure word.
The word of God just continues to stay the same.
The modern versions, pretty soon it's just gonna turn black.
You know, when you keep doing this,
it turns into the message.
If you've ever read the message,
man, it's just black as hell.
It's as black as night, as black as outer darkness today.
Now look at Matthew chapter 18, verse 11.
And the NIV, gone.
Let's see what the Bible says.
For the Son of Man has come to save that which is lost.
Oh, that's not an important verse, is it?
That Jesus Christ came to save those that are lost?
I guess it's really hard to go to heaven then,
because nobody came to save them.
Now I need a volunteer.
Scott, do you wanna come help me for a minute?
Now go to Mark chapter 16, if you would.
I'll let you turn, this is my wife's old Bible, all right?
Turn to Mark chapter 16, if you would.
And I want you to read verse number eight in the NIV
for us nice and loud.
Mark chapter 16, verse eight.
I didn't give you one of those tricky ones
where you're not gonna be able to find it.
I could give you a whole bunch of verses
you wouldn't be able to find them.
You wouldn't be able to read them.
Mark chapter 16, verse eight.
Nice and loud when you get it.
Trambling and bewildered, the woman went out
and fled from the tomb.
They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid.
That's pretty much the same thing
as probably what in your King James Bible is, right?
Now in your King James Bible,
what's right after that period?
A nine, and then it says what?
Now when Jesus was risen early.
Now in this, read what's written right after verse eight.
The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses
did not have Mark 16, nine through 20.
So it just, right in the middle,
right in the middle of the text, it just breaks the text
and then it just immediately gives you commentary.
It's saying, look, the next verses you're about to read,
all nine through 20, all of them were not really
in the Bible.
How is that?
I mean, you're just reading your Bible
and you get to verse nine and you're like,
oh, how much doubt am I just now putting on this?
I mean, that's like Satan just creeping in,
just being like, yeah, God said,
yeah, God really said that one.
I mean, you're gonna let your kid read this trash
where they just get on a page and just says,
well, a lot of these just aren't here.
I mean, you're not gonna be able to teach a kid out of,
you know, do numbers, how to do arithmetic
because they just keep skipping verses.
Flip backwards to chapter 15.
Can you find verse 28?
It's got some extra commentary too,
some more worthless junk.
Now this one's a tricky one, isn't it?
Look at the first page.
What do you have on the first page back at verse 27?
What does it say in verse 27?
They crucified two robbers with them,
one on the right and one on the left.
Now what does verse 28 say?
Can't find it, can you?
What does verse 29 say?
Those who passed by hurled insults at him,
shaking their head and saying,
so you who are going to destroy the temple
and build it in three days.
Now here's my question.
What are the numbers before those verses
and after those verses?
27, 29.
Now who in here knows how to count?
I mean, who knows how to count from 27?
What's after 27, Henry?
Yeah, what's after 27?
All right, anybody?
What's after 27?
Perfect, 28.
Is it 29?
Look, these people are saying this is the word of God
and they're saying 28, that's gone.
It just goes 27 to 29.
Thank you very much, I'll let you sit down now.
But here's my question, okay?
If they believe that this was God's word,
why did they skip the numbering?
I mean, if it's really not God's word,
if it's really not one of his verses,
why did they skip it?
Why didn't they just keep the numbering?
You know what, because this is the word of God.
Remember how I said earlier that the atheist,
he likes to use Jesus Christ's name as a curse word?
Because he knows that it's right.
Because he knows that it's true.
And these modern versions,
they know that they're leaving a verse out.
They know that they're corrupting the word of God.
And so they just keep the numbering just to throw you off.
Because if you turn to John 3.15 in your Bible today,
and that's what said for God to love the world,
you'd be like, what?
I thought that was John 3.16.
So just to keep all the familiar verses the same,
they have to skip the numbering.
They have to lie to you, they have to deceive you today.
Now go if you would to John chapter seven.
John chapter number seven.
I've showed you some pretty egregious examples.
The example that I saw when I first looked at it,
2 Samuel 21, and your King James Bible says,
Elhanan, the son of Jehoragim, the Bethlehemite,
he slew the brother of Goliath.
But in this book right here,
it says that he slew not the brother, he slew Goliath.
So they have David slaying Goliath,
then they have Elhanan slaying Goliath.
Just making a contradiction, making this book look stupid.
Not only that, in John chapter seven,
look at verse number eight.
Go ye up unto this feast, I go not up,
yet, unto this feast, for my time is not yet full come.
So what's Jesus Christ saying?
Well his brethren are saying,
hey, come up with us to this feast.
And Jesus Christ is like, I can't come up publicly.
Why?
Because if he'd gone up publicly,
they already hated him enough,
they were gonna try and crucify him.
And look, it wasn't his time to be crucified.
So he had to go up privately.
So he's telling his brethren,
look, I'm not gonna go up yet.
He's gonna wait and go later.
That makes perfect sense.
That falls in line with what he does in the story.
What does the NIV say?
You go to the festival.
I am not going up to this festival,
because my time has not yet fully come.
Now when you're reading the NIV, what does this say?
It says he's not gonna go to this festival.
Well let's look at verse number 10,
in chapter number seven, verse number 10.
But when his brethren were gone up,
then went he also up unto the feast,
not openly, but as it were in secret.
Now the King James Bible makes perfect sense.
He's saying look, you guys just go ahead and go without me.
You just go ahead, go and open,
and then I'll come later when it's kind of in secret, right?
Why, because he wanted to be concealed at that moment.
He didn't wanna be crucified in that moment.
It wasn't his time.
It wasn't the fulfillment of the scriptures
for him to die at that time.
What does the NIV say?
It says I'm not going.
Now if Jesus Christ tells you I'm not coming to this feast,
and then you see him at the feast,
what would you call him?
A liar.
And that's what the NIV does.
It calls Jesus Christ a liar.
How in the world can you use that book?
How can you let someone teach you
from this book calling Jesus Christ a liar?
What else does it have to say for you to throw in the trash?
For you to say, hey, this is probably not a good thing
for me to drink.
This is probably not gonna get me any health today.
And you know what, the atheist today,
he'll say, well, the Bible's full of contradictions.
Yeah, the NIV is.
Absolutely, I can show you hundreds of contradictions
in that stupid thing.
But you know what, the word of God, none.
I can't show you one contradiction in this book
because it's God's perfect, pure, holy word.
I don't see anything wrong with this one.
They're like, man, did you see all the problems in this one?
Yeah, I did.
It looks terrible, doesn't it?
Who believes in this junk?
Who's using this junk?
This one, nope.
Looks perfect to me.
Looks great to me.
I don't have any problem with it.
Go to Deuteronomy 22.
Deuteronomy chapter 22.
The Bible says in Psalms 119, thy word is very pure.
Therefore thy servant loveth it.
You gotta look, this is very pure.
This is just so pure.
Mm, it just smells so good.
I mean, nobody's gonna look at that and say it's pure.
And I can't look at the NIV and say that's pure.
That thing's trash.
That thing's wicked as hell.
Now this is the most egregious example to me
of how you can still say this word is pure.
You can still say the NIV is pure.
And your King James Bible, look at verse 28,
says if a man find a damsel that is a virgin
which is not betrothed and lay hold on her
and lie with her and they be found,
then the man that'll lay with her
shall give unto the damsel's father 50 shekels of silver.
And she shall be his wife because he hath humbled her,
he may not put her away all his days.
What does the Bible say?
It says when two people are caught in fornication,
they should get married.
If you're big enough to lie together,
you're big enough to go ahead and get it done,
get it married, don't just shame this woman.
Don't treat her like a harlot.
Don't treat her like a whore.
If you're gonna do that,
you should just go ahead and get married.
That's what the Bible teaches.
That's what the NIV says.
It says if a man happens to meet a virgin,
so it's the same thing, who is not pledged to be married
and rapes her and they are discovered,
he shall pay her father 50 shekels of silver.
He must marry the young woman for he has violated her.
He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
What wicked filth the NIV is.
It justifies rape.
Think about this.
Some guy, he asks some lady on a date, she turns him down.
It's like, well, if I rape her,
she has to marry me according to the law.
You're gonna tell me that that's the pure words of God?
The pure words of God is that a rapist
gets to just marry some woman just because she was a virgin?
I guess if she wasn't a virgin, then it'd be okay, right?
No, that is wicked as hell.
That's not God's word.
And they'll try to twist the King James Bible
that says lay hold on her.
But let me give you a little secret, okay?
When a man and a woman lie together, they have to touch.
And a man, he lays hold on the woman.
That's how a man and a woman know each other.
They're touching today.
They can't be doing it in separate beds.
And look, that's not saying he's raping her.
That's disgusting.
The Bible says that we're supposed
to lay hold on eternal life.
You know what that means?
Cleaving unto it.
You know, adoring, you know, having adoration for it,
cherishing it, loving it.
That's what a man does unto a woman.
He cherishes her.
He embraces her.
He holds her close unto him.
The man, he likes this woman.
They're lying together, it's wicked, it's sin,
but it's not saying he's forcing her.
He's not forcing her.
Before that, in the chapter, it says
if a man would force a woman, he's put to death.
That's the penalty for rape.
The NIV says, well, as long as you just pay a $50 fine.
I mean, you know, it's not a big deal.
Just marry each other.
You can't even get divorced.
Bible says every word of God is pure.
He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee
and thou be found a liar.
The NIV is a liar today.
It's lied.
And you know what?
The modern versions, they try to put back
all those verses that they took out.
They just keep trying.
So they try to do, well, I'm sorry,
we missed a little bit, so we'll just add a little bit back.
All right, now it's good, right?
I mean, we got the verses back in.
We still have to footnote saying that it's not there
and that it's, you know, not God's word.
Oh, I guess we fixed it, didn't we?
You can't fix this.
This is wicked as hell.
It's corrupt as hell.
It's never gonna be God's word.
And this is where we learn why it's important, okay?
Proverbs chapter 30.
I'm gonna have you go to one last place.
Go to Psalms chapter 11 this evening, Psalms chapter 11.
The Bible says that we're supposed to put our trust in God.
We're supposed to put our trust in Him.
We're supposed to put our trust in His word.
And the thing is, if you do not believe
that the King James Bible is God's perfect word,
your trust is in yourself.
That's where it lies.
Because if you read a modern version today
that disagrees with something that you think,
you're gonna win.
Well, I don't really believe that.
And since this isn't God's perfect word, I must be right.
So I'll find another version
that says what I want it to say.
And guess what?
Since it already corrupted all the verses,
it's asexual immorality,
well, I get to be the judge jury and executioner
on that verse.
So I'll just tell you what it means.
You know what the King James Bible,
you can't corrupt the word fornication.
It is what it is.
It means what it means.
And it's hard to get around that.
It's hard to get around something that's so sharp,
so powerful, so alive today,
so they have to get rid of it.
They have to put it in the bookshelf.
They have to hide it so you won't get it and read it.
So they won't hear it anymore,
and it won't be cutting them to the heart.
And the people,
they don't wanna accept the King James Bible
as God's final word.
They're like, man, I don't wanna give up drinking.
I don't wanna go to church three times a week.
I don't wanna read my Bible every day.
I don't wanna go out soul winning.
I don't really wanna get the sin out of my life.
I wanna be filthy and disgusting,
and I hate it when the King James Bible
keeps trying to clean me up.
I'm filthy and disgusting,
so I wanna drink something that's filthy
and disgusting.
It's a hard issue.
And they're their final authority.
They wanna be their final authority.
I'm sick of this apathy.
I'm sick of this just,
well, they say the same thing.
Okay, did you just ignore all these clear verses?
Did you ignore the obvious elephant in the room?
They're not the same.
You say, why?
Would someone still choose it?
Because they don't want the light.
They love the darkness.
Men love darkness.
They don't wanna be approved by God's word.
They don't want that powerful, sharp, quick instrument
to come into their life.
They think it'll ruin them.
They think it'll turn their life upside down
and make it worse for them.
God's word's never gonna harm you.
It's never gonna hurt you.
It's only gonna make things better for you.
Not only that, the Bible says,
all scriptures given by inspiration of God
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
The Bible says a wise man will hear
and will increase learning.
A man of understanding shall attain into wise counsels.
Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man
which built his house upon a rock.
The Bible says, when you hear God's commandments,
when you hear the wisdom of God's word
and you do it, you're wise.
You know what?
When you look at it and you say,
well, I'm just gonna still keep drinking this.
He's like, you're a fool.
You're an idiot.
As stupid as you would think someone is
to come up here and drink this
will be someone to continue listening to NIV,
continue going and hearing that garbage
and using that trash and using that filth.
And look, the dirty people,
you're not gonna get them on the King James Bible.
If they've already seen this,
if they've already heard this,
look, I mean, it's just too difficult many times.
I'm not saying that someone might not take a while,
but look, it's a heart issue.
And you need to pray for that person.
I've asked people that actually converted after a long time,
I said, what was it that really convinced you?
And they're like, I don't know.
But you know, the one thing I do know
is I was praying for that person.
I was being consistent with myself.
And look, all I can do is show you the examples,
show you what God's clear word says,
give you the powerful sharp sword and say, you decide.
You know, I can't fix apathy today.
I wish I could.
I wish I could get people to say,
you know what, God's word actually matters today.
God's word actually has importance today.
Let's try to find what God's perfect and holy word is.
Look at Psalms 11 verse three.
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Look, if we don't have the King James Bible,
we can't do anything today.
We can't get anybody saved.
We can't turn people to righteousness.
We can't learn the Bible.
We can't know God.
We can't know anything.
It's all destroyed.
You can't do anything good with this.
It's just gonna run people's lives.
And the NIV doesn't do anything good.
It doesn't help anybody grow.
Nobody learns the Bible.
Nobody learns anything.
It's wicked, trash, and filth,
and it's never gonna help somebody for a second.
You know what?
This can fix a lot of problems real quick.
This can help you real quick.
It can clean up your life like that.
I wanna go to one more place.
I misled you.
Go to Proverbs three.
Proverbs three, that's the last place we'll turn.
The Bible says Jeremiah 17,
the heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked.
Who can know it?
I, the Lord, search the heart.
I try the reins, even to give it to every man
according to his ways
and according to the fruit of his doings.
Man is inherently sinful.
Man is inherently wicked.
Man wants to do that which is wrong.
That's why we need God's word to clean us up.
We need help today.
We need life today.
What was the Psalmist saying in Psalms 119?
Quicken me, O Lord, to thy word.
Quicken me according to thy word.
I need life today.
I need power.
I need that sharp sword in my life today.
I don't want this filth.
I already got enough of that in my heart.
I need to get it cleaned up.
I don't want to keep pouring more into it.
The Bible says in Romans 12,
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God.
What does the Bible say?
Study to show thyself approved.
What do you say?
We need to prove all things.
We need to prove what's good and acceptable
on the side of God.
Not what we think is right.
What is good in his sight?
What is the Bible saying that we should be doing?
Not what I think or what's my ideas.
Jesus Christ said, my sheep hear my voice
and I know them and they follow me.
God's word has power today
and it's gonna turn his people to righteousness.
Look at Proverbs 3, the last ways we'll turn.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart.
Verse five, trust in the Lord with all thine heart
and lean not unto thine understanding.
And all thy ways acknowledge him
and he shall direct thy past.
Be not wise in thine own eyes,
fear the Lord and depart from evil.
Now here's the thing.
Again, if you don't have a King James Bible today,
you're gonna be your ultimate authority.
You get to decide what's right and wrong.
You get to make your own decisions
and the Bible's warning you.
He's giving you a warning.
Don't trust your understanding.
What you think is right and wrong,
what you think is good and evil, don't trust it.
Don't trust that heart that's wicked
and deceitful above all things.
Don't trust in yourself.
Don't trust in your mind, trust in God's word.
That's what he's saying.
Whatever the Bible says, that's right.
You say, what's your opinion?
Doesn't matter.
What does the Bible say?
What does God's word say?
You know what, if I don't have a perfect Bible,
then guess what?
Well, I'll tell you what I think.
I'll be the authority.
I'll tell you what's right and wrong.
You can't trust in anything but yourself.
You're limited to trusting in your own understanding.
That's why we need a perfect holy word of God.
That's why this church is pure words.
We're always gonna only use the King James Bible.
As long as I'm the pastor,
this is the only English Bible we'll ever use
that I'll ever wanna give you to drink.
I'm not gonna start putting this back
in the fountain back there, all right?
You're not gonna hear it,
hey, well, the NIV actually says this.
I think that's right.
Look, that's me leaning on my own understanding.
That's me leaning on my own wisdom.
I'm gonna lean on whatever this book says.
And anywhere where I'm wrong,
where the pastor says something different than this book,
you trust this book.
You will never offend me by believing God's word over me.
You believe God's word no matter what I say,
no matter what person comes in here and teaches,
you believe God's word
no matter what happens in this church, right?
We're supposed to study
to show ourselves approved unto God.
Look, we need to not be ashamed.
You're gonna be ashamed today
when you start mixing stuff in here.
When you start drinking this stuff,
that's gonna really ruin you.
And I use a silly example.
You say, why?
So it'll stick in your mind.
So it'll be like, I am never gonna touch
those modern versions with a 10-foot pole
just like I would never touch this filth in this cup.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Father, so much for your word.
Thank you for giving us a pure word,
that your words are pure,
that we can rely and trust upon them.
I pray that every person in this room
would not lean on their own understanding,
but would rather put all of their faith,
all of their trust, everything on your word,
that we'd let your word guide our feet,
that you would guide our steps,
that you would guide our family,
that we could trust our family with you and with your word.
Thank you so much for giving it to us.
I hope that everybody in this room
would understand the importance of thy word,
that we get it deep into our heart,
that we could renew our minds with it every single day,
that we'd seek it,
that you would quicken us according to thy word,
that we could get its power,
and that we could have its sharpness
correct all the things in our lives that needs correcting.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.