The Lord of Hosts is marching on to victory, the triumph of the Christ will soon appear.
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face in stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might hold fast.
If God before us, his banner o'er us, we'll sing the victor's song at last.
Song 409 on the second.
The fight is on, a rousey soldier's brave and true, Jehovah leads and victory will assure.
So buckle on, the armor God has given you and in his strength forever will endure.
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face in stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might hold fast.
If God before us, his banner o'er us, we'll sing the victor's song at last.
The fight is leading on to certain victory, the bow of Prague misbands the eastern sky.
His glorious name, in every land shall honored be, the morn will break, the dawn of peace
is nigh.
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face in stern array.
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today.
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might hold fast.
If God before us, his banner o'er us, we'll sing the victor's song at last.
Great singing.
Let's open up in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day and thank you for our church.
Pray that you'd bless every person here.
Pray that you'd bless the time we have together of singing, praising you, hearing the word
of God being preached.
Pray that you'd fill us all with the Holy Spirit.
We love you so much.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
All right.
For our second song, flip over to the left, 379, bringing in the sheaves, 379, bringing
in the sheaves, 379, bringing in the sheaves, sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve, waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, sowing in the sunshine, sowing in
the shadows, fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze.
By and by the harvest and the labor ended.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing
in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, going forth with weeping, sowing for the master,
though the law sustained our spirit often grieves.
When our weeping's over, he will bid us welcome.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, you can lift up your hand nice and high.
And one of our ushers would love to get you a bulletin.
Also on the inside, we have our service soul winning times,
our church stats.
Make sure if you are going soul winning
to report your numbers to your soul winning captain,
your soul winning lieutenants, and everything like that.
So that way we can make sure to keep that updated.
There is a bin over here that's a completed bin.
So if you have any maps that are completed,
you can put them back in there.
If they're not completed, you could just
give them back to Brother Dylan and he can sort them for you.
And so that's a really important that you do that for us.
Just a way we can make sure that we're capturing all that data.
Also on the right, we have the list of our expecting ladies.
We also have our prayer list.
Please continue to email us your prayer requests
and we'll put them in the bulletin.
On the back, we have upcoming events.
We have another song leading class that's
going to happen July 31.
I know this morning there was a lot of practice.
And so next week, or the next time we have it,
we're going to have some practice along with learning
a couple dynamics.
So in song leading, there's some extra musical notations
and things like that that are fun to learn.
So I encourage you to participate if you want.
Also, we have the men's conference August 18
through the 20th.
Should be a sign up sheet back there.
Who's planning on coming this year to our men's conference
just so I have some kind of an idea?
All right.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
So also the best news, congratulations
to Ever and Eve Garcia on the birth of their new baby boy.
Leo Judah.
He was born July 15, 4 48 AM, weighing 5 pounds 13 ounces
and 21 inches long.
So congratulations to them.
That is super exciting.
Also, we are going to be doing a little bit of extra video
filming today in kind of preparation for our King James
Bible documentary that we're working on.
And I'm really excited about this film.
I think it's going to be an enjoyable film to watch,
but also just a good piece of information
that we can hand out to people and try
to encourage people on why they should use a King James Bible.
And so we've done a lot of filming for this already.
We kind of just started getting into the editing phase.
So I don't have any promises as far as when
this film is going to be done.
So if you come ask me, I'm going to say, I don't know.
But we are working on it diligently.
And a lot of things are taking place.
So I'm really excited about it, though.
I think that it's going to turn out to be a really good project.
And we already have a lot of great interviews.
We have a lot of good information
we've already captured.
And so I believe that it's going to end up
being a great addition to some of our other works
that we've done before.
So definitely, if you notice Dylan walking around filming
or whatever, just don't tap the camera or anything.
Or be like, I, you know.
Just kind of act like you're normally in church, all right?
So that's just a tip so that it'll help the film look good.
And he can use that footage.
Because he could be looking, and it's really good footage.
And then you're all like, ooh.
And it's like, well, we can't quite use that anymore.
So just FYI, he might be walking around,
taking some video as well.
So that's the reason why.
That's pretty much all I have on announcements this morning.
We're going to go ahead and go to our third song.
401 set my soul afire, 401.
401 set my soul afire, 401 set my soul afire.
401 set my soul afire.
Set my soul afire, Lord, for thy holy word.
Burn it deep within me.
Let your voice be heard.
Illions grope in darkness in this day and hour.
I will be your witness.
Fill me with thy power.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
Make my life a witness of thy saving power.
Illions grope in darkness, waiting for thy word.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
Set my soul afire, Lord, for the lost in sin.
Give to me a passion as I seek to win.
Help me not to falter.
Never let me fail.
Fill me with thy spirit.
Let thy will prevail.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
Make my life a witness of thy saving power.
Illions grope in darkness, waiting for thy word.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
Set my soul afire, Lord, in my daily life.
Far too long I've wandered in this day of strife.
Nothing else will matter.
I will be your witness as you live in me.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
Make my life a witness of thy saving power.
Illions grope in darkness, waiting for thy word.
Set my soul afire, Lord.
Set my soul afire.
While the offering plates are passed around,
please turn in your Bibles to Exodus 24.
Exodus chapter 24, and we'll read the whole chapter,
as is our custom, Exodus chapter 24.
You can follow along silently, starting at verse number one.
Exodus chapter 24, the Bible reads,
and he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord thou,
and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
and worship ye afar off.
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord, and he shall come near
the Lord, and he shall come near the Lord, and he shall come near
And Moses alone shall come near the Lord, but they shall not come nigh,
neither shall the people go up with him.
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord,
and all the judgments, and all the people answered with one voice,
and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord,
and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar unto the hill,
and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel,
which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings
of oxen unto the Lord.
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins,
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people,
and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said,
Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you,
concerning all these words.
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel.
And they saw the God of Israel, and there was under his feet,
as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone,
and as it were, the body of heaven in his clearness.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel, he laid not his hand.
Also they saw God, and did eat, and drink.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there,
and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments,
which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
And Moses rose up, and is minister Joshua.
And Moses went up into the mount of God.
And he said unto the elders, Tear ye here for us,
until we come again unto you.
And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you.
If any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai,
and the cloud covered it six days.
And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire
on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the mount.
And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Let's pray, Father God, we thank you so much for the morning service
here at our church, and I just pray now that you would fill the man of God
with your Holy Spirit and just help him to articulate the message
that you played on his heart and help us to listen, learn and apply.
And we love you. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.
Amen. So we're here in Exodus, chapter number twenty four.
And if you look at verse number twelve again, the Bible says,
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount
and be there, and I will give thee tables of stone and a law
and commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them.
And we have here in the book of Exodus
kind of the first mention of the word of God
being written and delivered to man.
So Moses is really kind of our first introduction to this concept
or the idea of the word of God not just simply being spoken
or communicated to mankind, but rather being written down
and being handed a copy.
And interestingly enough, the first copy of the word of God
is written by God himself, where the Bible literally says here in verse
number twelve, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
So notice that God is not only giving the word of God.
He's not only the one who spoke the word of God, but he's going to have written
the word of God on tables of stone and handing it to Moses.
Now, tables here is simply, you know, like we would think of a tablet.
It's just kind of a instead of having paper.
They just have a flat stone surface
and which literally has inscribed or engraved into it the words of God.
And so God did this himself.
Now, if you flip forward to Exodus Chapter 31, Exodus 31,
and this is where we get the famous Ten Commandments,
where Moses was delivered the Ten Commandments
and we have God handing that down to man.
Well, it says in Exodus 31 in verse 18, it says,
and he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him
upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone
written with the finger of God.
So not only did God write this, he wrote it with his own finger.
He wrote it into the tables of stone.
He's given it to Moses and he gave Moses a lot of commandments.
He gave him the Ten Commandments is really famous in Exodus 20.
He also gave him other commandments and other instructions.
And he's having Moses come down from the mount
to deliver it to the children of Israel.
And in chapter number 32, we see Moses making the journey back down
to the children of Israel with the word of God, with a fresh copy.
I mean, this is hot off the press.
This has just been pinned with God's own finger.
He's going to give the word of God, the scripture to the children of Israel.
Look at verse 15.
And Moses turned and went down from the mount
and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand.
The tables are written on both their sides, on the one side
and on the other, were they written and the tables
were the work of God.
And the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.
So if you think about it, it's kind of picturing
even what we think of as a page today, where it has writing
on one side and then has writing on the backside.
So essentially, he has a stone tablet that's flat on both sides,
you know, approximately.
And God has written on it on one side, written on the other side.
And then he actually even has two, because it says he has two different tables.
So you kind of have like a four page book here, as it were, a front, back,
a front and a back.
And he has a little, you know, kind of mini book here
that is coming down the Book of God.
God's literally written this with his own hand.
This is the first copy.
I don't even know if Moses had technically read it yet.
Maybe he did.
OK, but the only person to even possibly have read
this is Moses.
And if you skip down to verse 19, it says that it came to pass
as soon as he came nine, talking about Moses under the camp,
that he saw the calf and the dancing and Moses anger waxed hot
and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them beneath the mount.
So Moses just comes from the mountain of God,
where God gave him a fresh book of the word of God.
Arguably, virtually no one's read this.
Maybe Moses.
It's possible no one has ever read this.
And the children of Israel were so easily rebellious
that they had immediately started worshiping a false god.
They'd had Aaron make them a golden calf.
They're dancing and committing fornication and doing all kinds of wicked things.
And Moses is just kind of like incredulous, like I left you
for just a short little space and you're already worshipping a false god.
I mean, you already are rejecting the Lord.
I was about to give you the Bible.
I was about to give you the word of God written with his own finger to look at.
And you're so wicked.
And in his haste or, you know, in his anger, he's just so mad.
He just breaks it.
He just breaks the book.
He just completely shatters it.
And it's like this is the greatest thing that man could ever have
is the word of God written by God himself to look at.
And then Moses just breaks it just like right off the bat. Right.
I mean, you would think like, wow, that would be kind of embarrassing
to go back to God and be like, so you know that like document you wrote
with your own finger that we've never had before?
Yeah, I broke that.
I mean, can you imagine your kids, you know, breaking something?
They'd be pretty embarrassed to tell their parents.
But in this literal specific situation,
Moses has broken a gift given to them by God with his own finger.
Now, you would say, oh, does that mean like all hope is lost,
we can never have the word of God or can never be written down again?
Well, no, that's that's the cool part about this story
is that even though it was lost, quote unquote, or destroyed, quote unquote,
here's the reality.
God can give the word of God to man again.
Go to Exodus 34, Exodus 34.
Now, what's cool about this is there's always symbolism in the Bible.
Moses often kind of pictures Jesus Christ in the Bible.
And if you think about it, because of man's sin,
Jesus had to come down and Jesus had to end up
dying for our sins and to be broken for us, in a sense.
Well, Moses coming down from the mount kind of symbolizes Jesus coming down
and the breaking of the commandments kind of illustrates
how we went from the Old Testament into the New Testament.
And then later, Moses is going to go back up the mount, just like Jesus Christ ascended.
And then Moses is going to come back down with the law again.
And that's literally what Jesus is going to do.
Jesus Christ already ascended up in heaven.
But then the second time Christ returns, we're going to enter
in the millennial reign of Christ.
And let me tell you something.
The laws of the land are going to be the laws of God.
Right. He's going to come back with that same fresh copy of Thou shalt not kill,
of thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultery.
You know, that's going to be the law of the land.
And so you kind of have that symbolism there taught as well.
But really, the focus is the fact that even if man destroys
God's word, even if he breaks God's word, it's not lost.
It can never be lost because forever in heaven, the word is settled.
OK, that word is settled forever in heaven, as the Bible describes it.
So there's no way to lose the word of God because God can constantly give you a fresh copy.
God can constantly give you the word of God over and over and over again.
It doesn't matter how many times you break it.
OK, look at Exodus 34, verse one.
And the Lord said to Moses, Hugh, these two tables of stone like unto the first,
and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou breakest.
And be ready in the morning and come up in the morning on the Mount Sinai
and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
And no man shall come up with thee.
Neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount.
Neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount.
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first.
And Moses rose up early in the morning and went up unto Mount Sinai
as the Lord had commanded him and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
But notice also this the timing.
At the moment that man does not have God's word,
God very quickly remedies the situation and gives the word of God back to Moses.
It's not like God just wants the word of God to be lost.
He wrote it for man to use.
He wrote it for man to read.
He wrote it for man to have available to him.
And at the moment that it's lost, at the moment that has been destroyed,
at the moment that there's something problematic about it.
God just gives him a fresh copy again right away.
And we see Moses going back up there, getting the two tables.
And when he comes back now, they put it in the Ark of the Covenant.
So in the Ark of the Covenant had the literal word of God
written by God inside the Ark of the Covenant.
And they carry this thing around with them as they would travel
through the wilderness.
They even brought it into the city when they finally made the capital,
as it were, the main city, Jerusalem.
They have that at the epicenter of their temple.
It's the word of God written with God's finger.
And if you think about it.
God teaches us everything.
God teaches us how to eat, how to live,
how to talk, also how to write.
He handed down written form, written language to mankind
for them to learn how to read, how to write proper penmanship,
all of the other things necessary for linguistic skills.
You know, secular atheists and people who don't really believe in the Bible.
It's a conundrum to them how language even exists or where it came from.
They think that there was just these cavemen that were just like,
ooga booga, ooga booga.
And then just all of a sudden they're just like cat, dog and car.
And then they just form language.
And then it turns into Shakespeare
and then it turns into books that we have today, like the King James Bible.
But let me tell you something that didn't come from a bunch of ooga booga and caves.
It came from God, from heaven, handing down the word of God.
There is nothing like language.
And it doesn't matter how much time you give monkeys and apes and birds
to try to form the language that we have today.
They could never form the language that we have today.
It is vastly too complex.
And the only way to learn language is for someone else to teach you that language.
You're not going to form it yourself.
You're not going to come up with it yourself.
Think about it from this perspective.
If mankind invented language.
Why is it that mankind is not inventing new languages all the time?
I mean, if it can come out of a vacuum where there was no language from cavemen,
when we have so much more, quote unquote, sophistication and knowledge,
why are we just constantly inventing new languages and new forms of communication?
In fact, we're doing the exact opposite.
Often we're devolving the languages that we have, turning into text lingo or slang.
Go to Jamaica, OK?
They don't even pronounce the whole word.
And, you know, when I went there, it was so confusing at first
because I thought they were speaking a different language
and you'd walk up to a young group of kids and they would say, well, welcome on.
I was like, what?
Look, I'm on.
I'm like, I don't know what you're saying.
What's going on, man?
And they just shortened like everything to just like the first utterance
of the word that is saying, like, what's going on, man?
It's like one.
And you're just like, what is that?
You've gone back to the caveman, OK?
But you didn't go back to anything because cavemen is not a real thing.
If you actually study history, man was actually very sophisticated,
very knowledgeable, knew the word of God, delivered to him by God.
And we're standing on the shoulders of giants when we truly understand history,
knowledge and the inventions that we have today.
Just like I myself today, I can't invent some of the greatest things
that we have, like, oh, a cell phone.
OK, yeah, but we're standing on the shoulders of giants even have a cell phone.
Notice that there's a giant supply chain issue in America right now.
And you know why?
That's because we don't have all these products
that are made by other countries or other areas.
If we have so much more knowledge than we've had in the past,
why don't we just make it all ourselves right away?
Or microchips, you know, there's these certain microchips
that go into vehicles or something, and it's only made in certain
foreign countries right now or something like that.
I'm thinking like, well, we're just so sophisticated.
Why are we just making all this equipment and technology ourselves?
Why don't we just have the teenagers?
Why isn't the youth of today, since they're so smart and they're so brilliant?
Why don't you guys just start making cars from the wilderness?
Why don't you just go out into the trees
and start making cars and telephones and satellites?
Since you guys are so much smarter than your parents,
you're so much smarter than the generations today
because you can text things, because you know what TikTok is,
because you can go viral.
I mean, this is the kind of nonsense and foolishness of our youth today.
The arrogance and pride today that thinks they're smarter than their parents
when they really don't know anything at all,
when they really have very limited knowledge today,
when the public education system has constantly have to lower the SAT scores
and the ACT scores to allow students into college.
They constantly have the lower standards in our military,
lower standards in our public education, lower standards in our colleges,
lower standards on the job,
lower the requirements to get a skilled position anymore.
I mean, it used to be you have to be a very highly educated person
to be in all kinds of positions of authority in America today.
Now you just have to be a whore like Kamala Harris.
I mean, do you really think that Kamala Harris
is one of the most intelligent people that we've ever had in America's history?
Or is it that she just slept her way to the top?
Or is it she just has the right skin color or something?
There's a diversity higher, as it were.
And we look at America. We're not getting better.
We're getting worse. Right.
And people want to put down the King James Bible and say, oh, well,
that's from the 1600s. We've evolved so much more since then.
No, you've evolved a lot more since then.
We would be so fortunate to have the vocabulary
and have the knowledge and have the insight of most of your
just common man at that time.
Especially the scholars, the scholarship of that era
is just so much vastly superior.
And my sermon this morning is on the King James Bible, the King James Bible.
Now you say, well, he brought up Moses.
Well, here's the thing. That's where it started.
But let's go ahead and get a little bit
fast forward and get to the King James Bible.
We first have the word of God delivered to Moses.
Go to Mark, chapter number 12. Go to Mark chapter number 12.
I'm going to read for you a lot of scripture quickly.
Jesus said this about Moses in Luke, chapter 16.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses in the prophets.
Let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, Father Abraham.
But what? But if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said to them, If they hear not Moses in the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded that one rose from the dead.
So there's a story of a rich man who goes to hell.
He's asking Lazarus to send someone back from the dead to get his brethren safe.
And Abraham's telling him, hey, they have Moses.
Now, this is a lot further in the future
than when Moses actually had the Bible given to him.
Then when Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible that we know as Moses,
or as we know, as the Torah, or as we know, as the law, or as we know,
as the Pentateuch, it was way after that thousand over a thousand years later.
And Jesus Christ, Abraham, all of the New Testament
writers aren't even suggesting that we don't have the word of God.
They don't they don't have this idea or concept of, well,
we kind of have a paraphrase of the Bible or we have the general ideas of the Bible.
No, they're saying authoritatively they have Moses.
Now, why is it that would God would preserve his word, would preserve Moses
for over a thousand years from Moses to the time of Christ
and then just all of a sudden just gone?
Then it's just eviscerated.
Then we no longer have the Bible.
Then the word of God, somehow not important that man has it.
You know, this would be a foolish idea.
The right and proper interpretation
to the fact that if God can preserve it for that long, he can always preserve it.
And we're talking about God here.
We're talking about the God of the universe that preserves our life,
that preserves our universe, that preserves the earth spinning
and circling and rotating around the sun
and all the different things that are going on in our galaxy.
He allows rain to constantly pour onto the earth to produce crops,
to produce the food that we need, the necessary nourishment for our body.
Yet he can't give us the word of God.
I mean, really, it's almost like an atheistic time viewpoint
that's going to suggest that God cannot preserve his word
all the way to our modern day.
Now, look at Mark, chapter 12, look at verse 24.
Jesus answering said unto them, Do you not therefore err
because you know not the scriptures, neither the power of God,
for when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry
nor are given in marriage, but as the angels which are in heaven
and as touching the dead, they that rise.
Have you not read in the book of Moses how in the bush God spake on them, saying,
I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
He is not of the God of the dead, but of the God of the living.
He therefore do greatly err.
Notice when Jesus Christ rebuked somebody, what is his authority?
What is he pointing to?
What is the source of his rebuke?
It is the scripture.
It is the word of God.
It is the book of Moses.
Jesus Christ is not putting any kind of doubt, any kind of shade,
any kind of suggestion that they don't have Moses.
They don't know what Moses is.
And we're not saying just Jesus himself here,
because it's not like saying, oh, well, I know what Moses has to say.
And I've read the scripture.
He's rebuking them for not knowing with certainty what Moses said,
meaning it must be readily available to them, meaning they must have
every opportunity to have read the book of Moses.
What what sense would it make if they didn't have the book of Moses?
For then Jesus say, have you not read this book you don't have?
How dare you not have have read a book that doesn't exist?
How dare you not have read?
I mean, did you not bury it somewhere and then dig it up
and then, you know, try to reconstruct it?
And aren't you pretty confident in reconstruction?
I mean, he's not bringing any of this nonsense up.
He's just saying, have you not read?
And specifically, Moses,
go to Jeremiah 36, go to Jeremiah 36 in John.
Jesus says, Do you not think that I will accuse you to the father?
There is one that accused of you, even Moses, in whom you trust
for had you believed Moses, he would have believed me.
For he wrote of me, but he believed not his writings.
How so you believe my words?
Now, when we talk about Moses.
We're not just talking about the tables of stone,
because the Old Testament, those first five books are a lot more.
So we understand that Moses was given a lot of word of inspiration by God.
He was given a lot of the words of God.
He was given the first, you know, five books, as it were.
And he wrote it down.
And it's all about him.
Jesus, with authority, is saying it's the book of Moses.
He's calling it the book of Moses.
And so obviously, holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
So not only did God give us the word of God, but then God used man
like Moses to write the Bible, to give us the word of God
and to pass it down to the next generation
so that they, too, could have the word of God.
The word of God is not a selfish object.
The word of God is not to be a private person's collection.
And it's also not of any kind of private interpretation,
meaning that God is not just giving personal notes to people.
When God gives the word of God to an individual,
it's not for that individual, it's for everyone.
Just like New Testament books called Timothy or Titus,
that's not just for Timothy, my friend, that's for us.
Because it's Paul writing to Timothy, but bigger than that, it's God writing to us.
And when God delivers the word to Jeremiah,
you know, it's not a personal book just for Jeremiah.
It's not just his personal diary here.
No, the book of Jeremiah is instructions to give to the kings of Jerusalem,
to the kings of Judah, to warn them and to rebuke them for their sin
and deliver the word of God to the entire area,
to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give the word of God to Nebuchadnezzar.
To give the word of God to every single country and every single nation,
as Jeremiah was commissioned to go out into all the nations,
even to the ends of the world, delivering the word of God,
because the word of God is supposed to be given to man.
God wants us to have the word of God.
He makes it readily available and he gives it to the whole world.
He doesn't just want it for one person.
Now, in Jeremiah, we see another interesting phenomena
surrounding the idea of the preservation of God's work,
because you would say, well, what happens if someone tried to destroy it?
Well, God will always make sure that it's immediately recovered.
Look at Jeremiah 36, verse one.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joachim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
take the role of a book and write there and all the words that I have spoken
unto thee against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations
from the day I spake unto thee from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purposed
to do unto them, that they may return every man from his evil way,
that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Jeremiah and Baruch wrote from the mouth
of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord,
which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of the book.
Now, of course, we have the word of God being delivered in diverse ways.
This is what Hebrews chapter number one clearly articulates for us,
that God spake to us in diverse ways in a sundry manner.
Moses had it written by God's finger.
Here, this is a more common approach.
We have a man of God under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
dictating the word of God, and another man is then just simply writing
and copying exactly whatever the other person is saying.
So a holy man of God is speaking.
Another person's transcribing that work down
as he hears it from Jeremiah's mouth.
Sometimes we have epistles where it's Paul writing the epistle himself.
But not only is he getting the inspiration from God
and hearing it from God, he's then writing it down from God.
So there's a lot of ways that we have the word of God
being delivered to us.
But when it comes to the Bible, we understand that God is the author.
Man is the instrument that was used to give it to us.
But then man's also the instrument to preserve it, because Baruch,
there's technically nothing special about Baruch in the sense
that he's just simply writing whatever Jeremiah is saying.
Baruch could be a computer.
Baruch could be a voice recorder.
Baruch could be any kind of instrument or any kind of tool.
Just copying down what Jeremiah said.
That's not the significant part.
The significant part is that the Holy Spirit of God came upon Jeremiah
and Jeremiah is delivering the word of God.
And that was the significant part. OK.
Now, then, once the word's been delivered, you would say,
well, what's going to happen to it?
Well, unfortunately, the king didn't like the word of God.
Why? Because it rebuked him.
And this is pretty common in today's America, where rulers and leaders
and in fact, lots of citizens, they don't like the word of God being preached.
You tell them how wicked they are.
You tell them the destruction that's going to come upon them
and they get mad about it.
They don't like it.
They want to rend you.
They want to attack you.
And in fact, Jeremiah is so hated at this point in history,
he can't even deliver the message himself.
He can't walk in and just say like, hey, here's my sermon.
Here's what I wrote,
because they would torture him.
He has to hide for even preaching the word of God.
And and think about Jeremiah.
Jeremiah is not even getting in trouble for anything he said.
He was simply just repeating what God said.
So, you know, sometimes people get mad at us.
But think about this.
They were getting mad for them just reading it.
Imagine we just showed up and we just read the Bible out loud
and then everyone just freaking out, getting mad, which happens.
They take quotes out of you just reading the Bible,
restating the Bible, saying what the Bible says,
and everybody just gets mad and angry about it.
So what do they try to do?
They try to censor it.
This is where you get a YouTube strike, OK?
In the Bible, look at Jeremiah, 36, verse 27.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
I'm sorry, I'm fast forwarding too much in this portion.
They end up burning it.
I guess I for some reason just put my notes.
Let me flip there real quick.
Look at verse 22.
Now, the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month
and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him,
and it came to pass that when Jehudah had read three or four leaves,
he cut it with the pen knife and cast it into the fire
that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the earth.
So this is where like YouTube says, like, delete permanently.
They were just like, delete permanently.
You know, oh, that's going to solve the problem.
We've taken it down. Right.
But then here's the problem. Look at verse 27.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the roll.
And the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
take the again another role and write it in all the former words
that were in the first roll.
Oops. But it was just Joachim, the king of Judah, at birth.
And then he goes on verse number 29.
And now, so saying, a Joachim king of Judah,
thus say the Lord douse burn this role, saying, why is thou written therein,
saying the king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land
and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast.
Therefore, thus say the Lord of Joachim, king of Judah.
He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David.
And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat
and in the night to the frost.
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity.
And I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I pronounce against them.
They harken not.
Then to Jeremiah, another role and gave it to Baruch, the scribe,
the son of Jeremiah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah.
All the words of the book was Joachim, king of Judah had burned in the fire
and they were added besides unto them many like words.
So not only did he get the Bible given back to him, he got the next chapter.
He was like, hey, I only gave you a portion of the of the Bible.
Here's the next chapter where it said you burned it.
You're like, oh, man, what?
It's like you try to burn the word of God and then he just gives you more.
It's kind of like it's like you try to chop off the head of that snake
and then like to pop out and you're just thinking like, what in the world?
I mean, you try to burn the word of God and God has produced two Bibles.
They'll produce another role.
They'll give you more of the word of God.
I don't see anywhere in the Bible where man has any capability
of destroying God's word.
Every time he attempts to destroy it, every time it somehow gets destroyed
or or perishes or something bad happens to it.
God's just immediately like, oh, yeah, here it is again.
Here's another copy here. Have it again.
And I feel like God has an endless supply of the word of God up in heaven.
That he can just deliver as many times as you need it.
And he didn't he didn't skip a generation.
I mean, it didn't skip a heartbeat virtually in this passage.
It's just like, bam, bam.
So then why would I think that the word of God has skipped a beat
throughout human history?
Go to Luke chapter number 20. Go to Luke chapter 20.
You know, Jesus himself said in Mark 12,
have you not read in the book of Moses?
Jesus said in John chapter number 10, if he called them gods
and whom the word of God came in, the scripture cannot be broken.
Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse 15, when he therefore shall see the abomination
of desolation spoken of by Daniel, the prophet stand in the holy place,
who so read it, let him understand.
So Jesus is bringing up passages in Daniel and saying,
hey, whoever's reading this book of Daniel, let them understand.
And in fact, when you go to the book of Daniel and you look at the last chapter,
the angels say, hey, seal this up under the last time.
And it was the interpretation.
But you know what he didn't say?
Hey, no one's going to have the book of Daniel ever again.
In fact, that book is meant to basically be encapsulated
with a with a darkness over it, with a parable over it until the last times,
until the end days, and then people will truly understand the scripture.
But you know what?
It makes no sense to have a book that's only going to be understood
in the latter days and then not have it.
Because the whole point was to have it at the end
so that people would actually understand what was spoken,
whereas back in the past, they didn't understand all the things
that we have today, they didn't understand America,
they didn't understand technology, they didn't understand how microchips
could literally planted in someone's hand or in their head.
And now we have a one world currency.
They didn't understand how the United Nations can essentially rule
over the entire world if they decide to whenever they decide
to give them that kind of power.
They didn't understand how there'd be cameras that could take a person's
moving image and portray it on a screen and then people could watch that.
They didn't understand how people were going to get into a metal
looking ship with wings on it and fly across the country in a matter of hours.
They didn't understand how people were going to get into a car.
Everyone was going to have a car and be able to just drive
extremely long distances in one day.
I mean, it used to be if you wanted to go through the city of Nineveh,
it was a three days journey.
Now it's 15 minutes in a car.
Now it's just basically nothing.
They didn't understand those things.
Now that we have so much more knowledge and information
and we can see what the end times could actually look like books like Daniel.
And then, of course, later, the Book of Revelation can actually start
making a lot of sense.
We can actually fully understand these scriptures.
Look at it says in Luke 20, verse 42.
And David himself say it in the Book of Psalms.
The Lord said, Oh, my Lord, sit down on my right hand.
How does Jesus have the Book of Psalms?
Must have been preserved.
Sounds like we had.
It sounds like we've been reading the same book as Jesus has been reading
since he's bringing up Moses, since he's bringing up David,
since he's bringing up Daniel, since he's bringing up all these different guys.
And, you know, you see all these quotes throughout the entire Bible.
You know, I never see all these quotes from Jesus that just are out of nowhere
or characters that I've never been introduced to.
Daniel is like, Who's Daniel?
Who's Jeremiah?
Who is Moses? Who's Adam and Eve?
You know, it's not like he's just bringing up all these stories.
No, he's bringing up all the familiar scriptures that we have today.
Why? Because they have the same Bible back then to.
Go to Matthew Chapter four, Matthew Chapter number four.
Matthew five says, For verily I see in you to heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall know why it's passed from the law
till all be fulfilled.
Jesus went so far as to say that not even a jot
or tittle would pass until the entire earth had passed away.
And of course, we don't speak Hebrew today,
but we have to understand about a jot or a tittle is that would be equivalent
to dotting your I and crossing your T in English.
So he's saying that that type of precision
is the word of God going to survive until the entire earth is destroyed.
Well, that makes sense because we have copies of the word of God
all over this earth.
I mean, if you were going to say,
let's get rid of every King James Bible on the planet,
your only hope would be to literally nuke the entire earth
because there is billions of copies of a King James Bible all over this earth.
And that's just one of an English Bible.
That's not even including all the Spanish Bibles.
That's not even including the Greek manuscripts.
That's not including the Hebrew manuscripts.
That's not even including all the other foreign language Bibles
that exist on this planet today, which exists in hundreds of languages today.
I mean, to get rid of the Bible would be the most daunting task on the planet.
It would probably be easier to exterminate mankind
than it would be to find every Bible and get rid of them.
It's that pronounced at this point in time.
And even at the time of Jesus, it was everywhere.
Look at Matthew four, verse four.
But he answered and said,
It is written that man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.
What's more important than food?
Bible. What's more important than physical food?
Spiritual food.
And God said it's more important than we have every single word.
He didn't say, you know, well, just the gist.
No, he's saying the words that proceeded out of God's mouth.
He wants us to have those.
Now, go to Acts chapter 15. Go to Acts chapter 15.
So we kind of take our journey.
We think about this.
The word of God's been delivered to Moses, preserved under Jesus.
The word of God was spoken
by many men of God throughout the Bible, and they wrote it down
like Jeremiah, like David,
preserved all the way to the time of Jesus Christ.
Books like Daniel preserved all the way into Jesus Christ.
Then at the time of Christ, we have a New Testament
that's delivered another portion of scripture that's delivered.
And because the gospel changed a lot of things,
no longer is this going to be delivered in Hebrew.
Because the word of God is not just dedicated to the Jews anymore.
It's dedicated to those that are going to receive the word of God,
which is the Gentiles.
What is the Gentile language at this time?
What is the linga franca?
It is Greek.
And so, of course, the word of God is now going to end up being delivered
to mankind in Greek for what the purpose of the whole world having the word of God.
But even the books of Moses, it's not like they disappeared or anything,
because look at Acts chapter 15 and look at verse number 19.
Wherefore, my sentence is that we trouble not them,
which from among the Gentiles are turned to God,
but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols
and from fornication, from the strangled and from blood.
For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that preach him being read in the synagogues every Saturday.
Now think about this.
According to the New Testament apostles,
the book of Moses has been read in every city
from the old time.
So they're not even saying that the Hebrew Old Testament
was just only the Jews kind of book.
He's saying, look, every city, it doesn't matter where you go.
Someone is preaching the Bible there.
Think about that statement.
And of course, we don't really know what history was like.
We can only look through a glass darkly.
We can only look through fragments or
diaries or old witnesses, and it doesn't really give you a good picture
of what was really happening in history.
But if we look through the lens of the Bible,
it sounds like things were the exact same back then as they are now,
where there's people in every single city reading the word of God.
Preaching the word of God.
Look at Acts 28 flipped forward.
So why would I think then that magically after the word of God
has been spread to the entire world, it's just going to be lost again.
It's going to disappear again.
No one's going to have it.
And of course, that's why it makes sense, though,
that we would have some Old Testament
scriptures translated in other languages.
So there's like a work that's out there.
It's called the Septuagint.
Who's heard of the Septuagint?
So this is supposedly done by 70
dollars in the area of Egypt in that region.
And it kind of derives its name from the 70 scholars.
That's why it's called the Septuagint.
And really, it's the Hebrew translated into Greek.
But that Septuagint is different
than what's kind of survived, as known as the Masoretic text,
as the Hebrew of today.
And a lot of people put more credence on the Septuagint
claiming that it's older or it's been preserved better
or it's more reliable for other reasons.
But if the Hebrew has existed in every single area.
And then it survived to today,
where we still even have the Hebrew Masoretic text,
why would I then want to rely on a translation
from a specific area way back then?
They could have done a bad job.
They may have not really translated correctly,
or they may have even changed some of it to fit their doctrine
or to fit their role.
How do I know if that work is legitimate
or if it's a good translation?
I mean, there's really no way to test that.
But if you have the Hebrew,
you could test that with Hebrew from everywhere.
You could look at Hebrew that's in every city, in every area
and kind of check and see, oh, wow, the Hebrew
actually lines up with one another.
Whereas when you have one work of Greek isolated by itself
in an area that's never been known as a spiritual giant, Egypt.
And then suggest like, oh, well, that's,
you know, where we get good things.
I mean, what good thing do we get from Egypt?
And in fact, I believe that place is just cursed
because you look at those areas of antiquity
where they just rejected God over and over.
God ended up just melting them and destroying them
and just making it a barren wasteland like Sodom and Gomorrah, like Egypt.
And we see just all these areas as being desert wastelands
and just basically uninhabited,
not culturally significant beyond their initial reign.
I mean, they were a powerhouse at one point when Joseph was there.
They're a powerhouse at one point when the Hebrews were there.
But then afterwards and their continued rebellion against God
they became a debased nation.
And the Bible even describes that as Egypt becoming a debased nation.
Then why would I want to go dig up the word of God from that place?
Doesn't really make any sense.
Look what it says in Acts 28, verse 23.
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging
to be expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus,
both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets from morning to evening.
So when the apostle Paul's in Rome.
In the book of Acts, it's the conclusion of Acts.
He's been taken to Rome.
Notice what he's doing in Rome.
He's teaching everyone there about Jesus Christ from the Old Testament specifically.
And why would I then want to suggest that the most reliable
manuscripts are a Greek Septuagint in Egypt
when the apostle Paul in Rome is teaching them here?
I mean, is he using a Greek Septuagint here or is he really using the Hebrew?
I believe he's clearly using the Hebrew.
And because you have to think about the connection of Acts chapter number 15.
Didn't they say they had Moses from old time, every city?
So here's the thing.
He didn't suggest that they're reading anything new.
They're reading what they had read from the old time.
Well, the old time was for certain not in Greek.
It was Hebrew at that point in time.
So then fast forward, it's still in Hebrew
that they're reading in the synagogues and they're teaching people.
That's why Hebrew was not really a dead language at this point,
because there's Jews living in virtually every part of the world,
all still speaking Hebrew, also teaching the Hebrew scriptures,
even though Greek has become the more common language.
So if you would, in your Bible to Isaiah 59,
and I'm going to take a minute to get there.
But Paul even said later in second Corinthians three,
but even under this day when Moses is red, the veil is upon their heart.
Now, why is it that the Jews struggled with the word of God?
It wasn't because they didn't have it.
It's because they didn't believe it.
And you'll find consistently through the Bible
that the problem is never with not having the word of God.
The problem was with not believing the word of God.
It's always a faith issue.
And I will suggest to you today, the problems in Christianity
today are not because we don't have the Bible.
It's because people don't believe the Bible.
They have it. It's just they don't want to believe it.
And of course, just like back then, where people were probably
corrupting the Bible, changing it, making bad translations.
Today, we have all kinds of bad translations and examples of corruptions
because people just don't want to actually believe the text.
They don't want to believe what God said, just like the King
Jehoiakim wants to throw the Bible into the fire.
He's not willing to receive the word of God.
There's a lot of people that are not willing to receive the King James Bible.
And so they're just wanting to throw it in the fire and produce a different work.
Change it to something else.
But some people say, OK, well, where was the Bible from the King James
to the apostle Paul? Right.
We've kind of journeyed from Moses to Jeremiah,
to Daniel, to Jesus Christ, to the apostles, to the apostle Paul.
I mean, it's been preserved.
We really think at this point, God's just going to say, all right, too bad.
You had the Bible and it was a good run, but we're done now.
No, of course not.
In 382 A.D., the Bible is then translated into Latin,
because that became the new lingua franca by a guy named Jerome.
Jerome was strident.
He was a Christian priest, confessor and theologian.
And for a very long period of her history, the Bible was in Latin.
Now, there's nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing theoretically bad with the Bible
being translated in Latin or becoming the lingua franca.
You know, that's fine.
And in fact, by 500 A.D.,
the Bible had been translated into over 500 other languages.
So at about 500 A.D., I mean, you have the Bible spread into all the world
and all kinds of different languages, Latin being maybe the main one
that's going to be used.
You still have the underlying manuscripts of the Hebrew and the Greek.
But you have a Latin Bible where you could read the whole Bible in Latin.
But then there is a problem.
It's called the Catholic Church.
And the Catholic Church realized that if they want to have power,
they can't let people just freely read the Bible.
So they made it illegal to basically own the Bible
or have the Bible in any language other than Latin.
And they dominated the word of God.
And when the when someone dominates the word of God or controls
the flow of information, it's really dark for humanity.
That's why it's called the Dark Ages.
So for about a thousand years, there's all kinds of horrible things happening,
all kinds of stupidity even, because people just don't have basic
understanding that comes from the Bible.
Things like cleaning yourself and washing yourself.
You know, there's all kinds of plagues
and all kinds of evil that happened through this period of history.
And there was remnants that,
you know, tried to get the word of God out there and leak it.
But it was illegal, it was difficult, is definitely heavily censored.
And until about 1384.
You know, it's very dark, but at that point in time,
there's a guy named Wycliffe, John Wycliffe,
who ended up translating a Bible into English.
Now, why that's significant is because the English language.
Is a more modern language in the sense that it hasn't always existed, right?
Languages evolve, and that's OK, that's understandable.
Sometimes they transform.
We even see that in the Bible where you'll even be reading the Old Testament.
It's like the guy's name changed,
like it's spelling and kind of how it's pronounced.
And you're kind of thinking like, what happened?
And that's just to show that there's sometimes an evolution of our language
or language kind of just changes a little bit.
And so English is kind of a combination of French, German,
and it kind of borrows a lot of different elements from other languages.
So it's not like it just came out of a vacuum.
It's just that you have certain areas where people are speaking,
let's say, French and another person speaking German,
and then they end up conquering one another.
And then you have all these people kind of dwelling together
and then they start saying, we're going on.
And then it just starts, you know, they start kind of borrowing
the common words from different languages,
and then it kind of turns into another language.
And that's where you get old English.
But old English is unintelligible to you and me today.
If someone were to get up and start spouting in old English,
it would just sound like jibber jabber.
It wouldn't really make much sense.
We couldn't really understand it.
And then over time, it starts to start develop.
More and more people are using it.
It finally evolves into Middle English,
which is a little bit more intelligible.
You could pick out certain words, phrases.
You can kind of you kind of understand a little bit of it.
But again, it still would be so difficult
for you to understand any kind of Middle English.
Then around the 15, 1600s, it starts turning into what we considered
modern English or contemporary English,
which is the English that we kind of speak today.
Now, it's still evolved a little bit past that,
where we have a little bit more modern vernacular than the 15 and 1600s.
But virtually, it's very similar to the point
where you can read a document from the 15, 1600s, no problem.
It sounds like the English of today.
OK, that's why people can read a King James Bible
and make full sense of it, because it's not that much different
than what we do today or how we speak today.
Some people will suggest, what about the speaketh and the vows and the these?
You know, some of that's really just like legalese in a sense,
like if you write a legal document,
it's kind of hard to understand sometimes because it's being so formal.
But yeah, the King James Bible is real formal in the way that it
dictates things, and it uses a real precise manner
and using these and vows instead of just saying, hey, guys or something,
you know, are you guys or something?
You know, obviously it's not a slang.
It's not text lingo here.
They're using formal language to denote the exactness of what God said.
But I can pick up a King James Bible today and read it, no problem.
And of course, there's certain words in there that we're not familiar with.
But that's any book.
That's any document.
You read anything today
and you're going to be encountering words that you're not used to.
That's why leaders are readers,
because if you if you choose to read something, I don't care if it's
Dr. Seuss, you'll probably learn new words.
You'll learn new words reading children's books.
You'll learn new words, reading all kinds of literature today,
because you're just going to be exposed to more words
and it's going to increase your vocabulary.
So, of course, reading the Bible is going to increase your vocabulary
just as well as any document would.
But that first translation from Latin into English was by John
Wycliffe in thirteen eighty four and fourteen fifty five.
You have a significant point in history where Johannes Gutenberg is
not necessarily the first to invent a printing press,
but kind of one of the first innovators to really make the printing press
have a really important work, which was the Bible.
Now, he kind of was one of the first people to really put into use
or practice movable type, especially in that part of the world.
And what movable type would do
is it allowed them to mass produce literary works,
because you have to understand in prior times, if you wanted a book,
it was hand copied.
That was your only option.
And anybody that's actually written anything very long
realizes this is difficult work.
Your hand gets tired very quickly.
It's easy to make mistakes.
And of course, when it comes to the word of God,
we don't want to make any kind of mistakes.
So it was a very laborious act.
That's why you have people written in the Bible called Scribes,
because their whole job all day is just sitting here
making new copies of the Bible.
And the reason why they have to make new copies
is because the old copies wax old, deteriorate and are wasted away.
We have to constantly make fresh copies
so that we have Bibles.
I mean, my Bibles are constantly wearing away.
The other day, I was just like preaching in Galatians
through Ephesians, just like fell out of my Bible.
And I'm like, hey, honey, can you tape that back in there?
Why? Because if you use it, it's going to deteriorate a little bit.
And so we need people to copy.
Well, they ended up discovering that they could like make
what's called a woodcut.
Or they could make lettering and dip it in ink
and then just put it on a piece of paper or put it on a canvas
or something or vellum or whatever they want to call it.
And then they would have some kind of text.
But here's the problem.
You'd have to make a woodcut for every single page of the Bible.
So with Johannes Gutenberg or Johannes Gutenberg,
he realized that you could take just a piece of,
you know, wood or whatever and do a single letter.
And then you could have another letter and think of another.
So it's movable type in the sense that I could put the letters
on the thing however I want, dip it in the ink at the page,
then change all the letters again, dip in the ink and have a new page.
And so I don't have to constantly make new woodcuts.
I can just basically make one for every single character in the language.
And then I can start printing Bibles.
And so that's what really revolutionized it, where they would set a page
and they would get like one hundred and fifty of them out.
And that'd be stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp.
Then they would change to the second page stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp, stamp.
And then they get a collection, then they can actually have the Bible.
And that's where you get this marvelous work, the printing press,
where they can have lots of Bibles printed in a shorter amount of time
than people hand scribing them.
His first work was a Bible and he printed one hundred and eighty copies.
Now, why is it, do you think that of all the literature
that someone could possibly print, he's printing a Bible?
Because it's the most important document you could ever have.
Then in 1516, Desiridius Erasmus Roterdamus, OK, or just Erasmus,
he printed a or created a New Testament
that was a Greek and Latin parallel.
So the Catholic Church owning the Bible for over a thousand years was not a good idea.
So over that thousand years, it got to a point
where the Latin is not agreeing with the underlying Greek
and it's not agreeing with remember what I told you,
that the Bible had been translated in 500 other languages at some point.
It's not agreeing with all the other foreign languages either.
And so he's saying there's a problem here.
I think the Catholic Church is corrupting the Bible and they're wicked
and they changed it so that they would pay for indulgences.
I don't know if you realize this.
You know, you think that our country is wicked.
But let me tell you something.
If you wanted to murder somebody,
you could just pay the Catholic Church and then you could murder someone.
And then your sins were forgiven.
You wanted to commit adultery, just pay money.
It didn't matter what sin you want to be with a prostitute, just pay money.
You want to do anything.
Basically, it's called an indulgence.
You just walk up the Catholic Church and you could pay before, during or after.
It didn't really matter.
You just walk up and just say, here's 20 bucks.
I'm going to do X, Y and Z.
And they're like, you're good.
Talk about wicked.
Talk about a scary time in history
when the when the rich are oppressing the poor,
because if you have enough money, you can do whatever you want.
And there's no new thing under the sun in today's culture.
The rich basically just pay everybody off to do whatever they want.
OK, so don't think like, oh, I want to go back to those days.
No, it's not any different.
OK, it's not any better.
They didn't have toilets. All right.
The way we do.
I enjoy the modern conveniences of today.
But that's already is Erasmus realize this problem.
And so he printed right next to it, a Greek and a Latin
so that people could read the Greek and be like, whoa, this is different.
Anybody got any kind of knowledge, any kind of education.
And the and the why that was so authoritative is because everybody knew
that the Greek had multiple manuscripts spread across the world,
all saying the same thing.
So if it's disagreeing with the Greek, it's just not true.
That's why he compared those two, just like if I said, hey,
I have a comic book from 1967, original copy of Superman or whatever.
Forgive me on the day.
I'm just making updates.
It's probably the wrong date.
OK, but just just bear with me that that was the first edition. Right.
And I say this is the first edition.
And then there's all these pictures on the Internet of actual first editions
that other people have.
And it's completely different than the one I have.
You'd be like, well, you're a fraud.
You're a liar. That's not what I'm talking about.
You're a liar. That's not real.
That's what he basically did by putting the corrupt Catholic
Latin next to the Greek, pointing out there's a problem here.
These people are liars.
These people have corrupted the text.
Then in 1522, Martin Luther wrote a German
New Testament based on, you know, the Greek and 1524,
a guy named Daniel Bomberg wrote or at least compiled
the Masoretic text was the underlying Hebrew.
In 1526, we have a guy named William Tyndale,
who ended up translating a New Testament into English from the Greek.
So he went instead of going from the Latin like Wycliffe,
he went from the Greek, a more reliable source
to end up giving us the William the Tyndale Bible.
Now, of course, you know who didn't like this?
The Catholic Church.
OK, and you know who doesn't like you preaching against the modern versions?
The publishers of the modern versions.
You know, is it like you preaching against the modern versions,
the Bible seminaries in this country that teach from the modern versions
and pretend like they're smarter than everybody else?
You know, who doesn't like you preaching against the modern versions?
The devil, because he's the influence that gave the modern versions.
He is the lying spirit that went in the mouths of all these Bible
corruptors that corrupted the Bible.
And so, of course, he hates that as well.
And of course, William Tyndale was hunted down
and killed before he could even finish his work.
He was mostly on the run while trying to even translate the Bible.
And he was tied to the stake and burned at the stake.
And in his dying breath, he said, Lord, open the king of England's eyes.
Because he knew there's only one group of people that could possibly
print the right Bible at that time, and it was England,
because everybody else was under such heavy Catholic influence.
You know, it's like everybody's under democratic influence
and he's like begging the one conservative Republican
in the world to like do something.
And it's not to say that the king of England is a righteous guy necessarily,
or that perhaps he's even saved. Who cares?
He's just like, this guy can get the work done.
I hope this guy will get it done.
I hope the Republicans' eyes will be open and they'll actually believe the Bible again.
1535, Miles Coverdale continued that work
and created a New Testament work off of that, a Bible, the Coverdale Bible.
1537, you have the Matthews Bible.
1539, you have the Great Bible.
1560, you have the Geneva Bible.
1568, you have the Bishop's Bible.
So you have this continual work refining process of them going to the Greek,
trying to work on this process instead of just one guy on the run by himself
being hunted down, you have other people kind of picking up the torch.
But a lot of times it was still just one guy or a handful of guys.
The Bishop's Bible was done by a small group.
But again, the Geneva and the bishops had a few issues and they were kind of
they were kind of divided based on doctrine.
The Geneva was a Puritan Bible, kind of your form Calvinist group,
and the bishops was kind of like your Anglican Church of England group
that was used by the bishops, but both of them kind of disagreed a little bit.
And so the king of England, when he came into power,
he's kind of ruling over a country that's really divided politically
in the sense that you got like the Irish and you've got the English
and you've got the Scottish and you've got all these people
that are kind of melded together.
A lot of history, a lot of wars, a lot of fighting.
You've got a lot of religious wars with Calvinists hating the church
and you've got the church hating the Calvinists
and you've got baggage from the Catholic Church.
So there's a lot of just tumult over all this issue.
King James thought it a good idea to basically let's just make a new translation.
You all you guys can work on it together so as to basically agree.
So they ended up getting 54 scholars.
They took Calvinists and Puritans.
They took the Church of England, many of their scholars,
and they said, all of you guys have to work together, come together
and agree on the text.
And they gave them 15 rules.
He gave them 15 rules of the translators.
And I have a book with me.
It's also called the Bible, not the Bible, OK?
It's just about the Bible, though.
Guy named Gordon Campbell, not King James only or anything like that,
but he's just basically a historian.
He has in here the 15 rules of the translators.
Let me give you rule number one.
The ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the bishop's Bible,
to be followed and as little altered
as the truth of the original will permit.
So they were given they had the bishop's Bible, which is a complete Bible,
a completed work, and they said you can only alter this Bible
as long as the original allows it.
And they could only translate from the original Hebrew and the original Greek.
Far as Old Testament Hebrew, New Testament Greek.
So they formed this work, and for six years they translated it.
They had all kinds of committees reviewing.
And in fact, during this process, one of the tasks that they did
is after they would translate a portion of scripture,
they would have one guy sit there and read it out loud in English.
The King James Bible, and they'd have the other guys reading
in different versions, I'm sorry, different languages.
So they would have the Spanish, they'd have the French,
they would have the German, and they were making sure that it lined up
with even all the foreign language works that were done,
lining up with the Greek, lining up with all of the scriptures
that it even sounded good to the ear.
And so they're sitting here and doing this for years and years and years.
And finally, they produced the King James Bible.
Now, when they produced the King James Bible,
they were relying on the Bomberg
Hebrew Old Testament as their as their source text.
But for the New Testament, they didn't have a singular work necessarily.
They had Stephanus and Beza, who both wrote Greek New Testaments,
and they had they had other manuscripts there.
And basically they were synthesizing the Greek.
But any time they translated any verse in English,
it had to come from a underlying Greek manuscript.
They never made anything up out of thin air.
They never decided anything on their own.
They had to go to an actual Greek text, see it,
and then write it in to the King James Bible
and only change the bishops if it agreed with that underlying Greek text.
So then later in 1633, there came out a work, a new test.
I'm sorry, a Greek text called the Texas Receptus.
Now, who's heard of the Texas Receptus, right?
That just simply means a received text.
While it's technically printed after the King James Bible,
it's just basically the work from Stephanus and Beza,
who had already previously done that work in the fifteen hundreds.
Kind of more of a synthesizing.
And in fact, a further synthesis came in eighteen.
I want to get the date right.
Like eighteen. Ninety four.
Yeah. In eighteen ninety four, Scribner synthesized the Greek New Testament
and basically said, here's all the underlying Greek
that was used for the King James Bible.
So he kind of went back after the fact and said, like,
I want to go and just hand you a Greek New Testament
that lines up with the King James.
Here's what they use.
And all he did was pick from the Stephanus visa and everything else
with the King James Bibles picked from.
OK, because obviously when they're translating in the English,
they didn't feel it necessary to also synthesize it first
and then translate it in English.
They just basically translated it into English. Right.
At the point of the King James Bible comes into fruition,
all the other English versions preceding it basically just go out of print.
People stop using them.
It's basically just done its work.
Now, when it comes to printing, printing's never been perfect.
Even today, printing's not perfect.
The King James Bible I hold in my hand right now, I've seen at least two
printing errors where they just literally printed the wrong letter
or character or whatever.
Cinno. OK, in my Bible, it says if thou will not forgive their Cinno.
Cinno is not a word in the English language.
OK, sounds kind of like a Spanish word, but it's not.
It's Picado. OK, so we know it's not.
Cinno is like what you these people
that don't really speak Spanish or English, they just make stuff up. Right.
But this book has Cinno in it.
You know, it didn't make me think like, oh, the King James Bible is a bad Bible.
It's just like that was an obvious printing error.
Just mark it out. Right.
Or just who cares? It's not a big deal.
Well, the same is even more so in the sixteen hundreds
when they're having to sit here manually moving letters and characters
on everything.
I mean, it's a lot easier to make a typo than it is today.
So, of course, you'll see that the King James Bible itself had many editions
where it had all kinds of editions after 1611.
It had editions in the 20s and the 30s and the 40s and the 50s,
where they're basically identifying, hey, the printer made a mistake here.
Hey, the printer screwed this one up. Let's fix it.
In fact, one of the King James editions.
It literally says thou shalt commit adultery.
Now, that's probably done on purpose by some wicked person,
but they had to burn all those Bibles.
And I think the guy that ended up was in charge of that died, too,
because that was a bad mistake.
But it's called the Wicked Bible.
But here's the thing.
Yeah, of course, sometimes liars, what they'll do is they'll say, oh,
you don't understand.
The King James Bible has been changed thousands of times since 1611.
All these updates in 1611.
No, no, no. They fixed printing errors.
Additionally, the spellings of the King James Bible were updated.
So by 1679, I'm sorry, by 1769, in 1769,
we finally had the Oxford Standard,
which essentially established the spellings and a lot of these printing errors.
And we have the Bible that we have today.
I mean, if you have a King James Bible in your lap today,
you basically have a 1769 copy.
That's what it's like. It's virtually the exact same. OK,
so you say, well, how do we get the Bible?
We went from Moses to Jeremiah, to Jesus,
to the apostles, to the Apostle Paul, to Jerome, to Wycliffe, to Tyndale,
all the way up to the bishop's Bible, to the King James Bible, to the Blaley
1769, to the modern Bible I have in my hand right now
as the word of God being preserved through all ages.
And at any point in history that God's deeming, hey,
man doesn't have this.
He just intervenes providentially and just gives the Bible to mankind.
You know what? In the late 1800s, a bunch of bozos,
Westcott and Hort came around with a brand new philosophy
that we somehow lost the Bible and we're going to go dig it up.
And so they got these other manuscripts from the Vatican.
One's called Vaticanus and another one's called Sinaiticus.
They found it in a trash can in Egypt.
By near Mount Sinai.
OK, Sinaiticus or whatever.
And I and I say that literally like they had just parchments,
just in a wastebasket that they would throw in the fire, just catch fire,
get, you know, the fire going.
Someone found that and then said, like, oh, here's the Bible.
No, it was trash.
Just like, you know, I burn Bibles that are trash,
and in fact, you know, the proper way to dispose of anything is to burn it.
Even the American flag, if American flags tattered, you're supposed to burn it.
Or let's say you're making American flag and you put forty nine stars on it.
What do you think they would do with that?
They would burn it because it was wrong.
OK, so the same is with history.
Whenever they would make a transcription of the Bible
and had errors or they made a mistake, they would burn it.
But here's the thing.
Because paper is expensive and starting fires is expensive,
they wouldn't necessarily just burn it right away
because they don't have unlimited fuel.
So they put it in a wastebasket as the next, you know, paper
that's going to be burned the next time they need to burn something
or the next time they need to start a fire.
So then some loser ends up digging it out of the trash
that's already been deemed trash and then suggest that's the Bible.
Suggest that's where.
When did we read in the Bible anywhere
where the men of God were like, hey, here's some trash.
Oh, here's the Bible out of the trash.
That doesn't make any sense.
And of course, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus,
they disagree with each other in all kinds of places.
The Westcott and Hort said, well, these are older, though,
than some of the Greek manuscripts we have today, so they must be more reliable
because they're closer to the timeline when they would've been translated.
So they put more stock in those and they decided to make a new Greek text
based on these two manuscripts as a as a as more heavily of a source.
Now, they couldn't just only use them because they were so fragmented
and they weren't even a completed work.
They were just partial works.
So they still had to, you know, give reverence to the old
older works done already.
The Staphonus, the visa and the other Greek.
They basically just brought in Vaticanus and Sinaiticus
and then put a lot of doubt.
But even in their work, they said, you know what?
I think that it's less likely that someone would say something dumb
when translating the Bible.
So the weirdest reading is the one we're going to always go with.
So basically, they would have they would have Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.
They would read a verse and say, which one is the weirdest one?
And they would be like, that's the one we're going with.
Even though they had no other.
Copy, they had no one else saying this one witness,
as opposed to the thousands of witnesses that all agree with the previous Bibles.
They're just handpicking one of these bizarre interpretations
and just inserting it based on one or very few sources.
This sounds like a crazy work.
And of course, if you know anything about Westcott and Hort,
they were very demonic.
They were involved in all kinds of weird, satanic things, weird groups,
questionable activities, all kinds of bizarre things going on.
But based on their work became the, you know, the new movement of critical text.
Critical textual or textual criticism, as we know it today in modern seminaries.
And really, all the modern versions today are based on some of the work
coming from Westcott and Hort.
Now, since then, they found other papyri and other fragments and scraps.
But I tell you, some of them are smaller than this bulletin
that I hold my hand of a single page with holes all tattered through it
and just like a little tiny scribble.
And it's like they're going to change the entire Bible based on that.
I mean, it's just bizarre what these people come up with, their philosophy.
And really, here's the thing.
Their philosophy is a completely different philosophy
than what we've just learned so far about the preservation of God's word.
God's word, according to the Bible, is preserved.
Now, I've taken a little bit of time, but I want to I want to finish the sermon.
OK, so I'm going to I'm going to give you a little bit more here to think about.
But I just want you to hear the difference.
Because what I have is I've taken some verses from the Tyndale,
the bishops, the King James, and then a modern version,
because I want to I want you to hear the differences
and hear how this is not the same work, it's not coming from the same source.
Now, turn your Bible to John three, 16, John three, 16.
And this is a pretty famous portion of scripture.
That obviously we all love.
Let me read for you.
Starting at verse 14, the Tyndale.
And as Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so, must the son of man be lift up that none
that believeth in him perish, but have eternal life for God.
So love at the world that he gave his only or that he gave
giveth his only son that none that believeth in him should perish
but should have everlasting life for God sent not a son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him shall not be condemned,
but he that believeth not is condemned already
because he believeth not in the name of the only son of God.
This is the condemnation that light has come into the world
and the men love darkness more than light because their deeds were evil.
For every man that evildoeth
hated the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doth truth
cometh to the light that his deeds might be known how that they are wrought in God.
Doesn't that just seem radically different than what you're holding in your lap today?
I mean, yes, sometimes the word order is a little bit different.
Sometimes the articles change the hair.
But I mean, that is like the exact same thing as we have in our Bible.
Now, let me give you the bishops.
Look at verse 14 again.
And as Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness, even so,
must the son of man be lift up that whosoever believeth in him
perish not, but have eternal life 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 for God sent not his son
into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned
already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.
And this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world
and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil
for everyone that evil doeth, hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be known,
how that they are wrought in God.
I mean, is that radically different than what you're holding in?
Now, of course, sometimes it's a little awkward, like in the sense
it's like for everyone that evil doeth.
What does your King James say for everyone that doeth evil?
Right. And that sounds a little bit better.
So, of course, the King James is coming
coming behind the bishops and doing what?
Just perfecting it, just just refining it just ever so slightly.
But look at verse thirty six, OK?
Tyndale, he that believeth in the sun hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not the sun shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him. Sound familiar?
Bishops, he that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life,
he that believeth not the sun shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Here's the ESV.
Whoever believes in the sun has eternal life,
whoever does not obey the sun shall not see life,
but the wrath of God remains on him.
How how do you go from believeth not, believeth not, believeth not,
does not obey?
It's coming from the Vaticanus, it's coming from the Sinaiticus,
it's coming from the modern textual criticism.
Go to Matthew seven, go to Matthew seven.
When you look at these works, you can tell the one that's not the same.
It's like the banana, the banana, the banana and the piece of dung.
It's the diamond, it's the diamond, it's the diamond.
You know, it's the piece of trash.
It's not. And of course, people are like, oh,
you believe the King James Bible is the perfect word of God?
Yeah, I do.
Well, what about the other versions?
They were really close.
They were the process.
They were the work going into giving us the King James Bible.
They were the manufacturing of the King James Bible,
and they look and sound almost the same.
They were the work going into giving us the King James Bible.
Almost the same, and they were great works, and they were saying the same things.
Yeah, you could get saved from the bishops, John three sixteen.
Yeah, you could get saved from the Tyndale, John three sixteen.
Yeah, you could get saved from the Tyndale and the bishops, John three thirty six.
But you know what you can't do is get saved from the ESV, three thirty six, teaching work salvation.
How about Matthew seven, verse fourteen?
Tyndale, but straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Bishops, because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
ESV, for the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those that find it are few.
Now it's saying it's hard. How about the new King James?
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few that find it.
The Bible is saying narrow, narrow, narrow. These new works are saying difficult and hard.
And if you get a John MacArthur, new King James study Bible, and you look up his commentary on Matthew seven, verse fourteen,
he teaches that salvation is difficult, that it's a process, that it's based on a life of repentance and lordship salvation.
Because the guy is an unsaved devil, using an unsaved work, teaching all manner of heresy, coming from the devil himself.
Coming from the same source, the Catholic church, which has taught work salvation and corrupted the Bible in the dark ages,
and wants to corrupt the scripture now from the Vatican itself, whereas we should be Bible-believing people that reject that.
Don't go to 1 John chapter five. Go to 1 John chapter number five.
I'm telling you, when you understand the doctrine of preservation, when you understand history, there is no option for an English-speaking person apart from the King James Bible.
It's not even a close comparison. The philosophy is way different. They're trying to dig up the Bible from a trash can.
They're trying to dig it out of the Vatican. They're trying to dig it and unearth it from some crazy place in the Middle East or something,
whereas we say, hey, God didn't want us to go thousands of years without the Bible. He kept giving us the Bible.
He allowed us to have the Bible. We're like, well, where was it before 1611? It was in the Bishops, and in the Geneva, and in the Tyndale,
and it was in the Latin before that, and it was in the Greek before that, and it was in the Hebrew, and hey, we've always had it.
Yeah, and of course, corruptions have always existed alongside the Word of God. I mean, the apostle Paul brought up there's many which corrupt the Word of God.
Of course, there's always been corruptions alongside of it, and think of it this way.
If I go to a pastor's library, even the King James only that believes the King James Bible is a perfect, inerrant Word of God,
you know what you'll often find on their shelf? An NIV. You'll find a new King James, and it's simply for a comparison perspective.
They just have that work so they can pull it off the shelf and say, hey, look at this piece of trash. Look at this garbage.
And you know what I'll tell you? Those NIVs and new King James are in pristine condition,
whereas you look at the King James sitting on their desk, and it's ratted and torn and worn out,
and you have to ask this question. Which one of these works is more likely to last the next 100 years or 1,000 years?
Of course, the NIV on the shelf that nobody cares about is never going to read,
whereas that King James Bible is eventually going to be so tattered and worn, it's just going to dissolve, and no one's going to have it.
But you know what they'll have is a new copy. So, of course, they'll say, oh, the older manuscripts are better.
No, they're worse because no one was using them. The Bibles that were preserved must have been trash because nobody wanted to read it.
If it's the real Word of God, I want a fresh copy. I don't want the copy that Moses broke on the mountain.
I want the fresh copy that Moses brought down. I don't want the copy that was burned in the fire, remember, in Jeremiah.
I want the fresh copy that Jeremiah just gave me. And you know what? I don't want the copy that came out of a trash can in Egypt.
I want the fresh copy that came off the printing press. That's what I want.
You know, think about this. Our Bible is coming from the printing press. Their Bible's coming from a trash can.
Our Bible is coming from the Greek manuscripts of antiquity. Theirs are coming from the earth.
You know, you say like, oh, how do you believe that? Well, my doctrine eventually fades into faith.
But you know what? Its history fades with it, whereas their history goes straight into a trash can.
I don't have any faith to pick up that text from the trash can and follow it backwards.
You know what? I can follow the faith of those that were saved before me holding it in their hand.
I can believe that the people that gave them that Bible were also saved, too, and handed them one.
And they handed them one, and they handed them one, and they handed them one.
That's a lot easier faith to follow than to say, I think a saved person just accidentally threw the word of God in a trash can for thousands of years and then we found it.
That doesn't exist in the Bible. That's not a story that we have.
And then you look at verses like this, 1 John 5 verse 7, Tyndale.
For there are three which bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
The bishops. For there are three which bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
The NIV. For there are three that testify.
What's happened? Go to Luke 4, 4. Go to Luke chapter 4, verse 4.
If you put any effort, if you put any energy into trying to decide what the word of God, you will find it.
You don't have to go up to heaven. You don't have to go down to hell. It's readily available.
And in fact, even in Romans chapter number 10, he says the word's 90, even in my mouth and my heart.
Meaning people, look, every unsaved person can typically quote John 3 16.
Unsaved people know the Bible. Unsaved people have heard the word of God.
I see commercials and have scripture in it all the time.
All kinds of popular culture references have the Bible mentioned in them all the time.
Do you know what? They don't quote these modern versions as often because they're such trash and everybody knows it's trash.
You know, Marilyn Manson, in his concert, burns Bibles on the stage.
Do you know what Bible he burns? The King James Bible.
He knows which one's the Bible. He knows what's the standard.
Luke 4, 4, in the Tyndale, and Jesus answered him, saying,
It is written, Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word of God.
The bishops and Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread only, but by every word of God.
The NIV.
It just doesn't have every word of God. It's just gone.
How do you have every word of God, every word of God, NIV?
You know how I know it's not every word of God? Because it doesn't contain every word of God.
They say, What do you mean?
If I take a King James Bible and I just count how many words are in this book, the NIV has 55,000 less words.
More than.
And it's the same with the Greek.
If I look at the underlying Greek of a King James Bible and I look at the underlying Greek of these modern Bibles, it's way less words, way less text.
They want to throw out 16 whole verses of the NIV.
Not only that, they basically say Mark 9 through verse 20, not really in the Bible.
They put all kinds of shade on the word of God, all kinds of doubt on the Bible, trying to throw verses out.
You know, it's no different than the devil in the Garden of Eden saying, Yea, hath God said.
Go to Proverbs 3, the last place I'll return.
You know, this philosophy of modern textual criticism not only discards the King James Bible, but every version that preceded it.
It discards the Bishop's Bible.
It discards the Geneva Bible.
It discards the Tyndale Bible.
It discards the Wycliffe Bible.
It discards the underlying Hebrew.
It discards the underlying Greek.
It discards all of the works, all of the preservation, everything, and it just substituted for a parchment found in a trash can.
That is what modern Christianity is based on as a trash can today, and that's why modern Christianity looks like a trash can today.
Sounds like a trash can, the preaching sounds like a trash can, the fruit of it is like a trash can.
Why? Because it's coming from that source.
Whereas if you look at a church that's actually bringing forth good fruit, a church that's actually soul winning, a church that's actually taking a hard stand on biblical issues today,
a church that's actually willing to put some authority back into the Bible that's willing to challenge people with scripture, it's a church that uses the King James Bible.
You know, I've never in my life found a Christian soul winning with any book other than the King James Bible.
Now, of course, you have your cults like the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses that use a false Bible, but I'm telling you, I'm saying to Christians,
I never run into Church of Christ out there. I never run into these Presbyterians with an ESV in hand.
I never run into these liberals, these non-denominational people with an NIV in hand.
I never, I mean, I just don't see it. We don't run into them. They don't cross our path.
No one's never knocked on my door with an NIV in hand trying to get me saved. Why? Because they have no ability to understand scripture because it's been taken out of their hands.
They're not challenged by the Bible. They are the ultimate authority when they don't use the King James Bible.
If you don't believe the King James Bible is the perfect and errant word of God, ultimately what you're saying, I'm in charge.
You're saying, I make the rules, I decide what's right, and every one of these people you talk to, anytime you point to something in the Bible, they say, oh, well, the Holy Spirit hasn't revealed that to me.
And they hide behind the Holy Spirit, but ultimately it's just their own wicked heart that's disagreeing with the Bible.
Well, that's not what my version says, but then you point it out into their version even sometimes, and they're like, well, let me look at another version.
I've even heard preachers, they write their sermon and then they look up which Bible version fits the points that they made in their sermon.
How are you challenging yourself on anything when you've already decided what's right and then you're going to find the Bible that fits it?
And you'll find it. I mean, if you, it doesn't matter what you want to believe that's weird, you could probably find a weird modern version of it that says it.
You could find a commentary, you could find a preacher that says it, because they just want, they have itching ears, as the Bible describes in end times.
They just want to consume things on their own lust.
But look what the Bible says in Proverbs 3, verse 5.
Trust in the Lord of all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding, and all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
Here's a challenge for you, Christian, today. How are you to put 100% of your faith in God?
It's because this is God. The King James Bible, the Word of God, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
And if you are going to challenge yourself on how to live your life, you need to open up the Scripture, you need to get a King James Bible and open it up and say, you know what, this is right.
This is wrong, this is right. And I'm going to conform this to this. Whatever this says is always right. I can be wrong, I can be misled, I can be deceived, I can be carnal, all of the problems of the flesh.
But you know what, when you're challenged with the Bible, you can end up getting right.
And if we didn't have the Bible, we'd have no opportunity to get right. If we didn't have the Bible, we'd have no way to have faith, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
That's why it's so important that you use a King James Bible. And that's why it's so important that we go out and we teach people to use a King James Bible, and I'll even say it this way.
I don't even argue doctrine with people that aren't King James only. Because every time I've ever done it, they just always are like, well, that's not what I think.
Well, who cares what you think? What does the Bible say?
The only way to change your mind is to be confronted with something that you already say, okay, this is right, no matter what, I think.
And then you read it and you're like, oh, wow, that is what that says. I guess I'm wrong.
But if you're the final source of authority, how are you ever going to challenge yourself? You never will.
That's why we collect the other Bibles and we burn them.
Because they're trash, like the Sinaiticus, instead of, you know, the Sinaiticus should have been burned, and we're just following up with that work.
We're putting it back in the trash can and burning it properly so that people won't read it.
And, you know, I'll never stop preaching against the modern versions until they've all been destroyed.
And we need to get back to the King James Bible and put our faith in the Word of God.
If we want our country to change, if we want our nation to change, if we want our children to live different lives than us, we must get them on this book.
We must have them start reading this book. We have to get all, if we want the Christians to start doing something for God, we have to get them on a King James Bible.
Otherwise, they'll never do anything for God. That's why it's so important to preach in Jesus' doctrine.
Let's close with prayer. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for the Word of God. Thank you for delivering it to us.
We know that it's so important, and I pray that you would just help us all to get a deep level of appreciation of the Word of God.
That we would challenge ourselves with the Bible. That we would put confidence in the Scripture being handed down to us and delivered to us.
That we wouldn't put doubt on it that's coming from lies of the devil, lies of Satan.
I pray that you would just help dispel the lies about these modern versions being the Bible.
That you would help just open the eyes of America, you'd open the eyes of Christians in this country, you'd open the eyes of people all over this world.
That they would actually see the Word of God. That the Word of God would start ringing true in their hearts and their minds.
And that people would start serving you again, and that we could see a revival through the power of the King James Bible. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Amen. For our final song, we'll go to 314, more love to thee.
314, more love to thee.
414, more love to thee.
414, hear thou the prayer I make
On bended knee.
This is my earnest plea.
For love, O Christ, to thee.
For love to thee.
Once earthly joy I craved
Sought peace and rest.
Now thee alone I seek.
Give what is best.
This all my prayer shall be.
For love, O Christ, to thee.
For love to thee.
Let sorrow do its work.
Send grief and pain.
Sweet are thy messengers.
Sweet they refrain
When they can sing with me.
For love, O Christ, to thee.
For love to thee.
Then shall my latest breath
Whisper thy praise.
This be the parting cry
My heart shall raise.
This still its prayer shall be
For love, O Christ, to thee.
For love to thee.
Let's go ahead and turn to 64, Shall We Gather at the River?
Song number 64, Shall We Gather at the River?
Song six, four, Shall We Gather at the River?
Song seven, four, Shall We Gather at the River?
Shall we gather at the river
Where bright angel feet have trod
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God
Yes, we'll gather at the river
The beautiful, the beautiful river
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God
On the second, on the bosom of the river
Where the Savior Kingly own
We shall meet in sorrow never
Neath the glory of the throne
Yes, we'll gather at the river
The beautiful, the beautiful river
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God
Song number 64, Shall We Gather at the River?
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Hejos alvador, ma cerca, cerca, cerca de tu cruz.
Yo salvaste el pecador, a seguir tenpos,
me consagro, hoy, impusador por tu amor.
Y me spiritu alma y cuerpo doy por servirte, mi señor.
A cerca, cerca de tu cruz, lleva mejos alvador.
A cerca, cerca, cerca de tu cruz,
lo salvaste el pecador.
De la mordivin nojama sabre, la sublime maestas.
Hasta que encontigo tranquilo este,
entu gloria celestián.
Ma cerca, cerca de tu cruz, lleva mejos alvador.
Ma cerca, cerca, cerca de tu cruz,
lo salvaste el pecador.
Amen.
Con eso, como saber los anuncios.
Todo los domingos, enemos servicios a la escuatro
y me dia en español en la iglesia vapista stepes,
gracias por todos que vinieron, y gracias que a todos que venga
para aprender español y tenemos todos es aspeticiones para todas
damas que están esperando son madres que necesita
en nuestros oraciones para y mantenerlas,
porque también barrazada y cargando un niño en su viesro,
no es facil y por eso en nuestros oraciones
porque tragambién a sus vebes.
También tenemos todos las peticiones para todos las gente
que trai necesidad familia por su trabajo,
por las salvaciones sus familias,
por cuercos a por su salud, y tras una peticion
querez quererdar alegles, eso lo puede mandar en enimos,
alegles a vatistas stepes.
Y también tenemos unos eventos como el 31 de este emes
pata a última clase para todos que quieren aprender
de como digir los cantos aquí arriba de pupito y luego
también, y esta la muy vequince a esta las y esa la mañana.
Esta domingo que pata es una clase más,
y quieren aprender puedes venir.
Y también el dieciocho a salvente de agosto
va vero retratado también para los varones,
eso retratado para los varones, y también felicidades a la
familia Garcia, Ever y Eve Garcia en la nación de su hijo
que se llama Leo Juda.
Lo me dijo el hermano, Ever es que porque lo nombros porque
es como el león de Juda.
Y por esto lo llamo Leo Juda, Rio Jura,
y el nacio of quince de Julio a las 4.08 de la mañana,
y pesa quince libres y felicidades a ellos.
Yo son todos a nuestros hermanos, y vamos al tercer
canto al numero 300.52.
300.52.
Yo soy peregrino.
300.52 al pumero.
Senor Escuchaya, a ti mi rego va, mi salvador bendito se tu
ciervo quiero ser, señor.
Oh, here tu vostamor seguirte por la fe.
Yo soy peregrino, giame por tu camino, por ti maestro divino,
seguir tu verda quiero yo.
Compleer tu volunta, andar en tu verda.
Senor Jesus me señoras, tan solo quiero enti confiar,
tu nombre veneraria si vivir em paz.
Yo soy peregrino, giame por tu camino,
por ti maestro divino, seguir tu verda quiero yo.
Mi pobre corazón pelis consolación,
espera de su redentor perdón y gracias dulce paz,
el val de siempre das altriste pecador.
Yo soy peregrino, giame por tu camino, maestro divino,
seguir tu verda quiero yo.
Cuangrandes tu amor, más grande que el terroor,
que puede dar la muerte cuel, me salvaras en tu redil,
el enemigo bil por tu promes a fiel.
Soy peregrino, giame por tu camino,
por ti maestro divino, seguir tu verda quiero yo.
A mene con eso, le damos al lugar, al hermano mene.
Todar el primer sermo.
Vamos probevios 22 seis, probevios 22 seis.
Probevios 22 seis, disen estrujes,
a niño en el camino que debe dandar y a un cuando fuer
viejo no se apatarar de el.
El titulo de mi salmon ahora es estrujes a niño.
Esto vivimos en un tiempo aorita que la juntun no quere
a cetar, la correcion, no quieren este,
no quieren hacer lo bueno, quieren hacer lo malos,
este, y este aquimimos dicen la palabra de dios que,
si estrujimos nosotros a niño, no se apatarar,
cuando puede cuando este en vejes.
Vamos este a detroniómíos 1 se decinueve.
Esta cómo puede nosotros este revenir,
este la joventúl determinar cómo el ciurco que tenemos a ya
fuera que no, que han a disién ocosas que no,
han a disién ocosas per versas,
este siempre cuando venco o salgo,
andan a y disién no o nosotros estamos en un co,
que estamos encerando nosotros hijos que no nos estamos
enseñando lo apuera, pero nosotros lo que queremos hacer
es estudir a nosotros hijos para que la ciiente generación,
puede a seguir lo mímos pasos que nosotros estamos
de tando de hacer.
En detronome a son se decimueve dice,
vamos a darle el deciocho primero.
Portanto pondres estas mis palabras en vuestro corazón,
y en vuesta alma, y las atarés por señar en vuestra mano,
y serán por frontales entre vuestros ojos.
Y las enseñares a vuestros hijos hablando de ellas,
cuando estézentado en tu casa, cuando andes por el camino,
cuando te acuestes y cuando te levante.
So la forma que nosotros puedemos mantener a nuestros
hijos y que ellos señan los pasos en el seguna generación,
es abrir la palabra de dios enseñales,
y estas el camino correcto, esto nómalo, y esto lo que te
vado se vir después en el futuro.
A una rita, pero también después en el futuro,
cuando estés grande.
Y eso es una promesa de señor que nosotros de ado,
este no esperemos dampoco, como dice a aquí en de decimiente
que nosotros, tene que salida nosotros,
que nosperemos al pastor que instruya a nuestros hijos,
que nos diga, o que namás abra la vília aquí namás,
y no abrila en la casa, así no puede uno,
no pueden nosotros esperar, que nosotros hijos,
tal gam bien, que namás de abra la vília aquí namás,
y no abrimosa, que se abra la vília aquí na iglesa,
y no se abra ya na casa.
Porque yo en las iglesa vatistas, do no yo y va,
este los hijos crecían y ya no reguesaba.
Ya no reguesaba porque, porque se eso, porque no había,
solamenta había eso en iglesia, no había eso a ya fuera.
Y eso lo que nosotros, eso da una la grande diferencia entre
lasotros iglesias y con la de nosotros que nosotros no
solamento lo hacemos aquí,
buto tatamos de se lo ya fuera también.
Vamos a effecios se es cuatro.
¿Cuál la otra, la otra cosa que puedo nosotros preminir,
aquí, no terminen los, los hijos como el cico,
que tenemos a ya fuera.
Estécios se es cuatro.
Estécios se es cuatro dice.
Y vosotros padres, no provoces a ira a vuestros hijos,
si no creados en disciplina y amon estación del señor.
OK, so no solamente es leer la bibliar horar con ellos en
señales que lo bueno, que lo malo.
Si no también la practica entre nosotros también.
Que nosotros miimos tenemos que hacerlo,
porque ellos bien.
Y por eso también mucha gente,
cuando cresen y hacen de la high school o algo,
tiengana salirse ya no bien en de regreso a la iglesia,
no habana en una iglesia, no quienen nada con el señor,
pero porque, porque ellos nimos digeros.
Mi papa, me leías a la iglesia,
pero nunca tu maba, nada en practica.
Y eso la jona, también que tenemos nosotros,
se es no solamente enseñar,
pero también tomarlo en practica, desiré.
Yo voy a día a la iglesia y no solamente es el amigo,
bea la iglesia y no voy.
Or bea, bea, ponte ahora y nunca me mira mi ahora.
Tienen que veres a practica, también,
para que no lleges a ira a en los hijos.
Este vamos a proverbios 3-7-4.
Proverbios 3-7-4.
Este sotra practica que pemos hacer este,
en proverbios 3-7-4,
lo dice.
El que detiene el castigo a su igua aborese,
más el que lo ama, temprano lo corrique.
Lo dice temprano, no dice los días,
no esa los quinsas,
dice al tempranidad enseñales que lo bueno,
que lo malo.
Ya si, te puede eliminar aquí terminan como la gente
a ya fuera que ya muitados para ellos,
o no pueden seguir los pasos de señoras y como nosotros
de seguir los.
Lo bueno de la palabra de ellos
es que hací como nos promete y ellos nos el valvidad,
los caminos,
también ellos van a señal a sus hijos también.
Y va a seguir un paso bueno,
porque ellos miraron a su papa, miraron a su abuelo,
y a si, si, geto.
Vamos a proverbios
vinti 4 or 5,
vinti 9 or 5, perdón.
Vamos a proverbios vinti 9,
vamos a proverbios vinti 9, vinti 5.
Y se la vara y la correcione dans a biblioría,
más el muchacho,
consen tido a vegan será as un madre.
Que triste porque hai muchas veces de que,
de plan uno,
este mira la gente,
mira la gente de vade,
Thank you very much.
Hermanos, come with me.
One more time.
Capitulo 3.66.
One more time.
Capitulo 3.66.
We'll start now.
We thank you for your words.
Thank you for this English.
Thank you for every Hermano that is here.
And for everything that you are doing for Ayan on his television.
We thank you for everything that you do for us.
For all the donations.
And for all of us.
And we thank you increasingly.
I would like to say that all of the scripture is made for the inspiration of God.
And it is used to teach, to teach, to teach, to teach, to teach, to teach, to teach, to teach,
so that God's love is perfect, eternally prepared for all good things.
Good things.
The title of this book is,
Prepared for Good Things.
Hermanos, let's talk about this theme,
because I want you to be prepared.
Prepared because the importance of being prepared
and being a child,
you want to be prepared.
We want to be prepared when a person is using their life,
when a person,
sometimes with people who don't know how they are doing,
they don't know what they are doing.
We want to be prepared, Hermanos.
But we need to be prepared.
When you talk about opportunity,
well, it's better when you present the opportunity.
Hermanos, you are prepared.
Is this a list to be a child?
Is this a list to share with the children?
These are the questions that we need to ask ourselves.
I am prepared for all good things.
And I know that we all have families,
we have fathers, we have mothers,
that are not ourselves.
Children, children, Hermanos, Hermanas.
But if one day you present the opportunity
to share the energy with them,
is this prepared?
Is this a list to share with the children?
Because we don't want them to be in the house.
And we don't want our families to be in the house.
Because the house doesn't want anyone to be in the house.
In particular, it is said that
all scripture is for inspiration from the house.
The scripture is the house of the house.
It is for inspiration.
But how do we teach, if we don't teach?
How do we teach if we are not prepared?
And if you are prepared,
if you are a Christian prepared and prepared
to share the word of God with anyone who knows God,
you must know that God is God.
You must recognize that there are people who do not know God.
You must know that if you are on the street
you will be on the front.
You must know that God is God.
A lot of people don't want to be on the front.
You must know that God loves you.
He used so much that he asked his son to take over the cruise to take over all of the world.
And he said that he took over the cruise to take over all of the world,
and it is only then that he created in Jesus Christ that he took over the cruise.
He moved, he was tired, but three days later he went to the port,
and he was sent in the direction of the father.
But what happens is that many of those who are saved are not content.
When I was young, I created in Jesus Christ, but it was there again.
There are not many who are prepared.
Thanks to God that they are saved, I don't mean too much, but
they say that they don't want anyone to be saved.
But this time, many Christians are in flog.
They don't want, they don't want the Iglesia, they don't want to be prepared for the good times.
Let's talk about the first time in chapter 2, verse 15.
The first time in chapter 2, verse 15, it says,
I have studied with the Iglesia to present to you,
to prove to you, as it were, that I do not have any reason to be saved,
that it is good to see the Word of God.
We have studied the Word of God to be prepared.
But I am not saying that many people do not want to be saved in certain parts of life.
Oh, I would like to be saved more in Job, than in Job.
But no, I would like to see the story of God's grace.
I would like to see Daniel and the Leones.
I would like to see the post of Paul, to see what happens to Paul.
But there are many good things that we see in life.
But the important thing is that God loves us all.
He knows all about life.
The people are in apocalypse.
This is what God wants from one.
And there are things in life that are more than others.
I am testing myself.
I mean, this is the most important thing.
I don't want to be saved.
But if we are studying, if we are learning the Word of God, that will help us.
And to be prepared, for the good work, we have to do what we want.
We have to study the Word of God.
The Word of God.
In the second time, four.
Well, as I said, in the second time, four versus two.
It is to predict the Word of God in time and time again.
To read, to learn, to be with all patience and doctrine.
This is what I predict in the Word of God.
This is because in the third time, when we are suffering the doctrine of doctrine,
we are seeking, as God has said,
to be able to do what is right and what is not right,
but to be with all patience and doctrine.
And to be able to do what is right and to be able to be with all patience and doctrine.
But to be able to do everything,
to support afflictions, to do the work of evangelists,
with your ministry.
It is important to be prepared,
because one day you will see that you will not want to die.
And if you are doing what I am predicting,
if you are living your life and you are prepared,
but if you are not prepared,
and if you know that it is important,
because you don't want to die.
And you say, no, you don't want to die like I did,
you don't want to die, but you want to die today.
Do it normally, because it is what you want.
You have seen the iglesias, when the squirts are open,
and you don't want to die,
and you see the pastor who has a lot of power,
a lot of strength.
But the most important thing is to know that you have your power,
that you have what is inside you.
But I have a lot of time to tell the truth.
Do you speak on the phone?
Do you speak on the television?
Five minutes?
I think that God will tell you that you don't have time.
You can't tell, you can't work a lot of time,
you can't even think about it.
You can't speak at all, you can't speak at home,
or at home, like I said before.
But God, do you think that God will tell you
that you don't have time for your power,
for your life?
And do you see what He says that you don't have time for?
What He says is that you don't have time.
You don't have time for the things of God.
You don't have time for the people who are worrying about
days after days of sin,
and they are in the air for eternity.
We have to prepare ourselves for the good of God.
And do you know what is the good of God?
We have to do something for the Lord.
We have to do something.
And we thank God for your power,
and we thank God for this grace.
I believe that you have the power that your power has
in your name, Christ Jesus.
Very good sermon, we're going to read the last one,
the number 3656.
3656
Lejos de mi padre Dios
3656
Al permero
Lejos de mi padre Dios
Jorge sus puede ayado
Por su gracias por su amor
Puy por el salvador
Es Jesus
El Señor
Esperanza a terna
El me amor y me salvó
En su gracias tierna
En Jesús mi salvador
Vongo mi confianza
Toda mi necesidad
Su plena mundancia
Es Jesús
El Señor
Esperanza a terna
El me amor y me salvó
En su gracias tierna
Cerca de mi buen pastor
Vivo cada dia
Toda gracias
Su Señor
Ayal al ma mia
Es Jesus
El Señor
Esperanza a terna
El me amor y me salvó
En su gracias tierna
Amen